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Codeacademy offers free courses on coding through interactive lessons.
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Pretty awesome. Looks like they just launched recently. I like their teaching style. If gently guides you, but also forces you to think things out yourself (the only real way to learn).
@hopec12: Yeah, I thought the same thing - very easy to use.
The lessons are quick, so hopefully they get more posted/developed before too long.
As a programmer, I can say that this is a fantastic tool for learning to code.
Will it get you a job?
@ryum: Nope - doesn't teach you how to search job listings and won't email companies on your behalf. It will help you get learning on how to develop apps for some platforms like webOS though.
this is cool. i like it a lot. Maybe next time, i will be programming for woot. :)
I may have to try this from a different computer... the intro lessons kept forgetting my variables and returning errors despite my code generating the desired results.
For some time I have thought of taking programming classes. I will look around this site and maybe get started.
any suggestions on books or courses for me to learn Java?
Does it have anything on the G Code?
When I clicked the "courses" link, it only showed java programming. Why would anyone want to bother with java? Oh wait, to piss off the desktop admins that need to update java 3 times a week, and keep 7 different versions of java installed on everyone's computer because java programmers can't figure out how to make their software work with every minor update that comes out.
Plus who can resist installing yet another search toolbar every time you need to update java (which as I pointed out is about 3 times a week).
@subrec: Uhm...it's Javascript - not Java...
@hardjeans: I didn't want to accept it either, but JavaScript is the future.
great site, great concept.
@subrec: because there are still a ton of jobs where Java developers that make boatloads more money than the admins they apparently piss off (though likely their code needs no such update) still available in the major job markets? Seems reasonable. Plus, most probably develop Java web apps that really won't bother a real admin because the server-side Java updates they need will be infrequent and a real sysadmin will be able to handle it without much issue since it is pretty junior sysadmin level stuff really.
@subrec: Also, Android is written in Java, so Android apps should be written in Java.
@katanaryda: Head First Java is a good book for those just learning the language.

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Chevron says a corroded pipe segment that may have caused the recent fire was not included in a prior inspection and could have been unusually susceptible to corrosion.
By BEN LEFEBVRE
Chevron said Tuesday a corroded pipe segment that is the
focus of an investigation into the August fire at the company's
refinery in Richmond, Calif., had not been included in a prior
inspection and may have been unusually susceptible to
Chevron and government officials are still investigating the
cause of the fire at the 245,000 bpd refinery that sent black smoke
billowing over the San Francisco Bay and area residents to
hospital emergency rooms.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board had said
earlier that the walls of a pipe leading from the refinery's crude distillation unit had corroded by
80%, making it at some segments as thin as a penny and likely
to leak flammable material.
Chevron said Tuesday the pipe had an unusually-low silicon
content, making it vulnerable to corrosion in high temperatures
because of a process called sulfadation.
The company didn't check a 5-foot segment of the pipe during
a routine inspection in November despite having removed a
nearby pipe that showed signs of corrosion.
Unfortunately, we did not inspect the individual
component that failed, said Nigel Hearne, general manager
of the refinery. We are now inspecting every individual
component in carbon steel systems exposed to
sulfadation corrosion conditions.
Chevron said Monday that the UW Environmental Protection Agency was
conducting a separate, criminal investigation into whether the
Richmond refinery was illegally routing gas away from emissions monitoring equipment
before flaring it into the air.
The Richmond refinery is the largest in the San
Francisco Bay Area and accounts for nearly 10% of the refining capacity in the US West
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outage following the August fire caused California gasoline
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Three words, Guided wave inspection....
Francisco Elicer
The API 571 explains all kind of corrosion encountered on refineries piping process plants.Also the API give us a good idea on how to prevent corrosion mechanisms on certain piping circuits of selected process.Hydrogen Sulfide corrosion is treated extensively as well as distillation tower corrosion. This problem is well recognized and treated in this API.
When I was an engineering student, I worked as an inspector checking piping thickness. Inspection is not 100% coverage and is based on representative samples. I can imagine it would be very easy to miss a 5' section of pipe, particularly if the line was insulated.
Pipeline inspection is very important part of operation specially for subject products.chemicals, It is also un acceptable that"The company didn't check a 5-foot segment of the pipe during a routine inspection in November despite having removed a nearby pipe that showed signs of corrosion"
Youyu Lu
It's so sad that "an accident" happened to such a big company! Lots of lessons learnt from this incidnet. In term of "Si" content, I still often heared that all crbon steel pipe are "killed" but actually, it's not.
Alberto Jimenez
As always, this will be called " an accident ", but ; why the "company didn't check a 5-foot segment of the pipe during a routine inspection in November" ?. Seems to be impossible in the San Francisco largest Refinery. Who is the responsable, the Director, the President of the Company, or anybody, as always ?.
Jayaprakash Edapparampil
The most difficult part of inspection in any industry is to include all bits and pieces of piping in inspection program. My experience is that every company will have a comparetively better and strong inspection program for Equipment (pressure vessels, tanks etc.) but usually a weak program for piping. This is due to the complicated network of piping. 100% management support, resources and dedicated inspectors are essential for a succesful inspection program for piping
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BOSTON -- The legislative branches swiftly passed and sent to the governor Thursday a spending bill providing $1.8 million to Bridgewater State Hospital for staffing.
The bill, which hit the House floor and was sent to Gov. Deval Patrick during lightly attended House and Senate sessions Thursday also requires the Department of Correction to report by this October on the positions hired with the additional funding and "the results of any accreditation applications."
The spending bill was part of legislation filed by Patrick in July. The governor said then the Bridgewater money is "to ensure patients committed there are getting the best possible care."
The hospital has been subjected to criticism over its handling of patient safety with critics saying it treats mental health patients there like prisoners. A DOC spokesman said the $1.8 million is part of a $10 million plan for improvements to Bridgewater State Hospital.
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You had me @ "FREE" and the image of the "EASY" button. So misleading :(
It looks like some of the $1 items are only with a $5 purchase!
@kamikazeken: The photo paper is $1 after easy rebate...
@easygoingal: Only the 1c items are with a $5 purchase (because there's no rebate)
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#3. Themistocles
Ancient Persia sure had a hate-boner for Greece back in the 5th Century BC. Having already tried to invade once, the Persians were gearing up for a second shot at the title, and the Greeks might all have been speaking Persian before long if not for the crafty antics of one popular politician, Themistocles.
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Themistocles knew that Persia was probably planning a second attack, and what was more, Greece didn't have the naval power to fight them off this time. Problem was, nobody believed him. His political rivals believed that Persia was too distant a threat to be concerned with, and the people were at best apathetic. As luck would have it, the Greeks were in the midst of a silver mining rush, but the citizens were much more interested in having a bunch of silver in their pockets than they were with building some lousy ships.
So Themistocles invoked the kind of political stunt that McCarthy would make famous millennia later -- disregarding the threat from Persia, he suddenly started talking up the menace of Greece's closer rival, Aegina. Though Aegina wasn't really a threat at all, the Greeks hated the shit out of them and their dumb pottery, so tantalized with the idea of blowing those jerks off the map once and for all, the people changed their tune and voted for the ships.
Knowing ancient Greece and Naval tradition, those things must have been floating orgies.
Sure enough, to the surprise of everyone except Themistocles, the Persians suddenly showed up and started kicking ass. If you've seen 300, you already know a highly inaccurate version of what happened next. But what you didn't see was the way Themistocles messed with the Persians behind the scenes.
Xerxes' shirt wasn't the only thing the movie left out.
While the Spartans were chopping heads off on the front line, Themistocles was sending demotivational messages to Xerxes to make him question the loyalty of his allies the Ionians, as well as trying to assure him that the Allied navy was falling apart (it wasn't) and that he could basically just sail right through and take Greece (he couldn't). He was basically Lucy with the football throughout the entire damn war.
#2. Mohammed Al-Fayed
If you've heard of Mohammed Al-Fayed, it probably has something to do with his son, Dodi, the guy who got killed in a car alongside Princess Di. But Mohammed is better known to many as the incredibly slick businessman who took an insane voodoo dictator for all he was worth, and got away with it.
Throw a monocle on there and he's the Arab Monopoly Guy.
Al-Fayed was a self-made Egyptian businessman who worked his way up over the years from Coca-Cola salesman to a shipping magnate, but for some reason (boredom, perhaps) he decided to try taking over a small Caribbean nation. After throwing a dart at a world map, he caught a chartered plane over to Haiti, where he started claiming to be a rich sheikh from Kuwait. Before long, he was introduced to "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the Haitian dictator best known for being completely batshit insane.
Also, according to this picture, he had a giant head and was best buds with Hitler.
It helped that nobody in Haiti had actually heard of Kuwait, so he might as well have claimed to be the President of Fakeistan. Nevertheless, he set about wooing the paranoid dictator with extravagant and stomach-turning zeal, repeatedly sending flowers to Duvalier's palace. According to a journalist, "Papa Doc was spellbound, blinded by Fayed."
Charm was really all it takes when you're talking about a guy almost too crazy to tie his own shoelaces. Duvalier soon offered Fayed a 50 year contract to dig up all of the oil in Haiti (after cancelling a similar contract he made with the last guy who charmed his pants off). Not only that, but Fayed was put in charge of shipping, and eventually, even got into the pants of Papa Doc's daughter and almost became heir to the goddamn throne. He probably could have asked for Port Au Prince to be renamed "Fayedville" and gotten away with it.
Papa Doc wasn't Al-Fayed's only friend in a high place.
How did the scam end? Papa Doc got into financial difficulty and asked Fayed for a measly gift of $30,000. Fayed immediately booked it on the next plane out, with the entire port fund in his personal bank account. We like to think Papa Doc tried to strike back with voodoo, but just couldn't fashion a doll with big enough balls.
#1. Wilhelm Canaris
Once more we have to come back to Hitler and the Nazis, who apparently spawned the golden age of Schindler-style heroic bullshit artists.
Wilhelm Canaris was a German rebel, ardently opposed to Hitler, and involved in numerous plots to take the Fuhrer out. He also happened to be in charge of the Abwehr -- the German military intelligence service. Hitler should really have checked the guy's resume.
Via the German Federal Archive
He had a better poker face than James Bond and Will Riker combined.
The fact that Canaris was in charge of the agency tasked with sniffing out and arresting rebel conspirators was a massive relief to all the rebel conspirators hiding out in Hitler's ranks. But more than that, Canaris was chiefly responsible for the rest of the world knowing exactly what was going on in the secretive Nazi regime. He smuggled detailed reports of Nazi atrocities to the Vatican, as well as warning France and Britain about impending invasions. That didn't work out so well for France, but at least he was partly to thank for Britain's ass not being swiftly handed to them through a surprise offensive.
Throughout his short career as Germany's head spy, Canaris was actively involved in several campaigns within Germany and abroad to assassinate Hitler. Unfortunately, Hitler had the luck of an Irishman with an entire stadium of four-leaved clovers, so when that never panned out, Canaris went right ahead and tried to broker a peace treaty with the Allies behind the Fuhrer's back. Though British Intelligence was right on board with the deal, President Roosevelt flatly refused to negotiate with "these East German Junkers."
FDR: Surprisingly, specifically racist?
Hitler didn't catch on that his head intelligence agent was screwing him over until July 1944, when Canaris' final attempt to take Hitler out failed spectacularly, but even after being tortured for a year, he just kept up the ruse while Hitler was left to wonder why so many people didn't seem to like him. We'll say this about HItler: salesmen must have loved seeing the guy walk onto the lot.
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Coach Corey Scheel's Vikings went to Greendale on Friday and blew the Panthers away in the first half to improve their overall record to 13-8 and their Woodland-West Division mark to 11-5, fourth out of six teams.
The Vikings jumped out to a 17-5 lead in the first quarter and then made sure the Panthers had no thoughts of getting back in the game by running up an 18-7 second quarter and a 35-12 halftime lead.
The Vikings marched to the free throw line 26 times and dropped in 18, while Greendale was only 3-for-8.
West had 11 players who scored, led by the always reliable Beth Ver Haagh's 16 points, which included 7-for-9 from the free throw line. Nicole Holstein was the only other Vikings in double figures with 10 points.
The third-seeded Vikings will begin the playoffs on March 1 by hosting the winner of the sixth-seeded Waukesha North/11th-seeded Milwaukee South game, which will be played Feb. 26 at North.
The Vikings finished the regular season on a down note, dropping a 70-55 decision on Feb. 12 at home.
The loss, West's second straight following three straight wins, left the Vikings with a 6-16 overall record and a 5-12 last-place record in the Woodland-West Division.
The Vikings, who were eighth-seeded in WIAA's Sectional 4, hosted ninth-seeded Waukesha North (7-14) on Feb. 19. The winner of that game travels to top-seeded New Berlin Eisenhower at 7 p.m. Feb. 22.
Greendale jumped off to a 18-11 start, but the Vikings bounced back to cut the lead to 27-25 with a 14-9 second-quarter advantage.
But the Panthers had a 43-30 second-half advantage and won going away, outscoring West 21-13 and 22-17 in the third and fourth quarter.
The teams combined for 47 trips to the free throw line - Greendale was 15-21 and West was 15-for-26.
Tyler Thompson had an good all-around game with 14 points, four rebounds, four steals and two assists.
Scott Reichel scored 13 points and six rebounds; Austin Fritz had eight points, three assists and three rebounds and Kevin Marx had seven points, six rebounds, two assists and two steals.
Greendale's Jordan Perez was the game's top scorer with 28 points, including 9-for-11 from the free throw line. Josh Michaels had 12 points and David Pulizos had 11.
The Warriors endured a disappointing week, dropping games of 54-48 to Kettle Moraine on Feb. 14 and 57-46 to Franklin on Feb. 12.
The dual losses moved Muskego to 6-7 in the Classic 8 Conference and 9-12 overall. The Warriors finish the regular season at home against Waukesha South at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21, then open WIAA Division 1 regional action at home at 7 p.m. March 1 against Janesville Craig.
Amber McDonald, coming back from injury, led Muskego with 13 points against the Lasers, while Renee Bennett added 10 points.
Bennett led the way against the Sabers with 10 points, while Jessica Cattani and Ashley Colla each added nine points and McDonald eight points.
The initial season in the Classic 8 Conference for the Warriors ended with two losses last week, 60-51 to Kettle Moraine on Friday night and 39-36 to Waukesha South on Feb. 12.
Muskego wound up 3-11 in the conference and 6-16 overall. The Warriors visit Burlington in a first-round WIAA Division 1 regional contest at 7 p.m. Feb. 22.
Turner Kehoe continued his strong season with 19 points against Kettle Moraine, while Sammy Pedersen put in nine points. The Warriors could not recover after being outscored 36-15 in the first half.
Kehoe tallied 12 points against South, while Jack Mlachnik added six in the low-scoring contest.
The New Berlin Marlins scored nine points at the WIAA State Swimming & Diving Meet on Saturday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leading the way was junior Zach Solie, who had the best finish - 12th in the 50-yard freestyle (21.92 seconds). He was also 16th in the 100 free (48.63).
Junior Taylor Petrauski was the next best individual finisher, taking 16th in the 100 back stroke (55.24).
The 200 medley relay was 16th (1:41.87) behind Petrauski, senior Matt Olenchek, junior Sam Nigbur and Solie.
Olenchek, swimming in his last state meet, finished 18th in the 100 back stroke (55.41) and 24th in the 200 free (1:48.90).
The 400 free finished 18th (3:21.32) behind Solie, Petrauski, junior Jack Wannamaker and Olenchek.
The local wrestling team finished 15th of 16th place in the Waukesha West Sectional with only one athlete earning the team's points.
Emilio Gutierrez (34-9) placed fourth and scored eight team points, but didn't qualify for state.
He won by pin (5:00) over Waukesha South's Mitch Dennert (21-21), then lost by a decision (12-9) to Kettle Moraine's Austin Clement (35-10) and lost by a pin (1:34) in the third-place match to Whitnall's Ethan Harycki (33-15).
Wrestlers who were shut out were Zac Nordstrom at 132, Kevin Thiessenhusen at 170 (27-12), Alex Rodriguez at 195 (30-9) and Ben Clark at 285 (22-9).
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All students are invited to attend the annual Criminal Justice Career Day from 4-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2005, in the Atkins-Holman Student Commons. Sponsored by the Career Services Center at Columbia College, this event is an opportunity for students of all majors to gather information and make important contacts as they plan their careers.
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BURROWS, Eva Jean, 67, of Wintersville, OH, passed away Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, at Trinity West.
She was born Sept. 29, 1945, in Steubenville, OH, a daughter of the late Howard L. and Eleanor B. Kubilus Hill.
Preceding Eva in death were her sister, Marilyn Powley; brother-in-law, Harry Beagle; nephew, Bobby Powley and niece, Cheryl Wilson.
Surviving are three sons, Ed Burrows of Wintersville, OH, Charles Burrows of Steubenville, OH and Clinton Burrows of Wintersville, OH; brother, Howard Hill of Toronto; two sisters, Eleanor Williams and Rita Jean Beagle both of Steubenville, OH; seven grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home, Wintersville on Wednesday from 3 p.m. until the time of service at 7 p.m. with Msgr. Kurt Kemo officiating. Burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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Bill Donohue: Dorothy Day, Cardinal Dolan obviously Republicans
By now you've likely seen the New York Times story by Sharon Otterman about the push to canonize Dorothy Day: "In Hero of the Catholic Left, a Conservative Cardinal Sees a Saint." We might discuss the pros and cons (mostly cons, I think) of telling this story this way, lining up the players on either side of a left/right divide. I will say that I think the article is most interesting when it steps outside that framework and visits Maryhouse to talk to Martha Hennessy, Day's granddaughter, and then St. Joseph House for a discussion with volunteers. The Catholic Worker context of those last few paragraphs makes the struggle over Day's place in Catholic culture wars seem as petty as it is.
What I really want to talk about, though, is this paragraph, speculating about what might be motivating Cardinal Timothy Dolan to support Day's cause:
"It is an opportunity for him to demonstrate that conservative Catholics are not uncaring, without accepting liberal principles in how you service the poor," said William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League, a conservative antidefamation organization. "She was not, like many liberal Catholics today, a welfare state enthusiast."
When the bishops won't speak to the NYT, who will speak for the bishops? Our friend Bill Donohue stands ready as always to step into the breach. Take note, all those who get offended when anyone suggests that the U.S. bishops' recent forays into public-policy discussions have been self-defeatingly partisan. It is true that most (though not all) of the more vocal U.S. bishops try to avoid sounding overtly partisan when they speak to political issues. Donohue has no such compunctions. Which is just one reason the bishops ought to be concerned about allowing him to position himself as their surrogate in the media.
We've been over this before, and whenever Donohue comes in for criticism, someone will surely say, "I think there's a real need for what he does, but...." By "what he does" I believe such people mean the "antidefamation" work of the Catholic League -- protesting insults to and attacks on the Catholic faith and people. I actually would not agree, but let's set that aside. Is that, in fact, what Donohue does? Is it the principal work of the Catholic League? I don't think so. Yes, Donohue occasionally finds a legitimate insult to get worked up about. But for the most part, he is a public figure who engages in conservative Catholic identity politics for fun and profit.
We looked once before at the Catholic League's Twitter account, which at that time was largely dedicated to cataloging mentions of gay people (or things gay people might enjoy) in the New York Times. During the height of election season it was dedicated to promoting the cause of Mitt Romney and griping about the successes of Barack Obama -- for example, after the second presidential debate, offering this helpful suggestion: "Maybe they can find a male moderator with a pulse or a female one who isn't an ego-driven partisan." (My favorite election-season tweet was the one where Bill Donohue learned about the Electoral College: "California, 1/50th of the states, has 20% of all the electoral votes. Romney may very well win the popular vote and still lose." You don't say!) And recently, Donohue was convinced that a joke made by Jamie Foxx about how conservatives caricature liberals is actually proof that the caricature is accurate (they DO worship Obama!).
None of this activity can be said in any way to defend the "civil rights" of Catholics. And when Donohue does turn his attention to Catholic matters, it is often to defend the faith against the bad influences of his coreligionists on the left. (Remember this?) The fact that he calls Catholics he doesn't like "anti-Catholic" suggests that he may not be the best person to head up a legitimate antidefamation effort.
So let's just agree that protesting legitimate offenses to Catholicism is a very small part of what Donohue does as head of the Catholic League, and that he devotes most of his time and energy to being a would-be surrogate for the conservative cause. The funny thing is, Donohue is not a very good surrogate, for either Republicans or Catholic bishops. He's sloppy, he wanders off-message, he makes ridiculous mistakes. That time he took a swing at Obama supporter Hilary Rosen and ended up insulting adoptive parents, the RNC's communications director issued an embarrassed disavowal of Donohue's remarks. (Donohue sulked: "RNC is a joke anyway.") And his recap of the latest USCCB meeting follows the usual template -- "Bishops Reject Left-Wing Agenda" -- but look at what he thinks happened: "A vaguely worded document on the poor, which was not distributed to the bishops until they arrived at the meeting, was shot down." Yeah, nice try, left-wingers! This is not the take of a man who is privy to inside information. This is the take of a man who couldn't be bothered to follow even the publicly available information about the meeting.
So, I doubt that what Donohue had to say in the NYT about Dorothy Day and the "welfare state" -- which boils down to "Cardinal Dolan wants to use her to look like he cares about the poor but cares more about Republican priorities" -- came directly from the Cardinal's mouth. But Donohue always talks as if he knows the minds of the bishops, and they allow it -- not just by refusing to speak for themselves, but by embracing Donohue and conveying legitimacy on his enterprise. As Eugene Carraher noted in his essay "Morbid Symptoms," Donohue's recent book Why Catholicism Matters boasted glowing endorsements from four prominent American bishops, with Cardinal Dolan leading the pack. "[T]he church, and Dr. Donohue himself," Dolan says, "give an emphatic YES! to all that is good, noble, and uplifting in the human person."
Are we talking about the same Dr. Donohue? The one who made a video of himself brandishing an Obama figurine in a jar of feces? (Skip ahead to 3:35 -- and don't worry, the poop was fake!)
Seriously, your excellencies and eminences: what will it take to make you rethink the wisdom of encouraging Bill Donohue to act as your public interpreter?
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Its fair to say that if Dorothy Day were alive today, she would find todays Catholic liberals the enemy of the poor and the dispossessed. Another reason to loathe Twitter; it allows people to make pronouncements, but doesn't give them enough characters to back them up.
"...But for the most part, he is a public figure who engages in conservative Catholic identity politics for fun and profit."Profit, okay. But I can't imagine Bill Donohue engaging in anything for fun.
John Prior:I think that there are some people who enjoy being outraged. They take some kind of psychic pleasure from it. (There's got to be a psychological term for it.) Both Bill Donohue and Rush Limbaugh have that personality characteristic.
Mollie - right on.
Thanks, Helen, I think you're right. He'd probably do it for free.We could make up a psychological term for it, just for fun. Tickled Rage? POed Pleasure Disorder (PPD)?Iracundia hilaris? Wutfreude? Or maybe an eponymous and honorific Donohue Syndrome, although he's hardly the first case?The matter needs further study.
So:A bunch of conservative bishops, who have asked pro-life politicians to refrain from receiving communion, are championing the cause of a woman who had an abortion and a child out of wedlock because, according to Bill Donohue, who decried the refusal of the Empire State Building to light up in honor of Mother Teresa as a violation of Catholic civil rights, says that Day, who ran the Catholic Worker operations along Christian anarchist lines, was anti-welfare state.It's a great day to be a Catholic!
Bill Donohue is Cardinal Dolan's James McMaster, the abrasive editor of the 19th century New York Freeman's Journal. It was never quite clear when or if McMaster was speaking out in the name of Archbishop John Hughes when he went on the attack.
I don't think of Day as a liberal, really. Not a feminist either. Are anarchists liberals or are they more like libertarians? :)
In Hicksville in March, Cdl. Dolan spoke of the best thing we [bishops] ever did having been to hire an attractive, articulate, intelligent woman to speak on their behalf against abortion (NYT 3/4/12). Perhaps, if persuasively reminded of that statement, Dolan would throw his weight around in Manhattan enough to bring her back with a broader agenda on behalf of the Catholic League, a lay, public face who could do more to counter defamation than to encourage it, as Donahue often seems to do.
Jean, championing the cause of a woman who had an abortion, had a child out of wedlock, and ran a social service organization along Christian anarchist lines is only bad if liberals do it!
My sense is that Dorothy Day saw needs and felt a personal call to respond, and the Church sustained her in that calling (though some individual bishops didn't; I think one story goes that she moved her operations into another diocese when a bishop complained that she was serving a lot of scandalous people). She was a leftist who got sick of the kind of arguing over fine points as if they were cataclysmic issues of cosmic import that becomes an end in itself in some leftist and feminist circles. She became apolitical in a sense, though she was deeply concerned about political events. She also wasn't above calling up Eleanor Roosevelt to sic her on some racial injustices when FDR was prez. Reducing her story into some sort of morality fable about how good-hearted individuals should be out helping the poor without government "interference" (i.e., help) would be to trivialize the many ways she devoted herself to social justice and non-violence. One longs for Patrick Jordon, Commonweal alum, who worked with Day and the Catholic Worker newspaper, to weigh in on how the bishops and Donohue are spinning her story.
"But for the most part, he is a public figure who engages in conservative Catholic identity politics"What evidence do we have that Cardinal Dolan thinks that this is not an effective strategy for furthering Catholic interests in the public sphere or in any way disadvantageous for the Church in America?
Eric -- We have had then-Abp. Dolan's enthusiastic praise of Bill Donohue posted on his blog on 12/16/10: "Why we need the Catholic League". A bit strangely, he quoted denouncements by others of Donohue such as blowhard, a self-appointed censor, right wing publicity mill, a bully,and American Taliban before he got to the "Keep at it, Bill! We need you!", which was his main message. Responding commenters split strongly pro and con. http://blog.archny.org/?p=931
Calling out Catholic bashers is important certainly as important as the dog whistles the mainstream (left-leaning) media folks routinely hear. I do not catch him often, but I usually like hearing what Donahue has to say. I admire his dedication and I enjoy his intensity, enthusiasm and wit.Raymond Arroyo sometimes has him on his news program ('The World Over Live"; EWTN).
Dorothy Day is reported to have said: "Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily."Unfortunately she was all too correct. "St Dorothy" is emerging as a one-dimensional figure, recruited as an ally in our inta-religious controversies.As I remember Dorothy Day she had four unswerving commitment: (1) The Catholic Church, its doctrines, its practices, its traditions, its leadership. (That didn't stop her from criticizing the actions of her contemporary Catholics for failing to be faithful to these doctrines and traditions.) she was a "traditional" Catholic in the fullest sense of that term.(2) Anarchism: she refused to recognize the moral legitimacy of the modern nation-state. Her ideal was a semi-medieval community composed of associations, organizations, neighbors, etc running their own affairs on a regional level.(3) A deep abiding skepticism toward capitalism. While she rejected Marxism, she retained the the Marxist moral critique of capitalism. Indeed her anarchism might be seen as a variation of Marx's dream of the "withering away of the state."(4) Pacifism: she never encountered a war or military conflict that she judged to be "just." She actively opposed WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the expansion of the global policy of "military containment" of Communism. She urged young men to avoid conscription. And when a Catholic college (affiliated with a Benedictine abbey,) a place where she had often been a guest, instituted ROTC in the 1950s, she refused to ever again visit the place.Are we canonizing Dorothy Day in order to neutralize her critical voice? She was a thorn in the side of both "liberal" and "conservative" Catholics while she was alive. She should remain so today--even as we admire from afar her "voluntary poverty" and deep commitment to those who have been discarded by our market society.jpfarry
Jack: Right. So, I think the answer to Mollie's question ("What will it take to make you rethink the wisdom of encouraging Bill Donohue to act as your public interpreter?") is "nothing." It is pretty clear that Cardinal Dolan thinks that Donohue's tactics are needed to combat the "nasty anti-catholic canards" that seek to silence the Church in the public sphere and that identity politics is just evangelization by other means. It's all pretty sad, really.
JP Farry:Thank you... that seems right on.The bishops didn't want to be seen as voting against her so they did the usual thing... co-opting her history and and witness... the more insidious... let her be and the the icon that she is and the "sign of contradtiction" to us ALL without ecclesial trappings -- or those ridiculous tribunals judging miracles Read the ol' Kenneth Woodard book-- enlightening!!
Sorry, this has nothing to do with Donohue, Day, Dolan, or even Catholicism. Just offered as a warning against taking too seriously what you find in the press to support your cause. I refer to the recent case of the Beijing People's Daily responding rapturously to the Onion's study of Kim Jong-un, proving that the little Swiss-educated, roly-poly (too much chocolate, perhaps?) Dear Leader is the sexiest man alive, and the heart throb of million (billions?) of women.Only the snide New York Times suggests that rather than being duped, the People's Daily might have been playing its own little undercover political game. (Maybe, from his Vatican jail cell, Paolo Gabrieli was the man behind the scam). http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/world/asia/chinese-news-site-cites-oni...
Donohue has some more thoughts on Dorothy Day today, via the Catholic League's twitter: "It's fair to say that if Dorothy Day were alive today, she would find today's Catholic liberals the enemy of the poor and the dispossessed." Once again, bravely defending the Catholic faith from Catholics. (He's also getting a jump on World AIDS Day so that he might be the first to blame the victims.) It does make one wonder, what would he sound like if he weren't so careful to be "fair"?
Thanks Mollie for posting the link. What amazes me is the sheer vularity and ignorance of the comments posted to Donahue's tweet (or whatever that site is); from .Mighty sad in fact.
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The dominant Catholic Worker agenda and Dorothy's is non-violence and pacifism. Dorothy's main charism would have to be ignored if she is made a saint in these present times. Maybe in fifty -hundred years, when this Vatican generation has passed on and the world experiences a nuclear war, a look at her charism will be successful. . .
I hereby propose that NO ONE should be considered for sainthood (if that is absolutely necessary to do) until they have been dead for at least 100 years. No one would be around who knew them and the decision would have to be made on verifiable facts, not emotional cathartic ramblings of the over-the-top advocates.I.E., John Paul The Great.
Or better still, Jim, would be to leave the decision of who is with Him in heaven safely in God's hands. Okay, grandfather the saints we already have, which are more than enough to fill a liturgical calendar. But from now on, let one of the heroic virtues be anonymity.What's done now is like voting for inductees into a celestial Hall of Fame, but instead of 43 (or however many) sportswriters, there's an obscure process conducted by Vatican functionaries and others that requires an ability to judge the validity of miracles. Where does one go to acquire that evolving expertise? Is there an apprentice program? And before that even begins, there will usually be years of local (and now sometimes global) boosterism. Then too, the list of saints shows an unsurprisingly large number of founders and foundresses, clergy, and other prominent folk whose rise in the world may be due to admirable personal attributes and good connections, but not necessarily to a more genuine sanctity than millions of lesser known people live.Soon after Dorothy Day died, when the canonization talk started, someone remarked that the process was not worthy of her. I think that is still right. Let the Church continue to hold her at a loving arm's length, as it did when she lived.
Agree with Jim and John.Stop canonizations. Too silly. Too driven by money. Too dependent on the current political agenda. Edith Stein, e.g. Why? Now Dorothy Day? Fulton J. Sheen? Popes? Juan Diego??? Why? As to miracles? What about requiring the candidate for sainthood to grow a limb on an amputee? Or grow teeth in a toothless person? Or grow hair on a bald person?
I'd want to see a few constraints on that requirement for a miracle, Gerelyn. Else we might get an arm growing out of the top of someone's skull, like a leg growing where an irradiated fruit fly's antenna should be. Would a supernatural screwup still count as a miracle?
Jean, I don't see any reason to fault Twitter for Bill Donohue's excesses. About half of his tweets are links to Catholic League press releases. He has all the room he needs there, and he's no better at backing up his accusations and attacks.
I see your point, Mollie; I suppose it's no more fair to blame Twitter for the stupid things people write than it is to blame pens and paper. Just not a fan of that particular tech phenom myself. Seems more like a great big virtual graffiti wall than anything that a thinking person might want to pay attention to. But I'm old and cranky.
Let's hear it for old and cranky. Yay! We are a multitude.
If the offense was Donohue asserting that Day was not a welfare state enthusiast (and, minus the cant, that's what I gather the offense is), why not offer evidence to the contrary?I mean, that way, we might actually know something after reading the thread that we didn't know before reading it.
I think it's fair to say that Day was suspicious of political movements, and was disillusioned with the left. But she certainly never made any right turns toward capitalism and never, that I can find, made any statements to the effect that political social reform was evil. She did, however, prefer to promulgate her movement, with its communitarian if not communist ideals, without government assistance or interference. Day perhaps reveals her views on government programs in writing in 1961 about Castro's revolution in Cuba. Reading what she wrote in 1961 seems naive now. But she clearly believed that Castro's literacy and anti-poverty programs were a step in the right direction. Although she was a pacifist, she said it was better for Cubans to fight than to suffer the capitalist exploitation of their country (I paraphrase). She also believed Castro was a Catholic. Here's the text of her piece: http://www.walterlippmann.com/dorothy-day.htmlFr. James Martin was also on NPR this morning talking about Dorothy Day. Given some of the anti-saint sentiment here, which I understand but don't quite agree with, I found his remarks helpful. Here's the link to the broadcast: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&...
To be clear, Jean, I have nothing against saints. Just canonizers.
Of course, if we had no canonizers, we'd have no saints.
Not so, Mark. These guys add fame. They don't add sanctity. Dorothy Day, just for example, will always be the same remarkable woman, even without St. in front of her name. So will Teresa of Avila, Francis of Assisi, Anthony and the others in the desert, Peter, Paul, and Mary (sorry, couldn't resist), and many others. But how would we know about them? Easy. Commission someone to write a biography, if the subject didn't write one herself.
God makes the saints, not the canonizers. They merely acknowledge what God has already wrought. And, as Mollie's post points out, they may also start that hagiography mill spinning in a certain direction that distorts what really happened.The people who knew the saint are the best witnesses, and even after centuries, it's not that hard to trick out the stories that ring true and the ones that don't. One of my favorite stories is about St. Cuthbert, who, like all good northern English bishops in the 7th and 8th centuries, lived among the people. He was called to the house of a poor woman whose child was dying. Cuthbert saw he could do nothing to save the baby, but that the mother was half dead from worry and fatigue. He told her to go to bed, and that he would hold the baby and pray for it. In the morning, the baby was well. Which is a happy ending, and maybe it happened. But isn't St. Cuthbert's kindness the real miracle? I respectfully disagree with John Prior's post of 11/30/2012 - 5:08 pm; we don't need fewer saints, we need more of them. We just need fewer people like Bill Donohue diddling their stories.
JohnI would agree with you that the process is not perfect, and canonizers may not always have the best of intentions, but I can believe that canonizing someone changes them ontologically. That we do actually make saints. And whats so bad about making someone famous whos worth emulation? Do you think you would know Teresa, Francis, Linus, Cletus, Sextus and all the rest if they were not made saints? Isnt it more likely people will know and benefit from the life of Dorothy Day many years from now if the Church makes her a saint?I am not uncomfortable with a certain amount of politicking in the canonization process, nor with the saints returning the favour and politicking for us as the case may be. Sounds very commonwealish.
If there's anyone who still hasn't read The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, by Peter Brown, it's available for Kindle for $4.85.One of the greatest books ever, imho. http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Saints-Function-Christianity-Religions/dp/022...
And here's what Bill McClellan wrote about a Catholic Worker this morning:http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill-mcclellan/mcclellan-robb...(St. Dorothy would be proud of him.)
Very well, let the canonizations continue! (As if I had any voice in the matter. I did once think that I had a red hat around here someplace, but it turned out to be a Christmas stocking.)One question only. If Dorothy Day asked to be excused from the process for what seemed to her good and sufficient reasons, should we not grant her request?
Really good question about honoring Day's wishes, John. I don't know the answer.
From one of Days essays:
http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=150We believe that social security legislation, now balled as a great victory for the poor and for the worker, is a great defeat for Christianity. It is an acceptance of the Idea of force and compulsion. . . . Of course, Pope Pius XI said that, when such a crisis came about, in unemployment, fire, flood, earthquake, etc., the state had to enter in and help.But we in our generation have more and more come to consider the state as bountiful Uncle Sam. "Uncle Sam will take care of it all. The race question, the labor question, the unemployment question." We will all be registered and tabulated and employed or put on a dole, and shunted from clinic to birth control clinic. "What right have people who have no work to have a baby?" How many poor Catholic mothers heard that during those grim years before the war!
Also worth noting: Robert Coles, Dorothy Day: A Radical Revolution, page 14:
Yet Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin were not content simply to write about what they believed the Catholic church has to offer the ordinary worker . . . They both believed in the importance of works. . . . Peter Maurin envisioned a twentieth-century version of the ancient notion of a hospice, a place where works of mercy were offered and acknowledged in a person-to-person fashion, as opposed to the faceless, bureaucratic procedures of the welfare state. He shared that vision with Dorothy Day.
More from the same Day essay:
But who is to take care of them if the government does not? That is a question in a day when all are turning to the state, and when people are asking, "Am I my brother's keeper?" Certainly we all should know that it is not the province of the government to practice the works of mercy, or go in for Insurance. Smaller bodies, decentralized groups, should be caring for all such needs.The first unit of society is the family. The family should look after its own and, In addition, as the early fathers said, "every home should have a Christ room in it, so that hospitality may be practiced." "The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor." "If your brother is hungry, it is your responsibility.""When did we see Thee hungry, when did we see Thee naked?" People either plead ignorance or they say "It is none of my responsibility." But we are all members one of another, so we are obliged in conscience to help each other. The parish is the next unit, and there are local councils of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Then there is the city, and the larger body of charitable groups. And there are the unions, where mutual aid and fraternal charity is also practiced. For those who are not Catholics there are lodges fraternal organizations, where there is a long tradition of charity. But now there is a dependence on the state. Hospitals once Catholic are subsidized by the state. Orphanages once supported by Catholic charity receive their aid from community chests.
My sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, would have told us dont waste your time or your peace on the likes of the William Donohues of the world. Donohue is nothing but a twisted tool, a venue, a frontman for the hierarchy to get out there in the public domain what they really think and would like to say but cant because it is too impolitic and crude. [At one time, Donohue used to have his office right inside the NY archdiocese's chancellery - Go figure!]Donohue is so convenient for the hierarchs to plant their stink bombs in the media from time to time and they then don't have to take responsibility for it while it reverberates in the media echo chamber for several news cycles. Hierarchs like Dolan get to posture for public consumption talking about saints like Dorothy Day while Donohue delivers the political talking point sucker punches about "the welfare state" for the benefit of the hierarchs friends in rightwing world.If the intrepid journalists among us on dotCommonweal want to do the church a favor, they should investigate Donohue and his connections to the hierarchy. Where does Donohue get his money to run his operation? The board for his front group, The Catholic League, is a who's who of the Catholic reactionary right-wing. Donohue will never reveal it but I would wager that the USCCB funnels money to him through one of their dummy corporations or through something untraceable.For the rest of us, the best way to give William Donohue his due is to ignore him!
I think a moratorium on "declaring" people saints might be a good thing. I'm sure there will be as many as ever around, declared or undeclared. But at least it will be less likely that they will be co-opted by interest groups to serve some agenda or other. That said, I recall some years back noticing with pleasure that in a little nook of the St. Dominic Chapel at Providence College there already was a small stained glass window featuring Dorothy Day, not labeled a saint, but an "extraordinary woman" who "loved God and Her neighbor." The nook's window, I believe, was donated by New York Alums of P.C.Here is the reasoning behind the placing of her image in the window and a link to a site showing all the windows. (You may have to scroll down a bit to find the Day window).Dorothy Day (1897-1980) This Catholic laywoman awakened the nation to the plight of the poor and downtrodden. The late John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New York said, If any woman ever loved God and her neighbor, it was Dorothy Day." Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day started her adult life as a Communist, then came to embrace a strong Catholic faith. She epitomizes the evangelical side of the Church and its concern for peace and social justice. These same concerns have always been shared by the Providence College community. As a result, the College chose to honor this extraordinary woman.http://www.providence.edu/mission-ministry/Documents/Mission%20Enhanceme...
Stuart --My brother was in a nursing home for years. There were also poor people there who could not pay for their themselves, but whose bills were paid by that "faceless bureaucracy". They received the same careful, personal attention that he did. I constantly repeat this fact and recommend the place: in 14 years not once -- not once -- did I ever did see any of the staff, not even the young orderlies, treat anyone with anything but respect and kindness.Let's be careful about insulting the faceless bureaucracy.
Sounds to me like Dorothy Day had a prejudice against government -- she even approves of help from unions, which used to be gigantic institutions, but not the government. Does she think that George Meaney changed Grandpa's bedpan? Come off it. The world is complex these days. The English village, the little New England village is over, like it or not. Get over it.Further the psychology of indirect giving is often preferable. Lord, spare us all from the Lord and Lady Bountifulss unless they are people of extradordinary tact. What I'm saying is that anonymous giving is often kinder than the face to face kind.
Ann -- I expressed no opinion there. Your dispute is with Dorothy Day, whose opinions on the welfare state don't seem to be too familiar to Donohue's critics.
Stuart --Yes, I do have some disputes with Dorothy Day. I think she was in some ways a crank. That, of course, doesn't stop her from truly loving the poor and God. People, like circumstances, are complex. Terribly complex sometimes.
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In Kentucky, only 56 percent of new mothers breastfeed their babies. This is much lower than the national average of 70 percent. Now, the Barren River District Health Department is trying to get the word out.
Studies show babies who are exclusively breastfed are healthier than babies who are fed formula.
Beth James, RNC, IBCLC, says, "It's really important to the infants because it helps to give them immunities that protect against infections, particularly diarrhea, pneumonia, ear infections, [and] lower respiratory infections."
Breastfeeding also helps protect babies from certain childhood diseases like diabetes, sudden infant death syndrome, and leukemia; Breastfeeding can also increase performance on IQ tests. Mothers can benefit from breastfeeding as well.
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To go on a London Walk, meet your guide and fellow walkers on the pavement ("sidewalk" in North American parlance) just outside the designated LondonTube Stop (Underground Station) at the time stated. This video shows how it works.
A London Walk lasts about two hours. The Day Trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Oxford, etc. are all day affairs – but they get you back in central London in time to catch a show!
London Walks and London Walks Day Trips always take place, rain or shine.
Each London Walk ends at or near a LondonTube Stop (Underground station).
And that's all there is to it.
A London Walk costs £10 – or £8 for Super Adults (65+), full-time students, and Season Ticket holders. The Walkabout Cards are a tremendous bargain so do ask your guide for one! Children under 15 go free if accompanied by their parent(s).
The Day Trips to Oxford & The Cotswolds, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Richmond & Hampton Court Palace, Bath, Cambridge, etc. cost £18 (£16 for Super Adults and students; £14 for people with the London Walks Discount Card) plus your tariffs See the Day Trips page for particulars.
Some "word", eh?
Everybody's synapses tingling? Good. Now let's crack on.
As always, lots of you have been asking about the dates Donald Rumbelow will be guiding the Jack the Ripper walk. See the video. (And for anybody who doesn't know – the reason that's an FAQ is that Donald Rumbelow is "internationally recognised as the leading authority on the Ripper.")
I hope you have a thoughtful cup of tea to hand.
You're going to need it...because you've got some reading ahead of you.
Here goes...
A new feature you're going to like is the From the Repertory page. It gives you a taster – a blurb – for many of the From the Rep and Special Walks. As those of you who are reasonably au fait with our programme well know, up until now we've only ever provided a title – and the starting time and starting point – for the From the Rep walks. Reason being that there's only so much space on a piece of paper and the London Walks leaflet already runs to 22,000 words and there are over 300 walks in the full London Walks repertory...so if we were to "blurb" every single London Walks From the Rep walk...well, you'd be able to gift wrap the Houses of Parliament with a single copy of the LW leaflet!
But cyber-space is a rather bigger canvas. It bends space. It's stretchable. Elastic.
So we're on the case. John has done a heroic – a sterling (and if you've been on my [David's] Along the Thames Pub Walk you'll know how thrillingly rooted in London history that word is) – job of chasing down the guides, shaking blurb dust out of them, shaping and baking it, and writing up some very tasty "descriptive" blurbs for the From the Rep offerings.
And I in turn have been tweaking "em and getting "em up onto this website. And we've made a good start. I think there are about 40 of them up there now. Initially I was taking them in chronological order. Banging them up as the walks hoved into view. But we've since switched over to presenting them in alphabetical order. Anyway we've got the bunting flying, so to speak, for quite a few of the From the Rep walks.
And as you'll see John's tacked on to each of them a couple of handy little bells and whistles. To wit: a "Latecomers Catch-up Stop" and the Tube Stop at which the walk ends. Can't be bad.
Here's a still earlier "post" on the Donald Rumbelow - Jack the Ripper Walk subject...
Runs as follows:
And in this same vein – as adumbrated (I've always wanted to use that word!) above – we get just a ton of email wondering when Donald Rumbelow will be guiding the Ripper. And well people might ask...because going on Don's Ripper Walk is as close as you're going to get to nailing the Ripper.
How good is Donald? Well, let me repeat what The Jack the Ripper A to Z - the "bible" of Ripperology – says about Donald.
The A to Z puts it categorically: "Donald Rumbelow is internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper".
And here are the reasons Donald Rumbelow IS "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper".
He's the author of the definitive book on the subject, the best-selling The Complete Jack the Ripper.*
He's the former Curator of the City of London Police Crime Museum.
He's a two-time Chariman of the Crime Writers" Association.
He's been the chief consultant for every major television programme and film on the Ripper over the past 20 years. Indeed he's appeared on several of those programmes, including one that recently aired in the United States. And he will be appearing in another one that's in the pipeline.
Donald was the consultant for the recent Johnny Depp film on the Ripper, called "From Hell...". Indeed, Johnny came to London in order to go on a private Ripper walk with Don.
And I hasten to add, Don's not some dry-as-dust academic...he's an ex-City of London Policeman who pursued a dual career as a crime historian. Which in effect means you're taken over some of the most famous crime scenes in the world by a law enforcement professional who just happens to be the world's leading expert on those particular crimes. Can't be bad.
When Donald's Ripper Walk dates do get set out here they are definite but with the usual proviso about the "unforeseen" – i.e., the schedule is subject to Don's not coming down with the flu – or being hit by a bus!
Donald's Ripper Walk goes at 7.30 pm from just outside the exit of Tower HillTube Stop.
But please do take a look at the further particulars regarding the Ripper Walk – do a search for "Ripper" on our little search engine.
Take a look at those further particulars because we spell out there how to make absolutely sure it is Donald you've linked up with – as opposed to what a major American newspaper recently described as "a Ripper ripoff".
Or as The New York Times puts it, "be careful about the Ripper tour, however, since there are imitations...look for [the] one guided by Donald, who is Donald Rumbelow, the author of The Complete Jack the Ripper and a former curator of the notoriously grisly City of London Police Black Museum (a crime museum open by appointment only), credentials that are scary in themselves."
Or in the same vein, here's how Frommer's puts it in London by Night: "London Walks" Ripper Walk has many copycats, but it's the best".
Or here's how the recently published - and wonderful - little guide book: City Secrets – London...the ultimate insider's guide puts it: "Despite initial protestations from visiting friends, they invariably return to my flat in a Victorian frenzy saying, "that [Donald Rumbelow's Jack the Ripper Walk] was the best thing we've done in London"."
*Donald will have some of his books with him in case any of you want one. And needless to say he'll be glad to sign it for you. Makes an unbeatable present for anybody who's got a friend who's interested in the subject.
As it happens, a year ago or so I went on Don's Ripper walk. A day or so later someone asked me about his walk and because it was so fresh in my mind I banged out a rather detailed reply and e-mailed it to him. Anyway, I've put a copy of that letter in the Latest News section (see the Links column) of our web page. Take a look at it if you'd like my personal impressions of Don's Ripper walk.
And just for jolly, try this for size: London Walks is an anagram of Don knows all
Now on another note...
Famously, London Walks works "in an oral tradition". And I think the reasons for that are fairly clear. For one thing, It's just the nature of what we do...it goes with the territory, so to speak. But also – and I'm not going to pull my punches here – our material is our material. It's for us and our walkers – it's not for knock-offs and never-going-to-be's.
That said, we have just produced a CD-rom that does get down in words and pictures some London and London Walks "concentrate", so to speak. I.E., it complements – rather than duplicates – what we do. In effect, it "bottles" some London Walks essence. It's a piece of us and our town and what we do that you can take home if you want. An aide de memoire.
I, David, planned and wrote the thing. It runs to something like 20,000 words...words which accompany 500 or so photographs. And there are lots of nifty state-of-the-art bells and whistles: e.g., 360 degree panoramas (from the top of the Monument, from a couple of London bridges, that sort of thing), good sound effects, etc. etc.
If I say so myself, it's a fetching little piece of work.
And, intriguingly, it's packaged – and I think this IS brand new – I've certainly never seen anything like it before – as a Multimedia Postcard. In other words the CD-Rom is part and parcel of a postcard.
Anyway, to cut to the chase. Some of the guides are now carrying them. I certainly always have a few with me on the walks that I guide. So if you'd like one...well, just say the word. They cost six pounds, six loads of hay, and midsummer's rose. Though to be a purist about it, the six loads of hay and the midsummer's rose are optional!
Telephone 020 7624 3978
PO Box 1708 London NW6 4LW
www.walks.com www.londonwalks.com www.jacktheripperwalk.com
London Walks ® is the Registered Trademark of London Walks Ltd.
If it's not London Walks ® they're not London Walks


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I have heard that given two sheaves $A$ and $B$ on a variety, one can identify elements of $Ext^d(A,B)$ with complexes of sheaves $$0\to B \to C_1 \to \cdots \to C_d \to A \to 0.$$
My questions are,
How do I see that this is true?
If I have obtained an element of $Ext^n$ by some other method, can I explicitly construct the $C_j$ sheaves and the differentials?
I am sure this is well-known, so I'm marking it also as "reference-request".


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What are you currently MAKE'ing?
Thought I would break the ice with an obvious. I just thought of this an hour ago, and haven't had a chance to work on it. I want to take out the huge antenna on my cell phone and just wind a coil around in my phone's case. Shouldn't be hard. (The "MAKE" is MAKE an antenna that fits inside your phone.)
Hey guys. I'm working on an automatic flamethrower. I'm having trouble with the ignition stage, and if anyone has any ideas that would be great. I starting off trying to use a servo to push down on a peizo electric BBQ lighter - but the force required is too much for a standard servo. I can't find any cheap and safe coils to create a spark across a spark plug. My solution, which works but is non-permanent and a bit fiddly, uses a disposable camera flash to create a high voltage, then two wires soldered to the flash tube are touched together. The wires are brought together automatically by a servo. I'd really like to take the servo out of the equation - the arms holding the wire tend to shift over time. if anyone has any ideas on how to make a spark at a timed interval that would be awesome.
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Ha! It only took 5.5 years but I finally found a solution!
Works on 5V logic, sparks across 0.5"
Halloween automatic flame-thrower here I come!
Works on 5V logic, sparks across 0.5"
Halloween automatic flame-thrower here I come!
Try an ignition coil and diver circuit hooked up to a spark gap in the tube.
what about insteadof a servo you could use a hose clamp and moter witch would squeeze the button down
a 12 volt battery and a spark plug should dothe trick
Ummm, correct me if I am wrong. To generate a spark, a spark plug needs high voltage provided from the battery 12v pulsed into the ignition coil.
yea your right nevermind what i said
what if you but the grill ignitor behind the trigger and just had a bigger trigger to push both at once.
Try a rotary igniter. My barbeque uses one - just turn the knob for ignition. It should be easy enough to gear it down for use with a servo.
dude just take a deodorant spray and a lighter. Then spray it and light it. theres ur simple flamethrower
I think you missed the "automatic" bit. I don't want to have to be there when it goes off. Think about it like a burglar alarm that instead of triggering a siren triggers a flamethrower. Now how are you going to get the lighter to light automatically? That's my question!
Nice thinking, but the problem is the pressing of the peizo element! The system won't have any human intervention - nobody will be pressing the button. I need to find a way to automatically create the spark - I can't anything practical the push a peizo element for me - servos etc. don't have anough power.
or you could just atttach a lighter to the part and turn it which will create a spark
A cockroft walton voltage multiplier would probably work well, it only uses capacitors and diodes. Use a micro or a 555 to pulse the input voltage and you have a nice lightweight high voltage generator.
One ignition method that works is to run 120VAC through a DC Capacitor in your combustion chamber. Use a relay to switch it the volts on/off; that's what your current servo situation is emulating, is a relay.
Hi trialex I read your comment. Why dont you use something called a jacobs ladder. Or by a small stun gun which you can remotely fire or even attach a long cord with a switch to. These both make a spark which lasts so why dont you try it... stun guns are really cheap!
Thanks, but in Australia, stun guns are neither cheap nor legal.
You could try using a DC-DC converter from an automotive neon tube thingy like they sell at auto parts stores, for your high voltage. You could probably get enough volts to jump across a car spark plug, for example.
A Jacob's ladder requires extremely high voltage, it would be far too dangerous to walk around with one of these on the end of something. Not to mention a device that produces the voltage that is required to make it is by no means portable.
i have the best page for you - http://www.angelfire.com/80s/sixmhz/camera.html - i used this for my spudgun it takes a while to perfect the gap but works brilliantly so the servos out the way with this ...
Use a cheap tazer and run some wires from the end, or remote the switch and put the tazer at the muzzle. I'd go with a gas torch to light, though, as it will be fairly windproof, and is sure to light the liquid. You could tap the fumes off the tank and light that out a nozzle, rather than carry extra. I'd make it so the ignition was split from the spray, so each can be toggled separately. Remember you want to be able to spray a fairly thick liquid, remember that the tank is a bomb if you get it wrong, and remember that this isn't going to be a toy.
hes in Australia stun guns legal ...
So using a stungun is probably a good idea then. Big fat hot sparks, and a reliable trigger and circuit.
sorry i meant illegal typo..
I'm in the process of boosting the bass and sound on My cd player, and doing an intructable on the process of jumping them
Take the guts out of one of those elctrified misquito rackets and just press the button when you want it to spark. And don't touch the wires, they hurt a lot.
LOL, those things are awsome
Create a wire that will have a contained short... i saw it om mythbusters, not sure quite how to do it...
Leverage! You have a (long-ish) arm, pivoted at one end. Position the BBQ sparker under the arm near the pivot end, use the server to lower the far end.
what's your budget here? can you affford a $5 junkyardHHH auto recycling center ignition coil?
Is there a tutorial on the markup language used?
I've just discovered that a caret makes text following it superscript. An additional caret (that thing above the "6") makes it drop down to normal level.
So is there a help page? Why is there no "comment help" on the comment submission form? How would we escape this feature/EASTER EEG?
I've just discovered that a caret makes text following it superscript. An additional caret (that thing above the "6") makes it drop down to normal level.
So is there a help page? Why is there no "comment help" on the comment submission form? How would we escape this feature/EASTER EEG?
Does an escape character work?
I guess not...
Do you mean subScript ? ;-)
Haha -- exactly 1 year, 1 day :P (We've had forums for a year!?)
Oh my, I need new glasses.....I didn't see the year LOL *blush*
I wonder if there is a thing for subscript?
\/ isn't it...
You are right v is not subscript LOL
you can use a coil and from a fuel oil furnace 110 vac to 100000 vdc
You could use a flyback transformer. That should be enough to get it going.
An allways lit pilot light is what the pros use no? say a lighter like a zippo, how long would the feul last? I think this is safest , as you don't want an accident spill of a large amount of fuel to all of a sudden be ignited.
Yeah that's not a bad idea. I guess when I started the project I was looking for something that I could leave for days on end, and I thought a zippo would be too prone to going out over that time period. Now I'm thinking of a more short term use (like 30 mins) so a permanent pilot may be the way to go. It's been fun playing around with electric sparks though!
why stuck on electric? attach a flint sparkwheel (like any cheap lighter or, better, one of these old sparky guns) to a regular motor and spark away...
they use a spark generator(like that?)under the NASA spacecraft for 10 second before takeoff, too make sure the flame doesn't accidentaly go out.
thats cool idea! I like it, only factor there is that the spark temperate has to be able to ignite the fuel. Some fuels need a big kick to get going.
I don't know if you've overcome your igniter problem, but RV furnaces have a multispark igniter that runs off 12VDC.
depending on what you are making the hull of the gun out of you could drill holes and attach small bolts (as small as you can find), align them where the ends will be close enough together to create the spark.You said you already were using an igniter from a BBQ right? just hook the wires to each of the bolts.
yeah but howe do you push the button that makes the spark? a regular servo doesn't have enough torque
fine steel wool,2 wires, 9 volt battery. Ignites anything. Mike D NJ
I actually don't think it would... I tried heating up nitrile wire (i.e. my foam hot wire cutter) and it wouldn't ignite the spray
A stun gun will create nice (and somewhat continuous) sparks. The circuit is simple enough that you can probably duplicate it on a slightly smaller scale.
you can use a small piece of steel wool (fine) insert 2 wires of 24ga. or thicker and a small 9 volt battery. The steel wool burns up igniting what ever you want. Mike D NJ
U can use a ignition coil / relay setup... That creates contious spark, using a car spark plug....
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i am making sprockets!!! http://www.instructables.com/id/simple-wooden-sprocket-without-cnc-machines/
I'm making a helicopter rocket (Make: 25) but instead of cardboard, I'm using thin acrylic tubes.
Im working on a wrap around workbench w/ 3 sides and 24 square feet of space. it is meant to replace my old one that was originally meant for toys.
A 10 minute cellphone holder!!!
working on nerf mavrick, replacing center tubes,removing restraters, and the hardest part, triing the build a 7 counrter led light to show remaining bullets left, hopfuly adding sound and a mister of small smoke maker in front; that goes off with every shot, allso that when look great a small about of smoke and laszer light coming from the front. maybe in the furture i;ll make some sort of keinic sparker running thought it.
Vann de graff
Motorized Bike
Makey the Robot
Homemade BUSTED sign out of steel. (Need Plasma cutter)
Motorized Bike
Makey the Robot
Homemade BUSTED sign out of steel. (Need Plasma cutter)
i've always wanted a busted sighn!
I have the welder, but an oxy-torch is too inaccurate, only a plasma cutter will work.
Maybe I can use one at Techshop!
Maybe I can use one at Techshop!
Tv Bgone ha! :D
Tesla Coil
An automobile for the next generation. . . :P
I am boring and may be plan to sleep ealier tonite..
Something I have been planning to make for a few weeks now and am still currently working on is what I like to call potato artillery. it is a four shot electrically fired pneumatic cannon that is basically 4 regular cannons linked together but . . . slightly modified with an aiming system that is also electrically controlled.
I'm making an invention I like to call, the air blaster. Simply it's a diy teaching how to make a portable air cannon that can fire tennis balls, baseballs, and mabey eventually a grappling hook! It is basically a small aluminum case that can be filled with compressed air from an air compressor.
Hi everyone. I'm working on all kinds of stuff right now. I'm collecting parts for an Xbox 360 that's modded into an alluminum suitcase, has USB ports, WiFi adapter, power cable, and a built-in LCD screen from a computer monitor. I'm still in the beginning brainstorming stage of developing a ballpoint pen that can change the color of its ink with the turn of a dial and the tone with another dial. I'm designing a sperical shaped RC robot but one that can split open like a plastic easter egg (and still move, use grabbers, shoot rubberbands, etc...). I'm working on a costume made from cardboard that looks like the guy in my profile image. It's going to have RGB LED's in the head and on the arm, leg, shoulder, and chest armor. The only problem is making it, and seeing out of it! I'm working on a million (not really) water weapons (check out my group-The Water Warrior Group) including-water rocket launchers (shoulder mounted, possibly with an ammo clip)!!! I always design everything on Google SketchUp first (check out my group- Google SketchUp group), to make everything easier to build.
i'm knitting this awesome blue beanie with earflaps. I already made a goomba out of felt and i'm going to place it on one of the earflaps. It's gonna be amazing lol
Im presently eating Starburst :)
(removed by a hobo's request)
Well I've moved on from the automatic flame-thrower below; although that post still continues to generate replies two years later. Current projects include high-altitude balloon & giant gameboy
I am planning the construction of a microwave plasma torch using MW oven components.
well i have severl projects going,....a solar roller, a RC spy car with mini camera, and a NES PC!
Ok, I just thought of this. How about a small subwoofer that is build inside your computer case and hooked up to a circuit that gives your computer a "heartbeat" and makes it got faster say the hotter it gets inside your computer? Any thoughts or ideas on this would be much appreciated, cause I'm not sure where to start with the circuit.
I am hoping to construct a few more test equipment style projects in the next few months.
Well, my "annoying beeping thing" has come to an abrupt halt....it doesn't make a sound and I am running out of options as to what the problem might be.... But, I got a new UJT, so my next project will also be a sort of noisemaker ;-)
Oops, it is going to be a modified version of a Hands-off alarm.
I'm putting up a pole building for my forge, welder, homemade anvil and other stuff. I got the poles in the ground, rafters up and collecting pallets for the sides. Getting some free roofing. Cost for 16 by 16 will be under $250.
I'm making a car horn for my bicycle (up coming 'ible), I'm working on a small ROV, and I'll build a Remote controlled blimp.
i'm making an IR camera
I'm building a workbench.
I'm making a platform bed.
i am making a jacob's ladder
I am currently making my second phonograph. This one will hopefully record onto drink cans. as well as play conventional cylinders. It is almost complete. I am currently tweaking it to improve playback quality.
Isn't this the Machinist's Phonograph from Make 14? That article was extremely complete. Any chance you're considering turning it into an Instructable?
Almost. This one is mark 2. On my first machine featured in Make you will see that the speed control is on the top of the machine. This one has it on the front. Also the box on this one is red oak while on Mark one it is pine. I have also made the mandrel removable by having a threaded spiggot. Much of the other working are the same. Since I took these photographs I have been working on an electric recording head using a speaker rather than the acoustic attempt shown. I can provide drawing for mark 1 but I haven't done them yet for mark 2 Best Wishes Roy Maybery
That looks so neat! Really impressive. :D
Cool! My neighbor just bought an Edison, and demoed it for me. (BTW, his voice cone is MANY times larger than that...) You're cutting your own wax cylinders? Excellent...
Wow - I can't wait to see that project. Don't forget to include sound files.
Adding a switch to cut out the buzzer on our clothes dryer. The d**ned thing is loud enough to wake our six-month-old daughter. I didn't take pictures before cutting the hole and mounting the light switch, so I probably won't do a decent I'ble about it.
Howdy. I'm working on a hypothetical RPG idea, hypothetically made of estes alpha rockets and explosives (probably m-80s). I'm also working on a hypothetical launcher.
I'm working on a whole lot of stuff, but really slowly [cos i'm a lazy bum who procrastinates]: a periscope using side view mirror motors an LED sequencer a welding bench antiqued [sp] german dog tags a boolean function generator using a MUX some upgunned ear-buds rusty furniture the perfect pork dumpling
purple duck take pimp sute for prom
Right now I have a few projects I'm wanting to work on. Mostly more pasties, a giant moustache pillow, chastity belt, etc. :P
Actually I just made a "no weld recumbent bike" it was pretty fun and easy to make, although I'm still working out a few flaws in the design. I have fun riding it around town and getting everyone's reaction.
extension cord,the project just got rejected yesterday by my father(the 1,000,000th time)
so,im currently about to MAKE a sandwich since it is 9:30 in the morning and im hungry
Just finished a modification to the DIY Camera R-Strap. If there are any photographers here trust me, having one of these is a must!


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The 6 Most Brutal Murders Committed by Batman
Ask any comic book nerds and they'll tell you that there are two things that define Batman: With enough prep time, he could take down God himself, and he never, ever takes a life. However, for a guy who supposedly took a vow to never use a gun or kill any of his enemies (thus justifying the continued existence of the Joker), it turns out that Batman has not just murdered several dudes over the years, but done so in gruesome ways that probably made his victims wish that he'd just shot them.
#6. Batman Hangs a Mental Patient from the Batplane (Batman No. 1, 1940)
Batman's career in needless, brutal murder started early. In the very first issue of Batman's solo rag, an evil scientist uses a toxic serum to turn a group of innocent mental patients into muscular, out-of-control monsters. The scientist's henchmen are driving one of the monsters to town, planning to set it loose in front of a bank they want to rob. Unfortunately for them, Batman had just finished mounting a brand spanking new machine gun onto the Batplane.
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat ... Batman!"
Batman guns down the driver and causes the truck to crash into a tree, but the henchmen actually get off easy compared to what's about to happen to the confused, mentally handicapped mass of muscles in the back: As soon as he falls out of the truck, and before he can hurt a single soul, Batman drops a noose made from reinforced steel and easily snatches the monster by the neck:
He'd been practicing this very maneuver on vagrants for months.
Batman then lifts off the aircraft as the monster desperately struggles to break free from the noose, choking him to death and thus performing the world's first execution by bat-shaped plane. The Batplane then sails smoothly toward its next destination with a few hundred extra pounds of genetically altered dead weight attached, swinging like a grotesque pendulum.
Most people just hang fuzzy dice on the mirror, but whatever.
What's that? "He's probably better off this way"? Actually, Batman, he definitely would have been way better off if you'd just shared the antidote to the serum you'd created moments earlier, but only thought to use on yourself. When the scientist first injects Batman with the serum, he specifically mentions that the monsters' brains are affected by it, so they aren't in control of themselves. There's no guarantee that the cure would have worked on the mental patients, but Batman could have at least tried.
"But what if it doesn't work on them? I can't handle that kind of disappointment."
#5. Batman Crushes People to Death in Junkyards (Various Issues)
After reviewing the evidence, we can pretty confidently say that Batman is the superhero who holds the record for "accidentally" crushing the most folks to death in junkyards, an oddly specific scenario that so far has taken the lives of three Gotham City residents (that we know of).
The first instance comes in Batman No. 425 from 1988, where the Caped Crusader fights a pissed-off drug dealer seeking revenge after Robin intentionally dropped his brother off a rooftop (we wonder where he learned that trick). After thoroughly lecturing Robin about the sanctity of life, Bat-Hypocrite ends up being chased through a junkyard by the drug dealer and somehow toppling a huge pile of unwanted cars on his ass.
To be fair, the guy did stand there like an idiot while a tower of metal fell on him -- we'd almost believe that Batman didn't really mean to kill him if this was the only time that one of his enemies ended up as bunch of mangled body parts buried under garbage (it isn't).
The second and third instances came two years later in Detective Comics No. 613, in which Batman must deal with the escalating violence between garbage disposal companies (yes, Gotham City is so fucked up, even the trash dudes want to kill each other in turf wars). Once again, the climax of the story leads Batman to a junkyard, where he carelessly leaves himself open to a classic wrestling match move.
"Your present, that is! Happy birthday! Here's a ch-"
Rather than ruin his perfect dentition by taking a chair to the face, Batman kicks his middle-aged attacker and causes him to stumble into another crook, sending them both directly into a conveniently placed garbage grinder.
"Gotta get one of these for the Batmobile."
The ensuing violence inspires the greatest onomatopoeia ever printed in a funny book. Seriously, look at this awful mess:
Not to be confused with "KASWULSH," the Swedish boy band.
Is this the same junkyard as before, and if so, exactly how many of Batman's former enemies are buried there? No one's heard from King Tut recently. At this point it's pretty clear that Batman is doing this on purpose and possibly gets off on crushing human bodies (why else would he come up to the grinder and look into it?). See that white-eyed expression in the panel above? That's Batman's O-face.
Unnecessarily brutal murder is Batman's G-spot.
#4. Batman Hates Asian People and Cars, Kills Both (Various Issues)
Batman first became popular at a time when xenophobia was as common in children's entertainment as cute cartoon animals, which, combined with Japan's involvement in World War II, resulted in quite a bit of Asian bashing in those early issues. However, while other superheroes like Superman or Captain America were content with just "slapping a Jap" every once in a while, Batman took a slightly more extreme approach.
Like in this comic, where he pushes a huge statue onto a crowd of Mongols, crushing them to death:
"It's certainly lucky that this statue isn't bolted down or secured in any way!"
That's from Detective Comics No. 39, from 1940. Merely four issues earlier, Batman had kicked a Chinese swordsman into the swordsman's friend, which would not be the last time that he impaled a person on a sword (we'll get to that). Later in the same issue, he pushed their leader out of a window, but that guy turned out to be an American in disguise, so Batman probably wished that he'd just arrested him.
"He was dressed up like an Asian! I didn't know he was people!"
Later, in Batman No. 15 (1943), a scientist shows Batman a simulation of what will happen if you don't buy enough war bonds and Japan invades Gotham City. At one point Batman acquires a rifle, but obviously his vow against firearms forbids him from shooting anyone with it, even enemy soldiers ... so he just throws it at the wheels of a vehicle instead and kills the Japanese occupants in a bloody crash.
"See, Robin? Murder is all about compromise."
And speaking of Batman orchestrating traffic accidents, back in those days this happened way more often than you'd think, and not just in possible Japan-ruled futures. Batman's preferred method consisted of knocking out the driver and jumping off as the car crashed into a pole or fell off a cliff, like in Detective Comics No. 47 (1941) ...
That car predates seat belts, so the Bat just signed that man's death certificate.
... and Detective Comics No. 34 (1939).
"Time to die, evil Dr. Glans!"
Eventually, he just got his own car and stopped hitching rides.


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A couple months back we showed you the first shot of the Microsoft Live "Street View" truck. Now a tipster to our gadget-obsessed brother site snapped some pictures of what appears to be Google upping the ante. The tipster, who will remain nameless to protect his identity from Google bombs, found
in a secret lair at a highway park-n-ride 30 Chevy Cobalts. But these weren't just any Cobalts, all of them were "Street Cam" camera equipped, or "an armada of C.C.C.Cs (Chevy Cobalt Camera Cars)" as the Chevrolet-spotting Gizmodo tipster called them. We're wondering whether this means Chevrolet has thrown aside their allegiance to the forces of good (mom, apple pie, baseball and Autobots) in order to assist the forces of evil (Google)? More than likely Google just got a really good deal on a mess of Cobalts. [Gizmodo]


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The Interview Timeline
We interview between 5-7 candidates for each available position. Our interview season begins mid-July and continues through the end of October. Our program participates in the NRMP Subspecialty Matching Service, as part of the Pediatric Specialties Fall Match (PSFM). Please visit the NRMP PSFM website for information about current fellowship application and match dates. Incoming fellows must be available to start training on July 1st and must be licensed to practice by the State of Iowa by June 30th.
Once your application materials have been received through ERAS and reviewed, our program director will contact you to invite you for an interview. Due to our call and conference schedules, we prefer a Tuesday, Thursday or Friday interview date, but will be flexible with applicant schedules.
Typically, applicants arrive at the Eastern Iowa Airport between 2:00 – 4:00 pm the afternoon prior to their interview day, and our recruitment dinner will be held that evening around 6:30 pm. Dinner attire is casual. The day of your interview will run from approximately 7:30 am – 4:00 pm. In making your return flight arrangements, it is optimal if you are able to book a departure time after 5:30 pm.
During your visit, you will have the opportunity to talk individually with Pediatric Critical Care faculty and fellows, and with at least one faculty member from outside our division. If there are additional UIHC faculty members and/or research mentors with whom you would like to meet, we are glad to make arrangements to include them in your itinerary.