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Posted by Derek
Not much time for a post this morning, so I'll throw out a few questions for the readership. Feel free to answer any, all, or none:
1. Does it bother you, or by contrast make you a bit proud, when you tell someone that you're a chemist and (as happens in about seven out of ten cases) they say "Oh, that was my hardest/least favorite/most boring subject when I was in school"?
2. How many thousands (10s, 100s of thousands) of dollars of unused equipment is sitting in dusty, unused storerooms at your company, because someone ordered it years ago and either (1) never got it to work, (2) was the only person ever to get it to work, or (3) found that it worked, but what it did wasn't worth doing that way?
3. Have you ever set up a reaction and thought "Boy, I sure hope that this doesn't work"?
4. For the drug discovery people out there, what per cent of compounds you've made over the years would you guess dissolve in plain water to any real extent? Is that figure going up, or down?
5. What, off the top of your head, would you say in retrospect is the most time-wasting chemistry you've ever ended up doing?
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1. You're Pfizered on June 3, 2009 8:30 AM writes...
1. Never bothered me that most folks hated organic chemistry that I've met outside of work. At least they think I'm somewhat smart (I'm fooling them all!)
2. You forgot to add in there about when companies lay folks off what happens to the excess stuff. The company I worked for, when it had a big layoff a few years ago (of which I was a part of), wound up just throwing a whole ton of glassware and equipment away. Very frustrating.
4. Less than 10%, probably by a wide margin.
5. The current scale-up I'm working on. I could be making other compounds with the material I'm pushing through, but I need to get large quantities of this gem (said very sarcastically) so that our leadership can check off a box that says "ran x compounds in vivo in 2009".
2. Dynastar on June 3, 2009 8:37 AM writes...
1. You think chem is bad, try having a math degree.
3. Don B. on June 3, 2009 8:45 AM writes...
I never set up a reaction that I did not want to work.
I have seen countless amounts of equipment put into dumpsters with changes in "management" & downsizing.
I once had a member of the Sierra Club say "that chemists & the pharmaceutical industry were resposible for overpopulation and destruction of nature!".
4. Tot. Syn. on June 3, 2009 8:53 AM writes...
1. Nope - but it does bother me when people think that chemist = high-street pharmacist. And that PhD = not-a-proper-doctor. But then I'm easily wound-up
2. Most of what I work with (machine-wise) is recycled from other companies that shut-down, so I think we do okay. And the stuff that we're done with gets passed-on elsewhere. And there's not too much unused stuff.
3. Yep. Na/Hg amalgam reduction. Hated making that stuff. Goddamn fireflashes...
4. I've only been doing the med-chem thing for a little-while, but not many; perhaps 10%.
5. My Masters project? Yep, 6% yield over two steps to make a DNA intercalator that didn't work. If I hadn't had a cracking Summer Research Project just prior to that, or a year working at UMSL, it would have made me dump chemistry as a career. Grrr.
5. qetzal on June 3, 2009 8:56 AM writes...
Not a chemist, but re #3:
I occasionally run experiments that I hope don't work. Usually this happens when I've observed some potentially interesting result, but I'm worried it could be due to some artifact. I'll run an experiment designed to show whether the possible artifact is actually responsible, and hope the experiment 'fails.'
6. Jim B on June 3, 2009 8:57 AM writes...
1) I mostly get "Oh, do you work in Boots (a UK pharmacist)?". Cue steam coming out of my ears as I explain the difference.
2)Not much actually, most of it's equipment that broke and is stored "because we might fix it one day"
3) Many, many times.
4)I'm a carbohydrate chemist, so most of them.
5) Polarimetry of a series of compounds when I'd already obtained the rotation of the enantiomers.
7. Vader on June 3, 2009 9:05 AM writes...
I'm a computational physicist, not a chemist, so the list of questions would be slightly different, but yeah.
I can't help but cringe at the "Oh, I hated physics" comments. But then I remind myself that this gives me a comparative advantage that I've been able to translate into a comfortable salary.
I don't think I need to say much about unused equipment in my field. Our "apparatus" gets obsolete in about six months, so the company lets us replace it every two years or so. The old stuff ends up sitting in the network manager's office where it doubtless provides hours of amusement to the occupant.
I can't say I've ever written a program where I hoped it wouldn't run. On the contrary, I have once in my entire career made a significant change to a computational physics program that actually ran correctly the first time.
Computers and water never mix.
I've written a fair number of programs which, after grinding away for days, told us nothing we could not have figured out with a back-of-the-envelope calculation.
8. MiddleO'Nowhere on June 3, 2009 9:06 AM writes...
1. A little of both. Proud because I got a degree in a less common subject (there were only 15 chemistry graduates in a class of ~6000 at my college). A little sad because a bit of science/chemical literacy would go a long way in preventing hysteria in the public at the latest danger "CHEMICAL!!!". Stuff like the vaccine/autism mess.
2. $100,000+. Don't forget the equipment that is too expensive to repair and even more expensive to replace. It's kind of nuts when the cost to just have someone come out and look at a piece of equipment is $1500. This is probably more a problem in academic labs.
3. Yes. Two reasons come to mind. The first is when you realize there's a shorter 2 step route to something when you've worked out/been using a 6 step route and you don't want to look like a moron for having used the longer one, "See! The simpler pathway won't work, which is why I need to use all those protecting groups." The second is when the successful synthesis of a compound will drag things out for another year.
4. Never done drug discovery, but very few of my compounds are water soluble. I even made one that was only sparingly soluble in almost everything, but not soluble enough to get an NMR or mass spec of it. And no, it wasn't a PAH.
5. Peptide couplings for macrocycle formation. The yields got progessively worse as I coupled more peptides on, and we never successfully closed the macrocycle.
9. madkathy on June 3, 2009 9:36 AM writes...
1. I work in chemistry outreach, so to some extent, my job is figuring out how to address that segment of the population. I have discovered that most people who thought chemistry was hard/hated/boring simply had bad teachers and/or the chemistry was poorly communicated. When they have a chance to see what chemistry is, what science is, and the many ways the benefit from it in their daily lives, they often remark "I wish I'd known that sooner."
The fix for this is more support for our elementary, middle, and high school science teachers. Many of them are teaching with limited resources and training in their subjects. A lot of science-types acknowledge the problem, but aren't sure what to do. It may be as simple as donating old journals or science magazines to the local chemistry teacher. Or, regarding question #2, see what you can do to get some of that old dusty equipment into a high school or community college. Take it (with company approval, of course) to the school and spend an afternoon showing the teacher how to use it. Talk to them about what you might've used it for.
When we have more effective science teachers, we will have a more scientifically literate and less science-phobic society.
10. T.S. Hall on June 3, 2009 9:45 AM writes...
1. As an academic, it bothers me. I always think to myself that the reason people are generally scientifically illiterate and there are so few scientists has a lot to do with the sad job we do in teaching the subject.
2. As an academic, I advise contacting your local masters granting comprehensive universities (MCU) and/or primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI) every once in a while and let them do a spring cleaning for you. If you did not write it off completely yet the company can call it a charitable donation. God knows the MCUs and PUIs can't afford to repair or replace their equipment, so only give the stuff that works.
3. All the time when I am hypothesis testing/disproving.
11. MTK on June 3, 2009 10:25 AM writes...
1. It usually bothers me more than anything else, because I really don't think it's that hard.
3. All the time. As others have mentioned, it's usually for control experiments or something similar when you're testing a hypothesis. It always stinks when you have to toss away what you thought was a good hypothesis due to actual data.
12. partial agonist on June 3, 2009 10:27 AM writes...
With regard to question #5, that is easy.
Following up on HTS screening campaigns is boring enough, but once I wasted literally months when compound after compound was resynthesized and found out that every lead was a FALSE POSITIVE.
Now, the screening wells passed QC by LC/MS, mind you, at least for their organic components. But when the wells themselves were purified by HPLC, no activity was seen. We gathered it was an inorganic impurity messing up the assay, and found this out after a good two/three months of synthesis, since the assay folks wanted to test a bunch of compounds "all at once" instead of a few at a time because the assay reagents were expensive and short-lived.
So, the chemists put in months of work, got no leads validated, no publications emerged at all since "Hey, nothing worked!" and there was hardly even any intersting chemistry involved in doing the resynthesis either. To top it all off, the managers (non-chemists) were not too impressed with the productivity, of course measured in active compounds, that quarter.
The only positive was the lesson learned to never get anywhere close to excited about any HTS results until all of the "best" compounda are remade, rigorously purified by HPLC, and have their activity confirmed.
13. Alex on June 3, 2009 10:50 AM writes...
Meh, try having a degree in physics and philosophy. The only people that don't think you're insane are the philosophers that can stand maths.
14. Anne on June 3, 2009 10:52 AM writes...
1: I'm an astronomer, so I have a choice: if I want to encourage conversation, I say "I'm an astronomer" and usually get "oh cool!" as long as I don't go on to mention I use radio telescopes. If I want to discourage it I say "I'm an astrophysicist" which gets me a glazed look that says "I don't even know what that is".
2: We've got a fair bit, but nothing on your scale. It's mostly computers here, though there's an old radio telescope on the roof gathering dust. Now at the observatories that's another story - there's a 140-foot dish that's still in service only because they train students on it once in a while...
3: Oh yes. Usually when my plate is completely full of urgent papers and we get some telescope time on a new source: "I hope this doesn't do anything interesting, I don't have time to write it up!"
4: Not really applicable, though at least we don't lose our telescope time to bad weather (short of windstorms or snow). In fact we get telescope time when the high-frequency observers get rained out.
5: We've been having an utterly miserable time trying to get a decent position for this one pulsar. We've got a low-frequency position for it, but the beam size is huge. We tried gridding at a higher frequency, for the smaller beam, but that band is just packed with radio interference, much of which looks exactly like the pulsar. At the next higher band we'd need a zillion pointings to cover our low-frequency beam. At this point I just want to live with our sloppy low-frequency position and forget any high-frequency observing.
15. HelicalZz on June 3, 2009 11:06 AM writes...
1. Not a bother, but not an ego thing either. Probably someone who wouldn't want to talk to me for too long anyway, or better that we chat on a different subject. I did used to enjoy telling people who asked me what I did that I 'make modified DNA', then stick my hand out for a shake -- always good for a double-take.
2. Plenty of unused equipment. But it isn't worth all that much (10's of Ks). No reason not to call a used equipment dealer and move some of it along if you have a whole lot. Donation is usually only an option for new equipment.
3. In context, perhaps. I do recall thinking, I hope this doesn't work better, or this won't scale well (either scary or impractical). Not really the same as hoping for failure, but similar. Of course there is always the outside suggestion of 'why haven't you tried this' that doesn't garner enthusiasm, but again, more in the better than failure category.
4. Dissolve in water, plenty, but I've often been nucleoside focused (not now though, but I'm not cranking compounds either).
5. Time wasting? There is a lot of process development work that turns out just exactly like you expect it would (intermediate solution stability and such), but really does need to be done and documented. I can see chemists argue that it is time wasting, but I would argue it isn't (I'll give in to monotonous though).
16. Bored on June 3, 2009 11:07 AM writes...
I agree with madkathy #9. Any subject can be made interesting with the right teacher. My career in science began with watching "Mr. Wizard" as a kid. Granted, he was a guy on TV, but he inspired me.
Sitting in front of a bored professor, even if he is discussing human sexuality, is boring.
17. Dster on June 3, 2009 11:12 AM writes...
1. I grimace and wait for the 'big pharma' conspiracy theories and alternative treatment theories. Most times this doesn't happen, but it sure is annoying when it does.
2. Hundreds of thousands. Easily. Mostly in unidentified pieces.
3. Yes, anything that involves large amounts or frequent use of a dangerous substance.
4. N/A, I'm in process dev. & don't make new molecules
5. Time wasting: RNA purification alternatives. Stick with Ethanol & salt!
18. David P on June 3, 2009 11:18 AM writes...
1. It always seems to be in the doctor's office or the dentist's when I hear that. And it always makes me smile. What is much rarer to hear someone say 'oh chemistry, I loved chemistry in school'.
2. Not too much of that, more of older equipment that has not been fixed but might be 'one day'. And then is slowly cannibalized for parts...
3. Oh yes. If it works means I have to repeat it. Sometimes that is more trouble than it is worth. Though, come to think of it, it is usually 'I hope this isn't active' after a 5 step synthesis with a horrendous yield and painful purification at the end.
4. Dissolve in water? Yeah it is low. Most of the kinase inhibitors I ever made were more like brick dust. I think that 10% figure quoted by others is probably generous unless the definition of dissolve is equally generous. Usually we work for an active then try and improve solubility - I'd say it is going up as it is definitely a consideration as the drug discovery process continues.
5. I must be lucky as I can't think of an obvious answer for this one beyond chemistry done between in vitro data ('oh, active!') and cell data ('oh, it's dead').
Fun questions!
19. milkshake on June 3, 2009 11:26 AM writes...
since I became synthetic chemist I started living in the lab, I stopped meeting non-chemistry people so the awkward comment (about how hard is to learn chemistry) come up rarely; the last time I heard it was like 4 years ago, from a real-estate agent.
I want my reactions to work of course but many times I prayed for my compound to turn out to be lousy so that the synthetic procedure wouldn't have to be repeated.
Expensive equipment: I bought a prep HPLC from Waters once and it turned out to be a complete clunker - imbecile software, imbecile engineer (like from Fargo the movie) and the autoinjector and fraction collector never really worked. We used it couple times for manual runs before we bought Shimadzu prep HPLCs and unfortunately we never got around to return it - it is still sitting there under the bench in our instrument room. Occassionally we get yet another proposal from the Waters sales reps that for mere thirty thousand they could upgrade it to make it actually work.
Water soluble compounds: making them is not the point (anyone can slap an amine sidechain on a brick). The main thing is not to make insoluble compounds that precipitate from all solvents including DMSO. Most successful drugs are often pretty water insoluble but they dissolve in lipids.
Time wasting chemistry: once I spent a month bringing up optically pure material that I then proceeded to ruin all in one experiment. A bizarre story thats too long for the comment section.
20. weiss on June 3, 2009 12:36 PM writes...
I love question 1.
If you actually want to talk about your career/profession as a chemist with a new person you've met, then i strongly suggest not answering the "what do you do?" question with "i'm a chemist." Because they will say "i was bad at/hated chemistry in 10th grade." I've spent years trying to understand WHY people say that stupid response and how to avoid it.
Believe it or not, it's YOUR fault if you get the "i was bad at chemistry" response from someone - not theirs. Your statement of "i'm a chemist" is too jarring/abrubt and out of the realm of their expectations, so people have no way to relate to a newfound chemist in their midst. So this poor new person is trying to think of something to fill the gap in the conversation... and all they can think of is their terrible high school chem class. Also, they are most likely intimidated and are scared that they might say something stupid or non-sensical and you'll look down on them.
One strategy to avoid this awkwardness is to slowly lead them on a journey that logically ends with you being a chemist. They say "what do you do?". Build a little suspense. Answer it with a lead in to a longer story like "it actually took me a long time to choose a profession - i always loved puzzles but really didn't want a desk job." This will start a dialogue where by the time you actually say "chemist" they'll be interested and it will make sense. You'll probably get this response "oh, that's really unique, but i can see how chose it."
If it's a peer you're talking to at a social situation you can answer it with a joke like "i'm a cage fighter... can't you tell?" or "my CIA cover is generally as a scientist..." and have them guess your job. The person probably didn't actually care what you do for a living, they were just going down their boring list of questions to ask random people they meet.
Don't be afraid to divert the conversation for awhile and keep it lighthearted until they are actually curious about what you do. Then tell them how you decided to be a chemist, and what you do on a day to day. How it's "like sculpting with a chainsaw," or how it's "sort of like being a really anal chef..." etc.
You might actually be the only chemist this person EVER meets, and you have the ability to shape their perception of the whole field.
It's your fault if you force them into the "i hated chemistry" line, so don't be angry with them!
21. Dylan on June 3, 2009 1:11 PM writes...
I'm not a chemist, but I thought I'd just agree with the obvious point about the quality of the teachers being a big contributor to people pursuing science. I really enjoyed physics and chemistry in high school, and when I entered college I was leaning to majoring in physics (with a second major in Philosophy, shout out to Alex). The first year of physics classes though completely dissuaded me from the idea though, they were the most boring classes I ever took, with the professor only lecturing for about 20 minutes (in a very dull monotone) and the rest of the class spent working on monotonous problems. I figured it was physics 101...was it too much to expect for things to occasionally explode?
22. Slowandugly on June 3, 2009 1:11 PM writes...
1. I enjoy it. After the inevitable comments, I tell everyone that it is actually very easy, as wittnessed by the number of morons I work with.
2. The most obsolete equipment here is the research staff.
5. Writing coupling constants for a paper.
23. R. Reeves on June 3, 2009 1:56 PM writes...
1. I am proud to be a chemist and love making chemicals, I would not judge how other people do anything else or expect expect them to understand my passion for synthesis.
24. startup on June 3, 2009 2:36 PM writes...
1. I don't care one way or another. I assume that people say that to get some sort of response out of me, so I don't bite.
2. Enormous amounts. My former CTO was constantly in the search of a silver bullet which would make his ideas work so there was a steady stream of scale-up and purification equipment, much of it was never even unpacked. He was also under impression that the current analytical technique is faulty in some way and the next will prove just how good and clean his brainchildren are, but at least most of that hardware was useful.
3. It was my primary reason for quitting from my last position
5. Preparing a large set of ligands with substituted aryls only to find out that phenyl works the best.
25. Paul S on June 3, 2009 2:37 PM writes...
1. I'd say there's a bit of bother and a bit of pride mixed in there. The ratio depends greatly on the attitude of the person I'm talking to. If they come across as "Why would anyone bother with something so difficult?" (What I call Math Is Hard for Barbie Syndrome) then I tend to dismiss the person as an uneducated irritant. Call me prejudiced, but there it is. If the attitude is more "I'm glad someone is doing that, but it's not for me," then pride tends to be in the ascendant.
And then occasionally I come across "I could never get that, but it interests me." Those are often very enjoyable conversations.
2. I'm a consultant, so I work for a lot of different companies. I couldn't give a dollar value, but I can say that every company I've ever worked for seems to have a used equipment graveyard.
4. I would have to offer an off-the-cuff guess here, but I'd say the proportion of water-insoluble compounds is increasing. I even see formulations in which an oral compound is designed to dissolve in water (perhaps in a syrup) and then convert to a lipid-soluble form in the stomach.
5. My most time-wasting chemistry was probably some analytical work for a patent-infringement claim involving a specialized paint. The client absolutely would not listen to our advice (we being the analytical lab he had engaged). Instead he brought in a Ph.D. consultant who was so incompetent that he got paint all over his business suit by hand-agitating a tube of paint and toluene that was sealed with nothing but parafilm. I don't even know how many wild geese that man ended up having us chase.
26. DrSnowboard on June 3, 2009 3:16 PM writes...
1. Bothers a bit, because they never got to the interesting bit. I usually say its just cooking, thanks to Heston, most people get that now.
2. Thankfully, not too much (though new biologists always seem to need a new piece of kit). We'd been around the block before we got here so had seen the Great White Hope discard pile before.
3. Only during PhD and doing the 'without catalyst' control.
4. Only intermediates really, the ones you want to be able to extract..
5. Forced Combichem secondment, allegedly to show its application to new scaffolds for an existing project. Thiatriazoles, easy chemistry to a useless scaffold in drug terms, using chemnistry that doesn't work for real world substituents.Pathetic.
27. Lou on June 3, 2009 4:38 PM writes...
I'm so happy to know that someone else did Na/Hg amalgam stuff!!
I'm not a chemist, but I like telling people that I was trained in chemistry. Being a hardcore physical science and all, you know.... :D
28. CMCguy on June 3, 2009 4:49 PM writes...
1. I find it a bit funny and usually don't tell them I found it easy (Agree with comment about typically involves a bad teacher which is why I hate p-chem)
2. Every place I have been had several such items with the wasted costs ranging for 10s to 100s of Thousands. Size did not matter and both big and small companies would invest in fancy new tools that didn't work as advertised, broke easily or were so complicated no one would use. Additional experience in that had some ancient instruments that were more reliable that the new replacement technology so did work to maintain.
3. Many times wanted a failure, either by design because was exploring/verifying control limits so didn't wish to have continue runs (so guess would be a success) or due to fact that it would if positive result be a huge paradigm shift to an unexplainable realm (and mean even more work).
4. When I was doing discovery most analogs were insoluble beasts that we trusted could make a useful salt. Trend always seemed to be increase activity with worse aqueous solubility.
5. My Post-doc
29. Jan Teller Jr on June 3, 2009 6:03 PM writes...
1. In my country if you want to pursue a career in physical sciences, very often you are underpayed and underated. Hence, you´ve got two options a) Living with it and do what most people do once they get a permanent position which is... b)emigrate
Socially speaking is widely considered a Dr. is a guy who wasted his 20s not earning enough cash to get a live, and who doesnt get the recognition given in anglosaxon countries to PhDs.
So yeah, usually we dont care but if you say people that you are a molecular engineer rather than an organic chemist you will get extra-consideration points.
2. In the UK.... but here we just have money to buy coffee and solvents. (And yeah, sometimes we´ve pondered the possibility of using coffee as solvent and caffeine to do some templated self-assembly-ish..xD)
3. Yep, when something is concerned to nasty or lenghty procedures.
4. Happily I havent been in that situation,yet.
5. Mmmhhh, interesting question. No comment. :D
30. Jan Teller Jr on June 3, 2009 6:06 PM writes...
Forgot to say, thanx a lot for the post on POCl3, it is been quite useful, guys.
31. BustedRobot on June 3, 2009 8:02 PM writes...
to # 26. Dr Snowboard, Point 5: thiotriaozles useless as drug scafgold-fullstop, or useless as drug scaffold for your target ? You see the scaffold a lot in HTS libraries.
32. DrSnowboard on June 4, 2009 7:35 AM writes...
Well, it's true the chemistry never made an active one as aryl substituted thiatriazoles didn't play ball. I would have a prejudice against them for PK but I'm sure someone will point out a marketed one, or maybe not. I put them with triaminotriazines, first thing you do is take it out.
33. Norepi on June 4, 2009 2:34 PM writes...
1. What offends me more are the people who assume that I'm a pharmacist (how "medicinal chemist" is equated with "pharmacist" I'm still not sure), and ask questions like "wow, was pharmacy school hard?" For the rest, generally, it is a pause followed by "oh...how...interesting" and then an abrupt subject change.
3. When I'm trying to prove myself wrong/right, sure.
4. I've made a lot of gucky polyamine-type molecules. Most of these are water-soluble to the point of being able to do 1H NMR in D2O. Most of the rest one can get into about a 4:1 mixture of water:DMSO. So I'll say 20%.
5. Most hydrazone cleavage methods in existence. Gosh, some of these things are just impossible to work with, IMHO.
34. London_chemist on June 5, 2009 6:32 AM writes...
1) I did get a guy serving me in a supermarket asking me to recite the periodic table--I think I got as far as krypton. My standard reply is to say that if more people were good at chemistry, companies would have an excuse to pay us even less!
2)My present job--not much as we started from scratch and don't have much cash. My first employer--i hate to think. Especially a lot of the first stuff to be made for parallel synthesis/purification
3)No. Why are you doing it if you're thinking that?
4)What's "any real extent"? I once worked on a program where the lead was very insoluble (mcg/mL) but was 50% orally bioavailable and efficacious in animal models. If its potent enough, you don't need much....
5)Most of the stuff for my last employer (no names, but its big, american and has a blue logo.....)
35. CMCguy on June 5, 2009 3:27 PM writes...
Derek- I suppose others like me would be interested in hearing how you would answers these questions? (although in some senses you have already in past posts)
PS If you attempt to post anonymously as "Reeking Owl" I think we'll know.
36. Anonymous BMS Researcher on June 5, 2009 3:52 PM writes...
2. I was once part of a project to evaluate a rather expensive piece of hardware that another part of the company had decided wasn't useful for them. So we had it taken out of storage, paid its manufacturer to get it back into usable condition, etc., so we could have a go. After a few months we concluded the thing didn't meet our needs either. I dunno whether this time it went back into storage, got adopted by yet another group, got sold to another company, or given to some academic.
4. As others have noted, a lot of our compounds are brick dust, and the percentage that just won't dissolve in any of our vehicles "not no way not no how" seems to be increasing.
37. Anonymous on June 8, 2009 9:33 AM writes...
> 1. You think chem is bad, try math
I majored in math, and I work in IT, and between the two, the "Oh man, I hate / am terrible at that" reaction may occur slightly (but only slightly) more frequently with math, but it typically has a lot more vehemence and feeling behind it when it's said about computers.
It's the difference between "Oh, I wasn't very good at math in high school, say, how about that ball game?" versus "Grrrrrr, if I ever get my hands on Bill Gates I will rip his lips off and shove them where the sun don't shine."
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The dollar strengthened Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted obstacles to a U.S. recovery and euro-zone debt concerns, prompting a selloff in stocks and raising the value of the greenback as a safe haven.
The dollar index DXY, -0.29% which measures the performance of the U.S. unit against six other major currencies, rose against a basket of rivals to 74.791 from 74.553 late Tuesday, picking up strength as Bernanke briefed reporters following the Fed's monetary-policy statement and economic forecast.
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Stocks snapped a four-day winning streak, stumbling in late trading after the Federal Reserve issued a cautious economic outlook just days before it ends its asset-buying program.
"Bernanke seemed to be focused on the persistent headwinds to a U.S. recovery," said David Watt, senior currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets. "This got the market cautious about the U.S. economic outlook."
"As he spoke, equities faded, and the dollar rallied," Watt said, adding that the dollar exhibited the strongest moves when Bernanke focused on the uncertainty of the recovery and the strains on the European Union.
Bernanke said there was "uncertainty" about how much of the recent U.S. slowdown was permanent or transitory. He also said that while U.S. banks' direct exposure to Greece was small, a disorderly sovereign bond default would likely roil financial markets and have a "significant" impact on the United States. Read more on the Fed.
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U.S. stocks, which had been trading near flat ahead of the afternoon press conference, ended with broad losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.82% fell 80 points to 12,110, with all but two stocks lower. Read more on U.S. stocks.
The dollar's rise during Bernanke's appearance continued through the day. The dollar index rose to 74.677 after the Federal Reserve released its statement on monetary policy Wednesday afternoon.
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Mark Lamkin, CEO of Lamkin Wealth Management, says he's bearish on Greece in the short term but very bullish on the long term.
The Federal Open Market Committee kept interest rates near 0% and said, as expected, that it was ending its $600 billion bond-buying program on schedule by the end of this month. The decision was unanimous.
"The absence of a dissent for a third meeting sends a strong message to financial markets that the Fed is committed to zero interest rates for the foreseeable future," said Michael Woolfolk, currency strategist at BNY Mellon Global Markets. But also, Woolfolk said, the committee gave no sign it was extending or embarking on a new quantitative easing program.
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BEND, Ore. - The Iditarod is known "the last great race on Earth."
Competitors and their dog sled teams brave sub-zero temperatures, 50 mph headwinds and long hours of darkness.
Short of hopping on a plane bound for Anhorage, for someone new to sled dog racing the "Trail of Dreams" at Mount Bachelor may be the best place to start.
Jerry Scdoris showed KVAL News the ropes with the help of his daughter Rachel, a four-time Iditarod finisher.
"If you do tip over," Scdoris said, "you've got to hang on."
The dogs could tell Katie Boer and Bill Goetz from KVAL News wanted to go for a ride for the Extreme Katie series.
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Facebook has announced it is acquiring Oculus VR, maker of the Rift virtual reality headset, for $2bn in cash and stock.
In a posting on his site tonight, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that he is "excited" to be acquiring the company, which he describes as "the leader in virtual technology".
While the Oculus Rift, which renders 3D virtual worlds inside a proprietary piece of helmet hardware, has until now been identified largely with gaming, Zuckerberg obviously has bigger plans for the technology.
"Our mission is to make the world more open and connected," said Zuckerberg. "For the past few years, this has mostly meant building mobile apps that help you share with the people you care about."
But while Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook still has "a lot more to do on mobile", he sees Oculus as an enabler to start letting the social network "start focusing on what platforms will come next to enable even more useful, entertaining and personal experiences".
Such a leap is clearly a tempting proposition for Facebook, which, as Zuckerberg hints in his post, is still having trouble monetising mobile since the company's public stock offering in mid-2012.
Perhaps Zuckerberg believes he can get the jump on an aspect of the impending wearables craze, which has now seen Google strike a deal with Ray-Ban maker Luxottica.
"After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences," continued Zuckerberg.
"Imagine enjoying a courtside seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face - just by putting on goggles in your home."
Describing virtual reality as "once the dream of science fiction", Zuckerberg explained how Facebook intends now to join with "developers and partners across the industry" to build "many more" experiences for users to interact with in the hope of making VR a commercial possibility.
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Defecting from id Software - the company he helped found in 1991 - in late 2013 was John Carmack, who took up the mantle of CTO at Oculus.
Carmack is credited with the creation of a number of hugely successful videogame software engines - including those used in the Doom and Quake series - and licensed for many other videogames products over the years.
Meanwhile, games company Valve - which owns and operates the Steam games distribution platform, as well as creating the successful Half-Life series - lost its lead virtual reality engineer to Oculus earlier this month. Atman Binstock is now chief architect at Oculus.
Oculus, which was formed in 2012 by young entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and videogames middleware firm Scaleform founders Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov, largely came into existence simply to help launch a Kickstarter for the Rift headset.
While the creators asked for only $250,000, the crowdfunding exercise earned $2,437,429 altogether. Other investments raised the figure to $91m in total.
"We are excited to work with Mark and the Facebook team to deliver the very best virtual reality platform in the world," said Iribe, who is CEO of Oculus.
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Amherst police say the 38-year-old was arrested Friday and arraigned Saturday. He was released on his own recognizance.
He pleaded not guilty to five charges, including criminal mischief, criminal trespass and harassment. Police refused to give further details.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz says the network is looking into the situation.
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BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - A newly released affidavit shows text messages between Nichole Cable and Kyle Dube indicating a previous relationship.
According to the affidavit, Nichole texted Kyle Dube about her meeting with the fake Bryan Butterfield. She seems unaware it was Dube behind the Facebook page. Cable texted Dube, telling him about the meeting. Dube told her to text him if she needed anything.
In the affidavit, Cable describes to her boyfriend that Dube allegedly attacked her the night before she disappeared. Cable wrote, "Kyle was trying to kiss and grope me I kept trying to push him off of me and he wouldn't stop."
Cable goes on to say, "He wouldn't stop and he ended up leaving a bite mark on me. So as soon as he got off me I had him bring me home." This incident allegedly happened the night before Cable's disappearance.
The affidavit also gives more details on what happened after Cable disappeared. According to the document, Dube threw Cable's clothes out of the window as he left the scene on May 12 and those items were found by a jogger on May 17.
The sweatshirt identified by Nichole's best friend was "dirty on the back but relatively clean on the front. One sleeve had been pulled inside out and the sweatshirt had been cut and or ripped down the entire length of the front."
The affidavit states that officers believe a foot chase and possible struggle had occurred. Police noticed scratches on Dube's face when interviewing him on May 15.
Officers also recovered a ski mask with an eye hole cut into on near the area where Cable was supposed to meet the fake Brian Butterfield. Dube's DNA was found on that mask.


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Studying and Exam Taking / Re: CALI« on: October 18, 2005, 01:18:59 PM »
More in the employment discrimination section.
And a lesson on takings law.
And a lesson on takings law.
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Studying and Exam Taking / Re: CALI« on: October 18, 2005, 01:18:59 PM »
More in the employment discrimination section.
And a lesson on takings law.
1L job search / Re: When Do 1L usually start looking for 1L summer jobs??« on: October 17, 2005, 02:40:59 AM »
Jacy's right about the NALP guidelines -- at least, those were the rules last year.
It depends what type of job you are looking for, but basically, you'll do better if you start in December, but some people still find things in April (or even later).
Law firm: prepare them over the summer, or if that's not possible, then after exams in December. There is no value in sacrificing ANY of your exam-study time for the chance to send out cover letters fast. It is much more important to get good 1L grades than to get a 1L law firm job, and a lot of the employers don't make decisions til January or later anyway. They often (but not always) want to see first semester grades before making decisions.
Government: the most prestigious programs have deadlines in January. But there are other positions that don't hire 'til later.
Judges: I'm not sure. December/January, I'd expect.
Public Interest: these things come out over time all through the spring semester.
Research assistantships for professors: depends on your school, but where I go, some professors start advertising in late February, but other positions don't appear until April.
General Board / Re: Depressed and lonely in law school?« on: October 16, 2005, 10:20:35 PM »
Yep, that's why I'm roaming this board.
My thoughts:
#1: Chuck the TV. Split the resulting free time between sleeping and being with other people.
#2: Find something to do with other people
a. My law school has a lot of public interest and community service things to do. Yours might too. It's a good way to meet a broader group of people, at least some of whom may not be valley girls. And some of these activities are interesting learning experiences.
b. Early evening or afternoon social activities. A restaurant was giving a % of its profits on a particular night to charity, so a few days in advance, I emailed my section and other law students I knew to see who wanted to go to dinner. We had a nice little group that night. Our student bar association does a very popular bowling tournament. A friend of mine maintains an email list -- he announces a restaurant each week, and anyone interested just goes on Tuesday night. A friend of mine got an email about a big event on campus, so she emailed all of her law friends to see who was up for it. Some of my friends get together for regular walks or gym workouts. A girl in my section was in a big stage production on campus, so I found a few law students to go with. I joined a foreign-language table. Nothing elaborate -- just ways to interact outside of the club scene. The people you like will migrate towards the same activities you do.
c. Mock trial. It's a big time commitment over a short period of time. But you get to know your team, it can be fun, and it does go on the resume.
d. Religious, political, or minority interest groups, if you are so inclined, inside or outside of the law school. I volunteered with some of my fellow students on election day last year. A religious group helped me keep some focus in grad school.
e. A 1L I know joined the town's community orchestra
f. Call your family and non-law-school friends.
g. Cats.
#3: Try studying in places with other people around. I hate studying in my apartment or in the secluded carrels in the law library. I much prefer the more public areas of the law school, or coffee shops and restaurants. It's nice to see there are other people around.
Studying and Exam Taking / Re: Antitrust?« on: October 16, 2005, 08:51:54 PM »
Thanks! That's exactly the information I need.
Studying and Exam Taking / Antitrust?« on: October 16, 2005, 04:22:47 PM »
Has anyone here taken antitrust law, who can recommend a commercial supplement for it?
General Board / Re: Active, engaged learner or gunner?« on: October 16, 2005, 04:12:41 PM »
... With that being said, I do plan to ask and answer questions... not be obnoxious but if I don't understand, I'm not going to just sit there and become more confused...
Asking a question for clarification is good, but not more than once per class. After that, if you're still confused, take it up with the professor after class or in office hours. That way, you get your question answered, but the class isn't slowed down.
General Board / Re: Active, engaged learner or gunner?« on: October 16, 2005, 04:08:41 PM »
If you insist upon asking a question (actually multiple questions) that you know is going to bring up a topic the class is CLEARLY not talking about yet....you are a gunner.
Oh, yeah. That is the WORST gunner characteristic.
On the other hand, I like hearing from people who really have something to add, ON THE TOPIC WE'RE DISCUSSING. I do not, however, like hearing from someone who just wants to summarize what the professor just said.
General Board / Re: Best Professor Lines This Year« on: October 16, 2005, 03:48:56 PM »
"Maybe when you become judges youll have wisdom and even if people dont understand why you made your decision theyll still have faith in it."
"Philosophizing by 21 and 22 year olds is not worth much."
"How do you know when enough is enough?"
Studying and Exam Taking / Re: CALI« on: October 16, 2005, 03:28:48 PM »
The E&E's for Civ Pro and Torts are good, but I didn't get far in the one for Contracts.
CALI was very nice for teaching me how joinder works (civ pro). I really liked having a wizard to walk through with questions and answers for that.
Studying and Exam Taking / Re: For 1Ls: Open Book v. Closed Book« on: October 16, 2005, 03:23:25 PM »
Oh, good grief.
First: I hope none of you is seriously suggesting cheating on an exam. Bad idea -- a terrible way to start off your career, which may not last long, given the chances of getting caught. Even if you don't get caught, it will stay on your conscience. Don't do it.
Second: I've had 4 open-book exams and 2 closed-book exams, and I've done about equally well on both. The only difference was that my open-book exams required more analysis of individual cases than my closed-book exams. The preparation strategy is almost identical -- you're going to need to know most of the black-letter law and major policy arguments by heart anyway. And in either case, you'll need to know how to apply the rules. You just have to memorize slightly better for the closed-book exam, and develop a really good index to your material for the open-book exam.


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The first year of college can be an overwhelming experience for students, but for student athletes, the experience can be even tougher. At American International College there is a program that helps make the transition a little easier. "Academic Camp" introduces first-year student-athletes recruited for fall sports to the academic demands and stressors they will face, the resources to assist them, and the policies/procedures important to their success in the classroom.
The program begins on Friday, August 16, and will run through Thursday, August 29.
The program, which has gotten national attention and was featured in the NCAA publication "Champion Magazine," gets these freshmen into the classroom with a professor within 72 hours of arrival to pre-season camp.
Time management is the key lesson as first-year student-athletes balance class time and short homework assignments with the demands of pre-season, practice on the field. Students graduate from Academic Camp with a "can do" attitude towards academics and the knowledge that they are not alone as they begin this journey as NCAA Division II student-athletes.
Some of the subjects covered during Academic Camp include, the key attributes of a student-athlete, an overview of the course syllabus a discussion of roles and expectations of student-athletes, and a session focused on plagiarism and cheating.
This innovative model was presented at the NCAA's annual Faculty Athletics Representatives (FAR) Conference in 2010 and at the annual National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) conference in 2009.
Jill McCarthy Payne, a criminal justice professor at AIC and a Faculty Athletics Representative, collaborated with Head Football Coach Art Wilkins to create and conduct Academic Camp.
"The athletic programs traditionally begin pre-season training well before classes start. First-time players arrive at campus nervous and excited about playing college sports. These student-athletes quickly adapt to the routine of athletics. Their days are spent playing sports, eating in the dining commons, and hanging out in the dorm free from restrictions from home," she said.
While the pilot program in 2005 concentrated on football, Payne said it was so successful, it now encompasses all fall sports, including football, men's and women's soccer, women's field hockey and volleyball.
"We knew we had something that worked when the eligibility rates for freshmen football players doubled after the first year of the program," Payne said.
The four-week academic camp was developed to introduce new players to the other required aspect of their college lives, namely course work. For a number of first-time student-athletes the academic schedule and work load is a shocking, difficult adjustment. Ultimately, some do not experience the same success in the classroom as they do on the field. When athletes fail to perform in the classroom, they become ineligible to play, often leading to withdrawal or dismissal from the college.
This non-credit program is intended to bring reality to pre-season athletics by reducing the shock of academic expectations. It identifies weak students for early intervention and increases the confidence of first time college students who are concerned or worried about the rigors of college work.
Payne said Academic Camp has been structured as an academic lead-in to fall orientation and the First-Year Experience course. The purpose of the program is to get first-year student-athletes who are attending pre-season camp ready for the classroom by learning about college expectations and time management strategies. The motto is "eligibility isn't about playing, eligibility is about graduating."


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Play to your strengths; God is your greatest strength of all
As any golfer knows, few things can shake your confidence like a bad round of golf. Somehow, great moments from past golfing glory slip from your memory and an abominable score that you produced hangs over you like a fog.
After a few bad strokes, one questions everything. Alignment, grip and backswing seem suspect, which usually leads to worse contact and more frustration. The beautiful scenery of the course morphs into a crucible of sand traps, water hazards and scratch golfers that are waiting to tee off behind you.
As many golfers say, the game teaches about life — and vice versa. You need confidence to regain your composure after bad moments in golf and tee off on the next hole with enthusiasm.
Confidence plays a huge role in how we live our daily lives. Consciously and subconsciously, we choose friends, careers, spouses and clothing based on some level of confidence we get from our choice. When our decisions produce the results we envisioned, confidence elevates, and the world seems safe and pleasant. Yet, when our goals fall short and life plans change, we question ourselves. Life's obstacles stand out, and those with confidence seem taller, better-looking and overall more successful.
You gain confidence by playing to your strengths. There exists an untapped source of confidence in every person. No one is great at everything, but everyone is really good at something. And mastering the one or two things you're good at can make you extremely confident in areas with which you struggle.
To extend the golfing analogy, some people exude confidence on the short grass. They know that if they can just reach the green, putting will be no problem. The ability to play to this strength allows them to overcome their deficiencies and enjoy the game.
We do not gain confidence by comparison but by appreciating our own uniqueness. In essence, playing to your God-given strengths allows us to overcome problems and enjoy our lives.
The Bible states that you were uniquely made by God. Realizing this truth, the psalmist writes, "I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way" Psalm 139:14 (NCV).
When you consider your uniqueness, remember the purpose God gave you when he designed you. What you are good at, or what comes naturally to you, often points to the purpose he designed you for.
For example, most people admire golfers who smoothly swing the driver, launching the ball 350 yards off the tee. However, even the best driver in the world cannot create loft needed to elevate a ball lying flat on the ground for a short distance when approaching the green. Similarly, your effectiveness in life comes from aligning to your custom purpose.
To understand this purpose, I recommend spending time with the one who designed you. When you embrace how God made you and master the things that you are naturally good at, your confidence skyrockets — just as every club produces maximum effectiveness when swung according to design. By design, you were created to live in relationship with Him. This relationship aligns your life to the target he planned for you to reach, and when you adjust your life accordingly, the results go beyond description.
If you're like me, you find all the wrong places to hit the ball. On and off the course I have experienced some real blunders. But regardless of past or possible future failures, confidence in life comes from God.
God is your greatest strength. Living in the assurance of this reality brings joy and elevates you to the top of your game, no matter the score.


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342. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the budget within his Department and other Departments for youth affairs in 2008; the proposed budget for 2009; the impact this will have on the provision of frontline services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39185/08]
Minister for Foreign Affairs (Deputy Micheál Martin): While my Department does not provide any frontline youth services, it does provide funding for many initiatives which are either directly or indirectly targeted at younger members of society.
Ireland's annual budgetary contribution to the Council of Europe contains an item for the European Youth Foundation. Out of a total budget contribution of €2,692,472 in 2008, for which this Department was responsible, the Youth Foundation item amounted to €33,073. The Council of Europe budget for 2009 has not yet been finalised, but we would anticipate that [995]there will be a slight increase in Ireland's 2009 contribution, including its contribution to the Youth Foundation.
Under the Communicating Europe Initiative (CEI) a number of youth oriented projects were funded in 2008, including €30,000 in respect of the European Youth Parliament. In addition, 6 school and youth based projects received CEI funding of €29,000 in 2008 to celebrate Europe Day. While the extent of the youth-affairs element of the Communicating Europe Initiative budget depends on the quantity and scope of the applications received, I would expect that a similar amount will be available in 2009.
My Department, through Irish Aid, also provides funding to the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) in respect of the National Youth Development Education Programme (NYDEP). It aims to integrate development education into the core programmes of youth organisations through support for training, activities and the provision of learning resources. Under the current three year partnership agreement (2007-2009), Irish Aid will provide total funding of €925,930 to the NYCI. The budget for the programme this year is €309,806 and €325,758 is allocated for 2009.
My Department also supports measures by community, voluntary, and other groups aimed at promoting reconciliation and tackling sectarianism on an all-island basis. While not specifically directed at the youth sector, many of the programmes assisted by both the Reconciliation and Anti-Sectarian Funds have a focus on activities organised by, or aimed at, young people. In 2008 total provision in the area was €3m, and this level of support will be continued in 2009.
The budget for the Irish Abroad emigrant support programme for this year is €15.183 million and the 2009 allocation is set to match this. While it has no specific youth affairs budget, some of the programme's funding is directed to support projects which particularly benefit our younger emigrants. Earlier this year, for instance, I approved a grant of €50,000 to the FAI to enable the employment of a welfare officer to work with Irish football apprentices and ex- apprentices in Britain and help ensure that the welfare and education needs of these young people are met.
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Following the third inauguration of FDR, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Barnes of Beaver Dam, Ky., took a train from Washington, D.C., home to Kentucky. Rising water covered the tracks, so their journey was disrupted at Louisville. The Barnes family maintained an apartment in the Puritan, a multi-story building at 4th and Ormsby, so the couple joined several other family members there.
The water rose and everyone was trapped. Fortunately, the Puritan had its own generators, so the building, which sits high above the street, retained heat and lights. Other supplies were carried in by rowboat.
After a few days, Marshall, my workaholic father, hired a boat to transport him south of the city, where he could catch the train to Ohio County. He had to return to his job at the Beaver Dam Deposit Bank, his family business since 1890.
Anne stayed in Louisville, safe and dry, recalling her adventures in Washington. She served as a presidential elector in 1936 and had been invited to attend the inauguration in 1937. Electors were invited to a reception at the White House, and she was pleased to meet President and Mrs. Roosevelt in a receiving line. Mrs. Roosevelt took her hand and said, "Would you like to come with me, my dear? I have to check on the reception."
She followed Mrs. Roosevelt to the White House kitchens, where many workers were filling trays. Mother observed while Mrs. Roosevelt questioned and directed the staff about the details of the food service. Mother later commented that she was gracious and lovely and behaved like any hostess having a large party.
Inauguration day was grey and cold; rain drenched the crowds as they left the stands following the ceremony. Anne and Marshall shivered as they walked away and searched for a taxi. They began walking toward their hotel, several miles away, drenched. Anne's wet mink coat and high heels made the trip very hard. Marshall noticed a mail truck parked on the street; obviously, the driver had run into a nearby building. He opened the passenger door and they got in. When the drivewr returned, he ordered them out, saying they were breaking the law. Dad said, "Sir, we have just come from re-electing your Boss. I think he'd like you to help us!" The mailman delivered them to their hotel.
Eventually the flood subsided and the trains ran back to Beaver Dam.
Simpsonville, Ky. 40067
Into a boxcar
When the 1937 flood occurred, I was 13 years old, attending Shawnee High School.
The Ohio River often overflowed but never to this extent. When the boats came by, the bullhorns were blaring, "Evacuate!" My grandfather would not go, so we stayed until the very last minute. Finally, we had to go, but he stayed. We weren't sure if we would ever see him again.
The Union railroad station was on higher ground, and we were evacuated there. Regular passenger trains were being loaded. When those were gone, boxcars were brought on the tracks. People murmured: "They aren't going to put us in those, are they?" We were told: "It's all we have left."
Our family climbed aboard one of the boxcars. (My father was just out of the hospital. His head was all bandaged from a fall. Mother was sad at leaving her father. (A minor frustration was when we opened a sanding, it was the wrong box and contained inedible things.)
We left the city and were taken out to the country. People volunteered their homes and took us in.
Tucson, Ariz. 85701
Early memories of the flood
In early 1937, the great Ohio River flood covered most of the West End of Louisville. The Official Flood Map of Louisville, Kentucky, states the flood crested on Jan. 27, 1937. At that time, the depth of the flood waters at Fourth and Broadway was 3.9 feet; at 28th and Broadway it was 10.2 feet; at 44th and Broadway it was 10.3 feet; and at 40th and Garland it was 12.1 feet deep.
Holy Cross Parish had an important role as a collection point for the West End residents whose homes were flooded. In his book, Hungry Waters -- The Story of the Great Flood, Lowell Thomas states, (By midnight of Jan. 23), "Most of the West End was under water and presented the most awe-inspiring problem of rescue that had ever been seen in these parts. How heroically the city's authorities rose to the occasion may be imagined from the recorded fact that marooned families were being rescued from the residential West End at the rate of one hundred an hour. Not one hundred persons; one hundred families! At one relief depot alone, at 32nd Street and Broadway, 75 persons were being brought in every hour." (Thirty-second and Broadway was the location of Holy Cross School.)
My earliest memories are of the flood. I remember we did not attempt to leave our home at 37th and Garland until Jan. 23, 1937. My youngest sister, Dolores, born at home, was only 10 days old. Dad had kept the home warm by keeping the fire going in the basement furnace until the floodwaters started to flow through the basement windows. At that point, he put out the fire, in preparation for leaving.
Dad had kept the basement from filling with flood water from the sewer by plugging the drain and placing a timber vertically from the plug to the floor joists. He fastened a cable to the plug, so that when he returned home, he kicked out a basement window, pushed the timber free and pulled the cable, which allowed the basement to drain through the sewer.
When we finally left our home on Saturday morning, Jan 23, the boat came right up to our front porch to pick us up. I remember looking down at the swirling muddy water, with my brown teddy bear under my arm, as one of the men in the boat picked me up from the porch and placed me beside Mother.
There were six of us kids plus Mother and Dad at that time. My oldest brother, Bernard Jr., told me that we were boated to 35th and Garland, where we were put on a Falls City Brewery flat bed truck and taken to Holy Cross School. At about 2 p.m., Father Maloney came over to the school and told Dad that parishioners, the Callaways, who lived at 861 South 32nd Street, were going to the country to stay with relatives, and said we could stay on the second floor of their house. We only spent one night there because Sunday morning they announced over the radio that everyone west of 26th Street had leave the area.
They had decided to turn off all power in the area as a safety precaution. We were trucked to the Falls City Brewery, where we stayed in the boiler room that night until about 3 a.m. They took us to the brewery's loading dock where we were put in a boxcar to take us north over the K & I bridge.
At Paoli, Ind., they stopped the train and a railroad worker opened the door of our boxcar and asked if there was a small baby in there. At that point, they separated the train and backed our boxcar to a point beside the caboose. They placed a board from the boxcar to the caboose for all of us to transfer to the caboose. Mother wouldn't go unless all of us could go together. The caboose had a pot-bellied stove to keep us warm until we arrived at Bloomington, Ind. We were housed in a girls dormitory on the Indiana University campus.
It was at Bloomington that our family met a life long friend in Rev. Father Paul A. Derry, later elevated to Monsignor, who was pastor of St. Charles Church in Bloomington. The flood waters peaked in Louisville on Jan. 27, 1937. After the flood waters went down, Dad went home first, on Feb. 4, to clean the mud out of our house. The flood water peaked at about five feet depth on the first floor, as indicated by the mud stains on the walls. Fortunately, Dad had a full bin of coal in the basement, so after draining the basement, he cleaned the furnace and kept it stoked full heat for several days to dry the house out. Most all of the furniture was ruined , so it was thrown out in a pile to be hauled away. Mother then brought the rest of us home by train on Feb. 10. Most families had survived a terrible depression a few years before and now were faced with starting over once again. Many of the Holy Cross families were faced with the same experiences as I have outlined here.
Louisville 40218
Hersheys and Monopoly
I have fond memories of the flood. My father had a bar and a grocery store next to it on Preston Street. They gave away all of the food in the grocery but he brought home much of the stock from the bar.
We lived in Audubon Park and were not flooded. We had Coke to drink instead of treated water. This was long before bottled water. Best of all there were lots of Hershey bars, which I would sneak down to the basement to enjoy.
It was a fun time to play Monopoly and card games. My best friend was at my house as her mother and father had gone to visit in the Highlands and were stuck there so I had a playmate. I was 8 years old.
Louisville 40222
Refugee painted mural
During the '37 flood, people from Louisville were housed in our School Assembly Hall, in the gymnasium and any space available for cots to sleep on. Brownstown school was excited to see this event.
I remember, in particular, a woman who sat up an easel to paint. She did a mural picture that she donated to the school, and I believe it is still hanging in the school. When the old school was torn down, it was saved.
Brownstown, Ind. 47220
In 1937, my parents and I and my two brothers lived in the 2100 block of North Western Parkway, very close to the river.
My parents decided we would not leave our house because the water would not get that high. Some men came by and changed their minds and we were taken to a saloon at 28th & North Western Parkway, where we stayed until the water went down. I don't remember how many people were there but we all seemed to get along, and I don't remember any complaints.
One day we even took a boat ride down the street. My favorite memory of the flood was when we went home and the house smelled so sweet because some white flowers that were planted in a bowl of gravel had bloomed while we were gone. I am now 80 years old and still remember those flowers but have forgotten their name.