This is sort of wild.

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gsvol

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Crowd control.

Northwestern University professor Hani Mahmassani said he has been advising D.C. Metropolitan police and other officials about crowd-control strategies.

Mahmassani, a civil and environmental engineering professor, has studied crowd behavior and the deadly stampedes that have marred annual Muslim pilgrimages to Mecca. He said D.C. officials are including various mass communications systems to assist with crowd control, from simple loud speakers and strategically placed large-screen televisions to personal cell phone alerts to keep people informed.

"Anything could be a spark," Mahmassani said. "A person falling or tripping," or false information circulated in a crowd. "You try to keep the psychology positive so that no false rumors spread."
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I can only guess from the above that a lot of Muslims are expected to be attending the inauguration??
 
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TennTradition said:
I would venture to say that this is an incorrect conclusion to draw from the article.
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Conclusions I do draw:

1) My opinion of Northwestern University has gone to sub zero numbers. Seems as if they are trying to out Ivy League the Ivy League schools.

2) My guess is the guy has been paid to advise the DC police.

3) His reference to stampedes in Mecca is absolutely useless.

4) Things like this are where the $160 million is going.

5) Those who have come to be known as 'liberals' (a misnomer imo) have an intellectual capacity less that that of a chimpanzee. If they don't like what you have to say they throw dung, then jump up and down and scream. Impressive displays NOT.
 
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I only read the excerpt you posted (and thank you for posting a small excerpt, BTW). Would I get something else out of the article if I read the entire thing? Because, I see the author's citation of the professor's bast work in crowd control and studying muslim crowd dynamics in marches to Mecca as a way of establishing bona fides - the gist is, he is a (self-proclaimed?) expert in crowd dynamics and he has studied this particular situation. I think that this is probably something that happens from time to time when a huge crowd is expected for something - or, perhaps I should say this is something that should happen (if it works, and lowers the risk of injury or death). Is your problem that you think that it isn't effective and therefore a waste of money?
 
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TennTradition said:
I only read the excerpt you posted (and thank you for posting a small excerpt, BTW). Would I get something else out of the article if I read the entire thing? Because, I see the author's citation of the professor's bast work in crowd control and studying muslim crowd dynamics in marches to Mecca as a way of establishing bona fides - the gist is, he is a (self-proclaimed?) expert in crowd dynamics and he has studied this particular situation. I think that this is probably something that happens from time to time when a huge crowd is expected for something - or, perhaps I should say this is something that should happen (if it works, and lowers the risk of injury or death). Is your problem that you think that it isn't effective and therefore a waste of money?
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You didn't miss much, a gannet piece talking about security for inauguration day. I don't have any problem with it, I just thought it was silly comparing a paranoid
group who live under fear with Americans who do not, or at least should not.

Consider the orderly behavior of those who recently crashed in the Hudson River.

Don't you think the idea that we live on the verge of widespread panic to be condescending in nature???




























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Nice autographed picture...

Again, I think that the reference was a journalistic attempt to establish the bona fides of the professor for studying crowd dynamics and control. There is no indication that the factors that go into the analysis of the inauguration vs. the pilgrimage to Mecca are in fact the same parameters, or that the same behavior is necessarily assumed. I did not infer that we live on the verge of widespread panic, but instead that particular care should be given to the safety of a crowd that large.
 
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TennTradition said:
Nice autographed picture...

Again, I think that the reference was a journalistic attempt to establish the bona fides of the professor for studying crowd dynamics and control. There is no indication that the factors that go into the analysis of the inauguration vs. the pilgrimage to Mecca are in fact the same parameters, or that the same behavior is necessarily assumed. I did not infer that we live on the verge of widespread panic, but instead that particular care should be given to the safety of a crowd that large.
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They gave that away in a drawing on Jan. 15th.

I didn't say you inferred we live on the verge of widespread panic, you don't think the article did infer just that??

Wonder what role the DC special unit for the protection
of transvestites will play in this production??
 
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gsvol said:
They gave that away in a drawing on Jan. 15th.

I didn't say you inferred we live on the verge of widespread panic, you don't think the article did infer just that??

Wonder what role the DC special unit for the protection
of transvestites will play in this production??
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:ermm:
 
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