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Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
Locations of the second and fourth story walkways which collapsed into the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel.
Time | 19:05 (CST) (UTC-6) |
Date | 17 July 1981 |
Location | Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
Cause | Insufficient Load Capacity[1] |
Deaths | 114 |
Injuries | 216 |
The Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse occurred at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri, United States on Friday, July 17, 1981. Two vertically contiguous walkways collapsed onto a tea dance being held in the hotel's lobby. The falling walkways killed 114 and injured a further 216 people.[2] At the time, it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S. history, not surpassed until the collapse of the south tower of the World Trade Center in 2001.[3]
The construction of the 40-story Hyatt Regency Kansas City began in May 1978. Despite delays and setbacks, including an incident on October 14, 1979 when 2,700 square feet (250 m2) of the atrium roof collapsed due to the failure of one of the connections at its northern end, the hotel officially opened on July 1, 1980.
One of the defining features of the hotel was its lobby, which incorporated a multistory atrium spanned by elevated walkways suspended from the ceiling. These steel, glass and concrete crossings connected the second, third and fourth floors between the north and south wings. The walkways were approximately 120 ft (37 m) long[4] and weighed approximately 64,000 lb (29,000 kg).[5] The fourth level walkway aligned directly above the second level walkway.
On the evening of July 17, 1981, approximately 1,600 people gathered in the atrium to participate in and watch a tea dance.[6] Many people stood on the two connected walkways. At 7:05 p.m. the second-level walkway held approximately 40 people with more on the third and an additional 16 to 20 on the fourth level who watched the activities of the crowd in the lobby below.[4] The fourth floor bridge was suspended directly over the second floor bridge, with the third floor walkway offset several meters from the others. Construction difficulties resulted in a subtle but flawed design change that doubled the load on the connection between the fourth floor walkway support beams and the tie rods carrying the weight of both walkways. This new design was barely adequate to support the dead load weight of the structure itself, much less the added weight of the spectators. The connection failed, and the fourth-floor walkway collapsed onto the second-floor walkway. Both walkways then fell to the lobby floor below, resulting in 111 deaths at the scene and 219 injuries. Three additional victims died after being transported to hospitals, bringing the total number of deaths to 114.[7]
The rescue operation lasted 14 hours[8] and was performed by many emergency personnel, including crews from 34 fire trucks and EMS units and doctors from five local hospitals. Additional volunteers arrived from every quarter, including construction companies and building supply stores, bringing "hydraulic jacks, acetylene torches, compressors and generators."[9] Kansas City's natural disaster response team, known as "Operation Bulldozer," was also summoned to the scene with earthmoving equipment, but was quickly sent away to make room for cranes that would lift the sections of walkway off the trapped survivors. Dr. Joseph Waeckerle, former chief of Kansas City's emergency medical system, directed the rescue effort [2] establishing a makeshift morgue in a ground floor exhibition area,[10] using the hotel's driveway and front lawn as a triage area and helping to organize the wounded by greatest need for medical care.[11] Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine.[7][dead link][12] Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage.[7] One victim's right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chain saw.[13]
One of the great challenges of the rescue operation was that the hotel's sprinkler system had been severed by falling debris, flooding the lobby and putting trapped survivors at great risk of drowning. As the pipes were connected to water tanks, not a public source, the flow could not be stopped. Mark Williams, the last person rescued alive from the rubble, spent more than nine and a half hours pinned underneath the lower skywalk with both of his legs pulled out of their sockets.[14] Williams nearly drowned before Kansas City's fire chief realized that the hotel's front doors were trapping the water in the lobby. On his orders, a bulldozer was sent to break through the doors, which allowed the water to pour out of the lobby and thus eliminated the danger to those trapped. A fire hose was then placed over the broken pipe, redirecting the water outside the hotel. Additionally, the lobby was filled with concrete dust, and visibility was poor as the emergency workers had cut the power to prevent fires.[15]
Twenty-nine people were rescued from the rubble.[16]
Three days after the disaster, Wayne G. Lischka,[17] an architectural engineer hired by The Kansas City Star newspaper, discovered a significant change of the original design of the walkways. Reportage of the event later earned the Star and its associated publication the Kansas City Times a Pulitzer Prize for local news reporting in 1982.[18] Radio station KJLA would later earn a National Associated Press award for its reporting on the night of the disaster.
The two walkways were suspended from a set of 1.25 in (32 mm) diameter[19] steel tie rods, with the second floor walkway hanging directly under the fourth floor walkway. The fourth floor walkway platform was supported on three cross-beams suspended by steel rods retained by nuts. The cross-beams were box girders made from C-channel strips welded together lengthwise, with a hollow space between them. The original design by Jack D. Gillum and Associates specified three pairs of rods running from the second floor to the ceiling. Investigators determined eventually that this design supported only 60 percent of the minimum load required by Kansas City building codes.[20]
Havens Steel Company, the contractor responsible for manufacturing the rods, objected to the original plan of Jack D. Gillum and Associates, since it required the whole of the rod below the fourth floor to be screw threaded in order to screw on the nuts to hold the fourth floor walkway in place. These threads would probably have been damaged and rendered unusable as the structure for the fourth floor was hoisted into position with the rods in place. Havens therefore proposed an alternate plan in which two separate sets of tie rods would be used: one connecting the fourth floor walkway to the ceiling, and the other connecting the second floor walkway to the fourth floor walkway.[21]
This design change would prove fatal. In the original design, the beams of the fourth floor walkway had to support only the weight of the fourth floor walkway, with the weight of the second floor walkway supported completely by the rods. In the revised design, however, the fourth floor beams were required to support both the fourth floor walkway and the second floor walkway hanging from it. With the load on the fourth-floor beams doubled, Havens' proposed design could bear only 30 percent of the mandated minimum load (as opposed to 60 percent for the original design).
The serious flaws of the revised design were compounded by the fact that both designs placed the bolts directly through a welded joint connecting two C-channels, the weakest structural point in the box beams. Photographs of the wreckage show excessive deformations of the cross-section.[22] During the failure, the box beams split along the weld and the nut supporting them slipped through the resulting gap between the two C-channels which had been welded together.
Investigators concluded that the basic problem was a lack of proper communication between Jack D. Gillum and Associates and Havens Steel. In particular, the drawings prepared by Jack D. Gillum and Associates were only preliminary sketches but were interpreted by Havens as finalized drawings. Jack D. Gillum and Associates failed to review the initial design thoroughly, and accepted Havens' proposed plan without performing basic calculations that would have revealed its serious intrinsic flaws — in particular, the doubling of the load on the fourth-floor beams.[20]
The engineers employed by Jack D. Gillum and Associates who had approved the final drawings were convicted by the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, and Land Surveyors of gross negligence, misconduct and unprofessional conduct in the practice of engineering; they all lost their engineering licenses in the states of Missouri and Texas and their membership with ASCE.[22] Although the company of Jack D. Gillum and Associates was discharged of criminal negligence, it lost its license to be an engineering firm.[20]
At least $140 million was awarded to victims and their families in both judgments and settlements in subsequent civil lawsuits; a large amount of this money was from Crown Center Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards which was the owner of the hotel real estate (like many hoteliers, Hyatt operates hotels for a fee as a management company, and does not usually own the real estate). Life and health insurance companies likely absorbed even larger uncompensated losses in policy payouts.[citation needed]
The Hyatt tragedy remains a classic model for the study of engineering ethics and errors (as well as disaster management[23]). As an engineer of record for the Hyatt project, Jack D. Gillum (b. 21 November 1928, d. 4 July 2012)[24] occasionally shared his experiences at engineering conferences in the hope of preventing future mistakes.[25]
After the disaster, the lobby was reconstructed with only one crossing on the second floor. Unlike the previous walkways, the new bridge is supported by several columns underneath it rather than being suspended from the ceiling. As a result, some floors of the hotel now have disconnected sections on opposite sides of the atrium, so it is necessary to go to the third floor to get to the other side.
Several rescuers suffered considerable stress due to their experience, and later relied upon each other in an informal support group.[8] Jackhammer operator "Country" Bill Allman took his own life due to the stress.[26]
The hotel was renamed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in 1987, and again the Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center in 2011. It has been renovated numerous times since, though the lobby retains the same layout and design. The hotel's owner announced a $13-million renovation as part of its re-flagging to the Sheraton brand completed in 2012.
The tragedy is not marked in any way in the hotel. In 2008, the Skywalk Memorial Foundation announced a fundraising campaign to build a garden and a fountain in Washington Square Park, about a block from the hotel, commemorating the event. Hallmark Cards had pledged $25,000 and the city has offered $200,000.[27] A Korean War memorial is now planned for the park and in May 2009 city officials said they were considering locating the memorial in Hospital Hill Park at 22nd Street and Gillham Road.[28] On July 17, 2011, the 30th anniversary of the collapse, The Skywalk Memorial Foundation unveiled the design for a memorial that is to be erected in Hospital Hill Park on 22nd and Gillham across the street from the Sheraton. Permission had officially been given by Hyatt and by Hallmark Cards to erect the memorial.[29] In 2011, Hyatt Hotels informed the Skywalk Memorial Foundation that it would not contribute to a memorial fund because the hotel is no longer managed by Hyatt and has become a Sheraton hotel.[30] Sheraton and its parent company, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, decided to donate $5,000 towards the cost of the memorial, releasing a statement that said, "Sheraton and Starwood are very aware and respectful of Kansas City's deep ties to this hotel and want to be a part of the effort to honor the victims, survivors, first responders and family members of the 1981 tragedy."[31]
See also[edit]
- ^ *Marshall, Richard D. et al. (May 1982). Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkways collapse. Building Science Series 143. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ a b David Martin (September 14, 2011). "Former Chiefs doctor Joseph Waeckerle--a veteran of the NFL's concussion wars--is on a mission to protect young players". The Pitch (Kansas City). Retrieved January 15, 2011.
After he finished exercising, Waeckerle heard what everyone else would soon hear: that a fourth-floor walkway had collapsed on a tea dance at the Hyatt Regency. The director of Kansas City's emergency medical system from 1976 to 1979, Waeckerle learned that his replacement was out of town. He rushed to the scene.
- ^ Petroski, Henry (1992). To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Structural Design. Vintage. ISBN 978-0-679-73416-1.
- ^ a b National Bureau of Standards (May 1982). "Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse" (PDF). US Department of Commerce. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ^ "Hotel Horror". Kansas City Public Library.
- ^ Ramroth, William (2007). Planning for disaster: how natural and man-made disasters shape the built environment. Kaplan Business. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-4195-9373-4.
- ^ a b c Friedman, Mark (2002). Everyday crisis management: how to think like an emergency physician. First Decision Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-9718452-0-6.
- ^ a b Associated Press (July 15, 2001). "Lives forever changed by skywalk collapse". Lawrence Journal World (Lawrence, KS: LJWorld.com). Retrieved 2011-01-28.
- ^ D'Aulairey, Emily; Per Ola D'Aulairey (July 1982). "There Wasn't Time To Scream". The Reader's Digest: 49–56.
They said 'take what you want'" recalls Deputy Fire Chief Arnett Williams, who directed the department's operation that night. "I don't know if all those people got their equipment back. But no one has ever asked for an accounting and no one has ever submitted a bill.
- ^ Press, Associated (1997). The Associated Press Library of Disasters: Nuclear and Industrial Disasters. Grolier Academic Reference. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7172-9176-2.
- ^ Waeckerle, Joseph F.; Waeckerle, Joseph F. (March 21, 1991). "Disaster Planning and Response". New England Journal of Medicine 324 (324): 815–821. doi:10.1056/nejm199103213241206.
- ^ O'Reilly, Kevin (2 January 2012). "Disaster medicine dilemmas examined". American Medical News 55 (1). Retrieved 9 August 2013.
- ^ "Disaster made heroes of the helpers". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ Murphy, Kevin (July 9, 2011). "Hyatt skywalks collapse changed lives forever". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ McGuire, Donna. "20 years later: Fatal disaster remains impossible to forget". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
- ^ Incident Command System for Structural Collapse Incidents; ICSSCI-Student Manual (FEMA P-702 ed.). FEMA. 2006. pp. SM 1–7. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
Twenty-nive live victims were removed from under the debris during the rescue operations
- ^ http://lischka.com/
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes - Local General or Spot News Reporting". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
- ^ Baura, Gail (2006). Engineering ethics: an industrial perspective. Academic Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-12-088531-2.
- ^ a b c "Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse". School of Engineering, University of Alabama. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
- ^ Whitbeck, Caroline (1998). Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 116. ISBN 0-521-47944-4.
- ^ a b "Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse". Engineering.com. 2006-10-24. Retrieved 2006-06-01.
- ^ Auf der Heide, Erik (1989). Disaster Response: Principles of Preparation and Coordination. St. Louis MO: C.V. Mosby Company. pp. 3, 72, 76, 82. ISBN 0-8016-0385-4.
- ^ http://www.horancares.com/obituary?id=1086628
- ^ Rick Montgomery (July 15, 2001). "20 years later: Many are continuing to learn from skywalk collapse". Kansas City Star (kansascity.com). p. A1.
- ^ Murphy, Kevin; Rick Alm and Carol Powers (2011). The last dance : the skywalks disaster and a city changed : in memory, 30 years later (1st ed.). Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Star Books. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-61169-012-5.
- ^ Dirk Johnson (July 27, 2008). "For Many, a Memorial Long Overdue". Kansas City Journal (nyt.com).
- ^ "Memorial to Hyatt skywalk collapse considered at Hospital Hill Park". Kansas City Star (kansascity.com). May 12, 2009.
- ^ "30 Year Anniversary Hyatt Memorial Unveiled". Kansas City News. July 17, 2011.
- ^ "Hyatt Hotels won't donate to skywalk collapse memorial in KC". STLtoday. December 7, 2011.
- ^ Hawley, Brenna (December 13, 2011). "Sheraton, Starwood will donate to Hyatt skywalk memorial". Kansas City Business Journal. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Petroski, Henry. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Structural Design. ISBN 978-0-679-73416-1.
- Marshall, Richard D. et al. (May 1982). Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkways collapse. Building Science Series 143. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- Levey, M.; Salvadori, M.; Woest, K. (1994). Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-31152-5.
- Murphy, Kevin; Rick Alm and Carol Powers. The Last Dance : The Skywalks Disaster and a City Changed : In Memory, 30 Years Later (1st ed.). Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Star Books. ISBN 978-1-61169-012-5. - (All author royalties of this book are being donated to the memorial project)
External links[edit]
- Engineering Ethics - includes photos of the failed walkway components
- Failure By Design - physics presentation and resources
- Network news feature from July 23, 1981, including interviews


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Pope Reaches Out to Gays
There are 20 comments on the Jul 29, 2013, Chosun Ilbo story titled Pope Reaches Out to Gays. In it, Chosun Ilbo reports that:
Pope Francis answers reporters questions during a news conference aboard the papal flight on the journey back from Brazil on July 29, 2013.Join the discussion below, or Read more at Chosun Ilbo.
Jul 29, 2013
"If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" the pontiff said during a news conference that lasted nearly an hour and a half.
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Jul 30, 2013
I agree with you FYI. This Pope is very humble and his selection is by no means random. He is the right man for the time.
Of even more importance was his statement which singled out all Lobbies as a singular sourceof what is wrong with the world. |
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Jul 30, 2013
What's your gold standard Tyler? You critisize but don't suggest an alternative, better or different viewpoint. Try to express yourself in English so we have more to go on, eh?
Jul 30, 2013
That sounds like a loose arse you have there Cretin. |
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Jul 31, 2013
Pope reaches out to Gays and says "Your place or mine?"
Aug 7, 2013
August 04, 2013
Former Pope Allegedly Unfairly Criticized By "New York Jewish Lobby," Paper Reports Auschwitz Sign 2"The New York Jewish lobby has unfairly blackened the name of World War II pope Pius XII in the interests of a modern political agenda and needs to be challenged, former Australian deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer has charged." Auschwitz Sign 2 The entrance to Auschwitz. The sign in translation reads, "Work makes free." Former pope unfairly criticised by Jewish lobby: Fischer Barney Zwartz Sydney Morning Herald The New York Jewish lobby has unfairly blackened the name of World War II pope Pius XII in the interests of a modern political agenda and needs to be challenged, former Australian deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer has charged. Pius has been criticised for not doing enough to protect Jews during the Holocaust, but Mr Fischer argues in a book launched in Melbourne on Friday that he did save Jews "and gets zero credit". Mr Fischer, Australian ambassador to the Holy See for three years from 2008, told Fairfax Media the Jewish lobby needed momentum and profile and had become increasingly shrill in condemning Pius XII. In fact, according to Mr Fischer, Pius instructed Catholics to help Jews, hiding hundreds in convents, monasteries and the Vatican. The Nazis rounded up 1002 of Rome's 8000 Jews in 1943 and sent them to Auschwitz, but the other 7000 were saved. In the book, Holy See, Unholy Me: 1000 Days in Rome, Mr Fischer says an Israeli ambassador who called for a recognition of the live-saving work of Pius XII was quickly forced into a humiliating backdown. "Further, the moment any suggestion is made to consider Pius XII for beatification and sainthood, they hit out at close to full power and use all media avenues to stamp it out." Reports from the Vatican this week suggest Pope Francis wants to move ahead with canonising Pius. Identifying Melbourne-educated Israeli spokesman Mark Regev as a key figure, Mr Fischer writes that the Jewish lobby's media skills far outweigh the Vatican's and suggests the tactics "are about representing a cause and maintaining influence and power. "The American Jewish lobby is run by hardliners who get their daily feed from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and will cut no slack in terms of Israel's policies in the West Bank." Mr Fischer says the biggest disaster for Rome's war-time Jewish community was the split between pro and anti-Fascist factions. "That broke down the unity when it was most needed, as the Nazis rolled into Rome. The Fascist Jews said nothing would happen." The chief rabbi, Israel Zolli, an anti-Fascist, warned the community that it must get ready, for example hiding synagogue lists. After the war Rabbi Zolli converted to Catholicism, and "with that he got totally airbrushed out of history". "The Rabbi of Rome and the Bishop of Rome both saved thousands of Jewish lives, and deserve fairer assessment," Mr Fischer said. He said he expected a backlash against his comments, but hoped fair-minded people would read the book. He conceded there was evidence of a Croatian Catholic pipeline through which Nazis escaped after the war, and said that if Pius knew about it he should be "pinged" for it. |
Aug 7, 2013
That's very interesting Limpy.
The present day Pope in his 'gay' speech' also singled out all Lobbys as a source of wrong doing. Lobby groups are essentially a bloc of the rich or powerful trying to gain favour with the government to change its policy in their favour, and quite often against the wishes of the majority, who are often times far less powerful and helpless. Lobbys are also often linked to corruption, but that is rarely proven, not because it doesn't exist but because the wealthy are influential in that way. So essential,allowing Lobbys within a political system is akin to skewing a democratic system against the voters. http://www.timesofisrael.com/australian-ex-de... I looked up the same story in the Times of Israel and the results were predictable. The Jewish view is that rubbish the story by labelling it with the usual 'anti-semitic' brand which in America has been established as a ceratin way of stifling further dabate. Europe on the other hand ignores the misguided use of this term as a see-through stretegy. The other typical reponse is to try and rubbish the use of the term 'Lobby' by making out that its is not a real political group, more of a conspiracy theory that the jews are trying to rule the world etc. This is the strategy being propegated by the Wiesenthal Centre. This confirms that the Jewish world prefers to blacken the name of the Catholic Church as a means of getting sympathetic for its political aims. Its an example of the unholy alliance of politics with religion resulting in the spread of hatred and division in the World. This at a time when the Pope is trying to bring reconciliation to all people at a time of economic hardship. |
Aug 7, 2013
It is sick that the Wiesenthal Center is calling it Anti-Semitic for pulling out a factually supported book by Tim Fisher!? This is really not surprising that Pope Pius would have helped at least some Jews. ;; ;;;;;The Pope was not much different than anyone else if they helped too many Jews they could be killed by a Nazi German bounty. ;; ;;;;; ;;;;;;;So... I mean it is really unfair how so many Jews always are so critical of the goyim for not doing enough for Jews in the Holocaust. It seems today many Jews are more angry at those who didn't do enough for Jews as ALLIES than they are about Nazi Germany. I don;t understand the Psyche of this Jewish frame of mind so many of them have today. |
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Aug 7, 2013
Where's the link to the article?
Aug 7, 2013
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messi... |
Aug 7, 2013
It seems they are looking for a scape goat to cover up the same things they are doing in Politics in the present day. For them the Germans are in the bag and dealth with for the Germans have been beaten into paying for and supporting the Zionist cause. The other side of their political strategy is to extract the same from their friends by giving them guilt complexes and attacking alternate moral structures which may be used to criticize their strategy. |
Aug 7, 2013
True or even the past. As in Jews push Catholic Nazi collaborators & Catholic Pedophiles to try & scape goat the LARGER popuation. So that Jewish Nazi collaborators & Jewish Pedophiles will be a more hidden or SOFTER BLOW. Disproportionately it seems Jewish Nazi collaborators & Jewish pedophiles were likeky MORE DISPROPORTIONATELY than many Catholics like Polish for example. The Jewish pedophile issue is really bad especially in the Hasidim community. |
Aug 7, 2013
Given that the world has a Catholic population of 1.2 billion and a Jewish population of 7 million, each Jewish murderer or paedophile is the equivalent to around a 150 Catholic carrying out the same crime. Therefore when taken as a percentage of their population, it is highly likely that Jewish criminality in these area is higher. What skews the public perception is the high percentage of jewish participation in the mass media, and the obvious biasses they can influence in the presentation of the news. This is most common in the American media. I find that when reading the Israeli media, usually the news is reported quite fairly as the reporters feel less obliged to carry out their other duty, which is to present Jewish life in a better way than Catholic life, for example. And also in American papers, many of the reports are anonymous therefore the true intent and source of the mis-information goes unnoticed. And thirdly, the American readers seem very gullible in this respect, and accept whatever is presented to them. No doubt 40 years of propaganda is taking its toll. |
Aug 7, 2013
I noticed a little Hasidic girl on vacation and thought about Topix. We dont have many Jews around these parts. She was a cute little thing, out walking with her father. Obviously well cared for. But I thought that she's being brought up in a strange and slightly disconnected world. Anyway. I hope she has a happy life. |
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Aug 7, 2013
Most of Polaks must be pleased to hear the pope´s approval of poofters.
I bet, limpy the Nazi dog is jumping high with a joy. |
Aug 7, 2013
A little birdie told me you or your kindred spirit's name was Evan Rosenfeld. Thunk about it!!! |
Aug 7, 2013
Yes, While the Jewish Clergy Pedophile issue is CLEARLY disproportionate way worse than the Catholic clergy one. It is Interesting how NOW the Kosher Rabbi Pedophile issue & Mohel suction has come to a head. By Kosher hands just a few years earlier pushing Catholic Pedophiles SOFTENED THE BLOW & neglected from the Kosher Pedophile issue. |
"Dimitri at the races in Russia" Since: Jan 10 28,798 Loved everywhere |
Aug 8, 2013
Pedos, poofters are seen in Polak churches, recently.
What is that telling you about Polakia ? |
Aug 8, 2013
August 07, 2013
Rabbi Mordechai Elon Guilty Rabbi Mordechai Elon 4Prominent Zionist Orthodox former yeshiva head Rabbi Mordechai Elon was convicted in Jerusalem earlier today of indecent assault and indecent assault by force against a minor. August 06, 2013 Shocking Audio Tape Alleges Serious Uncharged Sexual Abuse By Rabbi Mordechai Elon Rabbi Mordechai Elon micOne day before the verdict was due in the sexual assault and harassment case against former Zionist Orthodox yeshiva head Rabbi Mordechai Elon, the Zionist Orthodox news website Kippa released an audio recording made last year but never before published in which another senior Zionist Orthodox rabbi alleges that the charges brought against Elon are mild compared to what Elon actually did. |
"Dimitri at the races in Russia" Since: Jan 10 28,798 Loved everywhere |
Aug 8, 2013
So many dumb Polaks are here, sometimes it´s hilarious. How can Polaks visit churches & then perform hideous acts at home ?
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Braylon Edwards is coming back to the New York Jets — again.
Can't wait until your league's draft day? FOXSports.com has you covered. Test your fantasy football knowledge and strategies with a free and easy fantasy football mock draft.A person familiar with the situation said Wednesday night that the Jets will re-sign the wide receiver on a one-year deal Thursday morning, marking his third tenure with the Jets, before the team reports for training camp in Cortland. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal wasn't yet complete and the Jets hadn't announced it.
The Jets also were hoping to sign their two first-round draft picks — cornerback Dee Milliner and defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson — before the team reports. A person familiar with the negotiations told the AP they expect Richardson, the No. 13 overall selection, to sign a four-year deal Thursday and report with the rest of the team.
Milliner's contract status was uncertain. The former Alabama star didn't practice during the offseason while recovering from shoulder surgery, and could begin training camp on the physically unable to perform list - if he signs. Milliner, taken No. 9 overall, is expected to compete with Kyle Wilson for the starting spot vacated by Darrelle Revis, who was traded to Tampa Bay.
Edwards took a physical with the team Wednesday, and will help add depth to a receiving corps that lacks experience. Leading receiver Santonio Holmes will start training camp on the active-physically unable to perform list as he recovers from a serious foot injury that ended his season last year after four games.
The 30-year-old Edwards, who played his first four seasons in Cleveland after being drafted No. 3 overall in 2005, was acquired by the Jets in 2009. He helped lead New York to consecutive trips to the AFC championship game, coming up with several key plays.
From the opening kickoff to the Super Bowl, the best NFL action is on FOX. See the full NFL on FOX schedule.Edwards signed with San Francisco as a free agent in 2011, but played in only nine games. He was claimed late last season off waivers by the Jets from Seattle, where current New York general manager John Idzik worked in the front office. Edwards had just eight catches for 74 yards and a touchdown in 10 games with the Seahawks before being waived.
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about how without music the world is just a dark place to live in
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wowza. This is an amazing piece. I adore the design :)
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Step1: the U.S. economy is severely hindered by the refusal of our elected officials to resolve the nation's long term fiscal problems with a stable compromise. This also includes Congress's refusal to enact appropriations bills in a timely fashion—remember, we are talking about a bill to fund government agencies for the fiscal year starting October 1, 2012—or reauthorize major legislation affecting the domestic economy, e.g. highway spending, agriculture, and education. The uncertainty, delay, and confusion caused by this legislative dysfunction reduces economic growth and increases unemployment.
Step 2: the Senate filibuster is a major contributing factor to this dysfunction. [note: so is partisan polarization, so any study that helps explain why our politics are so polarized would be helpful here as well].
Step 3: the Senate filibuster cannot be fully understood without studying its public dimension. a) a classic justification for the filibuster is that, by delaying a measure, senators can "expand the game" by rallying public opinion…but we don't know if this actually happens. b) recent research theorizes that legislators may filibuster to obtain political advantage rather than actually affect legislative outcomes, e.g. Strom Thurmond's historic filibuster against the 1957 Civil Rights Act, but does not systematically test this claim with public opinion data.
Therefore, NSF funding of this project will help explain the incentives for senators to systematically degrade the national and international economy.
Or, we can justify this project on the basis of national security.
Step 1: in recent weeks, senators have filibustered nominees for the Secretary of Defense and CIA Director. And, in recent years, senators have placed blanket holds on all military promotions. In each case, senators have not opposed the nominees per se, but rather used them as hostages to gain leverage on some other issue.
Step 2: these filibusters have a negative impact on national security by disrupting the chain of command and reducing troop morale.
Step 3: we do not know whether citizens are aware of, and approve of, these filibusters. Nor do we know what kind of hostage-taking, if any, the general public accepts as a legitimate basis for jeopardizing national security. Only by polling before, during, and after such episodes can we understand public attitudes toward obstruction and why these filibusters occur.
While I think this particular project is well-justified, the irony of this form of justification is that in order to receive support for careful scientific testing of causal claims one might have to make unsubstantiated claims about how one's research is linked to U.S. economic or security interests.
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Even if the short-term effects are limited, I find this episode depressing. Of all the scientific endeavors, political science has been singled out for scorn and special scrutiny. Some media responses attribute this attack not to the notion that our research is "useless" but rather too important:
Singling out political science for a cut seems absurd, until you consider that political scientists conduct research about elected officials and also that this research (usually) doesn't rely on access or parlor games. Unlike reporters, who must establish relationships to gain access and information—and risk getting shut out when they write something controversial—political scientists have been free to critique and explain our political process, warts and all, and have never had to fear political repercussions. Until now, it seems.
Even if the national security/economic interests waiver is liberally interpreted, it mandates a public record of each project's justification along these lines which can itself be scrutinized and heckled by zealous legislators. The restrictions will expire at the end of this fiscal year, but there is no guarantee that Congress will actually pass new spending bills rather than continue the spending and restrictions of H.R. 933 into the future.
The larger point bears repeating: the Coburn amendment represents an assault on the scientific peer review process. Going forward, there is some risk that Coburn et al will be not-so-blind reviewers on every grant the NSF reviews, judging proposals not on their scientific merit or social value but their political implications.
It is also troublesome that the "compromise" version of the amendment focuses on national security and economic interests as the goal of legitimate research. The original mandate of the NSF was "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" A great deal of high-value political science research advances the national welfare by evaluating how well our democratic system is functioning. Such research may not kill any terrorists or help any corporations make money, but it is extraordinarily valuable as a guide to a well-governed polity. By constricting the basis for acceptable research to national security and economic interests, the compromise suggests a troubling constriction of the mandate of the NSF which could, over time, expand to other disciplines as well. Going forward, a coordinated lobbying effort is needed not only to roll back the restrictions on political science but to defend the NSF's core mission as a promoter of scientific research in the public good, broadly defined.
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Lovely Latina she-male Vaniity, 2004's Transsexual Performer of the Year, serves up an interactive playfest with so many options, you'll have trouble deciding which one to choose first! In fact, if you linger too long at the main menu, Vaniity will tap her wrist to hurry you up.
The handy buttons on the screen hold options for tease, foreplay (either voyeuristic as Vaniity plays with herself, or interactive as she plays with you) and various sex positions. Some of the segments take the POV idea a little too far, as in the ass-licking choice where she just rotates her butt into the camera lens, and once you get far enough into a scene, the menu options disappear so you can't go back. But the dual camera angles are a welcome feature, the DVD extras are plentiful — including a full length fuck with her partner James — and Vaniity herself is a charming and sexy plaything.
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According to CycloneReport's site they have him committed to Creighton on their recruit search database. Can anyone confirm this? http://iowastate.rivals.com/viewpros...2&pr_key=29091
Yes, that is correct.
Thank goodness I can finally stop seeing posts about him.
Yep, it's true. Good riddance, I say.
Go Sssssssssyclones!
I knew he wasn't coming here when Morgan was fired. his attitude went from "i'm coming here" to "i don't want to touch this place with a 10-foot pole, but right now it's the best program offering me play." then creighton cam along and took him away from us. he hasn't wanted to be here for more than 6 months. P'Allen, you ARE the weakest link... G'bye
Chuck Lidell: I paint my toenails with pink and black polish. Problem is, I get more paint on my toes and on the carpet than on my nails. Any advice? Maria Sharapova: Don't you beat up other guys for a living? I don't know how to answer this.
I know...shame on a teenager for not being able to make up his mind. How dare he?!?! C'mon folks, we're all disappointed - but have some class.
Originally Posted by ISUFan22 I know...shame on a teenager for not being able to make up his mind. How dare he?!?! C'mon folks, we're all disappointed - but have some class. No kidding. If de-committed from Creighton tomorrow and committed to us, all the haters would turn into P'Allen fans instantly. I thought Creighton had him once Walker committed to Creighton as well. It sounds like they are good friends and really wanted to play together.
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You look cute bunny. I miss you. And I missed you, meet up when you're back home next time please. Be good. x
ReplyDeleteSince the first time I read your book (Letters, stories, and dreams) 2 years ago, that book gave me a bunch of positive energy to keep struggling my life. I was devastating heartbreak when I bought it, and your stories help me to moving on until now. Not only heals me from heartbroken, it's also set me on fire to go after my dreams. So, I'm glad to see that you've made one of your dream to be true. And I'm proud about how decesive you are, I love your bravery to pursue what you want in life and deal with their lots of (good & bad) consequences. I wish the best luck for you there, I know you're a good survivor.
ReplyDeleteRepliesOh, thanks for such a thoughtful comment! Yes, I tend to stay optimistic, no matter how fucked up I might be. It's just how life should go, if you don't try, you'll never know if you can make it or not. Once again, thanks! I hope you can feel inspired to go on and chase what you truly want to! x
This picture reminds me of catwoman. Lolz..you'll survive, Cassey, just sing that song out loud. I send you my love and best wish. :D
ReplyDeleteWell Cass. Tons of lucks for you! You're gonna survive there! If I've a chance to visit my friend in Los Altos, I'll visit you too! See you when I see you! Loves, x.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't tried McDonalds, KFC, Taco Bell, Chinese restaurants (God knows they need someone who can pronounce "rice"... not "lice"), supermarkets (being a cashier like you always wanted), etc. HAHA. You'll be alright, Cass. I'm really proud of you.
ReplyDeleteRepliesTalking about chinese restaurants.. Hmm remind me of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HP2escR3qQ&feature=share HAHA this video is so hilarious! Hehehe.
DeleteHahahahaha, my goodness mom, I hope I don't get THAT desperate. I already applied for 3 cashier jobs, let's see if I get an interview!
You made me laugh! Well, sounds like I have triggered your inner curious cat. I think you look like catwoman from the movie. You've got those beautiful eyes that look like cat, and your pose is just like cat. So A+B=...?
ReplyDeleteYou are one brave girl, Cass! I hope things work out well for you there. Sending love and light your way. You still have my number kan? Don't hesitate to contact me anytime! Good luck, sweetie!
ReplyDeleteAww i hope you will get a job real soon!
You're going to survive there, best luck for you! x- imaginary comradeJune 1, 2012 at 2:48 AM
have no worries, sweet pea, you'll land a job in no time, to be able to live a dream, is truly a glorified high, a lifetime privilege! give them hell! :)
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ps. oh yes, what do you listen to lately? You'll survive, Cass. I'm somewhat pretty sure of that hahaha. Some friends said that people who have gone to Borneo and other lands beside Java, Bali, and Lombok will survive both in the wilderness of big cities and of real nature. I know this sounds quite much of a bollock, but have no worries! We readers of your book and blog think you're decisive and you always landed in success. You'll get a job. And once you do, you'll cherish what you earn.
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Stuart Ross
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Stuart Ross is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor.
Ross was born in Toronto's north end in 1959 and grew up in the Borough of North York. He began writing at a very young age and was first published at age 16 by Books by Kids (now Annick Press). This book, The Thing in Exile, also contained work by teen writers Steven Feldman and Mark Laba. Ross attended Alternative Independent Study Program for high school. He went on to self-publish dozens of books and chapbooks through his Proper Tales Press imprint. As his books began to emerge from larger literary publishing houses, he has continued his Proper Tales Press project.
Ross has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s. He is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, which has been operating since 1987 under various directorships. This fair, the first of its kind in Canada, inspired similar events in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Hamilton. Ross is a founding member of the Meet the Presses collective, which formed in 2006 to promote small-press publishing in the Toronto area.
He was the 2002 "Writer in Residence" for the Writers' Circle of Durham Region, the 2003 "Poet in Residence" for the Ottawa International Writers Festival, and the 2005 Electronic Writer in Residence for the Toronto Public Library's RAMP website for teens. He is currently Queen's University's writer in residence.[1] Stuart was the Fiction and Poetry Editor for This Magazine from 2004 until 2012 and has been Editor since 2007 for Mansfield Press, where he has his own imprint: "a stuart ross book."[2]
His own magazines have included Mondo Hunkamooga: A Journal of Small Press Reviews (later subtitled A Journal of Small Press Stuff), Peter O'Toole (a magazine of one-line poems), Dwarf Puppets on Parade (a magazine of writing with restrictions), Who Torched Rancho Diablo? (poetry and fiction), Syd & Shirley, a magazine of Canadian and American poetry, and HARDSCRABBLE, a poetry magazine.
Although primarily known as a poet, Ross has also published fiction and personal essays. His column "Hunkamooga" appeared in Word: Toronto's Literary Calendar from 2001 to 2005, and moved to the Vancouver-based literary magazine sub-Terrain in 2006, where it ran until 2012.
As an editor, Ross was responsible for the 2004 anthology Surreal Estate: 13 Canadian Poets Under the Influence. In 2003, he issued the chapbook anthology My Lump in the Bed: Love Poems for George W. Bush. In 2007, Ross was the editor for the Insomniac Press book Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden, and in 2010 for the Insomniac Press book Why Are You So Long and Sweet? Collected Long Poems of David McFadden. With Stephen Brockwell, he is the editor of the Mansfield Press poetry anthology Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament.
His 2009 short-story collection, Buying Cigarettes for the Dog, was shortlisted for the Alberta Readers' Choice Award and the Alberta Book Awards, and won the 2010 ReLit Award for Short Fiction. In 2012, he co-won the Elaine Mona Adilman Award for English Fiction & Poetry on a Jewish Theme, awarded by the J.I. Segal Committee of the Jewish Public Library in Montreal, for his novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew. In spring 2013, Ross's poetry collection You Exist. Details Follow. won the Exist Through The Gift Shop Award, the only prize given to an anglophone writer that year by the Montreal-based group l'Académie de la vie littéraire au tournant du 21e siècle.
In 2010, Ross was the writer-in-residence at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
In 2013, he co-founded the ensemble Donkey Lopez with musicians Ray Dillard and Steven Lederman. Ross's role is primarily as oral sound artist for the trio.
Selected bibliography[edit]
- The Thing in Exile. Books by Kids, 1976. (with Mark Laba and Steven Feldman)
- The Pig Sleeps. Contra Mundo Books, 1991. (with Mark Laba)
- The Mud Game. The Mercury Press, 1995. (with Gary Barwin)
- The Inspiration Cha-Cha. ECW Press, 1996.
- Henry Kafka and Other Stories. The Mercury Press, 1997.
- Farmer Gloomy's New Hybrid. ECW Press, 1999.
- Razovsky at Peace. ECW Press, 2001.
- Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected. ECW Press, 2003.
- Surreal Estate: 13 Canadian Poets Under the Influence. The Mercury Press, 2004. (editor)
- Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Anvil Press, 2005.
- Robots at Night. Proper Tales Press, 2005.
- I Cut My Finger. Anvil Press, 2007.
- Dead Cars in Managua. DC Books, 2008.
- Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament. Mansfield Press, 2010. (editor, with Stephen Brockwell)
- Buying Cigarettes for the Dog. Freehand Books, 2009.
- I Have Come to Talk About Manners. Apt. 9 Press, 2010.
- Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew. ECW Press, 2011.
- You Exist. Details Follow. Anvil Press, 2012.
- 18 Goddamn Centos. Proper Tales Press, 2013.
- Our Days in Vaudeville. Mansfield Press, 2013. (with 29 collaborators)
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"Sit Down, Rise Up"
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200 |
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4-12 |
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Colorado Institute for Historical Study, Pike's Peak Library, Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, National Archives and Records Administration—Rocky Mountain Region |
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Year 1: Colonization, Settlement and Communities |
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Evening study sessions, readings, mentoring, online network, professional learning teams |
These districts serve the Colorado Springs metro area, which has seen recent influxes of new teachers and students; many are new to the United States and lack awareness of the country's history and what it means to be an American. The project will take a four-step approach: (1) grade-based learning teams with mentoring support, (2) summer and school-year professional development tracks, (3) a virtual network, and (4) resources (e.g., books, professional memberships in history organizations). Whichever track participants choose, they can earn academic and/or state continuing education credit. Every cohort will propose a presentation for the National Council for History Education annual conference, and four teachers will attend (one from each district). Five 1-year cohorts, each consisting of 40 history, civics and government teachers, will work in professional learning teams. Each cohort will commit to the school-year program, the summer program, or both; teachers may continue after 1 year, based on availability and need. Stories and Histories will pursue the theme of integrating thinking skills into history teaching. Inquiry questions will guide study of pivotal events, people, documents, legislation and judicial cases, as well as their local, state and national significance. Training will focus on helping teachers use digital storytelling, look at history as a historian does and apply such strategies as Understanding by Design and collaborative coaching. Every teacher will develop and use either a digital storytelling project or a primary source activity for the classroom; along with students' digital products, these materials will be posted on the Web for other teachers to find and use.
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El Paso County School District 8 |
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Colorado State University at Pueblo, EdGO Historians, National Constitution Center, Massachusetts Historical Society, DBQ Project, Virginia Historical Society, Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, New York Historical Society, museums, archives |
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Year 1: Colonial America and Early Encounters Between Native and European Americans |
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The districts participating in A Nation Among Nations cover an area of 450 square miles; 70 percent of students come from military families, nearly half of the students come from families living in poverty, and diversity is on the rise. Each year teachers will participate in two 8-week instructional modules taught by university professors and three inquiry-based instructional workshops delivered by DBQ. The 10-day summer field studies will involve excursions to historic sites, and, during a 1-week summer curriculum workshop, teachers will learn about incorporating multimedia tools and resources into the curriculum. Each year, at least 75 teachers will study the decisions and actions made by individuals whose choices changed the outcome of history; teachers who complete the activities will receive 6 hours of university credit for their work. Teachers and, consequently, their students will learn to read and think like historians — to investigate historical questions, frame historical arguments and evaluate primary source documents. The major instructional strategy will be document-based questions. Special emphasis will be given to content that reinforces significant themes of American history, that makes history relevant by supplementing historical themes with primary sources and experiential field work, and that reveals primary sources that are not widely available. Teachers will develop, implement and disseminate curricula based on project activities.


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Hattiesburg is the third largest city in Mississippi with nearly 50,000 residents. The City of Hattiesburg was incorporated in 1884 and presently operates under a Mayor/Council form of government. The policy-making and legislative authority as well as budgetary responsibilities are vested with the five-member City Council.
The City is divided into five wards for the election of council members. The Mayor is responsible for the day-to-day operations of city government, and much of his work is accomplished through the delegation of duties to his department directors and chiefs, who are appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council. All elected officials are elected to a four-year term.
Mayor: Johnny L. DuPree, Ph.D.
Principle Municipal Offices: City Hall 200 Forrest Street, Hattiesburg, MS 39401
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Kim Bradley (council president), Ward 1
Deborah Denard Delgado, Ward 2
Carter Carroll, Ward 3
Mary Dryden, Ward 4
Henry Naylor, Ward 5
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Hattiesburg City Council Meeting Times: First and third Monday and Tuesday of each month. Monday work sessions are at 4 p.m., and Tuesday regular meetings are at 4:30 p.m.


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Suriname national dies after falling off lorry
At about 1615h today, police say that Surinamese national Richie Debideen, 25 years, of Nickerie, was a passenger in a motor lorry transporting equipment along the roadway at No. 51 Village, Corentyne, when he came into contact with a wire across the road and fell out of the vehicle.
He was taken to the Skeldon Hospital where he was pronounced DOA.
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How to Manage Your Time in College
For all new college students, managing time wisely is a new challenge that many did not have to deal with in high school. However, with the right approach, anyone can be successful as a college student and still have a good time.
1Don't spend time laying around. Everyone's first instinct after a long class might be to lie in their bed and wait until their next class. Don't fall into this trap.follow a routine in sleeping,don't sleep too much or too lessAd
2Have a set time to study for each class. Studying every day is important and if you know when you are going to study you can plan around these times. NEVER CRAM! If you make a schedule of how many days you have to study for an exam, you can study day by day for a short period of time without feeling that you have too much to study. Many people learn at different rates; some people can study in small amounts and get it, while others may have to study in larger amounts. It doesn't matter how long you study or how you study as long as you get the material and feel confident enough to do well on the exams.
3Take up a new activity. Although many might think this will make one's day even more hectic, it will force you to be even more conscious as to how you are using your time.
4Avoid AIM, Orkut, Myspace, Twitter and Facebook. Although these can be three of the most addictive activities on a computer, try not to pay attention to either of them until after homework is finished. They also tend to make you less involved in school activities and more connected with old/online friends.
5Use a planner. Life in college can seem so much more organized when everything one needs to do is written out and planned for in the future.
6Don't stress out. Instead of spending all day telling yourself that your life is too stressful, get to work so you'll have more free time.
7Find how you study and work best to make what time you have productive. Music and noise can really help or hold back your studying. Also, at least try to use study buddies. It's a great way to share notes, ideas, and meet people.
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- Respect time! Become the busiest of all and at the end of the day you have plenty of time to surprise yourself.
- Avoid listening to lyrical music. Instead, listen to classical or instrumental music they help in blending with the subject and avoid distractions and fatigue.
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- Although your job as a college student is to get an education, don't be afraid to have fun and don't fall into the trap of stressing over everything.
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Presbyter Kozma The royal way for the soul
He is thought to have been a priest and a preacher in the Bulgarian royal court in the second half of the 10th century. His work Oration Against the Bogomils and Lessons of the Canonical Books has been preserved in a Russian copy made between the 12th and the 19th century.
The presbyter by the name of Kozma was a contemporary of Saint Ivan of Rila and of the priest Bogomil. The only evidence we have of his life is his Oration Against the New Heresy of Bogomil. That work alone, however, was enough to make him a remarkably strong personality in Bulgarian history. Even if more evidence had been preserved of his life, hardly anything could have been more telling than his own writing. Even if the Oration was a work commissioned by the palace or the higher clergy to which presbyter Kozma is believed to have been related, it is so personal, so profound and well substantiated, and so vigorous that it creates a vivid, almost palpable image of its author.
It is possible that Presbyter Kozma wrote it shortly after entering into an ecclesiastical career, and he was probably well acquainted with the stormy sides of mundane life. The Oration is neither a canonical or missionary sermon, nor a theological or dogmatic treatise, but rather a description of the new morality that Christianity or, to be more precise, the Christian state, sought to establish.
Presbyter Kozma was witness to the polar opposites of spiritual and worldly life. On the one hand, there was the total devotion to God of hermits like Saint Ivan of Rila, which was of little social consequence. On the other hand, there was the Bogomilism heresy which went against the very grain of the official doctrine. Besides, he faced "ineradicated blasphemies, profane chants and dances and interpreting of dreams and visions" and the "idleness of priests" who were "uneducated, ignorant of the law and making their way as lawgivers by greasing palms." Bulgarians were still "blind in their mind's eye," he wrote. He wanted to show them a way, not only to understanding the state and the church as part of its identity, but also to the salvation of their own souls, to a both spiritual and physical survival.
"Take the royal middle way," he preached, helping the "blind" see the fundemental harmony of man with the surrounding world. He cited three mainstays in each sphere of earthly life. His basic principle was: "have love for your brother, fear of God and reverence to your tsar." His moral principles demanded "no envy, no jealousy, no wile," and his emotional principles "quietness, kindness and love." In the most intimate sphere of private life the options were "celibacy, marriage or lechery."
Presbyter Kozma was not just the preacher of the great doctrine, translating its postulates into a language understandable to the common people. He also transformed it into a new ethic, mixing together the rational and the emotional, the spiritual and the physical, the earthly and the divine. Many contemporaries might like this piece of advice from him: "it is good to drink wine in moderation for the benefit of the body." There was a formula justifying social stratification: "wealth is not evil if managed properly," as well as "rejoice in poverty, for from those who have been given much, much will be requested." Along with these, he formulated fundamental principles without which it is unthinkable that a society or a state could exist: "He who fails to look after his own kin has renounced his faith and is more contemptible than an infidel."
Presbyter Kozma's attacks against the Bogomils were severe where everyday problems were concerned: a heretic was a man who "fasts and works on Sundays, eats no meat, drinks no wine, despises marriage and abhors little children as if they were an offensive stench." Heretics "would not work with their hands but would go from house to house and devour the wealth of people deceived by them." Presbyter Kozma knew how to fight for the mind and soul of Bulgarians, who he considered "infants who drift along with every wind." His "royal middle way" was to provide the foundation of political and social thought for a people only just united by a single religion and, for that reason, lacking spiritual unity. Through personalities like Presbyter Kozma, the new religion was attempting to establish a new order and a hierarchy of spiritual, moral, and even emotional values. It is hard to judge the extent of its success. The fact that we know of his work in this field only is probably due to the scarcity of sources. Throughout history, though, the Bulgarian people have always found it hard to identify the "royal" middle way.
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All well and good, but having read a good number of the emails (they have been posted in their entirety)I am disturbed by the apparent level of zealotry of the scientists. I expect journalists to slant the truth to sell newspapers and politicians to do so to further their own ends, but some of the blatant theory fitting in those emails is disturbing. When their climate models and the thermometer dont agree, blame the thermometer. Obviously a few bad apples cooking the data are not life or death to the science of climatology, but these people are leaders in their fields. If there is one thing we have a right to expect from scientists it is that they apply the scientific principles of objectivity and reproducibility. Cooking data, suppressing dissent, and theory fitting do not lend themselves to the cause of truth. And if their cause is stopping climate change, they have done it significant harm. People have to be able to trust scientists; it is not like they can rely on politicians to get it right and tell the truth.
"But it is ludicrous to think that climate science is a house of cards that will collapse if the e-mails were to discredit CRU's work."
Why do journalists find it so hard to understand that this is PRECISELY the case. Science is not a popularity contest or a democratic procedure. Any scientific theory will fall if it cannot predict anything or has it's central tenets knock out from under it.
There are three big problems with climate research:
1) The results cannot be replicated, partly because the raw data is missing.
2) The fact that CO2 is a significant factor in the climate system is known to be largely false. Causality works only one way, when you have negatively correlations in the graphs of temperature and CO2 you CANNOT, by definition, have causation.
3)Climate science does not produce meaningful, testable predictions.
So yes. Climate science, if it is to be a science, has to be built like a deck of cards.
Postmodernism may have been useful to journalism but it has no place in in the positive sciences.
Einstein once said one piece of data, once verified, could destroy his best theories, Darwin kept and distributed reams of raw data so his theories could be scrutinised. They were not being gracious, they were being scientists. Who is this Dr. Jones again?
This article sounds more like a kid ordered to bed early than a serious journalist dissecting upseting new information.
To think that it took 18 days for the Economist to start to treat this issue seriously is reprehensible and shows where the economist truly stands on this matter.
Did the writer of this article even read the e-mails, files, and code? They are quite daming.
That the UN has ordered some kind of investigation is akin to the Wolves ordering an investigation of foxes over the loss of some chickens from a chickencoop that was guarded by said foxes (ridiculous).
And now the Economist will work to whitewash this issue.
The ramifications to what was going on is ridiculous. I did a search for the term "artificial" in the source code from the files released from the CRU and got 32 finds. Read the code below, they were manipulating numbers to hide declines and align one set of findings with another -- this is not science. There are numerous examples of this and if I type words like "delete," I get another bunch of results.
Read an example below that I pulled at random from the code (absolutely no modifications from me):
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,'Oooops!'
if !d.name eq 'X' then begin
window, ysize=800
endif else begin
; Get regional tree lists and rbar
Aside from the e-mails the code reads very poorly. I have hundreds of examples of this stuff. An investigation in warranted here regardless of your stand on climate change.
Whether the earth heats or cools is not really debated. What is debated is what causes the earth to heat and cool. Is it the sun, carbon dioxide or other "man made" reasons? When scientists, who are supposed to use only data to make their argument, are shown to adjust their data for personal bias it scares me.
One thing not spoken about is that both sides are altering data. What I would like is a group of climate scientists who are not pro or con but rather neutral to the debate doing real and coordinated research. We obviously need to keep our stream and rivers clean, our air breathable and our forests full of trees and animals. What we don't need is a global scare about carbon dioxide that uses false data to make those claims.
The emails don't change the science, but they give skeptical scientists the possibility to speak out, and the media a reason to be more critical, so the fall-out is still to come.
One thing that might change the way we see AGW is this:
Or here:
There appears to be quite a scientific consensus, not to say quite a bit of peer-reviewed papers, that he medieval period was real and warmer that the present and that it was a global phenomena.
The implications are interesting for the AGW argument.
But read for yourselves. Don't take my word for it.
What have we learned from the exposure of the East Anglia conspiracy? That humans will lie when it serves to support their political bias. That they take umbrage when their lying is exposed. That they will lie to hide their lying.
Science is the systematic testing of knowledge which yields repeatable results. Much of what passes for, and is promoted as, science by politicians, the media, and political gadflies is merely empirical observation.
We are witnessing the greatest transfer of wealth in history from productive people to non-productive people, courtesy of socialist fear-mongering on an epic scale.
This issue is another example of a low ball calculated attempt to manipulate a world event. I hope it doesn't detract from the real mission and message of the climate change debate, which is to make the world aware that humans are often blindly and certainly negatively impacting the health of our only true home which is this planet we live on.
Have we no consideration for our future generations that we would be so resistant to just "doing the right thing" which is to try anything to lessen the environmental degradation we are imposing on finite resources?
Yes, it is important that we understand the appropriate timeline on which we impact the global environment and we should act more quickly as it is recognized that we may have already passed the tipping point. But even if the tipping point is not yet passed and still lies ahead it must be acknowledged by all that with our current trajectory we will in time reach it, so why is it so bad to begin work in ernest now to stall or prevent future disaster?
Those who prefer to sensationalize the debate as in the subjects of this article are doing the world an inexcusable disservice and should be condemned not held in any esteem. Yes, review and be critical of the scientific process whose integrity must be preserved, but this could have been done in a way that doesn't becomes couched as an attempt to derail an exceedingly important convention and minimize the good that can come from Copenhagen.
What does it say about enlightenment in modern society when people can get so much spin out of some hacked, insignificant emails. Some scientist sometimes report manipulated data. But, there are safeguards for this within the framework of science, though they are imperfect in the short term. One important safeguard is called peer review, another one is agreement of findings from an independant research group, another is independant reconstruction of the proposed model, another is sensitivity analysis, etc...
Of course, discussions about the possibility of manipulating data is by itself not unethical. However, any evidence in these emails that indicate these scientists have purposely and unapologetically presented and published manipulated data, that would be another thing. And, if this turns out to be the case, science as a whole would benefit from this hacked evidence, as it has with other cases of discovering scientific fraud. But, in this case, would this small set of bad apples undermine all of climate change research? Since when did the entire theory of climate change rest on these reaserchers? Since when were they at the forefront or foundation? As the economist article rightfully indicates, that man is making excessive CO2 compared to the natural history of the planet is by now irrefutable (as well as other greenhouse gases), and that these gases are warming the planet extensively and having other currently unexplainable consequences on the climate is undeniable. Throw out a random 90% of the work supporting climate change is real, the remaining 10% is still highly unlikely to be disproven. Thus, making too much of these hacked emails is indeed a disservice, and disasterous waste of time.
These are more or less similar thoughts that the Nature editorial that the commentator Le Connaisseur referred to (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/full/462545a.html).
Regarding another one of Le Connaisseur's posts about the medieval warm period. The jury is still out on whether that was global or regional. It is easy to cherry pick data on that one. And climate change denialists can be accused of this to a more definitive degree than East Anglian researchers. For instance, a recent article in Science to show that the medieval warm period was regional was recently featured in a podcast (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;326/5957/1256/DC2).
Might want to check it out, as it might featured in many denialists blogs.
Finally, I wish climate change denialists would stop being referred to as climate change skeptics. True climate change skeptics are those scientists in the minority that have generated curious evidence counter to the majority, and have difficulty accounting for it. Climate change denialists are those who are being polemic, for instance, basing arguements on email exchanges and not science.
"Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. It warms the surface and increases the amount of water vapour that the atmosphere can hold, which in turn warms things further. How much warming you get for a given amount of carbon dioxide is hard to say, because there are feedback processes involved, such as the making of clouds, and also other factors at work. It may be that this century's warming will be moderate, staying below 2ºC. It is quite possible, though, that unless something is done the warming will be greater, and there is a real risk that it could be a lot greater, perhaps 4ºC or more. "
Why don't you get a scientisst to write about science in your magazine?
On the basis of the facts presented in the paragraph, I could just as easily assert that "this century's warming will be negative, at about minus 5 deg C." You clearly state "How much warming you get for a given amount of carbon dioxide is hard to say".... then you promptly make up a number to suit your purpose.
The fact is we need science to quantify the relationships between cause and effect. The most important IPCC science advisor the UEA CRU has been found "making it up too". The Economist has come a long way from fact-based logic to opinion-based belief. Shame on you!
Sorry everyone I just fell out of my chair, NBC is going to report on climategate tonight....
it seems that the main stream media has decided to come out en mass today and report on climategate
First the Economist and now NBC.
Lets see how "fair and balanced" everyone is on this.
"One important safeguard is called peer review, another one is agreement of findings from an independant research group, another is independant reconstruction of the proposed model, another is sensitivity analysis, etc..."
I think one of the key issues in this debate is that peer review was perverted in this case, that is precisely the point.
I still have not happened across this much vaunted evidence that CO2 is a major climate driver and as far as I can ascertain there were only two major datasets in existence for land based observatories which were run by sympathetic parties and the satellite data is calibrated to these data sets.
The problem is that the CRU data was central to the whole CO2 driven global warming argument, if we discard that then what is left looks very weak indeed. No amount of closing your ears and going LALALALA will change that fact.
Note the subtle change in the Economist's headline over the past year, as followed by most media. It isn't global warming any more; now we have climate change. Humanity is going to stop climate change? Is the current climate the optimum? And how was that determined? Do we need to cool the climate to offset global warming or warm the climate to offset global coolong?
If Copenhagen were to address the unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels, that would be a valid intervention. If we extrapolate American per capita energy use to a world population of 9 billion by 2100, we can all agree that there will likely be adverse consequences. These effects may not be to just the climate but in other unforeseen ways. I have no problem with an energy tax of $2.00 per million BTU (or $0.50 per gallon of gasoline), said tax to be remitted to a nation's citizens in reduction of other taxes paid, not a new source of revenue. This tax would apply to all carbon based fuels as well as nuclear. Renewables would not be taxed.
This tax would have to be applied world wide to provide a level playing field for international trade.
Read the latest editorial in Nature and get really scared...
Back when people thought the earth was the center of the universe, scientists built mathematical models to explain the "wandering" of the planets. Essentially, the planets were thought to move in epicycles about the Earth.
In the late '70's, I took a course in college called "World Modeling" (it had nothing to do with climate change). It dealt with the coming global catastrophe of population explosion, which was predicted to reach 7 billion people by the year 2000. Along with these teeming masses, we were going to have massive shortages of raw materials, famines in lots of places, and rampant pollution. By 2010, all hell was to break loose. This was based on computer models developed by a group called "The Club of Rome." Coming as it did on the heels of the oil embargo a few years prior, we students ate this stuff up.
The problem we have created is we have a generation of people who grew up being told man has been causing the earth to warm. Politicians and the general public (including, I suspect, 100% of those expressing an opinion here) have no learned basis for this belief other than what we have been told by society starting with teachers in elementary school, Nobel laureates such as Al Gore (scientist emeritus), and the news media (not known for scientific or critical thinking).
Only recently has the general public started to become aware of the Medieval Warming Period. I occasionally run across tidbits such as the following (from literature, museums, etc.):
- From 1850 - 1898 the South Polar Ice Cap receded over 30 nautical miles (based on expeditions encountering it).
- The glaciers in Wyoming formed during the recent mini-ice age (e.g. they didn't exist before then).
- Alaska was warmer 6000 years ago than it is today.
- Ireland was populated around 100 AD when the climate changed (must have been a pretty significant change!).
I met some people from NOAA while on travel, and challenged them regarding the fact that scientists with contrary views had trouble getting funding. They countered that the Bush Administration watered down scientific "findings." I asked how scientists came up with the modeling coefficients relating to how much solar radiation would be reflected vs. transmitted. They responded that it was empirically derived (e.g., you assume a relationship and curve fit the data).
At this stage, we have assumed a relationship, and it seems that the models must be continually adjusted to maintain the curve fit. Over a longer period of time, we may be able to move from the "assumption" stage to the "inferred" stage (based on data) regarding this relationship. It will take a very long time (decades, if not centuries) to actually prove that man-made carbon dioxide is responsible for climate change.
In the meantime, for scientists and politicians to even think that we can set an emissions target that will limit global warming to xx.x degree change is totally ludicrous.
Doing a search for "artificial" from the source code files in the leaked CRU files and got 32 results...read one excerpt:
2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,'Oooops!'
if !d.name eq 'X' then begin
window, ysize=800
endif else begin
It's not hard to determine the context here but the result paints a tainted picture. I have 32 other examples. This needs to be explained regardless of what I think about climate change.
Another example:
; plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to
; the real temperatures.
dosmooth=1 ; smooth each longitude in time?
dointerp=1 ; optionally interpolate to give finer longitudinal res
doinfill=1 ; use PCR-infilled data or not?
doabd=1 ; use ABD-adjusted data or not? 0=no, 1=yes, -1=show ABD minus Hug
docorr=1 ; use corrected version or not? (uncorrected only available
; for doinfill=doabd=0)
This is the first article by the Economist that I find disingenuous.
The fraud exposed by the revealed emails should make one tremble at the hubris of the hegemonic scientific clique in Environmental Sciences in the UK. Further, the Economists lack of recognition of the corruption exposed by these emails is appalling, and in itself suggests corruption within this newspaper.
The emails may be personal comments, and can be taken out of context. However, computer code of the simulations was also leaked.
The code shows the data has been manipulated. It has been manipulated to show more warming.
Economics is about incentives. Scientists at climate research institutes get bigger budgets if they make predictions of disaster. It is foolish to expect scientists to be unbiased if they are not rewarded for it.
This stupid bit of white wash on the part of the Economist doesn't surprise me. Since
they were bought by Pearson Communications they
have become dumbed
down main stream
media with a leftie
Forget the facts or
the white light of
Just a look at Read
Me Harry file should be enough for any thinking person to have grave doubts.
Imagine if these files came from AirBus testing a new airplane would you want to ride on it?
With data massaged made up hidden etc...
Give me a break...
This all makes me wonder about anything the Economist writes...what is the agenda behind it?
Berlusconi Hondurus's
"military coup" and just about everything else.
Have go to find a better place for my information.
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