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Escape From Mount Stupid: Call of Duty
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I just don't know how COD can be reviewed without mentioning the work "hacking"
COD #1 this game is awesome. I started playing when MW2 came out, MW3 is the best.
COD 1 was awesome. The five year old C0D fans today will never understand how great it was.
You forgot to mention Finest Hour. Finest Hour was definitely the weakest, not Call of Duty 3.
Allied Assault is fucking glitchy garbage, plagued by terrible AI and stupid level design. I'm really not sure why people consider it amazing.
I love the endings!
how about "escape from mount stupid : medal of honor" :)
"and a bit in the airport when we kill a bunch of civillians" "check my shoes now m*****f**k"
The ending is the best!
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@mad_krips Yea it's getting its own page really soon, and a link on the video menu I recon. @MN121MN Cheers mate! We are indeed. I think we're going weekly soon :)
hey @dannyodwyer Do you know if Gamespot will be creating a page and direct link for these videos? Like Appetite for Distraction and Start/Select etc... I, and I'm certain many others, really enjoy this show, but at the moment I don't know how to find it unless I do a search for it, or if it was just posted up on the front page. Similar story for The Gun Show..
@dannyodwyer Oh, I see now. Good show by the way. Hope GS can continue it.
@MN121MN @sexyweapons We had to rename the show for boring legal reasons. Unfortunately this meant reposting all them again. Apologies for the confusion, we'll have a new one up later today.
This is kinda old now :/
Wait, why is this video recycled using a new title?
@runarjenssen man you just summed up my whole COD experience. I really enjoyed the WW2 games, imo i think that COD was way better of when it was a pc only title with the suck ones(big red one and watever that other one was called) one console. I remember playing COD and united offensive on my pc while my brothers played halo on the xbox saying that it was the best shooter ever made and me keeping my gold mine to myself. Now they play modern warfare saying its the best shooter ever made while i wait with my arms crossed for half life ep.3 and a pc to run it on....
I am so tired of these games now. Certainly when they came out they were fun for quite a few years. But I believe at this point the market is over-saturated. The latest call of duty I have no desire to even read about. It is just too much. Its almost as bad as having yet another rock band. Another one? Just.. why?...
Played the first game back when it was released, and also played MoH:AA before that. Allied Assault was so awesome in that whole Normandy-invasion, but most of the rest of the game was.... well not bad at all, but I wanted more of the Normandy stuff. That's what I got in the original CoD.... Despite the fact that 99% of the game was ripped straight from most war-movies before it (Saving Private Ryan, Enemy At The Gates etc). An amazing game, and an amazing opening for a great series. Like most people who don't keep their heads in a toilet bowl all day, I think that the series completely lost its way after CoD 4, spinning into absurdity with how popular it got, and the storyline of each consequtive IW-game just got more and more bizarre and unbelievable. Black Ops featured a refreshing new take with its story, but the gameplay felt old and dated. I never bought Modern Warfare 3, and I'm pretty sure that - unless IW/Activision actually does something new and creative for their next titles - I've played my last minute of addictive CoD multiplayer. And that's not just because every new game in the series feels like a map pack for the last game, but also because I'm tired of them treating their fanbase like a bunch of retards (although arguably, they might actually be right). They just ruined it - at least for us PC-gamers. Completely.
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bluffer's guide should have its proper day slot, opening themes and whatnots ... good show
what about the expansion united offense?
on the commercial for the Modern Warfare guide there's a BF3 is better than MW3 commercial. LOL
That was a cheap shot, Danny...you know ALL of the un-initiated will look it up and then vomit uncontrollably.
I was curious about this 2 girls and 1 cup thing so I looked it up on Google .... If you're curious too, dont look trust me there's no way you want to see this
I'm starting to get annoyed with DLC, especially when they are released so close to the games release date. It's become more of a cash cow than a lengthy add on to your game.
@GamerOfLove You are right! It was a mistake not to mention "spoiler alert". It's just that I was sad about the details I've mentioned.
As if the PSP is useless... It's not a gaming-device, it's a media-device, handy for anything media... I almost bought one for that purpose and some simple games would be an extra feature to me... And don't start claiming that the DS is better. Nintendo was dead once they discontinued the GameCube and came out with the... thing... and also the DS, which they should have stuck with the GameBoy-brand or something...
OG CoD was the spiratual successor to MoHAA...Two of the greatest PC games of all time! Unfortunately it all went downhill from there...While I did enjoy CoD2 all the way up to WaW...They just weren't the same, and of unfortunately MW2, BO and MW3 are just not enjoyable for me.
@sorvos are you trolling or are you just that stupid not to know that you shouldn't put spoilers in your comments without warning? you tell me.
mWCOD on ps2 then
My first cod game was Call of Duty 3, and I still think its a good game.
I played the CoD1 demo mission more than the MW campaigns (which I actually finished). Back in the day I didn't know what piracy was... :>
I stopped with Call of Duty when I played 4 because I did not enjoy the campaign. This vid made me want to reinstall the first one so very badly. What an epic campaign that was! I might as well get 2 on Steam as well.
I've played every PC Call of Duty, except Balck Ops and Modern Warfare 3, which won't work on my rig and every piece of these games is perfect. But knowing Soap dies in Modern Warfare 3... Modern Warfare, perhaps the best war saga in the history of videogaming, died with Soap!
Heinpienaar123 So I presume that you just bought Battlefield 2 and find nothing innovative in BF3!! Surely you have an eye on everything and and wouldn't get fooled by a new engine!! :-)
First played COD 2, that and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland were my first 360 games.
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First played COD 3 awesome
Enjoy the MW games but COD2 will always be my favorite... Russian Campaign= best COD singleplayer missions ever.
That was a very cruel reference to a video...2 girls 1 cup..OMG! One of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. Guaranteed to make you lose your breakfast, lunch and dinner!
Only the best video on this site - Evar!
make map packs free plzzzzzzzzzz people
This guy is great!
the battlefield ones better
You should do a video about the Half Life and Counter Strike games, because of CS:GO
WOW COMMANDOS i will never forget that game!!!!!!
cod 1- amazing cod 2 amazing again cod 3 very good multiplayer had tanks and jeeps campigan was kind of boring cod 4- i wish i could play it again for the first time incerdible and stunning cod 5- tear droping campigan (best campigan) multiplayer kinda stiff, ZOMBIES WERE a hit its time cod 6-best multiplayer(antil now) crappy maichel bay director campigan co-op was very fun and special cod 7- campigan unforgetable (very good but gameplay sux a$$) soild multiplayer too much money for dlc's cod 8-probably game of the year beucse its selling like hamburgers
@curiousarman sorry, never mind. I misunderstood you.
@curiousarman as if CoD could stand up to MoH.


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after all this, I think if they offered a stripped down naked bike with decent but not statospheric spec for less, that it would be a little more likely to get traction in the market from all the tinkerers that just love the idea of the bike.
a naked hooligan styled bike is not synonymous with high tech offerings so lack of traction control isn't that much of a market loss. It would also be similar to other high end custom bikes that also do not have high tech as a major selling point.
After all this I still say they will make it. Stuff cost what it costs and I am sure they can't lose money on every motorcycle they sell to garner a segment of the market like Honda or some other big company might be able to do (I heard they did that back in the day with the rc51, but that's an urban myth.) They have to make their investors happy, and they think they can at this price point. They don't want to go under either.
if I remember, Ducati's used to be priced way above the competition back in the 80's and 90's, but my memory could be faded. And their product was to my young eyes inferior because it didn't have the highest hp or quickest 1/4 mile. How dumb I was to think that highest this and fastest that was the marker of a great bike....idiot young me. Anyway now they are almost competitively priced but it works because of the brand and quality they offer.
Give em a chance, it's their necks that are on the line and they have to decide what they think is best with their risky start-up. Start-ups most often fail: and it's especially hard to get a us based manufacturing company off the ground. This price point shows one of the reasons why it's hard.
Supermoto bikes exist so that 40 year old men who know better can act like total assholes.
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Tom Sizemore Attacked: Actor Tom Sizemore was attacked by a man who broke into his Los Angeles home Thursday night. Sizemore has more often been the offending party than the victim in police reports.
Tom Sizemore, known for his tough-guy roles in movies such as "Natural Born Killers," "Saving Private Ryan," "Enemy of the State," and "Black Hawk Down," was put in a headlock in the bathroom of his Los Angeles home by an intruder Thursday night.
The intruder identified himself as the boyfriend of a woman Sizemore was dating, according to the L.A. Times and local broadcaster KTLA. The man pretended to have a gun, assaulted Sizemore, then stole the actor's guitars.
Police later apprehended the intruder and recovered Sizemore's property.
In August 2003, Sizemore was convicted for abusing his girlfriend, Heidi Fleiss. He was also sentenced to 16 months in prison in 2007 for drug possession.
Sizemore got a master's degree in theater from Temple University, according to his biography on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). His first big break was Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July," in 1989.
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Malware Search EngineSubmitted by dannyquist on Mon, 2006-07-17 15:47. Press | Research
HDM from the Metasploit project has released a malware search engine. This is an open tool based on a similar idea from Websense. HD's idea expands on the Websense code in several ways. First it's an open project with code available. Second it searches for actual malware signatures, rather than just .exe's. HD uses the signature output from ClamAV to find the name of the malware. This is then used in conjunction with a PE signature matching method to form a Google query. Afterwards the malware can then be downloaded directly from google.
We provided our malware database to HDM for use in the initial tool. The results of the google downloads can be seen in the order of magnitude jump of our malware collection. Thanks HDM!
Coming to Defcon: A New Bioinformatics-Inspired and Binary Analysis: Coding Style/Motif IdentificationSubmitted by dannyquist on Sun, 2006-07-09 19:43. Administrivia | Research
Please welcome Scott Miller, hllywood, to Offensive Computing. Scott will be presenting at Defcon 14 on his blast tool. We're happy to have Scott onboard!
Here's the abstract for Scott's talk:
Security analysis is severely complicated by the size and abundance of executable code. Existing concepts and code can be combined, obfuscated, packed, and hidden toward the ends of evading detection and frustrating analysis. Is that patch fixing the problem it claims to fix? Have you seen that malicious code before? Have you seen these particular motifs/style before?
Read more for full details.
Google's Binary Search Helps Identify MalwareSubmitted by dannyquist on Sat, 2006-07-08 10:50. Press | Research
"A little-known capability in Google's search engine has helped security vendor Websense uncover thousands of malicious Web sites, as well as several legitimate sites that have been hacked, the company said today."
Read the full PC Magazine Article
What's really interesting is this portion:
"Hubbard and his team plans to share its Google code with a select group of security researchers, but it will not make the software public, for fear that the tool could be misused by the bad guys."
This is yet another example of the reluctance to share information regarding malware. There's enough information in the article to replicate this information, but there is not enough to make it a viable tool..unless you want to spend a lot of money.
Getting Started with Offensive ComputingSubmitted by dannyquist on Mon, 2006-06-05 06:15. Administrivia | Research | tools
Welcome to the Offensive Computing open malware research project. If you're reading this you may (or may not) be interested in researching malware. There are a few different ways that you can contribute. You can upload your malware samples, download the samples, or discuss them.
VX ReversingSubmitted by nomenumbra on Fri, 2006-05-12 09:04. Research | Site Discussion | Reverse Engineering Techniques and Tools
Hello folks, let me introduce myself.
I'm Nomenumbra, a random netizen with a great interest in computer security. My interests lie with the offensive side of computer security, including malware research.
Well, I recently remembered i'd signed up to this webpage, which is a great initiatize which I, as a VX researcher'd like to contribute to.
I wrote a short series of VX reversing articles for you to enjoy (i hope :) ):
First Two: http://0x4f4c.awardspace.com/storage/articles/VXrev.zip
Third: http://0x4f4c.awardspace.com/storage/articles/actIII.html
Generically Determining the Presence of Virtual MachinesSubmitted by valsmith on Thu, 2006-03-16 16:58. Research | tools | Tools
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A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing
IS THIS the death of the cloud as we know it? Space Monkey certainly seems to think so – it is planning to build a better one. When its Kickstarter campaign ended last week, the startup had received more than three times its $100,000 funding target.
Set to launch in the next few months, Space Monkey aims to replace public cloud service providers such as Dropbox and Google Drive with a cloud of thousands of devices that sit in our homes. For a monthly fee, Space Monkey will lease subscribers a device containing a 2-terabyte hard drive and software that connects to all other Space Monkey devices on the internet.
Only half the storage space is for you – the rest is filled with other subscribers' data. Everything stored on a Space Monkey device is copied and split into many encrypted pieces distributed over the network. If you want to watch one of your videos away from home, it will be put together from the pieces copied onto devices closest to your current location. It is much like torrent downloads from file-sharing websites, which assemble fragments of a file from different machines on a peer-to-peer network.
Space Monkey claims that its cloud will give users upload and download speeds that are 12 times as fast as those offered by existing services – and as the network of subscribers grows the rate could be 60 times faster. "Each new user adds bandwidth," says co-founder Alen Peacock.
But it is likely to be concerns about data ownership that prompt people to make the switch. There is a lack of trust in the traditional cloud, says Peacock. The current cloud storage model is a "temporary situation", agrees Richard Mortier at the University of Nottingham, UK, who is designing next-generation personal clouds. He wants to let people control their data so they can choose whether or not to opt into a relationship with a company like Google, which makes money from user data. "At the moment it's too asymmetrical," he says.
While early examples of personal web services exist, they have been hard to manage for non-specialists. Space Monkey should make personal clouds more accessible for the average user.
"Even if you know what you're doing it's a pain," says Mortier. A system like Space Monkey that works out of the box is a big help. "But you're going to be hosting other people's data," he says. Your stuff could also be distributed across international legal jurisdictions. "The liabilities are unclear," he says.
Mortier and colleagues at the University of Cambridge hope to make it easy for people to manage a personal cloud by releasing software that automatically links up phones, laptops and external hard drives in a virtual network that can be reached remotely. Their system repurposes the domain name server (DNS) standard to let users give internet names to each of their devices. These can then be accessed via the internet by anyone who has permission.
Transferring the vast amounts of video and image data we create each day to and from remote cloud servers will be a real challenge for traditional cloud models, says Peacock. Keeping data in our homes will be quicker, cheaper, and use less energy. "All of these things point to a future where moving data to the edge of the internet, instead of into data centres, is a clear win," he says.
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GPA might not always be a factor but it sure is nice to apply to law schools and medical schools when your GPA is way over 3.0.
GPA might not always be a factor but it sure is nice to apply to law schools and medical schools when your GPA is way over 3.0.
I believe individually wise we had a Kansas native top on the academic AA list.
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Maybe the smartest thing that Kansas native did was go out of state!
I will smash your face into a car windshield and then take your mother, Dorothy Mantooth, out to a nice seafood dinner and never call her again!
Tell me about it, this morning, I woke up and I shit a squirrel, but what I can't get is the damn thing is still alive. So now, I've got a shit covered squirrel running around my office and I don't know what to name it.
lawyer, a doctor - yup grades count in order to get into law / med school.
finance - nope, it's all in your personality in the interview - and it's helpful to know someone on the inside.
Same here - the major course of study counts, but I've never asked the GPA question since what you need to know in this business is learned on the job. The more critical characteristic is the ability to communicate.
The most successful people are characterized by their emotional intelligence, their ability to move from bigger picture to detail quickly/seamlessly, communication skills, and how they balance their personal and professional life.
There are a lot of C level executive that do not have spectacular GPA's. Not a prerequisite. It's also not a prerequisite to define a successful career as ending up in a board room, in a Dr's office, or as an attorney...increasing levels of responsibility and upward movement over the years of their working lives is a much better definition of a successful career.
Sorry, Big. GPA only matters once...your first job. And then only if you don't have very good communication skills in the interview with absolutely no activities outside of the classroom.
And I am sorry to see so many of you have lived a good portion of your lives and still can't see a difference between a person that excells and gets great grades and the one involved in sophistry when applying for a job.
It is truly sad to see people completely ignore academic scholarship, the notion that one's brain can perform a task much better after doing well in school.
All some of you can concentrate on is "Oh communication skills (meaning skills to bullshit), oh experience (skills learned for more bullshit), and so on"
Sure communication and skills are important but WHY DO YOU ASSUME that a person with good grades must lack communication skills?
I am talking about a full package, a great communicator, great grades and so on.
I just hope that you don't tell your children who are still in school what you are saying here on these forums. I am glad I am not working for you.
Nobody is saying Grades aren't important. However, they are not, as many, many studies have found, THE factor that determines success.
A 3.0 vs a 3.8 at a good university is not going to deter anyone from reaching potential.
(A 2.1, however, may.)
Conversely, 4.0's have been found, in a large portion of that population, to be lacking in the other factors needed to be successful.
College teaches you the academic facts you need. It also hones the social skills needed to succeed.
These are all generalities....you may be a 4.0 with great EI and communication skills. You should be happy to know that, if you are, you have quite a leg up on your competition because people like you are few and far between.
D's get degrees....
You forget the pioneering, risk-taking businessmen in the world. Have you ever heard of a college drop out named Bill Gates?
I have done pretty well with myself on a 3.0 GPA. With my vision, using my highschool and college networking was way more valuable than anything that showed up on my transcripts.
I have a good job with a reputable top 50 company and have two side businesses that do in excess of $800,000 a year in sales. None of that have anything to do with my GPA. Granted those upper echelon jobs like Doctor's, Lawyers etc require good GPA's but I have two E.R. doctors on my block that don't bring home salaries any higher than mine and I didn't spend six extra years in school to get started.
Just a thought.
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Way back in 1992, before the big comeback with Team Radioshack, before the 7 Tour de France titles, before the comeback from cancer, even before turning pro and winning the World Road Championships in 1993, Lance Armstrong was a Performance Bicycle cover model for our Summer catalog!
This catalog cover dates to a time way before Lance was a global icon and standard fare on many a magazine cover, although he was already a highly successful amateur bike racer in his own right. As you may have guessed from the Skittles USA team jersey, this catalog came out during the lead up to the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, where Lance would go on to finish 14th in the Road Race (the top American). Performance was the official bike supplier of the US Cycling Team for the Summer Games, so we took the opportunity to give a young up-and-comer some exposure on our catalog cover, oddly enough modeling our Synapse mountain bike!
But this wasn't the only time we put Lance on the cover in 1992, as we also used this group shot of Lance and 3 other riders from Team USA (cropped from what was actually a promotional photo for Descente clothing). Can you name the other 3 riders in the photo (the answer is below the photo)?


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It's very similar to Carrara so I had no trouble getting started.
I would have posted a sample but for some reason the hair stopped appearing in renders and conforming to Genesis after something I did. Also for some reason I could not get the clumping to do anything.
Some requests:
- Symmetry wherever it makes sense
- Hair length brush
- Select brush (more convenient than the current rectangle select)
- Tool to reset selected hairs, or reset brush (edit: looks like this can be done with surface attract)
- Configurable undo limits
- Option to exclude hair from raytracing (edit: apparently there is something already, I just don't know what it does)
- Some sort of safeguards against excessive memory usage. 64 bit apps can easily bring the system down because Windows is utterly useless in controlling unruly applications. I had to reset my computer after fiddling with a setting without knowing what it does :oops:
Looking forward to further developments, so far this looks very promising
I concur with araneldon. I would like symmetry in both the paint, style, and tweak sections.
I like the concept of a selection brush but would also like a select all and a deselect all button.
I had a strange problem with the paint and distribute section in that there was a visible line where hair was not created and I painted and repainted the areas but to no avail. The hairless line was along a section where the face uv map and the body uv map meet.


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Hearth question too
I like the idea of building my oven dome around the cooking floor, instead of on top of the floor, for all the reasons stated on this forum. But Im a little concerned about the pressure that the dome footprint will exert on my Calcium Silicate insulation boards. The load of the dome will bear directly on the insulation, rather than being spread over, well, more than just one brick anyway!
So I was wondering if a thin piece (eg 1/16 inch, cut to the same external diameter as the dome) of aluminium or galvanised / stainless sheet steel might be a good idea between the insulation and the first ring of the dome and the cooking floor. This might also provide a suitable slip plane between the Calcium Silicate which I understand shrinks on heating and the firebricks of the dome and floor which expand on heating.
However, I can think of potential trouble with this idea too Id be introducing a third material with different thermal expansion characteristics, sandwiched between two dissimilar materials. So alternatively, some 1/4 inch cement sheet might provide enough rigidity to minimise any local compression caused by the weight of the dome bricks, and be a better bet thermally.
Ive already consulted one member privately on this, but would welcome other members views, especially regarding the metal sheet idea.
Comments please!
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I think JW is right. I don't have the compression strength numbers in front of me, but they are very high. There is no way your oven is going to make the proverbial "dent" in it.
I think you can move ahead confidently with that.
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Further to this topic: I read somewhere in the sales literature for CalSil (quoted on this forum?) that the product is intended for backup/backstop insulation which I take to mean in non-load bearing situations such as behind furnace walls etc.
I referred elsewhere to the quoted a table from mattweb (?) which gives a compressive strength of just 2.6 MPa to calcium silicate insulation. This compares rather unfavourably with the 25 MPa for quality concrete. So, I am still apprehensive of putting my dome on the stuff, even though it would make more sense from the point of view of minimising heat loss at the foot of the oven wall...
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I can't comment on compressive strength numbers because I don't understand their practical application.
I can tell you that the insulation boards I've seen are way more rigid than the kind of foam insulation boards that are used in ordinary construction, and those are rigid enough to put tons of concrete on top of.
Here's the test I suggested to someone:
Put a brick on the board.
Stand on it.
See if it dents. (I don't think it will)
166 pounds on 1/3 square foot equals five hundred pounds per square foot.
divided by 144 = about 3.5 pounds per square inch.
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Here's my 2 cents...
I'm nearing completion of my dome right now and used 2 layers of 1" thick insblok 19. Insblok 19 is not cal sil board, but in the same general area from an insulating value perspective (probably not quite as good an insulator, but pretty good).. The data sheet at hwr.com indicates a compressive strength of .3 MPa (whatever that means...) or 38 lb's / sq in... I also built my wall outside around the perimeter of my hearth brick floor.
As I said, my dome is nearly complete, and I can see absolutely no deformation around the perimeter of my dome.. I have noticed that when this stuff gets wet, it does get a little "mushier", but when it dries out, it dries out firm again... 2 days ago we had a torrential downpour here.. we got about 2" of rain in a couple hours... the wind ripped away the tarp I had covering my construction area (luckily I was home at the time...) and the whole work area got pretty wet... Aside from a bunch of moisture getting sucked into my project, I have seen no ill affects on the part of my insblok underlay...
Heres anther way of looking at it.. 250 bricks should weigh roughly 2000 lbs.. ballpark... let's just assume for a second that's what you're oven will weight... the area (in inches) of a 48" external diameter oven is a little under 1800 inches.. the area of a 42" internal diameter oven is around 1385 inches. That's a net area of around 425 inches that is "under brick"... That puts about 4.75 lbs of pressure per inch.. (somebody correct my math if it's wrong.. it's pretty late/early over here..).. That is, far, far less than the 38 lbs/inch that would lead to a 10% deformation that is listed in the product data sheet. The cal sil spec you quoted was 2.6 MPa.. I'm working with .3 MPa... and I'm doing fine.. I don't think you have anything to worry about.(BTW, the #'s above assume 3" walls, which is what I did.. if you went with 4" or 4.5" walls, your area would be even greater and thus less lbs/sq in.. Also, the 2000 lbs oven weight is high.. I just wanted to illustrate the math here...
So, while its good to double check on things, better be safe than sorry, make sure, etc, etc... Based on my experience, you don't have anything to worry about..
Get your build going and good luck.
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Thanks guys, that sort of settles the question in my mind!
I believe the weight of the firebricks and mortar of my 39 in (1000 mm) internal diameter oven would be around 600 lbs (500 kg), so I should be right.
BTW, I contacted to local distributors of calcium silicate boards. One said this:
"Our 1,000C cal-sil has a density of 220kg/M3. Its compressive strength is noted as being 0.414 MPa or 4.22 kgf/cm2. We would suggest that if using our board that you have a layer of firebrick on top of it." (Don't know what he means by the 'f' in 4.22 kgf/cm2, or whether the 2 in (50 mm) hearth tiles would qualify here...
The other hasn't replied yet.
Tomorrow I'll take off the form work and proceed from there...
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I agree broadly with John's calcs and for what it's worth, under my dome (43" dia and 100 firebricks @ 9lb 9¾oz ea) the pressure on the Cal Sil sheets works out at 1½ psi! That equates to 0.1 kgf/cm2 for metricated thinkers.
So things should be well within failure limits.
BTW, if my memory serves me correctly (dubious these days), the 'f' in kgf is 'force', and purists would probably correct me by saying 1½ lb-f per sq in. I seem to recall from high school physics days that it has something to do with the difference (perhaps purely in nomenclature) between weight and mass ... or something to do with gravity???
On with the build!
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Kids Mistake Apples for French Fries in Fast Food Ads
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
When asked what foods a Burger King ad depicting a child's meal included as part of a recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics, only 10 percent of children correctly identified apple slices–most of the rest said they thought the food was French fries. More from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, which completed the study:
In research published on March 31, 2014 in JAMA Pediatrics, Dartmouth researchers found that one-half to one-third of children did not identify milk when shown McDonald's and Burger King children's advertising images depicting that product. Sliced apples in Burger King's ads were identified as apples by only 10 percent of young viewers; instead most reported they were french fries.
Other children admitted being confused by the depiction, as with one child who pointed to the product and said, "And I see some…are those apples slices?"
The researcher replied, "I can't tell you…you just have to say what you think they are."
"I think they're french fries," the child responded.
"Burger King's depiction of apple slices as 'Fresh Apple Fries' was misleading to children in the target age range," said principal investigator James Sargent, MD, co-director Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center. "The advertisement would be deceptive by industry standards, yet their self-regulation bodies took no action to address the misleading depiction."
In 2010 McDonald's and Burger King began to advertise apples and milk in kids meals. Sargent and his colleagues studied fast food television ads aimed at children from July 2010 through June 2011. In this study researchers extracted "freeze frames" of Kids Meals shown in TV ads that appeared on Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and other children's cable networks. Of the four healthy food depictions studied, only McDonald's presentation of apple slices was recognized as an apple product by a large majority of the target audience, regardless of age. Researchers found that the other three presentations represented poor communication.
This study follows an earlier investigation conducted by Sargent and his colleagues, which found that McDonald's and Burger King children's advertising emphasized giveaways like toys or box office movie tie-ins to develop children's brand awareness for fast food chains, despite self-imposed guidelines that discourage the practice.
While the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission play important regulatory roles in food labeling and marketing, the Better Business Bureau operates a self-regulatory system for children's advertising. Two different programs offer guidelines to keep children's advertising focused on the food, not toys, and, more specifically, on foods with nutritional value.
"The fast food industry spends somewhere between $100 to 200 million dollars a year on advertising to children, ads that aim to develop brand awareness and preferences in children who can't even read or write, much less think critically about what is being presented." said Sargent.
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This post shows an R script to automatically generate a trend chart from web based global temperature data. The R script allows me to update my plot each month as soon as the source file is updated. The plot is self documenting so that the chart reader can see the data period, the overall trend line, slope for trend line; the last data point is highlighted and value given. Date stamp and name are included in the margin.
There are numerous climate data sites that provide continuously updated data files for all aspects of climatology. While many sites provide useful charts of their data, I find that I want to combine data from several files and/or data sites, so I need the ability to download data files and generate my own climate charts. When I started my climate change learning expedition a few years ago, I thought that I'd be able to do everything in Excel. As I progressed in my efforts, I learned a few things:
- There's an incredible amount of climate data available on the web
- Excel's data and charting tools are limited for multi-variate analysis and charting
- It's not realistic to store climate data on my PC, it's more effective to use the web based climate data
- I need tools that let me automatically access the latest data from several data sites and produce my own charts
Along the way I realized that I needed to add R to my data analysis toolkit if I wanted to continue my study of climate trends. So I've been working my way up the R learning curve. While I have a great deal more to learn about R, I'm now at the point where I can resume my climate change data analysis and charting interests using R.
Many visitors to my ProcessTrends site download my trend analysis and global warming Excel workbooks. My goal is to provide comparable R tools so that visitors can download R tools. This post starts my effort to provide R tools for users to access and analyze web based climate data similar to my Excel tools.
Remote Sensing System (RSS) Temperature Anomaly Trends
RSS provides monthly satellite based temperature measurement and anomaly data files by various zones. Here's a sample from the February 4, 2009 land and ocean temperature anomaly data file.
This file snippet shows monthly temperature anomaly data for 9 zones across the globe. The file is updated monthly. The data series, started in January, 1979, now has 30 years of measurements.
My goal is to be able to download these types of file each month and generate trend charts like the one shown in Figure 2. This chart includes the data series, a trend line based on a simple linear model, the slope of the trend line, and plot annotation to fully document the chart.
RSS's 1979-2009 temperature anomaly trends show a positive trend of 0.0157 C per year, with significant up and down swings. In a previous post I compared El Nino – La Nina event and volcanic eruption time-lines to the GISS temperature anomalies. With R's lattice plotting capabilities, I can show multiple time series in a single plot.
Now that I can automatically download and analyze web based data, I want to be able to compare climate change trends by zone, land versus ocean and RSS versus GISS. I'll then move on to regression models to see how much effect El Nino – La Nina has on temperature trends.
Since I plan to continue exploring climate data, I have tried to develop my R script so that it is reusable from project to project.
R Script For Web File Download & Charting
Here's the R script listing.
# RSS MSU Satellite Data - TLT - Temp Anomaly Trend - Lower Troposhpere - Land & Ocean C ## R script by D Kelly O'Day, 2/5/09 ## Get Monthly anomaly data link1<- "http://www.remss.com/data/msu/monthly_time_series/RSS_Monthly_MSU_AMSU_Channel_TLT_Anomalies_Land_and_Ocean_v03_2.txt" mo_RSS_in <- read.table(link1, skip = 3, sep = "", dec=".", row.names = NULL, header = FALSE, as.is = T, colClasses = c(rep("numeric",3), rep("NULL", 8)), comment.char = "#", na.strings = c("*", "-",-99.9, -999.9), col.names = c("yr", "mo", "RSS_lo", rep("",8))) yr_frac <- mo_RSS_in$yr + (mo_RSS_in$mo-1)/12 # yr_frac simplifies calcs # Create new data frame & attach mo_RSS_lo <- data.frame(mo_RSS_in, yr_frac) attach(mo_RSS_lo) # Get last mo, yr and value c <- nrow(mo_RSS_lo) # Find number of data rows lmo <- mo_RSS_lo$mo[c] # Fimd last month of data lyr <- mo_RSS_lo$yr[c] # Find last year of data lRSS <- RSS_lo[c] # Find last reading # Create plot # Set plot parameters par(las=1); par(ps = c(10)) ; par(bty="l") par(oma=c(0,0,0,0)) # no outer margin plot(RSS_lo ~ yr_frac, type="l", col ="grey60", xlab = "", ylab = expression(paste("RSS Temperature Anomaly - ",degree,"C")), xlim=c(1979, 2010), ylim=c(-0.6, 0.80), xaxs="i", yaxs="i", cex.axis = 0.95, cex.lab = 0.95) abline(h=0, col = "grey") # Calculate Linear Model for rate of change lm_fit <- lm(RSS_lo ~ yr_frac) a <- coef(lm_fit)[1] b <- coef(lm_fit)[2] ## Determine min & max yr_frac yr1 <- min(yr_frac) yr2 <- max(yr_frac) y1 <- a + b* yr1 y2 <- a + b *yr2 x_val <- c(yr1, yr2) y_val <- c(y1, y2) lines(x_val,y_val, type = "l", col = "red") b <- signif(b, 3) # Plot annotation n_text <- 0.9 # use to control note font size # Establish plot titles title_3 <- expression(paste("RSS Land & Ocean Temperature Anomalies - ",degree, "C")) title_2 <- paste("Period: 1/1979 to ",lmo,"/",lyr) mtext(title_3, side = 3, line = 3, adj = 0.5) mtext(title_2, side = 3, line = 2, adj = 0.5, cex = n_text) mtext( "RSS Version 3.2 - MSU/AMSU TLT", side = 3,line = 1, adj=.5, cex = n_text) # Establish plot notes text(1995,-0.4, "Overall slope = ", pos = 1, col = "red", cex = n_text) text(1998.7, -0.4, b, pos = 1, col ="red", cex = n_text) text(2002,-0.4,expression(paste(degree,"C/yr")), pos = 1,cex = n_text, col = "red") text(1980, 0.7, " Area: 70S to 82.5N", col = "black", pos =4, cex = n_text) # Highlight last reading points( yr2, lRSS, pch=19, col = "black") points(1996, -0.5, pch=19) note <- paste(lmo, "/", lyr, " @ ", lRSS," C") text(1996, -0.5, note, pos = 4, col = "black", cex = n_text) # Add margin notes for name and plot date mtext("K O'Day, ChartsGraphs.Wordpress.Com",side=1,line = 3,adj = 0,cex = 0.7) mtext(format(Sys.time(), "%m/%d/ %Y"), side = 1, line = 3, adj = 1, cex = 0.7) detach(mo_RSS_lo)


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The president of the Republic has addressed the 12th Session of the Islamic Summit held from the 6-7th February 2013, in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.
Reflecting on the theme of the Summit, "The Muslim World: New Challenges and Expanding Opportunities," His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh said it is pertinent to observe that the organisation has been besieged by protracted challenges and unexploited opportunities. He said efforts to overcome the problems afflicting the Muslim Ummah have so far realised modicum successes.
The president stated that the organisation's overall objective of creating a better world in the Muslim Ummah is yet to be fulfilled. President Jammeh also talked about The Gambia's bid to host the OIC Summit in 2019, among other important issues.
Below is the full text of the president's statement.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful
Peace and Payers be upon the Truthful and the Trustworthy, and the last of Prophets and Messengers, and may the Mercy of Allah be upon all His Family and Companions
Your Majesties,
Your Highnesses,
Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government
Secretary General of the OIC
Honourable Ministers
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
Assaalamu Alaikum Warahmatullah Wabarakatuho
It is with much pleasure that I address this distinguished body on this special occasion, marking the 12th Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and I would like to begin by expressing the sincere gratitude of my entire delegation to our Dear Brother Muhammed Morsi , President of the Arab Republic of Egypt for hosting the Summit at a critical time in the history of this prestigious Organisation.
In the same vein, I thank the Government and people of Egypt for their generous hospitality and the excellent facilities placed at our disposal since our arrival in this historic city, the cradle of African and Arab Civilizations. In like manner, I thank the Government of Senegal for steering the affairs of the Organization since the 11th Summit held in Dakar.
I also wish to put on record our appreciation and gratitude to the Secretary General of the OIC, H.E. Mr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, for the able stewardship and management of the affairs of the Organisation since his assumption of duty as Secretary General.
Mr. Chairman,
Reflecting on the theme of the Summit, "The Muslim World: New Challenges and Expanding Opportunities," it is pertinent to observe that our Organization has been besieged by protracted challenges and unexploited opportunities. Efforts to overcome the problems afflicting the Muslim Ummah have so far realized modicum successes. Honestly, on reflection, we can safely say our overall objectives of creating a better world in the Muslim Ummah is yet to be fulfilled.
Yet, overall, Member States possess incalculable natural and human resources which, if positively utilised, could salvage humankind from the chronic suffering they are compelled to endure. It is paradoxical, therefore, that the wanton destruction of lives and property, as well as the severity of the poverty and starvation that afflict the poor and the weak, are more acute in the developing countries in general, and the Muslim world in particular. This makes a re-evaluation of the Organisation's activities and achievements since 1969 compelling, in order that the intractable challenges that confront us are overcome.
Mr. Chairman,
As I speak, the world is going through many challenges, particularly the Islamic countries. We have all witnessed the trials and tribulations and the dramatic changes that are taking place day after day in this part of the world. We can only face these problems through sustained solidarity and cooperation. What is needed is to muster a unified strategy and objective based on the true tenets of Islam to restore the ideals and great values upon which our Organization is founded.
Mr. Chairman,
It is baffling that we continue to witness Muslims killing one and other, seeing our brothers and sisters suffer, living in shelters and very deplorable conditions. Since the advent of the Iraq war, we have seen one Muslim country after the other fall into turmoil and internal strife with innocent civilians being maimed or killed, mosques being bombed and properties destroyed which is contrary to the teachings of Islam.
During the time of Jihad, the Prophet never destroyed any church or attacked any Christian in the name of Islam.Islam means total submission to the will of ALLAH and ALLAH has enjoined all Muslims to work together, support one and other and give Zakat to the poor and the needy so that even the poor would not suffer.Instead of supporting one and other Muslims are killing each other.
Mr. Chairman,
The Islamic Ummah is the wealthiest of nations and we should thank Allah for that.Unfortunately, these endowments from The Almighty Allah are sometimes being used to kill Muslims and send our children and women into refugee camps. The time has come for our Organisation to stand up to unify the Islamic Ummah. If we, as Muslims, are afraid of defending our religion, defending our Prophet and defending our values as Muslims, then are we truly Muslims? The Supreme Law and Constitution of all Muslims is the Sharia Law and the Holy Quran.
Today we hear people who claim to be Muslims saying bad things about the Supreme Law prescribed for us by Allah. Anybody who claims to be a Muslim and criticizes Sharia cannot really be a Muslim. Do we as Muslims want to go to Allah's heaven or we prefer to be friends of non Muslims. Do we prefer to deviate from the right path and when we die go to hell? Allah says in the Quran "Fear nobody but ME".
If we want to go to heaven we must go by the guidelines set for us by Allah in the Holy Quran. And to make religion clearer for us, Allah gave us Suratul Kafirun, and the verse - " Lakum Deenakum Waliya Deenii"said it all. If we live by it, Muslims would have no cause to fight each other over anything pertaining to religion especially those who do not believe in what we believe and worship as Muslims: you have your own way and I have mine; practice your religion and I practice mine and there will be peace.
Mr. Chairman,
Muslims are suffering in their countries and being humiliated in the non-Muslim world.This should mean one thing to us, that we are failing in our duties and obligations towards our fellow Muslims as enshrined in the tenets of Islam and the teachings of our Prophet. This being the case, let us be resolved here and give ourselvestwelve months time frame to end all conflicts that are ravaging not only our natural resources but our human and material resources and reversing our development.
The Gambia strongly believes that this noble Organisation of ours is the only body that can ensure peace, security and prosperity in OIC Member States. On this note, I am appealing to this noble gathering and Organisation to put an immediate end to all the murderous conflicts that plague the Islamic Ummah and continues to destroy our livelihoods, our countries, our civilization and our noble religion, dividing Muslims instead of unifying them especially the outrageous conflict in Syria.
This Organisation, I believe can commit itself to ending the war in Syria by whatever means necessary because this war, not only is it disastrous but has the potency to engulf the entire sub-region.It is in our collective interest and in the service of Islam to resolve the Syrian conflict by any means and at any cost, without delay.
Mr. Chairman,
Distinguished Ladies & Gentlemen,
I also appeal to all Muslims to reconcile and also be resolved to put an end to all conflicts within the Islamic Ummah and amongst Muslims. War and carnage are the works of Iblis.War and violence will never solve problems but rather worsen them. I urge all Muslims to replace confrontation, strife and violence with love, patience and dialogue. I think that it is now very clear to every Muslim and non-Muslim alike, that when we fight as Muslims against each other, those who become refugees as a consequence find it difficult to enter into non-Muslim countries as refugees.
Therefore, we should know that if we choose to fight and destroy our countries, we should not be surprised when we find ourselves homeless or hungry. Because we should know that violence and confrontation leads to destruction, and not to development and freedom. We should also remember that in the Quran Allah said that He is with the patient - "Inallaha maha Sabireen". On this note, those who have the means should extend a helping hand to the rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Somalia and Malian refugees to eradicate their sufferings.
I believe this is the true jihad that we as Muslims should embark on, end violence and suffering, without killing any member of the human race. The Gambia, as small as we are and as poor as we are, would welcome Muslim refugees if the infrastructure is set up and their welfare taken care of by wealthier members of the OIC. I wish we are among the wealthiest members of the Islamic Ummah one day so that we would be in a position to build a greater country to welcome our brothers and sisters who have nowhere to go. We, in The Gambia are known for our hospitality and if anybody can build refugee camps to welcome our Muslim brothers and sisters you are more than welcome.
Mr. Chairman,
Concerning the issues of Palestine, we all know that this intractable problem is caused by the denial of the legitimate rights and aspiration of innocent people fighting for their rights for decades. The Gambia has been very consistent in our support to the Palestinian people in the pursuit of their inalienable and legitimate rights to self-determination and full independence.
As a Member of the UNESCO Executive Board, we welcome the decision by UNESCO to accept the State of Palestine as a Member and also the recent decision by the UN to recognize the State of Palestine as a Member and also the recent decision by the UN to recognize the State of Palestine as a non-member Observer State.
These moves are in the right direction, but a lot more needs to be done. We should continue to put pressure on all concerned, to listen to reason and accord Palestine the legitimacy it deserves.We should also urge our Palestinian brothers and sisters to unite in their struggle.
Mr. Chairman,
The Ummah needs to formulate mechanisms that are geared towards ensuring that we have the necessary instruments for conflict prevention and resolution. To this end, The Gambia proposes for consideration to be given to the establishment of an OIC Security Council to serve as a focal platform in our conceptualization of strategies in responding to and preventing conflicts in our Ummah.
To ensure the effectiveness of this Council, The Gambia further proposes for the creation of an OIC Stand-by Force, for Peace Enforcement and Peace Keeping Operations. Their rapid deployment to conflict areas will enhance our ability to play a leading role in our collective efforts towards peace and stability.
The Ummah as a whole also needs to be steadfast in the promotion of peaceful dispute resolution mechanisms. We must ensure that a body within our Organization is created to ensure that disputes between our nations are amicably resolved. Differences in our interests should not be a pretext to engage in acts of aggression that are detrimental to our collective aspirations; instead, such disputes should be resolved by an OIC Dispute Resolution Committee whose decision would be final. Only in this way can the Islamic Ummah live in peace and stop the bloodshed. We as Muslims and OIC Member States should work for Islam and for each other and not against each other. We as Muslims should protect each other rather than kill each other.
Mr. Chairman,
Your Excellencies,
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen
The change in nomenclature of the OIC to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is a strong attestation of the new realisation that the spectrum of our common bonds must be widened to reflect modern realities. The opportunities for cooperation in order to achieve our common destiny traverse a wide array of issues linked to security, economics and finance, scientific research and technological innovation, education and institutional development, among others.
This has precipitated new dynamics that require the willingness of all of us to evolve responsively in policy formulation and the pursuit of our development aspirations. Therefore, the Secretary General merits support in his efforts to fine-tune the policies of the Organization, all of which seek to enable the Ummah to respond positively and effectively to the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.
Mr. Chairman,
In this direction, development policies and plans need to be owned and re-oriented towards ensuring a prosperous future for all, putting into consideration the changing patterns of socio-political trends. In particular, the realities of the 21st Century have widened the horizons of the aspirations of the youth, and, as leaders, we should be proactive by institutionalising platforms and policies that respond positively to the ever-changing tides of time.
Furthermore, the Islamic world requires judicious appropriation of the enormous resources the Almighty Allah has showered on Muslim nations, not only to provide a better political environment in the Ummah but also as a launching pad to combat entrenched poverty, underdevelopment, degradation and constant outbreaks of internal strife.
Mr. Chairman,
Before concluding, I must emphasise that as a united front, it is wise that we view our common challenges as opportunities to carve appropriate strategies geared towards meeting the demands of change and reform, based on true faith in ALLAH. Strengthened by faith in Allah, emboldened by our noble values, ideas and objectives and inspired by the Grace and Blessings of the Almighty Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful, we shall certainly overcome.
Mr. Chairman,
Your Majesties
Your Highnesses
Your Excellencies,
Heads of State and Governments
Secretary General of the OIC
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
In conclusion, May I seize this opportunity to inform this noble gathering that further to an official communication to the OIC Secretariat and numerous pronouncements in several High Level OIC meetings, latest of which was in November 2012 at the 39th Session of the Foreign Ministers Meeting in Djibouti, the Government of the Republic of The Gambia hereby strongly reiterates its firm determination and in our bid to host of the 14th Summit of Kings and Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of Islamic Corporationin Banjul, The Gambia after Turkey.
Since the inception of the OIC , the Gambia continues to be a firm supporter of the values and aspirations espoused by the Ummah.The track record of the Gambia's participation in the OIC has demonstrated our confidence in achieving the Ummah's collective aspirations.It is on this basis, that we expressed our intention to be the host of the 14th Islamic Summit.
In view of the fact that Africa is expected to be the host of the 14th Islamic Summit, I am very confident that being the first African country to convey its interest since the year 2000, the Gambia's bid should be given favourable consideration. From the experience of successfully hosting the African Union Summit in 2006, The Gambia can assure you that you will have one of the most successful Summits ever hosted in the history of the OIC if given the chance.
We thank you for all your support and solidarity in our bid to host the 14th OIC Summit and we look forward to seeing you in Banjul, The Gambia - the Smiling Coast of Africa during the said Summit, INSHALLAH.
Finally, I pray that 2013 becomes a year full of joy, harmony, peace, reconciliation and prosperity for all of us and the Muslim Ummah.
I thank you all for your kind attention.


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Ecuador's Permanent Mob-Rule Campaign
Mary O'Grady on Ecuador in the Wall Street Journal:
Ecuador's Permanent Mob-Rule Campaign
By demonizing opponents and changing voting law, President Rafael Correa assures his re-election.
Barack Obama uses his high office to conduct a permanent campaign against his opponents, often falsely attributing the basest of motives to them. That's pretty much the style of Latin American demagogues as well. Fortunately it works less well in the United States than south of the border.
The difference is that the American in the Oval Office is constrained by limits to his power under the U.S. Constitution. Even if 24/7 campaigning makes him popular, two other branches of government can check him and the minority opposition retains its rights.
Not so in, say, Ecuador, where President Rafael Correa is a candidate for re-election on Feb. 17. Mr. Correa is a permanent campaigner and has been so since his first presidential victory in November 2006. He has spent the past six years demonizing the opposition rather than looking for common ground as a leader might be expected to do. He also has used permanent campaigning to rewrite the constitution and eliminate barriers to his absolute power.
Mr. Correa is likely to win re-election easily, and his supporters will claim that he did so democratically. Yet opening polling stations once every four years does not make a free society—and no serious person today mistakes Ecuador for a modern, liberal republic.
The permanent campaign as a governing strategy is nothing new. Catherine Conaghan, from Queen's University in Ontario, and Carlos de la Torre, a professor at the left-wing FLACSO University in Quito, cite precedents in a July 2008 paper published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. They note that it was Jimmy Carter's pollster Patrick Caddell who first "coined" the term, that it "became virtually synonymous with the communications strategies of the Clinton presidency." It was also used to analyze George W. Bush's White House.
Yet, as the authors observe, when leaders in developing countries employ permanent campaigning, the outcome is often very different than it is in "mature democracies." Indeed, in some Andean countries, it has produced, in the words of Ms. Conaghan and Mr. de la Torre, the "extreme plebiscitary presidency." This is a polite way of referring to mob rule. Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales are two examples. Mr. Correa is a third.
Mr. Correa's inauguration in 2007 came on the heels of three Ecuadorean presidencies from 1997-2005 that were never completed. Taking over from an interim president, and lacking even a plurality backing in Congress, he ran the high risk that his term might be cut short too.
Mr. Correa wanted a new constitution as part of a wider strategy to remake Ecuador in the image and likeness of Chávez's Venezuela. But under the 1998 constitution, only the legislature had the authority to call for a referendum on whether to rewrite the highest law in the land. Holding the referendum against the wishes of Ecuador's Congress was only his first problem. He also needed to win a "yes" vote and to win control of the constituent assembly.
"The pressing need to keep the public firmly aligned with the president and to win two successive electoral victories necessitated a permanent campaign," Ms. Conaghan and Mr. de la Torre wrote. "The 'war-room' of the 2006 election campaign was recreated in the presidential palace."
When Congress pushed back against the anti-constitutional referendum, Mr. Correa pointed to his popular support and complained that Congress was standing in the way of what the nation wanted. He had 57 of the 100-member unicameral Congress expelled from office, while his supporters took to the streets with violence to intimidate his opponents.
Other aspects of Mr. Correa's permanent campaign are equally troubling. As Ms. Conaghan and Mr. de la Torre noted in 2008, he regularly denounced his opponents as criminals while he positioned his supporters as "morally superior common folk." He thus "dismissed and ignored all attempts to constrain the actions of the executive branch, whether they emanated from institutions such as the congress or from actors in the party system or civil society."
When opinion makers, many of whom had favored his candidacy, questioned his power grab, he unleashed vitriol. In a classic Correa outburst, one well-known commentator was branded as a "big fake, a swine, a professional defamer, and a bank employee."
The permanent campaign worked. Mr. Correa got his new constitution, including an article that stipulates that votes cast as "blank" in the presidential election, where voting is mandatory, aren't counted toward the total. With these protest votes thrown out, the task of winning 50% plus one next week to avoid a runoff is made easier.
"The logic of the plebiscitary presidency is to eschew checks and balances," Ms. Conaghan and Mr. de la Torre observed, and Mr. Correa sought it "for the express purpose of ridding himself of the possible constraints on his power that competing institutions could pose."
That done, the Feb. 17 "election" is but a formality. The moral of the story is that the permanent campaign carries with it obvious dangers, no matter what country it is employed in.
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Current Facilitators: Eddie Elfers, Jean Blomenkamp
February 15-16, 2001 - AQIP Retreat
Project identified and prioritized
March 14, 2001 - AQIP Retreat Follow-Up Meeting
Project refined
Council members assigned to project: Eddie Elfers, Jean Blomenkamp
September 21, 2001 - AQIP Meeting
Status report given: Eddie reports that he has had some informal discussions with several first- and second-year faculty members. These discussions have given him some ideas as to how we might begin to develop an orientation/mentor program. One major weakness, he admits, is that these discussions have dealt only with faculty, not with other college employees. The faculty members with whom he spoke said that the current efforts (new faculty luncheon and tour) are helpful, but almost "too much too soon." They are unable to process the information before the semester begins, and for the first few weeks they are too busy with their classes to think about the information they received. Faculty members starting this year also said they valued the computer and library orientations that were offered but, again, once the semester began they were often at a loss when questions or problems arose, not knowing whom to call. Several said they had struck up mentor relationships on their own with faculty who teach in their academic areas. Those relationships, they said, helped them find answers to many of their questions and solutions to many of their problems (not always the right answer or solution, one added). Eddie would like to start putting together a survey for all new (or maybe even all recent) employees, asking them about their experiences so far - what they know, what they don't know, what's been their biggest challenge. Eddie would like the council's input to help develop a survey that will allow us to assess the needs of all our employees, in the hope that any information gathered will assist in the development of an orientation/mentor program for all new employees. Eddie and Jean have put together some useful information regarding mentoring, namely areas in which mentoring might be needed. Again, these areas pertain mostly to faculty, but should be able to adjust to include the needs of all employees. Some of the needs Eddie and Jean listed are: (1) Instruction - starting a new class, creating syllabi, methods of delivery, student motivation; (2) System - procedures and guidelines at WSC; (3) Managerial/Organizational - how to balance teaching, advising, committee work, research, service; (4) Emotional/Personal - new environment, change, collegiality; (5) Resources - books, copies, course materials, equipment; (6) Professional Development - tenure, promotion, travel, teaching, advising, committee work, research, service.
This was not one of the suggestions at the opening faculty meeting. The kind of training needs could range from dealing with hazardous materials to computer training. One council member suggested training on how to establish their own web page. The best way to find out what training needs are desired is to develop some sort of a questionnaire. This could be an open-ended-type questionnaire or could use the bubble format and then be scanned for results. This could be sent to faculty/staff who have been here one to two years. The questionnaire should maybe be split in half with one half pertaining to faculty with one or two years employment at WSC and the other half to employees who have been at WSC more than two years. In regard to assessing employee satisfaction, we need to ask what level of overall satisfaction they currently have and then what it is they are satisfied with or are not satisfied with.
In talking about the mentor program, it would be nice if some sort of community time could be arranged. Where say on a Wednesday morning, a senior faculty member could invite a new faculty member to go to coffee at the student center. Someone suggested we have a community time over the lunch hour. Someone suggested informal discussions about various topics, such as unusual situations and how to deal with them. This would give everyone a sense of community. Maybe each department could give new faculty a standardized folder explaining syllabi, copy card, classroom etiquette, etc. When talking about faculty mentors, a new faculty member could maybe have two mentors, possibly one as a "systems" mentor within their department who could give them info like what is needed now, then maybe a timeline for tenure application, a rank promotion "road map," etc., also when and how to order textbooks, maybe even what they can or can't say "no" to, and how to balance everything they are having to deal with. Then there could be a different person acting as a mentor for the "instructional" part, to include all aspects of teaching.
Professional and support staff needs were also discussed. We could ask for a list of volunteers who would like to be partnered with a new employee. That person maybe wouldn't act so much as a "mentor" but as someone this new employee could call and ask questions of. Also, a packet of information, similar to what is compiled for the opening employee meeting in the fall, could be given to a new staff person when they come on board. A lot of the information that we would include in this packet has already been developed, we would just need to gather all the different pieces of information to put in this folder.
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