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Fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen are blasting out of the central nucleus of the galaxy M82. Panning across the elliptical center, bright patches of star clumps, dust lanes and individual star clusters are resolved in these sharp Hubble images. Stars are crammed into tiny but massive star clusters that congregate by the dozens to form super star clusters in the core of M82.
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Saturday, 22 August 2009
"Science-Chess Accommodating Religion"...contest!
"I'm thinking scientific accommodation of religion is akin to letting someone take your King's Rook off the board because you're winning."
This painting was originally created due to the above Twitter tweet I made, inspired by the writing of Jerry Coyne, Ophelia Benson, PZ Myers, Mike Haubrich, Stephanie Zvan, Greg Laden, Jason Thibeault, Russell Blackford and Richard Dawkins. This painting is an homage to your writing, and the other atheists out there unafraid to speak up (I am sure I have left many out). Mike liked it enough to add it to his rotating quotes, and that got me thinking about how I would visualize it.
Since I began blogging my art, I have struggled with themes of secularism and atheism without being cartoonish or overly mocking. Science and my surreal riffs are fun and fascinating for me, but atheist painting concepts have been a challenge.
The contest: identify all the pieces. I will give the first person to figure them all out a signed print from my reproduction store. Blog comments here at this Flying Trilobite post only to qualify (not Twitter or Facebook at this time, please, it will be hard to see who was first). A higher quality view of the image can be seen in my Reproduction Shop.
Let's say...in order of left to right, with the two toppled pieces in the foreground following the red piece in sequence? I will be away for my usual Art Monday, so let's leave this contest in its stead.
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31 comments:
- Mike Haubrich, FCD said...
I'm going to start with Darwin's sketch "Tree of Life," skip the second piece for now, then the fossile of the megalodont jaw, then Mendelian genetics, then Copernicus, then the rook representing religion's "prima nocta" over questions of origins, followed by vaccinations and finally followed by one more piece.
I'll think a bit more, but I didn't want to try to get them all on the first go.
- 22 August 2009 at 04:12:00 GMT-4
My attempt. In front (L-R):
stem cells, vaccination, and the red bishop representing the church
In back (L-R):
Darwin's tree of life sketch, radio waves (SETI?), representation of organic chemistry (?), Mendel's peas, and heliocentrism a la Copernicus.
- 22 August 2009 at 08:23:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
Third is Kekule dreaming of the benzene ring (snake eating its own tail).
- 23 August 2009 at 00:22:00 GMT-4
okay - this was a challenge for my sleep-deprived self...darwin's tree of life, the arecibo message, ouroboros benzene ring (Jung's alchemy), mendel's peas, copernican heliocentrism, i just don't know, our favorite conversation topic: vaccination, and the red bishop (dom helder? or simply the red bishop as representative of the church?)
i'm hoping the missing piece will come to me in my dreams...
thanks for the brain tease.
(it's trish by the way - i've forgotten, ahem, my password, ahem)
- 23 August 2009 at 00:31:00 GMT-4
is the first piece bottom left a drosophila ovary used for stem cell research?
(yes, it's me, again.)
- 23 August 2009 at 00:40:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
Red Queen, methinks....
- 23 August 2009 at 00:52:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
Really hard to see, especially upside down like this, but the one falling off the board could be panda's thumb (actually the entire panda's paw).
- 23 August 2009 at 00:57:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
Also, I think #2 is radioactivity.
- 23 August 2009 at 00:58:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
As you can see, I really want this picture! ;-) I am trying so hard!
(I am agreeing with others on those I did not mention myself: Darwin, Mendel, Copernicus, vaccines, bishop)
- 23 August 2009 at 01:00:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
Still hard to see the fallen piece, but could be three little mice (perhaps used for stem-cell research, or biotech in general).
- 23 August 2009 at 01:48:00 GMT-4
- Glendon Mellow said...
I think I will close the contest on Friday 28th of August, noon eastern standard. Thanks for the entries so far!
By the way, this piece became a "featured painting" on the CORE religion & science group on Redbubble within a few hours of being posted. So that's nice.
Now I will fall silent as Bass Lake beckons and I think it's unlikely there will be wi-fi there. (I'll still check of course...)
- 23 August 2009 at 08:06:00 GMT-4
- Mike Haubrich, FCD said...
I just wonder if the remaining clues can be found in Jonathan Well's "Icons of Evolution."
- 23 August 2009 at 09:08:00 GMT-4
- Mike Haubrich, FCD said...
(BTW) If I don't win, I will buy.
- 23 August 2009 at 09:09:00 GMT-4
- Greg Laden said...
Red: The Phallic Church Bishop Upholding the Military Industrial Complex represented by the coinage of Charles the First which lost all of his value on his beheading
Toppled 1: Mr Bill
Toppled 2: A dose of reality
A South African Mapangupwe Sculpture which uncannily resembles a sketch from Charles Darwin's Notebooks
The Red Queen
The Sacret Snake Eating It's Own Tail roughly in the shape of Georgia O'Keefe's Vagina
Beans. As in Bean There Done That.
I can't remember which one, but it's one of the Tele Tubbies.
- 23 August 2009 at 10:08:00 GMT-4
- scicurious said...
OMG I want one so bad!!!!
The one with the clade on top I think is Darwin's sketch, and represents evolution, The fallen over one that looks like a paw I think is stem cells (though I suppose it could be a Panda's thumb, because it does look like a paw), the other fallen over one is definitely vaccination. The pea pod is Mendelian genetics. The one in the back is the Copernican system. The one second from the back is the benzene ring. The back is...is...it looks like radio waves? Dangit this is HARD!!!
- 23 August 2009 at 10:09:00 GMT-4
- scicurious said...
Oh and the red is obviously religion as represented by a bishop.
- 23 August 2009 at 10:10:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
Oh, I like Greg's "Toppled 2: A dose of reality"
- 23 August 2009 at 11:11:00 GMT-4
- coturnix said...
I want this on a t-shirt!
- 23 August 2009 at 11:12:00 GMT-4
- Jason Thibeault said...
Absolutely beautiful. And I fear there's no chance I'll ever win it at this rate, with all the guesses already made, especially since they overlap so heavily with most of my own. But hey. Left to right standing: phylogenetic tree of life as drawn in Darwin's sketchbook, the expansion of the universe from the big bang on, a benzene chain, Mendel's peas, the sun (heliocentrism?), and the Red Piece is a Bishop, obviously. Complete with halo.
The two downed pieces are a panda's paw and vaccines.
Every one of these white pieces is science itself, though,
For that hexagonal structure, I've seen a similar looking... something... of bones. Somewhere. I think. It could be that, if I could remember what it was or where I saw it. Oh, how I wish I had an eidetic memory.
By the by, I'm truly honoured that you'd consider my writings to be of any worth, though you might want to link http://www.lousycanuck.ca/?p=1519 instead if you were looking for examples of my actual input (as what you linked is mostly a linking post -- mind you, all of those links are excellent reads).
- 23 August 2009 at 19:52:00 GMT-4
- Jason Thibeault said...
Let's try that again. Edit fail.
Every one of these white pieces is science itself, though, so giving up a piece because "you're winning" is akin to dropping a chunk of science specifically because it has the capability of checkmating your opponent.
- 23 August 2009 at 19:55:00 GMT-4
i think we've got it - darwin's tree of life, james kicked in with curie's theory of radioactive decay and using it for carbon dating, kekule's benzene ring, mendel's peas, copernican heliocentrism, the panda's thumb/paw, vaccination and the red bishop...
hope you have wifi at the lake!
- 23 August 2009 at 19:58:00 GMT-4
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- 25 August 2009 at 19:07:00 GMT-4
- Glendon Mellow said...
Jason, I've fixed the link. Thanks for that.
And fixed it to include Greg's trademark never-simple-but-very-clear post as well. It's been such a swirl of excellent writing on this subject.
- 25 August 2009 at 21:31:00 GMT-4
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- 25 August 2009 at 22:23:00 GMT-4
- dinodude0091 said...
Clockwise from the bottom: vaccination, stem-cell research, Darwin's tree of life, electron cloud model, what I think is a snake biting it's own tail (no idea), Gregor Mendell genetics, Heliocentric solar system, and the big red bishop is obviously religion.
- 26 August 2009 at 11:59:00 GMT-4
- dinodude0091 said...
Clockwise from the bottom: vaccination, stem-cell research, Darwin's tree of life, electron cloud model, what I think is a snake biting it's own tail (no idea), Gregor Mendell genetics, Heliocentric solar system, and the big red bishop is obviously religion.
- 26 August 2009 at 11:59:00 GMT-4
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- 26 August 2009 at 19:34:00 GMT-4
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- 28 August 2009 at 06:13:00 GMT-4
- Glendon Mellow said...
Only a few hours to go!
Most of the answers for piece #2 at the back are sort of right, but a little too complicated.
Someone on my DeviantArt page got it bang on though if anyone's fishing...
- 28 August 2009 at 06:24:00 GMT-4
- scicurious said...
Particle wave duality!!!!
*sooo sooo sooo wants to wiiiiiiiin*
- 28 August 2009 at 15:30:00 GMT-4
- Glendon Mellow said...
Irrelevant comments to the contest have been removed by me. Done.
- 28 August 2009 at 22:36:00 GMT-4
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ARKADELPHIA, Ark.—Ouachita Baptist University President Rex Horne has announced plans for a "100-Yard Campaign" to raise funds to construct Cliff Harris Stadium. Dr. Horne presented the plans during Ouachita's Dec. 13 Board of Trustees meeting on the Ouachita campus.
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Harris, an All-Conference and All-America safety for the Tigers in the 1960s and All-Pro safety for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s, played in six Pro Bowls and five Super Bowls for the Cowboys. A major donor has provided a lead gift as a matching challenge for the project, with additional funds being solicited over the next 120 days through the 100-Yard Campaign.
"I could not be more thrilled with the prospect of having a new football stadium for our Tigers to play in beginning next fall," said Ouachita President Rex Horne. "Our stadium is the first thing many people pass on the way to our beautiful campus. For many years improvements have been needed. Now a generous gift and challenge makes this construction possible.
"I am delighted that the stadium will be named after our own Cliff Harris," he added. "Cliff was an All-Pro, played in five Super Bowls and his name is one of very few in Dallas Cowboys history that is in the Cowboys Ring of Honor. Cliff's devotion to Ouachita across the years is exemplary. I expect friends and alumni of Ouachita will make this possibility of a new stadium a reality.
"My priority for the next 120 days is leading this effort," Dr. Horne said. "If we make a strong effort in gifts and pledges in the next few months, we will open the season in the new and improved Cliff Harris Stadium. I am asking for all the Tiger faithful and friends to join us in this vital project."
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|Oracle® Enterprise Manager Concepts
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Because the IT systems of today are composed of many sets of systems, you need to minimize the time needed to support these systems and eliminate the human error associated with system maintenance. The Enterprise Manager Job System provides the capacity to automate routine administrative tasks and synchronize systems so you can manage them more efficiently.
This chapter describes the Job System in the following sections:
The Enterprise Manager Job System serves a dual purpose. It:
Provides for the automation of many administrative tasks, for example, backup, cloning, and patching
Allows end users to create their own jobs using their own custom OS and SQL scripts
A job is a unit of work that you define to automate commonly-run tasks. One of the advantages of jobs is that you can schedule a job to start immediately or start at a later date and time. You also have the option to have the job run once or at a specific interval, for example, three times every month.
The Job Activity page (Figure 10-1) is the hub of the Job System. From this page you can:
Search for existing job runs and job executions
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Create a job
View, edit, create like, suspend, resume, stop, and delete a run
View, edit, create like, suspend, resume, retry, stop, and delete an execution
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Job functionality is not restricted to only the Jobs tab. You can access Job functionality while you are working on deployments and databases. On the Deployments page you can create a job to clone a database and another job to clone an Oracle home. While you are working with your databases, you can clone a database by clicking Deployments in the Related Links section.
Job executions are usually associated with one target, for example, a backup job on a particular database. When a job is run against multiple targets, each execution may execute on one target.
Job executions are not always a one-to-one mapping to a target. Some executions have multiple targets, for example, comparing hosts. Other executions have no targets, for example, the RefreshFromMetalink job.
When you submit a job to many targets, it would be tedious to examine the status of each execution of the job against each target. For example, say that you run a backup job against 100 databases. Typical questions would be: Were all the backups successful? If not, which backups failed? If this backup job runs every week, you would want to know each week which backups were successful and those that failed.
With the Job System, you can easily get these answers viewing the Job Run. A Job Run is the sum of all job executions of a job that ran on a particular scheduled date. Using the backup example, if you have a backup job against 100 databases on November 5th, then you will have a November 5 job run. The job table that shows the job run will provide a rollup of the status of those executions.
In addition to supporting the standard job operations of create, edit, create like, and delete, the Job System allows you to suspend and resume jobs, as well as retry failed executions. For example, you may need to suspend a job if a needed resource was not available or the job needs to be postponed. Once you suspend a job, any scheduled executions will not occur until you decide to resume the job.
When analyzing a failed execution, it is useful to be able to retry a failed execution once the cause of the problem has been determined. This alleviates the need of creating a new job for that failed execution. When you use the Retry operation in the Job System, Enterprise Manager provides links from the failed execution to the retried execution and vice versa, should it become useful to retroactively examine the causes of the failed executions.
In addition to restricting the job search by name, owner, status, scheduled start, job type, and target name, you can query against a target using the target type and access.
You can form a query against a target using the following target types:
All Targets
For basic targets, for example hosts and databases, you can query to see what jobs ran on those targets.
All Groups
You can query to see what jobs were submitted to these targets.
All Member Targets of the Target Named Below
You can query to see what jobs ran on the members of the named composite target (group, Real Application Cluster, or cluster). This differs from the All Groups query because it shows both jobs which were submitted to the Group, as well as those submitted directly to any member of the group.
This is a special job category for jobs that do not run against any target, for example, RefreshFromMetalink.
Using the Show jobs to which I have not been granted view access check box, you can view the jobs to which you do not have access. Using this option you can avoid surprises to members of your group. For example, if you are about to bounce a database or place a database into blackout, you may want to check on what jobs may be currently executing or about to execute on that target.
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The predefined database jobs include backup, export, and import. The predefined jobs associated with deployments include patching, cloning Oracle homes, and cloning databases.
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When defining these jobs, you can use target properties.
You can submit the jobs against many targets or a group. The job automatically keeps up with the group membership.
For host command jobs, you can submit to a cluster.
For SQL jobs you can submit to a Real Application Cluster.
Using the Job System, you can create jobs using the following:
Copies the known state of an Oracle home. For example, after you have an Oracle home in a known state (you have chosen particular install options for it, applied required patches to it, and tested it), you may want to clone that Oracle home to one or more hosts.
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Use to execute a user-defined OS script.
Use to find a patch and then apply that patch.
Refresh from MetaLink
Use to be notified of critical patch advisories.
SQL script
Use to execute a user-defined SQL script.
See Also:Chapter 6, " Managing Deployments" for information about deployment jobs
Chapter 4, " Database Management" for information about the Database Scheduler
"About Jobs", "About Scheduler", "About Cloning", and "About Patching" in the Enterprise Manager online help
After you submit jobs, the status of all job executions across all targets is automatically rolled up and available for review on the Grid Control Home page. Figure 10-2 shows the All Targets Jobs information on the Grid Control Home page.
Figure 10-2 Summary of Target Jobs on the Grid Control Page
This information is particularly important when you are examining jobs that execute against hundreds, if not thousands of systems. You can determine the job executions that have failed. By clicking the number associated with a particular execution, you can drill down to study the details of the failed job.
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By accessing the Groups home page, you can analyze the job activity for that group.
To allow you to share job responsibilities, the Job System provides job privileges. These job privileges allow you to share the job with other administrators. Using privileges, you can:
View access to the administrators who need to see the results of the job
Give full access to the administrators who may need to edit the job definition
These privileges can be granted on an as-needed basis.
Once you have defined jobs, you can save these jobs to the Job Library. Use the Library as a repository for frequently used jobs. Analogous to active jobs, you can grant View or Full access to specific administrators.
In addition, you can use the Job Library to store:
Basic definitions of jobs then add targets and other custom settings before submitting the job
Jobs for your own reuse or to share with others. You can share jobs using views or giving full access to the jobs.


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Manga Studio 5 EX - first impressions
MS5 EX isn't really an upgrade. It's a completely different program. Earlier versions were a westernised version of Celsys Comic Studio. The new version is a different program - Clip Studio.
Sadly, it has not been localised very well. Menu options are sometimes offered in a lousy pidgin English that, while close to comprehensible, still leave one in doubt. Were this version of Manga Studio a masterpiece of usability, I don't think this would matter. But it's not. It's a melée of menus, submenus, optional customisations, and interface contradictions so gnomic that one is frequently sent into the seven-fold preference menus to try and right things.
Herein lies the contradiction that makes the struggle seem somewhat worth it - at the heart of the madness is an excellent program with which to draw comics. The pen tools are, largely, better. They can be tweaked to your heart's desire. There are new perspective rulers which make a mockery of MS4's fiddly version (though these are retained for those who are used to them). There are a myriad of new colouring features which will please anyone who doesn't want to colour in Photoshop. Huge paper sizes are now available if you need them. It feels snappier. The manual is 650 pages long, I'm sure that there is plenty more iceberg underwater.
But on trying to draw a comic with the ease I did in Manga Studio 4, I came across several issues that meant I couldn't. I list these merely as a caveat for other upgraders who may be thinking of switching. Such is the nature of the program that, given four or five hours of tweaking, you could probably make it behave the way you want it to - but it seems almost cruel of SmithMicro to offer this software out of the box with so many indiosyncratic differences from its predecessor. Here are ten things that drove me crazy:
1. The pen and pencil cursors are the same. So if you switch between the two with your shortcut key, as I do all day long, you can't tell immediately which one you're using. Of course, should you wish to draw with a pastel, that has its own cursor. Perhaps the pastel lobby is more powerful than the pencil lobby.
2. Correction has been taken out of the pen menus. Good luck digging the mess it is now out and reinstating it. One of the best features of MS3 & 4 was that if you turned correction right up to 20 and drew a stroke, it was a straight line with a variable width based on how hard you pressed down - as if you'd drawn a nib line with a ruler. Now, no matter how you tweak its numerous settings, the super-corrected line shrinks to a razor-thin line. If you relied on that feature to quickly draw lines, you won't be doing that any more.
EDIT: I worked out how to make it work like it used to. Click the spanner (bottom right) to bring up tool settings. Select 'correction' from the menu on the left. Click the check box (the little eye) so the 'post correction' option is visible on the tool menu. Check 'bezier curve' only under that. You'll now get straight, relatively uniform lines like MS4 when correction is switched on. Feel free to play with the other settings - bezier curve is the one that restores the familiar behaviour.
3. Instead of numerical sliders to change settings, some options are represented by a series of slightly different grey blocks. Good luck remembering which grey box you clicked, and what numerical value it denotes.
EDIT: You can change this. CMD-click on the blocks, select 'show slider'.
4. The straight line and shape drawing tool, panel ruler tools and ruler tools are all under one icon. I found them eventually. Panel cutting was a very neat and tidy operation in version 4, but it's reverted to the complicated setup I think I remember from version 3, generating nested folders and masks. I don't know why. Perhaps someone knows why.
EDIT: You can turn the nested folders off (you'll still get one big nested folder) - in the tool properties for "divide frame folder", select "not change". Not change! Now, when you chop things up, all the artwork is behind one mask.
5. The layers palette has been broken into two separate entities. The relationship between these two is as complex and delicate as the relationship between those four organisms that make up the Portuguese Man O War. And as difficult to understand. Remember when there was a button to make your pencils into a blue line? Now, merge a couple of layers, one blue-lined, and things become very complicated very quickly.
6. Remember the old square eraser that you could turn to an angle? And it was big when you zoomed out and small when you zoomed in? I'm sure you can restore that but after an hour of trying, I gave up.
EDIT: If you want a square eraser (I couldn't work out how to easily angle it), select eraser, go to tool property, select brush shape, click 'material', look for a brush called 'small', it's a square.
7. Everything is set to anti-aliased. Set aside some time to really enjoy putting things back to 2-bit.
8. There are a lot of new pencils, but they look and feel different to the MS4 pencil. You can import your old pencil, but it doesn't look the same. I'm sure this is something I'll get used to, but it would have been nice to have had the option. You can import all your old tools from MS4 if you wish, but the results are a mixed bag.
9. Saving and organising your page templates has gone from placing them in one simple menu by saving the page as a template, to having to select a load of layers, make them into material, then place them on a paper template, after digging them out from all the other templates provided.
10. The interface is a huge mess. It's a disaster. I heard complaints over the years that MS4 had an ugly interface. It wasn't beautiful, but it worked, and it was easy to get by with a bare minimum of screen real estate lost. The new version is almost exquisite in its visual bloat.
I don't think this a bad piece of software, per se. It's learnable. But I honestly think that SmithMicro are dishonest in pushing this as the same line of software. Customisable as it is, they could have made at least some concession to their existing users. Out of the box, it is more disruptive than helpful to long term users. For six or seven years, I've touted Manga Studio as software that makes making comics easier and more pleasant. This is the first version I've used that doesn't do that. And that's a shame.
18 comments:
- Steve Rolston said...
Interesting to hear all the differences. Makes me grateful I only played with MS4 a little before upgrading to MS5 (haven't gone all the way to MS5 EX yet).
4. If you haven't already, you'll probably want to change the panel cutter's Separate Layer setting to "Not Change." Took me a while to catch on to that.
Have you got your hands on Ray Frenden's brushes yet? I wasn't feeling Manga Studio's default pencils but I found one I liked in his set.
- 8:10 AM, August 21, 2013
- Jon Lycett-Smith said...
As someone who's never used the package at all, and as you seem to be saying that the current and last versions are essentially completely different packages, which would you recommend I try?
- 8:47 AM, August 21, 2013
- John A said...
The newest. I wouldn't be persevering with this if I wasn't painfully aware that eventually, though OS upgrades, new hardware etc, old versions stop working.
- 8:52 AM, August 21, 2013
- Jon Lycett-Smith said...
Cheers John. Their website claims they'll be offering trial versions soon, so I'll wait for that anyway. :¬)
- 9:40 AM, August 21, 2013
- Fangz said...
Re point 5, if you haven't realised, you can set line colours in the MS4 fashion by adding a layer filter in the layer effects palette thingie (look for a little icon showing a coloured box overlaid on a grey one, I think). The new version is a little more flexible in that you can set a replacement colour for the 'white' as well. But it is indeed a bit more cumbersome to turn the colour off when merging layers, yeah.
- 12:23 PM, August 21, 2013
- John A said...
Some great, helpful comments on this one already - thanks Steve and Fangz. I downloaded the Frenden brushes for MS5 on your recommendation - he's done some great ones.
- 12:30 PM, August 21, 2013
- mandy said...
I really liked your use of the word "gnomic."
- 11:48 AM, August 22, 2013
- Mike Rhodes said...
As much as I do dislike the Blocky slider, it does have it's advantages, for instance one can set it up to increase the brush size in even intervals (10, 20, 30, etc) and when you have the shortcuts set up for the bracket keys to increase the brush size, each press of the bracket key will increase or decrease the brush size accordingly.
In the Manga Studio book I'm writing, I am addressing as many of the poor translated portions and interface oddities.
Oh, and the price difference between the regular and EX versions of Manga Studio is basically just for story management. There may be more added in a future update, but right now I'd buy the regular version, as it has a tabbed document window and that can serve quite nicely as a way to manage pages.
And the Text "features" of MS5 make MS3 EX seem advanced. I can't bear to use text in MS5, I do all my lettering using ComicLife (an app to watch out for, imho).
Great review, John, I agree with most of what you said.
- 3:22 PM, August 22, 2013
- Nicklas said...
I agree with many things, especially the brushes. Some of the functions there are hidden far too well in odd places.
It took ages to figure out how to do a brush that had more uniform thickness at the edges and only do the start/end thing based on speed. (If anyone wants it, I'll gladly share it.)
- 12:22 PM, August 23, 2013
- Keith Ammann said...
My wife is a talented illustrator, and I'd like to encourage her to put more of her work into publishable form. Right now she works mostly in Photoshop, with a Wacom pen tablet. Is there any software in particular that you would recommend, either for producing final-version art or for sketchbook purposes? I'm thinking ahead to Christmas . . .
- 12:42 PM, August 23, 2013
- John A said...
Keith, this is a several hundred word review of one piece of software I use every day for drawing it also contains a link to a big review I did for MacWorld to the earlier version. Is there a piece of software... I recommend... for drawing publishable art... I will leave it to you to fathom an answer ;-)
- 6:24 PM, August 27, 2013
- Gene Ha said...
Thanks for writing this review. I posted a link to it and your latest story arc/case on my Facebook pages. I think the latest story is my favorite ever.
- 12:39 PM, August 29, 2013
- Keith Ammann said...
Ha. Yes, clearly you prefer the earlier version (4 EX). However, when I visited the publisher's website, it wasn't clear to me that 4 EX was still available.
- 11:58 AM, August 30, 2013
- Keith Ammann said...
Looking on Amazon, it seems that 4 EX is still available . . . at the same price as 5! (Not 5 EX, 5!) Given that I am a poor fellow who can only afford the lower-priced item, would you suggest that I should buy 4 EX for the story features or 5 for the more updated version?
- 12:07 PM, August 30, 2013
- John A said...
I'm working in version 5 EX every day now, soon got used to it after a week or so of fiddling around. It's hard for me to know what's best for you but I think getting the newest version may be the most sensible thing. Go for the standard version 5. It will offer your wife a nice complement to Photoshop for a lot of features and something genuinely streets ahead for many others when it comes to drawing.
- 12:34 PM, August 30, 2013
- Keith Ammann said...
Thank you!
- 8:23 PM, August 31, 2013
Learning to use Manga Studio 5 is like learning a new language, but one that sort of looks like the one you know already. There are plenty of surprises along the way! For example, I learned today that balloons and tails are really VECTOR objects and can be manipulated by the vector tools. But by the same token, there's no way to combine vector shapes in various ways, like certain other more (and less) known programs. But these things might change with updates.
And that pattern's repeated through the features. For example, while you can create and delete extra windows, there's no actual command (yet) you can use to swap between them via the keyboard - you have to use your mouse or pen to select the tab of the window, which breaks the flow of the drawing.
So yes, this is the first iteration of a new version of the software, prone to omissions and mix ups. I never used MS4, so I don't miss its features. I'm persisting with it though because the bottom line is that drawing with it, like Paint Tool SAI, is a joy. All the other stuff, well there are work-arounds until they improve it.
- 8:14 AM, September 18, 2013
- Keith Ammann said...
I did give my wife Manga Studio 5, and she's really enjoying it. Thank you for the recommendation!
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Player could "fly between them and revisit their favorite areas."
I've wanted this for so long now! Maybe Grand Theft Auto 6 will be a new city and being able to go to previous cities, I want to see how much Vice City has changed.
I'd rather they keep this idea for GTA 7, let GTA 6 test out next gen tec and then when they've got the hang of it then do this.
The next game should obviously be set in Vice City and a good way to prepare for this idea is to make it so, like Just Cause 2, theres more islands then Vice City. Since there was only two islands it would be good if you could fly to other small islands/cities around the map and then at the bottom of the screen have a huge main land with a country side etc. Hell they could even add some bridges in since it would be set in modern times now and lot would have been done to Vice City.
You have a point hopefully GTA6 is set in Vice City that would great :)
we have to look at GTA5 first, then think about next city... vice city would be awesome, but we all know that the best GTA is San Andreas and it had 3 cities.. as far as I know GTA5 will have 1 big city and some tiny towns and forests. lonesome roads etc. And I think its set in LA, Hollywood... it means it will not have Las Vegas... I remember las vegas was the best part of SA for me..
Better yet, Use Google Earth and have the entire globe playable. How awesome would it be to come to my own house and steal my own car.... lulz. Then drive around my city and do missions (random mission generator?)
Its a shame that the new cities are set in a different universe. I would love to fly around old SA, VC and LC on one huge game. I liked how on SA you went back to LC for a mission. Pretty damn cool :-)
Yeah, that mission in SA made me happy as hell. I wish they would implement this idea in the future. It's perfect.
Dang! I need to beat San Andreas. I didn't even know there was a mission in Liberty City.
I think the only problem is the old maps aren't huge anymore. They kinda have to be in a different 'universe' to keep up to date with the gameplay and expectations.
OMG this would be pure win, I to have always wanted this, in fact this is one of my dream games if it came true.
No I don't want to visit old cities, give us new cities!!
Yep and those new cities should be outside of north america... a game which combines some great cities in europe maybe.
Oh man, just imagine the ways of travel. Travelling by train, Car (of course), Boat, Plane. But maybe you could drive to an airport in the game and board an AI plane.
But then if you try to shoot-up the airport, you just get destroyed by the army immediately XD
or maybe a flying submarine car that teleports?
Than bring back CJ and other memorable characters from all GTA games.
Oh what the heck give us a HD collection
gta mmo :o
APB tried and ultimately failed but it could be done so well!
Imagine the possiblities!
* Massive GANG (clan) wars
* Cops vs Robbers
* A gaming world with its own economy
* Modified cars/vans/bikes or private jets for the few good players
* Gangs with their own story archs
* San Andreas style player customisation
Who the hell disagreed with you? Man N4G is amazing. They don't make gamers like they used to. The modern gamer bitches when games evolve and bitches when they don't.
There are so many mob families and gangs in GTA, it would be great to let players join them and base the multiplayer on conflicts between them, fighting over things like the diamonds in GTA4. One group who controls the docks could have missions to bring them into the city, then one or more groups would be interested in buying or stealing them, then another player faction could be cops and/or feds who try to stop it all, then a faction within the law enforcement group could be crooked cops who have their own plans for those diamonds. Then you have the group who steals cars for a living, and the group who races illegally, along with places where players could gather to gamble or play other games together, all in a setting with multiple cities in play simultaneously.
So many possibilities. Sounds awesome to me.
Yeah this could be the MMO that would rival and maybe surpass WOW.
HA... no.
If free roam is anything to go by a whole world with thousands of douche bags running around causing chaos is NOT going to work.
It might if they implement a good law enforcement system
LOL. How is that different than say WOW. Lots of douche bags run around in it and cause chaos. If it's made a central part of the actual game play then it could actually be fun. It's all about constraints and perspective. If the purpose is to cause chaos, then that sounds like a winner to me.
Rockstar also said, in the same interview, "Vice City, perhaps more than any other GTA game, was as much about the era as the setting. Miami in the 1980's is so iconic it would feel strange to revisit the city in a different time period" - in other words, they would unlikely merge Vice City with other, contemporary GTA cites.
As such, it would seem your article title is not accurate, but then I suppose that's what can be expected from some of today's videogames 'journalists'... *sighs*
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I remember asking for GTA Europe years ago
It certainly could work, but a large part of GTA is satire about american life and attitudes. The cancer of US "culture" is spreading across the world though so it could work.
Every country has it's quirks. France and their deportation of gypsies and banning the niqab and burqa. Italy and their sex pest leaders, bunga bunga, wink wink. Plus all the socio-economic injustice and class structures... which is prevalent everywhere. All these would be perfect extensions to the GTAs satire.
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Imagine how many DVDS a game like this would take. This is one of the main reasons why i believe the 720 will go with a medium with a higher storage capacity.
The power of having hardrives that can store way more than a blu ray. space is never an issue.
Whats up Bnet? I agree and HDD is much faster
That would be cool, a mini USA. Los Santos, Las Venturas and San Fierro on the west coast with Vice and Liberty City on the east.
I wonder if they will add more locations, like a version of Washington DC, they could add some of the small towns from Red Dead too
I've always thought a GTA version of some Texas city could work. Texas is such a "conservative" state, yet there is so much illegal fun going on, plus you have the oil and cattle families, not to mention illegal immigration. There's a lot to make fun of.
Other cities are great but what about other countries?! Remember GTA: London?
I would love for them to create the game so they could supply new cities all the time as dlc.
Not a problem on the PS3
Heck they would have enough room on the Blu Ray Disc to fit the Rest of the Milky Way Galaxy
not a problem on xbox 360 either. Battlefield 3 on xbox 360 takes 18 GBs with everything installed including the game itself and all the updates. thats almost a blu ray. hardrives today allow for that so disc space is never an issue. try again troll.
Awesome! I would love a ALL IN ONE Liberty City/Vice City/Los Santos GTA! I would love for them to also include a MODERN TAKE on the Red Dead Redemption Cities **New Austin, West Elizabeth, and Nuevo Paraiso** Sort of like a modern equivelant of Dallas/Austin/Houston/San Antonio/Mexico/New Orleans.. I think it would bring a good variety of scenery if they were to ever create a GTA MMO or Just one big USA GTA game
so instead of creating new cities, rockstar would rather recycle the old cities.
It would be sick if we can play as claude, tommy and cj in all the cities
they were going to do this with GTA V, but 360 doesn't have enough dvd space.
DVD is a non factor, just install the shit on the hardrive. they are 250 GBs, dont give me that crap about space. BF3 on 360 is a full 18 Gbs on my big 250 gb HDD. try again troll mc trollington
This game would be next gen. The 360 and PS3 would brick trying to play this. We have no idea what storage next gen systems will use. 50gb Blu ray wouldn't be enough for all those cities in high detail. The install time would take hours on the PS3. It would be like 6-8 disc on the 360.
Do this, but also for pokemon
Ohdeargod... the size of that game would be epic!!!
well with nvidia looking at games being run off cloud it could be every well possible.
I wouldn't mind Vice City, as long as they implemented two other cities like Orlando and Pensacola, and maybe the Everglades and Bahamas and some marshy swampy redneck areas with alligators. If not that, I would like them to do Tokyo or someting new.


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Born in East Greenbush, New York on February 19, 1936, he was the son of Jerome and Mary (Bowers) Samburgh, Sr. Jerome married Carol Boyea on December 28, 1957 in Constable, New York.
Mr. Samburgh had been employed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in Ray Brook for the past 46 years. Mr. Samburgh enjoyed everything outdoors including hunting, fishing and especially sled dog racing.
He was an instrumental member of the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce team that managed the ALPO International Sled Dog Races in Saranac Lake, Paul Smiths and Tupper Lake beginning in 1989. He and his family also worked closely with ORDA to organize the IFSS World Championships races held in Lake Placid in 1996.
Although Buster raced sled dogs in the late 1950's and through the 1960's, he soon became the 'manager' as each of his children became sled dog racers themselves. Some of his proudest moments were when his son John won the Laconia Sled Dog Derby Unlimited Class race in 1995 and again in 1997. He also was extremely proud to have qualified 4 teams from his small kennel for the 1993 IFSS World Championships held in Fairbanks, AK. This earned the Samburgh Kennel a great deal of respect in the international sled dog racing community which meant a lot to Buster. At that event, he was a proud Dad as he watched John win Bronze Medals in both the 6 Dog and 4 Dog classes. His daughter Cindy also placed 13th in the 6 dog class with with a 'second string' of young dogs. To top off this trip of a lifetime, Cindy placed 3rd in the 6 Dog class in the renowned Limited North American race the following weekend. The icing on the cake for Buster came in 1996 when John won the Gold Medal in the 8 Dog class at the IFSS World Championships in Lake Placid.
Buster became a mentor to many sled dog enthusiasts over the years as well.
He is survived by his wife Carol Samburgh of Paul Smiths, one daughter Cindy LaMay and husband Scott of Saranac Inn, one son John Samburgh of Paul Smiths, one brother Edward Samburgh of New York City, three grandchildren Jessica Adams, Taylor and Jordanna Samburgh, and one great grandchild. He was preceded in death by his father, mother and one son Michael Samburgh.
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. There will be no calling hours. A graveside service is planned for the Spring at the Brighton Cemetery in McColloms.
Friends wishing to remember Jerome E. Samburgh, Jr. may make memorial contributions to High Peaks Hospice or the Hope Lodge in Burlington in care of the funeral home.
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Terrible Reporter Makes Baby Cry
"Way to go, Dan. Way to make a baby boy cry on live television." Yeah, good job Dan. We especially like how once the baby starts to cry his impulse is to run awaaaaaayy, and then later to cheer the crying kid up with a bit of song and dance.


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In Part 7, we started looking at the line-to-neutral (L-N) and neutral-to-ground (N-G) voltage measurements at a convenience receptacle in the cabinet where circuit boards were turning to toast. So why are these measurements useful?
As the circuit load increases, so does the current (per Ohm's Law). Voltage drop increases as current increases. So if a branch circuit is overloaded, voltage drop increases. Voltage drop is something you calculate based on circuit current and voltage, and conductor length and gage size.
Using a DMM, you can also measure the voltage drop. If your system is wired and bonded correctly (and connections are good), then your N-G measurement will be the voltage drop. Subtract this from your nominal voltage, and the result should match your L-N measurement. If it does not, you have current flowing in the ground conductor.
You'll need to fix that problem before continuing. Here are four things to look at:
- Ground rods attached to equipment somewhere on this branch circuit.
- Improper N-G bond (usually at the transformer).
- Bonding deficiency, resulting in circulating currents.
- Neutral and ground swapped one or more times somewhere on the branch circuit.
- Power factor.
- Harmonic content.
- Waveform shape (for distortion and other anomalies).


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Guest columnist John Nix thinks it is good for all of us to take a moment and appreciate life
From the day we are conceived to the day we take our first breath to the day we take our last, what happens in between is significant. Sometimes we don�t stop long enough to value the simple pleasures. It often takes an illness or the death of a close friend or family member for us to take stock of what is really important.
We are only tenants here on earth. The impressions we leave are permanent in many ways.
Recently, I attended a service for a man I had never met. My wife had known him and we attended the celebration of his life to honor him. We were surrounded by family and friends, some teary-eyed, some laughing at the funny stories.
As I listened, I could not believe how much he had accomplished in his long and rich life. I laughed at the stories even though I had never even met him. I knew so many that were there. I kept asking myself how could it be that we had never crossed paths.
He was an avid sportsman, a man of faith, a counselor, a father, a grandfather, a civic leader, and a community volunteer. Listening to his children speak, it was apparent he was a generous man and a good father. He had touched many lives and we were all there to remember his contributions and rejoice at the ways he had touched so many spiritually. I got to know him after he was gone and that was alright.
So, I ask you, what really matters in life? I suggest it begins with personal faith; time spent with family and friends and continues with relationships, experiences, understanding, respect and courtesy.
In getting to know my new friend, I was reminded how precious time is, how fast it goes by, and how important it is to show the people around you how much you love them. My faith was renewed and restored during my visit. It was good for the soul.
We cross paths with hundreds of people each day. It occurs to me that with each person we meet we leave an impression of some type, a personal DNA by which we are remembered. It also occurs to me that I have not always been pleasant to everyone and it�s even harder to remember sometimes that it�s not all about me. We each have a story to tell and we all carry an occasional burden.
I have learned it�s easy to lighten that burden for someone just with a smile or a kind word. How we give of ourselves now, our actions and intentions, determine in part how we are remembered when our days have come to an end.
Over my bed growing up was a framed cross-stitch that read, �Never judge a man until you have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.� My mother had done the cross-stitch for me. Mom knew me from the moment Dr. Parker handed me over even though our acquaintance began in the prior months.
Life�s lessons take time. I thank God for putting patient and generous souls in my path to guide and counsel me.
And thanks to my new friend. You reminded me what matters most in life.
John Nix is the co-founder and partner at Matrix East, PLLC. He�s also the president of the CSS Neuse Foundation and can be reached at email@example.com. The opinions of the guest columnist are not necessarily those of The Free Press.
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We have known Lynda since our children attended nursery school together. Lynda is an active, concerned and caring parent and also an accomplished professional. As a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of experience at Ernst & Young, a major international accounting firm, Lynda is well qualified to help formulate and implement the annual school budget, review and analyze complex financial issues facing the school district and assist in the collective bargaining process with district employees.
In an era of continued economic slowdown that strains the finances of taxpayers and school districts alike, it is critical to ensure the fullest possible public awareness of — and engagement in — the budgeting and financial process. Lynda will bring financial acumen, fresh insight and transparency to the budgeting process. She has significant experience doing so in her professional life, as well as a member of the Citizen's Advisory Board for the village budgeting process. We know Lynda to be intelligent and level-headed, with sound judgment and the requisite professional expertise necessary to meet these challenges.
A vote for Lynda Rubino will ensure an independent voice, fresh perspective, and creative solutions for all issues that the school board must confront in the years ahead for the benefit of all of us who are both parents and taxpayers.
Andrew P. Karamouzis and Siobhan E. Moran
Rockville Centre
Thank you to the Lions Club
To the Editor:
I'm writing to publicly thank Jeanne Mulry, Joan MacNaughton and everyone at the Lions Club for the wonderful job they did with the Dinner in the Dark on May 4.
One of the jobs I do in my position with the Avis and Budget licensees is to put on meetings, dinners and conventions, which I have done for 33 years. I also participate in numerous conventions with the car rental industry, as well as with all the major automobile manufacturers.


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Researchers Pinpoint the Saddest Movie Scene of All Time
After an extensive study which included screening 78 of the saddest scenes in movie history to 500 volunteers, researchers from Stanford University were able to determine that the final scene of 1979 boxing drama 'The Champ' was the most tear-jerking of all.
In the scene, nine-year-old T.J. (played by Ricky Schroder) repeatedly begs his father (Jon Voight) — a boxer who has just died from injuries suffered in the ring — to "wake up."
The study was actually completed 16 years ago, so melodramas completed in recent years weren't up for consideration, but came to light due to a recent article in Smithsonian Magazine which explained how the film is now used in scientific experiments in which researchers want to make the study's subjects sad.
So you might want to grab a box of tissues before viewing the scene below.
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By Khris Middleton, Detoit Pistons
All Settled In Motor City
Oct. 29, 2012 — There has been a crazy vibe around Detroit. With the Tigers having been in the World Series, the Lions in the middle of the NFL season and our Pistons team getting ready to start the regular season, everybody is talking about sports!
Detroit is a fun place to be. I'm living in a nice, quiet spot, about 10 minutes away from the arena (with traffic). I've gotten to know the Auburn Hills area where I live, but once I'm about 10 miles from home, I start using my navigation system.
Moving to Detroit has been a smooth transition, especially once I found my place. My family came out here for about a week to help me move. Then they came back about two weeks later to help me finish setting up my place and get wherever else I needed, like furniture and kitchen things. I told them to get whatever they wanted, but make it nice for me!
Preseason Recap
I feel like I played okay during the preseason. I got better each time I stepped on the court, which is what I wanted to do. And I think I proved that I do belong in this league. I just want to get better every day.
I know I can contribute to my team. My scoring ability and having a feel for the game at my size and position … that separates me. I'm working hard on a little bit of everything; and I'm focusing on strength and consistency, two keys to helping me get better.
Coach Frank is a great teacher of the game. He breaks down a lot of details, which, as a rookie, is great for me. He's very friendly, but at the same time, he's honest with everybody. If you make a mistake during a game or practice, he'll call you out.
Vets & Rooks
We are a young team with only a couple guys over 30, and our veterans have been great. Guys like Corey Maggette and Tayshaun Prince – they are always in my ear, giving me tips, telling me what I did wrong. They are always there helping me out. We are very team-oriented, and the veterans are always inviting the rookies to eat with them on the road. It's a nice family atmosphere around here.
I am one of five rookies. It's been very competitive, but helpful at the same time. We all push each other and are fighting for position and minutes. We are all going through the same things, so we talk a lot about it.
One thing we talk about is how much respect we have for what our older teammates do every year. After seeing how hard they work, how they are always in the gym and performing at the highest level, you have to have respect for that.
The athleticism in this league is on a whole different level than it was in college. These really are the best players in the world. Guys know what they do best, and they play their game.
The veterans are really trying to pull pranks on us rookies. One day I parked in my teammate Jason Maxiell's spot. The vets were looking for my keys, but luckily I had them with me. Jason decided to park his truck in front of mine and Andre Drummond's car (which was next to mine), so we couldn't leave until he was ready! I just took my time since I knew it was coming.
We haven't pulled any pranks on the veterans yet, but we'll think of something!
Cousin Assist
My cousin Josh Powell, who has played a bunch of years in the NBA, has been helping me out, too. He's been telling me to stay patient, keep believing and never stop working. He's also told me many times not to be afraid to say 'no' to people, and that I have to be smart about what I do off the court because it can affect me on the court. I'm trying to live what he has preached.
It's Game Time!
Our first home game is Wednesday. I'm excited. I've been dreaming about this my entire life, and now it's here! It's going to be a great experience, and the home crowd makes it that much more fun! I will probably be nervous, but when I get in the game for the first time, and run up and down the court a few times, I'll be fine. I'm excited and ready for it!
I hope I'll have a chance to blog again soon, but in the meantime, follow me on Twitter @Khris22m.
Khris Middelton is a 6-foot-7 forward from Texas A&M. He was selected by the Pistons with the ninth pick of the second round in the 2012 NBA Draft.
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Kola Adetola is the director for Accounting at American Progress. Prior to joining American Progress, Kola worked as a consultant performing full-scale accounting services for the Center for Child Protection. His services included financial statement preparation, payroll and tax services, management consulting, accounting systems development, and other client support and advisory services.
From 1995 to 2000, Kola worked on contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development as a senior financial analyst in their loan department. Prior to that, he was the controller for the Association for the Care of Children's Health.
Kola earned his B.S. in business administration (accounting) from the University of the District of Columbia in 1989 and passed the Certified Public Accountant exam in 1991.


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An open-ended strike paralyzed a number of key state institutions and public schools across Lebanon Wednesday as demonstrators threatened to freeze work at a new government department each day until they receive a wage hike.
On the second day of the strike, many employees at the Finance Ministry's Value Added Tax department closed their offices and joined a sit-in organized by the Union Coordination Committee outside the ministry's building.
"Today, we gather outside the VAT building, which pays for the cost of debt servicing from the pockets of the people ... Today, we froze work at the VAT department as a first step before we paralyze all the ministry's departments," UCC head Hanna Gharib told the demonstrators.
"Tomorrow, it will be the Education Ministry ... and so on. Ministry after ministry, we will carry on with the open-ended strike to block all administrative work," Gharib added.
"The state belongs to its sons, not merchants," read a banner held by demonstrators outside the VAT department. "To govern, you have to be a decision-maker. To those who aren't, we say resign," another slogan read.
The slogan was likely addressed to Prime Minister Najib Mikati, whom civil servants accuse of succumbing to pressure from the Economic Committees by breaking an earlier promise to approve the wage hike bill and refer it to Parliament for ratification.
As Gharib was addressing protesters outside the VAT department in Beirut, major cities and towns across the country were witnessing similar rallies outside government serails.
The UCC held sit-ins outside nine government serails across Lebanon Wednesday and will shut down all 27 serails Thursday, according to Gharib.
Even some civil servants who reported for duty Tuesday refrained from doing any work, The Daily Star noticed in a tour of a number of state institutions.
President Michel Sleiman said at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that the new salary scale had been approved by the government and that Mikati, who is seeking to secure funding for the salary increase, would soon refer it to Parliament.
Mikati plans to amend urban zoning regulations to increase the investment factor, allowing for an additional floor in buildings in return for higher taxes, which will be used to finance the wage hike that will cost the treasury more than $1.2 billion a year.
"We are being misled. The prime minister says the wage hike draft law will be sent to Parliament as agreed, yet some ministers say it needs to be amended. We want the truth," head of the vocation education league Elie Khalife, said.
While public school teachers throughout Lebanon abided Wednesday by the strike, classes at many private schools were held as normal despite the participation of Naim Mahfoud, head of private school teachers union, in Tuesday's protests. "I hail private school teachers who were threatened to report to work but held strikes today at their school," Mahfoud said.
In a bid to pile further pressure on the government, Gharib said official exams for grades nine and 12 would be delayed.
"Students will not sit for official exams unless they complete their curriculum," he said, adding that missed school days due to the strike would be compensated for.
However, a source at the Education Ministry, which has already announced the dates of the official tests, told The Daily Star that unions had no say on when official examinations were held.
Exams for grade nine, or Brevet, students are scheduled to take place on June 11-14. Grade 12 students in scientific fields are scheduled to sit for the exams between June 17-22 and for those in the fields of literature and humanities between June 24-29.
The unions are "heading toward yet another confrontation" with the government, Gharib said before wrapping up his speech.
Via SyndiGate.info
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About CFI > Trustees
CFI's Board of Trustees includes former members of Congress, former state campaign finance officials, campaign professionals, civic activists and scholars from across the political spectrum. The fundamental notion has been to foster a creative relationship between the worlds of scholarship and practice.
Michael J. Malbin, co-founder and Executive Director of the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI), is also a Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. One of the country's leading scholars in this field, Malbin has been writing extensively about money and politics for more than three decades. Two of his co-authored books include: The Election after Reform: Money, Politics and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and The Day after Reform: Sobering Campaign Finance Lessons from the American States. Before SUNY he had been a reporter for National Journal, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and held positions in the House of Representatives and Defense Department. Concurrent with SUNY, he has been a member of the National Humanities Council, a visiting professor at Yale University and a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution.
F. Christopher Arterton is a professor of Political Management at The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) and served as its founding Dean. He is the author of four books, including Teledemocracy: Can Technology Protect Democracy and Media Politics: The News Strategies of Presidential Campaigns. Mr. Arterton has served as a polling consultant for local, state, and congressional campaigns, and was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention.
Betsey Bayless is President Emeritus of the Maricopa Integrated Health System, an independent health care district approved by voters in 2003. She served as Arizona Secretary of State from 1997 to 2002 and was a Maricopa County Supervisor from 1989 to 1997. Formerly, she served as Assistant Director of the Arizona Board of Regents, Acting Director of the Arizona Department of Revenue, and Director of the Arizona Department of Administration. She is the former Vice President of Public Finance with Peacock, Hislop, Staley & Given. Ms. Bayless is also active in community organizations, including the Arizona Community Foundation Board, ASU Morrison Institute Board of Directors and Childhelp Arizona Board.
Anthony Corrado (Chair) is a professor of government at Colby College and one of the nation's leading academic experts on political finance. In addition to his role at CFI, Corrado is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, a member of the American Bar Association Advisory Commission on Election Law and holds positions on a number of other advisory boards. His books on campaign finance and elections include Financing the 2004 Election, Paying for Presidents, The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook, and Campaign Finance Reform: Beyond the Basics. He has published more than thirty articles on the financing of national elections, political party behavior, and campaign and election law. His previous professional activities include serving as the principal investigator for the Coalition to Promote Civic Dialogue on Campaign Finance Reform; project director of the Committee for Economic Development's Improving Judicial Selection program; and executive director of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Presidential Debates.
Vic Fazio was a Member of Congress from California for twenty years, and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Democratic Caucus. Mr. Fazio is a senior advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Donald J. Foley is a public relations executive consultant with extensive experience in the political and policy world of Washington, D.C. After managing Richard Gephardt's first campaign for Congress, Foley was Gephardt's spokesperson on Capitol Hill for 13 years and during his first Presidential run in '88. Foley was Chief of Staff for Senator Tom Harkin before serving as executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) 1991-96. He also served as convention manager for the Democratic Party in Chicago. Foley was vice president, worldwide communications for Northwest Airlines for four years before taking on the post as COO of Powell Tate/Weber Shandwick, a Washington public affairs firm. He was a founder of Prism Public Affairs and also served as head of Ketchum's North America Public Affairs. His clients have ranged from those in the transportation, health care, defense, financial services and non-profit sectors as well. His specialty is media and presentation training. Don also served as the Executive Director of the X PRIZE Foundation's Progressive Automotive X PRIZE. Don is a native of Brooklyn and holds a B.A. degree in political science from St. Louis University.
George B. Gould now a legislative political consultant, recently retired from the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) where he was the National Director of Legislative and Political Affairs. A 15-year veteran of Capitol Hill, Mr. Gould served as a key House staff member in the drafting of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and as Staff Director for the Subcommittee on the Census.
Kenneth A. Gross is a partner in the Washington office of the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, with expertise in campaign law compliance, lobby registration provisions, and securities laws regulating political activity and municipal securities transactions. He counsels corporations and political candidates at the state and federal level. He is a member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Election Law and chaired the Election Law Committee for the Federal Bar Association. Mr. Gross was associate general counsel of the Federal Election Commission from 1980-1986.
Ruth S. Jones is a professor at Arizona State University and is the director of graduate studies for the political science faculty in the School of Politics and Global Studies. She has been a leading political scientist in the area of campaign financing at the state. Professor Jones is the author of numerous book chapters on campaign finance and has contributed articles to the Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Western Political Quarterly, and the Legislative Studies Quarterly. Her current consulting and research interests focus on state-level campaign finance and political solicitation and contributions. She is also a founding member and former chair of the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission.
Ronald D. Michaelson of Springfield, Illinois, was the Executive Director of the Illinois State Board of Elections for 27 years until his retirement from that position in 2003. Michaelson, who holds a Ph.D. in Government from Southern Illinois University, is the author of numerous articles published in leading state and national journals, including an annual review of campaign finance laws in the fifty states. He held an appointment to the Advisory Committee of the Federal Election Commission, is past national chairman of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws, and is a frequent speaker at national conferences on election administration and campaign finance. He currently holds an appointment as Visiting Professor of Political Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He also has a consulting business and has several active accounts with governmental jurisdictions in Illinois, concentrating on the implementation of the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
Ross Clayton "Clay" Mulford served for five years as the founding Chief Operating Officer at the National Math and Science Initiative, a non-profit organization which has invested over $350 million in public education STEM initiatives. Prior to the formation of the National Math and Science Initiative, he was a partner at Jones Day where he specialized in complex corporate transactions. Mr. Mulford was general counsel and campaign manager of Ross Perot's independent presidential campaigns and has served on the American Bar Association's National Advisory Commission on Election Law and Standing Committee on Election Law. He has also been a resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at The Kennedy School, and serves as a director or trustee on numerous corporate, educational, charitable and non-profit boards.


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Fall has decided to make a reappearance in the land of eternal sunshine. This past weekend, after several weeks of sunshine and temperatures in the 70's and 80's we finally had some rain. After the rain left, the temperatures cooled, the air was brisk , the skies were washed blue, and to the north, the lingering rain clouds hung over the San Gabriel mountains. It was a picture postcard kind of day. The kind of day which makes you want to walk in downtown LA, something Juan and I did during our lunch hour. Besides it gave Juan the perfect opportunity to take some photos with his NEW iPHONE 4!
Here's a look at our lunchtime route: