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This is a graphic enhancement mod for M2:TW that is planned to be released together with Eb2 as an optional side-mod.
For now the current features are HDR, Vignette Effect and other post-processing effects to give a more stylish look.
In future releases more graphical features are planned to added and to deal with the noticeable performance drops that the current release does.
Before downloading and using this please read the Readme to get acknowledged with the usage, installation and other important aspects:
Credits.Code:Graphic Enhancements for M2:TW Copyright (C) 2014 Alin L. <email@example.com> of The Europa Barbarorum Team. This is mainly based on the ENB Series created by: http://enbdev.com/index_en.html Copyright (c) 2008 Vorontsov Boris (ENB developer) Description of ENBSeries on the web page may not be equal to version in downloaded mod archive (installer). v0.2 - 25/08/2014 - New version with improved post-processing. v0.1b - 02/08/2012 - After some in-house testing released as Open Beta. v0.1a - 08/04/2012 - First alpha version. ---------------------------------------------- Instalation and Usage ---------------------------------------------- Simply copy the contents of the archive in the M2:TW folder. The enhancements are activated from the start howewer they can be deactivated or activated using Shift + F12 keys. The HDR effect is activated/deactivated using the Shift + F9 keys. To disable or tune the settings first read the ENBSeries README and modify the enbseries.ini. To uninstall the application simply delete the following file from the M2TW folder: d3d9.dll Files that are redundant afterwards: effect.txt enbpalette.bmp enbseries.ini Readme.txt ---------------------------------------------- Features ---------------------------------------------- The current features are HDR, Vignette Effect and other post-processing effects to give a more stylish look. ---------------------------------------------- ENBSeries README ---------------------------------------------- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Videocard with support of Shader Model 2.0 or better. Videocards in the list below may fit: GeForce 6100, 6150, 6200, 6600, 6800, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 8500, 8600, 8800; Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, 9800, 300, 600, 700, 800, 850, 1300, 1600, 1800, 1900, 1950, 2400, 2600, 2900, 3850, 3870. I can't guarantee that mod will work on all of them by many reasons (different drivers, hardware reduced versions and just because not tested myself). ENBSeries (current version) will not run at all or will not work properly if hardware by any reason not support minimal requirements of the mod. Videocards with lower shader versions capable to work in theory, but they are too slow, no sense. Videocards of new generation (DirectX10 compatible) in common cases works much faster in this mod, than their performance equivalents in DirectX9 games. The requirements to videomemory size are very high, depends from screen resolution and antialiasing, for example without antialiasing in a mode 1024*768 it cost 64 Mb of videomemory, and for 1280*1024 106 Mb are necessary. Operative memory and processor play an insignificant role, though all should be balanced. INSTALLING: Extract files from archive in to the game directory or where game execution file exist (.exe). For some games it is in the directories named system, bin, bin32. Warning, some games needs root game directory for mod even if .exe file is not there. STARTING: After game start the mod deactivated by default, to activate it use key combination (for GTASA shift+f12 by default). SETUP: After first game start with the mod, configuration file enbseries.ini will be created, use it to modify mod setting. Warning, if configuration file will be corrupted in any way, remove it and run mod again. SETTING DESCRIPTION: [PROXY] EnableProxyLibrary=(0,1) load 3rd party library by the mod at game start. Helps to solve problem with multiple d3d9.dll files. InitProxyFunctions=(0,1) connect to functions of 3rd party library. ProxyLibrary=(filename) file name of 3rd party library. [GLOBAL] UseEffect=(0,1) activate mod at start. In some situations HUD or startup movies may be corrupted visually because of this parameter enabled. AlternativeDepth=(0,1) increase performance of some effects, but not all videocards can use this mode at full precision, if you see large lines on the objects, disable this parameter. AllowAntialias=(0,1) enables antialiasing setting from game to be used in the mod effects. (antialiasing, multisampling, fsaa, in other words). BugFixMode=(0..5) every value fixes it's own unsopported feature or bug in driver or hardware. For drivers 169.xx and 171.xx do not set this parameter to 1. Values from 0 to 5 actually HDR texture formats: 0 (R32G32F)-high quality and middle performance, 1 (R32F)-high quality and fast, 2 (A32R32G32B32F)-high quality and very slow, 3 (R16F)-low quality and fastest, 4 (R16G16F)-low quality and fast, 5 (A16R16G16B16F)-low quality and middle performance. SkipShaderOptimization=(0,1) disables optimization when compiling shader, may help to elliminate bugs. [EFFECT] EnableBloom=(0,1) enables bloom effect (bright areas blurred) with time dependent adaptation. Works only if mod activated already (by key combination). EnableOcclusion=(0,1) enables ambient occlusions (ssao) and some other effects (mod version dependent). EnableReflection=(0,1) reflection of vehicles. EnableMotionBlur=(0,1) blurring image in fast motion of camera. Temporary disabled. EnableWater=(0,1) enable water effects EnableShadow=(0,1) enable shadow effects DepthBias=(0..1000) for scene depth rendering, offset of geometry relative camera viewpoint. For some videocards may be useful to remove flickering and hiding of ambient occlusions. [BLOOM] BloomPowerDay=(0..100) power of bloom at day time, dependent from screen brightness. BloomFadeTime=(0..100000) time of bloom adaptation to screen brightness change, in milliseconds. BloomConstantDay=(0..100) power of bloom at day time, independent from adaptation time between screen brightness change. BloomQuality=(0..2) bloom effect quality, 0 means maximal quality. BloomScreenLevelDay=(0..100) level of screen brightness in percents, that determined as day time. BloomCurveDay=(-10..10) gamma correction of bloom at day time. negative values increases halftone brightness (smoggy look), positive values decrease halftones brightness (contrast, intensive image). BloomPowerNight=(0..100) power of bloom at night time, dependent from screen brightness. BloomConstantNight=(0..100) power of bloom at night time, independent from adaptation time between screen brightness change. BloomCurveNight=(-10..10) gamma correction of bloom at night time. negative values increases halftone brightness (smoggy look), positive values decrease halftones brightness (contrast, intensive image). BloomScreenLevelNight=(0..100) level of screen brightness in percents, that determined as night time. BloomAdaptationScreenLevel=(0..100) level of screen brightness in percents, over which bloom deactivating. It's desirable that this parameter will be greater than BloomScreenLevelDay. BloomAdaptationMultiplier=(0..100) percent of day time bloom brightness, that will be used when screen brightness will be greater than BloomAdaptationScreenLevel. Value 100 disable adaptation BloomAllowOversaturation=(0,1) if 0, bloom softly applied to screen and bright areas not become too oversaturated.
Main credit goes to Vorontsov Boris, creator of ENBSeries., without him and his Graphic Mod this wouldn't have been possible.
As I've only modified, set-up the tool and created a new HLSL shader.
Preview on the campaign map:
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Download it from our ModDB page.
Comments, criticism, improvements and bug reports are welcome. Regards,


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Church Committee
The Church Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair.
By the early years of the 1970s, a series of troubling revelations started to appear in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations of Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the U.S. Army's spying on the civilian population[1][2] and Sam Ervin's Senate investigations produced more revelations.[3] Then on December 22, 1974, The New York Times published a lengthy article by Seymour Hersh detailing operations engaged in by the CIA over the years that had been dubbed the "family jewels". Covert action programs involving assassination attempts against foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert foreign governments were reported for the first time. In addition, the article discussed efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens.[4]
In 1975 and 1976, the Church Committee published fourteen reports on various U.S. intelligence agencies', formation, operations, and the alleged abuses of law and of power that they had committed, with recommendations for reform, some of which were later put in place.
Among the matters investigated were attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Diem brothers of Vietnam, Gen. René Schneider of Chile and Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles's plan (approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower) to use the Sicilian Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba.
Under recommendations and pressure by this committee, President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban U.S. sanctioned assassinations of foreign leaders.
Together, the Church Committee's reports have been said to constitute the most extensive review of intelligence activities ever made available to the public. Much of the contents were classified, but over 50,000 pages were declassified under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
Committee members
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Opening mail
The Church Committee learned that beginning in the 1950s, the CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation intercepted, opened and photographed more than 215,000 pieces of mail by the time the program called "HTLINGUAL" was shut down in 1973. This program was all done under the "mail covers" program. A mail cover is when the government records without a warrant or notification all information on the outside of an envelope or package, including the name of the sender and the recipient. The Church report found that the CIA was zealous about keeping the United States Postal Service from learning that mail was being opened by government agents. CIA agents moved mail to a private room to open the mail or in some cases opened envelopes at night after stuffing them in briefcases or coat pockets to deceive postal officials.[5]
The Ford administration and the Church Committee
On May 9, 1975, the Church Committee decided to call acting CIA director William Colby. That same day Ford's top advisers (Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Philip W. Buchen, and John Marsh) drafted a recommendation that Colby be authorized to brief only rather than testify, and that he would be told to discuss only the general subject, with details of specific covert actions to be avoided except for realistic hypotheticals. But the Church Committee had full authority to call a hearing and require Colby's testimony. Ford and his top advisers met with Colby to prepare him for the hearing.[6] Colby testified, "These last two months have placed American intelligence in danger. The almost hysterical excitement surrounding any news story mentioning CIA or referring even to a perfectly legitimate activity of CIA has raised a question whether secret intelligence operations can be conducted by the United States."[7]
The Ford administration, particularly Rumsfeld, was concerned about the effort by members of the Church Committee in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House to curtail the power of U.S. intelligence agencies. Frontline quoted U.S. diplomat and Nixon assistant Robert Ellsworth, who stated: "They were very specific about their effort to destroy American intelligence [capabilities]. It was Senator Church who said our intelligence agencies were 'rogue elephants.' They were supposedly out there assassinating people and playing dirty tricks and so forth... Well, that just wasn't true." Rumsfeld and Ellsworth prevented the committees from dismantling the CIA and other intelligence organizations.[8]
Results of the investigation
On August 17, 1975 Senator Frank Church stated on NBC's Meet the Press without mentioning the name of the NSA about this agency:
| In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.
If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.[9][10]
Early on, critics in the entertainment and news media such as Bing Crosby and Paul Harvey accused the committee of treasonous activity. The 1975 assassination of Richard Welch, a CIA station chief in Greece, intensified the public backlash against its mission.[11] The Committee's work has more recently been criticized after the September 11 attacks, for leading to legislation reducing the ability of the CIA to gather human intelligence.[12][13][14][15] In response to such criticism, the chief counsel of the committee, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., retorted with a book co-authored by Aziz Z. Huq, denouncing the Bush administration's use of 9/11 to make "monarchist claims" that are "unprecedented on this side of the North Atlantic".[16]
In September 2006, the University of Kentucky hosted a forum called "Who's Watching the Spies? Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans," bringing together two Democratic committee members, former Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale and former U.S. Senator Walter "Dee" Huddleston of Kentucky, and Schwarz to discuss the committee's work, its historical impact, and how it pertains to today's society.[17]
See also
- Hope Commission (established to investigate Australia's intelligence agencies)
- Hughes–Ryan Act
- Operation Gladio (included in the classified part of the report)
- Operation Mockingbird
- Pike Committee
- Project MKUltra
- Rockefeller Commission
- The Shadow Factory
- Surveillance abuse
- Unethical human experimentation in the United States
- ^ ABC News
- ^ Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission[dead link]
- ^ Military surveillance. Hearings .., Ninety-third Congress, second session, on S. 2318., April 9 and 10, 1974 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Sub...
- ^ Hersh, Seymour (1974-12-22). "Huge C.I.A. operation reported in U.S. against antiwar forces, other dissidents in Nixon years". New York Times. p. 1.
- ^ Benjamin, Mark (January 5, 2007). "The government is reading your mail". Salon.com.
- ^ Prados, John (2006). Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512847-5. p. 313
- ^ Carl Colby (director) (September 2011). The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (Motion picture). New York City: Act 4 Entertainment. Retrieved 2011.
- ^ "Frontline". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2006-07-30.
- ^ "The Intelligence Gathering Debate". NBC. August 18, 1975. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- ^ Bamford, James (13 September 2011). "Post-September 11, NSA 'enemies' include us". Politico. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ Church Committee Created www.senate.gov
- ^ Knott, Stephen F (November 4, 2001). "Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA". History News Network.
- ^ Mooney, Chris (November 5, 2001). "The American Prospect". Back to Church. Archived from the original on 2006-12-05.
- ^ Burbach, Roger (October 2003). "State Terrorism and September 11, 1973 & 2001". ZMag 16 (10). Archived from the original on 01-02-2008. Check date values in:
- ^ "Debate: Bush's handling of terror clues". CNN. May 19, 2002.
- ^ Schwarz, Frederick A. O.; Huq, Aziz Z. (2007). Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. New York: New Press. ISBN 978-1-59558-117-4.
- ^ "UK Hosts Historical Reunion of Members of Church Committee". University of Kentucky News. September 14, 2006.
Further reading
- Johnson, Loch K. (1988). A Season Of Inquiry, Congress And Intelligence. Chicago: Dorsey Press. ISBN 978-0-256-06320-2.
- Smist, Jr., Frank J. (1990). Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947–1989. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-651-6.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Church Committee.
- Church Committee reports (Assassination Archives and Research Center)
- Church Report: Covert Action in Chile 1963-1973 (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Interviews with William Colby and Richard Helms from cia.gov
- Recollections from the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA from cia.gov
- Church Committee Reports (Mary Ferrell Foundation)
- Final report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate : together with additional, supplemental, and separate views (1976)
- Church Committee Report On Diem Coup
- Flashback: A Look Back at the Church Committee's Investigation into CIA, FBI Misuse of Power
- The Church Committee: Idaho's Reaction to Its Senator's Involvement in the Investigation of the Intelligence Community
- PDF scan of Hersh's 1974 article for the New York Times

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February 3, 2012
The USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has announced that $1.1 million will be available through the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP) to protect agricultural land in Nebraska. Nebraska conservation partner organizations and land preservation groups have until April 1, 2012, to apply.
The Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program is a voluntary program that provides funds to help buy development rights to keep productive farmland in agricultural uses. Working through existing local farmland protection programs, USDA enters into a cooperative agreement with state, tribal, and local governments or nongovernmental organizations to acquire perpetual conservation easements from landowners.
The easement allows landowners to continue agricultural operations, and the land remains the private property of the landowner. The land also remains on tax rolls.
This program was originally intended to assist with urban sprawl around densely populated urban areas, but in Nebraska, the program has been valuable in protecting historically significant, culturally unique and wild and scenic places from development.
NRCS is seeking proposals from organizations interested in acquiring conservation easements on farms and ranches. Applications may be submitted at anytime, but must be received by April 1, 2012, to be considered for fiscal year 2012 funding. Proposals should be sent with attention to: Craig Derickson, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 100 Centennial Mall North, Federal Building Rm. 152, Lincoln, NE 68508.
To participate in FRPP landowners agree to limit the use of their land for nonagricultural purposes. Landowners keep possession of their land, and work with NRCS to develop and implement a conservation plan.
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard dismissed Christine Milne with a "thanks, righto" after the Greens Leader told her she was going to announce her minor party's alliance with the government was over.
Senator Milne made the split known on Tuesday after a major speech during which she slammed Labor for "walking away" from a deal signed in return for its support after the hung parliament in 2010.
Ms Gillard brushed it off on Wednesday, saying she wasn't surprised.
"The Greens party is fundamentally a party that would prefer to complain about things than get solutions," Ms Gillard said, in her first public comments on the split.
"I said sort of `thanks, righto' and that was it."
The prime minister said the government had worked with the Greens on issues of importance to the nation and had got a number of them done.
"But I did always anticipate that they would revert to type and they've done so," she said.
Ms Gillard's response was echoed by her federal colleagues, with Sydney MP Ed Husic labelling Senator Milne's speech a "weird episode" aimed at saving two Greens MPs - Senator Sarah Hanson-Young and the party's sole lower house member Adam Bandt - from electoral defeat.
"I think someone failed to install an energy efficient globe somewhere and they decided that that was the end of the deal," he told Sky News on Wednesday.
"This is about them just trying to find a way to save two of their members that are in very tough fights."
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said he wasn't bothered by Senator Milne's announcement.
"The fact is, of course, Labor is the party that historically has done all of the major environmental reforms," he told ABC Radio.
"Labor has always got on with the business and the Greens have done a lot of talking."
Mr Bandt concedes he's in for a tough fight to retain his seat of Melbourne, which he won from Labor in 2010.
He maintained it was his party, not Labor, that deserved credit for the federal government's introduction of a carbon pricing regime and for taking steps to combat climate change.
"Labor went to the last election promising a citizens' assembly, and the coalition went promising nothing at all," he told ABC Radio.
Senator Milne wouldn't be drawn on how the souring of the relationship between Labor and the Greens would affect preference deals between the parties at the September 14 election.
"The whole preference discussion now is a big distraction by Labor," she told reporters in Melbourne.
"In terms of preference negotiations, they are going to go on between all parties between now and the election."
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott promised the coalition would not "sell out our principles" in preference negotiations for the seat of Melbourne or elsewhere.
"In good time, before the next election, people will know what we are going to do," he told reporters in Melbourne.


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I didn't used to enjoy running in the cold. Sure, getting out in a fresh snow was fun… for a while, but winter running had always been hard for me. Moving to Wyoming, where winter weather can reach 35 degrees below and it feels like the wind never stops, seemed like a change that would only make the winters tougher.
But I've changed… adapted, I suppose. On today's run, it became clear that I look forward to my runs now, despite the single digit temps. My winter running has become fun, comfortable, and beneficial. Sharing the reasons for that change may be of use to others who have to deal with running in the cold. This is part one of a three-part series on running in the cold.
How you respond to the cold.
First off, I want to talk about factors that effect how you respond to the cold. There are a lot of demands on your body's energy supply. Thinking, breathing, digesting food… everything your body does uses energy. Regulating body temperature burns calories, too… a lot. If you've slept poorly, have a lingering cold, didn't eat breakfast and then you jump out bed first thing in the morning and run in frigid temps, I can guarantee you'll feel colder (given the same clothing) than you would rested, healthy, and with fuel in the tank.
Hydration also will impact how the cold affects you. Even in very cold weather, it is important to stay in the habit of drinking water. Dehydration puts additional demand on your body that takes away from your ability to stay warm. Uncontrolled shivering and hyperventilation can result in extreme cases of dehydration.
Humidity also plays an important part on how your body deals with the cold. High humidity in the air causes the heat to be conducted from your body more efficiently. That is why a damp drizzle at thirty-four degrees feels a lot colder than a dry twenty degrees. It also the reason that, if you overdress, work hard, and get sweaty, the result will eventually be chilling as you start to tire and slow down. (More on effort during the cold later)
Very cold, dry air is harder on the lungs, actually holds less water vapor, and therefore it is more difficult for your body to get the oxygen it needs from it. Less oxygen means your perceived effort can be badly skewed, simply because you are breathing hard.
Finally, age and the efficiency of your circulatory system have a dramatic impact on different parts of your body. Now that I'm older, I notice the cold in my fingers and toes more than I did when I was young. Years ago, one of my fingers was almost cut off in a table saw accident. The tip of this finger is the very first spot on my body that reacts to the cold.
Being aware of all the above factors is extremely important in making the right choices when you are deciding what to wear for a run in the cold. Tomorrow's post will deal with dressing for the cold. Much of it you may already know, but I bet I'll have some different and valuable recommendations for even the experienced cold-weather runners.
Part three will deal with the good things about running in the cold and how to make every run fun. Find the E-mail Follow button in the right column, so that you don't miss any of them.


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MOre on the Obama Campaign Funding Scandal
The New York Post s saying something we told you about here over a week ago.
The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges.
Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama's campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens.
Walker said he used his actual street address in England but entered Arkansas as his state with the Schenectady, NY, ZIP code of 12345.
"When I did Romney's, the payment got rejected on the grounds that the address on the card did not match the address that I entered," he said. "Romney's Web site wanted the code from the back of card. Barack Obama's didn't."
In September, Obama's campaign took in more than $2 million from donors who provided no ZIP code or incomplete ZIP codes, according to data posted on the Federal Election Commission Web site.
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This is a rant... and I will admit to not thoroughly investigating this topic... but really, why does it have to be this hard to install SUSE on a Laptop? Curious? Read on...
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This is a rant... and I will admit to not thoroughly investigating this topic... but really, why does it have to be this hard to install SUSE on a Laptop? Curious? Read on...
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OpenSuse needs to take a page from Ubuntu. The stick installer is a part of the default system menu. Comes with a nice UI. Very viral. I've converted a lot of sticks into Linux boot sticks after just a quick demo and a casual conversation.ReplyDelete
@NotesSensei did you put your suggestion via openFATE? The openSUSE folks are very open to new ideas. Ubuntu is a good desktop centric distro, no arguments from me. However, openSUSE's efforts is not so much on being the next desktop distro.openSUSE is more than a distro, it's a community of like-minded people who like FOSS and funReplyDelete
That page is absolutely obsolete, and that's why it is NOT part of the new wiki.ReplyDelete
Searching "live USB" in the wiki leads you here
which basically tells you "dd the ISO on your USB and boot from it", since all CD (not DVD) images are hybrid ISO/permanent USB images.
There is already a feature request open. I am lobbying to have it added to 11.4 as a default installed application.ReplyDelete
Thank you all for your inputs. Its nice to know people read my blog and care about openSUSE enough to contribute. :)ReplyDelete
@AlbertoP - Thanks for pointing me to that page. I've seen it before but missed out on sub-section 4 partly because the main title was "Live USB", which was not what I'm after... maybe we could create a separate page for "bootable USB as installation source", that might make it easier for searches & folks like me. :)
I wonder how do I go about making this suggestion to the opensuse wiki?
@Brandon Philips - Thank you! Looks like we're on the same page and you took the initiative to open a feature request. I feel that it wouldn't be too hard to have a YaST entry that will provide this feature (avoid typos - you don't wanna dd to the wrong device). As you've said in that feature request, its better to have it as part of the openSUSE install rather than have users download KIWI etc.
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I've also tried out the isohybrid method as AlbertoP pointed out and it works. :)ReplyDelete
1) Install syslinux (zypper in syslinux)
2) isohybrid [openSUSE or SLE ISO file]
3) Ensure your USB stick is unmounted (note the device, eg /dev/sdc1)
4) dd if=[path to openSUSE or SLE ISO in step2] of=/dev/sdc (as checked in step 3)
FYI, I've added my suggestion in the Discussion tab at http://en.opensuse.org/SDB_Talk:Live_USB_stickReplyDelete


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If you thought grading SAT essays was easy, in part 3 of our report on the October 1, 2011 SAT, (part 1 is here and part 2 here) we're asking you to grade an actual essay submitted on the October 1, 2011 SAT. This essay was written by me and was mostly done to test a theory and have some fun..
I wrote this essay to test what happens if you got a few (ok every fact) facts wrong during the essay. So in case you were wondering I'll post the score the essay actually got after we get some votes in! So leave a comment below!
Here is the essay scoring guide followed by the essay itself, click on any image to enlarge it:
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heliona wrote:ST, some sort of savings is definitely a good idea, and having an employee pension fund is generally considered a good thing. Ask someone who has retired and doesn't have much money!
The question is, how much will be left from my savings after 32 years of inflation and economic crises?
People often complain that the current generation spends more and saves less. But the reason may be that saving doesn't make as much sense as it once did.
I don't understand Black Friday. Why do people go out shopping at stupid hours in the morning to fight with other crazy people to get "bargains" (that aren't actually bargains - the retailers are still making a profit) on items that they don't want or need. A riot over a waffle iron?! Seriously?! Who actually uses a waffle iron on a regular basis? I bet it's not anyone that got one in a sale on a whim. I don't particularly like shopping in crowds at the best of times, so something like Black Friday I'd consider my worst nightmare. Fortunately, we don't have anything like that here. We do having Boxing Day sales, although in recent times due to the economy and people tightening their belts, the sales have been spread out over a longer period, so there hasn't been a rush on products.
Buying something you don't need because it's cheap makes no sense at all. I'm sure most people go out to buy the stuff they do need, then lose control of their grabbing reflexes.
Still, shooting and pepper spray over shopping? That's too nuts even for a squirrel.


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Jack Vance, described by his peers as "a major genius" and "the greatest living writer of science fiction and fantasy," has been hidden in plain sight for as long as he has been publishing — six decades and counting. Yes, he has won Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards and has been named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and he received an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America, but such honors only help to camouflage him as just another accomplished genre writer. So do the covers of his books, which feature the usual spacecraft, monsters and euphonious place names: Lyonesse, Alastor, Durdane. If you had never read Vance and were browsing a bookstore's shelf, you might have no particular reason to choose one of his books instead of one next to it by A. E. van Vogt, say, or John Varley. And if you chose one of these alternatives, you would go on your way to the usual thrills with no idea that you had just missed out on encountering one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices.
That's how Vance's fans see it, anyway. Among them are authors who have gained the big paydays and the fame that Vance never enjoyed. Dan Simmons, the best-selling writer of horror and fantasy, described discovering Vance as "a revelation for me, like coming to Proust or Henry James. Suddenly you're in the deep end of the pool. He gives you glimpses of entire worlds with just perfectly turned language. If he'd been born south of the border, he'd be up for a Nobel Prize." Michael Chabon, whose distinguished literary reputation allows him to employ popular formulas without being labeled a genre writer, told me: "Jack Vance is the most painful case of all the writers I love who I feel don't get the credit they deserve. If 'The Last Castle' or 'The Dragon Masters' had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation, but because he's Jack Vance and published in Amazing Whatever, there's this insurmountable barrier."
The barrier has not proved insurmountable to other genre writers — like Ray Bradbury and Elmore Leonard, who have commanded critical respect while moving a lot of satisfyingly familiar product, or like H. P. Lovecraft and Raymond Chandler, pulp writers whose posthumous reputations rose over time until they passed the threshold of highbrow acceptance. But each of these writers, no matter how innovative or poetic, entered the literary mainstream by fully exploiting the attributes of his specialty. Vance, by contrast, has worked entirely within popular forms without paying much heed to their conventions or signature joys. His emphasis falls on the unexpected note, the odd beat. The rocket ships are just ways to get characters from one cogently imagined society to another; he prefers to tersely summarize battle scenes and other such potentially crowd-pleasing set pieces; and he takes greatest pleasure in word-music when exploring humankind's rich capacity for nastiness. For example: "As he approached the outermost fields he moved cautiously, skulking from tussock to copse, and presently found that which he sought: a peasant turning the dank soil with a mattock. Cugel crept quietly forward, struck down the loon with a gnarled root." While Vance may play by the rules of whatever genre he works in, his true genre is the Jack Vance story.
His loyal readers are fiercely passionate about him. An inspired crew of them got together in the late 1990s to assemble the Vance Integral Edition, a handsome 45-volume set of the great man's complete works in definitive editions. Led by Paul Rhoads, an American painter living in France (whose recent critical appraisal of Vance, "Winged Being," compares him to Oswald Spengler and Jane Austen, among others, and anoints him the anti-Paul Auster), the V.I.E. volunteers painstakingly compared editions and the author's drafts to restore prose corrupted by publishers. Hard-core Vancians also created Totality (pharesm.org), a Web site where you can search the V.I.E. texts, which is how we know that he has used the word "punctilio" exactly 33 times in his published prose. It was an extraordinary display of true readerly love — a bunch of buffs giving a contemporary genre writer the Shakespearean variorum treatment on their own time.
Vance, who is 92, says that his new book — a memoir, "This Is Me, Jack Vance!" — will definitely be his last. Also arriving in bookstores this month is "Songs of the Dying Earth," a collection of stories by other writers set in the far-future milieu that Vance introduced in some of his first published stories, which he wrote on a clipboard on the deck of a freighter in the South Pacific while serving in the merchant marine during World War II. The roster of contributors to the collection includes genre stars and best-selling brand names, among them Simmons, Neil Gaiman, Terry Dowling, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin and Dean Koontz. It's a literary tribute album, in effect, on which reliable earners acknowledge the influence of a respectably semiobscure national treasure by covering his songs.
Right about now you might be thinking, Well, if Vance is as good as Simmons and Chabon and Rhoads say he is, and if he refused to give in to the demands of the genres in which he worked, then maybe he would have done better to try other forms that better rewarded his strengths — isn't it a shame that he confined himself to adolescent genres in which his grown-up talents could not truly shine? But I think that question would be wrong in its assumptions: wrong about Vance, about genre and about what "adolescent" and "grown-up" mean when we talk about literary sensibility.
WHEN I WAS 14 or so, in the late '70s, I knew an Advanced Boy, a connoisseur of all that was cooler than whatever his classmates were listening to, smoking or reading. I was impressed with myself for having graduated from Tolkien to E. R. Eddison and Michael Moorcock. "Kid stuff," said the Advanced Boy. "Try this." He handed me a paperback copy of Vance's "Eyes of the Overworld." On the cover a giant lizardlike creature was tipping over a rowboat containing a man in regulation swords-and-sorcery attire and a buxom woman in regulation dishabille.
I can remember the exact lines on the second page that sank the hook in me for keeps, a passing exchange of dialogue between two hawkers of sorcerous curios at a bazaar:
" 'I can resolve your perplexity,' said Fianosther. 'Your booth occupies the site of the old gibbet, and has absorbed unlucky essences. But I thought to notice you examining the manner in which the timbers of my booth are joined. You will obtain a better view from within, but first I must shorten the chain of the captive erb which roams the premises during the night.'
'No need,' said Cugel. 'My interest was cursory.' "
The feral, angling politesse, the marriage of high-flown language to low motives, the way Cugel's clipped phrases rounded off Fianosther's ornate ones — I felt myself seized by a writer's style in a way I had never experienced before. Vance didn't even have to describe the "captive erb." The phrase itself conjured up rows of teeth and the awful strength of a long, sinewy body surging up your leg.
Cugel soon finds himself in Smolod, a village whose inhabitants wear magical eye cusps that transform their fetid surroundings into apparent splendor. The cusps are relics of the demon Unda-Hrada's incursion from the subworld La-Er during the Cutz Wars of the 18th Aeon. "I dimly recall that I inhabit a sty and devour the coarsest of food," one elder admits, "but the subjective reality is that I inhabit a glorious palace and dine on splendid viands among the princes and princesses who are my peers." It's a typical Vancian setup: a few bold conceptual strokes, ripe descriptions and evocative names combine to fully realize a weird place that feels real — because the meatiness of his language endows it with presence, but also because every reader lives in a place sort of like it.
Cugel manages to steal a single cusp before fleeing Smolod ahead of an angry mob. It's merely the first stop on his journey across the Dying Earth, a realm of cynical wonders in which the last exemplars of human civilization go about the age-old business of lying, cheating and stealing to satisfy base desires as the enfeebled sun falters toward final darkness.
I read the book in a kind of rapt delirium and went looking for more. In addition to picaresque fantasy, Vance has written science fantasy, planetary romance, extraterrestrial mystery, revenge sagas and less-classifiable speculative adventure tales on scales ranging from the short story to the multivolume chronicle. For good measure, he wrote 11 mysteries under his given name, John Holbrook Vance, and three more under the floating pseudonym Ellery Queen. He had a brief stint early in his career as a writer for the Captain Video television series, and over the years several of his stories have been optioned, but Hollywood has not snapped up his work as it snapped up, say, Philip K. Dick's. Part of Hollywood's lack of interest in Vance can be traced, I think, to an oversimple reading of him as a baroque stylist whose writing depends mostly on language to achieve its effect, rather than on plot, character or high-concept premise.
Vance believes that the musical flow of language is all-important to storytelling — "The prose should swing," he told me more than once — but some social or cultural problem always moves beneath the action, inviting the intellect to pause and consider. "The Languages of Pao," for instance, develops the proposition that language can be manipulated to make a people more warlike; "The Dragon Masters" pursues an analogy between genetic manipulation and aesthetic sophistication. He will also mute or undercut the action with a well-struck psychological grace note. After hunting down one by one the evil geniuses who slaughtered his family, the hero of the Demon Princes cycle becomes so subdued that his companion asks if he's all right. "Quite well," he answers in the closing lines of the fifth and final novel. "Deflated, perhaps. I have been deserted by my enemies. Treesong is dead. The affair is over. I am done." Deflated, perhaps. Rarely has a science-fiction hero reached the finish line with so little fanfare.
Intricate plotting is not Vance's forte, but he artfully recombines recurring elements: the rhythms of travel; the pleasures of music, strong drink and vengeance; touchy encounters with pedants, mountebanks, violently opinionated aesthetes and zealots, louts, bigots of all stripes and boyishly slim young women with an enigmatic habit of looking back over their shoulders. His stories sustain an anecdotal forward drive that balances his digressive pleasure in imagining a world and the hypnotic effect of his distinctive tone, which has been variously described as barbed, velvety, arch and mandarin.
Reading Vance leaves you with a sense of formality, of having been present at an occasion when, for all the jokiness and the fun of made-up words, the serious business of literary entertainment was transacted. And it teaches a lasting lesson about the writer's craft: Whatever's on the cover, you can always aim high.
IT TURNS OUT that mine was a common reaction to a first encounter with Vance's prose at an impressionable age. Some of the celebrated fantasists who contributed to "Songs of the Dying Earth" told me similar stories.
Dan Simmons was 12 when his older brother let him read "The Dragon Masters" and he suddenly found himself in the deep end of the pool. Neil Gaiman was 12 or 13 when he stumbled across a Dying Earth tale. "I fell in love with the prose style," Gaiman said. "It was elegant, intelligent; each word felt like it knew what it was doing. It's funny but never, ever once nudges you in the ribs."
Tanith Lee told me that in her early 20s she was "a great misfit, unhappy in my heart, and I knew I wanted to write." Her mother bought her the first Dying Earth book, which invested Lee's then-mopey existence with writerly possibility. "I loved the black humor, the elegance, and I loved the sheer viciousness. And when I got to Cugel, I loved him. He was a lifeline." After we talked, she e-mailed me one of her favorite lines from Vance: "I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg."
Michael Chabon, who did not contribute to the tribute volume, was 12 or 13 when he read "The Dragon Masters." He places Vance "in an authentic American tradition that's important and powerful but less recognized. It's not Twain-Hemingway; it's more Poe's tradition, a blend of European refinement with brawling, two-fisted frontier spirit. I picture this sailor in his blue chambray work shirt, his jeans and a watch cap sitting on the deck of a ship in the South Pacific, imagining a million years in the future, this elaborate world going through its death throes. The prose isn't just rarefied and overripe. Vance has the narrative force, the willingness to look very coldly at violence and cruelty, to not shy away."
Chabon contrasted Vance with Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, British dons who shared a grandiose "impulse to synthesize a mythology for a culture. There's none of that in Vance. The engineer in him is always on view. They're always adventure stories, too, but they're also problem-solving puzzles. He sets up these what-ifs, like a syllogism. He has that logic-love like Poe, the Yankee engineering spirit, married to erudite love of pomp and pageantry. And he has an amazing ear and writes a beautiful sentence."
Most of these writers were adolescents when they first read Vance, who awoke in them an appreciation for the artistic possibilities of language. When applied to literature, "adolescent" does not only have to mean pedestrian prose that evokes the strong feelings of emotionally inexperienced people. "Adolescent" can also mean writing that inspires the first conscious stirrings of literary sensibility. So, yes, Vance worked exclusively in adolescent genres — if under that heading we include the transformative experience of falling in love for the first time with a beautiful sentence.
VANCE LIVES IN the Oakland hills, in a house he tore down and rebuilt over the years in idiosyncratic form. He has a reputation for reclusive crabbiness, and encounters between strangers in his stories are often instinctively truculent. (A specimen exchange between a customer and a clerk: " 'Your methods are incorrect. Since I entered the chamber first, you should have dealt first with my affairs.' The clerk blinked. 'The idea, I must say, has an innocent simplicity in its favor.' ") As I climbed the steep driveway on a gray afternoon last winter, a large dog barking at my approach, I tried to banish the irrational expectation that Vance and I would exchange Vancian dialogue. Me: "Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort favored by mooncalfs?" Him: "The question is nuncupatory. I grow weary of your importunities. Begone."
But he was gracious and regaled me with stories about his adventures in the South Seas. He sat in a rocking chair at his desk, bundled up against the chill in windbreaker and watch cap, with a blanket around his shoulders and a heater by his slippered feet. Old age has stooped and diminished him, but his deep voice still carries a rasp of authority. He spends his days at his desk, listening to mysteries on tape (he has been blind since the 1980s), talking on the phone when somebody calls, listening to or playing the traditional jazz he adores. At one point during my visit he pulled down a baritone ukulele from the rack of stringed instruments behind him and strummed it with abandon as he sang a forceful little ditty about pitching woo. He also plays — or played — harmonica, washboard, kazoo and cornet.
Unlike many of his characters, who are forever puffing themselves up ("I am studied in four infinities and I sit as a member of the Collegium"), Vance presents himself as a down-to-earth, practical fellow. He deflected my questions about the fan letters in his file cabinets from the likes of the young Ursula K. Le Guin, the software zillionaire Paul Allen and the game designer Gary Gygax, whose Dungeons & Dragons borrowed heavily from Vance, but he was happy to explain how he once raised a sunken houseboat using an air compressor and eight 50-gallon drums.
Vance never got rich, but he made enough to support his wife, Norma, who died last year after 61 years of marriage, and their son, John, now an engineer. They traveled often to exotic locales — Madeira, Tahiti, Cape Town, Kashmir — where they settled in cheap lodgings long enough for Vance to write another book. "We'd hole up for anywhere from a couple of weeks to a few months," John told me. "He had his clipboard; she had the portable typewriter. He'd write in longhand, and she'd type it up. First draft, second draft, third draft."
That he could make a good living as a genre writer was supremely important to Vance, who was born into a San Francisco family that fell on hard times during his early childhood. Growing up during the Great Depression on his grandparents' farm on Little Dutch Slough in the waterway country east of the city, he came early to his love of sailing, self-reliant handiness and genre fiction. He admired Edgar Rice Burroughs's tales of John Carter of Mars and, he said, "I waited at the mailbox every month with my tongue hanging out for the latest issue of Weird Tales," the pulp magazine that featured seminal fantasy writers like Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore and Clark Ashton Smith. Vance attended the University of California, Berkeley, but his practical education as a writer came from reading the pulps and other entertainments: L. Frank Baum's Oz books, the mannered yarns of Jeffery Farnol, the light comedy of P. G. Wodehouse, his literary hero.
Other than mastery of tonal effects and a penchant for creating formidable matrons of advanced middle years, Vance would seem to have little in common with Wodehouse, least of all in his view of human nature. Vance's characters tend to share a dark, grasping quality, and cruelty comes easily to them. In "Araminta Station," the first novel in his eco-political Cadwal trilogy, Vance mock-cites "The Worlds of Man," a study by the galaxy-spanning Fellows of the Fidelius Institute: "In our journeys from one end of the Gaean Reach to the other and, on occasion, Beyond, we discover nothing to indicate that the human race is everywhere and inevitably becoming more generous, tolerant, kindly and enlightened. Nothing whatever." Vance told me that he and his family always found good treatment and good company in their travels, eating and drinking well and filling up their eyes with the beauty of the world. So what, then, inspired the pandemic interpersonal nastiness in his writing? He declined to speculate, but his son told me: "I think that came from when his family lost its money, dealing with the people he had to deal with. Times were tough, people were rugged. My guess is that pattern comes from his experiences in his early days, in California and in the merchant marine."
Vance takes pride in his craft but does not care to talk about it in any detail, going so far in his memoir as to consign almost all discussion of writing to a brief chapter at the end. Jeremy Cavaterra, a composer who lives in an apartment attached to Vance's house and helps look after him (and who was recruited as a lifelong fan when he read "The Eyes of the Overworld" at age 14), said of this reticence, "Part of it is that he feels like it's the magician telling you how the trick works, and part of it is that he writes by feel and doesn't interrogate it."
Vance's lingering distaste for talking about himself as a fantasist may also go back to his own adolescence, when he arrived in high school very young after skipping grades. The character of the awkward youth with a made-up world in his head recurs in his writing, as does the scene of popular kids tormenting a loner. The most prolifically homicidal of his strange dreamers is probably the Demon Prince Howard Alan Treesong, who speaks in the voices of imaginary avatars and terrorizes a school reunion. Norma used to say that her husband was Treesong. John told me that his father prefers to think of himself as a less dastardly Cugel. Put them together, Treesong the dreamer with streetwise Cugel, and you get Vance, whose long labor at his trade grew from a youthful discovery: you can turn idle dreaminess into purposeful art, and you can turn art into a paying gig.
Now Vance has begun to lose words. When he made a little show of waving me toward his bar and said, "Go get yourself a drink of single-malt scotch," he laughed and added: "There's a word I can't remember to describe that. It has a sense of aesthetic mastery, of command, but also a sense of thinking highly of yourself." His old favorite "punctilio" came to mind, as did "hauteur" (16 listings on Totality), but neither seemed quite right, so I didn't say anything. During our conversation he had already summarily dismissed several people, including two celebrated science-fiction writers I grew up reading, as a jackass or a show-off. Volunteering the wrong word might qualify me as both. I went to get my drink, leaving him to consider the exact shape of the hole the lost word had left behind in his mind. It might not be lost forever, though. It could well turn up in Michael Chabon's prose or that of the contributors to "Songs of the Dying Earth" or in Ursula K. Le Guin's. Maybe even in mine.


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Time keeps getting away from me! It seems the only way I can capture anything these days is by taking a quick snapshot here and there. Here's a few pictures I picked out to summarize life these days.
We did our pumpkin carving after Halloween this year. The kids were not interested in the actual carving, they just wanted to play in the 'mush' as they called it.
We finaaaallly found out what has been causing all of Aubrey's UTI problems. This was her at UVA Hospital getting ready for the procedure she had that lead to her diagnosis. I'm hoping to write a full post on that later.
Karate is taking off! Aubrey joined her brother when soccer season was over. This is her getting her first belt.
Hubby, my cousin and myself went to see Hunger Games! It was AMAZING!!! I can't wait for it to come out on DVD so I can watch it over and over!
These are some cute kids!
We had a visit with Santa after Karate practice one night. Brandon hopped up with no problem, Aubrey was a little hesitant but finally caved in. Emma was not getting anywhere near that man with the beard. So she told him from about 4 feet back that she wanted a doll.
We looooove our kitty boy. He is just the best little kitty ever.
The kids sat down and wrote their official letters to Santa to let him know what they wanted for Christmas. I helped Brandon and Aubrey helped Emma.
These two were so cute the other night. Cuddling up to watch TV together. I just felt so thankful at the moment I took this picture.
I am just feeling so incredibly blessed and thankful.


text: home-stay-in-kaza written by Vargis.Khan September 17, 2016 Share this:FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail Vargis.Khan Not much to write about me really except for that I love to travel around whenever I can and to wherever I can. This blog is just a small attempt to share my travel experiences with the world. Hope you like it !!! Leave a Comment Cancel Reply