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The forum takes on almost a culture of its own, based on the past history of who talks about what.
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Not being a card holder but an avid visitor to the forum I would say this is where I would fall in to I guess. I have been following this thread closely and I am liking the all the ideas but not sure about the DC body only becuse I have never played one. I do like the idea of 59/09's with Sig switching it is an amazing idea and one that I had in mind for my dream private stock.
Either way I like where this is going and would definately be interested if it happens
My name is Matt and I'm a guitarholic
1994 McCarty; 2010 Charcoal Burst Modern Eagle Quatro; 2012 Fire Red Burst Signature Limited;2012 Charcoal Buster Siggy ( PTC Modified ); 2012 Vintage Burst Stripper; 2012 Charcoal 408 Standard w/ Crackwood; 2012 NOS ME1 Tiger Eye
Ok I think I shouldn't be typing when I wake up first thing in the moring When I say DC body shape I was talking about the Santana body ( haven't ever played one before )
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If this is going to be a true 'forum' guitar then it has to remain accessible to a good number of forum members around the world.
An SE version would be nice but I can't see that happening (I may be in for that). However, there should be something relatively inexpensive that is accessible to pretty much all members price wise. The only thing I can think of is a custom TRC that's used on all the forum guitars. That way, even if you can't afford the guitar you can be a part of it. Maybe custom knobs or control plates?
There's a danger this could become too exclusive?
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I'd hope we'd be able to keep it in the price range of a regular USA PRS. if it goes PS that would put it out of range for most of us....
1988 CE24, 1995 CE22, 2000 SC, 2003 Standard 22, 2003 Cu24 AP, 2006 Cu24 AP, 2006 SC AP, 2007 CuRo22, 2010 Mira
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-I'm no expert, but it seems to work and I haven't electrocuted myself yet. Which is pretty much the standard I live by.
S2 Custom 22 Semi-Hollow - SE Akesson+57/08's - Mira X - SE Custom 24 25th Anniversary - SE 30 Head/Cab
The first, ever, limited edition SE? Seems more cost prohibitive to have it done overseas than to have it done in Maryland (unless you were making thousands of them). There's a great deal of back and forth discussion and prototyping that goes with foreign production - especially on complicated products like a properly made guitar.
I'm guessing we'd be hard pressed to get 50 people to sign up for a "forum" guitar. Could be wrong though. Seems like info we could easily get from a well written poll - should someone be interested in creating it.
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-I'm no expert, but it seems to work and I haven't electrocuted myself yet. Which is pretty much the standard I live by.
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I didn't get in on the cards (didn't know if anyone would be interested in what I have to say, after all, I'm "JustRob") but I am interested in the Forum guitar idea.
Seems like a lot of different desires and conditions to be met might take some time to sort.
Maybe a Forum Strap, with the 52 cards and Jokers might be faster, although the highly prized Paisley Strap seems to be taking it's time also.
I would like to elaborate on my suggestion. Think outside the box with me for a moment and check this out. Clearly, budget, tone, and body shape are huge hurdles. We will never agree on all three. That said, I think about the headstock. Why? Because it is inexpensive, does not affect tone, and is a permanent part of the guitar. Unlike the other inexpensive suggestions like covers and knobs that can be switched from guitar to guitar and in doing so, thus defeating the purpose of a limited run forum guitar, the headstock could be unique to each member and the overall forum limited run. Now, what I mean is take three to five pices of headstock veneer, (say, curly maple, cocobolo, ebony, koa, splalted maple, whatever, and cut them symetrically or randomly and put them together symetrically or randomly to makeup a oneoff unique headstock veneer. Tastefully done, this looks awesome. I have seen it. No two will be alike but they each will be recognized as forum. McPherson and several boutique acoustic guitar builders offer this headstiock veneer option for there one off custom guitars. The end result is no two are alike, but instantly recognizeable. The headstock could be finished off with the TRC. So even if the TRC is swapped, the guitar will always be known as a forum edition. No One has to make compromises. Order any guitar you want, SE, CU, SC. Hollowbody, whatever, with artist package, private stock, or whatever, and request the forum headstock. Top it off with Paul signing the headstock in a unique color such as say "forum Blue" will add more uniqueness. A bold color is needed to offset the different color shades of wood to keep the sig prominent. This is cheap, easy, and no one has to make sacrifices. PRS makes up the required number of veneers and puts them on the guitar you ordered. WE then all have a forum guitar that is instantly recognizable, does not affect tone and does not break the bank, PEACE! What ya think?
Things that are absolute deal breakers for me:
- some "forum guitar" inlay on the fingerboard
- signatures on the guitar (other than the back of the headstock)
- bolt-on neck (unless it's ash body/maple neck)
- thin neck
Things that are not too appealing but if the rest of the specs are ok I may still do it:
- special forum headstock - I'd have to see it first
- 408 pickups - I've got 3 guitars with them already
- piezo bridge - I've got 3 guitars with piezo already
Things I don't care about:
- inlays - all of the PRS inlays are fine with me
- maple top - all mahogany is fine with me
- neck woods - I'm good with pretty much any classic combination of neck/fingerboard woods - mahogany seems like a good choice to keep the cost down
- bridge - trem or hard tail are both fine with me
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Whoa....I've missed a lot this last week....have I mentioned I hate the flu?...I understand how some people have brought up price and general accessibility. I can see how this could be an issue. However a Maryland made guitar is where this all started and for me this is where my interest would fall if a limited run were to be put together...I've heard a lot of good ideas....Peter's Dirty 100 like run I would totally be down for....I liked Hans original idea as well...especially the stain....And then somebody mentioned a West St. Limited version which would also be cool...I remember there being a bunch of Hog Westie's featured at Eddie's guitars awhile back....and I also remember seeing pic's of Derek Trucks playing a Hog body Santana style guitar as well...I thought it was well executed. Unique Inlays are always fun but take time and add to cost....I mean doing a theme on spades,clubs, diamonds, and hearts could be cool but again probably not practical.
I like the idea of a minimal inlay fretboard maybe a single bird, dragon, or moon (dirty of course) at the 12th fret at most.
ok so here goes...
Body: Double-cutaway or Santana
Thickness: McCarty
Body Wood: Mahogany
Top: Private stock grade or Artist Grade curly maple (dirty top)
Finish: Thin nitrocelleous lacquer (Paul's Finish)
Color: Ambered Vintage Yellow
Side markers: Banded Melon
Number of Frets: 22
Scale Length: 24-1/2"
Neck: Set Peruvian mahogany
Fretboard: "select" rosewood (same stuff as used on dirty 100...unbelievable boards!)
Nut width: 1-11/16"
Neck Shape: Wide Fat
Fretboard Radius: 10"
Fretwire: 6150 equivalent older style (although I am not that picky)
Inlays: single Black lip mother of pearl Coopers Hawk with black gold web border 12th fret
Type: Nickel/brushed gold
Bridge: Mann Trem
Tuners: PRS phase III locking
Bridge Pickup: Covered PRS 59/09 or 408
Neck Pickup: Covered PRS 59/09 or 408
Controls: DGT
Pickup Switching: old 3-Way Toggle Pickup Selector with 2 mini toggles
Hans Edge Modification
Headstock Shape: Santana
Headstock veneer: Cocobolo
Headstock inlay: Smaller Experience Eagle or Paul's actual signature
Case: Paisley hardshell
ok...that's all I got right now....back to the land of Tama Flu for me.
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I'm jonesing for the brushstroke birds. To help keep the cost down and still be unique as a "forum" guitar, how about just one brushstroke bird at the 12th fret?
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I know it's still relatively young but I still don't understand why anybody would want to run Wayland. What is it's aim? How long is it from being usable?
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I know it's still relatively young but I still don't understand why anybody would want to run Wayland. What is it's aim? How long is it from being usable?
Visual quality: Wayland can archive better quality, better on animation and tearing.
Lighter: Wayland is lighter on resources, doesn't implement as much functionality as X-server. Much of this extra functionality in x-server is not used any longer by modern toolkits like QT or GTK+, but has to be supplied for backwards compatibility.
I think also Wayland integrates better with technology like OpenGL and Cario.
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when we get complete gtk+ and qt how easy (or difficult ) will be to have a complete desktop without X?????Quite a few things have happened since the last update, so I'm overdue
for a blog entry update on the project. We're now running on all
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The main thing is that Wayland just drops all backwards compatibility and requires modern driver/kernel features in order to minimize the amount of code required. The result is a lighter program that integrates better into current technologies.
As far as being usable, I'd say it's not that far away for mobile devices running Meego, for example. But I doubt it will be seen anywhere on the desktop for quite a while. Dropping backwards compatibility there is a big deal, and not something that can just be done without lots of planning and a roadmap. Just for starters, they'd probably want to wait for NVidia and AMD to release binary drivers that would be compatible with it (Meego will likely only ship with Intel chips). The Qt/GTK toolkits need more time to finish getting ported/stabilized. Apps like Firefox that use some X-server API's directly need to be ported. Someone will need to figure out how remote desktop should work (embedding an x-server? VNC? A new protocol, possibly added into Wayland?) All of those things could take a while to fully finish, and most of them haven't really even started yet except for the toolkit porting.
isn't firefox a "pure" gtk application ????
The system requirements page lists GTK 2.10+ as a requirement. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox...uirements.html
I can't remember where all Firefox is directly touching X, but I think it was in the event handling code. Also plugin handling, maybe. And scrolling? I'm not really sure, it could be all over the place or very limited.


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Andrew Thomas is Executive in Residence at the Energy Policy Center of the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.
In the energy chapter for our coming Cleveland State University Urban College book, "Road from the Rustbelt" (published by W.E. Upjohn Institute), I write about a Michael Kinsley editorial that first appeared in the
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Even though I had studied German in college, it was the first time I had seen the word "schadenfruede," which Kinsley translated roughly to "glee over the misery of others."
English has no word that quite expresses this sentiment so succinctly. But we sure do recognize the feeling, so we have adopted the word into our own language.
But the editorial was not memorable for its use of a curious German word. What made it memorable was what it had to say about life at that time in the American Midwest and on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast, both places near and dear to my heart at the time.
What the Northeast and Midwest were gleeful about in April 1986 was the sudden crash of oil prices. Oil prices had fallen almost overnight from $36/barrel (bbl) to $12/bbl. In today's dollars, that would equate to a drop from about $100 to $30.
As a result, Texas was experiencing "Michigan-like" unemployment rates of over 8%. Within a few years, two-thirds of the oil and gas industry in the United States would be laid off.
After years of watching both its wealth and its young people flee to Texas, the Midwest had reason to gloat. Relentless and dramatic increases in oil, natural gas and electricity prices had placed the Midwestern economy into a decade-long freefall, precipitating the rise of the Rust Belt. Now the Texas economy was collapsing.
So Kinsley wrote about the Midwestern and Northeastern hopes for recovery. It makes for a great read today, and you can find the editorial
It is memorable to me because I somehow had managed to be on the wrong side of both economic collapses.
I grew up in Northeast Ohio during the 1970s, when my family struggled to adjust on my father's public school teacher's salary. Like many other young people from Ohio, I left for the Gulf Coast to work in the oil and gas business. But within a few years after I moved to New Orleans, the oil business was in shambles. I certainly understood what Kinsley was saying, but there would be no gloating for me.
Today, nearly 30 years later, we are back to 1986 — sort of. Michael Kinsley is once again writing for the
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and we are once again looking back over a decade of economic decimation in the Midwest, wrought by $100/bbl oil. And today, once again, we are enjoying the collapse in pricing of an energy commodity — this time natural gas. I wonder what Kinsley would say now if he were to write this column.
The following from his original editorial is worth quoting:
"What often gets overlooked is that Texas' decade of prosperity was made possible by a classic illegal price-setting conspiracy. If the OPEC oil ministers weren't beyond the reach of American justice, they would all be in jail. But even though it was foreigners who staged this rip-off of American citizens and businesses, it was other Americans who raked in most of the profits. That's because, throughout the energy crisis, most of the oil America consumed was domestic, not imported. The oil states were, in effect, auxiliary members of OPEC."
The situation today is much different. Today, we import most of our oil. Further, traditional American oil states such as Texas are getting a smaller and smaller piece of this largesse as their oil reserves are depleted. New oil states, like North Dakota, are emerging as major producers. Meanwhile, Ohio and Pennsylvania are becoming hotbeds of natural gas development. Importantly, natural gas prices have dropped, but oil prices have held fairly steady by comparison. In short, we have no obvious American graves to dance on.
But there is nonetheless reason for optimism for the economy. With natural gas projected to sell at less than one-fourth the price of oil on a dollar-per-BTU basis for the foreseeable future, inevitably oil will be displaced by natural gas in America both as a fuel for transportation and as a chemical feedstock. When that happens, we can expect to see oil prices finally drop.
When it happens, will we be able to enjoy some Schadenfreude again? And whose suffering might we enjoy?
Well, the obvious targets would be the OPEC nations. But OPEC has not really been a force in price-fixing for 30 years. And it is not like the Nigerians and the Venezuelans don't need every penny they get. Still, we can perhaps smile when we think of some Saudi prince unhappily keeping his new Mercedes a year longer than he would like.
For now, it seems we will just have to enjoy low-priced natural gas without the pleasure of someone else's concurrent misery.
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Excerpted from Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides. Copyright © 2006 by Hampton Sides. Excerpted by permission of Anchor, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
Hampton Sides is an award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the bestselling histories Hellhound on his Trial, Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. He lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
In conversation with Hampton Sides, author of BLOOD AND THUNDER
How did you come to this story?
I never in a million years thought I'd write a Western! But five years ago, I went to the national cemetery here in Santa Fe where I live. It's a mini-Arlington, with those immaculate white gravestones of veterans who fought in Vietnam, Korea, World War II, and on back. In the oldest and least visited part of the cemetery, you find men who died fighting "the savages." Just rows upon rows of soldiers who perished in the Indian Wars. And I thought, these men probably had the same good qualities we celebrate in other soldiers from other wars. They were brave. They did their duty. But they fought in a war we now consider immoral. I stood there wondering, who were they? And how should we honor their sacrifice? I decided to write about the early Indian wars of the western frontier, in what I call the "pre-West." It was an interesting time when the Western clichés had not yet solidified. There were no stage coaches or Stetson hats, no Colt six-shooters or cattle drives. America was just beginning to make its imprint.
How did you get from there to your central character, Kit Carson?
That was easy–all narrative roads led to this one man, the ultimate "pre-Westerner." Out here in the West, Carson is like a jack-in-the box. Towns, rivers, and forests are named after him–not to mention dry cleaners, RV parks, and don't-tell motels. The capital of Nevada, Carson City, bears his name. I had thought of him as a fictional character, a fabled gunslinger, or a stage character in a Wild West show. Little did I realize, the real Carson was far more interesting and far more important. This guy got around! He did everything there was to do in the West, and knew everybody. He was a fur trapper, buffalo hunter, scout, explorer, tracker, transcontinental courier, rancher, soldier, Indian agent–and finally a general. He did it all.
Why should we care about Kit Carson now?
Carson is one of those pivotal folk figures who invite reexamination. He was the "field agent" of Manifest Destiny, the guy who more than any other individual personified the American expansion into the West. Throughout most of the 1900s, historians who wrote about Carson and his times were emotionally invested in the idea that the western conquest was a glorious adventure led by a generation of mythically self-reliant pioneers. Then, by the 1960s, the pendulum had swung in the other direction. Dee Brown's Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee and other histories painted the western expansion as a thoroughly shameful episode. All white pioneers were murderous land thieves; all Indians were noble environmentalists shrouded in golden mist. Now the pendulum has swung back to the middle, I think, and it's possible for us to see the life of a controversial figure like Carson with the clarity of some dispassion.
Carson is the main character of Blood and Thunder, but is he the villain or the hero?
Both. By most classical definitions, Carson was heroic. He trekked unimaginable distances into dangerous wildernesses. He was modest about his exploits. Time and time again, he rescued people without expecting pay or recognition. He had physical grace and a sense of chivalry. He pulled stuff off you wouldn't believe. Like some medieval knight, he was repeatedly called upon to slay dragons for the kingdom. The problem was, those "dragons" were often Native Americans. Carson played a key role in some of the more unfortunate collisions between the United States and the American Indian. Many Native Americans think of Carson as a genocidal maniac, right up there with Custer and Sheridan. A Navajo friend of mine told me, "We think of Kit Carson the way Jews think of Hitler."
Was he really as bad as that?
I understand why the Navajos hate the man who conquered their nation. But for his day, Carson was quite enlightened on the subject of Indian policy. Back then, even sophisticated thinkers like Mark Twain were calling for their extermination. Carson had lived among Indians his whole life. He spoke seven Indian languages. His first wife was Arapaho. He knew first-hand that exposure to the white man was wiping the Indians off the map. And so he came to believe that the only alternative to their demise was to create reservations where formerly nomadic tribes could learn to live self-sufficiently without contamination from whites. Although it was tragically mishandled and horribly patronizing in its premise, that's what Carson's final campaign was about: To move the Navajos to a place where they could be "civilized" as an alternative to their own extinction.
If Carson isn't the villain of Blood and Thunder, who is?
Brigadier General James Henry Carleton, Carson's superior. He was the real architect of the Navajo campaign and just an absolutely insufferable prig. A stout New England Calvinist, he believed the Navajos had to become Christian farmers overnight. Carleton insisted that a Navajo reservation would not work anywhere on Navajo land–the entire tribe had to be rounded up and force-marched 400 miles to a place he had personally selected on the windswept plains near Texas. The Navajos called the resulting forced relocation "The Long Walk" and still talk about it as though it happened yesterday. Their migration was on a scale second only to the Trail of Tears of the Cherokee Indians. More than one-third of the Navajo people died in exile at this horrible place. If anyone was responsible for this tragedy, it was General Carleton.
Do you see resonances between Carson's times and today?
In grade school we were taught the USA "never invaded a foreign country for land." That's just nonsense. The Mexican War, our first war of foreign intervention, resulted in an unbelievable expansion of our national domain. In 1846, an American army, guided by Kit Carson, marched across the continent and took most of the American West–just plain stole it! Suddenly we found ourselves nation-building in a mountainous desert, trying to make sense of this complicated patchwork of cultures and religions. We justified the conquest by saying we were spreading democracy to a benighted place. We believed our new subjects would welcome us as deliverers. It was all going to so easy! But we soon realized that we had no understanding of how intricate the cultures were. It was a cauldron of conflict, and yet we had pledged ourselves to the dangerous and expensive task of bringing it all under control. We were intensely naïve and intensely brutal. All of this seems very familiar to me.
Another fascinating resonance, for me, has to do with the current controversy over illegal immigration from Mexico. I think it's interesting that the frontline states in this debate–California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas–are the very states we stole from Mexico. The people who get so bent out of shape about the Hispanicization of America conveniently forget that we crossed their borders long before they crossed ours. We forfeited our right to get worked up over this issue. Conquerors can't be outraged!
Why did you choose to focus on the Navajos?
The Navajos are the largest tribe in the United States, living on the largest reservation. Yet most Americans know next to nothing about their relationship with the U.S. government. The popular conception of the Indian wars tends to focus on the Plains Tribes, particularly the Sioux. I thought this story begged for greater attention. Not only that, but Carson's war against the Navajos–and their linguistic cousins, the Apaches–was couched in ways very similar to today's war on terrorism. The Navajos and Apaches were often described as "terrorizing' the countryside. They were successful raiders who stole women and children and livestock. And yet they were hard to catch. They lived in the shadows, in remote desert country riddled with canyons and caves. They were everywhere and nowhere–and they drove the military crazy.
What's the image on the cover?
It's a photogravure plate taken a hundred years ago by the famous photographer, Edward S. Curtis. Entitled "Before the Storm," it's a sepia-tone of Apaches on horseback in the mountains of the Southwest. Curtis was an extraordinary man who went around the West making pictures of Native Americans–the "vanishing race," he called them. He was wrong about that of course–Indians have endured–but the traditions and lifeways he captured on film have changed dramatically.
Blood and Thunder also concerns the Civil War. How did you manage that in a Western?
It's a little-known fact, but there were two extremely fierce Civil War battles out west, both of them fought in New Mexico. Kit Carson was there as usual, right in the middle of the action. He fought valiantly on the side of the Union. A rebel army of more than 3,000 soldiers had come up the Rio Grande from Texas, with an eye on seizing the goldfields of Colorado and eventually re-conquering most of the West for the Confederacy. It seemed like a quixotic mission, but the Texans actually succeeded in taking Santa Fe and hoisting the Rebel flag over the capital before they were finally repulsed. It was an important campaign. History would have played out very differently if the Texans had succeeded.
Are there similarities between Blood and Thunder and your last history, Ghost Soldiers?
When I finished Ghost Soldiers, people kept suggesting other World War II stories for me to write. But I was done with that war. I wanted to try another history that was radically different in place and time. Oddly enough, though, as I started this book, I found there was a compelling similarity in the story arc. As with Ghost Soldiers, the story of the Navajo conquest takes the form of a brutal siege, a surrender, a forced march, and a long captivity that ends in a bittersweet return home. As for stylistic similarities, much like Ghost Soldiers, I've tried to be inventive with the narrative structure, employing as much scene-painting and cross-cutting as possible, with different time-lines that inch closer together and finally intersect. And I'm afraid the "gross-out factor" is similarly high. The story of the "winning" of the West is every bit as brutal as Bataan–it's violence on a Hobbesian scale. And so instead of samurai-style beheadings and tropical diseases, you have scalpings, corpse mutilations, Indian massacres, and extremely disgusting diets. People who liked the more gothic aspects of Ghost Soldiers will not be disappointed here.
How did you research this book?
It was an adventure keeping up with Kit Carson. I tried to go most everywhere he went, and that means pretty much the entire west. I drove the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. I spent a lot of time on the Navajo Reservation, and in Taos, Carson's home. I bounced around to a lot of old frontier forts– Bent's Fort, Sutter's Fort, Ft. Leavenworth. And of course, there was a lot of archival work to do–from Yale University to the Huntington Library. It kept me busy for five years.
Where does the title come from?
The first "Westerns" were cheaply produced pulp novels, almost like comic books, called "blood-and-thunders." Starting in the late 1840s, Kit Carson appeared as the hero in many dozens of these blood-and-thunders. The publishers used his name and fictionalized his exploits without his permission and without paying him a cent. And ironically, because he was illiterate, Carson couldn't even read these atrocious books that bore his name. He hated them, both for their wild inaccuracies and for the cheesy celebrity status they conferred on him without his consent. In his own lifetime, he became a kind of action figure hero. These hyperbolic books raised expectations that he spent the rest of his life trying to live down. I chose it as a title, because at its essence, this book examines the tension between the glorious myth and the brutal reality of Carson's West.
From the Hardcover edition.
1. Were you familiar with the Navajo wars before reading Blood and Thunder? How do the book's historical details compare with what you previously believed about the West?
2. The contradictions in Kit Carson's personality make him an alluring figure. How was Carson able to embrace so many aspects of Native American culture, even marrying two Indian women, but nonetheless lead campaigns that crippled them? To whom (or what) was he most loyal?
3. What was John Fremont's essential quest in exploring the West? What spurs all explorers to pursue risky journeys?
4. What do the biographical details in chapter six indicate about James K. Polk? What might have stoked his determination to claim the West? How did he manage to keep military leaders motivated, despite Polk's ambiguous leadership style?
5. Is American literature's love of the "noble savage," inspired by characters such as Fremont and his pathfinder Carson (chapter nine), a thing of the past? Who are the heroes in new fiction of the twenty-first century?
6. How did the post-colonial unrest in Mexico affect U.S. attempts to purchase and conquer the West? What racial hierarchies were in place among Hispanic and Indian populations there? What is the current legacy of these conflicts?
7. Is the underlying concept of Manifest Destiny still used to justify violence around the world? What did Carson's words and actions reveal about his understanding of divine will?
8. What does Carson's illiteracy, paired with his knowledge of numerous languages, say about him? What distinguishes the power of the written word from the power of the spoken word, as evidenced by Carson's enthusiasm for an epic poem by Lord Byron? Is a society truly literate if its members are not versed in more than one language?
9. Did the Texas Confederates believe they were different from (or even superior to) the Confederates fighting closer to the Mason-Dixon line? What were the stakes for both sides as the Civil War played out in the West? How did the reasons for this war compare to the reasons behind Native American warfare and raids (such as the Comanche raids on dwindling Pecos resources at the end of chapter seventeen)?
10. Why was Carson able to scorn generalizations and see Native Americans as individuals? What made him resistant to the hubris of men like General Carleton? How would you have responded if you had been a witness to both the death of Navajo chief Narbona (which closes chapter thirty-two) and the brutalization of Ann White (depicted in chapter thirty-five)?
11. In what way was the landscape a "warrior" in Blood and Thunder (as in the Washington Expedition's encounter with Canyon de Chelly, depicted in chapter thirty-four)? How have various populations perceived the landscape of the West, from ancient populations to modern-day tourists?
12. Discuss the promises that were made to Mexicans and Indians by Americans such as General Kearny. Why did so many of the treaties and pacifist proclamations prove to be hollow? How was this lack of concern for credibility justified?
13. What did Carson seek in a wife? What prevented him from being more involved in the lives of his children? Did his first child, Adaline, fare better or worse than his other children, who were raised with less structure?
14. How did you react to the scorched-earth tactics that forced the Navajos to begin their doomed migration? How would you categorize these tactics of war? Why has the Navajos' Long Walk, until now, been less well-known than the Cherokees' Trail of Tears?
15. The book's title is derived from the rousing "blood-and-thunder" pulp novels that made Kit Carson a caricature. Were fictionalized versions of his life harmful? Is exaggerated storytelling a necessary component of most cultures? Why have some Native Americans rejected historical and linguistic evidence for their global migrations, preferring to maintain dramatic myths instead?
16. Why did Kit Carson die in poverty? What does it say about Carson that his estate comprised considerable debt–owed to him by others? What are the appropriate means of measuring a life's accomplishments?
17. What was the ultimate fallout of the history contained in Blood and Thunder? Where do Indian and American identities now stand in response to each other?
18. How would Kit Carson advise contemporary America on diplomacy and fighting terrorism? How did he balance the need to win allies with the need to be perceived as a fearsome warrior?
19. How did Kit Carson's ideas about American Indians evolve over the course of his life?
20. Do Americans still have an emotional investment in believing that the "winning" of the West was a glorious, even heroic endeavor? How does the real story of Western conquest differ from the one we were taught in grade school?
21. During its first war of foreign aggression, the United States seized many thousands of square miles of territory from Mexico. How should this historical fact shape the current debate over Mexican immigration–especially considering that the states most keenly affected by the immigration controversy (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) are the very states the United States appropriated from Mexico?


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Sword Mage - Armed with crystal infused blades, Sword Mages can deal heavy damage but are still fragile.
Conjurer - Conjurers can harness the power of nature to deal heavy damage to their opponents.
Wizard - Masters of elemental magic, Wizards have high damage potential but rely on allies to project them.
Cleric - A supportive class that can heal and buff allies during battle. Clerics are devout and benevolent soldiers.
Scholar - True believers who are granted enormous healing abilities and the power of resurrection.
Bishop - Bishops have learned from Mages and are capable of offensive and defensive abilities.
Priest - The devotion of the Priest allows them to discharge pure holy light and call on angels for aid during battle.
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King of Kings 3 Review
By Erhan Altay
Tired of Grindfests? Looking for an MMORPG with an oldschool feel? King of Kings 3 may be what you've been waiting for. While it has a typical fantasy theme, the gameplay is geared towards PvP, and more precisely RvR (realm vs. realm) combat. Join one of seven warring realms and conquer the world of Tangramia.
A Shattered Realm
After centuries of warfare, the once united world of Tangramia split into seven rival realms: Germania, Lutetia, Britannia, Mediterrania, Anatolia, Polonia, and the New World. That last one aside, its obvious that the Roman Empire was the inspiration for Tangramia. Players can chose between any of the seven realms during character creation, but first they'll have to get through Gamigo's clunky account creation process. The German publisher Gamigo holds both the European and American licenses for Kings of Kings 3. Each account has three character slots per server, which is enough to create one of each of the three base classes: Warrior, Mage, and Cleric. There are a number of appearance customization options including around eleven hair colors and styles per gender. There are also several face styles and 'features' to chose from. Features covers things like tattoos, makeup, scars, and so forth. Players are asked to set a character password before finishing character creation as an added security precaution. The password must be at least eight characters, which makes it more bothersome than the four digit pin some games ask for these days. The character designs themselves aren't very detailed, but that's because the graphics quality in Kings of Kings 3 is dated.
Familiar Beginnings
After logging in for the first time, players are met with several screens of text that explain the backstory of Kings of Kings 3. It scrolls pretty fast, and I'm no speed reader so I missed about a quarter of it. It didn't seem to exciting, but it helps that there is some lore to the game. Each realm has its own starting area, but the newbie experience is pretty similar regardless of region. Being the good Turk that I am, I chose Anatolia as my realm. For those of you who slept during class, Anatolia is the geographic region where most of modern day Turkey lies. Like many other recent Asian MMORPGs, King of Kings has an auto-navigation feature that makes traveling and questing a breeze. Players start next to a quest NPC, and gain their first level simply by talking to him. A series of quests that involve talking to various NPCs around town, and eventually fighting nearby creatures come next. Players are rewarded with ample HP/MP potions along the way, along with a new weapon and pieces of equipment. It is highly recommend that players complete this beginner chain of quests, as it will take them to level eight or so in no time. It's much, much faster than grinding.
Retro Look & Feel
As I went about my newbie chores, I noticed that the interface and art style looked somewhat familiar to those in the now defunct Turf Battles. The visuals are much sharper than Turf Battle's, and the resolution options go all the way up to 1920×1980. But, the health and mana meters next to the avatar portrait on the top left, and the character and backpack screens all look like something from a classic action RPG. There are some nice visual touches such as swaying trees, and light waves breaking on the shore. Overall, the best that can be said of the graphics in KoK3 when compared to other recent, free-to-play MMORPG releases is that they are functional. Everything is brightly colored, easy to see, and thankfully there's none of that trendy bloom effect that makes everything unbearably bright. King of Kings 3 supports both keyboard (W,A,S,D) and mouse (point and click) controls. There are two hotkey bars, one activated by the function keys (F1-F12), and a smaller one activated by the number keys (1-0.) Besides skills, players can assign items such as health and mana potions to these slots.
The Path to Glory
The experience rate in King of Kings 3 is pretty high, but only if players stick to questing. Each level, players are rewarded with 2 stat point which they can distribute among six stats: Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Willpower, Stamina, and Luck. Players can hover their cursor over each stat to see what it does. Besides stat points, players receive a single skill point every level. Each class has its own skill tree consisting of 10 skills. Players must purchase skill books before they can place points in a given skill, along with meeting its other prerequisite. As with other MMORPGs, I find the need to go back to town to pick up a skill book totally pointless, but it is what it is. At level 50, each class can make its first class advancement to one of three available first classes. Warriors can become Berserkers, Rangers, or Knights. Mages can become Sword Mages, Conjurers, or Wizards. Clerics can become Scholars, Bishops, or Priests. Players are accompanied on their adventures by an Imamu, which is basically a fairy. These can perform a number of helpful tasks. They accumulate experience which they can transfer over to the player, and when they are summoned they can repair the player's equipment. Imamu can also automatically sell items in your backpack when your inventory is full. Players can set which items they want sold ahead of time so as not to lose rare drops. Besides Imamu pets, players can also collect a variety of mounts. Some quests reward players with temporary mounts, but more permanent ones can be purchased at higher levels.
Lone Wolf
King of Kings 3 has very linear progression, monsters are found in clumps and defeating these monsters boils down to spamming a single skill over and over again. There's no cool down to consuming HP or MP potions, and after the first dozen levels players will have to chug them during every fight. Those who can put up with the repetitive nature of early level gameplay can look forward to some pretty interesting PvP features. First and foremost, players can freely attack members of rival realms that intrude on their territory. It is also possible to disable the default peace mode which will allow a player to attack anyone they like, including members of their realm. The game discourages same-realm PKing (player killing) by increasing the chances of dropping items upon death for those who indiscriminately attack others. The game also keeps track of PvP victories and losses, and uses them to publish various ranking lists which are updated daily. Players can access these rankings via a button near their mini map on the top right of the interface.
Founding a Kingdom
Solo PvP is just the bottom layer in King of Kings 3. Players can go on to found guilds and participate in guild activities, including guild quests which pit guilds against each other. Players must be level 20 or higher to join or found a guild, and there are five guild ranks which determine how many members a guild can have (maximum of 28.) Once a guild reaches rank 3, its guild master can found a Legion. Legions are also ranked from 1-5, but are made up of entire guilds, not individual players. A rank 5 Legion can have up to seven guilds in it. Legions can also construct buildings on their own plots of land which provide benefits to all of its members. The leader of a Legion can embark of a series of quests to found his or her own Kingdom. Any would-be monarch will require a vast amount of resources, including gold and rare materials to found their Kingdom. Legion members can donate these resources to their leader who, if successful, will be rewarded with a unique royal mount, a monthly in-game salary, and the ability to fortify towns. Leaders of Kingdoms will also be able to populate their towns with NPC defensive workers, temples, workshops, and much more. Even players who don't have the time or stamina to work their way up this ladder can own a personal home that can be upgraded and decorated with an assortment of furniture.
Find Your Niche
The simple, but functional graphics make King of Kings 3 an approachable MMORPG for gamers whose computers might not be on the cutting edge. There are plenty of bonus features like a crafting system, and the ability to equip mounts with gear like saddles and armor, but the core PvE gameplay still involves taking turns swinging at stupid AI monsters. Players looking for an organized PvP experience will appreciate the detailed guild system in King of Kings 3, but the large number of factions worries me a little. Each server will need a lot of players to make it seem active, and whether or not King of Kings 3 can attract those numbers remains to be seen.
Final Verdict: Good
Despite a dated interface and graphic style, Kings of Kings 3 is a very functional MMORPG. The PvE content is not spectacular, but the PvP features make it worth the effort. The ability to organize large masses of players and participate in massive battles is appealing. Added extras like customizable player housing, and the ability to build entire cities are added bonuses.
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King of Kings 3 System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows XP/ 2000 / 98 / Vista
CPU: 1.0 GHz Intel P3 or equivalent
HDD: 2 GB Free
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 5500 or better
Recommended Specification:
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King of Kings 3 Articles
- King of Kings III Hosts "Goodbye Tournament" - Posted on February 2, 2015
The developer of Kings of Kings III decided to close the servers on the 31st of March 2015. But before they sing the blues, they will do a last celebration with a Goodbye Tourmament and 100 % additional cashbonus.
- Monster Mayhem Spooks Gamigo's Haunted Halloween - Posted on October 28, 2013
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First rule of thumb: If it doesn't have staying power (see UT2k4 and UT99- they've still got quite a few active servers going...UT3 is like a ghost town in comparison...) then there's something to it and it wasn't worth buying.
Second rule of thumb: If it doesn't have an actual native binary available for Linux in a supported or unsupported fashion you probably ought not to buy it. Not even on "promises" to do a version. I got bit myself with NWN doing that. Even though they carried through, it was a flawed result when it came out (No cutscenes...some cross-platform title that was... ). So I told myself no more. You should too, especially if you got bit on this little debacle. If it's not got support for it at the time of purchase, you probably ought not to even consider it unless that purchase seals the deal with <X> prepurchases meaning that it will be actually done in a timely manner (See: Ankh and Jack Keene...).
I've heard that one of the problems with porting the game over was the reliance on the PhysX engine.
That part of the code isn't owned by Epic, and they probably don't have access to the source, so getting that as an ELF library on Linux might have been a problem.
Might be an even bigger problem to port it to Linux now that the code is owned by nVidia.
On the bright side, those of us that haven't bought it yet will be treated to another $5 game when its released
Of course with the global economy tanking, no one will be able to afford that.
Yeah... thanks to almighty America for cranking up the world once again... which they are fucking good at <.=.<
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AUSTIN — Employers added 36,600 total nonfarm jobs in October in Texas for a total of 277,400 jobs added over the year. The state's unemployment rate dropped to 6.6 percent in October from 6.8 percent in September. The unemployment rate in Texas remains well below the national rate of 7.9 percent.
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I bet on halved battery life on Linux, as usual... Apple hardware is usually meh at Linux.
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I bet on halved battery life on Linux, as usual... Apple hardware is usually meh at Linux.
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