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Top three weekend picks for Cape Town
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'True Blood' Season 7, episode 7 recap: 'May Be The Last Time' for Bill and SookieAdd to Favorites | True Blood
The goal of "True Blood's" seventh and final season was to get (maybe) fated loves Bill and Sookie back together again, and it only took until episode 7, fittingly titled "May Be The Last Time," to make that happen.
After exhausting seemingly every other option -- including bringing back Dr. Ludwig (Marcia de Rousse) and Niall Brigant (Rutger Hauer) -- Sookie finally settled for just spending the remaining time Bill has left with him. That, of course, means make out sessions in the doorway and sex on the floor like the good old days.
But is there a future for Bill? At the rate at which the Hep-V is spreading in his body, it seems unlikely that Sarah's blood will be used as a cure for him in time. With Sookie and Bill already back together with three more episodes until the finale, it seems less and less likely that he'll make it out of "True Blood" alive.
One thing we'd be happy to see die the true death is these circa-1800s Bill flashbacks. They've been going on for far too long, and taking way too long to get to the point. We can only handle bad Stephen Moyer wigs for so long, and it's crossed the breaking point.
"True Blood" fell into old habits in this episode by having too many storylines to service and not enough time. While Sookie and Bill's storyline should be at the center of these final episodes, plenty of time was spent on Adilyn and Wade's sexual awakening, Andy and Holly's search for their missing children, Hoyt's return to Bon Temps, Jason's trouble wanting another of Hoyt's girlfriends (seriously, didn't we do this enough with Jessica?), and Arlene falling for Keith.
The best of these tangential stories was Sarah Newlin's descent into madness as she returned to the Fellowship of the Sun. There she saw fabulously portrayed visions of Jason, her Buddhist guru and even the return of Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian), who demanded she determine which religion she would align herself with when she dies.
The cliffhanger of "May Be The Last Time" had Eric, Pam, Mr. Gus and the Yakamoto gang arriving at the Fellowship of the Sun as the three visions promised Sarah that night would be the one she died. The plan is currently to synthesize Sarah's blood and market it as "Nu-Blood," the cure for Hep-V, which seems a fitting end for Anna Camp's character. Let's see if "True Blood" can focus long enough on that storyline to resolve it by the end of episode 8.
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This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/547,987, filed on even date herewith, entitled "SELECTIVELY MANAGING MOBILE STATION SUBSCRIPTIONS BETWEEN FULLY USED ZONES AND SEGMENTED ZONES", and which is incorporatedherein by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND Orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems, such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.16e, Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), and Long Term Evolution (LTE), are susceptible toco-channel interference when operating at or near maximum capacity with a finite amount of radio frequency (RF) channels available in the usable spectrum. Because of the limited number of available radio frequencies in the spectrum, it is advantageousto use frequencies efficiently. The efficiency of frequency usage in an OFDMA network is called spectral efficiency. Co-channel interference occurs when OFDMA base stations in close proximity to one another operate on the same channel frequency due to limited available radio frequency channels in the spectrum. This interference is typically more pronounced atthe cell edges and may be experienced in the uplink or the downlink. Some proposed OFDMA systems implement an approach for mitigating co-channel interference at the cell boundary referred to as fractional frequency reuse (FFR). However, one problem common to the fractional frequency reuse schemes proposed so faris finding ways to effectively determine how mobile stations should be assigned to the segmented zones. For the reasons stated above and for other reasons stated below which will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading and understandingthe specification, there is a need in the art for systems and methods for selectively assigning mobile stations to segmented zones.SUMMARY The Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for selectively assigning mobile stations to either a fully used zone or a part
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I am working on a server application that does the following:
- Read data from a measuring device that is being addressed via a serial interface (javax.comm, RXTX) or sockets.
- Exchange data (read and write) with another server application using sockets.
- Insert data from (1) and (2) into a database using JDBC.
- Offer the data from steps (1) to (3) to a JavaScript-based web app.
My current prototype is a stand-alone Java application and implements task (4) by writing the data to an XML file that is being delivered to the client via a web server (Apache), but I consider this to be a hack, not a clean solution.
This server application needs to start up and work also without any web clients being present.
I would like to integrate this server application into a Java application server, but I do not have much experience with these technologies and don't know where to start. I have tried some simple examples for TomCat and GlassFish, but that did not bring me any further because they are all built around serving web requests synchronously and stop where it would be getting interesting for me.
Is this possible to run such an app within TomCat or GlassFish?
If yes, where would be a good point to start (examples, which base classes, ...)?
Would it make any sense to split the application and implement only task (4) in a servlet, the rest in an ordinary application, communication via sockets, etc.?
Would other servers, e.g JBoss, be a better choice and if yes, why?
The reasons I want to use a Java EE container are:
I would like to have a clean external interface for step (4).
On the long run, the application will need to scale to a huge number of simultaneous clients (at least several 10.000), so a want a standard way of scalability and application management.


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Pi Recordings is a New York-based record label dedicated to releasing innovative music by artists with unique and defining voices. Founded in 2001 with the release of two recordings of new music by Henry Threadgill, we have since been fortunate to work with some of the most influential composers and musicians in American music such as Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Wadada Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, James Blood Ulmer and Marc Ribot. At the same time, we are helping to nurture the voice of the best of this century's young musicians. Artists like Vijay Iyer, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Liberty Ellman, Steve Lehman, Amir ElSaffar, and Corey Wilkes have all released CDs on Pi Recordings that document their growth as composers, improvisers and bandleaders.
We spotlight composers, improvisers and bandleaders who are pushing music in new, groundbreaking ways. Jazz artists have never had a wider musical palette at their disposal than now, and they are using it to create music that is more varied, profound and vibrant than ever before. Pi Recordings is here to capture what we recognize as the high points of these developments. The best of the best.
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Read a New York Times interview with Pi Recordings' producers Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang here: Despite the Odds, a Jazz Label Finds a Way to Thrive.
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2015 Fellowship Announcements
Congratulations to Steve Lehman and George Lewis, who have both been named 2015 Guggenheim fellows in music composition.
They are 2 of 175 recipients of this year's fellowships, and were selected from a pool of over 3,000 applicants.
Our congratulations also goes to Steve Coleman and Muhal Richard Abrams, both of whom are recipients of the 2015 Doris Duke awards in performing arts.
We are proud to be actively involved in the music of all four of these gentlemen. They are at the top of their fields, and we are proud to see them receiving such widespread recognition for their work.
Congratulations all!
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The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is one of the most innovative and respected organizations in jazz, providing decades of support for creative music and musicians. This year the organization turns 50, and there is still a lot of music to look forward to.
Classicalite recently published an article on the beginnings of the organization. Read the full story here.
To help celebrate the anniversary, the Robert D Bielecki Foundation has announced a matching grant of up to $25,000 to help present a series of concerts this fall in New York City, as well as to assist in strengthening the infrastructure and outreach of the organization. For more information, and to make a donation, please visit the Robert D Bielecki Foundation.
Pi recordings is proud to have worked with many AACM artists, including Muhal Richard Abrams, Henry Threadgill, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Leroy Jenkins, Fred Anderson, Anthony Braxton, and George Lewis.
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Picked up the Kmart McQueen with rubber tires and Pit Crew Mater today. Also NNL picked up Professor Z. Slowly gaining more of these than we thought.
After seeing the movie, I think Holly Shiftwell might be on the list too.
Picked up the Kmart McQueen with rubber tires and Pit Crew Mater today. Also NNL picked up Professor Z. Slowly gaining more of these than we thought.
After seeing the movie, I think Holly Shiftwell might be on the list too.
It's a Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah...Tip for Today!
I picked up a few at K-Mart today, also:
Shu Todoroki- synth rubber tires
Nigel Gearsley - synth rubber tires
Francessco Bernoulli -synth rubber tires
Hydraulic Ramone
the all of those had the Cars 2 logo, but McQueen, The King, Chick Hicks all just said Cars, not Cars 2.
I also stopped by a grocery store and they had a large display of cars merchandise, and found a few that I hadn't seen before:
Wilmar Flattz (small pink car with a lightning mcqueen flag)
Bye Bye Kar (pink van) in a Cars -toon package
Dex (Cars toon package)
small UFO Mator with oil cans (Cars toon package(
Plus for some odd reason, they had several Professor Z, which was challenge trying to track down at Target, Walmart, and TRU.
I did Kmart this morning too but was really annoyed with the way they handled it. Rainman was right.
There were maybe 6-10 of us and they had a TON of cases. They gave us all raffle tickets. Then 5 at a time, they would call out 5 tickets and then that person would have 5 minutes to go through a fresh case and pick FOUR CARS. There were 7 new exclusives btw.
After everyone got their four, then we would be able to go back and get what we wanted. IT WAS SO ANNOYING.
But I picked up for myself:
-nigel gearsley
I also picked up a bunch of 2packs because they were on sale for $5.99. I'm gonna return the ones i bought at Target for $7.99.
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Picked up a Holley Shiftwell at TRU. Almost sprang for the Metallic finish McQueen, but seriously, how many of him do I need?
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It's a Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah...Tip for Today!
I enjoyed the film so much that I went out and bought a Siddeley Spy Jet today! I'll hold onto the receipt in case he goes in sale soon.
At my local Target, the pegs for the single cardeds are jam packed with Mater and McMissile. Come on people, start buying these two!
As for my wishlist of future releases...I definitely want to army build Lemons and I want Stephenson (Finn and Holley's superspeed train). John Lassetyre (Jeff Gorvette's crew chief) is a must too.
I saw the spy train at Wal-Mart today, it came with Mater. And I'll have to check out the spy jet at Disney Store to see if it's better there. It'll be more in scale that's for sure.
This weekend I also bought me Raoul Caroule and Carla Veloso. I returned all the stuff I bought the first day. And darn it, Target, I just saw their Tokyo Party 7-pack. Comes with the new Lewis Hamilton and another exclusive vehicle and more rehashes for $30.
Oh yah... Kmart gave me a poster checklist. Here's what's still to come:
Next KMART event in October includes the following with synthetic tires:
-Cars 2 Lightning McQueen
-Jeff Gorvette
-Lewis Hamilton
-Miguel Camino
-Carla Veloso
-Max Schnell
-Raoul CaRoule
So basically... no need to go unless you really love the rubber tires!
Also coming up for Character Cars:
20 - Nigel Gearsley
21 - Max Schnell
22 - Shu Todoroki
23 - Miguel Camino
24 - Lewis Hamilton
25 - Carlo Maserati
-Race Team Fillmore & Lightning McQueen w/ Travel Wheels (already spotted this one)
-Security Guard Finn & Acer
-Race Team Mater & Sal Machiani
5 Kingpin Nobunaga
6 Hydrofoil Finn McMissile
7 Finion Tanaka
8 Pope Pinion IV
9 The Popemobile
Having seen the movie, I dunno if I'm gonna go crazy with variants and background characters.
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Track Disney Animation Presence in the Theme Parks Worldwide!
Brand, I'll need your help on the wave 2 Walmart 2packs:
-Professor Z & Tyler Gremlin
-Holley Shiftwell & that other lemon car i cant' remember the name
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I found Holley and the other lemon car today. Once for each of you. I know I saw Prof Z at some point. I go to the good Walmart tomorrow.
I got Hydrofoil McMissile yesterday and the best part was that he was only $5.99 (on sale at K-mart). Also got the Stephenson Spy Train from Walmart.
Disney Store has a Siddeley Spy Jet but he is even more underscaled than the Mattel version.
They also have a diecast of Crabby (boat that transports McMissile in the beginning). He is large enough that they charge around $20 for him but he too is not to scale with anything, you certainly wouldn't be able to fit a McMissile on him.
There is a metallic finish Jeff Gorvette exclusive that is starting to appear in TRU's now.
Mattel is going to have 2 exclusives available at the D23 Expo!
This submarine McMissile and Woody's Roundup Woody marionette MattyCollector.com Online Store
Both can be preordered next Monday.
(great, more money that I'm forking over to Mattel!)
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I hate it when they do this I went to D23 a couple years ago but won't be able to make it this year. Hopefully ebay will be reasonably priced


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Tygart Steel offers to buy asphalt to fix Versailles potholes
Versailles officials addressed potholes and other street issues at Monday's meeting.
Mayor James Fleckenstein read a letter from Tygart Steel, which requested something be done about potholes along Juniper and Douglas streets.The company said the problematic roads required one of its employees to replace a tire.
Council president Linda Sheedy said the borough filled the holes in the past with millings.
"It's a Band-Aid on an artery," Sheedy said.
Fleckenstein said Tygart would be willing to purchase the asphalt, provided borough public works crews clean and fill the holes.
Council later unanimously passed a motion authorizing those actions.
Councilman Gary Roscoe said the Municipal Authority of the City of McKeesport and PennDOT are debating who is responsible for raising manholes along Center Street.
"We're at an impasse with this," Roscoe said.
Roscoe said he has not spoken to PennDOT officials yet, but "to me it's a state highway. It is PennDOT."
Borough officials plan to reach out to both parties this month in an effort to find a resolution.
Council considered the option of the borough possibly purchasing risers for the manholes and having PennDOT install them.
"PennDOT has always worked with Versailles borough," Sheedy said.
Council tabled a matter involving Elizabeth Township Area EMS' subscription drive following concerns from Versailles Volunteer Fire Co. secretary Charles Roka.
Roka discussed questions involving billing transportation to subscribers and nonsubscribers, those insured and uninsured, and the legalities of ambulance invoices to those on Medicare and Medicaid. Councilors are expected to meet with Elizabeth Township Area EMS executive director Chris Dell by next month's workshop meeting to get those questions answered.
Borough Solicitor Pat McGrail announced negotiations for a new police contract will begin next month. The new agreement will be effective on Jan. 1.
The borough will host a family movie night on Aug. 24 at 8:30 p.m. at First Street Playground. The movie will be "Oz the Great and Powerful."
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I'm really sorry to hear that autoimmune thyroid problems can be a pain to diagnose. Do you know if thyroid disease runs in your family? Your symptoms sound like hyperthyroidism to me (Graves disease) - the anxiety, eye inflammation/'popping out', etc.
I have symptoms of both hypo and hyper. My mother has hypo but not very bad. She only went to the doctor for fatigue and weight gain and that's when they found it. She took herself off her medication because it was giving her heart palpitations.
My folate is low and my ferritin level is 12 so I think that's low also even though it does fall within my doctor's normal range. I have trouble getting the docs to take me seriously and test me for things also because of my age (26). I actually had one doctor tell me that I'm young and I should just be happy that I have a long life ahead of me! Unbelievable.
I see my GP tomorrow for a follow up so I will ask about the thyroid tests as well as possibly doing the celiac tests. I've been struggling with this for 2 years and it's hard to stay hopeful that I will ever get better.
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Political Pulse: 10.14.07
CORPUS CHRISTI - Seaweed on forum's mind
The Coastal Bend Bays Foundation hosted a forum Monday on sargassum seaweed and beach management. Speakers included researchers Tony Amos of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Tom Shirley and Joe Fox of the Harte Research Institute, coastal geologist Richard Watson and Rob Conti, a natural resources specialist with the Texas General Land Office.
One audience member questioned why some techniques used to clear seaweed from the beach are allowed although they seem to violate dune regulations.
Conti answered: "That's a great question. That's one of the things we're here to get around ... Not 'get around.' That came out wrong. We're here to begin to define better beach management practices."
Commissioners share laugh before court
Prior to a special meeting to discuss the future of the Coastal Bend Aviators baseball team Thursday, Nueces County Judge Loyd Neal was sitting at the dais when he heard laughter and an uproar coming from the back room.
Looking through the doorway, Neal joked, "Someone please put a leash and a collar on Commissioner (Betty Jean) Longoria back there."
Neal went on to comment that Longoria was having too much fun before the meeting.
When she sat down next to him a short time later, Neal joked some more:
"Whoa! Settle down there commissioner," he said, to Longoria's amusement and laughter.
Late judge honored by library's new name
At a special meeting to rename the Nueces County Law Library at the courthouse after Noah Kennedy, the late former county judge, district court judge and 13th Court of Appeals justice, lawyers Mark Giles and Jim Wray recalled Kennedy as fair, honest and often humorous.
"Everybody who knew him probably has a good judge story," Giles, a longtime friend, told the gathered crowd of about 200.
"I knew when I entered his courtroom that the friendship ended in the hall," Giles recalled, going on to say that once he was in Kennedy's courtroom both sides of a case always could count on a fair, courteous hearing.
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Giles went on to recall that Kennedy, who was more than 6 feet tall, used to park his size 15 boots outside the door at the Kennedy family's cabin in Concan. The family visited the cabin often, and those big ol' boots made a very good burglar deterrent, Giles said.
Children: Father would have socialized
Dedicating a plaque and portrait, Kennedy's sons Noah and Bill and daughter Luci Woodard said their father would have been honored. Bill Kennedy added afterward his dad would have used the event as a place to socialize.
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NORTHFIELD Norwichs go-to line of Colin Mulvey, Tory Allan and Travis Janke shipwrecked the New England College Pilgrims during Fridays 5-0 mens hockey victory at Kreitzberg Arena.
Goalie Chris Czarnota worked the pipes to record his first shutout of the season as the top-ranked Cadets upped their record to 17-2-0 overall and 12-1-0 in ECAC East play.
Norwich came out buzzing and peppered NEC goalie Shawn Sirman with six quick shots. The Cadets went ahead 1-0 on the first of two Mulvey goals, a backhand through the five-hole at 2:46 with assists to Allan and Janke.
Norwich used its speed to carry the play and rack up 30 shots on goal, compared to New England Colleges eight attempts through the first two periods.But the Cadets had to settle for a 2-0 lead and deal with a Pilgrim power play to start the third period. Halfway through the middle period, Norwich held a 27-3 shots-on-goal edge, but Sirman (38 saves) proved tough to beat.
Mulveys second goal came on a pretty connect-the-dots play. Janke returned Mulveys pass back to him as he proceeded unchecked to the net.
On the first goal, I saw Tory cycling up high with a defender on him, Mulvey said. I tried to get open and he slid it to me. I spun around and snuck it though the five-hole.
We knew when Pier (captain Pier-Olivier Cotnoir) got hurt that we needed to pick him up, Mulvey said of his linemates. Janke is so unselfish. He and Allan are two exceptional players. They make me look good.
Throughout the contest it seemed a question of when, rather than if, Norwich could put more points on the board. Midway through the final period, the Cadets struck twice in 25 seconds.
Nevin Lawler scored on a rebound of Alec Thiedas slap shot at 8:50. Gerard McEleney also had an assist. Thieda had been robbed twice before by Sirman.
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Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
Michael A. Elliott
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn
Evan S. Connell
Custer: The Life of General George Armstrong Custer
Jay Monaghan
Michael Elliott gives his new book Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer a title that is also a term: Custer has become the focal point of an entire branch of inquiry into the American past at its centennial point. The man himself has become a short-term for any number of simplifications – the dashing commander, the gallant soldier, the intrepid Indian-fighter, and, of course, the hero of the Last Stand. Custer the very fallible human being sits now at the center of an ever-growing legend.
He would have liked his legend.
He wouldn't have liked the ultimate cause of it, the half-hour's dying in agony under the searing badlands sunlight, body pierced a dozen times over, screams circling clockwise and counter-clockwise in the dust, suffering ending only in defeat, in massacre. But he'd have liked the very strange phenomenon that began almost immediately after.
You'd think most young men would disavow such an actual fate, want anything other than such a physical end. But the only thing Custer would have thought about was the immortality. Most men in the end don't have the depravity to be willing to sacrifice so much for immortality, to suffer so much, even if briefly – they'll take the tranquility of their own brief stretch, and they won't ask for more.
George Armstrong Custer asked for more. This was not always so: growing up in semi-rural Michigan, George Custer was just another member of a large and loving combined family (his father remarried – although Custer would always maintain that he had trouble remembering which child came from which union). History will never know the precise turning-point, and legend being what it is, the speculations will always be outsized.
He was a provincial schoolteacher for a time – can the folklore of the American psyche bear even for a moment the picture of General George Armstrong Custer hunkered over a desk late at night, grading composition booklets by guttering candlelight? No, of course it cannot, and it's surely no romantic stretch of the 21st century imagination to wonder if Custer didn't feel exactly the same way while he was doing it. Some men and women feel the contours of their destiny inside them, feel it like a solid mass in their abdomen – they may lack the precise diagnostic tools to discern what it is, but they know it's there, and they chafe when it's being thwarted.
Or he may have been bored, just simply bored. In any event, he managed the near-impossible and got himself accepted to West Point.
From West Point, to war: he took part in the first battle of Bull Run, and always afterward, for the entire course of the American Civil War, if you were to hear gunfire coming from the Army of the Potomac, chances are George Armstrong Custer wouldn't be far away. He sought war as other men seek sweet release, and from almost the first moment of his professional career, the amazements commence: fording streams alone, exposed to enemy fire; racing behind enemy lines to retrieve a mortally-wounded comrade; conducting audacious cavalry-charges against long odds. The weird rococo gallantry of the Civil War – the last flicker of that flame before it fled the world forever – suited this backwoods romantic perfectly, and everywhere in the records of the war you get the sense he knew it and took full advantage of it. Always the action finds him at the front of his men, splendidly mounted, charging headstrong forward. In later life he was an avid collector of swords, and in that one can perhaps sense a yearning for a simpler age of combat, when valor – and not long-distance calculations – routinely decided the day. If so, it's another way in which his end would please him, regardless of outcome. He died fighting, as he must surely have always dreamt of doing.
His gallantry – it was a simple age, and the word could still be used non-ironically – brought him to the attention of his superiors. It was Winfield Scott who sent him charging into battle in the first place, carrying messages for General McDowell. McDowell was impressed, as was General George McClellan who noted Custer's dash and cool competence under fire and promoted him to staff with the rank of captain. The Peninsular Campaign of 1862 may not have been McClellan's greatest moment of glory, but it afforded young George Custer many chances to court death and then offer analysis of his efforts to his superiors.
One such superior was diminutive Union general Phil Sheridan, perpetrator of the holocaust of the Shenandoah Valley, who thought he saw in Custer's dash something he could shape. It was he who promoted the 23-year-old to the rank of brigadier general and placed him in command of the Michigan Wolverines. The 'Boy General' was an unknown quantity to most of his men when he took command, but one thing became obvious early on: their dangers were his dangers; he wouldn't stand behind rank. Time and again, in one reckless suicidal charge after the next, he was way out in front, calling on his men to follow.
They all did, and a pitiless proportion of them died. Custer himself was nicked by shrapnel once but never seriously hurt in the whole course of the war, despite having several horses shot out from under him. He had golden curly hair down to his shoulders, and he dressed like something out of a Cavalier painting, and he led from the front without getting killed or disabled. Is it any wonder a fable like the 'Custer Luck' started, given such circumstances?
Perhaps it's no great wonder that Custer might have started to believe in this luck himself. Daring raids, individual sorties and river-crossings, and hardly so much as a scratch while so many under his command were shot dead? Young men far more intellectual (his West Point roommate, like everybody else, wrote a book about him and revealed that he wasn't exactly a deep thinker) might irrationally conclude that some special providence was watching over them. Belief that a special providence is watching over you is endemic to particularly valorous young men, and from the beginning of time, they have paid dearly for it, but that would not have mattered to Custer. Show any such young men the career of Alexander the Great and they will risk sharing his end.
It was Custer who accepted Robert E. Lee's flag of surrender at Appomattox Court House. It was Custer who bore away, as a keepsake, the very table on which the articles of surrender were signed. This was plummy stuff, and it doesn't take an especially acute imagination to guess how the 'Boy General' would have reacted to having his wartime salary of $8,000 a year reduced to a peacetime captain's mere $2,000. War had afforded George Custer a dark and uncanny outlet for his particular appetite for calamitous abandon. Despite all the men who died choking on dust in a thousand named battles, the American Civil War provided – for its officered class, anyway – something of a fantasyland conflict, a fight in which old friends and roommates from West Point could find themselves on opposing sides and send each other joshing notes about that fact.
Difficult for anyone to leave that world and enter the more sordid world of $2,000 a year, that much harder for someone like Custer, who had seen so much reckless action in the war's front lines.
He cast around for some sort of civilian work, but even in historical hindsight it seems half-hearted; for all his flamboyant uniforms and maverick ways, Custer was pure Army – no other job (except perhaps the Presidency) could have satisfied him.
In any case, it was the Army that came through for him. Specifically Phil Sheridan, a little older, a little grayer, who'd been commissioned by an older and grayer General Sherman to help the Army deal with a new problem, something far uglier than a straight-up internecine civil war (even when such a war was fought under the shadow of slavery). The U.S. Army, under pressure from the financial and propertied interests of the Federal government, was now to deal with the Indian problem.
The American continent encountered by the various European powers had everything to recommend it: gentle harbors, unlimited natural resources, soil more fertile than anywhere on Earth, and prey animals of a staggering variety seen nowhere outside of the Serengeti. There were two drawbacks to the eager grabbing of this bounty.
The first was the weather – searing heat, soaking humidity, freezing cold, and fetid swampland, in addition to a host of more biblical phenomena: blizzards, rain, and lightning-storms that last for days, earthquakes, and hurricanes that made landfall with devastating regularity. Compared with south central England, it might as well have been equatorial Jupiter.
Colonizers ignored the weather – what other choice did they have? For every Louisiana bayou and hurricane-alley, there's an equal lot of beautiful Kentucky farmland; for every forbidding, bear-haunted Maine, there's an equal lot of patient New Hampshire cranberry bogs. But the second obstacle to possessing the vast lands of the North American continent was far more intractable: the lands already had occupants. Native American tribes from one end of the country to the other first welcomed then suspected then desperately resisted the incoming tide of white settlers, and the completion of the Civil War (to say nothing of the nearing completion of the Pacific Railroad) freed that tide to become a tsunami. The Native Americans of the Great Plains, most of whom lived in nomadic societies entirely dependant on the great migratory herds of buffalo, made treaty after treaty with the encroaching whites, most often seeking some sort of peaceful coexistence. None of these treaties was honored by the whites who wrote and signed them. The land was wanted for white settlement and exploitation; Native Americans and buffalo alike interfered with that. The so-called Indian Wars of the 1870s were in reality the largest and most protracted land-grab in the history of the world, and generals like Sherman and Sheridan were its instruments.
And Custer, as historical irony would have it. He had no experience in Plains combat when he was sent there; he had precious little experience at any kind of combat other than the headlong charge, and yet through General Sheridan he acquired the field command of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry, an outfit he drove as relentlessly as he had his men during the war. Custer had a phenomenal amount of physical energy, and he could endure without difficulty hardships and long marches that exhausted the men under his command, not many of whom, consequently, liked him. Some awareness of this might have seeped through to him; perhaps that explains the presence of his brother-in-law and two of his brothers on his staff. Winning the affection of peers not related to him seems not to have been one of his talents – the captains under his command in that final 1876 campaign against Sitting Bull and the Sioux disliked him to a man, at a time and in an environment where such dislike could easily lead to disaster.
I questioned 120 well-educated people, and every single one of them was familiar with this particular disaster, although their accounts of its specifics varied wildly. And none of them knew anything at all about the man at the center of that disaster – a state they in all likelihood shared with the rank and file marching with Custer under the hot Montana sun. Who was this man who would etch his death into the American psyche so thoroughly that everyone knows the phrase 'Custer's Last Stand' even if they know nothing, not even one little detail, about America in the 1870s?
In any case, he was what one might expect, given the likes of Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Boone, or Andrew Jackson: American mongrel, without pedigree or ready cash.
God only knows how he secured his appointment to West Point, but he did nothing at all to honor that institution once he got there. From the first moment, the demerits flowed as freely as water. For slovenly dress, for slovenly habit, for drunkenness and slovenly attitude. The nadir of this ill-omened tenure was a fistfight between two cadets while he was supposed to be supervising them. When others swarmed to break up the fight, Custer intervened, perhaps his personal sense of honor outraged, and abjured everybody to wait, to let the two settle it, to let them 'fight it out.' In any given six-month term at the Point, 100 demerits was cause for blanket expulsion; cadet Custer racked up close to 140 his first term and was saved only because some anonymous benefactor changed the total on the official record books, in favor of a (marginally) more acceptable number. Even so, in the Class of 1861 he graduated dead last – 34th out of 34. If General Scott hadn't taken mysterious heed of him, if he hadn't sent the young tyro to General McDonnell on the eve of a crucial battle – if, in other words, George Custer hadn't been dropped abruptly into the cauldron of the American Civil War – it's unlikely subsequent history would have heard his name. As it was, the myth of the 'Custer Luck' only grew.
The why comes forward here with profound singularity, and the list of possible answers is dispiritingly short. In fact, maybe Evan S. Connell (in his Custer book Son of the Morning Star) hits on the right one by thinking the most simply: Custer had never known defeat, perhaps couldn't see it even when it was only one hilltop away.
He advanced, despite the vast sea of opposition that lay before him, and the immortal day unfolded.
He sent Major Reno forward, and he himself led five companies south into the valley. Before he moved into the valley of the Little Bighorn, he had refused both Gatling guns and four companies of additional soldiers, for fear both would slow his advance. Military historians have argued such points ever since that day, and they will continue to do so as long as military matters are debated. But such inquiries are born as much of hope as reason; the guns, the extra men, would have made no difference at all in changing the shape of that day. Custer faced upwards of 5,000 absolutely fearless and well-armed warriors, warriors who'd just recently faced down Federal troops better equipped and certainly better mounted than his own. He had no chance.
Custer had ordered Major Reno to advance into the village, and Reno had seen almost immediately that doing so would be suicide. Even making a mad dash of it for safety, he and his men had to fight hard to survive. Had he followed Custer's orders, he'd have shared Custer's fate.
That fate wasn't long in coming, and it's interesting that one of the things the vast majority of my 120 intelligent people agreed on was that Custer's Last Stand went on for days. There's almost a yearning, it seems, for this iconographic event to be epic in scale. In reality, almost all the Indian witnesses agree that Custer and his men fought for perhaps 20 minutes, perhaps 30 – the length of time it takes a man to hastily eat his lunch.
There are unanswered and unanswerable questions about those moments, none perhaps more piercing, more weirdly personal, than whether or not Custer's men spent the last few minutes of their lives shooting each other in the head to avoid capture, mutilation, and torture. Indian witnesses report it with agog indifference, and it seems the kind of thing they would be culturally disinclined from even thinking to invent, but we can't be sure. Sitting Bull's Sioux maintained that they had no intention of taking any prisoners that day, but the prospect was hideous enough for the concept to be tenable, if not heroic.
Heroic, that would be Custer himself. George Custer, last in his class, avatar of outdated élan, the kind of heroic-charge hero whose heroic charges come on carpets of dead underlings. This man stubbornly, adamantly remains a mystery. Michael A. Elliott in Custerology draws a singular picture of the man:
Custer…drew upon a model of manliness that would become increasingly marginal after his death, a model of the soldier as the courtly cavalier, the inheritor of knightly virtue.
He was shot in the side – the soldiers who found his body saw the wounds – and that's what probably would have killed him (witnesses describe him falling to his knees and coughing up blood). He had a bullet-wound to his head as well, probably just administered to insure his death.
Again, the myth seeks to protect Custer – but nevertheless, he was mutilated: digits amputated, groin pincushioned with arrows. It seems clear that most of Sitting Bull's men didn't know who he was, thought he was General Crook's men giving things a second try. In the heat of the badlands, Custer had of course dispensed with his customary flowing golden locks, and the most galling fact about that day is that the Sioux and their allies might not have had any idea who was attacking them. It was only later that the Sioux's annual event-tally, the winter count, referred to 1876 as Pehin Hanska ktepi – the Year They Killed Long Hair. On the day itself, all was dust and confusion.
"Even now," Evan Connell writes in his book, "after a hundred years, his name alone will start an argument. More significant men of his time can be discussed without passion because they are inextricably woven into a tapestry of the past, but this hotspur refuses to die. He stands forever on that dusty Montana slope."
We cannot deny that this is so; even people with no knowledge of history can usually spit out at least one accurate detail about Custer's Last Stand. Ask them who was president in 1876 or how many states were in the Union, and they stare blankly; but they can tell you something about this commander who lost all his men on that one day.
Elliott's book, and the world of battle-reenactments and battlefield monuments it chronicles, traces the viral tenacity of the Custer story, documenting many of the ways in which the man and the massacre have become woven into the fabric of the nation's imagination. The specter of Custer hovers over John Ford's great trilogy of westerns from half a century ago, and he is invoked consistently throughout the run of David Milch's Deadwood TV series. In 1976, Douglas C. Jones' novel The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer became a best-seller and spawned the sub-genre of 'alternate-history' fiction. In the book, Custer survives the battle at Little Bighorn and stands trial for his part in it. In the gripping courtroom climax, the prosecutor says:
Custer is guilty. He is guilty in fact and in spirit! I do not ask you to be vindictive. We are not accusing him of losing a battle. We are accusing him of being inept with the use of men's lives. There are 14 officers and 233 men lying in their graves in Montana, and the Sioux and the Cheyenne did not kill them. Custer did. I ask you, find him guilty.
Needless to say, Custer is acquitted.
History has largely acquitted him too, by freezing him forever in a boy's fantasy-tableau of doomed, heroic bravery. That picture has been trumping the facts for a century now and looks likely to continue doing so forever. The Lakota Sioux had a saying: you cannot kill a story. In the case of George Armstrong Custer and the Little Bighorn, though they may hate it, they were right.
Custer would have liked his legend. That the rest of us must perennially grapple with it, measuring and re-assessing it in the face of military opportunism and the near-genocide of the American Indian, would not have concerned him in the least.
Steve Donoghue went to Nevada as a silver prospector in 1859, made a fast fortune from the Comstock Lode, and promptly retired to remote mansion in Big Sur. When the Internet connection works from there, he hosts the literary blog Stevereads.


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Hy. Trying to use my new xbox one controller on pc and started with installing it's unofficial driver on actual o.s. (windows 7 ultimate x64 sp1). After plugging in the usb port it gives me this error.. what can be done ?
Thanks a lot!
Best Answer Andrew , 13 July 2014 - 20:19
well.. that's the one I've used.. it's the only one available after all.
Sorry didn't check the link, but you typed unofficial .
Edit: seems there are quite a lot of people experiencing problems and posting in Major's comments.
Some are suggesting updating Win7 and installing these patches:
Update for User-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2685813)
Update for Kernel-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB2685811)
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25 year old man | Galena Park, TX, USA | Seeking women 22-40 within 50 miles
Always smiling, I'm very adventurous and energetic person. Love talking and making others smile. I don't bite so don't be afraid to email me
I am athletic, intelligent, confident, and a self- motivated person that knows what I want in life. I'm always looking for something to do that can help me better myself in anyway. I love working out and being active. I'm looking for someone that is strong minded and enjoys the little things in life. Someone that is adventurous and not afraid to try new things. I want someone I can talk to about anything and someone that will be there for me when I need them. I don't like negative people so if that is you then keep it moving.
Camping , Cooking , Dining out , Fishing/Hunting , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing sports , Travel/Sightseeing , Volunteering , Watching sports , Wine tasting
Aerobics, Auto racing / Motorcross, Basketball, Bowling, Cycling, Dancing, Football, Golf, Other types of exercise, Running, Swimming, Tennis / Racquet sports, VolleyBall, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I like Dogs, Exotic Pets, Fish
University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO
I love going to the movies and being outside doing active things with my time. I'm open to all types of music. I mainly listen to R&B and rap. I love cooking/ doing things I have never done before.
I like to going fishing, rock climbing, go karts, water parks, swimming, cooking, trail walking, bike riding, and extreme sports.
I recently read this book by Jon Gordon called the Energy Bus. It was about being positive and how being positive can change you mood and help others around you. I already knew the things explained in the book because I have always been a person.
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|What he is looking for
|5'11" (180cms)
|5'5" (165cms) to 6'5" (195cms)
|Body type:
|Athletic and toned
|Slender, About average, Curvy, Athletic and toned
|No preference
|No preference
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker
|Education / Teacher / Professor
|Self-Employed / Entrepreneur, Fashion / Model / Beauty
Teacher,Personal Trainer, Model
|$35,001 to $50,000
|No preference
|Never Married
|Never Married, Currently Separated, Divorced
|Have kids:
|No preference
|Wants kids:
|Black / African descent
|Asian, Black / African descent, East Indian, Latino / Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, White / Caucasian
|I'll tell you later
|No preference
|Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
|Bachelors degree
|Associates degree, Bachelors degree


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By the Will of God
In this special teaching, Pastor Tim Chaddick shares big news about where God is calling him and his family. Pastor Tim, Pastor Jeremy Treat, and Reality Founding Pastor Britt Merrick share where God's leading Reality LA, and Pastor Tim teaches on the importance of stepping out in faith as we follow Jesus.
Waiting for Power
Where do we find strength for the Christian life? Pastor Adam Smith preaches from Acts 1:1-11 on how the Holy Spirit enables us to see the truth about Jesus, empowers us to be His witnesses, and helps us endure faithfully until Christ returns.
The Gift of Christ
What gift does Jesus want for us? Pastor Tim Chaddick preaches on the joyful reality of Christmas and God's immeasurable gift of Himself, a gift which brings with it forgiveness, fellowship, and faithfulness.
Adorning the Gospel
How can our daily lives display God's glory to the world? Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from Titus 2:1-10 on how faithfully following Jesus points to the beauty of the gospel.
Leading by Example
How can we lead others in the way we live? And where do we find the strength to do so? Pastor Tim Chaddick preaches from Titus 1:5-9 on how holding fast to the gospel and cultivating godly virtues point others to the true source of life, Jesus Christ.
How Long, O Lord?
How can we draw close to God in the midst of suffering? Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from Psalm 13 on honestly lamenting before God while continuing to trust Him.
Your Story and God's Kingdom
How does knowing and following the God of the Bible affect the way we live? Pastor Tim Chaddick preaches from 2 Samuel 7:1-22 on how God's gracious promises shape our motives and character.
What Matters Now
How can we be ready for Christ's return? Pastor Tim Chaddick preaches from Matthew 24:45-25:46 on the importance of faithfulness, stewardship, and compassionate service in following Jesus.
Jesus On Family
How does following Jesus revolutionize our approach to family? Pastor Jeremy Treat teaches from Matthew 19:1-15 on God's design for marriage, the value of singleness, the blessing of children, as well as how to view divorce and remarriage.
The Heart of Hypocrisy
In Matthew 15:1-28, Jesus addresses the religious hypocrisy of the Pharisees while commending the humble faith of a Gentile woman. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches on the importance of honest faith and reliance on Scripture in avoiding hypocrisy.
The Fear
We cannot overcome our fears by focusing on our circumstances or ourselves, but only by focusing on Jesus. Pastor Jeremy Treat preaches from Matthew 14:22-36 on the faith that God gives us as we look to Him.
The Promised Jesus
How should a Christian approach God when it comes to doubt and unmet expectations? Pastor Casey Fritz preaches from Matthew 11:1-19 on how we can handle doubts and expectations in a way that actually draws us closer to Jesus.


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Mambo Dave
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My three #5's, and an even smaller LL Bean porcelain (sorry about calling it ceramic earlier) coated pan that is just about too small for a single guy to use (I'd appreciate any recipes or suggestions of uses for it - seems like it's better for cooking a dainty little breakfast... actual flat cooking area of it is only 5 inches).
The one in the upper left may be the same make as the one "
The Cyclops
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I know it will add a lot of weight, but perhaps the smaller LL Bean pan will become a motorcycling pan to take with me if I ever get a small hiking stove.
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Osprey Publishing | Mar 11, 2003
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Osprey Publishing
| Mar 11, 2003
| 64 Pages
| 7-1/4 x 9-3/4
Osrpey's examination of the commanders of the American Civil War (1861-1865). When the War Between the States broke out in 1861, the US Army had only four line generals – and three of those were over 70 years of age and veterans of the Napoleonic period. About one in three of America's professional officers chose to serve the Confederacy, and the government's urgent need to find commanders for its vastly expanded army put stars on the shoulders of men of very varied backgrounds and talents. The trials of war would soon separate the born leaders from the over-promoted and the political opportunists. This second volume devoted to Union generals examines the careers and personalities of 25 commanders whose service was mainly, or at first, in the Western theater of war.
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June 19th, 2008 #1Registered User
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Dylan's Development Project
Hello all, I'm currently 18 and ill call this my "development project" since that's an alliteration with Dylan :3
Past few years I've always had art on my mind, but it really was only a past time I've never really bleed for it. I see my self as very far behind and since I wish my future to be in this I am going to buckle down and strive for my improvement. I see many headaches this summer and not many friends but.
Sacrifices should be made.
Anyways my first dump from last two days, there really should be more >:C
Have any thoughts for this noob?
Hide this ad by registering as a memberJune 19th, 2008 #2
Hey there. Our position is actually quite the same. No art in the school I went to, and only found it out when I got a wacom a year ago, and now I wish to make my future career in it, as do you!
Nice job on the feet.
I'd strongly suggest you try to start off with more simple forms, drawings cylinders, balls, cubes, from life if possible.
When you grasp these well enough, which wont be too long with practice, you'll be able to work on harder things. Humans being hard as hell.
When you're going to start with humans, I suggest you get some books on the matter. Personally I dont have much knowledge on the good books, but I've liked the books by Loomis and Hogarth.
I wish you luck with your project!


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Wisconsin and Nebraska collide in the Big East championship game Saturday night. The Big Ten is still getting used to this whole championship game idea, but at least the two schools meeting in Indianapolis are pretty well adjusted to it. Wisconsin returns to Indianapolis this week to make their second straight trip representing the Leaders Division, although this year they arrive thanks to NCAA sanctions to undefeated Ohio State and second place Penn State. Nebraska, on the other hand, earned their place in the game in their second season in the Big Ten, and two trips to the Big 12 championship game are still fresh in the memories of a number of Huskers. Can Wisconsin defend their conference crown and return to the Rose Bowl, or can Bo Pelini and his Huskers finally get that conference championship monkey off their backs? Regardless of the outcome, it should make for a competitive and entertaining game. To preview the championship game from both perspectives I was happy to welcome t...
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