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Humans, Characters, Characters from Earth-99,
Doppelgängers
Bruce Wayne (Earth-99)
For other uses of "Batman", see Batman (disambiguation).
Earth-99
Vigilante (formerly)
Unnamed (parents; deceased)
Kate Kane (maternal cousin; deceased)
Beth Kane (maternal cousin)
Batman (formerly)
Kevin Conroy
"You start with a code. You hang onto it with every self-righteous breath. But then you take one life. Then another, then another, then another."
—Bruce Wayne to Kate Kane[src]
Bruce Wayne (died December 2019) was the cousin of the late Kate Kane and Beth Kane who spent his lifetime protecting Gotham City as the vigilante Batman, stylized as the "Dark Knight." Unfortunately, Bruce succumbed to his homicidal urges and killed the majority of his enemies, including his Earth's Superman, who his xenophobic attitudes caused him to incorrectly perceive as a threat; his career was thus seen as a reign of terror, and its end celebrated. Despite his moral decline, Bruce was believed to be the Paragon of Courage until it was revealed to actually be Earth-1's Batwoman, who became a Paragon after protecting Earth-38's Supergirl from the fallen hero, though accidentally killing Bruce in the process.
1.2 Reign of terror
1.2.1 Savior to serial killer
1.2.2 Confronting Superman
1.3 Meeting "Kate"
2 Legacy
5.1 Former equipment
6.1 Batwoman
7.1 Concept artwork
7.1.1 Crisis on Infinite Earths
Bruce Wayne has mostly experienced the same events as his Earth-1 counterpart. Namely, a similar set of events, such as his parents' deaths, that had led him to dedicate himself body and soul to fighting crime. Dressing as a bat, Bruce became the masked vigilante Batman, operating out of his secret cave below his mansion. There are minor differences, however, such as the circumstances of how he operates in Gotham City as well as his sense of justice.[1]
Savior to serial killer
"It's like a wise man once said. 'Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster.' I've lost track of how many people I've killed."
Batman's "reign of terror" in a newspaper.
Over the years, Bruce has made a lot of enemies, some being a large assortment of villains make up Batman's rogues gallery, including Clayface and Jane Doe. Despite starting with a code never to kill, Bruce ended up taking one life. In his "reign of terror," Bruce would eventually lose track of how many people he killed, keeping a wall of trophies. Bruce ended up a broken man, uninterested in redeeming himself and believing the world was not worth saving in any universe. At some point, his cousin Kate put on a cape, believing she would succeed where he failed, only to get herself killed.[1]
Confronting Superman
"Strange visitor from another planet comes to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men? Clark... Clark always said yes to anyone with a badge. Or a flag. He gave them too much power."
—Bruce Wayne justifying his murder of Superman[src]
When Superman revealed himself on Earth, Bruce saw him as a man with powers and abilities unlike any mortal. Despite this, he had a close enough relationship to call him by his alter ego's name, "Clark," as well as learn of his vulnerability to Kryptonite. But once he realized Clark always said "yes" to anyone with a badge or a flag, giving them too much power, Bruce went head-on against the Kryptonian and killed him. In the battle, Bruce himself was almost killed in the process, forcing him to wear an exoskeleton so he could move around. Bruce kept Clark's pair of broken black-rimmed glasses on a wall of trophies. Batman's "reign of terror" presumably ended with Bruce barely able to walk, as well as his belief that there is no hope for the world.[1]
Meeting "Kate"
Bruce Wayne meets Kate Kane from Earth-1.
Five years after the death of his cousin, during which point he presumably retired, a girl that looked like Kate appeared in the entrance after her friend Kara broke the door. Bruce asked Luke to stop pointing his gun at them and has a talk about who she is. Knowing that Clayface was currently mud and that Jane Doe was in Arkham, he asked her about who she was before revealing that she was supposed to be dead. Once she explained the Crisis that was coming and that it was believed that he was the Paragon of Courage, Bruce laughed as he revealed that he wasn't a hero since he even lost count of how many people he killed.[1]
Bruce and Kate in his lair.
Later, in his underground lair, he showed his suit in spider's web explaining that he would not fit in it anymore and that he can barely walk. When Kate explained that the multiverse was in great danger, Bruce revealed that he didn't care as long as this world died. When Kara as Supergirl entered the lair revealing that he had killed his Earth's Superman, Bruce revealed that he hated Superman for being powerful and punched Kara, revealing the Kryptonite inside his Exoskeleton. After Kate interfered and tried to stop Bruce from killing Kara, he was accidentally pushed on an electric remote, electrocuting him. Kate attempted to help Bruce, but Kara, knowing it would be futile and would kill her as well, stopped her. With his dying breath, Bruce told Kate that there was no hope.[1]
Bruce Wayne electrocuted to death.
"That Bruce was brave once, too, and he had heart. What if I end up like him?"
—Kate Kane to Kara Danvers[src]
Despite believing Bruce was the Paragon of Courage, Kate and Kara discovered after the harrowing trial has that Kate was in fact the Paragon. However, Bruce's notions of hopelessness would affect Kate to the point that she kept a piece of his Kryptonite. Feeling guilty of Bruce's death, Kate started to fear the possibility that she could become like him.[1]
Kara was shocked upon realizing that Kate kept Bruce's Kryptonite, but ultimately believed it was better left in her hands.[2]
Ray Palmer referred to Bruce as "Evil Batman" when regaining his memories of the Crisis.[3]
When Kate kills August Cartwright, she realized she ended up crossing the line like how Bruce did.[4]
"My parents taught me a very different lesson. Life only makes sense if you force it to."
—Bruce Wayne[src]
Bruce was a stark contrast from his Earth-1 counterpart, being much darker, pessimistic, and hopeless. While his counterpart was a team player and never took a life, this Bruce Wayne is bitter and a lone wolf, transitioning into a villain when he crossed a line by taking a life, instead of stopping bad guys like he used to. He even laughed at the idea of him being the Paragon of Courage. One look at Bruce's collection of trophies was enough to convince Kara Danvers that no rational person could consider him "a Paragon of anything," especially when she saw Superman's civilian glasses among them.
Bruce was also borderline-suicidal and a nihilist. While he could never take his own life or destroy the world, he refused to lift a finger to save himself or the world if the antimatter wave were to wipe away his home dimension or the rest of the multiverse.
Bruce embodied a paranoid, prejudiced attitude towards Kryptonians; he believed that his world's Superman was a threat purely because his abilities were "beyond those of mortal men," never once considering Superman's moral compass or refusal to kill, and was appalled that Kate Kane would trust Kara. Bruce fought and killed Superman out of this paranoia, and didn't hesitate to try and kill Kara as well.[1]
Bruce wearing an exoskeleton suit.
Abilities via exoskeleton: Due to the serious injuries he received from Superman, Bruce had to wear an exoskeleton that assisted his body with motor skills.[1]
Enhanced strength: Bruce's exoskeleton elevated his physical strength. With one punch, he threw Supergirl across the room.[1]
"Earth-99 exists in a future time where Bruce Wayne has dedicated himself, body and soul, to fighting crime."
—Monitor[src]
Peak of human physical condition: Bruce had dedicated his body to fighting crime. He had withstood a lifetime of injuries, most notably from Superman.[1]
Genius-level intellect/Master detective/Master tactician: Like his primary counterpart, Bruce was a highly intelligent individual. He instantly figured out that the Kate Kane of Earth-1 was not a ghost, Clayface, nor Jane Doe. He keeps a wall of trophies from his greatest victories, having defeated many villains. Bruce even managed to kill Superman, and kept a piece of Kryptonite in his exoskeleton as a backup in case he confronted any others like him.[1]
Intimidation: The Gotham City Gazette described Bruce's war on crime as a "reign of terror." Bruce even lost track of how many people he killed.[1]
Indomitable will: Bruce Wayne was stated to have dedicated his soul to fighting crime.[1]
"Bruce killed this Earth's Superman?!"
"Who do you think put him in that exoskeleton? Yeah, big mistake."
—Kara Danvers and Luke[src]
Disability: After Bruce's final battle against Superman which proved to be their most decisive fight, while he succeeded in murdering him, Superman while defending himself made Bruce pay for that by wreaking his body. Without his exoskeleton, Bruce would not be able to move and more than likely be bound to his bed. When Kate Kane protected Kara Danvers from him, he was unable to recover from a kick and stumbled onto a remote, resulting in his death.[1]
"This guy's not a Paragon of anything."
—Kara Danvers[src]
Mental instability: Bruce gradually gave into his homicidal tendencies and went on a murder spree throughout Gotham, murdering numerous criminals and supervillains. Eventually, Gotham considered his tenure as a vigilante as a reign of terror - seeing Bruce become the villain. Bruce's xenophobia of aliens, particularly Kryptonians, drove him to the point of extreme paranoia. Not caring about his or the city's safety, he fought and murdered Superman. After realizing that Kara Danvers was a Kryptonian, Bruce also allowed his bigotry towards her to override his self-preservation instincts, resulting in his death at the hands of Kate Kane.[1]
"And I'm not an old man held together with wire and metal."
Exoskeleton: After Bruce's fight with Superman, he had to wear a metallic exoskeleton suit to help him move around.[1]
"A little souvenir from the old hometown."
Kryptonite: Bruce used Kryptonite in his battle against Superman. He later used it against Kara Danvers when fighting against her. Some of his supply was taken by Kate Kane after his death.[1]
"Mementos from Batman's greatest victories."
"You mean trophies."
—Luke and Kara Danvers[src]
Trophies: Bruce kept items belonging to his victims, including Superman's civilian glasses, in a trophy room as a reminder of his greatest victories.[1]
Former equipment
Batman suit: Whilst fighting crime in Gotham, Bruce wore a protective black suit stylized like a bat.[1]
Car: Bruce has a car in his lair.[1]
"Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"
"An Un-Birthday Present" (indirectly mentioned)
"Through the Looking-Glass" (mentioned)
"Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" (mentioned)
"Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five" (mentioned)
Early concept
Even though it is unknown when he ended his crime-fighting career, Bruce is probably one of the most seasoned and experienced superheroes in the known multiverse (aside from J'onn J'onzz).
This version of Bruce Wayne was played by Kevin Conroy. Conroy previously voiced the character in various animated movies, television, and video game series, starting with 1992 DCAU's Batman: The Animated Series. Crisis on Infinite Earths is Conroy's first live-action appearance. His voice is even heard first before physically appearing.
Kevin Conroy discussed with Entertainment Weekly how the "Crisis" role took him by surprise, stating how the experience of playing Batman for the first time in live-action "threw him" at first. "I never approached this character from that physicalized aspect. I always just inhabited him with my voice", Conroy said. "When you do that in a recording studio, it's a very intimate experience and you're sort of living in your own imagination. You do it with your eyes closed and you're in this other world, and you have Mark Hamill feeding you (need), and the other actors (because we always recorded together in the booths)." "To actually be on the set, in the physical world, and to be walking as the character and inhabiting the character in three dimensions, it was a real transition for me", he added. "It did take a while to get used to, I have to admit. I was surprised because I know the character so well."
Ruby Rose and Melissa Benoist helped Kevin Conroy overcome this initial obstacle on how to approach his character. "Everybody was so generous to work with. I can't emphasize how enough how welcoming everyone was, especially Ruby. She is so open and giving. I just fell into her eyes at one point and we just connected on camera. It was wonderful", he says, adding that it was "amazing" to work with Benoist, too. "I felt like I was working with old friends I'd known for years. There was just such trust there that I could open up to them on camera."
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim spoke of Kevin Conroy, "He is stupendous, He is Bruce Wayne. (It's) just a lot of fun to see this actor who we all mainly know from voice work being on camera. It was really exciting." Conroy's appearance in "Crisis" is the result of a dream. "One of the things that was always on my bucket list is that I wanted to see old Bruce Wayne," says Guggenheim. "We talked about a variety of different casting possibilities, but (Legends of Tomorrow showrunner) Keto Shimizu, who is a huge animated Batman fan, pointed out that Kevin is the right age. We reached out to Kevin and he couldn't have been more lovely and more game for it."
Earth-99 Bruce Wayne shares similarities with various Batmen:
Bruce going on a killing spree was seen in the Titans episode "Dick Grayson" albeit it was a reality created in Dick Grayson's mind by Trigon.
Bruce's appearance as an old man with a metallic exoskeleton is based off the Kingdom Come storyline.
Kate tells Bruce (after finding out he killed on this Earth) that the Bruce she knows has a code, a reference to Batman's one rule: he doesn't kill.
Bruce's views on Superman are reminiscent of The Dark Knight Returns comic and Ben Affleck's character from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This is referenced by Bruce's dialogue towards Supergirl. Even in this regard, he is a far darker incarnation; the incarnation from The Dark Knight Returns never intended to kill Superman, only defeat him, and while Affleck's incarnation did intend to kill Superman, he came to his senses at the last moment and realized that Superman was not a threat.
Bruce drives the same Batmobile as the 1989 Batman.[5]
Danny Elfman's themes used for the 1989 Batman film, The Animated Series, and 2017 film Justice League can be heard.
While talking to Kate, Bruce references Friedrich Nietzsche in the episode: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." This is the second time Kevin Conroy references Nietzsche, the first being in the Batman: The Animated Series episode, "I Am the Night" during his sorrowful talk with Dick Grayson.
The scene in the Batcave on Earth-99 has Bruce describe Kryptonite to Kara as "A little souvenir from the old home town." Similar to how Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor described it to a weakened Superman in Superman: The Movie.
↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"
↑ "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"
↑ "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"
↑ "Off With Her Head"
↑ Marc Guggenheim (@mguggenheim) - Twitter
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Q: Rcpp: Apply lfactorial to NumericVector What is the nicest/easiest way to apply the lfactorial function to a NumericVector in Rcpp. In R I would have something like this:
> vec <- c(1,2,3,4)
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In Rcpp, suppose I have:
NumericVector vec = NumericVector::create(1,2,3,4);

What is the nicest way to apply Rcpp::internal::lfactorial to each element of vec?
Thanks for any help.

A: Rcpp, just like R, is vectorized:
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July 02, 2014 | By Jackie Carr
Rapid Surgical Innovation Puts Patients at Risk for Medical Errors
Surgeons call for national safety measures to protect patients
Kellogg Parsons, MD, surgical oncologist, UC San Diego Health System
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that the risk of patient harm increased two-fold in 2006 – the peak year that teaching hospitals nationwide embraced the pursuit of minimally invasive robotic surgery for prostate cancer. Results of the study are published in the July 2 online issue of JAMA Surgery.
"This study looked at the stages of innovation and how the rapid adoption of a new surgical technology—in this case, a surgical robotic system—can lead to adverse events for patients," said Kellogg Parsons, MD, MHS, surgical oncologist, UC San Diego Health System and first author of the paper. "There is a real need for standardized training programs, rules governing surgeon competence and credentialing, and guidelines for hospital privileging when novel technologies reach the operating rooms of teaching and community hospitals."
In 2003, there were an estimated 617 minimally invasive robotic prostatectomies (MIRPs) performed in the United States. By 2009, this number increased to 37,753 procedures. In 2005, patients were twice as likely to experience an adverse event if they were undergoing MIRPs compared to a traditional open surgical procedure. The following year –2006 – was considered the tipping point for the adoption of MIRP when it equaled or exceeded 10 percent of all cases.
"The trend observed here is not new to robotic surgery. The same phenomena occurred with the move to minimally invasive approaches to gallbladder and kidney surgeries, both surgeries that are now well documented to improve safety and outcomes," said Christopher Kane, MD, professor of surgery and interim chair of the Department of Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine, who was not involved with the study. "Whenever a new technology is adopted there is a temporary period where there may be an increased risk to the patient. This can be reduced by extensive surgical training, vigorous credentialing standards and extended mentorship by experienced surgeons. This report should encourage the adoption of more rigorous credentialing standards proposed by professional organizations rather than by individual hospitals."
Kane added that robotic prostatectomy by experienced surgeons has proven to be beneficial to the patient with less blood loss, reduced infections and shorter hospital stays.
"A responsibility of deploying a surgical technology should include the responsibility to monitor it as it diffuses throughout the real world to ensure safety," said David C. Chang, PhD, MPH, MBA, director of Outcomes Research at UC San Diego School of Medicine and the paper's senior author. "Surveillance of surgical safety should be ongoing, much like the Centers for Disease Control monitor changes in trends of infectious diseases across the country."
The UC San Diego team used Patient Safety Indicators, developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to develop a nationwide data sample to analyze surgical provider performance and potential in-hospital adverse events from 2003-2009. Data for the prevalence of robotic prostatectomy was pulled from AHRQ and compared to published data from Intuitive Surgical Inc., the manufacturer of the da Vinci robotic system.
"One potential intervention would be the development of standardized training and credentialing programs, much like the aviation industry requires of flight crews inexperienced with new types of aircraft," said Parsons, who is also an associate professor of surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine. "An independent, continuously updated tracking system for the adoption of new surgical technology is also essential. Prior estimates of robotic prostatectomy uptake, provided exclusively by the robot manufacturer, substantially overestimated the speed with which it was adopted by the surgical community."
Contributors to this paper included Karen Messner, PhD, Lerrin Palazzi, MPH, and Sean Stroup, MD, all at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
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TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., Feb. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Thunder Energies Corporation (TNRG), announced today that scientific lectures by its founder and CEO, Dr. Ruggero M. Santilli, on the new sciences underlying Thunder Energies' cutting edge technologies are now available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZN3SFBfnCSp8KxfHrUrhwA.
Dr. Santilli was educated in Italy where he earned a Ph.D., in mathematics and physics. He was invited by the University of Miami to conduct research for NASA. He subsequently joined the faculty of Boston University, under support from the U.S. Air Force. He also was a visiting scientist at MIT and taught at Harvard University, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, studying the needs for clean energy and fuels.
Dr. Santilli is the author of some 250 technical articles and a number of monographs in mathematics, physics, cosmology, chemistry, superconductivity and biology. His many scientific discoveries and achievements are detailed at http://www.santilli-foundation.org. He is known as the scientist who broadened the theories of Newton, Galileo and Einstein.
Dr. Santilli served as head scientist for Magnegas Corporation, a NASDAQ company, which developed gaseous fuels that completely combust. His goal at Thunder Energies Corporation is to develop the cleanest and most efficient combustion of fossil and synthetic fuels.


I have officially graduated to having kids who love riding roller coasters. Wahoo! It's been a long wait but totally worth it. To watch your child scream and belly laugh uncontrollably is what every mother lives for. Right? As I'm gearing up for a long day of coaster to coaster riding, I realize it's time to leave the big floppy hat and skirt at home. No more being an observer of littles at kiddie land. I get to be in the action now, with the big kids, spinning upside down, front-ways, back-ways, side-ways, getting wet, then hot, then sweaty, then wet again. Oh the joy! It occurs to me that spending the entire day at the amusement park with all this action, takes some serious outfit planning. Not willing to sacrifice one minute of precious time running back and forth to a locker, I've come up with this list of things to wear to keep your money, phone, and of course dignity, in tact.
A phone is handy for fun photos and contacting AWOL group members, but the last thing you should be worrying about when you're about to take a hundred foot plunge into the water is whether or not your phone is going to get wet OR fall out of your pocket. Shirts and shorts or pants with zippers are golden in this situation. Put your phone in a zip lock or water-proof bag before the pocket and you're safe as a kitten.
You may call it a mini belt bag, a running waist pack, money belt, hip pack, or my favorite a pocket front bumbag. It's essentially a fanny pack and has proven to be a trusted friend in on-the-go circumstances. I normally wear mine under my shirt right at the waist. If it's empty, it lays close and is hardly noticeable. When it's full, a little blousing and even distribution of the essentials inside is also a good disguise. If you don't need that extra granola bar and have plenty of zippered pockets, feel free to leave the pack at home.
Wet clothes in heavy-weight or obsorbent fabric tend to either chafe or just feel uncomfortable as they take forever to dry. Denim is one of these. Ditch the cut-offs friends and instead try quick drying shorts or pants that your skin will thank you for later.
This one is fairly obvious, if you're going to be on your feet walking on concrete all day you want happy feet. Many people wear sneakers with socks. These can take time to dry if they get wet and may cause blistering. I've found that supportive flip flops actually work well. You can take them off and leave them on the ground for rides where your feet fly through the air and hanging coasters have a base that your feet stay on. Sandals with straps are an even safer bet. Cool, quick drying, and supportive.
This is where the dignity stays in tact. You can avoid looking like a drowned mouse with a little updo, earrings with backs, a secure necklace and yes 12 hour lipstick. Say hello to end of the evening photos because you're gonna look great!
Is there anything you would add to the list? Post it below or just share this post with your coaster crazy friends!


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"Kumkum Bhagya" is an Indian drama television series produc by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. The show premiered on April 15, 2014 and is currently airing on the Zee TV network. The show is loosely based on the novel Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.
The story of "Kumkum Bhagya" centers around the lives of the two sisters, Pragya and Bulbul, and their love interests, Abhi and Purab. Pragya is a simple and traditional girl who is in love with Abhi, a rockstar. While Bulbul is a modern and ambitious girl who is in love with Purab. The show explores the sisters' struggles as they navigate through their love lives and relationships.
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The show has also been prais for its depiction of strong and independent women. With the lead female characters being portray as independent and ambitious.
Overall, "Kumkum Bhagya" is a popular and well-loved Indian drama series that has captured the hearts of audiences with its relatable characters and engaging storylines.
The story of "Kumkum Bhagya" centers around the lives of two sisters. Pragya and Bulbul, and their love interests, Abhi and Purab. Pragya, the elder sister, is a simple and traditional girl who is deeply in love with Abhi. A rockstar, while Bulbul, the younger sister, is a modern and ambitious girl who is in love with Purab. The show explores the sisters' struggles as they navigate through their love lives and relationships, and the challenges they face in the process.
One of the main reasons for the show's popularity is its relatable characters. The audience can easily connect with the struggles of the lead characters and root for them throughout their journey. The lead actors, Sriti Jha and Shabbir Ahluwalia, who play Pragya and Abhi respectively. Have received praise for their performances and have become household names in India.
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Treasury still has a 33 percent stake in GM and could theoretically sell it as soon as May 23. | AP Photo
Obama sees auto rescue as '12 plank
In the next few months, the U.S. Treasury will finish selling its shares in General Motors, effectively ending the biggest piece of the $85 billion auto-industry bailout that inflamed fiscal conservatives and helped fuel the rise of the tea party movement.
In the end, Uncle Sam will probably lose several billion dollars on its stake in GM and will have bits of Chrysler and Ally Financial, GM's former financing arm, left to unload. But the bulk of the bailout will wrap up six years ahead of schedule after forestalling a collapse many experts say could have cost millions of jobs and driven the nation into a longer, deeper and more painful recession.
President Barack Obama has already made it clear he will use the automotive rescue, begun under President George W. Bush in 2008, as one of the central pillars of his reelection campaign, especially in the critical battlegrounds of the Midwest.
In doing so, he will follow in the footsteps of President Ronald Reagan, who imposed a protective tariff in 1983 to revive motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson — an American icon that blended well with Reagan's image — and basked in the spotlight of the successful close of the 1979 bailout of Chrysler and its high-profile chairman, Lee Iacocca.
Obama will begin making his case as both GM and Chrysler have emerged from bankruptcy as slimmed-down, profitable enterprises with more-popular vehicles. Even Ford, which did not need or receive a full bailout, benefited significantly from efforts that kept its suppliers afloat, analysts said.
Officials who helped guide the bailout are so confident of the turnaround they are taking a modest victory lap.
"In 2008, the automobile industry lost about 400,000 jobs and both GM and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy and posed a real threat to the entire financial system," Timothy Massad, assistant secretary of the treasury for financial stability and head of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, said in an interview with POLITICO.
"President [George W.] Bush provided bridge loans and President Obama came in and provided additional assistance allowing the industry to make the tough choices it needed to make to restructure," he said. "If you look at where we are today, it was a very successful strategy. The industry is growing and has added over 100,000 jobs and is generating operating profits. It's quite a turnaround."
It is hard to find many critics of the auto bailouts the way one can for the much larger rescue of the banking industry, even though those efforts may wind up turning a profit for taxpayers.
Experts said this is partly because the automotive industry is not hated the way Wall Street is. And carmakers were not blamed for creating the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession.
"This bailout was far more practical than it was ideological. The real issue was employment, and both the Bush and Obama administrations would have been blamed for destroying the country if they had not done what they did," said Charles Geisst, a business historian at Manhattan College.
Those who still criticize the bailouts point to its extension of "moral hazard," the presumption that the government will step in and rescue large, failing corporations. They also say the Obama administration could have struck tougher terms with the automotive unions and that potential final losses of $10 billion or more, while small in terms of TARP's initial $700 billion size, are still large, given the direct number of jobs saved.
Megan McArdle of The Atlantic magazine recently calculated that the GM bailout amounted to about $250,000 for each of the company's workers. But defenders of the rescue note that it helped save a much larger network of suppliers and dealers, not to mention avoiding the potentially massive negative impact on investor and consumer confidence if the industry collapsed.
The two main auto-bailout efforts were very different in size and scope. GM was the much larger of the two, amounting to about $49.5 billion in government aid.
Thus far, the federal government has gotten about $23.2 billion of that back from direct cash repayments and proceeds from GM's successful $20 billion initial public offering last fall.
Treasury still has a 33 percent stake in GM and could theoretically sell it as soon as May 23. But to do so, it would have to file a long prospectus for review by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Instead, people close to the matter said Treasury will wait until July, when it can file a shorter document with the SEC and begin selling shares immediately. Demand is not likely to be a problem because many analysts believe GM is trading at a discount in part because of investor concern that a big dump of Treasury's shares will knock down the price.
In order to break even on its remaining stake, Treasury would have to sell its shares for $53. That is not likely to happen, since shares now trade around $31.50. Government officials will wait a brief period to see whether the stock trades up slightly, but booking a paper gain was never the main point.
"We have always booked this stake at a loss," one person close to the matter said, adding that the point was to save the industry and limit the costs to taxpayers, goals that have already been largely accomplished.
The story of the government's involvement with Chrysler is somewhat more complicated. In total, the government directly committed about $12.5 billion to the automaker, mostly through loans rather than an equity stake.
So far, the government has gotten back about $2.5 billion in direct repayments and interest. Chrysler, now managed by Italian automaker Fiat, is preparing to raise a fresh round of debt financing from banks and bond investors that should allow it to repay the remaining federal loans within a few days.
Once this is done, Treasury will still own an 8.6 percent equity stake in Chrysler, which is difficult to value because there is no current public market. The government also has warrants allowing it to enjoy some of the gains if Chrysler thrives.
Treasury could sell its remaining equity stake on the open market if there is an initial public offering, which will likely be late this year or early next. It could also sell the shares privately. Whatever the case, the federal government will wind up with a fairly small loss or gain on Chrysler.
But by avoiding a larger disaster, the auto bailouts are likely to be remembered for keeping the industry afloat long enough to restructure and regain competitive footing with rising powers abroad, experts say.
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Opinion: Colorado State must weigh character when hiring coaches
For what is a coach but a teacher, whose knowledge, character and temperament can influence young adults as they learn how lead successful lives.
Opinion: Colorado State must weigh character when hiring coaches For what is a coach but a teacher, whose knowledge, character and temperament can influence young adults as they learn how lead successful lives. Check out this story on coloradoan.com: https://noconow.co/2E3uCsh
The Coloradoan Published 6:00 p.m. MT March 28, 2018
CSU men's basketball coach Niko Medved answers questions during a press conference announcing his new position with the Rams on March 23(Photo: Austin Humphreys/The Coloradoan)Buy Photo
There's plenty of excitement about college basketball in Fort Collins these days with the hiring of Niko Medved to coach the men's team at Colorado State University.
Combine that with the frenzy around the NCAA's annual March Madness basketball tournaments leading to the crowning of men's and women's national champions, and Rams fans are dreaming big about the future of CSU hoops.
We want better days and plays for CSU basketball as well. But we also want the CSU administration and athletics department to learn from mistakes made with former basketball coach Larry Eustachy and remember the consequences of putting wins above the welfare of student-athletes.
Between paying $750,000 as part of a separation agreement with Eustachy, hiring a consultant to search for a new coach and buying out Medved's contract at Drake University, where he coached one season, resetting the basketball program cost the university at least $1.2 million.
That amount might seem small in the huge-money world of intercollegiate sports, where coaches are the highest paid public employees in most states, including Colorado.
But it's real money for an institution to be shelling out during a time of ever-increasing tuition and student fees. It's the cost of choosing the potential for winning — and the revenue and publicity that would come with it — over character when selecting a coach.
CSU students send more than $5.5 million annually in fees to support Rams athletics. Those fees, approved via the CSU student government, add $114.92 to a full-time student's cost of attendance for every semester they attend CSU.
CSU athletics has a responsibility to be a good steward of those student-directed funds, which, per university literature, "partially funds debt service, payroll and operating expenses" within the department.
CSU coach Larry Eustachy gives instructions to the Rams as they huddle together for a time out in a game against Fresno State at Moby Arena on Jan. 6. (Photo: Austin Humphreys/The Coloradoan)
But in gambling on a coach with well-documented character issues and subsequently failing to address those faults when they flared up in Fort Collins, past and present athletics leadership played a costly game with students' support and well-being.
Eustachy came to the basketball program as damaged goods. Yes, he was a proven winner on the court, but behavioral issues at Iowa State University, where he coached a team to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, were known.
His aggressive style of coaching and treatment of players, even after embracing a sober lifestyle and coaching nine years at Southern Mississippi University, was known.
And yet he was hired six years ago by Jack Graham, who was then athletics director, and CSU President Tony Frank with the hope that he could bring wins to the program and build excitement among fans.
Things started out well. The Rams made a run into the 2013 NCAA tournament and the National Invitation Tournament in 2015. In his five-plus seasons at CSU, Eustachy's teams had 121 victories, tying him for second on the list of winningest CSU basketball coaches.
But even as his team was winning, Eustachy was investigated by the athletics department for his treatment of players in 2013-14. Graham recommended firing him, saying he created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation within the basketball program through verbal and emotional abuse of players and staff members.
Frank allowed Eustachy to stay, with the understanding that he would follow a corrective program, including anger management classes. There was to be zero tolerance of behavior such as directing profane and abusive language at players.
But his behavior was not appropriately monitored. When problems arose again this basketball season amid a dismal win-loss record, CSU scrambled to find a way to fire Eustachy "for cause" through another investigation but couldn't do it.
Finally, after a suspension and weeks of uncertainty, Eustachy resigned in February. As part of a separation agreement, he will receive $750,000 in payments on top of his $985,000 salary for the year ending June 30.
It could have been worse. If Eustachy had been fired without cause, buying out the remaining years on his contract would have cost CSU $3 million.
CSU came out of the mess with more than a dent in its budget. It also took a hit to its reputation by taking too long to rectify a bad situation with Eustachy that was well known by people inside and outside of the athletics department.
We understand athletics matter to colleges and universities for a number of reasons. Sports are a form of entertainment for students as well as communities large and small.
Winning programs attract donations and return visits from loyal alumni. Just like nice facilities and high-quality services, successful athletics programs are recruiting tools for future students.
Running a public institution of higher education like an enterprise is a fact of life during these times of limited state funding. Revenue must come from many directions, including ticket sales and television deals, if institutions are to have the money they need to deliver quality academic programs.
However, athletics programs, most of which are not profitable, should not take precedence over a university's primary purpose of providing students with beneficial education.
That carries over to hiring coaches as well. For what is a coach but a teacher, whose knowledge, character and temperament could profoundly effect and influence young adults as they learn how to lead successful lives.
This costly closing to the Eustachy era should serve as a reminder to CSU's current and future leadership. Do the right thing: Pick the best coaches you find, but in doing so, look beyond their win-loss records.
This is the view of the Coloradoan editorial board, written this week by columnist Kevin Duggan and News Director Eric Larsen. The board meets weekly to set the topic and direction of the Coloradoan's Sunday editorials. News reporters are not involved in the editorial board process.
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Government officials on May 29, 2007 warned users of the cleaning and storage solution made by Advanced Medical Optics to discard the solution while it investigated 138 confirmed cases of acanthamoeba keratitis, a parasite-caused infection that is difficult to detect and treat.
Symptoms include pain in one or both eyes, redness, blurry vision and sensitivity to light.
If you or a loved one suffered a severe eye infection or blindness potentially linked to Complete Moisture Plus contact lens solution, you may want to contact a product recall attorney.
Advanced Medical Optics had recalled 2.9 million bottles of the same contact lens solution last November after they were found to contain a bacterial contamination, though most of that solution had been sold in Asia.
The latest problem was not related to the product being contaminated but rather that experts believed it failed to protect against contamination commonly found in water and soil. Some users may have contracted the amoeba-borne infection while showering, swimming or using hot tubs.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that since January 2005 it had interviewed 46 people who developed acanthamoeba keratitis. Of 36 who used contact lens solution, 21 (or 58 percent) said they had used Complete Moisture Plus products.
The potential problem first came to light in 2004 when doctors at the University of Illinois-Chicago noticed more than a dozen cases of the infection, which is very rare, affecting only one or two contact users out of every one million. Of 35 patients treated by UIC doctors, 55 percent exclusively used products made by Advanced Medical Optics. The doctors notified the CDC.
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FBI arrests alleged Anonymous members, but hacks continue
By Kathleen Hickey
The Justice Department has arrested 16 alleged members of the hacker group Anonymous as part of a wide-ranging investigation into the Pay Pal website hack that occurred earlier this year.
But other members of Anonymous and a revived LulzSec are continuing their activities, claiming credit for hacks of the North American Treaty Organization and Rupert Murdoch's News International.
"We want to send a message that chaos on the Internet is unacceptable," Steven Chabinsky, deputy assistant FBI director, said in an interview with NPR. "[Even if] hackers can be believed to have social causes, it's entirely unacceptable to break into websites and commit unlawful acts."
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FBI busts 'scareware' ring that stole $74M
The FBI arrested individuals across the United States — in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey and Ohio. It also searched and seized computer equipment at three New York homes of suspected Anonymous members, Fox News reported.
In a DOJ release, the FBI said the arrests were done with the help of the U.K. and Dutch police. U.K. police arrested an individual, which FoxNews reported to be a member of both Anonymous and LulzSec, a spinoff of Anonymous, and Dutch police arrested four suspects.
"The investigative opportunities that present themselves in this area are transnational," Chabinsky told NPR. "The resolution of these cases will involve international cooperation."
The FBI also issued more than 35 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation regarding coordinated cyberattacks against other companies and organizations. More than 75 searches have taken place in the United States as a result of these attacks, according to the DOJ release.
Despite the arrests, and other recent arrests of alleged hackers, the loosely affiliated groups have continued their activities.
Anonymous tweeted July 21 that it hacked NATO and took about a gigabyte of restricted — fairly low-level — documents. The group released two NATO documents in PDF form, one a memo from 2008 on outsourcing communication and information systems support in the Balkans, the other an unclassified document describing its security procedures, ThreatPost reported.
And LulzSec apparently has used the U.K. phone hacking scandal to come out of retirement, claiming it hacked e-mail accounts of New International, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, according to a report in The Register.
LulzSec, which has claimed responsibility for website hacks of Sony, Nintendo, PBS, the U.S. Senate, the CIA and several foreign governments, had disbanded in June after police in Great Britain arrested one of its purported members.
LulzSec said it took the e-mails during an attack on the website of The Sun, one of the tabloid newspapers owned by Murdoch involved in a widespread phone-hacking scandal.
Although Anonymous and LulzSec are politically motivated to hack into these sites, such activities could lead to cyberterrorism or criminal activity, said Chabinsky.
"There has not been a large-scale trend toward using hacking to actually destroy websites, [but] that could be appealing to both criminals and terrorists. That's where the 'hacktivism,' even if currently viewed by some as a nuisance, shows the potential to be destabilizing."
Other foreign governments have gone after Anonymous members, too; last month Turkey arrested 32 members following Spain's arrest of three members.
Kathleen Hickey is a freelance writer for GCN.


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Q: Set text width component via script I am instantiating the leader board on the image (https://imgur.com/a/I0aVSaR), the problem is, I can't align properly the numbers on the center row.
I think that if I set the width of the numbers of the right row, the center row will be aligned. Right now the elements on the right row have different widths.
My problem now is how to set the width via script, I already tried rectransform.deltaSize, SetSizeWithCurrentAnchors and other similar things with no luck.
I've also tried to set a preferred width on the inspector on Layout Element but is ignored (https://imgur.com/a/O3hDeGN).
This is how the elements are created:
   for (int i = 0; i < leaderboardEntries.Count; i++)
   {
        Transform newEntry = Instantiate(entryPrefab);
        newEntry.SetParent(leaderboardEntriesPanel);

        Text entryName = newEntry.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>();
        Text entryScore = newEntry.GetChild(1).GetComponent<Text>();
        Text entryRank = newEntry.GetChild(2).GetComponent<Text>();

        entryName.text = leaderboardEntries[i].getName();
        entryScore.text = leaderboardEntries[i].getScore().ToString();
        entryRank.text = (i+1).ToString();

        entryName.alignment = TextAnchor.UpperLeft;
        entryScore.alignment = TextAnchor.UpperRight;
        entryRank.alignment = TextAnchor.UpperRight;

    }

The center row is the score, the left row the Name and the right row the rank.
Thanks!

A: if you want to change the width and height of a RectTransform you can try this:
rectTransform.sizeDelta = new Vector2( width, height);

but fixing their alignment need something else, first of all, all alignments should be same, UpperLeft or MiddleLeft for example.
then set anchor point of all your entries to the same value also.
then something like this should work properly:
// in this example I considered all anchor points are middle left and all
// alignments are middle left too

float width = leaderboardEntriesPanel.GetComponent<RectTransform>().rect.width;
for (int i = 0; i < leaderboardEntries.Count; i++)
   {
        Transform newEntry = Instantiate(entryPrefab);
        newEntry.SetParent(leaderboardEntriesPanel);

        Text entryName = newEntry.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>();
        Text entryScore = newEntry.GetChild(1).GetComponent<Text>();
        Text entryRank = newEntry.GetChild(2).GetComponent<Text>();

        entryName.text = leaderboardEntries[i].getName();
        entryScore.text = leaderboardEntries[i].getScore().ToString();
        entryRank.text = (i+1).ToString();

        entryName.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = new Vector2(width / 15, entryName.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition.y);
        entryScore.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = new Vector2(width / 2, entryScore.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition.y);
        entryRank.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition = new Vector2(width * 4 / 5, entryRank.GetComponent<RectTransform>().anchoredPosition.y);

    }


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One of my daughter's favorite movies is The Princess and The Frog.
I happen to find it quite enjoyable as well. The music is just so catchy!
Well, during one of the many times of us watching it, she finally asked me what the heck are "beignets" ?
I haven't ever been to New Orleans...yet. It is on my bucket list of "must-go-to" locations.
So, trying to explain a pastry with a puff of air in the middle and then coated with powdered sugar is kind of hard to do for a five-year-old.
Especially when I have only heard about how amazing they are.
I hadn't ever actually ate one until we made them. How do we solve this problem when we are in Iowa? Far, far away from the French Quarter?
Well, we set to work making our own, of course!
Tiana from the movie must have amazing beignets, because everyone wants them so badly.
I settled on a recipe from someone I know is an amazing baker.
After scouring the internet for a suitable recipe to try, her's popped up over-and-over again. I think it is safe to assume that her's are probably the Queen Bee of beignet recipes.
You can easily pop over to her recipe here.
As I mentioned above, I had never made these before, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
I followed her directions exactly, and I came out with a TON of beignets!
The box above we delivered to my husband's work while they were still hot so they could enjoy them. We made them during our first big snowfall this year, so it was like delivery a snow pillow...it was a beautiful sight. Fresh white snow and these fresh, hot, powdery beignets.
Since it was snowing, my daughter bailed on me while I was frying them to play in the snow. I literally stopped frying half-way through the dough so we could deliver this box of wonderful deliciousness before frying the rest for us to enjoy at home.
I cut them into about 2 inch squares. I could have made them bigger, but as I said before - I've never made them and since *technically* they were for my daughter, I wanted them small enough for her to be able to eat them without wasting half of it.
I probably ended up with 60-75 beignets altogether. I should have kept track.
But in the business of frying and then shaking in the powdered sugar, I lost track of everything else for a bit.
Mix water, sugar and yeast in a large mixing bowl.
Let rest for 10 minutes until bubbly.
In another mixing bowl, beat the eggs, salt and evaporated milk together.
Add this mixture to the yeast mixture and mix together.
Add 3 cups of the flour to the yeast mixture and combine slowly.
Add the shortening and continue stirring.
Slowly add the remaining flour, stirring constantly.
Remove the dough and knead until smooth on a lightly floured counter.
Spray a large bowl with nonstick spray and add the dough.
Cover with plastic wrap or a clean towel.
After it is done rising, heat the oil in a large skillet or fryer.
Add powdered sugar to the paper bag(s) and set aside.
Turn dough out onto a floured counter and roll into a large rectangle, 1/4 inch thick.
Cut into 1-2 inch (or larger, if you prefer) squares.
Add a few at a time to the hot oil, flipping constantly (why using a little strainer works well.
I let them puff up, then flip immediately so one side doesn't brown too much.
Remove once both sides are lightly browned, place on wire rack to drain.
While still warm, place in the paper bag and shake to cover with the powdered sugar.


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Listen Up! Whet Your Fret with Good Guitar Reads
Books and Sheet Music, Featured Article, How To March 6, 2020March 4, 2020 Theresa Litz
There are thousands of guitar books on the market, from instructional to biographical. We've compiled some recent titles—with a few older ones tucked in—to round out your reading list in 2020.
The Hal Leonard Guitar Method, Complete Edition: Contains Books 1, 2 and 3 bound together in one easy-to-use volume
by Will Schmid and Greg Koch
Designed for the beginning guitarist, musicians Schmid and Koch draw on some of the best teaching ideas from around the world. The authors have expertise teaching guitar students of all ages. A comprehensive but convenient edition, it features all three method books, complete with audio examples for demonstration and play-along.
Teach Yourself to Play Guitar: A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners (Kindle Edition)
by David Brewster
This book is designed specifically for the student with no music-reading background. With lesson examples presented in today's most popular tab format, which also incorporates simple beat notation for accurate rhythm execution, Teach Yourself to Play Guitar offers the beginning guitarist not only a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals, but a quick, effective, uncomplicated and practical alternative to the multitude of traditional self-instructional method books.
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Music Theory: Hal Leonard Guitar Method Supplement to Any Guitar Method, (Kindle Edition with Audio/Video)
by Tom Kolb
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Jazz Guitar Soloing: The Cellular Approach
by Randy Vincent
The ultimate practice book for serious jazz guitarists, The Cellular Approach introduces a practical method for developing the ability to create convincing jazz solos in a wide variety of playing situations. It takes actual jazz lines recorded by master players and slices them up into small "cells" that can be re-combined into longer lines to fit almost any harmonic situation. This enables the player to improvise his or her own lines that sound just as interesting and melodic as the masters. Fingerings and string choices are provided, making it particularly valuable to guitarists who want to actually master their instrument.
Jazz Guitar Chord Mastery: A Practical, Musical Guide to All Guitar Chord Structures, Voicings and Inversions (play jazz guitar) 2nd Edition
by Joseph Alexander and Tim Pettingale
Learn and incorporate essential jazz guitar chord vocabulary into your playing quickly, easily, and logically. More than 150 creative exercises with audio, this book is a method that easily develops your harmonic knowledge and fretboard skills, while helping you master and use advanced jazz chords, voicings, and inversions. Daunted by jazz chords and comping? Jazz Guitar Chord Mastery begins by breaking down jazz harmony into four basic chord types: Maj7, m7, 7 and m7b5. Every common arrangement (or 'drop' voicing) of these chords is covered in detail, along with advice on when they are best used, which ones are a priority to learn, and how to incorporate them into your playing.
Complete Technique for Modern Guitar: Develop Perfect Guitar Technique and Master Picking, Legato, Rhythm and Expression, 3rd Edition
By Joseph Alexander and edited by Tim Pettingale
This book destroys the notion that aspiring players must spend all their practice time accelerating through progressively more difficult and obscure exercises. This book focuses on only the exercises that most quickly develop the fundamental four areas of guitar technique: picking, legato, playing in time, and expression. Each exercise is accompanied by a full explanation, practice hints, and an individual audio track to make sure you are making the most of your practice time. Only exercises which generate immediate, tangible improvements are included so there is always an immediate, musical benefit to your playing.
Learn Your Fretboard: The Essential Memorization Guide for Guitar
by Luke Zecchin
Guitarist Luke Zecchin offers a fresh and straightforward approach to memorizing the guitar neck. This handbook outlines a definitive system for fretboard visualization that will inspire breakthroughs for guitar players of all skill levels. Regardless of whether you've tried and failed before, this is the perfect companion for any guitarist wanting to develop a command of the fretboard in real playing situations.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of the shape and structure of the guitar fretboard. Learn to locate notes, chord shapes, and scale patterns in any position with ease. Understand how to translate musical ideas to different areas on the guitar neck. Be able to clearly visualize and communicate what you're playing to other musicians.
Guitar Chord Master: Power Chords
by Christian J. Triola
Learning power chords helps prepare you for more advanced chords like barre chords and moveable shapes by strengthening your fingers and getting you acquainted with the location of their root notes. In an easy-to-follow format, you will learn to navigate the neck as you play them from the open position all the way up to the 12th fret. On top of that, you'll learn the music theory behind power chords and how to use them creatively, drop "D" tuning, strum patterns, and palm muting. By the time you've completed this book, you'll be ready to play a countless number of rock songs and tackle barre chords with confidence.
Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-Lick-Per-Day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique
by Troy Nelson
From the former editor of Guitar One magazine comes a daily dose of vitamins to keep your chops fine-tuned. The exercises cover several musical styles including rock, blues, jazz, metal, country, and funk. Techniques include alternate picking, arpeggios, sweep picking, string skipping, legato, string bending, and rhythm guitar. These exercises will increase your speed and improve your dexterity and pick- and fret-hand accuracy the more you practice them.
Easy Fingerpicking Guitar: A Beginner's Guide to Essential Patterns & Techniques
by Andrew DuBrock
Whether you are completely new to the guitar or have tried fingerpicking in the past but could never get the hang of it, this easy-to-use book with online audio for electric or acoustic guitar is a must read. Its progressive approach is designed to bring you from an absolute beginning level of fingerpicking to a point where you can play many songs with multiple picking patterns and create countless patterns of your own. Includes tablature and recorded audio tracks of every example in the book.
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll
by Ian S. Port
When Leo Fender's tiny firm marketed the first solid-body Fender Esquire electric guitar, musicians immediately saw its appeal. When Gibson, the largest guitar manufacturer, countered with the "Axe" (endorsed by Les Paul), the world's most heated rivalry was born: Gibson versus Fender. Their contest turned into an arms race as the most inventive musicians of the 1950s and 1960s adopted one or the other guitar. By 1969, it was clear the electric guitar had launched music into a radical new age, empowering artists with a vibrancy and volume never before attainable.
"With appropriately flashy prose, [Port] dismantles some misconceptions and credits some nearly forgotten but key figures. He also summons, exuberantly and perceptively, the look, sound, and sometimes smell of pivotal scenes and songs. The Birth of Loud rightfully celebrates an earlier time, when wood, steel, copper wire, microphones and loudspeakers could redefine reality. Tracing material choices that echoed through generations, the book captures the quirks of human inventiveness and the power of sound."—New York Times Book Review
Guitar: The World's Most Seductive Instrument
by David Schiller
A full-color, slip-cased edition, this book features 200 instruments in stunning detail:
iconic instruments like Prince's Yellow Cloud, Willie Nelson's Trigger, Muddy Water's Thunderbird, and Rocky, lovingly hand-painted by its owner George Harrison. Historic instruments
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100 Indie Rock Riffs for Guitar: Learn 100 Indie Rock Guitar Riffs in the Style of the World's 20 Greatest Players
by Joseph Alexander and Pete Sklaroff
Master indie rhythm guitar, learn 100 licks and riffs, and discover indie textures and chords. Complete with 120 audio examples and backing tracks, guitarist biographies, and technical analysis, guitarists will benefit from detailed theory and technique, highlighting concepts behind the riffs and absorb them into your own playing. This book comes with downloadable supporting audio examples and backing tracks to help you get inside the music and quickly apply each riff in a real musical situation.
1001 Guitars to Dream of Playing Before You Die
Edited by Terry Burrows
Lavishly illustrated, comprehensive, authoritative—this definitive guide to the most important and groundbreaking guitars is the perfect book for aspiring musicians and serious fans alike. This latest volume in the hugely popular 1001 series surveys the world's most popular musical instrument. Popular culture has enjoyed an intense love affair with the guitar in both its acoustic and electric forms.
Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
by David Dann
In vivid chapters drawn from meticulous research, including more than seventy interviews with the musician's friends, relatives, and band members, music historian David Dann brings to life Michael Bloomfield's worlds, from his comfortable upbringing in a Jewish family on Chicago's North Shore to the gritty taverns and raucous nightclubs where this self-taught guitarist helped transform the sound of contemporary blues and rock music. With scenes that are as electrifying as Bloomfield's solos, this is the story of a life lived at full volume.
Here's a few links of interest you may want to check out as well:
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https://nationalguitaracademy.com/guitar-books-for-beginners/
https://www.theguitarlesson.com/best-beginner-guitar-books
https://www.alfred.com/guitar/
https://www.halleonard.com/7/guitar-bass-and-folk-instruments
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Thomas Heyward continues its quest for a SCISA Region 2-A championship.Led by two J.R. Patterson touchdown runs and two Logan Thomas touchdown passes, the visiting Rebels beat Palmetto Christian 49-12 Friday night.THA (7-2, 3-0 Region 2-A) has won six straight games.The Rebels can clinch the region crown next Friday when they visit Colleton Prep. Thomas Heyward took control early against Palmetto Christian (0-8, 0-2). Logan Thomas tossed a 19-yard scoring pass to Chipper Hammond for a 6-0 lead. J.R. Patterson then ran for a 1-yard TD. Thomas hit Joseph Gibson for the 2-point conversion and a 14-0 lead.River Pender had a 33-yard touchdown run and Jake Masters tossed a 2-point conversion pass to Zack Black for a 22-0 second-quarter lead. Patterson added a 66-yard run to the 4-yard line. He then scored a 4-yard touchdown and Zach Bond converted the conversion for a 30-0 lead.Palmetto Christian scored on a 71-yard touchdown pass, but with 25 seconds remaining in the half, Thomas threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Black for a 36-6 lead.In the third quarter, C.J. Cleland returned an interception for a touchdown and a 42-6 lead. John Clark Tilton's 24-yard score pushed the lead to 49-6.THA fell to 1-2 after a Sept. 1 loss to St. Andrew's, but since then THA has outscored opponents 267-85 during the winning streak.


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Sefi Atta: An Interview with a Leading Nigerian Author
September 22, 2013 The African Book Review
The African Book Review's editor, Etinosa, had a conversation with renowned Nigerian author, Sefi Atta about her new book, A Bit of Difference, the changing roles of women in Nigeria and the unique position of young Nigerians growing up in the diaspora.
ARB: A BIT OF DIFFERENCE seems to take a moment in Deola's life and use that as a lens for exploring a host of social issues. What inspired the book and did you have a goal when you set out to write the novel?
ATTA: I was inspired by the poster I described at the beginning of the novel. I saw it at Hartsfield-Jackson international airport in Atlanta, where I catch my connecting flights to Nigeria and England. My goal was to return to the territory of my debut novel Everything Good Will Come. I had stayed away for a while but I felt the time was right to revisit it.
ARB: One of the things that stood out to us in the novel was how astute the protagonist was in both noticing and maneuvering how other people perceive and categorized her. Is Deola symbolic of Nigerian youth caught between the varying (and sometimes conflicting) expectations of western and Nigerian societies? (Do you think being in that position is more difficult or advantageous than say, being a Nigerian born, raised, and residing in Nigeria?)
ATTA: Deola is tired of failing to live up to other people's expectations, but I don't know that her predicament would be any different if she'd never left Nigeria. She might not have to deal with the perceptions of foreigners, but she would have to deal with the perceptions of other Nigerians. I live in Nigeria, England and the United States. I have my working life in Mississippi, my social life in Lagos and a bit of both in London. I enjoy being able to escape from one country to another when I can.
ARB: To a fair extent, the female body is often regarded as social property to be regulated not just by the woman, but by society at large under the guise of morality. However, Deola stands out (and was truly inspiring) in her willingness to be comfortable and assertive with regards to her femininity and sexuality. Is this a reflection of modern Nigerian society? And what ideally, do you want the future of the Nigerian girl to look like in terms of the choices society affords her, and the choices she can make for herself?
ATTA: I would be lying if I said I thought about any of these issues while I was writing the novel. I will say this, though. We express our femininity and sexuality differently, depending on the generation to which we belong, our religions and cultures. The growth of the telecommunications industry in Nigeria has also radically changed how we see and project ourselves. It has increased our choices, but not necessarily in positive or empowering ways. I see Nigerian girls who are sexualized too young, who model themselves after celebrities and hip-hop video girls. My thing is this: Use your brains, whatever you do. Nigeria is not forgiving of anyone who makes stupid decisions. Thankfully, I see Nigerian girls who are enterprising, hardworking and smart.
ARB: The novel cuts across many layers of Nigerian society, specifically noting how gender sweeps through these layers. What do you think about the differences that prop up between women in the novel (the difference between a white wife and a Nigerian wife, a wife and a prostitute, a single mother, and a wife with a cheating husband), are they representative of a larger problem?
ATTA: They are representative of reality. I refer to and portray a wide range of women characters in the novel. It happens naturally, through Deola's encounters and preoccupations, and I'm glad for it because it gives a sense of perspective. You can't read the novel and end up with a stereotypical view of Nigerian women, not when I have a central character like Deola who rails against that.
ARB: A BIT OF DIFFERENCE read to us as one of those novels in which we find lessons on every page and keep finding lessons with each read. What is one thing you want your readers all over the world to take away from the novel?
ATTA: I'm back to having a big old argument with myself in this novel. I have opinions, but I don't set out to prove them in the novel. In fact, I try to disprove them by asking questions. I hope that readers are willing to keep company with Deola and that they finish the novel feeling that they have met a real Nigerian woman.
– Read our review of A Bit of Difference here.
Sefi Atta was born in Lagos, Nigeria. A former chartered accountant and CPA, she is a graduate of the creative writing program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her debut novel Everything Good Will Come was awarded the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. She lives in Mississippi with her husband Gboyega Ransome-Kuti and their daughter, Temi. Find Sefi on Facebook.
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Q: Address Book callback not called I have an iPhone app that makes use of the AddressBook.framework and uses Core Data to store these contacts. In order to make sure I update my own database when the Address Book is updated (whether via MobileMe or editing within my own app), I am subscribing to the notification as to when the Address Book is updating. I call this on startup:
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Al-Hajj 22 Ayat No: They were satisfied with what Muhammad had uttered and said, "We recognize that it is God who gives life and death, who creates and who provides sustenance, but if these gods of ours intercede for us with him, and if you give them a share, we are with you.
Then Gabriel came to the apostle and said, "What have you done Muhammad? Additionally several other Islamic scholars on Hadith traditions support the event's occurrence. Suhalyl; together with a number of others numbering thirty three men. Well, the proof is presented here. There is no allusion to anything else in the biographical material.
I have not been able to find Wakidi's entire work in English but Wakidi's work satniques quoted by W. Meteo,en clair ca donne quoi? Yet, the messenger of God was not clear at this point until the protection of God "isma" reached him and he then became attentive again.
The fact that all of the earliest Islamic sources agree on the event is substantial evidence that it occurred. But when they got near Mecca they learned that the report was false, so that they entered the town under the protection of a citizen or by stealth. The meanings for tamanna and umniyyah, "recite" and "recitation", are well attested see Lisan s.
The Prophet performed a prostration when he finished reciting Surat an-Najm, and all the Muslims and pagans and Jinns and human beings prostrated along with him. Tow verses are referred to, but the second is not quoted. Thus God relieved his prophet's grief, and made him feel safe from his fears and annulled what Satan had suggested in the words used above about their gods by his revelation.
Ibn al-Mughirah and Abu Uhayhah who prostrated behind the prophet. Ziyad al-Madani – Muhammad b. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. Then you should have found none to help you against Us. The second passage is in chapter 22, called "The Pilgrimage", Al-Hajjverses 52, With his love for his tribe and his eagerness for their welfare it would have delighted him if some of the difficulties wataniques they made for him could have been smoothed out, and he debated with himself and fervently desired such an outcome.
Muhammad admitted his sinful error and was then comforted by Allah. As soon as the messenger of God prostrated for prayer as the vu of the sura, all who sataniqurs present did it with him and felt pleased that is, the unbelievers felt pleased that their goddesses had been verses as intercessors with God.
He makes Satan's interjections a temptation for those whose hearts are diseased, whose hearts are hardened When he came to the prostration, having completed the surah, he prostrated himself and the Muslims did likewise, following their prophet, trusting in the message which he had brought and following his example.
The Hadith and Quran also contain direct references. Yet here, something Muhammad said, caused them to prostrate with him and the Muslims, in "one accord". Ishaq told him from Yazid b. Then God sent down "by the star when it sets your comrade errs not and is not deceived, he speaks not from his own desire," and when he reached His words "Have you thought of al-Lat and al-Uzza and Manat the third, the other 5Satan, when he was mediating upon it, and desiring to bring it sc.
Tous 1 jour 7 jours 2 semaines 1 mois 3 mois 6 mois 1 an Trier par: Moinul Haq, published by the Pakistan Historical Society. The Quraysh left delighted by the mention of ckran gods which they had hared, saying,"Muhammad has mentioned our goes in the most favorable way possible, stating in his recitation that they are the high flying cranes and that their intercession is received with approval.
Muir quotes Wakidi as writing: Those polytheists of the Quraysh and others who were in the mosque likewise prostrated themselves because of the reference to their gods which they had heard, so that there was no one in the mosque, believer orunbeliever, who did not prostrate himself.
In fact Muhammad wished corn God would not reveal anything further to him that would further alienate his fellow Arabs. Those of the companions of the messenger of God who had left Abyssinia upon hearing that Quraysh had accepted Islam by prostration themselves with the messenger of God now approached. Perhaps he should have been able to use that for the purpose of converting them and causing them to be dissuaded from their error and obstinacy.
Where they were at a distance of one hour's walk from Makkah, sataniquess confronted some horsemen of Kinanah. Allah est Omniscient et Sage. This event is documented by the four early biographical writers of Muhammad's life: And if We had not made you wholly firm you might almost have inclined to them a little, Then had We made you taste a double punishment of living and a double punishment of dying then had you found no helper against Us.
Afterwards, God supposedly comforts Muhammad with the verses from chapters 17 and All of them were revealed in relation to Muhammad speaking Satan's words. When the messenger of God saw how his tribe turned their backs on him and was grieved to see them shunning the message he had brought to them from God, he longed in his soul that something would lew to him from God which would reconcile him with his tribe.
Then God cancelled what Satan had thus cast, and established his verses by telling him that he was like other prophets and messengers, and revealed: It is an episode directly found in the early Islamic records. In an inadvertent and misleading manner, his tongue hurried on ahead of him, so that he said: Remember, the pagans were totally opposed to Muhammad. Al-Hasan – sataniqies Husayn b.
In the evening Gabriel visited him; and the prophet recited the Sura unto him. They inquired about the Quraysh and their affairs.


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