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That said, it occurs that to me that we are making a lot more of the post-9/11 incidents than they deserve. The finely detailed planning and preparations that marked Osama bin Laden's leadership of the war on the west is missing from an era of underwear bombing and misfires in parked cars in Times Square, and frankly embarrassing terrorists throughout the world. If that's all they've got, bring it on!
Considering the enormous military might of the United States and our economic dominance of world economics, al-Qaida is a mouse that roars on its best day. There are more than 300 hundred million of us, nearly none of whom are directly threatened by the recurrent fumbling attempts at sending suicide bombers half-way around the world to blow themselves up in the air over Manhattan. While regrettable, the death toll on the plane, combined with ground victims of falling debris, would hardly top a thousand, and certainly poses no great threat to our nation at large. Until some mad jihadi targets Reno and environs, I am really not interested. Certainly not so concerned as to spend billions of bucks on enhanced security, with cameras in every public space including restrooms, and special anti-terror squads for every police agency with a request in for special weapons and training.
Al-Qaida currently consists of a few old veterans of the bin Laden corps plus a small number of true believing groupies with neither experience nor discipline. They are groupies for rebellion without the assets of support to operate outside their Yemeni refuge, under constant attack from U.S. "drones" and would probably become a retirement community for its surviving members if they were left alone.
Recently, several movement leaders have been killed in U.S. raids, including the top overseas fund raiser and logistics coordinator for the isolated activists, leaving a huge gap in their supply and support network. Al-Qaida is rendered ineffective, unable to mount serious assaults on our homeland or virtually any other meaningful targets.
Terrorism only succeeds when the people are filled with fear, and I'm not all that scared.
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1997 Award of Honor
Have you seen television commercials advertising innovative and advanced technology by Lucent Technologies, and wondered where the company originated? It is a result of AT&T's decision to split into three separate companies in October 1996. How did AT&T begin? It was due to a divesture of the Bell System through which Western Electric became AT&T in January 1984 -- quite an evolution of companies. What does this have to do with Yolanda Hardin, and what do these companies share in common with her besides being successful . . . distinguished . . . exemplary in pursuing and attaining excellence in their fields? Yolanda Hardin has been employed by each of the three companies as the progression has occurred.
Her first job was as a software developer at Western Electric after graduating from ETSU in 1969 with a bachelor of science in mathematics. Yolanda worked to develop software in support of the world's first computerized publishing system for three years before becoming a first line supervisor in more than one division. First, Hardin managed the results for government systems projects by supervising a group responsible for reporting financial results for the Western Electric's Safeguard Project. Then from 1973 until 1976, she was the Human Resources supervisor in support of a manufacturing location of 5,000 employees. Yolanda also served as the first line supervisor of manufacturing, telecommunications products, where she supervised a group of 35 employees who were responsible for the manufacture of transmission bays which are an integral part of telephone company infrastructure.
In 1977 after eight years of service, Yolanda became the department head of information development, software products, until 1980. There she managed a department of 25 employees who developed the technical documentation which enabled customers to make the most effective use of their Western Electric telecommunications products. Then, for six months, she participated in a full-time Management Training Program located in Princeton, N. J., which is the corporate equivalent to an M.B.A. Finishing in June of 1980, she became the manager of manufacturing of telecommunications components at Western Electric. Before she completed her tenure in this position, where she managed several departments responsible for manufacturing electronic components, Western Electric became AT&T. Not only did Mrs. Hardin witness a company achieve great success but she, herself, reached another milestone in life. She earned her master of science in industrial engineering in 1981 from Purdue University.
Mrs. Hardin was serving in yet another leadership position at AT&T as manager of information development for quality and support systems when, in October of 1996, AT&T split into three companies: AT&T Communications, NCR, and Lucent Technologies for whom she currently works. Presently, Yolanda is the director of ILT -- internationalization, localization and translations. This division of Lucent Technologies is responsible for making Lucent's products ready for sale outside the United States by translating supporting documentation and training to the languages of the target markets outside the U.S. Internationalization and localization functions are associated with modifying and translating software products so that the user friendly interfaces will work in the target market languages. About one half of the business of ILT Solutions is in providing these services to the commercial market (companies other than Lucent Technologies).
Besides her involvement in seemingly every aspect of management for either Lucent, AT&T, or Western Electric, Mrs. Hardin has also been involved in her community and has been an active alumna at ETSU. She has served in a leadership role for several years in the United Way Campaign for Forsyth County, N.C., and has been a former member of the board of directors for the Girl Scouts. She is also a member of Leadership Winston-Salem which includes a diverse group of people who are business and community leaders.
Yolanda has served on the ETSU Alumni Association board of directors. She was secretary of the Board during 1995-96 and is currently a member of the ETSU Foundation. Her husband, Bob, is a 1968 ETSU graduate, and has also served on the Alumni Association board of directors. The Hardins are members of the Distinguished President's Trust and are primary benefactors of the Robert Hardin Scholarship. Yolanda and Bob currently reside in Elizabethton, Tenn.


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GRIFFIN, Ga. – Six members of the University of North Georgia mixed rifle team traveled to the Ole Mill Range Complex in Griffin, Ga. for the USA Shooting Junior Olympics State Championship this past weekend.
The competition was open to athletes under the age of 21 through the end of this calendar year. Top shooters nationally will be invited to the USA Shooting Junior Olympics National Championship to be held at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. later this spring.
Participating were freshmen Casadie Bragg and Sara Howell, Cadets Kyle Bailey, Andrew Abernathy and Ryan Moran, along with Team Captain sophomore Cadet Luke Duncan.
Bragg turned in two strong performances to pace the Saints. In women's air rifle, she posted a score of 386/400 to take second place and scored 555/600 for first place in the women's smallbore (.22 caliber) rifle event. Howell took third in women's smallbore.
The top shooter for North Georgia among the men was Bailey with a score of 574/600 in men's air rifle, placing him second, and 551/600 for first place in men's smallbore rifle. In men's air, Duncan finished sixth, Moran eighth and Abernathy 10th. Moran took second and Duncan fourth in men's smallbore.
USA Shooting determines participants to the national championship event based on nation-wide scores and in February will announce the invitation lists.
The Saints start the second half of their intercollegiate season this weekend, hosting a large Southeastern Rifle Conference (SEARC) tournament in the Hamilton Range on the Dahlonega campus. Air rifle will begin at 8:00 a.m. Saturday and run all day. The Athletic Department is hosting a cookout at the range for parents, boosters and alumni.
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Soar over Lake Mead and Hoover Dam en route to one of the Seven Wonders of The World - the Grand Canyon. Fly on an 19-seat air-conditioned fixed wing plane through to the inner gorge where you'll land at a peaceful and secluded airport on the rim of the Canyon.
You'll head to the edge of the inner gorge of the North Rim. Learn about the hundreds of millions of years of geological erosion that have exposed this 2650-foot-deep rip in the earth. Hear tales of the Anasazi Indians who inhabited this area thousands of years ago as you travel to the Canyon edge.
There's plenty of time at the Canyon to view and photograph remarkable overlooks, rugged lava flows, the Colorado River and the magnificent Grand Canyon itself. Hear about the colorful history of ranchers, settlers and outlaws who inhabited and hid out in this unforgiving land as you enjoy an optional informative 30-minute hike around the canyon's rim. You also have the option to purchase a 1.5-hour Polaris 330 ATV ride from the ranch to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (approximately 45 minutes in each direction).
All that fresh air and natural wilderness will leave you hungry - but not for long. While you're having fun, Mom will be cookin' up the finest western style lunch, ready for your return to the Ranch where you'll enjoy a hearty meal. Your afternoon in the wild west is concluded with your flight back to Las Vegas and bus transport back to your hotel.
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Design this pretty key chain for your best friend and every time she grabs her keys, she will think of you!
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Step 1 Cut two of 10", 12" and 14" lengths of cord. Use one of each length to make one key chain.
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Improve live play flexibility, make it easier to switch between devices when editing.
Allow MIDI foot controllers to have a very useful place with reason (they are normally patch changer devices for guitar fx boxes).
Program change moved the current input device to a specific device. Each device is given a number when its added to the rack. The user needs the option to lock the number so that it doesnt change when other devices get deleted/added.
The user should have some kind of list management interface that lets them explicitly assign the program numbers for each device - suggest a simple list view of all devices. Maybe 3 columns: device name, pgram number and a tick box to make it selectable via PC. Moving stuff around in the list should maybe allow drag and drop for fast simple re-ordering.
Each MIDI controller can independently control a different reason device. Only the device issuing the PC message is re-assigned - all other devices keep their current assignments.
This would effectively make simple MIDI controller keyboards behave more like self contained advanced synth for live use.
Existing Alternatives:
Some will ask whats wrong with using the hardware interface and just changing channels?
Changing channels is often a fiddly function get at whereas prgramme change often has a dedicated set of buttons or a data knob - either way its usually very quick and easy to get at.
Foot controllers are optimised for simple program changing (for changing fx patches) and typically have MIDI channel assignment buried somewhere.
Getting a decent foot controller for this purpose (if the software supported it) could hugely streamline live transitions.
More than just live use - I for one tend to record into Reason in a manner that is more like live use than editing use, so being able to switch around on the fly helps me interact with the gear as quickly as ideas come up.
Also considered:
Instead of above PC behaviour, Bank select performs the same function and each device in turn has editable number patch lists.
This was rejected as more complex to navigate with and would not yield instant transition due to time taken to load a patch.
Also Banks select is not allways as conviently accessable as program change, though often the two are integrated together in a controller in some manner.
Still - it does get around the need to have everything you might use allready loaded into memory.
Maybe this is a future enhancement.
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Curtis LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 3, 1990) was a general in the United States Air Force.
- There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.
- Sherry, Michael (September 10, 1989). The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon, p. 287 (from "LeMay's interview with Sherry," interview "after the war," p. 408 n. 108). Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300044140.
- My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces.
- Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565. In an interview two years after the publication of this book, General LeMay said, "I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides"; reported in The Washington Post (October 4, 1968), p. A8. Many years later LeMay would claim that this was his ghost writer's overwriting.
- Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
- On the morality of the firebombing campaign [1])
- I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...
- Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 559.
- ...Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
- Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 560-561.
- China has The Bomb. [...] Sometime in the future--25, 50, 75 years hence--what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too. That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
- Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 561.
- We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — twenty percent of the population of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from starvation and exposure?
- Strategic Air Warfare: An Interview with Generals (1988)
- If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the shit out of them before they take off the ground.
- Conversation with presidential commissioner Robert Sprague (September 1957), quoted in Kaplan, F. (1991). The Wizards of Armageddon. Stanford University Press. Page 134.
- We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?
- From his autobiography, also requoted in Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', p. 596
- As far as casualties were concerned I think there were more casualties in the first attack on Tokyo with incendiaries than there were with the first use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The fact that it's done instantaneously, maybe that's more humane than incendiary attacks, if you can call any war act humane. I don't, particularly, so to me there wasn't much difference. A weapon is a weapon and it really doesn't make much difference how you kill a man. If you have to kill him, well, that's the evil to start with and how you do it becomes pretty secondary. I think your choice should be which weapon is the most efficient and most likely to get the whole mess over with as early as possible.
- The World at War: the Landmark Oral History from the Classic TV Series, p. 574
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- I used to receive a hundred calls a year from people who wanted me to get into the Green Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, because that's where the Air Force stored all the material gathered on UFOs. I once asked Curtis LeMay if I could get in that room, and he just gave me holy hell. He said, 'Not only can't you get into it but don't you ever mention it to me again.'
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inscribed with the artist's monogram and dated 'CA 60' (on the largest element)
hanging mobile-painted sheet metal and wire
30 x 67in. (76.2 x 167.64cm)
Perls Gallery, New York.
Irving Galleries, Milwaukee.
Private Collection, Milwaukee (acquired from the above in 1976).
By descent from the above to the present owner in 1988.
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum,
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, 11 September-1 November 1987.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application no.
"I want to make things that are fun to look at, that have no propaganda value whatsoever." (A. Calder quoted in S. Rodman,
Conversations with Artists
, New York 1957, p. 140).
While a playful aspect is readily evident in Alexander Calder's iconic hanging mobiles, it is not just fun that Calder strived to express in his sculptural work. Beauty, movement and color are the three most basic tenets that he sought to his infuse into each and every of his works. Calder's unique ability to create sculpture of exquisite beauty and harmony are further mystified by their ability to remain perfectly balanced when set in motion by just the smallest amount of wind. The nine elements that compose Maripose are strung together with a series of bended wire mechanisms which allow them to each move independently of each other while still evoking a sense of the whole. As the mobile gently moves in a breeze, the elements will swing to and fro but will never touch each other. Viewed from below, as Calder intended, its almost as if the viewer is staring up in to the night sky watching a constellation or other stellar movement. Calder noted at one point that, "Since the beginning of my work in abstract art, and even though it was not obvious at the time, I felt that there was no better model for me to work from than the Universe.... Spheres of different sizes, densities, colors and volumes, floating in space, surrounded by vivid clouds and tides, currents of air, viscosities and fragrances-in their utmost variety and disparity." (A. Calder, quoted in C. Giménez & A.C.S. Rower (eds.),
Calder: Gravity and Grace
, London 2004, p. 52)
The construction of his mobiles presented a monumental task, requiring the skill of both an artist and an engineer. Unlike many artists of today's generation who often employ studios of assistants that limit the artist's actual hand in the finished work, Calder was a true craftsman who worked with his hands seven days a week until the very end of his career. While it is true that with his large scale stabiles he was assisted by various foundries and other companies out of necessity, with the hanging mobiles especially those of this scale, Calder utilized a completely hands on approach, with just his pliers and brush in hand. For Calder it was paramount to be hands on throughout the whole process in order to achieve the results he was looking for. On the occasion of his 1951 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, his long time friend and supporter James Johns Sweeney recalled that, "He has always avoided modeling in favor of direct handling - cutting, shaping with a hammer, or assembling piece by piece. Such an approach has fostered a simplicity of form and clarity of contour in his work. It allies him with Brancusi, Arp, Moore and Giacometti in their repudiation of virtuosity." (J.J. Sweeney, in
Alexander Calder
, exh. cat., New York 1951, reproduced in C. Giménez & A.S.C. Rower (eds.),
Calder: Gravity and Grace
, London 2004, p. 72)
The simplicity and clarity that he achieved in his work by the direct handling would allow Calder complete control in his creations. The process of achieving perfect harmony was no small feat, but when he did accomplish it, the sculptures were then imbued with a magical element of chance and movement. As Calder noted, "when everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprises." (A. Calder, in
, London 2004, p. 261). The delicate sense of balance conveyed in
, or any other of his striking mobiles for that matter, is strongly evident of Calder's talent as an engineer, and not simply an artist, or sculptor.
Achieving static balance in the mobiles was certainly a priority for Calder, but to have them sustain that delicate balance throughout continuous movement was a whole other feat. As noted earlier, the movement of the mobile is a quintessential element of each work. It is perhaps Jean-Paul Sartre's succinct summation of the brilliance of Calder's mobiles that make this point most clear. "A 'mobile,' one might say, is a little private celebration, an object defined by its movement and having no other existence. It is a flower that fades when it ceases to move, a 'pure play of movement' in the sense that we speak of a pure play of light...They
, that is all; they are absolutes. There is more of the unpredictable about them than in any other human creation. No human brain, not even their creator's, could possibly foresee all the complex combinations of which they are capable. A general destiny of movement is sketched for them, and then they are left to work it out for themselves. What they may do at a given moment will be determined by the time of day, the sun, the temperature or the wind. The object is thus always half way between the servility of a statue and the independence of natural events; each of is evolutions is the inspiration of a moment" (J. Sartre, 'The Mobiles of Calder", in
Alexander Calder
, New York 1947). The elegant and graceful forms are indeed both magical and inspirational, but it is with his use and application of bold colors, that Calder was able to truly revolutionize abstract sculpture and express his real genius.
Speaking about color to Katherine Kuh in an interview in 1962, Calder explained that he wanted "things to be differentiated. Black and white are first - then red is next - and then I get sort of vague. It's really just for differentiation, but I love red so much that I almost want to paint everything red. I often wish that I'd been a fauve in 1905' (A. Calder, quoted in K. Kuh,
The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists
, New York 1962, reproduced at www.calder.org). In Maripose we see the typical black and white elements, and even the red that Calder loved so much, but here he has added blue and yellow to further heighten the visual impact of the piece. Color was, for Calder, not simply a representational concern, but an emotional one. In fact, Calder's choice of bold fluid colors and the juxtaposition of them is reminiscent of the work of the modern master Piet Mondrian. In fact his interest in Abstraction was first piqued when he visited Mondrian's studio in Paris in 1930. He remarked about the visit, "I was particularly impressed by some rectangles of color he had tacked on his wall in a pattern after his nature. I told him I would like to make it oscillate -- he objected" (Calder, quoted in C. Giménez & A.S.C. Rower (eds.),
Calder: Gravity and Grace
, London 2004, p. 52).
In a sense, Mondrian's sublime abstractions can be seen as very closely tied to Calder's works. The fine lines of wire connecting each colored element can be compared to the black dividing lines of Mondrian's paintings. The white voids in the paintings equivalent to the negative space surrounding the elements of Calder's sculptures. Both of the artist's works convey fine lyrical qualities, but it is only Calder's mobiles that are able to express such a sublime sense of movement combined with a delicate balance of structure and color. The addition of blue and yellow to the typical red, black and white, imbue Maripose with an even more intense ethereal quality that when confronted from either up close or afar present an almost divine vision of artistic perfection.
As critic Michel Ragon so eloquently remarked, "a Calder is a sort of chandelier, which like all chandeliers hangs from the ceiling, but which, in contrast to other chandeliers, is not used as a light fixture, but as a perch on which to rest our dreams." (M. Ragon in
, Cologne 1998, p. 20).
"The 'mobiles,' which are neither wholly alive nor wholly mechanical, and which always eventually return to their original form, may be likened to water grasses in the changing currents, or to the petals of the sensitive plant, or to gossamer caught in an updraft. In short, although 'mobiles' do not seek to imitate anything because they do not 'seek' any end whatever, unless it be to create scales and chords of hitherto unknown movements - they are nevertheless at once lyrical inventions, technical combinations of an almost mathematical quality, and sensitive symbols of Nature, of that profligate Nature which squanders pollen while unloosing a flight of a thousand butterflies; of that inscrutable Nature which refuses to reveal to us whether it is a blind succession of causes and effects, or the timid, hesitant, groping development of an idea" (J. Sartre, "The Mobiles of Calder", in
Alexander Calder
, New York 1947).
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This was for every guy who ever had a mid-life crisis and tried to do something nobody thought could be done. Fifty-year-old Jockey Gary Stevens took Oxbow to the front early and never looked back on the way to an upset victory in the 138th Preakness Stakes that was truly one for the ageless.
Oxbow was a 15-1 shot when he left the gate, and he wasn't the one beating the longest odds at Old Hilltop on Saturday. Stevens became the first grandfather ever to win a Triple Crown race, and he did it against a Kentucky Derby winner — Orb — that was considered almost unassailable.
If you want some perspective, boxer George Foreman was only in his mid-40s when he came out of retirement and reclaimed the heavyweight championship with a stunning victory over Michael Moorer in 1994. Jack Nicklaus was 46 when he shocked the world and won his final Masters.
Stevens retired in 2005 after a career that spanned 26 years and included five Triple Crown victories. He won the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1996 was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame the following year. He had done it all, so he moved on to a career as as a network television race analyst.
He has never looked his age, but keep in mind that we're talking about a guy who has been around so long, he rode Seabiscuit.
OK, that was when he played George Woolf in the movie, but you get the idea. When you've been on this Earth for a half-century, the last place you're supposed to be is on the back of a 1,200-pound animal traveling 35 mph in traffic. But Stevens got the itch and announced in January that he was getting back in the saddle.
It hadn't exactly been a dream ride until Saturday, but Stevens knew that it was all going to be worth it as Oxbow headed around the far turn and seemed to put the second jewel of the Triple Crown on cruise control.
"I fully expected that Orb or possibly Departing and Will Take Charge would be making a run,'' Stevens said. "But I came into the stretch so loaded. I couldn't believe that no one challenged me going into the far turn, but when no one did, I said, 'I think everybody's in trouble right now.'"
He was right, of course. Orb went off at 3-5 and nobody else was better than 8-1. The betting public was all but certain that the quest for the first Triple Crown since 1978 would continue on to Belmont Park.
Stevens wasn't so sure. Oxbow didn't hit the board in the Kentucky Derby, but he was a lot more competitive than his sixth-place finish might suggest.
"Just to reiterate that he ran a huge race in the Kentucky Derby,'' Stevens said. "I don't consider that we were really part of that fast, early pace. That [Orb] was the leader that day, and we were five lengths off of it. This horse has such a high cruising speed that he'll fool you a little bit. I was very comfortable and he was very comfortable in the Kentucky Derby.
"When I hit the half-mile pole, the leader was out there a ways. Normandy Invasion came up outside of me and that forced me to move possibly a bit earlier than I wanted. ... I won't say that backfired on us, but I learned a heck of a lot about Oxbow, what he did when he was breathing fire a little bit. Everybody else caved in, he didn't."
There was a point during Stevens' comeback when he was almost ready to cave in. There haven't been a lot of victories over the past four months. He won three races during a short meet at Keeneland, but he had not been in the winner's circle since moving on to Churchill Downs.
"I've been really questioning myself, and when riders go through slumps, I don't care if you're 15 years old or 30 years old, you start changing your stirrups on your saddles and this or that," Stevens said. "I told myself, 'You know what, if it's meant to be, it's not going to matter where your stirrups are. It's going to matter what horse you're riding.'"
In this case, it also mattered who was training that horse, since it was also D. Wayne Lukas who gave him his first opportunity to win a Triple Crown race back in 1988.
"Wayne put me on the map,'' Stevens said. "When you win that first classic your phone starts ringing. People want you. That's why I got the call for Oxbow this year dating all the way back to 1988. But I'm not going to lie to you, to win a classic at 50 years old after seven years in retirement ... it doesn't get any better than this. This is super, super sweek, and it happened for the right guy. All the stars were aligned."
Lukas, who said before the race that he chose Stevens because there is no substitute for experience, had no reason to regret that decision.
"We got a Hall of Fame ride,'' he said, "and that was not a surprise."
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NEW YORK — Luol Deng scored a season-high 33 points in the Chicago Bulls' third victory over New York this season, a 108-101 win Friday that sent the Knicks to their season-high third straight loss.
Topping the 29 points he scored here last month, Deng shot 13 of 18 from the field and also led the defensive effort that contained Carmelo Anthony in the decisive first half of his return from a one-game suspension.
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This was a really fun guitar to unbox :) the thing was set up and intonated perfectly right out of the box. The strings are pretty thin that came with it but I'm looking forward to throwing some elixir mediums on there soon. The guitar is a lot brighter than my SG special with the right amount of warmth creating a nice contrast. My first bigsby type vibrato bar; I do feel like the bar is too low making it difficult to do simultaneous bending on the lower strings. Enough nay-say. This thing is a real beauty, here to stay!
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Bought it because it was so beautiful
Fun to play but it MUST be plugged into an amp. - Acoustically it's a bit thin (A Gretsch it's NOT)
Sure looks and feels like a much more expensive guitar.
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We went to look at a Gretch 5420T, and as we came into the store, my wife pointed out a "pretty" Ivory colored Ibanez Artcore AF75TDV with gold hardware near the front door. I touched it for a minute, untuned and unplugged and hmmm...OK? I was here looking for playability and sound by golly! So I promptly resumed my enmissioned route to the hollowbody rack.
After 3 hours and 11 guitars in all; Epiphone, Korean Gretch's and Ibanez, I wound up with a red Artcore AF75 in my hand. I loved the sound and feel. We almost bought it, before I remembered the white "pretty" one she had found by the door. I went got it, and brought it into the booth and plugged it into the same Eggnater I had tested the others with.
My wife had seen the look on my face when I played the first AF75 and when she saw me with the "pretty one" she told me it was my early christmas present (bless her heart!) Shucks I had to agree, and we took it home that day.
I dropped the bridge slightly with the hand adj knobs, and it plays beautifully without a buzz. The pickups in the Gretchs sounded very slightly fuller in the warm mid tones, but nothing to jump about. The Ibanez really tromped the sound of all the others. The tonal range goes from Warm, to chimey, to cutting between use of all the tone controls.
The neck is set into the body just like the Gretch 5420T. In fact the neck set, upper end neck kerf cut, and body construction (very sturdy) are so similar that if I had to speculate, I would almost say that either the same luthier makes both the Gretch 5420T and the Artcore. Either that or they built them with the same model manufacturing jigs.
I played this guitar with our worship band last week, and the sound blended beautifully. I will be bringing her(my wife named her Jennny)to more of our weekly services for those songs that neither the Strat or the accoustic will fit well. For someone looking for a hollowbody electric and not budgeted for a Gibson Byrdland, or Gretch Country Gentleman, I would recommend this guitar.
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I've been playing guitar for 40 years. Mostly acoustic and solid body electric. Have always pined for a hollow body electric, and after reading reviews and doing some research I bought this guitar (I got the Orange one).
Beautiful instrument, was well setup out of the box. Use it for playing live and recording. Great job Ibanez....wish I hadn't waited so long to buy this!!
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Love the sound - and the guitar. Would recommend it.
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This is a remarkable instrument for the money. I compared it against several other "box" guitars including the Gretsch 5120. Truthfully, there is no real comparison. This guitar is a beautiful work of craftmanship and is a pleasure to play. Just buy it and enjoy. You'll have no regrets. And I can say this as a performing musician having played guitar over a period of more than 50 years.
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Overall, this is a a very nice guitar for someone who can't afford a Gibson. I am very much pleased with it, more so than I expected. I would recommend it to anyone on a low budget who wants a decent playing hollowbody.
This guitar plays so nicely, much better than what I expected for the money. The body is hollow giving a full toned sound. It has a tremolo built into the tailpiece. Rolling bridge to minimize string slippage when using the tremolo; I haven't been having any excessive tuning issues, surprisingly. Ibanez ACH Humbuckers come stock in this guitar. They sound decent, especially when turned up. I replaced them with Gibson Classic 57's and now the guitar sounds great! I bought it as a backup guitar to my Les Pauls but I find myself using it much more than I had planned. It is a stunning looking guitar as well.
I've had it for about a year and a half. I have no issues with the quality of this instrument.
The value of this guitar to me is higher than what it actually sells for. It would probably sell for more with better pickups stock.
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I love it. I can't put it down. It is perfect for anyone wanting the vintage rockabilly sound or even blues or jazz. Very versatile.
With the gold hardware and tremolo bar, you can't lose.
Good solid guitar.
It appears that this guitar will last a long time if cared for. Much guitar for the money and the sound is much more than some of the more pricey brands.
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Very good!
I've had mine for almost three years now. I keep thinking that I'll somehow "upgrade", I tell my wife that I'll sell this Ibanez when the next axe arrives...never happens. Get your axe set up properly by a professional, put some heavy gauge strings on it, (at least 12s). That's what this screamer is made for. I've got 14 guitars, I'll never let this one go. Not to mention how impossibly beautiful it is.
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Normally I like to customize the heck out of my guitars to make them my own, but the only modification I've made to this guitar so far is to round off the nut for more comfort. It's already earning its first buckle rashes and battlescars and continues to amaze me every time I pick it up. It's a great starting point for creating your own unique hollow-body sound or replicating classic tones. If you have the money, you will not regret purchasing this guitar, even if your only use for it is as an ornament. It looks and plays as good as anything twice its value.
With golden hardware, immaculate finish, and proficient craftsmanship, the Artcore series of guitars are real beauties. My local store had the option of black or creme, and I had to buy the black one (although that red burst looks tasty as well).
This guitar is surprisingly light, as it is a full hollowbody. The body itself is narrow enough to be comfortable to play for smaller or female players. Unplugged, this guitar is as loud as any acoustic, but plays much more comfortably as the action is not quite as high. It has a nice bright sound thanks to the steel strings.
I find the factory pickups to be very nice-sounding for my style. They're rather warm, probably enhanced by the fact that I use flatwound strings, but the bridge pickup sounds clear and clean (for a humbucker) and the neck pickup has a beautiful softer tone for those creamy solos. When you select both at once, it's absolute heaven. Each pickup has its own volume and tone knob, which allows you to dial in exactly the sound you want - although even just cranked to 10 across the board it sounds phenomenal.
The Bigsby-style arm is the icing on the cake. The factory setup allowed it to go up or down one full step perfectly (or as perfectly as a Bigsby can get). It can be a little too noisy for using during live acoustic recording, as it groans a little when being adjusted. Deep-digging picking can cause the strings to jump off of their rollers on the bridge, but I only do that when I get carried away. There are so many neat things you can do with it that the benefits outweigh the scanty issues inherent to the mechanism.
Inside and out it is obvious that care has been taken in creating an instrument that looks, plays and sounds wonderful. No stray globs of glue, no cracks or poor joins, no loose parts, just sleek sexy craftsmanship the whole way through. The frets are well-defined and placed, and although I personally prefer chunkier ones these were a joy to play, especially legato. The tuners are smooth and precise in operation, and the pickup selector switch moves with military authority, no jiggling around. The only appreciable flaw I could find was a small burr on the finish in the inside of one of the soundholes, which was easily sanded down - and which went unnoticed by me for over a month.
For the money, I don't think you can find another hollow-body guitar that is even comparable in quality and overall versatility and playability. The fact that it sounds great plugged in or unplugged makes it a great starting guitar if you don't mind spending a little more than the average beginners instrument, and chances are you will fall in love and continue to use it long after you've established your chops.
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Tata Motors has recently unveiled the Tata 'Nano', a car designed to bring the comfort and safety of a car within the reach of thousands of families.
Chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Motors, Mr. Ratan N. Tata said, "I observed families riding on two-wheelers - the father driving the scooter, his young kid standing in front of him, his wife seated behind him holding a little baby. It led me to wonder whether one could conceive of a safe, affordable, all-weather form of transport for such a family. Tata Motors' engineers and designers gave their all for about four years to realise this goal. Today, we indeed have a People's Car, which is affordable and yet built to meet safety requirements and emission norms, to be fuel efficient and low on emissions. We are happy to present the People's Car to India and we hope it brings the joy, pride and utility of owning a car to many families who need personal mobility."
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The car will be available in both standard and deluxe versions and will offer a wide range of body colours and other accessories so that the car can be customised to an individual's preferences. It also has a rear-wheel drive, all-aluminium, two-cylinder, 623cc, 33ps, multi-point fuel injection petrol engine.
The car's safety performance exceeds current regulatory requirements. With an all sheet-metal body, Tata Motors says that it will have a strong passenger compartment, with safety features such as crumple zones, intrusion-resistant doors, seat belts, strong seats and anchorages, and the rear tailgate glass bonded to the body. The Nano also claims to have a lower pollution level than two-wheelers being manufactured in India today. The high fuel efficiency also ensures that the car has low carbon dioxide emissions, thereby providing the twin benefits of an affordable transportation solution with a low carbon footprint.
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This was originally posted to the Linux forum.
This thread has nothing to do with an OS issue. This has everything to do with reading the application's documentation (in other words, for your database program) and leearning how to install and run your application.
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After that i remove the Oracle software by deleting Oracle directory and try to install Oracle again but now whenever i am login as oracle user from root user i am getting bash promptI think the Generic Linux forum is correct. Reading the initial post again, probably what happened is that the OP deleted the Oracle installation and the hidden files in the Oracle User home directory. Perhaps the OP used the Oracle user's home directory also as the ORACLE_HOME directory (which was not a good idea).