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According to HUPD Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley, the cards will help his officers identify possible hate crimes more easily even though the University population is generally aware of what constitutes a hate crime...
Partly, HUPD Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley says that is because the police are issuing them for more types of crime this year...
...should someone jeopardize his business just for a 30-pack of Bud?" asks John Kervin...
...Americans, as we know, are a tinkering breed, and in the early '50s a fellow named Bud Isaacs got the idea of hooking up a pedal that would pull a single string to a preset pitch while the instrument was being played, making the movement of the note part of the style. The first recording to feature this was 1953's "Slowly," by Webb Pierce, with Isaacs on steel, and the cat was out of the bag. More pedals were added, and then knee levers, which provided new ways to raise or lower the pitch of the strings...
...Custom pedal steel, and I figure, what better time to tackle my old nemesis. It turns out my gift guitar was abused as a young instrument, and I send it to Nashville to be worked on by veteran steel repairman Mike Cass, a classic tinkerer in the Bud Isaacs mode, who has a few extra metal rods custom-made for me for what seems like a ridiculously low price. Mike gives me detailed explanations regarding the butterfly nuts and the torque of the rods underneath, which I pretend to understand, but even a fool can see that the guitar...