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Security keys for the provision of a secure service such as content provision are generated in an ancestral hierarchy, so that invalidation of a key in the hierarchy results in a need to reconfigure all other keys in the hierarchy to the extent they share common ancestry. When a user subscription to the service lapses, a decision on invalidation of their key is based in a determination of whether it's more costly to the subscriber to invalidate the key, or continue providing an unpaid-for service. Keys can be allocated to users from domains of the hierarchy on the basis of their economic value to the provider, with higher value users being allocated keys from domains which share fewer common ancestors with other users of other domains than those users share with each other, to minimise inconvenience to high value users of key reconfiguration.
1. A method for security keys management, the method comprising:
managing security keys generated from a tree-structured ancestral hierarchy and issued by or on behalf of a service provider in order to provide selective access to provision of a service, wherein invalidation of a key necessitates reconfiguration of each other key within the hierarchy to the extent another key and an invalidated key share common ancestry;
defining at least two groups of users of the service;
allocating within the hierarchy a distinct subtree for each group of users; and
issuing keys to users from subtrees within the hierarchy upon the basis of their grouping,
wherein the at least two groups of users are defined upon the basis of a predetermined policy which provides that users are grouped according to their perceived value to a provider of the service, and
wherein a first user group having the highest perceived value to the provider are allocated keys from a first subtree, and wherein keys from the first subtree share fewer ancestors with keys from other subtrees than said keys from other subtrees share with each other, and
wherein keys from the first subtree share only one ancestor with said keys from other subtrees.
2. A method according to
3. A method according to
4. A method according to
5. A method for security key management, the method comprising:
managing security keys generated from a tree-structured ancestral hierarchy and issued by or on behalf of a service provider in order to provide selective access to provision of a service, wherein invalidation of a key necessitates reconfiguration of each other key within the hierarchy to the extent another key and an invalidated key share common ancestry;
defining at least two groups of users of the service;
allocating within the hierarchy a distinct subtree for each group of users; and
issuing keys to users from subtrees within the hierarchy upon the basis of their grouping,
wherein the at least two groups of users are defined upon the basis of a predetermined policy which provides that users are grouped according to a perceived susceptibility of them ceasing to require the service, and a first user group having the highest perceived susceptibility are allocated keys from a first subtree, and wherein keys from the first subtree share fewer ancestors with keys from other subtrees than said keys from other subtrees share with each other,
wherein keys from the first subtree share only one ancestor with said keys from other subtrees.
The present invention relates to the management of security key distribution, most typically within a community of anonymous users all of whom are sharing a secure service, which may be the provision of content or the provision of a resource for example.
One example of such a situation is one in which a large number of anonymous users subscribe to a service providing shared content which is updated on a regular basis. To protect the interests of the provider of the content such content is usually distributed to bona fide users (also known herein as "subscribers") in an encrypted form. This prevents non-subscribers from gaining access to the content and thereby diminishing its financial value to existing subscribers, and thus ultimately the pecuniary advantage that may be obtained by the provider. In one example each subscriber is given a key which they may use to decrypt content; to protect the interests of subscribers, such a key should ideally neither identify them nor enable such identification. However, it has long been established that managing the provision and maintenance of security keys to a large group of anonymous subscribers is difficult. For example, one way in which both the anonymity of the subscribers may be preserved and the provision of keys may be made simple is to give each user the same security key, however this has negative implications on the security offered by such a single key. In an alternative key management method, each user is issued with a key which is unique, at least within the provider of the content, but which does not identify the subscriber, and which functions to decrypt only content sent to that subscriber. In such a scenario, upon lapsing of the subscription, it is possible to invalidate this unique key by ceasing to make content available in a form which is decryptable using the key issued to the now-lapsed subscriber. However owing to the manner in which such keys are generated in the vast majority of instances, the revocation of even such unique keys from lapsed subscribers requires a reconfiguration of all other subscriber's keys, at least to some extent, and eventually, when sufficient keys have been invalidated, the need to reissue keys in their entirety to all subscribers.
A first aspect of the present invention relates to the revocation of unique keys from lapsed subscribers, and more particularly the basis upon which it is decided to revoke such keys. According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of managing security keys provided to users of a service comprising the steps of:
In a preferred embodiment the policy is based on economic grounds, so that instead of invalidating a key simply on a contractual basis because a subscription has lapsed for example, the cost to the provider of doing so is assessed, and invalidation takes place at an optimised instant in time from the point of view of the provider. Accordingly the first value preferably represents the cost to the provider of invalidating a key, and the second value represents the cost of providing the service to an ineligible user. The first value may typically include what may be thought of as consequential costs, including one or more of: the cost to the provider of disrupting the provision of the service as a result of having to reconfigure all the other issued keys to some extent, and the likelihood that the invalidation of a key will trigger the need to reissue all keys in their entirety.
The second value preferably takes into account aggregated costs of providing network capacity and server capacity to all currently ineligible users, and the economic effects of dilution of value of the service to remaining users, such as for example any consequentially increased tendency to pay subscriptions late, for example.
Frequently different levels of service are offered, and under different commercial terms, such as length of a subscription paid for in advance (and privileges associated with that for example). A second and independent aspect of the present invention relates to an appreciation of the fact that, where security keys are generated in a structured manner, such as a hierarchy for example, it may be advantageous to take into account user characteristics, and to allocate keys from the hierarchy on the basis of such characteristic.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing security keys generated from an ancestral hierarchy and used to provide selective access to provision of a service, wherein invalidation of a key necessitates reconfiguration of each other key within the hierarchy to the extent another key and an invalidated key share common ancestry, the method comprising the steps of:
According to one embodiment, a group of users who have contracted to a high level of service and are therefore perceived to be valuable to the provider are allocated keys from a first domain within the hierarchy, an important characteristic of which is that keys from the first domain share fewer ancestors with keys from other domains of the hierarchy than those other keys share with each other. Consequently, when a key is invalidated from a domain other than the first domain, the keys of users from the first group require less reconfiguration than the keys from any other domain, so that the most valuable users are inconvenienced the least.
Embodiments of the present invention will now be described, by way of example, and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Referring now to
To protect the economic value of the content the provider prohibits assimilation thereof by persons who are not in possession of a key, while issuing such a key to each subscriber. The prohibition may operate at any one (or more) of the stage of a process which includes the steps of: retrieving the content from the server via the network; saving the content on a subscriber's client machine; and consuming the content (e.g. in the case of visually assimilable content, reading it). The general examples given above are applicable to the provision of a resource in the form of content; in the case of the provision of some other resource, for example the use of a particular hardware element on the server machine, the prohibition is likely to operate in a somewhat different manner. Allocation and management of keys is performed at the server by a key management program KMP. The precise manner of operation of both prohibition upon the availability of a resource, and use of a key to provide exception to such prohibition are not germane to the present invention, and will not therefore be discussed in any detail. More complete information may however be obtained from "Key Management for Multicase: Issues and Architectures; D. Wallner, B. Hardner & R. Agee, available online at the website www dot ietf dot org backslash rfc backslash rfc2627 dot txt the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Technical issues which must be taken into account in management of the provision of keys to subscribers result not merely from solely technical considerations; commercial considerations similarly give rise to technical issues. One such commercial consideration is the desire of many subscribers to remain anonymous. There are many possible reasons for this. For example, where the resource is content, the nature of the content may be such that there is a degree of moral opprobrium associated with persons consuming it, such as for example sexually explicit material. Alternatively, there may be commercial reasons for wishing to remain anonymous, for example where a subscriber to the content is a commercial undertaking, knowledge of the nature of the content to which they are subscribing may provide competitors with useful information regarding their operations or future intentions. It is therefore necessary in such a situation for the key which is distributed to each subscriber to be intrinsically incapable of identifying the subscriber. A further commercial consideration is the frequent commercial need to provide for differing levels of subscription, corresponding to different levels of content provision, or different levels of service associated with such content provision. For example "Gold" users of an online news service are able to gain access to web pages which are updated every hour, whereas "Bronze" users can only access pages which are updated once per day. Preferably therefore, the key structure should enable a provider who offers differing levels of service to reflect these service levels in any key management activities.
One method in which encryption keys may be generated is illustrated in highly abstracted and simplified form in
A number of consequences flow from these characteristics. Firstly, and most obviously, the root AO cannot ever be issued to a subscriber, since this would compromise the security provided by all of the other keys in the hierarchy. Secondly, and following on from this, the higher the generation of a given key, the more costly it is to issue that key to a subscriber in terms of the number of lower generation keys which are compromised as a result and are therefore redundant within the hierarchy—either for use as issued keys to subscribers or for generating descendent keys (since any descendent keys would likewise be compromised). Thirdly, the length of the key will indicate to its provenance in terms of generation within the hierarchy.
In the tree of
The use of a key in the process of distributing secure content to a subscriber will now be described briefly with reference to
The process of authentication does not include any process in which the key submitted by the subscriber is mapped to an identity for them, since this would inherently compromise their anonymity. Rather, the process simply involves determining whether the key is a genuine key (i.e. one generated from the tree), and whether the level of content (for example, as mentioned above, hourly update rather than daily, for example) indicated within by the key corresponds to that being requested by the user. Thus, presentation of an authenticated key is per se verification of entitlement to the content, meaning that responsibility for secure retention of the key is entirely the subscriber's, since a key appropriated from the subscriber by an unscrupulous third party would enable that third party to gain access to the content. A further consequence is that the subscriber bears the entire burden of responsibility for the protection of their anonymity vis-a-vis their subscription to the content, in that by gaining access to their machine, it is possible to ascertain their identity, and a mapping of their identity to their key exists implicitly on their machine since this is where the key is stored.
The specific process of authentication involves firstly location of the key #D2 within the tree of
The above description of both the tree method of generating such keys, and the simplified scenario of the use of a key thus generated is both simplified and incomplete (as mentioned above a fuller explanation of this being provided in the document referenced by Wallner et al), and serves merely to provide sufficient information for an understanding of the context of the present invention, which, in imprecise terms, may be thought of as relating to the management of key allocation and maintenance in a commercial context.
A first aspect of the present invention relates to the management of keys in the event that a subscriber (or put in more general terms, an eligible or bonafide user) becomes ineligible, for example as a result of cancellation of a subscription (whether this is an active event, or by virtue of an existing subscriber failing to renew or pay for the next periodic subscription). Referring again to
Furthermore, and notwithstanding this, invalidation of any key results in a need for at least a degree of reconfiguration of any other key, to the extent it shares any of its ancestors, and then transmission of such reconfigured keys to the subscribers to which such keys have been allocated. More specifically, keys which only share root key A0 as an ancestor will require only one reconfiguration (and corresponding transmission of such a reconfigured key), while those sharing two generations of ancestor require two reconfigurations and therefore two transmissions of reconfigured keys, and so on.
It is thus readily apparent that invalidating any key has far reaching consequences. In the specific example of Key K4, its ancestral path is F3-C2-B1-A0, and so it shares:
In addition to this cost, and as referenced above, the allocation of any key to a subscriber has an opportunity cost associated with it, in the form of the number of descendant keys which are redundant as result; the higher the generation of the allocated key, the greater the opportunity cost. Cancellation of a key may thus also be thought of as realising the associated opportunity cost: for example cancelling key #D2 amounts to cancellation of a total of seven keys (from node D2 and its six descendant keys), which in the (unrealistic) illustrated example constitutes a significant proportion of the total number of keys in the tree. Conventional thinking provides that the timing of the cancellation of a subscription in the commercial sense is to be treated as an event which requires corresponding action to be taken from a computational perspective; once a subscription has lapsed the key providing them with access to the material to which the subscription relates must be invalidated forthwith—either by the impregnation of a "time to live" element within the key at its allocation, and/or by means of other steps. One aspect of the present invention is based upon a re-appraisal or perhaps more appositely a re-appreciation of the commercial imperative underlying the reason for issuing (for example) content in secured form, viz to protect the economic value of the content to the provider by limiting the supply to subscribers. While it follows from this premise that in macroscopic terms every action taken by the provider which makes the content more readily available at a lower cost (or no cost at all) will dilute the economic value of that content, since no one will be willing to pay for something which can be obtained free of charge, relatively minor violations of the premise that content is only provided where a valid subscription is in force may yield a net economic benefit to the provider. For example in a case where the economic dilution is small (say one subscription has been in a lapsed state for less than a week), but the consequences of an unyielding application of the principle will result in a large economic penalty to the provider (for example invalidation of a key constitutes a significant contribution to the need to rebuild the tree ab initio).
Referring once again to
Balanced against this cost to the provider, is the economic loss they will suffer as a consequence of failing in fact to cancel the subscription by invalidating the key #D2. Elements contributing to this loss include the contribution to the total cost of providing the necessary network and server capacity, the economic effect of dilution of content value (including the potential exploitation of any leniency exhibited by the provider to late payment, for example), but zero marginal cost with regard to the creation or storage of the content, since both these operations must be conducted regardless. It is thus possible to create a policy in which all of these factors are taken into account, suitably weighted to reflect the specific circumstances (or indeed personal preferences) of the provider, so that on each occasion a quantitatively based decision may be made with regard to the invalidation of a key may be made.
One such policy provides for a continual decision making process on each occasion that a subscription lapses, and which takes into account the aggregated lapsed subscriptions at that instant in time to establish whether the costs a provider will incur as a result of invalidating a given subscriber's key are greater than costs to the provider of maintaining an unpaid-for service for all lapsed subscribers whose key are not invalidated at that instant in time; when the latter becomes greater than the former, all outstanding keys for lapsed subscriptions are invalidated. The manner in which this policy operates is shown in more detail below.
1. The Cost to the Provider of Maintaining an Unpaid-for Service to Lapsed Subscribers:
The Network Capacity Cost is a widely varying cost which depends greatly upon the nature of the service provided. Thus for example in the case of content for which a high service level subscription has previously been paid, the content may include video streaming and other high data-rate transmission content items, in which case the cost of providing the content service is likely to be relatively high, whereas low level content service is relatively inexpensive to provide. As with other costs, the true cost to the provider is the aggregated cost due to all instant lapsed subscribers.
The network capacity cost can be quantified as follows:
The Economic Dilution Cost is quantified as follows:
Thus the expression:
This is equal to:
Consequential Cost of breach of existing Sevice Level Agreements (SLAcost) as a result of having to reissue keys+Cost of loss of consequentially disaffected customers (POCcost) as result of key reissue+Key generation costs
NB in the case of each of SLAcost and POCcost the parameters given above are for average values. More accurate calculations can take individual values into account by summation if desired.
Where probabilities have been used in these calculations, typically they are probabilities which are obtained empirically from historical data.
As referenced briefly above, one important aspect of this policy is that on each occasion a subscription lapses, the policy is applied to determine for that individual subscription, whether it is economically advantageous to invalidate the key of that subscriber. In this connection it should be noted that the potential costs of failing to invalidate the key of that subscriber are calculated by aggregating the cost of maintaining unpaid-for service to all lapsed subscribers whose keys have not been invalidated, and this aggregated cost is compared with the cost of invalidating the individual key under consideration. In the event that the individual key is invalidated, the still-current keys of other lapsed subscribers are not however invalidated. For this reason a preferred feature of this policy is the periodic re-calculation in accordance with the policy of for each still-current key, since the same calculation performed subsequently may well yield a different result in view of subsequent events. For example, in a situation where the key of the first of ten lapsed subscribers was not invalidated when the policy was first applied, this may have been because the aggregated contribution to the cost of maintaining unpaid-for service to the other nine lapsed subscribers was not taken into account (because temporally their subscription lapsed subsequently, and so these costs were not present at that time); a subsequent recalculation may therefore yield a different result.
Eventually, notwithstanding the ameliorative effects of the policy elucidated above, the tree will have to be rebuilt in its entirety. A further independent aspect of the present invention relates to the manner in which keys are allocated from such a tree, and provides that this is performed on the basis of commercial subscriber characteristics. Thus for example, in accordance with one model of policy, a subscriber who has paid in advance for a whole year's subscription is economically valuable to the provider, and so a subscriber who it is desirable to keep happy. It may therefore be economically advantageous to allocate such a customer, and customers of a similar commercial value, keys of a relatively high generation, and from a part of the tree which is not affected by the invalidation of lower generation key and the consequential reconfiguration which must take place beyond the reconfiguration of the root key. Less economically valuable users will be allocated keys from generations and parts of the tree which are increasingly susceptible to increasing reconfiguration as a result of the invalidation of other keys in the tree.
Referring to
In an alternative application of this architecture, a different commercial perspective may yield an opposite outcome. For example, where a group of subscribers have paid a long term subscription, or are contractually bound to such a subscription, it may be desirable to allocate keys to them from a domain where they will have to undergo frequent key reconfigurations when another subscriber's key is invalidated. This will be inconvenient, but because they are already committed to a long term subscription, will not result in any short to medium term loss of revenue by the provider. Keys from a domain in which subscribers do not suffer the inconvenience of large-scale key reconfigurations (e.g. the domain allocated to Gold subscribers in
In a further aspect of the present invention a decision can be made by the provider on the basis of policy whether to secure content to a subscriber at all. For example, in a situation where a subscriber has committed only to a trial subscription period, and to only a low level of content with a relatively short commercial life (e.g. in the case of a news service, where contemporaneous content is the sine qua non of the service), it may be the case that the risk and potential consequences of misappropriation of the content provided to this user by third parties are such that it is not commercially worth cost, in terms of key allocation and management, of securing the content at all, and so no key is issued. In such a situation the user will most preferably be unaware of this and a placebo key issued to the user will simply identify to the provider that no authentication is required prior to provider the level of content specified therein.
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There are not many NBA players who can tell a personal story like Jeff Green can. What Jeff endured a couple years back was one major obstacle in his life, personally and professionally.
He had plenty of doubts and concerns before the surgery; how would his life continue? "I didn't know if I was ever going to play again. I didn't know if I was going to make it through the surgery. I didn't know if I was going to see my family again," Green had to say. It was all he could think of.
Luckily, the heart issue is now just a story to tell for Jeff.
Now he has certainty. He's got a nice contract and a starting role on the Celtics. As simple as that may sound, for Jeff it was huge. "That day when I signed the contract I cried. I mean, to come from heart surgery to sign any contract it was a blessing."
"Nobody knows what I've been through; nobody knows what I'm still going through," Jeff said last year. And he's right, no one but he can know. What we know is that he worked his ass off to come back, and not only that, but to come back as a great NBA player.
He showed to us what he can do and what he can become last season. He has some new aggression and passion, has a soft jumper, and a desire to win. Last year's playoffs, in which he averaged 20.3 points on 44FG% and 46% from downtown, may have just been the beginning of everything.
By all means, Green's goal for next season should be winning the Most Improved Player Award. I'm not saying he will win it; I'm saying he has the tools to do it and should go for it.
Last season, Green's averages were 12.8 PTS, 3.9 REB and 1.6 AST. For comparisons sake, Paul George's averages the season before he won the MIP were 12.1 PTS, 5.6 REB, and 2.4 AST. The thing I see is that Green has more room to improve, at least stat-wise.
As a plus, Green will have the ball on his hands on a team with not many other available scorers, while George had David West, Roy Hibbert and even George Hill. Green has Rondo and other guys who have never been able to score consistently on the NBA. Jeff will be in charge of scoring the ball next season. Besides, George did not have a pass first point guard there to facilitate his job. Guess who does have one next to him?
Not everything is scoring, I know, but allow me to reinforce that aspect. Many will say Jeff will be far less efficient with the ball in his hands so much. I see that and I respect it but let me go against it. For one, Green's jump shooting should not take a step back by any means. Really, with a long summer to work in his game, it should have improved, even. Second, Green's best stretch last season was when the Celtics basically allowed him to do whatever he wanted. "Just go save us, Jeff." Now, he will have that role again, but for the majority of the season Rondo will be there to help him. Not only helping him run the offense and carry the load, helping him set his own offense. Rondo can give him set-feet jumpers, Rondo can actually throw the ball to him on the post (sorry Avery), and most importantly, Rondo can run with him. Getting 2 or 3 fast-break scores a game will be huge for Jeff's efficiency and with Rondo and other quick guys by his side (sorry KG and Paul) that should be happening a lot next season. Also, any NBA player will tell you how much dunks boost their confidence. Jeff should be getting lots of those on the break. Just run and Rondo will find you.
An award is not just scoring, but that's a big time part of it. Still, his other stats should be on the ups, too. Early in the season without Rondo, Jeff will have the ball in his hands all the time, allowing him to create for other as much as for himself. His drives usually ended up in him shooting or getting fouled, but that was because the attention was not on him. Now, it will be on him, meaning other guys will be open for shots and cuts. Jeff will find those open guys, and there are your assists. As for rebounds, Jeff never has been and probably never will be a great rebounder, but more minutes will allow him to get more, simple as that.
For Jeff, he has to play with all he passion he has inside. He has to play with a desire to be the best on the court every second of the game. Celtics fans know how he's willing to work, because if he wasn't he would not be playing basketball right now. Iron-Man will bring the effort and heart to put a huge season out there.
When he is at the top, let KG's words come back to you. "You know what it is, he's so good that we forget he's been through major heart surgery. That's what you forget."


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John reviews a late 1990′s Epiphone Les Paul Nuclear Extreme Limited Edition, using a Roland Cube30 amp. All of the guitar reviews are on the Guitar Reviews section of the website, www.johnhguitar.com
Epiphone Les Paul Nuclear Extreme review
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- April 19, 2009 at 12:08 am
Some epiphones are decent. I tried out the 1966 reissue sg which looks great and has a sweet tone. However if you picked up a good old gibson, even the faded series, the epiphone just doesn't compare. Epi's are good for a the budget conscious player which is why gibson started epiphone in the first place.
- April 22, 2009 at 1:37 am
Omg XD it´says "WW III" :O I dident know world war III exicsted ^^
sorry for my bad humor. well awsome guitar ! thanks for review!
- April 23, 2009 at 6:27 am
Thank you for the advice
I have tryed some mid range PRS guitars and they are more versatile.
A sound very close to the LP Studio and the possibility to have a strong and crystal sound like some Fender guitars.
… and also Hagström has a wonderful Super Swede model at 400 euros … amazing !
Bye my friend.
- April 25, 2009 at 2:59 pm
You should try out a Gibson LP studio. They are possibly lesser quality than some epiphone LP's. Also, if you are worried about build quality and still want a cheaper paul than a gibson, check out epiphones elitist line.
- April 27, 2009 at 4:37 am
Thanks for the name clarification.
- April 29, 2009 at 1:11 am
This guitar is called the epiphone les paul extreme. I really perfer this guitars headstock and fret markers. Otherwise, it is ugly as sin.
- April 30, 2009 at 5:29 pm
no no no no no, epiphone was already a music company when gibson took them over and started making lower grade guitars. I have an epi les paul and i LOVE it. it has a great sound, its perfect.
- May 2, 2009 at 9:14 am
i actually like that finish
- May 4, 2009 at 1:06 am
Impossible, i have tested two today and their is a huge difference compared to a Gibson LP Standard.
So huge that i was unable to buy it … even 1/4 cheaper !
- May 5, 2009 at 2:01 am
I had an epi LP for years. I went the whole rewire route. SD PAF humbuckers, Gibson Pots, NOS caps, Switch craft jack and switch. I wired it as a 50′s LP. Don't get me wrong. I played it for years.Its a great starter instrument. Its a great guitar to learn what makes a guitar works. I bought a new Gibson LP standard this year. There is no comparison.
- May 7, 2009 at 4:31 pm
you act like they suck horribly. why?
- May 9, 2009 at 10:42 am
You're complaining about the guitar weighing too much? aww, who gives fuck? Some of the Epiphones coming out now are great, some are not. Gotta try them to find a good one, same with the MIM's Fenders, I got a horrible Strat, traded it back and got a Tele, which was great
- May 9, 2009 at 11:28 am
looks like a giraffe skin, lol
- May 12, 2009 at 6:37 am
I'm just saying that a good Gibson guitar is a superior instrument. You get use to things when you don't have something to compare it with. After having a nice Gibson for a long time and then trying the EPI imported stuff it just doesn't cut it for me.
- May 14, 2009 at 10:41 pm
What do you have against Epiphone? I have an Epi Les Paul Special two and that baby is sweet!!!
- May 15, 2009 at 7:57 pm
O.K. so you buy that guitar $300. change all the hardware set the guitar up etc. invest,.. lets go crazy $500. more and still save? How much? About $2000. bucks….. The choice is easy….NUFF SAID.KEEPON STRUMMIN…DALLAS
- May 16, 2009 at 6:50 am
i have the epiphone les paul custom silverburst model. plays simular to a gibson
check out my vids
- May 16, 2009 at 11:55 am
Epiphone sucks, If I only had 4 or 5 hundred bucks to spend I would rather have a MIM strat. I have had absolutely no luck with anything made by Epiphone and the guitar weighs a tonne.
- May 18, 2009 at 3:53 am
He knows that, as we recorded a few other Epiphone reviews the same day where he went over that subject (I didn't post to YT). His exact words are,
"Gibson put out their budget line of guitars, their imported guitars, with the name Epiphone …"
which is not the same thing as saying they started Epiphone.
- May 19, 2009 at 7:16 am
someone who knows what theyre on about. you are a legend mate! keep it up!
- May 20, 2009 at 11:23 am
wtf?! gibson didnt start epiphone! they bought epiphone. les paul had a les paul with both companys before gibson had anything to do with epiphone. get it right mate
- May 23, 2009 at 3:52 am
Epiphone have also produced high-end instruments, like the Casino, and ES335 clones, as played by George Harrison, and John Lennon-who could afford Gibsons if so desired, but they chose and Epiphone for the tonality and quality of the Epiphone…
- May 25, 2009 at 10:42 am
i think its pretty cool because its an interesting colour and its not black…..LIKE EVERYONE ELSES GIBSON LES PAULS!!!!
- May 27, 2009 at 2:17 am
It is just pathetic. Epiphone is a great stuff and is an American brand as well (purchased by Gibson after the WW II). Great musicians use their instruments and are using them. And their Les Pauls have no problem with broken necks (talking about Quality Control, btw). This guy probably spent significant amount of time to find this nonsense color, cause I have never seen any Gibson product coming out with this bullshit design. If it's true, Gibson sucks, dear.
- May 28, 2009 at 5:48 pm
i REALLY dont like the color of that guitar…
- August 24, 2010 at 10:50 am
Holy crap this guitar is very hard to find. Curious why you decided to use that amp for the review when I don't think it gives it justice. But still your video sounded good thank you.
- December 18, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I have owned this Epiphone Les Paul Extreme for 10 years and I think it plays amazingly. I have owned many many high end guitars and/or played many high end guitars ranging from USA Fender Strats to BC Rich stuff and everything in between…thinking about it now, I wonder what happened to some of them…anyway, I owned a Gibson Flying V and I think that this Epiphone LP plays better and the sound was just about the same. The neck on this LP is very easy to play on and in person the paint job on it does not look that bad. I looked up the serial # on mine and it was made in 2001 which is the year before they moved the factory from Korea to China, so the quality is better on 2001 and earlier models.
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I've tried the right shoe on once. Knowing the strict Alden return policy, are there any options in trying to get it swapped for a smaller size? I know I can't break the last but I think I have slightly creased the inner side of the boot. I will go to the NYC store once I return and figure out what my exact size is.
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You are in for a treat. Got my day trippers on Friday. And wow—they are just as good looking as the original pics posted on Leffot. I haven't worn ravello before, but they seem to be right on.
I'll offer up some testimony I wish I had been able to find from others while they were on order... In sum, ½ size down on the grant fits very well...for me.
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My 9C shell LWBs are roomier than my 9D reverse chamois LWBs, so I believe the axiom that cordovan fits looser than other materials on the same last. My Leydon lasted 9.5D suede chukkas felt snugger than both of those when new, but they are now perfectly comfortable and not sloppy. The good gents at Leffot assured me that I should order the Grant-lasted DTs in the same size as my shell LWBs. I did, and after reading more claims that Grant was TTS, so began 13 months of fretting that they would be too tight. There are differing opinions on the Grant, and I suppose for good reason: If the sizing chart is to be used as a guide (I forget who gets credit for that), the Grant straddles the line between TTS and size down. Some say shell stretches, some say it doesn't; some say it merely molds. I was afraid that some stretching would be needed. These are comfy out of the box, and if these babies only loosen by breaking in the footbed, they'll be perfect. Perfect, as in mine.
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- Cheese sculptor Sarah Kaufmann next to her Veteran's Day cheese carving. (Photo: TBD Staff)
In the middle of the produce section of the Harris Teeter in Pentagon City sits 1,280 pounds of orange medium cheddar. Roped off on three sides and surrounded by shoppers snapping photos, the cheese is a modified replica of the Wounded Warrior sculpture—one soldier carrying another across his back.
Cheese sculptor Sarah Kaufmann buzzes about her creation in a pair of cow-print pants and glinting gold cheese-shaped earrings. "It looks like it could be a bronze," she says. "And it's cheese."
Carved from two 640-pound blocks of Wisconsin cheddar, the same sold in Harris Teeter under the store brand label, the piece was commissioned for Veteran's Day and the result of "a little engineering I dreamed up," Kaufmann says. Because cheese cannot hold its own weight, she had to insert vertical rods and other supports between the pieces before they were combined with a forklift. The actual sculpting took more than 50 hours.
Kaufmann, now based in San Diego but a Wisconsin native, has been carving cheese and nothing else for 15 years. After leaving her job as an art director for a commercial agency, she took up freelance cheese sculpture and went full-time six years ago.
Cheddar is her primary medium. "Cheddar is firm and solid and dense and consistent," she explains. "It comes in big blocks. These 640s work perfectly." When she can, Kaufmann works in other cheeses as well.
"I'll inlay white cheddar for teeth and eyeballs," she says. Other cheeses in her toolbox: "Gruyere, asiago, provolone, and aged goudas. Some pepperjack."
The worst cheese for sculpting (excepting, of course, the obviously soft varieties like feta or ricotta) is a wheel of Swiss, according to Kaufmann. "The holes are never where you want them," she says. "Swiss wheels, I avoid those. Unless I'm planning on doing a man on the moon."
Kaufmann isn't particularly caught up in the question of whether she's make art with a capital A or commercial work. "That's a lifelong debate," she says. "I sure can draw. I can draw as good as anyone with an MFA. …I always have a theme, a purpose, a client. But I make a beautiful visual."
Shoppers are reacting strongly to the piece, particularly those with a military connection. One veteran brought her a framed flag to set at the base of the sculpture. "They're coming in and telling me stories," Kaufmann says. "Cheese carving really brings out the stories."
And, no, she does not eat the cheese while working. "I'm carving a man," she explains. "I'm carving fingers. I forget I'm carving cheese. It's like a cake decorator. After the 1,000th cake, you stop licking the knife."


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Previously, i gave this bag high marks....I guess it is because I never needed it before today.
I flatted and went for my tube in my Lezyne bag.
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This compounded my flat tire problem. Why? Because there was a hole in my bag, there was a huge hole in my tube.
Super lame! I am really disappointed. I pimp lezyne pumps, the fire break hydropack, patch kits, levers, etc...but to be let down by a product thta is to add security is inexcusable.
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Well, the only thing idiotic is your idea that the post above compares the college students to cats. You have put the apples in the same bowl as the oranges—not me. My example of cats stuck in trees is as American as apple pie (or for you, perhaps, orange pie). We smile and applaud the 200 bucks spent to get the kitties out of the trees (you should see someone about your fantasies about mummified cats in a tree—that's disturbing), but publicly call footloose college students "idiots."
I do think the students were clearly wrong: but they were "irresponsible" (the chief should have said) and not "idiots," in my opinion. My post was really intended to point out that the professional chief of a fire dept should choose more professional speech for public consumption. The chief could have said this was dangerous irresponsible behavior and I would not have posted. If that were your son or daughter who decided to venture onto a roof (they didn't dive off a 50-foot cliff into a lake, like I did at that age), you would resent a professional government official publicly calling her or him an "idiot." At least if you weren't challenged yourself, you should resent that. Stay retired; that's your best chance.
I don't think these students should be charged--nor, from what's been said, should they be publicly called "idiots."
If a cat or kitten had been on the roof, the fire dept would have energetically saved the little fluffy cute thing for no charge at all to the feline, and we would have all cheered such a Leave it to Beaver episode.
The students might have made a mistake, but they deserved to be rescued. The firefighters are being paid by taxpayers whether they hang around the station, save a kitten, or help the 3 college students off the roof. In fact, getting the annoying students off the roof is perhaps good practice for when Kitty gets stuck in a similar situation.
College students are people too, and it's not like they tried to climb Mt. Greylock in a snowstorm or some such.... I wonder if the chief and may others may view them in the Santorumian "they're snobs" way, and so the chief felt comfortable in calling academic-seeking students by the gutteral term "idiots"
employers can learn things that they have no right to ask in interviews: are you planning on having a baby soon? do you support Santorum? are you a Wiccan? Any aspect of eligibility for employment that a potential employer engages in the process ought to be known beforehand by the applicant: getting a Facebook password allows a company to bypass ethical and legal standards in the applicant selection process. That's the main problem with this. You might not have anything to hide on Facebook, but if you post that you are a Mormon, there's plenty of people who would not hire you because that ain't americun religion, is it? sort of thing...
If a jury can find not guilty in the face of the facts in this case, the jury instruction process obviously needs to be changed. Reasonable doubt needs to be defined. Every juror in a capital murder case ought to have to take a seminar in understanding reasonable doubt before being in charge of either putting someone to death or letting them go. 2 plus 2 plus 2 might make 6, but with the jury instructions/rules of evidence as they are apparently being understood, they are only allowed to look at two 2's, the rules say (they think). Therefore, while they know the total is actually 6, based on the rules of court, they come up with a 4. Makes no sense in terms of reaching the truth, or justice
Most posters here seem to be missing the point, imo. The firefighters did shovel the snow... they said they were glad to. What they aren't glad to do is establish a precedent where off the cuff so to speak they are directed to do work not included in their Agreement/contract. Today, go shovel the snow boys. Tomorrow, based on that precedent, it's "go pick up the leaves the environmental crew left last week."... next week it's "City Hall needs a few more painters for the basement job"...
The union pres did the right thing to establish in documentation the firefighter's notice that they were asked to do work in a way that's not part of the agreed-upon process: that is, take notice for the future that we weren't unwilling to do the work, but let's establish an awareness among the two parties (workers vs. administration) that this was outside of contractual bounds.
By the way, I'm not a firefighter, and don't know any of them. But I do know give em an inch philosophy, and I don't judge the union harshly at all based on what's been written in this news article.
A university is a "collection" of colleges, offering higher than undergrad degrees (Masters makes it then). This is a move on the part of professional programs like the new nursing one at Westfield State, the Business program, CJ, etc. WSC has always been a "liberal arts" mission college-- the programs that are not humanities desired to be known as a university, and apparently most administrators agreed... the humanities professors don't like this a bit, I'm told. It is true there are more programs at WSC than humanities ones-- but while semantics can be used to claim that there is a "collection of colleges" on the WSC (WSU) campus, it still smells like a college, tastes like a college, and is, in fact, in my opinion, a college
It is very laudable that the newspaper is admitting mistakes and trying to set the record straight.
Yet the duty is not done, Greg. A cursory look into this young man's background will show he was a fine human being. We sent him to Iraq and he withstood the pressures of a young soldier facing potential death every day. Thank you young sir, for your service. As I understand it, his one minor brush with the law, which should have been looked into by you all before reporting it (it could have been entered in a follow-up story if your cursory investigation demonstrated it to be relevant), because as I understand it, two unidentified officers approached Andre from the rear and he reacted like a soldier who had just gotten back from Iraq. He resisted two guys who grabbed him because he didn't know who they were, I believe. The disposition of the case (probation only), I believe, would reveal this.
This was no Springfield gang-banger; this was an American war veteran and an educated person from a fine family. The honor he achieved through his service remains, despite the unfortunate Republican article. I didn't know this young man, but I know some of his family members, who are professionals. There were no skeletons in Andre's closet, just an unlucky night at the wrong bar too close to a stint in terrorist-riddled Iraq.
Is the porn illegal? if not, there is absolutely no reason to censor anyone's use of the public computer to view legal materials, no matter how unpopular the content may be with many people. James Joyce's Ulysses was banned for a while in this country because some people didn't like the content. If you are going to prevent people from using public computers to view legal literature (and the genre "porn" is a form of literature), then let's have a list of all those people who check out Lady Chatterly's Lover, or Fabio novels, or How to Achieve Orgasm--for that matter anyone checking out a human anatomy book is highly suspect. I'd like to see a list of who's looking at that stuff, because my kids might hang around that library too...
To be shamed, one has to feel shame. If the council printed my name as having used a public computer to look up Victoria Secrets underwear as a birthday gift for my wife, I wouldn't feel any shame, so their plan seems like a shot in the dark, if I can use that prhrase
Yikes! Where the heck is Sarah McLachlan when you really need her?
I'm tellin' ya Barry this is a big freakin deal...
Scott you did the right thing
Don't get in an arm-wrestling contest with me, though. I'd take you down just like you wuz gary coleman
... or maybe not, on second thought
I was going to have a stag party at Friendly's too, but when I saw venison on the menu, I just didn't have the hart for it
Here's what we'll do Sarah: I grab it by both ears, and you put the lipstick on...
Wait! I promise. I was born in Hawaii, not guinea!!
Everybody knows people in Holyoke are "heads," one way or another...
Now they're all just a bunch of heads running around with their chickens cut off
I love Christmas and I was raised a WASP, but I understand why the publicly-financed Fire Station probably shouldn't display a "Go Christ" type sign.
Consider that in the future if we do get a Muslim president, for example, and a Muslim-majority Congress, and the government buildings start displaying signs that come out to be something like "Merry MuhammedMas" ("Go Muhammed"), how many WASPS would resent that a religion other than their own is being promoted and yes financed by the tax-collecting government in control?
With that said, I have absolutely no problem with Muslims, Christians, Jews, or atheists for that matter, but I don't think the tax-supported central government ought to promote one over the other.
Since all cannot be promoted (17 signs on the Firehouse would be unsafe for firepersons to operate around), I am for allowing no such religious signs. That says nothing about how much fun. and perhaps spiritual enrichment, that I plan to enjoy on Dec. 25
College professors in Mass are paid by the state for a 37.5 hour week. Do they do that much work?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
4-course load; 25 students a class= 100 students.
If you send your son or daughter to a state univ or college, do you expect and hope that the professor gives some attention to the homework, essays, and tests that your child has worked on so hard for two weeks. "Mom, let me tell you about the paper I researched--I learned so much..." Hopefully, Julie's professor will give her essay the attention it deserves, with comments and attention to her detail.
So, back to math: 4 classes per week @ 2.5 hours = 10 hrs in class
2.5 hours each week (a half hour per day) for class preparation (most professors need much more time than that for correct preparation)= 10
6 contractual "Advising" hours (office hours) each week = 6
College committee work/"Service" (mandatory) @ 1 hr per day = 5
"Scholarship" duties each week (mandatory and crucial for tenure) = 3
Let's see, that adds up to 34 hours. It does appear that professors have a pretty easy week-- there are 3.5 hours or 210 minutes left...
Wait, I forgot the whole raison d'etre of the professor: to give individual attention to each student. 100 students and 210 minutes is a whopping 2.1 minutes per student...
If there are any professors out there who begin grading an English Comp essay and quit on page 1 after "grading" for 2.1 minutes, I would agree they ought to be fired... but most professors--PhD's. give at least 30 to 45 minutes per student per week (and even that is not enough)
30 minutes for Julie's essay comments and grading... the other 99 Julies and Jasons also want their 30 minutes. Now we're up to 34 hours of other work and some 50 hours given to student attention in grading, etc.
The TRUTH is that most professors who have earned a PhD and take on the awesome responsibility of "teaching" our students rarely put in less than 60 to 70 hours per week
I hope this helps dispel the notion that teaching 100 students. researching. performing "campus service" and publishing scholarly articles is a cush job. It is rewarding in ways other than money (thank God), but it takes a dedicated and very busy person to do it. I see my children with an English comp paper in front of me most of the time
Good god-- is it 2009 or not? using police resources to expose (pun intended) young ladies who expose themselves because men want them to should be a misdemeanor in itself. Nobody has to go into this bar unless they want to, and if a person wants to let themselves be photographed for 17 dollars, who are we to think that arresting someone will change this kind of stupidity... I can see all the genitals I want on the Internet for free (of various shapes and sizes); what good is it doing to disallow nude dancing in an over-20 bar... I don't frequent these kinds of places, but if I wanted to I sure don't want to not be able to do so because the local government censors my options--let the marketplace determine its success or not
I've got a lovely old grandmother myself and I do feel for this lady, and especially the family of the deceased person. But I do wonder if little old ladies get away with too much in cases like these: certainly she shouldn't be driving, but I am surprised that everyone in the court system seemed to just take her word for it that she thought she hit a tree at 10:30 in the morning and took off. The young lady on the bicycle laid there and died while being abandoned. Had the grandmotherly type stopped and sought aid for the victim, perhaps she could have been saved by medical personnel. That should be the focus of this "crime." and I don't see where anyone followed up on that line of thinking. Not stopping and rendering aid could have been the real cause of the young lady's death. That shouldn't be overlooked so easily, at least as easily as accepting that the older lady "thought she hit a tree." Sorry grandmothers of the world, I don't buy it. This situation is exactly why we have serious penalities for "leaving the scene of an accident." I don't want to see grandma in jail, but leaving the young lady lying there to suffer and die is a serious issue, and ignorance of the situation (if true) should not be so easily accepted as it apparently has been. Maybe she should be required by the courts to buy a life insurance policy with the proceeds, when they come due, going to the estate of the deceased and/or her family. If something like that were ordered by the courts, maybe all geriatric drivers would take notice and think twice about driving with low (age-related) skills.
This seems like a misplaced effort. In the past few years molestation stories get active coverage--I have seen many reports in newspapers all across the country about perverts of all types. I don't remember reading of even one arrest where the perpetrator was an ice cream truck driver... maybe it has happened but I wonder if Knapik and the others took time to look at research showing whether such a law would have any real effect or is just really propaganda at best. I am all for honing in on child predators, but I think this effort will do little to pin any of them down.


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Hello to everyone. I want to build a gearing class destroyer with FRAM I or II in a 1/350 scale because I served in one of them. I bought the dragon USS DD-710 and I figured out that it needs lot of modification. so before to scrachbuitl, I want to know if are there a kit to make the changes?. thank you
I too served on a destroyer both before and after FRAM. It,s really NOT that hard .The real thing is do you have photos of the ship in question? That will help a lot .We carried one thing that I never saw on a FRAM ship. We had,for a short while, an L.C.V.P. on the port side 01 level.It was stowed very tight to the hangar and it was a dilly to figure out how to cradle it and leave room to walk around it .Our captain, being the officer he was, gave that job to the damage control guys.He said we needed to learn how weld aluminum anyway.It was a definite change from the old profile and she rolled like a sick duck.The thing about it is from the main deck house forward bulkhead it was the same as before FRAM. Our ship lost mount 2 and it was replaced with those little torpedos and the 5" training machine.The thing that amazed me was all the darned antennas all over the place! I can,t think of any destroyer that was FRAMMed and then saved somewhere.Remember they FRAMMED some FLETCHERS too ! Well , I hope you can get or have some good pictures.I have built three of the U.S.S. OZBOURN-DD 846 and that was from memory. I am sure there was stuff she shoulda had and some things she didn,t have , and some things got omitted. I tried though. Good luck . Oh, before I forget, The 710 is a good base for this scale. My first one was based on a widened ,stretched LINDBERG -"U.S.S. MELVIN - the "BLUE DEVIL" tankerbuilder
Hello to everyone. I want to build a gearing class destroyer with FRAM I or II in a 1/350 scale because I served in one of them. I bought the dragon USS DD-710 and I figured out that it needs lot of modification. so before to scrachbuitl, I want to know if are there a kit to make the changes?. thank you
Don't know any conversion kit. Iron Shipwright has several FRAM I and II resin kit in 1:350 scale. Scroll down to the Post WW2 ships near the bottom of the page:
And they have the Gearing FRAM I in 1:192 scale too.
Ricardo- Which Gearing were you on? I did a little time on Theodore E. Chandler (DD-717) in the Tonkin Gulf back in 1973.
I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
hello tankerbuilder Thaks for the information, and yes I have many good pictures of the ship after FRAMM and are right I will have lot of work with the antennas.
thank you Keilau. I founf the destroyer with framm in ironshipwrights, it´s a excelent but a expensive option. I will continue looking for the convertion kid or some like that have hangar and asroc.
Hi Subfixer I was commisioned like a midshipman in the ex-USS Streinaker (DD-863) in 1994 in the mexican Navy with harbor base in Acapulco and operations in the Mexican Pacific only. she was E-11 Netzahualcoyolt (a Aztec God) (E= escort) now has the same name but the numeral changed to D-102 (D=destroyer). thanks again for your help.
The Historic Naval Ships Association has a PDF scan of the Booklet of General Arrangement plans for the USS Keppler (DD-765) FRAM II upgrade. The date on the plans is 1965
You should be able to use these plans and use some styrene card stock to FRAM the Dragon Gearing kit.
If you need them, I can set you up with some triple torpedo tube launchers and an ASROC box launcher.
There is a 1/700 FRAM Gearing DD from either Corsair Armada or JAG I can't remember which. I'll see if I have a picture of one.
I'd rather have Polystyrene than gold.
thank you Ed the plans are perfect to continue with the proyect, and like you said I will use them on a styrene card.
HEY , RICARDO, when did you serve and what ship? I was on the U.S.S.OZBOURN D D 846 on pacific duty also .She was Desron 12. And to my knowledge she was about number 12-16 to go under the FRAM axe. TANKERbuilder
Hello TANKERbuilder I served in 1994 in the E-11 Netzahualcoyolt (ex-USS Streinaker (DD-863 in the mexican Navy with harbor base in Acapulco and operations in the Mexican Pacific only. I am building a ship where I was commisioned vessels, ships and airplanes.
RICARDO,this is like deja-vu. I did a tour aboard what became the ALMIRANTE BRION in the ARGENTINIAN NAVY. That was an experience! I do believe that I would,ve wished for more duty like that!.Your career sounds like they pretty much ran you through the wringer anyway.I am glad to have friends across our southern border that knows how to drive a ship like a FRAM destroyer .WELCOME ABOARD by the way . TANKERBbuilder
Thanks for the welcome and sorry by the delay. it´s great to know you were operating in a latinoamerican Navy, always is good experience can interchanged kwnolege and skills with a other navys. about my carrer: I studied like a cadet (1989) in the navy academy for a "Navy ciencies ingenier" in other words to be a line oficer aboard ships, but after 2 years aboard in a diferents ships class (gearing, holzinger and azteca classes), I did the fix wing pilot course in 1996. since that date I´ve fliying diferents aircrafts and now since 2008 I became a Navy flight instructor.
well nice to meet you TANKERBuilder.
RICARDO,don,t worry about any delay.Is there anything about your FRAM I can help you with? I don,t have pictures ,but,if you can afford the expenses(I don,t know about postage in MEXICO.Send me a letter and we can communicate that way.I can also send you drawings that way too(in scale of course) .What kind of aircraft are you flying,I guess the MEXICAN military ACADEMY makes you do some of everything before they graduate you.Unusual , but , good for you.This way you can decide where you want to specialize.That ,s good isn,t it? Take care and if you would like I am sure F.S.M.can hook you up with my E-MAIL address. TANKERbuilder.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
You can take the boy out of the city...kicking and SCREAMING!!
We packed up and bubble wrapped the china and the crystal, the Robert Graham shirts, the silver tea service, our precious little Katie Belle, and away we went to TRULY live on the EDGE!
Towering skylines? WAY overdone...who needs it?! 22nd floor view? So tiresome...we now have birds dining outside our breakfast room window...that is, if the cat doesn't catch them. Restaurants by the dozen? Puh-shaw!! We now have pick-up trucks on the side of the road selling tomatoes the size of your head! Nordstrom's Shoe department, Northpark venue? Okay, well I AM in withdrawal over that one, but I digress... As the skyscrapers of downtown Dallas faded in the rear-view mirror, a perky little tune kept hitting the repeat button in my head...
Green Acres theme song
Channeling my inner Lisa Douglas for homespun therapy in the wake of urban withdrawal, unveiling the next chapter in life was sure to bring a sense of connectedness to my small town Alabama roots: waving at strangers on the way to the Piggly Wiggly and nodding my head with a "Mornin' Ma'am!" at checkout, a deep desire to prepare homemade jams, jellies and pickled beets 'put up' in our very own kitchen, possibly even an urge to piece together a quilt out of neckties and last seasons Jhane Barnes and Robert Graham city slicker shirts...the big decision being whether the quilt should be patterned of Dutch Dolls,
or the more ambitious Cathedral Window...
Uh-huh...don't count on cutting up the Robert Graham's...NOT happening!
(For those out of the loop...please meet Robert Graham's most fabulous shirts...none that I possess shall ever be chopped up for ANY Dutch Girl I know!!)
So, we've moved to the "country." Yes, the "country" has it's charms, it's quaint slow-paced lifestyle, and the obligatory train whistle blowing in the distance. As much as I love, dare I say crave life in an urban setting, there is no other place I could be right now than here in Edgewood, Texas. You see, Dan's mother will celebrate her 93rd birthday later this year, and in the months preceding it had become increasingly evident that she was needing someone with her on a daily basis. Dan being an only child, and I, being the twenty year partner of an only child, would be her Daily Basis. Some things you just do, no questions asked. It was never a question of 'whether' we should, could or would move in to help care for Dan's Mother, but a question of 'when.' That 'when' was this past June 20th...
And so, the merging of our home and lives in with that of a precious 92 year old lady has begun. Much smiling and biting of the tongue, along with strengthening the virtues of restraint and flexibility have been well, let's just say 'Serendipity' of this journey. Four weeks today the moving van pulled up to the front of Mrs. Blackburn's 1950's Ranch styled home. As the burly moving men began to wheel in the many boxes of crystal and china, and more boxes than I care to count marked "Master Closet" and "Barry's Shoes", one of the moving men whispered to me, "This is a far cry from La Tour!" La Tour was the building they moved all these boxes down 22 floors earlier in the day and now being squeezed into a seemingly too small house in seemingly too small Edgewood truly was quite a world apart...but this new space--our new home, inside and around Dan's Mother's older home is where we need to be--where we want to be. Blog entries forthcoming of these past few weeks...and LORD HAVE MERCY, are there stories to share!
Yes, dahling, I adored my penthouse view (almost...just one floor away!) and even as I say 'Goodbye, city life!", there is no where on planet Earth that I had rather be than here with Dan...and his Mother...biting my tongue and waving to the strangers on the way to the Piggly Wiggly.
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What a precious and wonderful thing you are doing. Dan's sweet Mama might not remember you're there, she might call out in the middle of the night, she's hungry, she's thirsty, she's hot, she's cold, she forgot to check on neighbors, etc....... her broken mind might not remember or be able to do the things she used to do, but her heart will forever be imprinted with the kindness and the love that you and Dan are showing her. I hope when I'm 92 that I'll have people who love and care for me as much as she has. You are a blessing Barry, love you much.ReplyDelete
Green Acres is the place to be! Although you wouldn't believe it,I do understand the swap of the grandeur for the spot closer to heaven. Just my jolt across Cullman county resulted in loss of luxury. I swapped cable TV, natural gas being piped to my home, High speed DSL, and a very organized workable home...for a camper on 38 acres. But to me this is the LIFE of perfection in the making. Who needs all those gadgets, or in your mind store fronts. ;)I do however reserve the right to NEED my house finished ASAP.ReplyDelete
Barry...that is oh so sweet! Not only will Dan's mother enjoy the company of her son and his partner in her last days....Dan will forever remember what an unselfish thing you did...so that he could take care of his mother!!! And spending time with her is oh so precious to him right now! Barry...I know that you still have both of your parents....and that is such a blessing......what you are doing for Dan now...you cannot even imagine because you have not lost a parent. Giving him the opportunity to be with is mother...and care for her and comfort her...all with the support of his love....is the greatest gift!!!!!! So when he no longer has her to share days with...he will remember the one's that he did get...because YOU were so supportive!!!! What an awesome testimony of love!!!!!ReplyDelete
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Police say a man who enticed two girls to enter his pickup truck near a rural Iowa bus stop had a long criminal history and was ordered for sex offender treatment when he was a teenager.
Even as authorities searched Wednesday for one of the girls, residents are questioning why 42-year-old Michael Klunder was not in prison or locked up for treatment. Police say the kidnapping Monday was the third involving Klunder.
Bremer County Sheriff Dan Pickett says it's unfortunate Klunder "was able to walk the streets." Cerro Gordo County Sheriff Kevin Pals called Klunder "a creep" who once kidnapped a 21-year-old woman and two 3-year-old girls.
Authorities say Klunder committed suicide Monday, after kidnapping 15-year-old Kathlynn Shepard and a 12-year-old who later escaped. Authorities are searching for Kathlynn.
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Bill O'Brien Big Ten Coaches' Teleconference
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Big Ten Coaches' Teleconference
October 9, 2012
Q: Obviously, the game is being sped up and teams are running more plays. With your offensive background, do you think this is a good trend in college football? Is it fair to the defenses with what is going on?
Q: How do you judge as a coach if your playing too fast or what speed your team can play at?
Q: Coach, not sure if you've heard it, but there's a lot of buzz around you for National Coach of the Year honors. What's your take on that?
Q: How has the transition from the NFL to college been compared to your expectations for it?
Q: After starting 0-2 and now winning four in a row, what does that do for your morale as a head coach?
Q: As far as Bill Belton goes, can you give an update on his ankle injury and what the week off can do for him? Also just how the week off can help in his progress as a tailback?
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Diane Sue Kahlenbeck, 60, a resident of Green Township in Noble County and wife of Ned W. Kahlenbeck, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne.
She was born Oct. 13, 1950 in Richmond, a daughter of Dwight and Alberta (Hackman) Lanman.
On Feb. 12, 2001, she married Ned W. Kahlenbeck, who survivies.
Also surviving are two daughters, Dawn Wolf of Fremont and Amber Stone of Garrett; her parents Dwight and Alberta Lanman of Angola; a sister Kitty Thompson of Arab, Ala.; a brother Dwight Lanman III of Angola; and three grandchildren.
Sarah Ellen Puff, 90, passed away Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011.
Born in Noble County, she was a member of Gethsemane Lutheran Church and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Surviving are her son, Paul Puff of Canada; daughters, Hope (Tom) Noll and Wanda Puff both of Fort Wayne, Dorothy Riley of Canada, and Carol Bowen of Virginia; sisters, Pearl Secrist of Oregon, Alice Parker of Larwill, Grace Brower and Geraldine Dailey, both of Columbia City; 16 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren.
COLUMBIA CITY — Donald L. "Buck" Buchanan, 89, of Columbia City, died at 6:10 a.m. Monday, August 8, 2011 at The Hearth at Sycamore Village where he had been a resident since June 2008.
He was born May 13, 1922 in Montevideo, Minn. to Leon G. and Alma (Wick) Buchanan.
His formative years were spent in Montevideo where he graduated from Montevideo High School.
On June 19, 1943 he was united in marriage to Valeria V. Bonk. They made their home in Montevideo before moving to Birmingham, Mich. and later Fort Wayne.
Rodney Allen Moog, 46, of Columbia City, died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 at his residence.
Born on July 15, 1965, he was the son of Allen and Shirley (Speaker) Moog.
He graduated from Columbia City High School with the Class of 1983.
He worked as a supervisor at The Classic Company, Fort Wayne and from 1992-2009 he was employed by Dana, Columbia City.
He was an international certified scuba diver and loved all the Fort Wayne sports teams, especially the Komets.
CROMWELL — Laura G. Squires, 91, of Cromwell, died at 8:15 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 at North Ridge Village, Albion.
She was born March 28, 1920 in Portland, Indiana, a daughter of Howard L. and Etta (Ashley) Williams.
Her formative years were spent in the Portland area where she completed her education.
On Dec. 23, 1944 she was united in marriage to Robert R. Squires. They made their home in Fort Wayne until 1989 when they moved to Knapp Lake. Mr. Squires died Oct. 12, 1999.
Donald E. Gumm, 75, a resident of Shriner Lake near Columbia City and a former resident of Churubusco, passed away Friday, Aug. 5, 2011.
Mr. Gumm was born in Salem, Ind. April 12, 1936, a son of Bleve J. and Katherine (Seals) Gumm.
On April 8, 1955, he was married in Hamilton, Ohio to Shirley J. Kent.
The couple spent most of their married lives in this area, and moved from Churubusco to their present lake home in 1996.
He retired from Food Marketing in Fort Wayne after more than 30 years of service.
Frances E. Stangland, 96, of Albion, died Thursday, August 4, 2011, at 2:20 p.m. in her residence.
She was born Jan. 18, 1915, in Noble County to Marshall and Frances (Stout) Young.
On Nov. 15, 1935, in Wolf Lake, she married Omar Stangland. He preceded her in death Aug. 31, 1997.
Mrs. Stangland, a lifetime area resident, graduated from Wolf Lake High School in 1932. She was a teacher's aide and worked in the cafeteria at Wolf Lake School.
She and her husband moved to the Stangland Family Farm March 13, 1936. For many years, they wintered in Bradenton, Fla.
Richard P. "Rick" Ambrose, Sr., 75, of South Whitley, passed away at 3:05 a.m. Friday, August 5, 2011 at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home, Fort Wayne.
Born Aug. 12, 1935 in Jamestown, N.Y., he was the son of Benny M. and Bernice (Goldfinch) Ambrose.
Raised in New York where he attended Jamestown High School, he moved to Whitley County in 1958.
He served in the United States Air Force from 1954-1958.
On May 25, 1984 ,he married Patricia M. (King) Deubner in Whitley County.
Marjorie E. Bennett, 84, a former resident of Collins and more recently of rural Cromwell, died at 8:01 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, 2011, at Miller's Merry Manor in Syracuse.
She was born in Eel River Township, Allen County on Sept. 10, 1926, to Bert and Loudema (Shock) Ferguson.
On Jan. 30, 1945, she was married in Whitley County to Garland E. Bennett.
He preceded her in death Nov. 19, 2005.
Mary Crain, 86, of Pigeon Forge, Tenn. died Wednesday, Aug. 03, 2011.
She was born May 28, 1925 in Michigan .
She married Raymond Crain in 1964. He preceded her in death.
Survivors include her children, Susie Stonert, Lynda Gilbert, Pam Crain, Jim Crain; Ron Kramer; six grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren.
Funeral service is 1 p.m. Monday at Atchley's Smoky Mountain Chapel in Pigeon Forge with Father Joseph Brando officiating.
Entombment will follow in the Garden Mausoleum of Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens.
Visitation is 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the chapel. www.atchleyfuneralhome.com


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Australias Red Centre
From the inspiring desert landscapes of Central Australia to the wet-lands of the Top End, the Territory is the home of much that is iconic about Australia. Darwin is the capital city, and is a pretty relaxed spot. A 3 hour drive from Darwin gets you to the Kakadu National Park, Australias largest and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which covers spectacular woodland, escarpment and floodplain landscapes. It is home to an incredible array of flora and fauna as well as to over 1,000 Aboriginal rock sites dating back 25,000 years.
The beauty of Top End is the joy of exploring World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park as well as both Litchfield & Nitmuluk National Parks - all within a 3 hour circuit drive of each other and Darwin. Easy driving and magnificent nature-based activities to enjoy for the whole family!
Ayers Rock, or Uluru (the official Aboriginal name), is Australias most famous natural landmark. It is the worlds largest monolith and also an Aboriginal sacred site but, far from being isolated, its in the middle of a national park with many other attractions. Hotels cluster around the park edge so youre never too far from comfort. The Aboriginal owners encourage and prefer that you take the enchanting walk around the Rock, and you can also watch its changing colours at sunrise or sunset.
One of the most popular drives which connects Uluru to Alice Springs is the Mereenie Loop Road. This is a lovely drive through some beautiful desert country which begins at Kings Canyon and finishes at the outskirts of Alice Springs ending at the MacDonnell Ranges. It is a appreciated for the outback experience and iconic sights to be enjoyed enroute.
V K Family: The car ride from Kings Canyon to Alice springs; really the outback, impressive on the Mereenie Loop Road. Staying overnight in Kings Canyon was good; basic but fun (especially dinner in barn shed with live music; bit of rural Australia) + the beautiful canyon.
W Family: The trip to Ayers Rock and the Olgas is an absolutely MUST.
B Family: We drove the Mereenie Loop Road to Alice Springs. Amazing scenery!!!
B Family: We were hugely impressed with Uluru and Kata Tjuta! Probably the nicest natural wonder we saw in Australia! We could have spent an extra day (or even two) there for sure .
G Family: Kakadu was beautiful, with more really nice sites than any of the other parks. We loved the Kakadu Yellow Water Cruise - plenty of birds and crocs and beautiful sunset. We also loved sunset at Ubirr site. Really special place.
VB Family: We did a sunrise boat trip on Yellow Water Billabong which was truly exceptional. To see the sun come up and see the wild life wake up and experience them up close was absolutely amazing.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
A routine traffic stop quickly turned hair-raising and could have been a tragedy if the driver had his way.
According to the Summerville Police incident report, a tan Chevy Blazer was pulled over Dec. 28, for traveling over the centerline twice. The driver was also repeatedly applying the brakes.
The stop was made by LA Motors on Trolley Rd. As the officer approached the vehicle he saw a 6-year-old child sitting in the passenger seat and a shotgun between the child and the driver.
After explaining the reason for the traffic stop and asking for the drivers license, registration and insurance card, the officer took the items and went to confer with the backup officer who had arrived at the scene. The officer was concerned because he smelled alcohol coming from the vehicle.
Asking the driver to step out of the vehicle, the officer saw a bottle with red liquid Richards Wild Irish Rose wine almost empty.
Asking the driver how much he had to drink, the officer was told three or four beers but that a number of people had been in and out of his vehicle while he was at the hunt club. The officer asked if there was anyone at home who could come drive him home and the driver said his wife was there.
The responding officer told the driver to get back in the vehicle until his wife arrived.
As the officer returned to his car to check DMV files on the driver, the driver exited his vehicle, motioned to the officer to come over, reached back in the truck and retrieved the shotgun. He had his finger on the trigger and the barrel against his chest.
The officer drew his weapon and aimed it at the driver repeatedly telling him to put the shotgun down.
Instead, the driver pulled the trigger. The officer heard it click but the gun did not fire.
The driver then racked the gun again, put the barrel against his chest, and again pulled the trigger five times. He then turned toward his vehicle and the officer rushed him, grabbing the shotgun and wrestling the driver to the ground with the help of a neighboring business owner who had witnessed the event.
Apparently, the gun jammed twice.
The driver was placed in handcuffs and put in the back of a police car.
The driver had two shotguns in his possession and both were loaded with rounds in the chambers. Police unloaded and secured the guns.
The other officer arrived back on the scene with the drivers wife who was told what her child had witnessed. The wife took possession of the vehicle and her child, telling police she would inform the childs school what had happened so they could care for the child appropriately.
The driver was transported to Summerville Medical Center for a cardiac disorder and mental evaluation. He was issued a ticket for inattentive driving.
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