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For Memorial Day, I wanted to take a look at my ancestors and see just how many served our country, or the colonies that would become our country. I was surprised, and a bit overwhelmed, to discover just how many veterans I have for ancestors.
"Our fallen heroes are the reason we live in a privileged nation where we get to sleep safely and soundly in our beds every night. This is one of many reasons they deserve this one day to remember their service and sacrifice."
Seana Arrechaga, widow of SFC Ofren Arrechaga, killed in the line of duty, March 29, 2011, Kunar Province, Afghanistan, just days before the end of his tour of duty.
When I was young, I thought of Memorial Day as the gateway to summer, and Labor Day as the gate on the other end. Of course, Memorial Day in Indiana was associated with the end of the school year, always a happy occasion, picnics and the Indy 500 Race. It wasn't until I got older, much older, that I realized the significance of this day. That's odd, in a very strange way, given that I have the triangle shaped flag from my own father's coffin. I just never knew or understood its significance…that is…until Vietnam.
I still, to this day, cannot talk about the human losses in and due to Vietnam. Our men came home, if at all, so broken and to an unsupportive, even hostile, country. Mental and physical illnesses have plagued them in the decades since, and along with them, their parents, wives and families. Not all died in Vietnam. Many died years later from the scars inflicted upon them in Vietnam – both physical and mental.
Perhaps Vietnam was no different from any other war – it's just that Vietnam was the war I witnessed. Boys going to the recruitment center, proud to enlist, returning months or years later as men, broken and ravaged by an invisible disease, nightmares that woke them screaming from what used to be peaceful sleep, and horrors the rest of us can't begin to imagine.
I knew Greg growing up, before we dated and married. After he returned from Vietnam, he found a job and tried to pretend all was well, but the mental demons would consume him, inch by inch, day by day, month by month, year by year – until he was gone.
I found a photograph in my former husband's belongings that explained it all. It was a picture of him and two other men in military fatigues in Vietnam, eating lunch sitting in the front bucket of a bulldozer. Then I looked closer. The piles waiting to be bulldozed were human corpses, stacked like cordwood. It is any wonder mental illness consumed him and stole his life?
Then I understood why he hated returning to active duty from leave. It didn't have so much to do with what he was leaving as what he was returning to. What few stories he told me were utterly horrific. Mostly he didn't talk about his time in service in the Army's Green Beret unit. He never discussed it while it relentlessly ate him alive. There was no escaping. Yet, he was proud to serve his country.
He is the first veteran to honor.
Greg Cook
This picture was taken one Christmas in happier times.
David Estes
The second veteran is my brother, David Estes, a Marine, shot down as a tail gunner, injured and contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion in Saigon. Yes, it took him 27 years, but he too succumbed to his injuries.
William Sterling Estes
My own father, William Sterling Estes, served three tours in the Army as well, in both WWI and WWII, and he too was injured. At one point, either during or after his service, he worked at Oak Ridge, TN, on "the bomb," and he was just never right again. Alcohol consumed his life. He died in an automobile accident that we believe was suicide after what would be his final relapse.
John Y. Estes
My father's great-grandfather, John Y. Estes, was a Confederate prisoner of war during the Civil War, captured after he was injured and eventually released north of the Ohio River to make his way back to Claiborne County, TN, as best he could.
John R. Estes
John Y. Estes' father, John R. Estes, served in the War of 1812 out of Halifax County, VA.
George Estes
John R. Estes' father, George Estes, served three tours of duty in the Revolutionary War, two in Virginia and one in what would become Eastern Tennessee.
Moses Estes
George Estes' grand-father, Moses Estes, served in the French and Indian War in Amelia County, Virginia.
Henry Bolton
Henry Bolton, my great-great-great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary War in Maryland and may have looked after George Washington's horse.
William Herrell
William Herrell, my great-great-grandfather served in the War of 1812, walking from Tennessee to Fort Williams in Alabama, and back. He called this the "War with the Creek Indians."
Samuel Claxton or Clarkson
Samuel Claxton, my great-great-grandfather served as a Union soldier in the Civil War, contracted tuberculosis, never recovered and died after the war.
William McNiel
William McNiel, my 4th great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary War from Spotsylvania County, Virginia and fought at the Battle of Brandywine.
Reverend George McNiel
William's father, the Reverend George McNiel served in the Revolutionary War at the Battle of King's Mountain, even though he was in his 60s at the time.
John Francis Vannoy
John Francis Vannoy, my 5th great-grandfather, may have served in the French and Indian War.
William Crumley Sr.
William Crumley Sr., my 5th great-grandfather, provided supplies for the Revolutionary Army, gathering supplies in Frederick County, Virginia, and submitted a Publik Service claim.
Edward Mercer
Edward Mercer, my 6th great-grandfather, father-in-law of William Crumley Sr., fought with George Washington and was defeated at the Battle of Fort Necessity in 1754, during the French and Indian War.
Marcus Younger
My 5th great-grandfather, Marcus Younger, provided brandy and other supplies in King and Queen County, Virginia during the Revolutionary War.
Lazarus Dodson
My 4th great-grandfather Lazarus Dodson, served in the Revolutionary War, in the same unit with George Estes in what was then North Carolina, but later became Tennessee. Their grandchildren would marry in Tennessee. Their descendants are shown below at the celebration honoring Lazarus by setting his gravestone.
Raleigh Dodson
Lazarus's father Raleigh Dodson, may also have served in the Revolutionary War. His name is on the same roster.
Jacob Dobkins
My 5th great-grandfather Jacob Dobkins served in the Revolutionary War as a scout. He is believed to have participated in the Battle of King's Mountain as well.
John Harrold
William Herrell's father, John Harrold, my 4th great-grandfather, served two terms in the Revolutionary War out of Botetourt County, Virginia serving in Virginia and North Carolina.
Michael McDowell
My 4th great-grandfather Michael McDowell served three tours of duty in the Revolutionary War out of Bedford County, VA.
James Lee Clarkson/Claxton
James Lee Clarkson/Claxton, my 4th great-grandfather, served in the War of 1812 and died in service in Alabama at Fort Decatur. He was buried outside the fort, but his grave has been lost to time.
Nicholas Speak
Nicholas Speak, my 4th great-grandfather, fought in the War of 1812.
Joseph Workman
Joseph Workman, my 5th great-grandfather, served in the French and Indian War.
Col. Robert Craven
Col. Robert Craven, my 6th great-grandfather, served in the French and Indian War.
Abraham Workman
My 6th great-grandfather, Abraham Workman, served in the French and Indian War.
Charles Beckwith Speak
Charles Beckwith Speak, my 4th great-grandfather, served in the Revolutionary War in the militia in Maryland.
Gideon Faires
Gideon Faires, my 5th great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Muncy
Samuel Muncy served in 1774 on the frontier in Moore's Fort in what is now Lee or Scott County, VA.
Mother's Side
On my mother's side of the family, there are fewer men who served to defend the US or the colonies, in part because many of her ancestors immigrated recently, in the 1800s, from both the Netherlands and Germany.
Some of my mother's ancestors were Brethren, a pietist religion, opposed to warfare or violence in any format, to the point they would not defend their own family against attack.
One of mother's lines was Acadian, so spent their lives in Canada, not the US.
Joseph Hill
Joseph Hill, my great-great-great-grandfather may have served in the War of 1812 from Vermont. There were two Joseph Hills and we have been unable to verify his service.
John Hill
Joseph Hill's father, John Hill served in the Revolutionary War from New Hampshire.
John Drew
John Drew, my 6th great-grandfather, was a Sergeant in the military organization of New Hampshire in the 1600s.
Capt. Samuel Mitchell
Capt. Samuel Mitchell, my 5th great-grandfather, served in Maine in the 1600s.
Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins, my 11th great-grandfather, served at Jamestown, returned to England, then sailed on the Mayflower and served in the Plymouth colony.
Militia Service
Many men's names are omitted from this list, not intentionally, but often due to lack of records. The Revolutionary War was the first war that offered land as pay, or land as a benefit of service, as well as both veterans' and widows' pensions. Therefore, service records become critically important.
In the previous wars, specifically the French and Indian War, the only records we have are county records if the soldiers happened to be recorded.
During this timeframe, and earlier, all men were expected to serve in the local militia which functioned to protect the community as well as serve on the frontier to defend the region, if called upon. Therefore, we can assume that all men prior to the Revolutionary War did in fact serve in some capacity in their local militia and community. Did they see warfare defending the frontier? Perhaps, but we'll never have that documentation because in most cases, there are no lists of militia members, nor records of what types of activities the militia was engaged in, aside from regular drills and practice.
In many cases, we don't know when, why or how men died, so we don't know if they died in the service of their country, as a result of that service, or of some unrelated cause.
Thank You
For all of my ancestors whose service goes unmentioned, my apologies, but more importantly, my sincere thank you. Without those hearty men who all served as a normal part of their citizenship, we would not be here today as a nation. And thank you to the wives, left at home with the children who persevered and carried on, doing both the man's and woman's work while the husband was gone.
I am honored to carry the history of such a long list of patriots, stretching from Jamestown and the Mayflower to my brother and father.
My son, while not serving in the military, serves as a public safety officer, providing both fire and police protection for his community, risking his life daily to do so – and has for more than 20 years.
Thank you, one and all, for your service.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend, but don't forget who made it possible and those in active service today who keep it possible. Many are unable to celebrate with their families this weekend either because they made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, they are currently deployed or because they are working to protect the rest of us.
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I got excited when I read the New York Times story Nov. 9 ("Sanofi Halves Price of Cancer Drug Zaltrap After Sloan-Kettering Rejection)". Zaltrap is an intravenous infusion drug for metastatic colon cancer that is resistant to or has progressed with platinum-based chemotherapy. With a list price of $11,000 per patient per month, Zaltrap is about double the cost of Genentech's Avastin. Sloan Kettering doctors rejected Zaltrap, claiming it offered no added value over Avastin, because it works no better than Avastin, and costs twice as much.
Doctors from Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the United States flagship cancer hospitals, published an op-ed in the NYTimes Oct. 14, titled "In Cancer Care, Cost Matters," arguing that hospitals need to put their foot down when drugs are outrageously expensive with no added value. They wrote: "Soaring spending has presented the medical community with a new obligation. When choosing treatments for a patient, we have to consider the financial strains they may cause alongside the benefits they might deliver."
The importance of getting bang for your buck, or value in healthcare, has been a huge point in health policy circles in the United States. In fact, politicians of all stripes are quick to point to health outcomes data that show that despite the United States spending in the top tier of all nations for healthcare, health outcomes are far lower.
What Sanofi announced in its response Nov. 8 to Sloan-Kettering, one could have easily thought that it was a victory for patients. However, the New York Times headline stating "Sanofi halves price…" is misleading. Sadly, the Zaltrap half-off deal is not a list price reduction at all. It is just a business discount plan for hospitals and oncologists. As Lisa Jane Hubbell, who uses high-cost disease modifying drugs for a noncancerous, chronic condition told me: "It won't help patients, will it? Our copay will be based on full price, the docs will pocket the extra from insurance companies. It doesn't really help anyone who is in need of help paying for healthcare."
Another woman with stage IV breast cancer says that she has been deemed ineligible for any discount for her high-priced cancer drugs because she is insured. In general, drug discount plans go to the uninsured. She emailed me: "The drug I took for five years was re-patented three times while I was on it, as I recall. It was orders of magnitude more expensive than the old standby tamoxifen for only a slight advantage in efficacy."
As The Times points out, Medicare patients are unlikely to see a lower price for Zaltrap for a long while until the discount is incorporated into Medicare payment calculations for Part B, which covers physician-administered drugs. In addition, oncologists have long marked up drugs that they administer for insurers and patients.
Fortunately, Sloan-Kettering doctors are on the patients' side and question whether Sanofi's discount will make Zaltrap more affordable for patients. Peter Bach, MD, told me: "I don't know if they're going through steps to ensure reimbursement goes down to follow price or not. I'm hoping that is in their plans. If not, then yes, the windfall goes to providers, and our concern is the costs passed on to patients." Leonard Saltz, MD, the op-ed coauthor, and gastroenterology oncologist, from Sloan Kettering also called Sanofi to task for missing the boat in making Zaltrap affordable for patients.
But pharmaceutical price fixing is nothing new, according to Frederic Kaye, MD, professor of hematology and oncology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. "I saw this happen for the first time in the late 1980s when a veterinary pill levamisole, which cost pennies for the treatment of heartworm, underwent a 100 times price escalation when it was used for treating colon cancer. There was outrage at the time over lack of regulations for price fixing, but you see almost 25 years later, it is the same."
Sanofi's drug discount plan is clearly a business imperative. If one of the US flagship cancer treatment centers says that they will not use Zaltrap, others could follow. But the refusal to lower Zaltrap's list price is worrisome because patient copays are based on price.
More importantly, if the Sanofi plan becomes the pharmaceutical industry's modus operandi to the era of value-based healthcare, patients will still remain out in the cold, without any added relief for the high cost of drugs. Value-based healthcare will be something for facilities and hospitals and leave patients out in the cold.
These days, you have to critically review the hoopla about "patient-centered health care" and the allegedly positive partnerships shaping healthcare. Were patients included when it really mattered in drafting this drug discount program? We need to maintain a high level of skepticism about deals made strictly between drug companies and hospitals, or arrangements made between industry and physicians, or industry and health plans. It's been said before and it must be said again: "Nothing about me [the patient] that pertains to me should be done without me at the table."


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A result of Herzog, Hibi, and Zheng in "Monomial ideals whose powers have a linear resolution" states that:
Theorem: Let $I\subseteq\Bbbk[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ be a monomial ideal generated in degree 2. The following conditions are equivalent:
- I has a linear resolution.
- I has linear quotients.
- Each power of I has a linear resolution.
This, when combined with (a slightly extended version of) Froberg's characterization of degree 2 (squarefree) ideals with a linear resolution, gives a complete description of all degree 2 (monomial) ideals with linear quotients.
However, this still leaves open a characterization of monomial ideals generated in higher degree with linear resolutions/quotients/linear resolutions of their powers. Sturmfels [in "Four Counterexamples in Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry"] and Conca [in "Regularity jumps for powers of ideals"] have a number of examples of ideals $I$ with linear quotients and linear quotients of their powers $I, I^2,\ldots,I^{k-1}$, which fail to have a linear resolution for $I^k$.
The counterexample request then is this: Are there any (monomial) homogeneous ideals which have characteristic independent linear resolutions but no linear quotients under any order of the generators? The theorem above implies that such an example would have to be generated (at least partially) in degree 3 or higher.
Edit: As Professor Conca pointed out, triangulations of the projective plane provide such an example. I was hoping to find a characteristic independent counterexample, but forgot to include this in the description. The request was largely because my research partner A. Hoefel and I were searching for such characteristic independent examples to test a conjecture - but were unable to locate any in the literature (or on a few targeted searches with M2 and GAP.)


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There's nothing like the taste of real sugar, but since people want to be able to indulge in sweet things without having to worry about the calories, there's a huge market for sugar substitutes. There's no shortage of choices — stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sorbitol, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, etc. — some are natural, while others are artificial. However, sugar substitutes tend to leave a weird aftertaste, or they may have undesirable gastrointestinal side effects. There is also some concern that artificial sweeteners may pose health risks. Since no sugar substitute is perfect, the search continues… Here are a few interesting links about sugar alternatives.
- Tagatose, which looks, tastes, and cooks like real sugar, may be nearly perfect as a sugar substitute. Marketed under the brand name Naturlose, the FDA-approved natural sweetener is 92% as sweet as table sugar, but it contributes only 38% of the calories. [url]
- Xylitol, a natural sweetener, is apparently toxic to dogs. It only takes 3 grams of xylitol to kill a 65-pound dog. When dogs ingest xylitol, it can cause a surge in insulin resulting in a dangerous drop in blood sugar. In higher doses, xylitol may also cause severe liver damage in dogs. [url]
- Synsepalum dulcificum, also known as "miracle fruit," can make sour foods taste sweet. Native to West Africa, miracle fruit is a red berry that contains a protein called miraculin, which binds with taste buds and makes acidic foods taste sweet. The berries, which can cost $2 or more each, have acquired a bit of a cult following, with some fans even hosting "flavor tripping" parties. [url]
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Muslim Women and IntegrationOppressed in the Name of Islam?
Numerous opinion polls confirm that Islam suffers a bad image in Germany. According to a representative study conducted in 2012 by the Allensbach Institute for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, the majority of those questioned associate Islam with a propensity for violence, fanaticism and intolerance.
And it doesn't stop there: more than two-thirds of respondents, 83 per cent in fact, view Islam as misogynist and feel that the religion of the Prophet is characterized by discrimination against women. This was the highest value attained in the poll. In a comparable Allensbach poll from 2006, the number was even higher.
Birgit Rommelspacher, a retired professor of psychology and a specialist in intercultural and gender studies at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin, explains that such poll results come about because people are blocking out the shortfalls and contradictions in German society and then projecting them onto Muslims.
The ambiguous heritage of modernity
This, in turn, leads to such dichotomies as the "emancipated Western woman" versus the "oppressed Muslim woman." Rommelspacher sees two widespread yet opposing forms of argumentation in the debate.The argument is either that emancipation is something that is only fundamentally possible outside all religious affiliation or that the liberation of women can only be achieved within the Jewish-Christian West – characterized as it is by its enlightened attitudes – but not within Islam. In principle, neither point of view allows for the emancipation of Muslim women.
Rommelspacher sees both approaches as obscuring important facts that don't fit into this world view. They overlook the fact that the legacy of modernity in Europe is thoroughly ambiguous; even the Enlightenment initially excluded women.
It was only in the era of industrialization that women were pushed out of the economic sphere and into the home. Today, they can only reconquer the economic sphere with great effort. This is reflected in the current debate about how to reconcile work and family life.
Rommelspacher also feels that the view that all religions are exclusively patriarchal and anti-modern is wide of the mark. This line of argument overlooks not only the spiritual equality that dominates all religions in the sense that men and women are equal in the eyes of the Creator, it also fails to take into consideration that Christian and Jewish women in Europe played an important role in the women's rights movement and in its achievements. Similarly, Islamic women are fighting for their rights, although little notice is taken of their efforts.
Ruptures and contradictions
As Rommelspacher sees it, "Neither is modernity, per se, emancipatory, nor is religion always repressive." Both are ambivalent phenomena that are characterized by both emancipatory and repressive elements. However, people only see these ruptures and contradictions in Islam, not in secular-Christian society.
As far as Rommelspacher is concerned, the sweeping evaluation of Islam as misogynist is a consequence of societal competition. It serves to "create a social and cultural hierarchy between native women and immigrant Muslim women," especially on the labour market.
In any case, such assessments are not without consequences. Luise Amina Becker, Islamic religious educator at the Centre for Islamic Women's Research (ZIF) in Cologne, tells how Muslims of both genders "suffer from existing latent experiences of humiliation and their powerlessness to react to the negative opinions of the majority, even when they have not personally experienced any severe forms of discrimination."
A sense of inner distance to German society
Becker, who herself wears a headscarf, feels that as a result of this, Muslim women over 40 are taking a stronger interest in their own traditions. These women ask themselves questions such as "Am I truly at home here?" and "What have I actually left behind?" While most do not consider returning to their country of origin, a sense of inner distance between them and German society remains.
According to Becker, the situation for the younger generation is different. This generation clearly regards Germany as home, yet increasingly seeks security in Islam. She has observed a growing interest in Islamic theology in her courses, which are attended by more students than was the case ten years ago.
Becker trains young men and women to become religious educators who subsequently work in mosque communities. Their parents' generation was naturally rooted in its traditions, never questioning them and often not even really understanding them. By contrast, the young generation tends to intensively and critically examine its traditions. In particular, she says, the role of women in the Koran is being strongly debated among Muslim migrants.
Nevertheless, studies have shown that there is currently little difference between the educational and professional orientations of young women with a migrant background and those without. One such study, entitled "Living in many worlds. Life situations of girls and young women with migrant backgrounds," was conducted in 2005 by Ursula Boos-Nünning and Yasemin Karakasoglu. Women aged 15 to 21 from various migrant backgrounds were questioned for the study. It showed a considerable rise in the level of education of girls and young women in migrant families. Some 36 per cent of fathers and mothers with a low level of education had daughters with a high level of education.
Change of attitudes in migrant families
The vast majority of these young women want financial security in life, but don't want to give up having a family. They also see that there will be problems in balancing both aspects of life.
Young women migrants thirst for a higher education at university, which completely contradicts the image of the "oppressed Muslim woman" purveyed by opinion surveys.
There is also a change in attitudes taking place in many migrant families. For example, traditional areas of conflict, such as the participation of girls in school sports, are no longer an issue. At the same time, state and private facilities such as kindergartens, schools and hospitals have in recent years begun to open up to Muslim immigrants.
When problems do occur, such as violence in the home or young people causing trouble at school, it is important to involve Muslim staff, says the religious educator Luise Amina Becker.
"We absolutely need more Muslim social workers in the youth service authorities," says Becker, "and also increased cultural sensitivity towards the life situation of Muslim families." Only then can existing problems be resolved in the long run, without a further polarization of society.
Claudia Mende
© Qantara.de 2013
Translated from the German by John Bergeron
Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de


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Matt Ryan is an unclutch fraud of a quarterback. When his team needed him more than ever, he couldn't come up with the big play. Sure, he managed to luck into a playoff win last week when the Seahawks left too much time on the clock for his kicker to avoid bailing him out, but he couldn't deliver this week with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line. Ryan was the one who couldn't get the job done in the red zone, somehow missing a wide-open Tony Gonzalez on fourth down and instead forcing a season-ending pass into the arms of a covered receiver. And this was at home, too, where he spends most of his days beating up on cupcakes and terrible pass defenses. Imagine if it had been outdoors, where he's ter—
Whoa. Sorry about that. Think my wiring shorted out somewhere. Matt Ryan is a pretty good quarterback, guys. Can you believe how well he played against one of the league's best pass defenses? You know, the same unit that had Aaron Rodgers looking furious amid a stream of checkdowns for most of the game last week? Ryan threw for 396 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 9.4 yards per attempt while completing in excess of 71 percent of his passes. Nobody has had a game like that all season against the 49ers except for Russell Wilson, and Wilson only played that well on half as many dropbacks as Ryan. He lost his starting halfback during the game and basically had no running game to work with, but it didn't matt—
Of course it mattered, dummy. Who cares what Ryan did in the first half? You stuck your head out of your spreadsheet long enough to actually watch the game this week, right? Do I have to give you a quiz? Can you pick the security guard that had his entire lower torso destroyed by Julio Jones out of a lineup? I didn't think so. Speaking of, most of Ryan's big day was really Jones just leaping over and through defensive backs to make huge catches, or blown coverages from the San Francisco safeties. When the second half rolled around, the 49ers shut the Falcons out. Scoreboard. And didn't you say the Niners were going to regr—
Yeah, I also said they'd win 27-24 on Sunday, too, so I'm not always wrong.1 Who do you think was delivering those passes to Jones in places where only he could make a play on the ball? Or who was the guy manipulating those safeties into making false steps or getting lost in traffic? And — last time I checked — points in the first half do count in determining who wins NFL games, right? Or were all those points the 49ers racked up in the first half against the Patriots in Week 15 meaningless, too? You're just some idi—
Yeah, those points matter. And you know which points matter more? The ones that win football games. And those are the ones that Colin Kaepernick came up with. When Matt Ryan needed to protect a lead, what did he do? For the second week in a row, he threw it away. He's the one who threw an interception and fumbled away a snap while the other team was making a comeback, right? That doesn't matter because, what, one of his teammates probably screwed up and that excuses every dumb thing he did while Rome burn—
Oh, come on. Roddy White slipped on Ryan's interception; the ball was out of his hands before White even fell down. After completing what felt like 17 straight passes on slant/flat route combinations, Ryan is supposed to anticipate that this is going to be the one when his receiver falls down and hold onto the football? Is that what winning quarterbacks do? See into the future? And sure, Ryan fumbled away a snap, but the Falcons were unlucky to recov—
The Falcons were unlucky to recover a fumbled snap? You mean unlucky like how the Niners were unlucky to fumble the ball away on the one-inch line? Or does luck only apply when it fits your story of how Matt Ryan's secretly a great quarterback who doesn't appear to be particularly interested in winning playoff games? If it weren't for that Crabtree fumble and yet another missed field goal from David Akers, the fourth-down play at the end doesn't even matter. And that wasn't a catc—
You're really going to argue that the Harry Douglas play at the end wasn't a catch? You should be thanking the stars above that Douglas falls down on that play, because if he doesn't get eaten alive by a turf monster and stays on his feet, that's a lead-taking touchdown. And if that happens, we're not having this conversation about Matt Ryan right now. So your entire argument about Matt Ryan, then, revolves around the fact that Harry Douglas tripped on the turf and wasn't able to catch the touchdown pass that Matt Ryan put right in his wheelhouse on what was, to that point, the biggest third down of the game? Does Matty Ice have to catch the passes, too? Can Kaepernick do that? He's pretty fas—
I sure saw Kaepernick grab a terrible snap on the last 49ers touchdown and bring it in for a quick handoff to Gore. Ryan can't even catch snaps that hit him in the hands. And I don't care if Douglas stood up, fell down, did a pirouette, or reconstructed that security guard's leg as he was trying to bring the ball in, it wasn't a catch. It was a gift, one that Matt Ryan held on to for all of six more plays before giving the ball right back to the Niners and ending Atlanta's season. In fact, Ryan was lucky that his pass on third down wasn't picked off. Want a stat? In the second half, Atlanta had five drives. Two ended on Ryan turnovers, one was a three-and-out, one ended on downs, and the fifth was the one in which Ryan threw a Hail Mary 40 yards too short. It wasn't just that one wheel route. Ryan had a bad second hal—
But it is that wheel route! If Douglas doesn't fall down on the wheel route, he scores a touchdown and the Falcons probably win. And if the Falcons win, we're not having this conversation right now, evil doppelgänger. You're talking about how Matt Ryan's finally proven himself to be a winner and how nobody believed in the Falcons, which meant that they had nothing to lose. You would have already forgotten about that interception and written off that bobbled snap as bad luck. When you determine what you think of a quarterback solely by winning and losing and the contest comes down to one slipup on a game-changing play deep in the fourth quarter, you can't just write off that failure as one mistake among many. Matt Ryan played well and still lost—
No, Matt Ryan played just well enough to lose. There's a differenc—
One day, instead of defining all of this after the fact, can you point this out to me during the game and then stop changing your mind about what everything that happened during the game means afterward because one team won and one team los—
As long as you promise to stop trying to calculate win probabilities in your hea—
Deal. Now, seriously, can we talk about that security guard getting hit? Is he OK? Can we make fun of him, then? It looks lik—
It looks like a Jackass sketch. Unsuspecting guy gets trampled by horse. It has to be awkward when you're an NFL player and you take out somebody on the sidelines, right? You probably want to say you're sorry, but you really didn't do anything wrong, and you also have to get back to the huddle and really, as the article notes, this guy did a better job of covering Julio Jones than anybody on San Francisco did all day. Imagine how good he would be if he was actually facing the field.
You in Reverse
When discussing the clutch records of athletes like Matt Ryan and LeBron James in the past, I've brought up the idea of looking at Tom Brady's playoff record in reverse chronological order to highlight just how much of our opinions on athletes can be defined by what they do early in the "big moments" of their career. Just for fun, since we're all trying to figure out what this round of playoffs means for the legacies of guys like Ryan, Joe Flacco, and Peyton Manning, let's actually go through year-by-year and see what opinions might have cropped up with regard to Tom Brady if we flipped his 13-year career on its head. I promise that I will only be as jaundiced in the descriptions as most people would be about the likes of Ryan and Manning. You can play along with his playoff game log here.
Record: 1-1
Career-to-date: 1-1
Brady makes his playoff debut and easily dispatches the Texans at home, but despite the fact that his Patriots are heavy home favorites against the Ravens, New England loses when they fail to produce in the red zone. Brady shows his inability to handle pressure situations when he mismanages the clock at the end of the first half and has to settle for a field goal, a problem that should hopefully go away when he matures. The Patriots have a shot late in the game, but an ill-timed Brady interception2 puts New England's title hopes to rest.
Record: 2-1
Career-to-date: 3-2
Although Brady takes a leap forward and makes his first Super Bowl, his performance during the playoffs leaves a bit to be desired. Brady runs up his stats against the lowly Broncos and Tim Tebow, throwing for six touchdowns and 363 yards. In the AFC Championship Game, Brady throws two picks against the Ravens and posts a passer rating of 57.5, but his defense bails him out with the famous strip of Lee Evans in the end zone and the Billy Cundiff missed field goal. And despite a stretch of hot play in the second quarter, when he sets a consecutive completions record, Brady comes up short when his team needs him most in the second half, failing to connect with Wes Welker on a long would-be touchdown and failing to protect a lead inside four minutes of the fourth quarter. Brady almost literally hands Eli Manning and the Giants the Super Bowl.
Record: 0-1
Career-to-date: 3-3
In a shocking upset, Brady's Patriots lose as 9.5-point home favorites to the Jets, who befuddle Brady while sacking him five times and forcing an early interception to set the tone. It's Brady's second playoff loss as a heavy home favorite in three years.
Record: 0-1
Career-to-date: 3-4
It's another crushing loss for Brady, who appears to have never recovered after blowing the lead in the Super Bowl and failing to hit Welker with the game on the line. He turns over the ball four times, including three times on the first four drives, as the Patriots fall to 2-3 at home in the playoffs under Brady.
Record: 2-1
Career-to-date: 5-5
The ultimate regular-season superstar comes up short yet again on the big stage. After a stunning 16-0 season earns Brady his first MVP award, a mediocre playoff run ends in failure for the Patriots. Sure, Brady beats up on the AFC South at home, as he throws for 262 yards and three touchdowns against the Jaguars, but what happens when the competition gets tougher? He throws three picks against the Chargers in the conference championship and only wins because he's playing a guy on a torn ACL. And while Brady manages to finally beat the Giants for the first time in Week 17, he still can't beat them when it really counts, as the perfect team falls just short. Brady can only muster a measly 5.5 yards per attempt as he endlessly checks down and scores just 14 points.
Record: 2-1
Career-to-date: 7-6
Can Tom Brady ever beat a Manning brother? First, it was Eli. Now, it's big brother Peyton getting into the act, as the Colts launch a dramatic comeback in the AFC Championship Game to produce a 38-34 victory. Again, Brady beats up on the league's weaklings before playing worse in each successive game; he throws for 212 yards and two scores against the Jets, but then has another three-pick game against the Chargers in a contest where the Patriots only pull the game out after the Chargers try to return Brady's final pick deep in the fourth quarter and Troy Brown manages to strip the ball loose. In that AFC Championship Game, Brady fumbles a snap into the end zone that's recovered for a touchdown — wouldn't a clutch player be able to hold onto a snap? He also gets a pick-six to eventually go up 21-6 heading into halftime, but the Patriots blow a 15-point lead and lose when Brady fails to come through with a lead on third-and-4 inside of three minutes, giving the ball to Manning and setting up a game-winning score. Is he ever going to have a big drive when his team really needs it?
Record: 1-1
Career-to-date: 8-7
Yawn. The book on Tom Brady's already been written. Sure, he throws for 201 yards and three touchdowns against the Jaguars at home in an early-round victory. Who doesn't beat up on the weaklings of the AFC South? When he has to travel on the road to play the Broncos, though, Brady puts up an empty 341 yards as he throws two picks, including one in the Denver end zone that Champ Bailey returns 99 yards to the 1-yard line on a drive that would have given New England the lead. The Patriots never recover.
At this point, Brady's playoff reputation is something resembling Peyton Manning. He's the guy who beats up on weak links and never shows up when his team really needs him. He's got various maladies: He can't beat the Giants or can't beat a Manning brother, he chokes when his team is a huge favorite at home, he can't produce a drive to kill off a game, he's distracted by his model wife. In what approximates a full season, Brady's line is good, but not great: 363-583 (62.3 percent completion percentage), 3,998 passing yards, 31 touchdowns, 19 interceptions. That's too many picks for a guy who averages only 10 interceptions per year. Antsy New England fans call for Bill Belichick's head because they want a head coach who has proven he can win Super Bowls.
And yet, despite the fact that you "know" Tom Brady, that he's the guy who can't come up with the big win, that he's just another quarterback who looks better in fantasy football than at the helm in the real thing, Tom Brady goes 9-0 in his next nine playoff games and wins three Super Bowls. He throws 11 touchdowns against three interceptions. He beats teams on the road. At home. As a favorite. As an underdog. He produces incredible, game-winning drives that will stand the test of time and redefine his legacy. Bizarro Simmons — undergoing a dramatic downward spiral that somehow takes him from hosting a show on ESPN to living in Charlestown and bumming cigarettes outside of Store 24 — has to laugh off years of columns about how he'll never be stupid enough to bet on Tom Brady when it really matters. Brady's career culminates with an incredibly gutsy performance against the Raiders at home in the snow, when he leads his team to a narrow victory before winning the next two games and claiming his third Super Bowl title. His legacy secure, Brady rides off into the sunset victorious.3
So, with that all in mind, you should take two things away from this silly exercise. First, what a quarterback does in the playoffs at the beginning of his career isn't any more meaningful than what he does in the middle or at the end of his career. You don't win an extra half Super Bowl if you do it before you turn 25. Second, you don't "know" what a quarterback is going to do in the playoffs because of how he's previously performed in the playoffs. We have 15 games over seven seasons saying that Tom Brady's a playoff flop, and that information means absolutely nothing in determining how Tom Brady would play in the future. Looking at the games under the proper chronological order says just as much: We had nine games suggesting that Tom Brady was unstoppable in the playoffs, and afterward, we've had 15 games implying that he's actually just like any other good quarterback in the postseason. That he's "been there before" means nothing, just like it did in 2001, when Brady made it to the Super Bowl and won it without having been there before. He's still capable of screwing up and making mistakes, as Sunday showed. He's also still capable of being great and winning a Super Bowl. The truth isn't quite as satisfying as a one-word label like "clutch" or "unclutch," but football's a lot more complicated than one-word labels. It deserves better, and just as the likes of Manning and Ryan are demeaned with overly simplistic stories about their playoff performance, so is Brady.
VD Spreading
Only one week after dramatically changing their offense to beat the Packers, San Francisco made more changes on offense during their narrow victory over the Falcons in Atlanta. For one, Vernon Davis is back, everyone! After a seven-game stretch that saw Davis cumulatively produce seven catches for 105 yards, Davis matched that total in one game by snagging five catches for 106 yards with two touchdowns. He also had one long catch called back by holding on the offensive line. It was a breakout game for a player who was supposed to have broken out for good last year in the NFC Championship Game and then again once Kaepernick entered the lineup, only for the ball to seemingly avoid Davis during the run-in to the playoffs. With Atlanta's subpar defense against tight ends yielding 142 yards to Zach Miller last week, it was no surprise that the 49ers decided to target Davis heavily in their passing game this time around. Atlanta tried to stop Davis in man coverage with Thomas DeCoud, leading to a rather notable crotch chop by DeCoud after he batted away a pass to Davis to end San Francisco's drive. Somewhere, Miguel Tejada is livid.
The 49ers also had a change inflicted upon them by the Falcons. Seemingly determined to stop Colin Kaepernick from running around the edge for endless gains, the Falcons responded to read-action plays by forcing Kaepernick to hand off to Frank Gore. That was fine by Gore, who ran for 90 yards on 21 carries while scoring twice. There were no GIF-worthy moments like Clay Matthews doing a 360 spin to diagnose who had the football, just situations in which Kroy Biermann stares into the backfield and ponders existence while waiting for the ball to show up. And as our Chris Brown pointed out, the 49ers went with the inverted veer on LaMichael James's touchdown. And this was one week. Imagine how impressive the San Francisco offense will be with two weeks of practice for the Ravens game.
Thank You for Not Coaching
The AFC Championship Game saw yet another conservative team pay for their mistakes, as the Patriots played not to lose in the first half and got beat in the second. The old cliché is that you can't dance with the champ, but you don't become champ by hanging on for dear life, either. Although they've been among the most aggressive teams in the league since Bill Belichick and Tom Brady got to town, the Patriots chose a very curious time to play field position and rely upon their defense. The result was an ignominious loss as a heavy home favorite for Brady's team.
By my count, there were four different situations during Sunday's game when the Patriots chose a surprisingly conservative route on fourth down where a more aggressive option was within the realm of reason.4 In each case, the numbers suggest that going for it would have been either a far superior decision or one of similar merit in a vacuum. Given the makeup of the New England roster, the injury to Aqib Talib, and the success that the Patriots have had in the past being an aggressive team when the numbers were equal, it would seem to behoove the Patriots to try going for it when the percentages were similar. Each of these plays also came while the game was tied or when the Patriots had a lead, suggesting that New England had a chance to create a comfortable margin against Baltimore and failed to do so.
The first play saw the Patriots kick a field goal on fourth-and-2 from the Baltimore 12-yard line in a scoreless game. With 51 minutes to go in a scoreless game, it was surprising to see the Patriots line up and kick a field goal amid swirling winds in Foxborough to go up 3-0. It's always nice to get points on the board, but with so much game to go, your goal has to be to create as many points as possible for your team; given the probabilities of converting (and promptly scoring), failing (and stranding the Ravens deep in their own territory), or kicking a field goal, Brian Burke's fourth-down calculator estimates that the Patriots should have gone for it if they thought they had a 48 percent chance of converting on fourth-and-2. There's not a big sample for the Patriots trying fourth-and-2, but they've converted third-and-2 on 42 of their 65 attempts (64.6 percent) over the past three years. You can invent whatever argument you want about momentum5 and how it means something three hours before the final whistle, but it's certainly within New England's right to go for it. Certainly, I'd imagine that most Ravens fans felt happy about the decision to kick a field goal.
An even rarer decision came on the next drive, when the Patriots advanced the ball to the 35-yard line before being stopped and facing a fourth-and-9. That's normally a no-man's zone for offenses, as it falls into the narrow range where it's too long to kick a field goal but too short of a distance to really gain much by punting. When you consider the windy conditions in New England, it made sense to pass on the field goal try. That would seem to point to a decision to go for it, but instead, the Patriots punted the ball away and picked up 27 yards of field position in the process. The Patriots followed that with an eerily similar move at the beginning of the third quarter, punting on fourth-and-8 from the Baltimore 34-yard line. This isn't unprecedented for the Patriots, but it's pretty close: Since the 2001 season, the Patriots had punted only 14 times in 12 seasons in that situation, and five of those punts were in the fourth quarter of blowouts. They did it twice in one game on Sunday.
Throw in a punt on fourth-and-2 from the Baltimore 45-yard line, and that's four plays in which it seemed logical for the Patriots to leave their offense on the field and attack the Ravens with their best player. Instead, New England went for it only once on fourth down amid those conservative decisions, picking up a fourth-and-1 on a direct snap to Danny Woodhead during their two-minute drill. That drive ended with a mystifyingly naive set of decisions from a team that's supposed to be among the smartest in football.
In a way, the problems were set up by Aaron Hernandez. When Brady hit Hernandez for a 17-yard completion to pick up a third-and-10, Hernandez made an ill-advised decision to avoid going out of bounds and instead curled back toward the hash to try and pick up extra yardage. In gaining maybe one additional yard, Hernandez cost the Patriots their second timeout. On the subsequent play, Brady scrambled and caught Ed Reed with a studs-up slide that would have seen him sent off if he was playing another sport. Brady tried to rush his team back to the line of scrimmage, but they ran eight seconds off the clock before they were forced to use their final timeout and kick a field goal.
The poor decisions cost them at least one shot at the end zone. If Hernandez goes out of bounds after his catch, the Patriots have two timeouts and 27 seconds to score from the 10-yard line. Even if Brady scrambles on the ensuing first down for the same three yards, the Patriots call timeout and have about 20 seconds to work with. With Brady in the shotgun, they can throw twice into the end zone on second and third down before kicking the field goal on fourth down. And even if Hernandez stays inbounds and Brady scrambles on first down, calling a timeout immediately after Brady's slide leaves the Patriots with enough time for at least one throw into the end zone before Stephen Gostkowski's field goal. You can't leave opportunities for points like that on the field. The Patriots did, and while it wasn't the entire margin of victory, the decisions all added up to a team that was sloppy and excessively conservative on offense. In 2011, the Ravens out-executed the Patriots, but the Patriots caught the breaks at the end of the game to win. In 2012, the Ravens out-executed the Patriots and caught the breaks, too.


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A recent news article on Elvis.com announced a so-called instant keepsake – the magazine ELVIS: The King Revealed. This "Official Graceland Special Edition" is touted for going deep into their Elvis historical archives, accessing thousands of photos, documents, interviews and Elvis memorabilia, and sharing them with the public for the first time.
With over 350 'rare' photos, the magazine is probably worth its $9.99 price. But I wish they had used a different title. The King Revealed just sounds too much like those Midnight Globe and National Enquirer tabloid headlines from the late 70s and early 80s. I remembered that many of them proclaimed all sorts of different stuff they supposedly revealed about Elvis.
That was enough motivation to look in my large box of old tabloid issues with Elvis cover stories to see how many had the words Elvis and Revealed in the headlines. To my great surprise, there were none.
However, there were three Elvis tabloids featuring variations on the word revealed, like Starlet Reveals, or New Tapes Reveal.
Midnight Globe — November 22, 1977:
The starlet who revealed why she said no to Elvis is Joan Freeman, his co-star in Blue Hawaii and Kid Galahad. According to the article, "When we first set eyes on each other, there was a spark, a magic in the air… There was just that special something between us, sometimes so warm and wonderful you could almost reach out and touch it."
Wow, that special something sure sounds like lust to this reader.
Blackman claims she knew Elvis prior to working with him on Blue Hawaii in March and April 1961. It's possible she met Elvis in Hollywood in 1957, while she was filming her first role in Good Day for a Hanging, but all of her other parts were in movies made while Elvis was in Germany. Anyway, she said Elvis begged her repeatedly to appear in one of his movies, but she turned him down each time. "I wanted parts because of my ability, not because I was dating Elvis." She maintains she got the role in Blue Hawaii because producer Hal Wallis picked her.
The special something between Blackman and Elvis heated up when they got to Honolulu in 1961. The Midnight Globe asserts they had a wild, tumultuous love affair while there. "We had rooms next to each other in the hotel, and for weeks we just lived together." This led Elvis to propose marriage. "He really wanted me to be his wife… But I said no… I was in love with another actor, Hampton Fancher III (mostly TV work, lots of westerns).
So, Elvis got shot down in his wish to marry Joan Blackman, but for some reason, he wanted her to appear with him two films later in Kid Galahad. Who needs marriage when you can still have that special something?
The Star — June 27, 1978:
Elvis didn't make the cover of this issue (just a promo tease in the bottom right corner), and he barely was shown in the centerfold photo-spread. The new tapes referenced came from Wanda June Hill, who used them to write her book We Remember Elvis. She says she first met Elvis in a Hollywood studio and kept in contact with him for fifteen years, right up to his death. Apparently, she had a tape recorder going much of the time during their phone conversations.
The Star article does emphasize the continuing love Elvis and Priscilla had for each other, even after their divorce in 1971. That seems to be accepted narrative these days, but maybe it was considered a revelation back in 1978 when the article appeared.
What's interesting is the choice of photos under the banner "The Eternal Love of Elvis and Priscilla." There's one tiny picture of them in the upper right-hand corner.
There is a considerably larger photo of Priscilla and Karate trainer Mike Stone on the lower right. He is not mentioned in the article, except for the photo caption that says, "He [Elvis] forgave the relationship she developed with Mike Stone after the separation. (After?)
There is an even larger photo of Priscilla with her 'latest escort,' Hollywood hairdresser Elie Erzer. What ever happened to calling them boyfriends or lovers?
There is also a great shot of Linda Thompson I've never seen before. She gets treated rather kindly in the article.
Finally, there is a familiar glamour shot of Ginger Alden. She doesn't come out too well in the article. In fact, the author says Elvis was about to cut off the relationship shortly before his death. Supposedly, he had a beautiful blonde woman waiting in the wings.
Midnight Globe – Dec 13, 1977 :
Dee Stanley is the stepmom who reveals the truth behind the Presley divorces. She and Vernon were married for fourteen years, but they separated in 1974 when she found out he had been seeing another woman he met in Las Vegas. The article says she never thought for a second that the separation would lead to a divorce. However, three years later, Vernon was still living with the woman. A few months after Elvis died, Vernon and Dee had a quickie divorce in the Dominican Republic.
Ninety percent of the Midnight Globe article is about this divorce and the aftermath. The only time Dee mentions Elvis and Priscilla's divorce is when she compares it to hers. "The two marriages… succumbed to the same sort of strains – Elvis' work on the road, in Las Vegas and other places, and Vernon going off with him. The two of them felt the same way, that there was a separate man's world where women shouldn't be allowed to enter… " Dee called it the reverse of an old saying: "Like son, like father."
Dee also discussed her divorce settlement as fair and generous, and that Vernon had always been that way. Later in the article, she admitted it was enough for her to live an opulent lifestyle for the rest of her life. Near the end of the article, Dee says she still feels for Vernon. She tells him she still loves him and she prays someday they might marry each other again. That didn't happen for Elvis, and we know how that old saying goes.
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I've searched for pop up displays on the Internet, and the prices are all over the place. To me, they all look the same. Is there a difference?
Absolutely! Think of pop up displays the same way you think of tools or kitchenware. You can buy a tool at a bargain basement retailer that will last a few jobs. It may be all you need, but you know by the third or fourth time it will break, bend, or short-circuit. Or you can buy a tool that will last for years and years. Same with kitchenware, such as pots and pans. It's not all hype. There's a reason why one set costs $29.99 and another $99.99.
Everyone wants an "incredible bargain, but 9 times out of 10, you get what you pay for. What you don't want is a broken pop up display at a show. You paid for space, for transportation and lodging, and freight. You're there to sell, not to apologize for your display.
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GENRE: Romance anthology (sweet to erotic)
Six holiday romances, from sexy to sweet, prove that love is better on the Naughty List.
A Christmas Maggie by Tiffany Reisz
All Daniel wanted for Christmas was to spoil his new girlfriend, Anya, make love under the tree, and ignore all his old heartaches. But the ghosts of Christmas past aren't so easily forgotten especially when Maggie, his late wife, shows up to remind him why the past should stay in the past and why his Christmases-future could be the best of his life if he can finally let himself live and love in this Christmas present. (A Christmas Maggie is the final story in the Daniel trio [from the Original Sinners series] beginning with The Gift and followed by Daniel Part Two.)
Christmassy by Alexa Piper
When taotien Valerion and witchling Cora get together sparks fly. But on the way to visit Cora's family for Christmas, they encounter a supernatural predator that will not only test their individual powers and abilities, but also their connection to one another.
My Midnight Cowboy by Pumpkin Spice
If chocolate is the way to a man's heart, then pastry chef Lucy Baker has the recipe for success. But will her culinary skills melt the most hard-hearted bachelor in Wyoming? A chance encounter on a New Year's Eve flight leaves two strangers to discover unbound pleasure and a hunger for sexual discovery.
In the Doghouse by Elizabeth Black
Nicky and Angela had just begun to add a little kink to their lives when, caught up in the influence of his dudebros he forgot their anniversary and broke Angela's heart. Angela wants Nicky's strong arms around her again, but first she wants him to fight for her. Can one night, a paddle and some restraints bridge the gap between them?
Winter's Daughter by Doug Blakeslee
A child of the Fae—bound to winter and a promise given to her chosen mate. She must claim him before time runs out and all she loves in the world falls to ruin. A child of mortals—forgotten and discarded by the world, then torn from the most amazing woman he's ever met. Trapped in the sort of fae-tale that rarely ends in happily ever after, are they strong enough to defy the odds and find love?
Stealing Time by Wendy Sparrow
As Father Time's son, Zeit must sacrifice a mortal's lifetime to the Fates each New Year's Eve. Last year—inexplicably, really—he made an 11:59 substitution. The Fates are pissed and they're after his mortal Hannah. With the year ending, he ought to figure out why he'd saved her—and and why he keeps doing it. Following an unlucky year, Hannah needs a week's holiday in a lodge to unwind. What she gets is near-death experiences and a sexy immortal who can't avoid kissing her, but might have to kill her. After all, even Zeit can't hold back time indefinitely.
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From A Christmas Maggie by Tiffany Reisz
Daniel sat forward in the chair, suddenly more awake than he'd ever been in his entire life. In front of him kneeling on the floor by his feet with her chin on his knee was Maggie, his wife who had been dead and buried for years.
"What?" he asked again, his heart pounding wildly in his chest. "What are you doing here?"
She gave him a wicked blue-eyed smile, her chestnut hair falling in waves around her oval face. She didn't look a day over thirty-five, younger than he'd ever seen her. In fact she looked breathtaking—so young, so beautiful, so untouched by the pain and suffering the cancer had inflicted on her, the cancer that had killed his beautiful wife.
"Merry Christmas, Daniel."
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Groupon and LivingSocial have motivated many small businesses into offering daily deals, but the 50 percent commission is often a daily deal breaker. Signpost is a new venture-backed daily deal service that that lets small and medium sized businesses set up their own daily deal campaigns and online marketing offers on a DIY (do it yourself) basis. It operates on a lower commission structure with a flat monthly fee, to boot.
How it works:
1. Signpost gathers info about your business and creates a campaign. You share details about how your business operates and works, of course.
2. They match your campaign with the right online channels. This is one of the cool things about Signpost — they have loads of content partners that show your "campaign ad" on their blog or website. From their website:
We use our network of 1200+ national and local partners like Google, AOL, and Yellow Pages to access over 35 million local customers. Our extensive reach allows us to match your campaign to customers that count.
3. Customers buy a voucher online to redeem at your store by clicking on that daily deal ad and pre-paying for the offer. You pay a commission to the content partner that is displaying your ad (via the Signpost system, of course) and they promise it is never more than 15 percent.
Within your account, like any web service, you have a real-time dashboard that shows your offers, redemptions, and other campaigns you are running. For example, you can set up a Facebook campaign or run an email newsletter through the service.
What I liked about the service
- Signpost creates the campaign for you. As I pointed out above, they then distribute that offer for you. They have over 60 cities in the system so far, but I presume that if you're not in one of those you can still create an offer of some type.
- I like that 15 percent commission versus the 50 percent that other daily deal companies require.
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As most of my readers know, I don't like it when you can't get access to a site without leaving all your contact details. Signpost requires your email and phone and after you click "sign up" it says they will contact you shortly. So, I tried to sign up and now I'm waiting for a sales rep to call me. Not a big deal, but that wasn't my expectation. As noted above, they are transparent with their pricing and how it works. Ideally, they would allow you to start filling in some details or checking out the dashboards or more than "hey, we'll call you."
Pricing is a flat $99 per month and a 15 percent (maximum) commission to sites that generate the click-through. If you've wanted to provide a daily or weekly coupon to your local customers and prospects, Signpost might be worth a closer look.
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Sean Parker's Airtime video chat service launches
Napster co-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning unveil the Web chat service at an event in New York, but there were some hiccups.
NEW YORK -- After months of hype, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's latest venture, a video chat service called Airtime, launched today.
Airtime has been described as an evolved version of Chatroulette, a video service that randomly matched up people for chatting. The new venture matches people with common interests and social connections in video chat sessions.
It is the latest undertaking from the co-founders of Napster, which helped revolutionize how music was obtained over the Internet. While Napster ultimately faded away, it fundamentally changed how the music industry operated and viewed online content. Parker and Fanning are hoping to have the same impact with Airtime, and launched the service with a star-studded press conference featuring Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg in New York.
The app works in Facebook, and has been in development for more than a year. Similar to Chatroulette, the app appears with two screens to accommodate the user and a friend. The two can share videos and files or just talk.
Let's hope the app is less buggy than it was during the presentation. This was not an Apple-esque launch. There were problems connecting to people using the system, problems with the microphone, and Parker was visibly upset. Joel McHale, a comedian and TV actor, helped save the day.
"Sean, whose ass are you going to fire?" McHale said. Actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jim Carrey were on hand to help demo the service but the glitches prevented them from doing so. Still, they did a good job of distracting the audience while technicians tried to fix the problems.
Eventually, the Airtime people gave up on trying to demonstrate the product and they just played a video demo.
The service features green-shaded boxes beneath each participant showing common interests. Friends can award one another "applause meter" points.
Parker told the audience that he was getting bored with the Web and that he Fanning wanted to "create an environment to help people to realize their creative potential."
"There's no serendipity," Parker said. "Everything now is filtered through the social graph. We have the ability to share media faster than ever before. But the social network is somewhat constraining. It is become an increasingly public forum. You're doing everything in front of your friends and that's limiting."
He said he wants to help people break out of the social graph. So, Airtime is a Web-based application designed to foster spontaneous sharing and interaction with video. There's no download or registration required.
Parker, a fixture in the Silicon Valley scene, gained mainstream fame as one of the men behind the rise of Facebook, especially following the release of the Oscar-winning movie "The Social Network."
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