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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Are you related to William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill"- or just interested in the study of his life? Great new announcement will make a vast amount of his historical records available to the public soon.
My family and I have visited the BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER in Cody, Wyoming on two different occasions and have found it to be one of the best American West Museums available. You will never be disappointed if you plan your vacation or research trip to see this wonderful collection. Our boys were only 8 and 9 when we last visited but they both often talk about the great things they saw and learned about while there nearly 20 years ago. Our memories have carried us through the years and prompted my husband and I to plan another vacation there again this summer. This time our boys are now long gone from home so we will travel from Nebraska to Cody, Wyoming by motorcycle. We look forward to all new adventures on the trip and to finding great things to study once we get there.
A recent news release in March from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming offers exciting news for the genealogist/family researcher. The center has raised over $300,000 from private donors, matching $300.000 from the Wyoming Legislature and an additional sizable grant from the Federal Government to help move forward the plans to bring the massive holdings of the museum into the digital age. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's personal correspondence, Wild West show records, photographs, and the rest of the McCracken Research Library holdings will all be digitized over the next 3-4 years. This will make available thousands of images for use through the Historical Center's website. They hope to finish within approximately 3 years, having added additional staff, and will offer the records free of charge. This is one of the largest holdings involving the life and history of William F. Cody.
The McCracken Research Library which is housed within the Buffalo Bill Historical Center is a wonderful place to spend some time doing research while also visiting the unparalleled exhibits of the Historical Center. Often it requires reservations to use the library for major research so be sure to contact them ahead if you plan a visit. The Center also houses 5 great museums: THE BUFFALO BILL MUSEUM, THE PLAINS INDIAN MUSEUM, THE WHITNEY GALLERY OF WESTERN ART, THE DRAPER MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (of the Yellowstone Basin Area), and THE CODY FIREARM MUSEUM home to the "Winchester Collection" which is one of the premier firearms displays in the world.
At this time there are already hundreds of digitized photos and other ephemera already online at the Center's web site with more being added daily. Go online at the BUFFALO BILL HISTORICAL CENTER and spend some time looking at what they have to offer. There are wonderful photos and documents that reflect both "Buffalo Bill" the man- and our great American history.
Cody, Wyoming and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center lie just to the east of Yellowstone Park so if you plan a vacation to the area, be sure to include the Center in your vacation. It is a grand place for any historian/genealogist/researcher/or firearms collector, whether you visit in person or peruse their online digital collection.
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Ah, the follies of youth! When I was much younger, back in November, I wondered if the films of 2009 would be an accurate reflection of the year. Little did I realize it wasn't just the films but the entire awards season that was the time capsule, capturing all the feelings that made our lives so exciting: impatience, anger, suspense and confusion.
A few years ago, Oscars were held at the end of March. Now, as we constantly multitask and double our workloads (or double our attempts to find work), we've become an ADD society. The wait seems endless: After the Feb. 20-21 Writers Guild Awards/BAFTAs, it's two whole weeks until the Spirit Awards on March 5 and the Oscars on March 7. C'mon, hurry up!
The question of who will win is, as always, generating the suspense this season. But that's been mixed with the confusion from the 10 best picture nominees and the preferential voting rules in the category.
Last year, "Slumdog Millionaire" had taken every major prize before the Academy Awards, so the Oscar outcome seemed almost inevitable. This year, there is more uncertainty — and more energy — as "The Hurt Locker," "Avatar" and "Inglourious Basterds" have won key "bellwether" awards. To a pessimist, this sounds like mixed signals. To an optimist: genuine suspense!
Many in the mainstream press portray the race as David vs. Goliath, "The Hurt Locker" vs. "Avatar." Many entertainment journalists love to point out the discrepancies in the two films' budgets, B.O., visual styles, et al.
In fact, it may be a four-horse race (or even a 10-horse race) because the preferential voting presents a curve ball.
To summarize briefly: Oscar voters fill out all 10 blank best-picture slots on their ballots, listing the pics in order of their preference. The wise and mysterious folks at PricewaterhouseCoopers will then count ballots, going through first-place choices. If no film reaches 51%, they move to choice No. 2, then 3, etc. (It's more complicated than this, but trust me, you don't need to know.)
A lot of Oscar hopefuls are using this mysterious method to predict their own victory. In past years, some have trumpeted their chances of winning by saying, "The frontrunner is admired the most, but our film is loved the most." Now, there's an odd, new twist from reps of at least three contenders: "Maybe our film isn't admired or loved the best, but it's everyone's third favorite, so we will win!"
I love this kind of goofy, optimistic logic. And I love the fact that goofiness does, in fact, reflect 2009.
When "Paranormal Activity," budgeted at $16,000, earns $167 million, and "little" films like "New Moon" and "The Hangover" outgross "Watchmen" and a "Terminator" sequel, you know the rules are changing.
Thanks to these 2009 surprise hits, everybody immediately began to adapt: film execs, folks at the Big Five agencies (CAA, WME, UTA, ICM and Paradigm), management firms, the smaller tenpercenteries and, of course, the creatives.
But these audience shifts, as well as Hollywood's, are symptoms of bigger changes. There is a sense of constant anxiety. A few years ago, people had goals: "In five years, I will be doing this, and then in 10 years, doing that!" Fate often changed those plans, but at least folks could make plans. Now everyone seems too fearful or superstitious to think ahead: "Five years from now? Who knows if I'll even have a job in two months!"
Throw in health-care frenzy, pop-culture phenoms (Susan Boyle, Octomom, Jon & Kate, Balloon Boy) and the fact that technology is changing everything … yup, that 2009 was one wacky year!
The Oscar contenders reflect that.
In "A Serious Man," Michael Stuhlbarg shows an insanely complicated formula to his students, warning,"Even though you can't figure it out, you will be responsible for it on the midterm." And that was 2009 in a nutshell: You will be responsible, even though you may not understand it. You may not even understand yourself. "Am I a good person?" Sandra Bullock wonders in "The Blind Side." George Clooney in "Up in the Air" asks, "Who the fuck am I?"
His character, like the hero of "The Hurt Locker," flirts with change only to decide against it. The folks in "Avatar," "District 9" and "An Education" have a strong vision of what they want, only to learn that their vision wasn't as clear as it seemed. The "Up" and "Precious" heroes slowly and reluctantly liberate themselves. In "Inglourious Basterds," Christoph Waltz vows to change. But hey, he's a Nazi, so you can't trust him.
While there's confusion and suspense this year, some things never change. An annual awards-season tradition is mudslinging. Once the nominations are announced, everyone knows who the competition is, so the battles get personal.
This year, best-pic contenders "Inglourious Basterds" and "An Education" are being hit with charges of anti-Semitism (!!???) in blogs, newly created websites and even print stories. Hmm, months and months after these pics opened, someone brings this up? As ballots close Tuesday, the knives are out.
The bad news is that people are still doing this; the good news is that few take it seriously. After charges against "A Beautiful Mind" and "Slumdog Millionaire" were raised, and the films won the top prize, the media seem fairly immune to this sort of thing.
All in all, it's been a fascinating season. Thanks and congrats to all of you who worked so hard.
Read previous columns at Variety.com/Gray

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So obviously expecting her 10th set of twinsOh the celebrity pregnancy rumors -- if there's anything we love to do, it's speculatin' upon the bellies of the famous. I never thought I'd grow up to spend this much time scrutinizing photos for baby bumps. You? And yet, speculate we must! Because we do love ourselves a celeb pregnancy -- almost as much as a celeb baby.
But sometimes the rumors are false! Shocking but true. (Like, nine times out of ten if you're keeping track.) Where's a fan supposed to turn for support when a celeb pregnancy turns out to be nothing but a rumor? Cry on my shoulder -- and hold out hope for next year. Here are our favorite celeb pregnancy rumors of 2012.
More from The Stir: Latest Jennifer Aniston Pregnancy Rumor Could Be the Real Thing
Khloe Kardashian was rumored to be pregnant in April. And who knows? Maybe she was and then miscarried. This one makes us sad because we know her and Lamar's fertility issues pain them. Fingers crossed for next year!
Jennifer Aniston is declared pregnant so often, if they'd been real pregnancies, she'd be outdoing Octomom. And is it me, or does it seem like she's always expecting twins? C'mon tabloids, step it up a little. Why not throw in some triplets or quads every once in a while? Anyway, I'm sure it's happening any day now. But I won't believe the rumors until she's out to there.
Lady Gaga sure was acting pregnant-ish this fall. The weight gain, the vomiting on stage, could it be: The Pregnant? She says no. And since it's been a few months with no growing bump, I guess she really wasn't.
Mila Kunis says she's not pregnant. But what about that baby bump? And what about the beautiful, beautiful babies we're dying to see her and Ashton Kutcher produce? And how do we REALLY know she's not pregnant? I guess we'll find out about six months from now.
Angelina Jolie is another celeb who's always rumored to be knocked up. Even when she's sooo obviously not, we have no choice but to mock the rumors. C'mon, that family is big enough.
Catelynn Lowell has been rumored to be pregnant with a second baby. But she keeps telling us she's too busy with the wedding plans and with college to get knocked up again. When will we believe her?
Kristen Stewart! No. Just ... no.
And now, one "fake" pregnancy that turned out to be real!
Kate Middleton is now pregnant. Okay, it's official this time. The royal egg hath been fertilized and hath attached itself to the royal womb. But Kate was declared pregnant all freaking 2012 long. I mean, she could have delivered a couple of babies right now if those rumors had been true.
Do you think any of these ladies will turn up preggers in 2013?
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text: Larry Pollock, The proprietor of Stallion Labs thought he was safe by operating in mexico, but learned just how far the corrupt government's reach could go. He was kidnapped and tortured for 16 days and still had to do federal time. He is one of few that has encountered a cartel and lived to tell about it. This is a true story.


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The UC Irvine men's basketball team had four players honored by the Big West Conference men's basketball coaches, led by senior guard Daman Starring, who was named second-team All-Big West.
Senior post Adam Folker earned the conference's Hustle Award for the second straight season, while sophomore forward Will Davis was named Defensive Player of the Year.
UCI point guard Alex Moore shared Freshman of the Year laurels with Hawaii's Isaac Fotu.
Starring, a 6-foot-3 guard who enters Thursday's Big West Tournament averaging 13.3 points, had six 20-point outputs for the Anteaters (18-14, 11-7 in conference, good four fourth place). He has 1,012 career points at UCI, where he played three seasons after transferring from Centenary, and ranks seventh in school annals with 144 career three-pointers.
Starring is averaging 3.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per contest.
The 6-9 Folker, a fifth-year senior, led all Big West players in field-goal percentage (.581). He averaged 9.8 ppoints and 6-4 rebounds in the regular season.
Davis led the conference with 78 blocked shots, which also broke his own school single-season record. The lanky 6-8 standout has 133 blocks in 62 games at UCI, which will face Hawaii on Thursday at approximately 8:30 p.m. at Honda Center.
Davis averaged 8.6 points and a team-best 6.6 rebounds.
Young, a 6-1 newcomer out of Phoenix, has a school single-season freshman record 132 assists. He ranks second in the conference in assists (4.1 per game) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.6). He is averaging 9.2 points per game and his 28 three-pointers rank third on the squad.
UCI's 11 conference wins are the most for the program in 10 seasons and the 18 wins are the most since the 2007-08 team finished 18-16.
Folker received honorable mention in the all-conference voting.
Long Beach State senior James Ennis was the Player of the Year and the 49ers Dan Monson was Coach of the Year.
Kyle Boswell, a UC Santa Barbara sophomore out of Edison High in Huntington Beach, was named Sixth Man of the Year.
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After the success of her first video, Megs has decided to make her much anticipated second video.
No more crushing my Nars Blushers though – I found some of my cheapy make up for her to play with.
Excuse my crappy editing, blame Apple Mac software for confusing me…
Once again I left her in peace pretty much – loved the mascara and lip liner technique. But if she's learning from watching me then….eek….
Anyway enough of me, here she is:
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Every so often, a week comes along where so many amazing games are released that it takes me almost as long to narrow down my choices as it does to evaluate them all. This was one of those weeks.
After the jump, you'll encounter strategy, music, arcade addiction, monsters and the end of the world. Probably worth a click then, right? (more…)
August may mean that summer is waning, but it doesn't mean the wealth of iOS game releases are slowing down any!
This week, we check out some spectacular indie titles, a graphically stunning sequel, and the best portable pixelated archery game ever. Click through and let's play! (more…)
Good news, gamers! If you've run out of things to play on your iPhones, you'll find five excellent titles to liven up your fun folder.
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More fun from Rovio, a bit of futuristic action, zombies, castles, and … cleaning?
Click through for another eclectic roundup of our favourite App Store games from this week! (more…)
Get ready for another blockbuster console port and some innovative gameplay mechanics that take you outside your iPhone in this week's Game Friday.
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Summers are always kind to gamers, and as June draws to a close we have the opportunity to play a number of huge new iOS titles that are sure to delight, frighten and frustrate in all the right ways.
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What an incredible week it's been for iOS games — quite a variety of new releases to enjoy, and we've picked our favourite five to share with you.
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We are a London based IT company, we get new websites to work on very often. For one of such projects we're looking for an experienced Link Building service provider.
We need 600 backlinks to be done from websites PR3+ The backlinks MUST be permanent, one-way backlinks. I will provide you with Key Phrases to be used as anchor text. I require all backlinks to be from different websites. Backlinks on URLs should be active right away. I'd expect them to be picked up in search engines within 1-3 days.. We will ask for a daily update sent to our email, and all the backlinks will be checked.
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Before I left for Urbana over the weekend I purchased and printed Laura Chau's newest pattern, Milkweed Shawl. I started knitting it in a cotton yarn, but only had 4 of the 5 balls with me so I couldn't finish it this past weekend. I'll finish it soon, but in the meantime I picked up a skein of Jade Sapphire Mongolian Cashmere 2-ply to knit the same kerchief.
I enjoyed knitting this small shawl because of all the garter stitch and simple columns evolving into little diamond shapes at the end. I also really like the edging. It is not too pointy, but has some shape to it and the two far end points look like little wing tips.
I knit on US sz 4 bamboo circulars at Chris' apartment and during the whole train ride back to Chicago. The train was an hour late leaving Urbana, but that didn't bother me because I got that much more uninterrupted knitting time. I arrived at 1pm with a lot of time until my 6pm rehearsal in Chicago so I walked the short distance from Union Station to Loopy yarns to "waste" some of that time. I got a couple awesome skeins of sock yarn, Nova Sock in a rusty orangey red and Casbah Sock in shades of blue. Then I did EZ's sewn bind off on the Milkweed Shawl and worked on some fingerless mitts at the shop. There were a couple of really nice employees to hang out and knit with too.
Anyway, I am working on a lot of projects and several of my own designs as well. Getting some of my patterns out will be slow going as I am new to that process, but I am really excited about how my designs are knitting up!
Here is another picture of Laura Chau's Milkweed. I have more pictures on my ravelry project page.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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i, too, love EZ's sewn bind off, but whew! i can't even imagine the tail you'd need for a shawl! also, that jade sapphire yarn? gorgeous!
- June 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- ~*~ Karen ~*~ said...
A little secret for long-tail COs that are super long is to use 2 different balls of yarn and just cut one at the end of your CO. That might help ya out
That shawl is nice. Maybe it's the grey color, but it looks like chains. Love it!
- June 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Shivian Balaris said...
very nice!
- December 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- komankova said...
very pretty indeed - i like understated lacy objects.
- January 16, 2010 at 7:00 AM
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Say Hai, a 19-year-old Minnesota man, led St. Paul police on a winding chase through downtown on this go-kart before being stopped after three Taser blasts. Yes, those are mismatched wheels up front.
When ordered by police to pull over Tuesday evening, Hai kept driving, running a red light and hitting top speeds of about 20 mph. Police eventually cornered him in a parking lot, where he nearly clotheslined himself trying to drive under a chain. Hai managed to keep driving through the first Taser hit, but the second brought the kart to a halt. He took the third after trying to fight with an officer, and faces misdemeanor charges impervious to any accumulated power-ups.
(Thanks to Nick for the tip!) [via St. Paul Pioneer Press]


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Soulja Boy Seeks Respect
AP reports "Some people might not have taken 18-year-old Soulja Boy seriously when he debuted two years ago. Now, with two more hits under his belt, the rapper hopes for respect"
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Joe Montana, the legendary four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers has joined Twitter, just in time for the Niners' first appearance in the Super Bowl since 1995.
In his first tweet he wished the 49ers luck in their upcoming Super Bowl game against the Baltimore Ravens:
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@49ers Looking forward to a great Super Bowl #sb47
In his profile description he goes by Joseph Montana and writes the following: "Notre Dame 1977 National Champion 4 x Super Bowl Champion 3 x Super Bowl MVP HOF 2000." Noticeably absent, the words "San Francisco 49ers," but we'll forgive him for that.
You can follow him @JoeMontana.
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Trewp needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 178 designs submitted by 54 freelance designers.
I'm 1/2 Santa Monica, 1/2 San Francisco SOMA.
Trewp will be a Search Experience Engine (SXE). It will be targeted at the technology elite: solopreneurs, VC-backed start-up types, fellow programmers, social-media-whatevers, new media makers, geeks (and nerds).
Can you please make my logo awesome? I want it to be fun and classy at the same time.
Amazon and the Mac Finder logos smile at you. I like that. Can you make my logo smile? See it here: http://trewp.com
The logo will be on an all white background, and occasionally against #111 or similar charcoals.
I'm very open to other ideas. I'm a fan of Apple's aesthetic, but I don't want to be too designy or too cool. But...you know, cooler than Google or Microsoft.
A small dash of trendy is OK. The logo should have good bones though (change with the times, but not much).
Thank you for reading my ad.
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Toblerone has been satisfying sweet tooths, world wide, for over a century. The company was started by Jean Tobler in 1899. Jean had been selling candy for years before he decided to open his own candy company in Bern, Switzerland. In 1900, Jean gave the company to his son, Theodor, who created the internationally acclaimed Toblerone bar, eight years later.
The name Toblerone is a combination of the founder's name, Tobler, and the word "torrone," which means honey and almond nougat in Italian. As the name suggests, the original Toblerone bar is one winning combination of milk chocolate filled with nougat, almonds, and honey. It's a distinctive taste with an even more distinctive triangular shape, recognizable the world over.
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Independent Lens "Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream" Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side," "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room") presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in "Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream." Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have "rigged the game in their favor," and created unprecedented inequality in the United States. Nowhere, Gibney asserts, is this more evident than on Park Avenue in New York. D
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NOVA "Hunting The Edge of Space - The Mystery of the Milky Way" Three centuries of engineering produce telescopes far beyond Galileo's simple spyglass. They perch on mountaintops, orbit the Earth and circle other planets; together they reveal the solar system in greater and greater detail. This episode visits today's most powerful telescopes and embarks on a journey to the planets and moons. Part 1 of 2G


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Alejandro Esparza texted his wife a smiley face Wednesday.
The occasion for the momentous digital grin was a small change in a convoluted immigration regulation. On paper, that change may seem like an insignificant reform, but for American families of certain illegal immigrants such as Esparza, it represents a new opportunity to obtain a green card without tearing loved ones apart.
Under the old rules, Esparza, who entered the United States illegally when he was 15 years old, would have had to return to his home country of Mexico to apply for a waiver from being barred re-entry to the United States. The waiver would be based on the hardship his absence would create for his wife in Denver.
That process could drag on for months or years — and it came with a great risk. If Esparza, now 27, was turned down for the waiver, he would be barred from returning to the United States for three to 10 years because he had entered the country illegally.
The changed regulation, announced last week by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, makes it possible to apply for the waiver without leaving the country. Immigrants still have to return to a home country to complete the process and pick up a visa, but they can go with the waiver in hand and the prospect that they will be away for weeks, not months or years.
"This is really, really, really good news for us, said Esparza's wife, Magdalena Mendoza.
It is so good the family is now viewing the necessary trip back to Mexico as a vacation rather than an anxiety-provoking separation. Mendoza and their three daughters will accompany Esparza on the journey to complete what she calls "the procedure."
When they return, they will still have their home and jobs. Their girls can continue in their schools.
All of that could have been lost under the old regulations, which American Immigration Lawyers Association president Laura Lichter calls "downright dangerous."
"This is a really good interim solution to a problem that we shouldn't have anyway," Lichter said of the change to the waiver regulation.
There is no estimate of how many illegal immigrants will be eligible for the new waivers, which will open for applications March 4. Lichter, who practices immigration law in Denver, said she has hundreds of clients who will be able to take advantage of it.
To qualify, illegal immigrants must have a citizen spouse or be under 21 and have citizen parents in the United States. There must be proof that the citizen family members would face extreme hardship due to the absence of the immigrant.
Many, including Cesar Lopez of the Vail area, had been waiting for this change since it was promised last spring as a step to keep families together in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform.
Lopez has been married to a citizen for five years and has two toddlers — one with a chronic medical problem and another ready to enter kindergarten.
If he had to be away in Mexico for an extended time, his wife, Rosa Martinez, said she didn't know how she would have survived as the sole parent, breadwinner and part-time college student.
"I was really scared because it would be a horrible thing if he was gone," she said.
Moving the whole family to Mexico was a feared option because of the crime and poverty rates there and the fact that the elementary schools are behind U.S. schools, Martinez said.
The relief some families of illegal immigrants are feeling with the new rules is tempered by what immigration lawyers and immigrant advocates are calling deficiencies in the change.
Adult undocumented children of U.S. citizens are not eligible for the hardship waivers even though they might be important caregivers for parents. Brothers and sisters and other immediate relatives are also not eligible.
"We are disappointed that the rules change does not apply to spouses of legal permanent residents and adult children of U.S. citizens, as they are often the caregivers. We hope that, as the changes are implemented, the administration will see the wisdom in expanding the hardship waivers to these critical family members," said Eliseo Medina of Service Employees International Union.
Lichter was also disappointed there is no provision in the new rules to help families that can't pay the $585 filing fee.
She said she will continue to warn her clients that the new rules do not come with any full guarantee.
"There are still risks. Nothing is ever 100 percent guaranteed," she said. "This is just a way of removing one of the nonsensical roadblocks."
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The CHP crew checks in from time to time with the NMCA-Flowmaster Drag Racing series and our first taste of high-speed action in 2011 was the second stop on the 2011 tour at Atlanta Dragway (Commerce, Georgia). It had been a couple of years since the NMCA-Flowmaster series held an event at the famous southern drag racing facility and a packed house of excited Georgian fans cheered for the series' return. The action was intense as the event, nicknamed the Nitto Tire All-Star Nationals, featured the popular GM Performance Parts LSX Challenge Series as a bonus to the NMCA-Flowmaster show. Three days of action was capped off with record-setting performances and drama as racers fought hard for cash, contingency, and fun.
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ARP Nostalgia Pro Street, a category for full-weight big tire machines that are meant to emulate the original street car shootout movement, saw the first 200-mph pass in the category's history. Dangerous Dave Beeson drove his multicolored '78 Camaro to a 200-mph pass during the semifinal matchup. Beeson also set the class record with a 7.17 at 193 mph as he took top qualifying honors. He lost in the final round to Jim Jarrett in a tight race; Jarrett ran 7.26 at 189 mph to Beeson's 7.27 at 197-mph effort. The Nostalgia Pro Street category is a haven for some of the nicest cars on the property at NMCA-Flowmaster events. Nearly every car is flawless as each combines an authentic look with a race car theme; it is, without a doubt, one of our favorite categories.
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Wabash swept the throwing events and claimed a total of eight first-place finishes to win Friday evening's Rose-Hulman Twilight Track and Field Invitational.
Matt Knox made a step toward competing at the NCAA National Championship meet by breaking his own Wabash school record in the pole vault. Knox (left) cleared 4.75 meters (15 feet, 7 inches) to break his old mark of 4.63 meters (15 feet, 2.25 inches). He equalled the NCAA provisional qualifying mark. Knox set the school record at last year's Rose-Hulman Twilight competition.
Teammate Trevor Young finished third in the pole vault by clearing 4.60 meters (15 feet, 1 inch). Sam Glowinski was 10th (4.00 meters; 13 feet, 1.50 inches), while Wesley Adams just missed a top-10 finish after clearing 3.85 meters (12 feet, 7.5 inches) to finish 11th.
Matt Scheller and Joel Beier finished 1-2 in the shot put. Scheller's mark of 14.41 meters (47 feet, 3.50 inches) captured first place, while Beier finished second with a throw of 13.74 meters (45 feet, 1 inch). Scheller added another first place finish in the hammer with a winning toss of 50.54 meters (165 feet, 10 inches) to set a new Rose-Hulman Twilight meet record. Alex Moseman took seventh place with a mark of 43.21 meters (141 feet, 9 inches), while Zach Helman was 10th (39.67 meters; 130 feet, 2 inches).
Junior Daniel Ambrosio continued to dominate the javelin throw, adding another first place finish to his list of accomplishments. He won with a throw of 55.25 meters (181 feet, 3 inches), while teammate Evan Groninger took second place with a mark of 54.56 meters (179 feet). Scheller picked up his third top-10 finish by finishing ninth in the javelin throw with a mark of 43.62 meters (143 feet, 1 inch).
Devin Kelley took the top spot in the discus throw with a mark of 43.90 meters (144 feet). Ben Burkett finished seventh overall with a throw of 39.00 meters (127 feet, 11 inches).
John Haley (right) won the 400-meter dash with a time of 49.35, narrowly edging out teammate Jake Waterman, who finished second with a time of 49.76. Billy Rosson added another first-place finish to the Little Giants' totals, winning the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.49. John Bogucki took eighth place in the race with a time of 58.31.
Wes Chamblee continued his return to action after suffering a knee injury during football season. The senior won the 200-meter dash with a time of 22.48. Sean Hildebrand finished seventh overall with a time of 23.02, while Vann Hunt was eighth (23.22) and Charles Smothers finished 10th (23.25).
Kevin McCarthy raced to a second-place finish in the 1500-meter run, crossing the finish line in 3.54.50, only 16/100th of a second behind race winner Drew Clark from Principia. Justin Allen was fifth overall with a time of 4:00.28. McCarthy was also fifth in the 5000-meter run (15:33.67). Donavan White captured sixth place (15:36.74).
Hildebrand took third place in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.42. Smothers finished ninth (11.56). Corey McFarland was fifth in the steeplechase, finishing in 10.18.87. Sam Starbuck was eighth (10:29.58).
Hunt finished fifth in the long jump (6.14 meters; 20 feet, 1.75 inches). Patrick Posthauer was seventh (6.05 meters; 19 feet, 10.25 inches). Hunt also took sixth place in the triple jump (12.11 meters; 39 feet, 8.75 inches), while teammate Jonathan Koop grabbed 10th place (11.61 meters; 38 feet, 1.25 inches).
Bogucki and Ambrosio tied for fourth in the high jump. Both cleared 1.77 meters (5 feet, 9.75 inches). Kelley tied for sixth by clearing 1.72 meters (5 feet, 7.75 inches). Bogucki took eighth place in the 110-meter hurdles (15.97), with Rosson finishing ninth (16.01) and Haley grabbing tenth place (16.01).
The Wabash 1600-meter relay team of Haley, Chamblee, Hildebrand, and Waterman finished second with a time of 3:17.83, finishing 38/100th of a second behind the winning team from Rose-Hulman, which set new school and stadium records in that event.
Wabash scored a total of 177 points to easily outdistance second place Rose-Hulman with 157 total points. Greenville was third (118), followed by Washington University-St. Louis (107), Marian (61.50), Franklin (59), DePauw (42.50), Principia (23), Hanover (19), Tennessee-Martin (10), and Webster (2).


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When I was quite young, my grandmother took me out to lunch at an LA diner. As she ordered, the waitress asked if she would like a "super salad" with her entree. I imagined a giant salad, sporting a cape and tights, flying to our table in order to rescue a drowning steak or abused mashed potato.
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2 medium-large sweet potatoes (1 1/2 pounds, jewel), scrubbed, cut into 1″ chunks
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided use
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1 cup quinoa (preferably multi-colored)
1 large bunch kale (preferably black/dino kale)
1 tablespoon cumin seed
juice of 1 lemon (or more, to taste)
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1/2 cup parsley, finely chopped
2/3 cup dried cranberries
2/3 cup toasted pecans, broken up or coarsely chopped
Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400º.
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Meanwhile, place the quinoa in a fine mesh sieve set over a bowl or large measuring cup. Fill the bowl with water to cover the quinoa and soak for 5-10 minutes. Remove from the soaking water and rinse thoroughly with cool water. Drain well. Place the soaked, rinsed and drained quinoa in a medium saucepan and add 1 1/2 cups water and 1/2 teaspoon sea salt. Bring the quinoa to a simmer, then cover with a lid and reduce the heat to low to maintain a gentle simmer. Let the quinoa steam until the water is gone and the white quinoa is tender (the red and black quinoa will retain more crunch). Remove from the heat, leave the lid on and let steam 10 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
Meanwhile, remove the ribs from the kale with a sharp paring knife. Stack 3 or 4 leaves on top of one another, roll them up the long way, and slice crosswise very thinly. Repeat with the remaining kale leaves. Place the leaves in a colander and set in the sink. Bring a large tea kettle of water to a boil, and pour the boiling water all over the kale to wilt it. Rinse the kale with cool water to stop the cooking. Squeeze dry and place in a very large bowl.
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Add the sweet potato cubes and quinoa to the kale, then add the cranberries, toasted and ground cumin, remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and juice of 1 lemon and gently toss to combine. Add the pecans and parsley just before serving.
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High School Football Game of the Week Preview – Reitz Vs. Central
A trip to the Sectional title game hangs in the balance when the Panthers and Bears meet up for the second time this year at the Reitz Bowl.
The first time the two teams met was back in week four. A game that started on Friday night and ended on Saturday night thanks to a nasty thunderstorm that entered the area just before halftime. In that game, Reitz came in on a two game losing skid and found themselves to be a one-dimensional team centered around running back Ke'Andre Vaughn and passing game that was nearly non-existent. All signs pointed to an easy win for the Bears as they led 29-10 when play was suspended.
As lightning literally struck from the sky, it proved to strike figuratively in the Panther locker room as Reitz returned Saturday night with a renewed sense of passion. The passing playbook was opened for quarterback Drew Johnston and on the defensive side of the ball, the Panthers played with a fire that had been missing in the first few weeks of the season.
Reitz would go on to lose the game 31-36 when all was said and done giving them their first 1-4 start since 1998, but the passion and fire ignited during that loss has remained. Week four would be the last time the Panthers have lost a game, winning their last six including a 42-35 win over west side rivals, Mater Dei, that gave Reitz possession of the coveted West Side Nut Club trophy. Last week the Panthers made quick work of visiting Madison with a 56-7 win.
For Central, this will be their first game in two weeks, having drawn a bye week in last week's opening round of Sectional play. The Bears ended the regular season with a 8-23 loss to rival North giving them 6-3 record as they enter Friday night's game against the Panthers.
Expect the Bears to once again rely on the air attack led by quarterback Austin Fuchs and speedy wide receiver Trevor Ferguson as they did in the first match-up. Reitz will also have to keep running back Avion Sullivan in check in the process. Sullivan ran for 94 yards on 14 carries in week four, finding the end zone on two of those carries while adding a third touchdown with a 91-yard kickoff return.
Defensively, the Bears won't be able to focus solely on Ke'Andre Vaughn as they did in the previous meeting. Quarterback Johnston has found a nice rhythm with his receivers, especially Jordan Summers, who has been a standout for Reitz since the week four loss to the Bears not only offensively, but also on the defensive side of the ball from the defensive back position.
It should be a great game, with the winner moving on to the sectional 16 title game where they will take on the winner of Friday night's Jasper vs. Seymour game, and the loser focusing on basketball.
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We build websites in WordPress and Drupal for arts organizations and nonprofits. We also produce videos, webcasts for performances, and run social media campaigns. We're progressive minded and provide great tech solutions for non-tech clients. While we're very technically proficient, we're a people first type business.
The designs I've seen so far have had an emphasis on "Arrows" and not so much on "Roots" - the conceptual idea behind Arrows and Roots is kind of a yin-yang concept - the "Arrows" are the masculine portion, while the "Roots" are the more feminine aspect.
Many of my clients are not tech-savvy, and are value oriented. However, I have worked with high-end clients (like the Museum of Modern Art), so would prefer something more modern and classy.
Many of my arts and nonprofit clients are female, but I am male and I have mostly male employees.
The idea behind Arrow Root Media is the following :
Arrow Root is a replacement for flour sometimes inside of stews - it helps things stay together and thickens it a little bit. There is also a little bit of counter-culture associated with the name - it's an "alternative" to other thickening agents.
The other idea behind Arrow Root are to include two opposing forces - an arrow that goes "up" (associated with vision and imagination) and "roots" that go down (grounded in reality).
I like this :
I also like arabesque shapes as a replacement for "roots" :
http://luizalenora.deviantart.com/a…s-36473607 (but this one is a bit too feminine)
Finally, I have attached a company overview.
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DURING THE SECOND HALF of their 53-year marriage, Robert B. Parker and his wife, Joan, settled into an unusual living arrangement. Parker, the creator of the hard-boiled Boston detective Spenser, lived on one floor of their big Cambridge Victorian; Joan, a powerhouse philanthropist, lived on another. The decision seemed odd to some, but to those who knew them well, their thinking was realistic and romantic at once.
The couple had separated shortly after their 25th anniversary and considered divorce. During their two years apart, they came to realize they each needed two things: their own space and each other. Buying the house just outside Harvard Square promised a novel way to get both.
What the Parkers called their second marriage worked well for decades. He got up, enjoyed breakfast and the paper, wrote 10 pages a day, and watched Red Sox games into the night. From her place, she was out the door early to exercise, returned home to read the manuscript pages her husband had left on the stairs, and tirelessly raised money for area nonprofits. Together, they often shared meals, entertained friends, and pursued other endeavors (when a TV interviewer asked Parker whether the couple was "intimate," he replied, "Enough to make you blush".)
So little seemed unusual when, on the morning of January 18, 2010, Joan stopped to check in on her husband. "How are you today?" she asked, finding him at his desk.
"Good, good," he replied. Near a lamp, he displayed his tattered boyhood teddy bear and a portrait of his wife and two adult sons, Daniel, a stage actor, and David, a dancer, teacher, and choreographer.
Joan returned from a yoga class later that morning to find Parker slumped in his chair. She dialed 911 and performed CPR, but it was too late. The 77-year-old, whom many called the dean of American crime fiction, had died of a heart attack.
In the weeks and months that follow the death of a spouse, most people must rouse themselves from their grief and face decisions about everything from stamp collections to brokerage accounts to that old Buick sitting in the garage. But Joan had another question to tackle, one that had perplexed plenty of authors' families before her: Should she hire someone to impersonate her husband?
Parker was still under contract for more books, but he had never discussed with his family whether his characters should continue in another author's hands. "He was convinced he'd live to be 100," Joan says today. "So that was not in the scheme of things at all." She is sitting in Parker's first-floor office, which she has changed little. A slim and fashionable 80-year-old, who looks about two decades younger, Joan is surrounded by hard-cover copies of Parker's novels and framed images of the TV programs based on them.
Parker's family and his publisher discussed what to do next. "It's not a decision that you undertake lightly, because he was one of a kind," says Chris Pepe, the editor who worked on 47 of Parker's 71 books. There was little debate. "Spenser was a cash cow,'' Joan told the Globe in 2012. "And we felt that Bob would want to see Spenser live on.''
To cynics, the decision to carry on Parker's novels appeared unseemly or, even worse, an act of literary grave robbing that threatened the author's reputation. But those people didn't know Robert B. Parker, a man who, when asked how his books would be viewed in 50 years, replied: "Don't know, don't care." He was proud of his work, but he mainly saw writing as a means of providing a comfortable life for his family.
And that's exactly what's still happening, three years after Parker's death. In May 2012, the first Spenser book by another writer, Robert B. Parker's Lullaby, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and stayed there for nearly two months. A second one, Robert B. Parker's Wonderland, was just published. Meanwhile, two other writers continued Parker's cop and Western series and have more on the way. These are impressive accomplishments. With a series of smart and sensitive decisions, the late author's family and publisher are not just churning out Parker books, a difficult task for anyone in this fraught publishing climate, they're also keeping Robert B. Parker's name alive.
FROM THE BOXCAR CHILDREN to Sherlock Holmes, James Bond to Jason Bourne, there are plenty of good arguments for continuing with popular characters after their creators have died. Ian Fleming's Bond books and the several Sean Connery movies he saw made from them were hits. But the value of the Fleming estate ballooned after his 1964 death, with writers and producers adding dozens more novels and films. In the decade after Robert Ludlum's 2001 death, four big-budget Bourne movies appeared, as well as many more novels featuring the spy — more even than Ludlum had written in his three-decade career. These "continuations," as they're called, tend to be particularly prevalent in genres like romance and mystery, where authors' talents arguably lie more in characterization and plotting than in literary style.
Authors who straddle pulp fiction and literature present a tougher challenge. The estate of John D. MacDonald refused many offers to continue his popular and influential Travis McGee series. "It is because I have never seen a really good imitation, be it art, literature, or music, that carries that poignant echo of the original artist," MacDonald's son, Maynard, once explained in a letter. Besides, if a sequel bombed, "it would turn off potential fans as well as outrage the old ones, thus killing the goose that might continue to lay a modest number of golden eggs for the publishers and [our family]."
The threat of a backlash is so great that some estates have gone through considerable trouble to hide their ghostwriters. With Flowers in the Atticand other books, V.C. Andrews created the "children in jeopardy" genre of Gothic horror. On the very day she died in 1986, with an estate valued at about $8 million, her publisher had discussed how to complete a prequel. Andrews's obituary would appear in the papers, but that wouldn't be much of a problem. She wasn't a celebrity in the United States, her agent said, "which made it easier for people to forget she was dead."
Four immensely popular books came out in the years ahead, all bearing only "V.C. Andrews" as a byline, though they were actually written by an obscure horror writer named Andrew Neiderman, who was contractually obligated to keep his involvement a secret. But the fifth book noted that another writer was finishing Andrews's manuscripts, surprising readers. To make matters worse, the IRS soon took the estate to court, alleging it had failed to pay estate taxes on the value of Andrews's name, an asset it claimed was worth $1.2 million. The final valuation was revised down to roughly $700,000, in part because ghostwriting carried significant risk, but the message was the same: Slapping a popular author's name on the cover of a book, even if she didn't write it, could be worth big money.
Robert B. Parker was one of those writers whose work transcends its genre. He revived the private detective novel by giving it a literary quality that made it respectable, says Kathy Phillips, whose Spenser's Mystery Bookshop took its name from Parker's hero. For decades, "a reputable person was never caught dead reading them," Phillips says. "With Parker — and coming out of Boston might have had something to do with it — all of a sudden it was OK to be seen carrying a copy."
Other authors took note. "I often say that, when it comes to detective fiction, ninety percent of writers admit Robert B. Parker was an influence and the other ten percent lie about it," mystery writer Harlan Coben says in an e-mail. In 2002, Parker was named a Grand Master of the Edgar Awards, a distinction he shares with giants of mystery and suspense such as Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock.
Despite his reputation, however, Parker remained unromantic about his day job. He said he was no more likely to suffer writer's block than a plumber was to suffer plumber's block. For years, he encouraged Joan to simply throw away all of his letters, photographs, and manuscripts cluttering their Cambridge basement. She instead donated them to literary archives at Boston University.
Part of Parker's workaday attitude toward his craft came from his upbringing. Born in 1932, he came of age in Springfield during a time when men were taught that it was their responsibility alone to provide for their families. After Joan had their first son, Parker moved through a series of jobs he despised, including technical writing for Raytheon and editing Prudential's house magazine. "He hated everything about it," Joan recalls. "But he had a strong sense of 'I've got to make money — it doesn't matter if I like it or not.' "
Eventually, the couple decided Parker would get his PhD in English literature at BU. Maybe that would give him time to write. "We kept winnowing down those things he liked to do," Joan says. "He said, 'I know I have [writing] skill. And it's the only skill I think I have.' "
In the summer of 1971, after his first year teaching at Northeastern, the 39-year-old Parker sat down to write a novel based on the detective paperbacks he'd loved growing up. After the three-month break was over, he sent the manuscript to Boston's Houghton Mifflin with a simple note: "I hope you like my book." Two weeks later, Parker came home early waving a letter. Houghton was going to publish his book and send him a check for $2,000.
Published in 1973 The Godwulf Manuscript, which introduced Parker's tough-as-nails PI with a poet's soul, sold fewer than 5,000 copies. But those numbers and Parker's advances steadily began to climb. By 1979, he was able to quit teaching. By the mid-'80s, with Robert Urich on television in Spenser for Hire, Parker books could be counted on to sell 200,000 hard-cover copies. According to his longtime agent, he sold well over 15 million books in all.
"Why do I write three novels a year?" Parker liked to joke. "Because I'm married to Joan Parker and have two sons in the arts." So when he was offered a reported $1 million-plus advance to complete an unfinished Raymond Chandler manuscript, he didn't seem to worry much about whether his continuation would tarnish his reputation or that of Philip Marlowe's creator. "He was such a pragmatist that this kind of stuff barely touched him," Joan says. Poodle Springsappeared in 1989 to good sales and good reviews.
However, Parker's second outing as a Chandler stand-in — 1991's Perchance to Dream, an original sequel to The Big Sleep — was less successful. "The Big Snooze" read the headline in the Los Angeles Times. "If Raymond Chandler had written like Robert B. Parker, he wouldn't have been Raymond Chandler. He would have been Robert B. Parker, a rather less exalted presence," novelist Martin Amis wrote in a scathing New York Times review. The Chandler estate didn't authorize another full-length Marlowe novel for more than 20 years.
The decision to continue Parker's characters was made quickly, but the questions of whether another writer could successfully imitate his style and whether his readers would even accept someone trying to remained open. During the V.C. Andrews case, Andrew Neiderman provided a glimpse into the particular difficulties of the ghostwriter's art. "I had to research every single book that V.C. Andrews had written, and I had to go through and study their syntax, vocabulary, phraseology, the concepts," he explained. "In other words, I had to become someone else in the writing process. And that's something."
Parker was a particular challenge, even outside his highly recognizable style of rugged sentences and sardonic wit. He infused his work with material from his own life, starting with putting more than a little of himself into his most famous creation. "He talked like Spenser," horror writer Stephen King says in an e-mail, and "that always fascinated me." Parker told his wife that Spenser's love interest, Susan Silverman, "is my idealized version of you." With two gay sons, he was a mystery writer who early on included gay characters that defied stereotypes. Even his beloved pointer, Pearl the Wonder Dog, began to appear in the books over time.
It fell to Pepe, Parker's longtime editor at Putnam, to find a suitable author. She made a list of writers at Putnam and elsewhere who might be up to the task and asked them each to submit 50-page writing samples. She then sat down to reread many of Parker's novels.
As the submissions rolled in, some of them turned out to be good, some were terrible, and one instantly stood out. Pepe called Joan: "I think we have our guy," she said.
Ace Atkins, now 42, began devouring Robert B. Parker books in 1991. A star college football player from Alabama, once pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, he had been set adrift by the recent death of his father. Then Spenser arrived, Atkins would later write, "in typical Spenser fashion: right when you need him most." Atkins became a writer. After some years as a crime reporter at The Tampa Tribune, where he was nominated for a Pulitzer, he turned his attention to his own series of Southern crime dramas.
Pepe sent Atkins's writing test on for Joan and her sons to read. "We loved it," Joan says. "It was very surreal to read what approximates the voice of Bob, but it really isn't. Yet it's close enough."
In late 2010, Pepe told Atkins the job was his. When she offered to send him a complete collection of the Spenser novels, he said he already had them, most in first editions. Although Pepe would be his safety net, scouring manuscripts for drinks Spenser wouldn't drink, words Spenser wouldn't use, Atkins wouldn't often need the help.
When Lullaby was published in May 2012 — with Atkins's name as the sole byline, albeit printed in smaller type than the Robert B. Parker brand name — the Chicago Sun-Times called the imitation "a minor miracle." Publishers Weeklywrote that "even the most fanatical Parker fans would be hard pressed to identify any aspect of this Spenser novel that doesn't read as if it were penned by Spenser's late creator."
Whatever their initial skepticism, many fans felt that Lullaby captured the grittiness of Parker's classic 1980s works. Some even thought it was better than the books Parker himself had written in his later years. In a rare piece of hate mail, a fan complained that Sixkill sounded nothing like Parker. Atkins had to point out that Parker himself had actually written that one.
Lullaby sold a respectable 41,000 hard-cover copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which accounts for about 75 percent of retail sales. That was about 20,000 fewer copies than Parker's last book, though his publisher says sales were probably comparable when you factor in the dramatic rise of e-books in recent years. (Atkins doesn't discuss the financial arrangements of his contract. "I'm like Spenser," he has said. "I'm a hired gun.")
Not everyone was a fan, of course. Kathy Phillips, the bookstore owner, doesn't like series continuations, which she likens to "turning characters in novels into a literary theme park." Although Atkins writes well, she says, "I cringe when I come across the 'tics' that are obligatory to any Spenser pastiche. . . . You know what they are, mostly the food stuff and the bald quips." Stephen King hasn't read the Atkins books. He generally avoids what he calls "post-mortems," though he didn't always feel this way. Years ago, King approached John D. MacDonald's son with the idea of writing one more Travis McGee book, with the royalties from it going to charity. But Maynard MacDonald turned him down. "[It] pissed me off at the time, but I've come to believe he was right," King explains. "It's not a big cause of mine, or anything; I just think that when the author dies, the books should cease."
Others, though, seem to share Parker's attitude. "I don't really care," says 75-year-old Stuart Woods, who writes three books a year. "If my widow and my agent can get together and find a way to extend the life of the series and provide her with more income, that's fine with me. I'll be wherever I am, looking down on them, raising a glass."
AT HOME IN OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI, Atkins writes at a computer next to which he's affixed a photo of Parker. He's spent a lot of time at his desk lately. He just published his second Spenser novel, a yarn about a Las Vegas kingpin's shady efforts to erect a casino in Revere, called Robert B. Parker's Wonderland. In May, he's publishing another book from his own series called The Broken Places. He's working on his third Spenser, the last on his current contract, as well as a proposed pilot for a new Spenser television show.
Atkins says his work on the Parker books has gotten easier over time. He's received a flood of positive notes and only a few negative ones; a Parker fan even insists on giving him Sox tickets whenever he's in Boston. "If I really paid attention to the criticism it would hurt," Atkins says. "It's easier doing the continuation now because it does seem that the fans have been very pleased with what I'm doing and the way that I'm doing it."
Mostly, it seems, people who spent decades looking forward to the annual ritual of a new Spenser are just glad to have the character live on — and they don't really care who's writing him. "[Fans] wanted somebody to come in and try to do this and not screw up the things that we love so much," Atkins says.
As for Joan Parker, she and her late husband's publisher have forged a path to new success that has only sent more readers back to the originals. Before Parker's death, Putnam released the bulk of his novels in e-book form. As more books with Parker's name on them are published — and displayed in bookstores and promoted on Amazon — new fans can keep themselves awfully busy waiting for the next.
So far, the Parker estate has put out five books across three series, with more on the way. A screenwriter of the Jesse Stone CBS movies, starring Tom Selleck, is carrying on those — another book is due in September — and a third writer is continuing Parker's Cole/Hitch Westerns. Parker wrote three books a year. It's taking three writers to keep up his pace.
Back at her husband's Cambridge desk, Joan doesn't second-guess her decision. She surveys photos of her children and her late husband's dog, a German shorthaired pointer named Pearl. "He loved me, he loved the children, and he loved Pearl the Wonder Dog," she says.
She points to the pictures of the dog, noting that they actually show three different dogs, all named Pearl. "One would die and then he'd get another German shorthaired pointer," she says. "In his mind, he had one Pearl for thirty years." She used to give him a hard time about it. "If I predecease you," she'd say, "you'll find someone my height, my hair color, you'll rename her Joan, and it will be as though I never left."
It would be a little like living on.
Falmouth native Zac Bissonnette, author of the bookDebt-Free U, lives in New York. Send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Before C.J. Wilson turned 13 he made a serious decision about his lifestyle.
Wilson believed alcohol or drugs could keep him from his dreams. Growing up in Orange County, he was introduced to the Straight Edge crowd. He decided to be one of them and refrain from booze and drugs. Baseball kept him out of trouble in Huntington Beach and the Straight Edge way kept him on his path to big-league dreams.
"I made a decision that I never wanted to drink or do drugs because I've seen some bad stuff growing up," said Wilson, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 32-year-old pitcher who played for Edison High before transferring to Fountain Valley. "There were kids in my neighborhood, and older kids, and people in my family that had problems with drugs and alcohol.
"I wanted to be a Major League player at a very young age and I knew if I was a drinker or did drugs that wasn't going to get me there. I had to work really hard. I always honored the process in that sense. I never drank or did anything like that because I felt it would be a hindrance to my career."
It can be said, Wilson achieved his dreams. But there is certainly more to accomplish. Expectations are high once again for the Angels, and Wilson knows he must rebound from a rough close to 2012 to help his team reach them.
He was in L.A. Friday as a new "Mane Man," for Head & Shoulders For Men, which launched a charity/marketing campaign with Wilson as its main spokesperson.
Wilson wants to be a main man for the Angels. That's what he was paid to do when he signed a five-year, $77.5 million contract.
The lefty had a nice start, going 9-5 with a 2.43 earned-run average and a spot on the All-Star team in his first season with the Angels last year. But the second half of the season, he battled left-elbow problems and closed with a 4-5 record and a 5.54 ERA.
"Even though I made the All-Star team I wasn't satisfied with how [the season] started," Wilson said. "I always expect myself to do better. Once the second half started I had problems with my elbow, with bone spurs and I started to lose range of motion. I just wanted to go out there and pitch, but I knew I wasn't myself. I just kept going because that's what we're paid to do. But it didn't go well."
Wilson said he had surgery "to get everything cleaned out on Oct. 23."
"I feel really good," he said. "I'm excited. Any time you get a chance to get a fresh start it helps you out."
He knows he'll need to do better than his spring outing last week against the Royals when he gave up eight runs (six earned) on eight hits in 2 2/3 innings. He wants to put at ease the growing concern for Angels pitching that Manager Mike Scioscia has.
Friday, at the Grove in L.A., was a time to put that to the side, as Wilson made the rounds for interviews and talked about his campaign with Head & Shoulders. His new teammate, Josh Hamilton, was also there along with Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Wilson showed he can be silly. He pitched a whiffle ball to Polamalu and then to Hamilton. Wilson also pitched to an Easter Bunny character and took pictures with him.
Much of it was for a good cause, as Wilson was there to promote, "Season of the Whiff." For every "whiff" (strikeout) in MLB during this regular season, Head & Shoulders will donate $1 to the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program.
Fans get involved by tweeting the strikeouts using "#whiff" and their favorite team's handle to gain donations for their local RBI chapter.
Wilson, who is on Twitter (@str8edgeracer), said he enjoyed growing up in Orange County, and said it was a great area to become a Major League player. When he gained success as a pro that allowed him to give back with charities, he said, as he has also been involved working with children's hospitals.
Wilson, who was born at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, played for Seaview Little League in Huntington Beach. He said he also played for a travel team that usually practiced at Newport Harbor.
He started at Edison but said he was attracted to Fountain Valley because of its high national ranking at the time and the opportunities that provided.
"Orange County is one of the most competitive places in the world to play baseball," Wilson said. "The whole Southern California area is hot for baseball players.
"If you grow up any where in Southern California, you have a good chance to make it as a Major Leaguer. You have so many facilities, there are fields every where. There's always a game going on. There are teams every where. There's weather that allows you to play. There's no snow. It's really a great place to grow up and play baseball."
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Robin Thicke's talent in clear focus at Foxwoods
Mashantucket - People who know Robin Thicke only for his pop-culture-saturating hit "Blurred Lines" need to see him in concert to truly appreciate his talent.
At Thicke's total blast of a show Saturday at Foxwoods' Grand Theater, he nuanced romantic falsetto notes and brought swagger in his lower register. He danced with an unforced, I-feel-it-in-my-bones panache. He commanded the stage with an easy confidence that didn't cross into cockiness, and he seemed to be having a whole lot of fun. He was like Justin Timberlake with a little extra maturity.
It was probably a relief for Thicke to be back onstage, singing. The star has been in the headlines recently for everything but his music. He was all Miley-cized out after Cyrus caused a ruckus with her twerking MTV-Awards turn with Thicke last year.
And then, over the past week, Thicke became prime tabloid fodder when his wife, actress Paula Patton, broke things off with him. Thicke canceled the first three dates of his "Blurred Lines" tour, as he reportedly tried to reconcile.
Coming out of that whirlwind of drama, Thicke finally kicked off the tour on Thursday, with a concert in Fairfax, Va. The Saturday gig at Foxwoods was his second.
At the Fairfax show, he referenced the break-up, saying that he was trying to get his wife back and that she was a good woman. At Foxwoods, he didn't make explicit mention of the strife. You'd be forgiven, though, for wondering whether he might have been thinking of Patton when he sang Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" or when he told the crowd that nothing is more important than true love or true friendship, and you should never give up.
Hey, whatever's going on with him personally, Thicke made the concert a musical joyride.
His songs shifted over the R&B landscape, exploring different terrain and giving the show a happily well-rounded feel. "Oh Shooter" was one of the dramatic highlights, with its insinuating groove. Thicke moved seamlessly among such intense songs and change-ups like the reverie "Dreamworld," about imagining an idyllic existence. His voice dipped into after-hours smokiness on "Pretty Lil' Heart" and ran fluidly in and out of falsetto on "Feel Good."
And for "Blurred Lines," of course, the audience went nuts.
Thicke was working it throughout the show. He was decked out in a GQ-worthy dark gray three-piece suit that ended up soaked with sweat. (Several times, he wiped his face with a towel that he then fling into the audience.)
He was supported by a funk-tastic 10-piece band. Most of the musicians were arranged on tiers, behind bandstands emblazoned with "RT," but they'd occasionally shift down to the mainstage — at one merry point, following Thicke around in a dance line.
Here is one thing I think every other artist in the world should do for his or her band members: During one instrumental number while Thicke was offstage, each musician was introduced — with his name projected alongside a close-up on the video screen — while he riffed a bit. So often, you can't hear the band members' names clearly when the star introduces them. To see the names along with their faces as they tear up a solo is a wonderful way to really give them their due. So, guitarist Chris Payton and keyboard player Larry Cox and everyone else, take a bow.
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