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You won't find the moonshine of Troy and Sons Distillery concealed in the trunks of cars roaring down narrow, winding Appalachian roads. This is not the work of bootleggers and rum runners or the days of bathtub gin and speakeasies. Troy and Sons distillery ensures that every barrel that flaunts their "t" and "s" insignia is sustainable, delicious, and, of course, 100% legal.
But how, exactly, do Troy and Sons manage to do all of this legally? Troy Ball says, "Technically, moonshine is an illegally made spirit, so my moonshine is made in the tradition of the spirit makers of western North Carolina. We are produced in a legal distillery, so we have the freedom to replicate this traditional practice." In fact, Troy and Sons own the first distillery permitted in Western North Carolina since the days of undercover moonshine distilling. They run six distillations a week in their 2000 liter copper still and have partnered with the founder of the Highland Brewing Company, straying from what would traditionally be an underground process, to a full-fledged, legitimate spirit making business.
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Rodgers was sacked a ton early in his career and lost his first playoff game on a sack fumble in OT if I recall correctly....
he learned from his mistakes and concussions that he couldn't take those types of hits and survive...
8 sacks in a half has to be a record. i noticed they went max protect the rest of the game.
Rodgers took those sacks as a early starter. Once he learned to read defenses PRE SNAP then the numbers dropped. How many times did we get to him in the Super Bowl?
Ben is a sack machine waiting to happen. Its not the line, Its not Arians, its Ben and indecision. Vick is exactly the same way (slow to process the information) Lebeau needs to come at him OFTEN
It's okay to stick with one argument and then defend it, as opposed to simply changing the argument to something that you perceive as more defensible whenever you feel threatened...
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1.22 CB Marcus Peters, 6'0" 197 lbs., Washington
2.56 FS Damarious Randall, 5'11" 196 lbs., Arizona State
3.87 TE Clive Walford, 6'4" 251 lbs., Miami
4.121 DE Henry Anderson, 6'6" 294 lbs., Stanford
5.160 WR Titus Davis, 6'1" 196 lbs., Central Michigan
6.199 OLB Kyle Emanuel, 6'3" 255 lbs., North Dakota State
6.212c OLB Max Valles, 6'5" 251 lbs., Virginia
7.239 RB John Crockett, 6'0" 217 lbs., North Dakota State
I also think we will see another clinic by Vick because our LB's and DB's are horrible when ot comes to lateral movement. Vick has lost a step but we always looks like Elway when he plays us.
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Georgia Campus - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), in the Suwanee, GA area, is seeking qualified individuals for a full-time Admissions Assistant/Recruiter. The Admissions Assistant/Recruiter assists the Assistant Director in coordinating the admissions process and implementing approved recruitment strategies for the Georgia Campus of PCOM for all programs including the Osteopathic Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Organizational Development and Leadership and Pharmacy. Some responsibilities include (but not limited to): counsels prospective and current students regarding academic requirements and issues. Assist with coordinating interviews to include the scheduling of interview dates, interviewers and interviewees. Visit undergraduate colleges to meet with students and premedical/health/pharmacy advisors, and represents the college at career day events throughout the South. Registers for, attends, and maintains booth space at various National and Regional trade shows, conventions, and conferences.
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England must learn from ruthless New Zealand - Guscott
One positive that has come out of this tour is that, after the first two Tests, England now know that they can beat New Zealand.
They had the opportunities to win those two Tests - they created pretty clear chances but did not finish them and England could have won either of those matches, if not both.
In every area of the game I felt England did reasonably well. I'm not talking about New Zealand's intensity - I'm talking about England playing as well as they could.
The only other thing you could wish for is to be so good that you beat New Zealand 3-0, but it's going to take some team to do that.
Less tinkering required
I truly believe England have strength in depth in quite a number of positions, if not all of them, and now it's a question for head coach Stuart Lancaster to get his selection spot on.
England put in a great performance in the first Test, but the changes he made for the second Test caused problems, and making more changes for the third Test caused further problems.
From that exercise he will realise he can't tinker with the team much and expect them to be at their peak.
I think he probably knew that, though, and this tour has confirmed that for him.
It's better to find out now rather than in the Six Nations or the World Cup itself.
Physical condition needs to be better
England's fitness needs to improve and I don't buy the excuse that they've played a long season.
These are professional guys with sport science and conditioners to make sure they're in the right shape to play as well as they can.
A lot of this is mental as well as physical. If you are not in the right physical condition to play, then don't play. They should know if they are because they are tested all the time.
Chris Robshaw didn't look too tired. He has got himself in peak condition to play for England and his club and that's where every player needs to be.
For me, their physical condition needs to go up a couple of notches for them to be able to play at the intensity that is required.
The intensity of the All Blacks and decision making
If New Zealand play at their highest intensity then very few sides, let alone England, can live with them.
The All Blacks have pretty much everything right but are still continually looking to improve.
England's tour of New Zealand
7 June: New Zealand 20-15 England
14 June: New Zealand 28-27 England
17 June: Crusaders 7-38 England
21 June: New Zealand 36-13 England
They're in the best physical shape and their core skills are sensational, as we saw in the first half of the third Test when they scored four tries as the rain came down.
I'm not sure how many of the England side ever play at the intensity required against New Zealand. Saracens blew Clermont Auvergne away in the semi-finals of the Heineken Cup, but it's still quite a few notches down from facing the All Blacks.
If you look at the third Test, it sums up the whole of the series for me. New Zealand were so much more ruthless at finishing the opportunities they created.
When Marland Yarde gets close to the line, he seems to want to score more than anything, but he needs to learn the awareness of looking to the right or left because you can't always score them yourself.
When Yarde made a break in the second half of the third Test, I don't know whether Luther Burrell outside him wasn't screaming loud enough or if Yarde simply felt he could score.
There was a big blunder by New Zealand in the second Test when Aaron Smith tried to dummy and got absolutely nailed, but generally the All Blacks make the right decision. If any team wants to get near them, they have to do the same.
The best team in history
New Zealand are going to go on and break the record for most consecutive Test wins for a tier one nation and prove themselves the best in history.
Twelve months unbeaten proves how good they are and the more games they win, the greater they become.
I applaud them and their first half on Saturday was sublime. When New Zealand get near the line, their intensity ratchets up four or five levels and they make very few errors.
That's the difference. They're clever, smart, intelligent, fit, clinical, efficient rugby players and I feel privileged to watch them. Every time they go out on the field, it really is a special moment.
Uncertainty over team selection and overall marks
The England team was pretty settled after the Six Nations, but after one game on tour it was all change with big questions over the right combination at centre.
At hooker Rob Webber had a brilliant tour and has made Lancaster's life difficult over whether he chooses him, Dylan Hartley or Tom Youngs.
Geoff Parling has shown leadership with his performances and has pushed himself back into the reckoning.
England can beat New Zealand in a one-off game, but they're clearly not good enough to beat them in a three-match Test series.
The beauty of the World Cup is that they would only have to play them once, whether that's a semi-final or final.
England have proven they can play at this level, they just haven't done it consistently.
The third Test was not their best day so they've taken two steps forward and one back, but that's the difference between great players and good players.
Overall, I'd give England 7.5/10 for the tour.
Jerry was talking to BBC Sport's James Standley
Comment number 208. Posted by spidermikeon 23 Jun 2014 22:58
Can't blame Ashton for all of that. In the first half it was the KE/NMT combo that was very poorly organised and when NZ came through it left CA horrendously exposed. And at other times the forwards were stripped when beyond NZ 10m line and NZ on the counter will pull anyone to pieces.
Yes, he missed some tackles but so did Yarde on the opposite wing.
Comment number 207. Posted by FrankLepaveon 23 Jun 2014 22:25
Its the failure of senior players like Ashton to make tackles and quietly slip out of position is also a problem.
Comment number 206. Posted by Kiwi_aplon 23 Jun 2014 21:43
187. Island JB. welcome back. It was all getting rather serious and a bit sensible wasn't it? Everybody was starting to talk rather a lot of sense and clearly understanding their rugby. Somebody had to bring the circus back to town....and there you are. (Cue the fairground music)
Comment number 205. Posted by Tiptexton 23 Jun 2014 20:51
@201 Its more or less the same contact doesn't start until under 9, but most grassroots clubs do very little over the summer, the lads play cricket. However 5 to 10 years ago often coaches hadn't done badges and still coached an old fashioned game. The game I played is nothing like Rugby now, but coaching is now more modern and should filter through I'm sure Scotland will benefit!!
Comment number 204. Posted by pingpingon 23 Jun 2014 20:46
203. What rule? I just said we had no problem hijacking a few Scots.
Comment number 202. Posted by John Campbellon 23 Jun 2014 20:28
Well done Mr Guscott on your pre-match call
Comment number 201. Posted by 130TCon 23 Jun 2014 20:26
@199..Ha ha. Will do. But he'll be playing for Scotland I'm afraid.
It begins with schools. In summer they have weekly inter school touch games from the age of 5. In winter the clubs take over. They switch to Rippa(5-8 yrs) and tackle rugby(9+ yrs). They train every week. They are taught to run, pass and tackle in that order. At the moment he is being coach by ex Welsh internaional Mike Voyle!!.
Comment number 200. Posted by pappashangaon 23 Jun 2014 20:14
Well we have won the Junior WC two years in a row so there is much to hope for. The current England team are actually the past.
Comment number 199. Posted by Tiptexton 23 Jun 2014 20:13
@198 Once your son has played for NZ under 18's send him back over will you!
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Whether you are an avid fan of Downton Abbey or just someone who enjoys a bit of humor involving cats, you are sure to enjoy Chris Kelly's Downton Tabby: A Parody. In this book, you will be introduced to the aristocratic upstairs cats, whose day consists of grooming, sleeping, being fed and, of course, loafing around on expensive furniture in an adorable manner. There are also the downstairs cats — mostly named Emma — whose lots in life are to work in servitude to the upstairs cats. After all, this is England in the early 1900s. Their choices in life are really rather limited: serve, be served or be murdered by Jack the Ripper. Given those options, if one were not fortunate enough to be a proper kitty of breeding, a life of service is better than no life at all.
Following the general story line of the Downton Abbey television show, you will enjoy the trials and tribulations, the prides and the prejudices as well as the sense and the sensibilities of the felines of Downton Tabby. Learn how to keep a secret, the secret language of the tail, codes of conduct for both upstairs and downstairs cats and the art of arguing with someone who has deeply held beliefs.
Heavily illustrated, one of the gems of this book for cat lovers is the photos of cats dressed as characters from Downton Abbey reenacting scenes from the television show. A cheeky romp, this short book is an entertaining quick read. Who knows, you may even learn a bit about history, too!
After France's stunning defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and its near defeat in WWI, no event garnered more attention or more divided the nation than the Dreyfus Affair. Robert Harris's new book, An Officer and a Spy, is an incredibly compelling fictional account of the long-simmering scandal, especially the rabid paranoia and anti-Semitism that fueled it.
Harris, as seen in previous works like Fatherland and Pompeii, is a master of historical fiction. In An Officer and a Spy, Harris presents us with a cast of actual historical figures in an account that reads like a spy novel. Georges Picquart is a French Army officer who is convinced of the alleged treason of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer accused of selling secrets to the hated Germans. As an award for his service in the Dreyfus Affair, Picquart is given command of the intelligence section responsible for catching spies in France. Although clearly anti-Semitic himself, Picquart slowly realizes two things: Dreyfus was not guilty, and the real spy is still on the loose. Picquart petitions his superior officers to reopen the Dreyfus case and give him leave to continue the investigation. The French High Command, unwilling to admit its own mistakes and face the political consequences, decides instead to exile Picquart to Tunisia. What follows is a smear campaign and eventually Picquart is defending himself against charges of treason. Meanwhile, over the decade that this story plays out, a solitary figure – Alfred Dreyfus – is kept prisoner on the remote Devil's Island.
This 100-year-old scandal fits in perfectly with our modern era's headlines of domestic spying, rendition and puppet trials. It is a novel that is unafraid of showing its hero, George Picquart, as a flawed human being. With its espionage and dramatic courtroom scenes, this novel will have you yelling "J'accuse!" at the power-mongers who would convict innocent men in order to advance their own ambitions.
In addition to her busy career as a reporter for NBC's Boston affiliate, Hank Phillippi Ryan has made a name for herself as a bestselling author of suspense fiction. In Ryan's most recent novel, The Wrong Girl, reporter Jane Ryland is contacted by a former co-worker who asks for Jane's help because she believes that she was reunited with the wrong birth mother. At the same time, Detective Jake Brogan is investigating the brutal murder of a woman who was found in her house with two young children and an empty crib. He believes that it's more than the simple domestic violence case that it seems to be. Soon, it becomes obvious that the cases are linked. Ryan's writing is pitch-perfect as she builds suspense and continues to develop Jane and Jake's will-they-or-won't-they relationship.
Ryan generously agreed to answer a few questions for Between the Covers readers. She tells us about her lifelong love of mysteries, her inspiration and why she writes page-turners but not "stomach-turners."
When you wrote your first novel, you already had a very successful career as a television reporter. What made you take that leap? Did you always want to write fiction?
I grew up in very rural Indiana ... so rural you could not see another house from our house. My sister and I used to ride our ponies to the library – we'd get books and put them in the saddle bags and then read them up in the hayloft of our barn. (Yes, I know I look like a city girl now! But that's how it all started.)
I fell in love with Nancy Drew, then, soon after, Sherlock Holmes. Then soon after that, all the wonderful Golden Age mystery authors – Ngaio Marsh and Josephine Tey and Dorothy Sayers ... and of course Agatha Christie. And I think that's where my love of mystery storytelling was born.
But I went on to be a journalist – starting in radio in 1971! Then in TV in 1975. (So far, I've won 30 Emmys for investigative reporting, and I am still on the air at Boston's NBC affiliate.) And when you think of it, journalism is also storytelling, right? It's just stories that are true. I never gave up my love of mystery and thriller reading, but – okay, I'll admit it. I just never had a good idea for my own fiction.
Then in – 2005, maybe, I had a great idea. I knew it instantly, and from that moment on I was obsessed with writing what turned out to be the Agatha Award-winning first novel, Prime Time. (It's a great story – maybe invite me to visit the library, and I'll tell you the whole thing.)
After that, I was completely hooked. Now I have the joy of juggling two fabulous careers – stressful, and high-stakes and unpredictable, yes – but I am very lucky.
How does your work as a reporter influence your writing?
Well, it's all about telling a story, right? Whether you're making it up or not. I am well aware as a TV reporter that if a viewer isn't interested, entertained, informed and riveted, they can simply zap me away with the click of a remote. So I have learned over all these years to tell a good story.
Happily, I get to use the same skills in crime fiction. I know if you don't love the characters and the plot, if you're not riveted to turning the pages, you're going to close the cover and find another book. I do my best not to let that happen! And that's all about the story.
I've also wired myself with hidden cameras, confronted corrupt politicians, gone undercover and in disguise, been tear-gassed and at hostage situations, at fires and crime scenes, had people confess to murder, seen how people behave when they're lying or terrified. So there's an authenticity from my day job that I bring to my crime fiction. The things that happen to Jane could happen to me! And some of them certainly have!
So having this career which brings me into places the public can't always go and into situations that can be exciting and high-stakes gives me a never-ending (I hope) source of inspiration. I don't take my TV stories and fictionalize them, but I do use the real-life experience to make it genuine.
While crime plays a major part in your novels, the violence takes place "off the page." Was that a conscious decision or just something that evolved as part of your writing style?
Oh, interesting. When I read a particularly ghoulish and violent book – confession here – I sometimes skip the graphic parts. (Yes, I know, it's funny, since my real life shows me a very dark part of the world.) Did I decide – oh, I'm not going to go graphic? No. But they always say to write the kind of book you love to read – and for me that's Lisa Scottoline, Linda Fairstein, Sue Grafton, Laura Lippman, Meg Gardiner, John Lescroart, Harlan Coben, Steve Hamilton. Very, very suspenseful, yes, very high stakes, yes. But gory/bloody/violent? No. So I write my books to be page-turners – as Library Journal called The Wrong Girl "stellar" and a "superb thriller" – but they are not, um, stomach-turners!
Can you tell us a little bit about what inspired you to write The Wrong Girl?
It's a great story. I got a call at my TV station – and this is the perfect example of what you were asking – from a woman who said, "Hank! You've got to do a story about my cousin. She was given up at birth to an adoption agency 25 years ago and got a call from them asking if she wanted to be reunited with her birth mother. She said yes – but you know, when they met? Turned out they weren't related! The agency had sent that woman the wrong girl!"
I'm laughing now, even as I type this. I remember thinking, "Thank you, universe! The Wrong Girl! There's my book!" A book about mothers and daughters, the struggle of adoption from all sides, the need for a family. What if someone made up a family history for you – would you believe it? What if you didn't know the truth about your own family? How would you recognize your own daughter? Fascinating and relevant questions. And I was off and writing!
What's turned out to be just as timely and fascinating – there's a huge problem, making headlines right now, about the chaos in the Massachusetts foster-care system. A completely fictional version of that is key to The Wrong Girl. Amazing, huh? That book as written way before those headlines.
And did you see it's now nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Novel?
What are you working on next? Will we get to see more of Jake and Jane?
Yes, absolutely! (And thank you.) Truth Be Told will be out on September 30. It's about a mortgage banker who decides to keep her economically challenged customers out of foreclosure by manipulating their records so it looks like they've paid – good hearted, of course, but illegal. It's about a man who confesses to a cold case murder the police have stopped investigating – why would he do that? And about a reporter who makes stuff up.
Will Jake and Jane find a way to be together? We shall see.
What have you read lately that you loved? Are there any authors who are on your personal must-read list?
Personal must read - Lisa Scottoline. John Lescroart. Ian Rankin. Julia Spencer-Fleming. Sue Grafton, the master! I love Nelson DeMille's John Corey books and William Landay's Defending Jacob. Dennis Lehane, of course. Gone Girl, I'm a fan.
New books? Look for M. P. Cooley's Ice Shear, Rachel Howzell Hall's Land of Shadows. Jenny Milchman's Ruin Falls and Chris Pavone's (he wrote the Edgar Award-winning The Expats) new The Accident. (Unique! But great.)
As for me, I'm in the midst of writing What You See – In solving a murder, Jake wonders why cameras don't lie – but photographs do. And Jane's own family puts her in deadly danger. That's what you get when you plan a wedding, right?
Sharon Sala, a prolific and successful writer with over 1 million books sold, ventures into the world of Southern women's fiction in The Curl Up & Dye. Blessings, Georgia, springs to glorious life, along with its unique and quirky residents, especially LilyAnn Bronte, a former Peachy-Keen Queen. After losing her almost fiancé in the war in Iraq, her zest for life was zapped and she let herself go for 11 years. Finally, LilyAnn gives in to the ladies of the local beauty parlor, The Curl Up & Dye, and starts to get herself back in the game. This happily coincides with the arrival of a new hottie in town who provides LilyAnn with further motivation. But was love already in Blessings the whole time? A little bit Steel Magnolias and a little bit When Harry Met Sally equals a whole lot of fun.
Get to know Sala as she sheds light on her creative process, offers a sneak peak at what's next in Blessings and shares plenty more, including the Hollywood superstars she would cast to bring The Curl Up & Dye's romantic duo to life on the big screen.
The Curl Up & Dye is such a fun slice of Southern life but represents a departure from the romantic suspense genre in which you've achieved such great success. What prompted the change and what challenges were created?
I love that you enjoyed The Curl Up & Dye. It was so much fun creating and then living in that world. As for what prompted it, I've been writing in different genres for several years now. Young adult, women's fiction, Western historical (humor) romantic suspense and straight fiction. Going the Southern route was a breeze and so much fun. As for challenges, there were none. As a writer, it's freeing creatively to do something different. Keeps me fresh, creatively speaking.
In all of your books, your characters are engaging, the stories gripping and the romance palpable. What sparks your ideas after so many successful stories?
My ideas are my dreams. I just write what the universe gives me. As for keeping the stories fresh, I think it would be fair to say that it's the characters themselves who lead me through the maze that becomes their lives. Once you try to force a scene to work, you've already lost your way. I just let the characters tell me what comes naturally to them and then find a way to let the reader see it as I do.
I know you've said it was a hated job that led you to writing, but was writing professionally always a dream? And what was that hated job?
The hated job was checking groceries, and I never imagined, even once, of becoming a professional writer. I was just a dreamer with thousands of stories in my head, and one day the hated job triggered an urge to put down on paper what I was seeing in my head.
Share some of your process. Do you write every day? Where? Whom do you use as a sounding-board?
Yes, I write every day, but my writing process no longer exists because I also care for my 94-year-old mother who lives with me and who has dementia and no short-term memory. It is daily chaos but also a sweet sad journey for the both of us. I write when I can and am thankful that my process for writing is naturally fast. I have no sounding board but myself. I am also my worst critic.
You just got the call that The Curl Up & Dye is being made into a movie and you have free reign with the casting. What's your dream cast? Do you use celebrities as models for your characters when you're writing?
The dream cast is Jennifer Lawrence as LilyAnn and Channing Tatum as Mike. They both have an ability to do sweet/funny/dramatic, and the story calls for all three. No, I never use a picture of anyone to create the characters in my books. They're already in my head as themselves.
Will you be returning to Blessings in a future novel? Can you give us a sneak peak?
Yes, I am happy to say that I'm going back to Blessings this year writing a book called Family Specials. Of course The Curl Up & Dye plays a pivotal role in how the plot plays out, but the story is entirely different from the others.
It's about two teenagers: a boy and his two little brothers and a girl and her baby boy, who have been thrust into adult roles far too soon and who find a way to team up to save their families and, in doing so, finally fall in love long after the wedding has taken place.
It is a story that makes my heart happy. I look forward to sharing it with you.
Be careful what you wish for: a reminder that sometimes wishes are fulfilled in a way not quite anticipated. The desire to turn back the clock or proffer up a desperate bargain in order to keep a loved one with us is universal. Two new novels, The Returned by Jason Mott and Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield, explore the consequences of cheating death and getting a second chance.
Lucille and Harold Hargrave are watching a riveting television news story reporting what seems to be an ongoing resurrection of the dead. A knock on the elderly couple's door reveals a federal agent holding hands with a boy who calls Harold "Daddy." The child is their eight year old son Jacob who drowned 50 years prior. The Returned explores not only the Hargraves' reactions to the reappearance of their child, but also the complex societal and governmental responses to this unimaginable and unexplainable global phenomenon. Mott hit the author jackpot with this debut novel. In addition to climbing up The New York Times Best Sellers list, ABC developed the story into a television series entitled Resurrection, which is set to premiere in March.
In Bellman & Black, handsome Will Bellman is viewed as blessed. He's inherited the family fabric-making factory where he's introduced the principles and technology of the Industrial Revolution to great success. He adores his wife and young children and is a beneficent country gentleman. A man in black dogs Bellman, however, appearing at the funerals of his friends and family. When a diphtheria-like illness plagues Bellman's village and takes the lives of his family, Bellman cuts a deal to save the life of his remaining child, Dora. Who is this man in black? Is it wrong to profit from death? Setterfield, who also wrote the popular ghostly story The Thirteenth Tale, delivers another atmospheric story that looks at the price one pays for a deal with the devil.
Baltimore author Laura Lippman is a favorite of many BCPL readers. Her new stand-alone novel, After I'm Gone, brings together past and present in a suspenseful, character-driven story about the family of a fugitive living their lives in the wake of scandal. On July 4, 1976, Felix Brewer flees from Baltimore rather than face a jail sentence. He leaves behind his wife, Bambi, his three young daughters and his mistress, Julie. In 2012, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a consultant for the Baltimore Police Department, reopens the cold case file of the murder of Felix's mistress, Julie. Lippman skillfully weaves the threads of what happens to each of the women in Felix's life with Sandy's investigation to bring the reader to the unexpected conclusion.
Lippman recently answered some questions for our Between the Covers readers. She tells us more about the inspiration for this story and a new movie adaptation of one of her novels.
Your husband, David Simon, originally suggested that you write about Julius Salsbury, head of a large gambling operation in Baltimore who disappeared in the 1970s rather than face jail time, but you weren't initially interested in that story. What changed?
I am pretty resistant to other people's ideas. It's a personal thing, writing a novel. It's a year out of my life. And perhaps I wasn't listening as closely as I should have because David probably did emphasize that he thought the novel would be about the women affected. But it was when I started thinking about the daughters, saw a story beyond a love triangle, that I saw how I could do it.
Felix's disappearance frames the story, but it's quickly apparent that the novel isn't really about him. It's about those left behind. What is it about these five women that captured your imagination?
We define ourselves by our relationships. We are wives, girlfriends, daughters, sisters. What if one of those relationships is taken away? Who are we then? How do we adjust? The same would be true of men, by the way. Sandy, the retired cop in the novel, very much identifies himself as a widower, as someone who was married and is now alone, unhappily so.
What kind of research did you do for After I'm Gone?
I mainly tried to make sure the pop culture lined up. I remember being very disappointed to find out that Michelle's bat mitzvah was just ahead of the introduction of the bubble skirt. I wanted all the Brewer women to be in fashion-forward bubble skirts.
Sandy meets Tess Monaghan near the end of the story, and the two of them talk business. Will readers see Sandy again in the future?
Oh, yes.
The movie adaptation of Every Secret Thing, starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning, is in post-production. What was it like to see that story come to life on film? When will the movie be released?
The film has been accepted by a major film festival, but that's not official yet. The hope is it will find national distribution there. The whole experience was wonderfully surreal. It was as if the games I played with my Barbie dolls, all those years ago, had come to life.
Are there any authors on your personal must-read list? What have you read recently that you loved?
My must-read list includes Megan Abbott, Alex Marwood, Alison Gaylin, Rebecca Chance, Ann Hood, Stewart O'Nan, Tom Perrotta, Dennis Lehane, Georgoe Pelecanos, Mark Billingham, Andre Dubus III, Alafair Burke – shall I go on?
I also just had the privilege of guest-editing Best American Mystery Stories [2014], so I've been reading amazing short stories – but I can't say by whom.
Jill Shalvis returns to her bestselling Lucky Harbor series with her new novel Once in a Lifetime. Lucky Harbor fans know that Aubrey Wellington is trouble, but she has decided to give herself a life makeover. She makes a list of wrongs she has committed and sets out to make amends. Ben McDaniel has had no interest in love since he was widowed, but he finds he can't ignore the electricity between him and Aubrey. As they grow closer, Aubrey worries that one secret item on her list may push him away forever.
Shalvis's sexy, laugh-out-loud funny romances have made her a star in the contemporary romance genre. The author recently answered some questions about love, life and her new novel.
Between the Covers: What scene did you have the most fun writing?
Jill Shalvis: Oh I have quite a few from this book! When Aubrey throws her drink in Ben's face, when she runs and hides out in an AA meeting and makes friends with the pastor, when Ben figures out she's writing a list of people she's wronged and he wonders that it's not a lot longer than it is, when Aubrey gets a little tipsy and throws rocks at Ben's window like a scene right out of the Say Anything movie …
BTC: Describe Aubrey a sentence
JS: Aubrey: her heart's in the right spot but she doesn't like to lead with it, if that makes any sense.
BTC: Aubrey inherits a cat named Gus, who has quite the personality—was he inspired by a real life cat?
JS: He was inspired by my own Satan—er, Sadie, who believes she is the queen of all humans.
BTC: Aubrey has some scandalous photos from her college days surface in her ex's tell-all. Is there are anything from your past you wouldn't want to see the light of day (but that you're willing to share with us)?
JS: Alpha Man [Jill's husband] has a photo on his phone that he snapped just as I was flipping him off. I'm not super proud of that moment, which of course is why he has it as my photo id when I call him…
BTC: What can your fans look forward to next in the Lucky Harbor series?
JS: Next up is a Lucky Harbor trilogy for this coming summer and fall, It's in His Kiss, He's So Fine, and Once in a Million, the stories of the three sexy hot guys who run Lucky Harbor Charters.
Alice LaPlante's latest novel, A Circle of Wives, tells a story of lies, secrets and determination from the perspective of several different women. When Dr. Paul Taylor is discovered dead in his hotel room from an apparent heart attack, everything changes as it becomes clear his death was anything but natural. Married to his wife Deborah for 35 years, Dr. Taylor was a kind-hearted and renowned plastic surgeon who specialized in facial reconstruction for children with birth and medical defects. But his death opens a veritable Pandora's Box of polygamy and deception when it's revealed that Dr. Taylor had not one, but three wives throughout the state of California.
Detective Samantha Adams is 28 and assigned to her first murder case. She becomes embroiled in the lives of Dr. Taylor's wives and, while the motive to kill is clear, the question remains as to which wife it could be. They are very different women: the society wife, the hippy accountant and the successful doctor. Two were unaware of their deceased husband's lies and his "real" wife emerges as the puppet master behind the whole arrangement. Could this make her the most likely suspect?
While LaPlante's novel initially seems to be a clear cut murder mystery, it quickly evolves into an entirely different story full of psychological suspense, obsession and passion.
A tight-knit community is turned upside down when tragedy strikes. Carla Buckley's new novel, The Deepest Secret, shows how a once safe and unsuspecting community can transform when one minor bad decision goes unchecked and snowballs.
Everyone makes mistakes, and Buckley highlights the flaws of all of her characters, but it's the mistake of one person in particular that propels the plot and changes the dynamic of a whole family. Eve is the mother of a son with a rare condition leaving him unable to come in contact with ultraviolet light. Her family has revolved around the rising and setting of the sun until an error in judgment becomes the center of her universe.
Buckley has a way of conveying guilt and a sense of ambiguity that leads the reader to hope that there is the potential for innocence. Buckley also brings other characters' mistakes to light, leading the reader to rethink who may be at fault for the crime that shakes this community's sense of security.
The shame that can be felt while reading this book could be compared to Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, while the family dynamics and legal components are reminiscent of William Landay's Defending Jacob. One minute, incidents seem certain, yet in the next they shift, keeping the reader guessing and eager until the very end.
From sitcom writer to author of cozy mysteries, Laura Levine has had an eclectic writing career. Her newest novel, Killing Cupid, is a light mystery about a murder in a matchmaking company on Valentine's Day.
When Jaine gets a call and is asked to write advertising copy for a Beverly Hills matchmaker, all she has to do is consider her meager bank account before quickly accepting the job. Upon starting at Dates of Joy, Jaine quickly discovers that Joyce is as much of con artist as matchmaker. Instead of marketing, Jaine is writing phony bios to go with the head shots of fake clients who happen to be models.
Joyce appears to be a charming woman to anyone seeking love in her matchmaking business, but after she cashes their check, they're likely to never hear from her again. She cuts corners to save a penny and she isn't above blackmail, so it's no surprise that Jaine isn't the only person who can't stand her tyrant of a boss. When Joyce turns up murdered by a poison chocolate, the list of suspects is long. Jaine finds herself among them and must discover who the real murderer is to clear her own name.
Whether you're trying to get in the mood for this holiday or find a good distraction from the day, this cozy mystery can help. With Jaine's quirkiness and the effortless storyline, this book could be a beach read, if only it were a little warmer.
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Every day, millions of Americans give their investments the serious attention they deserve, riffling through the business pages, tracking the markets and grappling with tough questions. Do I need more exposure to stocks -- or less? How worried should I be about the euro? Am I going to need to save more to retire on time? But there's a major question often hiding in plain sight, one so fundamental to people's financial health many don't even think to ask it: Is my 401(k) plan any good?
Certainly, few of us need to ask whether the plans matter: We've resigned ourselves to our dependency when it comes to retirement savings. Americans now hold $4.3 trillion in 401(k)s and similar defined-contribution plans, nearly three times as much as the $1.6 trillion parked in annuities. The plans weren't originally designed to be the nation's primary retirement lifeline -- they started as a minor tax perk for senior executives -- but they've grown inexorably, as ever more big companies have used them as a cheaper alternative to traditional pensions. Only about a third of the corporate work force can look forward to a monthly pension check today, down from 80 percent three decades ago; over the same period, assets in 401(k)-like plans have grown 16-fold.
And yet, as many economists and money pros know and as more employees are beginning to realize, the plans are riddled with problems capable of tripping up even the most diligent investors. The laundry list of pitfalls includes high (and often hidden) expenses that eat up enormous chunks of plan members' gains, as well as company-provided advice that critics say ranges from vague to nonexistent. Some consumer advocates say that too many employers treat their plans as an afterthought -- and that the financial-services industry, which collects between $30 billion and $60 billion a year in fees from such plans, has little incentive to change things. So it often takes Norma Rae-like activism to get a company to improve its plan lineup -- which means that, for many Americans, picking the components of their 401(k) may be the biggest financial decision they never get to make. "I personally think the 401(k) should be abolished," says Matt Goff, a Houston financial adviser whose practice serves small-business owners needing help with their company retirement plans.
To be sure, some conscientious companies are working to make their plans better; federal regulators are getting involved too, with new rules that may make it easier for investors to see what they're actually paying for their plans. But for most investors, advisers say, it doesn't make sense to wait for the cavalry to come. Here, some of the best advice for cutting costs, finding better funds or even going outside an employer's plan to launch a 401(k) repair project.
The New "Target": Cutting Costs
Americans now hold $343 billion in target-date funds, up threefold in six years, and they're buying them mostly through their retirement plans. These funds are the cafeteria lunch of mutual funds: They include all the basic food groups, so investors don't have to order à la carte. The funds invest in a mix of stocks, bonds and other investments that gets more conservative as an investor's retirement, or target date, approaches, rebalancing automatically for investors who prefer not to or don't know how to do it themselves. Congress passed a law in 2006 making it easier for employers to use target-date funds as a default 401(k) option, and 81 percent of large employers now offer them.
But for some cost-conscious investors, the expenses built into target-date funds are a growing peeve. Most such products are "funds of funds" that spread assets among multiple other investment vehicles. As a result, target-date-fund expenses span an unusually wide range. Vanguard's target-date products, which rely heavily on index funds, have average expenses of $18 a year per $10,000 invested; at the opposite extreme, Oppenheimer uses actively managed funds and charges $168 per $10,000. And investors at smaller companies are more likely to face fees at the higher end of the range. The differences can add up. According to human resources consultant Towers Watson, an increase of just $50 per $10,000 in target-date-fund fees could cost a high earner the equivalent of eight years' worth of retirement savings over the length of his career.
Target-Date Funds: What to Ask
How did you do in the crash?
Planners say that anyone considering a target-date fund should see how that fund fared during the 2008-09 financial crisis. Among target-date funds geared for workers who planned to retire in 2010, the average fund lost 22 percent in 2008, but some lost as much as 40 percent.
Am I the kind of investor you target?
Target-date funds have a lot of assumptions about investor behavior baked into their structure. Many hold plenty of volatile assets, like stocks, even as they pass their retirement target dates, assuming investors won't need to tap the money right away and can take some risks with it. Others are already filled with bonds, assuming that investors will cash out the day they retire. Savers whose needs or plans don't match a fund's assumptions might not find the funds to be a good fit.
Can I get your funds separately -- and cheaper?
Some investors and advisers check a target-date's overall expense ratio, then compare that fund's individual components to similar index funds in the same 401(k) plan. In some cases, employees find they can build a comparable portfolio at a fraction of the cost.
Do you diversify me?
Some investors say it can be worth holding on to a target-date fund if it offers investments that you can't get elsewhere in your 401(k), like commodities or REITs, which can smooth returns in rocky markets.
To be sure, some investors say it's worth paying more for the convenience of the all-in-one funds; what's more, the funds sometimes have access to assets like gold or foreign stocks that employees can't get elsewhere in the plan. Still, some do-it-yourselfers are opting to cook from scratch rather than accept the cafeteria tray. Atlanta adviser Jeffrey Baumert, who helps small-business owners design plans, says he'll sometimes encourage folks whose plans include Fidelity's Freedom funds to try an alternative. Freedom funds' expenses average $74 per $10,000, and Baumert says his clients can do better -- they can get exposure to large-cap stocks, for example, through the inexpensive Fidelity Spartan 500 Index fund. "Do you really think that all their fund managers in every category are going to be the best?" he asks. (Fidelity says its active management is designed to deliver better returns in the long run.)
Some advisers advocate an even simpler rule of thumb: When possible, use only index funds. That's because the typical 401(k) fee structure makes the substantial expense gap between indexes and active funds even wider. "Packagers" -- companies like Fidelity, Vanguard or other middlemen -- collect a substantial share of their 401(k) plan revenues from active funds. Active large-cap stock funds, for example, route an average of $21 per $10,000 invested to cover back-office expenses like accounting and record-keeping, according to human resources consultancy Aon Hewitt (a firm which itself sometimes acts as a packager). The average large-cap index fund, in contrast, routes just $6, and at least half such funds don't charge those fees at all. Ultimately, investors in actively managed funds are subsidizing their coworkers, says Dave Gray, head of retirement plan product development at Charles Schwab; using index funds means getting that subsidy, instead of paying it.
Comparing Plans on Cost
Soon, employers will be required to make more detailed disclosures of their plans' costs. But for more data, experts say, investors will still have to dig into companies' regulatory filings.
Cheap: IBM
(Plan run by Fidelity)
The sheer size of the plan, which has more than 200,000 participants, helps keep costs down, since bigger 401(k) programs usually get heftier discounts on fund expenses. But the plan also emphasizes cheaper index funds, including index options for real estate investing and inflation-protected bonds.
Average: Abercrombie & Fitch
(Plan run by Fidelity)
Members of the fashion retailer's plan have access to some index options, but most of the choices are more costly, actively managed funds, including Fidelity's target-date funds. (Fidelity says the active management of those funds gives investors a long-term performance edge.)
Expensive: Take-Two Interactive Software
(Plan run by The Principal Group)
Most funds in the video-game maker's plan are more expensive than average. To use the main stock index fund, employees pay $42 per $10,000 invested, more than twice what an all-but-identical fund costs outside the plan. Principal says the costs are typical for a plan of this size.
Data as of latest federal filings.
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Oklahoma City's monthly sales tax receipts missed expectations in November for the first time in 10 months, but collections are still well ahead of their expected pace for the year, according to city figures released Tuesday.
Oklahoma City sales tax receipts slow in November, remain strong overall
Sales tax revenue grew by 2.5 percent in Oklahoma City over the last month as compared to the same month last year, down by half of a percent from the city's target. Growth for the fiscal year to date is still above 8 percent, well beyond the 3 percent target.
"When it (the tax report) first came out, we were kind of disappointed because we'd had some great months," city Budget Director Doug Dowler said. "But it's still positive, and it's not too far below target, so when you take it in concert with what we've already had, it doesn't seem too bad."
The unexpected slight slowdown serves as a reminder as to why city officials continued to form budget projections based on 3 percent growth despite consistently strong numbers earlier in the year, Dowler said. Conditions are still ripe for a better-than-expected year, but a city's best few months aren't reflective of the entire year.
"They have a way of reverting back to their averages over time," Dowler said.
Economists have previously said that the continued strong sales tax revenue growth for so many months — including a few with growth well into the double-digits — could be signs of a period of transformative growth for the overall local economy.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WUSA) -- According toJeff Borzello ofCBSSports.com, by Thursday night, Mark Turgeon and the Maryland basketball program will know whether the highly coveted Harrison Twins will be playing at the Comcast Center starting in 2013.
Aaron and Andrew Harrison are the top ranked point and shooting guards in the entire country. The Texas natives have declared themselves a package deal and if Turgeon can get them to commit to Maryland, this wouldprobably be the biggest signing in the program's storied history.
One of the brothers tweeted Monday night that he would be making the hardest decision of his life on Thursday. It has since been confirmed that he was referring to deciding where he and his brother are going to play basketball next year.
Only college basketball powerhouse Kentucky and Southern Methodist -- who are now coached by Larry Brown -- are in consideration with the Terps. However, most scouts believe it's just between the NCAA national champion Wildcats and Maryland.
Turgeon made a big splash last year when he recruited Shaq Cleare, the gem of last year's recruiting class and another Texas native. Before arriving at Maryland, Turgeon coached at Texas A&M and may have some influence on recruits from the Lone Star state. For the sake of the Terp Nation, I hope this is true.


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