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Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Vegetables
A Bounty of Beans
by Susan Littlefield
If easy gratification in the garden is what you're after, beans are a pretty good place to start. Easy to sow and grow, adaptable and usually problem-free, beans produce in abundance for very little effort. In fact your biggest problem is likely to be what to do with all the beans you've grown.
There is a bean for just about every garden situation and palate. Bush beans produce large crops of beans that are ready for harvest quickly and can be planted in successive sowings so you have plenty of tender pods throughout the season. Tall growing pole beans produce over a long season and are renowned for their delicious "beany" flavor. For the adventurous there are novelty types such as aptly-named yard long beans.
Bean Varieties
There are several types of bush beans, but all produce plants that grow 2 feet tall or less. The varieties with round green pods are probably the most familiar. They germinate reliably, even when the soil is still on the cool side, their sturdy seedlings shouldering their way through the soil toward the light. Prolific bearers, they are great for fresh use. Because they ripen their pods in a fairly short period of time, they work well for folks who want to can or freeze their crop. Yellow wax beans add a beautiful color to the garden or the dinner plate. The slender French or filet beans have a delicate flavor and texture that more than makes up for their their less abundant bearing.
You'll need to wait slightly longer to start harvesting from pole beans, but they are worth the wait. Many folks think that pole beans have the best, most pronounced "bean" flavor of all. Their tall vines will produce more beans in total over a season and for a longer period of time, but the harvest at any one time will be smaller. This makes them a good choice for gardeners who grow beans mainly for fresh eating. Pole beans need sturdy poles or a trellis to support their vigorous growth.
Adventurous gardeners may want to explore other members of the bean clan. Shell and dried beans are harvested when the seeds have matured inside the pod, but the pod is still green (shell beans) or dried. Shell beans are tasty steamed; dried beans are great baked or in soups.


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Arrests prompt request for more prep time in fraud trial
Published: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 8:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 8:30 p.m.
BUNNELL — Anthony Fregenti, accused of running a Ponzi scheme involving motorcycles and exotic cars, is trying to get ready for trial — except people related to his case keep getting arrested.
Defense attorney Harry Shorstein said during a hearing Wednesday that he needed more time to prepare for trial in part because two people related to the case were recently arrested.
"Your honor, this case has been plagued with a number of discovery problems," Shorstein told Circuit Judge J. David Walsh during a hearing at the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center.
Problem one: Michael Stevens of Palm Coast. Shorstein said he was seeking to depose Stevens and then finally got a subpoena to do so. But then Stevens was arrested Oct. 17 on a charge of money laundering in connection with the Fregenti case. Stevens might be able to refuse to answer questions in a deposition because of his arrest, Shorstein said.
"He was arrested, so obviously we can't take his deposition," Shorstein said of Stevens.
Problem two: Devin Kolb, of Palm Coast, who was arrested on Nov. 14, also on a charge of money laundering in connection with Fregenti. It was unclear on Wednesday afternoon whether Kolb had been formally charged.
Walsh set a pre-trial hearing for Fregenti for March 6 and the trial for March 25.
Fregenti, 41, who lived in Palm Coast until moving to St. Augustine, has been charged with 33 felonies, including organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, securities fraud, sale of unregistered securities and sale of securities by an unregistered dealer, according to records.
The charges are associated with businesses Fregenti ran in Flagler, most of which had "Dark Hawk" as part of the name.
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As regular readers know all too well, there are few people in these United States that I find more disingenuous than the mainstream media celebrated, crony capitalist extraordinaire Warren Buffett. The man who used to warn about trade deficits, the U.S. dollar's vulnerable position and famously called the derivatives "weapons of mass financial destruction," has become nothing more than a political stooge for the status quo ever since he was bailed out in the financial crisis. So with the derivatives market bigger and more dangerous than ever, you'd expect "Uncle Warren" to be shouting from the rooftops about how much risk they pose right? Wrong. Rather, America's number one crony is using derivatives to drive earnings at his company, Berkshire Hathaway, and pimping stocks on CNBC like a cheap used car salesman every other day. From Bloomberg:
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) said fourth- quarter profit rose 49 percent on gains tied to derivatives wagers made by billionaire Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffett.
Net income rose to $4.55 billion, or $2,757 a share, from $3.05 billion, or $1,846, a year earlier, Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire said today in a statement. Gains on derivatives surged to $1.4 billion from $163 million.
Buffett, 82, uses index put options to speculate on long- term gains in stock-market indexes in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Those bets added $2 billion to profit in the fourth quarter before taxes as Japan's Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average rallied.
"The probability of Berkshire ever having to take a loss on these contracts is very low" because they won't be settled for years, said David Kass, a professor at the University ofMaryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, who has taken groups of students to visit Buffett in Omaha.
You've gotta love how the one person Bloomberg decides to quote with regard to the wisdom of Buffett's derivatives strategy is a professor so entrenched in the "Uncle Warren" cult that he takes his students on pilgrimages to Omaha. Nice journalism guys.
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ZF-2185: Public refresh() method in Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract
I often find it useful to refresh a row from the database. Can we either make the _refresh() method public (it is currently protected) or can we make a public refresh() method which executes the protected _refresh() to preserve BC?
Is this going to make it into 1.0.3? I have commit access to Zend_Db, can I commit this to the trunk at least?


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"We need a budget without the reinstituted taxes because we can't rely on the tax revenue for the next year," Councilmember John Hanrahan said. "Either the council doesn't reinstate the tax increases or they reinstate tax increases of some kind, but we won't be able to rely on the revenue until a Truth in Taxation hearing in July."
To make up for the deficit now facing the county in the Municipal Services Fund and Service Area #6 areas, Jasper plans to recommend to the council on Wednesday, Nov. 28, to freeze three Sheriff's Office positions, in addition to the two Sheriff's Office positions recently frozen, two road workers and planner position.
Though he is recommending the revised budget as directed by the County Council, Jasper said he does not agree with a budget that assumes no tax increase reinstatement.
"My core recommendation is to reinstate the tax increases," Jasper said.
Jasper added that the intention behind increasing the taxes was not to expand services, but simply maintain the current levels of service.
"We've already cut 21 positions out of 300," Jasper asked. "How many more can we cut and still maintain services? In talking about Service Area #6, I don't see how you can cut five Sheriff's Office positions and not affect service levels.
Jasper said he is also concerned with how the elimination of two road maintenance positions will impact the county.
There are 18 workers for the entire county, Jasper said.
"How do you change plow routes if you have two people less?" Jasper asked. "We'll have to do steep areas first, like Summit Park and Pinebrook. Otherwise, people drive on them, packing them down, and it becomes a sheet of ice. That means that for the flat areas, we'll get to them when we get to them, after we do the steep areas. It might not be until later in the day."
Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said that if three more Sheriff's Office positions are frozen, it will be seven sworn positions eliminated since 2010, which constitutes more than a patrol platoon.
"That is a huge reduction," Edmunds said. "I'm probably going to have to do without my Special Enforcement Unit, which I've already had to dismantle somewhat to move positions to the patrol division, which has been critically short-handed with the additional calls for service we've had over the last year."
From 2011 to 2012, calls for service have risen 21 percent, he added.
The Special Enforcement Unit is responsible for most of the proactive traffic enforcement.
"I think it's reasonable to assume that if we lose the Special Enforcement Unit completely, there will be an impact on traffic collisions, DUI-related traffic fatalities, bicycle versus pedestrian accidents and injuries," Edmunds said. "It's not something that is recommended, and it is something I am vehemently opposed to. It can potentially impact public safety in a very profound way."
Edmunds said the budget is a manifestation of priorities, and the council needs to decide what their priorities are.
"Laying off five deputy positions in a single year is catastrophic to public safety, and if that is done, it will be a clear message that public safety is not a priority," he said.
Jasper plans to hold a public hearing on Dec. 12 and a Truth in Taxation hearing on Dec. 14 concerning reinstating taxes, pending Wednesday's council meeting.


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Gardening Articles: Care :: Seeds & Propagation
The Facts of Light (page 2 of 3)
by Michael MacCaskey
Color choices
Fluorescent tubes vary in the color of light they produce. If you've ever experimented with a prism, you know that white-appearing sunlight is actually a combination of colors from violet to red. While some artificial light approaches the color of sunlight, none duplicates it. In all cases, lights produce more or less of certain specific colors.
On the other hand, plants don't need every color in sunlight to grow and flower. For instance, the fact that plants are green means they are reflecting and not using most of the green wavelengths in light. Plants mostly use wavelengths at the two ends of the visible spectrum: the blue end for foliage growth and the red end for flowering.
The earliest fluorescent tubes are now called cool white. These produce an abundance of light in the blue range, but insufficient red light. The so-called warm white tubes complement them by producing more red light.
For many plants, a combination of cool white and warm white tubes will produce good growth. But seedlings need bright light as soon as they germinate, including red and infrared light. Since not enough of this light is produced by either cool or warm white tubes, you'll need to provide supplemental light either from a nearby window or, more conveniently, with fluorescent tubes especially designed for plant growth.
Many different colors of tubes are available. Some are designed to produce specific colors of light, some to approximate sunlight. The color of fluorescent tubes is measured in two ways: color rendering index (CRI) and degrees Kelvin (oK). CRI is a percentage number that measures how closely the light approximates natural sunlight. Tubes with a CRI greater than 90 are considered to be full spectrum.
The color of light is also measured on the Kelvin temperature scale, and this measurement is called the color temperature. Light that is rich in red has a low reading in degrees Kelvin, and light rich in blue has a much higher color temperature. Ordinary incandescent light bulbs produce light of about 2,800 degrees K, while daylight, which is rich in rays from the blue end of the spectrum, has typical readings from 5,000 degrees to 7,000 degrees K. Fluorescent lights range in color temperature from about 2,700 degrees to 6,500 degrees K. A typical warm white tube is about 3,000 degrees K, while a full spectrum tube is over 5,000 degrees K.


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I copied this from The Hill website. The story is self explanatory. These thugs had guns but were not licensed. What law could be passed that would have prevented this. And, yet, the White House dictator-who will never allow a crisis to go to waste-plane to exploit this to try passing anti-gun laws against innocent America gun-owners.
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.
The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama.Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have obtained a license from the town of Cambridge, Mass., where he lived. But he didn't take that step, Dan Riviello, spokesman for the Cambridge police told Reuters.
"There is no record of him having a license to carry," Riviello said, according to the news service.
Massachusetts state law allows residents under 21 to have rifles, but only those weapons holding 10 rounds of ammunition or less, and only then if the holder has a police-issued ID card. Several local jurisdictions where the younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has lived and studied told Reuters they have no record of issuing him such a card.


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Scholar-Athlete of the Year Release
TEMPE – Arizona State University wrestling senior Jake Meredith was named a First-Team Pac-12 All-Conference selection, Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott announced on Tuesday.
Meredith graduated with a bachelor's degree last spring while redshirting what would have been his senior season with a knee injury. He is currently working towards a master's degree in global technology and development and has a GPA of 3.42. He has twice been named the ASU Student-Athlete of the Month in both October 2010 and November 2012.
The Pac-12 honored Meredith as the conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year at the Pac-12 Wrestling Championships, in addition to this selection as part of the All-Academic team.
Meredith's Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor was the first in ASU history while his first First-Team selection today is the 21st Sun Devil First-Team selection since the conference first began recognizing All-Academic squads.
Meredith made the decision to return for another season after missing the 2011-12 campaign due to an injury. An NCAA Championship participant and Pac-12 Champion at 184 pounds during the 2010-11 season, Meredith moved up to 197 pounds as a senior and established himself as one of the elite grapplers at the weight class.
Meredith put together a career record of 74-50 and was 36-23 in dual competition. He finished his senior year with a 26-9 and was ranked in the nation's top-10 at 197 pounds for the majority of the year and was the runner-up at the weight class at the Pac-12 Championships. Meredith advanced to his second NCAA Championship appearance as well.
To be eligible for selection to the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and be a significant contributor.
Established during the 2007-08 academic year, Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year selections must be a senior (in athletics eligibility) on track to receive a degree, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, participate in at least 50% of the scheduled contests in the sport and have a minimum of one year in residence at the institution. Each Pac-12 institution may nominate one individual per sport, and the winners are selected by a committee of Pac-12 staff members at the conclusion of each sport's regular season. The athletic accomplishments of the nominees are a consideration in the voting for the award.
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The stress and tension that often come with a trip can add to physical discomfort and worsen joint symptoms. But with a little research and proper planning you can reduce pain and anxiety and have a pleasant journey.
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Try to avoid long lines and airport congestion by traveling mid week, which tends to be less busy. Book a seat with extra legroom or an aisle seat so it's easier to stretch your legs. Reserve an ADA accessible hotel room near the elevator or on the first floor. Don't forget to ask about exercise facilities, hot tubs or saunas, and a fridge in your room for medications.
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ZF-8218: remove unnecessary requirements from Zend_Service_Twitter constructor
There are cases where Zend_Service_Twitter can be used without authentication, but the constructor requires $username and $password to always be passed. For example, checking if a given username exists or not:
$tw = new Zend_Service_Twitter(null); $exists = $tw->user->show($who)->id() !== null;
Since the first parameter is required, one can't simply do this:
$tw = new Zend_Service_Twitter();
I'd like to propose that both constructor parameters should be optional, in order to more cleanly support these anonymous uses.
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New York City is a mess. The subway is shut down. The tunnels are under water. Half of Manhattan is without electricity. But 72 hours after Superstorm Sandy ripped across the Eastern Seaboard, Katie Couric is at work. Her daytime talk show, Katie, is in its debut season, and the initial reviews have been mixed. (The big upswing will come later.) Newsday described the launch as "sharp" and "cheery" but also "cheesy." Couric's guests that day were Jessica Simpson and Sheryl Crow. The newswoman hardly interrupted Simpson's veritable Weight Watchers infomercial, nor did she challenge Crow's scientifically dubious claim that her brain tumor was caused by her old cell phone.
But it didn't take long for Couric to return to form—as this afternoon's show demonstrates.
Couric's guest today is Michael Morton. He served nearly 25 years in prison after being convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death but was recently released because DNA connected another man to the crime. On the evidence, the man deserves our pity, but his oddly unemotional manner makes it hard to empathize. Given the challenge, Couric is all intrepid reporter. She dives in, employing her well-known journalistic chops.
Couric's biography has long been on the record. The youngest of four children, she was born and raised in suburban Virginia, where she was a high school cheerleader. At the University of Virginia, she earned a degree in English. After graduating in 1979, she took entry-level jobs in local-market TV newsrooms and quickly became an on-air reporter. In Miami she covered hurricanes, in Washington the stormy tenure of Mayor Marion Barry. The late Tim Russert, then NBC's Washington bureau chief, hired her as the network's deputy Pentagon reporter, while in her private hours Larry King asked her out (she chose friendship instead) and a lawyer named Jay Monahan won her heart; they wed in 1989.
Hers was a miraculously bump-free zoom to success. Bob Peterson, creative director at Katie, remembers the year he went to see the capital's annual Cherry Blossom Festival, only to discover that the skinny girl who worked down the hall from him at WRC-TV was the festival's parade marshal. Fans were screaming her name. "Wow," Peterson said to Couric, "you're a star."
"Katie just kind of looked at me and was like, 'Can you give me a ride back to the station?' So we hopped into my car and rode back."
It was that I'm-just-your-buddy Katie manner that landed Couric the gig that turned her into a superstar. Among morning news shows, NBC's Today had traditionally scored the highest ratings. But in 1990 Deborah Norville succeeded Jane Pauley as cohost, and the numbers started slipping. A few months later, when Norville went on maternity leave, executives replaced her with Couric, then the show's national political correspondent. The ratings didn't just rebound; they achieved liftoff.
After tapingthe Michael Morton episode, Couric disappears for five minutes to wiggle out of her on-camera ensemble of charcoal pencil skirt, ruffled silk blouse and black kid pumps. Re-emerging in moss-green leggings, a belted cardigan and well-worn ballet flats, she pulls her hair into a pink scrunchie, and we headout for whatever meal you eat at 3 pm. Her new boyfriend, John Molner, an investment banker who resembles Mark Harmon, walks over with us. His office is closed because of the storm, and the two are trying to steal a little time together. Molner might want to kiss her good-bye, but that would be near impossible. Even though the post-storm streets are 95 percent deserted, the people we do see are all chatting up Couric. They approach her as if she's an old friend, not a celebrity. She apparently feels the same way. It takes us 20 minutes to walk one block.
Couric readily admits she is not one of those famous people who hate being famous—or pretend to. Early on, she even thought fame safeguarded her: "Until I was 40, I had smooth sailing and no real challenges in my life, no setbacks. I felt that my charmed life and being on television protected me from bad things happening. It was so ridiculous and irrational."
In April 1997, Couric found out exactly how ridiculous and irrational. That was when Monahan, her young, apparently healthy husband, who had become a popular criminal-justice TV commentator, went to the doctor feeling tired and achy. After months of covering the O.J. Simpson trial, Monahan thought he was just run down. He soon learned he had a softball-size tumor in his colon—a cancer that had already metastasized to his liver.
Lori Beecher, a coordinating producer at Katie who's also a close friend, recalls how Couric became a one-woman crusade to save her husband. Kathleen Lobb, a college friend who is now senior vice president of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, was blown away because, she says, Couric's "background is in humanities. But she instantly learned the science."
Herculean as they were, Couric's efforts did not turn into the stuff of a triumphal made-for-TV movie. In retrospect, she has said she wishes she and her husband had acknowledged "what we both knew was inevitable." Monahan died in 1998. He was 42; Couric was 41. Their daughters, Ellie and Carrie, were six and two.
After one month of bereavement leave, Couric returned to Today wearing Monahan's wedding ring on a chain around her neck. "I needed to have a piece of my husband with me," she says. "I wasn't doing it for sympathy. Or maybe I did. I was just trying to make it through, and it was hard to be on television again and interview [Secretary of State] Jim Baker or go to the weather with Al Roker."
She received some 10,000 condolence notes—and a few doses of breathtaking criticism. "Michele Greppi at the New York Post. G-R-E-P-P-I," Couric spells out. "She totally trashed me." Indeed. Greppi wrote that Couric "should stop dangling late husband Jay Monahan's ring on a chain short enough to choke a chihuahua on TV 10 hours a week if she is going to maintain that this is a private pain."
Couric describes herself as "a natural pleaser" and admits that though she has tried to outgrow the habit, to this day she indulges in minor acts of masochism, such as reading nasty tweets about herself. "Pack it in!" "Give it up." "You're a loser." "You're ugly," she recites. She doesn't let them upset her but confesses that one recent criticism really hurt. During Superstorm Sandy, people asked what she was doing. Couric tweeted, "Now watching Diners Drivers and Dives. Good times." She says people tweeted back, "You insensitive bitch. People are suffering."
"I shouldn't have sent that," Couric says, "but I was just communicating as someone who was holed up. I later apologized because I actually think I am a very empathetic, caring person."
Couric certainly knows what it is to be hit by a superstorm and suffer. Two years after her husband died, her oldest sister, Emily, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Like Monahan, Emily died within a year. "I remember someone saying, 'You're like the Kennedys,' " Couric says, but in truth, she recalls, she felt more like an alien. "It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters."
Couric says that, contrary to her "perky" reputation, she is not at all Pollyannaish. Maybe it is just that as a journalist she has learned that a lot of bad stuff happens randomly. "So many people have been through so many tragedies," she says. Furthermore, Couric believes, pain is like a bad drug: You suffer enough, you build up a tolerance. "I have become slightly inured," she says. "That doesn't mean if something else bad happened to me I wouldn't suffer. It's just that your threshold for suffering increases."
Others call that resilience. Couric's admirers say she earned it the old--fashioned way: by wringing good out of bad. In March 2000, around the time Couric cofounded the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA), she underwent a colonoscopy on Today. Afterward, the U.S. colonoscopy rate increased 20 percent—something researchers dubbedthe Couric Effect. In 2005 she repeated that effort for breast cancer by having a mammogram on the show. Three years later, she joined other celebrities to start Stand Up to Cancer. All told, Couric has helped raise more than $300 million for cancer research, awareness and care.
In 2006, Couric made her next big career move, replacing Dan Rather as CBS Evening News anchor in a situation that partly echoed the one that had brought her to Today. This time a panic over declining ratings was accompanied by a reporting scandal that led to the ousting of a beloved, institutional figure. CBS president and CEO Leslie Moonves thought Couric could reverse the damage. Reportedly, Moonves believed that the way to attract viewers to the news was to make it more like entertainment. At his behest, CBS built a new $2.9 million set for her.
But problems occurred before she even made her debut. A portrait of her accompanying a promotional magazine story about the revamped show was Photoshopped by CBS's photo department to make her look 20 pounds thinner. No one had told Couric that would happen, and when she first saw the picture, she thought, Wow, I look good! But the public caught on to the digital manipulation right away. That month an expert on body image lectured at the school Couric's 11-year-old daughter attended. The specialist, who didn't know the child was a student there, projected the altered photo of Couric on a huge screen in order to generate discussion.
Once the show aired, curiosity to see the morning star as the first solo female evening-news network anchor caused a brief bump in the ratings, and more 18- to 49-year-old women tuned in. But the vast majority of evening-news viewers are men over 50, and Couric's informality irritated them. Some of her new colleagues were peeved, too. Her reported $15 million salary was a huge chunk of the news division's budget at a time when veteran reporters such as Lesley Stahl were asked to take massive (up to $500,000) pay cuts. For the first time in her career, Couric's Everest of a Q score (likability rating) declined, and 29 percent of respondents to a 2007 Gallup poll said they did not like her—making her more disliked than either of the other network anchors. On occasion, her professional demeanor faltered. When one of her news editors said sputum, a word that apparently grates on Couric, she hit him on the arm—and continued hitting him in what seemed a sort of rage. The incident made a juicy tabloid story.
Experiencing failure—really, for the first time since not getting into her first-choice college (Smith)—"was an affront to my whole sort of mien," Couric says. Her younger daughter tried to comfort her.
"Mom, you know what Samantha on Sex and the City says?" Carrie asked. " 'If I listened to what every bitch in New York City says about me, I'd never leave the house.' "
Couric remembers laughing and telling Carrie, "There is so much wrong with that."
In 2006 the CBS job wasn't the only new thing in Couric's life. Two years after breaking up with TV producer and Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner, she began dating Brooks Perlin, an entrepreneur who, tabloids quickly pointed out, is 17 years younger than Couric. Instantly labeled a cougar, the newswoman derided the epithet as "obnoxious" and "stupid." Few expected either Couric's tenure at CBS or her relationship with Perlin to last long. Both outlived speculation, but they succumbed almost simultaneously. There were high points during her Evening News tenure, especially her 2008 interview with Sarah Palin. But no serious renewal talks accompanied the end of her five-year contract, and her final sign-off was, according to the New York Times, "almost relieved." A few months later, Perlin moved out.
"I really did love my husband a lot, but after Jay died, I always thought I'd end up like Florence Henderson on The Brady Bunch," Couric says, meaning she dreamed of uniting her family with a man's. "It's actually surprising to me that it has been almost 15 years and I haven't remarried. I think life is more fun when you have someone in your life. And I always wanted to find a father figure for my daughters, but it hasn't worked out that way. I've had long-term relationships, but they haven't turned into lifelong partners."
It's not for Couric's lack of effort. When she first tried dating again—about two years after Monahan died—she threw singles parties. "We insisted that every woman bring two male friends," Kathleen Lobb recalls. "I went out with a couple of people. I don't think Katie did." After the breakup with Perlin, Couric changed tactics: "I didn't say, 'I want to meet somebody,' because I thought that smelled too desperate. I just said I was interested in dating." When Couric's friend Molly Helfet told her she knew a nice guy, Couric brought him up at every Spin class they attended. "I'd say, 'What happened? He never called.' " Eventually he did. Now Couric and Molner have been growing closer for the better part of a year.
"I have had dates where we didn't click," Couric says. "I once went out with a heart-transplant surgeon who talked about valves the whole night. But I appreciate that it's not easy to go out on a date with someone like me. Also, when you get to my age, everyone is a little bit wounded. So I think it's important to handle people with care—not to think, 'Oh, what a terrible date,' but just, 'This person isn't for me.' Everyone has a lot of baggage. It's just, can you fit it into the overhead bin?"
Couric has made no bones about feeling that the CBS Evening News was a poor fit. The inaugural episode of Katieopened with a video joke in which Couric wakes up thinking the anchor job was a nightmare. Then Matt Lauer appears and breaks the news that it was all real life. What is equally true, though, is that daytime talk shows are, like news shows, a TV genre that is struggling with a shrinking viewership.
That said, the audience is still in the millions, and new shows are -always competing for it. Lori Beecher, who has worked with Couric for two decades, likes the format because it gives the multifaceted star—journalist, health advocate, working mother and midlife singleton—the chance to be herself. "People always ask me if Katie is -really like what she's like on TV. I always say, 'Katie is exactly the same person in -person.' "
And that, perhaps, is what makes her various self-reinventions look so effortless. Whatever new challenge she faces, she is always, always just herself.
Katiehad the strongest daytime-talk-show debut since Dr. Ozin 2009. Three months in, the show has remained number one in the 2012 freshman class. But in all the triumph, Couric is again having to regroup. Her good friend Jeff Zucker, the show's coexecutive producer, left in November to become president of CNN Worldwide.
In a way, Couric seems to be weathering all this midlife change by opening up more than ever to her audience. On a September show about eating disorders, she revealed for the first time that in her twenties she struggled with bulimia. "I [was] asking people to reveal their innermost feelings about [this issue], and I actually know about it. I have had this issue; my sister Emily, who passed away, had this issue. So I thought, This is the time. I tried to do it in a way that wasn't, 'I had bulimia!' But just 'I had bulimia, and I know this mind game that goes on where if you don't adhere to this strict calorie restriction, it makes you feel really bad about yourself, and this vicious cycle kicks in.' " Her revelation was picked up by People, Us and Celebuzz. "I had no idea it would be a big bulletin," Couric says. "But I think it got traction because in a way people see me as somebody who has her shit together."
Certainly, that's part of her appeal. Many journalists display a whiff of condescension toward the people they probe, but for all her success, wealth and fame, Couric just wants to talk. She so obviously believes in story—her guests', her own, even her daughters'. Though she protects the girls' privacy, she encourages them to share what presses on their hearts. "There are moments where I crumble at the thought of my father, often unexpectedly," Ellie Monahan, now 21 and a senior at Yale, wrote last year for the Huffington Post. "I dread the annual father-daughter dance both in grade school and now in my sorority, a tradition my mother tried to abolish on behalf of all the fatherless daughters in my school . . . to no avail. One year I asked my mom if Brad Pitt could be a stand-in . . . Matt Lauer was a distant second. I ultimately decided to stay home."
So there it is. Rather than reporting storms from a newsroom, Couric weathers them, trying to figure out how and why we survive. After a late-afternoon meeting, she pulls her producer aside and says, "Get me out there!"—to the floods, the downed electrical lines, the blackouts. Couric knows she will be knee-deep in suffering. But that's where Couric's stories are. That is where her heart is.
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DecoAurora 10' wide x 4' high porcelain steel white board with an added color accent to capture attention. Four multi-faceted corner connectors, aluminum framing and color insert strips gracefully come together for a highly complementary look.
The 3/4" wide inserts add a splash of color and serve to conceal the wall-mounting hardware, leaving no exposed fasteners. Colors were designed to match the poly plastic line of Virco classroom stack chairs.
The porcelain steel surface is magnetic so you can adhere notices or announcements to the board. 1" thick white board offers enhanced stability. Ships assembled.


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MSC Cruises: Special rates on Ft. Lauderdale sailings
MSC Cruises is offering special rates, and a free room category upgrade worth up to $220 per person through Oct. 31, valid on select sailings from Port Everglades aboard MSC Poesia.
The complimentary upgrade is applicable from oceanview to balcony staterooms or from balcony standard to balcony superior staterooms.
The special "Holidays on Sale" cruise rates are available on select MSC Poesia sailings in December, February and March, according to MSC Cruises.
For example, balcony staterooms on a 7-night 'Christmas in the Caribbean' Dec. 21 cruise starts at $809 per person double occupancy. Government fees and taxes are extra.
For more sale details, click here.


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"American Idol" Season 13 is down to the top 4 contestants. The Top 4 finalists performed three songs each on Wednesday's performance show. The contestants performed one song as a dedication plus songs from the Love: Break Up, Make Up theme show.
LA Music Examiner spoke with the Top 4 right after the performance show.
Click on the video link to see what Caleb had to say about performing as part of the Top 4 this week.on the show.
One finalist will leave the competition on the Thursday. The top 3 finalists will then travel this weekend to their hometown for a homecoming celebration.They will then return and perform on the Top 3 performance show on Wednesday, May 13th. Then on May 14th one hour results show, the two two finalists will be announced.
The Top 4 finalists are Jena Irene, Caleb Johnson, Jessica Meuse, and Alex Preston.
"American Idol" airs Wednesdays and Thursdays on Fox.The two day finale will be on May 20 and May 21st.
Suggested Links
- Video: Caleb Johnson talks game change twist and performing on 'American Idol'
- Video: Caleb Johnson and C.J. Harris talk the top 10 tour for 'American Idol'
- Video: Caleb Johnson and Alex Preston talk the save and 80s at 'American Idol'
- Video: Jessica Meuse talks game change twist and performing on 'American Idol'
- Video: Harry Connick Jr talks using the save on 'American Idol' for Sam Woolf


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Eugene Vincent Craddock (a.k.a. Gene Vincent) is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
Gene Vincent auditions for 'Country Showtime,' a local radio-station talent in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He performs Elvis Presley songs and an original, "Be-Bop-A-Lula," a tape of which lands him a contract with Capitol Records.
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps record "Be-Bop-A-Lula" in Nashville. It is released as the B-side of the single "Woman Love."
Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula" enters the Top Forty, where it will rise to #7. The song peaks at #16 in the U.K.
"Lotta Lovin'" peaks at #13 while Gene Vincent and a changeable cast of Blue Caps crisscross the country on tour.
Gene Vincent's third and final U.S. hit, "Dance to the Bop," peaks at #23 after he performs it on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.'
'A Gene Vincent Record Date' is released. It is his fourth album in two years. The others are 'Bluejean Bop!' (September 1956), 'Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps' (March 1957) and 'Gene Vincent Rocks! And the Blue Caps Roll '(March 1958).
Eddie Cochran is killed and Gene Vincent is injured when their speeding taxi runs off the road en route to London's Heathrow Airport.
Two months after the car crash that devastated rock and roll fans, Gene Vincent's "Pistol Packin' Mama," enters the British singles chart. Rising to #16, it becomes his highest-charting U.K. hit.
'I'm Back and I'm Proud', Gene Vincent's comeback album featuring rock and roll remakes and country-flavored tunes, is released on the Dandelion label.
Gene Vincent died of a bleeding ulcer in Los Angeles, CA.
Gene Vincent is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual induction dinner. John Fogerty is his presenter.


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Park City's historic Egyptian Theatre welcomes the Leon Redbone, Friday and Saturday, Oct.12 and 13, for two acoustic performances. The shows start at 8 p.m.
Redbone is a bit of a musical enigma. His personal history is rarely elaborated upon, leaving biographers and journalists flumoxed. His musical style is cautiously described with phrases such as Tin-Pan Alley, neo-vaudevillian, pre-war, and old timey, carrying deep influences of ragtime, folk, and blues, with a hearty mix of deadpan humor.
His love and preservation of the music of the early 20th century should be considered a gift to modern-music lovers, who otherwise might never experience something like a flapper-era radio ditty or a post-Depression-era ragtime swing.
With such an eclectic selection of music to perpetuate, it is a wonder that Leon Redbone has built legions of loyal fans throughout his 30-plus years and 15-album career.
Redbone's gravely low voice, adroit finger-picking on the acoustic guitar, absurd sense of humor, self-deprecation, and of course, the trademark dark glasses and white fedora feed his mystique and make for a unique evening of music and theatre.
His performances are low-key and intimate, a perfect complement to the Egyptian Theatre's small 300-seat house. Patrons should expect equal parts music, commentary, and comedy.
Tickets range from $30 to $60 and available by visiting www.parkcityshows.com .


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On January 12, 1995, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame held its 10th annual induction ceremony in New York City. Among the inductees that year, along with Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa and others, was Neil Young, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Pearl Jam lead singer, Eddie Vedder. Young's performances that night included the epic "Act of Love" from his album Mirror Ball, which would be released in June 1995. After performing "Act of Love" with members of his touring band, Young was joined onstage by Pearl Jam to perform "F*!#in' Up," from his 1990 album Ragged Glory. It was especially fitting that Young, who has been called "the Godfather of Grunge," would invite the Seattle band to perform with him at his induction.
Pearl Jam and Neil Young had been collaborating since 1992, when the grunge band and "the Godfather" played separately at a Bob Dylan tribute at Madison Square Garden. Pearl Jam was invited to play at Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert in November of that year. Pearl Jam had long been Neil Young fans, frequently using Young's "Rockin In the Free World" to close their shows. In September 1993, Young was introduced to the MTV generation when he performed an incendiary "Rockin in the Free World" with Pearl Jam on the MTV Music Awards Show. Eddie Vedder said of Young in his induction speech: "He's taught us a lot as a band about dignity and commitment and playing in the moment. And when I hear, you know, the speeches and inducting Janis Joplin and Frank Zappa, I get… I'm just really glad he's still here. And I think I'm gonna have to say that I don't know if there's been another artist that has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to commemorate a career that is still as vital as he is today. Some of his best songs were on his last record."
Neil Young would go on to record "Act of Love" and the rest of his Mirror Ball album with Pearl Jam at Bad Animals Studio in Seattle. New Musical Express said of their collaboration, "Young sees in Pearl Jam a genuine attempt to discover a new set of values. Pearl Jam see in Neil Young a man who has, at worst, survived and, at best, positively thrived on sticking to his guns."
WATCH: Neil Young Performs "Act of Love" and "F*!#in' Up" at the 1995 Inductions


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Everybody knows the only way to stop a Zombie is to blow his head off! Body armor on a Zombie just slows him down more.
BTW, ever watch a TV show or movie where someone actually has a gun then shoots the Vampire/Zombie/Werewolf/whatever in the chest to no effect? Am I the only one who yells "HEAD SHOT, YOU IDIOT!" at the screen? It may not "kill" them, but I gotta believe even the baddest monster out there is gonna be slowed down a bit with a large portion of their brain missing or chopped into hamburger. :pulverize


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Jane Lynch doesn't have a bullhorn endorsement deal yet, but that's about all she's missing. In the meantime, this sublime comic actress has etched herself into our pop-culture consciousness in ways that continue to delight her. This year she took home an Emmy for her performance as the unapologetically fearsome cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Glee, and she got a second nomination for playing Charlie Sheen's dryly cynical therapist on Two and a Half Men. A wax figure of Lynch as Sue, in all her tracksuited glory, is now on display at Madame Tussauds Hollywood. She hosted VH1's Do Something! Awards with so much brio and confidence, it was as if she'd been headlining her entire life, and she received one of the ultimate comedy accolades when she was asked to host Saturday Night Live in early October. Today, when she strolls into a West Hollywood café—six feet tall, with her signature short, cowlicky blond hairdo, lopsided smile and rolling gait—she's spotted instantly, and the tweets start ricocheting through cyberspace, their gist being "Holy smokes! Jane Lynch just walked in!"
For Lynch, this sudden burst of fame is the culmination of a journey that began in 1993 with a bit part as best friend to Harrison Ford's doctor on the lam in The Fugitive and picked up steam with her hilarious turn as the butchily efficient poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's improvised mockumentary Best in Show. But she has also made a staggering number of appearances in other movies and TV shows—more than 135 of them.
"I would show up for one day or maybe five," says Lynch, drinking iced tea at an outdoor table and wearing a navy blue tank top, loose beige slacks and an expensive-looking pair of sunglasses. "You get to shake hands with the stars, and you can go on the crafts-services truck; they won't kick you off. I was grateful to have the work. Every time I went to an audition, nobody knew who I was, so it allowed me to do a lot of things, not just stick to one genre."
Now that everyone knows who she is, couch potatoes are constantly being startled by her fleeting, Was-that-really-her? rerun appearances in procedurals like JAG (guesting as a Wiccan soldier who participates in naked bonfire parties), batty comedies like Arrested Development (playing an FBI agent named Cindi Lightballoon) and evening soaps like The L Word (on which she played a controlling, tie-wearing feminist attorney). Sometimes, as with her role as a sexually overconfident electronics-store manager who offers to deflower Steve Carell in the hit film The 40-Year-Old Virgin, her part (minus the sexual overtones) was originally written for a man. The seduction idea "came out of our improv," Lynch says, "so they put it in the script."
"That moment when she turns into a wild sex maniac? I thought it was one of the most remarkable performances I've ever seen," says writer-director Nora Ephron, who ran over to introduce herself to Lynch at a premiere and later cast her in the role of Julia Child's sister in Julie & Julia. "She doesn't use funny voices or shout at you; she's just funny. It's always that way with truly funny people."
It was during one of Lynch's guest-star turns—on the WB's short-lived teen soap Popular, on which she played the triple role of serial killer, travel agent and CDC official—that she met and befriended the quirky show's creator, Ryan Murphy. Nine years later, when the brass at Fox suggested to Murphy that what he needed for his new musical-comedy series Glee was a classic villain within the high school, he didn't miss a beat. He told the network executives that he had a cheerleading coach named Sue Sylvester in mind and that Lynch was the actress to play her.
When the Glee offer arrived last year, Lynch, true to her workaholic form, was already committed to two other series: Starz's Party Down, on which she played a relentlessly positive failed actress working for a caterer, and an ABC project that, if it had been picked up, would have slotted her into "an uninteresting role that I might have been tied to for many, many years." This meant that for the first four or so episodes of Glee, as Lynch swaggered grandly down the hallways of fictional William McKinley High firing insults from the side of her twisted mouth ("So you like show tunes. It doesn't mean you're gay. It just means you're awful"), her status there was temporary. "We were keeping our fingers crossed that I got to stay," she says. By the time she was released from her other commitments, Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker had reviewed Glee gleefully and crowned Lynch "the greatest Broadway-musical villain to ever costar in a TV series."
What is perhaps most extraordinary is that Lynch plays Sue Sylvester without a trace of attack-mode desperation and without poisoning the show's cheerful air.
"She's so over the top, it's laughable," the actress says of her alter ego. "Tony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs—there's a despicable, scary guy. Sue Sylvester is not scary; she pretends she is. She thinks she's the villain in a movie of her own. I felt all along, because you have to play something real emotionally, that she would much rather have her students' love than their fear."
Ian Brennan, the young Glee writer–coexecutive producer responsible for most of Sue's toxic lines (he composes them, he insists, while "almost in a trance"), says Lynch is a big reason he has the best job in the world. "Jane is absolutely unparalleled at what she can do. She just has a sort of magic behind her eyes," he says. "She's been everybody's favorite for so long, but now she's hit in a big, mainstream way. That's what's so cool about seeing her get the recognition—she's been working her ass off her whole career."
"I love what I do," says Lynch, who in career terms thinks of herself as an antistrategist. "I rarely step outside of myself and assess where I am, where I've been and where I'm going. I kind of try to be in the present."
At the moment, the present is full of the perks that a hit show offers. To wit: a dressing room that she's appointed with her own pillows and scented candles, instead of the journeyman actor's shabby temporary quarters the size (and occasionally the aroma) of a bathroom stall. A comfy wardrobe consisting entirely of gym shoes and custom-made polyester tracksuits in dark colors. "They're slimming!" she says, noting that there's a neon purple number in the works because she wanted one "that makes viewers go, 'What the . . . ???' " Her tracksuits "are like putting on your pajamas every day." And she can get camera ready in less than half an hour. "My makeup takes 20 minutes," says Lynch, who cuts down on primping time by putting herself on blow-drying detail. "I'm very picky about my hair," she adds. "It's very fine, but I have a lot of it. I have to make sure that the volumizing product is just enough; too much, and it will go flat. If it turns out wrong, I will rewash."
One of the most surprising effects of having a steady gig, she admits, is what it has done to her "fevered ambition, this kind of crazy need to fill my time with work. I know we're at least going to have three seasons. It calmed me to know that; I can relax." Her seemingly bottomless reserves of energy have now shifted to her new family. Last year Lynch, who is openly gay, was backstage at a National Center for Lesbian Rights fund raiser in San Francisco when one of the award recipients—pretty, dark-haired Lara Embry, who has a PhD in clinical psychology—asked Lynch if she would pose for a photograph with her. Sparks flew. The following week, Lynch was winging her way to Sarasota, Florida, where Embry lived.
Just before takeoff, Lynch recalls, she phoned Embry and said, "We need to acknowledge how courageous both of us are that I'm coming into town and you really don't know me. And I'm hopping on a plane to visit someone I really don't know. So for a moment, let's give ourselves a little pat on the back." After six months of romantic bicoastal commuting, Embry proposed, and on May 31, on the grounds of the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusetts, with Jeannie Elias—an old friend of Lynch's who is an ordained Universal Life minister—presiding, the two women exchanged matching diamond wedding rings in a small ceremony.
Now Lynch is renovating her log cabin–ish house in one of Los Angeles's canyons to make room for Embry and her eight-year-old daughter, Haden. What's it like to become a parental figure for the first time in midlife? "I haven't really done it [on a day-to-day basis] yet," she says, but she has spent time in Sarasota ramping up for stepmotherhood. "I took her to school. I picked her up. I went to lunch with her. So I kind of had a test run. We're pretty darn good together."
When we meet, Lynch's wife and daughter aren't due to move in for six weeks. Until then, the actress has time to confront what she feels is a holdover from single life: her obsession with tidiness. "I'm a little OCD," says Lynch, who admits she stares longingly at the dozen or so boxes of Embry's belongings that have been shipped to L.A. and fantasizes about paring down. "I don't want to touch the boxes, because they're my wife's. I don't want to start going through them and saying, 'Well, we can get rid of this, and that!' But it's hard." Even as she's speaking, it's clear that she's looking forward to closing the single-gal chapter of her life. "My focus now is this entity that is called my family. That comes first," says the actress, adding that her track record when it came to relationships was somewhat spotty. "I think Lara really, truly came into my life when she was supposed to. I shouldn't say this, but I'd never dated anyone that I wanted to marry. I didn't think it was going to be out there for me. But the minute we were married, I felt the difference: I felt like I am no longer alone."
For decades before that, however, Lynch's focus was on a different kind of connection. Growing up in Dolton, Illinois, a suburb on the South Side of Chicago, she found that being onstage made her pulse race. Her official theatrical debut? She was a candle in her third-grade school play. When asked to rate her performance, Lynch jokingly barks, "I was probably awesome." But she's also prepared to solemnly recite her still-remembered lines as proof. ("A is for air so filled with smells of spice/ smell of cake, pudding and pie/ everything that's nice . . . ") From then on, her public school stage career continued to soar, until she entered Thornridge High and abruptly bailed on her role as the king in a one-act version of The Princess and the Pea. "It was just . . . fear," says Lynch. "It was as if I was walking up to my destiny, and I got scared and turned around and joined the tennis team."
She spent the next three years getting a taste of what it's like to audition and always be passed over: "There was a whispering of 'If you cast her, she'll just quit.' " In the past, she portrayed this dry spell as something between a Mean Girls moment and an early lesson in honoring commitments. But this afternoon she has a more professional take. "I was difficult to cast," says the actress, who reached her full height by the time she was 16. "I was still kind of a tomboy. I didn't look like a boy or a girl. I didn't carry myself as one thing or another. I was just stuck."
Lynch reversed her bad fortune with a triumphant senior-year performance in Godspell (she played a character who was "the minx," she says, "with a boa and everything. I kind of did it like Mae West") and never looked back. Although she was a C-minus student, she was determined to become a classically trained actor and enrolled at Illinois State University, majoring in theater. It was right around her senior year of college that she had her first relationship with a woman. "I dreaded that this was the truth about me," says Lynch, who was concerned that her sexual orientation would make life more difficult. She proceeded to get her MFA at Cornell and moved to New York briefly ("I was depressed there and not acting at all"), then back to Chicago (where she learned improv at the Second City, along with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell), then to Los Angeles—all the while concealing the particulars of her dating life from her Irish Catholic middle-class parents.
"It wasn't in their experience," she says. "I was afraid of losing them. So over my twenties, I distanced myself from my family. I had this whole other life I couldn't share with them. I started seeing a therapist and came to the decision to write a letter. The therapist said, 'You don't have to send it,' but that's a ruse. You always end up sending it." She was knocked out by the warmth of her family's response. "They called immediately and said, 'We love you! Don't let this come between us!' " By the time she met Embry, she'd long since made peace with herself about her sexual identity. And she loved being able to realize two wishes many mothers have for their daughters: "I got married—and I married a doctor!" she says.
In 1991, about a year before coming out to her family, she achieved a different personal breakthrough: She decided to get sober. As Lynch remembers her childhood, she came from "a real drinking culture." She paints the picture in her very matter-of-fact way: "My parents always toasted each other after work with 'First today/Badly needed.' They had these blowout cocktail parties. It was the '60s, where everybody got blotto. It was really fun." By the time she was 14, she was spending her weekends at rundown suburban Chicago bars drinking beers with shots. At 31, she realized she was getting drunk every night. "I was hungover all the time," she says. One evening, while talking on the phone, she told a friend, "I'm pouring out this glass of wine and never drinking again." She kept her promise. "Relatively speaking, my personal bottom was rather benign," recalls Lynch, who says she used to stand up at 12-step meetings and quip apologetically, "Had I known I'd be telling my story over and over again, I would have made it a lot better."
Having just turned 50, Lynch is thrilled to have a steady, rewarding job, a loving spouse and a new stepdaughter, who on the big day gifted her with a helium balloon that said birthday queen! To celebrate the recent milestone, Lynch threw a small party—just Embry, Haden and a handful of friends enjoying lots of Aurelio's pizza (Lynch's favorite, flown in frozen from Chicago). "It was very low-key," she says, taking a moment to luxuriate in the cozy domesticity of it all. "For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?'
"I like the equanimity that comes with my age," she adds. "I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed."
Margy Rochlin has profiled Diane Keaton, Felicity Huffman and Sigourney Weaver, among other stars, for More.
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I enjoy reading Julie Garwood, Linda Lael Miller, Anne Stuart, Johanna Lindsey and Sabrina Jeffries. Does anyone have any authors they would suggest I try? I've read most of what the ones I listed above have written so I need more authors to try.
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You should go to the top of the page, click on Readers Choice, and then click on If You Like. There are lots of suggestions for books by authors similar to the ones you list.
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Hi Melissa:
I just asked the same question yesterday and got many, many good suggestions. It sounds like you read all of the authors that I do. I'm glad to hear someone else likes Anne Stuart too. I love her.
Elizabeth Lowell is excellent - her older books are historical try these:
"Only" series: Only His, Only Mine, Only You, Only Love, Autumn Lover, and Winter Fire. All of her contemporaries are great, especially
"Donovans" series: Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and Midnight in Ruby Bayou.
Kathleen Woodiwiss' early novels are great: Shanna, the Flame and the Flower, A Rose in Winter, and Come Love a Stranger.
If you like Futuristic Nancy Cane is good: Circle of Light, Moonlight Rhapsody, and Starlight Child. Keeper of the Rings is a stand alone novel.
Christina Skye historical: Defiant Captive, The Black Rose, East of Forever, Come the Night Come the Dawn, and The Ruby. These are older books, but I loved them.
Tami Hoag is very good and, as always Heather Graham/Shannon Drake.
The new one's that I am going to try are Kresley Cole, Pamela Clare, Elizabeth Hoyt, and Lisa Kleypas. Went to USB today and picked up one from each. They come highly recommended.
I hope this helps.
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I'm also a fan of Sabrina Jeffries. I discovered her by accident and went through her backlist in a week
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Melissagirl - I'd recommend Julia Quinn, especially her Bridgerton books; Mary Jo Putney's Fallen Angel books; and you can try Celeste Bradley.
If you could write a bit more about what kind of stories and characters you enjoy, I can try and come up with more specific suggestions. Good luck and happy reading!
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Thanks for the replies everyone.
Your question is kind of hard because I have varying tastes. There have been times when I will read two books by the same author and not like one of them even though they were similar in style, characters, etc. I like alpha male heroes (Anne Stuart) but I also like no-nonsense heroines who put up a good fight (Johanna Lindsey and Julie Garwood). I'm also a sucker for a happy ending. I don't have a preference for the time period of the book-I like everything from Vikings to modern day characters. I've been interested in paranormal, but haven't tried any yet. I read one futuristic by Johanna Lindsey, but felt lost with all of the weird names and such. I'm one of those readers who gets stuck on the correct pronunciation of words that unfamiliar.
Hope this helps. Thanks again for the suggestions.
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Melissagirl, as you feared, that didn't really narrow it down...
But I think you can't get much more no-nonsense than shooting the hero if he misbehaves, so add Loretta Chase to your list. I like her older series (The Lion's Daughter, Captives of the Night, Lord of Scoundrels and The Last Hellion) better than her newer books (though I did like the recently published Your Scandalous Ways). LoS has been number one in the last three top 100 polls here at AAR, a placement I very much agree with.
In contemporaries, try Susan Elizabeth Phillips - her Chicago Stars books starting with
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I like alpha male heroes (Anne Stuart) but I also like no-nonsense heroines who put up a good fight (Johanna Lindsey and Julie Garwood).
Then you definitely shouldn't read Elizabeth Lowell, especially her older books, where the "heroes" are real dicks who treat the heroines like sh_t. I'd say go for older Jennifer Crusie (without Bob Mayer) and later Linda Howard (Son of the Morning, Mr. Perfect).
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