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Each week, Journal Star staffers will share what listening to, reading, eating, watching, wearing or otherwise generally loving right now. These are real, actual ravings, not paid content. What into: Share your ravings by commenting on this story at JournalStar. com. Tana French continues her winning streak with her fourth Dublin Murder Squad novel, again linking the books by pushing a supporting character from the previous one into the role.

At an out-of-the-way, supposedly upscale Irish property development, unfinished and gone to seed after the recession hit, police find a horrific crime scene: husband dead of knife wounds, wife clinging to life, children smothered to death. There are holes in the walls and baby monitors everywhere. A squatter in an unfinished home has been spying on the victims. What happened? Through the crime investigation, novel tackles the challenges of modern life: recession, the Internet, work relationships, family history, madness. bloody good.

Tim Weber Fast-paced, hilarious dialogue sets show about fictitious U.S. Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) apart from standard comedies. Now in its second season, the show follows Meyer and her staff of competent and incompetent politicos as they navigate the murky waters of Washington politics while dealing with crazy (and usually awkward) personal situations. Gary Cole and Kevin Dunn shine as White House insiders, but show, and she continually shows why the best actor on TV. Megan Stubenhofer-Barrett See Eyewear.

I got a really funky pair of computer glasses at this hip eyewear shop on Columbus Avenue in NYC. Seewear shops are in more than a dozen states and for perusing online at seeeyewear.com. Ever since I stopped in for a look at its Water Tower shop in Chicago years ago, gotten an annual $100-off birthday coupon toward a frame, which comes with a single- vision lens; I finally cashed one in on a recent trip to the Big Apple. Total cost: $69 for the glasses and $12 shipping. The place promotes innovative fashion frames at cally prices.

Oh, my total include the sunglasses I resist purchasing. Patty Beutler 402 OURNAL TAR Monday, June 3, 2013 www.402411.com Comments? Questions? Call Patty Beutler, 402-473-7307 Page Design: Brady Eve Potthoff and Shawna Richter-Ryerson The 411 Where you live what you need to know WHAT INTO KSNB-TV in Superior will find a home on Time Warner Cable on channels 4 and 1004 as early as June 25, according to cable company officials. Atlanta-based Gray Television acquired the television station earlier this year paying $2.5 million for it to Colins Broadcasting of Visalia, Calif. and relaunched it as a full- power, high-definition station featuring local news. Gray also owns Lincoln CBS affiliate (channels 11 and 1011) as well as NBC Omaha affiliate WOWT (channels 6 and 1006).

KSNB, billed as Central Nebraska, is a MyTV affiliate and features live newscasts at 5:30 and 9 p.m. and locally produced programming such as PrepZone and City In Lincoln, Time Warner currently carries Central Nebraska on Channel 999, but available only to digital subscribers. also available over the air on Channel 11.2. To make room for KSNB, Time Warner will move QVC from 4 to Channel 21. Educational Access will go from 21 to 80, and public access from 80 to 82.

Around the dial still getting emails about the whereabouts of KOLN anchor Vanessa Flowers. She recently underwent vocal cord surgery and announced via Twitter that she hopes to be back in action soon. Until then, she continues as a producer. been off the air since February save for a one-day return in March. have more on her and her illness soon.

Lincoln sports radio station The Ticket (KNTK 93.7 FM) will debut a new local talk show Wednesday. the hosted by Mike Welch, will air weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m. Welch comes to The Ticket from 610 Sports (KCSP-AM) in Kansas City, Mo. I continue to find a small world. NET Radio recently hired Ariana Brocious, whom I met a few years ago at a folk music festival in Colorado.

Turns out she knows the same Nebraska folks I do who attend the annual festival. She is new morning announcer and reporter. She came here by way of KVNF Community Radio and High Country News magazine, both in Paonia, Colo. Welcome to Lincoln, Ariana. Omaha CBS affiliate KM3 finally revealed this past weekend it hired former WOWT chief meteorologist Jim Flowers, which means the is Jim Facebook page probably will be put to rest.

Reach Jeff Korbelik at 402-473-7213 or or follow him at Time Warner to add KSNB-TV to lineup Jeff KorbeliK Lincoln Journal Star By NICOLE ANZIA Special to The Washington Post Many of us barely can keep up with each activities, let alone find time to take on a big organizational project or complete the tasks on our never-ending to-do lists. But make the mistake of waiting until you have a whole day to take care of all of your projects, because that day might never arrive. And if it does, chances are you want to spend it organizing your house. Instead, do one small task each day. Use these tips and spend just 10, 30 or 60 minutes organizing.

You will feel satisfied that you have accomplished something and less overwhelmed by the prospect of needing to organize everything at once. 10 minutes Spend a few minutes each day sorting your incoming mail. Recycle any unwanted items and place items that need action in their proper places. And if you still have a couple of minutes, pay a few bills. This will eliminate the need to spend an hour on them each month.

Gather catalogs, magazines and newspapers that are floating around your living room, office and entry hall, and sort them. Recycle anything that is a month old and divide the items keeping into the categories or Spend 10 minutes each day deleting and electronically filing emails. Many of us receive hundreds each day, and just keeping our inboxes in order can seem like a full-time job. Just 10 minutes a day of deleting and filing is not only satisfying, it will help improve your overall efficiency. De-clutter your bulletin or magnetic board.

schedules change during the summer, and as a result, there are a lot of new activities to track. Take down the old pictures, invitations and reminders and replace them. Throw in a load of laundry or fold and put away a load. Doing a load or two during the week means less work on the weekend. 30 minutes Pick one or two drawers to clean and organize.

Take everything out and clean the inside of the drawer. Move misplaced items to their proper places and toss unneeded items. Put things back neatly. Clean out your refrigerator or freezer. Take everything out and clean out the shelves and drawers.

As you put items back inside, organize them into categories. This will make it easier to find things and also to keep track of what you need to buy. Sort through your spice rack and discard old spices. This is a relatively easy task that is made challenging because none of us knows how long to keep spices or how to tell whether they expired. Fortunately, spice manufacturer McCormick has a helpful guide at www.mccormickgourmet.

com. Spend a half-hour updating your work and personal calendars. Fill in summer travel and camp dates, birthdays and other events. Taking time to plan ahead will make the transition to a summer schedule more relaxing. Remove everything from your medicine cabinet.

Discard expired medications and old cosmetics and wipe down the shelves. Make a list of items you need to replenish. 60 minutes At the end of the school year, file report cards, school pictures and projects as well as artwork. Recycle unwanted papers and art projects. You want this stuff hanging around all summer.

Create new files for the next school year. Sort through your clothing and shoes; set aside items for donation. This is a good project to do between seasons, particularly before the heat and humidity of summer arrive. Clearing out the old will provide room for the new and also will help refine your shopping list. If you have another free hour and have children, do the same with their clothes.

Clean up and organize toys. Put stray game and puzzle pieces back in their boxes. Throw away broken toys. Separate toys that your kids have outgrown to give to a friend or to donate. Spend an hour clearing off your desk.

hard to believe, but nearly halfway through the year. This is the perfect time to spend an hour filing papers and discarding or shredding anything you no longer need. Organize and replenish office supplies. Midyear is also a good time to back up computer files and organize digital photos. Back up important documents and emails to an external hard drive or a cloud program.

Clear the pictures off your camera and phone so you have ample space to record all of those summer memories. Set aside just 60, 30 or even 10 minutes. REAdy, SET, OR ANI.