Beginning 2009, Lynch appeared on the Fox show "Glee". She won glowing reviews for her role as the aggressive cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester. Mary McNamara of the LA Times wrote, "Lynch alone makes Glee worth watching." Before her work with "Glee", she was a series regular on the Starz comedy "Party Down". Though the series was renewed for a second season, Lynch would not be returning because of her work on "Glee". On December 15, 2009, Lynch received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television movie for her role on "Glee". She lost to Chloë Sevigny. The series itself also received nominations in three other categories. On August 29, 2010, Lynch won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series.
Lynch hosted "Saturday Night Live" on October 9, 2010; the news of her hosting was accidentally revealed to her by her "Glee" boss, Ryan Murphy, by text message. Lynch also guest starred on the Nickelodeon show "iCarly" as Pam Puckett, Sam Puckett's mother, in the episode "iSam's Mom".
Lynch appeared at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010.
In January 2011, Lynch was awarded the Golden Globe in The Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television movie Catergory. She also started appearing in Comcast's XFinity ads that are shown on both the Internet and television in the United States, mainly with two different laptops and two different colored Persian cats.
Lynch, who is openly lesbian, married clinical psychologist Dr. Lara Embry on May 31, 2010 at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusetts. On June 10, 2013, Lynch announced they were divorcing. Embry herself received publicity surrounding a custody battle over two children with her former partner.
Husband
A husband is a married man. "Married" means that the law says two people are legally "joined". During the wedding ceremony, the husband is called the groom (or bridegroom).
Michael Kort
Michael Kort (born 1944) is an American historian. After studying at Johns Hopkins University and New York University, he eventually became a professor at Boston University. He specializes in Soviet history.
Kort's books include biographies of Nikita Krushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well textbooks about the Soviet Union. Other nonfiction books include "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union" and "Marxism in Power".
Freezing rain
Freezing rain is rain that freezes when it hits the ground. It happens when the air is above freezing, but the ground is below freezing. It makes things slippery, and can cause problems.
Operation (mathematics)
In mathematics, an operation is a function which takes some input (or inputs) and produces an output. Some of the most common operations include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, all of which take two inputs and produce an output. These are called binary operations, and are often used when solving math problems.
There are more operations than these, including raising numbers to exponents, taking the root and applying the logarithm.
The 39 Clues
The 39 Clues (main series) is a series of eleven adventure books written by seven authors. In the series, the two main characters, Dan and Amy Cahill's grandmother, Grace Cahill dies. In her will, she says each person can get one million dollars or search for clues around the world and become super powerful. There are also online and card games. in book ten it states that all who pass through the gauntlet will get double the amount they turned down.
The fictitious Cahill family has supposedly changed the world more than any other family. Most famous people are apparently Cahills. They are split into five branches, the Lucians, Ekatrinas, Tomas, Janus, and Madrigal.
The Lucians are good leaders and spies, and are als good with poisons.
The Ekaterinas are very inventive and good scientists.
The Tomas are very tough and strong.
The Janus are very creative and good artists, musicians, and authors.
The Madrigals are trying to keep their other family members from being too violent/getting all 39 clues.
Dan Cahill is an 11 year old boy who likes ninjas, video games, eating, and gross stuff. Dan has asthma, but a photographic memory.
Amy Cahill is a fourteen year old girl who likes reading and museums. She is scared of public speaking. Dan and Amy live in Boston, Massachusetts
Grace Cahill is Dan and Amy's recently deceased (dead) grandmother. She took them to museums, and secretly got them ready for the hunt. Amy, Dan, and Grace are Madrigals.
Nellie Gomez is their au pair. She is about 22 years old, and can speak a lot of languages and fly an airplane. She has dyed (colored) hair.
Isabel Kabra is a Lucian and Dan and Amy's main enemy. She is very mean and has tried to kill both of them at different times. Her children, Ian and Natalie Kabra help her.
Irina Spasky is a Lucian woman in her 40s or 50s. She appeared to be Dan and Amy's enemy, but turns out to be their ally.
Alistair Oh is a 64 year old Korean man.His branch is Ekaterina. He has formed alliances with Amy and Dan, but ends up betraying (breaking a promise) them. He is Bae Oh's nephew.
Jonah Wizard is a 15 year old Janus boy and world-famous pop star. His mother, Cora Wizard really pushes him to do well, and his father, Broderick Wizard types on his Blackberry (a type of cell phone) a lot.
The Starling triplets, Ned, Ted, and Sinead are Ekaterinas who were severely injured in a bomb blast in Book 1, but get back in the hunt in Book 10.
The Holts are a Tomas family of five. They are all very strong. Amy and Dan made a temporary alliance with 15 year old Hamilton Holt.
In Book 1, the Cahills learn that their family is the most powerful family in the world. They split into groups and start on the clue hunt. They go to places where Benjamin Franklin went, including Boston, Philadelphia, and Paris.
In Book 2, Amy and Dan go to a monestary in the Alps, [where they are chased by monks], and Venice.
In Book 3, they go to Japan and South Korea, where they team up with Alistair, but he later abandons them.
In Book 4, they go to a tomb in an Egyptian pyramid where they meet Irina.
In Book 5, Amy and Dan team up with the Holts to go to different cities throughout Russia. They have to go to five cities in 36 hours to get into the Amber Room, which holds the fifth clue.
In Book 6, they go to a mine in Australia and almost get killed by Isabel. Irina turns out to be their ally, but then she dies in a fire in Indonesia caused by Isabel.
In Book 7, Amy and Dan go to Pretoria, in South Africa. While they are there, they barely escape out of a Tomas stronghold and discover that they are Madrigals.
In Book 8, Amy and Dan go to China, where they get separated. Dan stays with Jonah and his family for a while, but eventually he takes a train to Lhasa, near Mount Everest. In a village near Lhasa, Dan meets Amy as they both try to take a helicopter to go to Mount Everest.
In Book 9, they go to the Caribbean, where they learn more about their family branch, and that they need to unite the family.
In Book 10, they go to England and Amy and Dan successfully unite the family. They do this by having to go through a cave with explosions.
The "39 Clues" series also has collectable cards. There are hundreds of them. Each one represents a person or place related to the story. Some cards come with the books, but card packs with more cards can be bought.
First-person narrative
A first-person narrative is a narrative mode in which a story or work that is narrated (told) by one character at a time, speaking from their point of view only. First-person narrative may be told by only one storyteller, or many.
This type of narrative can use such words like me, myself and I.
Jacksonwald, Pennsylvania
Jacksonwald is a community in Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is less than a mile from the borough of St. Lawrence, Pennsylvania.
Monica (entertainer)