B8 Sunday, December 28, 2014 The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH You could be very content, yet at the same time feel rather restrained. You might find that a friend at a distance seems to be rather quiet once you start sharing. Find out why. Someone else is likely to let you know that he or she admires how you handle yourself. Tonight: Out late. This Week: Use Monday for meetings and running around. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You’ll feel more restrained with a certain person than you normally do. What occurs will be much subtler than you might realize. In fact, you could miss out on the true symbolism of a conversation altogether. Later, you’ll have an unexpected realization. Tonight: A must
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show. This Week: Think about your New Year’s resolutions. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Focus on your friends, who often are far more indulgent of your whims than you might realize. One friend could act in a most unexpected way. You are likely to remember this person’s wild behavior for a while. A partner opens up. Tonight: A must appearance. This Week: By midweek, a lot of confusion surrounds you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Be willing to assume more responsibility right now. You will enjoy
bringing others together, no matter what the excuse. Lighten up a bit more. A loved one could be very controlling. Know that you don’t need to react to that behavior. Tonight: Say “yes.” This Week: Organize and prioritize your life on Monday. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Your spontaneity will take you down a new path, though you might feel somewhat restricted by a loved one. Break past your judgments, and new ideas will emerge. You know that you are your own biggest obstacle. Tonight: Dinner for two. This Week: Take Monday off if you can. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. You could 22) HHHH decide to let someone else take the lead on making plans. You know that this person will make choices that would please you. An unexpected conversation reveals a weakness in your
N. Korea uses racial slur against Obama
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially charged insults at President Barack Obama over the hacking row involving the movie “The Interview.” North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission, which is headed by country leader Kim Jong Un and is the nation’s top gover ning body, said Obama was behind the release of the comedy that depicts Kim’s assassination. The commission described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary. “Obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest,” an unidentified spokesman at the commission’s Policy Department said in a statement carried by the country’s official Korean Central News Agency. The White House’s National Security Council declined to comment Saturday. North Korea has denied involvement in a crippling cyberattack on Sony Pictures but has expressed fury over the comedy. Sony Pictures initially called off the release of the film, citing threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters. Obama criticized Sony’s decision, and the movie opened this past week. It wasn’t the first time North Korea has used crude insults against Obama and other top U.S. and South Korean officials. Earlier this year, North
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This photo combination shows U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea has compared Obama to a monkey and blamed the U.S. for shutting down its Internet amid the hacking row over the movie “The Interview.”
Korea called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous” lantern jaw and South Korean President Park Geun-hye a prostitute. In May, the North’s official news agency published a dispatch saying Obama has the “shape of a monkey.” A State Department spokeswoman at the time called the North Korean dispatch “of fensive and ridiculous and absurd.” In the latest incident, the North Korean defense commission also blamed Washington for intermittent outages of North Korean websites this past week. The outages happened after Obama blamed the Sony hack on North Korea and promised to respond “in a place and time and manner that we choose.” The U.S. government has declined to say whether it was behind the Inter net
shutdown in North Korea. According to the North commission’s Korean spokesman, “the U.S., a big country, started disturbing the Internet operation of major media of the DPRK, not knowing shame like children playing tag.” DPRK refers to the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The commission said the movie was the result of a hostile U.S. policy toward North Korea, and threatened the U.S. with unspecified consequences. North Korea and the U.S. remain technically in a state of war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an ar mistice, not a peace treaty. The rivals also are locked in an international standoff over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs and its alleged human rights abuses.
Guitarist doesn’t miss a day of Vegas Cirque work
LAS VEGAS (AP) — It’s easy to miss Bruce Rickerd during the “Mystere” show at Treasure Island especially when there’s a man balancing upside-down on the foot of another, or a giant inflatable snail emerging from the massive moving stage or the gasp-inducing drops from acrobats above. But he’s there — up high on the right or rather, stage left — playing guitar in just about the same place he’s been for every one of the 10,000 shows come Saturday in the 21-year history of “Mystere” as he and the rest of the band tie the music and sound effects to action on stage. That’s right. He’s never missed a day of work. It never occurred to the 62-year -old musician to do otherwise. “This is not work for me,” he said days before he would be feted Saturday with confetti canons and an onstage finale bow where a Guinness Book of World Records judge is expected to say Rickerd has broken the record for most theatrical performances by a male musician. Granted, it’ll be for having performed in 9,958 shows, still the most, as the record-keeping body continues to pour through timesheets and
employee records that might backup Rickerd’s involvement in the remaining 42 shows. Copious stage manager notes from each performance over the years helped to confirm quite a bit, with Rickerd’s name never listed on the “out” list. The musician is down to earth about his accolade. A member of the show joked that he’s got Cal Ripken Jr., who played 2,632 consecutive baseball games for the Baltimore Orioles, beat. Rickerd said he knows being an athlete or an acrobat on stage each night carries a higher risk of injury. Anyone looking for a secret to Rickerd’s longevity, including his ability to avoid catching a bug requiring a sick day, or a routine that was a motivational key, won’t get one. There’s no secret, no routine. Unless you count his regularity to arrive at work and attend the sound check, eat and get his costume on before the show. And he didn’t plan to do anything differently in the days leading up to his record-breaking appearance. How does he do it then? “It’s very simple. You show up,” he said.
bond. Don’t worry — it can be corrected. Tonight: Avoid a power play. This Week: You might decide to go away for New Year’s Eve at the last minute. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH You have a way of getting what you want. Encourage others to make the final decision, and everyone will get more of what he or she wants. A family member could become demanding, and he or she might rain on your parade. Tonight: Have a long-overdue chat. This Week: Resolve to deal with others’ pet peeves. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Your ability to read a situation correctly will emerge. You might be rethinking an awkward interaction that you had with a loved one. Understand what this person is feeling. Sometimes, it is as simple as asking a question. Tonight: Ever playful.
Roswell Daily Record This Week: Focus on what must be done early. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21) HHHH You are likely to be a little more stern or serious than you typically are. You could be weighing the pros and cons of continuing on the course you have chosen. You might decide to take a creative leap in a dif ferent direction. Tonight: Don’t push so hard. This Week: You have a lot to get done, so do it quickly. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19) HHHH Your smile is a sure-bet winner, and it frequently draws in what you want. You seem to be in conflict with a family member, or a situation at home could be irritating you. Go with the unexpected when dealing with this person or matter. Tonight: Order in. This Week: Once you rest up Monday, you are ready for celebration again. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20Feb. 18) HHH You might
seem rather ornery as you go out during the day. Whether you’re at the mall returning items or hanging out with a friend, you seem less than pleased. A surprise might force you to revise your plans. Tonight: Don’t make a big fuss, please. This Week: Make important calls Monday.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March You could 20) HHHH become exhausted just by balancing your checkbook after the past few weeks. You tend to enjoy yourself wherever you are, as long as there are other people around. Curb a tendency to have things go your way. Tonight: Make it your treat. This Week: Prepare yourself for some company.
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acknowledge the Korean War refugee massacre at No Gun Ri. Aug. 1. James Brady, 73. Affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, then undertook a personal crusade for gun control. Aug. 4. Robin Williams, 63. Academy Award winner and comic super nova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades. Aug. 11. Apparent suicide. Lauren Bacall, 89. Slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created onscreen magic with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” and offscreen magic in one of Hollywood’s most storied marriages. Aug. 12. Jay Adams, 53. Colorful rebel who helped transform skateboarding from a simple street pastime into one of the world’s most spectacular sports. Aug. 14. Heart attack. Richard Attenborough, 90. Actor and Oscar-winning director whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years. Aug. 24.
September:
Andrew Madof f, 48. Ber nard Madof f’s last surviving son, he turned his father in and insisted he had been duped into believing history’s most notorious Ponzi king was an honest financier. Sept. 3. Cancer. Joan Rivers, 81. Raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and tur ned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities. Sept. 4. Fatal complication during a medical procedure. S. Truett Cathy, 93. Billionaire founder of the privately held Chick-fil-A restaurant chain. Sept. 8. Rev. Ian Paisley, 88. Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a peacemaker in his twilight years. Sept. 12. Deborah Mitford, 94. Dowager duchess of Devonshire and the last of the witty, unconventional Mitford sisters. Sept. 24. James Traficant, 73. Colorful Ohio politician whose conviction for taking bribes and kickbacks made him only the second person to be expelled from Congress since the Civil War. Sept. 27.
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October:
Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63. He presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt, brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti until an uprising sent him into a 25-year exile. Oct. 4. Heart attack. Oscar de la Renta, 82. Worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of socialites, first ladies and Hollywood stars for more than four decades. Oct. 20. Gough Whitlam, 98. Flamboyant Australian prime minister and controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis. Oct. 21. Ben Bradlee, 93. Hardcharging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prizewinning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades. Oct. 21. Jack Bruce, 71. British musician best known as the bass player and vocalist of the power blues trio Cream. Oct. 25. Thomas Menino, 71. Boston’s longest-serving mayor whose mumbling and occasional bumbling belied his political ingenuity and endeared him to a city whose skyline he helped reshape. Oct. 30.
November:
Tom Magliozzi, 77. He was one half of the brother duo who hosted National Public Radio’s “Car Talk,” where they bantered with callers and commiserated over their car problems. Nov. 3. S. Donald Stookey, 99. He was the scientist who forever changed cooking with the invention of CorningWare, a versatile glass found in millions of American kitchens. Nov. 4. Mike Nichols, 83. Director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such film, TV
Lauren Bacall and stage hits as “The Graduate,” “Angels in America” and “Monty Python’s Spamalot.” Nov. 19. Marion Barry, 78. Former District of Columbia mayor whose four terms were overshadowed by his 1990 arrest after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Nov. 23. Sabah, 87. Lebanese singer and actress who was an icon of Arab music. Nov. 26.
December:
Herman Badillo, 85. Bronx politician who became the first person bor n in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman. Dec. 3. Queen Fabiola, 86. She was inseparable from her husband, the late King Baudouin, and popular across much of Belgium. Dec. 5. Ralph Baer, 92. Video game pioneer who created both the precursor to “Pong” and the electronic memory game Simon and led the team that developed the first home video game console. Dec. 6. Joe Cocker, 70. Raspyvoiced British singer with a contorted performing style, known for his frenzied cover of “With a Little Help From My Friends” and the teary ballad “You Are So Beautiful.” Dec. 22.