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—GOOD MORNING Saturday, December8,2018 | gainesvilletimes.com LOTTERY I Drawings for Friday, December 7, 2018 CELEBRITY REPORT Kevin Hart quits as Oscars host over his anti-gay tweets CASH 3 Midday: 5-5-8 Evening: 6-4-6 Night: 9-3-2 CASH 4 Midday: 4-7-8-7 Evening: 7-4-5-5 Night: 6-2-2-9 FANTASY FIVE 7-11-27-28-35 GEORGIA FIVE Midday: 2-4-5-0-8 Evening: 8-5-6-0-3 POWERBALL (12/5) 9-11 -36-37-38 Power Ball: 11 Current jackpot: $217M MEGA MILLIONS (12/7) 4-10-20-33-57 Mega Ball: 13 Current jackpot: $226M Lottery numbers are unofficial. Some results may be unavailable at press time; for updated numbers, visit gainesvilletimes.com/lottery. The Georgia Lottery Corp.: 404-215-5000. TODAY IN HISTORY On this date: In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Im maculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception. In 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1980, John Lennon was shot to death outside his New York City apartment building by an apparently deranged fan. In 1982, a man demanding an end to nuclear weapons held the Washington Monument hostage, threatening to blow it up with explosives he claimed were inside a van. (After a 10-hour standoff, Norman D. Mayer was shot dead by police; it turned out there were no explosives.) In 1987, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty at the White House calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. In 1992, Americans got to see live television coverage of U.S. troops landing on the beaches of Somalia as Operation Re store Hope began (because of the time difference, it was early Dec. 9 in Somalia). In 1998, struggling to stave off impeachment, President Bill Clinton’s defenders forcefully pleaded his case before the House Judiciary Committee. BIRTHDAYS Flutist James Galway is 79. Singer Jerry Butler is 79. Pop musician Bobby Elliott (The Hollies) is 77. Actress Mary Woronov is 75. Ac tor John Rubinstein is 72. Actress Kim Basinger is 65. Rock musician War ren Cuccurullo is 62. Rock musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard) is 61. Country singer Marty Raybon is 59. Political commentator Ann Coulter is 57. Rock musician Marty Friedman is 56. ActorWendell Pierce is 55. Actress Teri Hatcher is 54. Rapper Bushwick Bill (The Geto Boys) is 52. Actor Matthew Laborteaux is 52. Rock musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel) is 46. Actor Dominic Monaghan is 42. Actor Ian Somerhal- der is 40. Actress Hannah Ware is 36. Christian rock musician Jen Ledger (Skil let) is 29. Actress Wallis Currie-Wood is 27. Actress AnnaSophia Robb is 25. WEATHER Just two days after being named host of the Academy Awards, Kevin Hart stepped down following an outcry over past homo- phobic tweets by the comedian. Capping a swift and dramatic fallout, Hart wrote on Twitter just after midnight Thurs day that he was withdrawing as Oscars host because he didn’t want to be a distraction. “I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ commu nity for my insensitive words from my past, ” wrote Hart. Hart, who is in Australia for a comedy tour, also tweeted Friday morning: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and conve nience, but where he stands at times of chal lenge and controversy. Martin Luther King, Jr.” Earlier Thursday evening, the come dian had refused to apologize for tweets that resurfaced after he was announced as Oscars host on Tuesday. In a video on Ins- tagram, Hart said the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences gave him an ulti matum: apologize or “we’re going to have to move on and find another host.” “I chose to pass on the apology,” Hart said. “The reason why I passed is because I’ve addressed this several times.” The film academy didn’t respond to mes sages Thursday evening. Hart has since deleted some of the anti gay tweets, mostly dated from 2009-2011. But they had already been screen-captured and been shared online. In 2011, he wrote in a since-deleted tweet: “Yo if my son comes home & try’s 2 play with my daughters doll house I’m going 2 break it over his head & say n my voice ‘stop that’s gay.’” In an earlier post Thursday, Hart wrote on Instagram that critics should “stop being negative” about his earlier anti-gay remarks. “I’m almost 40 years old. If you don’t believe that people change, grow, evolve? I don’t know what to tell you,” said Hart, who added, in all-caps: “I love everybody.” Hart’s attitudes about homosexuality were also a well-known part of his stand-up act. In the 2010 special “Seriously Funny,” he said “one of my biggest fears is my son growing up and being gay.” “Keep in mind, I’m not homophobic, I have nothing against gay people, do what you want to do, but me, being a heterosexual male, if I can prevent my son from being gay, I will,” Hart said. GLAAD, the advocacy group for LGBTQ rights, said Thursday that it reached out to Oscars broadcaster ABC, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and Hart’s management to “discuss Kevin’s anti- LGBTQ rhetoric and record.” Aniston: Netflix ‘Friends’ deal a testament to show’s value Jennifer Aniston calls it “amazing” that “Friends” still has an audience big enough to prompt multi-million dollar business deals to keep it from disappearing on Netflix. “I find it amazing that it’s continued to have such love and such an audience and such an appetite for it,” Aniston told The Associated Press Thursday at the premiere of her Netflix film “Dumplin’.” After an outcry from fans, Netflix announced earlier in the week that it was keeping the adventures of Ross, Rachel, Phoebe and Joey available to subscribers through 2019 — at a reported $100 million price tag to the streaming service. “I think it says a lot about the show. Espe cially since it takes place at a time where it’s so different from now. You know, people actually spoke to each other and hung out with each other and talked,” Aniston said. WarnerMedia owns the show, which aired on NBC for ten years ending in 2004. It won six Emmy Awards, including a best comedy actress Emmy for Aniston. Netflix paid more than triple the $30 mil lion a year it had been paying for “Friends,” The New York Times reported earlier this week, citing two unidentified people with direct knowledge of the deal “Friends” could soon appear more places online. The Times said nothing in the Netflix deal prevented the show from appearing on a streaming service AT&T plans to launch in 2020. 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Moonrise today 8:31 a.m. Moonset today 6:48 p.m. First Full Last New 4)00 Dec 15 Dec 22 Dec 29 Jan 5 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice Lake Full Pool Present Level 24 hr Change Lake Lanier 1071.0 1070.40 -0.18 Allatoona Lake 840.0 828.69 -1.44 Burton Lake 1865.0 1861.40 -0.26 Clark’s Hill Lake 330.0 326.57 +0.07 Hartwell Lake 660.0 657.88 -0.40 Russell Lake 480.0 474.97 -0.36 West Point Lake 635.0 630.35 -0.16 She Stmcs gainesvilletimes.com A Metro Market Media Publication ©2018, Vol. 71, No. 342 Saturday, December 8, 2018 HOWTO REACH US 345 Green St. N.W, Gainesville, GA 30501 P.0. Box 838, Gainesville, GA 30503 (770) 532-1234 or (800) 395-5005 Hours: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Drive thru open: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mon.-Fri. 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Free. “Rise and Shine” Community Leaders Breakfast. 8:30-10:30 a.m. George Pierce Park Commu nity Recreation Center, Suwanee. Winter Farmers Market. 9-11 a.m. Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave., Suwanee, ado- herty@suwanee.com. Free. Men’s Prayer Breakfast. 9-10:30 a.m. Email for location, 4000 Thurmond Tanner Road, Flow ery Branch, mzbcinfo@yahoo.com. Free. Christmas in Cumming Arts & Crafts Festival. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cumming Fairgrounds, 235 Castleberry Road, Cumming. Drop in Craft for Adults: Dollar Bill Origami. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hall County Library System, Gainesville Branch, 127 Main St. NW, Gaines ville. 770-532-3311, ext. 114, gkoecher@ hallcountylibrary.org. Free. Christmas Lantern Workshop. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gainesville Branch, Meeting Room, Gainesville. Fun for Adults: Dollar Bill Origami. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gainsville Branch Library, 127 Main St. NW, Gainesville. Holiday Lantern Workshop. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hall County Library System, Gainesville Branch, 127 Main St. NW, Gainesville. 770- 532-3311, ext. 114, gkoecher@hallcountyli- brary.org. Free. Kindergarten Open House at Elachee Nature Academy. 10 a.m.-noon. Elachee Nature Sci ence Center, 2125 Elachee Drive, Gainesville. Star Wars: Legion Tournament (Meeple Madness Rules v0.2). 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Meeple Mad ness | Tabletop Games and Hobbies, 7400 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. Greater Hall Chapter of Georgia Council of the Blind monthly meeting. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Smoky Springs Retirement Residences, 940 S. Enota Drive, Gainesville. 770-932-1112, harveyroberts2@att.net. Free. Sensory Storytime. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Spout Springs Branch Library, 6488 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch. Publish your event Don’t see your event here? Go to gainesvilletimes.com/calendar to add it. Events publish at the editors’ discretion and as space allows. Dragons for Christmas. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 4 days from now • 3 - 5°C Rain, Oakwood. Midterm Cram Session for High Schoolers. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Blackshear Place Branch Li brary, 2927 Atlanta Highway, Gainesville. Children’s Gift Crafting. 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road, Cumming. Christmas Lunch. Noon-3 p.m. Mount Zion Baptist Church, 4000 Thurmon Tanner Road, Flowery Branch, mzbcinfo@yahoo.com. Free. Cookies and Milk with Santa. 1-3 p.m. Atlanta Botanical Garden Gainesville, 1911 Sweetbay Drive, Gainesville, wcannon@atlantabg.org. $10 - $12. Brenau University Basketball vs. Bryan College. 2-4 p.m. Brenau University, 500 Washington St. SE, Gainesville. Pop Goes The Nutcracker - fundraiser concert. 6-7:15 p.m. East Jackson Comprehensive High School, 1435 Hoods Mill Road, Com merce. $0 - $10.64. Wishes and Candles - FREE Christmas Concert. on Dec. 8-9. 7-8:30 p.m. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Sugar Hill Stake), 4833 Suwanee Dam Road, Suwanee. 404-375- 7882, cketchem@ldspublicaffairs.org. Free. Common Ground and 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. 7 p.m. Mill Creek High School, 4400 Braselton Highway, Hoschton, sarah_e_lindahl@gwinnett.k12.ga.us. The Nutcracker All Jazzed Up. 7-9 p.m. River side Military Academy, 2001 Riverside Drive, Gainesville. 678-450-8845, justin@epacga. com. $15 - $20. A Christmas Carol. 8 p.m. Sylvia Beard The atre, 2200 Buford Highway Northeast, Bu ford. $30. CHRISTMAS IN DIXIE “THE MUSICAL”. Cumming Playhouse, 101 School St., Cumming. $25 - $27.50. Annie. Holly Theatre, 69 W Main St, Dahlonega. $14 - $22. HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21 -April 19). You’re not out to change the world today; you just want to find a better way to live within it. Mostly this has to do with learning what’s there and ask ing others how they’re doing it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You don’t always want attention or people around you. But when you do feel like company, the quickest way to becoming more attractive is to get happy. So how are you going to get happy? GEMINI (May 21-June21). Just because one person is serving another doesn’t mean that the person is any less valued than the other. In fact, it takes a big heart and a solidly developed sense of self to serve others well. CANCER (June 22-July 22). Chemistry, mutual admiration and shared humor are among the many things that contribute to the longevity and health of a relationship. However, nothing contributes more today than forgiveness. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You don’t always get the credit for what you do. Maybe that’s a good thing today. If you have too much praise heaped on you, you’ll attract jealousy and high expectations for next time — two pressures you don’t need. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ve been taught that it’s im polite to express boredom, and over time this has caused you to be oblivious to the symp toms. Wake up to boredom now. Boredom is a sign that you’re not in the right place. It’s a sign to move on. LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). The playfulness that’s so cute in animals (including the human animal) is also very necessary; it gets the creature ready for life. Playing is often a simula tion, a chance to hone some skills to prepare for the chal lenges to come. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Whether something is offen sive or not depends on many factors including (but not limited to) context, Zeitgeist, social mores and, most impor tantly, who is the messenger. Know what story is yours and is not yours to tell. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Going with theflowjust isn’t appropriate in every situ ation. As your own advocate, you’ll need to speak up today about what you need and what you don’t understand. Get the knowledge and resources you’re due. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) There’s a significant event in the future that seems to be reaching back through time to poke you. This poke is a signal to heed. The event may seem very far off indeed, but if you wait until it’s not, it will be too late. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You don’t have to overthink your part in the timing of things. To be prompt will be enough. Promptitude will keep you within the boundary of good manners, fine reputation, dutiful service and bountiful fortunes. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Among your many rights is the right to be left alone. This you desire not out of anti-social instincts but out of a sincere need for the peace and soli tude that will engender a re connection with the things that make you who you are.
