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TODAY IN HISTORY
On this date:
In 1787, Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the
U.S. Constitution.
CORRECTION
Sunday, December 9. On Page 4A
The following teacher of the year was inadvertently
omitted from Sunday’s list. The Times regrets the error.
Ruby Blackstock Putman
School: North Hall Middle
Teaches: Eighth grade Georgia Studies,
cheer coach
Years at school: 24
Years teaching: 29
City of residence: Clermont
Quote: “I chose to become a teacher
because I wanted to make a difference in
our world. I teach because I want to make
a difference in the lives of children. Each child is special,
and I want to help them discover how important they are in
the ‘Circle of Life.’ The children are our future!”
BIRTHDAYS
Former TV host Bob
Barker is 95. Basketball
Flail of Famer Bob Pettit is
86. Singer Connie Fran
cis is 81. Singer Dionne
Warwick is 78. Rock
singer-musician Dickey
Betts is 75. Hall of Fame
race car driver Emerson
Fittipaldi is 72. Actor
Duane Chase (Film: “The
Sound of Music”) is 68.
Country singer LaCosta
is 68. Gymnast-turned-
actress Cathy Rigby is 66.
Author Lorna Landvik is
64. News anchor Maggie
Rodriguez is 49. Actress
Jennifer Connelly is 48.
Actress Madchen Amick is
48. Actress Regina Hall is
48. Country singer Hank
Williams III is 46. Actress
Mayim Bialik is 43. Actor
Lucas Hedges (Film: “Man
chester by the Sea”) is
22. Actress Sky Katz (TV:
“Raven’s Home”) is 14.
WEATHER
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Record high
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Record low
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59 38 pc
63 55 c
Atlanta
55 39 pc
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Augusta
59 33 pc
61 47 c
Brunswick
61 44 pc
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Chattanooga
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Dalton 51 36 pc 55 46 c
Greenville 51 35 pc 53 40 c
Macon 58 34 pc 60 49 c
Savannah 61 36 pc 64 54 c
Sun and Moon
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Sunset tonight 5:26 p.m.
Moonrise today 11:30 a.m.
Moonset today 10:19 p.m.
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CELEBRITY REPORT
Shaquille O’Neal bringing
Fun House to 2019 Super
Shaq’s
Bow
Shaquille O’Neal has been to enough par
ties before Super Bowls to know that he can
do much better.
“I’ve been to a million Super Bowl parties
the past 15 years, and they’re all boring,”
O’Neal said. “So this is Atlanta, I’m bringing
the party to Atlanta. I wanted to do something
big, so I called my friends.”
He’s bringing “Shaq’s Fun House” to
Atlanta on Feb. 1 with a little bit of every
thing, from the Migos, a Waffle House pop-up
diner and a Ferris wheel to even Cirque Du
Soleil featuring a special appearance by the
NBA Hall of Famer himself.
“I’m doing rehearsals now, and it’s going to
be epic,” O’Neal said of his part in “Mystere.”
“It’s going to be talked about, and hopefully
people pull out their phones and it goes viral
because that’s my favorite show, ‘Mystere’ by
Cirque Du Soleil. I know I was a great athlete,
but these guys are some of the finest athletes
in the world. Every time I’m in Vegas for the
past several years I always hit up a show.”
O’Neal brought his Fun House experi
ence to Florida during Miami Music Week
in March, and he wanted to outdo that. For
music, he’s tapped rap trio Migos, DJ Tiesto,
Lil Jon, T-Pain, plus Grammy-award win
ning producer and DJ Diplo. O’Neal also will
perform a set as DJ Diesel. The Fun House
also will feature a carnival midway and food
from Atlanta restaurants.
“There’s two things that bring people
closer together despite what’s going on in
the country,” O’Neal said. “That’s sports and
music, and I happen to dominate in both. So
when I was putting this together I was say
ing, ‘OK, I want part music festival. I want
a carnival. I want a circus, and I want to do
it on a nice, big platform, and I want to have
fun doing it.”
O’Neal said he learned approximately a
thousand people couldn’t get into his Miami
party, which was secret invite only earlier
this year. That’s why this party will be held
at Live! At Battery Park at SunTrust Park,
home of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta
Braves. A limited number of tickets will be
available to the general public for this party
starting Thursday morning beginning at
$249.99, with VIP tickets for $999 for access
to a fast entrance and other VIP areas.
Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz
sings to hospitalized teenager
Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz has ser
enaded a Kansas high school senior who
is hospitalized in St. Louis while awaiting a
second double-lung transplant.
The Grammy Award winner stopped by
the bedside of 18-year-old Madison Talia
ferro, of Holton, on Sunday while he was in
Missouri for a concert. The Topeka Capital-
Journal reports that Mraz performed his
hit songs “I’m Yours” and “Have It All.”
Taliaferro’s mother, Desiree Taliaferro,
shared videos on Facebook. She wrote in
a post that nurses schemed to get Mraz to
sing to her daughter because they “know
she loves musicals and just overly enjoys
singing.”
Madison Taliaferro was born with cys
tic fibrosis and received a pair of lungs six
years ago. The operation went well, but
then her lung function fell suddenly from
48 percent to 22.5 percent.
Kathie Lee Gifford to leave
NBC’s ‘Today’ show in April
Kathie Lee Gifford will put aside her morn
ing glass of wine and step away from NBC’s
“Today” show in April.
NBC News chief Noah Oppenheim told
staffers Tuesday morning that Gifford will
leave the show after 11 years of getting up
early, most recently hosting the 10 a.m. hour
slot alongside Hoda Kotb and sipping plenty
of reds.
In a memo to staff, Oppenheim called the
65-year-old Gifford “one of the most enduring
and endearing talents in morning television.
In short — she is a legend.” He said she will
focus on her film, music and book projects.
In the memo, Oppenheim said Gifford told
him she was leaving “with a grateful heart but
I’m truly excited for this new creative season
in my life.”
The move comes as NBC News struggles to
remake its sprawling four-hour morning show
following the cancellation earlier this year of
Megyn Kelly’s hour-long slot.
Associated Press
AROUND TOWN
TODAY
Isaac Alcantar Exhibit at the Quinlan Visual Arts
Center Regions Mini Gallery. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Regions Center, 303 Jesse Jewell Parkway,
Gainesville. 770-536-2575,
amanda@qvac.org. Free.
Water Aerobics. 9:30 -10:30 a.m. University of
North Georgia, 25 Schultz Ave.,
Dawsonville, conted@ung.edu.
Creative Coloring for Adults. 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. North Hall Tech Center, 4175 Nopone
Road. Suite B, Gainesville.
Handbuilding Basics with Mary Hull. 10 a.m. to
noon. Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green
St. NE, Gainesville. 770-536-2575,
musesroost@gmail.com. $150 - $175.
Yoga for Beginners. 10 - 11:30 a.m. Blackshear
Place Branch Library, 2927 Atlanta Highway,
Gainesville.
Novel Diversions Book Club. 10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Post Road Library, 5010 Post Road,
Cumming.
Baby Play Day. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Cumming
Library, 585 Dahlonega St., Cumming.
Toddler Play. 10:30-11 a.m. Spout Springs
Branch Library, 6488 Spout Springs Road,
Flowery Branch.
Drop in Craft - Holiday. Noon to 5 p.m.
Blackshear Place Branch Library, 2927
Atlanta Highway, Gainesville.
Chalk Couture Make-and-Take Chalkboard.
1 -4 p.m. George Pierce Park, 55 Buford
Highway Northeast, Suwanee.
Veterans Roundtable Monthly Meeting. 1 -3
p.m. Gwinnett County Public Library, Buford
Branch, 2100 Buford Highway, Buford.
770-978-5154, events@gwinnettpl.org. Free.
Open Pottery Studio. 2-4 p.m. Quinlan Visual
Arts Center, 514 Green St. NE, Gainesville.
770-536-2575, paula.lindner@quinlan-
artscenter.org. $20.
Holiday Hullabaloo. 2-5 p.m. Youth Services,
Hall County Library System, Gainesville.
Georgia’s Innovation Corridor Joint Development
Authority. 3 p.m. Winder Community Center,
113 E. Athens St., Winder.
Tween S.T.E.A.M.: Paper Circuit Cards. 4-5 p.m.
Spout Springs Branch Library, 6488 Spout
Springs Road, Flowery Branch.
Nar Anon Family Support Group. 6-7 p.m.
Publish your event
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Events publish at the editors’ discretion
and as space allows.
Family Life Center, First Baptist Church, 751
Green St. NW, Gainesville. 770-540-4395,
kentmurphey@gmail.com. Free.
TAB - The Teen Advisory Board at The Post Road
Library. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Post Road Library,
5010 Post Road, Cumming.
Chess for Kids. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Sharon Forks
Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming.
Christmas Under The Stars. 7-8:30 p.m. Free
Chapel, 3001 McEver Road, Gainesville,
alexisramgopal@gmail.com. Free.
Bible Study. 7-8 p.m. Mount Zion Baptist
Church, 4000 Thurmond Tanner Road,
Flowery Branch. 770-967-3722,
mzbcinfo@yahoo.com. Free.
Mamma Mia. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Gainesville High
School, Pam Ware Performing Arts Center,
830 Century Place, Gainesville,
lettsani@gmail.com. $5 - $10.
THURSDAY
Gainesville City Council work session. 9 a.m.
Administration Building board room, third
floor, 300 Henry Ward Way, Gainesville.
770-535-6865.
Isaac Alcantar Exhibit at the Quinlan Visual
Arts Center Regions Mini Gallery. 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Regions Center, 303 Jesse
Jewell Parkway, Gainesville.
770-536-2575, amanda@qvac.org. Free.
Vickery Village Farmer’s Market. 9 a.m. to
noon. Vickery Village, 5920 Post Road,
Cumming.
Mobile Career Coach. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Spout
Springs Parking Lot, Gainesville.
Career Coach Visits Spout Springs Library.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Spout Springs Library,
6488 Spout Springs Road, Flowery Branch.
770-538-2727, mtu7@gmrc.ga.gov. Free.
Exploring Magna-Tiles. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Youth Services, Hall County Library System,
Gainesville.
Baby Play Day. 10:15-11:45 a.m. Sharon Forks
Library, 2820 Old Atlanta Road, Cumming.
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ARIES (March 21 -April 19).
You give love in many ways
throughout the day. Most of the
ways have to do with showing
up and doing the regular things
that the team counts on you to
do. Then sometimes it’s what
you don’t do or say that is the
most loving.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You
have a healthy respect for dan
ger, but you’re not about to let
fear keep you from taking risks.
What’s on the table now is an
opportunity to get into some
thing totally new.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Studies prove that placebos
can work even when the per
son taking them knows they
are a placebo. Rituals can be
a kind of placebo, too. So the
important thing is not in the
belief but in doing what works.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
You’re trying to think your way
through a situation, and it’s
taking a lot of energy. It’s tiring
you out. So ask your heart.
Actually direct the question to
the beating thing in your chest.
Here comes the right answer.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Funny
cat videos are awesome, but
it’s time to get more strategic
about social media. Who do
you want to know better? Who
do you want to align with?
Controlling what you look at
is to control who you’re influ
enced by.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Even
though you have plenty of
time, the best moment to do a
thing is when it comes to the
front of mind, or when it arises
in the process of action, or
when you’re talking about it. In
other words, now.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23). Today
you’ll be given a choice. Good
news: There’s no correct pref
erence that will prove you have
taste or refinement or superior
ity in any way. So just choose
what you like, what you can
use or what you think will work.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Work is work. It doesn’t matter
what the job is; the time and
energy you put in must be bal
anced with rest, fueled with
nutrition and recharged with
leisure.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). The reasonable ideas
have no more of a chance of
working than the wacky ones,
so try both. You might be sur
prised at what ridiculousness
works, and if nothing else,
you’ll get a laugh out of it.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
A Zen proverb suggests, “If
you want to climb a mountain,
begin at the top.” The rest of
the zodiac is turning to you,
mystical goat, with question
marks for eyes. Can you deci
pher this one?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
Does it feel like you’re behind
the times? That’s not a bad
place to be. You’ll find some
thing new and novel about a
thing that’s been “over” for
a while now and reignite a
spark.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
Are you reaching too far?
Probably not. Whether you
reach for the moon, the sun
or Jupiter, you’ll get the same
stretch. So reach for what
makes you feel the most de
light.