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Evening: 7-1-1
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Midday: 1 -6-0-1
Evening: 4-3-2-5
GEORGIA FIVE
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Evening: 5-0-6-8-6
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FANTASY FIVE (12/20)
3-28-30-40-41
P0WERBALL (12/19)
27-32-34-43-52 Power Ball: 13
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LY\TEST COVID-19 DATA
Dec. 21 NGHS data
Dec. 21 DPH data for Hall County
Total COVID-19 patients: 272
Total cases: 15,736
Gainesville COVID-19 patients: 156
Cases per 100k: 7,625.92
Braselton COVID-19 patients: 54
Confirmed deaths: 206
Total discharged: 3,697
Hospitalizations: 1,479
Total deaths: 512
Percent positive tests in last 2 weeks: 20.9%
CELEBRIS REPORT
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for ‘Star Wars’ Boba Fett
The “Star Wars” galaxy is still expanding.
Disney+ and executive producer Jon
Favreau confirmed Monday that the Boba
Fett series teased in the season 2 finale of
“The Mandalorian” will be its own spinoff
series, set to premiere in December 2021.
A post-credits scene in Friday’s finale
introduced “The Book of Boba Fett” after
the bounty hunter (played by Temuera Mor
rison) and assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-
Na Wen) gunned down Bib Fortuna inside
Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine and laid
claim to his throne.
Speculation stirred over whether the title
was actually a spinoff series, the title of the
third season of “The Mandalorian” or some
thing else entirely, but Disney was mum
until now.
Morrison and Wen will both return in
their roles and Favreau, Dave Filoni and
Robert Rodriguez will all serve as executive
producers.
But beyond that, the only other details that
Lucasfilm is coughing up is that the series
will be set in the same timeline as “The
Mandalorian.”
“The Book of Boba Fett” now joins a seem
ingly impossible 10 new “Star Wars” series
slated to arrive at Disney+ over the next few
years and rolled out at Disney’s Investor
Day earlier this month. Among them are a
live-action “Ahsoka,” with Rosario Dawson
reprising her role of the dual-lightsaber-
wielding warrior Ahsoka Tano, “Lando,”
“Andor” and an “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series
with returning stars Ewan McGregor and
Hayden Christiansen.
Tribune News Service
Singer Grande announces
engagement, flashes ring online
Ariana Grande has announced she is
engaged in a series of photos of her and her
fiance and her engagement ring.
The “Rain on Me” singer posted the pho
tos of her cuddling with Dalton Gomez, a
luxury real estate agent, on Instagram on
Sunday. Grande included a close-up shot
of the ring in the post, which was captioned
“forever n then some.”
The singer’s mother congratulated the
couple on Twitter, saying she was excited to
welcome Gomez to the family.
People magazine reported Grande and
Gomez started dating earlier this year.
Grande released her latest studio album,
“Positions,” in November. On Monday, Netf-
lix will release a behind-the-scenes movie on
her “Sweetener” world tour, titled “excuse
me, i love you.”
She was previously engaged to “Saturday
Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson in
2018, but they ended their relationship later
that year.
Associated Press
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Mom thinks brother-in-law
is a poor role model for son
Dear Carolyn:
My brother-in-law is not
someone I consider a good role
model for my son. His idea of
appropriate behavior with his
nephew at a holiday dinner is
arm-wrestling him at the dinner
table and then teaching him
about gambling while watching
football. Should I ask my sister
to tell her husband to steer
clear of my son, or let it go for one time a
year?
— Relative
Well, the pandemic answered this for
2020. But there’s no avoiding bad role models
entirely, and whatever you teach your son
is going to have to bear up under all kinds of
external and societal pressure, only a sliver
of which you can anticipate and preempt.
When you know you have some say,
it can be a tough decision. Is it protect
ing your kids as any responsible parent
would, or is it pearl-clutching and bubble
wrapping at your kid’s own expense?
I don’t think there’s a universal answer,
in part because quickie descriptions often
don’t offer enough information for risk-
assessment. “The Gift of Fear” and “Pro
tecting the Gift” (Gavin de Becker) can help
you calibrate your judgment, and they’re
both accessible in what they suggest.
In the meantime, you can do your own
basic risk test: Are once-a-year arm-wres
tlings at the table — which you can see
and say no to right away, if it’s important
to you — and a few gambling tips enough
to send your son’s life spinning off course?
Is preventing these things worth the no
doubt highly insulting conversation with
your sister? Is an occasional conversation
with your kid about nutty Uncle
Bookie enough to maintain
proper perspective?
If there’s more to this, and/
or your brother-in-law triggers
your gut-level warning system,
then the answer still isn’t to talk
to your sister — it’s to make
sure your son is never unsuper
vised with any person who sets
off any danger bells.
Dear Carolyn:
My 30-year-old niece completely ruined
Thanksgiving by saying after grace, “and
may you all be forgiven for eating turkey
flesh.” She also brought up a cousin’s
painful breakup in front of everyone and
spilled other family secrets. I left early
with a migraine.
I would like to host a Christmas dinner
[note: this question is from 2019] but I don’t
want her ruining my dinner and I don’t
trust her to keep quiet. What should I do?
She also skipped the vegan options and ate
the vegetarian food my family brought.
— Hosting Provocative Vegan
Why are you giving her so much power?
I won’t endorse “spill[ing] family
secrets,” but I’ll agree the turkey-flesh
comment was offensive. Even then, we
all still hold the power to make our “ruin
everything” threshold unreachable by
mere provocative vegan sass.
Short version, focus on chipping “com
pletely ruined” down to “made... interest
ing,” by not taking her bait.
Chat with Carolyn online at noon each
Friday at www.washingtonpost.com.
CAROLYN HAX
tellme@washpost.com
TODAY IN HISTORY
On this date:
In 1858, opera composer Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca,
Italy.
In 1894, French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of trea
son in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-
Semitism. (Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.)
In 1940, author Nathanael West, 37, and his wife, Eileen McKen-
ney, 27, were killed in a car crash in El Centro, Calif, while en route
to the funeral of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had died the day before.
In 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washing
ton for a wartime conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1944, during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, U.S. Brig.
Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe rejected a German demand for sur
render, writing “Nuts!” in his official reply.
In 1968, Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower in a private cer
emony in New York.
In 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and
wounded four youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they
were about to rob him.
In 1989, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, the last of
Eastern Europe’s hard-line Communist rulers, was toppled from
power in a popular uprising. Playwright Samuel Beckett died in
Paris at age 83.
In 1991, the body of Marine Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an Ameri
can hostage slain by his terrorist captors, was recovered after it
had been dumped along a highway in Lebanon.
BIRTHDAYS
Actor Hector Elizondo is
84. Country singer Red
Steagall is 82. Former
World Bank Group
President Paul Wolfowitz
is 77. Baseball Hall of
Famer Steve Carlton is
76. Former ABC News
anchor Diane Sawyer is
75. Rock singer-musi
cian Rick Nielsen (Cheap
Trick) is 72. Baseball All-
Star Steve Garvey is 72.
Golfer Jan Stephenson
is 69. Actor BernNadette
Stanis is 67. Rapper
Luther “Luke” Campbell is
60. Actor Ralph Fiennes
is 58. Actor Lauralee Bell
is 52. Country singer
Lori McKenna is 52. Actor
Dina Meyer is 52. Sen.
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is 50.
Actor Heather Donahue is
47. Actor Chris Carmack
is 40. Actor Harry Ford is
38. Actor Greg Finley is
36. Actor Logan Huffman
is 31. Rhythm-and-blues
singer Jordin Sparks is
31. Pop singer Meghan
Trainor is 27.
TODAY IN HISTORY PHOTO
Associated Press
Rescue workers pull a miner worker from the Orient No. 2 coal mine in West Frankfort,
III., Dec. 22, 1951, following an underground methane explosion. The state legislature
passed the Illinois Mining Act of 1953, mandating better ventilation in underground mines
and better testing for methane, which investigators said was the cause of the blast.
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HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
ARIES (March 21 -April 19).
There’s something you’re
better at than anyone around.
The fact that it’s offbeat
makes it all the more exciting.
Acknowledge, praise, cel
ebrate this unique manner in
which you can’t be outdone,
champ!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
The reason to be confident
isn’t so that you can feel bet
ter about what you’re doing.
The confidence is for them.
It will help them feel stable.
From that stability, all can do
their best work.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
One reason you strive to lis
ten and observe keenly is be
cause you realize the power
that lends. To see something
in a person they cannot seem
to and relay it with gentle
clarity — this is a rare and life
changing gift.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
And if you can’t seem to drum
up confidence in your mes
sage, say nothing. Do more
research, formulate your
opinion, write it out, check it.
The high level of care you give
to communication will pay off
in interesting ways.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Maybe
you’re not the one making a
decision, but if you’re pretty
sure you’re not going to rebel,
then get on board as quickly
as possible. The reward will
be the thrill of momentum,
which is lost on those who
hesitate and vacillate.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
People around you have
had enough of superficiality.
They long for the kind of fresh
depth that you so readily of
fer in even the most casual of
interactions. It’s no wonder
you’re so popular.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-0ct. 23).
Act practically; act now. To
dilly-dally is to fall prey to the
perils of doubt and inertia.
Consider that most of the evil
in the world is not a product
of active malevolence but of
stagnation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
The key to change isn’t any
thing particularly magical. In
stead, it’s in creating different
rhythms and patterns in your
days. Experiment with it. How
can you make healthy habits
more addicting so they’ll
catch on?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.
21). You’ll be the initiator of
wonderful things, for instance
connecting with friends, per
haps remotely. Bonds will be
strengthened through laugh
ter and sharing.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Certain forces gain intensity
as they lose visibility. Persua
sion is like this. Influence is
most effective when it is un
felt. Love is the opposite. It’s
strongest when demonstrated
visibly.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
A solitary mood sets in for
part of the day, providing a
chance to hear quiet mes
sages from your own heart.
Out of caring and curiosity,
people will check in whether
you want them to or not.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20).
As for rock-solid stability,
there is very little of it in the
civilized world. However, if
you can promise to be there
for yourself and accept your
self as you are, the trouble
(which springs from insecu
rity) will avoid you.
