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TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2015
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8
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HOROSCOPES
Today is an 8
Keep quiet and take action.
Push for what you believe.
Conditions are changing. Don't
splurge. All turns out even better
than you'd hoped, if you've been
gentle. It could get tense. Keep
your objective in mind.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 9
Practical efforts reap abundant rewards. Don't get distracted by talk that goes nowhere. Get moving! Convince others by showing them. Don't forget what you've learned the hard way.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 9
Express your love with your favorite media. Use your own particular art or science. Abandon a self-imposed limitation. Your confidence grows today and tomorrow. Take practical action for a personal project.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is an 7
Cancer (June 21- July 22)
Today is an 7
Action you take now has long-lasting consequences.
Save your money. Stick with what's real. Get your body moving. A hike or adventure in nature provides peace and even spiritual discovery.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
Parties, meetings, conferences and gatherings go well. Work together to make something happen. Idle chatter makes no difference. Don't waste time on gossip. Make promises, agreements and schedule who will do what.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8
Don't show critics unfinished work. Creating beauty may require making a mess first. If you can't do your chores, hire someone who can. Make a professional move. Action taken now goes the distance.
Don't make loans today. Financial discussions can morph into arguments. Is it about money or power? Inspect your own situation for leaks, and take discrete action.
Don't talk about it ... just go. You have what you need. Study your subject in person. Follow your passion. Communication breakdowns get resolved later. Take action for what you love and it goes further than expected.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Shake things up. Don't just talk about playing with your partner; get out and do it. You're inspired to take action, and together you can generate amazing results.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is an 9
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is on 9
Capricorn (dec. 22-ann. 19)
Today is an 9
An unexpected development at work requires all hands on deck.
Postpone a trip. Don't waste time talking ... get moving!
Handle what you said you would.
Take care to resource resources.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)
Todav is an 8
The game is getting good. The gears begin to turn on a new project. Play full out. Don't stop to natter about it. Throw your full weight into the action. Put your heart into it.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is an 7
You've been talking about it long enough. Take action on a home project. It's amazing what a coat of paint will do. Get your family involved for increased results. Dig in the garden.
TRENDING
Lambert, Bryan win big at ACMAs in Texas
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Miranda Lambert performs at the 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium on Sunday in Arlington, Texas. Lambert went home with four awards at the end of the night, including Female Vocalist of the Year.
Everything's bigger in Texas, even the Academy of Country Music Awards. The 50th anniversary of the award show turned out to be the most-attended live awards show, and it was studded with plunging necklines, cowboy boots, pop-art pants and, of course, Taylor Swift.
Hosted by heartthrobs Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, the show kicked off with "Let the Good Times Roll," performed by Darius Rucker and Jake Owens. More than 20 performances took the stages Sunday night.
Miranda Lambert was up for eight awards, leading the pack, and took home four of them on Sunday night: Female Vocalist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year for "Automatic" and a 50th Anniversary Milestone Award. Her popularity was evident on Twitter as well, with users — like Perez Hilton — tweeting kudos and compliments like wildfire.
Luke Bryan poses in the press room with the awards for entertainer of the year and vocal event of the year at the 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at AT&T Stadium on Sunday in Arlington, Texas.
"...I'm so unbelievably proud that I learned to treat people with kindness and respect from country music."
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TAYLOR SWIFT Country singer
Hilarious duo Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, stars of the upcoming movie "Hot Pursuit," introduced Lambert as she stepped on stage to claim her 50th Anniversary Milestone award — the fourth award she took home.
Alan Jackson's performance of "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)", his song about Sept. 11, 2001, was enough to send chills down your spine. It was widely regarded as one of the most touching events of the evening — CBS tweeted, "Country music doesn't get much more classic than @OfficialJackson."
Taylor Swift, who has been largely absent from the country music scene as of late, was absent from the red carpet as well. After her recent announcement that her mother, Andrea Swift, was battling cancer, it was even more heartwarming to see the mother-daughter embrace after she presented her daughter with a Milestone Award.
Swift's mother described watching her "tangle-haired little girl" who loved to "write a song, tell a story" grow up.
Swift thanked the country music industry for supporting her pop album, saying
thank the entire music community for taking such good care of her," she said.
"I am a very proud mom, so I'd like to thank the ACMs for honoring her in that way, but I'd also like to
she's "so happy to learn to write songs in a town like Nashville, I'm so grateful that I learned what hard work is from my heroes who are all sitting here and I'm
so unbelievably proud that I learned to treat people with kindness and respect from country music."
Edited by Emma LeGault
SC paper wins Pulitzer for domestic violence reporting
JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK — The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for an examination of the deadly toll of domestic violence, while The New York Times collected three awards and the Los Angeles Times two.
Associated Press
The Seattle Times staff took the breaking news award for its coverage of a mudslide that killed 43 people and its exploration of whether the disaster could have been prevented.
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both won investigative reporting prizes, the Times for an examination of lobbyists' influence on state attorneys general, the Journal for detailing fraud and waste in the Medicare payment system.
The Times' coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa won Pulitizers for international reporting and feature photography, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was honored in the breaking news photography category for its images of the racial unrest touched off by the deadly police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Washington Post took the national reporting prize for exposing security lapses that spurred an overhaul of the Secret Service.
The Pulitzer judges also recognized less widely known stories, such as The Post and Courier's exploration of 300 women's deaths in the past decade. The paper shed light on a legal system in which firsttime offenders face at most 30 days in jail for a domestic violence beating but can get five years in prison for
writing.
Since the series was published, state lawmakers have proposed tougher penalties for domestic violence, and Gov. Nikki Haley created a task force to investigate the problem.
The prizes spanned news outlets large and small: The 70,000-circulation Daily Breeze of Torrance.
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prizes were for feature writing that put a human face on California's drought and for Mary McNamara's television criticism.
The Seattle Times newsroom erupted in cheers after its mudslide coverage was honored.
"We did what any good newsroom should do when a big story breaks," Editor
This August 13, 2014, photo by St. Louis Post Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen shows Edward Crawford returning a tear gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo. Four days earlier, unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot to death by white police officer Darren Wilson. The killing ignited riots and unrest in the St. Louis area and across the nation. Cohen and members of the St. Louis Post Dispatch photo staff are winners of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography it was announced yesterday at Columbia University in New York.
cruelty to a dog.
"We felt so passionate about this project, and we felt so passionate about the difference it could bring to South Carolina," said P.J. Browning, publisher of 84,200-circulation Post and Courier, which last won a Pulitzer in 1925 for editorial
California, won the local reporting award for exposing corruption in a school district. And Bloomberg News was a first-time winner, taking the explanatory reporting award for an examination of corporate tax dodging.
The Los Angeles Times'
Kathy Best told staffers. "We gave people accurate information when rumors and inaccuracies were swirling all over the place. We asked hard questions in the moment. When public officials were saying, 'Oh, this was unforeseen,' we showed that it was not unforeseen."
the commentary prize went to the Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg, who examined the case of a man wrongfully convicted of killing a police officer, among other problems in the legal and immigration systems. Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe was recognized for editorial writing; she looked at restaurant workers' low wages and examined the toll of income inequality.
Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News won the editorial cartooning prize for his look at such issues as immigration, gun control and problems in the VA hospital system.
The Pulitzer, established by newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and first given out in 1917, are American journalism's highest honor. The public service award consists of a gold medal; the other awards carry a prize of $10,000 each. For the first time this year, many online and print magazines were eligible for the journalism awards writing and
- in feature writing and investigative reporting only
- but none of them won.
While the winners were largely drawn from oldmedia names, "the digital component of their work is becoming more and more sophisticated," prize administrator Mike Pride said. "Newspapers know where the future is and, in some cases, are doing really good jobs at it."