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HOROSCOPES
Because the stars know things we don't.
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 6
Expanding into adventure? Intriguing. You're gaining respect. Gather with family. There's a promise of more money coming in. Keep communication channels open.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 7
Assemble the team. You have no trouble getting the message across, and the group contributes. Do the numbers. Authorities may need persuasion. Ask for what you need.
Gemini (May 21-June 21)
Today is a 7
For the next two days, partnership is the name of the game.
Hold off on travel. Impulsiveness causes accidents. Accept more responsibilities. Choose privacy over publicity.
Cancer (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 7
It's getting busy, and your creative juices are flowing. Get productive, and don't be afraid to be unorthodox. Price your materials. Include your team. Save time and money.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is a 7
There's another opportunity for income. Let your conscience be your guide. Avoid big promises. Leave time to play like a child (or with one). Your friends are your inspiration.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 7
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is an 7
Make household decisions for the next two days. Clean up a mess, figuratively or literally.
Consult a partner on a decision.
Follow a dream to a mysterious destination.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7
Get a financial deal in writing.
Learn from friends at a seminar or class. You've got the study advantage with your extra ability to focus.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is a 7
The people around you are more respectful. It's a good time to ask for money. It could get spent easily. Keep track. Entering a two-day domestic phase. Express your sentiment artistically.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21)
Today is a 6
Your confidence can make a big difference, like a sense of ease and space. With new freedom comes a new responsibility and satisfaction. Enjoy the growth, and keep expanding.
Renew yourself through private examination, perhaps in the shape of an artistic project.
Don't worry about the money.
Conserve resources out of habit
Create beauty.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 5
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is a 5
See how you can use your connections to generate new income. You'd rather play than work now, but what if you could combine both? Choose romance, And fun.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is a 5
Your community participates and creative mind for problem solving makes you quite attractive. Listen to someone who loves you. It's guaranteed to be better than internal radio.
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5 Head of st.
8 Despot
12 Turkish peninsula region
14 Crosby's pal
15 Predict
16 Parks at a bus stop?
17 Bowling target
18 Danish money
20 Covers a present
23 Actress Cannon
24 Roll call reply
25 Skill for an identity thief
28 Longing
29 "Sesame Street" Muppet
30 Lummox
32 "Wheel of —"
34 Staff
35 Operatic solo
36 Rouse
37 Hedge shrub
40 Listener
41 Jeans-maker Strauss
42 Strong
47 Alda or Thicke
48 Become a band of workers
49 Zilch
50 CSA leader
51 Branch of advanced math
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20 "How
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22 River through Florence
23 Summer or Shalala
25 Productive
26 Chess castle
27 Harvard rival
29 To be (Fr.)
31 Swamp
33 Gorge
34 Mom or dad
36 Texas city
37 Blueprint
38 Move, to a Realtor
39 — the Terrible
40 Great Lake
43 Individual
44 Evergreen type
45 Submachine gun
46 Segment of a trip
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Gore's TV network slams Olbermann
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LOS ANGELES — Al Gore's Current TV is blasting back at fire host Keith Olbermann.
Current said it doesn't have to "pay a dime" to Olbermann, "who, having already been paid handsomely for showing up sporadically and utterly failing to keep his end of the bargain, now seeks to be paid tens of millions more for not working at all." The papers also point out that Olbermann told David Letterman, during a TV appearance this week, that "I screwed up" at Current.
In a court filing Friday, the network attacked the liberal opinion-maker as "arrogant" and "immature" and said that he had failed to
show up for nearly half of his recent workdays. The papers were a response to Olbermann's $70 million breach-of-contract lawsuit filed Thursday against Current, which hired him as its star last year but dismissed him in late March after months of turmoil.
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the former vice president with legal entrepreneur Joel Hyat, accuses Obermann of leaking his $10 million salary to the media to help justify his decision to join Current, which has roughly 68 million subscribers but very low ratings. In "utter disregard" of his contract, the host rejected every idea to promote his program, the papers say, and even banned his staff at "Countdown" from speaking with the executive vice president of communications.
"He arrogantly and falsely calls 'cheap' the company that has paid him the highest compensation he had ever received in his career, provided him the largest staff of any program he had ever anchored," the papers say.
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Priceless art stolen from British museum
LONDON — Two Chinese artifacts with an estimated combined value of 2 million pounds ($3.2 million) have been stolen from a British museum, authorities said Saturday.
Two "priceless" artifacts were stolen when thieves broke into a ground-floor gallery at the museum; a large jade bowl with a Chinese poem written inside that dates back to 1769, and a Dehua porcelain sculpture.
Two men and a woman from the West Midlands area have been arrested in connection with the Thursday night theft at Durham University's Oriental Museum, but the items had not yet been recovered, police said.
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Associated Press
Web series inspires celebrity kiss craze
Mike O'Brien isn't shallow and stuck up like some people! If he likes the person he's in the closet with, "they don't have to be a household name to be considered for my lips," he said. Still, come on; O'Brien likes kissing famous
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CHICAGO — Mike O'Brien is 35 and single, lives in New York and works as a staff writer for "Saturday Night Live." He is earnest and polite, comes from a long line of South Side Chicago Irish and has the gentle features of a choirboy.
Now that you know a bit about this fine young man ... well, it may seem forward but — he would like to make out. With you. Mike O'Brien would like to make out with you. No, no: Please, hear him out. He has this Web series, "7 Minutes in Heaven With Mike O'Brien." It's becoming kind of a big deal. Internet-wise. It's also wonderful, revealing, uncomfortable, funny, sweet and exactly what you'd imagine: O'Brien stands inside a closet with someone, engages in awkward small talk for a few minutes, then makes a move.
people. He's good at it — or rather, good at trying. And famous people like letting him try: Paul Rudd, Ellen DeGeneres, Tracy Morgan, Christina Ricci, Amy Poehler, Elijah Wood, Kristen Wiig.
Initially, though, O'Brien just wanted to interview and make out with friends. Last July, he and his colleague Rob Klein were kicking around projects to work on during the "SNI" summer break. They jotted down a few ideas, and "7 Minutes" seemed like the easiest and the funniest. Plus, O'Brien had a little experience: Before "SNI" hired him in 2009, he had spent a decade as a mainstay of the Chicago improv scene, working as an instructor and performer at Second City and iO. He wrote a 30-minute play for Stage Left Theatre about couples who play Seven Minutes in Heaven; he also played Seven Minutes in Heaven himself with his improv friends, "but innocently, at parties, more to enjoy the awkwardness than to do anything else."
Being at "SNL," his proximity to celebrity — and a small budget provided by Lorne Michaels' production company, Broadway Video — changed those modest plans. Surprisingly, the innocence
stayed. Partly because O'Brien, often wearing a tie and a short-sleeve dress shirt and looking like the manager of a Taco Bell, is a self-described awkward person who asks awkward questions amiably ("Can I call you Ron Draper?" he asks Jon Hamm); and partly because the series is so intimate (the cameras trained close to the faces), guests mostly drop whatever facade they typically carry into the usual media-centric situations.
Which places "7 Minutes in Heaven" somewhere between the heartfelt confession of Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast and the surreal improv of Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die Web series "Between Two Ferns," a talk show that's more of a charming critique of the faked intimacy of celebrity interviews than a talk show.
In fact, "7 Minutes in Heaven" is such a Web success — the first 18 episodes have been watched more than 2.5 million times on YouTube, and O'Brien just began posting the first of 10 episodes he's making for Yahoo — we thought it was only fair that he share tips, should we find ourselves in a closet with a celebrity.
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Titanic survives century later
Titanic resurfaces in its extraordinary way over this week with TV specials timed to the 100th anniversary of its sinking this month.
Deep-sea explorer Bob Ballard, who in 1985 found the luxury liner's dismembered corpse strewn across acres of the North Atlantic's floor, brings one of the best for those intrigued by the disaster in "Save the Titanic" (10 p.m. Monday, National Geographic Channel).
Ballard is perhaps the foremost advocate for protecting the wreck, which has become a target for salvors and even deep-sea tourists. On his first expedition to the wreck 27 years ago, he found the ship's crow's nest — from which lookout Frederick Fleet first sighted the outline of doom and shrieked to the bridge, "Iceberg right ahead!" — still high above the deck.
Now mysteriously missing, the crow's nest was knocked off into a cargo hold, he believes, by a rogue Russian submarine that visits the ship's grave with passengers who pay $60,000 for the trip. As more deep-sea vehicles
are developed, the ship will be increasingly looted, he believes. Ballard has been vocal about preserving the wreck as a memorial to those who built the ship and died with it, a stance that has put him at odds with groups like RMS Titanic, which exhibits artifacts it plucked from the bottom in a Las Vegas casino.
He also visits Belfast, Northern
From a submarine, Ballard once placed a memorial plaque on the deck of the Titanic. It's gone now. A salvage crew picked it up and dropped it into an exposed toilet on the wreck, Ballard says. "That tells you who you're dealing with." He says he got the information from someone connected to that dive. "Not everyone thought that was cool."
Ireland, where the ship was built and examines the original plans for the liner, the pinnacle of luxury and technology for its time. He interviews descendants of the "Guarantee Group" — nine men who helped construct Titanic and who were picked to represent Belfast's shipbuilders on the maiden voyage. All perished, still revered by their descendants.
"I thought I knew everything there was to know about the Titanic, then I learned about the Guarantee Group," Ballard said in an interview. "They never found their bodies. Their families have been silent for 100 years. It was an honor to tell their stories."
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