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Former OU National Merit Scholars have launched a scholarship program to aid current and future students with financial needs.

Staff leadership for the newly formed steering com-mittee will be provided by Craig Hayes, former direc-tor of the National Scholars Programs . Hayes said in a press release that he was ap-proached by a group of alum-ni requesting his support.

The committee includes former National Merit schol-ars Megan Schaunaman ,

Bishop Kelley High School teacher, and David Kendrick , former OU student body president and current CEO of MyHealth Access Network of Tulsa .

“[The program] benefits the entire university and not just those who receive scholar-ships,” President David Boren said in the press release.

More than 700 National

Merit scholars are enrolled at OU, according to its website.

When they formed, the steering committee members of the program noted the im-pact these scholarships have.

“As word spread about OU’s top ranking among public universities in National Merit Scholars, it reminded many of us of the pride we have in OU and of how special this

program was to us during our years at the university,” Kendrick said in the press release.

Giving back the university is what Schaunaman said she had in mind.

“OU helped me as a stu-dent, and I want to carry on that tradition and help fu-ture students,” she said in the press release.

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Going to church and going to class are two vastly differ-ent activities, but at OU, the campus is big enough for both.

Religion is largely inter-twined with OU student life, but at many international universities students would

not even think about practic-ing their faith on campus.

Jia Zhou, a Chinese stu-dent in mathematics, was first introduced to religion by her OU cousin.

“She invited me to some of the Bible learning to share the experience with her friends from the church,” Zhou said.

Zhou said she knew noth-ing about religion before at-tending OU, but now she’s glad to know more about it so she can make her own

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Bigger isn’t always better at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

The museum is welcoming the smallest Apatosaurus in the world to the exhibit “The Clash of the Titans,” which also already features the largest Apatosaurus in the world, according to a press release.

Museum director Michael Mares said in a press release that the exhibit is one-of-a-kind because the museum will be one of two muse-ums in the world with a baby Apatosaurus on display.

The fossils of the young Apatosaurus, for-merly known as a Brontosaurus, were found in Oklahoma, Mares said.

The fossils were collected by a Works Progress Administration team, led in 1930s by J. Willis Stovall , the Sam Noble Museum’s first director. The bones remained untouched in museum drawers for nearly 50 years, muse-um spokeswoman Jen Tregarthen said.

A donation from the Whitten-Newman Foundation allowed the museum to finally piece together the baby dinosaur, according to the press release.

“It’s going to bring a whole new dynam-ic to ‘The Clash of the Titans,’” Tregarthen said. “Director Mares always wanted a baby

Apatosaurus on display.”And Tregarthen said the addition does more

than just provide further history.“I think it adds a whole new emotional ele-

ment to the exhibit,” Tregarthen said.

Members and invited guests may attend the unveiling at 5:30 p.m. Friday by Richard Cifelli, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology.

The free exhibit will be open to the public with free admis-sion from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

“The Clash of the Titans” is a permanent exhibit in the museum, so visitors can expect to see the dinosaur duo for many years to come.

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KATHLEEN EVANSSenior Campus Reporter

Lee Bement’s lab has an interesting choice of decor — bison skulls — adorning the walls and lining the long lab bench-es, where more skulls and bones rest for analysis.

Bement, an Oklahoma Archaeological Survey employee, ran an archae-ological field school dur-ing the summer for OU students and others in-terested in archaeology to excavate a bison kill site.

“I have been doing this for 20 years, but my re-search tends to be attract-ed to buffalo kill sites,” Bement said. “That’s why there’s all this bison bone out there.”

A bison kill site was a spot where ancient peo-ple corralled American b i s o n , a l s o k n ow n a s buffalo, to hunt and kill them.

Students will hopefully return in the summer to look for more artifacts, Bement said.

T h e p a r t i c u l a r s i t e Bement is now analyzing in his lab is called Badger Hole in northwestern Oklahoma and contains remains of Folsom people from more than 10,300 years ago.

S o m e o f t h e e a r l i -est Oklahomans were of the Paleo-Indian Clovis Culture around 11,000 years ago, followed by the Folsom people he is now researching, Bement said. This lab is not the oldest site he has excavated but still from one of the early periods of Oklahoma’s history.

“What we are looking at is how early peoples in Oklahoma were hunt-ing animals, how they de-signed kill sites or hunts, what time of year they were making these kills,” he said.

Anthropology senior Brandon Bleakley , one of the students who helped with the excavation dur-ing the summer, experi-enced camping under the stars, rain, rattlesnakes, scorpions and hands-on work to help dig up

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in Friday’s edition of The Daily, a page 1 story about the neustadt Festival incorrectly reported the date the nsK neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature was awarded to Virginia euwer Wolff. Wolff was awarded the prize Friday.

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todAy AroUnd CAMPUsThe final day to file graduation application for Fall 2011 graduates. Applications should be picked up at the student’s College office, filled out and taken to the office of Academic records, Buchanan Hall, room 230.

The final day to file as a candidate for spring 2012 for master’s degrees.

The final day for fall 2011 grade of W or F for dropped course(s) or complete withdrawals for graduate students.

A lecture titled “student success series: What’s your Learning style,” will be presented by the University College Action staff from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Housing Learning Center in Adams tower.

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The Roll House’s future food concession trailer, adopted by Couch Restaurants’ Shanghai Stir Fry, that will serve students later this month. The trailer will offer six stir fry options and chef Mrs. Lien’s egg rolls.

a look at what other things we could do that we already had in house, and Mrs. Lien as one of our greatest assets, and she makes a traditional handmade egg roll that we wanted to try to do,” Athletics and Concessions administra-tor Keith Mackie said.

Mackie said he and Food Services administrator Chuck Weaver decided to renovate an unused concession stand for the food stand.

“We can start on one part of campus and either serve there for the entirety of that shift, or we can pick up and go somewhere else and serve that end of the community in that respect,” said Lauren

Royston, OU Housing and Food spokeswoman. “And it’s completely new to the university community, so we’re constantly looking for new flavor options, new con-veniences, and this is just one more thing that we can offer to the university.”

The concession trailer will be completely self-contained until regular set-ups with water and power are created.

“We’re trying to identify lo-cations where we will go reg-ularly so we can have auxilia-ry services put in, like eventu-ally we’ll be able to have data lines put in so we can use Sooner One cards and credit cards,” Mackie said.

Housing and Food does not have a location yet for The Roll House.

Host: Families give back to foreign studentsContinued from page A1

said. “Also, I love having a host little brother to fool around with.”

Kaczamr said he decid-ed to join a host family, the Robertsons, because he wanted to experience spe-cial family events such as Thanksgiving or Christmas.

“I know I don’t have to at-tend to all activities they offer us. This way, it’s not too time consuming, and I have great experiences.” Kaczmar said. “For Halloween we’re going to go pumpkin-carving and trick-or-treating.”

And in some host fami-lies, the perks don’t stop with shared holidays.

“I wasn’t expecting it, but they drive us every week to Walmart and offered to drive us everywhere. They also of-fered us a welcome gift with a lot of OU school material, candies and even postcards,” Kaczmar said.

For Cyrielle Guillaume, a French foreign language student and Amélie Plot, a French law student, the expe-rience was about more than a

few gifts.“When we arrived, they

gave us everything their pre-vious host students left: mi-crowave, toaster, plates, silver wear ... a whole kitchen basi-cally,” Plot said.

The two French students even had the chance to con-tact their host family before arriving at OU.

“A friend of ours was al-ready in the family last year. She told them we would come, and they contacted us as soon as she left. After cor-responding all summer, we had dinner with them the day right after we landed,” Guillaume said.

Guillaume and Plot’s family hosts dinner and movie nights a couple times a month.

“They try to implement movie nights. We did a western-pizza night last week,” Plot said. “We didn’t want something too time

consuming and this is just fine. We see each other twice a month, more would be too much.”

For one host parent, plan-ning things like dinners and movie nights are just part of giving back to the interna-tional community.

Mary Price, Friends to International Students board member, has been hosting students for four years and was motivated to be a host after she was an exchange student in France.

“I was so impressed by the kindness that was shown to me. I wanted to repay this kindness,” Price said.

Host families can choose

the nationality of the students they want to host.

“ I h a v e f a m i l y f r o m Germany and France, so I chose mainly French and German students,” Price said.

She said she tries to stay in touch with the students she has hosted and continues to maintain those relationships.

“One of them calls us when she has problems because she knows we can help her; one of them is like a son to us. We love them all and they love us,” Price said.

There are many reasons people decide to become a host family, but many desire to discover new cultures and meet students from across the world.

“[The Robertsons] told me they will try to visit all their host children during a world trip. I’m looking forward to see them then,” Kaczmar said.

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Our View: Fighting breast cancer is a worthy cause, but don’t forget about other deadly diseases.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which has brought a variety of benefit events to campus, including the Women’s Outreach Center’s Breast Health Awareness Month events and the SHOUT panel featuring breast can-cer survivors.

We think it’s wonderful that we have such an opportunity to focus on breast cancer, and to raise awareness and funding for fur-ther research into treatment methods and a possible cure. But in the rush to cover every possible household item with pink ribbons, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that breast cancer is only one of the life-threaten-ing diseases that deserve awareness and research support.

Breast cancer did see the most new cases among women in 2010, but there were also a little more than 10,000 more new cases of prostate cancer in men, according to the American Cancer Society. And both of those resulted in the death of less pa-tients than lung and bronchus cancer.

Regardless of the number of new cases or deaths, every one of these diseases affects many Americans, putting patients and their families through a long and painful process of suffering and fear. Why should one disease receive more attention just be-cause it has garnered more celebrity endorsements?

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But even if each disease can’t have its own special campaign (at least not of the same massive size as the breast cancer movement), they still should not be com-pletely ignored in the push to fight “trend-ier” diseases. It would be easy for breast cancer organizations or event organizers to include information about other kinds of cancer, encourage donations to groups that

benefit all cancers or otherwise reference the need to fight these other kinds of cancer as well.

Just a simple reminder that survivors and patients of all kinds of cancerous diseases are in this fight together would go a long way toward equalizing the playing field.

We’re grateful to see a month dedicated to fight-ing such a pervasive and dangerous disease, and we’re proud that students have brought so many events to campus as part of it. But it’s important that students don’t get so caught up in supporting one disease that they forget to spread the support to other suffering patients and families.

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With the as-sassination of Anwar

al-Awlaki, the United States enjoyed a military victory at the expense of its constitutional prin-ciples. Awlaki, a American citizen of Yemeni de-scent, was killed Friday in Yemen, where he had been in hiding since 2007, by a Predator drone without any attempt at capture or any attempt at due process of law.

Yes, he was a terrorist. But he was also an American cit-izen, which means he was entitled to certain rights. That fact alone should be a point of serious concern.

So I’m not accused of playing down Awlaki’s crimes, let’s be clear that he wasn’t a good guy. In life, he was popularly named the “bin Laden of the Internet” for his vast online presence, which spanned popular websites such as YouTube and Facebook. He was a charismatic man, skilled at luring disillusioned youth to al-Qaida and motivating them to carry out acts of terrorism.

Awlaki is commonly associated with the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, the attempted Christmas 2009 under-

wear bombing and the at-tempted car bombing of Times Square in 2010.

It’s not hard to imagine a generic terrorist being hunted mercilessly for his connection to those incidents. However, the fact that Awlaki possessed United States citizenship makes his case surreal, to say the least.

As officials reportedly told The New York Times in 2010, “it is extremely rare, if not unprec-edented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing.” As constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald boldly said in his

Salon column last week, “the due-process-free assassina-tion of U.S. citizens is now a reality.”

Such a proclamation as Greenwald’s might seem reactionary at first, but after one allows it to sink in, they will realize it contains nothing factually wrong. Simply put, the president of the United States ordered for an American citizen, like you or me, to be killed. Accordingly, he was blown up without due process.

Whether or not this breach of the Fifth Amendment was justified is the subject of fierce debate on the blogo-sphere. Plenty of people take Greenwald’s position that the assassination was an outrage or at the very least an uncomfortable exercise of government power. Quite a few others, however, are willing to cut the Obama admin-istration some slack.

The latter crowd likes to emphasize that Awlaki was a clear and present danger, and like a man firing a gun in public, he had already surrendered his right to due process.

This line of argument is at times persuasive, but not enough to ease the queasy feeling left in the stomachs of American citizens like myself. It was wrong, but at least conceivable, that our government might hold captive for-eigners without appeal, but it boggles the mind to know now that not even the title of “citizen” can protect us now.

At best, this sets an uneasy precedent and a further step towards authoritarianism. Don’t bother asking what this means at worst.

Steven Zoeller is a journalism sophomore.

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Football belongs on field, not in classLETTER TO THE EDITOR

As OU-Texas nears, I’m re-minded again of the one thing I really detest about this uni-versity: the fact that football is the most important and per-vasive thing on campus.

The week of our first football game, one of the players was ineligible, but he got cleared to play. When his name was an-nounced at the beginning of the game, the crowd of 85,000 went wild.

I couldn’t help but think, “Not only does this guy who almost wasn’t even eligible to play get the praise of 85,000 people on the football field, but he also gets it in my class-room — the place on cam-pus that is supposed to be fo-cused on students and their education.”

You see, the first week of class, three out of my five pro-fessors took time out of class to

talk about OU football.Now don’t get me wrong, I

love OU football. I am a sea-son-ticket holder and will make my way down to Dallas this weekend for the game. So what’s the problem? The prob-lem is by bringing football into the classroom, you complete-ly demean students by mak-ing them feel like whatever they’re doing is less important than football.

OU wasn’t founded just to have a great football team. It was founded to provide hard-working young people with excellent educations. And you know, I get it. OU football is a big deal. But there is a time and place for football, and that time and place is absolutely not our classrooms.

Susan Moring, entrepreneurship and

venture management senior

Sorority and frater-nity members have a wonderful com-

munity-building opportu-nity, thanks to the Women’s Outreach Center and the LGBTQ Advisory Board.

Greek Ally, a program similar to Sooner Ally, was launched Tuesday. I’m very excited to see this initia-tive unfold. Like graduates of the three-year-old Sooner Ally program, Greek Allies make a commitment to help gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students feel safe and supported at OU, and more inclusion is always a good thing.

As The Daily’s editorial board pointed out Sept. 19, homophobia is a serious problem in America. Suicides of GLBT people made the news too many times last year, both nationally and locally — a Norman teen-ager killed himself last October after a Norman City Council argument about LGBT History Month.

The intolerant climate of many places in our country was brought to light by these suicides. Several high-profile sup-porters, including President Barack Obama, recorded videos telling young GLBT people “it gets better” for the It Gets Better Project.

However, it’s much easier to believe it gets better when you see and hear supporters on your own campus. Greek Allies will have a unique opportunity to show support. More than 4,500 students are part of the greek system, and you’d be a fool to deny the powerful in-fluence of greek life on this campus. Our UOSA president

and vice president are in sororities, and the visibility of sororities and fraternities is high. If greek students be-came certified allies, the level of recognition of GLBT struggles at OU would rise dramatically.

Becoming a Greek Ally is easy. Just like those who wish to become a Sooner Ally, aspiring students must attend a three-hour training session. The training will cover ho-mophobia in the greek community, how to handle the coming out of a brother or sister and creating a climate of acceptance. Training is free and will be facilitated by Women’s Outreach Center staff and trained peer educa-tors who are members of the greek system. At the end of the training, students can choose to officially become Greek Allies.

There’s no reason for there to be any perception that greek life isn’t welcoming to all students. Strong opin-ions exist about the inclusivity of greek organizations;

the firestorm surrounding Laney Ellisor’s column earlier this semester is proof of that. Becoming a Greek Ally will help combat any idea that greeks hate GLBT people, not because the complimentary Greek Ally sign and button dispel misinformation but be-cause raising one’s awareness of sexual ori-entation issues halts any hate that may exist.

It’s not enough for greek chapters to pro-claim they are inclusive and then drop every GLBT person during rush. All OU students, regardless of sexual orientation, should feel comfortable rushing, and they should feel at home in the organization they pay dues to. Actions, as the cliche goes, speak louder

than words. I hope the Greek Ally program empowers members to speak up for what’s right during chapter and around their houses.

Kate McPherson is a journalism sophomore.

Kate McPhersonkmcpherson@ou.edu

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AT A GLANCEGreek AllyGreek Ally’s � rst training is from 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 15. The training is free, but participants are asked to register by emailing lgbtq@ou.edu or calling the Women’s Outreach Center at 405-325-4929.

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Oklahoma soccer isn’t off to the conference start it had hoped for.

The Sooners (5-8, 0-2 Big 12) fell to Texas Tech, 2-0, on Sunday in Norman after holding the shot advantage for much of the game but failing to produce a goal.

OU lost its conference opener to No. 2 Oklahoma State, 3-0, on Friday.

“We’re not finishing op-portunities, and we’re hav-ing to chase games because we’re giving up an early goal ,” OU coach Nicole Nelson said. “We’re cre-ating a lot of opportuni-ties, but the end product is not there. We have to score goals to win games.”

The four-game losing streak is the longest for the Sooners since 2009, when OU dropped four confer-ence games in the month of October.

Last season, the Sooners found a way to neutralize every loss with a win in the next outing.

“We have to finish the chances because we don’t get a lot of clear cut chanc-es, and we just got to put them away at the end of the day,” junior forward Dria Hampton said. “The attack has to finish, but it’s tough to chase games, too.”

The teams split a pair of early shots in the game, each following fouls.

Hampton took a shot in the seventh minute that was blocked by the Tech defen-sive line inside the box.

That seemed to be the story of the weekend for the Sooner offense, which failed to score a goal in either of the weekend’s games.

“We just can’t catch a b re a k ,” j u n i o r f o r w a rd Caitlin Mooney said. “We started off the season scor-ing a lot of goals, and we just have to get settled down and start scoring.”

The OU attack led all but the last 10 minutes in shots on goal, finishing the game with 14 shots.

But it was Texas Tech that did all the damage inside the net.

Tech’s Jessica Disabella scored on an unassisted shot in the 36th minute to give the Red Raiders the lead before halftime.

Red Raider Jessica Fuston followed with a goal in the 66th minute following a

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Junior defender Brianna Turang (3) chases down a Texas Tech forward during OU’s 2-0 loss to the Red Raiders on Sunday at John Crain Field. Oklahoma dropped its first conference games of the season to No. 2 Oklahoma State and Texas Tech during a weekend doubleheader in Norman.

Sooners scoreless in Big 12 openers against OSU, Tech

possible offsides call that didn’t go the Sooners’ way.

B u t t h e t e a m d i d n ’ t let that hurt its attacking opportunities.

Midway through the sec-ond half, the Sooners put together an offensive attack that saw five shots and two corners in just over six min-utes of action.

Hampton and Mooney combined for five of the shots, while Petrikin’s head-er went wide.

“It just takes one to really open the flood gates with this team,” Nelson said. “We put together a really sharp attack; the end product is just lacking. We’ll go back to work and do a lot of finish-ing this week and hope we can get that first one in.”

On the defensive side, S o o n e r k e e p e r K e l s e y Devonshire was forced to make six saves during the game.

After recording six shut-outs each in her first two seasons at OU, the North Richland Hills, Texas, native has only been able to regis-ter one shutout this season (BYU).

Devonshire also played 47 minutes in a shutout against A l a b a m a - Bi r m i n g h a m, splitting time with reserves Tori Rocke and Lisa Jett.

With both weekend loss-es, Devonshire fell to 3-8 for the year.

“We have to stay positive and encourage everyone,” Mooney said. “We have a lot of leaders on this team look-ing to step up. A lot of mo-ments when we’re down, we get quiet. We just have to keep talking and keep motivating.”

Ne xt u p, t h e S o o n e r s travel to face Texas at 7 p.m. Friday in Austin. Last year’s 2-1 win in double overtime was the first by a Sooner team in Austin.

“We’ve had a rough two weeks, but it can only go up from here,” Hampton said.

“We really need to focus on a good week of training, fix-ing mistakes here and there and taking advantage of an opportunity to go on the road and beat a very good Texas team.”

“We have the talent and the potential — we just need to put it together for a whole game.”

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films impress at annual screening

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A still from “The Legend of Beaver Dam,” which was directed by Canadians Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion.

What do a failed bank robbery, a haunting urban

legend, an abandoned baby, a comical misunder-standing and a pair of miss-ing teeth have in common?

As unrelated as they seem, these elements de-scribe the unique narra-tives of a collection of films screened this weekend at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art as part of the 13th an-nual Manhattan Short Film Festival.

This event, founded by director Nicholas Mason, showcases the extraordi-nary talents of filmmakers around the globe, artisti-cally illustrating the con-cerns of their environment. Nearly 600 film entries from 48 countries were dwindled down to 10 finalists whose work proved to be most

affecting. Each year, the festival or-

ganizers designate a week to screening the selected finalists’ work in places all across the world. Following the screening, audiences engage in a voting poll, se-lecting their favorite film from the series. This year,

the countries Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, Egypt, Peru, Scotland, Canada and the United States took center stage.

While rather concise and not especially lengthy, the films on display were bril-liantly composed.

Revealing elements of

biting humor, painful real-ism and intimate feelings, the screened films were nothing short of exhilarat-ing. Each entry painted a vivid portrait of people, places and cultures not reg-ularly given the time of day.

Some of the more no-table titles include “Martyr

Friday,” “Incident By A Bank,” “Mak,” “A Doctor’s Job,” “The Forest” and “David and Goliath.” These titles tackled a myriad of issues involving social in-justice, criminality, the hor-rors and heartbreak of un-wanted pregnancy, mental illness, abduction and the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky’s “Friday” about the 2011 uprising in Cairo was most impressive, demonstrating a strong vi-sual sense and compelling storytelling.

However, the festival was not dedicated to merely dismal and call-to-action affairs.

The films “I Love Luci,” “The Legend of Beaver Dam,” “Dik” and “Sexting” inspired several honest, painful and uproarious laughs.

Canadian directors Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion’s “Dam” was par-ticularly side-splitting. The

film, in which a group of Boy Scouts who summon a malicious monster in the woods after chanting its name around a bon-fire, takes a clever plot and peppers it with sharp visu-als, grisly violence, campy humor and irresistible melodies.

The festival proved art is a universal language that has the power to visualize and call attention to the troubles of the world.

Each film, however brief, was a poignant slice of life, showcasing each culture’s heartbreak, resilience and compassion for humanity. The shorts premiered at the festival accomplished all the above with startling clarity.

A gold medal will go to the first place winner, a sil-ver will go to second place and a bronze will go to third place, according to the festi-val’s website.

Laron Chapman is a film and media studies senior.

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16 Jackdaw relative

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38 Type of goose

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There are strong indications that the year ahead could be an extremely rewarding one for you both materially and socially. However, strive to lead a bal-anced life so that each area can develop in ways that complement one another.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Check your sources once again if there is something for which you’ve long been searching but haven’t yet found. Your persistent quest might fi nally reach a satis-factory end.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Your views and opinions will have a greater impact on those whom you counsel than you may realistically expect. Don’t hesitate to give advice when asked.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- Although you may have thought those fi nancial seeds you recently planted had gone to the winds, you might be pleasantly surprised by signs of sprouting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- New challenges can be conquered if you draw upon what you’ve learned from similar expe-riences in the past. Don’t hesitate to put this new knowledge to work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- If you have something good to contribute, there is no reason why you shouldn’t make your presence felt. However, do so in ways that won’t make others view you as a right boor.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- Because hopeful, new conditions are stirring on the horizon, it is

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- If you take it upon yourself to utilize all the assets at your disposal, you can get past any problems that might arise. It’s going to be up to you to capitalize on your advantages.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You have a gift of knowing instinctively how to put everyone at ease. Even though you won’t play favorites, each person will go away feeling he or she received special attention.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Instinctively you’ll know how to improve your material circumstances without expecting any miracles. You’ll understand that all it takes is dedication and perseverance.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- At this juncture, it’s safer to put more stock in your own judgment than in the views of others. Your ability to evaluate developments and draw conclusions is remarkably accurate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Financial prospects look exceptionally good for you, not because of luck, but because of your own ability to derive gains from multiple sources and endeavors.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- The answer to whether or not some-one to whom you’re attracted is just as interested in you may fi nally come. You’ll quickly fi nd the answer by simply spending time in each other’s company.

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