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SUAB activities for the spring semester

Luisa Clausen Staff Reporter

The Student Union Activities board released its activity schedule for the spring of 2023. The activities start on Jan. 17 and all the way through May 10.

Here is the list: January: 17- First day of school pictures 18- Sweatshirts with SUAB 25- Pop culture bingo February: 2- Nearly naked mile 6- Cookies and karaoke 8-Lunar new year 13- Condom bingo 14- Pack-A- Critter: Valentine’s day edition 23- Mardi Gras 27- Soda pop shoppe trivia

March: 6- Farmer’s market 9- OSU talent show 20- Spring broke bingo 22- International tea bingo 27- Grease! Live 28- Pistol Pete’s birthday party April: 5-Pride picnic 6- Dragonfly 12- Paint-a-Plot 17- Sustainable development goals trivia night 20-Succulent planting 27- Mr. OSU scholarship pageant May: 1- Spring Carnival 9-10- Late night cafe

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Notebook: Smith, Kouma see increased role in home win over West Virginia

and beat the Mountaineers, 67-60.

Braden Bush Staff Reporter

The Cowboys have a conference win.

On a physical night in Gallagher-Iba Arena, OSU fought off a West Virginia rally

Big shoes to fill Bernard Kouma has only heard his name called to enter a game on three occasions this season. Just once in the past 36 days leading up to the conference homeopener. But he heard it late in the first half on Monday.

Starting center Moussa Cisse left the

game with 9:41 until halftime (with what Boynton called a knee injury), which left the Cowboys (9-5,1-1) short of help in the paint. Enter, Kouma.

“I’m not sure, in the last three years, there’s been a scholarship player that’s played less real significant minutes than (Kouma) has. And not one time has he ever complained,” said

coach Mike Boynton. “... Obviously when we needed him tonight, he stepped up and gave us three really really good minutes. Obviously didn’t win the game, but he certainly made sure that we held the line for a little while.”

Kouma only played for just under three minutes,

Artic temperatures caused facility issues in the OSU residential halls

Luisa Clausen Staff Reporter

Freezing weather and pipes are not best friends.

The arctic temperatures in Oklahoma during the last two weeks of 2022 caused facility issues in the OSU residential halls.

Oklahoma State Housing and Residential Life announced frozen pipes resulted in water damage and caused issues with the fire panels and electronic door access.

As of Dec. 30, Wentz, Village E and Village F are all closed. OSU Facilities Management is working to repair the panels and is coordinating with vendors should parts need to be replaced.

The OSU Housing and Residential Life said residents of these buildings have received an email detailing the situation and their goal is to have the buildings reopened before the beginning of the spring semester.

Village A, Village B, Village C, Zink-Allen, Morsani-Smith, Bost, Young and Carreker West Halls were also affected by the weather. These buildings remain open, and OSU Hous-

ing and Residential life contacted directly the residents who were impacted. Blackmon Mooring began full remediation and repair of affected spaces on Monday.

Students are encouraged to email reslife@okstate.edu if they have any doubts about the situation.

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Bernard Kouma hasn’t seen much playing time this year, but he helped fill in on Monday when starting center Moussa Cisse left the game.

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Village B, one of the halls affected by the water pipes damage.

Courtesy of SUAB’s Instagram OSU’s Student Union Activities Board recently released its spring semester schedule which includes 24 events.

Energizer Bunny: Boone’s second half presence fuels Cowboy comeback in victory

Ashton Slaughter Staff Reporter

Through the first 20 minutes of play, Kalib Boone had a near-empty stat sheet.

The OSU big man had accumulated one rebound, one foul and one turnover in 10 minutes of play in the Cowboys’ Big 12 home opener against West Virginia.

The second half, however? Boone delivered, propelling the Cowboys (9-5, 1-1) to a 67-60 win against the Mountaineers (104, 0-2).

“When his energy is high, everyone responds well to it,” said guard JohnMichael Wright on Boone’s effect on the team. “He saw that ball go in the hole and it just spread across the team, and we were able to really get into it with the crowd and I believe that really won us the game.”

In 17 second half minutes, Boone had 10 points and five rebounds, but more important than his production seen in the box score, was his

energy, a staple in his career as a Cowboy.

Despite Boone being known for his immense smile and play that gets fans involved in games, coach Mike Boynton believes that the big man doesn’t fully comprehend how pivotal his role is for his squad.

“I don’t know if sometimes he doesn’t believe in himself enough,” Boynton said. “I’ve been trying to get him to understand: if we’re going to get where we want to go, we need the best version of him.”

The senior’s performance couldn’t have been timelier, as the Cowboys, who held a 13-point lead early in the second half, were suddenly behind after the Mountaineers stormed back and seemingly took control

of the game.

The apex of Boone’s performance came in the last five minutes, as his first basket in that stretch came at the 4:54 mark, cutting the Cowboys’ deficit to one point. Along with being the Energizer Bunny for his team and fueling the crowd, he had six points and three rebounds in that frame, securing the victory for the Cowboys.

Quickly, the most common sound became Boone’s name being declared over the GIA speakers, promptly followed by two long-limbed arms in the air, as he enticed the Cowboy faithful to get loud and rally behind their team amidst the comeback.

This took the crowd to another level, which Bryce Thompson took notice of.

“Our crowd was phenomenal today, they gave us a lot of momentum, a lot of energy,” Thompson said. “Definitely grateful for that.”

With the comeback victory led by Boone, the Cowboys captured their first conference win of the season and snatched the Mountaineers’ aspirations for obtaining a crucial first conference victory.

In order for more conference victories, Boone will need to continue his dominant and animated play, something that often leads to games falling under the win column for the Cowboys.

“He’s got to understand how valuable he is because when he plays well, we have success,” Boynton said.

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which was still his second-highest minutes total of the season, but he played good defense, turned a driving Mountaineer away from the rim and took a charge.

The other forward who stepped up was Tyreek Smith. The stat line doesn’t jump off the page: four points, six rebounds. But his value was enormous.

Cisse does most of his damage on the defensive end, which is where Smith had to pick up slack – and against 6-foot-10, 285-pound senior Jimmy Bell Jr, no less. But Smith guarded the lane and picked up two blocks and went toeto-toe with Bell, helping sure up rim protection.

“He’s one of the best at doing his job, coming in here and using his energy to generate buckets and rebounds and loose balls and everything,” said guard Bryce Thompson. “So, he was great, man. He’s definitely a key factor for our team, and we need him doing that every night.”

Cowboys respond to physicality on short turnaround

It wasn’t the same “Press Virginia” team of old that full-court pressed for much of the game, but it was certainly just as physical.

In total, the teams combined for 46 fouls and 45 free throws.

“It’s a tough game to play against these guys,” Boynton said. “It’s always super physical, there’s always a lot of fouls, there’s always a lot of free throws, so the game doesn’t have the type of rhythm and flow that some of the other games may have.”

It was a grueling game with lots of contact, evident by the number of foul calls. West Virginia (10-4, 0-2) put tight pressure on guards on the perimeter, which helped lead to 14 OSU turnovers.

The Cowboys were just two days removed from a deflating loss at Kansas, but they didn’t look fatigued. Boynton praised his assistant coaches for keeping the players fresh and ready after Saturday, and Thompson said they felt well-prepared for the physicality the Mountaineers present.

“That’s who West Virginia is, though,” Thompson said. “You gotta give them credit for going out there and doing what they do. It

definitely gave them a chance to win... I’m glad we finished it out, because it was a war.”

Defense strikes again

The Cowboy defense claimed another victim.

OSU has a knack for holding teams to season lows, or at least below their season average, and they did it again to West Virginia. Before Monday night, the Mountaineers’ previous season-low was 68 points back in a November loss to Purdue.

Oh, and that Purdue team is undefeated and ranked No. 1 in the nation. That’s good company.

“Mike’s a hell of a coach,” said West Virginia coach Bob Huggins. “He does a great job. They’re always extremely well prepared. Defensively they’re really good, and it doesn’t hurt to have a 7-foot guy guarding the goal, either.”

Huggins was asked if it then helped them when Cisse, the aforementioned 7-footer, went out of the game due to injury.

“No, they just put in a couple more big guys,” Huggins said.

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After a scoreless and shotless first half, Kalib Boone scored 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting in the second half of a win over West Virginia.

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The Cowboy defense held West Virginia to a season-low 60 points Monday night in Gallagher-Iba Arena.

Top OSU backup performances at the Southern Scuffle

Rowdy Baribeau Staff Reporter

OSU’s backup wrestlers were no pushover at the Southern Scuffle. Every starting OSU wrestler placed at the Southern Scuffle on Monday. However, there were some supporting cast members who brought home some hardware as well. OSU had three 184-pound placers at the Southern Scuffle. The first-place finish was locked up by Travis Wittlake, while the third-place to Trophy went to Gavin Stika and the seventh-place award to Kyle Haas. Stika, Haas and Wittlake, at

one point, were undefeated and surely a pair was going to wrestle. However, after losses to Stika and Haas, a Cowboy matchup never happened. Here are some of the top performances by backup wrestlers at the Southern Scuffle 184-pounder Gavin Stika Stika got things started with a bang thanks to a fall over Chattanooga’s Ben Bumgarner and picked up two decisions, but proceeded to drop a match against the eventual second-placer Deanthony Parker Jr of North Dakota State. Stika won his next two matches, scores of 4-0 and 6-0. Stika wrestled well as he only gave up two takedowns in the entire tournament.

184-pounder Kyle Haas

Early on, it was hard to find a Cowboy that didn’t log a pin. Haas got his Scuffle started with a pin over Little Rock’s Tanner Mendoza and put up a nice 9-4 decision over Chattanooga’s Matthew Waddell. However, Haas dropped two of his next three matches by scores of 7-5 and 3-1. In between the losses, he got himself another fall over Maryland’s Chase Mielnik. Haas won the seventh-place match by a medical forfeit from Binghamton’s Jacob Nolan. Medical forfeits became somewhat of a trend in the semifinals and final matches.

149-pounder Jordan Williams It’s Oklahoma State. The pedigree and history it possesses will always

draw top talent to Stillwater and the Owasso native Jordan Williams has impressed in just a few short months as a Cowboy. Williams didn’t place at the Southern Scuffle but he put up a strong overall performance. He won two-straight matches, 5-4 and 20-8 until he dropped his final two matches 10-9 and 3-1. Williams’ match against NDSU’s Kellyn March was lost in the first period as he got down 7-2 and was unable to do enough to get the win, but his comeback effort was impressive. He has a bright future as a Cowboy.

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OSU redshirt freshman Kyle Haas (left) finished seventh in the 184-pound bracket at the Southern Scuffle.

Notebook: Smith reflects on Scuffle, looks ahead to dual meets

Rowdy Baribeau Staff Reporter

It was good to gain experience, but now the Cowboys’ focus shifts to the grueling dual meet schedule.

With 181 points and 12 placers, the Cowboys were crowned the Southern Scuffle tournament champions. Head coach John Smith was pleased with how the team wrestled. Smith has always been a fan of tournaments solely because of the experience his wrestlers gain, especially at renowned tournaments like the Scuffle. There were some unpleasing moments and results, which will be discussed. Here’s a notebook following OSU’s Southern Scuffle victory.

Young struggled in the second

half of the tournament

A tech fall and a decision victory was how Carter Young, OSU’s 141-pounder, started the tournament. He finished with a 3-3 record in the Scuffle.

After Young lost his rematch with Minnesota’s Jake Bergeland 2-0, he pinned Hofstra’s Justin Doyle to put him in the consolation semi-finals and a chance for a third-place finish.

He dropped his next two matches by scores of 5-2 and 5-4 against unranked wrestlers. Young has had a rough start to the season outside of his upset win over Bergeland earlier in the year and not getting a third or better finish at the Scuffle certainly doesn’t sit right with the young 141-pounder.

Smith unhappy with medical forfeits

Medical forfeits came at inconvenient times and in odd situations.

There were numerous occasions that wrestlers medical forfeited against OSU wrestlers, most notably top 10 wrestlers Ethan Laird of Rider and Jaxon Smith of Maryland forfeiting back to back against Luke Surber and No. 23 Jacob Nolan of Binghamton forfeiting against Kyle Haas.

To Smith, it seemed like they were situational forfeits rather than medical forfeits to maintain top rankings instead of taking the gamble on wrestling. What perturbed him more is that it doesn’t count as a loss or win, which negatively affects his wrestlers not just record-wise, but experiencewise.

Mastrogiovanni will have a chance to avenge his Southern Scuffle placement

He won’t win first, second or third place, but Trevor Mastrogiovanni can

defeat the wrestlers who sent him out with a fourth-place finish. On Feb. 5, Missouri will travel to Stillwater where Mastrogiovanni, OSU’s 125-pound starter, will have a grudge match with Noah Surtin at 125 pounds who defeated him 3-0 in Chattanooga.

After defeating Stanford’s Nico Provo 3-1 in the quarter-finals, he dropped his match with Surtin and proceeded to defeat Appalachian State’s Caleb Smith 5-2. In the third-place match, Provo blew the match open with a 9-3 decision to secure the third-place trophy. Mastrogiovanni will face off against Provo again in Stillwater when Stanford makes its way to Stillwater on Feb. 12 to wrestle the Cowboys. Mastrogiovanni will certainly have those two dates circled on his calendar.

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Trevor Mastrogiovanni, OSU’s 125-pounder, surrendered 2:07 of riding time to Oklahoma’s Joey Prata.

Big decisions loom for Fulton County investigation of Trump

Tamar Hallerman The Atlanta Journal Constitution

ATLANTA — Fulton County prosecutors have suggested the special grand jury probing whether former President Donald Trump or his allies unlawfully meddled in Georgia’s 2020 elections is coming to a close.

That, however, may only mark the end of the beginning of Fulton’s turn in the national spotlight.

Should District Attorney Fani Willis subsequently decide to press charges against the former commander in chief or anyone in his orbit, the metro Atlanta county would be at the center of a media circus in 2023 and beyond.

No former president has ever been charged with a crime.

Here’s what’s happened so far and what could be coming in the weeks and months ahead:

What’s the investigation about?

Willis launched her probe in February 2021, weeks after audio leaked from a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During that infamous Jan. 2, 2021, conversation, Trump pressed the fellow Republican to “find” exactly enough votes to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in Georgia.

The investigation quickly expanded to include at least six events:

— Calls Trump and his allies placed to Georgia officials after the election, including Raffensperger, Gov. Brian Kemp, Attorney General Chris Carr and the late House Speaker David Ralston

— The abrupt resignation of Atlanta-based U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak in January 2021

— Testimony Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and others affiliated with the Trump campaign gave to Georgia legislators in December 2020

— The appointment of “alternate” Republican electors in December 2020

— The breach of elections data in Coffee County in January 2021

— Efforts to pressure Fulton County poll worker Ruby Freeman to admit to election fraud

Which state laws might have been broken?

Willis has listed a half-dozen Georgia statutes, including criminal solicitation to commit election fraud, the making of false statements to state and local governmental bodies, conspiracy, racketeering, violation of oath of office and involvement in violence or threats related to the election’s administration.

Legal experts with the think tank the Brookings Institution said other crimes that might have been committed include false certification, influencing witnesses and computer trespass, among others.

What is a special grand jury and what kind of work has it been doing?

Twenty-three Fulton residents, along with three alternates, were selected in May to help the DA’s office with its investigation. Jurors began hearing from witnesses in early June.

Over the last six months, the special grand jury has heard from dozens of witnesses, from high-level state officials (Kemp, Raffensperger, Carr) to Trump’s closest confidantes (U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, Giuliani, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn). All of their appearances occurred behind closed doors since grand juries work in secret.

At least 18 people (Giuliani, the 16 GOP electors and Dallas-based lawyer and podcaster Jacki Pick) have been informed they are targets of the probe and could see criminal charges. The DA’s office was subsequently disqualified from investigating one of those electors, Lt. Gov.-elect Burt Jones, because Willis had hosted a fundraiser for his Democratic opponent.

The special grand jury, however, cannot take one very important step: issue criminal indictments. Only regularly empaneled grand juries can do that under Georgia law.

What’s next?

Still unclear, as the grand jury hears from its final few witnesses, is whether Willis and her team have

decided to summon Trump to testify. Formally petitioning him for his appearance could trigger a lengthy court fight — and he would likely plead the Fifth Amendment.

Special grand jury members could vote within weeks on recommendations, including whether Willis should press any charges. If a majority of jurors can agree on a course of action, it will be included in a final report, known as a special presentment.

The report will then be reviewed by Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who’s been overseeing the grand jury, and his colleagues, who will determine whether the grand jury has satisfied its original objectives.

The presentment is then turned over to the DA’s office for potential criminal prosecution.

It’s unclear whether the grand jury’s findings will be published shortly after it’s approved by the court, though it’s expected to become public at some point.

The final decision of whether to press charges ultimately rests with Willis. Should she opt to do so, she would need to re-present the case in front of a separate, regular grand jury that has the power to issue indictments.

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Surrounded by Fulton County law enforcement officials, District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a news conference about the RICO indictment in the celebrity home invasion ring on Aug. 29, 2022. (Natrice Miller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Republicans move to retain Jan. 6 committee documents

Sarah D. Wire Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Republicans are attempting to pass a new House rule to block materials compiled by the panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection from immediately going to the National Archives.

Although the House committee investigating the insurrection has released a trove of transcripts and underlying information backing up its report, the vast majority of raw information the panel collected is slated to be sent to the National Archives, where it could be locked away for up to 50 years.

But the proposed rules package the new Congress will vote on Tuesday orders that any record created by the

panel must instead be sent to the House Committee on House Administration by Jan. 17 and orders the National Archives to return any material it has already received.

The move could signal that House Republicans intend to attempt to rebut the panel’s investigation, which captivated public sentiment for months. The investigation ended with a criminal referral for former President Donald Trump and a landmark report concluding Trump intentionally misled and provoked the insurrectionists as part of an attempt to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican who is his party’s nominee for speaker of the House, sent a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and the chair of the Jan. 6 committee, in

November demanding the preservation of “all records collected and transcripts of testimony taken during your investigation.”

“The official Congressional Records do not belong to you or any member, but to the American people, and they are owed all of the information you gathered — not merely the information that comports with your political agenda,” the letter states.

House Republican leaders have previously indicated plans to investigate why the Capitol was so easily breached and whether the governing body overseeing Capitol Police needs to be changed.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., already named the House Committee on House Administration the custodian of the records. Under current House rules, the committee is obligated

to hand over the official records to the House clerk, who transmits them to the National Archives. The rules also prevent the National Archives from releasing committee records for at least 30 years. Sensitive records, such as those from a major investigation, can be held up to 50 years before being made public.

Each Congress sets its own rules, but targeting a single committee’s records for retention rather than submitting them to the National Archives is unusual. The House retains ownership of committee records even when they’ve been transmitted to the National Archives, and can temporarily recall them at any time for official committee use.

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Hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 9, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

A summary released by Republicans on the Rules Committee says the proposed change requires “the quick transfer of records from the January 6th Select Committee to the House Administration Committee.” It is not clear if the records will be transmitted to the National Archives before the new Congress ends in 2024.

Spokespeople for Republicans on the House Rules Committee and the House Committee on House Administration did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.

In a statement Monday, Thompson indicated that the National Archives has already begun receiving records from the committee.

The committee, which is due to officially disband at 11:59 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, has published hundreds of interview or deposition transcripts and thousands of pages of evidence cited in the report to an online repository housed by the Government Publishing Office. Much of that information was published over the weekend, including dozens of previously unreleased transcripts, expert statements and nearly 400 documents cited

in the report. Videos shown during the committee’s nine hearings in 2022 are included in the repository, and at least 75 videos are already available.

The committee generally released only the information that was cited in its report. Most of what it released appears tailored to back up the conclusions of its final report and emphasize what the committee thought was most relevant to its investigation. The rest of the material the panel obtained — often by subpoenaing agencies and individuals — was expected to enter the National Archives.

Among the information that wasn’t made public and was expected to go to the National Archives are emails and text messages that witnesses or federal agencies provided to the committee that were not referenced in the final report. Raw footage from witness depositions, police video cameras or documentary filmmakers that was not shown during hearings was also expected to go to the National Archives.

For example, of the hundreds of text messages and emails former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows handed over while he was complying with the committee, only the emails or text messages referenced in the report have been officially released. Rather than make public all records produced by the Secret Service or Department of Defense about what they knew about the threats of violence on Jan. 6 or why it took so long for the National Guard to arrive, only the documents the report

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specifically refers to will come out.

Similarly, internal White House emails and communications, call logs and other records that the committee received from the National Archives after a lengthy legal battle with former President Donald Trump were also expected to be sent back to the Archives unless directly cited in the report.

The committee’s 18-month investigation created the single largest compilation of evidence related to the attack, and the political forces that led to it. Investigators conducted nearly 1,200 interviews, only a fraction of which were transcribed and released through the repository.

Much of the millions of pages of information and evidence collected by the committee were obtained through subpoenas or lengthy court battles — including one over White House records that was decided in the committee’s favor by the Supreme Court — or were compelled by federal agencies.

The scope of information the committee is thought to have collected goes far beyond what appears in the repository and does not exist in one place anywhere else. Republicans blocked the creation of an independent, nonpartisan commission to study the attack in 2021, so there is no other entity studying the entirety of what contributed to the attack and how it happened.

The complete interviews and underlying evidence released by the committee in the last few weeks have provided a wealth of information and

explosive details that are not in the final report and that are helping explain more about the people involved in the effort to keep Trump in office despite losing the 2020 presidential election. That includes informal adviser Steve Bannon texting his spokeswoman Alexandra Preate on Jan. 8 about surrounding the Capitol with a million people after Biden’s inauguration; Trump lawyers strategizing about suing former Vice President Mike Pence; and the communications Trump had with his lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, Meadows and Bannon on Jan. 2 immediately after asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the 11,000 votes Trump needed to win the state.

Experts were already concerned that a limited release of information would harm the committee’s goals of accountability and guaranteeing the historical record is as accurate as possible. People closely watching the hearings, including journalists and government watchdog groups, have been anxiously waiting to see what raw information the panel would provide so they can continue examining avenues the committee didn’t fully explore.

The Department of Justice is conducting its own investigation, but its evidence isn’t likely to ever be produced in full for the public. The committee provided the Department of Justice with everything it asked for in a tailored request for information in December.

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A video of deposition by lawyer Sidney Powell is shown during a full committee hearing on “the January 6th Investigation,” on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

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Today’s Birthday (01/04/23). This year favors home and family. Your organized, disciplined efforts win valuable prizes. Winter reorients passions for new directions, inspiring springtime household renovation and improvements. Adjust around summertime team transitions, before celebrating autumn’s professional victories. Domestic harmony is your most valuable reward.

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Use your superpowers. Take charge for the results you want. The outcome is even better than expected. Advance personal passions. Aim for the stars.

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