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NEWS OF THE WEIRD WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY The usual 20,000 or so visitors every year to Belgium's Verbeke Foundation art park have the option (365 of them, anyway) to spend the night inside the feature attraction: a 20-foot-long, 6-foot-high polyester replica of a human colon created by Dutch designer Joep Van Lieshout. At one end, of course, another body part is replicated (and gives the installation its formal name, the Hotel CasAnus). The facility, though "cramped," according to one prominent review, features heating, shower and double bed, and rents for the equivalent of about $150 a night. The 30-acre art park is regarded as one of Europe's "edgiest" art destinations. [Huffington Post, 12-12-2012] ARIES (March 21-April 19) Confident people carry themselves differently from others. This week brings new situations in which you may not experience your usual comfort level. So push your shoulders back, breathe deeply and smile. This will be fun. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Every once in a while it comes up, and you are suddenly overtaken by a need to become perfect, or a need to appear perfect, which are two very different things, both of them equally unhelpful. It's better to simply be who you are, flaws and all, and go for it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) While you are having a good time, someone else is not. Should you let it diminish your fun? It depends on the situation, the relationship and the distance between people. It takes emotional intelligence and compassion to navigate these factors well. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) People who dare to be seen making mistakes are the happiest ones around this week — not that they care to compare themselves. They are too involved with their worthy mission to bother with what the rest of the world thinks of their process. Compelling Explanations Psychologist Dr. Bella DePaulo, in Singled Out, shows that many studies claiming married people are much better off than singles have serious flaws in LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You'll be asked to AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) As you engage methodology, and the modest claims of account for recent decisions. Though you're in your work, you will have long stretches of solid studies are the one who made these choices, this won't be that heightened state called "flow." Two major frequently distorted, easy. Much of what you do is intuitive, and the features of this state are that it is both fearless exaggerated and reasoning may be unclear even to you. and egoless, which are nearly the same thing. turned into media Without fear, there is no need to fluff, posture VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Thanks to the and defend the personality. catnip by the needs and animal wisdom of your ancestors, your brain is wired for survival. But some of agenda-driven. As a PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Routine events Amy Alkon the "fight or flight" responses that kick in for glimmer with an element of danger and exciteresult, "single" is so you these days are unnecessary in today's world ment. You'll get some news that shakes you like automatically viewed as the companion . Detach and get the perspective you need to a martini — but don't worry, it won't leave you to "miserable" (and the prelude to remain cool. chilled. Instead, you'll buzz with boldness. By Holiday Mathis getting your face eaten off by your cat) that even respected researcher Dr. E. Mavis Hetherington can't see her faulty reasoning in concluding, "Happily married couples are healthier, happier, wealthier, and sexier than are singles." Note that she's comparing HAPPILY MARRIED people with ALL single people. Your friend makes a mistake in throwing all the single eggs in one basket. Some people are single and living alone because they have unresolved issues, and some are because a whole lot of other people do. Others simply prefer living alone. (Why have a mancave when you can have a manhome?) Studies do show definite benefits to being (happily) married, such as having a sounding Questions? board, a ready source of sex and hugs and someone to help you pick up the Comments? pieces when you drop them. If you're Story Ideas? single, these benefits aren't unavailable Let us know to you; they just take more thought and how we're effort to obtain. For example, you can doing. share a house or duplex with a friend, create a community of friends, and have at least one close friend who knows Your opinion is something we just about everything about you and is always want to hear. Call or email us your feedback. allowed and even encouraged to tell you when you're being an idiot. Whatever you do, don't let that "dying alone!" business get to you. Somebody can tough it out for 30 years with a person and, wouldn't 208 Rowan St. you know it, have that final heart attack Fayetteville, NC 28301 just moments after their spouse runs out 910.484.6200 to the store with a coupon for 40 cents off cottage cheese. Amy Alkon all rights reserved. Giuseppe Tedesco took the witness stand in Newton, N.J., in December and swore that all six shots that hit his girlfriend, Alyssa Ruggieri (one of them fatal), were "self-defense" "accidents." After she discovered his .25-caliber handgun in sofa cushions, he said he reached for it and in the Chuck Sheppard struggle was shot in the hand, but he still managed to grip the gun tightly, and the pair tumbled down some stairs. During the struggle, "both" hands shot Ruggieri twice. Despite their injuries, they both maintained their vice-like grips on the gun, he said, and "they" shot Ruggieri twice more. The final shot, he said, came with Ruggieri holding the gun point-blank at his face, and when he pushed it away, "they" fired another shot that hit Ruggieri in the temple. (At press time, the trial was continuing.) [Star-Ledger (Newark), 12-19-2012] Retrials and appeals are sometimes granted if a convicted criminal demonstrates that he received "ineffective assistance of counsel." Among the reasons that the lawyer for convicted Joliet, Ill., quadruplemurderer Christopher Vaughn offered in his November motion was the ineptness of other lawyers (but not himself). Specifically, he argued, the lawyers for the convicted wife-killing police officer Drew Peterson put on such a disgusting case that they gave all defense lawyers a bad name. (The website LoweringTheBar.net pointed out that Vaughn lawyer George Lenard himself violated a lawyers' "kitchen sink" standard by overlisting 51 separate reasons why his client deserved a new trial.) [Chicago Tribune, 11-26-2012; LoweringTheBar.net, 11-27-2012] COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM For the Week of January 27, 2013 GEMINI (May 21-June 21) There are friendships you find pleasant, and then there are friendships that are so tremendously beneficial that you can hardly believe your luck. You'll meet new people this week, so start thinking about what you need and who you would like to know. CANCER (June 22-July 22) It may be difficult to determine precisely what is within your control. This week you might think of your environment as if it were a computer game in which you have to click on different elements to determine whether or not you can change them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) As you bring a greater level of awareness to your actions, you may notice that you're more concerned with what others think about how you're doing than what you think. Once you notice, you'll immediately change your direction and focus. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Even though you have been known to keep an eye out for the bottom line (especially when others have long since forgotten the purpose of an exercise), you really do value process over results. This week's endeavors are evidence of your ability to focus on the present. WE'RE ALL EARS ADVICE GODDESS Nobody to Codepend on My boyfriend and I were invited to dinner at our friends' house. An hour after the appointed time, another friend of theirs, a woman who's been single for at least a decade, still hadn't left her house. She called with a crisis about what she was bringing, wearing, etc. (She always seems to have some crisis.) The hostess calmed her down, telling her to just come. Upon hanging up, she said that she thinks marriage both requires sanity and helps keep people sane and that people who are unmarried and living alone for an extended time seem to get increasingly neurotic. That seems a bit unfair, but I can see her point. — Unhitched www.upandcomingweekly.com by CHUCK SHEPPARD JANUARY 23-29, 2013 UCW 19