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NEWS OF THE WEIRD WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY The Kerry, Ireland, county council voted in January to let some people drive drunk. The councillors reasoned that in the county���s isolated regions, some seniors live alone and need the camaraderie of the pub, but fear a DUI arrest on the way home. The councillors thus empowered police to issue DUI permits to those targeted drivers. Besides, reasoned the councillors, the area is so sparsely populated that such drivers never encounter anyone else on the road at night. (The councillors��� beneficence might also have been influenced, reported BBC News, by the fact that ���several��� of the five voting ���yea��� own pubs.) [BBC News, 1-222013] Can���t Possibly Be True William Province, 42, was arrested in Jefferson County, Mont., in December and charged with waterboarding four boys, two of whom were his own sons, at his home in December. (Also in January, Kirill Bartashevitch, 52, was charged with making ���terroristic��� threats to his high-school-age daughter after he allegedly pointed his new AK-47 at her because her report card showed 2 B���s Chuck Sheppard instead of all A���s. He said he had recently purchased the gun because he feared that President Obama intended to ban them.) [KXLF-TV (Butte), 12-20-2012] [St. Paul Pioneer-Press, 1-16-2012] Emma Whittington, of Hutchinson, Kan., rushed her daughter to the ER in December when the girl, 7 months old, developed a golf-ball-sized lump on her neck. Two days later, at a hospital in Wichita, a doctor gently pulled a feather out of the lump and hypothesized that it had been in the midst of emerging from her throat. Doctors said the girl probably swallowed the feather accidentally, that it got stuck in throat tissue, and that her body was trying to eject it through the skin. [KWCH-TV (Wichita), 12-13-2012] As if 9/11 and the resultant air travel restrictions had never happened, travelers for some reason continue to keep Transportation Security Administration agents busy at passengers��� carry-on bag searches. From a TSA weekly summary of confiscations in January: 33 handguns, eight stun guns and a serrated wire garrote. Among highlights from 2012: a live 40mm grenade, a live blasting cap, ���seal bombs��� and six pounds of black powder (with detonation cords and a timing fuse). [The TSA Blog (blog.tsa.gov), 1-11-2012] ARIES (March 21-April 19) Contests of one are easy to win. When you consider yourself in a league of your own and resolve not to compare yourself to others, success is inevitable. It���s your week to hone your skills and grow your talents through independent practice. by CHUCK SHEPPARD COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM For the Week of February 24, 2013 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) There have been times when your whim has led you to purchase items at the perfect moment. You were able to buy low and watch the value increase. Another such moment will occur, so keep your eyes open for deals and opportunities. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Only on very rare occasions have you acted to make life more complicated than it needed to be. To keep up the trend, this week you���ll have to remind yourself to do the necessary maintenance, get rid of what you don���t use and avoid attaining what you don���t really need. CANCER (June 22-July 22) It���s been suggested that getting to the top is a lot easier than staying at the top. This isn���t entirely true. It���s just that many people are so seduced by the trappings of success that they get distracted and forget to keep doing the work. As long as you keep doing the work, you���ll maintain your position. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) If you���re obsessed with doing everything at the so-called ���right time,��� you will miss many opportunities. Most doors do not open and close at a particular time. They operate because they are pushed or triggered. As you get clearer in your purpose, the timing becomes irrelevant. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your resources are not unlimited, but they are deep. You may not have the exact solution for the problem you face midweek, but you���re always willing to give your smile to anyone who doesn���t have one of his own. Your heart has the power to heal others. ADVICE GODDESS Beta Path to Love LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Being the old soul that you are, you���re willing to accept that fact and get on with the business of honoring those close to you for all they bring to this life. And when you choose to see perfectly just how imperfect a person is and give your total acceptance, you are love in action. Ten years ago, my friend and I met our husbands on the same night (they were friends who challenged us to a game of pool), and we both got married the same year. We all pledged to spend our 10th SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Once you���ve anniversary in Hawaii together, but my mastered a task, there is a very short window of time in which you still enjoy doing that exact thing. friend���s husband is making it dif���cult, Challenge and satisfaction are linked. That���s why saying no to every ���ight, activity and hotel you���re always striving to learn and do more. This my friend and I propose. He���ll call a hotel week has you tackling ambitious aims. ���overrated��� or ���too touristy,��� but his one SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Some bad quality is that he���s seriously cheap, marketers assume that if their wares are packaged and it���s becoming clear that he���s trying to right, you will buy. You only put your money into what���s real, useful, of high quality and priced right. torpedo the whole vacation because of it. (They are well-off, by the way!) He keeps Just don���t forget to turn it on before you take out joking that we should just stay home and your wallet this week. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Position yourself celebrate ��� but I don���t think he���s really joking. I���m angry with my friend for never so that you have to try, but not very hard. When you extend yourself a little, people want to reach telling her husband to curb his cheapness over to help you. When you extend yourself a lot, and for not standing up for our plans and they will be too afraid to help, because it looks like worried that my anger could affect our a lost cause. friendship. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Don���t be in such ��� Frustrated a hurry to change. You still haven���t accepted the most wonderful things about yourself. You���re better off working on accepting yourself ��� and that���s so easy this week that there���s no point in calling it ���work.��� All you have to do is direct some of your natural kindness and generosity toward yourself. Your friend probably feels embarrassed about her husband���s PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You only have to tightwaddy ways show up and do what you came to do. If it���s within but probably feels your ability, you���ll nail it. If not, you���ll learn so Amy Alkon disloyal saying so. that you can nail it another time. Either way, your effectiveness has nothing to do with you personally, Still, despite how the man must get blisters unless you choose to see it that way. from clinging so tight to a dollar, being married to him must work for her. By Holiday Mathis To feel less suckered, try to have some sympathy for the guy, who probably isn���t cheap just to irritate you and everyone he knows. People say ���money talks.��� To him, it probably says stuff like, ���If I leave you, I���m never coming back!��� The origins of his cheapitude may be in his upbringing ��� and may even be in his genes, according to a 2010 study by Dr. Itamar Simonson and Dr. Aner Sela surveying attitudes about risk and spending in identical and fraternal twins. As in other twin studies, identical twins (who are born from a single egg and are thus genetically identical) were signi���cantly more alike in a number of measures, including how risk- and loss-averse they were, suggesting a genetic component to being a cheap mofo. Swap your anger at your friend for acceptance of reality: She isn���t able to stand up to him, and he isn���t able to say yes to spending money on a pricey vacation when he probably spends much of his life worrying that he���ll someday have to pawn a kidney to buy groceries. Tell your friend ��� sans animosity ��� that you���re weary of searching, you���re booking a hotel, and you hope they���ll join you if it works for them. Who knows, when you���re all looking at celebrating your 20th together ��� maybe on a tropical cruise! ��� things may be different. Not because either of them is likely to change but because Orbitz may start offering great deals on ���oating to Hawaii on pieces of broken barrels. Amy Alkon all rights reserved. FEBRUARY 20-26, 2013 UCW 23