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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by CHUCK SHEPPARD At age 20, Kyle Kandilian of Dearborn, Mich., has created a start-up business to fund his college expenses, but it involves a roomful (in the family home) of nearly 200,000 cockroaches. The environmental science major at University of Michigan-Dearborn breeds species ranging from the familiar household pests, which he sells on the cheap as food for other people's pets, to the more interesting, exotic Madagascar hissing roaches and rhino roaches, which can live for 10 to 15 years. (Kandilian told the Detroit Free Press in July that of the 4,000 cockroach species, only about a dozen are pests.) Why not choose a more conventional "pet"? Because "(m) ammals smell," he said. (Missing from the Free Press story: details on the likely interesting initial conversation Chuck Sheppard between Kyle and his mother when he asked if he could have 200,000 cockroaches in the house.) [Detroit Free Press, 7-28-2013] Can't Possibly Be True A 55-year-old woman in the Netherlands seemed to be experiencing orgasms emanating from her foot, she said, and Dr. Marcel Waldinger of Utrecht University (writing in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, online in June) produced a possible explanation. The applicable left foot nerve enters the spinal cord at about the same level as the vaginal nerve, Waldinger wrote, and the woman's recent foot injury might have caused the nerves to cross. The woman reported "five or six" orgasms per day that felt exactly like "regular" orgasms and, she said, were making her feel terribly guilty and embarrassed. After treatment with a nerve anesthetic, she reported being orgasm-free (in the foot, at least) for eight months. [CBS News via KHOU-TV (Houston), 7-1-2013] The intersection of West Gateway Boulevard and North Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach, Fla. (pop. 60,000), is nine lanes wide, busy even at 11 p.m. on Sunday night, as it was at that time in July when a 2-year-old girl darted across, a combination of good fortune and sometimes-rare Florida driver alertness allowing her safe arrival on the other side without a scratch. "It's a miracle," said Harry Scott, who witnessed it. "I'm telling you the truth." Mom Kayla Campbell, 26, was charged with felony neglect, as she appeared "oblivious," said police, to the child's absence from home. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 7-9-2013] COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM WEEKLY HOROSCOPES by holiday For the Week of August 31, 2013 ARIES (March 21-April 19) If you were to be completely honest with a certain someone about your feelings, the result might be spiritcrushing. Your feelings will change over time, so there's no need to air them completely. Choose compassion. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) You'll plan carefully what to say and do. You self-monitor because you care about how others are feeling and want them to have a good experience, not because you are overly concerned with how you are being perceived. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The early week sees you piecing together dissociated knowledge that won't make any more sense to you as the week progresses. Building your creative and emotional muscle tone will help you grow into the person you want to be. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) If you are in an unfamiliar circumstance and don't know how to behave, the first instinct is usually to copy others. You'll go far using your moral compass and all of your powers of reason to navigate toward those who can really help you. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) You're afraid that if you don't fight your inner demons, you'll wind up on the same side: their side. They don't want to devour you. They only want understanding and forgiveness. Stop fighting, and you'll tame and train them to work for and not against you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The natural human response is to back away from a failure and take credit for a hit. The superhuman response is to own whatever contribution is yours, whether the end result is a winner or a loser. It's all a learning process. CANCER (June 22-July 22) You feel a growing resistance to melding spirit, intention and identity with another. A driving need to be your own person will take over, making the idea of giving up yourself in the name of love seem repugnant. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You don't want your work to fall into the "who cares" category. That's why you take the time to figure out what those around you need and want. You'll have to navigate the line between doing something serviceable and doing what best expresses you. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) People get what they give to some extent, but there are also factors that are beyond our control. You're determined to take the reins of control wherever possible, but don't fret if fate won't give them up. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) To believe another person is right and to follow suit is one thing. To comply with a person because you're afraid of ridicule or rejection is another thing entirely. When in doubt, take a step back and think things out for yourself. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Everyone loves a genesis story. That's why they'll ask, "What gave you this idea?" and "How did you come to work here?" Beginnings are exciting. Nothing exists, and then suddenly something does — brilliant! What you'll be starting this week will later make an excellent story. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You often will agree to help a loved one out, but you still like to take things on a case-by-case basis. Saying "no" a few times this week will be good for your relationship, too. Draw boundaries and take back your power. By Holiday Mathis School & Football Season Are Right Around the Corner GET READY FOR TRYOUTS & PRACTICE! Helmets • Chin Straps Practice Pants • Mouth Guards Scrimmage Jerseys • Pads Cleats • Socks • Gloves Eyeblack • NoGlare Strips Two Great Businesses Under One Roof! Hours: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. M-F 3006 Bragg Blvd. 910.323.1791 www.trophyhouseinc.com ADVICE GODDESS When Hurry Met Sally I planned a cross-country trip to introduce my girlfriend of five months to my family. She just sprang on me that she wants my family to meet "all of" her, which includes her 9-year-old daughter. My family knows she has a child, and I really enjoy her daughter, but I'm really not ready to introduce both of them. It would suggest that I'm taking on the role of a father, that she's important to me, that I'm ready to care for her and that they should accept her as part of my life. I'm okay with their meeting the daughter later if our relationship progresses, but it's still so new that we haven't even had our first big argument yet. Is it okay for me to first want to love the woman and decide whether she's the one? Is it a warning sign that there are already issues regarding her child? — Dating A Package It's perfectly reasonable to want to be called baby for a while before you commit to having one, and especially one at the soon-tobe-sullen age of 9 who already calls some other guy daddy. Ironically, it's you, the single, childless guy Amy Alkon who's taking the more responsible, parental approach: waiting to see whether the relationship has legs before you start acting like you're all a family, which could end badly. Kids need stability. Ideally, "Who's your stepdaddy?" isn't a question a little girl should have to answer while standing by the revolving door outside the men's department. Your girlfriend's apparent attempt to leverage your affection for her into a Very Brady Vacation could be a straight-out power play or a fear-driven test to see whether you're up to quasidaddyhood. Think hard about the dayto-day details of being with a woman with a kid, like how her daughter will ultimately come first and how her presence will change the relationship dynamics. (You can't just tie a kid to a parking meter and make it up to her by taking her to pee in somebody's bushes after lunch.) If, for the right woman, the trade-offs wouldn't be too much for you, reassure your girlfriend of that, and then lay out the path to a relationship that works for you (more of a get-to-know-you stroll than a get-to-know-you freeway chase). If that timetable doesn't work for her, well, there's got to be a door there somewhere. But the fact that you have self-knowledge and the integrity to be unwilling to rush things suggests that she'd be prudent to see whether there's something between you — that is, besides an anonymous call to Child Services by someone making serious accusations: adults around her wearing Crocs with socks and not letting her wear makeup like all the other fourthgrade girls. Amy Alkon all rights reserved. AUG. 28 - SEPT 3, 2013 UCW 19