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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by CHUCK SHEPPARD More Creative Alternate-Site Surgery: Doctors from the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Washington announced in September that they could just as well handle certain brain surgeries by access not in the traditional way through the top of the skull but by drilling holes in the nose and, more recently, the eye socket. (Since classic brain surgery requires that the top of the skull be temporarily removed, the breakthroughs mean fewer complications.) These innovations follow on the inroads in recent years in performing kidney-removal and gall-bladder surgery not by traditional abdominal incisions but through, respectively, the vagina and the anus. [Science Daily, 9-29-10] [MSNBC- AP, 2-2-09] The Continuing Crisis In a heartwarming climax to an adopted son’s emotional search for his birth mother (who gave him up for adoption 33 years ago), Richard Lorenc of Kansas managed to track down mom Vivian Wheeler, 62, living in Bakersfield, Calif., where she is retired — as a circus-sideshow “bearded lady” (the result of hypertrichosis, also known as “werewolf syndrome”). Lorenc said he can see their similarities right through Wheeler’s beard, which she keeps now at a length of 11 inches. The relationship was to be confirmed by a DNA test paid for by the Maury Povich TV show, but at press time, the result had not been announced. [AOL News, 9-16-10, 9-21-10] Sports Fans Over the Line: Marie Murphy, a fifth-grade teacher in Stratford, N.J., and her husband lost almost everything in a house fire in April, but when she arrived at the burning home, she defied firefighters and dashed inside to retrieve a single prized possession: her Philadelphia Phillies season tickets. “My husband was so mad at me...” (Later, a Phillies representative gently informed her that the team would have reprinted her tickets for free.) [WCAU-TV (Philadelphia), 9-16-10] Justin Witcombe, 31, showed a reporter in Geelong, Australia, in September his full body of tattoos of his three idols in life: boxer Mike Tyson, the rock group KISS, and his local Collingwood soccer team, whose mascot is inked prominently on Witcombe’s penis. [Newkerala.com-Asian News International, 9-24-10] At least 13 percent of U.S. teenagers report having intentionally injured themselves as cries for help, and among the more extreme manifestations is “embedding” — the insertion of glass, wood, metal and other material, just under the skin. Writing in the October issue of the journal Radiology, a doctor at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, followed up on 11 cases involving 76 self- embedded objects in arms, neck, feet and hands, including an astonishing 35 placed by one boy (staples, parts of a comb, parts of a fork). [Bloomberg Business Week- HealthDay, 9-7-10] COPYRIGHT 2010 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Patio Open Live Entertainment Fri & Sat Nights! Come Enjoy One of Our COOL DRINK SPECIALS $2 Wells and $2 MON $2.50 $2 Wells and $3 Lemon Drops $1 Wells and $1 WED $2 $3 Jager $2 Wells WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY ARIES (March 21-April 19) Although others are striving for greater willpower, your will doesn’t need strengthening — it’s strong enough. If anything, you could go the other direction, allowing yourself to be a little more fl exible and open to new ways of getting around life’s obstacles. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Once you enter into a relationship, lines get crossed, rules bend, new preferences arise — things change. When you know this upfront, you can relax. Just keep showing up with a willingness to work for the best possible outcome. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) This week it will be so important to you to fi gure out what the payoff will be before you take the fi rst step in your journey. Choose your destination. It prob- ably won’t be a place, but rather a state of mind or a reward. CANCER (June 22-July 22) You have a unique gift to share, exactly as you are. People around you are responding to the whole package of who you are, not to the details of your face and body and how they are arranged these days. Give more thought to how you project your soul. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You have a mental pic- ture of how this week will unfold, though it will seldom happen the way you imagined it would. In some instances, what actually occurs will be even better than your original idea. Regard- less, what you learn in the process will help you make more accurate projections in the future. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) For you, motiva- tion happens in all kinds of ways, depending on your stage of life. However it comes for you this week, be grateful that you have a burning fi re in your belly. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 2) You express yourself in exciting ways. But you’ve been behaving like this for so long that the way you talk, walk, dress and emote just seems very ordinary to you. Meanwhile, you’re making quite an impression on the new acquaintances that drift into your world. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) If you knew ex- actly what would be on the test, it wouldn’t be a comprehensive gauge of where you are now. This week, life will bring opportunities to exert yourself, to measure up and to learn in what ways you still need to grow to be the person you want to be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) How you retell the events of your life is like giving a picture a perfect frame. The frame won’t make the art itself any better, and yet it helps you to focus on what’s there, to see the beauty and to understand how it ties in to the whole room. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Getting people to happily work for you is an art. You would like to be great friends with everyone. However, being too friendly hurts the working dynamic. You’ll fi gure out to what degree you can be serious and playful. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Make a con- scious effort to express yourself in a way that is easily understood by your target audience. It may at fi rst feel unnatural to cater your mes- sage to the specifi c culture you are trying to reach. Key adjustments in tone and language will be effective. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You’ll be asked to improvise. You’re so good at it that this could open future doors for you. It all springs from your stellar attitude. You are so willing to adjust as needed to make things work smoothly, and you leave your ego out of the equation. By Holiday Mathis ADVICE GODDESS Giving Her Pause I’ve been dating a great guy for three years. I occasionally get invited to work functions, and I’d like to take him, but I can’t trust him to act appropriately (not grope me in front of my co-workers, make inappropriate small talk, etc.). The thought of bringing him makes me so anxious that I go by myself. Recently, we went to two concerts he wanted to see, and I kept having to pry his hands off my breasts in the middle of a crowd. It was humiliating. I’m starting to think he has a social anxiety disorder. Asking him to be a supportive partner and accompany me to the occasional work event doesn’t seem like that big of a burden, especially since I entertain his friends and go see bands I don’t like for him. I don’t want to sound like a prig, but I’m advancing in my career, and I should soon be attend- ing more work-related events. Am I being unreasonable? — Groped It’s normal to sometimes have to make excuses for your partner, but excuses like “He’s actually a vegetarian,” not “Believe it or not, he was raised by a pack of wild animals after his parents died in a freak canoeing accident.” Amy Alkon Wildly inappropriate PDA is generally a sign that you’re 14 and lack boundaries or a way for a highly insecure partner to mark his territory. It can also be a way of hiding shyness by overcompensating. Whatever it is, it sure isn’t loving behavior. It’s bad enough that he embarrasses you at concerts, but offi ce parties are not parties; they’re work meetings with alcohol and land mines. When you bring your boyfriend, he should do his best to support you, and not in the way a Wonderbra would. You get the relationship you put up with. Three years in, you have no idea why your boyfriend acts like he just broke out of the monkey house. Maybe it’s a social anxiety disorder, maybe it’s itchy hair follicles, or maybe he’s trying to sabotage you because he’s jealous of your success. The fi rst or second time he got all Mr. Gropeypants was your cue to let him know where his hands go when he’s with you in public. What stopped you then, and what’s stopping you now? Fear of confrontation? Fear of losing him? Lockjaw? Speaking up might’ve had you well on your way to a solution years ago — or to a boyfriend who not only knows better than to french you under the mistletoe at the company Christmas party but gets that dry humping you under it is a big no- go, too. (c)2010, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. OCTOBER 27 - NOVEMBER 2, 2010 UCW 27 Halloween Costume H C Contest Fri., Sat., & Sun. Cash & Prizes Fri. Ca C Game Plan Saturdays ESPN Sunday Ticket NFL