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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by CHUCK SHEPPARD After its launch was delayed for a month by the Madison, Wis., city attorney, the Snuggle House was cleared and scheduled to open on Nov. 15 to provide in-bed, pajama-clad "intimate, non-sexual touch(ing)" for $60 an hour. "So many people," said assistant manager Emily Noon, "don't have a significant other in their lives" and "just need to be held" (including, she said, the elderly and hospice patients, who are part of the target clientele). The city's delay was, a spokesman said, to assure that Snuggle House had protocols for dealing with "risky" situations in which a customer refuses to take "no sex" for an answer. (Snuggle House has prominent Chuck Sheppard surveillance cameras and panic buttons for the staff.) [WMTVTV (Madison), 11-13-2013; WKOW-TV (Madison), 10-14-2013] Oh, Dear! Among the underreported catastrophes caused by Hurricane Sandy in the New York-New Jersey area in October 2012 was the tragedy that befell the 27,000-case WineCare storage cellar in Manhattan. Though it claimed to have lost only about 5 percent of its inventory when waters from the Hudson River flooded its supposedly secure warehouse, that number apparently did not count the many preserved bottles whose labels washed off, dramatically reducing the value of customers' toweringly priced grape and forcing WineCare into bankruptcy court, according to a New York Times report in July. [New York Times, 7-21-2013] WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY For the Week of December 1, 2013 ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your thinking now is very different from the way you thought 10 years ago, and it's reasonable to assume you'll keep changing. Growth is the natural way. It's not always graceful, but it's usually necessary. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) he fight of good against evil usually isn't set in the world of superheroes and villains. Today's events prove the point when good triumphs in a hundred humble tasks approached with great love. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Trouble has been known to begin with the person doing exactly as he or she wishes. Rules, roles and responsibilities, though tedious, often nurture the best parts of us. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Motivated by curiosity, you'll drive full speed ahead into a juicy mystery. Certainty is a dead-end road. As long as you don't know for sure, new possibilities will keep opening a path before you. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Study is not always noble. Ask the parents of perpetual college students — sometimes study is downright frivolous. The application of knowledge is more important than the acquisition of knowledge. CANCER (June 22-July 22)ou have a right to do what you please, and it pleases you to do it right. The way you live will make a point to the rest of the world. But you're not trying to say anything. You're just being you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You're adaptable, and that's what will keep the peace in your group. Someone has to adjust, and you don't mind that it's you this time. Your ego isn't oversized, and your identity doesn't hinge on one way of doing things. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Mercy is heralded as a virtue, and yet it can embolden the worst behaviors. Drawing a hard line is sometimes necessary. You'll be making a decision about what to forgive and what not to forgive. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You know the secret to winning with people. It's not what you say; it's that you really care. Those who go forward heart-first will make strong connections where others fail to connect at all. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Popular things aren't always quality things, but usually there's a very good reason why one thing rises to the top of everyone's list at once. You're likely to fall in line with the group consensus today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You'll get what you put up with. Having to stand up for yourself over and over can get tiring, but as long as you're consistent, you will win in the end. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You can still get your way on the big things, but some of the details will be moved around. You'll compromise on many points but not on your values. Those remain unchanged for now. ADVICE GODDESS Paradise Lust I want to break up with my girlfriend, but we are supposed to go to Costa Rica and have already paid for the house we're renting for the month. Is it ridiculous to wait till after Costa Rica to break up? — I Sound Like A Jerk When you put off canceling a relationship to avoid canceling your vacation, even posing for photos can get complicated. Unfortunately, you can't do much to cushion the blow when she invariably squeezes out of you that you stuck around long after you stopped loving her, which Amy Alkon will make her feel stupid and humiliated, in addition to the usual fun feelings that come with being dumped. Barring some immediate need for your emotional support, the kindest thing you can do is break up as soon as you know it's over. Letting your girlfriend go without you to Costa Rica might allow her to look back fondly on both the relationship and the vacation — in a way she couldn't if she were flipping through her trip photos saying, "And this is the guy who wanted nothing to do with me kissing me under a jungle waterfall." . Amy Alkon all rights reserved NEW RETAIL LOCATION IN HOPE MILLS The California genetic testing company 23andMe was recently awarded a patent for a computer program that lets parents, by running probabilities through the known relevant cell and DNA variables (of over 240 conditions and traits), predict their "perfect" baby. [OpposingViews.com, 10-3-2013] In July, just days after the one-year anniversary of the spree killing of 12 people at the Century 16 Theaters in Aurora, Colo., Cassidy Delavergne was arrested after he entered the NCG Trillium theaters in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., wearing full body armor and carrying a loaded gun and a fake CIA badge (and alarming some but not all bystanders). Delavergne explained that he wore the equipment only because he did not want to leave it in his car while he watched the movie — and thought the badge might alleviate other patrons' fears. [MLive.com (Flint), 7-31-2013] WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Trying to Quit? We can Help! 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