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NEWS OF THE WEIRD by CHUCK SHEPPARD relations boost than the cockroach, and Dr. Mathieu Lihoreau of Rennes, France, provided it in a recent issue of the journal Insectes Sociaux. Roaches are highly social, suffer when isolated, recognize members of their own families and appear to make "collective decisions for the greater good" of their community, according to a review of the research in May by BBC Nature. Functioning mostly through chemical cues, they advise their homeboys where to find food and water, where the good crawl-into cracks are for sleeping, and how to stay attached to their social networks. [BBC Nature, 5-2-2012] Challenging Business Models Dr. Jason Burke No insect is in greater need of a public WEEKLY HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY For the Week of June 24, 2012 ARIES (March 21-April 19) You are willing to make the sacrifi ces necessary to fuel your dreams so long as you know what they really are. What scares you are the unquantifi able and unknown factors. People who have traveled a path very much like yours can answer questions that could help you assess your risk. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The law of karma dictates that you claim your actions, or your actions will claim you. So many of the actions that result in your living the way you currently do happen automatically. This week will bring awareness to some of your auto-piloting. GEMINI (May 21-June 21) You'll be cooking something up this week — not food, but a tasty bit of life. You'll follow the recipe and be sur- prised at the outcome, which will look nothing like the picture in the book. Don't fret, though. It is still delicious. Chuck Sheppard rolled out his "Hangover Heaven" medical bus fleet in Las Vegas in April, offering revelers a faster, clinically proper recovery from their night-of-excess drinking for a $90 to $150 fee. After giving their medical history, "patients" receive intravenous saline, with B and C vitamins and whatever prescription or over-the-counter drugs are appropriate, says Burke (a licensed anesthesiologist). No drunks are served; the patient must be in the "hangover" stage. One M.D., who hosts a radio show, told CBS News, "I think many doctors are kicking themselves because they didn't think of this first." [CBS News, 4-23-2012] No Trademark for You: A restaurant set to open in April in West Palm Beach, Fla., named with a Japanese word suggesting "good fortune, wealth and prosperity," was denied a trademark by the Florida Division of Corporations. The name in question: the Fuku. control agency rejected Founders Brewing Co.'s request to sell its Dirty Bastard beer in the state, even though Founders pointed out that the state already permits another company to sell Fat Bastard wine. The agency acknowledged the similarity, but said Fat Bastard was approved years ago and that no one at the agency now recalls why. [WPTV (West Palm Beach), 4-26- 2012] [Associated Press via AzCentral. com, 4-19-2012] In April, the Taiwan tabloid Apple Daily In April, Alabama's alcoholic beverage CANCER (June 22-July 22) Gossip seemingly connects the gossipers and distances them from the one being gossiped about. But in reality, it distances everyone because it erodes trust. A person who talks behind another person's back could do the same to anyone. This is the week to steer clear of gossip in every form. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) While there's some- thing to be said for self-guided tours and self- paced study, you've had enough of that sort of thing lately. Getting with the program means joining a group. You do enough on your own. Make a plan, and fi nd someone to keep you accountable to it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) People always say "be yourself" as if that were the easiest, most natural thing to do. For deeply thinking types, those two words could be pondered for a lifetime. You'll fulfi ll the directive. In other words, don't over-think it. ADVICE GODDESS Thrilla in Vanilla LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Here's a money- saving tip: Decide what you want before you're in the marketplace. The only trouble is, sometimes you don't know what you want until you've shopped around. The answer is to go shopping fi rst with the fi rm resolve not to buy a thing. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) Problems are like bullies on the playground. If you let them push you around, they will. Your dreams are like supervisors who keep everything on track. Be led by your dreams, and your problems won't get the chance to advance on you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You are not so far off from accepting yourself entirely. If you can consciously do this even for a few minutes each day, your confi dence will trans- form your experience of your life. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) One of the world's longest surviving cultures, Australian Aboriginal culture, calls their spiritual and natural existence "Dreamtime." You will relate to the concept this week, as your life seems to fl oat forward and backward in time. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You are feel- ing semi-nomadic now and are willing to go where your work, projects and general sense of purpose take you. Even though you know that travel is not an effective means of escape, your problems still have a way of disappearing after you embark. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You have a lesson to impart. Ask the muses for help in fi nding the most interesting way to get your point across. If you don't have a relationship with the muses, it's the perfect week to develop one. A muse can be a person you know, someone you admire but don't know (living or dead), or the spirit of creativity itself. My best friend is a guy. We have tons in common and have conversations that are lively, honest and deep. He's basically everything I've ever wanted in my future husband, but he has an infatuation for Filipina women half his age. I'm 37, his age, and Caucasian. His plan is to fi nd and marry a girl from the Philippines. In fact, he is so stuck on marrying a Filipina that he is learning to speak Tagalog and travels to the Philippines twice a year but has yet to have anything work out. I maintain hope that he'll eventually develop the attraction to me that I have for him and that compatibility will trump looks, because he often tells me how much he appreciates me. Am I fooling myself, or could he outgrow his Filipina fetish? — Boring American Woman By Holiday Mathis Whenever you start looking at your friend through future-husband-colored glasses, remind yourself that the guy's learning Tagalog, and not because he calls the cable company and they say, "Press one for Tagalog." Lust is a powerful and automatic biochemical reaction driven by sex hormones Amy Alkon profiled a 27-year-old man who said he has tripled his previous salary by becoming a public snitch, turning in videos of litterers and spitters violating Taipei laws that reward informants a fee of one-fourth the amount of any fines. In the last two years, the man ("Chou") said he has had 5,000 cases result in fines, for which he has been paid the equivalent of $50,000. He said he now teaches classes in snitching. [Deutsche Presse-Agentur (Hamburg) via MonstersandCritics.com, 4-18-2012] COPYRIGHT 2011 CHUCK SHEPHERD WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM NEWS, VIEWS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 484-6200 www.upandcomingweekly.com NOW ONLINE! in the brain. One study by Dr. Ingrid R. Olson suggests that we appraise whom we fi nd hot in 13 milliseconds or less — approximately 25 to 30 times faster than an eye blink. And unfortunately, we can't rejigger whom we lust after any more than we can convince ourselves that something that smells like ass really smells like lily of the valley. You need to stop focusing on how you click with this guy. I also really click with my friend Debbie, but when I look at her and feel longing, it's to ask her where she got her barrette. This means we're well-matched as friends and hair accessory shoppers but nothing more. What you need is a guy with a you fetish — one who thinks you're the hottest thing since he leaned back, trying to look cool for you, and burned his hand on the party host's stove. To fi nd that man, banish your Filipina-phile from your mind as anything more than a friend with a thing for women who aren't you. If that's hard to do, stop hanging out with him so much until it stops being hard. Save for meeting a fairy godmother in the supermarket and having her transform you into a 4-foot-11, 18-year-old hottie from Manila, there's only one way you'll ever make this guy fall for you, and that's by installing a tripwire. Amy Alkon all rights reserved. JUNE 20-26, 2012 UCW 23