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WEISER — While it is always important for anyone to take a
little time to themselves, whether to keep their minds off of work
or families, just for a little while, two Washington County
residents recently found out just how important taking that time
really is.

In the past year, Weiser resident Jane Betts has been diagnosed
with two different types of cancer — cervical and thyroid.

As a distraction for both Jane and her husband, Bill Betts, both
retired educators, they have rediscovered hobbies to keep their
minds and bodies occupied during the ordeal.

Jane spends much of her free time sewing, from tutus for
children and adults to costumes for Halloween to purses and many
things in-between. She spends her down time in her basement with
her 16 sewing machines, including eight sergers.

“Sewing is therapy for me,” Jane Betts said. “It is something I
enjoy doing. The spare bedroom is full of stuff I have sewn.”

Jane Betts has shipped her items all over the United States, as
well as overseas to London.

“It is fun. There are some things you never see around here,”
she said.

As for Bill Betts, he began wood-working — crafting boxes,
cutting out wooden puzzles and even making Christmas gifts for his
children.

He donates some of this time to the Weiser Little Theater,
helping build sets.

“I always told my students, in a community, you take from the
community,” Bill Betts said. “You need to pay rent.”

Part of paying rent for the Betts is by donating their time and
talents to the communities they love, and have grown in. Bill Betts
is part of the Indianhead Fly Fishing Club and helped build the
community pond in Weiser.

Jane Betts has donated much of her time and energy into making
book bags for students, as many as 500 in a single year.

“We have always had the mindset that we wanted to be involved in
the community, and we did,” Jane said.

Tuesday afternoon, as the snow flakes began to fly outside their
home, the Betts shared story after story about how their lives have
changed and how things have worked out differently than
expected.

The way their life has turned out turned out to be a blessing in
disguise.

Shortly after college life, the Betts accepted a home economics
position with the University of Idaho Extension Service in Weiser
and as a Fruitland High School math teacher.

They said they were just looking for positions that were close
to each other, with the only other option being in the Hood River,
Ore., area. The couple decided on the positions in the Treasure
Valley because Jane Betts’ mother was living in the Boise area.

The couple said their plan was to only stay a couple years in
the area and then move to another part of the nation, doing this
until they had done and seen all that they had wanted to do.

“Our jobs were such that we got to know a lot of people,” Jane
Betts said. “We don’t plan to leave here.”

Along with beginning their careers in Weiser and Fruitland, the
couple settled in a home just south of Weiser, not far from the
county line, where they raised their two children.

Jane Betts ended up spending 15 years as the extension agent for
the university, and Bill Betts continued his teaching career and
also added in some coaching as well as their family continued to
grow.

After Jane Betts’ position was cut, she was able to find a
position at Weiser High School, teaching a wide variety of classes,
ranging from teen living, adult living, parenting and child
development, occupations and economics and other classes. She
retired from Weiser in 2007.

Bill Betts retired from the Fruitland School District in 2007,
after two school years of working part time for the district.

During their careers, both Bill and Jane Betts have been named
Idaho Teacher of the Year by the U of I Alumni Association. They
figure Bill Betts has taught about 3,800 students through the
years, while Jane Betts taught about 3,000 students. That figure
does not count how many lives they have touched in the classroom
and in the community, however.

William Anderson is a news reporter at the Argus Observer. He
can be reached at (541) 823-4815 or by email, williama@argusobserver.com.
To comment on this story, go to www.argusobserver.com

If sharing a hobby is akin to sharing love, then participants in a National Hobby Day celebration at Frayser-Raleigh Senior Center on Jan. 26 generously displayed their personal natures.

A mutual love of model trains, for example, keeps Carolyn Speidel, 77, of Raleigh, and grandson Dennis Clay of Bartlett, 27 on Feb. 12, especially close. She became fascinated with trains in 1954 while on a trip from New Jersey to Pensacola, Fla., to see her husband-to-be. Later, as her hobby took hold, her now-late husband, William Speidel, went along for the ride, helping her set up and break down her displays. But it was grandson Dennis who inherited the Lionel locomotive gene.

As a young teenager, from Thanksgiving to New Years he would lay out the trains and tracks on our living room and dining room floors. … Elaborate layouts. … Elevations and tunnels.

The excitement, Clay explains, is in the timing: seeing one train, losing sight of it, and then having another appear somewhere else on a track.

While Speidel loved travel by mind and model train, senior center friends Joe and Maurine Tanner of Memphis took to the road. Hes 84, shes 80. Theyve been married 60-plus years and visited every state except Alaska and Hawaii together.

Maurine collected about 150 decorative spoons designating sites they saw, and eagerly displayed them to Hobby Day visitors. She also brought in some of her collectible ceramic buildings, including a replica of Nashvilles Ryman Auditorium of Grand Ole Opry fame.

At the next table, husband Joe Tanner displayed his meticulous needlework, a hobby he took up to keep his hands busy after retiring from 40 years as a paper machine operator at Kimberly-Clark. His elaborate Western scene on a basket is an original crewelwork in acrylic yarn. A 16-by-24-inch framed, needlepoint Nativity scene incorporates human figures from a pattern and everything else, from sky and sheep to dove of peace, from his own creativity.

Nearby sat retired Northwest Airlines ground crew member Bob Vincento, 68, of Memphis, among cardboard boxes of balsa airplane kits like those he has fancied since he was 10. His favorite model planes? Two World War II models: the British Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf-109 — the latter kit within reach for a fresh start. A plane with a 30-inch wingspan, he said, is the biggest Ive ever worked on.

Retired Memphis Veterans Medical Center nurse Joyce Wiggins, 66, of Raleigh leans to the more whimsical. A world traveler herself, she collects American-made Annalee stuffed toys, pins and ornaments depicting fanciful human and animal folk.

I have 225 Annalee dolls, Wiggins said, from a caroler about 4-feet tall to a 3-inch ornament or pins. I have memories that go with many of them. I look at them and it just makes me smile.

Smiles make the day for hobbyist Sandy Stephens, 67, of Frayser too. The retired Kroger cashier has many hobbies, she said, but she presented proof of only a few: her feel for growing plants and crafting garden art. I have a small yard and a lot of shade.

Hobbies, she said, indicate her love of life. It is ironic, then, that she is fighting for hers.

I was diagnosed with Stage 3 ovarian cancer in October 2010, and have two more scans coming up, she says. Oh, Ive been worried, but Im doing much better.

I was having cancer treatments last spring, so I couldnt get out in my garden. My church members came in to help. I didnt want to sit and stare at the walls — though some days I must — so, I kept up the garden myself all summer.

Making pretty things and growing pretty things are important to me. Last year I had 102 potted plants on the deck and in the garden.

This year, she had the stories and photos to share.

Many people are postponing their current wants to save for retirement. And perhaps retirement will bring little stress and plenty of time for hobbies and travel. But some retirees say they are not enjoying retirement as much as they thought they would.

A quarter of retirees think life in retirement is worse than it was before they retired, according to a recent poll of 1,254 individuals age 50 and older by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health. And 44 percent of retirees think their overall quality of life is about the same as it was while they were working. Only 29 percent of retirees say leaving the workforce made their life better. With that in mind, here are seven misconceptions about life in retirement.

[See 10 Places to Reinvent Your Life in Retirement.]

You will have less stress. More than half (55 percent) of workers age 50 and older expect retirement to be less stressful than it was when they were working. But only 39 percent of retirees report having less stress in their lives than they did when employed full-time. There are some false expectations about what life in retirement is going to be like, says Gillian SteelFisher, a research scientist and the assistant director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program. The stress may be related to a decline in health or finances. More than a third (35 percent) of retirees say their stress level is about the same, and almost a quarter (24 percent) say they now face more stress than they did while employed.

Travel and hobbies will fill your days. Exploring new places is a common retirement goal, with 59 percent of older workers expecting to do more of that in retirement. But 34 percent of retirees say they currently travel to places they want to go less than they did in the past, and 35 percent fit in vacations about as often as they did while employed. There is a common expectation that this will be a time to get out and do all the things you want to do, and then we find out, in reality, not only are they not taking these exotic cruises, but they are spending less time traveling in retirement than they did in the five years before, says SteelFisher. There may be health issues that may be making travel more difficult than they might have anticipated, and it may be that the cruise was a little bit more expensive than they anticipated. And while 68 percent of people over age 50 who are not yet retired expect to have more time for sports, hobbies, and volunteering, many retirees say they have the same amount (43 percent) or less (20 percent) time for activities they like.

You will take better care of yourself. Almost half (48 percent) of older workers say they will exercise more in retirement than they do now. But just because you have more time to exercise doesnt mean that you will. Some 34 percent of retirees say they get less exercise than they did while employed, and 41 percent get about the same amount. You probably wont start eating healthier in retirement either, even if you have plenty of time to cook. Most peoples eating habits stayed the same in retirement (52 percent) and 12 percent of retirees say they now eat less healthfully than they did while in the workforce.

[See 9 Secrets of Retirement Happiness.]

Your health will hold up. People envision that retirement will be a chance to do a lot of things that they havent done before and they havent really thought about the health issues they will run into as they age, says Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health. Most older workers (69 percent) expect to maintain their current level of health in retirement. But only 43 percent of retirees say their health is now similar to what it was five years prior to retirement. Some 39 percent of retirees say their health is now worse than it was before retirement. As retirees start to need long-term care for themselves or their spouses, they experience stress because of the concern about what options are going to be open to them, says Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The retirees who are experiencing more health issues than they anticipated or having difficulty paying for things like long-term care are feeling like retirement is not like they thought it would be.

The Genealogy Group at the Library is for people interested in learning about genealogy and family history. Genealogy is one of the most popular hobbies in America. The group is intended for both beginning and experienced genealogists. 
Thursday, October 13 at 7 pm
 
Storytimes: half-hour program featuring stories, fingerplays, songs, and a short movie. Each week an early literacy skill will be highlighted.  There are 6 early literacy skills: print awareness, phonological awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, print motivation, and narrative skills. No registration is needed for these programs   
          Tuesday 1:30 pm for 3 – 6 years
          Wednesday 10:30 am for 18 months through 35 months 
          Thursday 10:30 am for all ages
          Thursday 6:30 pm for all ages
The theme for Oct 11-13 is fall leaves
The theme for Oct. 18-20 is dinosaurs
The theme for Oct 24-27 is Halloween
Family Halloween storytime is Thursday, Oct. 27 at 6:30 pm  Please register for this special storytime so that we have enough goodie bags.  Space is limited.

A Mother Goose program for babies is held on Wednesdays at 11:30 am No registration is needed for this series of programs.       
 
Playtime – Friday 10 am to noon – Drop in – no registration.  Weekly throughout the year.  Opportunity for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to play and socialize together with parents in the large meeting room of the library.  
 
Tails of Joy – Read to me dogs
Saturday – Sat. Oct. 15 from 1 to 2:30 pm – Children in grades 1-5. Register begins Oct. 3. The “Tails of Joy” organization provides Reading Education Assistance Dogs to help improve the literacy skills of children. Dogs are patient, non-judgmental listeners, and allow an opportunity for children to practice their reading skills. Bring your favorite book or choose one from the library collection!  Registration required.

Posted at 05:50 PM ET, 09/28/2011
Chris Christie: The home, family, hobbies of your favorite non-candidate of the moment
By The Reliable Source

GALLERY: Click the image above to view more photos of Gov. Chris Christie.

You know that Chris Christie is this week’s golden boy, the so-called salvation for the 2012 GOP ticket — even though the New Jersey governor says over and over that he’s not running. You know that he’s, um,
hefty because every late-night comedian has a fat joke about him. What else? Here’s everything else about Christie you need to know:

• Christie, 49, has been married to college sweetheart Mary Pat Foster for 25 years. They met at the University of Delaware, where she succeeded him as student government president. Mary Pat, now 48, was an investment banker at Cantor Fitzgerald until shortly after the 9/11 attacks (she worked two blocks away from the Twin Towers), and recently went back to the firm part-time.

Chris and Mary Pat Christie on the campaign trail in 2009.
(Stephen Chernin/ Getty Images)

• They have four children: Andrew, 18; Sarah, 15; Patrick, 11; and Bridget, 8. The governor took some heat in June, when he took a state helicopter from Trenton to see Andrew’s baseball game. (Christie then flew to Princeton for dinner with a group of rich Iowa donors who want him to run for president.) Big sports household, we’re told: Sarah plays softball and soccer, Patrick is into baseball and hockey, Bridget likes gymnastics and softball. No pets.

• After he took office in January 2010, Christie decided not to move his family into Drumthwacket, the governor’s mansion in Princeton, because it would uproot his kids. The family lives in Mendham, a town about 35 miles away.

Christie brandishes his tickets arriving at a Springsteen concert at Giants Stadium in 2009.
(Bill Kostroun/AP)
• He’s a huge Bruce Springsteen fan since his teen years; boasts he’s been to 125 shows. Favorite song: “Thunder Road,” not “Born to Run,” haha. You’d think the two Jersey boys would be likethis . . . but no. Springsteen declined Christie’s request to play at the inauguration and has criticized the governor’s policies. Christie shrugged it off: “Bruce is liberal,” he told Diane Sawyer. “Doesn’t mean I like him any less. But you know, Bruce believes that we should be raising taxes all the time on everyone to do all the things that he’d like to see government do.”

Christie and his family at a 9/11 memorial this month.
(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
• But Christie rather dislikes “Jersey Shore.” “Take them back. We don’t want them,” he said earlier this year. On Monday, he vetoed the “Snooki Subsidy” — $420,000 in tax credits for MTV. “As chief executive, I am duty-bound to ensure that taxpayers are not footing a $420,000 bill for a project which does nothing more than perpetuate misconceptions about the state and its citizens,” he wrote to the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Big blow to the state’s tan-and-drink lobby.

• Christie is a Mets fan (baseball is the former catcher’s favorite sport); he also watches Jets and Giants games. (Andrew and Sarah root for the Jets; Patrick is a Giants fan, we’re told.) As a family, they like to watch “American Idol.”

• Exactly how much does he weigh? Don’t go there — the governor’s office doesn’t.

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When I got my iPad, one of the things I was most excited about was combining my new favorite toy with one of my favorite hobbies (procrastinating on Facebook). However I soon discovered what every other iPad user most likely already knew. There was no Facebook iPad app. Instead of a full-size app that made use of the space offered by the iPad?s large screen, those of us who wanted to do our social networking on the go with our Apple tablet had to get by with the iPhone app. A first world problem, if ever there was one, but still, by comparison to the other apps tailor-made for the iPad, the magnified version of the iPhone Facebook app fell noticeably short.

Using Facebook through Safari on the iPad was just as underwhelming. As the New York Times so eloquently put it, ?Until now, navigating Facebook.com on an iPad felt like trying to write an e-mail on a calculator.?

Here are some of the enhanced features offered in the Facebook iPad app:

Enjoy bigger, better photos: Your photos are high-res and easy to flip through, like a real photo album
- Navigate anywhere, fast: Just tap, slide or pinch to move from one screen to another
- Play games on the go: Access your favorite Facebook apps and games, wherever you are
- Focus on what matters: Zoom in on your friends photos, updates and stories
- Never lose your place: Share a photo, update your status or send a message without leaving News Feed
See whos nearby: Check out the Nearby map to see what your friends are up to

You can view more details on the app?s capabilities here.

Also included in the features is the ability to take HD videos and photos right through the app and post them instantly. As the Times points out, the photo albums featured through Facebook are set up to function similarly to how the iPad?s built-in photo app works, allowing users to easily swipe through photos in albums. This feature demonstrates what a lot of us have been waiting for in this app. The iPhone app felt like it was made for a small, compact device, because it was.

From what I can tell so far, this new app seems built around the way we use the iPad for other things, which makes it feel a lot more intuitive, allowing us to swipe left to right to return to our wall after visiting a friend?s page, for example, and creating a stationary side-menu with various options, including our favorited games and pages, rather than forcing us to go to a dedicated menu page to move around Facebook. The stationary vertical menu on the side, and the ability to swipe through pages left to right in addition to viewing by scrolling up and down is similar to how the iPad Twitter app works.

As a Words with Friends addict, I was pleased to see that clicking the game from Facebook toggled me to the Words with Friends iPad app I already had installed on my iPad. A feature like that, which incorporates other Facebook-compatible apps could prove to be really useful.

So far it looks like the Facebook iPad app is turning out to be well worth the wait. In fact, if it turns out to be as good as it looks at first glance, I may actually start using Facebook regularly from my iPad.

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A new shop in Belvidere might help you find your next something to do in your spare time. CTs Hobbies is now open at 508 S. State Street. The owner, Cory Thornton, says his own kids and nephews inspired him to run the store. Thornton wants to offer a place for young people to play and meet others with similar interests. And he has plenty of hobbies to chose from.

I have gaming of all kinds. I have Magic, Pokemon and Yugioh. I got the roll playing games like Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder.

I got a large selection of board games, comic books, toys of the kids and I do sports cards and sports memorabilia, says Thornton.

The owner is also putting work from local artists on his walls. You can stop by his store if you are interested in getting your work displayed.

Encouraging married men to take up healthy recreational activities could be an effective way to prevent the spread of HIV through heterosexual intercourse, a minister says.

Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said that new HIV cases in Indonesia continued to increase year to year despite ongoing efforts to combat the viral infections.

“Most of our HIV prevention programs have been prioritized for female commercial sex workers although in fact women within marriages or long-term relationships are at a greater risk of heterosexual transmission,”
Endang told a press conference.

According to the AIDS Prevention Commission (KPA), the number of people who contacted AIDS through injecting drugs was 16.3 percent of all total new cases in the second quarter of 2011, down from 54.42 percent in the same period of 2006.

However, the number of new AIDS cases through heterosexual transmissions reached 76.3 percent in the second quarter of this year, up from 38.5 percent in the same period of 2006.

“As a result, new AIDS cases from perinatal transmission in which mothers infect their babies continued to soar,” said Nafsiah Mboi, the KPA chairwoman.

New perinatal-transmitted AIDS cases reached 4.7 percent in the second quarter of this year, increasing from 2.2 percent in the same period of 2006.

The Health Ministry is ready to start implementing this year several pilot projects based around “healthy recreational activities” aimed at protecting male workers from HIV.

“We will involve entrepreneurs and private companies in the pilot projects in which they should prepare healthy recreation facilities such as gyms, sport clubs and outdoor activities,” said Endang, adding that the ministry would conduct the pilot projects in several regions outside Java.

In its Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesian Economic Growth (MP3EI), the government has mapped out six economic corridors comprising Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali-Nusa Tenggara and Papua-Maluku Islands economic corridors.

The projects, which consist of about 38 projects with a total investment of Rp 250 trillion (US$27.44 billion), are hoped to attract many male workers from areas throughout the country.

“They will be prone to HIV infections and sexually transmitted diseases because most of them are still young, unmarried or leaving their wives at home. This will increase HIV incidence rates if we do nothing to prevent the infections and other sexually transmitted disease,” Endang said.
Supporting safe sex: A billboard promoting safe sex stands on Kuta Beach in Bali in this fi le photo. JP/Stanny Angga

The KPA data shows that as of June 2011, 35.1 percent of new AIDS cases in Indonesia occurred in women, increasing from 16.9 percent in the same period of 2006.

Currently, about 3.1 million men regularly have unsafe sex with commercial sex workers. Meanwhile, 1.6 million Indonesian women are prone to HIV infections through marriage with men who are at high risk of HIV infection. Infected wives would then be at risk of transmitting the disease to their babies.

As of Dec. 31, 2010, the majority of new AIDS cases in Indonesia were in housewives, reaching 2,160 cases, but only 457 involved commercial sex workers.

“We never expected to have so many cases,” said Nafsiah.

Endang said that many men were not aware that they could infect their wives.

The use of condoms in unsafe intercourse was under 30 percent in 2010. It has been estimated that rate of spread of the disease will only decrease if condom usage increases to 65 percent by 2014.

“If we can successfully reduce HIV infections among male workers, then we can hope that their wives won’t be infected and their babies will be free from the HIV as well,” she said.

As more than 80 percent of people with HIV and AIDS are aged between 15-49 years, the disease is the leading cause of death in the work place, said Evodia A. Iswandi, Indonesian Business Coalition on AIDS (IBCA) Country Manager.

She said many male workers working far from their families, such as in mines, plantations or at sea ports, had recreational sex.

“If we don’t offer them healthy recreation activities, then they will not be able to think beyond recreational sex. This should not happen,” she told The Jakarta Post.

Published October 11, 2011

Many individuals find stress relief by pursuing various hobbies.

Once again, hobbies are age and sex neutral. It doesn?t matter if you are 70 or 7; hobbies can be fun providing stress relief as well.

I like to divide hobbies into two general types. One is stress relief and the other is stress transfer. Both have valuable benefits. Let?s talk about stress relief today and stress transfer next week.

One definition of the word ?hobby? is a ?regular activity or interest that is undertaken for pleasure, typically done during one?s leisure time.? Now that is a pretty broad definition. In fact, since previous columns have dealt with reading, writing, home renovation and volunteerism, these could all be considered hobbies. But, most of us consider hobbies more specifically dealing with such things as stamp or other types of collecting, artistic endeavors and such. Also, some athletic activities certainly can be considered hobbies.

For all these areas, there are certain common issues associated with starting a new hobby or hobbies. Consider your ultimate goal for a new hobby. Generally hobbyists start off slowly, doing some research on a potential hobby and then getting into it little by little. At least, that?s the way I think it should be done. Sometimes the opposite occurs and for some reason an individual dives headlong into the hobby without really considering what his or her goals really are.

I had a friend who wanted to start collecting stamps with one of his children. He went out and purchased a large stamp album already full of stamps. I guess he thought it would be easier to interest his child about stamp collecting if he provided the whole collection in advance. While it is true that stamp collecting has many valuable learning issues associated with the collected stamps, this seems to me to be just opposite to building a hobby from the ground up. In the final analysis, the hobby lasted only a few weeks. I can get you a good deal on a large stamp album, already full of stamps.

On the other hand, I have another friend who got his daughter interested in rocks. With the purchase of a few inexpensive tools to process the rocks, like a rock polisher and a book describing the various rocks and minerals that are all over the place, that hobby has grown into a lifelong love and educational process for both my friend and his daughter.

Now father and daughter spend quality time together in this joint hobby and enjoy a stress-free relationship. Did I mention that his daughter is a teenager? Then you know how rare that is. Moreover, if I keep my eyes open as I travel around, I can find an infinite number of gifts for them, all right on the ground.

Someone famous said, ?It?s not the destination ? it?s the journey.? So true,

When talking about hobbies, there is much more to consider then collecting something. Since everything you do in your leisure time can be considered a hobby, the possibilities are endless. Don?t just pick the first thing you think of and call it a hobby. Want some weird ones to consider? Just Google ?strange hobbies? or ?weird hobbies? and you can find everything from A to Z.

I may try sky diving or bull fighting. Or perhaps water color painting. Or, if everything else fails writing columns for the newspaper.

Dr. Michael M. Warren is Ashbel Smith professor of surgery at University of Texas Medical Branch Division of Urology. Got a question? Write him at michael.warren(at)galvnews.com.

Copyright 2011 The Galveston County Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Read your astrology prediction for the day i.e 10.10.2011 (Monday).

Aries: You will be attracted to a person who will share your interests and desires and passion. Your appreciation of the finer aspects of life, like beauty and harmony would reveal your softer side.

Taurus:Your irresistible sense of humor makes you very popular among friends and others you meet today. It would also enthuse people who you work with. You have such a cautious nature that you become very suspicious of people, their motives, situations, etc. You will end up analyzing everything before you make any ommitments which might work in your favor today. You are a person committed to a relationship. The one that you have now forged would be a long one. You will also do whatever is within your means to make it stable. There might be some unforeseen family matters that might require your immediate attention today. This might keep you away from your job or business.

Gemini:You will act confidently today as your inner Self guides you through the days events. You will be in a high energy state. You will come across as determined, self-sufficient and intelligent. It also gives you with the much needed physical stamina as well to take some strong decisions for your future. You have been planning to take a vacation to spend some time with yourself for some time now. But unfortunately you may have to postpone your plans due to some unexpected reasons.You might have to go through a situation that might be a dejagrave; vu. Since youve been there before, you would be able to go through this again easily. Things are not that bad so dont take any comments made by others, personally.

Cancer: Love and care from your near and dear ones will act as an energy booster and will encourage you to take up something creative and effective. You might be drawn towards public activities today. Spending more time in these would only make your family members feel neglected. Friends would encourage you big time to reach your goal. Share your plans with them and they will do all that they can help.Its time now for you to start focusing on yourself and your future. Stop wasting your time thinking and running around for others.

Leo: Do not give in to any temptation to be involved in any big projects now. Its not a favorable time to get into something new now. Analyze your future prospects and once you ensure that the steps you are going to take is safe, only then proceed. Your tenacity and intelligence will make today a very successful one. You will achieve all that you set out to do today.People close to you regard you as a reliable person. One who would always be there in all sincerity. Also, they think of you as a person who acts according to your conscience.

Virgo: Women who have the habit of taking bold decisions independently may be resented for their strength. They neednt bother about it as its just that people are jealous of them. Think over your plans over the next few days before implementing them. Soon you will find favorable time. You are a person committed to a relationship. The one that you have now forged would be a long one. You will also do whatever is within your means to make it stable.

Libra: Your mental strength is your biggest plus point. It will today help you achieve a higher state of mind that youve been seeking. You will invest your energy and vigor in a new project which also gives you a purpose. Your physical and mental stamina would also be at a high.You have been careless enough to neglect your favorite hobbies. They are the things that keep you vibrant and energetic. Neglecting your hobbies would only make you dull.Today there may be many wanting to see you, meet you, spend time with you. Use all your tact to avoid those you dont want to spend time with.

Scorpio: You have had a tough time emotionally and it may take some time before the wounds on your heart heals completely. But you will receive compassion and empathy from people all around you. And you will be able to come out of it soon. Express you love for your beloved openly and confidently. Keep away any negative thoughts that might lurk in. You will be successful in love today.You have a forceful personality that can easily overpower any enemy that you might have. But try and restrain showing it in public today.

Sagitarius: Express your feelings and emotions clearly and openly to the person you are attracted to. Do not fear rejection. You will feel refreshed and energetic today. This will also show in your work as you handle everything that comes your way enthusiastically.

Capricon: You are moving ahead in full steam and anything that stops you will be resented. It would be advisable to keep you cool and get away tactfully from people who try to manipulate you. Married couples will find themselves depending on each other more and more. They would look for support from each other both emotionally and physically.Your ability to resolve the problems brought to you by younger people as well as your partner will endear you to them. They will be more loving towards you. You might have to face some tough situations today because of some obvious miscommunication. Also there might be people around you who dont follow up their words with action.

Aquarius: You might be drawn to a person you were never interested in in the past. This change might also herald lot of other positive changes in your life. Your friendly, kind and noble nature brings people close to you. You wont have to take any great efforts to do this. You need to relax today. Take a break from all mental and physical activities. A relaxed mind will help you rid of any unnecessary tension.

Pisces: Weigh you words before you speak. Today you might antagonize someone in your family by saying what you think is right. Your stubbornness will upset them. A favorable day for working women. Be courageous today as you face some unexpected issues at work or in your business deals. Courage will win the day for you.