| Wine Store Monday Hiatus |
[16 Nov 2009|05:51pm] |
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http://www.mnftiu.cc/2009/11/16/wine-store-monday-hiatus/ http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2101 Howdy! I’m not in the wine store today … it’s the busy season what with the holidays, so the owners have decided to be in the shop every day.
I’m at home right now, listening to the radio and wondering what to do with my life … sniff, sniff, wine store, I miss you … I miss all your beautiful bottles … of wine (of course) … how will my beloved customers fare without me? … how will they know which wines are red and which ones are white … I need a new gig … who runs a wine store that I can work in? … I’ll email my resume … it will be SCENTED WITH WINE …
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| Japan Creates Legal Waist Limit |
[16 Nov 2009|05:00pm] |
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http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/japan-creates-maximum-waist-size/ http://www.disinfo.com/?p=14826 Are you too fat for Japan? The Global Post writes on the nation’s new national waist limits: 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women.
In the world’s slimmest industrialized nation, those whose bellies expand beyond the legal limit may be subject to therapy and exercise classes (no jail time as of now).
The goal of the new regulations is to head off metabolic syndrome, or “metabo,” a combination of health risks, including stomach flab, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, that can lead to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Companies are offering discounted gym memberships and developing diet plans for workers, and citizens are buying new metabo-fighting products, such as a $1,400 machine called the Joba that imitates a bucking bronco.

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| Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning |
[16 Nov 2009|04:35pm] |
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http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/strong-leonid-meteor-shower-peaks-early-tuesday-morning/ http://www.disinfo.com/?p=14823 By Robert Roy Britt for Space.com:
One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive.
The best seats are in Asia, but North American observers should be treated to an above average performance of the Leonid meteor shower, weather permitting. The trick for all observers is to head outside in the wee hours of the morning – between 1 a.m. and dawn – regardless where you live.
The Leonids put on a solid show every year, if skies are clear and moonlight does not interfere. This year the moon is near its new phase, and not a factor. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere with dark skies, away from urban and suburban lighting, the show should be worth getting up early to see.
“We’re predicting 20 to 30 meteors per hour over the Americas, and as many as 200 to 300 per hour over Asia,” said Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. Other astronomers who work in the nascent field of meteor shower prediction have put out similar forecasts.
Urban dwellers and suburbanites will see far fewer, as the fainter meteors will be drowned out by local lights…
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| Venezuela Plans To Artificially Change Weather |
[16 Nov 2009|04:30pm] |
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http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/venezuela-plans-to-artificially-change-weather/ http://www.disinfo.com/?p=14819 From Reuters via AlertNet:
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to “bomb clouds” to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.
Chavez, who has asked Venezuelans to take three-minute showers to save water, said the Cubans had arrived in Venezuela and were preparing to fly specially equipped aircraft above the Orinoco river.
“I’m going in a plane; any cloud that crosses me, I’ll zap it so that it rains,” Chavez said at a ceremony late on Saturday with family members of five Cubans convicted of spying in the United States.
Many countries have programs aimed at altering weather patterns, commonly known as cloud seeding, although the effectiveness of such techniques is disputed.
Firing silver iodine at clouds is one common method. China uses rockets loaded with the chemical to spur rainfall in arid regions. Chavez did not say what technology the Cubans will use…
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| The New (Gringo) Face Of Day Labor |
[16 Nov 2009|04:28pm] |
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http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/the-new-gringo-face-of-day-labor/ http://www.disinfo.com/?p=14817 The Las Vegas Sun has an article of the recent trend of U.S. citizens’ joining the ranks of immigrants who stand in store parking lots, hoping to be picked up for work:
It sounds like a George Lopez joke: “Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.”
Except it’s true…In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work.

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| Storytelling |
[16 Nov 2009|05:48pm] |
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Just out of idle curiosity and general nosiness, just wondering if anyone else here enjoys hearing, and telling stories? (ideally by an open fire with mulled wine or a cup of hot tea, and a pipe of good cherry-vanilla tobbacco.)
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[16 Nov 2009|09:57am] |
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Apparently seeing a person as multifaceted human beings with both virtues and sins, having the ability to contribute to a community in a positive manner, and not jumping on the vilification bandwagon is a cardinal sin in the radical activist community if the person is accused of rape and abuse.
I am glad we have so many progressive, open minded and thoughtful people who are willing to have conversations around sensitive topics working toward social justice.
*sigh*
I guess it is another indicator that radical activism communities are things I should stay far away from considering I'm quite aware that I am far from perfect myself. And that places such as Camp Trans and the communities involved with it are probably not open and welcoming spaces for me.
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[16 Nov 2009|11:46pm] |
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