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More bizarre news from Mexico: A reigning Mexican beauty queen was arrested in a truck filled with guns and ammunition along with seven gunmen. She was riding in one of two trucks where soldiers confiscated large amounts of weapons, among them two AR-15 assault rifles, .38 specials, 9mm handguns, nine magazines, 633 cartridges and $53,300 in U.S. currency. Police identified one of the men caught with her as the brother of an alleged drug trafficker from Ciudad Juarez, a city on the U.S. border, and said the man appeared to have been her boyfriend. Miss Sinaloa told police that she was planning on traveling to Bolivia and Colombia. When asked what she was intending to do there she replied “Shopping”. The former preschool teacher won Miss Sinaloa in July and gave an impassioned speech about how society should value women more, especially mothers. Well at least she didn’t say she was going to fight drug issues.

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This is Downtown Sapporo. Look at all the new snow!
Yesterday I took the last train home and noticed signs in the final car saying that this particular car was only to be used by women and children during rush hour ie before 9 AM. I know these women-only cars have been in service for several years in Tokyo but they are new to Sapporo and as far as I know they are uniquely Japanese. If you ask me, I don’t agree with separating men and women in such an obvious and drastic manner. It seems like a step back into more uncivilized days. It would be better to educate men about how to treat women, and who better can do that than, yep, we women? Dividing men and women into two societies so to speak just treats the symptoms, not the cause, and actually creates other problems. I was taken aback when an acquaintance mentioned yesterday that at her company they were having two separate year-end-parties, one for male and one for female employees. Later, when I got off the subway at my station I witnessed something incredible - incredible for non-Japanese, that is: Half a dozen snow plows were simultaneously removing snow from the streets, all equipped with powerful lights that acted like floodlighting. The plows seemed to come out of every side street, waiting traffic light turns, moving and removing masses of snow. Their efficiency and agility was impressive.

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If you live in northern Japan you surely saw and heard what I saw and heard last night: Thunder and lightning! Now that’s a bit unusual at the end of the year, to say the least. What the heck is going on with the climate! I was literally overwhelmed by the storm because it started exactly when I was walking home. On my way I stopped at five convenience stores to buy a cake, a whole cake. I had eaten my piece of Christmas cake on Christmas Eve but due to the fact that 1. X’mas in the US is celebrated on the 25th and 2. I was in the mood for more strawberry sponge cake, I decided to have another Christmas cake. Only - there wasn’t any and I ended up having dinner without dessert. I related this experience to a friend and she said “Don’t you know that we Japanese eat Christmas cake only on the 24th? Nobody wants it on the 25th. Christmas cake on the 25th is also a metaphor for women - they’re not desirable after 25! Well, some men think so. It’s a Japanese joke.” Hmm. I guess you have to be Japanese to understand that kind of humor. Anyway, I’m not fond of that way of thinking or cultural issue or whatever you want to call it - for it deprived me of my second Christmas cake!! By the way - did you know that Christmas cake is a typical Japanese custom? In the US we eat Christmas cookies. Neat habit though.

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Merry Christmas Everybody and thanks for coming to our X’mas Party at Cuban Bar&Tavern CARIBE. We had fantastic, gorgeous food that really put us in the mood, lots of drinks and great Latin music (thanks Yamil). Most of us got going on the dancefloor for hours and hours - yep, the hardcore partied a full six hours! The night got hotter than hot when the girls were dancing the Macarena … The guys watched and enjoyed. Check out the pictures.

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The Christmas season is a time for joy and pleasure for many, but a time of sorrow and suffering for many others. Relieving someone else’s pain is always rewarding, but at this time of the year it has special meaning because it is the gift-giving-season where every entity whether rich or poor, whether big or small, deserves a present. There are many charity organizations which dedicate their efforts to supporting the poor and the abused and I have great respect for them. Personally I have decided to direct my efforts towards speaking for the ones that can’t speak for themselves: Animals. This world can be a very cold and cruel place for animals, for there are many people who abuse, torture and kill them, or who simply do not care. These are some of the worst abuses:
* Chicken factory farms
* Pig farms
* Fur farms
* Chained dogs
* Animas used in cruel, meaningless and outdated experiments
* Animals in entertainment

How you can help One safe way to help animals is to make a donation to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), a serious, well-known and well-established organization that works towards ending cruelty to animals and establishing better laws to protect them. You can donate here. Your gift, even if small, may save an animal’s life. I made my first donation a couple of months ago and experienced a little miracle shortly thereafter: I found my lovely kitten Zafiro lying on the street and apparently lost on a chilly October morning.

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Las posadas son fiestas populares que en México se celebran durante los nueve días antes de Navidad, o sea del 16 al 24 de Diciembre. Estas fiestas recuerdan el peregrinaje de María y José desde su salida de Nazaret hasta Belén donde buscan un lugar donde alojarse para esperar el nacimiento del niño Jesús. En el México prehispánico celebraban el advenimiento de Huitzilopochtli (Dios de la Guerra) durante la época invernal o Panquetzaliztli, que iba del 17 al 26 de diciembre, que coincidía con la época donde los europeos celebraban la Navidad. Estas celebraciones fueron cambiando una vez que el pueblo fue evangelizado y la imagen de Huitzilopochtli fue sustituida por la de José y María. Las posadas reaniman el espíritu religioso de los participantes, están llenas de emoción, alegría y amistad que siempre se respira durante este tiempo. Las posadas tradicionales tienen ligeras variantes de acuerdo al lugar en donde se celebren y han ido cambiando con el tiempo, sin embargo los aspectos comunes más importantes son el pedir posada con los villancicos tradicionales, el rezar el rosario, el romper la piñata, y claro que nunca pueden faltar los aguinaldos, el ponche, las velas, la fruta, las luces de bengala y en algunas ocasiones la cena y los regalos.

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This is the X’mas tree in the factory, the biggest in Sapporo. If you ask me, they could have decorated it in a more gorgeous manner. It looks a little kawaiso (pitiable). With the poinsettias, on the other hand, they did a good job (see pic). By the way - do you know where poinsettias are originally from and also, how they got their name? Here’s the story: Pepita was a poor Mexcian girl who had no gift to give the Christ Child on Christmas Eve. While walking to the chapel where the Holy Night Service was to be held, her heart was filled with sadness. Holding back the tears in her eyes she knelt by the roadside and gathered a handful of weeds, arranging them into a small bouquet. Ashamed of her humble gift she entered the small village chapel. When she lay the weeds at the nativity scene they suddenly opened into beautiful red flowers, and everybody in the church witnessed the Christmas miracle. Consequently the flowers were named Flores de Noche Buena (Flowers of the Holy Night). In the USA they are called poinsettias because Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first US Ambassador to Mexico, introduced them in his home country in the 1820’s.

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Hace unos días se dió a conocer una noticia bizarra: El experto anti-secuestros estadounidense Félix Batista viajó a México para dar platicas sobre como evitar secuestros y en aquel viaje el mismo fue secuestrado. Batista había negociado con secuestradores muchas veces para lograr la liberación de sus víctimas, pero parece que cometió el grave error de volverse demasiado conocido por medio de seminarios, discursos y negociaciones. Las autoridades aún no conocen los detalles del secuestro pero todo parece indicar que estaba comiendo en un restaurante de la ciudad de Saltillo, Coahuila, cuando tomó una llamada y salió afuera. Les dijo a sus compañeros que se iba a ver con unas personas en una camioneta blanca que le iban a dejar un mensaje pero según testigos se subió a una camioneta que no correspondía a la descripción que había dado anteriormente. Desde entonces nadie ha sabido de Félix Batista. Hecho irónico: Hace unos años una pelicula de Hollywood con Denzel Washington trató del mismo tema.

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This year mufflers, hats and bags made of fur are very fashionable. But these elegant-looking winter accessories carry the traces of animals that were raised for the fur industry: Crammed into tiny cages full of dirt and excrements, rabbits, dogs, cats, foxes, minks and other animals are then killed by anal or vaginal electrocution, snapping their necks or simply stomping on them until they are dead, or worse, half dead. Then they are skinned while they are sometimes still breathing.

Dog and cat fur trade - watch the video.
Help Stop the Cruel Fur Industry.

Ranch-raised foxes are kept in cages only 0.75 meters square (minks in cages 0.3-meters-by-0.9-meters), with up to four animals per cage.

In the wild foxes, raccoons, coyotes, bobcats, lynxes, beavers, otters and others are killed by drowning, trapping or beating. Animals can waste away in traps for days. Up to 1 out of every 4 trapped animals escapes by chewing off his or her own feet, only to die later from blood loss, fever, gangrene, or predation.

Millions of rabbits, dogs, cats and other animals die gruesome deaths every year for the fur industry, most imports come from China where there are no laws that protect animals.

Is fashion worth the horrible lives and deaths of these animals?
Give your Christmas gift to the animals suffering in the fur industry: Don`t buy fur.

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