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Pot smugglers in scuba gear stopped in sewer
Posted by admin in Mix Up News on March 2nd, 2010
by Allison Hurtado - Feb. 26, 2010 06:02 PM
The Arizona Republic
A person wearing scuba gear apparently tried to sneak two bundles of marijuana across the Mexican border through a sewer system on Friday, Border Patrol officials said.
Border Patrol agents operating infrared cameras noticed several individuals illegally crossing into the United States near a sewer outlet.
The Douglas Station’s bike patrol went to the sewer system and saw one person carrying two bundles that were suspected to be marijuana.
That person was wearing a wet suit and scuba gear and was wading through waist-high water with the bundles, officials said.
The person saw the agents, dropped the bundles and began wading back toward Mexico. Apparently the other people spotted by the Border Patrol also fled, officials said.
The marijuana weighed 55 pounds and was estimated to be worth $44,000.
The would-be smugglers were not found, according to Omar Candelaria, spokesperson for the Border Patrol.
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Happy Christmas honey - here’s a divorce voucher
Posted by admin in Mix Up News on December 19th, 2009
Dec. 17, 2009 03:11pm EST
Reuters.com
LONDON (Reuters) - Stuck for Christmas gift ideas? Is your marriage or a friend’s going through a rocky patch? How about a divorce voucher?
In an unusual take on the season of giving, a London law firm is offering Christmas gift vouchers for divorce advice.
The firm, Lloyd Platt & Company, which normally charges 325 pounds ($530) an hour, said it had been swamped with enquiries since it launched the vouchers early last week.
So far, more than 60 have been sold — a snip at 125 pounds for a half hour session with a divorce lawyer.
The firm’s founder, Vanessa Lloyd Platt, said she had been amazed at the response to the vouchers. “They seem to appeal to an enormously widespread spectrum of people looking for that ‘must have’ gift for Christmas,” she said.
A spokesman for the Church of England called the vouchers sad.
“Divorce is a very personal matter and not really suitable for the idea of gift vouchers which are presents from other people,” he said.
Demand for the vouchers could soar over the next few weeks.
Christmas tends to be a particularly stressful time for families, with a huge rise in people seeking advice each January, Lloyd Platt said.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Fullerton; Editing by Steve Addison)
Tiger Reenactment
Posted by admin in Mix Up News, Mix Up TV on December 3rd, 2009
Groom tweets before saying ‘I do’
Posted by admin in Mix Up News, Mix Up TV on December 3rd, 2009
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Canada, Australia ranked best places for expats
Posted by admin in Careers, Mix Up News on December 1st, 2009
Nov. 26, 2009 7:33 AM est
Reuters.com
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Looking to work overseas? Head to Canada, Australia or Thailand, according to an annual global survey which found recession-hit Britain was one of the worst locations to live for expatriates.
The second annual Expat Experience survey, commissioned by HSBC Bank International, revealed that expats in Canada have the best quality of life and found it among the easiest places in the world to integrate with the local population.
Australia and Thailand also came in the top three in the survey of 3,146 people working in 30 different industries and 50 countries, even though Thailand was one of the countries worst-hit by the recession for expats.
“We have seen that there is a distinct trade-off between income and overall quality of life, as many of the top performers … scored toward the bottom of this report’s league table (of the best places to make and save money),” said Betony Taylor, spokeswoman for HSBC Bank International.
“What is clear is that the locations where salaries may not be as high, such as Canada and Australia, are where expats are really enjoying not only an increased quality of life but are also finding it easy to fit in to their new communities.”
Last year Germany, Canada and Spain were the top three countries deemed to have the best lifestyle for expats.
This year Britain was one of the lowest ranked locations when it came to lifestyle after being named as one of the most expensive places for expats with the recession taking its toll.
About 44 percent of expats in Britain are considering returning home, compared with only 15 percent of expats overall.
About 41 percent of expats in Britain find it difficult to find somewhere to live, most find the quality of their accommodation drops after moving to Britain, and a third claim their health has deteriorated since moving there.
“Despite this, the UK does hold the crown for being expat entertainment capital of the world, with over half (58 percent) of expats in the UK saying that the quality of entertainment had increased,” said Taylor.
She added that 62 percent of expats also said that employment prospects were the main reason keeping them in the region.
Results from a different section of the survey, which was conducted by research company FreshMinds, released earlier found Russia was home to the highest proportion of expats earning more than $250,000 with 30 percent of international workers there banking that amount, followed by Hong Kong and Japan.
The lowest-paid expats live in Australia and Belgium with the majority — 63 percent and 61 percent respectively — earning less than $100,000.
Recession sheds light for higher use of anti-depressant drugs
Posted by admin in Mix Up News on November 30th, 2009
Hitler’s favorite car makes comeback?
Posted by admin in Mix Up News, World News on November 28th, 2009
by Dave Graham - Nov. 25, 2009 09:49 AM est
Reuters.com
BERLIN (Reuters) - A car expert says he has tracked down Hitler’s favorite Mercedes to a garage near the town that helped the Austrian-born Fuehrer become a German citizen.
Classic cars specialist Michael Froehlich said he found the bullet-proof touring car after charting its postwar travels from Austria to Las Vegas and back to Munich, where Hitler burst onto the political scene with a failed putsch in 1923.
“It was the best car in the world at the time. Better than the Bugatti, Bentley, Rolls Royce or whatever,” Froehlich told Reuters from his office in Duesseldorf. “It was his favorite car: the one he used most often, which he used for parades.”
After being commissioned by a Cypriot buyer to find the vehicle, Froehlich discovered it had been bought by a farmer near Braunschweig, where in 1932 local Nazi officials got Hitler a civil servant’s job so he could claim citizenship.
“I thought it was an interesting job, but on the other hand I wasn’t too thrilled, because my parents and grandparents suffered greatly under his regime,” Froehlich said of the commission.
The dark blue car, which Froehlich said had spent decades in the basement of the Imperial Palace Casino in Las Vegas, was recently sold by the heirs of a Munich brewing tycoon before he traced it “in under two months” to northern Germany.
Froehlich said reports the buyer was Russian were mistaken, and rejected the notion that past owners of the vehicle with the number plate “1A 148 461″ were admirers of the dictator.
“They weren’t Nazis from what I can see, I think it’s something they saw as a business investment,” he said. “I can well imagine that an old Hitler banger has a certain value.”
Froehlich declined to name the car’s price tag, or give details about the buyer, but said the 1935 edition custom-made vehicle could fetch “more than 10 million euros ($14.91 million).”
Though he had not yet had outside confirmation of the car’s authenticity, the owner’s paperwork left no doubt, he added.
“The Mercedes sales register shows this 770 K model was ordered for the Fuehrer and Chancellor of the Reich in 1935,” he said.
Only 88 of the series were ever made and the Braunschweig car showed all the special modifications made for Hitler, who had to be driven because he had no “Fuehrerschein” — a German word made up from “driver” and “license” — Froehlich said.
“He was a Fuehrer without Fuehrerschein,” he said.
