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Swiss police google farmers, find marijuana field
ZURICH, Switzerland – Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company's satellite mapping software.
Police said they arrested 16 people and seized 1.1 tons (1.2 US tons) of marijuana as well as cash and valuables worth 900,000 Swiss francs ($780,000).
Officers discovered the hemp field in the northeastern canton (state) of Thurgau last year while investigating an alleged drug ring, said the head of Zurich police's specialist narcotics unit Norbert Klossner.
The plantation, measuring almost two acres (7,500 square meters), was hidden inside a field of corn. But officers using Google Earth to locate the address of two farmers suspected of involvement in the drug operation quickly spotted the illegal crop.
"It was an interesting chance discovery," said Klossner.
Prosecutor Gabi Alkalay told reporters in Zurich that she plans to complete her criminal investigation in February, after which she will formally charge the 16 suspects and ask for prison sentences for all of them.
The gang is alleged to have sold up to 7 tons (7.7 US tons) of hashish and marijuana between 2004 and 2008, with an annual turnover of 3-10 million francs a year, officials said.
Source : news.yahoo.com
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The singer is flaunting her toned, buff body in newly released pictures on her Web site. Britney Spears certainly looks fit enough to hit the road in March when her Circus Tour kicks into high gear.In the pics, Britney is seen in several workout getups, including a bikini top and fishnet tights, while dancing and laughing with her backup dancers.
Spears is hooking up with some old friends for the tour. Jamie King, who choreographed her 2000 tour, is working with the singer again, People.com reports. This will be her first arena tour in five years.
She'll be hitting the road with the Pussycat Dolls, who recently shared with MTV News their excitement for touring with her. "Get your tickets," Ashley Roberts told MTV News when we caught up with the Dolls on the set of their new video for "Bottle Pop." "We are actually going to be teaching the 'Bottle Pop' dance on tour, so check it out.
"Britney wears it well, and it's always been fun to work with her," Kimberly Wyatt added. "We've done a couple shows with her, and she's always down to be a Pussycat Doll, and now we will be joining her on her tour."
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Former Miss World finals Mariana Bridi must accept the bitter reality of his life. Hands and feet must be amputated because the virus continues to sweep vicious body.
Decision amputate the hands and feet of women aged 20 years Brazil was forced to be taken because Bridi increasingly threatened lives. Bridi be willing to lose legs and hands this week.
Bridi originally complained pain on 30 December 2008 ago and taken to hospital. At that time the hospital suffering pain Bridi diagnose kidney stones.
"At that time the hospital to give him medicine and Mariana to return home. But two days later increased Mariana severe pain," said Bridi boyfriend, Thiago Simoes, as quoted from Dailymail, Friday (23/1/2009).
"We took him back to the hospital and they even claim that Mariana suffered serious infection," Simoes supplement.
Bridi condition even after the increases get worse treatment from the hospital. The blood circulation is not known after obtaining treatment.
Medical teams also amputate both legs, followed by the second hand on Tuesday (20/1/2009) to prevent the virus spreading to all members of the body. Now women who bear the title of 'Body You' event at the 2007 Miss Bikini International middle intensive treatment in a hospital in the city of Serra the southeast state of Espirito Santo, Brazil.
Bridi convicted infected virus called Peudomonas Aeruginosa Bacteria. Not yet known whether the virus can be cured and what the causes of total penularannya.
Mariana Bridi represent Brazil at the Miss World event in 2006 and 2007. Even in the event Miss Bikini International 2007 in China, the Bridi win from 50 candidate.
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More than one million people gathered in the National Mall in a wintry Washington DC, to see Mr Obama take the oath shortly after 1200 (1700 GMT).
He used his inaugural address to vow to begin the work of “remaking America”.
The new US leader said his country faced a number of challenges but was entering a “new era of responsibility”.
Earlier, in his inaugural address, Mr Obama made reference to the scale of his achievement at being the first black American elected to the White House, in a remark that gathered one of the biggest cheers of the speech.
“This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed… why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.”
The new president takes office amid a dismal economic climate and with the US still embroiled in two wars.
On a day of unprecedented security in Washington DC, the inauguration ceremony began on the West Front Lawn of the US Capitol, where Congress sits, with an opening prayer asking for the protection and safety of the new president and vice-president.
Mr Obama stood solemnly during the invocation by conservative Rick Warren, his eyes closed in the final moments before he took office.
Joseph Biden, a veteran senator, was then sworn in as vice-president by the longest-serving member of the US Supreme Court.
Using his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, he placed his hand on a Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861 and repeated the oath of office, promising to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”.
Fun Facts
From George Washington to Barack Obama, many changes have been made to the ceremony. Here is a list of fun and interesting facts from Inauguration history:
- The Nation’s Capitol has not been the only host of inaugurations. Other sites that have are New York City, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Buffalo, NY; Plymouth, VT; and Air Force One.
- Martin Van Buren, Inaugurated in 1837, was the first President who was not born as a British subject.
- The longest Inaugural Address was 8,445 words while the shortest was 135 words.
- African Americans participated in the Inaugural Parade for the first time in 1865 for Abraham Lincoln’s Inauguration.
- William McKinley’s 1897 Inauguration was the first recorded by a motion picture camera.
- Women first participated in the Inaugural Parade for Woodrow Wilson in 1917.
- Ronald Reagan’s 1985 Inauguration was the coldest with a temperature of 7 degrees Farenheit.
- In 1997, William Clinton’s Inauguration was the first to be broadcast live on the internet.
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Picture Source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/inaugural_preparations.html
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People run their business from the Internet, search for love, research succulent recipes, plan vacations, and best of all – they SHOP! People that shop are always looking for a bargain, not just any bargain, but something spectacular.
The most popular public auction site, eBay, is where people gather to find anything from dishes to jewelry to houses and just about everything in between. Last year there was even a mother sold on eBay!
You can purchase amazing original artwork from China, have it signed by the artist, and shipped directly to your home. Perhaps you are trying to find 12 yards of Toile to reupholster your couch. You might even be looking for a new lawnmower or different power tools. The great news is that eBay has it all!
The other side of buying is the selling. Anyone can sell anything on eBay. Open an account, list your product, and wait for the bids to start coming in. There are secrets to being a power seller on eBay. While it is true that anyone can sell, to be successful, you need to know the inside secrets. One woman made over $250,000 last year on items sold on eBay. She is just one out of thousands and thousands of people that make a ton of money just selling merchandise.
Are you ready to learn how to be an eBay seller? You will find it to be easy, fun, and exciting.
Online Auction Profits Manual
1. Some eBay sellers create a business relationship with suppliers. As you find reliable suppliers, you can be assured of the quality and bargain of the merchandise. For more details go to www.auction-professional.com . If you are not sure where to find suppliers, where there are thousands of wholesale products, with the majority coming from reliable suppliers.
2. If you have a favorite hobby, such as creating custom wreaths or swags, making homemade soaps or lotions, sewing stuffed animals, whatever it might be, put it to work for you. Turn your hobby into a business using eBay. People do it all the time and make good money.
3. Just like working a job that you love, if you plan to get serious about selling on eBay, focus on things you know about and provide interest. In turn, this will allow you to “sell” the product with knowledge and passion. 4. Regardless of whom the buyer, work with integrity and run your auctions accordingly. More than likely, you will run into some difficult buyers, although not often. Keep in mind that every buyer provides the best form of advertisement - word of mouth. Integrity is what will draw customers in and
Keep them coming back along with friends and family.
5. Auction Insights is a great service that you should look at before you list your auction. Auction Insights is a search engine that will go out and review all of the larger online auction sites, looking for your item(s) specified. In return, you will get a list of prices this same item is selling for on the other auction sites.
6. If you have a website where you have many items or even services that would not sell on eBay, consider promoting your eBay auctions through your personal website. This will help increase the traffic to your site and build up the sales at eBay.
7. Auction items that focus on youth such as games, collectibles, clothing, body jewelry, etc. should end during the week or on a Sunday night. For more information logon to www.auction-entrepreneur.com .Ending them on Friday or Saturday nights is not a good choice since they are generally not home on these nights and therefore, the bidding is not as good.
8. Although you may have tremendous knowledge of something you are selling, not everyone will. Avoid language that is too techie and stay away from acronyms. Keep the language simple and easy to read.
9. The appearance of your auction is important. Auctions that are designed with loud colors or hard to read fonts can push buyers away. Use colors and fonts that are easy on the eye. Remember that not everyone will have perfect 20/20 vision so you want to make sure the fonts can be read by all buyers. It would be the same for graphics – a few added to the auction is fine but too much is a distraction. You want your auction to interest buyers not lose them in all the fluff.
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Over the last century philosophers, archaeoastronomers, and historians of ancient knowledge and wisdom have been deciphering ancient languages, the origins of ancient temples, and the mythology of ancient civilizations to find the source of inspiration and knowledge for the ingenious contributions these ancient civilizations have left on the earth. Past civilizations are now being newly re-discovered and interpreted for those of us who want to know of our past, our evolution as a species, and the destiny of humanity.
Unfortunately, much of the modern world has completely ignored the knowledge obtained by ancient civilizations, or have not given them any intellectual merit, thus creating a global culture, for the most part, steeped in secular and materialistic pursuits. The time has arrived when our local Milky Way galaxy is interacting with our local star system and the most dramatic changes ever to impact on human destiny are now taking place. Humanity is currently being transformed beyond anything ever imagined. Galactic Alignment, a book by John Major Jenkins, prepares us for this transformation.
John Major Jenkins, in his seminal work Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 , deciphered the ultimate meaning of the Mayan end-date of December 21, 2012, used by the Maya in their long count calendrical system. What Jenkins discovered was that all of the Mayan priests knew of this end date as the renewal and rebirth of a new world age resulting from the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator, and the earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy. Everything the ancients were doing in their civilizations was involved in recognizing the significance of the galactic center. The wealth of ancient architecture left on earth, which mirrored the heavens and had encoded in their stone monuments the direction to galactic center, indicating the ascent to a new spiritual world age, is the hallmark contribution Jenkins brings to the readers of hisGalactic Alignment.
One of the more significant encodings of galactic information into a stone monument is the Cross at Hendaye located in Hendaye, France, as well as the Cross at Urcos in Cusco, Peru. Jenkins leads us farther back in time revealing how esoteric information was carved into these stone crosses and their relationship with medieval doctrines, such as Kabbalah and alchemy. Jenkins introduces the reader into the metaphysics of Babylonian, Sumerian, and Persian metaphysics before he launches into evidence that points to galactic center as it is expressed through so many mythologies and monuments all over the earth.
The scholarship of John Major Jenkins once again shows itself to be most insightful when uncovering the lost knowledge of the ancient civilizations. Jenkins has continually uncovered the meaning of Mayan Calendrics, and now with his latest book he takes us around the world, unveiling how other ancient civilizations knew of the same celestial alignment. The Western World has either intentionally ignored the great precessional cycle and the alignments occurring once every 26,000 years, or has suppressed it for purposes of preventing people from being able to realize their own spiritual destiny, or their own evolutionary unfoldment in this universe. Supression of awareness on a celestial scale happened once before when people were not allowed to see how the earth revolved around the sun. The vision of Galileo was suppressed by the Catholic church just 325 years ago.
But now the knowledge and truth is out, and Jenkins has revealed it through the ingenious synthesis and interweaving of scholarly works of many authors from around the world. Galactic Alignment presents a wide-spread recognition of how all ancient cultures were aware that alignments to the galactic center do periodically occur, and that these alignments offer spiritual renewal for humanity --- not catastrophe and destruction as is commonly promoted by modern-day interpretations of the end time. Galactic Alignment will for the first time present the work of other scholars rarely or ever seen in print, but fully documented and methodically referenced by Jenkins. Several magnificent works published in the late 20th century need to be read to fully appreciate the breadth and scope of Jenkins' synthesis.read more : http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Messenger/alignment2012