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The new CC in Nevada is an unwanted boon for the local constabulary.

Author: jimbasil (52311 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 11:13 am on Jul 26, 2022
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Lots of detective work available!

Cold Case files!

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More human remains have been found as the shrinking shore line of Lake Mead recedes in the face of a brutal drought gripping the western United States.

In a statement, the National Park Service said the unidentified remains were spotted at Swim Beach in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area late on Monday afternoon.

The age of the remains is unknown and the park service said: “The investigation is ongoing.”

As the lake’s surface area has shrunk, various grim discoveries have been made at the popular south-western US recreation spot formed by the building of the Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona.

First, the decomposed body of a man in a barrel was found, apparently shot in the head. Las Vegas police say he had been killed between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s. The death is being investigated as a murder, possibly linked to the mob.

Then two women paddle boarding on the lake noticed bones on a newly surfaced sand bar with a skeleton emerging from the ground on it. There was no immediate evidence of foul play.

The water level of the vast reservoir – which is a vital resource for millions of people in the parched south-west – has dropped more than 170ft (52 meters) since 1983. The lake is now down to about 30% of capacity.


Link: Missing a friend?- troll the shores of Lake Mead - they may be there.

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk

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Cool. If other places are like Nevada maybe one day they'll find Atlantis. I can't wait to see it.

Author: Eli (9473 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 12:12 pm on Jul 26, 2022
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But good for the NY mob. Oceans are only gonna rise. Won't interrupt sleeping with the fishes...

Author: TakethetrainKnute (33393 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:18 am on Jul 26, 2022
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...the saltwater fishes.

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Shark Bait for all your chums!

Author: jimbasil (52311 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 11:19 am on Jul 26, 2022
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Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
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More CC issues causing international boundaries to change. Switzerland & Italy are putting up dukes.

Author: jimbasil (52311 Posts - Joined: Nov 15, 2007)

Posted at 11:31 am on Jul 26, 2022
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Way up in the snowy Alps, the border between Switzerland and Italy has shifted due to a melting glacier, putting the location of an Italian mountain lodge in dispute.
The borderline runs along a drainage divide -- the point at which meltwater will run down either side of the mountain toward one country or the other.
But the Theodul Glacier's retreat means the watershed has crept toward the Rifugio Guide del Cervino, a refuge for visitors near the 11,417-foot Testa Grigia peak -- and it's gradually sweeping underneath the building.

Frederic, a 59-year-old tourist, opens the narrow wooden door to enter the refuge's restaurant, the light coming in from outside.

The menu is in Italian, not German, and priced in euros rather than Swiss francs. Nonetheless, at the counter, he orders a slice of pie and asks: "So -- are we in Switzerland or in Italy?"

It is a question worth asking, as it has been the subject of diplomatic negotiations that started in 2018 and concluded with a compromise last year -- but the details remain secret.

When the refuge was built on a rocky outcrop in 1984, its 40 beds and long wooden tables were entirely in Italian territory.

But now two-thirds of the lodge, including most of the beds and the restaurant, is technically perched in southern Switzerland.

The issue has come to the fore because the area, which relies on tourism, is located at the top of one of the world's largest ski resorts, with a major new development including a cable car station being constructed a few meters away.

An agreement was hammered out in Florence in November 2021 but the outcome will only be revealed once it's rubber-stamped by the Swiss government -- which won't happen before 2023.

"We agreed to split the difference," Alain Wicht, chief border official at Switzerland's national mapping agency Swisstopo told AFP.

His job includes looking after the 7,000 boundary markers along landlocked Switzerland's 1203 mile border with Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Liechtenstein.
Wicht attended the negotiations, where both parties made concessions to find a solution. "Even if neither side came out winners, at least nobody lost," he said.

Where the Italian-Swiss border traverses Alpine glaciers, the frontier follows the watershed line.

But the Theodul Glacier lost almost a quarter of its mass between 1973 and 2010. That exposed the rock underneath to the ice, altering the drainage divide and forcing the two neighbors to redraw around a 100-yard-long stretch of their border.

Wicht said such adjustments were frequent and generally settled by comparing readings by surveyors from the border countries, without getting politicians involved.

"We are squabbling over territory that isn't worth much," he said. But he added that this "is the only place where we suddenly had a building involved," giving "economic value" to the land.

His Italian counterparts declined to comment "due to the complex international situation".

Former Swisstopo chief Jean-Philippe Amstein said such disputes are typically resolved by exchanging parcels of land of equivalent surface area and value.

In this case, "Switzerland is not interested in obtaining a piece of glacier," he explained, and "the Italians are unable to compensate for the loss of Swiss surface area."

While the outcome remains secret, the refuge's caretaker, 51-year-old Lucio Trucco, has been told it will stay on Italian soil.

"The refuge remains Italian because we have always been Italian," he said.

"The menu is Italian, the wine is Italian, and the taxes are Italian."

The years of negotiation have delayed the refuge's renovation -- the villages either side of the border haven't been able to issue a building permit.

So the works won't be completed in time for the scheduled opening of a new cable car up the Italian side of the Klein Matterhorn mountain in late 2023.

The slopes are only accessible from the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt.

While some mid-altitude resorts are preparing for the end of Alpine skiing due to global warming, skiing is possible throughout the summer on the Zermatt-Cervinia slopes, even if such activities contribute to the glacier's retreat.

"That's why we have to enhance the area here, because it will surely be the last one to die," said Trucco.

For now, on Swisstopo's maps, the solid pink band of the Swiss border remains a dashed line as it passes the refuge.


Link: Crossing skies for a little MEAD at the Chalet may get you in an argument.

Jack, he is a banker
and Jane, she is a clerk
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Why don’t they put up barons instead of dukes? We work better.

Author: BaronVonZemo (58878 Posts - Joined: Nov 19, 2010)

Posted at 1:20 pm on Jul 26, 2022
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