The body of a man was found Sunday night outside an apartment building near downtown Minneapolis. Police were called to the 100 block of W. Grant St. about 8:55 p.m. after somebody reported seeing a man's body lying behind the building. Police are not clear as to what led to the man's death, said Lt. Amelia Huffman. The victim's name has not been released. Detectives from the police department's Homicide Unit are investigating. "Legume! My cape and saxophone!"
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Unless the dead man was the Al Franken for Senate staff director or something like that, this doesn't seem that interesting.
Actually this is a MSM story. Typically in Moscow on the Mississippi the names of murders and murder victims are NEVER released. One might ask why and the answer is polite, non-PC and simple. The vast majority of murders in Minneapolis are black. So are their victims.
One would never gather this because the local media refuses to make that information public. The black violence and murder have in the recent years moved north to Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park. But none of this will be reported by our news stations. Our public safety comes second to pointing out the fact as to who is doing these crimes.
Which rates right up there with a couple of other facts in Minnesota. Hmongs make up the majority of poachers, Somalians make up the largest group on welfare, blacks are in the majority for murderers and mexicans are by far the largest group smuggling meth into the state.
All of which KSTP, WCCO, KMSP and KARE refuse to cover in any of their news reports. I have to go and puke.
A 2,500-year-old mirror worth £500,000 was dropped and smashed on a Chinese TV show. A model was showing the ancient mirror to the audience when it slipped from her hands and fell to the floor. It shattered into pieces, shocking the audience - especially owner Chen Fengjiu who was sitting in the front row.
Fengjui, a renowned mirror collector, said: "The mirror has been part of my collection for 16 years and is the best one out of more than 1,000 mirrors."
The mirror, from the Warring States Period of Ancient China, was being exhibited on China Central Television's Artwork Investment programme. It was gold plated, embedded with 11 turquoise stones and the whole body was coated with intricate carvings.
The host of the show immediately cancelled the rest of the programme after the accident and the producer said he would seek expert help to repair the mirror. Fengjiu has not - so far at least - taken any legal action against the programme.
not all is lost, he should re-assemble all the broken pieces and glue them back together. Once assembled and dry he could gaze into it till his heart's content.
After all who gets the privilage of seeing 2000 reflected idiots in one look.
From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky last night. No major meteor showers were expected in the northern hemisphere on Sunday night, said Jim Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomy department's Space Place. But he said it was possible that a minor shower may have been what prompted calls to authorities.
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MIAMI - A strong earthquake struck the eastern Caribbean on Sunday afternoon, according to the US Geological Surveys National Earthquake Information Center. The 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred 74 miles (119 km) north-northwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and 98 miles (157 km) southwest of Manzanillo, Cuba, the US agency said.
The quake was felt in Jamaica and in Cuba, on the southern coast of the eastern provinces of Granma and Santiago, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
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LUCIANNE > 1700 tremors off Columbia may be due to birth of new volcano. Columbians headin'for the hills.
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I've noticed something odd about larger earthquakes. They seem to *sometimes* have a "reflexive" character with each other over broad distances.
Say, an earthquake in the Caribbean followed up several days later by one off the west coast of South America, or maybe off the Pacific northwest, as if the wave traveled through a continent, or crossed an ocean.
It doesn't seem to make sense, but I will still look for a large earthquake somewhere else in about 4-7 days' time.
A Saudi Arabian court has convicted and sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison for attending a party where alcoholic drinks were served and men and women danced, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday. The kingdoms religious police arrested 433 foreigners, including more than 240 women, for attending the impudent party in Jeddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz reported. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place.
Judge Saud al-Boushi sentenced the 20 to three to four month in prison and ordered them to receive an unspecified number of lashes. They have the right to appeal, the newspaper said. The prosecutor general charged the 20 with drinking, arranging for impudent party, mixed dancing and shooting a video for the party, Okaz said. The newspaper said because of the large number of detainees, several judges were assigned to try them in groups. The rest of the detainees are awaiting trial.
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Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which it bans alcohol, meeting between unmarried men and women, women driving and people convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape and armed robbery can be executed with a sword and in public as a deterrent.
...although rape and murder are way down on the list of punishable offenses...What about wealthy Saudis contributing to terrorists charities to buy weapons? What about funding hate-spewing imans? Where do these fall on the scale?
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Jeddah is, I'm told, what passes for the Las Vegas of Soodiland. They have gay friendly coffee houses, music parlours, massage therapy, etc. If you bribe the right people nothing happens. If you don't...
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Now, compare and contrast this set of punishments for just drinking and dancing at a party, to the punishments meted out in Bahrain for a couple caught having sex in public. This is exactly what I was talking about in yesterday's post, Bahrain is 13 centuries ahead of Saudi Arabia when it comes to what most Westerners would define as interpersonal relationships, and the rights of the individual.
The oceans may be warming and air temperatures rising, but in recent days Iceland has bucked the global climate trend.
Thick pack ice, the like of which has not been seen for decades, stretched into the western fjords as temperatures plummeted and a bitter wind blew in from -Greenland.
The ice has proved a headache for fishermen, who have been unable to put to sea, but it is what comes with pack ice that has caused most concern: polar bears.
People living around the fjord of Dyrafjördur, which last week was almost filled with the ice, were keeping an eye on the sea, conscious that the bears live on the pack ice that covers much of the Arctic ocean.
When chunks break off, as appears to have happened last week, the bears become stranded, drifting wherever the ice takes them.
There have been numerous accounts of bears making land on the shores of Iceland in the past. But it is the bears who tend to come off worse in encounters with the Icelanders, who take a distinctly unsentimental approach to wildlife.
In 1993, the last time a bear is known to have made it to Icelandic waters, it was caught by a fishing crew and killed. It is believed to have been stranded on a piece of pack ice that broke off the main pack and melted, leaving the animal swimming in the open ocean 70 miles from the main ice sheet. Five years earlier, the last bear to make it to shore was promptly shot when it turned up near the town of Haganesvík in the north of the country.
Coastguard commander Asgrinur Asgrinsson remembers a polar bear coming ashore on the island of Grimsey, north of the mainland, when he was a child. It was shot and stuffed and now has pride of place in the museum in the town of Husavik.
There are thought to be about 25,000 polar bears in the wild and environmentalists have warned that they are in danger of becoming extinct as their habitat shrinks. Climate change scientists say that with temperatures rising, the pack ice may have melted completely by 2040, leaving the Arctic ocean navigable and the polar bears with nowhere to go.
Last week's return of the pack ice to Iceland initially suggested that those predictions might have been overly pessimistic.
"I have lived here my whole life, but I have never seen so much pack ice before," said Helgi Árnason, a farmer in -Dyrafjördur.
"Forty years ago, large icebergs drifted on to beaches but it was nothing compared with this.
"[Pack ice] used to be Iceland's ancient enemy, but we stay calm so long as the situation doesn't worsen. This is just to remind us where we live."
According to the coastguard, the build-up of ice was the result of a combination of a high pressure system to the south of the mainland coupled with winds blowing in from Greenland, 300 miles to the west.
"It looked like the main pack ice had reached the coast," said Mr Asgrinsson. "But in fact it was a piece of the main pack that had broken away."
A report by a panel of international scientists, published on Friday, blamed greenhouse gas emissions for rising global average air and ocean temperatures, the widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea levels.
The report said that average Arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years.
A recent Nasa study showed that Greenland is losing 53 cubic miles of ice every year, twice the rate in 1996.
The melting polar ice means polar bears are not the only hazard for those living in the region.
Another study suggested that the thaw was luring killer whales further north.
Researchers said the whales were attacking a wide range of sealife, including beluga, bowhead and narwhal whales.
Jeff Higdon, from the University of Manitoba and the Fisheries and Oceans Canada monitoring project, said the increasing areas of open water meant the whales were able to venture farther into the Arctic.
"We've got reports of killer whales attacking every marine mammal in the Arctic," he said.
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A recent Nasa study showed that Greenland is losing 53 cubic miles of ice every year, twice the rate in 1996.
And this is what the study summary actually says:
Recent advances in the determination of the mass balance of polar ice sheets show that the Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass by near-coastal thinning, and that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with thickening in the west and thinning in the north, is probably thinning overall. The mass imbalance of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is likely to be small, but even its sign cannot yet be determined. Large sectors of ice in southeast Greenland, the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica, and the Antarctic Peninsula are changing quite rapidly as a result of processes not yet understood.
And here is the relevant segment about Greenland:
The Greenland ice sheet is thinning at the margins (42 +- 2Gta1 below the equilibrium-line altitude (ELA)) and growing inland (+53 +- 2Gta1 above the ELA) with a small overall mass gain (+11 +- 3Gta1; 0.03mma1 SLE (sea-level equivalent)).
Carramba! How someone can read that as Greenland is losing 53 cubic miles of ice every year is beyond me.
"We've got reports of killer whales attacking every marine mammal in the Arctic"
And this is so surprising... exactly why?
Killer whales attack every marine mammal anywhere.
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There are thought to be about 25,000 polar bears in the wild and environmentalists have warned that they are in danger of becoming extinct as their habitat shrinks.
Simple solution, capture the bears and give them to those environmentalists who are complaining, solves two problems at once, bears have a new food source, and whackos are silent.
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Wasn't a routine run in...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The mammoth Queen Mary 2 cruise liner passed beneath the Golden Gate bridge Sunday, clearing the bottom of the span by 27 feet before the vessel began a nail-bitingly tight trip of San Francisco Bay before docking safely at Pier 27.
The ship was surrounded by scores of sailboats and other sea craft as it crept slowly past hundreds of gawkers on the shore. The vessel pirouetted in the bay and dropped anchor, waiting for the right tide that would allow the 1,131-foot long craft to dock at 8 p.m. at Pier 27, near Telegraph Hill.
The visit is one of the riskiest passages in modern maritime history and a chance for 2,592 passengers to glimpse the underside of the Golden Gate Bridge before spending the night in San Francisco. It's also a pit stop for the 1,250-person crew to pick up 150 tons of food.
The hulking QM2 is the largest vessel to ever enter San Francisco Bay, said Cindy Adams, a spokeswoman for Cunard Line. It will have traveled 14,145 miles from Fort Lauderdale, around South America's Cape Horn when it docks Sunday night. It will continue Monday to Honolulu, then to the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Egypt and Europe before returning to Florida April 2.
The vessel displaces 151,000 tons. It's 134.5 feet wide and 1,131 feet long as long as some skyscrapers are tall.
But here's the rub: The dredged-out San Francisco waterfront is so shallow and muddy in places that the ship's navigational margin for error is less than 70 feet.
San Francisco Bay is home to treacherous currents and tides, which whorl around Alcatraz and churn beneath its iconic, rust-colored bridge. Big container ships only enter and exit the bay during high tide. Some tankers can't dock here; they move upriver on the flood tide to Solano and Contra Costa counties.
Luckily, the docking went off without a hitch. "Everything was smooth sailing, and the tide and weather cooperated," said Adams.
Pier 27 juts into the water like a finger, perpendicular to tidal flow. Docking broadside to a current adds more complexity; a tug boat will be ready in case QM2 needs an emergency tow.
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one reason they farmed sea salt in the south bay...a couple dikes (not dykes), and tidal inflow/outflow control, and voila! San Diego still has the Western Salt operations in our South Bay. I know Tracy Strahl, the GM, and Gene Mullenix, the ops manager. Good people
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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The body of a man was found Sunday night outside an apartment building near downtown Minneapolis. Police were called to the 100 block of W. Grant St. about 8:55 p.m. after somebody reported seeing a man's body lying behind the building. Police are not clear as to what led to the man's death, said Lt. Amelia Huffman. The victim's name has not been released. Detectives from the police department's Homicide Unit are investigating. 
2,500-year-old mirror dropped on TV 
MIAMI - A strong earthquake struck the eastern Caribbean on Sunday afternoon, according to the US Geological Surveys National Earthquake Information Center. The 6.1 magnitude earthquake occurred 74 miles (119 km) north-northwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and 98 miles (157 km) southwest of Manzanillo, Cuba, the US agency said.
A Saudi Arabian court has convicted and sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison for attending a party where alcoholic drinks were served and men and women danced, a Saudi newspaper reported on Sunday. The kingdoms religious police arrested 433 foreigners, including more than 240 women, for attending the impudent party in Jeddah, the state-guided newspaper Okaz reported. It did not identify the foreigners, give their nationalities or say when the party took place. 
