To tell that the electrical outage is going as planned.




http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/did-beyonce-flash-an-illuminati-message-at-the-sup


Meanwhile




Meanwhile the power company said this:


A joint statement from Entergy New Orleans, which provides power to the stadium, and Superdome operator SMG shed some light on the chain of events, which apparently started at the spot where Entergy feeds power into the stadium's lines. The problem occurred shortly after Beyonce put on a halftime show that featured extravagant lighting and video effects.
"A piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system," the statement said. "Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker, causing power to be partially cut to the Superdome in order to isolate the issue. ... Entergy and SMG will continue to investigate the root cause of the abnormality."
The FBI quickly ruled out terrorism, and the New Orleans Fire Department dismissed reports that a fire might have been the cause.
Auxiliary power kept the playing field and concourses from going totally dark.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2013/02/04/super-bowl-outage-caused-when-equipment-detected-abnormality-officials-say/#ixzz2Jv08UCU9

Most cited countries:
Israel: 178
Iran: 169
Vietnam (seems like old times): 41
Afghanistan: 38
Iraq: 30
Syria: 18
North Korea: 11
Pakistan: 10
Egypt: 9
China: 5
Libya/Benghazi (remember that?): 3
Yemen: 2
Mali: 1

Most cited threats:
Nuclear/warheads: 154
Terrorism: 76
War: 41
Missiles/rockets: 20
Al-Qaeda (Al who?): 2
Taliban (Tali-what?): 0

Most cited people:
President Obama: 27
Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: 22
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: 11
Former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates: 9
George W. Bush: 3
Afghan President Hamid Karzai: 0
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Amazingly, despite all the interest in these two countries, their actual leaders were not referenced even once.

Pentagon issues:
Budget/spending: 81
Veterans: 38
Women: 26
Mental health/suicide: 25
Openly gay/same-sex relationships/don’t ask, don’t tell: 8
Sexual assault: 3
Drones: Just kidding, it didn’t come up.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/01/a-revealing-list-of-the-most-mentioned-words-at-hagels-confirmation-hearing/?print=1

(AP) — Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy's maker said.

Cassagnes died Jan. 16 in a Paris suburb at age 86, said the Ohio Art Co., based in Bryan in northwest Ohio. The cause wasn't disclosed Saturday.


Then an electrical technician, Cassagnes came upon the Etch A Sketch idea in the late 1950s when he peeled a translucent decal from a light switch plate and found pencil mark images transferred to the opposite face, the Toy Industry Association said.

Ohio Art saw his idea at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1959. The toy, with its gray screen, red frame and two white knobs that are twisted back and forth to create drawings, was launched in 1960 and became the top seller that holiday season. More than 100 million have been sold worldwide

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ohio-art-says-etch-sketch-creator-dies-france



I had one growing up and so did my kids
it was a timeless great toy even used
in political campaigns in the next century.

According to the RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, FBI agents landed in Reykjavík in August 2011 without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations within the country. However, their plan was interupted when Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson learned about the FBI's visit and sent them packing. The Icelandic government then issued a formal protest to United States authorities.

On several different occasions, the U.S. government's hunt for WikiLeaks has involved private individuals and companies in Iceland. For example, the U.S. has been successful in obtaining account information from Twitter on parliamentarian Birgitta Jónsdóttir, who now refuses to travel outside of Iceland for fear of being arrested for her connections with WikiLeaks.

Iceland's government had already protested against the United States' activities in Reykjavík. It has already been learned that the U.S. embassy located there is monitoring people who enter the immediate area, and try to stop people from taking pictures of their building, despite the fact that it is perfectly legal to do so.


Jónasson corroborates that FBI agents arrived in Iceland and remained in the country for a few days, but claims not to know how many there were. However, he said it was out of the question that a foreign power be permitted to conduct private investigations of Icelandic citizens and their activities in the country. He told the broadcast news service:

"I can corroborate this took place in August 2011. Agents from the FBI arrived in Iceland. They'll have to answer for what their plans were. I can also corroborate that they wanted to get the cooperation of the national police and the national prosecutor's office."

http://clevelandleader.com/node/20013

And it was done by Americans.

Lynchings, maybe more than other murders, leave ghosts behind and business unfinished that gnaw at the collective mind. The restless memory of the victim issues insistent demands: Recall me. Remember me. Release me. In the United States, there are many in need of this attention; the list of victims from Texas alone numbers almost 500. And though we tend to think of lynchings as a phenomenon of the Deep South, they actually occurred in all but four of the contiguous forty-eight states.

Here’s a statistic: between 1882, when reliable records started to be kept, and 1968, there were 4,743 lynchings recorded in the United States.


In Canada, during this same eighty-six-year period, there was one: Louie Sam’s. Tuskegee University, from whose archives these statistics come, classified 1,297 of the victims as “White” (a figure that includes immigrants and aboriginals, but vastly underestimates the numbers for these groups). No such archives exist in Canada, because there appears to be no need for them


http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.12--the-lynching-of-louie-sam/

Louie Sam (1870? – February 24, 1884) was a Stó:lō youth from native village near Abbotsford, British Columbia who was lynched by an American mob.

Sam was 14 at the time these events occurred. He had been accused of the murder of James Bell, a shopkeeper in Nooksack (today Whatcom County, Washington). The people of his band, today the Sumas First Nation at Kilgard turned him over to the B.C. government to settle the matter.

Following this, an angry mob crossed the border into Canada on February 24 and captured Sam, who had been in the custody of a B.C. deputy. They then hanged him from a tree close to the U.S. border.

A subsequent investigation by Canadian authorities strongly suggests that Sam was innocent, and that the likely murderers were two white Americans who were leaders of the lynch mob. They were William Osterman, the Nooksack telegraph operator who took over Bell's business, and David Harkness, who at the time of Bell's murder was living with Bell's estranged wife. Neither man was ever prosecuted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Sam

ANUARY 31--The St. Louis pastor responsible for the credit card receipt heard ‘round the Internet termed her snide scribblings a “lapse in my character and judgment,” adding that the Applebee’s employee who posted the receipt online was fired yesterday after she lodged a complaint with restaurant managers.

In a TSG interview, Alois Bell said that the online firestorm created by the receipt has left her stunned. “My heart is really broken,” said the 37-year-old Bell. “I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.”

The Applebee’s receipt, which was posted earlier this week to Reddit, includes Bell’s handwritten notations referring to an 18 percent tip added to the bill (for groups larger than six). “I give God 10% why do you get 18,” wrote Bell, who scratched out the tip and added a zero in its place. She also wrote the word “Pastor” above her signature.

The January 25 meal came after an evening service at the Truth in the World Deliverance Ministries church, said Bell, who added that five adults and five children were in the group that dined at Applebee’s (a traditional post-service destination for church members). The subsequent bill was divided up amongst the parties.


More: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/tipping-pastor-apologizes-687234

A strange relationship between dogs and bears.
Taken from the show "Jailed Polar Bear" on FirstScience.tv

Mathematical equations aren't just useful — many are quite beautiful. And many scientists admit they are often fond of particular formulas not just for their function, but for their form, and the simple, poetic truths they contain.

While certain famous equations, such as Albert Einstein's E = mc^2, hog most of the public glory, many less familiar formulas have their champions among scientists. LiveScience asked physicists, astronomers and mathematicians for their favorite equations; here's what we found:
General relativity

The equation above was formulated by Einstein as part of his groundbreaking general theory of relativity in 1915. The theory revolutionized how scientists understood gravity by describing the force as a warping of the fabric of space and time.

"It is still amazing to me that one such mathematical equation can describe what space-time is all about," said Space Telescope Science Institute astrophysicist Mario Livio, who nominated the equation as his favorite. "All of Einstein's true genius is embodied in this equation." [Einstein Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Genius]
"The right-hand side of this equation describes the energy contents of our universe (including the 'dark energy' that propels the current cosmic acceleration)," Livio explained. "The left-hand side describes the geometry of space-time. The equality reflects the fact that in Einstein's general relativity, mass and energy determine the geometry, and concomitantly the curvature, which is a manifestation of what we call gravity." [6 Weird Facts About Gravity]

"It's a very elegant equation," said Kyle Cranmer, a physicist at New York University, adding that the equation reveals the relationship between space-time and matter and energy. "This equation tells you how they are related — how the presence of the sun warps space-time so that the Earth moves around it in orbit, etc. It also tells you how the universe evolved since the Big Bang and predicts that there should be black holes."


To read the list of the 11 go to the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/11-most-beautiful-mathematical-equations-144744064.html;_ylt=Aj1x_BvsW0k7C91OQ5hc1Zu1qHQA;_ylu=X3oDMTQxN3JkdGdlBG1pdANNb3N0UG9wdWxhciBMaXN0aW5nBHBrZwMwOGM1ZjRhZi0wZTRlLTMyMmMtYTQ0NS1kN2JkODM3N2JlNzEEcG9zAzc5BHNlYwNNb3N0IFBvcHVsYXIEdmVyA2IwOTg4OTQ0LTZhZjMtMTFlMi1iOTVkLWRkYWFhNzk3NGFlZQ--;_ylg=X3oDMTJsbDNrNmNmBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANwb3B1bGFyBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QDY29udHJvbF9pcHRjX3Nob3J0X3JlbGF0ZWQ-;_ylv=3

Source: raw Story



A 15-year-old girl was killed on the South Side of Chicago on Tuesday, just a week after she performed at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.

Hadiya Pendleton was hanging out at Vivian Gordon Harsh Park near her high school at around 2:30 p.m., “when someone jumped a fence, ran up to them, and opened fire,” according to WBBM-TV.

Pendleton was taken to University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital where she died an hour later from a gunshot wound to her back. A 16-year-old boy was also wounded in the attack.



Raw Story (http://s.tt/1z9dj)

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/30/15-year-old-girl-who-performed-at-obama-inauguration-gunned-down-in-chicago/

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