Strange news items of the day.... Dead man on tap ? Hmm , did Russia manage to shoot down the meteor or was that Asteroid DA 14 actually hurling toward the earth ? What caused this young girl's death - why the men in haz met suits ?

http://www.businessinsider.com/la-officials-issued-a-do-not-drink-order-after-a-dead-body-turned-up-in-a-hotel-water-tank-2013-2

LA Officials Issued A 'Do-Not-Drink' Order After A Dead Body Turned Up In A Hotel Water Tank

Ami Abdollah , Associated Press | 44 minutes ago | 2 | 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only dribbled out of the taps at the downtown Cecil Hotel for days.

On Tuesday, after showering, brushing their teeth and drinking some of the tap water, they headed down to the lobby and found out why.

The body of a Canadian woman had been discovered at the bottom of one of four cisterns on the roof of the historic hotel near Skid Row. The tanks provide water for hotel taps and would have been used by guests for washing and drinking.

"The moment we found out, we felt a bit sick to the stomach, quite literally, especially having drank the water, we're not well mentally," Michael Baugh, 27, said.

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health officials issued a do-not-drink order Tuesday while its lab analyzes the water, said Terrance Powell, a director coordinating the department's response. The disclosure contradicts a previous police statement that the water had been deemed safe. Results of the testing were expected by Thursday.

Powell said the water was also used for cooking in the hotel; a coffee shop in the hotel would remain closed and has been instructed to sanitize its food equipment before reopening.

"Our biggest concern is going to be fecal contamination because of the body in the water," Powell said. He said the likelihood of contamination is "minimal" given the large amount of water the body was found in, but the department is being extra cautious.

Powell said the hotel hired a water treatment specialist after the department required it to do so to disinfect its plumbing lines.

A call to the hotel was not returned.

The remains of Elisa Lam, 21, were found by a maintenance worker at the 600-room hotel that charges $65 a night after guests complained about the low water pressure.

Police detectives were working to determine if her death was the result of foul play or an accident.

LAPD Sgt. Rudy Lopez called it suspicious and said a coroner's investigation will determine Lam's cause of death.

Before she died, hotel surveillance footage showed Lam inside an elevator pushing buttons and sticking her head out the doors, looking in both directions. She was later found in the water tank.

Lam, of Vancouver, British Columbia, traveled alone to Los Angeles on Jan. 26 and was last seen five days later by workers at the hotel.

Lopez said the hotel has four cisterns on its roof that are each about 10 feet tall, 4.5 feet wide and hold at least 1,000 gallons of water pumped up from city pipes.

Lam's body was found Tuesday morning at the bottom of one cistern that was about three-quarters full of water, Lopez said.

The opening at the top of the cistern is too small to accommodate firefighters and equipment, so they had to cut a hole in the storage tank to recover Lam's body.

The cisterns are on a platform at least 10 feet above the roof.

To get to the tanks, someone would have to go to the top floor then take a staircase with a locked door and emergency alarm preventing roof access.

Another ladder would have to be taken to the platform and a person would have to climb the side of the tank.

Lopez said there are no security cameras on the roof.

Lam intended to travel to Santa Cruz, about 350 miles north of Los Angeles. Officials said she tended to use public transportation and had been in touch with her family daily until she disappeared.

The Cecil Hotel was built in the 1920s and refurbished several years ago. The hotel is on Main Street in a part of downtown where efforts at gentrification often conflicts with homelessness and crime. It had once been the occasional home of infamous serial killers such as Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, and Austrian prison author Jack Unterweger, who was convicted of murdering nine prostitutes in Europe and the U.S., the Los Angeles Times reported.

By noon Wednesday, the Cecil Hotel had relocated 27 rooms used by guests to another hotel, but 11 rooms remained filled, Powell said. Those who chose to remain in the hotel were required to sign a waiver in which they acknowledged being informed of the health risks and were being provided bottled water, Powell said.

Baugh and his wife, who were on their first trip to the U.S., had planned to go to SeaWorld on Wednesday. Instead, they were trying to find a new hotel. Their tour agency placed them in another downtown hotel with a less than sterling reputation, from what they heard.

"We're just going from one dodgy place to another," Baugh said, resigned, "but at least there's water."

http://rense.com/general95/dida.html

( check the youtube video - found at the Enter The Gazelle segment , does seem to show a missile hitting the meteorite.... ) 

Did A Russian Nuclear Anti-Ballistic Missile Split The Chelyabinsk Meteor? By Ed Ward, MD 2-20-13

The plasma explosion of a bolide http://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/115001.aspx is what is being claimed at Chelyabinsk and Cuba.  "Bolides that Explode  Exploding bolides are also called detonating fireballs. The reason why some bolides explode has to do with the composition of the object. If the internal composition is water-ice then the bolide will likely explode. This is because as the meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere and begins to descend, ram pressure generates a shock wave produced by the compression of gases in the Earth's atmosphere. This ram pressure causes the meteor to heat up which causes the water-ice inside the meteor to boil and when it reaches a critical stage it explodes violently, fragmenting the object into much smaller pieces. The smaller pieces will burn up through the atmosphere, seldom causing any injury to humans or damage to property."  The above scenario leaves very few fragments as in the comet explosion over Tunguska in 1908http://www.physics.purdue.edu/people/faculty/yekim/1908_Tunguska_Kim.pdf . Since the entire projectile is the explosion it tends to leave very few fragments, unlike Chelyabinsk which left 2 masses almost equal to the original in size.  "Christopher Chyba and others have proposed a process whereby a stony meteorite could have exhibited the behavior of the Tunguska impactor. Their models show that when the forces opposing a body's descent become greater than the cohesive force holding it together, it blows apart, releasing nearly all its energy at once. The result is no crater, and damage distributed over a fairly wide radius, all of the damage being blast and thermal. Three-dimensional numerical modelling of the Tunguska impact done by Utyuzhnikov and Rudenko in 2008 supports the comet hypothesis. According to their results, the comet matter dispersed in the atmosphere, while the destruction of the forest was caused by the shock wave." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event  All of the above references show virtually very little to no fragments remain from bollide explosions. But, at Chelyabinsk we have an explosion more similar to an explosion on solid rock with large fragments emerging.  It's no secret that Chelyabinsk is home to top secret research and is virtually surrounded by other top secret research cities.  "Chelyabinsk has had a long association (since the 1940s) with top-secret nuclear research, though this is more properly applicable to Chelyabinsk Oblast as a whole, as nuclear facilities such as Chelyabinsk-70 are, or were, located far outside the city.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk  "Chelyabinsk is an industrial city about the same size as New Orleans. Andrey says it's surrounded by other off-limits cities where top secret work is done,..." http://www.fox8live.com/story/21221039/a-local-man-from-chelyabinsk-reacts-to-meteor-strike-near-his-family  Enter: "Anti-Ballistic Missile - Gazelle:  53T6 (NATO reporting name: ABM-3 Gazelle, previously SH-08)[1] is a Russian anti-ballistic missile which works as part of the A-135 anti-ballistic missile system. It was designed in early 1980s and put in service in 1995.[2]  The missile is able to intercept incoming re-entry vehicles at a distance of up to 80­100 km. 53T6 is a two-staged solid-propellant missile armed with 10 kt nuclear warhead. The missile is about 10 meters in length and 1 meter in diameter. Its launch weight is 10 tons.[1][3]

 The 53T6 missile is kept in silo-based launch container. Prior to launch its cover is blown off.

 It was last tested in October 2009.[4] The Gazelle is a follow-on development of the ABM-1 Galosh."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53T6

 Unverified close up of meteor, if verified would be documented proof of missile.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WaQIPBqoQ-Q

 Watch the Flash and the Blast Wave - also note the timing is consistent with flash and then a pressure wave - not some sonic boom from breaking the sound barrier: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/15/meteor-shards-russia-explosion-video

 "Experts have been scouring a 50-foot hole in a frozen lake on the outskirts of Chelyabinsk, in the Urals, believed to have been carved out when the fireball crashed to the ground.

 And after three days of combing the ice for clues, they have finally unearthed fragments of stone which each have a strong magnetic field and emit unusually high traces of radiation - clear signs that it came from space." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280416/Russian-Meteor-PICTURED-First-fragments-meteorite-tests-DID-come-space.html

 So we have evidence of significant mass leaving a 50 foot hole - not consistent with a bolide explosion and radiation which would have to be present in a nuked meteor and might be present in some meteors . http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57569551/meteorites-slam-into-russia-as-meteor-seen-streaking-through-morning-sky/

 Providing the unverified video hasn't been 'touched' up, there is significant evidence a missile was used at Chelyabinsk. This would have had to have been an automatic response since the entire response from start to interception was less than 20 seconds.
 The barely noted meteor explosion in Cuba is very similar to the Russian explosion. Brief heat signature in the sky followed by an explosion which one Cuban described the explosion as brighter than 10 suns. Was another meteor caught in a Russian anti-ballistic missile response network?

and notice how the original ten ton meteor now is estimated to be 1000 times larger - or ten thousand tons....

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/19/russian-meteorite-1000-times-bigger-than-originally-thought/

It turns out the meteor that landed in Russia last week was a bit bigger than the 10 tons first reported. About 1,000 times bigger.

When a hunk of rock raced out of the morning skies over Russia on Friday and exploded with nearly 500 kilotons of energy, early size estimates from the Russian Academy of Sciences that were carried by the Associated Press, Reuters and other news wires pegged it on the small size, with a weight of about 10 tons.

Oops.

'This event was so much bigger than anything we've seen on video that it doesn't surprise me the guess was off by three orders of magnitude.'

- Margaret Campbell-Brown, physics professor at the University of Western Ontario

Later in the evening, after studying infrasound data from stations around the world, NASA released a new estimate revising that first guess upward by a thousand-fold: The meteorite actually weighed closer to 10,000 tons, scientists said -- approximately as much as 170 M1 Abrams tanks. 

“My guess is that someone eyeballed the videos and made an educated guess,” said Margaret Campbell-Brown, associate professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario. “This event was so much bigger than anything we've seen on video that it doesn't surprise me the guess was off by three orders of magnitude.”

That poor estimate underscores the daunting task scientists face today: While NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program currently tracks about 10,000 objects through the heavens, there are far, far more smaller objects that are simply too tiny to track.

“If you think about objects the size of the one that came into Russia, you’re probably looking at 100 million up there. Of those likely to intersect Earth, there’s less, maybe 100,000,” said K.T. Ramesh, director of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins. “Space is pretty big.”

And the size of those smaller objects -- whether they’re 10 tons or 10,000 tons -- makes them impossible to track with current technology, he said.

“In general, we're pretty good at seeing things that are 1 kilometer and up in diameter, and have trouble seeing things that are less than 100 meters in diameter. The big problem is knowing where they are -- once you know where to look, you can find even the smaller objects,” he said.

For comparison, NASA currently believes the Russian meteorite was about 49 feet in diameter, or 15 meters. (Asteroid 2012 DA14, which NASA tracked on its flight near our planet on Friday, was approximately 150 feet in diameter, or 45 meters.)

“A good analogy is finding a few pennies scattered over an acre of dirt. If you know where to look, you have no trouble seeing them. But if you just look over the whole field, your chance of finding a penny is pretty small,” Ramesh told FoxNews.com.

Without sensors aimed directly at the incoming meteor, initial data was scarce. As other bits of data came in, scientists were able to hone their estimates of the size of the meteor, explained Edwin Bergin with the University of Michigan’s Department of Astronomy.

“Reports say that the network used to detect and infer nuclear explosions led to the revision,” he told FoxNews.com. “I think it just is better information that took time to filter out.”

and wonder what these dolphins sense ?

7 Miles Of Dolphins, 5 Miles Wide: Where Are They Going? What Are They Preparing For?

Monday, February 18, 2013 21:48

(Before It's News)

This absolutely amazing story comes to us from the San Diego, California area and brings us the mystery of a HUGE 'pod' of dolphins. Over 100,000 dolphins, by one estimation, were found swimming together in what is being called a 'super mega pod' by Captain Joe Dutra of Hornblower Cruises. In fact, Mr. Dutra estimated the trail of dolphins to be 7 miles long and 5 miles wide, the largest group of dolphins he had ever seen together. My question, what are these mammals running away from together? Dolphins are social mammals and extremely intelligent; something is clearly wrong here and experts agree. From The Daily Mail.:

Experts are unable to pinpoint any specific reason as to why so many of the mammals were traveling together on this particular night. 'They’re definitely social animals, they stick together in small groups. But sometimes, the schools come together,' marine expert Sarah Wilkin told NBC.

Since the experts are unable to tell us what may have caused this dolphin super mega-pod stampede, lets look at a few different theories floating around on the internet.

A) They sense an earthquake and are on the move. According to Wikipedia and geologist Jim Berkland, dolphins indeed can sense earthquakes before they occur.:

He attributes the strange behaviors to radical changes in the Earth's magnetic field just prior to earthquakes and in the general area of the quakes. He says that, when these changes occur, they interfere with the sea mammals', and even the migratory birds', ability to navigate, which explains the mass beachings. He says even dogs and cats can sense the disruptions, which explains elevated rates of runaway-pet reports. Research on Earth's magnetic field and how it is affected by moving tectonic plates and earthquakes is ongoing.

B) Are naval sonar weapons in use? This stampede happened right outside of San Diego, California, home to one of the largest US Naval bases in the world and the largest Naval base on the West coast. The use of US Navy sonar weapons have been shown to cause tremendous harm to dolphins and other sea life. Were these dolphins trying to get away from something that was torturing them, a US Naval sonar/weapon?

C) Widespread radiation contamination in the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima. We've learned from this National Geographic Blog that pollution and more radioactive contamination from Fukushima, Japan continues to travel Eastward across the Pacific Ocean and will arrive upon the West coast within years; were the dolphins trying to escape that mess?

Strange deaths ......

http://www.naturalnews.com/039210_flu_shot_mysterious_death_child.html

(NaturalNews) A Texas family is reeling with sadness and confusion after their six-year-old daughter died just a few hours after visiting an emergency room recently for what appeared to be flu-like symptoms. According to FOX 4 News in Dallas, young Tahila Johnson developed a fever, body aches, and the chills, prompting her parents to rush her to theDallas Regional Medical Center for treatment. But rather than receive proper care, Tahila was carelessly sent away with some over-the-counter drugs, and she died just a few hours later at home in her bed.

There have been a number of reports from across the country recently of children mysteriously dying from the flu, or from complications involving flu-like symptoms. But Tahila's story is particularly disturbing, as hospital caretakers refused to even examine Tahila to see what she might have had. Instead, a nurse reportedly told Tahila's parents that the hospital was not evaluating children for the flu, and negligently proceeded to instruct them to administer Tylenol and the allergy medicine Zyrtec to the young girl.

By early the next morning, Tahila's grandmother found the child dead in her bed, and now the parents want answers. Not only was the severity of Tahila's condition ignored by the hospital, but several media sources and health groups reporting on the incident have since made a point of emphasizing the fact that Tahila was not vaccinated for the flu, insinuating that perhaps this lack of flu shot was somehow responsible for the girl's death.

"What they said, verbatim ... (is that) all kids have the flu," explained Earl Johnson, Tahila's father, to FOX 4 News. "'We're not going to test her for the flu; we're not testing anybody today,' (said hospital staff) and there was a lot of kids in the lobby, so is my child the only one? My daughter didn't get tested, and I woke up in the morning and it wasn't even 12 hours from leaving the hospital, and she's dead," he added to NBC 5 News. "I wish I could have made them do more."

Authorities push useless flu shot in aftermath of girl's death

In the immediate aftermath of Tahila's death, the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office conducted an investigation to determine the exact cause of the girl's death. At first, authorities blamed a "flu-like condition," but later declared that Tahila had, indeed, died from complications of the flu. And even though the flu shot has been shown to be medically useless, local health authorities quickly took advantage of the tragedy to promote flu shots, despite the fact that several other children across the U.S. who had gotten a flu shot have also died from the flu in recent weeks.

"She rarely got sick, ever," added Tahila's father about his daughter. "She didn't have allergies. She wasn't allergic to anything. She never missed school -- that's how we knew she was sick; she didn't want to go to school."

and.....

and why the protective suits for a child pronounced dead at the Hospital ????

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/02/19/memorial-grows-for-longmont-girl-who-died-mysteriously/

LONGMONT, Colo. (CBS4) – Investigators had to don protective suits as they are tried to determine what killed a 6-year-old girl in Longmont Monday morning.

The investigation began at approximately 9 a.m. when the girl, identified as Lluvia Espinoza Morales, was taken to the hospital. She was pronounced dead at the hospital, but there were no signs of foul play.

Police started going down the list of what could have killed the girl. One thought was that she had influenza. Investigators consulted with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to go into the girl’s home.“We don’t know the cause. The initial investigation is not showing us anything suspicious,” Cmdr. Jim Lewis with Longmont police said.