Bronze Short Sword
- Dated: 1200 B.C.E.
- Place of Origin: Luristan, Iran
- Measurements: overall length 13 inches
- Provenance: British Private Collection
The sword has a triangular blade, prominent central middle rib and a crescented and ridged hilt.
Source: Copyright 2013 © ArtAncient Ltd.
Wet Dog is an imaginative photo series by French photographer Sophie Gamand, made in collaboration with pet stylist Ruben Santana, that captures how a dog’s personality appears to change with the introduction of water during the grooming process. The results are absolutely striking.
Wet Dog is a series on dogs being washed during their grooming sessions. The way the water plays with their hair in a very painterly manner, and their facial expressions as the water is poured on them creates striking portraits that resemble famous humans or important characters. The dogs become timeless sculptures. Wet Dog is part of a project about grooming and the way we alter our dogs’ appearance to fit standards of hygiene and beauty.
photos by Sophie Gamand
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An adorable 11-week old lion cub named Karis had a very exciting day playing in a pile of autumn leaves that her keeper swept into her enclosure at the Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park in Scotland. This proved to be a very wise decision on her keeper’s part, as she seems to have had the time of her life frolicking around in the pile of leaves .
photos by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
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It looks increasingly certain that a major storm will hit the eastern half of the United States on the day before Thanksgiving, the busiest travel day of the year.
But here’s the twist: Don’t expect a white Thanksgiving in New York, Boston, or other big cities. Along the coast, the tempest will manifest itself more like a tropical storm than a snowy nor’easter. That means a deluge of heavy rain and sustained high winds—terrible travel conditions, by any definition.
In fact, a three- to four-inch blast of chilly rain is now expected across a broad swath of the southern and eastern US, including the major travel hubs of Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte, DC, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. If you plan to venture outside, this storm will likely find you.
Virtually the entire US will be affected by this storm: whether directly by rain, wind, snow, or ice, or indirectly via cascading travel delays. The storm’s incredibly poor timing will enhance the impacts of an otherwise only slightly worse than average early winter atmospheric medley. The AAA predicts 43.4 million Americans will venture farther than 50 miles over the coming holiday weekend, the vast majority of them by car.
Low clouds and high winds will force many hub airports to reduce takeoff and landing frequency during the storm’s peak on the day before Thanksgiving, so expect delayed and cancelled flights. And heavy rains will mean slow going on already congested highways along the east coast.
The silver lining? This storm will be a relatively quick mover, spending less than a day over any particular location. That means timing could be everything when making plans and anticipating the storm’s next move. And come Thanksgiving morning, the storm will effectively be gone, leaving bone-chilling air in its wake but relatively great travel conditions for those stuck in the rebooking line. Lingering strong winds will force New York’s Thanksgiving Day parade to firmly tether their humongous balloons.
A few key aspects of the storm have changed since my last update:
But will it be enough to turn the ground white, instilling some holiday cheer as the storm leaves? Maybe, maybe not.
A powerful cold front will blast through the country as the storm exits on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, driving wind chills and temperatures well below freezing. But the storm will be moving so quickly that there may not be enough of it left to produce snow in the big cities. Here’s a worst-case-scenario snow map from the National Weather Service, showing the maximum totals that can be expected through the day before Thanksgiving. Note that the major cities can only realistically hope for about an inch or so:
Freezing rain, sleet, and snow are inbound for much of Texas, including Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where several airlines have already begun the de-icing process. Winter storm warnings currently blanket the state. Heavy rain will reach New Orleans.
The storm’s center reaches the Gulf Coast, and will begin drawing energy from as far south as the Caribbean. Travel trouble peaks in the major hubs of Atlanta and Charlotte. Heavy rain will begin moving up the east coast throughout the day. As the storm initially reaches New York City and Boston, some sleet or otherwise icy conditions may appear for the first few hours. By the overnight hours, travel will start to be affected in the northeast.
By daybreak, the storm will have fully joined forces with the Canadian cold front, and will be strengthening quickly. Temperatures should remain above freezing all day for the coastal cities. Wind gusts could reach 50 to 75 mph along coastal areas of New Jersey, Long Island, and Massachusetts. Sustained winds in New York City and Boston may reach 40 mph, at which point airport activity could become severely restricted.
Heavy rain, blustery winds, and generally tropical storm-like conditions could be felt from Atlanta to Maine. Meanwhile, behind the cold front from the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina to western New York State, heavy snow could total a foot or more. Chilly air will spill as far south as the Gulf Coast, with morning temperatures in the 30s possible in Houston and New Orleans.
As the storm quickly moves northward into Canada, cold air will rush southward in huge quantities, bringing in bright blue sky, blustery winds, and wind chill values in the teens or single digits for much of the east coast. Some lingering snow showers could fall from Charlotte up to Boston, but this is still relatively uncertain. Travel troubles should ease, since the storm’s major effects will be over.
Any snow that falls should stick around for at least a few days as cold air settles in for an extended stay. In fact, it’s setting up to be a nearly ideal Black Friday, weather-wise, since cold weather has been shown to help boost retail sales by getting shoppers into the holiday spirit.
Black Friday morning low temperatures, nationwide:
firehose"nebulous conditions that disqualify schools from AP STEM funding if projected participation by female students in AP STEM programs is deemed insufficient. So, are Zuckerberg, Gates, Ballmer, and Schmidt walking-the-gender-diversity-talk at their own companies? Not according to the NY Times, which just reported that women still account for only about 25% of all employees at Code.org supporters Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Much as Jesus himself suffered from daddy issues, the Christ-like trials of Chris Brown also include an uneasy relationship with his mother, Joyce Hawkins, who—despite being his loudest supporter on Twitter, where she tweets under the handle “MomBreezy” and delusions of varying magnitude—sometimes says things Chris Brown doesn’t want to hear, like everyone else who’s out to destroy him. For example, Hawkins recently told her son that perhaps he should extend his stay in rehab, which he’d voluntarily entered “to gain focus and insight into his past and recent behavior,” presumably by being told about it for the first time ever.
But Brown was unconvinced he needed more time to come to terms with his tendency toward destructiveness and childish petulance, so he threw a rock through his mom’s car window. To Brown’s credit, this showed considerable progress from that ...
firehose'What began as a fan-created spinoff on TV Tropes has now been expanded into a full-fledged Inspector Spacetime wiki, featuring pages covering all 12 “Inspectors” and their enemies like the Blorgons and Circuit-Chaps. “There is, of course, no justification for running a joke into the ground this hard except to see if we can force it through to the other side of the planet,” says H. Lincoln, one of the wiki’s contributors.'
Surprisingly—for anyone who has never spent any time around the Internet, anyway—the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who has inspired tons of creative, geek-friendly tribute projects over the last few days. For both exhaustive detail and dazzling design, it’s hard to top the BBC’s own interactive map of every one of the Doctor’s adventures through time and space. But certainly rivaling it for sheer obsessiveness has to be the 200 pages dedicated to a Doctor Who parody that doesn’t even exist: Inspector Spacetime, a running joke on Community for several seasons. What began as a fan-created spinoff on TV Tropes has now been expanded into a full-fledged Inspector Spacetime wiki, featuring pages covering all 12 “Inspectors” and their enemies like the Blorgons and Circuit-Chaps. “There is, of course, no justification for running a joke into the ground this hard except to see if we can ...
In the greatest combination of liquor and the mall food court since that time you drank a bunch of liquor and went to the mall food court, noted alcohol confectioners Pinnacle have announced the release of Cinnabon Vodka—a vodka that, at last, you don’t have to combine with Cinnabon yourself. Described as boasting “decadent flavors of cinnamon, brown sugar and rich cream cheese frosting with hints of caramel”—flavors that were, until now, notably missing from ordinary vodka—Cinnabon vodka is not-so-subtly being targeted at women, Ad Age reports, whose increased interest in sweetly flavored booze has convinced distillers that dames will drink anything, even a vodka that tastes like hot cream cheese.
Cinnabon vodka will be rolled out on January 1 (conveniently, the day when America already doesn’t feel like drinking, thanks), and supported with “a national sampling tour targeting ‘various brunch and happy-hour soirees,’” which it will then ...
firehose'A single ghost of a tear appears in his eye, and his normally hard features are transformed by grief. This might be the most subtle acting in Doctor Who’s entire 50-year history, and it speaks to the tragedy of this Doctor more than any big speech or emotional breakdown ever could. For those precious seconds, the Doctor’s protective barriers—his superficial goofiness and the abrasiveness only barely hidden beneath that—are removed, and it’s not easy to look upon the broken man who remains.'
“The End Of The World” (season 1, episode 2; originally aired 4/2/2005)
(Available on Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Instant Video.)
“Is that a technical term, jiggery pokery?” “Yeah, I came first in jiggery pokery. What about you?” “No, I failed hullabaloo.”
There’s a moment midway through “The End Of The World” that demonstrates why Doctor Who needed Christopher Eccleston to be the Doctor. As he investigates a panel, the intelligent tree Jabe informs him that she has learned what species he is, and she could scarcely believe the truth when she first saw the result of her scan. She asks no questions as to how the Doctor can be here when his very existence is impossible. Instead, she begs his forgiveness for intruding and, placing a hand on his arm, she tells him how sorry she is. Throughout this scene, the Doctor never says a word; indeed, ...
Even in kittenhood, all cats have perfect mastery of the "I did that on purpose" expression.
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Twitch streaming on the PlayStation 4 has allowed for the creation of a call-in show, and it's caught the attention of several higher-ups at Sony. Engadget reports that a Washington couple utilizing The Playroom and their PlayStation Camera streamed what they're calling "The Spartan Show" on November 21, and it wasn't long before Shuhei Yoshida, president of Worldwide Studios for Sony Computer Entertainment, and Adam Boyes, head of publisher relations at Sony Computer Entertainment America, joined in. Boyes even phoned in, much to the delight of the couple.
Couples reveal PS4 streaming on Twitch to be a double-edged sword originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You don't even really have to tackle him. You just have to touch him.
In college, a player is down when they hit the ground, even if no defensive player touches them. In the NFL, a player has to be touched when they're down.
The Dallas Cowboys play in the NFL.
Yup, that's a touchdown for Brandon Myers, and Bruce Carter and Jeff Heath picked a really bad time to have a moment of nostalgia for their college years.
The Giants are playing pretty poorly, but thanks to this score, it's a one-score game -- 21-13, Cowboys.
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I would like to build myself a custom entertainment center out of milk crates. Does anyone have any idea where I can find one or two dozen of the same crate for free or cheap, preferably in SE?
Oh, and hi, I'm new here.
firehose'Grant County Assistant State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz told the Los Angeles Times that the man “painted on the house, ‘BACK IN BLACK,’ and he’s not an AC/DC fan.” '
From the Raw Story.
Aside from all the other significant, very real problems that racism poses… it’s stupid. Just simply, straightforwardly, incredibly STUPID.
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In the city of Miami Gardens, outside of Miami, FL, the police use aggressive campaigns of stop-and-frisk and absurd arrests to bolster their records, to the great detriment of the African-American majority who live there. For example, a young man named Earl Sampson has been stopped by Miami Gardens police 258 times; they've searched him more than 100 times; and they've arrested him for trespassing 56 times. He's never been convicted of anything apart from simple possession of small amounts of marijuana.
Sampson's trespassing arrests occurred at his place of work, a convenience store called the 207 Quickstop; Sampson was repeatedly arrested for trespassing there, over the loud objections of his employer, Alex Saleh, who owns the store, and who explained to police that Sampson was not trespassing in his store.
When Saleh gathered video evidence that showed the police had falsified their arrest reports and violated the rights of his customers, he was targeted for police harassment, including falsified vehicle stops and personal threats. Saleh is suing for federal civil rights violations, alleging that Miami Gardens police "routinely, under the direction of the city’s top leaders, directed its officers to conduct racial profiling, illegal stops and searches and other activities to cover up illegal misconduct."
Saleh, whose store is tucked between a public park and working-class neighborhoods, contends that Miami Gardens police officers have repeatedly used racial slurs to refer to his customers and treat most of them like they are hardened criminals.
“Police line them up and tell them to put their hands against the wall. I started asking myself ‘Is this normal?’ I just kept thinking police can’t do this,’’ Saleh said.
Last year, Saleh, armed with a cache of videos, filed an internal affairs complaint about the arrests at his store. From that point, he said, police officers became even more aggressive.
One evening, shortly after he had complained a second time, a squadron of six uniformed Miami Gardens police officers marched into the store, he says. They lined up, shoulder to shoulder, their arms crossed in front of them, blocking two grocery aisles.
“Can I help you?” Saleh recalls asking. It was an entire police detail, known as the department’s Rapid Action Deployment (RAD) squad, whom he had come to know from their frequent arrest sweeps. One went to use the restroom, and five of them stood silently for a full 10 minutes. Then they all marched out.
In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act [Julie K. Brown/Miami Herald]
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