Sure she’s been around for years, but move over Erin Andrews, there’s a new(er) piece of sideline reporter eye-candy coming to a (Spanish language) sports news network near you. Her name? Ines Sainz Gallo.
She may not speak English (I don’t know, maybe she does, she has a Masters Degree… though, who knows what they really teach at the University of the Valley of Mexico), but no matter, you won’t be able to hear anything she’s saying once you get a look at her.
You don’t usually see butterface reporters, except when they have a body like Ines Sainz.
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On May 28, 2008, a funnel touched down in the farm fields of central Iowa. Within minutes it grew into a massive, mile-wide monster. Damage surveys would later determine that the tornado was an EF5, the most powerful type of tornado, capable of reducing rows of well-constructed homes down to bare foundations. It roared through rural farmland for several miles before then heading due east towards the small town of Parkersburg.
Surveillance cameras were rolling at the First State Bank building in Parkersburg, a little before 5pm that Sunday. One exterior camera, used to record an outdoor ATM, showed calm weather only 20 seconds before the town was obliterated. What the camera captured next is nothing short of a nightmare.
The First State Bank was perhaps the sturdiest structure in the path of the tornado. Built with heavy brick and stone masonry, the building was one of the only things left standing in the Southern part of town. But the winds were able to penetrate through the bank's windows and unreinforced walls, and footage from inside shows how quickly it became filled with deadly debris.
The First State Bank's tornado footage is part of a growing collection of surveillance videos that are giving us a first-hand look at the fury of a tornado.
Only three weeks before the Parkersburg event, surveillance camera's at an equipment company outside of Leighton, Alabama captured an EF2 tornado as it tore through a parking lot. The tornado touched down only seconds before it came into frame and contained an embedded suction spot powerful enough to toss several cars and trucks into the air.
Back in 1998, a deadly outbreak of tornadoes occurred in central Florida. A newly opened Winn Dixie supermarket still had a few people inside when one of the early morning tornadoes roared over the store. Surveillance footage shows the powerful winds blowing through the plate glass doors at the entrance of the store and filling the air with debris and candy.
More recently, on August 19, 2009, a small tornado touched down near downtown Minneapolis. Although it was weak, the tornado still packed winds strong enough to blow out hundreds of windows and damage the roofs of several dozen homes and businesses in the area.
Incredible tornado footage is becoming more and more prevalent as the use of video and surveillance cameras continues to increase. And as unlucky as the businesses were that captured these images, their footage gives us a unique and fascinating view that few people have seen and actually lived through.
The "mystery stone," discovered on a mountainside in New Mexico, appears to be inscribed with ancient Greek or Hebrew. For decades, scholars have wondered if it's proof that Mediterranean peoples came to the New World thousands of years ago.
The stone is also called the "Decalogue Stone," and if you are able to reach its remote location you can walk right up to it and try to solve its mysteries yourself.
According to Atlas Obscura:
The stone was first acknowledged in literature in 1933 by famous New Mexico archaeologist Frank Hibben, who wrote of encountering the stone on a guided tour by an individual who claimed to have first discovered the stone in the 1880's. The inscription's alleged existence in the late 1800's would place the inscribing before the modern scientific rediscovery of both Paleo-Hebrew and Cypriotic Greek. However, the inscription may well be Phoenician, a script well known at the time.
Proponents of the inscription being in Paleo-Hebrew claim that it is a record of the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments, based on a 1949 translation by Harvard scholar Robert Pfeiffer. In 1979, a University of New Mexico epigrapher named Dixie Perkins put forth the theory of the inscription as Cypriotic Greek, used around 500 BC in the Mediterranean region. In Perkins' translation, the stone reads as a report from an explorer or warrior named Zakyneros, who has become isolated in the wilderness and now struggles to survive.
Many others however, believe the stone to be a hoax perpetrated by Hibben himself . . .
If it's a hoax, that's almost more awesome than if it were real. Who doesn't love a little shenanigans with ancient languages in remote locations?
Any description I put for this video of an English bulldog watching TV isn’t going to do justice for how entertaining this clip is. All you need to know: This is an English bulldog watching Family Guy like he was a person.
The good of this video: It’s a dog watching TV like a human…I also really like the way he has his paw in his crotch as if he were Al Bundy…he’s watching a show that has a character who is a dog with human features. The bad: If you look closely, it kind of looks like a midget in a dog suit, which is freaking me the f-ck out. Life is a two-sided coin in that way.
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All you art collectors out there. Here is a chance to get a Giclee copy of some of Ian M Sherwin work. Ian is planning on doing a whole series of Marblehead, Massachusetts paintings. His work is amazing.
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