ATF: Curbside Trash Is Not the Proper Means to Dispose of a Rocket Launcher—Unless It's Unloaded [Guns]

Is the guided missile launcher of yours taking up too much space in your home? No worries! Turns out, you don't even need to recycle it. Hosuton PD and the ATF were summoned to the Kingwood neighborhood in Houston after residents discovered a rocket launcher set out with the curbside trash. More »

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New Asteroid Mining Company May Solve World's Economic Problems [Space]

This Tuesday, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history. They claim they will "add trillions of dollars to the global GDP" and "help ensure humanity's prosperity." More »

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Katy Perry and Robert Ackroyd: New Couple Alert?

Baptiste Giabiconi was so February.

It seems like Katy Perry is wasting no time playing the field splitting from husband Russell Brand. Her latest reported love interest? Florence + the Machine guitarist Robert Ackroyd, who was holding hands with her at Coachella last weekend.

Here's them on the way to see her BFF Rihanna and Calvin Harris:

She also reportedly called him her "boyfriend" too, according to reports.

"Backstage at the Artist Lounge at Coachella last weekend, Katy kept saying her boyfriend was the guitar player for Florence + the Machine," a source says.

"Then later, he and a bunch of friends were supposed to go see Dr. Dre together, but Katy said she was waiting to watch her 'boyfriend' perform!"

Ackroyd also tweeted, "Best Coachella ever. Scratch that, best weekend ever. Dre, Snoop, Pac, Nate, Fiddy & KP." So clearly he's into her in some way!

What do you think? New couple alert? And do they make a cute one?

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Personal Injury Lawyer Tips Get For Consider | Law Practice Blog

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The Humble Origins of the HTML Blink Tag [The Internet]

Lou Montulli was one of the first people to work on the Netscape web browser, which gave birth to many of the venerable (and likely deprecated) web standards some of us grew up with. And if not for him, the much despised (or maybe loved) HTML Blink tag may never have existed. This is his story. More »

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'Earliest Christian Artifact' Just Random Squiggles, Scholars Argue

A 2,000-year-old box that is being lauded as the earliest Christian artifact ever found has been misconstrued, according to several scholars who were not involved in the box's discovery. They say the evidence of the box ? engraved in Jerusalem mere decades after Jesus' death ? being Christian is extremely frail, and a case of finding meaning in random squiggles.

Known as the Jonah ossuary (the term for a box made to hold human remains), the artifact is in a sealed tomb dated to before 70 A.D., which is located below an apartment building in Jerusalem. James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his team recently used a remote-controlled robotic camera to explore the tomb, and discovered an engraving on the ossuary that Tabor says proves it is the earliest known Christian artifact. The robotic exploration of the tomb ? and the historic find that resulted from it ? are detailed in a new documentary for the Discovery Channel called "The Jesus Discovery."

Tabor and his team say the ossuary is engraved with a picture of a fish with a stick figure in its mouth. Upon seeing the engraving, they immediately realized the stick figure must be Jonah, the Old Testament prophet whose story of being swallowed by a whale was embraced byearly followers of Jesus. If it really is a picture of Jonah and the whale, this would prove the ossuary was Christian. However, when the team published their analysis, outside experts said the depiction was not an upside-down whale swallowing a man at all, but rather a right-side-up funerary monument.?

In response to that criticism, James Charlesworth, professor of New Testament language and literature at the Princeton Theological Seminary and a member of the ossuary's discovery team, has retaliated with what he says is new and better proof that the box is Christian: The "stick figure" in the "fish's mouth" is not just a stick figure, but also Hebrew letters that spell "YONAH," the Hebrew name of Jonah.?[Images of the Jonah Ossuary]

Jonah, Jesus or Yo Yo Ma?

Skeptics are calling the new claim "Rorschach test archaeology." Steve Caruso, a professional translator who analyzes inscriptions on ancient artifacts for antiquity dealers, said Charlesworth's interpretation of the inscription is "more of an exercise in reading tea leaves."

Robert Cargill, assistant professor of classics and religious studies at the University of Iowa, concurs. "One must do some rather?strenuous mental gymnastics?to arrive at the letters for the name of Jonah in this image, including ignoring lines that are clearly present but do not fit the desired inscription, joining together lines that are clearly not conjoined, reshaping letters, and eliminating any semblance of linear alignment," Cargill says on his blog.

If all those adjustments are permissible when interpreting ancient text, the lines in the inscription can be made to spell out anything from "Jesus" to "Yo Yo Ma," the scholars note. [Poll: Do You Believe in God?]

Random squiggles

On top of the fact that several lines must be ignored to read the inscription as YONAH, the second supposed letter in the series, which Charlesworth claims is the Hebrew letter nun (shaped like a backwards L), appears to be two unconnected lines rather than one unbroken line. "This is not a nun; it is two random lines," wrote Mark Goodacre, associate professor of New Testament at Duke University. On his academic blog, Goodacre explains that it was common for the bases of funerary monuments (which, he believes, this part of the engraving depicts, instead of a fish's head) to be decorated with geometric designs, which could easily be represented with the lines in the image.

The skeptics also point out that the discovery team's own photos, released before Charlesworth and Tabor began claiming the inscription says "YONAH," clearly show two unconnected lines rather than a backwards L-shape representing "nun." Tabor has since released a different picture of the inscription in which the "nun" appears to be unbroken, and has addressed the controversy thus: "The 'nun' is not broken. There are some white splotches on the ossuary surface in our close up photos and one of them is at the juncture, which might make it look like the line is broken, but it does intersect."

The discrepancy between the photos raises further skepticism about the discovery. "Each photograph of the supposed 'inscription' seems to paint a different picture, and since the beginning of this debacle a disconcerting number of photographs have been found to be filtered, altered, or mislabeled," Caruso told?Life's Little Mysteries.

Charlesworth did not reply to requests for comment.

A year ago, during Easter season, another claim surfaced about the discovery of an early Christian artifact ? that time, lead books containing references to Jesus ? and?Caruso and others also decisively proved those to be fakes. As Kimberley Bowes, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, said at the time, "Modern people's urge to find material evidence from the first two centuries of Christianity is much stronger than the actual evidence itself. This is because the numbers of Christians from this period was incredibly small ? probably less than 7,000 by 100 A.D. ? and because they didn't distinguish themselves materially from their Jewish brethren."

"It does seem that every Easter there is some 'big discovery,'" Caruso added. "Mostly it's film makers or other sensationalists trying to strike while the iron is hot during the season where everyone is rather Jesus-focused. [The discovery of a] very early, relatively undisturbed tomb in and of itself is fascinating; however, a generic first century Jewish tomb doesn't quite sell.'"

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Westchester Filmmaker's Documentary Premieres at Tribeca Film ...

Jeremy Newberger, of Yorktown, along with two fellow area filmmakers will have their documentary film about controversial TV talk show host Morton Downey, Jr. premiere at the?Tribeca Film Festival?today.?

?vocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie will be among the select films to be shown in New York City at the sold out April 19 premiere at 6 p.m., and will also be screened on April 21 (4 p.m.), April 24 (3 p.m.) and April 27 (5:30 p.m.)

"It's exciting,"?Newberger said. "It's a big moment when you've worked on something for four years."?

Newberger, the CEO of the Garrison-based?Ironbound Films, made the film with co-directors Seth Kramer of Red Hook, Daniel A. Miller of Cold Spring.?

Morton Downey, Jr., a singer and songwriter who started his career in radio, became a popular talk show host in the 1980s. The success of his talk show?The Morton Downey Jr. Show made him a pop culture celebrity. He is best known as a "chain smoking" and "screaming" arguer. He?died in?2001.

"We wanted it to be a real look into his mind,"?Newberger said of the 90-minute film. "Show the populist entertainer and his motivations, what made him tick, what affects it had on his personal life when putting on that role."

The three filmmakers, who grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey and Long Island, watched the?The Morton?Downey?Jr. Show?as teenagers in the late 80s.?They were the young impressionable generation,?Newberger said, that was "eating it up" and having conversations about issues they otherwise might not have discussed if it wasn't for?Downey?Jr.

The 80s sensation,?Newberger said,?is the precursor of today's talking heads on Fox News as well as screaming Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.?

To create ?vocateur, the filmmakers got a hold of old tapes that were kept in storage by Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman ? the man who created the The Morton?Downey?Jr. Show. They interviewed?Downey?Jr.'s friends and family to tell the story of his life on and off camera and give people a sense of who he was.?

"I'm really thrilled with how the film came out," Newberger?said.

The filmmakers hope the audience will figure out why such populist entertainers are so magnetic and then understand their importance. Their?past documentaries include two Emmy Award nominated films ??The New Recruits, which?aired on PBS?and?The Linguists, which which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.?

Newberger, who lives in Yorktown with his wife Michele and their two kids, Samson and Annabelle, has also worked as a producer and on-air contributor to the?Imus in the Morning?television program on MSNBC.?

For tickets to the ?vocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie?screening and more information call?866-941-3378 or visit?www.tribecafilm.com.

Click on the video above to watch the official trailer of??vocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie.

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