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The 7 Sleaziest Mating Rituals in the Animal Kingdom
You'd think mating in the animal kingdom would be a simple thing. The biggest, strongest male gets to mate with the females. Or maybe he has to prove himself in combat with another male first, whatever.
But mating among animals and insects is no less complicated than it is among humans. It's all about being devious, and when it comes to sex, even the lowest of life forms have mastered the art of trickery, deceit and blackmail.
#7. Scorpionflies Resort to Transexual Regifting
Scorpionflies, hangingflies and other Mecoptera are pretty terrifying-looking insects (not surprising for giant flying predatory fleas), but they also have a romantic side; during the mating season, males will find the juiciest, tastiest-looking bugs they can catch and present them like a box of chocolates to the females, who will carefully judge the offering and reciprocate the gesture with however much exoskeletal humping his effort deserves.
Giant Ginkgo
This has to be worth a proboscis job!
Unfortunately, competition for armor-plated pussy can get pretty fierce, and weaker males can have trouble outdoing the eviscerated cockroaches seductively waved around by stronger, more confident men. Those bastards! How do you compete with that?!
Richard Bartz
"Just look at the size of his tail bulge!"
Well, you'd think maybe they'd try to steal the kills from the bigger males, or something that makes you feel proud of the nerds of the species. But you forget that bugs really don't have a concept of "dignity."
Richard Bartz
"Is there something in my proboscis?"
So, taking a page from about a million '80s high school comedies, the desperate underdog males will sometimes impersonate females. You know, so that the tough-guy males will offer them juicy bugs in order to mate with them. Then the little guy simply takes those offerings and regifts them to score himself some segmented tail. Next time you see some douchebag picking up college girls in his Ferrari, just dress in drag long enough to swipe the keys.
Warning: Moderate-to-heavy fondling may be required.
#6. Squid Engage in Drive-by Spermings
Squid sex is rough enough on anime chicks, but it's even worse if you're a male squid. Yeah, you're a badass sea monster with a razor-sharp beak, a tongue covered in rasping teeth and muscular tentacles lined with hundreds of razor-edged suckers, but so is she ... and she's usually bigger than you.
Above: Humans using electricity to force a male squid to "mate" with a dead female. Science, bitches!
Skipping the entire challenge of courtship, some species of squid store their sperm in complex arrowlike packets they can unexpectedly unleash on the female like a volley of spoogemissiles, fleeing back into the depths before she can even friendzone him.
"Have fun wringing child support out of some other chump!"
The female might not even notice he was ever there, except for the spunk-filled needles now drilling into her body. The literal cock rockets first adhere to the female's skin with a cementlike secretion, then release digestive enzymes to drive themselves deeper and deeper. Whether or not she was ready to settle down, her body will automatically absorb and utilize the sperm almost anywhere it hits, making the male squid sort of like a flying rape gun and the female squid sort of like one big inside-out fanged vagina.
In other words, you don't need to feel bad about eating them.
#5. Water Striders Use Predators as Wingmen
If you've visited a pond in the springtime almost anywhere in the world, chances are pretty high you've seen some insects called Gerridae or water striders, who skate along the water's surface like magical little insect messiahs. Little did you know they were busy perfecting insane new lows in the art of extortion.
Also: Ponds look disgusting up close.
Skipping any kind of courtship process, a male strider will just skate over to the nearest female and climb on top of her. If she's not in the mood, she can simply block him off with her "genital shield," a natural insect chastity belt. Many males just get discouraged and find some sluttier thorax to chase after, but desperate, possibly sociopathic males will talk her into it with a unique type of extortion.
See, a natural enemy of the water strider is its own close cousin the backswimmer, an insect that spends all of its time hanging upside-down from the other side of the water's surface tension. If a female strider won't open the back door, a persistent male will strum the water in just the right way to grab the attention of backswimmers, basically splashing around like an idiot until she has to choose between shutting him up with sex or getting eaten by her mirror-world doppelganger.
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"How much Axe did you put on? I'll take my chances with the monster."
Keep in mind, the male is on top, so he'd be protected from the predator approaching from below. He can basically wait there all day, with the female's choice to either let him have his way or get eaten. Though it'd have to be a pretty big ego bruise for the males every time a female chooses the latter.
"I want to drown myself but I can't stop floating!"
#4. Antelopes Reel Them in With Fear and Lies
When a girl antelope blossoms into adulthood and starts to feel funny about boy antelopes, she may leave her own herd to mingle with others, a good evolutionary strategy for a healthy gene pool. Males, of course, are too busy thinking with their dongs to worry about the finer points of natural selection and will do whatever it takes to keep a fine piece of tail close to home.
You would, too, if you looked this stupid.
Under normal circumstances, when a male antelope spots danger, it's his duty to let out a warning signal telling the herd to stick close together -- safety in numbers and all. Since you can never be too careful when you're made of meat in lion country, the whole herd blindly obeys these warning cries every single time.
Some males have learned to take advantage of this. So, when a male spots a hot young female straying from the herd, he'll let out the same warning call he normally reserves for approaching lions, and even aim it right in the direction she was headed, employing shockingly human dishonesty to manipulate a potential lay. No matter how many times he pulls the same bullshit, she has no real reason to doubt him and would be crazy to risk getting eaten alive. Also, she's just a stupid animal.
Shit, there goes another one! It's like it's raining lions!


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I think people have some general strategy to do matrix multiplication fast. But what about for the finite field of $p$ elements? (e.g. when $p=2$, one should have some faster way.)
So my question is, given two integer entry matrix, $A$ and $B$. Is there a fast way to compute $AB \mod p$?. And is there a fast way of computing $A^n \mod p$ for $n$ not too big. (Note that for $n=|GL_t(Z/p)|$, we have $A^n=I \mod p$, where $t$ is the size of $A$.)

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KILLEEN (January 22, 2013)--A 20-year-old man who was shot in the head on Jan. 16 in a house near a Killeen high school has died at Scott & White Hospital in Temple and one of the two men who were with him at the time has been charged in connection with the shooting, police said Tuesday.
Jack Tullos Tennyson was flown to Scott & White after the shooting, which happened as one of the men with him "was handling a revolver in an unsafe manner, causing a negligent discharge," police said in a new release Tuesday.
Tennyson died late Saturday afternoon, police said Tuesday.
Douglas Maximus Heffernan, 23, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with the shooting, police said.
He was in the Bell County Jail Tuesday in lieu of $500,00 bond.
An affidavit submitted for the arrest warrant says Heffernan told investigators he accidentally shot Tennyson while cleaning the gun
"The suspect stated that he pulled the trigger while cleaning the weapon, causing it to fire at the victim's head," the affidavit said.
The investigator said in the affidavit that he had viewed photographs of the Taurus Revolver, which was found at the scene, "and have observed that the loaded bullets are clearly visible when the cylinder is closed
Police initially said the shooting victim was a Fort Hood soldier, but a post spokesman later said the man may have been a former soldier, but was not currently serving.
It was also not clear whether either of the two other men is a soldier, but all three men were living in the house, police said.
The house is near Ellison High School, whose parking lot was used as a landing zone for the medical helicopter.
Killeen police spokeswoman Carroll Smith said a handgun was recovered at the scene.


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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Tempeh Gyro with Vegan Tzatziki
13 comments:
- Eesh said...
This dinner looks divine! I'm definitely going to try it out sometime this week.
- February 20, 2008 at 3:13 AM
- Veg-a-Nut said...
I have been dying for a gyros. I have seen quite a few. Bryanna has a recipe too. Yours look really good and I love your recipe for the Tzatziki Sauce. Thanks!
- February 20, 2008 at 10:47 AM
- Anke said...
mmmh, yum. my dinner is over already but this makes me hungry again. wow. did the boys like it, too?
- February 20, 2008 at 4:20 PM
- pleasantly plump vegan said...
Tzatziki Sauce use to be one of my non-vegan sauces. Now, it may be my favorite vegan sauce thanks to yr recipe
- February 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM
- Eesh said...
I just have to add again. I made this dinner tonight. Well ok I veered alot since I didn't have tempeh so I used black beans and I didnt have pita bread so I had rice. But what I did want to say is that the tzatziki turned out SOOO good! I'm so thrilled since I've always loved this sauce but of course it's so not vegan. This is a great alternative especially since I can't find a plain soy yogurt to make it with here either.
Thanks again I always have great success when I make your recipes for dinner! =)
- February 21, 2008 at 12:14 AM
- kitsune-stars said...
YUM! Looks fab, especially with the bits of thyme I spy in the pic. I just used plain ol' ground ginger and cumin :P I have to try out the Tzatziki sauce sometime as well (we had plain soy yogurt on ours).
- February 21, 2008 at 12:38 AM
- lilminnow said...
Thanks again for the inspiration! Hadn't made gyros in a while, and man they were good.
- February 27, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Laura said...
i am new to this vegan thing and i was craving some tzatziki sauce and came across this recipe. just made it tonight for a meat lover and myself (a former meat LOVER) and it was amazing.
we can't stop talking about it. the sauce was divine and great on salad as well, and the tempeh tasted so much like the lamb in a genuine gyro, but way, way better.
plus, after we calculated calories, at only about 215 per sandwich, way, way healthier.
- June 21, 2008 at 8:10 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
OK, but tell me how you really feel about the recipe. :)
- June 21, 2008 at 8:29 PM
- miatomic said...
Wow -- I made the tzatziki the other night and it was truly amazing. I used Better Than Sour Cream instead of tofu and substituted chives for dill. It tasted exactly like regular tzatziki! Thanks so much for posting this recipe :)
- August 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
I've never had normal tzatziki but my aunt was raving about it the other night, so when I found this I was super excited. At first, to me, it tasted too much like soy. So I tripled the dill and added a lot more garlic. Still soy. So I put it in the fridge and hoped I'd like it in the morning. The next morning it tasted so amazing! Letting the cucumber juice set in must've been what did it. I ate it with pretzels and pita chips.
- July 28, 2009 at 1:03 AM
- Nicole Manha said...
This is a great recipe!!! I made these for dinner tonight and was very impressed. Gyros were something I hadn't even dreamed of since becoming vegan and these were just as greasy and satisfying as the too cruel original. Thank you, Vegan Dad!
- March 28, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- Heather said...
Made this gluten free by subbing in mashed chickpeas, ground oats and making a few other changes. It was ridiculously good. Thanks for the base recipe!
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Is it true that all verbs have a corresponding noun form (which is formed by making the -masu form and removing the -masu)?
Like 遊び and 遊びます 飲み and 飲みます 生き and 生きます 死に and 死にます
For the most part, yes. There are a few outliers that don't though. Most 尊敬語 and 謙譲語 verbs don't form nouns with their 連用形. And some 連用形, such as 「なり」, are specialized almost to the point of uselessness.


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Sal Pace, the Democrat challenging Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, released his third television ad of the campaign early last week.
The ad continues Pace�s theme of positive spots about himself. This one was filmed in the Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel mill in Pueblo, Pace�s hometown.
It shows Pace talking with steelworkers and highlights his attempt to get the state to buy Colorado-made steel. Pace took up the cause in the state Legislature when the state built a Pueblo bridge with Chinese steel.
Pace�s bill failed, but then-Gov. Bill Ritter signed an executive order nine months later to require projects funded through the federal stimulus bill to use American products as much as possible.
The order stopped short of the aim of Pace�s bill, which would have specified that Colorado steel be used in all state projects, not just ones funded by the stimulus bill. Tipton�s campaign manager, Michael Fortney, said that makes the ad untrue.
�This is the second time Sal Pace has been caught red-handed deceiving Colorado voters. Sal is quickly running out of credibility, if he has any left at all,� Fortney said.
Pace�s campaign pointed out that Ritter signed the order in Pueblo with Pace by his side, and the steelworkers union at the mill thanked Pace for the help.
�A problem was brought to Sal�s attention, and he worked around the gridlock to see that an issue that directly affects Colorado was addressed,� said Pace�s campaign manager, Chad Obermiller. �The executive order changed Colorado law, and it was Sal�s hard work that made it possible. This is the common-sense approach to problem-solving that we need so badly in Washington, and that Congressman Tipton has been unable to provide.�


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The USMNT finds itself in Sandy, Utah this week looking to affix a three-point dollop of whip cream-and-cherries on top of the 6-point ice cream sundae it crafted at the expense of Panama and Jamaica over the past week. Sure would be nice with expected temps at game time hovering around the nineties.
The States have manufactured four goals during this Hex stretch in four distinct ways, a salvo that has resulted in two victories and put the Yanks close to punching that coveted 2014 World Cup ticket.
The Honduras fulcrum game here is one that loomed large and pivotal on the qualifying calendar upon announcement but even more so after the US tripped over itself and coughed up a 1-0 lead–and its gumption–to the Honduran squad in February's opening round of the Hex campaign.
Now, though, the US is dining from a position of strength atop the qualifying table and Los Catrachos are the ones powered down for the return match.
Victor Bernardez, Maynor Figureroa, Boniek Garcia and Jerry Bengston among others all set to miss the Sandy city clash on Tuesday for the visitors. Additionally, while Honduras pummeled the Jamaican speed bag on Friday–a 2-0 win that sent Reggae Boyz skipper Tappa Whitmore to the Jamaican Fed guillotine–the lead-up to the match saw Los Catrachos go scoreless through the two previous road qualifiers against Panama and Costa Rica.
Against a States team that has been rippling the nets, going scoreless probably doesn't get Honduras the draw and single vital point in this match-up that they seek.
Scoops up!
Without further Freddy Adu, we get to our (near) customary preview.
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TSG What Are We Looking For?
About The Opponent: Honduras
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» Middle management
This game
will may "will likely" be won again in the midfield.
Here are the numbers in February from the central midfield battle between Los Caratchos and the Yanks:
Honduras: 107 of 127 passing (84.25%), 5 tackles won, 4 interceptions, 15 recoveries
United States: 114 of 139 passing (84%), 5 tackles won, 1 interception, 13 recoveries.
Seems rather even, yes?
One more datapoint to add.
That Honduran CMF stat line was accomplished with two field positions (and two players, Luis Garrido and the indefaiguable Roger Espinoza) while the US line was accomplished with three field positions (and five players Michael Bradley, Jermaine Jones/Graham Zusi and Danny Williams/Maurice Edu.)
Those numbers are astounding. Let it be noted that most of the damage was done by former Sporting KC johnny-on-the-spot Espinoza–no boots to the face in the match though (yes, that's Ike Opara, Sam Cronin and Cody Arnoux in that video also).
Honduras flat-out bossed the midfield. It took Los Caratchos three fewer players and they defiantly shoved the line of confrontation into the US's defensive half. By the way, subtract Danny Williams's contribution from the numbers and the difference in the stat line of Bradley-Jones versus Espinoza-Garrido is staggering. Bossed.
Things have a funny way of changing of course and the roles here seem reversed; Honduras's depleted troops and Los Caratchos being on the road may make the US midfield selection more complex actually.
After Tuesday's man of the match performance, many will want to see Stoke City utility man and TSG fave Geoff Cameron in central midfield.
However Honduras may elect to press the midfield–given their success with that strategy last time–much more than Panama. In something few pundits incredulously pointed out, while Cameron excelled on Tuesday, he did so with very little pressure on him on-ball and in possession–think of a running back whose blockers have lined-up defenders and so the back doesn't need to elude but instead can take his time and pick his holes.
That was Cameron on Tuesday who gave an excellent performance against a weak opponent with a perplexingly passive defensive effort. It may be different if the Roger Espinoza terrier is unleashed.–as it was in the series opener–to push high and shut down the deep US attack supply line.
Jermaine Jones has proven he has the steel and ability to run with the ball and deliver passes with a man on his hip already. So maybe the decision in favor of Jones is rote?
However, Honduras may, in fact, look to sit deep and protect their second-string centerbacks. Does Klinsmann then opt to keep Cameron on the field–while either granting more rest to Jones or even Bradley–because he did well in tracking space and spraying passes against a similar defense?
Then again, if Honduras is consistent with its two previous road deployments, it will likely put out three central midfielders, one more than February.
So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. So Jones is the pick?
The bet here is that Klinsmann goes back to Jones-Bradley in the middle and uses the former's harried on-ball defending to push the line of confrontation to around the halfline. Both Jones and Bradley are adept if Honduras starts pressing and putting them both on the field likely dissuades Honduras coach Luis Fernando Suárez from thinking he can gain an advantage by pressing.
(Note A: A big theme in the February match-up was the inability of US fullbacks–Fabian Johnson and Tim Chandler–to get ahead in the attack or even provide width and–while that is true–it's damn near impossible to get ahead in the attack if your midfield is losing the turf war centrally in your defensive end.)
(Note B: There's some prevailing notion out there that central midfield is Cameron's best position–hard to say that. He's a very good stand-up defender on the interior and he's good at surveying the field from the middle, but his best skill is not turning in traffic with a defender on his hip. Centerback is likely where Cameron ends up on the club and national team level and where he ultimately excels.)
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A look back at the Panama game plan suggests that Klinsmann and staff expected Panama to have more bite in their central midfield.
Last week, Klinsmann schemed to get Jozy Altidore going in the Germany friendly with early balls in stride to his feet through Brad Evans. Tuesday, Klinsmann game-planned to get DaMarcus Beasley and Matt Besler active earlier in possession and providing supply up to Fabian Johnson, Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore–because pressure was expected in central midfield and because Panama's Leonal Parris tends to put himself in positions that even Lindsey Lohan would find shocking.
The US left rear pairing had the second (Besler, 72) and third (Beasley, 70) most pass attempts on the evening after Michael Bradley's team-high 87.
Many expect musical chairs to ensue and for Fab Johnson to be moved to the backline with Brad Davis or Eddie Johnson moved ahead of him, but that seems poorly conceived if it transpires.
First Fab Johnson is giving the States some much-needed width on the left through his ability to hold the ball and break down defenders. Davis would give the States width, but give very little going forward. Eddie Johnson would offer width, but little cover for a new leftback.
The logical choice to deputize is Edgar Castillo who has the ability to distribute appropriately from the back and defend on the break.
Castillo hasn't many supporters this camp, but he's versed in Honduras's style and he's got a way of playing big when he's truly needed.
(Castillo was called on after having gone through morning training already for a Canada friendly in May 2012; he was one of the best players on the field. In the US's first victory at the Azteca in an August 2012 friendly, Castillo played pristine positional and on-ball defense as DaMarcus Beasley failed to track back on multiple occasions.)
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Given that Honduras probably retreats some in this one looking to clip a draw or 1-0 win, how does the States elect to break down the bunkered defense.
The schematic seems simple and is one that anyone hanging around Kansas City in October of last year probably is familiar with. October 2012 saw the US shellack Guatemala at Sporting Park 3-1. The Guatemalan side they faced that day looked a lot like the US opponent Tuesday; Guatemala was beset by injuries, especially to its backline resulting in a novice centerback pairing.
In the October 2012 match, the US aggressively pushed the ball up the flanks to create space centrally, both in possession (Eddie Johnson on the left) and through passing sequences (Graham Zusi on the right). As they worked on the fullbacks for Los Chapines, the young Guatemalan centerback pairing was called in for support.
That cued space in the middle, something that Clint Dempsey knows exactly how to make use of. With Herculez Gomez running the channels, Clint Dempsey playing hide-and-seek and Michael Bradley making his Late Box Runs™, Los Chapines were overwhelmed and succumbed.
The key of course to this attack, like most, is quick ball circulation. Below is Danny Williams passing chart for that match. 82 of 88 passes completed on the day, nearly all of them laterally. Don't play Hot Potato with that man; he'll be still standing.
The faster you move the ball, the more out of position the support defense is and the easier the opponent's defense breaks down. With two of Fabian Johnson, Eddie Johnson and-or Graham Zusi on the wings Tuesday, this will hopefully be the same tale for the States on Tuesday.


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Killings At School In France Follow Earlier Murders Of Soldiers
There are fears in France today that the killings of at least four people outside a Jewish school in the city of Toulouse are linked to earlier murders of three soldiers and that the victims were targeted because they belonged to ethnic or religious minorities.
According to France 24, and other news outlets, today's victims include a rabbi who was teaching Yiddish at the school and his two young sons. The boys, The Associated Press reports, were 3- and 6-years-old. The other person killed was reportedly a child between the age of 8 and 10. A 17-year-old was seriously wounded, news outlets say.
Witnesses say the gunman arrived on a scooter. And as the BBC writes, "police say there are similarities with the killings of three soldiers in two separate incidents the same part of France last week. All three — of North African origin — were shot by a man on a scooter."
France 24 says that the French newspaper LeFigaro is reporting that "spent cartridges found at the scene on Monday were of the same .45 calibre as cartridges used in the [other] shootings last week. The paper also reported that police sources believed it was the same killer."
The BBC adds that "Monday's attack happened as children and their parents were arriving at the Ozar Hatorah school, in the Joliment area of the city, for the start of the school day. Local prosecutor Michel Valet said ... 'he shot at everything he could see, children and adults, and some children were chased into the school.' "
Update at 11:50 a.m. ET. Reports: Police Sources Say Same Gun Was Used:
The Associated Press, France 24 and some other outlets are reporting that "police sources" say the gun used in today's killing was also used during the other recent murders.
Update at 11:10 a.m. ET. Latest Lede From The Associated Press:
"A motorcycle gunman opened fire Monday in front of a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing a rabbi, his two young sons and a schoolgirl, the prosecutor's office said. It was the third deadly motorcycle shooting in the same area in recent days."
Update at 10:45 a.m. ET. More On The Killings And Aftermath:
"What the victims have in common is that they belong to, or are associated with, ethnic or religious minorities - North African, Caribbean and Jewish," the BBC says. "In one respect, however, the third attack appears different: the gunman reportedly fired indiscriminately inside the school grounds."
"FRANCE 24 correspondent Chris Bockman said the city was in 'lockdown' as police searched for the gunman. 'But this is a medieval city with narrow winding roads, where it is easy for a scooter to outrun a police car,' he added."
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5 Major News Stories That Forgot to Tell You the Best Part
If there's one thing we've learned in the Internet age, it's that we lose interest in news stories long before they've run their course. And as we've written before, sometimes that means we miss the biggest details that never made the front page. More often than not, those missing details change everything we learned about the story in the first place.
#5. The Shoe Bomber Failed Because of His Sweaty Feet
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The reason you have to take off your shoes when going through the security line at an airport is because on December 22, 2001, Richard Reid attempted to blow up his shoes on American Airlines Flight 63. Obviously, his shoes were special, because ordinary footwear does not explode unless something has gone catastrophically wrong during the manufacturing process. Fortunately, his didn't work as intended -- despite Reid's best attempts, he couldn't get the fuse to light, and since the act of striking one match after another to light a fuse can draw attention on a plane (particularly just three months after 9/11), passengers and flight attendants soon started beating the piss out of him.
All his careful efforts to blend in were wasted.
It looked like the people on that flight were saved from a fiery death not only because of their quick reactions, but also because Reid sucked at building bombs. But actually, Richard Reid was a perfectly able bomber. His plans were foiled by something far, far worse than incompetence.
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Reid was a victim. A victim of sweaty feet.
Reid's bomb was actually pretty sophisticated and could've easily blown a hole in the floor under his seat. Which, incidentally, was over a fuel tank. It was a pretty good plan that Reid had followed to a T. However, the bomb makers didn't think of the fact that Reid was a living, breathing, leaking human being.
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It's pretty much the same problem that gets in the way of giving advice to teenagers.
Reid had attempted to board a flight the previous day, cool as a cucumber. And if he had made that flight, history books would probably be one tragedy richer. Instead, post-9/11 security measures latched on to the massive, peculiar-looking man, and Reid ended up being grilled by airport security and was refused boarding.
But they turned Reid loose and he was free to try again. This time, though, he was nervous as hell -- and sweaty. This, together with the day's moist weather, played merry hell with his footwear. While the bomb was still a viable explosive, it relied on a fuse made of gunpowder to set it off. Since wet gunpowder doesn't work, and sweat makes things wet ... well, Reid instead found out firsthand just how many people you can get tackled by at once.
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#4. The Video That Shut Down ACORN Was a Fake
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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was a government-backed group that helped low-income families with health care, neighborhood safety, housing, and a host of social issues. For 40 years, it aided hundreds of thousands of people across the United States. All that came to a grinding halt in 2009, with a single horrendous video clip.
The ludicrously messed-up video that was released onto the Internet showed ACORN employees from several offices eagerly volunteering advice to a young couple starting a criminal enterprise. The gentleman in question wore a fur coat, a top hat, sunglasses, and a goddamn pimp cane. He wanted to know how to get 15-year-old girls "on their feet" even though they were dependents. Watching the video, you couldn't help but wonder how the ACORN employees could possibly think that helping these people would be a good idea.
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"He has a point; pimping ain't easy ..."
Said video single-handedly caused a scandal that, in turn, caused Congress to pull federal funds from the organization, ultimately leading to its bankruptcy and closure in 2010.
The Story You Didn't Know:
The video was a fake, set up by self-proclaimed investigative journalist and right-wing extremist James O'Keefe.
O'Keefe and the woman, Hannah Giles, weren't dressed like a pimp and ho when they entered the ACORN offices -- that was a bit of creative editing. Despite what the beginning of the video would indicate -- and what O'Keefe claimed in interviews -- he actually wore a shirt and tie, and Giles wore a dark blouse. The videos were filmed from O'Keefe's perspective, so you never saw them while they were in the ACORN offices.
Furthermore, the ACORN employees who proffered the most enthusiastic -- and illegal -- advice were only playing along. A counselor in San Diego, who was fired after the video showed him offering to help O'Keefe bring girls across the border from Mexico, was just humoring the maniac in front of him to get him to reveal more of his insane plan -- and then actually reported O'Keefe to the police afterward. Not surprisingly, that employee sued the shit out of the video makers, who had to fork over $100,000 to settle it.
Another employee in San Bernardino smelled bullshit the second the couple stepped in and decided to jokingly counter the couple's outrageous questions with lines that she murdered her husband and ran an escort service of her own. Of course, this was presented by O'Keefe as fact -- and later debunked by literally everyone else. Ultimately, the U.S. Government Accountability Office cleared ACORN of any wrongdoing. ACORN had already been closed down for several months at that point, so that was about as helpful a redemption as the murder suspect getting proven innocent two months after his date with the electric chair.
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"If we can't trust shadily made Internet videos, what can we trust?"
#3. The Victims That Navy SEALs Rescued from Somali Pirates Had Intentionally Hung Out in Pirate Territory
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In 2009, pirate lovers everywhere realized just how badly Pirates of the Caribbean had lied to them when a highly publicized, real-life pirate attack took place off the coast of Somalia and it didn't look anything at all like the movie. It's way less sword fighting and way more AK-47s and kidnappings.
If you don't remember the incident, an American cargo ship called the Maersk Alabama was overtaken by four villainous Somali pirates. During the four-day ordeal, the captain of the cargo ship offered himself as a hostage and goddamn Navy SEAL snipers intervened by "sniping" three of the four pirates, rescuing Captain Richard Phillips in the process. For his part, Phillips wound up the hero, with Hollywood bigwigs immediately jumping at the chance to tell his story. In fact, he's such a hero that Tom freaking Hanks is going to play him in a movie called, you guessed it, Captain Phillips.
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"It took six months and $6 million to come up with that title."
The Story You Didn't Know:
According to the lawsuits filed by more than half of the crew of the Maersk Alabama, the whole adventure was kind of the captain's fault in the first place. Days before the attack, both the captain and the owners of the ship were warned to stay at least 600 miles off the coast of Somalia, because duh, pirates. Sailing near Somalia with a ship full of cargo was like sailing near Al Capone's house with a ship full of vodka -- it was a stupid invitation for a drunken shootout.
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"In hindsight, it may have been a mistake to paint 'Bring it, pussies!' in Somali on the side of the ship."
But in a move motivated by a Titanic-like insistence on being fast and making money, Captain Phillips got the Alabama within 250 miles of the Somali coast before he was predictably attacked. And in the first American piracy indictment in over a hundred years, the one surviving non-English-speaking Somali hijacker (a teenager who was stabbed and bound for 12 hours during the crisis) was sentenced to 33 years in prison.
Obviously no one's excusing piracy or being a teenager in a lawless, war-torn country, and nobody is saying the victim is to blame. We're just wondering if the part about Captain Hanks/Phillips willfully plowing into pirate territory is going to make it into the Hollywood treatment of the story.
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I recently upgraded my Ubuntu to 12.04 and in this version, you need only to install
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However, MistreLion's solution would avoid the annoyance of renaming a file each time. (I simply prefer not to install additional software on my system if I don't need to.)
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signage educates visitors on the environmental aspects of the park, memorializes
the site�s 70-year history as a Japanese owned or operated commercial greenhouse,
and tells the story of the Interurban trolley system that ran through the
Greenwood Park is a new park development on the site of the former Otani Greenhouses at 87th and Fremont Avenue North. Demolition of the greenhouse structures and soil remediation were completed by Seattle Parks. Both the concept plan and the design development plans were completed by Friends of Greenwood Park using Department of Neighborhoods grant funding.
The park includes a play area, open meadow and paths. It features porous concrete paving and a drainage swale. The intent is to have a passive park that reduces storm water drainage and provides educational opportunities for visitors.
The project includes the following elements:
Project History/Background:
A dedicated group of volunteers called the Friends of Greenwood Park (FOGP) worked with Seattle Parks and Recreation staff to develop a new park on the site of the former Otani Greenhouses at 87th and Fremont Avenue North. This site was identified as a potential park site in the 1999 Greenwood/Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Plan. The Friends of Greenwood Park obtained Department of Neighborhoods funds to develop a design for the part. They worked with Parks to select the design consultant, and hired JGM Landscape Architects to design the Park.
During conceptual design process in 2000, three public meetings were held. The park design committee found that potential park users were looking for a source of respite from the busy neighboring commercial core and a safe recreational space for young and old alike, within walking distance of their homes. A major interest that emerged during the public process was to design the park with an emphasis on environmental sensitivity.
Friends of Greenwood Park obtained a Large Matching Fund grant from Department of Neighborhoods. They continued with design development in 2000�2001. The project was included in the 2000 Pro Parks levy, which is funding the production of construction documents, and construction.
Anticipated Impacts:
The design proposal for the edge along Evanston included widening the asphalt pavement by 2-3 feet and replacing the existing ditch with a wide drainage swale.
The swale will carry the existing drainage flow, which includes drainage from the street and approximately 3.3 acres north of the park. A swale can provide water quality benefits, although in this case, the existing ditch is connected to a combined sewer, so the potential water quality benefits will not be realized at this time. However, Seattle Public Utilities hopes to eventually connect this drainage system to Pipers Creek. This swale would provide water quality benefits when and if the drainage is redirected to the Pipers Creek system.
The project is designed to be a demonstration site for environmentally orientated construction. It was a pilot site for the use of porous concrete. As such, there is not a full maintenance history for the material. The use of the porous concrete is supported by a grant from Seattle Public Utilities, which is also partially funding soil amendments to increase the water holding capacity of the soil and reduce site runoff.
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With the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona for year 2012 behind us, we now see what Apple has in store with Mountain Lion and Microsoft with Windows 8.
It seems very clear Microsoft is trying to catch up to Apple with the concept of the App Store. Now wait a minute, could not one also say that Apple is trying to play catch-up to Amazon.com? Even during the Great Recession, Amazon.com revenue and sales grew while many of the big box retailers stumbled and mom-and-pop stores dried up and blew away in the pessimistic mood.
All the indicators would suggest an App Store is where it is it.
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I can do it with simple subscripts, but I like the visual effect that these diagrams give.
Here I do it with stacks, setting the indices below the boxes. The primary macro is
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Here is a way to do it "manually."
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It's a curiosity question. When I'm doing minipreps after pelleting the bacteria sometimes it's very easy to resuspend them in P1 (Qiagen kit), but sometimes they form a rubbery clump that is very hard to break up with a pipette and I have to vortex the tubes. It interests me because it adds more time to my lab work and I wish I could avoid it.
This is particularly an issue when you do maxipreps and the pellet is 200x the size of the pellet from a miniprep. The reasons why? Maybe you're pelleting at too high of a g-force (pure speculation). Alternatively, you could be growing the cells too long. I typically miniprep after a 12 hr culture. If you're seeing any darker colors in your pellet, you have a significant amount of dead cells. Those dead lysed cells will spill out their genomic DNA which is very viscous.
For maxipreps, you can't break up the pellet merely by pipetting up and down a few times and calling it a day. What you can do is swirl the side where the pellet is and breakup the clumps. Alternatively you can use a different pipet tip (for an extensive discussion on this very topic see Pipetting damage on cells). I change to a P200 for my minipreps and pipetting only the area around the pellet seems to do the trick for me. For maxipreps I use a P1000 which is better than using a 5mL syringe.
What I do to avoid this is to ressuspend the cells by pipetting up and down the P1 (ressuspension) buffer on the side of the tube. This way, every time takes only a bit of cells every time and big clumps are avoided. The only times I used to get big clumps hard to ressuspend were when I went poking at the pellets first.
We routinely use E. coli preps from 16-18h overnight cultures. The cultures don't show any overt signs of lysis (sometimes you can see cellular debris if the culture has indeed overgrown). I have also noticed inconsistent times when resuspending the pellet. For my own use, centrifuging at too great a g-force or for too long can increase the likelihood of making a difficult pellet. For example, I will typically spin a miniprep culture aliquot on a refrigerated table top centrifuge for 3 min @ 5,000 g.
I always vortex my bacterial pellet to resuspend and I have had great success with this method, though I'm well aware others will pipette up and down. What I normally do to increase the ease of resuspension is to add the buffer, and let the tubes sit in the fridge for 5-10 minutes. For whatever reason, letting the pellet literally chill makes resuspension very easy relative to immediate resuspension.
EDIT: I have also observed strain-specific differences. JM109 seem a little stickier than DH5a and TOP10.
Some things to consider. If you spinning too fast and too long, that is going to pack the pellet more. You can spin longer at a slower speed and you will notice your pellet is not as tightly packed. I always do 2000 rpm, 20 minutes, 4C if I'm doing a midi or maxi sized prep and harvesting bacteria in a 50ml conical.
If I'm doing a miniprep I will take the 1.5 micro centrifuge tube (with pellet and buffer p1) and scrape the bottom of the tube 1 or 2 times across all the holes in the rack. This vibrates the tube good loosening and breaking up the pellet. You can consistently perform this step across many samples, this does a good job of re suspending the bugs.
I have noticed that cultures that are overgrown, contaminated, or grown in incorrectly formulated lysogeny broth, will give the pellet some weird characteristic including color and the pellet 'texture.'


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Common Tabpanel throughout the sencha touch 2 application
Hi All,
I am relatively new two sencha touch 2 development,
I want to create the tabpanel which will be shown throughout the application. I created the tappanel with 3 different tabs, Very tab will contains its views. say one of the tab is 'settings'. Settings page contains the button 'Advance Settings'. By clicking the 'Advance Settings' button, i am trying to show new screen.
I am using
Ext.Viewport.setActiveItem({ xtype : 'adv-settgs-view'
But the problem is when adv-settgs-view is shown my bottom bar is no more visible.
i want my bottom bar to visible throughout the application. How can i achieve this?
Note : If i implement the xtype : 'tabbar' instead of tabpanel then it is visible, but the tabbar is private class of sencha touch2 which is not recommended to use.
Please suggest...
Please let me know if you requires any other information.
23 Apr 2012 1:21 AM #2
Sorry i posted on wrong section....how to move the post
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Hi All,
After bit of RnD...i found the solution. For common tappanel we can use Ext.navigation.View, In which you can push or pop any view.
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I extracted the juice and moved it to a container for two days(as per instructions)mixed the yeast with the sugar water and left for two days,then mixed together,but there was no fermentation,why would that be?Thankyou.
Let me ask you: I installed the spark plug into my SUV - and tried to ignite, but it's not working. Why?
Rhetorical question. What I am trying to say is that it is very hard to answer this question without more information. That said, a few possible explanations:
Nothing is wrong
It is not fermenting
Hard to say without more information. Did the starter culture show any signs of living?
There are many reasons you could have a stuck fermentation. With more information about the process you used, it would be easier to tell what might have happened. However I'll throw out a few common problems:
Examine your process with this in mind and you will probably be able to find the issue so you can fix it in future batches!
I've brewed a lot of cider and never have read instructions like what you describe. Letting yeast sit in sugar water for two days probably caused them to go dormant. Normally, you pitch (add) the yeast within a couple of minutes (no more than an hour) after mixing with some sugar water to activate it (assuming that you were using dry yeast). Did you see bubbles in the container with yeast and sugar water? If not, then probably a bad package of yeast. If you are using dry yeast, there should be a use by date on it. Try activating another package of the yeast in water than is around 105 F (slightly warm to touch) with about a tablespoon of sugar in it. Let this sit until you see foam forming at the top of the container. Hopefully, you pasteurized the juice/cider before adding the yeast, if not, do so by heating it to 160 F for about 20 minutes, let it cool to room temperature, then pitch the new yeast. Cover the container with cheesecloth or seal it with an airlock. It takes about 6 to 10 days to ferment 5 gal of juice/cider at 68-70 F.
Here is the basic recipe that you asked for. The yeast nutrient helps assure that you get good yeast action (not a problem if you have fresh yeast). At 70F, it took less than 4 days to ferment out. Cider was ok (fairly flat) in 2 weeks after bottling (couldn't resist tasting it), but excellent in 4. Think I'm going to try a batch primed with dark brown sugar to see how it tastes. Cheers.
Basic Hard Apple Cider
Dissolve yeast nutrient in a small portion of slightly warm cider, then add cider and yeast nutrient solution to carboy. Activate yeast by adding 3 tsp sugar to 1 cup filtered water at about 105 F, then mixing in the yeast package contents. Allow to stand for at least 15 min until foaming begins to occur. Add yeast to carboy, and swirl vigorously for 5 minutes to aerate cider mixture. Seal with airlock and allow to ferment at 65-70 F until bubble rate in airlock is less than one bubble per 15 sec. Rack into priming bucket and add priming sugar as calculated based on desired CO2 volume. Bottle and allow to age for at least 4 weeks.


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First of all, is it a good idea to ask a a potential client for a ballpark budget they are thinking to work with? I just don't want to meet with somebody who has a very low budget, and who could be surprised during our first meeting that I'm not the cheapest guy in town. So What do you think my first step should be when a client writes me an email and says it wants to meet me about the project? The client has no idea what I charge, beside the fact that the client likes the work I do.
Yes, It is totally legitimate. It's usually the second question I ask after whats the project about.
"What kind of budget are we dealing with?"
This can give you a general idea if it falls in your realm and worth your time. Generally over email or phone.
I usually prefer phone a call, you can hear about the project, budget and get a feel for the client and if you want to move forward. Meeting IRL takes time. If the project doesn't bring in money, its wasted time for your business.
Related: http://freelancing.stackexchange.com/questions/1304/whose-responsibility-is-to-give-budget-for-job-freelancer-or-client/1317#1317
I never ask for budget. I have my pricing. I price what is inline with my pricing. Then the client can mention their budget if they want to.
To me "What's your budget" has 2 outcomes:
Neither of these should be a contributing factor to your pricing. Therefore, there's little need to know the client's budget before providing a quote/bid. You should know your rates, gather an understanding of what the client needs, then price based on your rates. Only afterwards may budget be a concern if the client indicates their budget is lower than your pricing. They, obviously won't mention if their budget is higher.
I never buy anything starting the purchase by exposing what I have allotted spend. That almost always results in unnecessarily inflated pricing. Many, many clients in my experience feel just this way.
Asking for budget is really only valid if you are purchasing prefabricated items which range in pricing. Service industries in general rarely deal in prefabricated items other than perhaps "parts".
[updated clarification: Before meeting with the client? Likely, no. That is just the wrong time to ask. But as early as possible in the discovery/scope defining process? Absolutely.]
The job of a designer (or anyone providing a business service, for that matter) is to provide a solution that meets the business objectives of the client.
If your solution costs more than the budget. You've failed.
If your solution falls far short of the scope that was intended. You've failed.
That's not to say client budgets and your costs are fixed. Rather, you have to know what the budget is so that both sides can adjust as needed/capable. And that can go in both directions. If you're a designer that typically makes WordPress sites and find out that the client has a half million dollar budget, obviously they aren't likely looking for a WordPress solution and have a much larger scope in mind. Maybe that's something you can accommodate, or maybe it's something you need to pass on.
And conversely, maybe the client wants a logo for $500 and you normally charge at least $2000. Knowing the budget up front lets you make a decision as to whether you need to pass (just not worth your time) or adjust the solutions you provide to meet that budget (maybe it's a really fun project that is worth you finding a solution for).
In other words, the only way to properly deliver a solution tailored to the client's objectives and goals is to understand the scope of the project and a key part of that is understanding the expected budget. Knowing that up front hopefully allows you and/or the client to adjust expectations and scope as needed from the get-go. Worse case, it at least will make it clear if you and the potential client are just not a match. Both you and the client will benefit from knowing that sooner than later.
It's business. Everyone knows that money will be exchanged. The sooner that's figured out, the less time will be wasted by all parties and the quicker solutions can be started on.
My original answer didn't address the 'prior to meeting with them' part of the question. That's a bit different of a question than what I initially answered. In that situation, I'd say "probably not" as there's going to be a lot more that has to be thought about than just the budget. That usually has to happen in a more in-depth meeting where budget--along with scope, goals, objectives, strategy, business needs, etc will all be talked about and will work together to determine possible solutions to fit budgets.
You need to qualify the client from the very beginning. Survey their products, marketing, customer support, and competition to see if they're investing to an extent that will support your services. If not, a short phone conversation can determine if they plan to. Once you feel confident that they're in the ballpark, you can move ahead with an initial meeting.
Start with getting to know them better and sorting out what the expectations are in general and for the project at hand. Set a follow up meeting where you can review an itemized quote in person and discuss the scope of the process and deliverables they'll get out of the deal. At that point, you can discuss misalignment of the quote and budget. There's usually a little room on both ends to compromise. Most of it should center on adjusting the scope.
When you start with money, you're already breaking down the relationship. You want to be a business partner, not a vendor. Vendors are a commodity, but a good designer is creative capital. Start with relationship building, then the money will be a lot less painful for them.
I have used a budget selection option in the questionnaire I send out but not all clients fill that portion. I may have to make it mandatory. From my experience, writing proposals and then figuring out somehow that the prospect was no were near what I had proposed to be the cost can be discouraging. Another way to do it is to send an email with a rough estimate of the cost and ask if that fits their budget and then take it from there. But never lower your prices to get the job. Provide a design solution that fits their budget.
I would never ever lead with a question about budget. Huge red flags.
It reminds me of when I interview for jobs and they "pre-screen" me with either fishing for prior salary information or what type of salary I'm expecting. If you were to go over to workplace.stackexchange.com you'd see the norm is to either avoid it, decline to answer, say you signed a confidentiality statement, or some other way to evade it including as Scott said --- lying.
What you should do is learn everything about the client, presumably you should have already done some of this before even bidding or applying for the job unless they were referred to you by someone.
Then your first, and only step, is to schedule a time and place to meet with them.
Once they meet with you its your job to close them, to negotiate, and to come to terms everyone can agree with. If their budget is so vastly off from what your expectations are you can work with them as a consultant, refer them to a "newer" designer you know, or even piece meal it for them.
Last week I went to Lease a car. One of the dealerships I went to immediately sat me down with a form and started asking my first name, last name, budget, ranking my needs, all this stuff. I told him Ryan and that the rest is completely irrelevant at this point in time. He didn't get the sale.
I went to another dealership and after test driving a few cars the sales guy sat down with me and asked how much I had available to put down. I told him my bank account is none of his business. He didn't get the sale either.
I went to a third dealership and there were no forms or "fishing questions." The guy just discussed with me the rates they're allowed to do and what he was flexible on. I signed a 3 year lease.
Moral of the story: Price isn't determined by your client's budget so don't worry about it.


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I just bought my first digital piano (a Yamaha CLP-430) and am now looking for good headphones. Are there any particular features that should look for given the intended usage?
You may want to consider the distinction between open backed and closed backed headphones.
Open backed are usually considered to give better sound quality, and better bass response, but won't block any noise in the environment, and allow bleed-through if you end up recording via a microphone. Also, the fact that they allow air flow can make them more comfortable for long term wearing.
Closed back will provide better isolation from any external noise, and may serve you better if this isolation allows you to concentrate better.
Finally, make sure that they fit comfortably on your head.
For use with a piano I don't think it's particularly necessary to have good headphones. You want ones that can handle a good range of volume without the clarity being greatly affected, so you'd best avoid tinny little earbuds, but other than that you should be OK. One possible exception is if you're playing pieces that go extremely low on the keyboard; A0 is 27.5 Hz, so you'd need headphones that have a dynamic range that covers that. Most commonly you'll see 20 Hz - 20,000 Hz which is more than enough.


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In What is mathematics? by Courant, Robbins, and Stewart, "5. An important inequality", the authors change $n$ in this example:
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In other examples given by the book's author, he also switches the variable. I also recall seeing something similar in some other book. Why would one do that?


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I'm getting tired of using the web form to submit and edit questions on Stack Overflow. Is there a way to do this using the text editor of your choice and a command line tool? If not, is there an API that one can use to make such a tool?
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Short answer. No
There is an API and you can read more about it at Stack Apps. However it is read only, and at this point there is no clear indication of when a write enable API will be available.
I have not tried it, but there is a command line browser called Lynx that might work on Stack Overflow.
If that doesn't work, then no, there is no way to ask or edit questions from the command line.
There is an API, that can be used to build command line apps for Stack Overflow, but it is currently read-only.
Check out the read-only command line app if you are interested.
OK I hacked my own tool for this. It's only a proof of concept. If anyone wants to try it and give me feedback, or even just encouragement, please do. Long live the command line, especially here of all places. https://github.com/danchoi/ask_stack
I hope StackOverflow implements a way to post question using OAuth or something. I don't think there is any good reason this should not be implemented. But in the meantime, the clunkier Selenium-based approach will have to do.


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When she started: Debut album released in 2012.
Genre: Folk soul
Most Similar: Nina Simone, The Marvelettes
Sounds Like: A great big hug.
Josephine's voice is a truly rare gem. The Manchester native (borne of Liberian and Jamaican parents) doesn't sing in the pop, show-off, million-octave diva soul voice standard we all live by. Rather, she is a contralto, which means that — while she has an impressive range — she sings in the deepest female vocal range on the classical scale. The sound that winds up emanating from this petite rising star is an all-powerful feminine force; comforting and wizened, yet utterly heartwrenching and vulnerable at the same time. Even during her happy songs, you'll want to cry. Even if you're a dictator.
Though I could write novels about, and build monuments to, this woman's voice, there's also lots of interesting stuff going on in the music that's worth noting. Her new album Portrait is a light-footed stroll through Motown, 60s folk, soul, Afrobeat, and indie-pop. Sometimes, it even sounds as if there's a great big spotlight on Josephine as she croons a climactic ballad from a Broadway stage.
Thankfully, I'm not the only one in my Josephine worship. She recently appeared on Jools Holland, and is now touring the UK with The Noisettes.
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