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WASHINGTON—Following news that author J.K. Rowling had secretly authored the crime novel The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith earlier this year, multiple reports confirmed today that Rowling, widely known as the auth...

Today I get to become part of the team at UBM tech, working on EETimes.com . My official title will be Executive and Chief Community Editor.  I’m really excited about the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead of me as I attempt to grow and improve this eclectic community of engineers.

Even in a country used to capital punishment, Zeng Chengjie's case has sparked outrage.

Red Hood, cosplayed by Michael Coates, photographed by Ace Ashun/ACE A.M.P Photgraphy

First time accepted submitter digiti writes "In response to Drew Crawford's article about JavaScript performance, Shai Almog wrote a piece providing a different interpretation for the performance costs (summary: its the DOM not the script). He then gives several examples of where mobile Java performs really well on memory constrained devices. Where do you stand in the debate?"

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“If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford,” Simon declared. “Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence — these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own.” More remarkable than his initial post was the time he spent addressing each and every commenter that questioned his assertions or championed the jury’s decision. For the most part, the debate focused on the “Stand Your Ground” law that enabled Zimmerman to confidently patrol his neighborhood with a loaded firearm, which led to the encounter that left Martin shot dead.

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A writer who identifies himself as conservative asked Brian Michael Bendis what he thought of the Orson Scott Card “witch hunt,” and in passing commented, “I understand most creators are on the left side and its natural that their personal views seep into their work.” Bendis questioned that, saying: what we can agree on is [...]

In I Made You A Mixtape, we ask our favorite musicians, actors, writers, directors, or whatevers to strut their musical savvy: We pick a theme, they make us a mix.

The mixers: Matt Fraction and Mike Allred are two comic book creators who have never shied away from musical influences in their work. Fraction’s creator-owned series Casanova follows a Mick Jagger lookalike engaged in a psychedelic interdimensional conflict with a David Bowie analog, and Allred made his name writing and drawing alternative comics like Grafik Muzik and Madman, honing a pop-art style that has the energy and imagination of a ’60s album cover. Fraction and Allred are the writer-artist team behind Marvel’s monthly series FF, the companion title to Fraction’s Fantastic Four that takes inspiration from different eras of the book for an incredibly fun all-ages superhero title. The Future Foundation is throwing a pool party in ...

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The Steam Summer Getaway Sale sallies on unconcerned with the pummeling it's already put on your wallet. Today's fresh crop of discounts include Reus for $5 (which also has Steam Trading Cards), Max Payne 3 for $10, Terraria for $2.50, Killing Floor for $4, Dishonored for close to $10, Dust: An Elysian Tail for $7.50, Castle Crashers for $3.75 and Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion for $10.

The Flash sale, which sees a new group of games discounted every eight hours, is currently featuring BioShock Infinite for $30, Mirror's Edge for $6, Oregon Trail: Director's Cut for $1.24 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 for $3.39. Finally, all of yesterday's sales are also still available.

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stfuprolifers:

With Little More Than A Whimper, Ohio Effectively Banned Abortion Today.

rabbleprochoice:

abaldwin360:

The new budget bill recently passed in Ohio added unprecedented new restrictions on abortions. Ohio state law OAC 3701-83-19 (E) currently requires that “Ambulatory Surgical Facilities” maintain a transfer agreement with a hospital as part of their licensing requirements. The new budget bill, starting at line 10257, states that

(B) No public hospital shall do either of the following:

(1) Enter into a written transfer agreement with an ambulatory surgical facility in which nontherapeutic abortions are performed or induced;

(2) Authorize a physician who has been granted staff membership or professional privileges at the public hospital to use that membership or those privileges as a substitution for, or alternative to, a written transfer agreement for purposes of a variance application described in section 3702.304 of the Revised Code that is submitted to the director of health by an ambulatory surgical facility in which nontherapeutic abortions are performed or induced.”

In short, in order to maintain their license to practice, abortion clinics would be required to maintain written transfer agreements with hospitals that the new law prohibits.

Furthermore, doctors are prohibited from using public hospitals to provide abortion services by Ohio law ORC 5101.57 (B) which reads:

(B) No public facility shall be used for the purpose of performing or inducing a nontherapeutic abortion.

If these provisions stand, only a written transfer agreement with a private hospital can keep abortion clinics legally operating in the state, and abortion clinics are the only facilities legally allowed to provide abortions.

They are getting sneaky with this shit in Ohio.

What’s really amazing to me about all of this is how abortion has become even MORE villainized within the past few years even though the number of people who identify as pro-choice has grown.

If I’m reading and interpreting this information correctly what republicans have managed to do with this has been to ban all public hospitals (that receive funding from the state) to even assist abortions clinics and patients.

Like, if you think about this, the requirement for a surgical clinic in an abortion clinic is truly unnecessary but even if it WAS something that was needed, the transfer agreement basically allows you to move a patient who may be experiencing a complication from getting an abortion to be moved to a hospital that can provide emergent care. A complication that could be life-threatening in very rare circumstances.

So putting a requirement on abortion clinics to have a transfer agreement with a hospital and then barring public hospitals from being able to enter into agreements like that is essentially preventing any patient who may experience complications to be seen at a hospital, basically (because the overwhelming majority of private hospitals are religious-based and will not enter into a transfer agreement with an abortion clinic either).

So, basically, your options are to have the patient die at the abortion clinic or send them to a religious-affiliated hospital that doesn’t allow abortions (and won’t complete one that had to be stopped half-way through due to complications) and let them possibly die from sepsis or hemorrhage.

Not only are we punishing patients and doctors for wanting or performing abortions but now we’ve allowed republicans to villainize abortion to the extent that they have now, essentially, stopped any hospital (in Ohio at this point, this will spread though) receiving OUR tax dollars from even treating a patient who needs emergency assistance that the abortion clinic cannot provide.

Fuck the GOP.

195 Yachts, Barges, Cargo Lines, Tankers and Other Ships

Artist Jenny Odell makes digital collages out of satellite imagery from Google Maps in her series “Satellite Collections.” Each collage focuses on a particular theme: stadiums, container ships, parking lots, and so on. Odell has a number of other Internet-themed projects on her site, including a virtual cross-country road trip.

In all of these prints, I collect things that I’ve cut out from Google Satellite View– parking lots, silos, landfills, waste ponds. The view from a satellite is not a human one, nor is it one we were ever really meant to see. But it is precisely from this inhuman point of view that we are able to read our own humanity, in all of its tiny, repetitive marks upon the face of the earth. From this view, the lines that make up basketball courts and the scattered blue rectangles of swimming pools become like hieroglyphs that say: people were here.

137 Landmarks

97 Nuclear Cooling Towers

206 Circular Farms

via The Atlantic Cities

Skipping breakfast makes me start seeing food everywhere.

So this exists…

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North Carolina GOP Is Using An Anti-Sharia Bill To Sneak Through Extreme Abortion Restrictions:

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-The North Carolina legislature is advancing a package of stringent abortion restrictions that appeared in the Senate this week WITHOUT ANY PUBLIC NOTICE. The anti-abortion measures popped up on Tuesday night, tacked onto a controversial measure to ban Sharia law, and caught women’s health advocates completely off-guard.

-The new amendments would prevent insurance plans on Obamacare’s health marketplaces from covering abortion services, ban “sex-selective” abortions, impose unnecessary restrictions on doctors administering the abortion pill to women, and require the state’s abortion clinics to adhere to complicated new regulations that would likely force most of them to close. A similar package of abortion restrictions has inspired weeks of protest in Texas, where thousands of reproductive rights activists have been rallying at the state capitol.

-HB 695 easily won preliminary approval in the Senate on Tuesday night. The measure will likely head to a final vote in the Senate on Wednesday. Now that the abortion amendments are folded into an entirely unrelated measure on Islamic law, some Republican lawmakers are already claiming that “a vote against the abortion restriction bill is vote for Sharia law.”

-Women’s health advocates point out that, just like the package of anti-abortion restrictions advancing in Texas, HB 695 is actually simply intended to restrict women’s reproductive rights. “The intention of the folks that made the changes to this bill is to end access to abortion care in North Carolina,” Planned Parenthood’s Reed warned. “It’s a wish list of all the restrictions they’ve been trying to get through and weren’t able to during the regular time period of this session. It would end basically access to medical abortion; it could shut down a large number of providers in this state.”

Chris Pratt recently made everyone on the Internet pause briefly from ladling buttercream into their now-slackened jaws, to gaze in wonder and frosting-stained shame at his sudden transformation from Parks And Recreation lazybones to Guardians Of The Galaxy’s lord of stars and crossfit. And according to a TV Guide interview, Parks showrunner Mike Schur was “as shocked as everybody” by what can be achieved by merely cutting out beer for six months (and then training non-stop every day because you’re getting millions to do so). And now it’s Schur’s job to figure out how Pratt’s ripped physique fits a character who sucks down Frisbees full of chili. 

“The only possible explanation for why someone looks that good is that they’re planning to play a superhero in a summer blockbuster,” Schur said, admitting that they went through something like this once before when Pratt toned ...

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Though page number is obviously far less important than the content and quality of one's work, it is nevertheless very common for PhD candidates to obsess over the length of their theses. How many pages should it be? How long are other people's theses? Short answer: it varies. And by more than you may realize.

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ikaythegod:

“If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

— Malcolm X

Apparently people have been using the Pacific Rim's website's Design-a-Jaeger feature without the absolute solemnity it requires. The results have been collected by the 4th String Jaegers Tumblr, and they range from funny to weird to gut-bustingly brilliant. Here are a few of our favorites here, but hit the link for the rest.

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Monster Skin Rug : Industrial Gray by Joshua Ben Longo

Why Old Books Smell Good

“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.”

—From Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: the guide

petitsirena:

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“If Zimmmerman free imma shoot everybody in Zion causing a mass homicide, and ill get away wit it just like Zimmerman,” read his tweet from the account @Mark12394995, which he then took down, but that started a conversation and reportedly the group Anonymous reported the tweet to police. The teen has been charged with disorderly conduct, a Class 4 felony.