NYC police: Notes to Obama, mayor had gun threats

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A suspicious letter mailed to the White House was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun law debate sent to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation's most potent gun-control advocates, officials said Thursday.

Yet another letter became known publicly on Thursday, one tainted with the poison ricin and mailed to President Barack Obama from Spokane, Wash., the FBI said. Authorities have arrested a man in Spokane in connection with that letter, which was intercepted May 22.

The Secret Service said the White House-bound letter similar to the ones Bloomberg was sent was intercepted by a White House mail screening facility. Two similar letters postmarked in Louisiana and sent to Bloomberg in New York and his gun control group in Washington contained traces of the deadly poison ricin.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the letter sent to Obama contained ricin. It was turned over to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force for testing and investigation.

The two Bloomberg letters, opened Friday in New York and Sunday in Washington, contained an oily pinkish-orange substance.

New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Thursday the same machine or computer had produced the two letters to Bloomberg and the similar one to Obama and that they may be identical. He referred specific questions to the FBI.

The FBI said in a statement that field tests on the letters were consistent with the presence of a biological agent, and the letters were turned over to an accredited laboratory for the kind of thorough analysis that is needed to verify a tentative finding. "More letters may be received," the statement said, without elaboration.

The body of the letter mailed to New York was addressed to "you" and referenced the gun control debate. Kelly said the unsigned letter says, in so many words: "Anyone who comes for my guns will be shot in the face." He refused to quote directly from the letter, saying he didn't want to do the author's bidding.

Bloomberg has emerged as one of the country's most important gun-control advocates, able to press his case with both his public position and his private money.

The New York letter was opened at the city's mail facility in Manhattan in a biochemical containment box, which is a part of the screening process for mayor's office mail.

"In terms of the processes and procedures that are in place now we think they worked," Kelly said. "This is sort of an effect of the post-9/11 world that we live in that these checks and facilities are in place and the system worked."

The second letter was opened Sunday by Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the Washington-based nonprofit Bloomberg started.

The letter Glaze opened tested positive for ricin initially. The other letter to Bloomberg at first tested negative but tested positive at a retest Wednesday.

The postal workers union, citing information it got in a Postal Service briefing, said the letters bore a Shreveport, La., postmark. Kelly would not comment on the origin of the letter.

Louisiana State Police spokeswoman Julie Lewis said state authorities have deferred to the FBI and have not opened an investigation. The Shreveport postal center handles mail from Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, so the letter could have come from any of those states, Lewis said.

The people who initially came into contact with the letters showed no symptoms of exposure to the poison, but three officers who later examined the New York letter experienced minor symptoms that have since abated, police said. The mayor visited the mailroom on Thursday but made no public comments on the topic.

On Wednesday, he said he didn't know why they were sent.

One of the letters "obviously referred to our anti-gun efforts, but there's 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns, and we're not going to walk away from those efforts," said Bloomberg, adding that he didn't feel threatened.

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans. Symptoms can include difficulty breathing, vomiting and redness on the skin depending on how the affected person comes into contact with the poison.

The letters were the latest in a string of toxin-laced missives, but authorities would not say whether the letters to Bloomberg and Obama were believed to be linked to any other recent case.

In Washington state, a 37-year-old was charged last week with threatening to kill a federal judge in a letter that contained ricin. On Thursday, the FBI said a suspicious letter containing ricin was mailed to Obama from Spokane on the same day similar ricin-tainted letters were mailed to the judge and to a post office. A fourth letter, sent to nearby Fairchild Air Force Base, continues to undergo testing, officials said.

About a month earlier, letters containing the substance were addressed to Obama, a U.S. senator and a Mississippi judge. One of the letters postmarked in Memphis, Tenn., was traced back to Tupelo, Miss., and a Mississippi man was arrested.

Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which now counts more than 700 mayors nationwide as members. It lobbies federal and state lawmakers, and it aired a spate of television ads this year urging Congress to expand background checks and pass other gun-control measures after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. The background check proposal failed in a Senate vote in April, and other measures gun-control advocates wanted ? including a ban on sales of military-style assault weapons ? have stalled.

Separately, Bloomberg also has made political donations to candidates who share his desire for tougher gun restrictions. His super PAC, Independence USA, put $2.2 million into a Democratic primary this winter for a congressional seat in Illinois, for example. Bloomberg's choice, former state lawmaker Robin Kelly, won.

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Associated Press Writers Jennifer Peltz and Frank Eltman in New York, Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Miss., and Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-police-notes-obama-mayor-had-gun-threats-174236953.html

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Water-rock reaction may provide enough hydrogen 'food' to sustain life in ocean's crust or on Mars

May 30, 2013 ? A chemical reaction between iron-containing minerals and water may produce enough hydrogen "food" to sustain microbial communities living in pores and cracks within the enormous volume of rock below the ocean floor and parts of the continents, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, also hint at the possibility that hydrogen-dependent life could have existed where iron-rich igneous rocks on Mars were once in contact with water.

Scientists have thoroughly investigated how rock-water reactions can produce hydrogen in places where the temperatures are far too hot for living things to survive, such as in the rocks that underlie hydrothermal vent systems on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The hydrogen gases produced in those rocks do eventually feed microbial life, but the communities are located only in small, cooler oases where the vent fluids mix with seawater.

The new study, led by CU-Boulder Research Associate Lisa Mayhew, set out to investigate whether hydrogen-producing reactions also could take place in the much more abundant rocks that are infiltrated with water at temperatures cool enough for life to survive.

"Water-rock reactions that produce hydrogen gas are thought to have been one of the earliest sources of energy for life on Earth," said Mayhew, who worked on the study as a doctoral student in CU-Boulder Associate Professor Alexis Templeton's lab in the Department of Geological Sciences.

"However, we know very little about the possibility that hydrogen will be produced from these reactions when the temperatures are low enough that life can survive. If these reactions could make enough hydrogen at these low temperatures, then microorganisms might be able to live in the rocks where this reaction occurs, which could potentially be a huge subsurface microbial habitat for hydrogen-utilizing life."

When igneous rocks, which form when magma slowly cools deep within Earth, are infiltrated by ocean water, some of the minerals release unstable atoms of iron into the water. At high temperatures -- warmer than 392 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius) -- scientists know that the unstable atoms, known as reduced iron, can rapidly split water molecules and produce hydrogen gas, as well as new minerals containing iron in the more stable, oxidized form.

Mayhew and her co-authors, including Templeton, submerged rocks in water in the absence of oxygen to determine if a similar reaction would take place at much lower temperatures, between 122 and 212 degrees Fahrenheit (50 to 100 degrees Celsius). The researchers found that the rocks did create hydrogen -- potentially enough hydrogen to support life.

To understand in more detail the chemical reactions that produced the hydrogen in the lab experiments, the researchers used "synchrotron radiation" -- which is created by electrons orbiting in a humanmade storage ring -- to determine the type and location of iron in the rocks on a microscale.

The researchers expected to find that the reduced iron in minerals like olivine had converted to the more stable oxidized state, just as occurs at higher temperatures. But when they conducted their analyses at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at Stanford University, they were surprised to find newly formed oxidized iron on "spinel" minerals found in the rocks. Spinels are minerals with a cubic structure that are highly conductive.

Finding oxidized iron on the spinels led the team to hypothesize that, at low temperatures, the conductive spinels were helping facilitate the exchange of electrons between reduced iron and water, a process that is necessary for the iron to split the water molecules and create the hydrogen gas.

"After observing the formation of oxidized iron on spinels, we realized there was a strong correlation between the amount of hydrogen produced and the volume percent of spinel phases in the reaction materials," Mayhew said. "Generally, the more spinels, the more hydrogen."

Not only is there a potentially large volume of rock on Earth that may undergo these low temperature reactions, but the same types of rocks also are prevalent on Mars, Mayhew said. Minerals that form as a result of the water-rock reactions on Earth have been detected on Mars as well, which means that the process described in the new study may have implications for potential Martian microbial habitats.

Mayhew and Templeton are already building on this study with their co-authors, including Thomas McCollom at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, to see if the hydrogen-producing reactions can actually sustain microbes in the lab.

This study was funded by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and with a U.S. Department of Energy Early Career grant to Templeton.

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Wave of bombings kills 30 in fresh Iraq attacks

BAGHDAD (AP) ? A series of bombs in Iraq, including one targeting a provincial governor, killed at least 30 people Thursday and wounded dozens as a tireless wave of violence further rattled the country.

Iraq is experiencing its most relentless round of bloodshed since the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal, deepening fears that the country is heading back toward the widespread sectarian fighting that pushed it to the brink of civil war in the years after the invasion.

More than 500 people have been killed in May, with attacks escalating in the last two weeks. The month before was Iraq's deadliest since June 2008, according to a United Nations tally that put April's death toll at more than 700.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office said he spent three hours inspecting checkpoints throughout the capital late the previous night, underscoring growing concerns about the security forces' ability to stem the violence.

Authorities in Baghdad also announced a ban in effect from early Friday on cars bearing temporary black license plates, which are common in post-war Iraq, where for years it was difficult to obtain new ones. The plates are typically on older model vehicles and are more difficult to trace, and authorities say they are frequently used in car bombings.

Most of Thursday's blasts went off in Baghdad. Car bombs killed four in the northeastern Shiite neighborhood of Binouq, and three died in a bombing at a market selling spare car parts in central Baghdad, according to police.

In Baghdad's eastern Shiite Ur neighborhood, a parked car bomb went off next to an army patrol, killing four and wounding 17, police said.

Police officials also said that a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in the largely Shiite central commercial district of Karradah, killing three people there.

The Karradah blast shattered glass and twisted metal signs on several storefronts, and left the stricken police unit's modified Ford pickup truck charred and mangled.

"What have these innocent people done to deserve this?" asked witness Sinan Ali. "So many people were hurt. Who is responsible?"

In Baghdad's northern Shiite neighborhood of Shaab, a car bomb exploded in a commercial area, killing six civilians and wounding 17 others.

In the largely Sunni neighborhood of Azamiyah in the capital's north, a car bomb struck near a military convoy, killing three people, including two soldiers, according to police. Another 14 people were wounded in that attack.

Another police patrol was struck in the southern neighborhood of Saydiyah, injuring six.

Hospital officials confirmed the casualties.

In Anbar province, the provincial governor escaped an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into his convoy, his deputy Dhari Akan said. The governor escaped unharmed, but four of his guards were wounded, Arkan said.

Anbar is a vast Sunni-dominated province west of Baghdad that has been the center for months of protests against the Shiite-led government.

In the northern city of Mosul, two police officers said a suicide bomber killed three when he blew himself up on a federal police checkpoint. Mosul is a former insurgent stronghold, located about 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.

And to the west of Mosul, a suicide attacker drove his explosives-packed car into a security checkpoint, killing two members of the security forces and two civilians, a police officer and a doctor said. Eight other people were wounded in the attacks in the town of Tal Afar, they added.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk to the media.

The United Nations envoy to Iraq, Martin Kobler, urged Iraqi leaders to do more to urgently "pull the country out of this mayhem."

"Systemic violence is ready to explode at any moment," he said in a statement.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but blame is likely to fall on al-Qaida's Iraq arm, which frequently carries out bombing attacks against civilians and security forces in an effort to undermine faith in the Shiite-led government.

Other militant groups have also grown more active in recent months, including the Army of the Men of the Naqshabandi Order, which has ties to members of Saddam Hussein's now-outlawed Baath party.

The attacks came hours after bomb blasts tore through two Baghdad neighborhoods Wednesday evening. At least 30 people were killed, including several members of a wedding party in the mixed Sunni-Shiite Jihad neighborhood.

The southwestern neighborhood was one of the earliest flashpoints in Baghdad's descent into sectarian bloodshed in the years following the 2003 U.S. led invasion. It housed mainly Sunni civil servants and security officials under Saddam Hussein's regime, though many Shiites now live there too.

Many of Jihad's Sunni residents earlier this year received threatening leaflets from a Shiite militant group, the Mukhtar Army, warning them to leave.

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Associated Press writers Adam Schreck and Sinan Salaheddin contributed to this story.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wave-bombings-kills-30-fresh-iraq-attacks-153735308.html

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Virginia's 'hybrid' surveillance strategy aided response to contaminated steroid outbreak

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Innovative approach relied on coordination between public health and clinical partners, says report in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Philadelphia, Pa. (May 30, 2013) An innovative "hybrid" surveillance strategyhighlighted by close cooperation between public health officials and clinical partnershelped Virginia mount an efficient and effective response to the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections, according to a report in the July/August issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice . The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) "worked closely with clinical partners, combining assessment, referral to care and public health surveillance methodologies in a hybrid surveillance model," according to the article by Dr. Laurie Forlano and colleagues. They believe their strategyinvolving "intensive collaboration" between public health officials and hospitals and doctors serving the affected communitiesis a promising model for responding to future public health threats.

'Hybrid' Surveillance Response to Contaminated Steroid Crisis

The VDH implemented the hybrid strategy in response to the 2012 outbreak of meningitis and other fungal infections, which was traced to contaminated steroid products supplied by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Virginia was one of the hardest-hit states, with 53 affected patientsincluding two deathsover a six-month period. Two Virginia healthcare facilitiesboth free standing pain/interventional radiology clinics in the southwest region of the statereceived the contaminated products.

Because of the subtle symptoms, potentially long incubation period, and the risk of serious illness and death, Virginia public health officials decided that intensive, active surveillance was needed to contact and track nearly 700 exposed residents. The VDH rapidly developed a "hybrid" active surveillance strategy, reflecting a combination of traditional active surveillance performed by public health personnel, and additional surveillance and clinical follow-up performed by health care providers and hospitals.

In the hybrid surveillance model, public health personnel took the lead in contacting potentially exposed patients who may have received spinal injections with the contaminated steroids. Telephone follow-up included weekly calls to assess for new signs and symptoms of possible infection, and to refer patients to clinical care if indicated.

'Excellent Partnership' between Public Health and Clinical Partners

Once patients had received testing and care from clinical partners, responsibility for further tracking and follow-up was passed on to the treating physicians. If the patient was diagnosed with a fungal infection, the doctor reported the suspected case back to the VDH. The VDH maintained close contact with partner hospitals to keep up with evolving clinical information.

"It was a division of labor of sorts, as the volume of patients requiring close follow up was just so large," Dr. Forlano explains. "In most cases, if a patient with symptoms sought medical attentionwhether from an emergency room, primary care doctor, infectious disease specialist, or elsewherethat exposed person became the responsibility of the clinical team.

"Both the clinical teams and the public health team provided weekly follow up on the people for whom they were responsible," Dr. Forlano adds. "It was an excellent partnershipthe clinicians were willing to do follow up even on patients who didn't meet the VDH definition of 'cases' so we could focus on the exposed persons who hadn't yet developed symptoms."

From the start of October through the end of November, 2012, the VDH documented nearly 3,100 patient contacts. The initial surveillance program was stopped after eight weeks, based on evidence suggesting that any infections caused by the contaminated steroids would have developed within that time.

One-on-one contact was essential to the success of the hybrid surveillance approach, according to Dr. Forlano and her colleagues at the VDH. They believe their experience highlights the need to address key areas of communication with exposed patients and between public health and clinical personnel.

Dr. Forlano and coauthors also believe their hybrid model could be usefully applied to future large-scale health threats, whether natural or man-made. They conclude, "It should be used as a basis for planning the response to events requiring time-sensitive, active follow-up of a large number of exposed individuals that could be required after an intentional or unintentional community wide exposure to a biologic, radiologic or chemical agent."

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About Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice publishes articles which focus on evidence based public health practice and research. The journal is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed publication guided by a multidisciplinary editorial board of administrators, practitioners and scientists. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice publishes in a wide range of population health topics including research to practice; emergency preparedness; bioterrorism; infectious disease surveillance; environmental health; community health assessment, chronic disease prevention and health promotion, and academic-practice linkages.

About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher of trusted content delivered in innovative ways to practitioners, professionals and students to learn new skills, stay current on their practice, and make important decisions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2012 annual revenues of 3.6 billion ($4.6 billion).

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646-674-6348
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Innovative approach relied on coordination between public health and clinical partners, says report in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Philadelphia, Pa. (May 30, 2013) An innovative "hybrid" surveillance strategyhighlighted by close cooperation between public health officials and clinical partnershelped Virginia mount an efficient and effective response to the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections, according to a report in the July/August issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice . The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) "worked closely with clinical partners, combining assessment, referral to care and public health surveillance methodologies in a hybrid surveillance model," according to the article by Dr. Laurie Forlano and colleagues. They believe their strategyinvolving "intensive collaboration" between public health officials and hospitals and doctors serving the affected communitiesis a promising model for responding to future public health threats.

'Hybrid' Surveillance Response to Contaminated Steroid Crisis

The VDH implemented the hybrid strategy in response to the 2012 outbreak of meningitis and other fungal infections, which was traced to contaminated steroid products supplied by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Virginia was one of the hardest-hit states, with 53 affected patientsincluding two deathsover a six-month period. Two Virginia healthcare facilitiesboth free standing pain/interventional radiology clinics in the southwest region of the statereceived the contaminated products.

Because of the subtle symptoms, potentially long incubation period, and the risk of serious illness and death, Virginia public health officials decided that intensive, active surveillance was needed to contact and track nearly 700 exposed residents. The VDH rapidly developed a "hybrid" active surveillance strategy, reflecting a combination of traditional active surveillance performed by public health personnel, and additional surveillance and clinical follow-up performed by health care providers and hospitals.

In the hybrid surveillance model, public health personnel took the lead in contacting potentially exposed patients who may have received spinal injections with the contaminated steroids. Telephone follow-up included weekly calls to assess for new signs and symptoms of possible infection, and to refer patients to clinical care if indicated.

'Excellent Partnership' between Public Health and Clinical Partners

Once patients had received testing and care from clinical partners, responsibility for further tracking and follow-up was passed on to the treating physicians. If the patient was diagnosed with a fungal infection, the doctor reported the suspected case back to the VDH. The VDH maintained close contact with partner hospitals to keep up with evolving clinical information.

"It was a division of labor of sorts, as the volume of patients requiring close follow up was just so large," Dr. Forlano explains. "In most cases, if a patient with symptoms sought medical attentionwhether from an emergency room, primary care doctor, infectious disease specialist, or elsewherethat exposed person became the responsibility of the clinical team.

"Both the clinical teams and the public health team provided weekly follow up on the people for whom they were responsible," Dr. Forlano adds. "It was an excellent partnershipthe clinicians were willing to do follow up even on patients who didn't meet the VDH definition of 'cases' so we could focus on the exposed persons who hadn't yet developed symptoms."

From the start of October through the end of November, 2012, the VDH documented nearly 3,100 patient contacts. The initial surveillance program was stopped after eight weeks, based on evidence suggesting that any infections caused by the contaminated steroids would have developed within that time.

One-on-one contact was essential to the success of the hybrid surveillance approach, according to Dr. Forlano and her colleagues at the VDH. They believe their experience highlights the need to address key areas of communication with exposed patients and between public health and clinical personnel.

Dr. Forlano and coauthors also believe their hybrid model could be usefully applied to future large-scale health threats, whether natural or man-made. They conclude, "It should be used as a basis for planning the response to events requiring time-sensitive, active follow-up of a large number of exposed individuals that could be required after an intentional or unintentional community wide exposure to a biologic, radiologic or chemical agent."

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About Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice publishes articles which focus on evidence based public health practice and research. The journal is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed publication guided by a multidisciplinary editorial board of administrators, practitioners and scientists. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice publishes in a wide range of population health topics including research to practice; emergency preparedness; bioterrorism; infectious disease surveillance; environmental health; community health assessment, chronic disease prevention and health promotion, and academic-practice linkages.

About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher of trusted content delivered in innovative ways to practitioners, professionals and students to learn new skills, stay current on their practice, and make important decisions to improve patient care and clinical outcomes.

LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2012 annual revenues of 3.6 billion ($4.6 billion).

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Dropbox Currently Experiencing Widespread Service Outage

Dropbox is undergoing a pretty widespread service outage, according to our own tests and multiple reports from around the world on Twitter. It's been down for around 3o minutes as of this writing, and the outage appears to affect both Dropbox connected apps as well as the web-based Dropbox services on its own site. Users are greeted with the message above, and Dropbox has yet to comment on the outage via its public channels.

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Correction: Democrats-Voting story

DENVER (AP) ? In a story May 20 about Democrats' efforts to expand same day voter registration, The Associated Press reported erroneously the title of a nonpartisan law and policy institute. It's the Brennan Center for Justice, not the Brennan Center for Social Justice.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures

Democrats ease voting laws, strike back at GOP's restrictive measures in battle for voters

By IVAN MORENO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Associated Press

DENVER (AP) ? In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots.

It's the latest ? and most substantial ? development in a nationwide Democratic Party effort to strike back at two years of Republican success in passing measures to require identification at polling places and purge rolls of suspect voters.

Democratic-controlled states like California, Connecticut and Maryland also all have sought to make it easier to cast a ballot as late as possible. They recently passed versions of same-day voter registration measures, which traditionally help younger and poorer voters ? the sort who lean Democratic.

Undaunted, the GOP is aggressively fighting the efforts.

Maine Republicans tried to roll back same-day registration in 2011 but were unsuccessful. And Montana Republicans hope to rescind their state's same-day registration through a ballot referendum next year.

In the decades-old battle between Republicans and Democrats over voting rights, same-day voter registration long had been a relatively bipartisan matter, a staple in places like Idaho, New Hampshire and Wyoming. But it has become a divisive issue in recent years, as the country has grown more polarized and as both major political parties seek to change voting laws in ways that will be beneficial to them.

"There's been more partisanship over the last half-decade as the voting wars heated up and as groups spent more energy on process and the nuts and bolts of how elections are run," says Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. "Colorado is ground zero right now for these battles."

Colorado is the 11th state to allow same-day registration, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Compared with previous years, Myrna Perez at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University said that in the aftermath of the 2012 elections, "We saw more positive expansive legislation being introduced in this legislative cycle across the country than we saw restrictive."

According to the Brennan Center, 204 bills to expand voting in 45 states were introduced this year, with many measures still pending. Among the new laws are ones that allow online voter registration in Virginia and West Virginia, ease photo ID restrictions in Oklahoma, and expand early voting in Maryland.

By comparison, 31 states introduced 82 bills that sought to restrict voting access, with 50 bills still pending. In Arkansas, lawmakers overrode a gubernatorial veto to require photo ID to vote. Nebraska reduced the early voting period. And Montana is trying to repeal Election Day registration with a ballot question in 2014.

Republicans in that state are seeking to roll back the state's 7-year-old same-day registration law. Democrats tried to shut down the state Senate to block the measure. It didn't work, and the question goes before the voters next year.

"They don't want to make it easier for college students to register to vote and for Native Americans to register to vote," Democratic state Sen, Kendall Van Dyk said of Republicans.

Republican State Sen. Alan Olson countered that the proposal would just end registration the Friday before Election Day in order to make life easier for clerks in small rural counties swamped by last-minute registrants. He said that's still a vast improvement over the prior registration deadline of 30 days before the election.

In California, former state Assemblyman Mike Feuer said the spread of voter identification measures in GOP-run statehouses in Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and elsewhere inspired him to write his state's same-day registration law. "At precisely the moment when other states were moving to suppress voter turnout, it was important for California to say: 'We can do better,'" Feuer said.

Well before it passed the new law, Colorado had been at the forefront of the national debate over voter access because of Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler's history of fighting Democrats over a variety of election issues, including efforts to weed out suspected noncitizens from the rolls.

But Democrats were emboldened in the aftermath of a highly successful November election season. It saw Obama win the state, and, more consequential, the party winning back the state House and keeping power in the state Senate. With a Democratic governor at the helm, the sweeping victories gave the party wide leeway to pass the bills they wanted.

Democrats quickly took advantage of their power gains, passing measures to help people in the country illegally, expand firearm background checks and allow same-sex civil unions. Then, late in the legislative session, they introduced their elections overhaul bill that allows same-day registration. It also requires that every voter get a mail ballot.

A bipartisan coalition of local county clerks backed it, saying it would increase access to the ballot box. But Gessler, the Republican who is the state's chief elections official, repeatedly said he was purposely excluded from the process ? a charge Democratic lawmakers denied. And legislative Republicans were horrified by the 128-page bill, and warned of fraud that could accompany same-day registration.

"You're already winning the elections," GOP State Senate leader Bill Cadman said as the GOP tried to block the legislation. "Do you need to steal them, too?"

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the measure on May 10.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/correction-democrats-voting-story-201513675.html

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Samsung dominates the world?s biggest smartphone market as Apple?s struggles continue

By Toby Davis PARIS, May 27 (Reuters) - With a piercing flat forehand and a serve launched from high in the Parisian sky, Daniel Brands laid out a blueprint for how to upset claycourt king Rafa Nadal in his own backyard. For the best part of two sets on Court Philippe Chatrier on Monday, Nadal was lost for ideas and looking up into the ether for a drip of inspiration to help him fathom a solution to Brands' hard hitting, heavy-pressure tennis. It was not the first time the seven-times champion had been shaken by a big server with the hammerhead approach shot. ...

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Tim Cook: Apple has no issue porting its apps to Android

While it may seem far-fetched that Apple would consider following BlackBerry Messenger's footsteps and bring some apps to Android, it turns out that such a move isn't out of the question. "We have no religious issue with porting an Apple app to Android," said Cook. "If it made sense for us to do that, we would do that. You could apply that to every area of Apple." That's far from a guarantee that we'll see apps coded by Cupertino turn up on Google's mobile OS, but it certainly introduces a possibility that would seem uncharacteristic of the company.

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The HTC One Got Me to Care Less About Nexus Phones

The tech world has been buzzing lately about a potential wave of new ?Nexus? phones. LG just announced a white Nexus 4 to complement the black model that?s already available. Samsung will release a Nexus-like version of its Galaxy S 4 next month, and HTC is rumored to be considering the same for its HTC One.

All of this news would have excited me a few months ago, when I considered myself somewhat of an Android purist.?But my recent purchase of an HTC One has made me rethink whether Nexus phones can truly provide a better experience.

If you?re unfamiliar, devices that bear the ?Nexus? label run Android exactly as Google intended, without frilly modifications from phone makers. You won?t, for instance, find S-Voice or Smart Scroll?hallmark features of Samsung?s Galaxy S phones?on the company?s Nexus 10 tablet or Galaxy Nexus phone. Techies tend to like the Nexus concept because it represents a purer, dare I say Apple-like, approach to smartphone design. There are no gimmicks, and no bloatware, and the software updates come directly from Google without any delays.

The HTC One, which runs a modified version of Android dubbed ?Sense,? has convinced me that the benefits of non-Nexus devices outweigh the drawbacks.?After spending about three weeks with the HTC One, there are a few features I?d be reluctant to give up:

Killer Camera Software: On the HTC One, the camera is the killer app. I love the ability to hold down the shutter button to take photos in burst mode, and then select the best photo of the bunch to save. HDR mode is easy to access, and the ability to snap photos from a video is a nice touch. The camera software on Nexus devices isn?t as advanced, nor is it designed with any particular hardware in mind. Putting stock Android on the HTC One would make the camera worse.

Lock Screen Shortcuts: On HTC?s phones, you can jump directly into any of your docked apps from the lock screen by swiping up on the app icon. On my phone, I have quick access to voice search, Chrome, Gmail and the camera. Nexus devices have camera and Google shortcuts on the lock screen, but that?s it.

IR Blaster: The HTC One has a built-in infrared transmitter, which allows the phone to double as a TV and stereo remote. I no longer have to juggle multiple remotes, and the TV app?s built-in channel guide is a huge help for over-the-air broadcasts since we don?t have cable. To date, no Nexus device includes an IR blaster, and Google doesn?t offer any of its own software to take advantage.

I don?t have as much experience with Samsung?s Galaxy S 4, but you could make the same case based on that phone?s features. The S 4, for instance, has its own IR blaster and a few helpful camera modes.

Meanwhile, the things that used to irk me about non-Nexus devices aren?t as problematic anymore:

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Google?s Android Update Workaround:?During Google?s I/O conference this month, Dustin Earley at Android and Me made the sharp observation that Google is updating Android without updating Android. New features like Google Play Music All Access and Google Play Game Services?are available to a wide range of phones without the latest version of Android. Same goes for updated versions of Google Maps, Google Now and the revamped Google Hangouts app (formerly Google Talk). Essentially, Google is working around the fact that phone makers and wireless carriers are slow to upgrade their devices.?So while my HTC One runs Android 4.1, rather than the latest Android 4.2, the experience doesn?t suffer much.

Resources to Spare: In the past, you could feel the tweaks from HTC and Samsung bogging down the Android software on their phones. Animations were often sluggish or intrusive, and scrolling was choppy and laggy. But thanks to advances in smartphone hardware, as well as Google?s own work in making Android slicker, I?ve found that most new Android phones run smoothly no matter what. Phone makers have room to add features without hogging vital resources.

There are still things I prefer about the Nexus experience. Aesthetically, Google?s software design is much slicker than anything I?ve seen from HTC, Samsung or LG, and I like how Nexus devices use software buttons instead of hardware keys for home, back and multitasking. Also, bloatware is still a nuisance on non-Nexus phones, especially on AT&T. My HTC One is larded up with all kinds of unwanted apps and services, like AT&T?s Navigator and Address Book, and some of them can?t be removed or disabled.

The Nexus program still serves a purpose beyond appealing to consumers. It?s a way for Google to show off the latest version of Android, and to provide a reference device for developers and phone makers. But Google has also tried to sell the Nexus brand to the masses by offering low-cost unlocked phones and cheap tablets. At least in the United States, carrier-subsidized phones are cheaper and easier to acquire, so the need for Nexus phones isn?t as pronounced.

Still, in the past I?ve hoped for just the right Nexus hardware to come along, so I could finally get the best Android software experience possible. Only now, phone makers like HTC are doing a better job at Android than Google.

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Sharapova wins in straight sets at French Open

Russia's Maria Sharapova serves against Su-Wei Hsieh of Taipeh in their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament, at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, Monday, May 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

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PARIS (AP) ? Serving well, Maria Sharapova began her French Open title defense with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over 42nd-ranked Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan on Monday.

The second-seeded Sharapova did not face a break point during the 54-minute match on Court Suzanne Lenglen, in part because she did not double-fault once and won 89 percent of her first-serve points.

She dictated the action, compiling a 25-8 edge in winners, including the backhand she hit to end the match.

A year ago, Sharapova won the championship at Roland Garros to complete a career Grand Slam, adding to her titles from Wimbledon in 2004, the U.S. Open in 2006, and the Australian Open in 2008.

She has won 37 of her past 38 first-round matches at major tournaments.

Her opponent Monday is 0-5 in Paris.

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Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair

BEIRUT (AP) ? Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad shelled a strategic western town on Saturday in their heaviest barrage of a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from the opposition stronghold, activists said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 22 people including 18 rebels were killed and dozens wounded in the fighting in Qusair.

Pro-Assad troops, including fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, have been trying to push rebels out of Qusair. Syrian state media has said government forces steadily gained ground, including on Saturday. Local activists have denied regime gains and said rebel fighters are defending positions.

Qusair is important to Assad because it sits on a land corridor linking two of his strongholds, the capital of Damascus and towns on the Mediterranean coast. For the rebels, holding Qusair means protecting a supply line to Lebanon, 10 kilometers (six miles) away.

Saturday's barrage of rockets, mortar rounds and tank shells began after daybreak, said Qusair activist Hadi Abdullah and the pro-opposition Observatory. Both said it was the most intense shelling since the regime launched its offensive there a week ago. They also reported heavy gunfire.

The intense shelling could be heard in Lebanon's border areas and in the Syrian city of Homs, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) away.

The fighting over Qusair has highlighted the growing role of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Syria's civil war. The militia initially tried to play down its involvement, but could no longer do so after several dozen of its fighters were killed in Qusair and buried in large funerals in Lebanon.

In Turkey, the acting president of Syria's main opposition group harshly criticized Hezbollah for its role in Qusair. "Some Lebanese are being sent to Syria as invaders in order to return back home in coffins draped with shame," said George Sabra of the Syrian National Coalition.

"Oh Syrians, come and rescue Qusair, Maadamiyeh, Daraya and eastern Ghouta so that Syria remains, as it is today, a graveyard for invaders," Sabra said, referring also to suburbs of the capital Damascus where Syrian troops have been on the offensive in recent weeks.

In an indication that the rebel's weeklong stand is also becoming a symbol outside Syria, Mohammed al-Zawahiri ? a prominent jihadi figure in Egypt and the brother of al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ? issued a statement alongside 19 other ultraconservative Islamists and former militants calling on all Muslims to "help our people in Qusair."

"It is the duty of each Muslim to repel this aggression and stop the injustice, first by jihad with arms," the statement carried by a militant website said.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood criticized what it called Iranian intervention in Syria through Hezbollah, saying the Lebanese militant group has "burned" some of the good faith people had for it as well as its credibility by fueling sectarianism in Syria. The Brotherhood said Hezbollah lost the hearts of Arabs and Muslims, which it had won when it faced the "Zionist enemy," a reference to Israel.

Saturday's push comes ahead of a speech by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, his first since the offensive began. The speech Saturday afternoon is to mark the anniversary of Israel's May 2000 withdrawal from southern Lebanon, commemorated each year by Hezbollah as a major military victory.

However, this year's anniversary comes at a time when Hezbollah is facing growing criticism in Lebanon for its involvement in the Syrian war.

The Syrian fighting has repeatedly spilled over into Lebanon, whose sectarian divide mirrors that of Syria. Assad opponents and supporters have been clashing for the past week in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, using mortars, grenades and machine guns to attack densely populated areas.

Four people were killed by sniper fire Saturday, bringing the week's death toll to 29 including three Lebanese soldiers, said a Lebanese official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations. More than 200 people have been wounded.

The fighting pits the predominantly Sunni Muslim district of Bab al-Tabbaneh against Alawites, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, in the adjacent Jabal Mohsen area. Assad's Syrian regime is dominated by the president's Alawite sect, while most rebels are Sunnis.

Hezbollah is also facing repercussions in Europe over its support for the Syrian military.

Earlier this week, France and Germany joined a push by Britain to have the EU declare Hezbollah's military wing a terrorist organization. Such a move, long sought by the U.S., would hamper Hezbollah operations in Europe.

Late Friday, Hezbollah's deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Kassem told the Lebanese TV station Al-Mayadeen that the EU would make a "big mistake," but that such warnings don't concern the group. He did not elaborate.

In the northern province of Aleppo, the Observatory and the pro-opposition Aleppo Media Center reported clashes between rebels and members of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD. The Observatory said the fighting was triggered by a rebel attack on a PYD checkpoint near the predominantly Kurdish village of Ziyara.

Meanwhile, Syria's fractured political opposition was meeting for a third day in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday to elect new leaders, try to widen its base and forge a unified position ahead of possible peace talks with the regime.

The U.S. and Russia want to bring together representatives of the opposition and the Syrian government at an international conference in Geneva for talks on a possible transition government. Much remains up in the air, including the date, the agenda and the list of participants.

On Friday, Syria ally Russia said the Assad regime has accepted in principle to attend talks in Geneva, though there has been no official statement from Damascus.

The opposition is deeply suspicious about Assad's intention to hold serious peace talks, and senior opposition figures have ruled out attendance unless Assad's departure tops the agenda of such negotiations.

Louay Safi, a senior member of the Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition bloc, dismissed the Moscow's statement on Syrian attendance. "This announcement has to be made by the Syrian government, not the Russians," he said Saturday by phone from Istanbul.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, whose country has been a strong backer of the opposition, said Saturday that Assad and "people close to him whose hands were tainted with the blood of the Syrian people, cannot have any role in the future of Syria."

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Associated Press writer Yasmine Saker in Beirut and Maamoun Youssef and Aya Batrawy in Cairo contributed reporting.

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Book Party for Debby Mayer's Memoir, 'Riptides & Solaces ...

(HUDSON, N.Y.) ? There will be a reception celebrating the publication of Riptides & Solaces Unforeseen, a memoir by Debby Mayer, at McDaris Fine Art (623 Warren St.) on Sunday, June 2, 2013, from 3 to 5p.m. The event will include a short reading at 4 p.m., and book will be available for purchases and signing. Refreshments will be served.

Part mystery, part love story, part report from the medical front in the United States today, Riptides relates the fast-onset brain cancer that ripped through a strong, healthy man and led to his death four months later at the age of fifty-six. The book is a searing chronology of the effects of devastating illness, of being caught in the maw of hospitals, of unthinkable decision-making and small, unexpected solaces. Tightly written, fact-based, it is never maudlin, and it offers an element of hope without sentimentality.

Debby Mayer (photo Enid Futterman)

Debby Mayer?s blog, 2becomes1: widowhood for the rest of us, can be found at debbymayer.blogspot.com. An excerpt from Riptides was awarded a grant in creative nonfiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Debby Mayer is also the author of Sisters: A Novel (Putnam?s, Berkley). Her short fiction and journalism have been widely published. She retired from the Publications Office at Bard College as editorial director and is now a contributing editor at The Columbia Paper. She lives in Hudson, N.Y.

Riptides is published by Epigraph Books of Rhinebeck, N.Y. It is available in paperback ($14.95) and Kindle ($9.99) editions.

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Margaret Paul, Ph.D.: Why Do I Keep Attracting Unavailable People?

I hear it over and over: "Are there any available men?" "Why are all the women I attract unavailable?"

Laura asked me the following:

I find that I attract men who are unavailable. I meet nice men who are fun to be around, but when it comes to becoming serious they always say, "I'm not ready right now." What is it within me or that I need to seek out within myself to find out why I attract men who act like they want a relationship, but always say they are not ready? Could you give me insight on what I need to do to attract a loving mate and not unavailable men?

There are two issues that often contribute to this situation.

1. Often, when a person consistently attracts unavailable people, it is because there is some unconscious fear of rejection and/or fear of engulfment that may actually be causing you to be unavailable -- even though you believe you are available.

Since people attract each other at their common level of woundedness or their common level of health, an unavailable person's fear of commitment likely mirrors your fear of commitment. If you are a person who keeps meeting unavailable people, you might want to honestly look within to see if your fears of rejection or fears of engulfment (losing the other or losing yourself) may be causing you to be unavailable.

It's easy to believe you are open and available, and that others are unavailable, but this is often not the case at all. If you are afraid of commitment, then it might unconsciously feel safe to you to be in a relationship with someone who you know is unavailable. Often, people who fear commitment -- due to their fear of rejection/engulfment -- are attracted to married people. Being in a relationship with an unavailable married person might actually feel safe to them!

Have you ever been in a relationship with someone who didn't want to commit, and then you broke up with him or her because of it, only to hear that he or she got married not long after your breakup? If so, it is easy to see that something else was going on there. What was going on may have to do with the second issue.

2. The second issue is that you may be abandoning yourself when you get into a relationship. If, when you really like someone, you make the other responsible for your feelings of lovability, security and worth, then the other's fear of engulfment and resulting resistance might get triggered.

Self-abandonment is a key issue in creating relationship problems. If you are abandoning yourself by not taking responsibility for your own feelings of safety and self-worth, and you then make the other responsible for making you feel okay, he or she will likely experience you as needy -- and this might scare them. Self-abandonment becomes a pull on the other person to make you okay, and many people get scared when they feel pulled on. Their fear of losing themselves and being controlled by your neediness might become a big issue. They might go into major resistance to being open with you.

Often, a person with a fear of rejection attracts a person with a fear of engulfment. If you have a fear of rejection -- because of rejecting and abandoning yourself -- then you may try to control in order to not be rejected when you are in a relationship. Your controlling behavior may trigger the other's fear of engulfment -- because he or she doesn't know how to not abandon themselves when being pulled at and demanded of. Because they have never learned how to take responsibility for themselves and their own feelings, and they may feel responsible for your feelings, they do the only thing they know to feel safe -- withdraw and resist.

If you really want a relationship and you keep attracting unavailable people, then you need to do your own inner work to heal your fear of rejection and/or your fear of engulfment.

The Inner Bonding process is a powerful process for healing these fears. I have worked with thousands of clients who met their partner and got married after doing their Inner Bonding work and healing their fears.

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is a relationship expert, best-selling author, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding? self-healing process, recommended by actress Lindsay Wagner and singer Alanis Morissette, and featured on Oprah. To begin learning how to love and connect with yourself so that you can connect with others, take advantage of our free Inner Bonding eCourse, receive Free Help, and take our 12-Week eCourse, "The Intimate Relationship Toolbox" - the first two weeks are free! Discover SelfQuest?, a transformational self-healing/conflict resolution computer program. Phone or Skype sessions with Dr. Margaret Paul.

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On Behalf of Nashville Creatives: This Week's City Paper Cover ...

Country Life On Behalf of Nashville Creatives: This Week's City Paper Cover Story

Posted by Abby White on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:33 PM

In the latest issue of our sister publication The City Paper, which is hot off the presses today, I interviewed five Nashville-based creatives to learn a little more about the struggles they face practicing their trades in their respective industries ? music, fashion, photography/videography, visual/graphic art and yoga ? on a local level.

While I was familiar with some of the issues they brought up ? juggling multiple jobs to make ends meet, finding limitations to how far they can advance in their career in the Nashville market ? I was shocked by how frequently they're asked to work at a reduced rate or for no pay at all. I mean, I knew it happened, because most of my friends work in said "creative" industries, but it's happening way more than you think. At the risk of sounding dramatic, it's practically an epidemic in our city.

Here's the thing, Nashville. We have a lot of talented people here. With such a high concentration of talented people, there's always someone willing to do the job for less, or for free. And that is devaluing the work that everybody does. That is what makes people believe that they can hire someone for less and still get the job done.

Now, as the old adage goes, in many cases you get what you pay for, but there are a ton of people who are desperately trying to get their foot in the door at any cost. And plenty of them do good work. We've all heard about the dismal job market for new college graduates, sending unprecedented numbers of young 20-somethings boomeranging back into their parents' houses. I don't know about you, but if I was one of those young 20-somethings, I would do just about anything to avoid boomeranging back into my parents' house. People are looking for a break.

Another issue is that the products of these creative industries ? a song, a photograph, a video, a painting, 90 minutes of yoga ? are highly subjective, which makes it harder to place a fixed price on one's services. It's not like going to the doctor's office, where you get a standard checkup that you pay X-amount for each time without questioning anything. Maybe next time you're at your doctor, try saying, "Well, I was in the waiting room for 45 minutes, and then the nurse really sucked at taking my blood, and there's all these other doctors I could go to instead of you, so how about this time I pay you half of what I paid you last time?" (Please let me know how that goes.)

After talking to these five individuals ? Benjamin Harper, Mizzie Logan, Will Morgan Holland, Brent Coleman and Rachel Briggs ? I was impressed with their genuine passion for working on projects that intrigue and challenge them, regardless of the compensation. They do this because it helps build their portfolio, and it will hopefully lead to more paying work. Ultimately, they do this because they love what they do and they want to be better at it.

But the reality is, these people are all in their 30s, and they need to pay their bills. They need to be paid, and they need to be paid fairly. Budgets are tight, we know, but if you are in a position in your company to hire someone to do a job for you, think about the end result. Think about having a finished product that is amazing, rather than just OK. Isn't that worth the cost? Or should we make peace with the idea of living in a city that's content with mediocrity while our artists starve or flee the city limits for better opportunities?

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$.ajax({ url: "/gyrobase/Macros/ToolsAjax", data: (params), type: "POST", dataType: "html", success: function (data) { thisComment.closest(".brandNewComment").fadeOut("fast", function(){ $(this).remove(); var myTotal = parseInt(jQuery("#comments_total").text(), 10); myTotal--;console.log(myTotal); updateCommentTotals(false,myTotal); }); } }); } function editComment(e){ e.preventDefault(); var thisComment = $(this); var commentCont = thisComment.closest(".brandNewComment").find(".description"); var commentTemp = thisComment.closest(".brandNewComment").find(".commentTemp"); var commentText = commentTemp.html(); var toolbar = thisComment.closest(".brandNewComment").find(".commentToolbar"); commentCont.next(".commentEditCont").remove(); commentCont.after(''); toolbar.fadeOut("fast"); commentCont.fadeOut("fast", function(){ commentCont.next(".commentEditCont").fadeIn("fast"); }); $(".brandNewComment textarea.expandableBox").autoBoxResize(); } function editCommentSave(e){ e.preventDefault(); var thisComment = $(this); var editCont = thisComment.closest(".commentEditCont"); var commentTemp = thisComment.closest(".brandNewComment").find(".commentTemp"); var newText = thisComment.prevAll("textarea").val(); var toolbar = thisComment.closest(".brandNewComment").find(".commentToolbar"); var params = { macro: "editComment", comment: thisComment.attr("data-comment"), commentText: newText }; $.ajax({ url: "/gyrobase/Macros/ToolsAjax", data: (params), type: "POST", dataType: "html", success: function (data) { editCont.fadeOut("fast", function(){ editCont.prev(".description").html($.trim(data)); commentTemp.html(newText); editCont.prev(".description").fadeIn("fast"); toolbar.fadeIn("fast"); }); } }); } function editCommentCancel(e){ e.preventDefault(); var editCont = $(this).closest(".commentEditCont"); var toolbar = $(this).closest(".brandNewComment").find(".commentToolbar"); editCont.fadeOut("fast", function(){ editCont.prev(".description").fadeIn("fast"); toolbar.fadeIn("fast"); editCont.remove(); }); } $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".bottomOptionBar a#doSubscribe", activateSubscribe); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".bottomOptionBar a.togglePanelClose", function(){$(this).parent().fadeOut("fast"); return false;}); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.commentDeleteLink", deleteComment); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.commentEditLink", editComment); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.doneEditLink", editCommentSave); $("#BlogComments").on('click', ".brandNewComment a.cancelEditLink", editCommentCancel); })(jQuery); jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $("#BlogComments").on('click', '#showMoreComments,#showAllComments', getMoreComments); $("#BlogComments #sortSelect").change(getMoreComments); getMoreComments(); new Foundation.PostCommentComponent(componentId); var nc = Foundation.NotificationCenter.sharedNotificationCenter(); nc.observe("comment:added", function (e) { var comment = e.data; getComment(comment.get("oid")); // clear rating if (jQuery(".commentFormRating").length!=0){ jQuery(".commentFormRating input[name='reviewRating']").val(""); jQuery(".commentFormRating .goldStarContainer").css("left", zeroPos+"px"); } }); var subscribeCheckBox = $("#BlogComments_commentSubscribe"); subscribeCheckBox.prop("checked", getCookie("subscribeToThread") === "true" ? true : false); subscribeCheckBox.change(function (e) { var subscribeToThread = $(this).prop("checked"); setCookie("subscribeToThread", subscribeToThread ? "true" : "false", 30); }); var shareFacebookBox = $("#BlogComments_postCommentToFacebook"); shareFacebookBox.prop("checked", getCookie("shareOnFacebook") === "true" ? true : false); shareFacebookBox.change(function (e) { var shareOnFacebook = $(this).prop("checked"); setCookie("shareOnFacebook", shareOnFacebook ? "true" : "false", 30); }); $("#BlogComments").on('click', 'a.likeLink', doLikeComment); $("#BlogComments").on('click', 'a.reportCommentLink', reportComment); });

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