Frank Ocean suffers vocal cord tear, cancels tour

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Randee Dawn NBC News contributor

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After learning he has a tear in one of his vocal cords, Frank Ocean has canceled his sold-out Australian tour right after opening night, according to a statement on promoter LiveNation's Facebook page.

The singer suffered throat problems on the first night of his inaugural tour Down Under on Thursday, and afterward visited the doctors, who gave him the diagnosis.

He was aware there was a problem even during the show, according to Billboard, as Ocean told the audience after a performance of "Forrest Gump," "I'm sick ... I don't know if you care." (Judge for yourself how he sounded in the video below.)

"After last night's concert ... it was necessary to seek medical advice due to vocal issues Frank Ocean experienced during the show," the show's promoter said in a statement on Facebook. "It has subsequently been confirmed that Frank has suffered a small tear to one of his vocal (cords) and has received medical advice that he must rest his voice."

The mini-tour of four dates was meant to coincide with the Australian music festival Splendour in the Grass, but that won't happen now.

"With Splendour already in full swing this is devastating news for the event and will be for many of our patrons," a spokesperson for the festival said.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/entertainment/frank-ocean-suffers-vocal-cord-tear-cancels-tour-6C10761154

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Wayward skydiver kicks college shortstop in face, ending player's season - See video

A player in a collegiate summer league will miss the rest of the season after being kicked in the face by a skydiver during a pre-game show in Missouri.

Shortstop Mattingly Romanin and his Hannibal Cavemen teammates were on the field, about to play the Terre Haute Rex on Saturday, when three skydivers dropped onto Clemens Field, a historic ballpark in Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Mo.

Video posted on YouTube showed one of the divers veering too close to Romanin, who was knocked over. He eventually played all nine innings in Hannibal's 7-3 loss.

Romanin had headaches, and a doctor on Monday determined he had a concussion. After consulting with his coach at Chicago State University, he decided to shut down for the season.

Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/wayward_skydiver_kicks_college.html

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Violence overshadows new Egyptian cabinet; seven killed

By Ulf Laessing and Maggie Fick

CAIRO (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and more than 260 wounded when Islamist supporters of Mohamed Mursi fought opponents of the deposed Egyptian president and security forces, marking a return of violence that overshadowed the naming of an interim cabinet.

Egyptian authorities rounded up more than 400 people over the fighting which raged through the night into Tuesday, nearly two weeks after the army removed Mursi in response to mass demonstrations against him.

Interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi is forming a government to lead Egypt through a "road map" to restore full civilian rule and to tackle a chaotic economy.

A spokesman for the interim president said Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood had been offered cabinet posts and would participate in the transition. The Brotherhood, Egypt's leading Islamist movement, dismissed the remarks as lies, saying it would never yield its demand for Mursi's return.

Crisis in the Arab world's most populous state, which straddles the Suez Canal and has a strategic peace treaty with Israel, raises alarm for its allies in the region and the West.

Mursi's removal has bitterly divided Egypt, with thousands of his supporters maintaining a vigil in a Cairo square to demand his return, swelling to tens of thousands for mass demonstrations every few days.

Two people were killed at a bridge in central Cairo where police and local Mursi opponents clashed with some of his supporters who were blocking a route across the River Nile overnight. Another five were killed in the Cairo district of Giza, said the head of emergency services, Mohamed Sultan.

Mursi is being held incommunicado at an undisclosed location. He has not been charged with any crime but the authorities say they are investigating him over complaints of inciting violence, spying and wrecking the economy.

CALM SHATTERED

A week of relative calm had suggested peace might be returning, but that was shattered by the street battles into the early hours of Tuesday morning, the bloodiest since more than 50 Mursi supporters were killed a week ago.

"We were crouched on the ground, we were praying. Suddenly there was shouting. We looked up and the police were on the bridge firing tear gas down on us," said pro-Mursi protester Adel Asman, 42, who was coughing, spitting and pouring Pepsi on his eyes to ease the effect of tear gas.

The new cabinet is mainly made up of technocrats and liberals, with an emphasis on resurrecting an economy wrecked by two and a half years of turmoil.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait - rich Gulf Arab states happy at the downfall of the Brotherhood - have promised a total of $12 billion in cash, loans and fuel.

Investors do not expect major reforms before a permanent government is put in place. The new planning minister, Ashraf al-Arabi, said on Monday that the Arab money would sustain Egypt through its transition and it did not need to restart talks with the International Monetary Fund on a stalled emergency loan.

Egypt had sought $4.8 billion in IMF aid last year, but months of talks ran aground with the government unable to agree on cuts in unaffordable subsidies for food and fuel. Arabi's comments could worry investors who want the IMF to prod reform.

Ahmed Elmoslmany, spokesman for interim President Adli Mansour, said the authorities expected the Brotherhood and other Islamists to agree to participate in national reconciliation and had offered them positions in the interim cabinet.

"I am hoping and expecting, and I am in contact with members from the Muslim Brotherhood, and I can see there is an acceptance to the idea," he said.

But senior Brotherhood figure Mohamed El-Beltagi said the movement had not been offered posts, and would reject them if it had. "We will not see reconciliation unless it's on the basis of ending the military coup," Beltagi said at a square near a Cairo mosque where thousands of Mursi supporters have maintained a vigil into its third week.

BURNS SPURNED?

By sunrise calm had returned. The unrest is more localized than in the days after Mursi was toppled when 92 people died, but Egyptians still worry about the continued unrest.

At Tahrir Square, rallying point for anti-Mursi protesters, a Reuters reporter saw teenagers in civilian T-shirts being handed rifles by troops in an armored vehicle. It was not clear if they were civilians or security personnel in plain clothes.

The violence took place on the last night of a two-day visit by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, the first senior Washington official to arrive since the army's takeover.

Washington, which supports Egypt with $1.5 billion a year mainly for its military, has so far avoided saying whether it regards the military action as a "coup", language that would require it to halt aid.

The United States was never comfortable with the rise of Mursi's Brotherhood but had defended his legitimacy as Egypt's first elected leader. Its position has attracted outrage from both sides, which accuse it of meddling in Egypt's affairs.

"Only Egyptians can determine their future," Burns told reporters at the U.S. embassy on Monday. "I did not come with American solutions. Nor did I come to lecture anyone. We will not try to impose our model on Egypt."

The Islamist Nour Party and the Tamarud anti-Mursi protest movement both said they turned down invitations to meet Burns. A senior State Department official denied Burns had been shunned.

"I don't think we're losing influence at all," the U.S. official said. "I don't know what meetings he has, but he has seen a range of people in Cairo in the interim government, in civil society ... so it's hard to say he has been spurned by both sides. I don't accept that is the case."

At the bridge in the early hours, young men, their mouths covered to protect them from tear gas, threw stones at police and shouted pro-Mursi and anti-military slogans, as well as "Allahu Akbar!" (God is greatest).

Military helicopters hovered overhead and police vans were brought in to quell the trouble. When that didn't work, dozens of riot police moved in. Medics treated men with deep gashes to their eyes and faces nearby.

"It's the army against the people, these are our soldiers, we have no weapons," said Alaa el-Din, a 34-year-old computer engineer, clutching a laptop during the melee. "The army turned against the Egyptian people."

Many of the top Brotherhood figures have been charged with inciting violence, but have not been arrested and are still at large. The public prosecutors' office announced new charges against seven Brotherhood and Islamist leaders on Monday.

The fast-paced army-backed "road map" to full civilian rule calls for a new constitution to be hammered out within weeks and put to a referendum, followed by parliamentary elections in about six months and a presidential vote soon after.

A former ambassador to the United States has been named foreign minister and a U.S.-educated economist is finance minister. A police general was put in charge of the supply ministry, responsible for the huge distribution system for state-subsidized food and fuel.

A musician was named culture minister, an appointment with symbolic overtones: she had been head of the Cairo Opera until she was fired by Mursi's Islamist government two weeks ago, prompting artists and intellectuals to besiege the ministry.

(Additional reporting by Tom Finn, Yasmine Saleh, Edmund Blair, Alexander Dziadosz, Shadia Nasralla, Ali Abdelaty, Omar Fahmy, Peter Graff, Patrick Werr and Mike Collett-White in Cairo, Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia and Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Writing by Mike Collett-White and Peter Graff; editing by David Stamp)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/clashes-return-streets-cairo-another-blow-egypt-004034647.html

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DOMA Ruling May Alter Campaign Finance Laws | WebProNews

On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the high-profile case U.S. v. Windsor, overturning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). While the long-term ramifications of this decision are still being sifted through, and will not likely become apparent until people start claiming benefits and other things they are now entitled to, one surprising effect has surfaced. The repeal of DOMA will have an effect on campaign finance.

Earlier this year, members of one firm, Caplin & Drysdale?s Political Law Group, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the DOMA case for a bipartisan group of former Federal Election Commission officials. Trevor Potter, who leads the firm?s Political Law Group and signed the Amicus Brief as a former FEC Chair, remarked:

?This is a landmark moment for the rights of all Americans, and we congratulate Edith Windsor and marriage-equality advocates on their Supreme Court victory. Presumably, the Federal Election Commission will now interpret the word ?spouse? to include all legally married couples where it appears in federal campaign finance law. This would end DOMA?s discriminatory impact in this area.?

As the Amicus Brief filed by Caplin & Drysdale noted, DOMA legally barred married gays and lesbians from political expression and association opportunities afforded to other married citizens. Specifically, while still in effect, DOMA had two main effects on the rights of gay couples regarding campaign finance. One was that married gay and lesbian candidates who ran for federal office could not fund their campaigns using personal resources that were available to other married candidates. This was important to same-sex political candidates, since over 40% of the 3,061 congressional candidates during the 2012 election cycle relied on personal resources to fund their campaigns.

But also, individuals in same-sex marriages could not attend certain political meetings or interact with certain political groups that were open to other married citizens, simply because they were not recognized legally as ?married?.

The repeal of DOMA changed that. We will see how that trickles down into an actual election cycle, and whether it has any noticeable effect, as the upcoming races draw nearer

Source: http://www.webpronews.com/doma-ruling-may-alter-campaign-finance-laws-2013-07

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Rallies, marches follow Zimmerman verdict

NEW YORK (AP) ? Demonstrators from across the country are protesting a jury's decision to clear George Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager while the Justice Department considers whether to file criminal civil rights charges.

Rallies on Sunday attracted anywhere from a few dozen people to more than a thousand as demonstrators voiced their support for 17-year-old Trayvon Martin's family ? and decried Zimmerman's not guilty verdict as a miscarriage of justice.

The NAACP and protesters are calling for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted Saturday in Martin's death.

The Justice Department says it is looking into the case to determine whether federal prosecutors should file criminal civil rights charges now that Zimmerman has been acquitted in the state case.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rallies-marches-zimmerman-verdict-064105495.html

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Chris Brown Probation to Be Revoked in Hit-and-Run Case?

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JK Rowling revealed as writer of crime novel

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, British author J.K. Rowling poses for photographers during a photo call to unveil her new book, entitled: 'The Casual Vacancy', at the Southbank Centre in London. British author J.K. Rowling confirmed Sunday, July 14, 2013 in a statement released by her publicist that "The Cuckoo's Calling", a detective novel which won critical acclaim, was penned under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, British author J.K. Rowling poses for photographers during a photo call to unveil her new book, entitled: 'The Casual Vacancy', at the Southbank Centre in London. British author J.K. Rowling confirmed Sunday, July 14, 2013 in a statement released by her publicist that "The Cuckoo's Calling", a detective novel which won critical acclaim, was penned under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

LONDON (AP) ? An ex-military man tries his hand at writing, publishes a debut detective novel, and wins critical acclaim. But here's the twist in the tale: The true identity of the author is none other than "Harry Potter" creator J.K. Rowling.

It's impressive literary wizardry by Rowling, who said she relished the freedom of writing "The Cuckoo's Calling" under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.

"I hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience," she said in a statement released by her publicist on Sunday. "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name."

"The Cuckoo's Calling," a story about a war veteran turned private investigator who is called in to probe the mysterious death of a model, was published to rave reviews in April by Sphere, part of publisher Little, Brown & Co.

The Sunday Times claimed it was investigating "how a first-time author with a background in the army and the civilian security industry could write such an assured debut novel" when it connected the dots. The paper said clues included the fact that Rowling and Galbraith shared the same agent and editor, and that Little, Brown published Rowling's novel for adults, "The Casual Vacancy." It also said the book's style and subject matter resembled Rowling's work.

Rowling's publicist confirmed the paper's detective work was correct, and the news helped the novel climb straight to the top of Amazon's best-selling list Sunday.

It's also left Britain's bookstores unprepared.

Jon Howells, a spokesman for Waterstones, one of the country's biggest bookselling chains, said it had only a handful of copies of "The Cuckoo's Calling" scattered around the country ? and they probably sold out on Sunday.

He added that Rowling's feat was "the best act of literary deception since Stephen King was outed as Richard Bachman back in the 1980s." King said he wrote disguised as Bachman so that he could publish more books each year.

In her statement, Rowling thanked her editor David Shelley, the publishing staff who worked on the book without knowing her identity, and the reviewers who praised it without knowing about her authorship.

She added that "Galbraith" planned to keep writing the series, and her publisher said that the second book is expected to be published next summer. Now that her identity is revealed, Little, Brown said "The Cuckoo's Calling" will be reprinted with a revised author biography.

On its website, the publisher marketed the book as a classic crime novel in the tradition of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell. It said the novel, whose central character is named Cormoran Strike, was the first of a series of crime novels to come.

The publisher described Galbraith as an ex-military man, married with two sons, who wrote the novel based on experiences from his military life. Revealingly, it also stated that Galbraith was a pseudonym.

The book received many favorable reviews, including critics who called it "a scintillating debut novel" and who praised Galbraith for his "superb flair as a mystery writer."

Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski said he admired Rowling for choosing to publish in disguise.

"I read the novel, loved it, and wrote an enthusiastic blurb in early January," he said. "Galbraith sounded like someone I'd love to have a beer with. This is still the case, mind you."

Rowling recently turned to writing for grown-ups after becoming the world's most successful living writer with the "Harry Potter" books, which sold more than 450 million copies worldwide.

Reviews for her highly-anticipated novel "The Casual Vacancy," published last year, were mixed. Some praised the book, a bleak tale about class warfare and the darker sides to a community in small-town England, for tackling difficult subjects, but others said it lacked the magic touch that made Rowling's books of wizardry so popular.

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Sylvia Hui can be reached at http://twitter.com/sylviahui

Associated Press

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Texas Senate debates abortion legislation

AUSTIN (AP) ?? The Texas Senate convened Friday afternoon to debate and ultimately vote on a bill to implement some of the nation's toughest abortion restrictions, its actions being watched by fervent demonstrators on either side of the issue.

The circus-like atmosphere in the Texas Capitol marked the culmination of weeks of protests, the most dramatic of which came June 25 in the final minutes of the last special legislative session when a Democratic filibuster and subsequent protest prevented the bill from becoming law. Abortion rights advocates dressed in orange Friday, some carrying gynecological devices and signs, while anti-abortion activists wore blue and held images of fetuses and Bible verses.

All attendees had their bags searched, which resulted in the confiscation of items both common and bizarre, the state said.?

In a release, the Texas Department of Public Safety said it "discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint." The items were confiscated, as were tampons, glitter and confetti, according to a release.?

DPS said it received a tip that some attendees in the gallery had planned to "disrupt legislative proceedings" and began inspecting the bags of everyone who entered the Capitol. The release was later revised to note that the Senate authoritized the search.?

It does not say whether anyone carrying the items were detained.?

The Senate's leader, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, is determined not to let anything ? or anyone ? derail a vote again. Senators began debate on House Bill 2 on Friday afternoon, with a vote to follow in the evening or possibly early Saturday morning.

House Bill 2 could shut all but five abortion clinics in Texas and would be a win long-eyed by conservatives who make abortion a key campaign issue, but the raucous debate has also given Texas Democrats newfound momentum. The Republican majority is expected to ultimately pass the bill, with Democrats left to do little more than enter into the legislative record material that could help defeat it in federal court.

Dozens of extra state troopers guarded the gallery and patrolled the hallways Friday, which filled quickly with vocal activists. Opponents of the bill settled on the main floor of the rotunda, displaying homemade "wanted" posters of several prominent Republican lawmakers and chanting "Whose choice? Our choice!" Supporters of the bill competed to be heard, some praying and holding up crosses and signs that read: "We choose life."

A thorough bag check was done on each person entering the gallery, which holds almost 500 spectators, and troopers tossed tampons, perfume bottles, moisturizers, pencils and other things into the garbage. Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Rick DeLeon said Friday that no props ? including speculums and coat hangers ? will be allowed into the Senate gallery, per decorum rules.

Each gallery spectator will be issued a copy of the rules of decorum, which stipulate there can be no demonstrations or attempts to disrupt the chamber's work. The Texas Constitution gives Dewhurst the authority to jail those who break those for up to 48 hours, no court necessary.

"We're going to have strict enforcement. If there are any demonstrations, we are going to clear the gallery," Dewhurst said Thursday.

Republican Sen. Dan Patrick, a chief proponent of the bill, said before the session began that Democrats will be allowed to argue the bill for a while, but if it goes on too long, Republicans will move to cut off debate.

"I'm not going to let it go on forever tonight," he said.

Sen. Glen Hegar of Katy, the bill's Republican author, said Friday that all abortions should take place in an ambulatory surgical center in case there are any complications, including abortions induced through medications.

Democrats pointed out that childbirth is more dangerous and there have been no serious problems with women taking the abortion drugs at home. They also planned to introduce numerous amendments to add exceptions for cases of rape and incest and to remove some of the more restrictive clauses.

Dewhurst's political survival relies on the bill's passage. Once considered a formidable politician, Dewhurst bid goodbye to his Senate colleagues in 2011, expecting to easily win a U.S. Senate seat. But tea party favorite Ted Cruz painted him as a moderate, and now he has three challengers in the Republican primary for re-election.

Democrats successfully blocked the bill in the regular legislative session. During the first special session, the Senate didn't take up the bill until the final day. That allowed Fort Worth Sen. Wendy Davis to use a filibuster to delay a vote. When Republicans rushed to try to pass the bill in the session's final 15 minutes, angry protesters began shouting and screaming from the gallery. Dewhurst could only watch with frustration as a half-dozen state troopers tried to remove more than 450 people.

The restrictions are a top priority for the Christian conservative voters who make up a majority of Texas Republican voters and want abortions banned. Democrats, however, see the protests as an opportunity that could help them break a 20-year statewide losing streak.

Democrats believe Republicans have overreached in trying to appease their base and alienated suburban women, a constituency that helped President Barack Obama win re-election. Democrats have helped organize the recent protests ? more than 5,000 people swarmed the Capitol last week ? and top lawmakers have toured the state as part of Planned Parenthood's "Stand With Texas Women" campaign.

The measures under consideration Friday mirror restrictions passed in Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona, but passing them in the nation's second-most populous state would be a major victory for the anti-abortion movement.

The Texas bill would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, allow abortions only in surgical centers, limit where and when women may take abortion-inducing pills and ban abortions after 20 weeks. Only five out of 42 existing abortion clinics meet the requirements to be a surgical center, and clinic owners say they can't afford to upgrade or relocate.

Republicans insist the restrictions would guarantee better health care for women and fetuses. But critics see it as a way of regulating all Texas abortion clinics out of business.

There's one thing both sides can agree on: Abortion rights groups will file a federal lawsuit as soon as Republican Gov. Rick Perry signs the bill into law. Judges elsewhere have stopped enforcement of similar laws while they work their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Source: http://www.kvue.com/news/politics/215324001.html

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Ramadan Timing for Android

This app is about timings in Ramadan (Ramzan, Ramzan) for starting and breaking the Fast (Saum, Roza) both during the month of Ramadan and throughout the year.

This app calculates timings for starting and breaking your fast. Ramadan, Islamic month of blessings and fasting, requires all Muslims to exercise fasting. This app will help you calculate your Ramadan timing based on your GPS location, your current time zone and astronomical calculation methods agreed upon by most authentic Islamic universities and scholarly institutions.

The app is very useful for those who travel, have no mosque nearby or have no Ramadan calendar, or just want to verify their current calendar. You can also use this app for calculating saum (roza, fasting) timings for any day throughout the year.

The features include

* Calculates the timing of starting and breaking your fast (roza, saum)
* Calculation is based on your GPS location - automatically detects your current location
* Correct timings based on your current time, time-zone, location and several astronomical factors.
* Customizable variables like calculation methods, location and time zone.

The calculation methods used to work out the Fajr and Maghrib timing supported by this app include:

* Muslim World League - MWL
* Islamic Society of North America - ISNA
* Egyptian General Authority of Survey
* Umm al-Qura University, Makkah
* University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
* Institute of Geographics, University of Tehran
* Shia Ithna Ashari (Ja'fari)

Tips for correct Ramadan timing calculation.
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* Please make sure your phone date and time is correctly set.
* Please make sure your phone's time zone is correctly set.
* Please detect your location to view your timing.
* If your app is not detecting your location indoors, please go outdoors to detect your location (needed once).

Source: http://www.appszoom.com/android_applications/tools/ramadan-timing_hbvod.html?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Free++Applications+for+Android

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Psychological Attachments: Why We Do What We Shouldn't Do ...

What is a psychological attachment?

A psychological attachment is a pervasive, largely subconscious tendency to seek out the negative or do things that cause you to be unhappy.

When you unwittingly and consistently behave in ways that cause you to be unhappy or unhealthy, it can be said that you are psychologically attached to something negative. Attachments are most often experienced passively ? even though they are an active process.

When you have an attachment, you do not feel you have a choice or control over your own feelings and behavior. You feel at the mercy of something more powerful than you, even though you might also be forced to admit it originates within your own mind.

Attachments are the root of self-sabotage.

You can be attached to anything, really, but it is helpful to put attachments into categories. Three helpful categories are control, deprivation and rejection.

Control: You are attached to feeling controlled.

When you have a control attachment, you live your life feeling out of control (anxiety, worry, helplessness) or that someone else is trying to control you (authority issues, rebellion, feeling oppressed, power stuggles).

Deprivation: You are attached to feeling deprived.

When you have a deprivation attachment, you lead an unfulfilled life, feeling empty and unloved, or emotionally numb. You may feel a void inside you, which you can attempt to fill with addictive substances and relationships that do not actually fill the void, ultimately, but only sustain the attachment. The deprivation attachment seeks to avoid getting real needs met.

Rejection: You are attached to feeling rejected.

When you have a rejection attachment, you often feel dismissed, disregarded and hurt. You anticipate being criticized by others and feel compelled to seek approval (social anxiety), often in ways that only lead to feeling more rejected (seeking approval from someone who will never approve, such as a critical parent). The rejection attachment often features a harsh inner critic that demands perfection or will not cease to judge.

Where do attachments come from?

They originate in childhood through the infant and child perspective. To grow and develop into a functional adult, regardless of the family of origin, a child must endure what the child perceives as an excruciating sense of being controlled, deprived and rejected.

No, you can?t do that.

No, you cannot have that.

No, I cannot feed you now.

No, you cannot sit on my lap right now.

Given where the child comes from (the womb) these common occurrences are experienced negatively, thus the child?s tantrums and anger.

Being raised in a dysfunctional family, with parents who are less than loving and attentive, only exacerbates the child?s problem (often extensively). Various forms of common abuse, authoritarian parenting, neglect and plain horrible parenting just intensifies the child?s situation.

Get out of my face!

You?ll never amount to anything.

Why should I do anything for you?

Do what I say or else!

I don?t have time for you.

There is no escape. The only option a child has is to learn to tolerate the perceived control, deprivation and rejection. In order to function, the child must familiarize ? or even learn to find a strange satisfaction in the control, deprivation and rejection.

We suppress the fact that we have turned displeasure into pleasure and familiarity, and end up unconsciously seeking out in so many subtle and not-so-subtle ways what we grew accustomed to ? being controlled, deprived or rejected.

The attachment has become ?home? or a default state that you want to return to again and again, in part because you don?t know anything else.

Life becomes a battle between your conscious desire to be happier and your unconscious desire to maintain the status quo. You are in a battle with your attachments. This is why life is so difficult.

Is everyone affected by attachments?

Yes, this is a universal phenomenon. If you are a human being, you are affected by attachments to one degree or another.

How do I know if I have an attachment?

You have a critical inner voice that keeps you feeling bad.

You have negative feelings and behaviors that you cannot consciously control.

You sabotage yourself.

You do things that you know aren?t good for you.

You attract unhealthy people into your life and keep them there.

You know what you need to do, but can?t get yourself to do it.

You resist change.

You make excuses to stay the way you are, even though you?re unhappy.

You have self-destructive tendencies.

You are sick and tired of living the way you live, but keep on living that way.

You unwittingly set yourself up for failure.

And so on?

How come I have never heard of attachments?

Modern psychology has not embraced the basic idea that we unwittingly seek what is not good for us.

This is a radical concept that turns most personal development efforts inside out. Essentially, attachments suggest that you seek what you do not want in life and do it over and over again, then hide this fact from yourself.

Most people don?t want to hear this, even though it has potential to free them from their self-inflicted bondage.

Who came up with this concept?

Edmund Bergler, MD. Bergler was a colleague of Freud?s who published over 300 scientific research papers in medical journals and wrote 25 books. Ever heard of Edmund Bergler?

Why should I care about psychological attachments?

Because your attachments contribute more to your unhappiness than anything else. Imagine, you are unconsciously seeking the very things in life you consciously hate. You do this because, long ago, you became attached to those old, unpleasant yet familiar feelings.

As a result, you recycle your angst day in and day out. Once you see it, you gain unprecedented choices ? things you never had a choice about now become optional in your life.

Can I get beyond my attachments?

Yes. It requires a re-education about how your psyche works. The education is simple and straightforward, but very different than anything you have heard before.

This is the purpose of the AHA Solution. The AHA Solution is a revolutionary program that helps you identify and access your attachments so that you can begin to have choice in your life where you?ve never experienced true choice before. It is the solution to self-sabotage.

If you like this article, then like my Facebook Page to keep up with all my writing.

References:

Bergler, Edmund. (1949). ?The Basic Neurosis?. New York: Harper and Brothers

Bergler, Edmund. (1959). ?Principles of Self-Damage?. New York: The Philosophical Library

Bergler, Edmund. (1961). ?Curable and Incurable Neurotics?. New York: Liveright Pub. Co.

Michaelson, Peter. (2011) ?Why We Suffer: A Western Way to Understand and Let Go of Unhappiness?.

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The information in this video has been called the missing link in mental health and personal development. In a world full of shallow, quick-fix techniques, second rate psychology and pharmaceutical takeovers, real solutions have become nearly impossible to find. This presentation will turn your world upside down.

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Pontiac teachers' health insurance cancelled when district uses ...

This story is truly outrageous. Pontiac teachers have filed a lawsuit against the Pontiac school district for collecting money from their paychecks for health insurance coverage and then using the money to make their bottom line look better to the state of Michigan rather than paying premiums. As a result, the teachers? health coverage will be cancelled at the end of the month.

Pontiac teachers are accusing the school board, business manager and former school superintendent of fraud, deceit and malfeasance for taking money out of their paychecks for health insurance premiums and using it in the general fund for operations.

In fact, Michael Lee, attorney for the Pontiac Education Association, alleged in an Oakland County Circuit lawsuit filed this week that the reason school officials were putting the money into the general fund was to try and deceive Michigan officials as to the status of the state-approved plan to reduce the district?s deficit of $37.7 million.

?They have been taking money out of our checks and they haven?t been paying MESSA (Michigan Education Special Services Association),? said Aimee McKeever, president of the PEA.

As a result, the insurance carrier canceled coverage effective July 31. [...]

The lawsuit names each trustee individually, including Board President Carrol Turpin, Vice President Karen Cain, Secretary Brenda Carter, Treasurer Sherman Williams II and trustees Susan Loveland, Mattie McKinney-Hatchett and S. Barbara Raby.

Also named are Paul Bryant, business manager, who, according to the lawsuit, has sole authority to make payments to vendors; and former Superintendent Brian Dougherty, who was charged with running daily operations from Aug. 27, 2012 until May 17, 2013.

The district actually owes MESSA $11 million going back as far as the 2011-2012 school year.

This case will likely be used to defend taking over the Pontiac school system under the control of an emergency manager. It is currently ?under review? by the state of Michigan. The first thing that should happen is that these corrupt school officials should be sent to jail for their crimes if the allegations are found to be true. What happens all too often is that corruption at the top is then projected on to the teachers who are the innocent victims of poor management, corruption, and malfeasance. They are then victimized again by being portrayed as greedy for wanting health insurance in the first place.

Rather than using this as an excuse to screw teachers over more, we should be using it as a motivation to (a) better fund our schools, (b) start treating teachers with the dignity and respect that they deserve, and (c) pass a single-payer, universal health care law that would solve this issue once and for all.

If one single teacher or one of their family members is harmed or, Goddess forbid, dies because they lack health insurance from this, the people responsible for this heinous act will bear the full responsibility.

It?s important to note that this isn?t just moving around piles of money that are in the school district?s budget. They literally took money the teachers paid out of pocket and applied it to their bottom line. The outcome is that these teachers effectively had their benefits stripped and their pay cut at the same time and they never even knew it was happening. It is theft, pure and simple.

These teachers deserve better. So, so much better.

Source: http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/07/pontiac-teachers-health-insurance-cancelled-when-district-uses-insurance-premiums-to-balance-its-books.html

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It is yet so basic but still missing. It is cool to be able to use the phone both in portrait or landscape mode but wp users should have the ability to lock tge orientation mode from switching from portrait to landscape when necessary for example typing messages while lying down and wants the phone to remain in portrait view.

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2013 Bold NFL Prediction: Danny Woodhead Will Be Leading Rusher for San Diego Chargers

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It?s been 19 consecutive games since the San Diego Chargers had a 100-yard rusher. That kind of streak really seems impossible given the club?s knack for running the pigskin over the course of history, but the Bolts have been a pass-happy club over the past few years under the direction of Norval.

Even though Turner?s play-calling was horrendous at times and flat-out unbearable at others, the fact that Ryan Mathews has been so inept led the team to make a bold move of its own this offseason by signing a new ball carrier to compete with the former first rounder.

Norv is gone and so is A.J. The new guys in charge want to revitalize the San Diego rushing attack, and their free agent addition of Danny Woodhead certainly underscores that commitment.

Head coach Mike McCoy?s offense with the Denver Broncos was run-heavy with Tim Tebow at quarterback and adjusted to the arrival of Peyton Manning by integrating more passing. Now I know Philip Rivers is far more Manning than he will ever be Tebow, but the Bolts could use a run-based attack to open up more play-action passes as well as take some pass rush pressure off of Rivers.

In a roundabout way, all of this to say that Woodhead, not Mathews, is the man to help the Bolts achieve this.

Now the highest rushing totals that Woodhead has ever attained in the NFL came in his first season with the New England Patriots when he carried the ball 97 times for 547 yards (5.6 yards per carry (YPC)). Last season was his least productive on the ground with only 301 yards at just a 4.0 YPC clip, but it was also his most productive as a receiver with 40 catches for 446 yards. 2012 was also the first year that New England relied on one consistent ball carrier in Stevan Ridley for the majority of its rushing workload.

Given the injury-prone nature of Mathews combined with Woodhead?s ability to be a three-down back, the Bolts would be wise to use him as their primary workhorse in 2013. Now I know that 97 carries as the most in a single season for his career is a really low number, but that?s just because the Patriots used a running back by committee and had a pass-happy attack for the most part. Woodhead is more than capable of handling a ton of carries as his collegiate career at Chadron State illustrates (1,135 attempts, 7,962 yards, 6.9 YPC, 183.0 YPG, 101 TD).

Worst case scenario for Woodhead in 2013 is a timeshare in the San Diego backfield, but even that will likely result in him dominating the rushing statistics given his substantial 4.8 career YPC compared to Mathews? steadily declining 4.4 YPC number. There?s no doubt that the former Patriot will lead the Bolts in rushing in 2013; you can take that to the bank.

Anthony Blake is a Senior Writer/Copy Editor for Rant Sports. You Can Follow Him on Twitter, on Facebook, or add him to your network on Google.

Source: http://www.rantsports.com/nfl/2013/07/11/2013-bold-nfl-prediction-danny-woodhead-will-be-leading-rusher-for-san-diego-chargers/

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Soldier hacked to death on London street in broad day light honored at funeral

LONDON ? Relatives of a British soldier killed in broad daylight by alleged Islamic extremists say they are deeply grateful for the support they have received from the public ahead of his funeral on Friday.

Lee Rigby was hacked to death May 22 on a London street near his army barracks. The killing shocked Britain and much of the world, especially when one of the suspects ? his hands still bloody ? boasted of the attack on a video widely broadcast by the media.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has said ?the whole country will be mourning with? Rigby?s family when the soldier is laid to rest after a private service Friday in his regiment?s town of Bury, northern England.

His widow, Rebecca, expressed gratitude for the ?overwhelming? outpouring of support following the attack.

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?There are so many kind and generous people out there,? she said in a pool interview ahead of the funeral. ?It?s just horrible that it takes something such as this to make you see how many good people there are.?

?He just wanted to put a smile on everyone?s face,? she said, recalling Rigby as bubbly and energetic. ?He lived his life like a kid in a candy shop.?

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Thousands are expected to line the streets and pay their respects to Rigby as his casket is carried through the center of the town after the private service, which Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson were attending.

Rigby?s parents said they hoped the day would offer ?respect and dignity? for their son.

?His job meant the world to him, being in the army,? said his father, Ian Rigby. ?But his family still came first.?

Rigby?s death caused a spike in racial tensions in Britain due to the apparent involvement of religious extremists. Police reported an increase in attacks against Muslim mosques and community centers in the subsequent weeks.

The two men charged in relation to Rigby?s killing ? Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22 ? are due to stand trial starting Nov. 18.

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Exploring The Possibilities Of Home Improvement Projects ...

The following advice will be of great assistance the next time you whether your home improvement project is small or large. You can make better decisions with the right information.

Think about your improvments before you do it.A plan is essential if you want your project to be within your budget and completed on time. Contractors will be much happier if you already have a good idea of what it is you want.

You kitchen is a great place to start improving your kitchen. This will help you get rid of stains and a lot of the paint.

Check out the credentials of any home improvement company that you plan to hire. Try to work with a company that has a good reputation.

Get references from anyone that will be working on a home improvement job on your behalf.Think of it as if you are hiring an employee. You need to do a background as thoroughly as you can and make sure that there are others that have been happy with what they?ve done.

Chair Caning

It is not unusual for chair caning to sag after awhile. There?s an easy trick you can use to tighten up chair caning in your chairs.Wet a sponge and apply it to the bottom of the caning. Be sure that the water isn?t too hot or too cold. Allow the water to sit on the caning overnight. Keep going until you have completed the caning.

When doing home improvement work, a smart homewoner will spend his money on good quality materials and fixtures instead of expensive decor and furniture. The reasoning is logical; the decor and furnishings with them.

Talk with your neighbor about drainage for a big landscaping project. A good landscaping plan will involve water drainage.

If your project utilizes brick, always get a few more than you need. It is next to impossible to get a later date when repairs need to be done.The styles and color tones for bricks changes frequently.

You can significantly improve your bathroom?s look of a bathroom by getting them re-glazed. A new glaze will help your fixtures look new. Replacing bathroom fixtures or floors can be quite costly, but it usually doesn?t take more than a couple hundred bucks to glaze a bathroom.This is a good way to increase your house without spending alot.

TIP! You can use a coat rack that is mounted on your wall for a place to hang and display any of your bracelets or necklaces. Do not hang any jewelery that is worth a lot of money.

One good home improvement project with an outstanding return on investment is finishing a basement. You gain extra space for your family by finishing a basement. You can purchase the materials from your local discount or home improvement store. Finishing your basement can increase your homes value upwards of 30%.

When thinking about replacing the cabinets in your home, think about using wood. They are very durable and stand up well under heavy use. Some of the most popular woods for cabinets are oak, rich cherry and versatile oak. All such wood types are suitable for staining, so if you feel like changing the color, this is easily accomplished.

White and red cedar fences can be great if you are in a fire-prone area. Cedar wood can help prevent fires in areas that are potentially threatened by wildfires.

Analogous Color

Use an analogous color scheme in a restful part of your home. Rooms with analogous color patterns tend to feel more relaxing.

These issues are quite common in older homes and can evolve quickly into serious issues. It is easier to tackle them at their onset and quick. Waiting until they?re big problems can be time-intensive and time intensive. A bit of bleach can work miracles on mold problems. You can use sand away a little rust.

TIP! When working on a home improvement project, it is easy to forget that your supplies are a target for thieves. You should keep those supplies secure and locked up when you are not working.

If you generally have a lot of rain or inclement weather, installing a patio outdoors may not be the best investment. You can spring for a patio covering, but they are going to cost you much more money that you may not want to invest.

Your home is an extension of who you are ? it?s a great way to show off your personality. More people than ever are doing home projects to improve their homes instead of selling and upgrading to a newer home. Now that you?ve read this article, there is nothing standing between you and that remodeling project you?ve been putting off for years.

Source: http://www.fundraisingseeds.com/exploring-the-possibilities-of-home-improvement-projects/

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'Kangaroo care' offers developmental benefits for premature newborns

Public release date: 10-Jul-2013
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New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called "kangaroo care" (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants.

In the article, "Kangaroo Care as a Neonatal Therapy," Susan Ludington-Hoe, RN, CNM, PhD, FAAN, from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, describes how KC delivers benefits beyond bonding and breastfeeding for a hospital's tiniest newborns.

"KC is now considered an essential therapy to promote growth and development of premature infants and their brain development," Ludington-Hoe reports.

But while KC's benefits are known, its use is not widely promoted by hospitals, she says.

Ludington-Hoe encourages hospitals to incorporate KC-type features by modifying neonatal intensive care units to make them calming places, positioning babies to promote physical and motor development, decreasing how much babies are handled to reduce their stress, improving wake-sleep cycles and promoting a newborn's ability to stabilize important functions, like its heartbeat and to synchronize physiologic functions with his mother's for optimal development.

Kangaroo Care for preemies involves the mother nestling the baby on her chest for at least one hour at a time and ideally for 22 hours a day for the first six weeks, and about eight hours a day for the next year.

Throughout Scandinavia and the Netherlands, KC is widely practiced, said the researcher. They practice 24/7 Kangaroo Care because mothers are told that they have to be their baby's place of care, and they make arrangements so that someone else watches children at home so that the infant is always in maternal or paternal KC while hospitalized. It continues at home where mothers wear wraps that securely contain the infant on her chest to prevent falling.

Ludington-Hoe reports that this approach is standard care in Scandinavia and Germany, where many preemies leave the hospital about three weeks earlier than in the United States. Also, KC is used in those countries after normal births and continues for three full months.

In previous research, benefits of KC have extended from childbirth to age 16, showing improved cognitive and motor development in newborns that received KC during hospitalization.

Neonatal intensive care units may adjust from open, brightly lighted nurseries to quieter single rooms, but such changes can't offer Kangaroo Care's scope of developmental benefits if the mothers aren't also there to snuggle their babies, Ludington-Hoe concludes.

Among the researcher's findings: babies respond more positively to their mothers than nurses, and experience less pain and stress when receiving some medical procedures while in their mothers' arms, and infant's brains mature faster and have better connectivity if they have received KC versus not having received KC. Mothers make the difference in how quickly preemies grow and develop.

Preemies held by their mothers in a prone position for an extended time tend to sleep better, which aids brain development. Infants adjust their heartbeats and body temperatures to their mother's and absorb immune benefits from their mother's skin, the researcher found.

Ludington-Hoe wrote Kangaroo Care: The Best You Can Do To Help Your Preterm Infant, a go-to guide since its publication in 1993. She also co-authored How to Have a Smarter Baby: The Infant Stimulation Program For Enhancing Your Baby's Natural Development with Susan K. Golant (1987).

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Contact: Susan Griffith
susan.griffith@case.edu
216-368-1004
Case Western Reserve University

New research in the Journal of Newborns & Infant Nursing Reviews concludes that so-called "kangaroo care" (KC), the skin-to-skin and chest-to-chest touching between baby and mother, offers developmentally appropriate therapy for hospitalized preterm infants.

In the article, "Kangaroo Care as a Neonatal Therapy," Susan Ludington-Hoe, RN, CNM, PhD, FAAN, from Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, describes how KC delivers benefits beyond bonding and breastfeeding for a hospital's tiniest newborns.

"KC is now considered an essential therapy to promote growth and development of premature infants and their brain development," Ludington-Hoe reports.

But while KC's benefits are known, its use is not widely promoted by hospitals, she says.

Ludington-Hoe encourages hospitals to incorporate KC-type features by modifying neonatal intensive care units to make them calming places, positioning babies to promote physical and motor development, decreasing how much babies are handled to reduce their stress, improving wake-sleep cycles and promoting a newborn's ability to stabilize important functions, like its heartbeat and to synchronize physiologic functions with his mother's for optimal development.

Kangaroo Care for preemies involves the mother nestling the baby on her chest for at least one hour at a time and ideally for 22 hours a day for the first six weeks, and about eight hours a day for the next year.

Throughout Scandinavia and the Netherlands, KC is widely practiced, said the researcher. They practice 24/7 Kangaroo Care because mothers are told that they have to be their baby's place of care, and they make arrangements so that someone else watches children at home so that the infant is always in maternal or paternal KC while hospitalized. It continues at home where mothers wear wraps that securely contain the infant on her chest to prevent falling.

Ludington-Hoe reports that this approach is standard care in Scandinavia and Germany, where many preemies leave the hospital about three weeks earlier than in the United States. Also, KC is used in those countries after normal births and continues for three full months.

In previous research, benefits of KC have extended from childbirth to age 16, showing improved cognitive and motor development in newborns that received KC during hospitalization.

Neonatal intensive care units may adjust from open, brightly lighted nurseries to quieter single rooms, but such changes can't offer Kangaroo Care's scope of developmental benefits if the mothers aren't also there to snuggle their babies, Ludington-Hoe concludes.

Among the researcher's findings: babies respond more positively to their mothers than nurses, and experience less pain and stress when receiving some medical procedures while in their mothers' arms, and infant's brains mature faster and have better connectivity if they have received KC versus not having received KC. Mothers make the difference in how quickly preemies grow and develop.

Preemies held by their mothers in a prone position for an extended time tend to sleep better, which aids brain development. Infants adjust their heartbeats and body temperatures to their mother's and absorb immune benefits from their mother's skin, the researcher found.

Ludington-Hoe wrote Kangaroo Care: The Best You Can Do To Help Your Preterm Infant, a go-to guide since its publication in 1993. She also co-authored How to Have a Smarter Baby: The Infant Stimulation Program For Enhancing Your Baby's Natural Development with Susan K. Golant (1987).

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Moto X and HTC One get August street dates on Verizon in leaked roadmap

Verizon's flagship Moto X will release on August 23rd, according to a leaked road map obtained by PhoneArena. The site also notes that Motorola's first handset built in the US gives users who order online the choice of separate colors for the back cover and trim and can also be engraved a la iPods and Zune HDs of yore; brick and mortar retail models will be standard black. The document also lists an August 1st release date for the HTC One, a phone we still have a soft spot for. We've reached out to the Big Red carrier for confirmation and will update this post accordingly should we hear back.

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iPhone 6, iPhone 5S Release Date Soon as T-Mobile Lowers iPhone 5 Contract Price?

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6 Radical Infrastructure Schemes That Almost Changed NYC Forever

The East River? Oh, we dammed that thing up and threw a new City Hall on top. The Hudson? Filled it with traffic years ago. New Yorkers have never been prudes about changing the natural landscape of their city, but if you dig into the archives, you'll find dozens of ideas so radical, they make present-day Gotham feel like a nature reserve.

These days, the ballooning cost of construction combined with environmental and preservation issues conspire to make extreme infrastructural projects a moot point. Hell, it's taken us almost a century to build the 2nd Avenue Subway. But in the middle of the 20th century, a booming economy and a renaissance in public infrastructure made it seem like anything was possible in New York?literally, anything.

Six plans from those years follow, ranging from the grand to the gargantuan. Makes Bloomberg's Vision 2020 plan look a bit puny in comparison, no?

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Infill the Hudson River, 1934

In March, 1934, Modern Mechanix featured the daring plan of Norman Sper, ?noted publicist and engineering scholar? (maybe publicist meant something different back then?), who envisioned adding ten square miles of land to Manhattan by infilling the mighty Hudson River. Sper proposed creating a massive, multi-layered grid that would connect New Jersey to Manhattan, solving problems like housing and transit which, according to the editors, ?are threatening to devour the city's civilization like a Frankenstein monster.?

It?s hard for us to imagine the optimism felt about modern engineering in the 1930s and 40s, and today, Sper?s plan seems like folly. But the magazine asked a handful of established engineers about it, and many of them described it as visionary. ?Provided with sufficient money and time, particularly money, the project could be carried through to completion with unquestionable success,? said one engineer. ?... It would be quite in keeping with President Roosevelt?s rehabilitation and N.R.A. plan and put an enormous army of men to work. I heartily endorse the plan, though I am fully aware of the almost insurmountable impediments which appear at first study of the idea.?

Estimated cost: $17 billion*

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Build a Massive Hudson River Airport, 1946

The man who owned the Chrysler Building?William Zeckendorf?was behind this idea to build "Manhattan's Dream Airport." Zeckendorf proposed a 144-block-long floating airport on the edge of the Hudson River, where planes could take off on the long roof and boats could dock at its edges.

It's hard to know how New Yorkers of the day reacted to the plan, which was sited on the edge of what was then a still-developing neighborhood. But as Untapped Cities points out, a similar (but satirical) plan to turn Central Park into an airport received over 85,000 earnest signatures?which should tell you something about how "green space" stacks up against "long cab rides" for most modern-day New Yorkers.

Estimated cost: $35 billion*

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Draining the East River, 1924

According to the editors at Popular Science, in 1924, New York was losing $1.5 million a day on traffic congestion. The solution? Get rid of the East River, of course. Dr. John A. Harriss, a "special deputy police commissioner in charge of traffic," was the progenitor of this particular scheme, which would've required the construction of two dams?one at the Williamsburg Bridge, the other, near Hell Gate in Harlem. In between, Harriss envisioned a broad avenue of cars and small pedestrian routes, centered by a massive new City Hall. Basically, Brasilia in New York City.

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A Super-Highway Slicing Through SoHo, 1940-1962

The mercifully unfulfilled Lower Manhattan Expressway was one of Robert Moses' plans to modernize Manhattan. LOMEX, as the plan is known, came close to leveling a huge 14-block swatch of Lower Manhattan to build a ten-lane highway stretching from the Holland Tunnel to the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges. Moses envisioned the highway edged on both side by gigantic public housing complexes.

We actually have LOMEX (along with the destruction of Penn Station) to thank for the development of historic preservation in New York City. Jane Jacobs led the fight against the project, and ultimately, it was abandoned. It's hard to imagine that anyone ever seriously entertained the idea?but we need only look across the East River to see what could have been, since Moses was central in creating the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the highway that required the razing of thousands of homes in each borough.

Estimated cost: $749 million*

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A Geodesic Dome Over Midtown Manhattan, 1960.

Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome was proposed with the best intentions: It would've created a bubble of clear air stretching from the Hudson to the East River, between 21st and roughly 64th streets. Of course, in reality, it likely would've led to strict urban segregation in Manhattan, between those "inside the bubble," and those without.

Estimated cost: $7.5 billion*

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A Bridge Over the Hudson, circa 1915

Ever wonder why there are no bridges between Lower Manhattan and New Jersey? One of the main reasons is that too many massive freighter ships passed through the bay on their way to Manhattan's docks. But architect Alfred C. Bossom envisioned a seemingly simple solution: A bridge 200 feet above the waterline, more than enough space for ships of the day to pass unfettered.

Bossom christened his idea the Victory Bridge, angled as a celebration of the end of World War I. The concept never took of, perhaps because of the sheer size and cost (the towers themselves would've been more than 800 feet high), but Bossom was right on, in some ways: The Holland Tunnel was completed underneath the exact same route, in 1927.

*All estimated costs have been adjusted for inflation.

[Hudson River images via Modern Mechanix; Dream Airport images via Ptak Science and Untapped Cities; East River images via Gothamist; Victory Bridge images via Andrew Cusack]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/6-radical-infrastructure-schemes-that-almost-changed-ny-636053287

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