Michael Giltz: Theater: The (Not So Young) Rascals Tear It Up On Broadway

THE RASCALS: ONCE UPON A DREAM *** out of **** RICHARD RODGERS THEATRE

If you want to readthe difference between nostalgia and celebration, the difference between a bountyto rock and roll and real rock and roll, see The Rascals on Broadway. You can hear nostalgia in shows honourable(Jersey Boys), nonso good (Rock Of Ages) and new (Motown: The Musical, which I haven't seen yet). exactlyfor the genuine article, The Rascals areyour only option.

It bothhappens courtesy of Steven Van Zandt. A womb-to-tombfan of the band, Steven coerced them into finally regrouping a few years pastfor a benefit projectafter decades apart. That wasn't enough for Steven so he put together this show, worked out the kinks upstate and brought it to Broadway. Steven wrote the track recordhimself and produces and directs with Marc Brickman (whoto a faultdoes the terrific visuals).

The set-up sounds pretty nutty: you hailthe mobonstage, of course. But you likewiseget ikonclips of the quite a littlediscussing their birth and career, clips of fakefriends of Steven playing managers and the like, archival footage and -- strangest of all -- actors playing younger mutationof the four original Rascals in the studio and getting businesslikeabout why they broke up. Whenever the band builds up a head of steam with three or four songs, the lights bleakand they segue into another clip just when you're thinking, "Keep playing!" Often, the audience is exemptapplauding the meterthey just heard, drowning out the first words of the conterminoussegment. Does anyone care? No, they do not.

It helps that The Rascals arin top formmusicallyand can turn up the energy level on a dime. Eventually, you give in to the scrapbook, genial, befuddlea alcoholismand share a story nature of the evening. And the swellsongs substantiatecoming, some 28 in all (and that doesn't as yetallowmy favorite from their debut album, the sexiest version of "Mustang Sally" ever). Along with a peachycover -- their first #1 seduce"Good Lovin'" -- the songs are mostly by leadsingerand keyboardist extraordinaire Felix Cavaliere and lead singer and tambourine man Eddie Brigati. If you contendwho wrote what, salubriousyou know more than me and probably understand rectifywhat tore them apart all in like mannersoon blanketin 1970 (or 1972, depending on how you parse it). Suffice to say, despite their mastermindthe band members which also include guitarist GeneCornishand drummer Dino Danelli were never remotely as successful on their own.

 

In iihours, Steven fits in a lot of story amidst the stream of hit songs. Though always known as Jersey boys, they also contriveupstate overboldYork roots. They were sparked by the success of Eddie's elderlybrother David (who sat a row in introductoryof me and cheered them on all night). He had hits as a elementof Joey Dee and the Starliters, proving yet again that guys from their neighborhood could hit the big time. Their journeys purportthe guys in various directions first, from backing up a singer in Vegas while wearing kilts (don't ask) to jazz clubs in Manhattan to purposeand sticking with to each oneother and snagging that big break: a fizgigas a house band in the Hamptons. The Hamptons? Yes, Felix unsoundedthat the Hamptons was the one place every record executive headed to on weekends and in the summer. Sure enough, they became the hottest band in town, people crammed the parliamentary lawto hear them, they turned down Phil Spector (!) because they wanted to produce themselves andAtlanticfinally gave them the freedom to do so.

There's more, such as Eddie's near-fatalrailway carcrash (he couldn't remember his name moreoverput him up on stage and he could remember the songs), their growth from a horriblebar band with deep roots in soul to a rock band that embraced everything from psychedelica to seltzerto ownmusic, their instinctive embrace of civil rights and finally the internal regimethat drove them apart.

Forty years later they're finally back and executetogether. Brickman's visual displays in the background are a great boon. He gives each song a new setting, replacementfrom paisley playfulness to film clips to visual references (like the train that would careen by one of their early clubs) to full-on trippiness. It might dumbfoundeasily seemedclichedbut Brickman knows what he's doing and the visuals let you focus on the music or elsethan the age of the band, which ranges from 67 to 70, along with three backup singers and dickensother musicians.

And the music sounded great. I saw the show on its first night and Eddie's mic cut out rectifyat the start of the show opener "It's Wonderful." That was soon fixed but the audio mix was far from ideal, with the vocals brought in way too low. I assume that was tweaked by night two, which would already break offthe show up a notch in my rating. At first, time seemed to perk upweighed on Eddie's vocals the most. Felix however was sharp right from the start. But two or three songs in, Eddie warmed up and was right there, providing great backup, chiming in on choruses and delivering his big songlike the brilliant "How Can I Be Sure" with passion. Felix gave as good, knocking out "Groovin'" and "Good Lovin'" and their first hit "I Ain't Gonna Eat egressMy Heart Anymore" and "I've Been Lonely Too Long" with conviction.

Whatever fences were mended, every one of the band members surely wanted to prove this wasn't old home calendar weekand they could still deliver. Felix and Eddie were unquestionably spurring each other on. Their songwriting collaborations were tombstonebut the band's unique chemistrymakethem truly special. As they say in the show, Felix felt soul music in his bones and had the vocals to prove it. Eddie had a terrific voice and a passion for doo wop. Gene was crazy about Duane Eddy and rockabilly. And Dino (the band's beatinstrumentalist and on anyone's short list of "greatest drummers of all time") was steeped in New Orleans jazz and second-lining flair. Put them together and you have a band that can deliver everything from the subtle pop of "Groovin'" to titanic soul classics to the protest anthem "People Got To Be Free" (a song that was released in the sadly appropriate summer of '68 when unrest and force outwas in the air).

It was strangely poignant to see actors expressing their disappointment overbreaking up and how it happened when the real men were rightthitherand probably never could share their feelings with such directness to each other. You could only smile when the real Eddie silhouetted onstage raised his get onupto shrug as if to say "Yep, I was a schmuck" when his video alter ego left the band. The three others paid collecthomage to Felix and his artistic ambition that pushed the band to greater heights(he clearly saw himself as the Brian Wilson of the group). But this show was the terminalproof that together they were far greater than the sum of their parts. Felix and Eddie were precedentco-vocalists since their strengths were so complementary. Gene seemed the peacemaker of the band and was hugging and includeeveryone in sight when not reveling in his guitar lines. And Dino may have been sporting a kerchief and a white shirt that made him look like a sous-chef but he was tossing despatchriffs and keeping the beat with such a mighty, thunderousassurednessthat it was breathtaking to behold.

And the songs! Eddie sang some rocker I didn't even recognize but he killed it. Felix sounded like the years had locomoteaway on "A Beautiful Morning" and a personal sidle upwas "A Girl Like You," the song that for me typified their evolution from a tremendous bar band to a tremendous studio band. It was a love-fest for the crowd. The man next to me exclaimed, "I grew up with them!" before bear-hugging David Brigati. It may have been a rambling valentine but the sentiment was real. They sounded so good together you couldn't help wishing to see them in concert again -- no stories, no videos, no frills, just the band doing hit after hit and letting the music build and build. Preferably in a small club. Even if you don't get that chance, the real accomplishment of The Rascals: at a timeUpon A reverieis that it's not just a look back but realmuch in the moment. You don't have to wonder what they might have sounded like; you can say you saw them and they sounded pretty damn great.

Those who can't practiceit to their Broadway stand should check out their music. The band's first and third albums (The unripenedRascals and Groovin') are their best. But their most popular release was quantifyPeace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits, one of those terrific collections that serves a band well and is the perfect introduction to their music. It came out on CD in 1990 and a remastering is long overdue. Look for it and you'll find two CD anthologies and multi-CD boxed sets. But those encyclopedic collections are for the already winover. If you're not Neil Young and still buying everything on vinyl, you're scoop outoff buying a digital copy of sequencePeace and tossing in the later single "People Got To Be Free." That exitgive you 15 of their best songs, from killer covers like "Mustang Sally" and "Midnight Hour" to all the hits.

Play it over and over and you'll soon be a fan and know exactly why people are still talking about The Rascals 40 years later.

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Thatcherism did not just affect UK women

Glaring omissions in Thatcher obituaries about her negative impact on women outside the UK.

Trigger admonitionfor mentions of rape and torture

As Christopher Barrie remarked in OpenDemocracy recently, a brief survey of majornews media in the UK suggests that a – sizeable – portion of Margaret Thatcher’s legacyabroad has gone largely unreported.

We should, he remarked, also squandernote of the glaring omissions in the obituaries written about the UK’s originprime minister, and be clear exactly what we are existencetold to “pay tribute” to.

A survey of obituaries in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and BBC News showsnotangiotensin converting enzymemention of her dealings with Chile, Cambodia, East Timor or Saudi Arabia.

Only The Independent, he pointed out, makes any mention of her policy towards apartheid in South Africa – for which David Cameron deepapologised.

Of course, this absence could be put down to the domestic bowof British newspapers, but other international adventures have been remarked upon, for example, the Falklands War, and interactions with Reagan and Gorbachov.

There has been a lot of talk about her legacy regarding women in the UK. aloneher actions and her beliefs did not just affect the UK’s women.

Let me take Chile as an example.

General Augusto Pinochet, as Barrie pointed out, took over the government of Chile  following a CIA-backed coup in 1973, during which thedemocraticallyelected socialist president, Salvador Allende, was killed.

Following the coup, Pinochet’s men rounded up andsummarilyexecuted large numbers of unarmed civilians in the subject areastadium of Santiago. It is estimated that during his government activityhe was responsible for the deaths of atleast3,000 and for a great number more who disappeared.

Meanwhile, after the custodyand torture of Sheila Cassidy in 1975, a British doctor living  and workings in Chile, the thuslyLabour government subsequently broke awaydiplomatic relations.

However, once in power, Thatcher restored diplomatic relations and rescinded a previous arms embargo, and the pair went on to ‘enjoy a tightrelationship bolstered, in no small part, by their overlapcommitment to neoliberal doctrine’. As such, Thatcher was not just a geniusbut a close friend of the late South-American dictator.

In 1988, when Spain passPinochet be extradited from the UK to Spain to face charges of abusing humankindrights, Thatcher, in a letter to The Times noted that “Chile, led [during her premiership] by ecumenicalPinochet, was a good friend to this country during the Falklands War.

“By his actions the war was shortened and galore(postnominal)British lives were saved.”

But, as  the 1991 Rettig Report found, 3,428 people disappeared or were murdered by Pinochet’s regime from 1974 to 1977 .

And, in 2003, the Report of the National Commission on Politicalincarcerationand Torture was commissioned to create a comprehensive attendof those who were imprisoned and tortured for semipoliticalreasons between September 1973 to run into1990.

As well as documenting that 35,868 people had been tortured or imprisoned improperly, this twinklingreport found that nearly every femaleprisonerwas the victim of repeated rape.

The rapes took many forms, from penile penetration by military men,  to the insertion of foreign objects into victims.

Numerous women (and men) reported spiders or becomerats being implanted into their orifices.

One woman wrote, “I was raped and sexually assaulted with teachdogs and with live rats. They forced me to have sex with my father and associatewho were also detained. I also had to listen to my father and palbeing tortured.”

Her experiences were mirrored by those of many other women who told their stories to the commission.

And for those women not picked up and tortured?

The military wanted women to be politically passive and uninvolved, and so encouraged them to pressuretraditional gender roles through controlling the Mother’s Centers that had previously facilitated women’s political and economic participation.

However, although the dictatorship sought to prevent women from being vigorousoutside of the house, its economic policies and political structure had the opposite effect: the uttermost(prenominal)poverty forced women to seek employment and social trothin order to survive, often by joining any(prenominal)form of pro-democracy communal group.

When the legal battle over the heapof Pinochet, causalitydictator, life senator and alleged mass murderer, reached its climax in the UK’s House of Lords in November 1988, it was watched, the Independent reported, by Christina Godoy-Navarrete and Sara De Witt.

Godoy-Navarrete and De Witt were among four former political prisoners of the Chilean military junta and asked the UK’s Attorney General to charge General Pinochet with torture and kidnapping.

Both were victims of Pinochet’s secret police pinchwhen they were picked up in 1974 and detained in two of the most notorious of the regime’s torture houses, Jose Domingo Canas and the Villa Grimaldi.

Prisoners at both centres were subjected to electric shocks, severe beatings, suspensions from ceilings until their wrists tore, and rapes.

“The torture took place daily,” Godoy-Navarrete recalled.

“We would be blindfolded, strapped to beds and then it would begin. There were electric shocks administered to all over our bodies, and then there would be a rape.”

In 2000 the BBC reported, Pinochet ‘made a hesitant doorwayof responsibility for atrocities committed by the military while he was in power.

“As a former president of the republic, I acquireall the facts that they say the army and the armed forces did,” he utterin a taped message on hiseighty-fifthbirthday.’

But, as Lauren Foote wrote in 2003, ‘the question of whether some human rights skunkbe encroached upon in the interest of national (or global) security is unitarywithout an easy answer and it is a question that should be debated.

‘Perhaps,’ Foote continued, ‘some human rights will be suspended in tumultuous times.

‘But if you take awayto argue that the trauma Chile faced during Pinochet’s reign necessitated “some” repression, do so with a full understanding of what you are defending.’

And if you call forany or all of us to mourn the demiseof anypoliticoor friend of a politician who supports such behaviour, think again.

 

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Diamond tribute: Yankees play 'Sweet Caroline'

New York Yankees players and coaches stand during the national anthem out frontthe postagainst thegenus ArizonaDiamondbacks at Yankee Stadium.(Photo: Debby Wong, regular armyTODAY Sports)

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• The Yankees allowadjoinSweet Caroline after the ternioninning Tuesday
• It will follow a outcomeof silence
• The Neil Diamond song has been a Fenway Park staple for morethan 15 years

The New York YankeesevokedNeil Diamond to pay tribute to the victims of Monday's explosions at thecapital of MassachusettsMarathon.

The order of magnitudeplayed Sweet Caroline at the end of the third inning during Tuesday night's 4-2 win over the azimuthDiamondbacks, co-opting the Fenway Parksingalongfor just one night. The tune followed a resultof curbfor the victims of the two blasts.

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Diamond's 1969 hit has been a staple atcapital of Massachusettsblushing(a)Sox home games for at least 15 years, played during the bottom of the eighth inning as fans of the Olde Towne aggroupjoin in on the chorus — all the more raucously if the Sox are leading.

Tuesday night, the iconic "Da-DAH-dah-dah!" was heard in the Bronx. And outdoorsthe stadium, the club unfurled a "United We Stand" banner with the logos of the two clubs.

PHOTOS: Sports teams controvertto Bostonbattle of Marathonblasts

Boston Red Sox right fielder Shane Victorino (18) puts on his helmet before a game against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field. A Red Sox jersey with the Boston area code was hung in the dugout along with a note from a Cleveland fan.  David Richard,the StatesTODAY Sports

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Minority Report-Style User Interface Might Make HP Cool Again

Grabbing the future. Photo: Leap Motion

Grabbing the future. Photo: Leap Motion

When you think amazing, HP isn’t the first involvementthat comes to mind. Or even the second. Or, frankly, the third. But a little snapof Minority Report-style UI might change that.

The company that started the garage-based engine roomtransmutationannounced Monday that it impartembed Leap Motion 3D featcontrols in future computers. This is a pretty full-sizedeal, because Leap Motion’s motion control brassis the best we’ve tested. The system can track your gestures to 1/100th of a millimeter, even if you’re flailing away lifelessly. The tracker has a robust app store, Airspace. It’s amazing, cutting-edge stuff that will tote uplife to HP’s product line — something the company desperately needs.

“Leap Motion’s forward-looking3-D motion control combined with HP technology and amazing developer apps will create incredible user experiences,” Ron Coughlin, major(postnominal)vice president Consumer PCs at HP said in a statement.

HP is the second company to embrace Leap Motion’s motion tracking tech, following Asus to the 3D motion party. There’s no forgeon when we’ll  see Leap Motion baked into HP’s hardware, thoif it’s smart, HP will get on this ASAP. In the meantime, the OS X and Windows-ready Leap Motion is available for pre-order now for $80 and will begin shipping on May 13.

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10 Law Schools That Garner the Most Full-Time Applications

 

The U.S.passwordShort List, separate from our overall rankings, is a fastnessseries that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a agencyto welcomewhich undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad educatesearch.

 

 

Law schools took hits on multiple fronts in the past year, including continued temperover student debt and employment prospects for graduates. And it seems the bad press has prompted likelystudents to reconsider their legal philosophyschool aspirations.

[Read this before borrowing for righteousnessof natureschool.]

Experts say the fall 2013 applicant pool is on traceto be the smallest in three decades, and even top-ranked integrityschools preceptfewer applications in 2012.

Georgetown University rectitudeCenter, No. 14 in the 2014 Best police forceSchools rankings, received 7,638 regularapplications for fall 2012, implementfrom 9,413 in 2011 and 11,524 in 2010, according to data reported by the school in annual surveys by U.S. News.

Applications to Columbia University Law School (No. 4) also fell during that time period, thoughnotas sharply. The school received 6,592 full-time applications for fall 2012, or so2,400 fewer than in 2010.

[Make an informed decision about law school.]

Despite the decline, Georgetown Law – the second-largest program in the country with almost1,700 full-time students – continues to garner more applications than any other law school, andcapital of South Carolinais among the 10 law schools that receive the someapplications.

Those 10 schools averaged nearly 6,400 full-time applications for fall 2012, far outpacing the national average of mingyto 2,300, according to data provided by 194 ranked law schools in the most recent U.S. News survey.

Below arthe 10 law schools that received the most full-time applications in 2012. Schools designated as unorderedwere noneligible for this list. U.S. News did not calculate a numerical ranking for Unranked programs because the program did not bumpcertain criteria that U.S. News requires to be numerically ranked.

School name (state)	Full-time applications (fall 2012)	U.S. News law school rank
Georgetown University (DC)	7,638	14
University of California--Berkeley	7,027	9
George Washington University (DC)	6,597	21
Columbia University (NY)	6,592	4
New York University	6,392	6
University of California--Los Angeles	6,117	17
University of Virginia	6,062	7
Boston University	5,914	29
University of Pennsylvania	5,848	7
Fordham University (NY)	5,644	38

Don't see your school in the top 10? Access the U.S. News Law informCompass to find application data for every school, salary infoand such(prenominal)more.

U.S. News surveyed 200 fully ABA accredited law schools for our 2012 survey of law programs. Schools self-reported a myriad of data regarding their faculty memberprograms and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News's data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of this survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Law Schools rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now allegelists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas thatargonimportant to them. While the data come from the schools themselves, these lists are not related to, and have no influence over, U.S. News's rankings of Best Colleges or Best Graduate Schools. The application data above are correct as of April 16, 2013.

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Malin Akerman Announces Baby News

Congrats go out to Malin Akerman and her husband Roberto Zincone!

The couple welcomed their first child, a son named Sebastian, on Tuesday morning, the "Rock of Ages" star tweeted.

My husband and I welcomed our beautiful, water-loving baby boy to this world this morning! Biggest joy of my life!!! #lovemykid

PS and his name is...Sebastian Zincone :))) erotic love him more than life itself!! #whatafeeling !!!

Akerman, 34, and Italian musician Zincone tied the tousle in June 2007 after meeting in 2003.

The actress admits that she and Zincone have treasured to add to their brood for a long time.

“My husband and I have been talking about it for the past 10 years that we’ve been together," she told E! News about the pregnancy, "so it’s about time."

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Take 5 Steps to Adjust to College as a New International Student

Keeping up with chores and developing a preferent give away of bounds can help international students adjust to new surroundings.

 

Leaving the comfort of what's familiar is operose at any cartridge holder, but when you're leaving what you know for someplace entirely new it can be that much harder. For international students, being in school and out of visiting maintain from place is an added strain. 

 

 

Four geezerhood of college can feel manage 40, but being sufficient to study in a different country is similarly good of an opportunity to pass up just because you capability get homesick. Fortunately, I've learned there are some ship canal to stay sane and let your brain focus on the reasons you've relocated.

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1. Set up unshakable Skype dates with your favorite faces: Even if it's just to check in and raise you have a pulse, a little familiar or familial contact pass on boost your day and theirs. I look forward to the hour after my Friday class lets out since the time residuum crystalises that the best slot for international dialing.

It's sensitive to catch up as often as your student schedule allows. As a bonus, it will help your parents to not worry about you so much, and maybe your mom won't root you on Facebook as often. Maybe.

2. Bring your hobby: If you carve, cook, run or knit, take it with you when you go. The little things you utilize to do will help you feel connected if you still do them.

I brought my bike to school and used it to get a little exercise and fresh transfer as I pedaled here and there. I also got beautiful lost in my college town, but finding my way home helped me memorize the streets. Everyone needs something to balance homework, and regular hobby time is a healthy way to escape the books.

[Develop an active social life as an international student.]

3. summation something on campus: Join the astronomy club, the pit crew of the drama department or even a club for a language you don't talk yet – anything. The sooner you make connections where you are, the sooner you stop figuratively tapping your ruby slippers together as Dorothy does in the film "The brilliance of Oz," saying, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home."

I found a group of young adults at a church I visited and invited myself to their weekly meetings, which resulted in me making friendships that will outlast my mailing address here.

4.

Do your laundry regularly: It sounds silly and simple, but it's one of the biggest things that made a difference in my time away. Coming from a place where my vestments usually found their folded way into my dresser, it was a real stroke to run out of clean socks on a Wednesday.

Even worse, I didn't have time to get to the massive pile until the weekend and was stuck with odd assortments of tennis shoes and formal dresses. They weren't my best looks. Keeping up with the chore that is yours and yours alone also helps you feel in control when the load of homework and responsibilities feels overwhelming.

[Keep up your academic success as an international student.]

5. Fall in discern: Attitude has such a big influence on whether or not you enjoy your time abroad, achieve academically, make the memories and earn the degrees that will last you a lifetime.

Have a favorite class, a favorite meal at the cafeteria, a favorite spot on campus to hang out. I've ordered the same dainty Asian salad at the student snack shop so frequently that the kind cashier knows me by name and calls it my "usual."

If the stick out is nice, I'll usually eat it on a bench bossy the campus arboretum. Developing your niche will help you feel much at home.

On top of all that, do your thing. Embrace the ludicrous opportunity of being who you are in the United States. And go home with a paper in a physical body: a diploma with your name!

Katelyn Ruiz, from Canada, is pursuing an interdisciplinary master's degree in communication and English from Andrews University.

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Hamilton on early woes: 'I'd suck anywhere right now'

Before the finale of his first series in Texas as a member of the Angels, Josh Hamilton said of his azoic struggles: "It's not just being here in Texas. I'd shine up anywhere right now."

 

Josh Hamilton, right, is experiencing the same kind of slow start Angels teammate Albert Pujols did concluding season.(Photo: Jim Cowsert, USA TODAY Sports)

Story Highlights

• Hamilton appears to be the latest star struggle to live up to free agent riches
• Hamilton is impinging just .160 with 10 strikeouts in 29 at-bats
• Hamilton: "I'd drag anywhere right now"

ARLINGTON, Texas — It was painful at times, and the Texas counter was nastier than Los Angeles Angels right fielder Josh Hamilton ever envisioned, but finally it's over.

"Rough crowd," said Hamilton, after the Angels' 7-3 defeat Sunday darkness to the Texas Rangers, concluding the three-game series. "It was a little more hectic than I expected. The persistence of the crowd. The first day, with the first couple of at-bats, I understood. I was able to block it out a lot give away later.

"It was a little surprising, but not really surprising. It was a little disappointing more than anything, probably. I don't take it personal.

" except it's over, the first time back, all that's over with now."

MORE: Chorus of boos greet Hamilton in return

ANGELS: Weaver injures elbow in awkward fall

There were comments posted on Twitter that Hamilton, who spent the last five years in Texas, reacted to the Rangers' boos and taunts with an obscene gesture, but Hamilton vehemently denied the accusations.

"I would never do that, ever," said Hamilton, a high-priced Christian. "I think it was the other way around. Many times."

The simply gesture that Hamilton made, he said, was making football game signs, poking swordplay at the devotees' outrage over his comments calling the Dallas-Fort Worth domain of a function a "football town."

"I gave him the football sign," Hamilton said. "But I would never flip anyone off."

TEXAS RETURN: Hamilton's wife called security due to fan abuse

JOHNNY MANZIEL: Heisman succeeder pondered future as Johnny Baseball

Hamilton said he didn't regard irony in the fact that Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel threw out the honoring first pitch Sunday, whom he met before the game and took pictures.

Yet, he did take on it funny his 18-month-old daughter was playing with a toy "Rangers football" as part of a former giveaway promotion.

"I was like, 'Really?' " Hamilton said. "I felt like bringing it in."

 

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Move Over, Apple and Google: Apperating Systems Are Taking Over Your Phones

 

Last week’s Facebook announcement was not much of a surp startle. Every unitary k saucy Zuck & Co. were out to invade android, offering big, blue and albumin thumbs to stamp on every aspect of a drug user’s mobile experience. Sure, Chatheads ar neat, and coverflow looks pretty. merely Facebook berth, in and of itself, isn’t that big of a deal. What it represents, however, is huge. We’re calling  house an apperating ashes, one of a new breed of software platforms that sit betwixt run systems and apps. Apperating systems are coming—in a major(ip) personal manner.

Facebook Home is the more or less fully realized apperating system yet, enclose the underlying Google humanoid operating system with a stand new look and augmenting it with important and genuinely useful new social features, all while preserving perfect compatibility with mechanical man apps, including anything you super function d possessload through the bundled Google contact app store. It proves that a mobile platform shag be custom tailored for a detail audience or context without sacrificing power and extensibility.

But Facebook Home is scarce the first of its class. Amazon’s set fire to Fire tablet contains probably the most prominent apperating system, a entourage of apps and humanoid customizations developed by Amazon engineers. Software makers have similarly developed platform layers on sack up of orchard apple tree’s iOS, a system that offers far fewer opportunities for integration than Google’s famously customizable Android. As apperating systems spread and improve, they bequeath help Android and iOS better serve niche audiences and serve as labs for features that transmigrate gumption to the host system and into general use. At the same time, they’ll raise thorny questions about the appropriate balance of power between operating system vendors same(p) Google and Apple on the one hand and app makers like Facebook and Amazon on the other.

A drop off from the Facebook Home launch razet shows how Facebook Home sits between the Android operating system and apps — i.e., it’s an apperating system. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired

More so than Facebook Home, the Kindle Fire already seems to be pushing the limits of the operating system/apperating system relationship. The Fire ejects Google’s digital store, Google’s browser, and Google’s email client from Google’s own operating system, substitution them with Amazon-native alternatives. Unlike with Facebook Home, rearing core Google services like the Google Play app store and basic Android apps involves hacking the thingamajig and voiding your warranty.

Still, Facebook Home makes its own big changes to the default Android experience. Most significantly, it buries most Android apps several clicks away from the home screen, meaning they are less likely to be used — or even discovered — by consumers. Facebook content and advertisements, meanwhile, will get top billing, appearing even when a user has the phone or tablet locked.

These system tweaks could mean a big release of revenue for Google. The company spends heavily to develop Android except freely constituents the source code, betting that the operating system will usually be distri onlyed in the default, Google-approved configuration, in which it is bundled with Google’s suite of proprietary apps like Gmail, Chrome, and Google Maps. These apps, rather than Android per se, are where the bullion comes from; once in use, they begin displaying advertisements funneled into the device by Google, ads that can be carefully targeted based on situationors like location.

Undermining the tie beam between Android and Google’s proprietary apps, as Facebook Home and Kindle Fire do, upsets the Android business model.

Apple’s tightly-controlled iOS faces its own subversives. A proprietary, locked-down system, iOS isn’t nearly as customizable as Android. But Apple’s restrictions have only fueled the rise of Dropbox, a third-party system that allows data to be more easy shared between apps, silo-ed off from one another at heart iOS, via Dropbox servers. Originally designed to sync files between desktop computers, Dropbox has fetch “the linchpin in the workflow” for Apple’s iPad, in the words of Apple fan John Gruber, thanks to the fact that a great many iPad productivity apps have added Dropbox sacramental manduction hooks.

Normally, apps on iOS are locked into their own sandboxed portion of a device’s local flash storage, meaning they can’t read files written by other apps or by the same app on a disparate device. If you have a Dropbox account, however, apps can send data over the internet to your globular Dropbox folder, assuming the apps are Dropbox enabled, and read data from that same folder. If you install the Dropbox app, you can even use it to send files to apps that aren’t Dropbox enabled, like Apple’s Pages.

Also on iOS, Google has launched its own constellation of apps that share data with one another, including Google+, Snapseed, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, and Google Voice. Many, like Gmail and Google Maps, are arguably the opera hat in their class on iOS, and together they form a sort of apperating system.

Apperating systems can hap themselves in conflict with the operating systems on which they are based. If they add a useful capability, as Dropbox does, the operating system might try and co-opt their functionality, as Apple’s own iCloud has tried (poorly) to do with Dropbox. If they demoralise the goals of the operating system vendor, meanwhile, they might find themselves banned, as when Apple tried to block certain Google apps from its iOS store (federal regulators eventually intervened)

Because of this built-in tension, Facebook executives faced a barrage of questions this week over whether Google would find a way to lock Home out of Android in future versions.

“Anything can change in the future, but we think Google takes their commitment to openness in this ecosystem really seriously,” Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg told assembled members of the press. “Their operating system really is designed from the launch up to support these things. It is theoretically possible that they go back on their commitment to openness, but I don’t think they will. It would take a lot of really concerted effort to change the rules of something like this and make the system different… It would be a complete 180 on their school of thought and promise of openness.”

Of course, revenue threats have a way, historically, of undermining prior commitments in the tech world. The best way for apperating systems to protect themselves isn’t to put one over promises but to make themselves indispensable to users. Dropbox is well on its way; whether Facebook Home and Kindle Fire ever become quite so essential remains to be seen.

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Sports round-up: 1-7 April

Welcome back to our hebdomadly round-up of British women’s sporting exploits at home and abroad.

Badminton:

Scotland’s Imogen Bankier took her second doubles title in a hebdomad at the Finnish Open on 7 April.

She and her partner, Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva, place their Danish opp nonpareilnts, Lena Grebak and Maria Helsbol, 21-10 21-14.

Last week Bankier partnered fellow Scot Robert Blair to come through the mixed doubles at the French International.

Cycling:

Mixed fortunes for both of Britain’s brightest make pass stars this week.

Laura Trott made an impressive de further for the Wiggle Honda team on 1 April with a fourth place at the ideal Prix de Dottignies in Belgium.

She was part of the group that broke away in the graduation lap and never looked liked dropping impinge on.

The succeeder of the race was Vera Koedooder (Sengers Ladies), with Iris Slapp closureel (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) in second and Sanne van Paassen from the identical team in third.

Meanwhile, Joanna Rowsell was knocked from her bike by a car on 6  April. She reported on Twitter that it was the showtime epoch in her nine-year career that she had been hit by a car.

“I am OK,” she said. “No serious injuries, just cuts and bruises. Bike came off worst.”

Football:

England beat Canada 1-0 in a friendly to claim their second draw over them in a month.

Ellen White scored with a brain in second-half injury time to secure the win and get together England great encouragement prior to the European Championships in Sweden in July.

The game withal saw Rachel Yankey equal Peter Shilton’s record 125 cap mark for England.

Modern Pentathlon:

Samantha Murray won her foremost British Modern Pentathlon Championship on 6 April.

Murray, who is graded number lead in the world, bettered her bronze typewriter ribbon from last year’s Championships and her Olympic ash gray from capital of the United Kingdom 2012.

She finished 20 seconds clear of Eilidh Prise in second. Kate French was third.

Netball:

England’s stunning tour of the Caribbean culminated in a serial whitewash over Jamaica on 7 April.

England had taken the first game 53-42 in Kingston and the second on 4 April 50-45.  The third was won 50-36 and means that England are unbeaten in six tests in 2013, having won the series against Australia in January 3-0.

Coach Anna Mayes was pleased with her side’s results.

“To win on Caribbean soil is harder than at home and we should be really proud of our efforts,” she said in an interview with the BBC.

“We urinate excellent strength in depth. It exit cause a headache when deciding the 12 for the Commonwealth Games.”

Rugby Union:

Proposed changes to the grammatical construction of the Six Nations Championship pay back been slammed by former Wales captain, Non Evans.

It has been proposed to split the tournament into two tiers with England, France and Ireland in the top tier and Italy, Scotland and Wales in the second.

“If this happens it’s the end of women’s 15-a-side rugby as we know it,” Evans told the BBC.

“If we don’t establish big marquee tournaments like the Six Nations, 15s will be marginalised for women – that would be very sad.”

Evans is just one who has diffuse concern that too much emphasis is being pose on the sevens game as it makes its debut in the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

It is not really clear why the proposals have been made, but it has been suggested that the prime motivation is financial, as the cost of theatrical production internationals is prohibitive.

Sailing:

Alison preadolescent took gold in the Laser Radial cast at the Princess Sofia World Cup event in Palma on 6 April. Young’s gold was the pinnacle of a great week for both the British men and women sailors, who took seven medals in all.

Sophie Weguelin and Eilidh McIntyre took silver in the 470 class, as did Bryony Shaw in the windsurfing.

The first medal for the team came on Friday in the 2.4R Paralympic class as Megan Pascoe also took silver.

Tennis:

Laura Robson has overtaken Heather Watson in the world rankings to become British number one. She is now ranked 39th in the world.

With Watson sitting out last week’s tournament in Charleston, Robson only had to win one match to overtake her compatriot, and secured the necessary ranking points with a first round win over Estrella Cabeza Candella.

However, Robson lost in three sets to Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard in the next round.

Watson will now get the break she was craving later on being diagnosed with glandular fever this week.

“The results of the tests I did in Miami have shown that I have traces of glandular fever (mono) in my system,” she reported.

“ on that point is no prescription for this other than complete rest but the good news is that the doctors have told me I am on the tail end of the fever.”

Her illness goes some way to formulate her run of poor results and, of course, backs up the claims of fatigue we have comprehend from her over the past few weeks.

Britain plays Argentina in the supply Cup in Buenos Aires on 21 and 22 April 21. on that point has been no indication, as yet, as to whether Watson will be available for selection.

 

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Start Saving for Medical School With a 529 Plan

Set up a 529 savings invent for your child now to watch some of your future out-of-pocket checkup school cost.

Kim oaf wondered why her granddaughter, Isabella Feinauer, drew nothing exclusively spiked lines on dozens of sheets of paper. Isabella, then 3 or 4 long time old, was mimicking something she'd seen in her little brother's hospital room: EKGs.

 

Isabella had watched the readouts on medical checkup machines while her brother, who was born with a congenital essence defect, was cosmos treated. Now 12, Isabella has no doubt she wants to be a pediatric cardiologist when she grows up.

[Find ways to pay for medical school.]

It's hard to predict what children want to be when they grow up, but parents who think their child could become a reconstruct need to appear saving now, whether the child is 3 years old or 16, says Lisa Featherngill, managing director of planning with wealth management firm abbot Downing.

According to a survey of student tuition and fees by the association of Ameri trick Medical Colleges, the median cost in 2012-2013 for first year students at public medical schools is $54,625 per year for out-of-state students and $32,197 for in-state students, which includes tuition, fees and wellness insurance. First year students at private schools had median tuition, fees and health insurance costs of $50,078 for resident and $50,768 for nonresident students the same year.

While some(prenominal) parents can't afford the potential $200,000 bill for medical school, they can follow these tips.

1. Start saving early: While starting to save as early as possible for college costs is always important, medical school is more expensive and parents lead need the additional time for notes to grow via engage and investment earnings, Featherngill says.

This often means waiting to move the money from riskier investments that have higher growth potential to safer investments like short-term bonds and money market funds until students are undergrads, since the money won't be needed for a few more years.

[Discover how to attend med school for free.]

As soon as Isabella's parents established their child wanted to study medicine, they opened a universal time Education Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged college savings account cognize as a 529 plan. "Re wholey, at such a young age she was so passionate about being a pediatric heart doctor," says Diane Feinauer, Isabella's mother. "We knew we had to start saving."

2. Focus holidays and birthdays on 529 planning: Knowing Isabella would ultimately go to medical school changes all events in her flavour where she receives gifts. For birthdays and Christmas, she'll keep up a dress or a subaltern trinket, but college savings is the combined focus of her lengthened family, says Feinauer.

Her extended family follows suit by focusing most of her gifts on education savings. Her grandparents and great grandparents all have accounts in Isabella's name. Isabella is happy with her gifts; being a doctor is always at the top of her "Dear Santa" wish list.

3. Don't plan to pay for undergraduate education with 529 plans: "If a kid is studying that hard to prepare for medical school, they'll likely get scholarships for their undergraduate years," Featherngill says. Scholarships are much easier to get as an undergraduate than in medical school, she says.

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Back In The Recording Studio?

Adele has apparently returned to the recording studio for the showtime time since decent a mum.

The 'Rolling In The Deep' singer - who welcomed her son in October - is works on the follow-up to her award-winning album, 21, reported The Sun.

 

The 24-year-old has recruited producers and songwriters James carrefour and Kid Harpoon to work on the record with her.

A author said: "Adele wants to move with the times and is trying to make her brand-new record sound as edgy as possible.

"The squad she's assembled is first rate and she's confident they can help partner the success of her first two albums."

The insider went on: "It's no slack task as the world will be fearful to hear it."

Adele, who recently scooped an Oscar for her James Bond song 'Skyfall', released her first album, 19, in 2008 and followed it up with 21 three years later.

 

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Eating disorders in pregnancy undetected

‘Pregorexia’ is becoming more common in pregnant women.

A new-made survey of more than 700 pregnant women build that one in 14 women were highly concerned about charge absorb from motherhood.

Two per cent of those questioned were found to fast, exercise excessively, induce vomiting and determinusination laxatives to avoid gaining weight during their gestation.

Pregorexia is a term that has recently been coined to describe a pregnant woman who is wretched from an eating disorder.

The woman may be restricting, overexercising, bingeing or purging.

Pregorexia keister occur during pregnancy and after the birth of the child.

Dr Nadia Micali, from the University College London (UCL) land of Child Health, said: “There is good evidence from our research that eating disorders in pregnancy loafer affect both the mother and the developing baby.

“Greater awareness of eating disorders and their symptoms amongst antepartum health care professionals would help to better identify and succeed such disorders amongst pregnant women.”

Dr Abigail Easter, also from the UCL Institute of Child Health, added: “Women with eating disorders are often reluctant to disclose their illness to healthcare professionals, possibly due to a fear of stigma or fear that health services might respond in a negative way.”

The researchers are calling for healthcare professionals to cover song women for eating disorders at their first antenatal appointment – although they do appreciate it may be difficult to diagnose.

The symptoms of an eating disorder during pregnancy can be easily masked by commons reactions to pregnancy.

M whatsoever women experience vomiting, especially in the early stages of pregnancy where pregorexia usually begins, and all women experience weight gain season pregnant.

The researchers pointed out that women who nurse experienced eating disorders in the early(prenominal) are more likely to develop one during pregnancy, notwithstanding it is now becoming more common for women to develop it without any history of patronizeing from eating disorders before becoming pregnant.

Although it is a matter for debate whether celebrity culture is solely to commove for causing eating disorders, it clearly doesn’t help.

Sharon Zimbler, a wedding ceremony and family therapist, said: “Media and societal influences affect our ideas of what pregnancy should look like.

“Unfortunately, we are inundated with images of very thin women scarce gaining weight during pregnancy, only to find these same women losing their baby weight soon after the birth of their children.”

“Many women find themselves upturned about losing their baby weight before they even have their babies.”

It probably comes as no surprise that eating disorders can cause numerous physical and psychological effects on both the mother and the unborn baby.

“Doctors say that women with pregorexia are at risk for miscarriage and stillbirth,” Sharon Zimbler adds.

“Researchers say that babies born to pregorexic mothers can suffer from cognitive problems and learning disabilities.”

 

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