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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

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

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

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 tortureAs 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...

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)Story HighlightsThe Yankees allowadjoinSweet Caroline after the ternioninning TuesdayIt will follow a outcomeof silenceThe Neil Diamond song has been a Fenway Park staple for morethan 15 yearsThe New York YankeesevokedNeil Diamond to pay tribute to the victims of...

Minority Report-Style User Interface Might Make HP Cool Again

Grabbing the future. Photo: Leap MotionGrabbing the future. Photo: Leap MotionWhen 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...

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...

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!!! #lovemykidPS and his name is...Sebastian Zincone :))) erotic love him more than life itself!! #whatafeeling !!!Akerman, 34, and Italian musician Zincone...

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...

Monday, April 8, 2013

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 HighlightsHamilton appears to be the latest star struggle to live up to free agent richesHamilton is impinging just .160 with 10 strikeouts in 29 at-batsHamilton: "I'd drag anywhere right...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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...