The Wanted 'Psych Each Other' Before Big 'Today' Performance

MTV News chills in the 'Today' green room with the band on the day of their EP release.
By Jocelyn Vena


The Wanted rehearse before "Today" performance
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NEW YORK — "Oh my god, they're so normal!" one fan declared as she caught a glimpse of the Wanted leaving their hotel this morning. It was one of many exciting fan encounters the band would have on Tuesday (April 24), as they were out in New York City promoting their self-titled U.S. debut EP and the release of their new video, "Chasing the Sun."

MTV News was on hand with the guys in the early hours Tuesday while they chilled in the "Today" show green room chatting, eating breakfast and goofing around with a fat cat and a dog named Ted, both of whom were on the show today as well.

"We just arrived and we saw a 40-pound cat crawling across the floor," group member Siva Kaneswaran told MTV News about the early morning wakeup call and the show's other guest, a cat who is currently having his own moment chasing the sun. "This is the kind of stuff that happens to the Wanted. It's too early for this," he continued. "There's lots of big stuff happening today and were gonna do some crazy things."

Before they performed "Chasing" and their hit single "Glad You Came" on the morning news show, Siva explained how the guys prep for an appearance on a show like "Today."

"We prepared for this show this morning by having cups of tea and Cheerios, good for the heart," Siva, who declared he is not a morning person, shared. "Basically, just psych each other, gaze into each other's eyes and get excited, and that's what gets us through the day."

The "Today" show was the first of many media appearances the Wanted will make on Tuesday, leading up to their "MTV First" airing tonight at 7:53 p.m. ET on MTV. They will sit down with MTV News' Sway Calloway to debut and chat about the "Chasing" video.

Immediately following the MTV premiere, the fivesome are hanging around for an additional 30-minute live Q&A session with Sway on MTV.com. Fans can get in on the action by submitting video or text questions via MTV.com or @MTVNews on Twitter, using the hashtags #MTVFirst or #AskTheWanted.

MTV News will be on hand with the guys all day, so stay tuned for more Big Apple dispatches.

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Spare Your Marriage from Divorce: Know These 4 Common ...

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Marriage indeed is a very challenging situation to be in; unlike the boyfriend-girlfriend romantic relationship where everything is almost lovey-dovey, marriage is the perfect status quo where you discover many things from your spouse, and ironically, most of these things are not so likeable. While being in a new relationship makes you bring out the best in you, marriage rather makes you discover the worst in each other. ?Marriage isn?t easy.

And the failure to address these issues will most likely lead your marriage down the drain. These are the most common marriage problems that continually challenge the couples today:

The Why-Should-I-Trust-You-When-You-Don?t-Trust-Me Mentality

They say that the foundation to a good and sturdy relationship is trust. Others say you can?t love someone and not trust them at the same time. Little or the absence of trust among married couples is perhaps one of the recurring problems that define whether the relationship can withstand time or not.

When you don?t learn to trust your spouse, you put your intimacy on the line. When you don?t trust your spouse, you are likely to hold back the feelings that need to be expressed and emotions that need to be shown for the fear of getting hurt. Not trusting your spouse can give way to the development of other marital problems.

Unwillingness to Take Responsibility in Solving Marital Problems

One defence mechanism each person is good at is projection, blaming others for certain problems that they found themselves in. This is similarly true to married couples. One common marital problem is the failure to take responsibility for a problem. Couples start pointing each other?s flaws and mistakes; the persistence of this problem can give way to more serious marital problem which could lead to divorce.

The Need to Win in Every Marital Argument

When faced with an argument, most people always want to take the trophy be declared as winners, and this is applicable to couples in a marital problem. When married couples argue, they usually do the best they can to emerge winners in the argument, with the parting statement: ?I told you so?.

However, what most married couples forget is that when they decided to get hitched, they are already forming a team of one. Which means that they are a single team with two players; furthermore, the success and failure of one is the success and failure of the other. So what?s with trying to win every time when you are actually playing as one?
The Inability to Let Go of Anger

Anger, in moderation is a healthy emotional response; it gives you awareness that you got hurt and you?re not OK with that. But if you hold onto it for a longer than usual period of time, that?s a different story. Anger is supposedly an initial reaction and keeping it longer can do enormous damages on relationships, especially to your marriage.

In most marital relationships, it is inevitable that spouses may emotionally cause hurt to each other. Ideally, the couple needs to address the present issue, and decide together to let go, forgive and move on. However, some spouses tend to hold onto anger so much and they even feed them with other negative thoughts.

When anger issues are not resolved in marriage, this could lead to harbouring negative and ill feelings toward each other which correspondingly radiates and affects the entire relationship, household and children.

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Samsung's new Galaxy Phone gets official teaser (video)

Samsung's new Galaxy Phone gets official teaser (video)

The countdown is over and Samsung's not offering much to whet our appetite. A medley of opaque angles of galactic travel are meant to represent next week's big news story, alongside some brief claims of technology that fits easily in your hand. It finishes all too soon on those glossy enamel puddles shown above. The second trailer reveals more of the same, with Samsung promising the device will become "a natural side of life", throwing in a quick jibe at those rival smartphone-carrying "sheep". While we reckon we broadly know what to expect when it comes to internal hardware, we're still itching see how Samsung's looking to reinvigorate its phone design following HTC's stylish smartphone salvo. Well, at least it's just over a week left to wait.

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Google Drive shows up on Android developers device during Google Hangout

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By now the existence of Google Drive isn't really a question. It does exist, it's out there and now the Android connection has been confirmed for anyone who may still have had doubts.

During a Google+ Hangout highlighting Android developers, a Google employee using a Galaxy Nexus inadvertently showed off the "Share to drive" option on his device as you can just barely see in the screen cap above.

Google has since yanked down the Google+ Hangout video but many have already caught a look at the icon just sitting there in the sharing options, waiting to be unveiled to the masses.

Source: The Verge

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We gonna fight or we gonna flip? Brimage-Blanco fight ends with gymnastics

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ATLANTA -If you're an MMA fighter, there's a right way and a wrong way to show exactly how athletic you are. Marcus Brimage and Maximo Blanco chose the wrong way.

Brimage and Blanco opened UFC 145 with a largely drama-free opening bout, 15 minutes in which the fighters logged more miles walked than punches landed. Brimage had trouble getting Blanco to the floor, and Blanco didn't stay down long once he got there. But between the final horn and the judges' verdict ? split decision in favor of Brimage ? the fighters began a curious little display that might not have had the effect they wanted.

[ Related: Travis Browne and Matt Brown highlight UFC 145 prelim card ]

As the horn sounded, Blanco raised his arms in a self-declared victory. With his crew filing into the ring, Brimage shook his head in disgust. And then Blanco ripped a page from the playbook of NASCAR driver Carl Edwards, who backflips off his car after every victory.

Blanco unleashed an array of back tucks, back handsprings and round-offs, and Brimage, with an "anything you can do, I can do better" smirk, matched Blanco's every move. It was a pretty damn impressive display of athleticism, except for the fact that the crowd had come here to see fighting, not synchronized tumbling. The boos rained down from an already-full Philips Arena; the crowd would have to wait another bout for its blood.

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Fenway Park: Living link to baseball's past turns 100

Fenway Park has survived because it is beloved by Boston's fans and because the team owners had a vision for making improvements that have allowed the park to keep functioning, flaws and all.

Fenway Park isn't just the storied home of the Boston Red Sox. It's also a venue, perhaps more than any other ballpark now in use, that links the nation to baseball's history.

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Sure, the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., serves as a kind of pantheon of the sport's legend and lore.

But Fenway Park ? which celebrates its first 100 years Friday ? is the sport's living shrine.

It's not that Fenway can claim to be what Wimbledon is to tennis ? the perennial home of epic events in the sport. But as the oldest major-league ball field still in use, it offers the nearest connection that today's fans can find to an earlier era when every game was played in daylight, when the telegraph defined high-tech communication, and when starting pitchers routinely pitched a full nine innings.

And it's not just that the park is old. It's also distinctive, known most of all for that giant "Green Monster" wall that dwarfs those who play left field. It's also home to a team that has captured an outsize share of affection in the hearts of fans beyond Boston.

The Sox have a story woven with themes that resonate widely for the sport's fans: hope (think Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run in the 1975 World Series), heartbreak (recall all those decades of championship drought) and flamboyant characters (Babe Ruth, Luis Tiant, and Jonathan Papelbon, to name a few).

So, even though most other historic ballparks were torn down long ago, Fenway has survived.

It's survived because the park is beloved by Boston's passionate fans and because the current team owners had a vision for making improvements that have allowed the park to keep functioning, flaws and all.

The celebrations Friday coincide with a game between the Sox and the New York Yankees, longtime archrivals in the American League's eastern division.

It was the sale of Sox star Ruth to the Yankees, in 1920, that prompted the long-running talk of a "curse" on Boston. The Yanks began their chain of World Series wins under Ruth, and the stadium where they played for decades was deservedly known as the "House That Ruth Built."

But that "house" in New York City is now gone. Fenway Park lives on.

The other classic major-league ballpark still in use is Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, which opened in 1914. Wrigley can tell its own tales of hope, loss, and devoted fans. But those stories don't tend to have the intensity that Boston has provided over the years with its down-to-the-wire pennant races and recent World Series wins.

So, in a tribute to Fenway's 100th anniversary, here are some highlights of the Sox and their ballpark:

? Fenway Park's first game actually came on April 9, 1912, but it was an exhibition between the Red Sox and Harvard College. Eleven days later came the major-league opener against the New York Highlanders (now known as, yes, the Yankees). In a foretaste of thrills to come, the Sox won that game 7-6 in 11 innings.

? John F. Kennedy's grandfather, Boston Mayor John Fitzgerald, threw the ceremonial first pitch on April 20, 1912.

? In 1912, the Sox won 105 regular season games, the American League pennant, and the World Series. The team's other World Series titles while residing at Fenway came in 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, and 2007.

? Along with the Green Monster wall, notable features of the park include "the triangle" (an angular oddity in center field where balls can ricochet) and foul poles named after Sox greats Johnny Pesky (the right-field pole) and Fisk (the left-field pole).

? Despite the long drought in World Series wins, the Sox story between 1918 and 2004 was far from dull. It included trips to the World Series in 1946, 1967, 1975, and 1986. The championship aspirations were spoiled by the St. Louis Cardinals (with a "mad dash" by Enos Slaughter coming home from first base), the Cardinals again (led by the overpowering arm of Bob Gibson), the Cincinnati Reds' "Big Red Machine," and the New York Mets (after a ground ball infamously slipped past Sox first baseman Bill Buckner to force a Game 7). Some of those moments occurred outside Fenway Park, but others, like Fisk's home run, are forever etched in the memories of Boston fans.

? In October 1978, Bucky Dent shocked Boston by hitting a home run over the Green Monster, allowing the Yankees to edge out the Sox in a crucial division playoff game at the end of the season.
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? A turnabout moment came in 2004, when the Sox and Yanks faced each other in the American League Championship Series. The Sox appeared poised to lose in four straight games, when Kevin Millar drew a bottom-of-the-ninth walk, pinch runner Dave Roberts stole second base, and Bill Mueller drove him home with a single. The Sox went on to win the ALCS and then took their first World Series in 86 years.

? As befits its place in the sport's lore, Fenway served as a mecca for Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones in the baseball film "Field of Dreams."

? The park very nearly didn't survive. For years, team owners and local politicians grappled with questions about the field's future. Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan, commenting on TV before the celebration, said the team might easily be playing now in a "theme park" field modeled on Fenway, but thanks to a few fateful decisions, "we have the real thing."

? As old as Fenway is, not all Boston's great baseball moments came with that as the home field. Pitcher Cy Young threw the first pitch at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in the modern World Series in 1903 while leading the Boston Americans to a championship. The Americans became the Red Sox in 1908.

The celebration Tuesday brought a legion of former Sox players onto the field before cheering Boston fans. Among them were Jim Rice, Dwight Evans, Jim Lonborg, Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra, Dennis Eckersley, Buckner, Tiant, and Fisk. And the man who led the team back to national prominence starting in the 1960s: Carl Yastrzemski.

Then, with the former greats congregating on the field, composer John Williams unleashed a "Fanfare for Fenway."

Where once Bostonians talked of a "curse," on this day it may feel more accurate to borrow a line from Shakespeare and call Fenway a "blessed plot" of turf, brick, and bleachers that could thrive for years to come.

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Romney, allies amass cash for presidential race

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitt Romney raised nearly $12.6 million in March, his best fund-raising month yet, and the "Super PAC" backing him raised $8.7 million, even before the Republican front-runner and his allies began to amass cash in earnest for the costly fight to unseat Democratic President Barack Obama.

Romney had nearly $10.1 million in the bank, his campaign said on Friday, as he sought to wrap up the nomination and focus on raising money for the November 6 election.

The $12.6 million came at a time when Romney was still facing stiff competition from his last big conservative challenger, Rick Santorum, who has now dropped out of the race.

Since then, Romney has also begun raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee. The joint fund greatly increases how much a donor can give to help a candidate, thanks to larger contributions allowed for party organizations in addition to the campaign. Those figures have yet to be released.

Both Republicans and Democrats are waging a war to raise as much money as possible to fund crucial television and radio air time and get-out-the-vote efforts.

"Mitt Romney's continued strong fundraising shows that voters across the country are tired of the failures from President Obama," said Romney finance chairman Spencer Szwick. "We will continue the hard work to raise the necessary funds to defeat President Obama and change the direction of the country."

Obama and the Democratic National Committee, spared the strenuous nominating process faced by Romney, raised $53 million in March for the general election campaign.

DEMOCRATIC GROUPS LAGGING

But donations to outside Democratic groups have lagged those given to Republicans, a source of concern for Democrats.

Campaigns can take only $2,500 from each donor, once for the primary process and again for the general election. Super political action committees, or Super PACs, can take unlimited donations as long as they do not coordinate with the campaigns, and these have largely taken over the dirty task of negative advertising.

The pro-Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA Action, has struggled to catch up to the pro-Romney PAC Restore Our Future.

Restore Our Future on Friday reported raising $8.7 million in March, spent $12.7 million on knocking Santorum out of the race but still emerged with $6.5 million on hand.

The group's biggest donors last month included Texas billionaire banker Harold Simmons, who gave another $600,000 for a total of $800,000; hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin of Citadel LLC, who gave $850,000 for a total of $1 million; and Huron Carbon LLC, which gave $1 million and shares an address in Florida with Oxbow Carbon, run by Bill Koch and itself a big donor to the Super PAC.

Other big donors included Charles Schwab Corp founder Charles Schwab and his wife Helen, Cisco Systems Inc Chairman and Chief Executive John Chambers, New Balance Athletics Chairman James Davis, Marriott International Inc CEO J.W. Marriott Jr. and his brother Richard Marriott, chairman of Host Hotels and Resorts Inc.

Priorities USA was due to report its March fundraising to the Federal Election Commission later on Friday.

MORE SUPER PAC HELP

Helping Romney bridge the gap between his money power and Obama's is American Crossroads, perhaps the most formidable Republican Super PAC, which was co-founded by Karl Rove, former top aide and election strategist for President George W. Bush.

American Crossroads and its non-profit sister group Crossroads GPS have made plans to spend up to $300 million on this election cycle and by the end of March were two-thirds of the way to raising that sum, having hauled in $99.8 million over 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.

American Crossroads had $24.4 million left in cash on hand, a spokesman said, and its donors were due to be disclosed to the FEC on Friday. The non-profit Crossroads GPS is not legally required to report its fundraising or donors to the FEC.

The groups have been running ads slamming Obama, his policies and his party's congressional candidates. The $300 million plan covers the efforts launched last year into the rest of the cycle, with two-thirds focusing on the presidential race and the rest on Senate and House of Representatives races.

One of Romney's two rivals left in the Republican race is Texas Representative Ron Paul. His campaign's FEC filing on Friday showed he raised $2.6 million and had $1.8 million left in cash on hand at the end of March.

The filings on Friday are also expected to shine some light on the debts run up by Rick Santorum leading up to his campaign exit last week, and by Newt Gingrich, who has vowed to stick around until Romney's official nomination this summer despite his presidential campaign being in the red for weeks.

The Republican party also had its best month in March, raising $13.7 million and cutting back its debt to $9.9 million. The Democratic National Committee has not yet disclosed its numbers. Both are due to officially report to the FEC on Friday.

(The story was corrected to fix Griffin figure to $1 million from $950,000 in paragraph 12)

(Additional reporting by Steve Holland in Scottsdale, Arizona; Editing by Eric Walsh)

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Stand Aside Bieber, Ashton Kutcher Buys Ritzy L.A. Home

Ashton Kutcher was not about to be outdone by Justin Bieber. With Biebs circling the swank Los Angeles, CA home he had previously been renting like a shark, Kutcher purchased the home. It is unclear how much of the $10.8 million asking price he shelled out for the glass, steel and stone contemporary home that [...]

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