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Heidi Klum's Son and His Nannies Were Almost Swept Away by the Ocean This Easter (UPDATE)
Today in normal stories to which everyone can relate: supermodel Heidi Klum and her bodyguard boyfriend spent Easter Sunday performing an ocean rescue operation after Klum's seven-year-old son Henry and his two nannies were swept from shore in a rip current off the coast of Oahu.
Klum told Us that Henry "is a strong swimmer and was able to get back to land." The nannies he was supposed to be watching eventually made it back to shore as well, which is good because otherwise this incident would have been a lot more scarring.
If you are ever caught in a rip current and neither a supermodel, nor her bodyguard, nor your two nannies are available to save you, remember to swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the current, rather than struggling against it. They're usually no more than 100 feet wide, and once you're out of its pull you can swim back to shore.
Before the near-drowning, Klum tweeted a picture from the beach that proved she is very bad at hiding Easter eggs.
Frohe Ostern .....Happy Easter! twitter.com/heidiklum/stat…— Heidi Klum (@heidiklum) March 31, 2013
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A seminar led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory marked the culmination of a four-year-long effort to raise awareness of methane gas emissions in Russia. Under the framework of the Global Methane Initiative, the seminar brought together several of Russia's leading oil and gas companies in partnership with researchers at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, the U.S. EPA, and support from the World Wildlife Fund-Russia to exchange knowledge of internationally proven and cost-effective methane reduction technologies and practices. As a result of this ongoing collaboration, Russian oil and gas companies have begun to place greater importance on examining their production systems to optimize operational performance and reduce methane emissions. The seminar was held in Moscow, Russia, on March 16.
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LONDON, February 27, 2013 — Newton Management Limited, together with Newton Investment Management Limited, a global thematic investment boutique of BNY Mellon, announced today that they will be selling Newton's private client business to Standard Life Wealth. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the third quarter, 2013.
The agreement covers 7% of Newton's assets under management valued at £3.6bn and approximately 3,000 private clients.
The decision follows a thorough strategic and operational review of Newton's business.
Speaking about the transaction, Helena Morrissey, chief executive officer at Newton said: "The decision to sell the private client business was made after much thought and with the long-term future interests of all clients and staff at the forefront of considerations. Newton's overall business has evolved over the past several years to the point where private clients now make up just a small portion of our total assets under management.
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Opinion: Face it GOP, You're Losing the Shutdown Showdown
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on shutdown politics and why Republicans are voting for government programs they don't support. Photos: AP
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... I ... the ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel and present Obama is meeting with House Republicans today still use the GOP ... winning the PR battle ... of the political diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley here to talk about it ... Jason ... sickly through ... the numbers here we've got a recent poll ... showing public thinks ... while ... this poll is not an outlier Mary this poll shows that ... Republicans are being blamed for the share count ... more than the present ... and more than the Democrats in Congress ... and I think Republicans are in denial about these results because ... these polls of inconsistent ... bidding they were consistent ... during the last government shutdown ... and they were consistent ... leading up to the government shutdown married yet and it's also very high because it's me you Republicans I think to look for things ... that they don't support ... yes and I think that is how they know in their ... hearts ... that they are losing the PR campaign event ... tenants film spending bills I believe that the House has passed since the shutdown and you look at some of the items the funding Head Start Mary ... Republicans right really rail against this program for preschool kids ... as of the joke is something that does not warrant ... by that I like it is in third fourth grade you cannot tell those who went a head start ... from those who didn't it doesn't work for here there are finding it because the Democrats are trotting out can see I it's not just in and started just looking at this list people see that the women infants and children and other food assistance program full of fraud and abuse ... along with food stamps the Republicans regularly criticize ... here they are funding is another one is the FTA ... the program are they a ... department in the federal government ... the Republicans really criticized for raising the cost of drug research for slow walking remedies for sick people but here they are finding I think they know ... they're losing that the businesses desperation CCO pub they'll need to tell a loss on is coming to the table he's talking with House Republicans doesn't that show ... a little more flexibility on the part of the White House isn't that a sign that they're getting some Republicans are right and that we got to this point because the weak ... leadership of this process this is why ... we are here but we are here and ... we're not ... in the past and we need to go forth from here and I think it because the GOP to realize that and work forward in the war to God this must ... go in for another as a sign here that the president feels ... a little bit of a pinch but I still think ... present Obama thinks he has the upper hand he will only give ... so much but we did have the announcement of a coming announcement the Janet Yellen ... to be named to head ... the Federal Reserve and I think that is a sign ... that the present wants to calm markets the market will like this she stable she's unknown quantity that took the markets want and present Obama ... thinks that this could go up to the debt ... showdown in a couple weeks and he wants the markets to be ... home and I think ... naming her not to be named or we knew that was coming that they decided to name her now like the Assad is a lesson thirty lesson thirty seconds left the president says no one wants a shot down the GOP suddenly shut down the government so I'm not can negotiate ... his ear on the New Republic is really going to go to that one ... I don't think there are I don't think that Republicans when push comes to shove ... I'm going to allow us to optical Klepierre and I don't think that's going to happen ... I think the president knows that the cousin also knows he still has the votes in the Senate ... Republicans know they cannot push for well over ... so get with the GOP you are losing


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United Arts of Central Florida, which supports more than 50 arts, history and science organizations in Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties, will today announce its operating support grants for 2014.
Percentagewise, the biggest winner was Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, which saw its grant grow by nearly 35 percent, to $57,000. Orlando Repertory Theatre's grant increased by nearly a third, to $82,500.
The Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, which presents the "ZoraFest!" Hurston festival, took the biggest hit, with a 45 percent cut in its grant, to $12,452. That organization's finances came under scrutiny by Orange County this year.
This year's awards are the first under a revised grant system by United Arts that distributes money based on the size of an organization's budget. Many smaller organizations that formerly applied for different programming-based grants are now eligible for this operational funding.
Volunteer "review teams," consisting of experts in arts and funding, made site visits and met with groups' leadership. Applicants were then scored on a point system covering artistic merit, fiscal responsibility and service to the community.
"The board is extremely pleased to approve the recommendation of our grant review panels and to make these awards to such worthy cultural organizations," said Linda Landman Gonzalez, chairwoman of United Arts' board of directors.
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• Orlando Ballet: $187,800 ($171,041 last year)
• Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra: $180,200 ($152,600 last year)
• Orlando Museum of Art: $162,856 ($209,326 last year)
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FAIRFIELD, CT (July 30, 2013) - The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association named both the Men's and Women's Track and Field teams at Sacred Heart to the 2013 Division I Track & Field All-Academic teams. Alyssa Selmquist was named to the 2013 Division I All-Academic team.
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Who would have imagined a farm boy from Wisconsin would be the greatest air hero of World War II? Richard Bong was an athletic and hard-working boy from northern Wisconsin who dreamed of flying from the first time a plane buzzed low over his family farm. When war broke out, he left behind a life of sports, deer hunting, and farm chores to fly the new P-38 Lightning for the Army Air Force. Stationed in New Guinea, Bong shot down a total of 40 Japanese flyers in under three years - beating the record of 26 set by Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. His accomplishments won this modest pilot the title "Ace of Aces" and a Congressional Medal of Honor awarded by General MacArthur himself.
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They changed the face of Wisconsin. Now, their faces are becoming familiar to children around the state.
Since 2005, the Wisconsin Historical Society Press has tapped a diverse well of authors to write children's biographies of notable state figures.
Notable doesn't have to mean famous. Some "Badger Biographies Series" subjects, like Green Bay Packers founder Curly Lambeau, are household names. But others, like immigrant Swiss cheese maker Casper Jaggi, are little known yet accomplished extraordinary things.
"We want to have a balance of well-known and not," said Bobbie Malone, director of the society's Office of School Services, whose job is to cultivate potential titles and authors. So far, eight books are out, and more are coming.
"I do love what I do," said Malone, a former first-grade teacher who, when not editing the latest biography or some other society publication, travels around the state showing teachers how to bring Wisconsin history alive.
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The authors, too, say they've found inspiration in the stories that, in addition to Lambeau and Jaggi, have so far included Hmong refugee Mai Ya Xiong; escaped African-American slave and Underground Railroad user Caroline Quarlls; the founders of Harley-Davidson motorcycles; Mountain Wolf Woman, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation; the Ringling Brothers of circus fame; and Milwaukee Jew Lizzie Kander, whose "Settlement Cook Book" taught American homemaking to immigrant women and raised money for social causes.
"I think it's fascinating to see how people lived their lives," said Diane Young Holliday, an archaeologist who authored "Mountain Wolf Woman: A Ho-Chunk Girlhood."
Ultimately, "we want people to fall in love with the past so they value it and connect it to their own lives," Malone said.
Bob Kann, who inked Lizzie Kander's story and is himself a Jew whose mother owned a "Settlement Cook Book," said readers will relate to the tales of hard work and determination.
"It's important to expose kids to people who are exemplary, to show how people accomplished what they accomplished, how they dealt with defeat and to show their resilience in how they bounced back," Kann said.
Of Milwaukee's Jewish immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th Century, Kann said he hoped to show "how difficult their lives were, and how courageous it was for them to come to this country with very few resources."
"There weren't any social service agencies," Kann said. "They were very fortunate to have people like Lizzie Kander who were filling that gap."
Writing for children isn't easy.
Jerry Apps, a veteran writer who with the exception of two titles has spent 35 years crafting adult books, called writing for children "extremely difficult."
Apps adapted both of his Badger Biographies titles, on the Ringling family and Jaggi, from adult books he previously wrote on the same subjects.
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"I wasn't sure if I could explain things at a fourth-grade level," admitted Young Holliday, recalling reservations she had when collaborating with Malone on a publication previous to "Mountain Wolf Woman."
In some cases, it's weighing how to appropriately present the tainted personal lives of memorable people to a target audience of fourth- through eighth-graders, without whitewashing too much truth.
For all his legendary professional success, Curly Lambeau treated people badly and had serious character flaws that included infidelity, said Stuart Stotts, a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan and author of "Curly Lambeau: Building the Green Bay Packers."
"Curly was a philanderer, but that is not really dealt with in the book," Stotts said. "We didn't feel that was appropriate for 10-year-olds. You say a little bit about how he was divorced three times, and something about his inability to get along with people, but don't go into the details of extramarital affairs."
However, "I think 7- to 10-year-olds are quite capable of understanding that people are complex," Stotts said. "I think at this age they are quite able to recognize that people may have good qualities and bad qualities at the same time. The subtleties of behavior are not at all beyond what they are dealing with in their own social situations."
"I think as a biographer it's our job to make people's character flaws clear if we are aware of them, but not to dwell on them. The purpose of the book is not to bring down Curly Lambeau, but we have to be realistic about who he was."
Similarly tricky adult situations led to Mountain Wolf Woman's story focusing not on her grown-up years, but on her childhood, Malone said.
"You want to make it real but you can't overwhelm young readers with details or information they can't handle," Malone said.
The series is not done. In fact, it's just getting started.
In the pipeline are potential books on "Fighting Bob" and Belle Case La Follette, Govs. Lucius Fairchild and Gaylord Nelson, rural doctor Kate Newcomb, architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Cindy Bentley, a disabled Special Olympics athlete.
In addition to representing subjects of divergent backgrounds, Malone said she hopes to focus on people from various geographical corners of the state.
All of the books include an abundance of illustrations and break-out boxes that help readers further explore the topic and historical era. All also have a glossary, supplemental reading list and group discussion questions.
If she could find an interested author, Malone said she would love to produce a biography on naturalist and engineer Increase Lapham. Fur trader Soloman Juneau is also on her list.
And she would like to do a bilingual biography about migrant workers from Mexico. "We haven't gotten there yet, but that's definitely a direction I would like to go. There definitely are stories" about such workers and the people who brought them here, Malone said.
Malone said going back beyond the 19th century, to those who first populated the state, would be challenging in a biography format.
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Brilliant bluesman who inspired a generation of guitarists and singers dies after decades-long battle with diabetes
By Patrick Doyle May 15, 2015
B.B. King, who toured the world year-round as the unrivaled ambassador of the blues, died after a decades-long battle with diabetes. Charlie Gillett/Redferns
B.B. King, the larger-than-life guitarist and singer who helped popularize electric blues and brought it to audiences for more than six decades, died Thursday in Las Vegas. He was 89. King, who was diagnosed with diabetes nearly 30 years ago, was hospitalized last month due to dehydration. Last October, he was forced to cancel eight tour dates for dehydration and exhaustion. His attorney, Brent Bryson, confirmed his death to the Associated Press.
Into his late eighties, King toured the world year-round as the unrivaled ambassador of the blues. His indelible style – a throaty, throttling vocal howl paired with a ringing single-note vibrato sound played on his electric guitar named Lucille – defined the genre. He won 15 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
"He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced," Eric Clapton wrote in his 2008 biography, "and the most humble and genuine man you would ever wish to meet. In terms of scale or stature, I believe that if Robert Johnson was reincarnated, he is probably B.B. King."
King didn't do anything small; his excesses included food, women, (he claimed to have fathered 15 children by 15 different partners) and gambling (he moved to Las Vegas in 1975). His sound was also big: Speaking about "When Love Comes to Town," U2's 1988 duet with King, Bono recalled, "I gave it my absolute everything I had in that howl at the start of the song. And then B.B. King opened up his mouth and I felt like a girl. We had learned and absorbed, but the more we tried to be like B.B., the less convincing we were."
He was born Riley B. King in Itta Bena, Mississippi, on September 16th, 1925. His young parents divorced when he was five and his mother died when he was nine, leaving him to be raised by his maternal grandmother. King dropped out of school in tenth grade (though he vigorously studied math and languages until late in his life) and earned a living picking cotton for a penny a pound and singing gospel songs on a local street corner. He married at 17. "I guess I was looking for love, because I never had anybody I believed truly loved me," he told Rolling Stone in 1998. It was the first of two failed marriages. "Since my early childhood, I had a problem trying to open up. Please open me up. Look inside! 'Cause I can't. I don't know how to."
B.B. King's Life in Photos »In 1948, King was living in Memphis working as a tractor driver when he landed a gig on Sonny Boy Williamson's local radio show. That led to a job at a popular West Memphis juke joint playing six nights a week, earning $12 a night, In Memphis, he met artists like Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker, where he heard electric guitar for the first time. "T-Bone was, to me, that sound of being in heaven," he said.
King scored his first Number One hit in 1951 with "3 O' Clock Blues." Dozens more followed in the coming decades, including 1954's "You Upset Me Baby," 1959's "Sweet Sixteen." One night in 1949, King was performing at a dance in Twist, Arkansas, when two men started fighting over a woman named Lucille and set the club on fire by knocking over the kerosene stove. The place was evacuated, but King rushed back inside to retrieve his guitar, which he dubbed Lucille. Despite being married twice, King has said that Lucille was his true love, and he called every guitar he owned after that Lucille as well. "'Lucille' is real," King once wrote. "When I play her, it's almost like hearing words, and of course, naturally I hear cries. I'd be playing sometimes as I'd play, it seems like it almost has a conversation with me. It tells you something. It communicates with me."
In the Sixties, the success of blues-influenced British bands helped broaden King's appeal. He began to perform for white rock audiences with acts like the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. Around this time, his sound started to change. When Rolling Stone included King among the 100 Greatest Guitarists, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top said, "There was a turning point, around the time of [1965's] Live at the Regal, when his sound took on a personality that is untampered with today – this roundish tone, where the front pickup is out of phase with the rear pickup. And B.B. still plays a Gibson amplifier that is long out of production. His sound comes from that combination. It's just B.B." Some of King's greatest recordings are live albums, including Live in Japan and Live at Cook County Jail, which showcase his masterful delivery and playful, old school showmanship.
In the late Sixties, King moved to New York and started working with manager Sid Seidenberg, who helped curb his gambling habit and got him in the studio with bigger producers. The hits that followed included 1968's "Paid the Cost to Be the Boss," 1969's cutting social commentary "Why I Sing the Blues" and "Thrill Is Gone" (originally recorded in 1951 by Roy Hawkins), a spooky minor-key stomp with string overdubs that earned King a Grammy in 1970 and was named Number 183 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. King's songs mixed wry humor and deep-rooted soul.
B.B. King's 5 Greatest Live Performances »In the Seventies, King also recorded albums with longtime friend and onetime chauffeur Bobby Bland, 1974's Together for the First Time...Live and 1976's Together Again...Live, and Stevie Wonder produced his 1973 song "To Know You Is to Love You." In 1988, he recorded "When Love Comes To Town" for U2's album Rattle and Hum. Bono later recalled an anecdote from the session: "When we were working, we were showing him the chords and he said,' gentlemen. I don't do chords. I do this [referencing King's soloing style]. There's a lesson in that. He is, as Keith Richards describes, a specialist."
Said King, "Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues', they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy."
King' style – marked by his signature ringing, vibrato notes – became a hallmark of blues playing, imitated by everyone from Clapton to Buddy Guy. "I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck," King said. "But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I 'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound."
"Very seldom does he talks about the way he play, man," Buddy Guy told Rolling Stone last year. "He always wanna talk about young women. And I fuss at him sometimes, I say, 'Man I wanna know what did you do here!'"
In 1991, B.B. King's Blues Club opened in Memphis. Soon, he'd have clubs throughout the country. He continued to enjoy commercial success late into his career. In 2000, Riding With the King, an album recorded with Eric Clapton, topped the Blues Albums chart and went double-platinum. A 1998 Rolling Stone feature by Gerri Hirshey estimated that King had played more than 15,000 concerts. He spent more than 65 years on the road, playing more than 300 shows a year until cutting back to around a 100 during the last decade. "We worked our asses off from '63 to '66, right through those three years, non-stop," Keith Richards once said. "I believe we had two weeks off. That's nothing, I mean I tell that to B.B. King and he'll say, 'I been doing it for years.'" King was also an entertainer off stage, regularly holding meet and greets, where he chatted with fans and "guitar kids," as he called them, long after the house lights turned on. "At the Crossroads concerts, the first one I did, I was a nervous wreck," Gary Clark Jr. told Rolling Stone last year. "It was a big day for me. I walked across the stage and B.B. kind of grabbed my hand, looked up at me, and just kind of nodded. That was one of those moments where I was like, 'B.B. King is smiling at me. Everything is going to be all right. Yeah, I can go on with my life."
King was also an avid reader and Internet enthusiast who once schooled a young reporter on how to transfer vinyl to MP3. "Gosh, I don't know how I lived without it!" he once said of the computer.
"I'm slower," he told Rolling Stone in 2013. "As you get older, your fingers sometimes swell. But I've missed 18 days in 65 years. Sometimes guys will just take off; I've never done that. If I'm booked to play, I go and play."
He added, "The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it."
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ERIE, Pa. — Other kids Connor McDavid's age would be ecstatic to get a Sidney Crosby jersey. The lucky ones might even get an autograph from the NHL superstar.
McDavid gets compliments.
The 15-year-old is next in hockey's line of phenoms, a short list that includes Crosby himself. McDavid is living up to the "exceptional player" status granted by the Ontario Hockey League, shining for the Erie Otters as an underage rookie.
"He looks like he's got it all," Crosby told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "When I watched him play, he reminded me of myself."
McDavid, a Toronto native, has done a lot already this season, including a league-high points streak of 15 games, but receiving praise from his hockey idol tops his list of accomplishments.
"That was pretty amazing," McDavid said over the weekend. "For him to say something like that meant the world to me."
It's easy to see why the Penguins' captain would notice shades of himself in McDavid. The center is a slick-passing, goal-scoring, hard-working player who has an uncommon view of the game.
"He has hockey sense, and he has vision, and he just knows what's happening before other people know what's going to happen," Erie coach Robbie Ftorek said. "That's what really great hockey players have. That's what makes him different."
McDavid is just the third person to earn the OHL's "exceptional player" designation, joining New York Islanders center John Tavares (2005) and Sun County defenseman Aaron Ekblad (2011). The age range for junior hockey in Canada is 16 to 20, but McDavid went through an application and interview process to show that staying in his peer group would slow his development.
"I've played with kids a year older my whole life, since I've been 4 pretty much," said McDavid, who had 33 goals and 72 points in 32 games for a Toronto midget team last season. "Obviously, now it's a pretty big step up playing against some guys that are 20, but I'm getting used to it."
It didn't take long for McDavid to show he belonged. After getting blanked in his debut, he recorded points in 15 straight games. He scored in 23 of his 26 outings, totaling 14 goals and 32 points.
"I can still play a whole lot better even though I am getting a couple points," McDavid said. "I had no idea what to expect. It was a summer of just waiting and wondering. It's good to get it started and get a sense of what was going on. It's been a blast so far."
The 5-foot-11, 170-pounder ranks 21st in scoring. Only two rookies cracked the top 20 during the last three seasons, with Sarnia's Nail Yakupov (fourth) and Alex Galchenyuk (20th) accomplishing the feat two years ago. Yakupov went first overall in this year's NHL draft, while Galchenyuk went third.
McDavid is likely to reclaim a spot in the OHL's top 20 because he does everything for the Otters, who went 10-52-6 last season to earn the right to select McDavid first in the OHL draft. During a 4-2 loss to Kitchener on Saturday that dropped Erie to 7-15-4, McDavid centered the first line and played on the top unit during power plays and penalty kills.
"That's what you want your rookie season," McDavid said. "You just want to play. You look at guys who are on winning teams and they're not playing. They're fighting to even dress in games. That's not what I want at all. I want to play. Sure, we're losing some games, but I think we're a lot better than our record shows. We're in almost every game."
McDavid's skills are evident whenever he's on the ice, including warm-ups. While teammates waited for a goaltender swap Saturday, McDavid rapidly stickhandled between pucks as part of his pregame outing. During the game, he repeatedly showed his quick cuts, stops and starts, was impossible to knock down and was a tenacious penalty-killer.
He also assisted on a goal by linemate J.P. Labardo, who is having a career season on McDavid's left wing with eight goals and 22 points in 25 games. The 20-year-old had eight goals and 19 points in 50 games last year.
McDavid's poise on the ice is mirrored by his mature attitude off it. The OHL has turned down underage applicants who showed their youth, but McDavid acts much older than 15. It's helped him live up to the hype.
"I guess it's the way I was brought up," McDavid said. "My dad always gave me some great advice, and the same with my mom. They taught me really well.
"It's nice to have some attention, but at the same time it's been pretty crazy and a bit of a whirlwind. … When it comes to on-ice stuff, it's just hockey."
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Four years ago he was a blank slate. Millions projected their finest dreams on to Barack Obama. He was going to bring America together and put an end to racial strife. He�d make America respected again around the world. He�d do big things. His would be a transformational presidency.
Millions of other voters sketched their deepest fears on Obama�s blank slate. He was inexperienced and untested. He was different, unknown. He was a wild-eyed liberal, a communist, a Muslim. Maybe he wasn�t really an American.
The Kool-Aid has worn off for most of the lefties and newbies who swooned in 2008. But the far right has been more resistant to reality. He�s still the �other,� if not the antichrist, with a secret, second-term agenda to destroy America. An entire industry has grown up, devoted to spreading fear and lies about Obama.
But most Americans know him now, or at least we ought to. After four years in the White House, that slate should be pretty well filled in. What have we learned about the president?
- He�s still �No Drama Obama,� a cool head when things get hot. He doesn�t speak or act impulsively. He thinks things through. His gaffes are rare.
- He works well with others. He staffed his administration with strong personalities and sometime rivals like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Bob Gates, Leon Panetta and more. They don�t always agree behind closed doors � it�s no secret that Biden opposed the Afghan surge and the bin Laden raid � but there have been few signs of back-biting or the turf fights so common in Washington.
- He�s willing to compromise, sometimes too willing. Obama kept making concessions to Republicans in Congress, rarely getting their votes in return. But he�ll take a half-loaf any day � and come back looking for the other half later.
- Obama�s a basketball player � his high school team won a state championship. As president, he may dribble around a bit, but he�s willing to take the shot, even if it�s not a sure thing. Sometimes it clangs off the rim, like when he flew to Copenhagen in a last-ditch effort to bring the Olympics to Chicago. Sometimes it hits the target, like the Navy sniper who took out the Somali pirates to rescue an American captain early in Obama�s presidency, or like Seal Team 6 nailing Osama bin Laden.
- He�s a moderate who only looks like a leftist because Republicans have moved so far to the right. Obamacare is more conservative than Nixon�s health care reform proposal. Infrastructure investments were a top priority for Republicans like Lincoln and Eisenhower. Despite what you�ve heard, the numbers show that federal spending has grown at a lower pace under Obama than any president in 60 years.
- He�s not afraid to go big. Presidents since Harry Truman have tried to guarantee universal access to health care. Obama succeeded. The stimulus bill was the largest intervention in the economy in history, and it worked. Independent economists agree it added 2 percent to GDP, the difference between continuing recession and fragile recovery. It also included major long-term investments and significant reforms in education, energy and health care.
- He�s got a terrific family. Nothing the Obamas have done has embarrassed the nation.
- He�s on the side of those who need help. He went to the mat to extend benefits for the unemployed, to raise Pell grants and reduce interest rates for needy college students. In the wonky details of all the tax legislation he�s signed are provisions to shrink the income gap and boost opportunity for the middle class.
- Diversity is in his DNA and inclusion is one of his core values. He didn�t have to welcome gays and lesbians into the military or give the children of illegal immigrants a chance to be part of the only country they know � and Mitt Romney wouldn�t have done either one.
The week of the presidential inauguration, Rush Limbaugh said he wanted Obama to fail, and for four years, his allies in the Republican Party have done their best to make Rush�s dream come true. While the congressional wing tried to stall progress on the nation�s agenda at every turn, the media wing kept painting caricatures on Obama�s slate.
Those not blinded by partisanship have seen a different picture. After four years, they know President Obama to be level-headed, warm-hearted, open-minded and even-tempered. He has proven himself to be the leader America needs, now and for another four years.
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Microsoft has announced that it will not be releasing any new versions of its Visual FoxPro development software past Version 9.0, but the company will continue to support the technology through 2015. Instead of releasing new versions of FoxPro, Microsoft will release core portions of the FoxPro software to its CodePlex community development site, said Alan Griver, a group manager within the Microsoft Visual Studio team, which leads the FoxPro team.
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U.S. Women Will Face Japan, Norway and Finland; Trip to Southern Portugal Will Serve as Warm-Up for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
CHICAGO (Feb. 10, 2011) – Following a seven-day training camp in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., U.S. Women's National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has named a 24-player preliminary roster for the 2011 Algarve Cup in Portugal.
This year's tournament is being staged from March 2-9 and the U.S. team will depart for Europe on Feb. 18. The venues and kickoff times have yet to be confirmed. Sundhage will name 20 players to the tournament roster prior to the start of the matches.
All the games will be played at small venues across the Algarve region on the southern coast of the country, and the placement matches will take place on March 9. Fans can follow the USA's intense schedule of four games in eight days online via ussoccer.com's MatchTracker, on Twitter @ussoccer_wnt and watch highlights on ussoccer.com.
The U.S. team, which has been placed into Group A at the annual tournament, will open play on March 2 against first-time Algarve Cup participants Japan, will face Norway on March 4 and will finish the first round on March 7 against Finland. Group B features Sweden, China, Iceland and Denmark. Group C features host Portugal, another first-time Algarve Cup participant in Chile, Wales and Romania.
Since the expansion to 12 teams 10 years ago, the Algarve Cup format has been as follows: The teams in Group A and B will compete for the title as the group winners will play on Wednesday, March 9, in the championship game. The two second-place finishers in Groups A and B will play for third place while the third-place finishers will play for fifth. The Group C teams will be competing for a chance to play for spots 7-12 as the winner of Group C will play the best fourth place team from Groups A or B for seventh place. The second place team in Group C will play the worst fourth place team from Groups A or B for ninth place, and the third and fourth place finishers in Group C will play each other for 11th place.
This will be the 16th trip to the Algarve Cup for the U.S. Women, who have won the tournament seven times, including an unprecedented three straight championships from 2003-05 at what has become one of the world's most competitive international women's events. Last year, the USA defeated Germany 3-2 in the championship game on a sloppy field at Stadium Algarve in Faro.
Sundhage will bring a slightly larger roster to the tournament as U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo (who is attending her ninth Algarve Cup) is not yet cleared for game competition, but will come to train as she enters the final stages of her rehabilitation from major shoulder surgery. The larger roster will also give more players the chance to train in preparation for this summer's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Four of the eight teams over Groups A and B will be participating in the World Cup in Germany.
The USA scored nine goals at last year's tournament, including one own goal, credited to Sif Atladottir of Iceland, and each of the U.S. goalscorers return this year. Carli Lloyd, Abby Wambach and Lauren Cheney, who all scored in the championship game, accounted for the eight goals with Cheney netting four and Wambach three.
After missing January's Four Nations Tournament in China, Wambach returns to the roster looking to build on her career total of 117 goals. The U.S. roster is stocked with veteran players, led by U.S. captain Christie Rampone (who missed last year's tournament while preparing for the birth of her second daughter), Shanon Boxx (the 2004 and 2006 Algarve Cup MVP), Wambach (15 career goals at the Algarve, best of any U.S. player), and 100-plus capped midfielders Lloyd, Lindsay Tarpley and Heather O'Reilly. Lloyd was the MVP of the 2007 Algarve Cup after scoring in all four games. O'Reilly will be playing in her team-leading ninth Algarve Cup.
Joining Wambach in a quartet of forwards is Amy Rodriguez, Lauren Cheney and Alex Morgan, the top pick in the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash. Sundhage chose nine midfielders with Yael Averbuch, Tobin Heath, Megan Rapinoe, Lori Lindsey and Kelley O'Hara – all of whom contributed to the Four Nations title – rounding out the group.
Seven defenders were chosen. Heather Mitts will not make the trip due to injury, but outside back Ali Krieger, currently playing her club soccer in Germany for FFC Frankfurt, will join the U.S. team in Portugal. Veterans Rachel Buehler, Amy LePeilbet and Stephanie Cox will be joined by Becky Sauerbrunn (five caps) and the uncapped Whitney Engen on the back line.
Nicole Barnhart, who has started the past 11 games in goal for the USA, is joined by uncapped Ashlyn Harris and Alyssa Naeher as the USA will bring four 'keepers to Portugal. This is the eighth Algarve Cup appearance for Boxx and seventh for Wambach.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster by Position Detailed Roster
GOALKEEPERS (4): Nicole Barnhart (out of contract), Ashlyn Harris (Western New York Flash), Alyssa Naeher (Boston Breakers), Hope Solo (out of contract)
DEFENDERS (7): Rachel Buehler (Boston Breakers), Stephanie Cox (Boston Breakers), Whitney Engen (Western New York Flash), Ali Krieger (FFC Frankfurt), Amy LePeilbet (Boston Breakers), Christie Rampone (Washington Freedom), Becky Sauerbrunn (Washington Freedom),
MIDFIELDERS (9): Yael Averbuch (Western New York Flash), Shannon Boxx (Washington Freedom), Tobin Heath (Sky Blue FC), Lori Lindsey (Philadelphia Independence), Carli Lloyd (Atlanta Beat), Kelley O'Hara (Boston Breakers), Heather O'Reilly (Sky Blue FC), Megan Rapinoe (Philadelphia Independence), Lindsay Tarpley (Washington Freedom)
FORWARDS (4): Lauren Cheney (Boston Breakers), Alex Morgan (Western New York Flash), Amy Rodriguez (Philadelphia Independence), Abby Wambach (Washington Freedom)
18th Annual Algarve Cup
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Group A
Japan, Finland, USA, Norway
Group B
Sweden, China, Iceland, Denmark
Group C
Portugal, Chile, Wales, Romania
March 2
Group Teams
A Norway vs. Finland
A USA vs. Japan
B Sweden vs. Iceland
B China vs. Denmark
C Portugal vs. Wales
C Romania vs. Chile
March 4
Group Teams
A Japan vs. Finland
A USA vs. Norway
B Iceland vs. China
B Denmark vs. Sweden
C Portugal vs. Chile
C Wales vs. Romania
March 7
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A Norway vs. Japan
A USA vs. Finland
B China vs. Sweden
B Denmark vs. Iceland
C Chile vs. Wales
C Portugal vs. Romania
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