"Please don’t judge on what is gonna be coming out,” he said. “Glass half full. All the good things that he’s done. There’s more things on that side to focus on.”
“Because he is such a high profile guy, you know it is not going to end there," he added. "There is going to be ridicule about — he has done this or that — and I just hope people know it is not about that. … His life was full of beautiful stories, triumphs, failures and successes that it does not matter what his problems were. … It matters how many lives he changed and that he was genuine.”
On the Oprah show some time back Adam was quotes as saying "I'm a fan of marriage," he confessed. "People think that I keep pooh-poohing marriage, but I love it ... I want to probably be married at some point." Well ladies, its now official as Adam's representative announced earlier this week to the 'People' magazine that he's now engaged to Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo.This may come as shocking news to some as the couple have only been dating for a year now, but the actor 34, and his soon to be wife at 24, seem to want to make their relationship permanent. Known for his model hopping antics, the Maroon 5 singer has finally brought those days to rest and has started a new chapter in his life.
1. Is Independence Day really July 2?
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Officially, the Continental Congress declared its freedom from Britain on July 2, 1776, when it approved a resolution and delegates from New York were given permission to make it a unanimous vote. John Adams thought July 2 would be marked as a national holiday for generations to come.
2. July 4 is when the Declaration was adoptedAfter voting on independence, the Continental Congress needed to finalize a document explaining the move to the public. It had been proposed in draft form by the Committee of Five (John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson) and it took two days for the Congress to agree on the edits.
3. Six people signed the Declaration and also the ConstitutionFranklin was literally among a handful of people who signed both historic documents. The others were George Read, Sherman, Robert Morris, George Clymer and James Wilson.
4. But they didn’t sign the Declaration on July 4th!Once the Congress approved the actual Declaration on Independence document on July 4, it ordered that it be send to a printer named John Dunlap. About 200 copies of the Dunlap Broadside were printed, with John Hancock’s name printed at the bottom. Today, 26 copies remain.
Read More5. So what if I stumble upon a lost version of the Dunlap Broadside at a flea market?That’s exactly what happened in 1989 in Adamstown, Pa. It was tucked behind an old picture in a frame and it cost the buyer $4. That version of the Declaration was eventually acquired by TV producer Norman Lear for $8.1 million.
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"There are lots of gadgets in this space right now, but there's nothing great out there," Cook said at the technology conference. "But none of them are going to convince a kid that hasn't worn glasses or a band to wear one. There are a lot of problems to solve in this space. It's ripe for exploration." Recently a number of fitness wristbands were released, which pair with a phone and track steps and calories burned.The iWatch would be a new category or type of device for Apple, but the company is also planning to refresh its iPhone. The iPhone 5S has already been rumored to have the same design as the current iPhone 5, but have a faster chip and a fingerprint reader. The International Business Times reports that it will launch on September 20. Apple released the iPhone 5 last September 21.
“She plays really good on grass,” Williams said afterward. “She has a massive, massive serve. So going in there you have to know that it’s definitely not going to be an easy match playing her at Wimbledon, especially on Centre Court.
“It’s definitely not a shock. I just need to do better.”
Lisicki had to dig deep in the third set, fighting back from a three-games-to-none deficit. Afterward, she giggled and expressed her disbelief about beating the No. 1 player in the world.Read More
“It’s unbelievable,” she told the BBC after the match. As for trailing in the third set, she said, “I gave it everything I have. … I just hang [sic]in there and fought for every single point to try to win it somehow.”(Carl Court / AFP Getty Images)
"This shows how unbelievable this city is," Toews said, addressing the rapt crowd at Grant Park. "Unbelievable. Thank you."Read More
The Blackhawks rode to the rally in red, open-topped buses, passing waving and screaming fans of every age as the parade traveled from the United Center to the downtown party. Toews hoisted the Stanley Cup over his head to show it off to the crowd, which was cooled by large water misters placed along the route with temperatures in the low 80s.
One of the many signs read "Thank you, guys" on the top line and "Best 17 seconds of my life" for the second part - referring to the pair of late goals that lifted the Blackhawks to a 3-2 title-clinching victory over the Boston Bruins on Monday night. And there was at least one expression of love for Andrew Shaw, the hardscrabble forward who required stitches on his face after he was hit by a puck Monday.
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“The first thing I do is, I’m like, ‘O.K., Serena, stay focused,’ ” she said. “This happened before. I don’t know when. I want to say it was the U.S. Open, though. A lot of players were losing. I thought, definitely want to stay focused and stay serious. So that’s what I did again yesterday.”Garcia lifts her eyes to the sky well before she tosses up the ball to serve, and it ultimately seemed like a fine idea to seek help from above in light of Williams’s current form. Williams rolled to her 33rd straight victory and has also won 28 straight sets, which meant that after all the drama-tinged news conferences and pretournament public apologies, she could settle into a much more lighthearted vein on Thursday.It included a debate about a would-be battle of the sexes with Murray.Opening question: “Andy Murray has challenged you to a showdown in Las Vegas. What is your answer?”Williams: “He’s challenged me?”That led to discussion of Williams’s long-ago match (and defeat) against the cigarette-smoking German journeyman Karsten Braasch in Australia in 1998.“I was really young; I’m a lot more experienced now,” Williams said, before considering Murray.“He’s probably one of the top three people I definitely don’t want to play,” she said. “But yeah, maybe we can have a little bit of a showdown. That would be fine. I get alleys. He gets no serves. I get alleys on my serves, too. He gets no legs. Yeah.”
