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Could the reason America fell in love with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson be the same reason they split?
Was doing ?Newlyweds? a mistake?
On the same day his new album came out, Nick sat down with Access Hollywood?s Nancy O?Dell to look back at what went wrong and where things may now be headed.?
?Considering everything that?s happened, do you think ?Newlyweds? was the right thing to do?? Nancy asked Nick.
?If I knew then what I know now, I would gladly sacrifice ?Newlyweds? and every bit of success and opportunity and things that were brought to me for a healthy, happy marriage. That being said, I don't know if that's what caused it or if that's responsible for it,? a candid Nick revealed.
But just eight months after they escaped the constant glare of their MTV reality show, Nick and Jessica called it quits.
?Do you feel like you?re more guarded now as far as relationships?? Nancy asked.
?Yeah, but I?m kind of a fool too,? Nick said. ?So I?ll kind of just dive right back in, you know. I?m certainly not at the point in my life where I?m even ready to think about that.?
?So you don?t have what you would consider a girlfriend?? Nancy smiled.
?No, I certainly do not. My girl has been my work, which has been a real blessing through this.?
?Do you feel like you want to marry again in the future?? Nancy followed.
?For me, a phase was certainly going through that emotion saying ?I just can?t imagine doing this again.? But for me, I?m a romantic at heart and when I come to my senses, I can?t imagine not and hopefully it turns out a different way the second time. I don?t want to be a serial marrier,? said Nick.
?Because you want kids? You?ve spoken openly about that,? Nancy said. ?You want little Nickies running around.?
?Yeah, I want little Nickies, whether they?re boys or girls,? he replied.
And while the tone of Nick?s new CD, ?What?s Left Of Me,? is decidedly downbeat (even the photos inside are somber) he can still crack a smile ? especially when it comes to Nancy.
?Do you remember calling me your second favorite gal on ?Newlyweds??? Nancy asked him.
?I do. I do absolutely,? he grinned.
?Well, now I figure that maybe I?m your first favorite gal right now,? Nancy joked.
?You?ve certainly moved up the rankings,? Nick laughed.

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Does an ice pick in the back await the man who betrayed Anna Chapman?
- By Joshua Keating
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy
An unnamed Russian official has told Russia's generally reputable Kommersant newspaper that an assassin has been dispatched to dispense some Soviet-style justice against a former SVR colonel identified only as Shcherbakov, who allegedly controlled the ring of sleeper agents arrested in the United States last June and fled Russia just days before they were arrested:
"You can have no doubt — a Mercader has already been sent after him."
Ramón Mercader was the KGB-hired Spanish communist who was sent to kill Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico in 1940. […]
"The fate of such a person is unenviable. All his life he will drag this with him, living every day in fear of retribution."
So for blowing Russia's inside source on the Montclair Parent-Teacher Association, this guy gets elevated to the level of Leon Trotsky?
It's true that the arrest of "the illegals" can be seen as a sign of the return to KGB-era espionage tactics after a period during which the SVR tried unsuccessfully to distance itself from its past. And the involvement of Russian intelligence has been suspected in a number of other assassinations, notably former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was killed by polonium poisoning in London in 2006.
But telegraphing an assassination plan in advance is going to make plausible deniability a bit tough if something happens to Shcherbakov in the near future. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was a bit subtler back in July, saying, "The special services live under their own laws, and everyone knows what these laws are" and "Traitors always end badly. As a rule, they end up in the gutter as drunks or drug addicts."


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Wales have changed their captain so often in recent seasons that Ryan Jones is in his ninth spell in charge. In Rome on Saturday, he is unlikely to be short of expert opinion from some who have been there and done it. One past captain, Gethin Jenkins, is in the team, as many as three more could be on the bench – Alun-Wyn Jones, Matthew Rees and Sam Warburton.
Two more can be found in the English Premiership – Wasps fly-half Stephen Jones and his old Wales half-back partner, Sale scrum-half Dwayne Peel. Another, Duncan Jones, is still to be found in the Ospreys front row where he has been since their creation ten years ago.
Like England, Wales have had 12 captains during the eight years since February 2005. Since then, Wales have played 100 Tests and changed captain no fewer than 42 times, compared to 26 by England over the same period.
Rob Howley's early announcement of an unchanged team against Italy is to be welcomed as a decisive move. It has not been seen as such in some quarters which only goes to show there is no pleasing some people, a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
These have been trying times for the acting head coach. By giving the starting XV the earliest vote of confidence as due reward for their win in Paris, Howley moved quickly to prevent another
Amazonian rain forest being mutilated to provide the newsprint for a week of speculation over the captaincy.
Warburton is man enough to know the score and able enough to play his way back, injury permitting. His successor has been through the emotional wringer over the captaincy so often that he dare not look ahead to the match after Rome, Scotland at Murrayfield, lest he should find himself back on the bench.
Ryan Jones knows better than anyone that the captaincy does not guarantee selection for the next game. Not so long ago, he went from a winning skipper in one match to the bench for the next but then he has survived a worse experience than that.
As punishment for conceding the late penalty which allowed Fiji to snatch the most honourable of draws in Cardiff three seasons ago, Jones found himself publicly stripped of the captaincy by Warren Gatland. While the head coach had his say, Jones kept a dignified silence.
Since then, Wales turned to him for one-off matches when there was nobody else around. Keeping his team on the straight and narrow to see off a wretched French team last weekend might not have been enough to save Jones from an immediate return to the ranks until Howley decided the time had come to speak up in praise of Jones' "outstanding leadership".
That leaves Warburton free to concentrate on reclaiming his place at openside from Justin Tipuric, a task which will be made all the more formidable should Wales keep winning in Rome. More white smoke from the home dressing room ought to ensure that Jones continues to call the shots from his vantage point on the blindside of the back row.
For whatever reason – injury, form or squad rotation – Wales have changed their captain over the last eight years on average once every two-and-a-bit games. When he packs the armband for Italy, Jones will be acutely aware that it's been on and off as often as England's bid for the Grand Slam.
He has just had more practice at it than anyone else. Since 2005, Jones' nine spells as captain contrast with three for Michael Owen, Stephen Jones, Martyn Williams and Matthew Rees; four for Gethin Jenkins, seven for Warburton.
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Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Review by JJNimbel
"Classic, in every sense of the word"
First, let me get this out of the way: I am totally biased in favor of this game (hence the score i gave it). Something about this game gets me (in a good way) every time I play it. I'm not an old school fanatic or anything (although i DO enjoy many old games) I just never get tired of this game. OK, onto the breakdown.
( GRAPHICS: 7/10 ) This score isn't done by today's standards (obviously) but back in the day, when i first fired this game up, I was pretty impressed. The characters were decently sized and had enough animations to keep me amused (the best of which, being when the macho man clone throws you over his shoulder). The colours were limited, (but who really cared about that?) the backgrounds looked alright (who can forget that floating water) and overall, the graphics don't disappoint.
( SOUND: 9/10 ) The music in this game is so grand (maybe I'm just biased). I've played this game enough times that the music is just burned into my brain and i can't see this game with any other music. The sound effects were almost on par with the music (if only every sound effect was as good as the super knee effect)
( CONTROL: 7/10 ) The play control in this game is decent, and easy to master after a few playthroughs, but when you're just starting out, it may be confusing at times (like changing directions but not switching the attack buttons). For an 8-bit beat-em-up, there actually is a decent move list, including holds, throws and the often-used, always-abused SUPER KNEE.
( GAMEPLAY: 8/10 ) Here's what really makes this game so great. Aside from the aforementioned movelist, the pace of this game is just right, and the placement of bosses and mini-bosses is on par too. The one gripe though, is the lack of variety with the enemies. I mean, sure, there are a decent number of little thugs and such, but there's only so many times you can beat up a pink pants clad, mohawked lesbian before you start to wonder what it would be like to beat up other kinds of lesbians. The same goes for the mini-bosses/bosses. Maybe I'm OK with the repetition of mini-bosses, but when those same mini-bosses are end level bosses as well, I draw the line. Another small nitpick, is with the BEST and at the same time WORST aspect of this game: the super knee. While I DO realize how earth-shatteringly, laws-of-physics-defyingly great this move is, it also makes this game WAY too easy. Anybody who masters how to consistently super knee (and its quite an easy thing to master) can beat this game without losing a life (and when i say beat this game, i mean beat it on Supreme Master). These are just minor things that are easily and quickly swept aside once you start realizing everything else this game has to offer. The 2 player co-op action is, of course, everything to write home about. On a similar note, playing 2p co-op with friendly hits on, adds a whole new facet to this game. You can try to play through the game normally, but eventually, you will end up getting into a game of cat-and-mouse with your friend to see who can super knee the other to death faster.
With endless replayability (maybe its just me, but i never tire of this game) and the SUPER KNEE move, this game has everything going for it, and more!
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 08/05/04
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The bulk of gold bought by China used to flow through Hong Kong, making its export data a useful proxy for Chinese demand as Beijing treats data about imports of the precious metal as a state secret.
But Reuters calculations using export numbers from data provider Global Trade Information Services show that China's direct gold imports jumped to nearly 150 tonne in the first quarter.
Excluding Switzerland, which did not disclose country specific data in 2013, direct imports nearly doubled in the period from a year ago.
The number does not provide a complete picture as some exporters do not provide gold trade data and others do not break down their exports by country.
"If gold enters China via Shanghai then it is not going to be easy anymore to draw conclusions about Chinese demand by just looking at Hong Kong data," said Carsten Fritsch, an analyst with Commerzbank.
The Shanghai Gold Exchange the world's biggest platform for physical gold trade is in talks with foreign banks and producers on the new exchange in the city's pilot free trade zone.
The exchange is set to launch physically deliverable gold contracts, with the metal allowed to be stored in vaults in the free trade zone.
Banks had already started imports through the free trade zone, said a source at a gold-importing bank in China. "Shanghai should play a far bigger role once the international exchange is open," said the person.


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4 RV Parks near Moorefield, West Virginia
Petersburg, West Virginia 9.16 miles SW
Lost City, West Virginia 13.76 miles SE
Basye, Virginia 19.68 miles SE
Romney, West Virginia 22.98 miles NE
Upper Tract, West Virginia 23.49 miles SW
4000 River Rd Moorefield, West Virginia 26818 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 86 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 3 Reviews
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Aug 2017 - $99.00
Very nice cabins. Fully furnished, just bring bedding towels, toiletries and food. Quiet and relaxing. Kids loved mini golf, gem mining, river tubing and pool. Two boat ramps within 15 minutes for fishing and Parker Hollow lake half hour away. Best price in Petersburg Moorefield area. Quiet and secluded. - Richard Locke
Jun 2013 - $35.00
This is a fairly nice park, once you pass through the area of rundown mobile homes prior to the entrance, as mentioned previously. It is located about 30 miles from Romney, WV, where the Potomac Eagle train trip originates. It's about 1 hour and 15 minutes from the beautiful Blackwater Falls State Park. The full hookups include strong water and 50 amp service. Sites have fire pits, but no picnic tables, and they do sell firewood at the office. The Verizon signal was very weak, so we were thankful for the fast and reliable Wi-Fi they provided. Most of the short-term sites are on a level, gravel lot with good spacing between sites. There are a lot of permanent dwellers here, but their lots are clean and nicely landscaped. There is a nice walking trails that circles the campground and goes down by the river. Roads in the park are gravel, and there was a very low-hanging tree at the entrance that needed to be trimmed. I mentioned this to the manager and he claimed the state needs to cut it and should be out soon to do it. We were very busy on this stop and did not get a chance to check out the bathrooms or showers. Grocery stores and the nicest laundromat I've ever used can be found in the town of Moorefield, which is about 6 miles away. The staff was friendly and helpful. The remote location made this a very quiet place to stay. - LowesTravels
Sep 2012 - $30.00
A little out of town. Semi nice drive along the river. At the end of the road, prior to the RV park, a lot of run down mobile homes. Rather scary looking, but no problems. In hindsight, wish we had stayed in town at Wal-Mart. I would not stay again. - goldsp8
Trout Pond Campground Rd. Lost City, West Virginia 26810 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 50 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 4 Reviews
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May 2014 - $12.00
This is one of our very favorite campgrounds. We've always given it a 9 or 10 rating; unfortunately, this time we can not. The place is as nice & secluded & quiet as ever, even more so this time, as there were few campers. But the strangest things had to do with the volunteers, there seemed to be very little volunteer activity or presence; in fact, when the weekend campers left on Sunday morning, so did the volunteers, leaving their RV's in place. This gave me the impression that the locals were using the volunteer sites as a free summer long camp sites. There was certainly enough work to be done, as the place had the appearance of not being ready to open. A few problems; 1. No one on the gate, or even came around to see if you were registered. 2. The potable water fill had obviously been frozen & the valve was split,leaking badly, but I wouldn't put that water in my tank any ways as it more resembled chocolate milk. It apparently hadn't been flushed after the winter. 3. One of the 3 shower bldgs. had no hot water, another had NO water on the men's side, (hot or cold). 4. The bathrooms in the picnic & beach areas weren't even unlocked. The hikes around the area were as great as ever, & the pond & lake were beautiful as always. We will be back, but hope they get things taken care of. - bukhrn
Aug 2011 - $11.00
This was our 2nd trip to this national forest campground; it certainly will not be our last. Our site was pretty level & wide. We love this fully wooded, quiet & peaceful place. It is truly unfortunate that Trout Pond itself is drained, but Rock Cliff Lake is as beautiful as ever. As said previously, if you're looking for somewhere with a lot to do, (other than nature) this may not be the place for you. The roads into the area are narrow, hilly, & winding, but completely do-able with a little common sense. The bathrooms & showers are clean & functional. While there is not an actual pool, there is a very nice sandy swimming area at the lake. There is a nice picnic area & playground. - bukhrn
Jul 2010 - $17.00
I have camped here since I was little. I have always enjoyed coming over here as everyone is very nice and friendly. Bathrooms are clean! Sites are well spaced and in private area. Very secluded place. Great place to swim in pond. Very clean beach area with grassy area to sit away from sand. Tent area has small gravel, great for tent camping. Great play area for kids with a volley ball net to play. Lights out is strickly enforced along with gate closing after hours. Someone always available to help you if needed. Very cheap rates, a great value! - mom3
145 Wapacoma Campground Rd Romney, West Virginia 26757 (map) | Click To View Phone
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A great small town campground by the river. Nice beach area for sitting in a chair (it is stones, not sand), having little ones play in the water (you need shoes, it's river rocks), GREAT water for kayaking. You can also tube down the river if you wish. You can fish with a WV fishing license (purchase online). They have ice and ice cream for purchase at the office. A play area for kids (unshaded), basketball court, horseshoes. They have a pavilion with Wifi, we had wifi service (light) at our campsite. The bathhouse is decent, it is older but very very clean (cleaned twice a day, and done thoroughly). They also have a soda vending machine at the bathhouse. They have great riverfront lots (tents only), w/e and w/e/s hookups for campers (or tents if you want). My one complaint, they added sewer to several rows of sites, those sites are so sporadic and tight compared to many others. The odd number sites 53-95 are new to have sewer. However, the sewer hookups are in the MIDDLE of many of the lots. One spot had a random sewer hookup with no water or electric hookup?? They are MUCH tighter than the w/e sites (even number 52-94). The sites 0-24 are full hookup much better placed sewer hookup (next to the water and electric) but are much smaller than the even numbered w/e sites. So, think about what is most important to you when you are reserving. They have a free boat ramp, many other free boat ramps to drop off nearby. 3 dump stations. Fire pits and picnic tables at most sites. Well trimmed mature trees. Smooth gravel roads. Pet friendly but, they have signs many places indicating "no pit bulls". A great value for a weekend in the "country". Please note: They only accept check or cash, NO DEBIT OR CREDIT. - WVSunshine
230 Main Lodge Rd Davis, West Virginia 26260 (map) | Click To View Phone
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Nov 2015 - $25.00
Open year round and we stayed in the off season so water was off at site, but faucet in laundry room was threaded for the hose so we filled up there. We don't use bathrooms/showers normally but I checked them out & these were disgusting. No verizon in park but outside it worked fine. The resort will let you sit in their pub/lounge and use their wifi. Check in was at the resort since the cg office was closed for the season.
We LOVED the sites which were large pull throughs off of two loops. Beautiful wooded setting with plenty of space & lovely wooded views. Tons of deer every night & lots of hiking right from the site - be sure to ask for a map when you check in. We stayed for a week and enjoyed the secluded feeling! - chasing60
Oct 2015 - $30.00
This was a very nice campground. The pull thru sites are on the outside of the loops many of them require that you walk downhill to the campsite. They can be tight if you have multiple slide outs. They all faced the woods, very private. The back in's were in the middle and were very nice. Lot's of space between sites. Very clean. For $7. per day per campsite you can use the indoor pool, spa, etc. We camped in a 34' fifth wheel. - SteveandAnn
Jul 2013 - $24.00
This is a heavily wooded campground in a large state park. Sites are a bit narrow, but manageable. Some sites appear to be very difficult to get level on. No on air TV signal, and probably no satellite signal due to trees. We couldn't get a cell signal at our site. This is a very quiet campground with a decent and clean bath house. There is a small grocery store a few miles away and a decent supermarket 10 miles away in Davis. Very pretty countryside and mountains. The pool is at the lodge which is too far to walk, and is currently undergoing major renovation. We did get a weak Wi-Fi signal at the lodge. - DrLewie


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Two fighters who came up short on TUF 16 and TUF Smashes are squaring off in the first fight of the PPV portion of UFC 158.
Tristar fighter Mike Ricci and UK's Colin Fletcher battle back and forth to start the fight. Both men landed significant punches and kicks that kept the round close.
Round 2 was a round where Ricci pulled ahead quite a bit. He landed a takedown early, landed some great ground and pound. When the fight got to the feet Ricci picked him apart with nice jabs and combinations.
The round started very slow and it looked like Fletcher was picking up the pace, however midway through, Ricci nabbed a nice takedown. He landed some ground and pound, which eventually led to him taking his back. He couldn't secure any submissions, but the takedown should secure the round and ultimately the fight.
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Grubhub Suit To Help Decide Gig Economy Worker Rights?
Beyond Lyft and Uber, GrubHub's ongoing legal battle centered on whether workers are employees or contractors may help settle the issue, and just what rights those workers may have when it comes to benefits and compensation.
Gig Economy Powers Growing Demand For Experiences
In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Craig Follett, the company's CEO, discussed the changing state of the gig economy and how it's increasingly powering sharing services like Universe.
Walmart Flirts With The Gig Economy
Walmart made some news lately when it dipped its toe into the gig economy waters, asking employees to deliver packages ordered by customers who live along their commutes. Employees can opt into the program via a smartphone app to take home up to 10 deliveries a day and earn a little extra cash.
FULL REPORT: PYMNTS Gig Economy Index
Take this job and… gig it? The gig economy is taking off and an emerging workforce that covets flexibility isn't looking back. According to the latest PYMNTS Gig Economy Index™, 69 percent of gig workers say they'd stick with their gigs over a full-time job. That plus 800 data points and a deep dive on Uber, Lyft, Airbnb and Manpower, inside the Index.
Democratizing The Gig Economy, One Business At A Time
PYMNTS recently caught up with David Manela, Fiverr's chief revenue officer, to discuss the logistics of offering competitive price points to entrepreneurs and businesses, big and small.
Truth And Myth In The Gig Economy
It's true that young people are embracing the gig economy at a higher rate than older generations, but project-based work isn't just for Millennials. PYMNTS' Karen Webster sat down with Hyperwallet CEO Brent Warrington to discuss some of the myths that pervade independent work and highlight the ingredients of a successful two-sided marketplace.


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I am a 55 yr old male that has experienced years of breathing through my nose difficulties as well as frequent sinus headaches. I was diagnosed with sleep apnea 4 years ago and have to sleep with breathe right strips and cpap machine to combat the apnea. The reason why I was tested for and later diagnosed as sleep apnea was due to excessive daytime sleepiness. Cpap did not help the day time sleepiness and I was prescribed Nuvigil.
Anyway, during my last annual physical, my PCP, Dr. Richard Peters suggested I go to see an ear, nose and throat specialist. He suggested I see Dr. David Barnes. Dr. Barnes confirmed I had a deviated septum, where my right side was almost totally blocked and the left side was only partially open.
I had surgery 5 days ago and I will try and describe each day.
Day of surgery: Arrived at hospital at 1200pm. Checked in and had my gown on around 100pm, saw Dr Barnes around 130 pm and was sent to lala land around 145pm. I guess surgery began shortly after. Surgery lasted about 1.5 hours. I think I awoke in recovery 400pm and vaguely remember talking to Dr. Barnes. He spoke with my wife and also gave her post op instructions. I felt more pressure than pain. The absolute worst feeling was how sore my throat was. Also had to wear a gauze moustache to catch dripping blood. Sipping on cold water helped a little. My wife dropped me home and went to get the pain medicine. I asked her to get benzocaine lozenges and throat spray also. Thank goodness: the throat lozenges, hydrocodone and frozen peas (used as ice pack) helped me survive the night and get some sleep. Also sipping ice cold water.
Day One: Still wearing gauze under my nose to catch bleeding and having to change gauze out every few hours. Taking pain medicine every 6 hours, using throat lozenges, frozen peas as ice pack. Ate some apple sauce (4 kiddie cups). Also drinking ice cold water. OK now comes the gross part...I had to remove the packing in my nose. The packing is connected to strings so basically you tug on the string until the packing is extruded. The process sounds more painful that it actually is. All I felt was pressure but once they were out I felt much better. I could start breathing a little through my nose! Still needed throat lozenges at night because most breathing was through my mouth.
Days 2 -5: Stopped taking hydrocodone day 2 and switched to tylenol extra when needed. Started eating regular. Flushing nose out with saline solution and using saline nose spray. Breathing through my nose is improving. Last night I had a mega-sinus headache that finally went away after the second hydrocodone.
I go to see Dr. Barnes on Monday to get the stents removed from my nose and will post a follow up. Below are my recommendations if you plan on having a septoplasty:
- Get benzocaine throat lozenges and / or spray. (Probably more important than pain medicine.)
- Use frozen peas as an ice pack when you get home from surgery and the day after.
- Stay ahead of the pain your first day and take pain medicine as directed.
- Have some apple sauce or soft foods available for your first day.
- You will need to allow a week to 10 days off to get your strength back
My hope is that this septoplasty makes the sleep apnea and excessive daytime sleepiness go away and I will no longer have to take Nuvigil to function normally. I can already tell my breathing is a little better than it was.


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The Larkspur Library Book Club will meet to discuss "And the Mountains Echoed" by Khaled Hosseini at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the library, 400 Magnolia Ave.
The book club is open to anyone who has read the book and would like to join in a lively discussion. Drop-ins are welcome.
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Fifth grader breaks barriers and wins big
Fri, 15 May 2009 22:34:11 GMT — Many young boys dream of stepping foot on a Major League baseball field.
A Lewis County 5th grader had a chance to do just that last month. Fernando Jon Murphy of LaGrange was assigned to write an essay for the Breaking Barrier:
In Sports, In Life essay contest at Highland Elementary last February.
Major League Baseball and Scholastic, Inc. created the contest more than 10 years ago.
It honors students students for overcoming personal barriers, just as Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson did in 1947.
Murphy won the contest, becoming one of nine finalists chosen from about 8,000 entries across the country.
He and his class won this trip to a St. Louis Cardinals game April 23rd, where Jackie Robinson's daughter, Sharon, presented Murphy with autographed copies of her book, t-shirts, a laptop computer and a laptop computer for his teacher.
But things haven't always been easy for Murphy. He, along with his two older sisters, spent about 3 years in an orphanage in Colombia, South America before getting adopted by their new family, Ted and Cathy Murphy of LaGrange, about 2 and a half years ago.
What did you think when you arrived here?
Murphy says, "I could smell a different smell in Colombia. My bed, it was so good!"
Murphy wrote about his experience learning a new culture and English, since Spanish was his first language.
What was it like to come to a new country? Did people treat you differently?He says, "Sometimes they treated me differently. Sometimes they treated me nice and good."
Were people nice to you?Murphy says, "sometimes."It just depended on the person?He answers, "Yes."
He loves his life now in the U.S., and wouldn't trade it for anything. Soccer is his favorite sport, while baseball is a close second.


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The beam isn't the only balancing act for gymnasts. And it may not even be the most difficult one.
Jordyn Wieber is proving that in these Olympics. Wieber will take home the gold medal for the team competition, the first one for the Americans since 1996. But she came up empty in her pursuit of individual medals, a huge disappointment.
"She probably feels unfulfilled," coach John Geddert says. "I know her well enough that that's probably at the top of her list. Disappointment and unfulfillment."
Wieber was expected to be one of the big stars of this competition, but she did not qualify for the all-around and failed to medal in the floor exercise. She's the first world champion to leave without an individual medal since Kim Zmeskal in 1992.
"It's a little bit of disappointment overall," Wieber says. "But at the same time, leaving with a gold medal is more than I could ask for and it's so cool to be a part of that team."
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Earlier this month, Microsoft confirmed it was planning to expand its retail store locations into China. Now, it looks like the company has started the process of making those stores into a reality as it is now looking for someone to lead the development of those new locations.
A listing on the Microsoft Careers website states the company is looking for a senior director of international retail operations, who will take on the task of opening new stores outside of North America. Microsoft's job listing states, "This is a key role on the leadership team and will be responsible to drive the build out and staffing of physical stores."
It would appear that Microsoft is going to try to open up its first international stores in China, rather than expand first in Europe or other parts of the world. The job listing states that whomever is hired to be the international Microsoft Store leader will not only have to relocate to Shanghai but be fluent in both English and Mandarin.
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"If You Don't Fight, You've Already Lost" An interview with Steve Meacham
ince meeting Steve Meacham six years ago,
I have spoken with him many times about the challenges of seeking
radical change in the course of daily reform work. Meacham is someone
who is in the struggle for the long haul, who is serious about winning,
who strives with others to integrate a radical vision with the daily
struggle, and who doesn't give up.
PETERS: Have you always considered yourself a radical organizer?
MEACHAM: I dropped out of graduate school in 1972 and started doing
community organizing. I considered myself a socialist, but I didn't
bring that part of my politics into the organizing. We were organizing
for things like stop signs. I didn't talk socialism because
I didn't think people were "ready" for that. But
then the people who I thought weren't ready started recruiting
me to be in left-identified groups.
So are you less reticent to talk about radical politics?
My experience has taught me that there are plenty of people who
have no trouble embracing a radical analysis. In the 1980s, I worked
at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts for nine years.
Six thousand people were employed there. On the one hand, it was
absolutely awe-inspiring—just the scale of human activity.
I worked from 3:30 PM to midnight. If you were lucky, and you weren't
in the bowels of some ship, you could witness this incredible operation—
cranes moving, lights flashing, bells ringing, clouds of smoke.
It was like an enormous carnival.
On the other hand, it was a hell hole. There were longand short-term
health hazards and extreme repression on the part of management.
Working in the shipyard was a school of struggle. I learned a lot
from it. There were skirmishes with management almost every day.
There was this one time when the rankand-file caucuses had organized
a protest—I can't even remember what for. After the protest,
management set up this rope fence so that we'd have to go single-file
back to work. They wanted to slow down our return so that they could
dock our pay. To undermine that, we crashed through the gates. Which
is kind of ironic when you think about it—all these rank-and-filers
crashing the gates to get into work. But it was a radical gesture
nonetheless—a spontaneous gesture that stopped management from
screwing us on one small thing.
I happened to look behind me as we were crashing the gates and I
saw this guy. He was an alcoholic. Life hadn't been too kind
to him. He looked a lot older than he was. But at that moment, he
looked ten years younger. I've always remembered that face
as the potential for the working class of America. The skirmishes
taught a lot of folks about what we can accomplish when we're
organized. They gave rise to incredible networks of conscious workers
that had learned a lot about how power works and how to engage in
I understand the shipyard closed in 1986. What happened to those
networks and all the learning that had taken place after the shipyard
It pretty much completely dissipated. People were schooled in a
specific struggle, but there was no organized place for people to
take those lessons. That represented a profound loss. It's
the kind of loss that's repeated over and over on the left.
People struggle, expend enormous organizing energy, the struggle
ends, and all that effort dissipates.
In the case of the Quincy shipyards, there was an additional loss
because activists had actually connected the class struggle at the
shipyard with issues of peace and economic democracy. When it was
clear the shipyards were in trouble—around 1982—I helped
to found the South Shore Conversion Committee. It was made up of
half peace activists and half workers. We called for shipyards to
be converted from weapons-making to other purposes—pre-fabricated
housing, ocean thermal plant ships, and other large and small civilian
The conversion compromise was a good one. It was a reform that would
have worked on a lot of levels. What we wouldn't give to have
jobs like that—with training and decent pay—for youth
today? Imagine the government subsidizing non-military use of the
plants rather than investing in weapons. A lot of people's
needs would have gotten met at a fraction of the cost to taxpayers.
Nobody had an answer for what to do with 6,000 people on the verge
of being put out of work—except for us.
All the organizing around conversion gave me a good education on
how to combine macro issues with on-the-ground agitating. It was
a lesson in economic democracy. General Dynamics preferred to shut
down the plant rather than put it to good use. We said back to them,
"Well, you don't have the right to decide. We built this
Many workers supported the idea of conversion, but the right wing
won the critical union election in 1985 in a vote marred by charges
of fraud. For conversion to be more than a radical call from the
sidelines, the union would have had to back it up institutionally.
After the election, they didn't.
You must have felt pretty devastated.
part of the international battle against plant closings, one shipyard
in Germany had taken over their plant, and they had hung a banner.
It said, "If you fight, you may lose, but if you don't
fight, you've already lost." I can't tell you how
many times I've quoted that banner in my life.
I'm not prone to demoralization, but it's true, that was
a pretty tough moment. But I had seen the potential of organizing.
I saw how fertile the ground is. I learned the lesson again that
it is not difficult to bring the ideas of the left to the U.S. working
What did you do next?
After the shipyard closed, I tried to get various organizing jobs.
I've been an organizer all my life, but when non-profits looked
at my resume and saw that I had been a school bus driver and a welder,
they didn't want to hire me.
I eventually went back to Cambridge and helped to found the Eviction
Free Zone. It was an incredible time. Rent control was under attack,
which was part of a wholesale attack on working class tenants. There
were mass rallies, caravans for housing justice, mass meetings every
week of people facing evictions. There were mass testimonies at
city hall that were incredibly moving. A lot of tenant leaders who
became radical understood that they were making a challenge to capitalism.
In 1999 you started working at City Life/Vida Urbana [CLVU].
At that point, CLVU was 26 years old. How had it survived—unlike
so many of the mass-based organizations that were founded in the
1960s and 1970s?
City Life was one of the only—if not the only—community-based
radical organization that didn't break up because of left debates.
I think this is largely because the founders had an extremely anti-vanguardist
approach. The tendency for many left organizations to pronounce
themselves as the vanguard was forcing individual activists to choose
which vanguard to belong to. CLVU specifically argued against this
You said at one point, "City Life has the soul of a radical
political group." How do you maintain that in an organization
that works on a daily basis for reforms?
We are fighting for an end to economic displacement. We believe
people shouldn't be driven out of their homes by market forces.
All the building-by-building organizing we do and policy reforms
we fight for are designed to defend the working class of the city
against capital.
law says that real estate corporations have the right to displace
people on a wholesale level in order to turn a profit. Any infringement
on this is seen as an infringement on the rights of corporations.
The assumption is that the market should determine even the most
profound aspects of people's lives—like whether they should
be able to continue living in the neighborhood they grew up in.
Our reform work doesn't just prevent the occasional eviction
or improve public policy, it challenges the underlying assumptions
about how the system works. Since I've been working at City
Life, I'd say that tens of thousands of people have been displaced
because of speculation. I'm not talking about prices going
up because of something real (like increases in the cost of fuel
or raw materials or whatever), just pure speculation. Speculators
drive the price up, tens of thousands of people are displaced, and
no one notices. If it had been a natural disaster displacing that
many people, it would have been international news. But since it's
the market—which we perceive as being akin to oxygen—it's
not noticed.
It's quite ironic because the market is a human construction.
We could actually do something about it. It's a mechanism that
we could control. When we offer people a forum to discuss the market
as something that is alterable—as opposed to written in stone—then
we are taking our reform work in the direction of radical social
change. Just getting the landlord to sit down to negotiate reconfigures
all the assumptions. It indicates that the market does not have
to be the sole arbiter.
What's another specific example of how you challenge underlying
When we have a group of tenants working together, we invite them
to participate in political discussion groups. Here, they have a
chance to explore in more depth what's happening to them. We
have discussion groups on housing, race, class, empire, and democracy.
We do this exercise where we identify what "They say,"
and what "We say."
For example, City Life has a slogan, "Housing for people, not
for profit." At the discussion group, we might ask what the
landlord's response to this would be. People come up with a
typical landlord-like response, such as, "That's my building.
I can do what I want with it." Now that they've identified
an assumption, they can contest it. At City Life, people learn how
to talk back to what previously they might have thought was just
part of the woodwork—i.e., not something you could do anything
Here's another thing the owner complains about sometimes. He
or she says, "You're preventing me from getting market
rate." We say, "We created the market conditions. We created
this neighborhood. We made it so that it has value. It's our
effort that made this place valuable, not yours."
People have these concepts pretty readily available. People have
a pretty clear understanding of the injustice that they're
experiencing on a daily basis. We just give them a chance to put
it into words and to do so collectively and then to organize together
in a way that fights those injustices.
One of the things that's liberating about radical analysis
is that you can see what needs to be done. Liberals wring their
hands about why people are "stuck in their ways" or "people
are just plain greedy" or how "human nature" means
that the status quo is inscribed in stone. Radicals see the mechanisms
that keep the system functioning. We know what to go after. It's
daunting, but at least it's not a mystery.
There is not much cultural support for doing this kind of work.
How do you support people to push further, to question these seemingly
unquestionable assumptions?
From the first phone call to the first meeting and on to successive
meetings, demonstrations, and actions, we emphasize solidarity.
I'm talking about love, really. We don't just tell people
what their legal rights are and then leave them to figure it out.
We listen to them talk about what's happening in their lives.
We give them the space to say how they feel. We help them meet up
with others who are facing similar conditions.
The staff is made up of community leaders who came out of various
struggles. They are magnificent people who regularly make sacrifices
that can't possibly be explained, except to say they are motivated
by love and dedication to their community.
There's one organizer, Roberta Jones. At a meeting recently,
we were talking about the miners who were trapped in the Pennsylvania
mine in 2004. Jones noted that the miners had all lashed themselves
together so that if they didn't make it, at least their bodies
would all be found together. She said, "We're like those
miners. We're lashing ourselves together so that we can sink
or swim together. But there's a difference," she added.
"I'm not going down." That's the essence of
how we support each other.
City Life is a place where people actually experience solidarity.
You see it all the time. Tenants from one building show up at another
building just to lend their support. People describe the neighbors
in their building as family. They defend each other with the same
fierceness you might expect people have for family members. One
woman I know who's in her 80s, who's very quiet, showed
her steely side at a demonstration a few weeks ago: "We shall
not be moved," she said with the kind of determination that
makes you want to cheer and cry at the same time.
woman called me the other day to tell me she had been diagnosed
with a terminal illness. "I want to spend whatever time I have
left working on the tenants' union," she told me. Her
activism in her building and with her neighbors is a key place where
she is finding significance right now. There's obviously solidarity
there—and love.
We need organizers for the long haul. How do you protect against
You have to measure success by how the movement is growing and by
how people are moving forward. People are beginning to articulate
that there is a better way to live. We don't have to accept
the current conditions.
What is the better way to live that you are hearing people talk
Greed doesn't have to hold sway in certain arenas of human
activity. One of those arenas is your home. The cooperative movement
contains an embryo of an alternative to the marketplace. People
say, "Let's get together and own our own building. We'll
keep it affordable." But coops run into an extremely hostile
macro-environment. They do contain an important kernel, however.
The place where you live, your home, should not be subjected to
the greed of the marketplace.
Aside from your organizing aims, how does the culture of the
City Life pre-figure a better world?
We don't treat people instrumentally. We value people for who
they are, for their experiences, for what they know. I'm not
talking about office skills. Office skills aren't such a high
priority. Anyone who wants to can learn office skills. People who
have office skills, but no heart—I don't even want them
around me.
You've got someone who's been around, who's survived
some hard times and learned how to cope with really difficult situations,
she's going to be the one to diffuse a difficult moment in
a meeting. She's the one who knows how to intervene. She's
the one who will make an effective leader.
What is the role of leaders?
The raw material of our movement is people who have been badly beaten
up, oppressed, scarred. Radical organizers aren't trying to
"help" anyone—at least in the way that we tend to
institutionalize the "other" in this society and then
dole out charity to them. We affirm the idea of "solidarity"
instead. It would be good to ban the word "client" from
use by organizers. City Life members are people who are learning
from what they've been through and turning that into power.
They are the people who are the best leaders. We need democratic
movements, but that doesn't mean there aren't leaders
helping to give them shape. When you hear some xenophobic comment
at a meeting, for example, you need enough leadership in the room
to be able to deal with it somehow. Ideally, you offer some perspective
that values the person who is the target of the attack, but at the
same time you don't trash the person who is making the comment.
That person has value, too. That person is in a process of transformation.
There are many large and small ways that people can use their power.
How do you measure the worth of a life?
People aren't very able to picture their own heroism. Maybe
that's what organizers do—we hold up the mirror so that
people can see the heroism in all the daily ways they face life.
We look for that in each other and we celebrate that.
Peters is an activist and freelance writer living in Boston. This
is the first in a series of interviews with activists about how they
do radical organizing in the context of reform work.


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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) shares knocked down -0.84% with final value of $37.62. About 23.72 Million shares changed at hands as compared to average capacity of 20699.56 shares. The company has 1.42 values in price to sale ratio while price to book ratio was recorded as 1.87. The beta factor of T is stands at 0.47. Beta is a number that measures the risk of an individual stock relative to the overall market. The overall market is assigned a beta of 1.0. Stocks that are volatile and move more than the overall market have a beta greater than 1 while stocks with price swings less than the market have a beta less than 1.0. The company has 6156.07 shares outstanding and 57.00% shares of the company were owned by institutional investors. To dig out factors, always good to learn who else owns shares, the institutional owner includes mutual funds and pension funds are major players. They buy or sell in enormous chunks. Whether a stock is in or out of their favor can have a big effect on its price.
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Sé Cathedral
Evora manages to be not only an outstandingly beautiful and well-preserved city, but also functional and user-friendly. Almost everything worth seeing lies within the ring of fortifications, and nothing is further than a half-hour walk from anything else. So it makes sense to leave your car in one of the various car parks outside the walls and take to the cobbled streets of the centre, heading perhaps for the Praça do Giraldo, epicentre of Evora's civic life, or making your way to the nucleus formed by the Roman temple, the Pousada de Evora, Lóios, the city museum, the old library - a good example of the Portuguese genius for conservation, with time-worn wooden shelves and ranks of leather-bound books - and the cathedral.
The grandest of Evora's many imposing religious buildings, the cathedral (known as the Sé) crowns the town and can be seen for miles from the surrounding countryside. Begun in the 12th century, it has a solid, gloomy aspect and crenellated walls giving it the look of a fortress. Its Gothic grimness is surpassed only by that of the church of São Francisco's infamous Capela dos Ossos ('bone chapel'), a chilling piece of baroque interior design that employs thousands of human skulls and bones. Beyond a skull-encrusted window lies a children's playground, the shouts and laughter in poignant contrast to the gruesomeness within.
After a couple of days pounding the cobbles, you may feel you have earned a respite from Evora's panoply of palaces and convents. Within easy reach of the city by car are the neolithic remains of Almendres, the historic towns of Montemor-o-Novo and Arraiolos (famous for its handmade carpets), and the immense new Alqueva reservoir, focus of various original tourist enterprises including cruises and watersports.
- 1. Welcome to Evora in Alentejo
- 2. History of Evora
- 3. Evora's cityscape
- 4. A student town
- 5. Palácio Cadaval
- 6. Sé Cathedral
- 7. Medieval Monsaraz
- 8. Where to grab a bite
- 9. Portugal's finest wine region
- 10. M'Ar De Ar Aqueduto hotel
- 11. Convento do Espinheiro
- 12. Evora in the moonlight
- 13. Evora inside and out
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German sentence structure
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German sentence structure is somewhat more complex than that of many other European languages, but similar to Dutch, with phrases regularly inverted for both questions and subordinate phrases. The main sentence structure rule is that the conjugated verb is the second element in a main clause or the last in a subordinate clause. Verbs in the infinitive are generally placed after their respective objects.
- 1 Independent clauses
- 2 Subordinate clauses
Independent clauses[edit]
If a verb has a separable prefix, this prefix is moved to the end of the sentence.
- Ich werde den Müll wegwerfen. ("I will throw away the rubbish.", literally "I will the rubbish away-throw.")
- Ich werfe den Müll weg. (statement) ("I'm throwing away / I throw away the rubbish.", literally "I throw the rubbish away.")
- Werfe ich den Müll weg? (question) ("Am I throwing away the rubbish?", literally "Throw I the rubbish away?")
- Wirf den Müll weg! (command, familiar form) ("Throw away the rubbish!", literally "Throw the rubbish away!")
A simple statement is constructed in the following manner: the subject comes first, then the conjugated verb, then the object and any infinitives or participles.
- Ich + den Baum sehen -> Ich sehe den Baum.
- ("I + to see the tree" -> I see the tree.)
- Ein Text + geschrieben werden -> Ein Text wird geschrieben
- ("A text + to be written -> A text is being written.")
- Wir + den Raum verlassen -> Wir verlassen den Raum
- ("we + to leave the room -> We leave the room.")
- Der König + eine Burg bauen lassen -> Der König lässt eine Burg bauen.
- ("the king + to have a castle built -> The king has a castle built.")
If the conjugated verb has a separable prefix, this prefix stays at the end of the sentence.
- Ich + den Müll wegwerfen -> Ich werfe den Müll weg.
- ("I + to dispose of the trash -> I dispose of the trash.")
In addition, past participles in the perfect tenses fall at the end of the sentence, with the conjugated auxiliary verb (Hilfsverb) in the second position of the sentence.
Conventional German syntax presents information within a sentence in the following order:
- Wichtigstes (what is the most important thing of the things following?)
- The word "da" with the meaning "then suddenly" must take the first place. A "dann", then, does so often, but not necessarily; otherwise, the Subject will do.
- If the verb is most important, the unconjugated (normally second) part of the separable verb is placed here, but even then separated from the conjugated (normally first) part. If the verb is not separable or periphrastical, the infinitive will do.
- Was (what? the conjugated verb)
- In this case, a form of "tun" is legitimately inserted for the conjugated verb, as in Arbeiten tun wir. "Working, that's what we do."
- Wer (who? the subject)
- Wem (to/for whom - dative object)
- Wann (when - time)
- Warum (why - reason)
- Wie (how - manner)
- Wo (where - place)
- Wen (whom - accusative object)
- Wohin/Woher (to/from where)
- Verb, nochmal (first part of the separable verb)
Wir gehen am Freitag miteinander ins Kino. Literally,
"We go on Friday together to the movies."
Wegen ihres Jahrestages bereiten wir unseren Eltern einen Ausflug nach München vor. Literally,
"Because of their anniversary plan we our parents a trip to Munich."
Comparisons can be put after both parts of the verb, or before the place of its later part. So:
Er ist größer gewesen als ich. / Er war größer als ich. "He was greater than me."
Er ist größer als ich gewesen
Additionally, German often structures a sentence according to increasing news value. So:
Wir gehen am Donnerstag ins Kino. We're going to the movies on Thursday. BUT
An welchem Tag gehen wir ins Kino? (On) What day are we going to the movies?
Am Donnerstag gehen wir ins Kino. OR Wir gehen am Donnerstag ins Kino. On Thursday we're going to the movies. OR We're going on Thursday to the movies."
Additionally, when the accusative object is a pronoun, it moves in front of the dative object. Florian gibt mir morgen das Buch. "Florian is giving me tomorrow the book." BUT Florian gibt es mir morgen. "Florian is giving it to me tomorrow."
By an inversion you emphasize of the sentence: an adverbial phrase, a predicative or an object, or even an inner verbal phrase. The subject phrase, at the beginning of an indicative unstressed sentence, is moved directly behind the conjugated verb, and the component to be emphasized is moved to the beginning of the sentence. The conjugated verb is always the second sentence element in indicative statements.
- "Ich fliege schnell." - "I fly fast." - unstressed
- "Schnell fliege ich." - "I fly fast." - stressed 'fast' (i.e., "Fast is how I fly.")
- "Du bist wunderschön." - "You are lovely." - unstressed
- "Wunderschön bist du." - "You are lovely." - stressed 'lovely' (i.e., "Lovely is what you are.")
- "Ich bin gelaufen." - "I ran." - unstressed
- "Gelaufen bin ich!" - "I ran!" - stressed 'ran' (i.e., "Run is what I did!")
Questions may be divided into yes/no questions, asking for the truthfulness of a statement, and specific questions, which ask for a concrete aspect of a statement.
Specific questions are similar to inverted statements. They begin with a question word, then there is the conjugated verb, followed by the subject (if there is one), and the rest of the sentence follows.
- Was machst du jetzt? ("What are you doing now?")
- Wer geht ins Kino? ("Who is going to the cinema?" -- In this sentence, the interrogative pronoun wer serves as the subject)
Yes/No questions[edit]
This kind of question is similar to the inversion: you put the inflected verb at the beginning of the (not inverted) sentence.
- Du kommst. - Kommst du? ("You are coming - Are you coming?")
- Ich habe geschlafen. - Habe ich geschlafen? ("I slept - Did I sleep?")
- Ich werde das Spiel beenden. - Werde ich das Spiel beenden? ("I'm going to (lit. 'I will') finish the game - Am I going to (lit. 'Will I') finish the game?")
- Du wirfst den Torwart raus. - Wirfst du den Torwart raus? ("You are throwing the goalkeeper out - Are you throwing the goalkeeper out?")
Asking for subject or object[edit]
In a normal question, you replace the subject phrase or object phrase with a corresponding interrogative pronoun, then move it to the beginning of the sentence, like an inversion. Theoretically, you must use the interrogative pronoun of welcher, welche, welches or a nominal phrase with the interrogative article.
- Du hast deiner Frau einen Ring gekauft. ("You bought your wife a ring.")
- - Welchen hast du deiner Frau gekauft? ("Which one did you buy your wife?")
- Du hast deiner Frau einen roten Ring gekauft. ("You bought your wife a red ring.")
- - Welchen Ring hast du deiner Frau gekauft? ("Which ring did you buy your wife?")
- Du hast deiner Frau einen roten Ring gekauft. ("You bought your wife a red ring.")
- - Welchen Roten hast du deiner Frau gekauft? ("Which red one did you buy your wife?")
- Du hast deiner Frau einen roten Ring gekauft. ("You bought your wife a red ring.")
- - Welchen roten Ring hast du deiner Frau gekauft? ("Which red ring did you buy your wife?")
But the usage of this pronoun implies that the speaker knows both the gender and number of the unknown object. So, practically, you replace these pronouns by short forms.
- Du hast deiner Frau einen Ring gekauft. ("You bought your wife a ring.")
- - Was hast du deiner Frau gekauft? ("What did you buy your wife?")
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Regardless of whether you use the full pronoun or the short form, the genitive case is practically only used for genitive objects. See Asking for a possessor.
Asking for a predicative[edit]
You ask for a predicative with the either interrogative pronoun Was or, if knowing it is not a nominal phrase, Wie.
- Er ist schnell - Wie/Was ist er? ("He's fast - What is he?")
- Ein Schmetterling ist ein Insekt - Was ist ein Schmetterling? ("A butterfly is an insect - What is a butterfly?")
You can also use other interrogative pronouns like Wo.
Asking for an adverbial[edit]
It is possible to ask for the adverbial of a predicative, if it is not a nominal phrase (and even for the adverbial of the adverbial etc.)
- Der Baum ist 3 Meter hoch.- Wie hoch ist der Baum? ("The tree is three metres tall - How tall is the tree?")
Asking for a possessor[edit]
When searching for the possessor of a nominal phrase, one first acts as if one would invert the corresponding statement, placing the noun with the unknown possessor at the beginning. Then one gives it the genitive case of the interrogative pronoun (wessen for all cases, genders and numbers). Of course, this nominal phrase may not have a genitive possessor.
- Ich habe das Auto des Chefs gesehen. - Wessen Auto hast du gesehen? ("I saw the boss's car - Whose car did you see?")
- Ich habe sein Auto gesehen - Wessen Auto hast du gesehen? ("I saw his car - Whose car did you see?")
- Ich habe sein Auto gesehen - Wessen hast du gesehen? ("I saw his car - Whose did you see?")
Asking for an adverb[edit]
First the interrogative pronoun (Wie), then the conjugated verb, next the subject, then the rest of the sentence.
- Der Vogel fliegt schnell am Himmel - Wie fliegt der Vogel am Himmel? ("The bird flies quickly in the sky - How does the bird fly in the sky?")
If the adverb describes another adverb or an adjective:
- Der Vogel fliegt ungeheuer schnell - Wie schnell fliegt der Vogel? ("The bird flies amazingly quickly - How quickly does the bird fly?")
Asking for position or adverbial clause[edit]
Developing the question for an adverbial phrase may be slightly more complicated.
Theoretically, like the other specific questions, the unknown position is inverted to the beginning of the sentence. Whereas the pre- or post- position remains, the nominal part is replaced either by an interrogative pronoun or by a nominal phrase having the interrogative article.
- Er sah den Vogel auf dem Baum. - Auf welchem Baum sah er den Vogel? ("He saw the bird in the tree - In which tree did he see the bird?")
- Dein Hund wurde in diesem Jahr geboren. ("Your dog was born this year")
- - In welchem Jahr wurde dein Hund geboren? ("Which year was your dog born?")
Practically, the person asking the question will know neither the gender of the noun, nor the number of the noun, nor even the kind of preposition, before he hears the answer. So a short form is used instead in nearly every case. These short forms are also the only way to ask for an adverbial clause or for a proposition.
- Er sah den Vogel auf dem Baum. - Wo sah er den Vogel? ("He saw the bird in the tree - Where did he see the bird?")
- Dein Hund wurde damals geboren. - Wann wurde dein Hund geboren? ("Your dog was born at that time - When was your dog born?")
Some interrogative pronouns: Wo, Woher, Wohin, Wann, Wieso, Weshalb, Warum, Weswegen.
For a command, take the imperative form of the conjugated verb from the infinitive and put it at the beginning of the sentence followed by the corresponding personal pronoun. There also must be an exclamation point at the end of the sentence to make it a command. The separable prefix, if there is one, remains at its old place, separated. In the literary language it is possible to leave the verb at the second place.
If the verb changes the vowel in the second and third person singular, the vowel is also changed in the second person singular of the imperative.
The 2nd person plural pronoun is always omitted. In archaic language, or to emphasize who is ordered for the action, the 2nd person singular pronoun may be left.
- Das Tier verfolgen - Verfolge (du) das Tier! ("to trail the animal - Trail the animal!")
- Das Tier verfolgen lassen - Lass(e) (du) das Tier verfolgen! ("to have the animal trailed - Have the animal trailed!")
- wegfahren - Fahr(e) (du) weg! ("to drive away - Drive away!")
- jemanden mitnehmen - Nimm (du) jemanden mit! ("to give someone a lift - Give someone a lift!")
Note that an "'e"' may be added on to the end of the command form, but only if the verb does not have a stem-change. This is a result of the spoken language and has no difference in meaning. Schreib das Wort auf! means the same as Schreibe das Wort auf! ("Write the word down!")
*Lese das Buch!, though very common in spoken language, is considered incorrect because the stem changes from les to lies in the command form. Lies das Buch! ("Read the book!") (singular) and Lest das Buch! (plural) are correct.
There are no imperative forms for first person plural and second person formal. The first and third person plural of the conditional of the present (this is mostly the same form as the indicative aside from sein 'to be' for which seien is used) is used (but not for tun 'to do' for which tun is used). You must put it to beginning of the sentence, separate the separable prefix before that, and place the personal pronouns wir or Sie directly after it.
- wegfahren - Fahren wir weg! (Let's drive away!) - Fahren Sie weg! (You) Drive away!
- froh sein - Seien wir froh! (Let's be glad!) - Seien Sie froh! Be glad!
Note that imperatives must have the same word order as yes/no questions.
Actual commands are often given as a simple unconjugated infinitive. This is inevitable in the military (excepting the formal commands Rührt euch and Richt't euch), but is not restricted to it.
- In Linie antreten! (Line up! to soldiers) but also
- Warm anziehen und den Schlüssel nicht vergessen! (Put some warm clothes on and do not forget your key; a mother to her child)
- Hey, nicht faulenzen, arbeiten! (Hey yo, do not laze around, get some work done!, normal imperative would be very odd)
The military command "Stillgestanden", Freeze!, as well as the everyday expression "Aufgepaßt!" (pay attention to that!), oddly even take the perfect participle for an imperative.
Subordinate clauses[edit]
A subordinate clause (Nebensatz) is always incorporated in a main clause (or another subordinate clause). Any part of the main clause can be replaced by it, but some conjugated verb must remain. However, subclauses are generally moved to the end of the sentence if it can be done without inconvenience and they do not take the first place because of importance. As for word order, it differs in two things only from a main clause:
1. In general, it begins with a special word, a 'subordinating conjunction' or a relative pronoun, setting it into relation with the encompassing sentence.
2. The verb is, without separation, sent to the place where the first part of a separable verb would be in a main clause, i. e. at the end of the sentence.
- Ich nehme den früheren Flug, damit ich heute noch ankomme. = "I'll take the earlier flight so that I arrive even today."
Question words (in the following example, 'wohin') have the same effect as subordinating conjunctions within a sentence.
Wohin ist er gelaufen? Niemand wusste, wohin er gelaufen ist. ("Where did he run (to)? No one knew where he ran (to)."—Note that, unlike in English, a subordinate or dependent clause is always separated from the independent clause (Hauptsatz) by a comma.)
1. Final clauses can be replaced by an "um-zu"-infinitive, if the subject is identical; in practice, um behaves as conjunction, and the infinitive, with a zu, as conjugated verb, and the subject falls away.
- Wir haben genug Geld, um diese CD zu kaufen. = Wir haben genug Geld, damit wir diese CD kaufen. "We have enough money to/that we buy this CD."
2. In conditional phrases, the conjunction wenn may be left out in the main clause and the verb put into its place. In this case, so replaces dann in the subordinate clause.
- Hast du genügend Geld, so (no "dann" in this case) kannst du diese CD kaufen. = Wenn du genügend Geld hast, dann kannst du diese CD kaufen. "If you have enough money, then you can buy this CD."
3. Indirect speech may behave as subclause in relation to the main clause, but the conjunction (which would be "dass") may be left out and then its word-order is as in main clauses.
- Er sagte, er sei mit der Arbeit fertig. = Er sagte, dass er mit der Arbeit fertig sei. = "He said (that) he had finished his work."
4. Denn, by custom translated into English as for, is in practice just an equivalent to weil "because", but it requires a main-clause word-order and may even take a semicolon instead of a comma.
- Er kommt nicht zur Arbeit, denn er ist krank. (He doesn't come to work, for he's ill.) = Er kommt nicht zur Arbeit, weil er krank ist. = "He doesn't come to work because he's ill."
To confuse things, in some dialects weil has the role which denn has in Standard German. However this doesn't mean they generally neglect the subclause word order, since other conjunctions meaning the same, i. e. da "as" or even a "deswegen weil" (literally: because of that because) take ordinary subclauses even there.
5. In subordinate clauses that make use of two or more infinitives consecutively (a phenomenon known as Doppelinfinitiv ("double infinitive") with two infinitives), the conjugated verb (generally haben, werden, or a modal verb), comes before the two (or more) infinitives. Perfect constructions of this type can usually be avoided altogether by using the simple past:
- Er wollte wissen, ob du es hast tun können. = Er wollte wissen, ob du es tun konntest. = "He wanted to know if you've been able to (could) do it."
- Ich weiß, dass ich es werde tun müssen. = "I know I'm going to have to do it."
- Sie hofft, dass sie uns es kann tun helfen. = "She hopes she can help us do it."
Subordinate sentence structure[edit]
Just as in English, a subordinate clause may be used at the beginning or end of a complete expression, so long as it is paired with at least one independent clause. For instance, just as one could say either:
I will go with you, if I can. or If I can, I will go with you.
so you can also say in German:
Ich komme mit, wenn ich kann. or Wenn ich kann, komme ich mit.
Note, however, that in German when the independent clause comes after a subordinate clause the conjugated verb comes before the subject. This arises from the basic rule that always places the conjugated verb in a sentence in the second position, even if that puts it ahead of the sentence's subject.
Clauses with dass[edit]
Subordinate clauses beginning with dass [thus, so, that] enable the speaker to use statements like nominal phrases or pronouns. These sentences are singular, neuter and either nominative or accusative. For example:
- Dass Spinnen keine Insekten sind, ist allgemein bekannt. ("It's well known that spiders are not insects.")
- Ich weiß, dass Spinnen keine Insekten sind. - Ich weiß das. ("I know that spiders are not insects - I know that.")
Indirect questions with ob[edit]
Whereas the word dass indicates that the statement is a fact, ob starts an indirect yes/no question.
- Ich weiß nicht, ob ich fliegen soll. ("I don't know whether I should fly.")
Specific indirect question[edit]
Relative clauses[edit]
The outer nominal phrase the relative clause relates to can be any nominal phrase in any case. The clause begins with a form of the relative pronoun derived from and largely identical to the definite pronoun (der/die/das), or the interrogative pronoun (welchem/welcher/welches), the remaining words are put after it. Using the interrogative pronoun without good cause is considered typical for legalese language.
- Der Mann, der/welcher seiner Frau den Hund schenkt (nominative subject) ("The man who gives his wife the dog")
- Der Hund, den/welchen der Mann seiner Frau schenkt (accusative object) ("The dog which the man gives his wife")
- Die Frau, der/welcher der Mann den Hund schenkt (dative object) ("The woman to whom the man gives the dog")
- Der Mann, der/welcher ich bin (predicative noun) ("The man I am")
The outer nominal phrase can also be the possessor of a noun inside. The genitive case of a relative pronoun matching the outer nominal phrase in gender and number is used.
- Der Mann, dessen Auto auf der Straße parkt ("The man whose car is parked on the street")
- Die Person, deren Auto ich kaufe ("The person whose car I am buying")
- Das Auto, dessen Fahrer ich helfe ("The car whose driver I am helping")
- Die Kinder, deren Lehrer ich kenne ("The children whose teacher I know")
Prepositions/Postpositions are attached to these phrases in the relative clause if necessary.
- Das Haus, in dem ich lebe ("The house I live in")
- Die Person, derentwegen ich hier bin ("The person I am here because of")
- Das Haus, durch dessen Tür ich gegangen bin ("The house whose door I came in by")
If the relative pronoun is identical to the definite article several identical forms may follow each other.
- Der, der der Frau, der ich schon Honig gegeben hatte, Honig gab, muss mehr Honig kaufen ("The man who gave honey to the woman I had already given honey to, has to buy more honey")
Such constructions are generally avoided by using forms of welch- as relative pronouns.
- Der, welcher der Frau, welcher ...
or rather
- Derjenige, welcher der Frau, der ich ...
Otherwise, welcher is rarely used (never in the genitive), and without a difference in meaning. If the relative pronoun refers to a thing as yet unknown or a whole sentence and not a part of it, was is used instead, always equivalent here to an English "which".
- Der Chef stellte einen Arbeiter ein, was diesen sehr gefreut hat. - "The manager hired a worker, which the latter was very happy about."
From sentences such as this
- In dem Geschäft, wo ( or in dem) man auch Brot kaufen kann, kaufe ich Bier. - "In this shop where you also can buy bread I am buying beer."
one may understand why colloquial usage extends this to other quasi-locational prepositional expressions
- Die Zeit, wo (= in der) wir Rom besucht haben, war sehr schön. - "The time lit. where we visited Rome was really fine." Regular "in der", literally "in which", would translate to a "when" in English.
and then, in slang, to all relative clauses:
- Der Mann, wo bei Siemens arbeitet, hat an der Technischen Universität studiert. "The man where works at Siemens's has graduated from the Technical University."
Bavarians never use this form. Southern Germans have constructed a double form "der wo, die wo, das wo" which, however, is almost necessary in Bavarian dialect. "Wo" may here be replaced by "was", which for undiscoverable reasons seems to occur mostly in the feminine genus.
Adverbial clauses[edit]
An adverbial clause begins with a conjunction, defining its relation to the verb or nominal phrase described.
- Als ich auf dem Meer segelte ("When/As I was sailing on the sea")
Some examples of conjunctions: als, während, nachdem, weil.


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Turned this one on and haven't laughed this hard in years. His only
"equal" was Johnathon Winters.
Comedic mind's apart from the 'heard.' What would come out next was a total 'who knows???' Mr. Winters, your kids could watch each and every. Robin? Another call.
Strings of though; from where? Written/rehearsed? Doubt one, after an hour, was anything but 'let him loose?' One other strong possibility (never a '4 letter word') was Bob Newheart.
Brit stuff, without question, Benny Hill.
Bit of a ramble, but today I out guessed the stock market. Kid's Charities are getting big bucks sent there way. Tomorrow I start all over again.
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Old Bill Cosby stuff was really good, too. Especially whenever he talked about growing up or his wife and kids.
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ST. PETERSBURG — As the Roman Catholic Church grapples with an unfolding sexual abuse crisis worldwide, about 200 bishops from across the United States are in St. Petersburg this week for a long-planned, once-in-three-year assembly focused on prayer and reflection.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops assembly runs through Saturday at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort.
The bishops, who hold two general meetings a year, schedule a retreat every three years for "prayer and refreshing their souls," said Mar Muñoz-Visoso, assistant director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C.
Muñoz-Visoso said the bishops are getting a group discount at the luxury hotel, where Tuesday some were seen in street clothes.
Browsing through a display of clerical shirts, collars and other appointments, Bishop William Patrick Callahan, newly appointed to the Diocese of La Crosse, Wis., said he has friends in the Tampa Bay area and was enjoying the weather, humidity and all.
Some of his colleagues also stopped to take in the display that included an amethyst ring, pectoral crosses starting at $895 and the green and gold cords from which they hang. It all had been "schlepped down here from New York" by Marvin Goldman, 82, of Duffy & Quinn. He said his Jewish family became clothing suppliers for Catholic clerics when the custom-made suit business declined.
"My father said, 'We will make a black suit for the clergy," said Goldman, who was offering "special price reductions" for the conference.
Tuesday he also displayed the firm's mitres that can sell from $250 to $495, "depending on the fabric and trim," birettas that fold flat for travel, cassocks and other vestments. The magenta zucchettos or skullcaps the bishops wear are, however, imported from the legendary Gammarelli tailors in Rome, who have outfitted popes for more than 200 years.
The media was not allowed at the retreat, but Bishop Robert N. Lynch, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, which spans Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando and Citrus counties, offered an insider's peek at the weeklong gathering in his May 31 blog.
"It is relaxed and informal," he said.
"It is something like five days of continuing education and this year the general theme is 'the bishop and his priests' … Relationships between bishops and priests is an important topic because it has changed for the worse since the sexual-abuse controversy of 2001 and following. In many places priests don't trust their bishops any longer and are terrified that they will receive a call and be asked to come and see the bishop for fear it might be a complaint or something of that nature," Lynch wrote.
He said that the assembly had invited Cardinal Peter Turkson from Ghana to deliver the homilies at morning and evening prayer and daily Mass and to lead the holy hours and the service of reconciliation and penance.
But there will be opportunities to relax. Evenings are open for informal conversation or even seeing recent movies, Lynch said.
The bishops were supposed to see The Blind Side on Tuesday and Invictus today. There's also the option to go sightseeing.
"If you happen to be in downtown St. Petersburg … and see a group of men in the evening walking through Straub or Vinoy Park, it will likely be some of us," the bishop told his flock.
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