Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs, but he doesn't let this stop him.

The brave 26-year-old man plays football and golf, and swims, in spite of the fact that he has no arms or legs.

Nick has a small foot on his left side, which helps him balance and makes him able to kick. He uses his one foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up.

"I call it my chicken drumstick ," joked Nick, who was born in Melbourne, Australia, but now lives in Los Angeles. "I'd be lost without it. When I get in the water I float because 80 percent of my body is lungs and my drumstick acts as a propeller ."

"He's very modest, but he gets marriage proposals from women all the time," said Nick's friend Steve Appel.

"He would love to get married and start a family, but he's waiting for the right girl to come along."

When Nick was born his father was so shocked that he left the hospital room. His _ mother couldn't bring herself to hold him until he was four months old.

His disability came without any medical explanation, which was a rare case. Nick and his parents spent many years asking why this cruel trick would happen to them.

"My mother was a nurse and she did everything right during pregnancy but she still blamed herself," he said.

"It was so hard for them, but right from the start they did their best to make me independent. My dad put me in the water at 18 months and gave me the courage to learn how to swim." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Does he play any sports?
2. Which sports?
3. Can he pick things up?
4. What's his friend's name?
5. Why is he disabled?
6. Does he want a family?
7. Was it hard for his parents?
8. Did they start him in sports early?
9. How old was he?
10. Who helped him learn to swim?
Answer: 1. yes
2. football, golf, and swimming
3. yes
4. Steve Appel.
5. Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs
6. yes
7. yes
8. yes
9. 18 months
10. his dad

Problem: On a Monday, a mother was in the kitchen cooking ham for the family. She was in quite the hurry because she had to pick the kids up from school. Without knowing, she stuck a spoon in the ham and put the ham in the oven. She wasn't paying attention because of being in a hurry and also because the dog was playing with a ball. The ball flew past her head as she had finished putting the ham in the oven. She yelled at the dog and made him play with the ball outside. She saw clouds in the sky as she let the dog out. Seeing that the clouds were so pretty that she wanted to take a picture of them. She got her camera and took a few pictures as the dog played happily in the yard.
1. Who was in the kitchen?
2. What was the mother doing?
3. What did she accidentally drop in the ham?
4. Why did she do that?
5. Was she rushing?
6. Why?
7. What was the canine doing?
8. Did the mother get mad at him?
9. Where did she send the dog?
10. What did she want to snap a photo of outside?
11. Was the dog feeling ok?
Answer: 1. The mother and the dog.
2. Cooking ham.
3. A spoon.
4. She wasn't paying attention.
5. Yes.
6. Because she had to pick the kids up from school.
7. Playing with a ball.
8. Yes.
9. Outside.
10. The clouds were pretty.
11. Yes.

Q: North Rhine-Westphalia (, , commonly shortened to NRW) is the most populous state of Germany, with a population of approximately 18 million, and the fourth largest by area. Its capital is Dusseldorf; the largest city is Cologne. Four of Germany's ten largest citiesCologne, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, and Essenare located within the state, as well as the second largest metropolitan area on the European continent, Rhine-Ruhr.

North Rhine-Westphalia was formed in 1946 as a merger of the provinces of North Rhine and Westphalia, both formerly parts of Prussia, and the Free State of Lippe. It makes up almost a quarter of the population and a quarter of the economy of Germany.

The first written account of the area was by its conqueror, Julius Caesar, the territories west of the Rhine were occupied by the Eburones and east of the Rhine he reported the Ubii (across from Cologne) and the Sugambri to their north. The Ubii and some other Germanic tribes such as the Cugerni were later settled on the west side of the Rhine in the Roman province of Germania Inferior. Julius Caesar conquered the tribes on the left bank, and Augustus established numerous fortified posts on the Rhine, but the Romans never succeeded in gaining a firm footing on the right bank, where the Sugambri neighboured several other tribes including the Tencteri and Usipetes. North of the Sigambri and the Rhine region were the Bructeri.

Answer the following questions:
1. which German state is has the highest population?
2. is that an acronym?
3. what does it stand for?
4. how many people live there?
5. when was it created?
6. does it play a large part in the country's commerce?
7. how large a part?
8. when it was created did it merge two areas together?
9. what were they?
10. who is the leader of Rome in the article?
11. why is he significant to the area?
12. anything else?
A: 1. NRW
2. Yes
3. North Rhine-Westphalia
4. about 18 million
5. 1946
6. Yes
7. a quarter of the economy
8. Yes
9. North Rhine and Westphalia
10. Julius Caesar
11. he wrote the first written account of the area
12. he conquered it

question: (CNN) -- The Connecticut Senate on Thursday voted to repeal the death penalty, setting the stage for Connecticut to join several states that have recently abolished capital punishment.

In the last five years, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois have repealed the death penalty. California voters will decide the issue in November.

The bill now goes to the House of Representatives, where it is also expected to pass. Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has vowed to sign the measure into law should it reach his desk, his office said.

"For everyone, it's a vote of conscience," said Senate President Donald Williams Jr., a Democrat who says he's long supported a repeal. "We have a majority of legislators in Connecticut in favor of this so that the energies of our criminal justice system can be focused in a more appropriate manner."

In 2009, state lawmakers in both houses tried to pass a similar bill, but were ultimately blocked by then-Gov. Jodi Rell, a Republican.

Capital punishment has existed in Connecticut since its colonial days. But the state was forced to review its death penalty laws beginning in 1972 when a Supreme Court decision required greater consistency in its application. A moratorium was then imposed until a 1976 court decision upheld the constitutionality of capital punishment.

Since then, Connecticut juries have handed down 15 death sentences. Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws.

Michael Ross, a convicted serial killer, was put to death by lethal injection in 2005 after giving up his appeals.
1. Who was executed in Connecticut after 1976?
2. How?
3. When?
4. Who voted on Thursday?
5. To do what?
6. Who will vote next?
7. What states already have?
8. When will the next state choose?
9. Who will vote in Connecticut next?
10. Is it going to be successful?
11. Where will it go next?
12. What will he do?
13. What party is he?
14. Who stopped the previous bill?
15. What party?
16. How many sentences have been given since 1976?
****
answer:
1. Michael Ross,
2. by lethal injection
3. in 2005
4. The Connecticut Senate
5. to repeal the death penalty
6. California
7. New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Illinois
8. in November.
9. the House of Representatives,
10. it is expected to
11. Gov. Dannel Malloy
12. sign the bill
13. a Democrat
14. Jodi Rell
15. Republican.
16. 15