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I shot this sometime during the end of October, but I didn't have time to edit and post it until the other day.
I really love my job. However, I believe that there is no profession in the world that wouldn't cause you pain/stress every once in a while. For most teachers, this usually happens at the end of every semester. As much as I'd like to pass all my students and give them a grade of 1.0 for my subject, my job requires me to ensure that a student is given a grade that they have earned. I'm very transparent about my grading system and how I compute final grades, but there are still those who are shocked to see that they've failed my class when the end of the semester arrives. Their disbelief often astounds me since I return their test papers and quizzes on time, so they pretty much have an idea on how they're performing in my class. And yet there are still those who refuse to accept that they've failed the subject after failing all the exams I've given them during the semester. It's also usually during this period when these students approach me and start spewing out the most absurd excuses for why they failed. I don't really see why they feel that they have to provide me with a reason, but maybe it's because these excuses are usually followed by phrases like "that's why you need to give me another chance". Yes, that's right, some students actually *demand* a second chance. They don't ask you for it, or beg you to reconsider, they give you reasons on why they deserve it. Thankfully I only get a handful of these every semester. I get more students jumping up and down (or dancing) in my office while thanking me for the grade that I've given them :)
The main reason I love to teach is because of my students. I don't know if I'm just lucky, but I always seem to get amazing students every semester. While I do occasionally get students who can only be described as "a teacher's worst nightmare", the good ones often make up for it. Every semester I look forward to meeting my new students because I know that there's always going to be someone in my class who will inspire me to do my best.
A colleague of mine at work has been really sick. While she was at the hospital, I asked another colleague to take her the devotional, Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. It’s a very uplifting and encouraging daily devotional I thought might brighten her spirits. However, I didn’t actually know if she was a believer or not.
I learned today that she rejected the book, telling the deliverer of my gift that she doesn’t want anything to do with religion. I find these to be crossroad moments.
On the one hand, I respect the person’s choice, knowing full well that God has given them the choice to choose against Him. On the other, it breaks my heart that this person is rejecting God and the consequences of that rejection. I think what’s even more troubling is the person doesn’t even understand what that choice really means for their eternity.
So what do you do? Keep at it, pushing God on them or let it be and allow them to stick with their choice no matter the consequences? I think we can find the answer in scripture and it might surprise you.
In Matthew 19:16-22 a rich young man approaches Jesus and asks what he has to do to get eternal life. Jesus quizzes the young man about keeping the commandments, which the young man says he does. Then Jesus tells the young man to sell all his possessions and come follow him. The young man turns away disappointed, because he was very rich. See, Jesus knew the young man’s heart and knew that he placed wealth above God – in effect worshipped the idol of money – so he wasn’t prepared to follow. But what happens next is most telling.
The rich young ruler walks away and Jesus doesn’t go chasing after him. No, Jesus just lets him walk off. That surprised me a little at first, because given the stakes – eternal life with Jesus or eternal life in hell – you’d figure Jesus would make a second attempt to bring the guy back to God. But, he didn’t. Instead, Jesus let the young man’s free-will choice stand.
The same thing happens in John 6:56-69 Jesus tells a large group of followers that they must eat his flesh and drink his blood, certainly symbolizing being one with Jesus who is the bread of life, as well as pointing to what we now call communion, the Lord’s Table, or the Eucharist. All but the original 12 disciples there leave Jesus, actually disgusted with his teaching. Jesus asks the remaining 12 if they will leave, too. They say they will not, because Jesus has the words to eternal life. Jesus then makes no attempt to retrieve the others who could not bear his teaching.
Then we see Jesus in Mark 6:7-11 he sends the disciples out two by two into the various towns. He tells them to “shake the dust off your feet” at those towns that do not welcome them and the message. In that culture, shaking the dust off one’s feet was not just an insult, but basically writing them off. So here is Jesus yet again not chasing after people who reject him, but instead offering them the choice and then allowing people to live with the consequences of that choice.
I’ve struggled with this learning. I know from reading scripture and from God’s character that He doesn’t want one person to lose heaven, so I figure that my role is to keep plugging away at people. But then I read these and other stories where Jesus himself allows people to choose against God and does not continue to chase after them once they have made their decision. So what are we to do?
First, we should pray for those who reject God’s word. We should pray that even though they may reject our offering that the Holy Spirit may stir them just enough to think about that decision a bit harder. Perhaps the initial rejection will turn into acceptance and the step one of us took to introduce the subject of God will just be the start of the conversation.
Second, we should pray for guidance. Perhaps God does want you to chase after the person a little harder. I can tell you that I am not smart enough to figure it out on my own. While we don’t want to offend, we also don’t want someone to go to hell who could go to heaven if we were to just try a little harder and love them a little more.
Third, I do think we need to respect people’s free-will choices just as Jesus did. My father was an atheist who I tried several times to convince otherwise. The funny part about him was he was raised a Jew and should have known better. He died without ever accepting God into his life. Yet, after he died we found the Bible I had given him years before sitting prominently on his living room table. So who knows!
I am going to pray for my colleague. I hope she recovers from her illness, but more than that I pray the Holy Spirit does a miracle in her life and softens her heart enough to entertain a conversation with God.
Tonight was quiz night, a music quiz to raise funds for the Chester Swimming Club (or something like that). The question master, having run three similar quizzes to send seven local scouts to Japan this summer loosely offered to do quiz for this other cause one day not sure that the offer would ever be called upon. But called upon it was and tonight was the night he had to deliver.
Whilst everyone else drank and made merry he had just one beer (driving) and then had a combination of coke and coffee for the rest of the night. He is now wide awake (caffeined up) watching Karl Pilkington on late night repeats whilst also on flickr.
This is his view of the evening. All the answers typed out, wires for microphones sprawled across the desk, iPhone on which quiz was saved, coffee mug and a stack of raffle tickets (well you have to show willing don't you).
No idea how much was raised
Wednesday, 03 September 2008.
40 Years in 40 Days [ view the entire set ]
An examination and remembrance of a life at 40.
For the 40 days leading up to my 40th birthday, I intend to use my 365 Days project to document and remember my life and lay bare what defines me. 40 years, 40 qualities, 40 days.
Year 14: 1981-1982
As I began the transition from junior high to high school, I found myself increasingly pigeon-holed as a brainy kid and a teacher's pet (I'd always been pigeon-holed as brainy at home). The latter, in particular, galled me. My dad was a teacher, and many of the teachers in our small school were friends of the family. These were people I saw regularly in a social context, outside of school. I knew the combination of my smarts and my family's connection to the school was too much for cruel kids to resist. Teacher's pet, teacher's pet. There was nothing I could do about it other than take a dive on a few insignificant quizzes here and there. I did that a few times, but I was not stupid enough to sacrifice any important tests to my desire to be un-mocked, and I don't think any of my teachers believed me, or even bothered to count it against me, when I turned in poor work. I did not help myself any by developing a reputation for quibbling about every red mark I felt was less than 100% fair. I couldn't help it. I was a stickler for logical consistency, and couldn't stand being confronted with inconsistency. I usually won those arguments.
This time of transition also marked the point at which my affection for and attraction to oddballs developed. As I began my freshman year, I took a liking to a guy who'd been on the periphery of our group of band geeks and bookworms. He was fascinating to me, at the same time as he repelled many others who felt he was weird. I couldn't disagree. He was weird. But, the more I observed his weirdness, the more I liked it, and the more I came to think of it as a kind of adventurousness of the mind. He seemed more alive to me than anyone else. He was into David Bowie long before China Girl made it popular for kids our age to be into David Bowie. Sometimes he would stand with his arms out, like he was flying, and gently sway to his own inner music. He was only 5'6", and had no chance of ever being a great basketball player, but he was on the team. He rode the bench every game, and on the rare occasions when he got in the game, he would play like a man obsessed, a monster driven by some irresistible force. He wasn't very good, but I loved watching him play, because he played as if he were playing out a game that existed only in his head, a reality in which he was fearless and invincible. I silently adored him, and continued to do so all throughout high school.
Things were steadily worsening at home. It was clear by now that my dad had a drinking problem. There were fights -- loud, screaming fights -- regularly. I stopped bringing friends to our house, and began insisting on spending time at their houses. My relationship with my mother had started deteriorating a few years prior, and it continued to worsen. As is common in alcoholic households, it was the non-alcoholic parent who became the enforcer, and the alcoholic parent who became the fun one. Most of the time, at least until it got unbearably bad, my dad was a funny drunk. He would tell jokes and stories, punctuating them with sound effects and faces. I would laugh and laugh. As the years went by, though, he got less funny and more drunk. My mom, who had her own demons to battle, was suffering from tremendous amounts of stress, and we fought continuously.
Who am I?
I am an admirer of oddity.
I think it takes a tremendous amount of courage to be strange. When people ask who or what I think is brave or courageous, I usually surprise them by saying drag queens and transgender folk. Not firefighters, they ask? Not cops, soldiers, skydivers? Yeah, those people are all brave. But, they're expected to do what they do. They fit neatly into our image of the world, and into our categories of reality. They are utterly non-threatening to our understanding of who we are. Not so with people who play with gender. People find gender ambiguity intensely threatening on a very personal level. Gender is one of those things we tend to think of as absolute and immutable, a solid rock upon which we build our understanding of the world around us. When someone gives that rock a good kick, it upsets our balance. Many people lash out, reacting with intense hatred and violence toward the source of the upset. The person who is different, uncategorizable in the world as we understand it, has painted an enormous target on their back.
Most people who are oddities in one way or another know this, but they remain true to themselves, because to do otherwise is to succumb to an obliteration of the soul.
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This is the MWF load. Tu, Th are lab days so I only need the physics comp book and my lab manual.
5.11 Rush 12
Misc. Stuff:
-Powerade
-Orbit gum, usually wintermint or peppermint.
-Chapstick
-Lens cloth for sunglasses
-Bic Lighters-Fire is good
-Two PNY 8GB flashdrives - One for Solidworks Lab and Matlab, the other for misc.
-CRKT M16-10KZ
-Swiss army knife and cheap set of pliers
-Mini-mag LED - got a 2D and a mini for $13 at Wal-Nasty
Cords:
-Laptop
-Cell charger
-Camera/Cell USB
Two Calculators-Some profs don't like graphing calculators on quizzes/exams because students use them to cheat.
-TI-84 Plus graphing calculator
-TI-30XIIS scientific calculator
Pens for notes, Pencils for quizzes/exams:
-Zebra F-701
-0.7 Pilot G2 blue and black ink (0.5 tends to stop writing often...)
-0.7 BIC mech disposable pencils
-Magic Marker
Paper:
-Engineering Pad - overly expensive, extremely thin paper
-Legal notepad
-Mini comp book - for when you pack up early and the prof decides to keep talking about important stuff (Homework for example)
Comp Books:
5 hours of class on MWF.
-Thermodynamics
-EE221 (Numerical Computing Engineers)
-Fluid Mechanics
-Materials Science
-Physics 202
-CAD and Physics labs on Tues, CAD again on Thurs.
Makes for a hell of a week.
During this Chinese New Year , family will get together , starting from the reunion dinner during the eve. Then staying up throughout the night aka guarding the night so that your loved one and parents will have longvetity....
Throughout the chinese new year , family will do home visiting to relatives and friends , with a pair of mandrain orange in their hand.
Kids during this period as they will received ang bao from the married adults. Ang bao aka red packet is a chinese new year tradition whereby the married will put $$$ inside it as a blessing.
One of the event during this festive period is River Hongbao.
.:Taken from From River HongBao 2012
Introduction
River Hongbao 2012
As the year of the Rabbit draws to a close, River Hongbao prepares to welcome the Year of the Dragon with the biggest New Year Carnival in Singapore at The Float @ Marina Bay! From 21st to 29th January 2012, The Float will be turned into a wonderland of culture, food, lights and entertainment daily from 12 noon to 11.30pm (On Chinese New Year’s Eve 22 January 2012, from 12 noon till 1am).
With 25 years of success, next year’s River Hongbao aims for even greater heights, focusing on Fun, Culture and Heritage. Visitors will get to learn more about Chinese culture and heritage while engaging in fun-filled activities throughout the River Hongbao site.
Highlights
The Wonders of Guangxi
River Hongbao will be collaborating with the Culture Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for the very first time, bringing the region’s specialties in food, dance, song and handicraft to River HonIntroduction
River Hongbao 2012
As the year of the Rabbit draws to a close, River Hongbao prepares to welcome the Year of the Dragon with the biggest New Year Carnival in Singapore at The Float @ Marina Bay! From 21st to 29th January 2012, The Float will be turned into a wonderland of culture, food, lights and entertainment daily from 12 noon to 11.30pm (On Chinese New Year’s Eve 22 January 2012, from 12 noon till 1am).
With 25 years of success, next year’s River Hongbao aims for even greater heights, focusing on Fun, Culture and Heritage. Visitors will get to learn more about Chinese culture and heritage while engaging in fun-filled activities throughout the River Hongbao site.
Highlights
The Wonders of Guangxi
River Hongbao will be collaborating with the Culture Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for the very first time, bringing the region’s specialties in food, dance, song and handicraft to River Hongbao visitors. Performers from the region’s ethnic minorities will entertain the audience with many song and dance items native to their individual tribes as well as excerpts adapted from the highly acclaimed movie Liu San Jie (刘三姐). Visitors will also have the opportunity to view traditional handicraft exhibits and get first hand experiences with live cultural demonstrations like caramel painting, paper cutting, rice carving and many more!
Lighting up the Bay
Possibly the largest lantern display in Southeast Asia, River Hongbao 2012 will see more than 60 exquisitely designed lanterns on display, adding to the spectacular view of the Marina Bay. Handcrafted by Chengdu craftsmen, this year will see a myriad of materials used and the marriage of traditional design with technical effects, creating livelier and more vibrant designs to bring the Float to life with lights, movement and sound.
Martial God of Wealth （武财神）
Chinese New Year is all about auspicious tidings and good luck, which makes the God of Wealth, deemed as the patron of wealth and prosperity, an integral part of River Hongbao. This year, River Hongbao welcomes the Martial God of Wealth as the main highlight of the lantern display. According to traditional belief, the Martial God of Wealth is a symbol used in boosting economy and bringing wealth and prosperity to businessmen. An expert in geomancy has also advised that placing the Martial God of Wealth at the Bay area this year will help in stabilize Singapore’s position in the recently tumultuous global economy.
Biggest ever River Hongbao Food Street
With more than 40 stalls, this year’s River Hongbao Food Street will be the biggest ever set up and aims to tantalize visitors’ taste buds with 70 varieties of New Year goodies and local hawker favourites like Hainanese Chicken Rice, Nasi Lemak, Roti Prata and many more. Other than local fare, visitors will also have the rare opportunity to sample Guangxi local specialties specially prepared by Guangxi chefs like Guilin Rice Noodles （桂林米粉）, Bamboo Rice （竹筒饭）and Yu Lin Meatballs （玉林肉蛋）.
River Hongbao will also be collaborating with At-Sunrice Globalchef Academy for the very first time, inviting their students to create and market a special Nian Gao （Chinese New Year Sticky Rice Cake年糕）, only available for sale at River Hongbao. More details of this culinary showcase will be unveiled in future press conferences.
Greater Youth Participation
Expect a more ‘youthful’ River Hongbao as the committee plans for more youth involvement. Students will be invited to train as tour guides of River Hongbao’s ‘History of Chinese Education in Singapore’ Exhibition as well as to visit the Exhibition as part of their Chinese cultural curriculum, organize Lantern Riddles Contest and also get the chance to perform nightly on the River Hongbao stage. Online quizzes, of which answers can only be found at River Hongbao site, will also be hosted via River Hongbao’s website (www.riverhongbao.sg) and Facebook Page to pique their interest.
Night after Night of exciting performances!
Nine nights of festivities, nine nights of exciting performances to wow the audience! With Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gracing the event as the Guest-of-Honour, River Hongbao will open on 21st January with a wonderful fireworks display as well as performances by Guangxi Performing Group and Taiwanese Singer Zhang Xiu Qing（张秀卿）.
On 22nd January, President Tony Tan will be ushering in the Year of the Dragon with another spectacular fireworks display followed by exciting performances by Guangxi, Zhang Xiu Qing as well as our very own local performing groups, artistes and students!
From 26th to 29th January, our local talents like Liu Ling Ling, Huang Qing Yuan, Li Pei Fen, Wang Lei, Chen Jian Bin will be hosting Local Talent night (26th January), performers from the Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines will entertain the masses on SCCCI Night (27th January), student groups will take center stage with
their dynamic performances on Youth Night (28th January) and performers from all different ethnic groups will come together in a grand finale to wrap up River Hong Bao on Harmony Night (29th January).
gbao visitors. Performers from the region’s ethnic minorities will entertain the audience with many song and dance items native to their individual tribes as well as excerpts adapted from the highly acclaimed movie Liu San Jie (刘三姐). Visitors will also have the opportunity to view traditional handicraft exhibits and get first hand experiences with live cultural demonstrations like caramel painting, paper cutting, rice carving and many more!
Lighting up the Bay
Possibly the largest lantern display in Southeast Asia, River Hongbao 2012 will see more than 60 exquisitely designed lanterns on display, adding to the spectacular view of the Marina Bay. Handcrafted by Chengdu craftsmen, this year will see a myriad of materials used and the marriage of traditional design with technical effects, creating livelier and more vibrant designs to bring the Float to life with lights, movement and sound.
Martial God of Wealth （武财神）
Chinese New Year is all about auspicious tidings and good luck, which makes the God of Wealth, deemed as the patron of wealth and prosperity, an integral part of River Hongbao. This year, River Hongbao welcomes the Martial God of Wealth as the main highlight of the lantern display. According to traditional belief, the Martial God of Wealth is a symbol used in boosting economy and bringing wealth and prosperity to businessmen. An expert in geomancy has also advised that placing the Martial God of Wealth at the Bay area this year will help in stabilize Singapore’s position in the recently tumultuous global economy.
Biggest ever River Hongbao Food Street
With more than 40 stalls, this year’s River Hongbao Food Street will be the biggest ever set up and aims to tantalize visitors’ taste buds with 70 varieties of New Year goodies and local hawker favourites like Hainanese Chicken Rice, Nasi Lemak, Roti Prata and many more. Other than local fare, visitors will also have the rare opportunity to sample Guangxi local specialties specially prepared by Guangxi chefs like Guilin Rice Noodles （桂林米粉）, Bamboo Rice （竹筒饭）and Yu Lin Meatballs （玉林肉蛋）.
River Hongbao will also be collaborating with At-Sunrice Globalchef Academy for the very first time, inviting their students to create and market a special Nian Gao （Chinese New Year Sticky Rice Cake年糕）, only available for sale at River Hongbao. More details of this culinary showcase will be unveiled in future press conferences.
Greater Youth Participation
Expect a more ‘youthful’ River Hongbao as the committee plans for more youth involvement. Students will be invited to train as tour guides of River Hongbao’s ‘History of Chinese Education in Singapore’ Exhibition as well as to visit the Exhibition as part of their Chinese cultural curriculum, organize Lantern Riddles Contest and also get the chance to perform nightly on the River Hongbao stage. Online quizzes, of which answers can only be found at River Hongbao site, will also be hosted via River Hongbao’s website (www.riverhongbao.sg) and Facebook Page to pique their interest.
Night after Night of exciting performances!
Nine nights of festivities, nine nights of exciting performances to wow the audience! With Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong gracing the event as the Guest-of-Honour, River Hongbao will open on 21st January with a wonderful fireworks display as well as performances by Guangxi Performing Group and Taiwanese Singer Zhang Xiu Qing（张秀卿）.
On 22nd January, President Tony Tan will be ushering in the Year of the Dragon with another spectacular fireworks display followed by exciting performances by Guangxi, Zhang Xiu Qing as well as our very own local performing groups, artistes and students!
From 26th to 29th January, our local talents like Liu Ling Ling, Huang Qing Yuan, Li Pei Fen, Wang Lei, Chen Jian Bin will be hosting Local Talent night (26th January), performers from the Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines will entertain the masses on SCCCI Night (27th January), student groups will take center stage with
their dynamic performances on Youth Night (28th January) and performers from all different ethnic groups will come together in a grand finale to wrap up River Hong Bao on Harmony Night (29th January).
.:Taken from From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:.
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as "Spring Festival," the literal translation of the Chinese name 春節 (Pinyin: Chūn Jié), since the spring season in Chinese calendar starts with lichun, the first solar term in a Chinese calendar year. It marks the end of the winter season, analogous to the Western carnival. The festival begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: Zhēng Yuè) in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chú Xī (除夕) or "Eve of the Passing Year." Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year".
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Selected frames from the Flip from a typical car ride with my little buddy. This is the last week of a six-year stretch of sharing the 30-minute ride to work with the kidlings. Regular activities included the far-ranging “question of the day”, the ever evolving and highly strategic weather game, the “can-you-get-the-security-guard-to-touch-your-kid-badge game, math quizzes, spelling rhymes, songs, and year long running stories of getting chased across the galaxy while looking for dilithium.
Ever wondered what Dog Breed you would be if you were a dog? Take the quiz here!
Close-up collage of 8 dogs I was commissioned to illustrate for www.dogster.com. Go to my website to see all of the dogs in full body & detail!
These pups are vector art, drawn completely in Illustrator.
Copyright 2007 Steph Fitzsimmons
Prague, CZ
On the Charles Bridge in Prague, this group played Pirates of the Caribbean, which was amazing and reminded me of nights at home in California with my best friends. We would take Buzzfeed quizzes and watch movies, one of our favorites being Pirates. As much as I loved my travels and adventures, by this point in my trip I was ready to come home.
class opened after a month long vacation.i can't believe how busy we all have become all of a sudden..and here i thought my last semester was going to be a slack one...i've more class tests,sessional quizzes,and presentations in next 10days than i can count.going a bit crazy.
the only photography i can do right now is through windows :/
So let me start this by saying that if you think that's a bad photo i'm so so sorry since I was very busy this last week. I had Daily quizzes and I had to solve a bunch of Past papers everyday.. (I'm an IGSCE student, And this year, Year 9, I have Core Examinations from Cambridge in English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics)
So i'm very sorry but this is what I could come up with in the short time I had :(
But here's the story:
Roxanne was so tired of her life, her parents were always blaming her for everything.. Cutting just wasn't giving her enough release anymore, so she decided to end her life.. But she went to her Best Friend Derek's house first, she cried her heart out to Derek, He comforted her with hugs and a pint of Ben and Jerry's, but that wasn't enough.. When the fell asleep together snuggled on the couch, she got up, left him a note saying goodbye to him, and that she actually loved him, more than a best friend love, but didn't want to come between him and his girlfriend. So she left the letter and tearfully left the house, ready to end her life...
I'm so sorry again :/
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
On Wednesday 21 December, the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee spoke to Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
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The chapel was designed by one T. G. Jackson and was built between 1897 and 1901. It's quite a pleasant, light, building, with some very nice features. The rose window depicts the creation and has, according to the school archivist, who was on duty during the heritage Open day, been used as the inspiration for quizzes - e.g. "where can you find a rhinoceros in the school?". I'm not sure this photo really does it justice - I've found stained glass quite tricky to photgraph, and the weather, dull and cloudy, didn't help.
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It's a fact Duke students are real smart.....here is a good Duke joke:
At Duke University, there were four sophomores taking Organic Chemistry. They were doing so well on all the quizzes, midterms and labs, etc., that each had an "A" so far for the semester.
These four friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to go up to the University of Virginia and party with some friends there. They had a great time, but after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided to find their professor after the final and explain to him why they missed it. They explained that they had gone to UVA for the weekend with the plan to come back in time to study, but, unfortunately, they had a flat tire on the way back, didn't have a spare, and couldn't get help for a long time. As a result, they missed the final.
The professor thought it over and then agreed they could make up the final the following day. The guys were elated and relieved. They studied that night and went in the next day at the time the professor had told them. He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a test booklet, and told them to begin.
They looked at the first problem, worth five points. It was something simple about free radical formation. "Cool," they thought at the same time, each one in his separate room, "this is going to be easy." Each finished the problem and then turned the page.
On the second page was written: (For 95 points): Which tire?
Our Flag, Symbol Of Freedom and Liberty:
Flag Day, June 14, falls within National Flag Week, a time when Americans reflect on the foundations of the nation’s freedom. The flag of the United States represents freedom and has been an enduring symbol of the country’s ideals since its early days. During both events, Americans also remember their loyalty to the nation, reaffirm their belief in liberty and justice, and observe the nation’s unity.
Many people in the United States honor this day by displaying the American flag at homes and public buildings. Other popular ways of observing this holiday include: flag-raising ceremonies; Flag Day services; school quizzes and essay competitions about the American flag; musical salutes; street parades; and awards for special recognition.
Organizations such as The National Flag Day Foundation are actively involved in coordinating activities centered on the event and keeping the flag’s traditions alive. Following Flag Day is Honor America Days, a 21-day period through to Independence Day (July 4) to honor America. During this period, people hold public gatherings and activities to celebrate and honor the nation.
On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress replaced the British symbols of the Grand Union flag with a new design featuring 13 white stars in a circle on a field of blue and 13 red and white stripes – one for each state. Although it is not certain, this flag may have been made by the Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross, who was an official flag maker for the Pennsylvania Navy. The number of stars increased as the new states entered the Union, but the number of stripes stopped at 15 and was later returned to 13.
In June 1886 Bernard Cigrand made his first public proposal for the annual observance of the birth of the flag when he wrote an article titled “The Fourteenth of June” in the old Chicago Argus newspaper. Cigrand’s effort to ensure national observance of Flag Day finally came when President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation calling for a nationwide observance of the event on June 14, 1916. However, Flag Day did not become official until August 1949, when President Harry Truman signed the legislation and proclaimed June 14 as Flag Day. In 1966, Congress also requested that the President issue annually a proclamation designating the week in which June 14 occurs as National Flag Week.
Background:
The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation to: call on government officials in the USA to display the flag of the United States on all government buildings on Flag Day; and to urge US residents to observe Flag Day as the anniversary of the adoption on June 14, 1777, by the Continental Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States.
Symbols:
The American flag, also nicknamed as “Old Glory” or “star-spangled banner”, has changed designs over the centuries. It consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars. Each of the 50 stars represents one of the 50 states in the United States and the 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies that became the first states in the Union.
According to the United States Flag Code, the Pledge of Allegiance reads:
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I served, and proud of it. Thank you to all who served: past, present and future. Let's not forget what it cost to keep it flying. Fly it honorably, and respectfully.
On Wednesday 21 December, the Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee spoke to Home Secretary Suella Braverman.
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Photos can be used with credit © House of Lords 2022 / photography by Roger Harris
Jules Leopold - Check Your Wits!
Popular Library 315, 1951
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"Brain-teasing fun for everyone."
I didn't make it - that was done by the woman in the background 😀
Three afternoon sessions of games, activities, quizzes and songs have been held at St Andrew's Church in Crawley for those of us who are a bit older than most. It's been jolly good 😜
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
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A British style pub located in the Mid-Forward section of Deck 6 - Tween Deck. Fine ales, sports, quizzes etc., The Casino is to the right of this forward facing photo which was taken on 17/09/2022, when Britannia was making steady progress on the Bay of Biscay, in the North Atlantic Ocean, when heading back home to Southampton where she would arrive in the following morning.
P&O Cruises dates its founding to 1837, making it the oldest cruise line in the world. However, its origins date back even further to 1822, when the Peninsular Steam Navigation Company was founded by two men, a London shipbroker by the name of Brodie McGhie Wilcox, after whom the Brodie's pub on many P&O ships is named, and a Scottish sailor, Arthur Anderson. Anderson's wine bar maybe found on some of the other ships.
MV Britannia was completed on 26/02/2015 by Fincantieri, Monfalcone, Italy. She was laid down on 15/05/2013, launched on 14/02/2014 and Christened by the late HRH Queen Elizabeth II, on 10/03/2015 with her maiden voyage on the 14/03/2015. She is from the Royal Class of cruise ships and is British registered in Southampton. She has a GTW of 143,730, has seventeen decks of which fourteen are passenger accessible giving a maximum passenger capacity of 3,647 and 1,398 crew. She is powered by Wärtsilä 12V46F x 2 & Wärtsilä 14V46F x 2 & propulsion electric motors - 2 x VEM Sachsenwerk GMBH and is capable of 21.9 knots and a cruising speed of around 19 knots.
MV Britannia had departed from Ocean Cruise Terminal, Southampton, on 04/09/2022 for a lovely 14-night Mediterranean Cruise; Southampton - A Coruña, Spain - Valencia, Spain - La Seyne-sur-Mer(Toulon), France - Barcelona, Spain - Cádiz, Spain - Southampton. She had departed from Cádiz on 15/09/2022. © Peter Steel 2022.
Fans of Germany’s well-known children’s show “Die Sendung mit der Maus” had a great time here at the ECB, taking part in games, quizzes and arts and crafts to learn about euro banknotes, the ECB and the EU.
Credit: "© Thorsten Jansen/European Central Bank 2018"
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Santa takes reasonable precautions while delivering presents in Helmand Province. Door Gunner Petty Officer Richard Symonds (Royal Navy) dresses as Santa as he delivers mail and presents to troops around Helmand province.
Servicemen and women serving in Afghanistan have been enjoying the festivities of Christmas Day, with a traditional dinner and lots of seasonal fun.
The MOD has sent over six tonnes of festive food to Afghanistan to give our forces a taste of Christmas while on operations, including:
Two tonnes of turkey;
One and a half tonnes of gammon;
One and a half tonnes of sprouts;
200 Kilos of cranberry sauce;
1000 iced Christmas cakes;
A tonne of Christmas pudding;
15,000 mince pies; and
45,000 After Eight mints.
Charity ÔUK4UThanks!Õ became SantaÕs little helper as they provided 22,500 Christmas boxes to troops all over the world - containing a host of goodies bought with money donated from members of the public. The presents were unwrapped by troops serving in Afghanistan on Christmas Day.
While work continued for many of the troops, most had the chance to let their hair down a little with fun and games, sports competitions, and quizzes. Church services were also held by the team of Padres to ensure the true spirit of Christmas was not forgotten. And everyone received an extra 30 minutes free time on their welfare phone card to ensure they could wish their family and friends a merry Christmas.
Rain outside my window pouring down.
It's monday again tomorrow. I feel energized now that I've had 2 full days of rest.
Tomorrow will be a busy day. We have a lot of quizzes lined up and I still need to find a suit.
It's 11:10 right now and I haven't studied any of my lessons yet. better get off the computer.
Goodnight!
Day 17
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
What a lovely plane the OV-10A Bronco is. Now that everyone has learned to apply some smarts to instrument layout. Unlike, for example, a Vought F4U-1D Corsair or Lockheed F-104C Starfighter. The "basic six" flight instruments are big and dead center- gee, just like the RAF standardized in the 1930s... Engine instruments are top to bottom, left to right. Very nice.
CDF removed the military ejection seats these came with, as well as the armament winglet/pylons under the aft fuselage. Less weight in structure, more fuel, longer time on station. Forest fires are not pop-quizzes. No magic bullets, even though everyone known the earlier the water is on target the better.
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Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras
Wednesday 19 January 2022: First official day of the school year and the new Grade 8s and their Matric Buddies had an afternoon of fun in the sun, quizzes, water polo, watersliding, and the traditional obstacle course - all before the sleepover on the Hawthornden Field and the hike up Nursey Ravine at sun-up. All the plans for their first week of school on the link bit.ly/3reVdiw #SuperaMoras