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I heard that this area was going to start a rugby program. They figured it could grow to be the number two sport in the Charlottes....... What's the number one sport???? why, "Haida go seek", of course!!

I am hearing Harry Belafonte singing "This is my island, in the sun, where my people have come since time begun....". Yup, it is a little bit of heaven here. I've always thought that Earth is the best planet in this Solar System to live on, and Canada is the best country on this planet to live in, BC is the best province in this country to live in, and Vancouver Island is the best part of BC to live in, and the Cowichan Valley is the best part of the Island to live in. So logically, what's the conclusion?

Yes the island is a poor place to live (sarcasm), it's too rainy compared to North Vancouver (sarcasm), it's real estate prices are too high(true, but sarcasm) compared to the mainland. And you have to on a ferry to get here. Come to visit (when COVID-19 is over), but then go home, to your commutes, the crowds, the.....

Speaking of names. I once had a Junior Girl's basketball team called the "Totemettes", because the boys' team were the "Totems". At a tournament I was asked to submit a name for the team, so I threw out "The Fighting Thunderchickens"! When it came out as that in the program, the girls were not amused. But then it sort of grew on them. We even got team jackets with a cool logo of an angry chicken dribbling the ball with lightning bolts over its head. Now the girls loved it. We even had a warm-up song called, "There ain't nobody here but us chickens"! And the name stuck! We came 2nd on Vancouver Island that year, no provincials for girls at that time. Three or four of the team played for Cowichan at the Senior level and they won the girl's BC's. Some were with Kathy Shields at UVIC when they won the Canadians. But, deep down inside, they were "Thunderchickens". 40 years later. I still have the jacket.

How do I get to be more than a "Comet's Prospect"???

The rioting and burning down south is worrisome on so many levels. I wonder what the COVID-19 rates will be in 2 or 3 weeks done there. Where is Mr. T-Rump on this?

Good line Deb. By the time I got into genealogy, I was in my late forties. My parents had been older, and my grandparents had gone. I had a ton of old photographs, and a lot of questions that I had for my grandparents. Sigh... I wish they were here to answer them, but we appreciate them far too late in life.

Report Card comments for school or Trump

I have a T-shirt given to me by my Calculus class that says," We arrived, we derived, we survived" . I integrated that T-shirt into my wardrobe!

Sure, I'll even tie one hand behind my back!!

Are you old enough to have had the strap at school? I last got the strap in grade 9, in 1960, for talking in class. Three on each hand, coming from behind me with two teachers, one to observe. The observing teacher just passed away. The fellow who gave me the strap, I ended up playing rugby against him, then teaching with him, and helping him build a house. We became good friends. When I started teaching in 1970, they decided to ban the strap from schools. It was still in Private schools, for when I taught at Brentwood, in 1977-78, they still were caning kids.

That's got a bit of a rhyme going. Now how can we add in: hump, lump, frump, bump, ump, grump, mump, pump, rump, stump, ....

SNeaky_Librarian.pdf A neat picture in the time of COVOD-19

I've got to tell you guys about this book I just finished, "The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston. Writing for the National Geographic, Mr. Preston was in on a flight in Honduras to an area called T3. This valley and the one next to it is called T1, were first noticed on LIDAR photos as possibly having ancient ruins underneath all the thickly heavily forested jungle. They flew in in 2015 and 2016, this book was written in 2017. I've been interested in ancient civilizations, both for the math course I'm writing, but also due to the books by Graham Hancock and such. In Honduras, many explorers had tried to find the Lost White City, and Preston thought that this might be it. They stayed for a week in the beginning under terrible conditions, large snakes, sand flies, rain, and terrible jungles. But they did find the city, that had apparently been abandoned abruptly. They flew out to take a break until the next year. Why am I writing this to you guys? Well in that year (2015 - 2016) about half of the members of group involved in the exploration began to get patches of ugly sores that wouldn't go away. They were eventually found to have a parasite called "Leishmaniasis" that is ugly, very hard to get rid of, actually mates with other strains and thus mutates, and has been around since the dinosaurs! It apparently is contacted through barn rats AND sand flies. Because of global warning these guys, barn rats and sand flies, are now into the southern states and growing in the Easterly and Northerly directions. The book goes into great detail about pandemics, and how hard viruses are to manufacturer, and even mentions Dr. Fauci and the National Institute of Health (NIH). It has a warning about pandemics from Bill and Melinda Gates. What's scary is, this was all written before COVID-19 was upon us. Fascinating, but scary. (I had actually written "faxcinating", but saw the error. "Faxcinating" must be when you send something really interesting to a person through your fax machine!! LOL ).

I jump back and forth between Canadian News, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox (to see how the other side perceives it). What I was thinking is that a news show that offered a debate on important issues would be neat. One person, or a group, from one side debating logically, one person, or a group, from the other side. If it became popular at least each side would see what the other side has to offer. Or would it just disintegrate into the sides yelling, "You're Fake News", no, "You're Fake News".

Wow, great idea! Who wouldn't want to learn Math through a Zoom Tutor!

Looks like there might be some jobs for tutors in the summer and starting next September.

Attention: Mr. T-Rump to the south of us.

A lot of parents would not do this. Not because they don't believe in it, but because they can't afford to do it (or get organized enough to do it). After all many schools are providing breakfasts fro some students, which, of course, they should have had at home.

Lessons on reading a graph, from the state of Georgia. http://www.joeydevilla.com/2020/05/17/georgia-department-of-healths-master-class-on-misinforming-with-statistics/?fbclid=IwAR1RYrDyLMcjtw2r_QriUYTOevYtS8FYvEubfJRFSN4Gv6gi-U4gWSZiFhg

Have you ever tried working in a class with students who are learning on line. only about 1 in 5 are successful (at this time). Most will switch to a game or text as soon as they are not being observed. It is great in theory, and maybe it will be the future. But for me, and the 55 years of studying my subject post high school, I have no input into their learning, it is just someone else doing the bare minimum. In the future, maybe, at this time, a disaster. Then try, as I did, with 50 kids in two classes, doing online learning, all over the school, in 6 different grade 10, 11 and 12 Math courses.

I need some help from you wise people on this thread. And I'm not being sarcastic, I think so many of you really have your head screwed on right. I just stepped into a cess pool. I bumped into a Tweet from an Italian lady in parliament asking for a warrant to be put out on Bill Gates, as she seems to think this is all his fault. Then I looked at the replies to this, and I just fell into this whole other side of conspiracy theories, quoting doctors and studies and patents, and coincidences. They even are blaming Andrew Yang as saying he dropped out of the American Democratic race because his Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) was not going to fly. But he did it at the same time COVID-19 started up and forced many onto a GBI. So obviously it was him who started it! What really scared me were the supporters of these conspiracy theories. It reminded me about when I read a book on the flat-earthers. Anyway, thanks for listening, I just am blown away by what some people are thinking. I think I'm all right now....

A lot of the math problems started with them throwing out the memorizing of the times tables. I have never seen a segment of students who are so slow at doing math, both in homework and on tests. A 45 minute test is given in 70 minutes, and they still want more time to finish it. Why? Because every question they have to reach for a calculator. Ask them what 7 x 8 is and their eyes are like dear-in-a-headlight eyes, and their arms are twitching to try and get to their calculator. And this is grade 11 !!!

Don't they also get extra salary if they do extra-curricular such as coach football, coach the cheerleaders, do drama classes, etc.?

Didn't Christie Clark's son go to a private school?