Geology

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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. If not, well, I'm sorry. *She smiles pleasantly.* There is leftover pumpkin pie and coffee near the back. Please sign the roll sheet and tell any of your friends who might be skipping that there will be a quiz on Wednesday. Fair warning.

Today, we will be discussing radiometric dating.

Naturally-occurring radioactive materials break down into other materials at known rates. This is known as radioactive decay.

Radioactive parent elements decay to stable daughter elements.

Radioactivity was discovered in 1896 by Henri Becquerel. In 1905, Rutherford and Boltwood used the principle of radioactive decay to measure the age of rocks and minerals (using Uranium decaying to produce Helium. In 1907, Boltwood dated a sample of urnanite based on uranium/lead ratios. Amazingly, this was all done before isotopes were known, and before the decay rates were known accurately.

The invention of the MASS SPECTROMETER after World War I (post-1918) led to the discovery of more than 200 isotopes.

Many radioactive elemtns can be used as geologic clocks. Each radioactive element decays at its own nearly constant rate. Once this rate is known, geologists can estimate the length of time over which decay has been occurring by measuring the amount of radioactive parent element and the amount of stable daughter elements.

Office Hours - Abnormal Psychology

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Jenny's office now has a coffeemaker purchased from the NPC Grocery Store and a printer has been set up on the credenza in the corner. She has a lesson plan that she's working on while she waits for Jack O'Neill and any other students that still need to visit her.

History Classes (11-28-05)

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Dewey has stacks of tupperware, all containing various bits of Thanksgiving leftovers. One might suspect they come from multiple dinners. One might further suspect that Dewey had not been invited to all of those dinners. He is snacking on jellied cranberry sauce directly from the can.

Introduction to World History to 1600 (Terran)

"Martin Luther, man. Nailed a sign to a door and now there's all this religious hoopla about who's got the biggest piece of the pecan piety. What's up with that?"

East Asian History

"Um, I think I've run out of badass Japanese warriors. Um..." He drums his fingers on the desk. "Korea, man. Um, are they like the little runty cousin of China that never got the cool toys or what?"

The Library Is Open (11-28-05)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet unlocks the doors of the library, flips on the lights, and gets to work behind the Collections Desk.

Journalism Class - Monday November 28

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Spider has what appears to be a variety of pumpkin pies laid out and he's regarding them with deep suspicion. There is a note reading, "For your poor, long-suffering students. We hope they hate you as much as we do! FA."

"Help yourselves to pie, kids. It's probably safe." Spider glanced down. "The cat ate half of one and seems to be just fine."

Turning to look at the class he shakes his head. "Today I want you to write about the most frustrating morning you've ever been through. We'll share and discuss. If you want to do it in the form of a '... you think that's bad? Try this on for size!' contest, I have no issues with that. Enjoy."

Speech Comm

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Five minutes late to class, she charges in the classroom. Her posture is frighteningly erect. Her eyes flash with anger. Her jaw is clenched, and her knuckles are white where she is clenching her attache handle. She slams the case down on her desk and levels a killing glrae at each and every student in turn..

She then turns to the board and writes, in silence,

WHAT HAVE I COMMUNICATED WITH ONLY MY BODY LANGUAGE?

She sits on the edge of her desk and awaits discussion.

Ash's Art Appreciations, Lecture #9

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Ash paces back and forth in front of the classroom, until he's satisfied with the number of students in the seats. He then stops pacing, opens a book, and begins reading.

He's reading "Green Eggs and Hamelt".

When he is finished, he shuts the book and asks the questions for discussion.

"Alright knuckleheads. Say you were making a still-life painting of eggs and ham, and you decided to paint the eggs green. Here are your questions:
( He apparently has a lot of questions, today )

Alright, discuss!

Language Classes, 11/28

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"Hello. I hope you all enjoyed your break.

Classics: We are moving onto verbs in our study of Ancient Greek. The passive verb, the topic of this lesson, is used when the subject of the verb is being acted upon, rather than acting. [Dream continues to lecture on this topic for the remainder of class, ending by giving the students several sentences to translate.]

Languages of Asia: We will continue our work in basic Japanese with a review of Japanese phrases one might use on the telephone. [Dream discusses Japanese telephone vocabulary and manners for several minutes.]

Pair up and hold mock conversations using these words and the other vocabulary you have learned."

Study Hall, 11/28

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Principal Connor's vacation leaves Dream in charge of study hall, so he unlocks the doors.

Several articles of underwear and a pair of gloves have been strung up at the head of the study hall. Included in the string are: one black bra, a pair of red-and-gold boxers with the Caprica Buccaneers logo, a pair of women's underpants that look like "the unholy bastard child of boxer briefs and a loincloth", a pair of Bugs Bunny boxers and a pair of black gloves. There is no indication of why exactly they are there or to whom they belong.

Shrugging at this, Dream takes a seat with a book and waits for students.

[OOC: Underthings courtesy fh_anonymous.]

Soc 201 and 310: Nov. 28

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Criminology

Welcome back, class. I hope you all had restful holidays. Today, we are going to take a look at some international statistics on gun-related deaths.

Statistics provided by the CDC and reported by the AP, and study the 36 richest nations globally.

( In 1994, the U.S. accounted for 45 percent of the 88,649 gun deaths in those 36 nations. )

Please write a short essay after studying these statistics. You may choose between the two provided.
#1. Why do you believe Americans have such a higher rate of gun-related deaths?
#2. What could be done to prevent or diminish the number of gun-related deaths in America?

Death and Dying

Welcome back, everyone.

Lecture on Mass Grave Sites

But the right to exhume a mass grave or to halt tampering with a grave is not clear under international law. UN General Assembly resolution 3074, adopted in 1973, calls for States to cooperate in war crimes investigations. Articles 32 and 33 of Additional Protocol I require parties to search for missing persons after hostilities end, and otherwise assist in finding out their fate. But an individual country does not have to allow suspected mass graves to be examined.

Discussion for class: Please share whether you believe such a law should be put in place.

Homework: Please watch the film 100 Days. It will be shown on the school access channel several times before Wednesday, and is available in the A/V lab all day.

[OOC: If you haven't yet and would like to, please fill out the poll for Grissom's 2nd semester classes. You can e-mail me/him with questions or comments if you'd like. gil.grissom@fandomhigh.com. Thanks!]

Quantum Physics 123: Monday 28 November

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[The Doctor has sourdough bread, jam, and cream cheese out this morning. He looks happy but tired.]

Morning. I hope you all had a brilliant holiday, as I did. [He does not look at Cally or Crichton, because he'll start laughing.] And since I'm merciful, we'll work our way back into the swing of things with something relatively easy. We're going to watch part of Somewhere in Time, which, I should warn you, is ridiculously sappy...and find the fallacies in it.

After that, you may ask me questions about your final projects. ONLY about your final projects. And no, I didn't bring the pictures--as I said, I need a good reason to do so. [He smirks.] Also, if you'd be interested in taking a class with me next semester, do let me know. This one might actually involve practical work, if I can get it passed by the dean.


((That website, by the way, is ace. I highly recommend it if you want to poke around.))

E-Mail To Abnormal Psych Students

[romanywitch]

( Private to the Psych Students )

( Missing Homework )

OOC: All replies will be screened because no one else should be seeing the e-mail responses. Give me a holler if you're actually trying to break into Jenny's computer. ETA: Unscreening so people can respond to my responses. Darn my fiendish overthinking of things.

(no subject)

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The Chef and Das Schnitzel are back in the cafeteria. The Chef came back earlier than Schnitzel had anticipated and needless to say she was not happy about her little vacation being cut short. A good thing that did come out of the Chef coming back was that he finally agreed to let Das Schnitzel make Christmas lunch for the last day of school before Christmas vacation, something that was a real honor in the Muppet household. Das Schnitzel had promised the Chef she'd make it memorable. Until then she'd have to deal with the Chef, who was extra bouncy since his visit with his Muppet family.

Hellu buys und gurls! Deed yuoo meess me-a? I certeeenly meessed yuoo. Boot veell nut leee-a und sey I ves nut hefeeng guud teeme-a et hume-a. Ooh I meessed my femeely su mooch.

Tudey fur loonch ve-a hefe-a:

-Freeed Cheeckee

-Mecurunee Seled

-French Ooneeun Suoop

-Sveet Putetu Freees

Und es a speceeel geefft tu ell ooff yuoo I em geefing oooot edfent celenders fur yuoo ell. Yuoo knoo, thuse-a leettle-a celenders veet zee chuculetes in zeem tu help yuoo cuoont doon zee zee deys teell Chreestmes. Boot du nut stert tu iet zee cundy unteel December furst! Bork Bork Bork!

Celtic Literature and Civilisation Lesson F.I.I.K.

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Camulus looks cranky this morning. As in, "I wish to destroy this puny planet my weekend was that bad" cranky. Dark glasses and popping painkillers like they're candy cranky. That kind of cranky. He tosses books at the students. "The Tain Bo Cuilagne. I want the Pillowtalk read for next class."

He sits behind him desk and scowls. "Alright. Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, or the Sorrows of Dierdre. Things you need to know. Conchobar, King of Ulster, banished the sons of Uisliu because the most beautiful woman in the land, Dierdre, whom he was grooming for himself and only himself, chose Nessa instead of him. After chasing them off the island, he appeared to repent, invited them back with important hostages - his son and Fergus mac Roich amongst others. Some deception and an ambush happened, leading to the death of the sons of Uisliu and most of the best warriors of Ulster realising their king was an asshole and going to Connacht. Which is where we start. Oh, one more thing. All the Ulstermen currently experience labour pains that lay them all low for a given number of days and affect every Ulsterman except Cuchulainn. This was contained in a seperate story, 'The Labour Pangs of Ulster', which I didn't assign you but you can feel free to read on your own."

Almost as an afterthought, he grunts, "Hope you enjoyed your holidays."

[[Migraine. Going to bed as soon as I finish my "classes".]]

Student Council Meeting, Monday November 28th

[sensethevisions]

Phoebe opens up the classroom for the meeting and starts setting up drinks.




[[OOC: Phoebe will be scarce, but I will read everything. I'm at work trying to repair network issues]]

Cyborg Theory

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To continue last week's class, I want you all to get with your partner or group and work on your stories. Please give me the name of your main character(s) by the end of the evening.

[[Again, this can just be fanfiction so, for example, Lee and Sharon can write Sharon's Cylon Bebi Angst! fic or whatever. We'll discuss the stories in a most general sense when you turn them in next Monday, yes? *loves*]]

CJ's Office Hour

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[She's flipping through the Neiman Marcus catalog she picked up, listening to her headphones. Every now and again she sings along to snippets of Manilow, The Carpenters, and Neil Diamond. If anyone needs to talk, she's here.

Fencing Club

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Welcome to Fencing Club. I hope you all had an enjoyable break. The equipment and gear are here per usual. In addition, I have secured a tape of the biography "The Princess Bride", which possesses an excellent demonstration of a dueling match. You may feel free to participate in either tonight.

Ethics Class - catch up session, 10am-4pm

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Tara posts the class list on the door, as promised in her email, detailing the gaps in each student's participation. Penned at the bottom in a neat round hand is a note: Some of you may have discussed these with TAs out of class. Please inform me if this is the case.

She looks happy and well-rested as she sets up discussion stations around the room.

[ooc: I'll put names on the comment threads for the people who haven't completed them, rather than listing up here. Because I'm odd that way.]