Your teacher is not likely to be picking on you. Sometimes a teacher will be just trying to get the best out of you. If you have concerns you should ask your teacher if you can speak with them after class. Explain how you feel and that even though you know many of the answers you just clam up. If you approach your teacher respectfully and ask the teacher to help you in this regard you will most likely be pleasantly surprised. I am 50 years of age and struggled with English in my teens. The result was extremely positive and helped me excel for the rest of my life. I hope this helps.

Sarah Knauss from United States 24 September 1880 to 30 December 1999 119 years, 97 days

Enamel coated cast iron. It has even heat, easy to clean, dishwasher safe and lasts years and years with no nasty ill side effects or deterioration.

A human of course!

Education is the key to everything. Education comes in many forms. We use what we learn in schools to help navigate our way through life. We use what we learn on the streets to become wise in matters of survival.

I have heard over the years many people complain because they are cold or hungry and know from first hand experience they have no idea in the world. When you are living in a position where you do not know where or when you might get your next meal or you are so cold you do not know you will wake again when you go to sleep. That is certainly an education.

A scholar with a university degree who looks down his nose at an aboriginal in a loin cloth living in the desert with a spear might take a different view if he were to find himself in the desert in the same position. Education is relative to your environment. The key is to have a balance and the environment in which you live dictates much. However if you gain an education from schools you have many more appealing options than if you are just street wise. You can gain much more experience with knowledge as you then have a broader view.

Many people refer to God as a being, an object or an entity of sorts that will shine on just ones self. It does not matter if you are Catholic, Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, whatever you were born into or have come to believe by what you have experienced or what you have been taught. All these religions send the same message. The message has simply been missed by the evils of mankind.

It does not matter by what name you call god or what church or temple you wish to worship in. The very things that gave us life will end our life. It is what we do while we are here that matters. You do not have to go to church every week or get down on your hands and knees. The spirit is all around us and all you have to do is look to see. If you are so blind you cannot see I will spell it out for you. When people do extraordinary things to help others, when people are polite and kind and do no harm and when people just do the best they can with what they have. Nothing spells it out more than the following:-

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

The Mayan Calendar ends in 2012. Many speculate that this is due to an apocalypse on the horizon. There is nothing to state it is the end of the earth. It is just simply as far as they went with it. Maybe they either all died, moved on or both before they were able to go any further.

Here is a copy and paste of some interesting facts:-

2012 and the Long Count calendar

Scholars say that the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar was likely not invented by the Mayans, but it's become closely associated with the Mayan civilization and is still used by today's Mayans, who live in parts of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

Dates on the Long Count calendar -- which begin at the "zero date" when the creation began about 5,000 years ago, according to the Mayans -- is divided into five components that are roughly bundled in units of 20: 20 days make up a uinal, 18 uinals make up a tun, 20 tuns make up a katun, and 20 katuns make up a baktun.

For example, the date Feb. 26, 2011, on the internationally used Gregorian calendar would be written as 12.19.18.2.14 -- 12 baktuns, 19 katuns, 18 tuns, 2 uinals and 14 days -- on the Mayan Long Count calendar.

Dec. 21, 2012, marks the end of the 13th baktun on the Long County calendar, which reads 13.0.0.0.0. This date has conjured up a fair amount of apocalyptic, end-of-the world predictions, but many Mayans argue that such prophecies are false, and that the end of the baktun simply marks a time of great transition.

If you need clean your dogs ears due to dirt you can use baby wipes but never put any thing in the dogs ear canal without consulting a veterinarian.

An excess of wax can often indicate the presence of an ear infection. If the wax is black your dog may have ear mites, be bitten by fleas or have a fungal infection. Fungal infections are common during warmer weather especially in humid environments. If your dog is constantly scratching at its ears or constantly shaking its head vigorously this indicates your dog may be in distress and can cause hematomas. If you believe your dog has an ear infection, has sores on its ears or there is any swelling of the ears you should consult a veterinarian immediately. These problems can escalate quickly. Aside from being painful to the animal it can cause hearing loss and serious health problems.