Ever since they introduced the facial recognition software I have opted out. I always approach the station at an angle if possible or with my passport between the camera and my face if not. Then when thy ask me to step in front of the camera a simple “No, thank you” has always worked. Polite yet firm and they hand me back my passport and away I go. It’s pretty much always faster.

Every so often you get a dickhead that makes a show of it taking longer to verifying it by their own eyeballs.

That being said, if you a flying internationally anymore, your picture at least will be taken when you enter.

Did you sneeze or roll over?

The amount of studying is dependent upon the percentage of the information a person retains per repetition. The average person requires 8-10 repetitions to remember 90% of the information for most subjects. Some only require 1-2 repetitions (rare). Some people require 30+ repetitions. These repetition amounts are not always uniform across different types of learning. So the same person can require 20 repetitions to learn a new word, but understand a math concept in a single pass.

Why this matters:

Well designed educational curriculum starts out with 8-12 repetitions built in. Then gradually shifts to less in-class repetitions with an expectation for the student to complete repetitions on their own (studying or homework) aka study skills.

For people with a higher level repetition requirement, learning study skills early on in the process is required for success. They often get very early intervention to help them acquire these skills.

For the average student, they are usually taught study skills in a gradual manner as the repetitions in class are reduced. This is part of the curriculum and “homework” design.

For people with a lower number of repetitions, they often don’t learn any study skills at all until college/university level. This is when the student is expected to do all of the repetitions after less than a single pass of instruction in class. These students usually breeze by classwork with “no studying” at lower levels only struggle when they eventually need to learn how to study.

They also went north to Canada in the Calgary region.

Many of the early Mormon leaders fled to Canada and Mexico during the early 1900’s to avoid being arrested for bigamy and rape.

That’s great when you an in your teens and 20’s.

In your 30’s+, “ouch my back.”

That’s the kitchen. It’s a small under-the-counter washing machine commonly found in the kitchen in many parts of the world.