AxlsMainMan
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Big Ben and my Steelers had another huge night; hopefully they can handle the Jets this Sunday
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Well, I'm a TOOL fan obviously. Maynard is probably my favorite singer ever. Lateralus is their masterpiece, IMO. I like APC and Puscifer much more, though. Tool bores me after a while.
Really? I enjoy Lateralus immensely but always come back to Ænima far more often.
One of my favorites:
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Yeah, perhaps. I just know that if it starts to snow this week that Christmas is all the kiddies will be talking about
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I'm starting a reading project for my students next week, so I can just chill behind my desk while the kids are reading their books.
Halloween is almost over so I guess I'll start some Christmas stuff with the kindergarteners next week.
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I find none of the UYI songs "unlistenable", just "less likeable".
I concur.
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Not only has Axl never sounded as good as on the record, but the guitar parts have never sounded as good as they were on the record. Slash, Bucket, Robin, DJ, Ron, none of them have been able to ever get the tone just right.
They sound pretty solid here:
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Big Ben and my Steelers played incredible football yesterday
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I'd be down for an Oasis reunion. Still one of my favorite driving songs:
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Considering he said in the online chats that any solo material he'd come up with would be largely instrumental and heavily influenced by soundtrack scores, Chinese Democracy is far more in line with classic Guns' than his solo material ever would have been.
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Duff and Slash didn't sign under duress...
Being told the singer of your band won't show up if you don't sign something before a show is pretty much the definition of duress.
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One of those bands most everybody loves but I can't really tolerate at all.
They just make me think of angsty teenagers pulling themselves.
The singer is a massive wanker, a TOOL if you will.
I'd be shocked if you didn't love their Zeppelin cover:
I'm not one them super-passionate Tool fans, but I like them quite a bit. Aenima and Lateralus are great albums. Hope they release something new in 2015 or 2016.
I'm thinking Summer 2015. What are your favorite tracks from and Ænima and Lateralus?
From Aenima: Stinkfist, Jimmy, Die Eier Von Satan (
) and AenimaFrom Lateralus: The Grudge, Schism and Lateralus
Those come to mind.
Can't believe you forgot the best track on Ænima
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Huge game for my Steelers this weekend
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Anybody else love this band? It's been 8.5 years since the last album, but Adam posted a promising looking shot of the band in the studio with Maynard in tow (so the new album must be close):
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I've been doing a unit on pumpkins with my kindergarteners and am enjoying trying to combine as many subjects as possible into a single lesson. For example, I was able to use pumpkins as a segue to art, science and math yesterday:
- Show the class a pumpkin and ask them what it is. Ask them general questions about pumpkins (what’s inside, color, shape texture, etc.) and record their observations on large chart paper.
- Ask the class to raise their hands if they think a small pumpkin will sink or float when placed in water. Record their guesses and then carry out the experiment in front of them.
- Show the class how to do a rubbing with a sheet of paper and crayon on an uneven surface.
- Divide the class in half. Have half the class with the ECE working on art where students will have the circular outline of a pumpkin on sheet of paper and they’re challenged to go and place their outline on various uneven surfaces around the classroom and rub over top with a crayon to create a variety of textures on their sheet (similar to the variety of textures on a real pumpkin).
- The other half of the class will remain on the carpet where in groups they will estimate the height and circumference of a pumpkin using various manipulables in the classroom for units of measurement (plastic chains, Lego, math cubes, etc.) and record their estimates. They will then measure the height and circumference of a pumpkin using their chosen manipulables and compare their findings to their original estimates. Students will switch between the 2 activities as they finish and are free to go play if they finish both tasks and time permits.
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I'm gonna grade papers this weekend again. We've been talking a lot about symbols, metaphors and contrasts so I'm really excited to see if the kids have understood those concepts and have been able to use them in their papers.
Have you tried teaching similes and metaphors through music? I've used this video with Grade 7 - 12 and they all seem to respond well to this instructional strategy:
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Dooku was poorly written imo.
Horrible, cartoonish acting as well.
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Well, I finally saw this Friday night and was thoroughly disappointed. The entire film seems like a borderline ripoff of the far superior Presumed Innocent with Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck still can't act to save his life (the press conferences in the film actually become a bit of an inside joke on his inability to act), and the big "shocking" death near the end was more effective the first time on Breaking Bad.
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I got the job. I'll be teaching Norwegian and Religion (which also includes humanism, atheism, etc., in case anyone wondered if I've found Jesus). It's gonna be a lot of hard work these next few months, with both college and a steady teaching position, but I'll make it.
Do you work with a lot of special needs students? I particularly enjoy and find working with students with autism to be rewarding.
A few. The ones with autism can be really challenging if they don't have an assistant around and you have to get them on track while simultaneously making sure the rest of the class is doing okay.
It's definitely that way in kindergarten, but in high school they're just painfully slow at finishing work as they get consumed by the size of their periods or the the dots in the letter "i"
I've found that a lot of my history/social studies teachers abuse their position if they get the chance to talk about American politics/government.
Most American high schoolers know jack shit about politics or government and when an authority figure who is seen as intelligent, like their teacher, throws any opinion at them, they soak it up. The thing is, if the following period, another teacher stated the exact opposite opinion, most of those kids would then leave agreeing with that teacher.
I have this African American History teacher (required class in Philadelphia) who does a lot of it and I was just wondering what some of you teachers thought about it.
I was taught that a teacher's opinion or bias has no place in the classroom. Students may ask for my opinion on an historical issue or person, but I just tell them that my opinion doesn't matter; only there's does.
According to Facebook, today is Teacher's Day! So... congrats to all teachers here, I suppose. Keep up the good work
Thanks, Lio
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I got the job. I'll be teaching Norwegian and Religion (which also includes humanism, atheism, etc., in case anyone wondered if I've found Jesus). It's gonna be a lot of hard work these next few months, with both college and a steady teaching position, but I'll make it.
Do you work with a lot of special needs students? I particularly enjoy and find working with students with autism to be rewarding.
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Monster's Ball - Can't believe I'm only seeing this movie now; just wish Heath Ledger had a bigger part.
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Here's an interesting article touching on something yet to come up in this thread (technology in the classroom):
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Supply teaching kindergarten is so exhausting that I have no idea how I'm gunna' get through my online course
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reunion
in CANTER BANTER - Q+A
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14 songs that total 70+ minutes of music. Add in an extended solo or two, a cover, a rant, band introductions, and you've got a good 1.5 hour performance to go with the 1.5 hour performance suggested by Marc for the old band.