>> ^Stormsinger:

What in the world is that little 27 string ukulele/banjo hybrid?
Great piece, whatever the instrument. (apparently it's a Portuguese guitar, and has far fewer strings than it looked)


Well, as a portuguese I gotta upvote this video, even though Ana Moura although not a bad "fadista" at all, is definitely not my favorite one.

It is a portuguese guitar, Stormsinger, and if I'm not mistaken it has 12 steel strings. You should check this video http://videosift.com/video/Carlos-Paredes-Movimento-Perptuo-perpetual-motion . I submitted it some time ago. And it's curious you would mention the ukulele which is in fact a portuguese cavaquinho, adopted by hawaiians when portuguese emigrants took it to hawaii in the early 20th century.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:

Ok, listened to part 2. He's a douche.

I'm glad Marc was not happy with his responses. When I heard it, I kind of wanted to believe that things were being blown out of proportion just he did a good job explaining the whole "not really Mexican" issue. Good thing Maron had some people skills and could determine Carlos' honesty.

Sniper's have a stigma, a stereotype. Not the movie stereotype but the stereotype described by Carlos Hathcock in numerous books. They operate outside of the standard sense of infantry, and as such they are a special breed of soldier; capable of killing so personally impersonal. Like a drone pilot.

This is a result of the Militarization of Police. Escalation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation



>> ^gwiz665:


Can't help but think of that. Don't ever point your weapon against anything you don't want to shoot, because you just might.
>> ^vaporlock:
This is very hard to watch...
The sniper talking about "taking a bead" on his neighbors needs some serious therapy. Seems if your half crazy your either a criminal or a cop.
Oh, and that rapping is annoyingly horrible.

I wanna be Carlos the Dwarf.

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^ant:
Poor Gatorade machine.


When the robots rise up, Carlos Zambrano will be the first to go!


KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!

>> ^chilaxe:
>> ^ant:
Poor Gatorade machine.

When the robots rise up, Carlos Zambrano will be the first to go!


I can't wait! Go Skynet!

>> ^ant:
Poor Gatorade machine.


When the robots rise up, Carlos Zambrano will be the first to go!

Full translation:


Woman: "It must be around here"
Man: "Further ahead"
W: "Look look look look Carlos look look look oooh! oooh!"
W: "Did you see it fatty?"
^--- yeah, that's what she says, on a nice way
M: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah"
W: "That is what happened to my son, that is what happened to my son... for God's sake..."
M: "Look, now we are in (...)"
W: "See... Please please please... Sons of a bitch"

That road looks like crap, and after some accidents they have lowered the speed limit from 100 to 80, and have put some extra signals so people will drive with care, until they can fix it

unintelligible
man says "further ahead"
woman
"look look look Carlos
look look look oooh! oooh!
are you seeing it hit (the guard)
this is what happened to my son
this is what happened to my son
god of my life (jesus fucking christ)
do you see
please please please
sons of a bitch"

Thanks for the quality, you sexy cat.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
*quality

I think the difference between a teacher and a good teacher is that a good teacher gives a shit about their students' futures. I had the misfortune of having teachers (not all, but most) who treated it like a job instead of an honour or responsibility. I make a point of meeting with teachers (my brother's, my nephews/nieces, and my kids teachers) as much as I can. I usually won't go off on them if I disagree, but it does help me understand what role they will assume with their students, and if it will be necessary for me to supplement the kids education.

A young persons outlook on life is more often than not cemented into permanence by the time they graduate from high school. Some will change and blossom into more open-minded folks later in life, but not too many.

If there is one thing that bothers me even more than complacent teachers, it's complacent parents. I really don't like it when parents don't push their kids, but where I come from it happens far too often.

One thing I want to teach my kids (that I learned from my parents) is that as young people they will have the opportunity to push their peers if they think it's merited. I was able to help some peers who had hardscrabble upbringings in their childhood, and it can make a difference.

In reply to this comment by enoch:
In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
Enoch - bravo!


We need more teachers like Enoch. The robots might as well go work in a factory somewhere.


thanks man!
i am not the smartest man nor the most educated,in fact i was a horrible student.i fell into teaching late in life and found a genuine passion for it.
i taught comparative religions for two years but as i have told others,this was an elective class for adults.
when the alternative school for teens lost funding i went into the public school system at the behest of dr carlos.
i loved it the first day.
to teach adults is one thing but to have so many young minds ready to be jump started is a whole new arena and i was excited!
i lasted 6 maybe 7 weeks in that school.
not due to the kids..they were GREAT.
it was the other teachers and the administrators who had a problem with me.
not with my kids test scores,nor their assignments.
it was due to the fact that i was not following the precise dictates of NCLB and how i was expected to deliver that curriculum.
my argument was that if my students were doing well on the mandatory quizzes,which is a crucial to federal funding,who CARES how i taught them?
the school board took issue with,what they called "my attitude".
i was told i needed to grade my kids notebooks...i refused,because it has no bearing on what they have learned and is irrelevant.
i was told i could not grade them on participation...i argued that is crucially more vital than a notebook.
i was written up three times for supposed "prejudicial teaching practices",which was only my strategy in getting a lazy thinker to stop being lazy.
what i was doing is the first 20 minutes of the period i would have the class discuss how a historical event could be related to a current event.(my way of interjecting civics).
if a student regurgitated a textbook answer i knew he/she was trying to slip by with only rudimentary understanding of what we were covering.
so i would hammer that student the entire period and make an example of that student.
embarrassing? maybe
uncomfortable?most likely
will they come to my class ill prepared again?
never in a million years.
i also got into trouble for adding three bonus questions on every quiz that were worth 10%.
they were essay questions that i wanted in the students own words.
this was more for the kids that maybe didnt take tests well and i gave an opportunity to reveal that they did have a nominal understanding of the material and hence could bolster their grade a tad.
i also graded on participation.
if you did well on tests but didnt interact with the class i counted that against you.
that got me into some hot water also.
the school system was not looking for a teacher but a warm body to take attendance.
not for that kind of money or any amount of money.
now i tutor my friends kids when they need it.
of course i dont get paid but thats not what is important.
what IS important is to get these kids excited and curious.to become passionate about learning.
that, in itself, is a pretty big bonus in my book.
till next time.
namaste.

In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
Enoch - bravo!


We need more teachers like Enoch. The robots might as well go work in a factory somewhere.


thanks man!
i am not the smartest man nor the most educated,in fact i was a horrible student.i fell into teaching late in life and found a genuine passion for it.
i taught comparative religions for two years but as i have told others,this was an elective class for adults.
when the alternative school for teens lost funding i went into the public school system at the behest of dr carlos.
i loved it the first day.
to teach adults is one thing but to have so many young minds ready to be jump started is a whole new arena and i was excited!
i lasted 6 maybe 7 weeks in that school.
not due to the kids..they were GREAT.
it was the other teachers and the administrators who had a problem with me.
not with my kids test scores,nor their assignments.
it was due to the fact that i was not following the precise dictates of NCLB and how i was expected to deliver that curriculum.
my argument was that if my students were doing well on the mandatory quizzes,which is a crucial to federal funding,who CARES how i taught them?
the school board took issue with,what they called "my attitude".
i was told i needed to grade my kids notebooks...i refused,because it has no bearing on what they have learned and is irrelevant.
i was told i could not grade them on participation...i argued that is crucially more vital than a notebook.
i was written up three times for supposed "prejudicial teaching practices",which was only my strategy in getting a lazy thinker to stop being lazy.
what i was doing is the first 20 minutes of the period i would have the class discuss how a historical event could be related to a current event.(my way of interjecting civics).
if a student regurgitated a textbook answer i knew he/she was trying to slip by with only rudimentary understanding of what we were covering.
so i would hammer that student the entire period and make an example of that student.
embarrassing? maybe
uncomfortable?most likely
will they come to my class ill prepared again?
never in a million years.
i also got into trouble for adding three bonus questions on every quiz that were worth 10%.
they were essay questions that i wanted in the students own words.
this was more for the kids that maybe didnt take tests well and i gave an opportunity to reveal that they did have a nominal understanding of the material and hence could bolster their grade a tad.
i also graded on participation.
if you did well on tests but didnt interact with the class i counted that against you.
that got me into some hot water also.
the school system was not looking for a teacher but a warm body to take attendance.
not for that kind of money or any amount of money.
now i tutor my friends kids when they need it.
of course i dont get paid but thats not what is important.
what IS important is to get these kids excited and curious.to become passionate about learning.
that, in itself, is a pretty big bonus in my book.
till next time.
namaste.

Some of the notable peace prize winners from my lifetime, there's a lot more than Jimmy Carter and Al Gore. Sorry Joe but not everything on Earth is about hating Bush or America:

MARTTI AHTISAARI
KIM DAE JUNG
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS (MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES)
JOHN HUME
CARLOS FELIPE XIMENES BELO and JOSE RAMOS-HORTA
YASSER ARAFAT
SHIMON PERES
YITZHAK RABIN
NELSON MANDELA
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV
ELIE WIESEL
DESMOND MPILO TUTU
LECH WALESA
MOHAMED ANWAR AL-SADAT
MENACHEM BEGIN
BETTY WILLIAMS
MAIREAD CORRIGAN

THIS SHIT MAKES ME WANT TO VOMIT BLOOD.
WENDY CARLOS (ORIGINAL COMPOSER 4 TRON) COULD SHIT TURDS THAT WRITE BETTER THAN DAFT PUNK.

Is that Walter/Wendy Carlos?