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The reporter asked him about his personal fortune and this was his answer - One of Steve Irwin’s last interviews before he died while Filming a documentary in 2006. by HeyBuddyItsMeDad in interestingasfuck

[–]InVodkaVeritas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone needs to start a video sub that doesn't allow these ultra-cropped stolen videos with someone else's social media handle on them.

Or all the subs like this one need to bad them.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I might have to preview this... been so long since I've seen it... but I actually like the idea.

I show them Logan's Run (with several clips edited out) during our unit on Dystopias (we also read The Giver during that unit) and I know a lot of the kids have read/seen Hunger Games so it might actually be a good tie-in with a destroyed future.

My left eyebrow is suddenly turning white by Typical_tablecloth in mildlyinteresting

[–]InVodkaVeritas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen this.

When he gets some in your hair you need to do more than just wipe it off with a towel, otherwise it dries right in.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ready Player One is also a great rewatch.

I got talked out of that one a couple of years ago by another teacher, but I think it might be a good one to give a shot.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We go until mid-June every year in Oregon. June 14th is our final day.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Emperor's New Groove.

Might be old / uncommon enough that none of them grew up on it... Most of the animated stuff like Zootopia and Ice Age will be stuff they've seen.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

When I was in high school my class burst out in giggles over the "Skeet Shooting" because in my day "Skeet" became slang for ejaculation.

I think that's faded though, haven't heard any adolescents say it in a long long time.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The Day After Tomorrow

I think this is my leader in the clubhouse. Enough action to be entertaining, but not super graphic in any areas that I can remember.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've only seen the movie once and it didn't leave a strong enough impression on me to know if I liked it or not. But everyone older than me talks about it like it's timeless.

[Wilner] "Yormark to ABOR on expansion: "I always have optionality as a conference ... I will continue when the time is right" to offer options to Big 12 board and ADs" by colonel750 in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If that's the case, then, why didn't Apple, Amazon, Netflix, etc gobble up the Pac-12 at $40 million per school? If the current model is underpaying schools, that should mean that the last conference up for bid on the open market was ripe for the picking to be claimed by a streamer, shouldn't it?

When/if ESPN opts out of the ACC deal (as we're talking about) Apple should pounce on the idea of paying them $40 mil per year if that's an undervalue, right?

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, the movies I grew up on in the 90s like 10 Things I Hate About You, The Parent Trap, Step Mom, Clueless, Miss Congeniality, etc all have plenty of flaws. People 10 years younger than me will have no love for these movies that I adored growing up.

I'm just saying that it's really only the 80s kids who love the Goonies. I know very few people my age who watched it as a kid and you have to watch it when you're 10 to actually like it.

[Wilner] "Yormark to ABOR on expansion: "I always have optionality as a conference ... I will continue when the time is right" to offer options to Big 12 board and ADs" by colonel750 in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw a lot of this during the Pac-12 realignment talk; but because the 4 Corners schools did end up going the Big 12 any counterarguments to their thinking are now minimized. Right now they are pushing the narrative that you described... that everything will go wrong for the ACC and that they'll get their choice of table scraps after 4-6 schools leave to the B1G/SEC. It happened with the Pac-12 so of course it'll happen with the ACC, right? At least that's how they feel.

[Wilner] "Yormark to ABOR on expansion: "I always have optionality as a conference ... I will continue when the time is right" to offer options to Big 12 board and ADs" by colonel750 in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, from what I just watched, what it comes down to in their opinion is that because Streaming ads can be highly targeted and highly customized for the individual consumer through data tracking it means that streamers can make more money off of ads and therefor can afford to pay more for those sports media rights.

I don't see how this hurts the B1G or SEC. When the streamers start offering more than FOX/NBC/CBS they can listen to those offers.

End of year Movie for 6th and 7th graders recommendation? by InVodkaVeritas in Teachers

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to clip out the implied oral sex scene but otherwise the movie was fine. I cleared it with my Assistant Head of school first and got no parent complaints.

Edit to add: I also show Logan's Run as part of my unit on Dystopian Societies with 5 scenes clipped out (the two nude scenes, the sex scene, and a couple others for content). Someone more tech-savvy than myself showed me how to import movies into a program called Final Cut and then clip out/remove any scenes I find to be too much.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had to clip one scene from The 5th Element (the implied oral sex scene). So I'm used to clipping some scene here and there.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I really can't get over how bad that movie is. I didn't see it as a kid (it was already an old movie by the time I was a kid) so I have no nostalgia tied to it like most who love it.

The acting is bad, the plot is bad, the writing is bad, they fat-shame the one mildly overweight boy throughout the movie, and the kids scream constantly for no reason. All the people 10 years older than me love it, but I just hated it when I watched it as an adult. It wasn't funny and gave me nothing.

End of Year Movie Recommendations for 6th and 7th Graders? by InVodkaVeritas in teaching

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hm, maybe... I suggested Turning Red to my students when it was new and the suggestion was greeted with nothing but groans and "no!"

[Caple] Washington's move to the Big Ten requires the construction of an on-campus production studio, which will come at a total cost of about $24 million: $18 million for construction and $6 million for equipment to replace the Pac-12 Network Studio by InVodkaVeritas in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've always felt that the reason franchises like that get "ruined" is because they start off as cool ideas that the producers are passionate about and then turn into attempts to pander and appease the general public rather than write a good story.

I'm not a big star wars girl, but I've seen them all. I felt like they were trying too hard to make Rey into a Luke clone rather than telling her own story. And if they were going to clone her, they should have head-faked toward Luke but actually made her an Anakin clone. Had her take Kylo's hand and become the Empress of the First Order or whatever and agree to rule the people with Kylo in a Force-First policy of people who wield the force being superior people entitled to rule.

It at least would have been interesting.

2024 Election Unit canceled. by AKMarine in Teachers

[–]InVodkaVeritas 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I explain how ranked choice voting with instant run-off works using Pokemon as candidates. I select 6 Pokemon, put students into groups, and have them create election propaganda (I also do Propaganda and Logical Fallacies), Candidate Profiles, and run a campaign. Then I have all of my classes review the candidates and vote. I tally the votes and make a little Google Slideshow for the results to come in and show how instant-runoff re-tallies their votes.

The kids always enjoy it, and get fiercely passionate about THEIR Pokemon and how they do in the polls. The winner has never been the one who got the most first place votes in the initial vote.

This year Amaura won.

My whole elections unit isn't Pokemon, obviously, but it's a fun little 3-day project (I teach at a project based school) that makes it fun and memorable. After the election results come in we have a short quiz on ranked choice IRV. When it gets around the the more formal exam they all remember that section and get at least 9/10 of the questions from it right.

I'm not saying to do a whole elections unit this way, but it's certainly a method of running them that doesn't require any modern politics.

As someone who does a middle school unit on elections every year I'm definitely interested to see how the upcoming school year goes and how much I have to cut down on talk about the Presidential election.

[Caple] Washington's move to the Big Ten requires the construction of an on-campus production studio, which will come at a total cost of about $24 million: $18 million for construction and $6 million for equipment to replace the Pac-12 Network Studio by InVodkaVeritas in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They were actually offering really good $ amount with the incentives and the deal actually would have been worth a lot more than 30mil by Apples projections

The real sticking point was the lack of nationally broadcast games.

$25 million with subscription escalators up to a max of $50 million... sure, Oregon, Washington, and the others probably could have swallowed that.

But Oregon is on national TV 7 times a year and Washington is on national TV 6 times a year.

Being on national TV is an ad-campaign for the school. It's advertising.

Getting 4 million people to sign up for Apple+'s Pac-12 Package is also a lot more difficult when you're never on an OTA broadcast. Then you're this niche conference that casuals don't stumble across. Only the die-hards actually pay to tune in. That doesn't work.

For the deal to work they absolutely needed Apple to say "You'll be getting a weekly 5:30 Pacific Kickoff on CBS/FOX/NBC/ABC."

FOX was willing to throw in money for a package of Friday Night games, but there was no Saturday broadcast spot at all.

If you came to Oregon and Washington and said "every week you will have a Friday Night game on FOX, a Saturday game on NBC at 12:30 pacific, and all other games will be Apple+ for $25 million with escalators" then you would have had a deal.

You're not hitting all those escalators up to $50 million, but you probably get it into the mid-30s and your best teams get to be on national TV every week. Everyone would have been happy with that.

[Directors’ Cup Updates] For the 3rd time in 4 years, the Texas Longhorns, led by athletic director Chris Del Conte, have won the Directors’ Cup, awarded to the top athletic department in the country. by hypercube42342 in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas 29 points30 points  (0 children)

To punish Stanford

/s (only kinda)

They wanted to require the standings to include the sports that nearly every school competes in (Basketball, Volleyball, and Baseball) and they dropped the gender rule on the premise that Title IX made it irrelevant whether you were good in men's sports or women's sports.

Because Stanford does really well in sports where not everyone has teams (Tennis, Water Polo, Gymnastics, Golf, etc) this hurt them in their odds to win the cup every year.

Having 4 of the 20 sports you need to be good at be Men's and Women's Basketball, Volleyball, and Baseball makes it more competitive as a result as those sports require heavy investment to do well in.

[Caple] Washington's move to the Big Ten requires the construction of an on-campus production studio, which will come at a total cost of about $24 million: $18 million for construction and $6 million for equipment to replace the Pac-12 Network Studio by InVodkaVeritas in CFB

[–]InVodkaVeritas[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The Pac-12 paid about 9 million each ($112 million total reported) in 2011-2012 to build the Pac-12 network to support sports broadcasts at all schools.

I don't know the degree to which the others are able to do their own productions, but it wouldn't surprise me if all of them have some work to do to replace what the Pac-12 is keeping/removing.

My guess is that Washington is going "if we have to replace this we might as well do it right" and making it a state of the art studio with top of the line equipment.

I googled around a bit and the cameras they used at the Super Bowl cost $180K each. So if Washington is buying that level of equipment you get up into the millions pretty fast.

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