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Volume 3, Issue 6 October 19, 2005 |
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ALC
Teachers go to school… Friday
October fourteenth was a day off for ALC students in Worthington ALC
teachers met with teachers from ALC programs in such places as New Ulm, Mr. Knaap met the directors of other ALCs. He also had the opportunity to have a conversation with Dennis McGinnis, the main speaker at the conference. McGinnis works as a Chemical dependency counselor. Mr. Knapp also
had the chance to meet Gloria Kibble for the first time. Kibble is the head of Alternative Programs
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Worthington
ALC teachers attended the regional MAAP conference in Mankato Teachers were each able to attend three separate sessions on various topics. Topics ranged from motivating unmotivated students to conflict resolution (and everything in between). Each session presented a lot of good information to the teachers involved. Teachers also enjoyed meal served to them by Mankato ALC students. |
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What Really Grinds My Gears? By Shanna Dehning You know what really grinds my gears? Parental Hypocrisy. Not just about anything, but about Halloween candy, of all things. This thought came up when one day when I was reading a Parenting magazine that I had received in the mail. A lady let her three children (who were about five to nine years old) go trick-or-treating like normal kids do. When they arrived home with massive amounts of sweets and assorted confections, she read all the labels and checked the candy. This may seem like a normal, loving parent’s actions. But when she checked the candy, she also looked at the calorie and grams of fat on the labels. She then decided that the confections were too fatty and unhealthy for her children, and brought them to her workplace and shared with her coworkers the hard-earned candy that her children so eagerly collected on Halloween! I thought this was the most blasphemous thing you could ever do! Why would you deprive your children of their candy when they put so much effort into dressing up, walking around for 3 hours and asking crazy old people for candy, when all they really wanted to do was to eat the candy in the end? You might as well just nix the whole holiday from your children’s minds because that’s what Halloween is all about. (Continued à) |
My solution to this problem would be to actually give the kids an assorted amount of candy when they are good little runts. There, I’m done ranting now. J ******** This Week’s
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MY BAND OF THE WEEK: Fall out Boy By Sergio Chaparro Fall Out Boy is a new but not so new
band that I’ve been listening to non-stop for the past week. This band has
some very clever lyrics and meanings to songs that make you think that it’s
about one thing but it’s not at all what you thought. Fall Out Boy has a breakthrough CD named From Under the Cork Tree. It is not their first album. They have a previous album called Take This to Your Grave. They also have two EPs out, and a new CD called “An evening out with your girlfriend.” It’s pretty good. The band
formed in From Under the Cork Tree burst on the scene with their first single, “Sugar, We’re Going Down.” It contains a great blend of guitars, drums and vocals. “Dance, Dance” (one of my favorite songs) starts with a bass line and develops into a stomping rocker. (Continued à) |
Band of
the week Fall Out Boy Fall Out Boy’s music contains elements
of punk and pop, but they aren’t pop-punk. Their lyrics are motional
and poignant, but it’s not emo. By mimicking their favorite styles, the band attains
a unique sound. Fall Out Boy infuses a dark sense of
humor into their songs. Songs like “ Being from Fall Out Boy has two other EP’s out and they are also good. If you’ve heard “Sugar, were going down” on the radio and liked it, then you should give the CD a listen. You may love Fall Out Boy. |
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Invader Zim By Ryan White Invader Zim is one of the most interesting cartoons that I’ve ever watched. The basis of the story is a short alien bent on conquering Earth poses as a human, and only one paranoid child knows his secret. Invader Zim was created by Jhonen Vasquez. His unique writing style and crazy characters are very strange. Vasquez created many characters that are in the show. The Main Character is Zim. He has been sent to earth to help deploy the irkin army so they can take it over. Zim has a robot named GIR. Many people that I know are pretty much in love with one character which is GIR. He is an interesting robot and if he were to be human he would probably be in a mental institution. Dib, the paranoid child and Zim’s Nemesis, is a freak just for the fact that he is completely obsessed with aliens and other entities of that sort. Dib is always trying to prove that Zim is an alien but nobody seems to notice that he is. Gaz, Dib’s sister, dislikes her brother immensely. This cartoon is full of funny quotes that just about any fan can recite once they’ve been asked to. § Gaz: Dib drank the last soda. HE WILL PAY! (Continued à)
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§ Gir: Tell me a story about giant pigs! §
[Zim steals all
the kids organs excepts Dibs] It was on
nickelodeon but was canceled even before all the shows were aired. Now it is only available on DVD complete
with the missing episodes. After Nickelodeon cancelled the show,
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block showed strong interest in picking it up
for new episodes. Nick refused to sell them the rights and the creator
refused to have anything to do with TV animation again. If you get a
chance to watch it look for some of Vasquez’s other characters and symbols
making guest appearances: Johnny the
Homicidal Maniac, Jhonen's infamous "Z?" logo appears
frequently in the show, as well as Fillerbunny, one
of Jhonen's comic characters. |
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http://www.animationlibrary.com In
the
Stupid
Laws in the State of Compiled by Desiree Briskee
What I have gathered is that people here really hate Margarine. They really love cheese. And they are not very bright when it comes to railroad crossings. If they think that apple pie and cheese go together, then they must have some mental problems. |
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Sweat Scratching Hard breathing I cannot scream Merciless aching Worry is consuming Lying here, awaiting death Nothing is worse than my last breath I’m buried alive, it’s haunting me My death is the devil’s admission fee --Shanna Dehning Snot Dripping From your nose With a hint of Green beans in the hole Nasty slimy…like pee With some crusty ones, and now Now it’s on your shirt in-laced with Some dirt…grungy guy, smelling bad like Something else, out of this world, nasty guy --Manuel Garcia |
Due to
holidays, teacher in-services, etc., ALC students had several weeks in a row
that were short weeks. As a result, The Insider missed a week of
publication. During that week, Martin
Lopez was declared the Student of the Week.
We considered just ignoring this fact because, well, it was Martin. However, after much thought we decided to
recognize him anyway…
Click on Martin’s picture to see him get a slap on the back…. |
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