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This is a lot better than giving them a $100 laptop for crying out loud! If they are dying because of no clean water what good is a laptop!
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Juggling and Music
There are more talks at ted.com all free and even can be downloaded into Itunes as podcasts. Others on science are quite very inspiring! Highly recommended.
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Popular Tongue Twisters
Just for fun. I found these in an old file while cleaning up files on my hard drive.
Popular Tongue Twisters
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I’m sure she sells seashore shells.Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
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Fast flying fish
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fast flying fish glides by ferry
And if we caught it and cooked it quickly it would be a “fast fried fast flying fish”!
More than I’ve ever seen. I did get hit in the face last year diving by a small jumping fish though. Good thing not this one!
Does this mean the fish will be taking to the land if the oceans get too hot?
Unfortunately BBC won’t let me embed the video so you need to go to the page. It wouldn’t run the video on my laptop but it runs on the desktop.
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100 Essential Jazz Albums
I haven’t looked at it yet, but for sure Oscar Peterson is great.
Online Only: 100 Essential Jazz Albums: Online Only: The New Yorker
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