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• El Navegante-Volume 3, Issue 30 May 18, 2012
  Field and Fun Day Field & Fun Day is fast approaching on Friday, May 25th. We are excited for a day full of outside activities and a little friendly competition. Field and Fun day brings the grades together for a fun, school-wide event, incorporating our learner profile attributes of being a risk-ta ... […]
• Numbered Ways & Things (archive) May 18, 2012
  25 Ways I Express My Creativity 1. Playing basketball 2. Playing guitar 3. Doing art 4. Cooking 5. talking 6. Writing 7. Yoga 8. Meditation 9. Dancing 10. Singing in the shower 11. Partying 12. Playing tennis 13. Computer hacking 14. Soupin’ up my car 15. Decorating my room 16. Planting 17. Practici ... […]
• Alan Wake PC game review May 17, 2012
  Alan wake was hyped to the heavens a couple of years back as the next awesome thing made by the same team who made Max Payne 1 and 2 (which are awesome games). It had good graphics, was supposed to contain an open ended world for exploration and include an exciting thriller storyline revolving aroun ... […]
• Creating May 16, 2012
  I had a rare day at home today and it was absolutely lovely! Time to transplant some peppers, bring a big vase of mayday branches in to the house, visit the greenhouse and get some flowers, laugh while the grandchildren played in their little swimming pool and then put my flower pots together. A ver ... […]
• Delivering, whatever it takes. Really? May 15, 2012
  During Helen Zille’s State of the Province address earlier this year she announced some ambitious targets for rolling out high-speed broadband across the Western Cape. I think it’s a great initiative, which will be beneficial to both business and education. One of the obvious ways in which the inter ... […]
• Guitars Fender May 15, 2012
  You would be surprised at how the world of string instruments has invaded America. Everywhere you go, you will definitely see guitar shops. A famous company that manufactures stringed instrument is Fender Musical Instruments Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. They are the known creator of the Fende ... […]
• VHS Purgatory:Sister Streetfighter(Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1974) May 14, 2012
  Let’s start this one off with a confession: I’m afraid I’ve never been much into kung-fu movies. I don’t dislike them or anything, but at the same time I’ve never embraced them quite so readily as I have most other exploitation genres. My stock explanation for this has long been to just to say that ... […]
• Life in Roland Park May 12, 2012
  We live just north of 41 st Street on Roland Avenue, at the southern limits of Roland Park, just north of Hampden. So the chic-kitsch-fest which is Hampden is within a ten minute walk. Our neighborhood is primarily residential. We are graced with multiple Rite Aid’s (who isn’t?), a new even more gia ... […]
• Losing pieces of America’s past? May 12, 2012
  Montague — Magnificent Montague, as he’s been known since his days as a pioneering radio DJ — amassed an 8,000-piece collection reflecting names from the well-known to the forgotten to those history never thought to remember. It’s valued in the millions; some call it priceless. One assessment of jus ... […]
• 375 Elvis 8-track tapes - the preamble May 12, 2012
  To start off why I started collecting Elvis 8-tracks... Back in the mid-80's my friend Liz was bringing me back Mr. T stuff from the flea market for a laugh since I like cheesy things. I have all sorts of Mr. T things like a Halloween costume, 3 different board games, puzzles, comic books, pencil ca ... […]