Don't forget Earth Hour is today, 29 March 2008 form 8 pm to 9 pm. Turn off the lights, computers and televisions (come on you can do it for an hour, I know you can)!
For more information check out the website:
http://www6.earthhourus.org/
Peace! C-
PitaPata Dog tickers
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Empire Conference Day 4 - The Return.
I must say this was great experience. Thanks to Dr. P!
The remaining herd (which consisted of 5 of us) had a bit of a lazy start (we got to linger a little longer in bed than the previous 3 days). We had breakfast in the hotel (which was okay) before heading back north.
Our first stop was Napa Valley! It was beautiful (even though it was a bit commercial in some areas). We stopped at the V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena. They had a incredible store! Cheeses from around the world...Spain has some nice ones, fruits, pasta, breads, some touristy type stuff and of course wine (a nice selection by the way). Have of the group did some wine tasting, while Amanda and myself wandered around the shop. We found this great vegetarian Italian Cookbook, there is a local winery owner that has written a mystery novel, sounds interesting, t-shirts, hats, classical music Cd's and other things. We ate lunch in the picnic area before we headed to the CIA.
CIA? No not that CIA...The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone (CIA) it is located in an old monastery winery....the Brothers of something. Really nice building. I wish I could find more information about the history of the building....We did not stay very long, however I think it is worth a return trip.
After that brief, but fun stop, we headed back to the redwood curtain and to the edge of the world. We took turns entertaining Palo, sleeping and what ever else we had to occupy ourselves. As you can see this was a common sight....people using people as pillows. Here is Brandon asleep on Amanda's shoulder.
We got back around 6:30ish. Got home had dinner and crashed....by Monday evening I was feeling sick and Tuesday, I had that lovely fever...so much for catching up on homework over spring break.
Oh well.
Peace! C-
The remaining herd (which consisted of 5 of us) had a bit of a lazy start (we got to linger a little longer in bed than the previous 3 days). We had breakfast in the hotel (which was okay) before heading back north.
Our first stop was Napa Valley! It was beautiful (even though it was a bit commercial in some areas). We stopped at the V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena. They had a incredible store! Cheeses from around the world...Spain has some nice ones, fruits, pasta, breads, some touristy type stuff and of course wine (a nice selection by the way). Have of the group did some wine tasting, while Amanda and myself wandered around the shop. We found this great vegetarian Italian Cookbook, there is a local winery owner that has written a mystery novel, sounds interesting, t-shirts, hats, classical music Cd's and other things. We ate lunch in the picnic area before we headed to the CIA.
CIA? No not that CIA...The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone (CIA) it is located in an old monastery winery....the Brothers of something. Really nice building. I wish I could find more information about the history of the building....We did not stay very long, however I think it is worth a return trip.
After that brief, but fun stop, we headed back to the redwood curtain and to the edge of the world. We took turns entertaining Palo, sleeping and what ever else we had to occupy ourselves. As you can see this was a common sight....people using people as pillows. Here is Brandon asleep on Amanda's shoulder.
Oh well.
Peace! C-
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Empire Conference Day 3 - Final Day
Another early morning and muffins for breakfast. Not a bad way to start off the final day of the conference.
We started off with a movie Little Saigon: Forging Identity. It was an interesting film. It started off with the protests in Westminster a few years ago when the video store owner put up a picture of Ho Chi Minh in his store. It continued with interviews of various people in the community and a couple of people who were from Vietnam and their children who grew up in the US. They did not talk to the video store owner. I would have liked to have heard his side. Besides that it was very good.
The next session was about "Imperial Fantasies: Space, Time, and Place" which included The Fantasies of Empire: American Liberation and the Case of Guam and Unraveling Britishness: “Identity” and women’s spaces of sociality in postcolonial London. I thought Unraveling Britishness was very interesting and well done. This project had been in the works for about three years and Rosie Cox and Yasmmen Narayan of University of London interviewed many women, mostly from a middle class back ground with a few exceptions. Of course every one's identity and view is unique.
Lunch was followed up by a Plenary talk Pacman's Migration to a Post-Sensenbrenner California: Latino Youth Navigating Mazes and Eluding Ghosts I think the title is self explanatory. I thought it was interesting.
The final session was called "Imperialist Policies" this included Disemboweling William Wallace: Capital Punishment and Imperial Expansion in Late Medieval Britain and Revisiting Imperial Medicine: The 1851 International Sanitary Conference as a European imperial Project the first one was quite interesting. Until then I never heard of William Wallace and apparently beheading was quite common. Imagine if that was still the case...no need for prisons.
On to something a little more positive...than again maybe not, depending upon your view point. My friend and I were able to attend Palm Sunday mass after the conference, so that was a relief. After mass the part of the herd (as Dr. P called us) picked us up and we went to the mall. That trip reminded on why I afford the mall. Honestly, how do people spend hours there? I find it boring. Anyway, enough of my ramblings. We spent about an hour there (and yes I was bored). We went to dinner afterwards, it was a bit late but that was okay. Restaurants have gotten better at splitting a dish in two. It is the least they can do since their dishes are so big to begin with.
Once back at the hotel it was packing and to bed.
Peace! C-
We started off with a movie Little Saigon: Forging Identity. It was an interesting film. It started off with the protests in Westminster a few years ago when the video store owner put up a picture of Ho Chi Minh in his store. It continued with interviews of various people in the community and a couple of people who were from Vietnam and their children who grew up in the US. They did not talk to the video store owner. I would have liked to have heard his side. Besides that it was very good.
The next session was about "Imperial Fantasies: Space, Time, and Place" which included The Fantasies of Empire: American Liberation and the Case of Guam and Unraveling Britishness: “Identity” and women’s spaces of sociality in postcolonial London. I thought Unraveling Britishness was very interesting and well done. This project had been in the works for about three years and Rosie Cox and Yasmmen Narayan of University of London interviewed many women, mostly from a middle class back ground with a few exceptions. Of course every one's identity and view is unique.
Lunch was followed up by a Plenary talk Pacman's Migration to a Post-Sensenbrenner California: Latino Youth Navigating Mazes and Eluding Ghosts I think the title is self explanatory. I thought it was interesting.
The final session was called "Imperialist Policies" this included Disemboweling William Wallace: Capital Punishment and Imperial Expansion in Late Medieval Britain and Revisiting Imperial Medicine: The 1851 International Sanitary Conference as a European imperial Project the first one was quite interesting. Until then I never heard of William Wallace and apparently beheading was quite common. Imagine if that was still the case...no need for prisons.
On to something a little more positive...than again maybe not, depending upon your view point. My friend and I were able to attend Palm Sunday mass after the conference, so that was a relief. After mass the part of the herd (as Dr. P called us) picked us up and we went to the mall. That trip reminded on why I afford the mall. Honestly, how do people spend hours there? I find it boring. Anyway, enough of my ramblings. We spent about an hour there (and yes I was bored). We went to dinner afterwards, it was a bit late but that was okay. Restaurants have gotten better at splitting a dish in two. It is the least they can do since their dishes are so big to begin with.
Once back at the hotel it was packing and to bed.
Peace! C-
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