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Writing instruction Opportunities at Western (WOW) Presentation and Dialogue Session:Let's Talk About the Writing Requirements at WWUWednesday, October 7, 2009, 4pm in College Hall 131 including a discussion about various pathways for offering Writing Proficiency Courses for points or whatever else you want to talk about in terms of teaching writing.

The Office of Sustainability and other members of the campus community are playing host to a conversation regarding WWU's draft Climate Action Plan (CAP). The CAP outlines a strategy to prevent and mitigate the release of greenhouse gases from WWU to bring the campus to climate neutrality. We need your input to make it work! Come and help WWU in Reaching Zero. Open to all. Bring a friend!Three options for participation (each event covers the same information):Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, SMATE Science Lecture Room 1105:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, SMATE Science Lecture Room 1408:30 to 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, Viking Union Room 462 A&BFor more information, visit http://www.wwu.edu/climateneutralwestern/.

Ernesto Sagás, an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University, gives a speech titled "Globalization and Migration in the Hispanic Caribbean: The Making of a Transnational Society in the Dominican Republic" as part of the World Issues Forum.It has been said that the Caribbean, as a crossroads of empires, has always been globalized. Because of those powerful external forces acting on small populations, migration has been a constant feature in Caribbean societies. This presentation examines the impact of globalization and migration on the modern Hispanic Caribbean by looking at the Dominican Republic as a case study of a country that has been thoroughly transformed by these forces. Dominicans have emigrated en masse since the 1960s and nowadays well over 1.5 million Dominicans reside overseas.Though mass emigration was initially sparked by political events, structural changes in the Dominican economy brought about by globalization quickly became the main agent fostering migration. This presentation will look at how globalization and emigration have affected Dominican society, with an emphasis on the development of a transnational society and the impact on women.

This morning while walking the dog I was, as Charles Olson once wrote, "seized by the moon." As contemporary cosmology has proven, the light of the moon is not merely reflected sunlight, but a remarkably altered light, with it's own mysterious qualities.
It's wondrous eye above the dark fir caught me in its gaze. Still holds me hours later.

The Western Gallery will present artist Geraldine Ondrizek's "The Sound of Cells Dividing" as its first major exhibition of the 2009-2010 academic year. The exhibit will be on display from Sept. 28 through Nov. 25."The Sound of Cells Dividing" will exhibit Ondrizek's recent film "Cellular" and its corresponding set of drawings of a blastocyst, a multiple-cell embryo, as well as her "Sound Wall" installation, which was created for the Center for Art and Technology (CAMAC) and housed in a 17th century monastery in France. "Sound Wall" will be recreated for the Western Gallery. In conjunction with the exhibition, Ondrizek will offer a lecture about her work on Wednesday, Oct. 21. For information on the time and location of her lecture, visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu or call (360) 650-3900.Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except Wednesdays, when the gallery is open until 8 p.m., and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Live music and poetry readings frequently are presented in the Gallery on Wednesday evenings. For more event details, visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu/.

Author Alfie Kohn will speak on the topic, "Schools Our Children Deserve," on Friday, October 9th at 7pm at the Syre Auditorium, Whatcom Community College. The event is sponsored by the Whatcom Day Academy and the Explorations Academy in conjunction with the Journal of Educational Controversy. The journal will be publishing a special issue on this theme in the future that will be dedicated to Alfie Kohn, who has agreed to write the prologue. Kohn's concerns and progressive ideas for schooling are exemplified in our partner school, the Whatcom Day Academy. The Academy partners with the journal and the Woodring Educational Institute for Democratic Renewal that houses the journal in an effort to highlight a vision of the kind of school all children deserve and to engage the public in a national dialogue on this topic. Stay tune for videos and articles as we create this vision. Alfie Kohn's website.

Reid Nelson, who has a master's degree in experimental psychology from WWU, will present "Effects of Similarity and Tourist Status on Prosocial Behavior: A Field Study in Spain." Nelson will discuss the results of his research on the likelihood of a Spaniard helping a suspected tourist based on the tourist's attire, stated nationality and choice of language.This lecture is part of the Center for International Studies Fall Lecture Series.

The Western Gallery will present artist Geraldine Ondrizek's "The Sound of Cells Dividing" as its first major exhibition of the 2009-2010 academic year. The exhibit will be on display from Sept. 28 through Nov. 25."The Sound of Cells Dividing" will exhibit Ondrizek's recent film "Cellular" and its corresponding set of drawings of a blastocyst, a multiple-cell embryo, as well as her "Sound Wall" installation, which was created for the Center for Art and Technology (CAMAC) and housed in a 17th century monastery in France. "Sound Wall" will be recreated for the Western Gallery. In conjunction with the exhibition, Ondrizek will offer a lecture about her work on Wednesday, Oct. 21. For information on the time and location of her lecture, visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu or call (360) 650-3900.Both the lecture and the exhibition are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except Wednesdays, when the gallery is open until 8 p.m., and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Live music and poetry readings frequently are presented in the Gallery on Wednesday evenings. For more event details, visit http://westerngallery.wwu.edu/.

This event will take place at the Golf Club at Estrella Mountain.

It was a breezy weekend in Whatcom County.
There were power outages all over, mostly due to downed trees like this one across the road from us. Our power didn't go out until they turned it off to get rid of the tree, but we still had fun chatting with neighbors and a couple of friendly police officers.
This weekend I also experimented with making roasted vegetable stock that went into a batch of black bean veggie soup that I canned. Here are the raw stock ingredients, ready for roasting. The recipes I used are here: Roasted veggie stock and Black bean soup.
We got a nice pile of maple rounds from one neighbor we bought firewood from, and it's so hard that we had to call for reinforcements to split it. Here's our neighbor to the north, who brought his tractor-driven hydraulic splitter over to help.
And a bit of video showing how powerful the splitter is. We're keeping a couple rounds intact for splitting on, the old fashioned way. We also use a splitting round for peening the scythe on, and killing chickens. Funny how important a chunk of hardwood is to farm functions....

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