Uninhabited Spaces

I am not sure how many folks in the Kingston region know how blessed we are to have Prince Edward County just an hour away.  For a long time a best-kept secret, the County has become one of Canada's notable food and wine destinations. Many famous chefs (including Jamie Kennedy and Michael Potters) have decamped from Toronto to call the County home. This compact peninsula is becoming stuffed with boutique wineries, artisanal cheese, delectable restaurants, and one-of-a-kind stores. Some 23 of the County's businesses have banded together to offer a sumptuous "Taste Trail" , a drive through the very best the region has to offer. But this weekend it's a new culinary adventure called "Maple in the County", a celebration of that sweet gift from our humble maple tree, syrup. Not sure who first figured out that if you boil sap from maple trees you get liquid nirvana but bless them all the same! We'll be heading over to the County tomorrow with four other fri...

On Friday March 20, U2 set a concert ticket sales record by managing to shift 650,000 tickets for their U2360 tour in seven hours – that's an average of 112 a second.  Attached is a graphic highlighting their 164-foot stage dubbed "The Claw". Wow!!  Alos, I've scored tickets to the Toronto show at Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) in September. I can't wait!!

Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof! Fathers that, like so many Alexanders, Have in these parts from morn till even fought And sheathed their swords for lack of argument: Dishonour not your mothers; now attest That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war. Today marks the 6th anniversary since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Antiwar.com reports that there have been 4,259 American military personnel killed and some 31,089 wounded. JustForeignPolicy , meanwhile, estimates that over 1.3 million Iraqis have been killed. As for another important cost, NationalPriorities.org reports that "USD  $656.1 billion dollars have been allocated to the war in Iraq".  So, here's the Iraq war in a nutshell, according to libertarian website Serendipity : " The main reasons for the US invasion of Iraq were to gain control of Iraq's oilfields (so as to keep the oil in the ground and drive up oil prices), to ...

I am so thrilled to share that we have booked our apartments in Italy for our upcoming honeymoon in August. For our first week we will be in a lovely studio in Rome, just two blocks from the Colosseum. For our second week we have booked a gorgeous apartmen t in Florence that features a terrace. We are getting very excited about our Italian adventure. We expect to do some day-trips out of Florence to see parts of Tuscany. I think we also will hop on the train to Venice... 

The Edge: Gee, Bono, what are we going to do tonight? Bo no: T he same thing we do every night, Edge - try to take over the world! U2 appear to well on their way to yet another global domination as Nielson So undSource reports that "No line on the Horizon" is #1 in 30 countries. Here is the list so far:  UK, USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland an, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland.  

It turns out that Queen's is connected to Herbert T. Kalmus, one of the most important contributors to the development of motion pictures. Who knew the principal founder of Technicolor was at Queen's? Like only a handful of technological innovators, Kalmus deftly blended a shrewd but charming business sense—which was instrumental in attracting investors and Hollywood studios—with a probing and imaginative scientific mind. Were it not for Kalmus's persistence and vision, not to mention his business acumen, the industry-wide adoption of three-color processes for shooting films in full color would have occurred indefinitely later. The man who became synonymous with Technicolor thus changed the course of film history.  Like synchronized sound, color required an industrial overhaul of every phase of movie making, but what tested the resolve of Dr. Kalmus and his company was the need to enhance and improve the process until Hollywood would start making the switch to color movies—...

U2 announced the first few stops on their upcoming world stadium tour, coined "U2360". It features an innovative 360-degrees stage design that provides unobstructed views to all fans and tiered ticket prcies for all budgets.  In a first, the tour is sponsored by Blackberry. Check out the cool design and other info at U2360 .

Well, after a few months of revisions, I am delighted to anounce that my paper "Private Money for the Public Good: Higher Education Philanthropy in Canada and the United States" was just published today in the Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education. Since you have just been waiting so eagerly (riiiight) you can read my paper here .