So, how was your weekend . What weekend . Bill spent the whole time working, and i did laundry. That sounds romantic. He as preparing for a big conference in chicago. How was your weekend . I ate, slept and studied for an exam. Talk about boring. How about next week we go see a movie together . Sounds better than studying. Actually, the studying wasnt so bad. Oh, whys that . I was going to tell you. We have a guest teacher who keeps me very interested. Hes absolutely the most fan bill hi, bill. Hi, bill. Hi, everybody. What are you doing here . I just wanted to say goodbye before i left for the airport. So ill see you a week from friday. Its a date. And ill call you when i get to chicago. You better. Dont forget my bear. I wont. Is this a business conference or a hunting trip . Its for my collection. You collect stuffed animals . Yeah. Whats wrong with that . Nothing, if youre a five year old. Rosa, what is todays special . Chicken mole. And what about dessert . Im not sure yet. Maybe
Coming up on california country, meet one of the hardestworking couples in the restaurant and ranching worlds. Theyre both, uh, 24 7, 7dayaweek business, which most people think were crazy for jumping into these 2 businesses. Next find out about a wine thats been generations in the making. When i come visit in california, 1966, i say, thats the place im gonna stay and i die. Then discover a blooming business in southern california. And the flowers, its just smiles. And saddle up as we take a stepor in this case, a stitchback in time. Its all ahead, and it starts now. [captioning made possible by California Farm Bureau federation] welcome to california country. Im tracy sellers. Were at a really unique restaurant today. Its halfcity, halfcountry, and all the idea of one even more unique couple. Part chefs, part greeters, even part busboys, ron and his wife Terri Gilliland do a little bit of everything at their wildly popular roxy restaurant in sacramento. Uh, its nice to be able to wear
[sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] what is music . Well, from a scientific point of view, its the organization of sound. [Classical Music] woman its a language without words, and the reason for language is to communicate and the reason for music is to communicate. woman depending on what you want to express, it can be hundreds of different things. man music is the essence of the creator, the entire universe. In my case, its the sounds that i make with my violin. There are people who go, thats not music. Music is music if someone thinks its music. You cant put it in a box and say, this is music. Its all these wonderful abstract things brought together. You can think about it and rationalize it and express it and explain it. Thats all afterwards. It gets you on an emotional level first. narrator while music seems to exist in every human society, its meaning and role differ from culture to culture. But the physical laws of sound are universal. At the root of all sound is vibration
music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recoveng from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape mostould never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them, none is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and travelers. Legendary,eemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm, the river a frightful
Doing what we hope it is doing. Narrator but the atmosphere does not just trap heat, it moves it around the world and together with the oceans shapes earths climate and weather patterns. One powerful example of this is the Tropical Cyclone, more commonly known in the United States as the hurricane. Dr. Kerry emanuel has spent much of his career trying to understand these lethal storms and the larger role they might play in regulating climate. Theres something rather unexpected thats turned up from research that hurricanes may have a profound effect on the climate. Narrator both of these studies offer us deeper insight into the complicated everchanging, active system that is the outermost layer of our planet the atmosphere. All around the world scientists from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration commonly known as noaa are monitoring trace gases in the atmosphere. One of their findings is that Carbon Dioxide is increasing due to the burning of fossil fuels on earth an increas