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Catch rides with Billy A., Boris and Joey Hand
Hi All -
Got this info regarding the Oktoberfest track school at Cal. Speedway:
1) Students can sign up with just a day pass ($60-$75) and the DS fee ($150) and not have to sign up for the whole O'fest. If they want to spend more money, they can pay $295 for the school and skip the day pass, but that seems a little dumb to me.
2) We aren't limited to BMW's. Non club members would have to join the CCA but they can do so regardless of what they drive and they can run this school (and most Pacific Retion schools) in any street worthly car.
3) BMW NA is bringing the following to the track:
-a McLaren F1 GTR
-a M1 grp 4 Procar
-the 1996 PTG M3 Sebring winner
-a 1977 320 turbo fresh from the restoration shop, if it's running
-their new BMW Vintage Race Truck
-Bill Auberlen
-Boris Said
-Joey Hand
The three gentlemen listed last will be giving rides in the cars listed first.
If someone signs up for the school on a day pass, they may attend all the other activites that day, (Vendor hall reception on Tuesday night, Petersen Museum dinner on Wednesday).
Applications are on the BMW CCA National website: www.bmwcca.org
That would be sweet!
I recently found out that a business associate is best friends with Boris. Having not followed racing until very recently, I didn't know much about him when he originally told me. I understand he's a great guy. Hope you guys get a chance to meet him and ride along!
thats awsome :thumbup:
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A German computer gamer is being held in connection with the murder of a British university student after an apparent cyberspace dispute escalated into a killing.
The 21-year-old from a town near Frankfurt is accused of travelling to the UK to murder Matthew Pyke, 20, who was found last Friday.
Police are exploring the possibility that the two men fell out over Wars Central, Pyke's discussion forum.
Pyke's girlfriend, Joanna Witton, discovered his body with several stab wounds at their Nottingham city centre flat. There were no signs of forced entry leading to police to believe the dead man may have known his killer.
The two men are believed to have made contact via Pyke's forum, an internet site he ran with Witton.
The suspect, who has not been named by police, was tracked through internet postings and arrested in Limburg-Weilburg, near Frankfurt, on Wednesday evening on suspicion of murder. Extradition proceedings are under way.
A spokesman for Limburg-Weilburg police said: "A 21-year-old man from the rural area of Limburg was arrested by officers from the West Hessen police headquarters in Hünfelden. It is suspected that on September 19 he killed a man in Nottingham with a knife. After intensive investigations in collaboration with Nottinghamshire police it is believed the two got to know each other over the internet."
Pyke, who was due to rejoin Nottingham Trent University next month after dropping out of a physics course, used the online alias of Shade to discuss tips on strategy, characters and plots for the Nintendo game, Advanced Wars. The game pits armies of cartoon characters against each other.
The dead man was from Stowmarket, Suffolk, but moved to the city two years ago. On his MySpace page, Pyke listed his general interests as Guitar Hero, the Ace Attorney series, Gran Turismo 4, Metal Gear, Evil Genius, Unreal Tournament, Super Smash Bros, the Metroid series, adding "and that's just the video games".
His parents, William and Kim, left a tribute on his Facebook site, reading: "Darling Matthew. We love you so much and miss you. You were a truly good, sensitive person. Your smile will live on in our hearts." The Wars Central forum was closed to new entries last night, but a post left by a gamer using the alias "Eggy" said: "I'm not normally at a loss for words but this is something where I just can't speak."


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The Boeing Co. and Amazon.com Inc. were among Seattle's high-tech companies rocked by Wednesday's earthquake, which for many IT departments was the first time their disaster plans received a real-world test.
According to representatives from several corporations, structural damage in many cases was kept to a minimum because many of the buildings have been modified over the past two decades with top-floor, load-balancing counterweights or placed on roller devices.
Some of the worst hit, like Boeing, lost telecommunications and were forced to shut down offices and manufacturing facilities for days after the earthquake, which registered 6.8 on the Richter scale.
The jet maker, which is the region's largest employer, shut down production after reporting damage at its Everett and Renton, Wash., assembly plants. Boeing suffered severe setbacks to its computing operations when one of its buildings' fire-suppressant sprinkler systems went off during the 40-second quake, destroying computer systems throughout the building.
Preparation Pays Off
Earthquakes and other types of disasters are something that Christopher Kent, vice president for computing and network operations at Boeing, never really expected. But he has always prepared the company's IT operations for such situations. And as he looked out at the exhaust from a backup diesel generator Wednesday, he knew that at least one phase of the planning was paying dividends: It turned out that the building he was watching pitch and roll is one of Boeing's critical data centers.
With more than 400 offices around the world, Boeing's data centers can't go off-line -- ever. Boeing's uninterruptible power supplies had kicked in along with the diesel generator. The company's network was up, and links between Seattle and a mainframe data center in St. Louis were live. The 400 Microsoft Exchange servers used to process e-mail for 162,000 end users were unaffected.
Amazon.com employees were forced to work from remote locations the day after the quake. The online retailer's Seattle headquarters building suffered minor structural damage, according to Patty Smith, director of corporate communications.
"We all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard our Web site was up and functional," she said. "We took precautions to ensure that in the event of a natural or man-made disaster, we would have the ability to shift workflow and productivity so there would be minimal disruption to our customer base."
The company was also able to reroute customer service calls to centers in North Dakota and West Virginia when Seattle telephone networks became overloaded.
Not so easily controlled were the dogs in the headquarters parking lot of Amazon, where employees are allowed to bring their pets to work.
"The dogs were having a great time once they got out of the building," she said. "They were pretty freaked out."
Terabeam Corp. a Seattle-based developer of technology that links buildings via lasers beamed through the air, said nine of 12 links connecting buildings in Seattle were temporarily lost. The lasers, which strike optical transceivers hidden beehind office building windows, can automatically move to accommodate some degree of sway, spokesman Lou Gellos explained.
But Gellos said his company's technicians had to manually adjust transceivers at the 522-foot Smith Tower after it swayed, knocking the laser target out of alignment. Like most structures in the area, the building was evacuated.
Heidi Saas was handing the man across the counter his mocha coffee when the downtown Seattle Starbucks began to sway and the long line of customers turned and rushed out through the store's glass front doors.
"Since we're in a food court, we jumped under the tables," the coffee shop supervisor said.
There was no damage to Saas' shop or point-of-sale systems, but Starbucks Coffee Co.'s Seattle headquarters wasn't so fortunate. IT systems that link the company's retail point-of-sales terminals to a central bank of servers went off-line Wednesday. Only stores in the Seattle area were affected because of power outages.
This story, "Quake Rattles IT at Seattle-Area Firms" was originally published by Computerworld.


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High-Dependency Care of the Acutely Ill ChildAnglia Ruskin University
£ 9,250 - (Rs 7,59,316)
Important information
- Course
- Cambridge (England)
- When:
September 2017
What you'll learn on the course
Young people
High-dependency needs
Supportive therapies
Care needs
Course programme
Recognise when an infant, child or young person is acutely ill or potentially seriously unwell. Understand the physiology and pathophysiology of acute paediatric illness. Learn to care for those with high-dependency Level 1 & Level 2 care needs.
This course will teach you to care for infants, children and young people with high-dependency needs, and who require Level 1 care. You'll also learn to stabilise patients who need respiratory support or Level 2 care prior to transfer.
Through a blend of theory and practice, you will:
- recognise when an infant, child or young person is acutely ill or potentially seriously unwell
- understand and explain the physiology and pathophysiology behind acute paediatric illness
- begin and maintain supportive therapies for these patients.
You will already be working in an area with infants, children, and young people. Our module will enable you to enhance your assessment skills, and to effectively communicate your concerns within the interdisciplinary team to reduce the risks of serious unnoticed complications.
You will take a 3-hour exam at your place of study, and you'll also be assessed on your practice competencies in your place of work.
Do you see something that is not right in this course? Let us know if there are any mistakes and you will help users like yourself.


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Nancy Alberts
Nancy West Alberts, M. Ed., is the president and founder of Alberts Education Center.
Ms. Alberts, a 36-yr. veteran of education, brings to the academic arena experience with infants through adults. She has taught Kindergarten through College. Ms. Alberts is a reading specialist by degree along with 7 certified education specialties. She has studied with Dr. Ross Greene's The Explosive Child program, Dr. Mel Levine's All Kinds of Minds program, Dr. Paula Tallal and Scientific Learning's Fast Forward program, and Barbara Nelson's Language Therapy/Reading program among many others.
Ms. Alberts' training in the neurology of learning combined with the knowledge of academics has resulted in her passion for providing all aged learners with the opportunity to develop at their individual speeds with their individual learning styles for the standard and advanced curriculum.
Ms. Alberts has further refined the program by offering effective outstanding service as the SBA's Small Business Person of the year for North Florida. She serves her immediate community with her volunteer activities on the Chamber of Commerce, volunteer reading tutoring, church education director, etc.


text: Kumme back to Amish country, where sign language tutor Jolene Yoder finds herself attracted to her newest student--a brokenhearted Lonnie Hershberger. Love-shy Lonnie sees no future in becoming emotionally tied to Jolene. For how could he hope to protect her, if he can't even hear? Besides, Jake Beechy seems to be taking up most of her free time. Meanwhile, Ella Miller is worried Jake will end up breaking her cousin Jolene's heart. Little does Ella know that Jake is interested in her--not Jolene. What drastic measures will God use to bring these couples together? Indiana Cousins Series: Book 1 - A Cousin's Promise Book 2 - A Cousin's Prayer Book 3 - A Cousin's Challenge


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Drought poses challenge to fall festivals
The lingering affects of Indiana's drought could affect your weekend plans if you're heading for the usual fall destinations - orchards and pumpkin farms.
Some orchards still have apples ready picking, but don't expect any abundance because the crop came early this year. Some orchards aren't allowing picking at all.
At Tuttle's, for example, the early spring, summer heat, and late frosts, yielded only a 10-percent crop.
You can still enjoy a family outing, however. They've shipped in apples from the west, and still have all the fun activities like hay rides, a corn maze, and farm animals.
At Stonycreek Farm in Noblesville, the 40th Fall Harvest Festival which kicks off this weekend.
Now let's talk about pumpkins.
Purdue University Ag experts say the drought didn't have as bad as an effect as previously thought, because pumpkins did germinate.
For the first time, Stonycreek Farm germinated pumpkins in greenhouses. They planted those seedlings in the field and maintained them with a water truck.
Despite the drought, the farm hopes to yield 50,000 pumpkins for their 40th annual event, despite extreme drought conditions.
Families can take a hay ride out to the patch and pick their own pumpkin.
The Pumpkin Harvest Festival is open every day from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and runs until October 31st.
There's also a gourd sling shot, corn cob cannon, inflatables, farm animals, pony rides, a playground, giant hay mound to climb, and the biggest feature, a zipline.


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To Sonnet, to Son-net, Tuscon Net
Recently Geist Magazine, one of the great Canadian magazines, announced a contest for the best "Jackpine Sonnet." The Jackpine sonnet was named by Canadian poet Milton Acorn. It's a fairly regular sonnet that aims for the traditional 14 lines, each line containing 7 to 13 syllables, but, in Acorn's words, "If your sonnet cuts itself off—click!—at, say line 12, 18 or 20, leave it at that." As for rhyme, "Acorn advised writers to write internal rhymes (rhymes within a line) or external rhymes (rhymes at the end of consecutive lines) 'to keep the flow.' In the absence of rhyme, use assonance (the repetition of vowel sounds), 'to keep the rhyme alive in order to come up with a true rhyme further on'…"
I love the sonnet, and the many ways in which poets have handled the form and continue to handle the form. It's a challenge to make it lively, to not feel you've handed yourself over and let its history have its way with you: are you writing the sonnet, or is the sonnet writing you? So many feel like ghosts of other sonnets, barely breathing, barely able to stand on their own two feet. Others snap, insist. Demand attention.
The sonnet can be overwhelming and liberating. A necessary exercise for a poet I think, at least at one point in one's development. The form is pliable. Back before I realized that the sonnet could be so pliable I recall encountering Vikram Seth's novel The Golden Gate, which, while impressive, I didn't find particularly compelling (It's hard to pull off so many…Shakespeare only did 154). Then I discovered Marilyn Hacker's Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons and was quite taken by the energy she captures in those sequences. Hacker's book isn't only sonnets, but there are many, and Hacker certainly can claim to be both a master of the form, and a great reader of the form. Here she is on Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Rites for Cousin Vit" which reminds me a little of the luge track in Vancouver the way she handles the corners and slides into the gold stretch.
When we discuss the form in an introductory setting we do so in several ways: from traditional to radically experimental. Recently a poem from Ken Babstock (more on him to come) and a crown of sonnets by Anne Simpson—both found in Open Field. Babstock's handling of the form is full of swagger and precision. Here's the beginning of "First Lesson in Unpopular Mechanics":
As a boy, it was a scale-model Messerschmitt
pitched at the wall in a boy-scale rage–
Now? These grown-up middletones, wafflings, shit
flung deliberately wide of the fan. I remember the age
I began to ease off–thirteen, fourteen–
when busting one's stick meant a five-minute major,
and there, in the sin bin, thinking, what did I mean
by two-handing the crossbar?
Simpson's crown takes on ekphrastic poetry and mixes in a post 9/11 narrative with great condensed and moving language.
"Are you still there? Are you?" A voice falls. Stone,
Unbearable stone. It grinds. It tastes of grief.
Don't watch. Go blind. Oh Lord, those moans
will haunt us. This one. That one there. Brief
There are many poets in North America working with the sonnet, and many in Canada. George Murray published a collection of sonnets not long ago. Here's a couplet from "Collusion"
The crushed grass evidence of collusion:
the animals fuck themselves to bleeding.
And from The Corner:"
The child's conception like a struck match,
an axe ringing off knots in trunk wood,
cloudy brains forming in the sky. The twin
of today is yesterday, or will
be tomorrow, yet each continues/follows,
different from the last/next. Like obstinate
math problems we line up, waiting, in effect,
for a dark age to pass; to be made public, fixed.
In Murray's hands the sonnet becomes a comfortable vessel in which he offers playful, and often very insightful, knotty, stubborn, surprising, ruminations: "I've met my match in my son, the mirror/image of his face constantly separating/from mine…"
There are more unconventional turns—such as Mr. Acorn with his cut it at 12 if it wants. West coast poet Alfred Noyes, also known as Stephen Collis and author, most recently of The Commons, has also published poems called Compression Sonnets. Wee sonnets that consist of fourteen words:
What shall a
Book undo measure
And consign the
First act of
Alienation together
Dear anything with
Ears we are
Imbedded displeasures who
War as reporters
Shell images
A poem appearing
After Auschwitz dear
Unflappable ghost we
Must address a
Torn fragment
Noyes is interested in condensation. In his introduction he asks, "what might come of only fourteen words? What of the 'sonnet' remains? A turn after the eighth word? At the thirteenth (a concluding 'couplet' of words)?"What remains is a good question, and one that poetics of erasure takes up (The Capilano Review did a brilliant job with this).
One can't think of the sonnet without considering Shakespeare, and all of the textual interventions and engagements his sonnets have evoked. Jen Bervin's exquisite book Nets, for example. If you haven't seen Nets, you must. For a little movie about Bervin's book check out this link from Webdelsol and you can find an essay on Bervin here. What Bervin does can be compared to heightening or rubbing away. It's a technique that I used in Teeth Marks—but with my own work. Chiseling away the dull bits from a conventional narrative poem to allow for a fragmented version of same poem to emerge. In Nets Bervin takes several dozen of Shakespeare's sonnets and rubs away at them revealing her own poems. The result is exquisite. Here is one of my favourites:
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
It's one of the best uses of erasure/intervention I have found, and partly because it actually builds to something, becomes more than the constraint though arguably no longer a sonnet?
There are many, many interventions. Chris Piuma's Constellated Sonnets, Raymond Queneau's "100,000,000,000 Poems," Mr. Bok reminds us "a book of 10 sonnets, whose cognate lines can be permuted to create more sonnets than aspeedreading immortal can read in 3.5 million years…" Paul Hoover, in Sonnet 56, Les Figues 2009, takes up one of the homely sonnets–and rewrites/revisions in all the hip ways, from N+7 to digression, villanelle to ghazal, haibun to haiku, flarf to homophonic–translation that is.
In a similar turn, Gregory Betts, the author of the essay Plunderverse, recently published The Others Raisd in me, a little book that takes sonnet 154 and creates 154 poems by erasing, sort of as Jen Bervin did with Nets except he doesn't leave the original poem in the background. Rather he takes words over and over again from the same sonnet, arranging them to create the different poems.
Along the same vein there are the anagrams from K. Silem Mohammed. Elizabeth Bachinksy takes a close look at Mohammed's sonnet 44, which begins:
Unwholesome leather flagpoles gross me out;
I never may endure their bulging mass.
Abjection hatches random nests of doubt
When I am reading Newsweek in the grass.
Bachinsky compares the Mohammed's results with her own reworking of Milton's "On His Blindness," which turns into "She is Blond Sin" which I offer the first four lines as well, just for a teaser:
Dim, nephritic, yet single (whoosh!)
She's a dandy kid. Why film her drear wilt and
Tease the wanton hidden clit? Oh had I that
Molten loadstone rebel—gum my thighs. She is down…
Bachinksy is one of the few poets who roam from conceptual and procedural into more formal realms, which has lead reviewers to ask will the real Bachinsky please stand up? I think she did stand up, in several fields, and with equal prowess.
There are also visual sonnets. Christian Bok blogged here on the Poetry Foundation about Darren Wershler's "Sonnet for Bonnie" pictured above, a few years back.
Sonnet for Bonnie" is a provocative brand of occasional verse—a love-poem that comments upon the vaunted history of the love-poem itself. Wershler-Henry has written a kind of encoded message to a girlfriend named Bonnie, but he has revealed his feelings without resorting to the tropes of standard lyricism because, for him, the act of writing a sonnet in our contemporary, technological milieu must seem all too sentimentally anachronistic. His poem often causes my students much bewilderment when they first encounter it, and I go on to tell them that I always enjoy teaching this poem because, in my opinion, it represents one of the great limit-cases of sonnetry, since the poem is almost a miracle of concision, distilling all the traits of Petrarchan expression into a hieroglyph of four symbols.
"Sonnet (for Bonnie)," Bok points out, is a Petrarchan sonnet using only four characters (probably the shortest possible sonnet so far created). Of his sonnet Wershler says, "If I remember correctly, my thinking was that the basic definition for a love poem of any sort was a question to which the answer was inevitably "you." The sonnet diagrams that relationship (octave and sestet) in the most efficient way I could imagine at the time. In that respect, it's more conceptual than visual — almost an algorithm that you could use to generate other work."
Indeed. The form is generative on many levels: the constraint itself, the conventions, the history, the body of work…it's probably our most durable and flexible form. The sonnet is a great tool, as Collis says, "so portable, and yet so conservative/constrained in origins."
So yes, the Jackpine Sonnet. "The fiddle's incomplete without the dance," Acorn writes, "Let's hook fingers to complete." Without some kind of constraint, verse Acorn suggests lacks luster, and in general, I would agree. There is little sign of a struggle, perhaps. Form or constraint puts pressure on the idea behind the poem, on the original gesture. The sonnet form, Acorn argues, is "realisant." It's an organic, not fixed form. "It grows to any shape that suits the light, suits the winds, suits itself." The Jackpine is a tree that grows in all sorts of conditions. It is resilient and as Acorn appreciates, each tree grows and looks very differently.
Of course each is a member of the same order of tree too, which might be problematic. In 2010 we might see a hybrid Jackpine, part cedar or with strands of tomato for fun. I am being facetious, but not only. I want to think Acorn's enthusiasm for the form would include all of the above and interpretations we have not yet imagined.
But perhaps that is not so? I'll end with a provocative little poem from Acorn, poet of the people, but also, it turns out, a poet quite savvy about the poetry biz.
The Craft of Poetry's the Art of War
Attack! Don't think yehr poetry aint war.
Them warbling noises be no kind of birds.
They zing—they fly—they smack. They're bullets
And any minute one of them or something
Even rougher on your balls might score.
Put on your hardhat of proletarian scorn;
And when you throw roses—never mind how sweet;
For sweet life's sake don't omit the thorns.
Attack! Those clutching fingers of dawn
Will bundle themselves, soon enough into fists;
Punch you into gargage, put a lid on the can.
You'll get dropped from this or that love-list
By reason of hate—by reason of fear…or another
But if you think this aint war you're dead brother.
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"Bachinksy is one of the few poets who roam from conceptual and procedural into more formal realms" Which is why she is one of my inspirations as a poet. I hope she never settles down.
And Milton Acorn, his love of the formal sonnet never wavered even as he broke off into jackpine sonnets. Thanks for posting this!
I try not to speak ill of other people's stuff. I make an exception for porn. Until I saw the little porn piece above I had never heard of Elizabeth B. There is ( or was ) a better porn poet on the web.
Here's an almost literal jackpine sonnet by George Starbuck.
And here are some "space saver" sonnets, writ well before Christian B.
Care for a sonnet with a different letter at the end of every line? Click here.
Fourteen-word "sonnets," seven-word "sonnets" by erasing an original sonnet, haikus after transforming a Shakespearean sonnet, "sonnets" rendered to three or four typographical symbols, and on…
This is all fine and fun. But what do the results of experiments like these really have to do with the sonnet as form, if that form has any meaning, in the end? I ask because the post seems to imply there's some kind of sonnet-essence left over after the experiments, some kind of remaining "sonnetness" in the experimental texts that would justify their classification under the formal name. Could be I need to move to Canada and take another class in the topic, but I don't see the connection.
True, in some "avant" cases there certainly is a sense or reasonable echo of the tradition: Berrigan, for obvious example, or the sadly ignored Jack Clarke, a few others. Even in more facile uses of the form, as in some of Hoover's modest exercises, or Mohammad's cobbled-nonsense-with-aid-of-a-web-anagram-engine, there is still some resonance, some credible nod in direction of the host. But in most of the examples offered here, I can see no relation, frankly, except in sense of somewhat dilettantish allusion and convenient leverage.
I suppose one thing I'm asking is this: What difference does it make if one is experimenting with a sonnet, on the one hand, or experimenting with a sestina or a villanelle, say, on the other? Will poetic defenestrations of other forms necessarily reveal any meaningful, qualitative difference, generically speaking, next to "sonnet" experiments like these? I don't think so. No difference of any matter, anyway.
I have nothing at all against this kind of stuff. Bully for play. But what most of it has to do with the sonnet is perplexing to me!
Interesting quote in this regard from Wallace Stevens, over at John Latta's blog (http://isola-di-rifiuti.blogspot.com) yesterday :
"…the experience is central and experiment is the struggle with the experience and here experiment, also, is central. But often there is little, even no, experience and here experiment is merely experiment. The opinion that, unlike the twenties, this is not a period of experiment seems to be right in respect to experience in both senses. In respect to central experiment, the experience of the poet as poet may be too much or too little for him to record as yet: too much and too immediate or too little and not near enough; and so it may never be recorded at all. In respect to experiment that is merely experiment, this seems, in the circumstances, to be a pastime proper for Nero's children's children."
Here's my sonnet experiment…
p.s. by "in the circumstances" I think he means WW 2, basically.
>Will poetic defenestrations of other forms necessarily reveal any meaningful, qualitative difference, generically speaking, next to "sonnet" experiments like these?
My god, what a terrible sentence!
But take out the "any" and it makes a bit better sense (even if the overall formulation is still in the "totally sucks" category).
Thanks for the comments, all. Love the Starbuck, Don, particularly that "Sonnet with a Different letter…" And Henry, thanks, I wasn't aware of you project, which is quite extensive. They are very different, the sections, or so they seemed in my go through. Is it also in print?
This is a very brief post, and doing double-duty to cover a bit of Canadian content and introduce a new voice or two I hope. So yes, it could be more expansive on what remains of the form, and what is lost. I think that's more for an essay though, to be honest, than a blog post.
Many of the interventions are not so successful, or not remarkable in any case. Many do not rise out of their conceit, but then so much poetry, sonnet, or otherwise, does not.
Island Road is in print, Sina – thank you for asking.
Yes, some of them are closer to true sonnets than others. As an "experiment", I was less interested in tinkering with the sonnet-form itself, & more interested in what I could do with the sequence. Ie., there are 99 sonnets. So there are various patterns woven into a numerical structure…
Great post, Sina. And thanks for the link to Nets. I hadn't heard of it, but I just bought a copy.
The obvious question is…. what constitutes "dilettantish" allusion and "convenient" leverage; after all, there wouldn't be much poetry around without allusion and leverage.
Also obvious that there wouldn't be much fruitful argument about poetry without a few suggestive terms thrown into the mix, here and there…
Any convenient dilettantes in the house (besides me) who can answer Don's query?
Not a different letter at the end of every line. But since we're linking to examples, and in the spirit of what these so-called experiments actually mean, I wrote an "experimental sestina" once, with the name of a different NY School poet at the end of each line of each stanza.
A few months ago, I wrote about the history of this poem, in relation to McSweeney's and The Believer, here:
Wondering if one reason the sonnet became so popular, & has drawn so many poets into its orbit over time, is because its form is so stripped-down & efficient. It has a concise logic (statement/counter-statement/resolution/conclusion-or-reversal); & it has variety (quatrains, triplets, couplets) – but relatively terse & simple.
So all this makes me wonder if the baroque tinkering might be difficult to pull off… Because the simple clarity of the form helps toward a synthesis, a blending, of lyricism & meaning, song & statement. Whereas the tinkering perhaps sort of trips that up. Some of the major sonnet experimenters (Keats, Hopkins) don't wander too far from the original pattern… or do they?
Well, but that's what makes the sonnet so intriguing. What other form do we endlessly revisit and innovate? What other form so constantly refreshes itself? Not the sestina, or villanelle, though they have their lovely challenges.
I remember Nester's call, but I don't recall the winning poem, or any of the attendant bruhaha surrounding it.
It's always something…
I'll order your book, Henry. I am gathering texts for a course on the sonnet. A creative writing craft course. I can presently overfill a syllabus, but what would folks put on theirs if they could teach a class in the sonnet AND all of the interventions to the form? Favorite books of sonnets? Favorite essays on the sonnet?
See my reply above, Henry.
What do you mean by baroque tinkering? Do you mean excess? Overly condensing? I actually think Collis' sonnets–I linked to his project above–speak to those earlier forms of the sonnet. He is of course, using some of the conventional language of the sonnet.
As for why the form persists? It's close to breath, to what one can utter–as Wershler says–the attention of the address to the beloved. Rhetorically it's a genius little nugget. You build, build, turn, pirouette, and you're out!
I mean excess, yes, in the way of tinkering-for-its-own-sake (Wallace Stevens' sense, above). But it's just a bias, on my part. You get too far from speech when you treat words like stuff that comes out of a word-processor. But I'd have to read the individual examples more carefully, to make this more than bias.
Thank you(!) for offering to consider my book for your syllabus. Now that would be a pioneering experiment : poetry by H.Gould actually taught in a classroom. You should get a major award for that (a Gould Star).
& while I'm on a self-promo kick, a more recent book of mine, called DOVE STREET, has a sequence of 29 double-sonnets, titled "India Point". In these, the ending couplet of the 1st sonnet is mirrored (& rhymed) to an opening couplet of the 2nd, paired sonnet. Here is that book :
You can see a few of those at this link, by clicking on the book image.
Hey, & Sina, guess what… a few of the sonnets in "India Point" feature C*A*N*A*D*A, and QUEBEC !
Well, let's be more emphatic that it's a form that shapes and creates an argument. Not a turn for the turn's sake, but an acutal fulcrum in the poem. That turn might be experimentally shifted or evaded (a technical choice perhaps a bit analagous to moving a caesura around from line to line) – but it haunts even the most minimal sonnet-version.
BTW, Mike Theune is the expert on "turns" – see his blog – so maybe he'll… turn up… here!
Yes, that's what I meant by no-frills. There's a balance between argument & ornament. Arrghnument. Elegant simplicity.
Some would argue that without the logical design (the argument, turn, etc.), you don't have a sonnet at all. This would disqualify a LOT of experimental "sonnets" (including the majority of my own).
what is "stuff that comes out of a word-processor"? don't you only get out what you put in?
An erudite & imaginative peroration (thanks for pointing this out).
I must say, however, that I dislike the snake-like twist into politico-historical pontification. & I don't accept the one-to-one equivalence of poetic form & social structure. It sets up poetry as ideological avant-garde, as Enlightenment Force. It puts poetry on a pedestal, while issuing condemnations of the status quo (these two – the pedestal & the condemnations – are necessarily symbiotic).
We are in agreement about disliking pontification…which I will attempt not to do in my paper…
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Written in a Nazi prison camp. Recovered from the executed body of their author, Albrecht Haushofer.
I mean that words in poetry are more than Play-Doh. You can use words like Play-Doh but that in itself doesn't make it poetry. There's something profound involved here… because words are very CLOSE to clay (see Bible on this). But the poetic Word is breath AND clay, not simply word-processing.
Stanza from an old poem called "In the Clay" :
Adam, under the rain.
Under the somber branches.
To soften, to cross out
the scrawl in the clay –
evening in summer,
buried, sleeping.
Or this opening line of "Stubborn Grew" :
Time flowers on the lips of whispered clay.
i think "Time flowers on the lips of whispered clay" is no more or less poetry than "clay flowers of lips on the whispered time" (which i like a lot better!), or "the of time clay lips flowers on whispered", or "ioruw safiguhsf oij w riohwrgwr ijwrgwg wrgih".
i mean, who gets to be the judge of what's "poetic"?
I do, if it's my poem. Others are free to disagree!
a great book of sonnets where the writers push and play with the form is the Reality Street Book of Sonnets:
A conceptual take on the sonnet tradition:
Cool article and useful, too. I'd point people gto Ernest Hilbert's book of sonnets, 60 Sonnets, as well as Karen Volkman's Nomina, both excellent uses of the sonnet form.
Agreed, Amanda. It's on my list. I'm looking for good concrete & visual sonnets as well.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Not least among the jettisoned innovations would be the Miltonic turnless sonnet. That guy was a pole volta.
That's a very good point. I imagine that Milton is about as popular as Robert Lowell at the moment, however.
Thanks for the plug, Mary. Jailbreaks, if I might be so bold and shameless, was recently referenced in this fascinating essay on the sonnet:
Aye, all the more reason to point it out, Don. A lot of 'innovations' in sonnetry–and elsewhere–amount to redos. (This isn't a criticism, just an observation; I think 'originality' is highly overrated as an intrinsic quality.) I'm a big fan of Acorn and the jackpine sonnet, but he fails to acknowledge most of its precedents (Milton, Clare, Hopkins to name a few prominent cases) and surprisingly doesn't talk about how the original English sonnet was a kind of jackpining of the Petrarchan model. The jackpine principle predates Acorn by ages.
For Leanne O'Sullivan
What O'Watts imagines is, she may fly
as Fiontan flew, if she attempts to launch
like the old Irish poet flock, who thought
themselves as birds and made her realise
how wings are crucial to succeed in flight
as a shapeshifter.
So now she knows all
her slim options, she decides to try
out her wings – with no cutting quips or wry
observations – by flying in the form
of an elegy to the dark one who caught
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Western star gathers with the druid spawn
in full blather-wear, making well worn
anecdotes of one another, and lies
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hanging from a mythical branch were the pure
milk fruit of a poet's toil are torn,
an oak-harp raiment in ancient straight cry
'You've now found your soul, so sing all
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O'Watts imagines.
Milton's sonnet on his blindness, When I consider how my light is spent, contains not a single instance of the article – definite ( the ) or indefinite ( a, an ). I have run into trouble on the web for saying that stuff like this is important. What's it got to do with true confession, major message, noble sentiment, soul searching self expression?
Thanks Dan, I'll add those to my ever growing list.
A great deal, methinks.
Yes indeedy. Below is the first half of the sonnet. It is one sentence w/ past, present and future tenses. The result is major message, nobel sentiment etc.
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask.
I like (and teach) Phillis Levin's The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and Levin's introductory essay is really good. You might also like to peek at Ed Hirsch and Eavan Boland's The Making of a Sonnet. In particular, you might like the section called "The Sonnet Goes to Different Lengths," a section featuring variations on the sonnet. For a book that reveals, according to the publisher, "the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the venerable form," check out The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, edited by Jeff Hilson.
Of course, if I may, I would also hope that you'd take some time to discuss the poetic turn in a course on the sonnet, as the turn is so central to the sonnet. If this intrigues, I hope you'll check out Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns.
Turn, indeed!
Cheers for this, Don!
I'm just showing up now, and so peppering the conversation with all kinds of references to turns…!
I'm glad the turn turned up (forgive me) in this conversation. On September 30, 2008, Silliman wrote a post about Hilson's The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, and what intrigued me about this conversation (as I noted in comment) was that no one in a fairly extended conversation about the sonnet, had yet mentioned the turn. Such a major omission was odd, to say the least.
Gerald Burns wrote some excellent, interesting sonnets. You can find them in his SHORTER POEMS, published by Dalkey Archive (Creeley chose this volume for the National Poetry Foundation series).
Indeed! Structure & Surprise (which includes poems by poets as diverse as Jorie Graham, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Zucker, Thomas Sayers Ellis, John Ashbery, etc, etc) tries to differentiate the structural turn from more strictly formal qualities.
I love this quote from Randall Jarrell's "Levels and Opposites: Structure in Poetry":
"I shall have to disregard the musical structure of poetry: metre, stanza-form, rhyme, alliteration, quantity, and so on. I neglect these without too much regret: criticism has paid them an altogether disproportionate amount of attention….I am going to talk, primarily, about other sorts of structure in lyrical poetry."
Structure & Surprise tries to talk about some of those "other sorts of structure in lyrical poetry" by paying attention to turns.
Sina –
If you want a copy of The Reality Street Book of Sonnets you can get it at:
Reality Street has a US printer so postage will be within-US rate only.
US Amazon doesn't currently stock it. Any problems if you do try and can't get hold of it just let me know
There's some great stuff in it, including Edwin Denby, Ted Berrigan, Jack Clarke, Stephen Rodefer, Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, Tim Atkins, Sophie Robinson…
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Anderlini, Sanam
Designed to be interactive and practice oriented, the course will inform students of the key concepts and elements of effective advocacy - with attention to theories of change principles, articularing advocacy goals, target audiences, coaliton building and networking, messaging, presentations and funding raising. I will share examples of international and national level efforts, and provide an opportunity for students to explore and develop their own ideas and designs.
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Spring for 2017-2018
Bjornlund, Eric
This course is intended to help students to understand the process of government funding for international development programs and to help prepare them to write proposals and applications for government contracts and grants in international development and related fields. It is designed to encourage the development of practical skills that will be directly relevant and useful in writing proposals and applications. Students who take this course should be more marketable and better prepared to work at consulting firms/government contractors, NGOs, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations or other places involved in international development or other government-funded fields.
The course will meet once a week for five weeks beginning in late January. We will begin with an overview of government contracting (acquisition) and grants (assistance), including consideration of the policy, legal and regulatory environment governing U.S. government funding, with a particular focus on the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. Next, we will consider the scopes of work or program descriptions of actual USG requests for proposals (RFPs) or requests for applications (RFAs). Then, we will focus on the instructions and evaluation criteria from particular RFPs, which govern the process of responding to such RFPs, and we will compare the corresponding requirements from particular RFAs, all drawn from actual solicitations in the international development field. We will also touch on other mechanisms, such as Annual Program Statements, Broad Agency Announcements, Requests for Information and Requests for Statements of Interest, among others. Throughout the course, we will work on practical writing issues that are particularly relevant to proposals and applications for U.S. government funding.
Bio: Eric Bjornlund
Eric Bjornlund is a lawyer and is co-founder and president of Democracy International (DI), a U.S.-based firm that provides technical assistance, analytical services, and project implementation for democracy, rights and governance (DRG), conflict-mitigation, transition initiatives, and other international development programs worldwide for the U.S. government and other funders. He is also adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and teaches in the graduate program in Democracy and Governance.
Over the past 25 years, Mr. Bjornlund has designed, managed and evaluated development programs in more than 50 countries and in all regions of the world. He has expertise across the full range of DRG, conflict and transition programs. He also has extensive experience with evaluation methodology and survey research and has led projects in emerging democracies and semiauthoritarian and conflict-affected countries. At Democracy International, he oversees a rapidly growing organization with more than 200 full-time staff members, five overseas offices, and active programs in more than 20 countries.
Mr. Bjornlund has written and spoken extensively about transitional and postconflict elections, democratization, legal reform, and international democracy promotion. He is author of Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy (2004; Arabic edition 2013) and has also written and published numerous book chapters, articles, essays, and reports. At Georgetown, he has taught courses on Democracy Promotion and Democratic Theory and on DG and Postconflict Political Reconstruction. Mr. Bjornlund has testified on a number of occasions before the U.S. Congress and at the United Nations and has spoken at conferences and universities throughout the world. He has served as an expert on elections, election monitoring, and civil society for the U.S. State Department and various U.S. embassies and has appeared often on television and radio in the U.S. and abroad.
Mr. Bjornlund worked previously in senior positions in the U.S. and abroad for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Carter Center, and he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Earlier in his career, he practiced corporate and international law at Ropes & Gray, one of the largest law firms in the U.S.
Mr. Bjornlund earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia University, a Master in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics from Williams College.
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-04 Topics: Technology for Social Change
Spring for 2017-2018
Martin, Nick
New technologies have fundamentally changed the way that NGOs, governments and companies engage with communities around the world. Tools like mobile phones, digital maps, and social media platforms have already demonstrated tremendous value in addressing a range of social problems and yet so much more potential exists on the horizon. This one credit course will explore some of the ways technology is being used to respond to crises, improve healthcare delivery, monitor elections, provide banking services, ensure effective governance, expand educational opportunities, and more. It will also address some of the key challenges these new tools present, such as lack of access, underdeveloped infrastructure, implementation issues, as well as obstacles for scale-up and evaluation. The course is designed for Georgetown University students to assist them in developing concrete strategies and technological skills to work amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Participants can expect an immersive and interactive learning environment with a variety of real world examples from organizations working in the field.
Featured Skills and Tools
- Using Mobile phones to improve agricultural, finance, and health outcomes
- Leveraging social media tools to build campaigns and drive change
- Collecting, managing, and visualizing data more effectively
BIO: Nicholas Martin
Nicholas Carl Martin is an American technologist, entrepreneur, and educator best known for founding the international organization TechChange: the Institute for Technology and Social Change.
Martin has delivered a number of speeches at the United Nations, The US State Department, and USAID on the role of technology for international development, online learning & capacity building and m-learning His work has been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Guardian, The Economist, Dowser.org and more.
Nick is a Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellow and an International Youth Foundation Global Fellow.He graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in English Literature and Education and from The University for Peace with a masters in Peace Education.
Prior to founding TechChange, Martin started an award-winning conflict resolution and technology program for DC elementary schools called DCPEACE.
As of November 2013, Nick is also an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University.
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-05 Topics: Storytelling for Influence
Spring for 2017-2018
Lentfer, Jennifer
As institutions and organizations evolve, everyone has a role and responsibility in ensuring that their messages break through the information superhighway to enable the changes they want to see in the world. Communications is no longer a specialized skill set to increase visibility and build a brand, it is something all people in an organization must use to achieve its mission. Storytelling for Influence will enable students to hone their ability to educate, motivate, and persuade specialized audiences for policy advocacy, programming, and public outreach, i.e. write something that will get read and say something that will be heard. The course will be based in experiential learning, where students will be telling/writing their own stories and/or critiquing/improving existing communications products using acquired knowledge/tools.
Bio: Jennifer Lentfer
Jennifer Lentfer is a Nebraska farm girl turned international aid worker. As the creator of the blog, how-matters.org, she was named as one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "100 women to follow on Twitter" in 2012. Jennifer has worked with over 300 grassroots organizations in east and southern Africa over the past decade, serving with various international organizations in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Namibia, and the U.S. including the Red Cross, UNICEF, Catholic Relief Services, and Firelight Foundation. Jennifer is currently Senior Writer on Oxfam America's Aid Effectiveness team and a lecturer in Georgetown University's Center for Social Impact Communication.
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-10 Topics: Leadership
Spring for 2017-2018
Beale, Scott
*This course will be taught by Scott Beale in Fall 2015.*
Leadership for Social Change is a one-credit course taught by Scott Beale, the Founder & CEO of Atlas Corps, an award-winning international nonprofit, that teaches civil society professionals leadership skills through a one-year fellowship in the United States. The course will teach key principles of social change leadership, provide examples of social change leaders who embody these principles and compare and contrast social change leadership with other types of leadership. Students will read case studies of global social change leaders, watch videos of how social change happens, and participate in group activities to practice principles of leadership. This course will lead students through a self-discovery of their leadership style and teach them several different leadership theories so that they will be able to choose the most appropriate for the variety of leadership situations and contexts they may encounter. The course is specifically designed for students who aspire to government and nonprofit leadership positions. Scott has held numerous leadership positions in the nonprofit sector and in the government, including the White House, State Department and state government.
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-11 Topics: Social Media for Social Change
Spring for 2017-2018
Sherihan, Aaron
*This course will be taught by Aaron Sherihan in Fall 2015.*
Social media has quickly taken its place on the global stage as an important element of social change. From their use in advocacy on key policy issues to grassroots political mobilization to community building and activism, social media platforms are now part of what some people refer to as "new power." Social media is credited with raising awareness of issues such as poverty and disease and driving actions that influence policy and political decisions. This dynamic is re-defining the way that the public relations, philanthropic, public engagement and lobbying sectors approach grassroots mobilization. But are these platforms driving more transparent, bottom-up, nimble social movements or are they merely a tactic used by movement makers?
This course will explore the power and promise of social media for social change. It will attempt to define what is the role and who are the actors of the new "social good" community. It will cite case studies from around the world as the basis for a discussion of five core questions: 1) What impact has social media had on key social change issues? 2) What makes for successful use of social media for social change initiatives? 3) What are the dangers or pitfalls of social media in today's political and economic environment? 4) How can its effectiveness be measured? 5) What is the future of social media for social change, and which global issues could it impact?
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-12 Topics: Communicating for Influence
Spring for 2017-2018
Neffinger, John
How do we change one another's minds? It is clear in the research that logical argument and reasoning is not the only, or even primary, way people reach conclusions and become motivated to act. What does this suggest about how to communicate ideas effectively, and how do these dynamics play out in our politics? How different is a research-based vision of political behavior from the picture Publius painted in The Federalist Papers?
This course will look at modern politics through the lens of modern psychology and communications research. We will examine a variety of heuristics people use to form opinions about issues in lieu of conducting extensive first-hand research, and consider the range of emotional drivers of political behavior. Then we will look at a variety of communications techniques used by political actors and consider their efficacy in different situations. These will include such phenomena as storytelling, dodging, charisma, appeals to authority, purity and empathy, the "Big Lie," and the social proof behind the lazy journalist's favorite phrase, "Some say..." Finally, we will tackle the performative aspect of communication, with each participant practicing selected techniques on camera to get a working sense of their personal communication style and how to develop it further.
This one-credit course will be taught by John Neffinger, who is the co-author of the book Compelling People and previously taught the History of Presidential Debates seminar.
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-20 Topics: Strategic Collaboration
Spring for 2017-2018
Strategic and cross-sector collaboration is a necessary solution to complex development challenges. While the practice and research of cross-sector collaboration is extremely challenging, there has been extraordinary growth in the developed-country literature. Since 2006, the literature has expanded dramatically with hundreds of empirical and theoretical articles published. By contrast, in developing countries, the practice of cross-sector collaboration has far outpaced the research. While cross-sector collaboration is desired by governments, required by funders and recommended by policymakers—and most fields, including the global health and conflict resolution fields, work extensively across sectors, memorializing these activities through various types of documentation such as contracts and memoranda of understanding—this policy and practice has not been supported by a commensurate level of research focus. This class will highlight and begin to address this crucial knowledge gap. We will investigate the existing literature and analyze key areas where attention is needed. Students will leave the class equipped with cutting-edge tools to build and research cross-sector collaboration in a developing country setting. Case studies will be drawn primarily from the global health and conflict resolution sectors.
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
GOVT-505-21 Topics: Philanthropy and Fundraising
Spring for 2017-2018
Toma, Alex
*This course will be taught by Alex Toma in Fall 2015.*
Although philanthropy has existed for millennia, many people are still
baffled by the foundation and philanthropic community. What is this
sector? Why does it exist? What does it do? Why is it important vis-a-vis
policymaking? Yet ¬ whether your career leads you into policymaking or
³policy shaping² (e.g., corporate sector, think tanks, advocacy
organizations) ‹ foundations will provide a necessary base for your work.
The past decade has seen both a dramatic rise in public-private
partnerships between the U.S. Government, World Bank, corporations and
foundations, and a desire for foundation leaders to be more transparent
about their work. Understanding how to successfully engage with the
foundation sector is critical for any emerging policymaker/shaper.
This course will cover the critical issues one needs to succeed in
leveraging and engaging with the foundation world to be an effective
change maker. Topics will include: what are the
pros/cons/upsides/downsides of foundations; why do foundations exist; how
has the foundation world changed over the past decade and why does this
matter to modern-day policymaking/shaping; what does the current
foundation ecosystem look like; what are current trends (functionally,
issues-wise) in the foundation world; and best practices for approaching
foundations and foundation partnerships.
Through taking this course, students will be better prepared to approach
foundations in any aspect of the work they set out to do. The course is
more skills-based and offers real-world case studies to illustrate key
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
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Emmanuel Asiedu-Acquah uses debates to get students to read about and formulate informed opinions about important historical topics.
Before the class, the instructor arranges the students into two groups. The activity starts with calling on the different groups to take about five minutes to confer with their members and determine the main speakers in the debate. The two groups alternate in speaking to the debate question. The main speakers (3) in the first group present their views, and then the second group does the same. After that, the instructor allows for contributions and rebuttals from the other members of the different groups. He also asks questions to clarify points made, or he reiterates and reframes points and opinions expressed for further discussion and debate. At the end, the instructor summarizes the main arguments of the debate and highlights important points to keep in mind.
The activity simply requires the course materials: lectures, a collection of primary sources, and secondary literature, reviewed before the class.
TIP: Make sure to inform the students well ahead of time about the debate. Arrange them into groups the day before or the day of the debate.


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BLK DNM, Diesel Black Gold, DKNY, Chalayan, Ashish
Narrow straight jeans and skinny jeans – are the most popular styles of new collections. In accordance with the general fashion trends, some designers also offer wide models of jeans and jeans with cuffs.
Felder Felder, Versace, Isabel Marant, Diesel Black Gold, Haider Ackermann
Jeans made of latex, smooth, lacquered and reptile skin, and the combined models are in fashion. Jeans are often decorated with quilted leather inserts.
Ashish, Kelly Wearstler, BLK DNM (3,5), Diesel Black Gold
The trendiest special effect – is a rubber coating, including a worn look. Some designers continue to offer jeans with bleached pattern, although the lightening is rarely used in the new season.
Zadig & Voltaire, Diesel Black Gold, Diane von Furstenberg, agnes b., Just Cavalli
Black, dark blue and deep indigo are the most popular colors of women's jeans fall-winter 2013-2014. Jeans of white, gray, beige, burgundy, dark khaki colors, and various shades of "metallic" are trendy. As for the actual prints, designers use stripes and a reptile print.
Chanel, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Diesel Black Gold (3,4), Kelly Wearstler
Decor of fashionable jeans can be very bright and noticeable: rivets, applique, embroidery, lace and grid inserts. Artistic holes in the grunge style are still in vogue.


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Intuitive Eating PRO 2.0 Workshop
New Full-Day Workshop for Health Professionals
with Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD
When: May 18, 2013 Full Day Workshop
Where: Salt Lake City, Utah
What: Bring your Intuitive Eating expertise to the next level, through hands-on activities: Increase your skill level and confidence through small group role play and case studies. You will experience Intuitive Eating techniques through meal and snack eating exercises (food provided).
Enrollment is Limited to 50 people for maximum interaction.
Registration Fee Includes: New Intuitive Eating Book (3rd edition), Group Worksheets, Continental Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks.
- $325 Before March 15, 2013
- $365 After JMarch 15, 2013
|Evelyn Tribole has over 25 years of experience helping clients and training health professionals, how to create a healthy relationship with food, mind, and body.
More Information:
Download Agenda and Details: Intuitive Eating PRO Workshop 2.0 Agenda


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War For Rome: Update and New Models!
In Stores
The War for Rome is a series of sets based on roman warfare and daily life. In the set above, a group of German barbarians is attacking the Roman fort guarding the borders. The set is fully modular and can be combined into a wall formation. The archer tower is loose and can be placed anywhere in the fort. The set comes with three German Barbarians with a catapult, a legatus, three Roman foot-soldiers, and three Roman archers. Two or more sets can be combined to form the ultimate fortress! Another picture below. More sets coming very soon including:
Roman Gladiator Fight
Roman Market
Circus Maximus Chariot Race
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Another view of the fort.
The Roman Market street. The busy market street was an important part of daily Roman life. Here, we have three shops, a fish cart, and a horse cart carrying barrels of wine. The set comes with 5 minifigs, a dog, two horses, a bull, and a mouse.
Booths, from left to right:
1. Produce booth, with apple, figs, and bananas
2. Oriental treasures booth. Includes clam with pearl, silver ornament, and small staff.
3. Meat booth. Has a raw chicken, a loaf of bread, and two drumsticks.
The shop has lots going on for sure!
The pricepoint of this set would be about 30 dollars.
The updated gladiator fight. Includes the Emperor, a spectator, and two gladiators. Ideally, the set would include a bear to come in through the gate. Two or more of these sets could be combined with only minimal modifications. Also, the throne and the spectator seats can be switched out easily.
Well, thanks for checking out the new models. I am always up for requests!
Coming soon:
Chariot Races in Circus Maximus
More battle related sets. Look out for the Hannibal war elephant, coming soon!