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Former light heavyweight king Antonio Tarver, now the IBO's champion at cruiser, has aspirations of one day conquering the Klitschko brothers and claiming the heavyweight throne.
Those dreams – a wild stretch to begin with – remain way down the road after struggling to a split decision draw with Lateef Kayode in their cruiserweight battle Saturday evening in Carson, California.
Scores were 115-113 Tarver, 115-113 Kayode and 114-114 in their Showtime-televised main event, which began slow but picked up steam as the rounds progressed.
The early rounds saw the much younger Kayode winning the fight purely on activity. The transplanted Nigerian wasn't exactly a ball of energy at any point in the fight, but early on was far more active than Tarver, who fell to old habits in looking for opportunities rather than letting his hands go.
The deliberate start by the 43-year old southpaw essentially cost him the fight, though it also stands to reason that a faster start means that Tarver doesn't have as much energy in the later rounds.
What became a matter of fact was that Tarver was able to hurt Kayode far more than the opposite proved to be true, despite the younger fighter being billed as the power puncher. It was Tarver who landed the more telling blows in the second half of the fight, scoring with a huge left hand in the eighth round to stun Kayode for the first time in the fight.
The sequence was a much needed shift in momentum and drama, as the bout lacked sorely lacked both prior to that point. The boo birds began early in the evening on a televised card in which all four bouts went the distance and didn't deliver a lot of action and were loud and clear for much of the first half of the main event.
Tarver's burst of energy in the later rounds helped turn the jeers into cheers. In the end, it also helped avoid an embarrassing defeat, even if the veteran didn't quite see things that way.
"I was trying to feel the guy out. Maybe I fought down to his level. But I got busy at six. There's no way they could give him a round from six on. He flung and missed all night," Tarver insisted during his post-fight interview.
The final punchstats don't exactly dismiss such claims. Kayode threw and landed slightly more punches over the course of the 12-round affair, but nothing to where any sort of separation was provided between the two. The perception was that Kayode won the bulk of the earlier rounds that Tarver inexplicably chose to give away, while the tide turned in the second half of the fight.
Tarver had his chances to put the fight away just as he did in stopping Danny Green during their cruiserweight fight last summer. Left hands landed with conviction in rounds eight and nine, but Tarver was unable to follow up with the home run swing to close the show.
Instead, it was Kayode who rallied back by the end of the ninth, scoring with an uppercut which caused Tarver to momentarily double over. The tide appeared to shift in the direction of the unbeaten 29-year old, but nearly punched himself into trouble in the 10th when he frequently threw south of the border.
The infractions never became an issue, but neither fighter was able to gain a stranglehold on the momentum in the championship rounds. Despite the lack of dominance by either combatant down the stretch, each raised their hands in the air by fight's end, believing victory was clear.
General perception was anything but that, as was the case with the final scorecards.
It's the first time that either fighter has been forced to settle for a draw. Tarver managed a two-fight win streak heading into the fight. He still remains unbeaten since returning to the ring in 2010, but his record now reads 29-6-1 (20KO) as opposed to gaining another win and – in his mind – another step towards chasing heavyweight glory.
"It's a blemish on my record but we won't lose no sleep tonight." Tarver insists. "If he'd have hurt me, dropped me, had me on the ropes, then I can see (retirement). But that never happened."
Physique-wise, cruiserweight looks like a permanent home for Tarver. Not so, says the part-time fighter and announcer, who insists that it will take a big fight to keep him below 200 lb.
"I really hope I (stay active)," says Tarver, who has only fought once each year since returning in '10. "We'll get back to the table with (advisor) Al Haymon to see what's next. I'll stay one more fight at cruiserweight. I'll only do that by fighting guys like Marco Huck or El Diablo (Krzysztof Wlodarczyk)."
A rematch with Kayode may or may not be on the minds of Showtime brass. But it takes two to make that happen, and the "other guy" in that equation seems to believe that he already did enough the first time around to move on with his career.
"Everybody knows I f***ed him up," insists Kayode, who suffers his own first blemish as his record moves to 18-0-1 (14KO). The once noted power puncher – who trains under Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym – has now been taken the distance in each of his past four fights.
At no point was the threat of a knockout evident in this fight, but Kayode believes the outcome should have never been in doubt.
"Look at me, look at him," Kayode stated afterward, though perhaps too angry and hyper to notice that neither fighter looked particularly beaten up. "I am a strong man. I did my job and did what I said I'd do."
The truth is that neither fighter did what they initially set out to do, which is what produced the stalemate. With that, dreams of Tarver chasing heavyweights and Kayode chasing cruiserweight titles remain exactly where they were before the evening began – well out of reach.
Peter 'Kid Chocolate' Quillin scored a dominant decision over former 154 lb. king Winky Wright. Scores were 98-91 (twice) and 97-92 in a lopsided affair that saw the 40-year old Wright (51-6-1, 25KO) – inactive for three years and winless since Dec. '06 – suffer a rare knockdown when Quillin (27-0, 20KO) drilled him with a right hand midway through the fifth round.
Austin Trout won a lopsided decision over Delvin Rodriguez over 12 dull rounds. Scores were 117-111, 118-110 and 120-108 in favor of Trout (25-0, 14KO), who makes the third defense of his alphabet 154 lb. title. Rodriguez falls to 26-6-3 (14KO), hardly resembling the fighter who looked impressive in 20 combined rounds with Pawel Wolak last year.
Leo Santa Cruz opened the telecast with a spirited 12-round win over Vusi Malinga in their vacant bantamweight title fight. Scores were 120-108 (twice) and 119-109. Despite the lopsided scores, Malinga (20-4-1, 12KO) fought hard every step of the way. Unfortunately for the South African, he was in with a better class of fighter as Cruz (20-0-1, 11KO) was the far busier of the two.
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Nic Fiddian-Green has been represented by the Sladmore Gallery for over 10 years. His work, from small maquette to massive monumental, is highly prized around the world in public and private collections.
Through sheer determination and passion for his subject Nic Fiddian-Green has stayed true to the form of the horse's head for 25 years. The spirit and power of this noble animal, both servant and master to man, has been the artist's long-term obsession. No animal is so deeply embedded in our culture and history, the very earliest example of art ever discovered in Britain was a horse's head carved into a bone from 10,000 years BC.
Fiddian-Green's recent harrowing encounter with a life-threatening illness has caused an obvious and honest creative re-assessment. There emerges a stronger, deeper and more contemplative vision that permeates the new work. His sculpture is sometimes seen as a form of self-portraiture, even through the form of the horse's head. He shows us how his spirit and his faith help him triumph over the physical. In the eyes of his silent horse's heads we feel pain, strength, fear, wisdom and more as he asks complicated questions of the viewer that give the new work a powerful spiritual and emotional resonance. These inner reflections are as profound as the pieces' outer beauty and majesty are striking.
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frieze are still apparent, the classical Greek principles of grace, beauty, serenity, and harmony balanced with new sensibilities to create his unique, very modern sculpture.
He uses his imagination and his acute awareness of work from previous centuries to inspire and influence his sculpture. He also works closely with his subject, equine models right there in the studio with him, direct from life. His close relationship with the horse was demonstrated further when "George" actually attended his Private View at the gallery.
The summer of 2010 saw his new 30 foot sculpture of the Horse Drinking replace the previous Mawari head at Marble Arch where it is still on display. New monumental works were installed to enormous acclaim at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex and in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. The largest and most stunning piece of his career so far, the 35 foot high "Artemis", was installed on the Trundle Hill on the downs overlooking Goodwood House and racecourse. All these were events recorded in the first book on his work published in late 2010.
He has work in many important private and corporate collections and has exhibited in major galleries in Paris, New York , Sydney, Hong Kong and others, as well as at most important Art Fairs such as Tefaf Maastricht, Dubai and Masterpiece, London. His next exhibition opens in London in both Sladmore's West End galleries in June 2011.
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QAA Scotland worked closely with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Universities Scotland and NUS Scotland to develop an enhancement-led approach to quality in the Scottish higher education sector. The strategy adopted has five main elements:
The work of QAA Scotland feeds into all these elements. This collaborative approach to quality is unique in many respects: in its balance between quality assurance and enhancement; in the emphasis which it places on the student experience; in its focus on learning and not solely on teaching; and in the spirit of cooperation and partnership which has underpinned all these developments.


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The Russian website Terra America yesterday came out with the first installment of a series of articles and interviews about the American economic Lyndon LaRouche, to which the prelude had been the site's interview of LaRouche on the Strategic Defense of Earth and other space exploration prospects, published on April 13.
A major theme in the 3000-word article is LaRouche's understanding of Russia's strategic place in the world today, which Terra America authors Kirill Benediktov and Mikhail Diunov termed unique among major American and European figures.
The article, which can be viewed at http://terra-america.ru/poslednii-rozenkreicer-part1.aspx, is illustrated by the image of a summer 2008 EIR cover picturing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with military officers and bombing victims during Russia's conflict with Georgia in South Ossetia, and titled "LaRouche: Putin Was Right, Acted to Prevent World War." The allusion to today's strategic situation would be hard to miss.
The new article notes that LaRouche is popular in Russia, and has influenced a range of public figures and writers such as Eurasian Economic Community official Academician Sergei Glazyev, economists Mikhail Khazin and Andrei Kobyakov, and journalists Alexander Prokhanov (editor-in-chief of the weekly Zavtra), and Maxim Kalashnikov. The Terra America authors emphasize: "Lyndon LaRouche is practically the only major Western intellectual who continues to view Russia as a key player on the international scene. ... The ideology that triumphed after the fall of the Berlin Wall consistently and deliberately downplays Russia's role in the world, without regard for how things actually stand. Meanwhile LaRouche says that Russia 'together with China, and India, and the United States, it represents the only hope for the rescue of ... the world, from the greatest crisis in modern history.'"
Under the subhead "Truth and Lies about LaRouche," the article usefully refutes a number of myths about LaRouche that are often attached to his name in Russia: that he is a "senator," that he is a "millionaire," and that he advocates a "gold standard." The refutation of the latter point includes references to the Russian text of LaRouche's So, You Wish to Learn All about Economics.
Turning to a discussion of who LaRouche really is, the authors use some gossipy material from Wikipedia, but that takes a back seat to more accurate characterizations of how LaRouche's life-long antipathy to the British Empire was shaped by his post-war experience in India at the moment of independence, his early attacks on the Wiener-Shannon information theory doctrine, and the pro-growth outlook he introduced into radical student layers in the late 1960s.
The subhead "The Father of Star Wars" introduces one of the most honest accounts of the Strategic Defense Initiative ever published in Russia. The Terra America authors acknowledge that the Soviet Union had serious directed-energy anti-missile programs in the 1970s, about which LaRouche was aware through the work of his physicist colleagues and friends in the Fusion Energy Foundation (Terra America links to an archive copy of a 1977 issue of Fusion magazine, containing an article on "The Science Behind the Soviet 'Superweapon'"). They excerpt LaRouche's November 1993 interview with human rights activist Victor Kuzin, in which LaRouche detailed his interaction with the Reagan administration and Soviet officials in 1982-1983. They report the concept of SDI as an economic science-driver, as well as a war-avoidance approach; the ice-out of LaRouche after Andropov rejected SDI; and the interest in LaRouche's work from various Soviet institutions at that time, both positive interest on the part of the Central Mathematical Economics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and the "less friendly" attitude of Soviet circles linked with the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis and the Club of Rome.
Although representatives of LaRouche visited the Soviet Union in 1979 and again in 1982, the article says, the invitations stopped after General Secretary Yuri Andropov's vehement rejection of the SDI.
The article's strange title, "The Last Rosicrucian," according to sources at Terra America, is related to the editors' belief that the term "Rosicrucianism" meaningfully denotes opponents of the financial oligarchy. The prelude to the Terra America series, LaRouche's interview on the SDE, is being linked to and blogged on various Russian websites, including the widely watched oko-planety.su (Eye of the Planet) portal and a blog called Kosmos ("Space").
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It's spring and you're ready to find the Champaign/Urbana IL Home for Sale.....for YOU! So I've put together some tips to help make your Champaign/Urbana IL Home Search go smoothly:
1. Find the Right Real Estate Professional. This is such an important step and will truly make the difference in the home you buy, your stress level and the money you ultimately spend.
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7. Submitting a Reasonable Offer. This is another reason why you need to work with a local Real Estate agent. Understanding the local housing market, the inventory of condos, home values and if a condo may get multiple bids is all information that goes into the offer YOU will make.
8. Understand the Process & the Paperwork. Your agent should have gone through all of this with you in the beginning of your search, but don't hesitate to ask questions along the way. This can be an overwhelming process at times. Once you have found a home you will be advised to seek an Attorney to handle the legal aspects of the sale of the home.
9. Stick to Your Pre-determined Price. It's always tough to have your heart set on a Home and lose it in a bidding war, but it is much worse to go above what you can afford! It is better to find a second Home that you like "almost as much" as the first so that you have something to lean back on if the situation arises.
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The American generals that now command and have commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan are among the best warfighters in U.S. history. The U.S. troops under their command are the most skilled, battle-hardened warriors America has ever put in the field. So what went wrong in Afghanistan that's making victory so elusive if not impossible?
The answer to that question is not the violent reaction to Quran burnings or the massacre of Afghani civilians by a U.S. soldier. Neither is it that "Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires," "it's a tribal society immune to a strong central government", "the real problem is in Pakistan," or "the government of President Hamid Karzai is corrupt." All are facts, but they are not the principal reasons the NATO effort in Afghanistan, despite success on and off the battlefield, is floundering. (Read the full column at EWRoss.com)
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Lacombe, John, Borum, Joan, Monthly Labor Review
Major labor contracts in 1986 provided record low wage adjustments
In 1986, major collective bargaining settlements in private industry provided record low wage and compensation adjustments, reflecting both employers' and unions' efforts to curb labor costs. Their task was made easier by continued moderate upward pressures on wages from comparatively small increases in consumer prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 19-year-old series on private industry agreements covering 1,000 workers or more,1 wage adjustments --the net effect of decisions to increase, decrease, or not change wages--under settlements reached during 1986 averaged 1.2 percent in the first contract year and 1.8 percent annually over the contract term. (See table 1.) The settlements covered 2.5 million workers.
This was the fifth consecutive year in which settlements produced average wage adjustments that were substantially below those registered prior to 1982. (See chart 1.) Wage adjustments which were actually put into effect during 1986, stemming from settlements negotiated that year and those reached in prior years, also averaged a record low-- 2.3 percent.
The last time parties to 1986 settlements negotiated (usually in 1983 or 1984), they agreed to contracts that specified average wage adjustments of 3.5 percent the first year and 3.2 percent annually over the term. Total wage adjustments --those specified at the time of settlements plus any subsequent cost-of-living adjustments (COLA's)--averaged 4.0 percent a year over the contract term. This was the smallest on record, and occurred while the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners (CPI-W) was rising 3.5 percent a year (between December 1982 and December 1985).
The average size of total wage adjustments under expiring agreements has dropped steadily since 1983 because the size of specified wage changes declined and because smaller price increases produced lower wage increases triggered by COLA's. As shown in the following tabulation, the contracts preceding 1986 settlements yielded larger total wage adjustments when they included a COLA clause.
This marks a return to the pre-1983 pattern in which expiring contracts with COLA clauses provided smaller specified wage adjustments than those without, but COLA's more than made up the differences.
The bargaining climate
Bargaining during 1986 took place in a mixed national economic climate. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners rose 0.7 percent during the year (the smallest rise since 1961) and unemployment continued to hover around 7 percent. Negotiators focused on both old and new problems, including: depressed markets and competition from abroad in the steel, aluminum, and copper industries; competition from nonunion firms in retail trade and construction; competition from both union and nonunion carriers in the airline industry; and the breakup of long-standing bargaining relationships in the steel and telephone communications industries. The most common issue was how to curb labor costs and retain jobs.
A number of contracts addressed this issue by such indirect methods as restructuring jobs or changing work rules. Other more direct approaches included historically low wage increases, freezes, or cuts; lump-sum payments (which are not included as wages in this series) instead of wage increases or to offset wage cuts; lower wage adjustments in the first than in subsequent years of multi-year contracts; and the suspension or elimination of COLA clauses.
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Average wage increases under 1986 settlements were the smallest on record for this series--2.9 percent the first contract year and 2.7 percent a year over the contract life. First-year increases were received by 1,730,000 workers, while 526,000 workers had no wage change and 230,000 sustained wage cuts averaging -9.2 percent. …


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Ignatow, an American poet, employs a deceptively simple poetic language to reveal the dreams and agonies of city-dwellers. Many of his poems are about New York, the city in which he has always lived. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Ignatow does almost completely without the traditional skills of English versification. He makes no effort to assure his lines rhetorical effectiveness; the import of each poem is thus far too dependent upon what is said, given in a low, gentle, spell-breaking murmur. At his best, however, Ignatow often seems a real primitive, with the small, serene vision of the Douanier Rousseau or of Bombois. His narrative gift appears to me to be worthy of encouragement, and I look forward, queerly, since concision and concentration are integral to Mr. Ignatow's successes here, to longer work….
Ignatow's poems … rank with the most authentic now being written. What gives them their unique power is a kind of strange, myth-dreaming vision of modern city life, and the ability to infuse the décor of the contemporary city with the ageless Old Testament fatality of death and judgment: to make the traditional moral issues of the race count in an environment where seemingly they have ceased to, and to give them a fitting dramaturgy of symbol and image which not only brings the reader into the situations Ignatow writes about, but makes him subject to the same unchangeable laws: judges him, doesn't let him get away untouched. There is no obvious brilliance of language; in Mr. Ignatow's use, words are merely a vehicle for recounting what happened: what happens. The dramatic impact of each poem hits you foursquare, always convincingly, and the whole thing, the incident, the judgment, is what you remember. Mr. Ignatow's is a "total poetry" in a different sense from that in which the term is ordinarily used; not like that, say, of Hopkins or Dylan Thomas or Mallarmé. Rather than being word-oriented, it is an inspired and brilliantly successful metaphysical reportage, with an "I-was-the-man" authority that shakes the involved beholder to his bones.
James Dickey, "David Ignatow" (1961), in his Babel to Byzantium (reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.; copyright © 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 by James Dickey), Farrar, Straus, 1968, pp. 25-8.
In what is the best poem in [Rescue the Dead], a three line epigraph, David Ignatow announces a new course, a new thrust in his poetry: "I feel along the edges of life / for a way / that will lead to open land." He doesn't find the open land in "Rescue the Dead," but he does come closer than ever before by looking away from the almost surreal urban landscape of his earlier work and into himself, the inner landscape of pain, suffering, and the dark joy of love. It is a bleak, cold world that David Ignatow lives in, but in these new poems he finds a strength to endure even as he seems to deny as strongly as ever the idea of prevailing, of really finding open ground. "If I live through the night," he says in one poem ("The Hope"), "I will be a species / related to the tree / and the cold dark." A faith in a silent God, in love, in some inner force that will struggle to endure, these impel Ignatow's inner journey. If he cannot sing the dawn, he is able to know the night, write a strong poetry of that knowing, and perhaps even rescue the dead from the dark. The result is his best book of poems.
Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Summer, 1968), pp. ciii-civ.
What can you say about a poet who has written consistently excellent poetry for almost thirty years, and whose best work, as it should be, is always his most recent? Ignatow has been ignored by the anthologists, probably because he has never fit into any of the various "schools" of poetry. In the 50's he was neither a beat nor an academic, and in the 60's neither a Black Mountain, "deep image," or New York poet. Hopefully, the publication of Poems 1934–1969 will help make him as well known as he should be. Ignatow's work is a product of deep and often critical emotion, intelligence, spontaneity, and craft. None of these is previous to the others; all are subsumed by a completely individual voice whose language is a perfect mouth—wholly responsive, immediate, and personal. His poems are aesthetically impeccable, almost in a self-sufficient way, but they have the immediacy and the impact of a person speaking directly to you…. For all of its sense of reality, this is a deeply mysterious poetry. Its mystery is, of course, man; which is to say, David Ignatow, and also the reader. I've never read a poetry in which there is such a direct and immediate interplay between the poet and the reader. Ignatow's poems have a quality of reciprocal honesty on both sides of the words, a clean pure fear like cold water which is almost a kind of hope, and which exists in Ignatow's heart and in the heart of the reader. It's this quality which gives Ignatow's words their edge, their austere precision, as if you were reading them always for the first time, no matter how old the message is. And it's this quality which makes Ignatow's work some of the very best, if not the best, as well as some of the most frightening, being written today….
John Vernon, in Western Humanities Review, Spring, 1971, pp. 196-97.
The wide span of years covered by David Ignatow's collection [Poems 1934–1969] surprised me. I suppose most people think of him as I always have, as a poet of the 'sixties, for it was in those years that the Wesleyan poetry series brought to his work the wider audience it now has. It is evident from this book that Ignatow is one of those rare writers who begin somewhat out of step and end up decades later sounding unquestionably contemporary. The times have had to catch up with him. His language, which is without ornament and brutal in its honesty, does not date. Ignatow is a master of that tough urban tone that derives ultimately from William Carlos Williams. It must be granted, too, that he has at times the characteristic defects of such a style. Among the large number of poems presented here, a fair amount are simply very raw slices of life or flat-sounding aphorisms….
The problem is not that the language is so direct—that is one of Ignatow's chief assets—but that a photographic description has taken the place of an imaginative engagement with the subject. But this is a drawback which Ignatow is usually able to overcome, particularly in his later pieces. While his language has remained unsparing, his anger and his sense of absurdity have grown sharper. Now he denounces what he sees by means of a kind of deadpan fantasy….
Ignatow should be read for the power of his indictments, and for his pure lyric moments, which emerge like dandelions from the cracks in sidewalks…. Reading this book from beginning to end we can chart the growth of awareness in a deeply civilized man who has forced himself to speak the truth amid the wreckage of civilization.
Robert B. Shaw, "Poets in Midstream," in Poetry (© 1971 by The Modern Poetry Association; reprinted by permission of the Editor of Poetry), July, 1971, pp. 228-33.
Ignatow speaks of the world in which a man, if he cannot provide for his family very well, is not a man. He has no books, papers, rationalizations, or arguments to run to. He has only a world of mean bosses, petty customers, and a poor life….
Ignatow talks about a reality few poets perceive, the world where books will not help to mitigate the pain. Perhaps it is precisely that workingman's view of the world (I do not wish to imply here that Ignatow's writing is uneducated and without literary content, but simply that the surface of the poem is always that of the mild-mannered, neatly and inexpensively dressed workingman of the city) which may account for the fact that David Ignatow does not receive the attention he deserves from the literary establishment, is not given national prizes. That establishment, even the avant-garde, is filled with bookish people like myself who, even if they have had to live in the workaday world, almost never think about it, escape from it as fast as they can, and in some ways never "sully" their poetry with it.
How brave of David Ignatow to talk about these things and attempt to make poetry from them. Surely that is the object lesson of Williams's own lifework, though he luxuriously had a more interesting and rewarding life to choose from. When Williams eats the delicious icy plums in his refrigerator he can transform the note he leaves to his wife into a metaphysical love poem. Ignatow's icebox is more likely to have rotten apples in it….
I suppose it is unusual that I who love complex, ornate images, the music of dream poems, and long discursive narrative argumentative poems should find David Ignatow's poetry so attractive. But there is an honesty, a wholeness of vision, and a simple humanity in the work which I am drawn to.
Diane Wakoski, "Working Poet," in The New York Review of Books (reprinted with permission from The New York Review of Books; © 1971 by NYREV, Inc.), December 30, 1971, p. 26.
There is [a] strong feeling in Rescue the Dead that the poet is at odds with himself for, among other things, being in love and having an occupation. The division between the two selves—the one wanting absolute freedom and the one functioning in society—provides subjects for several poems. Whichever "self" is chosen, the person behind the poems is unhappy.
Other poems exploit the bizarre, cruel, and sad. The sequence of three "Ritual" poems offers a vision of humanity as confused, purposeless, and vicious. One asks after suffering through the atrocities in this sequence, why live at all? Its closing line, "for to live is to act in terms of death," is in a curious relationship to the volume's epigraph: "I feel along the edges of life/ for a way/ that will lead to open land." So far (nearly halfway through Rescue the Dead), Ignatow has not found it, and I am beginning to think this is one of the most depressing collections I've run up against.
Ronald Moran, in The Southern Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter, 1972, p. 251.
Ignatow's poetry owes its success to the Cold War as Wordsworth's did to the French Revolution. The national hostility meshed with Ignatow's harsh intuitions about father and wife, and about day-labor in New York City; it emblematized his rage and helplessness aging toward death. His short, aggressive poems emerge from a mind he compares to an armed camp and a fortified tank. They often begin with some violent assertion or mad conceit, play with it a moment, then conclude abruptly, like the fist-fights they often carry as metaphors.
Because Ignatow trusts his own whims and keeps his lyric voice steady, even the most hyperbolic wit seems reasonable, as reasonable as the newspaper stories we train ourselves to read without flinching. Except that somewhere in our souls we do flinch, and Ignatow's poems are aimed at that human response.
Laurence Goldstein, in Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer, 1972, p. 214.
Starting out as a youngster in the Thirties, [Ignatow] has produced steadily. Slowly he has gained recognition, and after the early years of struggle, wretched jobs, yearning for response, he has been received with a certain respect by his fellows and has in consequence been awarded fellowships, grants, and invitations to talk about poetry in one academy or another. But as far as the greater public is concerned, the name-dropping public not only of the coffee table and the book club but of the exam room (Name 3 Major American Poets, beat, black, breast-beating), his name might as well be Ignoto as Ignatow….
The Ignatow of these poems [Poems 1934–1969] is very like a man in a Malamud novel—no, more like someone in a Bellow novel. I do not mean that formally he is at all like either of those writers; I mean rather that he comes to exist for us as one of Bellow's people comes to exist for us, in Chicago or on the Upper West Side, uniquely and centrally American in the way that urban Jews have come to be taken as representative Americans.
Harvey Swados, "David Ignatow: The Meshuganeh Lover," in American Poetry Review, May/June, 1973, pp. 35-6.
In some ways it seems presumptuous to "review" the notebooks of David Ignatow. The book represents, it is, a man's whole life…. There is so much unhappiness, frustration, emotional starvation, literary uncertainty reiterated in the book that at first, certainly, I found it unbearable. The cri de coeur not only reached me; it deafened me, at first, to the singularity of Ignatow's achievement.
My first thought was indeed that Ignatow has no humor, no associates outside business and his family, no subject matter in the actual world outside this anxious round, no magic, no fantasy. And Ignatow is indeed all too strikingly a man of feeling, living in a world of feeling. The burden of so much "feeling"—by which I also mean the generality and conventionality of many emotional reactions to his hard life—the problem (and so one to us) of a man living in what is too often exclusively a world of feeling—this can be over-whelming in its reiteration, and Ignatow certainly relies upon reiteration in order to make himself heard—by God, by the reader, by anyone out there in the silent dark that often surrounds him.
The trouble with having so much self-inflicted feeling, the trouble with any mental world too much pressed down with conscious "feeling," is that in our tightly organized mental hierarchy feeling seems to have no "solution," as indeed Ignatow is the first to complain in these pages. If "poetry makes nothing happen," as a much cooler customer than Ignatow said, too often the emotion that goes into poetry is not happening. It is just there, stuck on the page like a man's academic credentials. And when the emotions are happening, as in Ignatow's notebooks and better still in his poetry, the reader minds getting caught up, shaken up. Too vulnerable oneself, afraid of the assault, I found myself at first recoiling not so much from "emotion" as from the sometimes numbing consistency of Ignatow's writing, the repeated unrelieved quality that he brings to his notebook….
So all this presents an amazingly tight, rigorously severe and punishing picture of a man just held in thrall, of a man who feels that his life is not his own, of a classic compulsive, tragically internalized Jew. Ignatow is beset even by efforts that seem to present no redemption, and unlike so many with his problems, he does not even have conventional intellectual access to these problems. Neither Marx nor Freud nor any other messiah of intellect comes into this record with a helping hand.
Yet The Notebooks of David Ignatow become, after the first shock of much unrelieved suffering, a fascinating, even haunting book….
Many of the passages are clearly arguments for a poem, a poem seems to get itself secretly written in the course of many a notebook entry, and the passages succeed each other, as Ignatow's poems regularly do, by falling into the same cadence, manner, issue. This desperate sincerity, this sometimes unbelievable humility of manner, is Ignatow's witting or unwitting way of making something of his life. Largely, I would guess, on the basis of what Santayana called "animal faith," or the sheer intuition that can present itself to a writer by the nature of his experience; that the experience alone will bring him home to the form he needs in order to redeem his experience in the form of art….
What impresses me … is the fact that with passage after passage of … homely, sometimes touchingly unreal, attempts to reason his "suffering" out, the important thing is the spell his life has on him and so on the journal-like continuum of moods, laments, startled observations, accidents and near-catastrophes that has put his life into his poetry. In Ignatow's Poems 1934–1969 we really get a book, put together from single poems, rather than a selection of poems. The poems in this book are amazingly uniform in quality, but they make a book, they become a successful long poem that could have been called New York and is indeed a better long poem than Paterson. Precisely because of Ignatow's docility, the modest, the sometimes unbearable self-denial, of the city poet who has come out of so much suffering, and is so much up against it still that line after line is really an attempt to propitiate the Gods.
Alfred Kazin, "The Esthetic of Humility," in American Poetry Review, March/April, 1974, pp. 14-15.
Notebooks is the diary of a search for hope, uncompleted, but unabandoned….
What distinguishes Notebooks … is its lethal honesty, its awareness that self-revelation in any book is only as valuable as the light it throws on human problems…. What makes the book both fascinating and painful is its power to force the reader down through a series of increasingly demanding levels.
Circumstance is the first level: the bafflement, anger, violence and periodic despair of a man who knows he is a fine poet, and who feels that everything … has conspired to thwart his very nature, let alone his poetry. This is such an important aspect of the notebooks that it might easily be mistaken for their core….
But below this level is the question of poetry itself, its nature, its justification. Ignatow is cold toward poetry-as-artifice, poetry-sufficient-unto-itself, poetry-as-personal-therapy…. Poetry must be an open door, must be rooted solidly in a sharing, a reinforcement of mutual understanding….
He wants his poetry continually flexible, constantly responsive to the nuances of the outside world, of that reality that "withers quickly without constant delicate attention."
But even at this point, an important—the most important—level has not been reached. The circumstantial struggle, the esthetic struggle, are preparatory to the final effort, that of forming a total life, a total human being. Again and again Ignatow stresses that the grim fight for survival must be in the interest of the ultimate establishment of a serene and voluntary order. "I want my life on the level of ceremony and innocence."
Josephine Jacobsen, "Drama of Hope," in The New Republic (reprinted by permission of The New Republic; © 1974 by The New Republic, Inc.), June 29, 1974, pp. 26-7.


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|Tools for Evaluating HIV Voluntary Counselling and Testing (UNAIDS, 2000, 59 p.)
It is only recently that Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) services have been considered important as an entry point for prevention and care interventions for HIV/AIDS. Access to VCT services, however, remains limited and demand is often low. In many high-prevalence countries VCT is not widely available and people are often afraid of knowing their serostatus because there is little care and support available following testing. Furthermore, the quality and benefits of VCT, in particular with regard to confidentiality, counselling and access to clinical and social support, vary enormously.
Setting up VCT and ensuring a quality that will create demand is thus a considerable challenge. Building in self-assessments, monitoring and regular evaluation is an important tool to enhance the quality of VCT.
This document provides guidance on monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of planning and implementing VCT. It provides tools for the evaluation of VCT as part of a national programme, as well as VCT services at specific institutions, independent sites and services for special groups, including community-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It includes monitoring and evaluation of VCT services associated with the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) and tuberculosis preventive therapy (TBPT). This document revises and adapts previous draft guidelines1 2 3 4 and incorporates relevant operational research findings.
1 WHO draft report (Alfred Chingono). Protocol for setting and monitoring locally acceptable standards of counselling in relation to HIV diagnosis, 1994.
2 WHO draft report. Guidelines for implementing HIV/AIDS counselling, 1993.
3 NACO, India, draft report. Counselling policy and related aspects: National AIDS prevention and control policy, 1998.
4 Miller D, Casey K. Thailand Department of Mental Health HIV/AIDS counselling: participant information and casework audit form, 1998.
The context of evaluating VCT
The scope and challenges of VCT have changed over the past decade. At the outset VCT was primarily used to make a diagnosis of infection in symptomatic people to help medical management, and testing was often accompanied by minimal counselling. It was also promoted, in a piecemeal way, as a component of HIV prevention. There were reports of barriers to HIV testing because of the perceived stigma associated with a diagnosis, the lack of services and interventions available to those who tested seropositive5 and adverse consequences, particularly for women, following testing6. The development of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for people with HIV, less costly interventions to reduce the incidence of HIV-associated infections (such as tuberculosis preventive therapy7 8 and cotrimoxazole prophylaxis9) and relatively cheap and feasible methods to prevent MTCT10 have made the need to promote VCT for people with asymptomatic disease more compelling. VCT services for young people are also being developed and services linked with family planning are becoming more widely available. The importance and cost-effectiveness of VCT in reducing HIV transmission are also now recognized11.
5 Baggaley R. Fear of knowing: why 9 in 10 couples refused HIV tests in Lusaka Zambia, Abstract number E.1266, 10th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa, Abidjan, December 1997.
6 Temmerman M et al. The right not to know HIV-test results, Lancet, 1996, 345: 696-7.
7 Mwingwa A, Hosp M, Godfrey-Faussett P. Twice weekly tuberculosis preventive therapy in HIV infection in Zambia, AIDS, 1998, 12: 2447-2457.
8 WHO/UNAIDS. Policy statement on preventive therapy against tuberculosis in people living with HIV, document WHO/TB/98.255 UNAIDS/98.34, 1998.
9 Sassan-Morokro M et al. Significant reduction in mortality attributed to cotrimoxazole prophylaxis among HIV infected tuberculosis patients in Abidjan, Cd'Ivoire. Abstract 12461, presented at the 12th World AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
10 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Administration of zidovudine during late pregnancy to prevent perinatal HIV transmission Thailand 1996-1998, MMWR, 1998, 47: 151-153.
11 Sweat M, Sangiwa G, Balmer D, HIV counselling and testing in Tanzania and Kenya is cost effective: Results for the voluntary counselling and testing study. Abstract no. 33277, presented at the 12th World AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
HIV testing methods have also become simpler and cheaper, making testing a more feasible option in many developing countries12. The ease of HIV testing has also increased the role of the private sector in VCT in many developing as well as industrialized countries. The monitoring and evaluation of VCT services in the private sector brings additional challenges. VCT services have also been set up for vulnerable groups such as sex workers, prison populations, injecting drug users (IDUs) and refugees. These services need particularly careful monitoring to ensure such groups are not further marginalized and services are truly voluntary and confidential.
12 The importance of simple and rapid tests in HIV diagnostics: WHO recommendations. Weekly Epidemiological Record, October 1998, 73(42):321-328.
Studies evaluating VCT have concentrated on attempting to prove that VCT reduces incidence of HIV infection and thus contributes to prevention. This is because in planning and funding of VCT services it has been important to demonstrate that VCT works. Studies on the efficacy of VCT have largely concentrated on the role of VCT in risk reduction and changing sexual behaviour13 14 15. Monitoring of VCT has depended on reporting attendance, coverage and return rates. This document aims to provide guidelines to evaluate not only the implementation and effectiveness of VCT in HIV prevention, but also ways of assessing the acceptability and quality of services. It also aims to assess the effectiveness of VCT in enabling people with HIV to better accept and cope with their infection and access appropriate services.
13 Coates T, Collins C. Preventing HIV infection. Scientific American, July 1998, pages 96-97.
14 Sangiwa G et al. Voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VCT) reduces risk behaviour in developing countries: results from the multisite voluntary counselling and testing efficacy study. Abstract 33269 presented at the 12th World AIDS Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 1998.
15 Allen S, Serufilira A, Gruber V. Pregnancy and contraceptive use among urban Rwandan women after HIV counselling and testing, Am J Public Health, 1993, 83: 705-710.
Counselling without testing
Despite reductions in the costs of HIV testing kits, VCT as a service will not be available in the near future for the majority of people in high-prevalence developing countries, especially for those living outside the capital cities. Sometimes testing services will be offered intermittently when test kits are available. However, even where testing is unavailable, there are often well-developed counselling services for people with symptomatic HIV and their families, and services providing HIV prevention counselling (such as counselling about safer sex in family planning clinics). This document, although primarily aimed at evaluating VCT services, will also include counselling services where testing is not available, as in many settings this is a much more common option.
Testing without counselling
As HIV testing becomes simpler to perform it is increasingly available, often without counselling or without adequate counselling or follow-up. Furthermore there are reports of coercion to test and testing which is not truly voluntary. Home testing and testing in the private sector pose particular challenges.
Follow-up counselling
The majority of people attending VCT, whether they test positive or negative, will attend one or, at the most, two post-test counselling sessions. Studies have shown that even when further counselling sessions are offered or referral to specialized counselling services is available, many people do not want further counselling, at least not in the immediate future16. Some people do, however, require ongoing counselling and some will attend for further counselling in the 1-5 years following VCT. This often coincides with a crisis or change in personal circumstances. Following VCT, many people find other informal services or resources in the community to help them with their emotional needs. Church groups, family members, friends and traditional medical workers often provide emotional support. VCT services should therefore be flexible and either able to provide ongoing counselling or have close links with organizations providing this service. They should also be able to refer people to community organizations and spiritual/church groups when appropriate.
16 Baggaley R et al. Kara coping study interim report, Geneva, UNAIDS/WHO, 1998.
VCT sites
VCT is being carried out in various settings in developing and industrialized countries, depending on demands and resources.
· Free-standing VCT sites
· Hospital services
- NGO within the hospital
- integrated into general medical outpatient services in public hospitals
- as part of specialist medical care, e.g. sexually transmitted infections (STI) clinic, dermatology clinic, chest clinic, antenatal and family planning services
· VCT as entry into the continuum of care/home-based care (including palliative care services)
· Health centre urban or rural
· Private sector (clinics and hospitals)
· Workplace clinics
· Referral sites for legal requirements, pre-employment, pre-travel, pre-marital
· Youth health services and school health services
· Health services for vulnerable groups
- sex workers
- prison populations
- refugees
- IDUs
- men who have sex with men (MSM)
- children, orphans and street kids
· Self testing/home testing
· Attached to research project/pilot project
- associated with antenatal services and interventions
- associated with tuberculosis (TB) services and TB preventive therapy
· Blood transfusion services
Different models of VCT are available in many different settings in developing and industrialized countries. There is no single preferred model and the choice of VCT service will depend on the needs of the community, HIV seroprevalence, maturity of the epidemic, attitudes towards HIV, political and community commitment to VCT, available financing and existing VCT resources.


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Chouffe Fest will proudly feature the following Belgian craft brews from Chouffe:
La Chouffe is a Belgian blonde ale with a hazy golden yellow color with full white head. La Chouffe boasts aromas of peppery spice and flavors of candy sweetness and fruity esters, followed by a creamy dry finish in this highly carbonated and gently warming ale. It contains 8% alcohol by volume (ABV) and a Rate Beer rating of 98.
Mc Chouffe is a Belgian-Scottish dark ale that is rich brown in color with a light tawny head. Featuring deep aromas of chocolate, toffee and caramel with rich nutty and spicy flavors of almonds, cinnamon and nutmeg, Mc Chouffe has a dry, creamy finish with noticeable warmth. It contains 8% ABV and a Rate Beer rating of 97.
Houblon Chouffe is a Belgian IPA Triple that is golden yellow with a delicate white head. Featuring grassy and citrus aromas from Amarillo, Tomahawk and Saaz hops with slight aromatics of clove; biscuit malt flavors are followed by a touch of honey then a dry, crisp finish marked with a touch of orange. Houblon Chouffe contains 9% ABV and boasts a Rate Beer rating of 99.
Chouffe Fest Chicago will take place Thursday, May 1 from 7 - 11 p.m. at the Logan Square Auditorium located at 2539 N. Kedzie Blvd. Tickets are on sale for $10 each at: http://chouffefestchicago.eventbrite.com.
Guests must be 21 and over to attend all Chouffe Fest events. For more information about Chouffe Fest, visit http://www.chouffefest.com.
About Chouffe
Chouffe Belgian craft brewery was created by two brothers-in-law in the 1970s in the beautiful Belgian Ardennes region. Rumor has it that the magical gnomes of this enchanting region decided to reveal their secret recipe for this special beer with a magic taste to humans and thus inspired the first brew of La Chouffe (49 litres) on August 27, 1982.
Today, over 40 countries covering every continent are supplied with Achouffe beers. Their unique flavors have received highly coveted international awards, year after year, as these humans continue to perpetuate the gnomes' magical potion. Connect with Chouffe on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LaChouffe.beer?ref=br_tf and on Instagram at http://instagram.com/chouffeusa.
About Bagavagabonds
Bagavagabonds is a creative group that specializes in artfully detailed events and hands-on brand campaigns. With its roots as an art collective, BV brings its out of the box approach to the world of experiential marketing. Bagavagabonds is delighted to be partnered with Chouffe to deliver this one of a kind festival (and beer) to the good old U S of A. Cheers! http://www.bagavagabonds.com.


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Julie Ward knows exactly what people are thinking when she tells them her two children are adopted. Sometimes they even say it out loud. "The assumption is always the same – that I must have had problems having children of my own."
It couldn't be further from the truth.
"When I met my husband eight years ago, I started to feel ready to have a child, but the more we talked about it, the more we felt there are enough children in the world already who need loving homes," says Julie, whose two boys are five and three. "So we decided to apply to adopt and it was the best decision we ever made."
Julie is one of a growing breed of people who are more than capable of carrying their own children, but who decide to take on other people's instead. While some do it for the same reasons as Julie, others make the decision because they are single (but still want a family) or because they want to bring up a child of a particular gender.
Some people are motivated by seeing the joy adoption has brought to a family they know and others reach their decision because they were fostered or adopted themselves. Then there are those who feel they have something to offer a particular group of children in the care system – perhaps they have experience of working with children who were neglected or abused, for example. Others make the decision because they are single but still want a family.
Many, like Anne Hill, already have children of their own. "We always envisaged having a big family, but our second son was born with a profound disability and it turned all our expectations about our future family on their head," she explains.
"In the end, we got to this point where we thought, 'Do we really want to bring another child into the world who may or may not have similar problems and will put even more strain on social resources and the NHS, or do we help out existing children?' We decided on the latter."
Two years later – this January - two sisters, aged five and four, came to live with them. "We were very open minded about the kind of child we'd take on. In fact, we didn't plan to take on more than one, but our social worker felt we would be just right for these girls, who were born to a family with learning disabilities and a history of mental health issues."
It wasn't an easy decision, particularly since the girls had been labeled as 'hard to place.'
"Their foster placement had broken down and we knew this would be a very different kind of parenting than we were used to because of the difficulties and loss they had already faced in their little lives.
"But we were very keen and although the first three months have been hard because the little one needs so much reassurance and the older one's resilience is a worry in itself, we are very happy."
It was important to Anne that their existing children were in on the decision from the start.
"I can remember sitting on the bed with our eldest son a year ago when he was 10 and nervously saying, 'Mummy and Daddy are thinking of getting you a sister. What do you think?' His answer was simply, 'Really? When? How soon can we do it?'"
Adam Morley's three children were equally positive when he and his wife suggested that they grow their family through adoption.
"They were very much part of the whole application process because, not surprisingly, the social workers wanted to be sure that they would welcome any child that came into our family. They now have a six-year-old sister, who they utterly adore."
Adam admits he was shocked when it came to understanding just how different adoptive parenting would be.
"We swaggered into the training course thinking, 'What can you teach us about parenting? We already have three kids of our own.' But understanding the kind of therapeutic parenting that is required for children who have faced difficulties of broken ties at such a young age brings with it a whole new set of challenges for parents that they wouldn't normally have. But that's what the training is for and it doesn't stop – the support continues to be ongoing."
There's no doubt that infertility issues are still the key reason people adopt, reports Elaine Dibben, adoption consultant at The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF).
"But motivations are changing as society changes. In particular, people are getting together later and that often means that one or both members of the couple have children from a previous relationship. In many cases, this makes them feel happier about going down a different route to have more children."
Having been fostered or adopted – or knowing another family that has been touched by fostering or adoption – can be another powerful incentive, she adds.
This was certainly the case for Joy Lindstrom. "I had a bad experience in my younger childhood, in that I lived in many different families which were not all loving, but then one particular family, with whom I stayed for eight years, turned my life around. The thought of being able to have an impact anywhere near as positive as that on another child is exactly what spurred me on to apply to adopt," she says.
Her husband wasn't at all keen at first, she admits.
"He said he didn't think he could father another man's child, but for various reasons over the next few years, he completely changed his mind and we now have two adopted children aged 11 and nine and we can't imagine our lives without them.
"I'm not saying it's easy – and because they come from a background of abandonment, we know that some of their challenges may only grow as they grow – but we also know that our love and support is having an impact and that is incredibly satisfying to see."
To find out more about adoption, visit www.baaf.org.uk. To download the BAAF App visit http://www.baaf.org.uk/info/app
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Tuesday that it will continue the ban on cell phones during airline flights. Oh Happy Day!
While there was strong outcry from the public to keep the ban in place for practical reasons (think: obnoxious seat-mate having a fight with his girlfriend), the ultimate reason for the continued ban was technical. The FCC is concerned that using cell phones in-flight could possibly jam networks on the ground. The reason sounds a little flimsy to me, but I'm relieved none-the-less.
The FCC stated that it may reconsider the issue in the future if sufficient technical data becomes available. Let's hope it doesn't!
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For much of the past decade, A&O has been on-record saying it would consider a US merger. And yet still nothing. Is there no perfect suitor for the magic circle firm?
There are certainly signs that things might be heating up stateside for A&O. Managing partner Wim Dejonghe is spending a lot of time in New York these days, for one thing. Since London-based capital markets chief David Krischer became the firm's new US chief, the pair have been spotted having a nibble with various US managing partners on the ground. Dejonghe is understood to be making the trip at least once a month.
But it's just a social salmon sandwich, insists the press team in not so many words.
Is there really nothing bubbling beneath that broth?
"Whole teams in New York have been looking to leave and the firm is working real hard to keep those people," insists one New York-based recruiter, pointing out that the last 12 months have seen a number of associates and senior partners bail out of A&O's New York office, most notably US financial services chief Douglas Landy, who quit for Milbank last March.
"A&O's US strategy is simply that they don't have one," adds the recruiter. "There are a few people who are very busy, but the London guys want them doing London work and the level of work from the City office is dragging them down, stopping them from focusing on more local stuff. They need to figure out who they are [in New York] before doing anything else."
Dejonghe has admitted in the past that New York has been a difficult nut to crack, but the firm has a habit of dodging on any detail. There's no committee responsible for finding a US match, and consultants on the ground said they had not been contacted by the firm for advice.
"Nobody is getting a clear message," adds a source in New York. "There are so many being sent out that everyone's been left a bit confused."
Is a US merger the answer anyway? The mystery suitors are most recently understood to have included Shearman & Sterling, Ropes & Gray and Fried Frank, according to numerous sources. None of these deals are expected to materialise.
So what happened? Discussions with Shearman – predicted by most to be the most likely match – are said to have been short-lived. Indeed, the US firm's 2013 financials are likely to be particularly robust and with a still-new management team in place it is now more focused on building – or rebuilding – its own brand.
Insiders say Shearman has turned its back on the idea of a merger in favour of some me time, with the strategy now to zone in on home-grown talent. Its 2013 financial figures, due out later this week, are expected to reveal a profit rise of almost 20 per cent.
What of the other two?
"Fried Frank would have jumped at the chance to merge with A&O," claims one source. "But they've lost a lot of people, it wouldn't have been the best idea [for A&O]."
How about taking a crack at Canada? DLA Piper's talks with collapsed Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie have just fallen through (10 February 2014). Any opportunity here?
When asked if A&O would swoop, the answer from the firm was a short no. And don't expect a Canadian merger anytime soon, either.
So what does London think? Some point to A&O's high standards as a possible problem with finding a US match, though not everyone is convinced.
"A Milbank would turn its nose up at the idea," offers one US recruiter, adding that the firm is an attractive potential for many others. Others say the idea simply won't work.
"Large British firms merging with US firms in my experience doesn't work," adds a US managing partner. "The US firm often wants to be the dominant party, so if you're a senior partner at a large UK firm it can be difficult to adapt. I imagine A&O only wants to tie-up with a US top 50, so as far as I can see there is no perfect suitor for the magic circle."
Are these merger rumours likely to last for another decade? Could be.
"Our US strategy is the same as it ever was," adds a spokesperson.
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In 1727, Benjamin Franklin convinced 12 of his friends to form a club dedicated to mutual improvement. Meeting one night a week, these young men discussed the topics of the day. The group lasted for 40 years and eventually became the nucleus of the American Philosophical Society.
Junto, pronounced who-n-toe, was a private forum for discussion and as a surreptitious instrument for leading public opinion. One of the functions of the group was to brainstorm publicly beneficial ideas.
Franklin described the Junto this way in his Autobiography
I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, [1727] I had formed most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the JUNTO; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy [physics], to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of positive opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.
The results of the original Junto are still evident today as an integral part of American society. The Junto gave us our first library, volunteer fire departments, the first public hospital, police departments, paved streets and the University of Pennsylvania. They recommended books, shopkeepers, and friends to each other. They fostered self-improvement through discussions on topics related to philosophy, morals, economics, and politics.


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New State Of College Hockeyby Mike Doyle / Minnesota Wild
Ready or not, a new era in college hockey is upon us.
With the formation of the Big Ten and National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) taking three Minnesota teams from the Western College Hockey Association (WCHA), the Division I college hockey landscape in our backyard will look drastically different this season.
The University of Minnesota is headed to the Big Ten, while St. Cloud State University and the University of Minnesota-Duluth jump to the NCHC. Remaining in the WCHA, which merged with teams from the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, are Bemidji State and Minnesota State University, Mankato.
The State of Hockey might be splintered, but the hope is that out of the debris the college game will gain prominence nationally.
The fan reaction to the change has ranged from negative to venomous. Last season, reports rolled out that when a Big Ten commercial was shown at Mariucci Arena, the Gophers' home rink, fans booed the spot.
"There is a little trepidation with some of the fans at times, but I do believe that they're going to see we're going to have at Minnesota the best of both worlds," Gophers coach Don Lucia said during the Big Ten's media day. "We're part of the Big Ten. We'll continue to play our in-state rivals, a lot of our former rivals from the WCHA over time, and I think it's going to be a very successful move for us in our program."
One weekend where the in-state rivalry will continue is during the North Star College Cup. The inaugural tournament, which will feature all five State of Hockey college teams on a rotating basis, is Jan. 24-25, 2014 at Xcel Energy Center.
This season, SCSU, MSU, Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth will all take part in the tourney, while Bemidji will be idle this year. The two semifinals will be played on the 24th and the championship game will be played the next night. The St. Cloud State will face the Gophers in one semifinal while Mankato will play UMD in the other. The tournament is sure to keep the in-State-of-Hockey rivalries going as the winner of the Cup will have bragging rights for an entire year.
Additionally, the Twin Cities will remain the home for collegiate postseason tournaments.
Xcel Energy Center will house the inaugural Big Ten Men's Ice Hockey Tournament from March 20-22, 2014. The single-elimination tournament will feature all six Big Ten teams. However, the tournament will be bi-annual with Joe Louis Arena (Detroit will host in 2015 and 2017) with the tourney returning to Saint Paul in 2016.
Minneapolis will be the site of the first NCHC tournament, as the top four teams from the conference faceoff at Target Center during the same weekend, March 21-22, 2014. The NCHC has an agreement to host its tourney at Target Center for the next five years.
The problem that many fans see is the competition, not between schools, but between conferences. With the Big Ten tourney taking place at Xcel Energy Center this season, the WCHA Final Five, a Saint Paul staple since 2000, will head to Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich., this season. It will return to Xcel Energy Center in 2015 and 2017 while the Big Ten tourney is in Detroit.
Not coincidentally, the Big Ten and NCHC held their season kickoff media events on the same day, Sept. 19, at Xcel Energy Center and Target Center, respectively; essentially making media members choose between the two locales.
While there has been in-state dissension about the fraction of the WCHA and the spawning of the two new conferences, the parties involved hope to grow the college game nationally. The Big Ten hopes that the established rivalries with more nationally prominent sports, like college football and basketball, carries over to the ice along with national media attention.
The Big Ten expects more than 70 games to be televised, with at least 34 on national outlets. The Big Ten Network is planning to show Friday night doubleheaders throughout the winter in hopes to up attention and exposure.
Meanwhile, 18 NHCH games are scheduled to broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network, including the conference tournament.
Regardless if you're a fan of the new conferences and college hockey outlook, toss aside the neophobia and get accustomed to the new scene in the State of Hockey because, as Minnesota native Bob Dylan once sang, "The times they are a-changin'."
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From DryBar to Rachel Zoe's DreamDry, blow-dry bars are taking the nation by storm, but hitting up the salons regularly can be costly. That's why we asked InStyle.com Assistant Beauty Editor Marianne Mychaskiw to try her hand at a DIY version using Bio Ionic's Blow Out Kit and report back on the results. See how the set fared below!
"Confession time: I only just learned how to blow out my hair about a month ago. I learned how to fake it pretty well, but my handiwork never measured up to the professional-level styles created at the salon. Bio Ionic's Blow Out Kit ($99; bioionic.com for salons) was a game-changer. The kit is equipped with a handy look book that tells you exactly how to section your hair and directions for which way to wind the brush. It also comes with six detachable brush heads that double as velcro rollers, so you can clip each section into place to set once you're finished. The barrels even change colors to let you know when each area is ready. However, if you have thick hair like me, you'll need more than the six rollers to cover your entire head. Instead of springing for a second kit, start by working with the bottom layers first, press the button on the brush handle to remove the roller, then clip it in place. By the time you work your way to your top layers, the bottom portion is ready to unroll, so you can reuse the brush heads for the remaining areas. The result? A voluminous blowout that no one will believe was a DIY job. When I walked into the InStyle office after trying it, my co-workers all thought it was the real thing."
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1. You Can Do: Bouncy WavesYou don't have to be a celebrity to pull off Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Lopez's voluminous waves. Thanks to the movement created by soft layers, a bouncy blowout looks great on everyone. Think your cheeks need a lift? Add volume at the crown. If your face is long, tease the sides more. Like a tailored jacket, this versatile style can be customized for every face shape.
2. The Basic Tips:
• For bouncy layers like Cheryl Cole's, start with damp hair and loosely dry it. Once strands are two-thirds dry, start working with 3-inch sections starting at the top, pulling them outward with a round brush as you sweep the dryer nozzle over the full length.
• Boost volume by wrapping sections around velcro rollers, making sure to leave the largest ones for the crown. Enhance the set by applying a quick blast of direct heat to each roller.
• After hair has cooled, remove rollers and brush through waves, then tease at the crown and sides to create height.
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• Loop strands around a set of velcro rollers like Conair's ($5 for 6 small or 4 large; at RiteAid stores) for extra movement.
• Smooth a dollop of Redken Bodifying Cream Mousse ($17; redken.com for salons) through wet strands to maximize bounce.
• A high-watt dryer like the Sedu Revolution Pro ($160; sedubeauty.com) guarantees the smoothest results possible.
• Use a teasing comb like the cult favorite Mason Pearson Tail Comb ($22; neimanmarcus.com) to create lift.
4. I can't hold a brush & a blow dryer.We admit, it can be tricky to create a Victoria Justice-esque 'do if you're a beginner, but thanks to combined round brush and dryer in Conair's Infiniti Pro Spin Air Brush ($60; ulta.com), a salon perfect blowout is as easy as combing your hair.
5. My blowout never lasts.
To keep your waves looking full and bouncy for days, spritz a generous amount of the keratin-infused Kerapure Blowout Extender ($48; kerapure.com) onto wet strands. The fortifying amino acids make hair healthier with each use, and give the smooth style a longer lifespan. Hit second-day hair with a blast of dry shampoo like Unite 7Seconds Dry Shampoo ($29; unitehair.com) to absorb oil and refresh volume.
6. I'm afraid big hair will look '90s.Cindy Crawford may have piled on the makeup in '92, but today, big hair looks freshest with a nearly naked face. A swipe of C.O. Bigelow Rose Salve ($6; bigelowchemists.com), and some fluttery lashes should do the trick. We love Diorshow's Heat Curl lash curler ($25; sephora.com) and Estee Lauder's Sumptuous Extreme Mascara ($24; esteelauder.com) to draw attention to your eyes.


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It's the night before Thanksgiving, that wonderful day when you can eat a week's worth of calories in one sitting because it's an American Tradition, dammit. So I can think of no better time to check in with former contestants of "The Biggest Loser," can you?
"The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now?," airing at 8 P.M. on NBC, will feature visits with over 40 former contestants from seven seasons of the series. Are they still losers, and as such, winners? Or are they gainers, and therefore, losers? Oh, "Biggest Loser," and your opposite-day charms!
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Welcome New Parishioners. Through Baptism we become God's children and brothers and sisters of one another and with Christ. Through registration we become members of the St. Joseph parish family of faith. We always welcome new members and hope that you will find our parish family a place where your faith will be nourished. We ask that you register online or fill out a registration form as soon as possible. As a parish family, we are committed to share our goods, talents and faith with one another.
SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH The Parishioners of St. Joseph Catholic Church welcome all visitors and tourists to both our homes, here on the web and to our majestic church.
Would you want one or more of your children, teenagers or adult members in your household, to have their minds and hearts moved with the love of Jesus? Well you can! If they play "Piano, Guitar, C Instruments or Sing", they can experience prayer through inspirational songs and instrumental music, inspired by the Spirit of Christ.
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The Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle allowing five people on the path to sainthood to be canonized, the most prominent being Bl. Pope Paul VI and Bl. Oscar Romero.
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HS FOOTBALL: Steers outlast rival Mustangs in shootout, 61-48
Published 7:04 pm, Friday, September 20, 2013
ANDREWS -- Big Spring and Andrews had the makings of a shootout, and it certainly turned out that way as the teams combined for more than 100 points and more than 1,000 yards of offense during this rivalry game at the Mustang Bowl on Friday night.
Hunter Hill scored five touchdowns and Devin Roberson added two TD receptions, a TD pass and an interception to led Big Spring to a wild 61-48 victory.
For a while, it looked like neither team could stop the other, especially in the second half as Andrews battled back from a 47-14 deficit late in the third quarter.
This game started with a bang as Hill had a long kickoff return to set up the Steers (3-1) at the Andrews 39-yard line. Two plays later, Roberson connected with a wide-open Tate Kennedy for a 34-yard halfback option pass.
Big Spring built a 26-7 halftime lead as Hill, quarterback Tobyn Tannehill, and Roberson added touchdowns.
Andrews (2-2), like it has for most of the season, was also stung by the big plays on defense in the first half. That's despite the Mustangs having two interceptions against Tannehill, but no points coming off those turnovers.
After a somewhat quiet first half, Andrews quarterback Shane Dolgener tried to lead his Mustangs to a comeback in the second half with a pair of TD runs. Senior wide receiver Coy Lopez also had a pair of big plays for the Mustangs. Lopez scored on a 71-yard halfback option pass from Jase Hammack, and later scored on an 88-yard punt return to pull Andrews to within 54-42 with 4:40 left in the game.
However, the Steers were a little too much to handle on this night as Hill scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns to put this one away.
Hill finished the game with 146 yards rushing on 32 carries, while Tannehill threw for 248 yards, rushed for 115 and accounted for three touchdowns.
Roberson had six catches for 122 yards, while Tate Kennedy added seven catches for 131 yards.
Dolgener finished with 271 yards passing and 76 yards rushing, while Lopez had four receptions for 140 yards to lead the Mustangs in this wild shootout.
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Big Spring 12 14 21 14 --61
Andrews 7 0 21 20 --48
First Quarter
BSHS -- Tate Kennedy 34 pass from Devin Roberson (kick failed), 11:11
BSHS -- Tobyn Tannehill 24 run (pass failed), 7:50
AND -- Omilson Oceant 3 run (Braden Grimsley kick), 3:48
Second Quarter
BSHS -- Hunter Hill 40 run (Roberson kick), 6:51
BSHS -- Roberson 20 pass from Tannehill (Roberson kick), 3:23
Third Quarter
BSHS -- Roberson 30 pass from Tannehill (Roberson kick), 11:39
BSHS -- Hill 7 run (Roberson kick), 8:07
AND -- Tajh Kelly 1 run (Grimsley kick), 4:05
BSHS -- Hill 6 run (Roberson kick), 3:11
AND -- Dolgener (Grimsley kick), 1:56
AND -- Coy Lopez 71 pass from Jase Hammack (Grimsley kick), 0:11
Fourth Quarter
AND -- Dolgener 5 run (Grimsley kick), 8:55
BSHS -- Hill 4 run (Roberson kick), 7:46
AND -- Lopez 88 punt return (Grimsley kick), 4:40
BSHS -- Hill 10 run (Roberson kick), 2:11
AND -- Kelly 1 run (kick failed), 0:48
First downs 25 27
Rushes-yards 32-288 48-247
Passing yards 282 271
Comp.-Att.-Int. 14-24-2 23-32-2
Punts-Avg. 3-28.6 4-43.75
Fumbles-lost 0-0 2-1
Penalties-yds. 7-74 0-0
RUSHING -- Big Spring, Tobyn Tannehill 13-115, Hunter Hill 15-151, Preston Alexander 4-22. Andrews, Shane Dolgener 20-76, Jaime Vela 14-89, Tajh Kelly 11-63, Omilson Oceant 3-14.
PASSING -- Big Spring, Tannehill 13-23-2--248., Devin Roberson 1-1-0--34 Andrews, Dolgener 22-31-2, Jase Hammack 1-1-0--71.
RECEIVING -- Big Spring, Roberson 6-122, Tate Kennedy 7-131, Garrett Wigington 1-13, Ryan Lopez 1-16, Matt Yanez 1-7. Andrews, Vela 5-51, Coy Lopez 4-140, Oceant 3-35 Kyle Buck 4-41, Devon Fitzgerald 1-3, Garrett Stile 2-10, Kelly 1-23.
INTERCEPTIONS -- Big Spring, Roberson 1-37, Garrett Wigington 1-0. Andrews, Kyle Buck 1-6, Jace Cordell 1-0