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Stéphane Denève
Stéphane Denève (born 24 November 1971) is a French conductor. Born in Tourcoing, France,[1] and a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire, Denève has worked as conducting assistant to Sir Georg Solti with the Orchestre de Paris, Georges Prêtre at the Opéra National de Paris, and Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in 1998.
Denève assumed the post of music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) in September 2005, his first music directorship. In his first season, he led the RSNO at the 2006 Proms concerts in London, and its first-ever performance in France.[2] In April 2007, he extended his contract with the Orchestra through 2011.[3] In March 2010, the RSNO announced the further extension of Denève's contract for one more year, and the conclusion of his tenure after the 2011-2012 season.[4][5] Denève and the RSNO have made several commercial recordings for the Naxos and Chandos labels, including works of Albert Roussel[6][7] and Guillaume Connesson.[8]
In October 2009, Denève first guest-conducted the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Stuttgart) as a substitute for Michel Plasson.[9] Based on that appearance, in March 2010, the RSO Stuttgart announced the appointment of Denève as its 6th chief conductor, starting with the 2011-2012 season.[10] His initial Stuttgart contract was for 3 years through the 2013-2014 season.[9] In June 2013, the RSO Stuttgart announced the extension of his contract through the 2015-2016 season.[11] Denève concluded his tenure as chief conductor of the RSO Stuttgart with the end of the 2015-2016 season, and was its final chief conductor before the orchestra's planned merger with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. In November 2013, Denève first guest-conducted the Brussels Philharmonic. In June 2014, the Brussels Philharmonic announced the appointment of Denève as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2015-2016 season.[12][13]
Denève made his USA conducting debut at Santa Fe Opera in 1999 with Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites.[14] His first appearance as guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra was in 2007. In April 2014, The Philadelphia Orchestra named Denève its next principal guest conductor, effective with the 2014-2015 season.[15]
In July 2007, Denève married Åsa Masters in a ceremony in California.[16] The couple have a daughter, Alma,[17] born in 2008. Denève received an honorary DLitt from Heriot-Watt University in 2008.
- ^ Tim Cornwell, "Swing time for Stéphane". The Scotsman, 1 October 2005.
- ^ Sarah Jones (2006-02-19). "Avant garde alliance". Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
- ^ Phil Miller (2007-04-19). "RSNO to retain music director and receive £750,000 from executive". The Herald. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
- ^ "RSNO Music Director commits through 2012 and announces new European appointment" (Press release). Royal Scottish National Orchestra. March 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ Phil Miller (2010-03-04). "National orchestra maestro to leave Scotland". The Herald. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ Tim Ashley (2007-06-08). "Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane; Symphony No 3, RSNO/ Denève". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ Tim Ashley (2008-06-13). "Roussel: Symphony No 2; Suite in F; Pour une Fête de Printemps, RSNO/ Denève". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-02-20.
- ^ Rowena Smith (2010-02-28). "RSNO/Denève (Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow)". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
- ^ a b Götz Thieme (2011-09-22). "Am Pult des RSO steht nun ein Lockenkopf". Stuttgarter Zeitung. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ "Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart: Neuer Chefdirigent - Stéphane Denève ist ab September 2011 Chefdirigent beim RSO Stuttgart" (Press release). Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. 3 March 2010. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
- ^ "Dirigent Denève bleibt bis 2016" (Press release). SWR. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
- ^ Roeland Byl (2014-06-27). "Brussels Philharmonic profileert zich met nieuwe dirigent". Knack. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
- ^ James McCarthy (2014-06-27). "Stéphane Denève to become Chief Conductor of the Brussels Philharmonic". Gramophone. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
- ^ Anthony Tommasini (1999-08-07). "Music Review: A Striking New Design For Poulenc's Nuns". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-05-21.
- ^ "The Philadelphia Orchestra Appoints Conducting Roster of Principal Guest Conductor, Conductor-in-Residence, and Assistant Conductor" (Press release). The Philadelphia Orchestra. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-06-28.
- ^ Matthew Westphal (24 July 2007). "Love Among the Grapevines: Conductor Weds Between Performances at Napa Valley's Festival del Sole". Playbill Arts. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
- ^ Michael Tumelty (2010-09-15). "A modern-day hero". The Herald. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
External links[edit]
- Stéphane Denève official website
- Royal Scottish National Orchestra official website
- Stéphane Denève at IMG Artists
- Biography (in French)
- David Nice, "Black eye from the maestro guy?" I'll think of something later blog, 15 November 2010.
- Heriot-Watt University, Honorary Graduates, 1966-2016
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|Preceded by
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|Principal Conductor, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
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|Preceded by
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- March 13, 1989
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In a Loving Tribute on the Eve of Her 57th, Queen Liz Is Lionized by Her Hollywood Peers
But backstage, when she was presented by her friend Charles Bronson with a squirming 8-week-old collie puppy who began to lick her jewel-draped throat and cleavage, Elizabeth Taylor suddenly became herself again. "Oh, a girl after my own heart," said the star. "She likes diamonds, rubies and emeralds. We are going to get along fine."
Getting along in life is what Elizabeth Taylor has lately become most famous for. Through the vicissitudes of her privileged, sometimes self-indulgent life, through 19 major operations and bouts of hypochondria, through seven marriages to six different men, and through a litany of relationships with lesser lights, Hollywood's most durable glamour queen has somehow managed to hold center stage. In recent years avid fans, as well as the merely curious, have followed her weight gains and losses with as much fascination as they once did her passionate romances and tumultuous breakups. Over the last year they have followed with special interest her gutsy confrontation with the drug-and-alcohol addiction that has clouded her life.
It was perhaps largely to wish her well through her latest travails that many of Hollywood's most enduring stars gathered at the McCallum Theatre near Rancho Mirage for the second annual America's Hope Award, honoring Taylor just before her 57th birthday. (ABC will broadcast the taped tribute this Thursday, March 9.) More than a few remembered Liz from 46 years ago, when she was first pushed onto an MGM set by a hovering mother. "Show people like to help each other through troubles, and she's been through a tough time," said Ann Miller, who attended Liz's first wedding—to hotel heir Nicky Hilton. "It's been a lot of years."
Taylor's much-publicized stay late last year at the Betty Ford clinic was, of course, not her first. In 1983, not long after her initial visit to the facility in Rancho Mirage, Taylor sounded realistic: "The rate of cure at Betty Ford is about 75 percent," she said. "But it's not like seven weeks there undoes years of drugs and alcohol. You have to re-create what you learn every day. Staying clean becomes a dedication. And treatment at the center doesn't always work."
In her case, it did not. The past two years, which saw her battle off 60 lbs. after ballooning to 180, then write a successful book about the weight loss, also saw a frightening relapse into addiction. Physically drained and psychologically battered, Taylor voluntarily entered the Betty Ford clinic in November for a seven-week stay. Taylor once described her original visit as "probably the first time since I was 9 that nobody's wanted to exploit me." This time a friend described her as "paranoid and disoriented."
And this time the stakes were higher. After her 1983 stay, Liz had confessed to a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and painkillers prescribed for her remarkably varied aches and infirmities. Now she was hooked once again, and this time friends were afraid she might overdose and die. Racked by back pain, she spent much of last year, according to a friend, "staying home, watching TV, taking pain pills and drinking Bloody Marys."
"This is very serious," said one friend. "The pain is so excruciating that she can barely stand it even with medication."
"They're watching over her," said another source. "She's a female version of Elvis Presley. And we all know how his life ended."
"If Elizabeth ever needed friends," observed an acquaintance, "it's now."
Her doctors might not have been included in that category. Last week an official confirmed that the California attorney general's office and the Los Angeles district attorney's office are investigating the allegation that physicians may have prescribed drugs for Taylor illegally or unethically. Though Liz is not the target of the investigation, the doctors could be facing criminal charges.
Back in November, Taylor was facing another problem besides her recovery. Her mother was lying near death in the Eisenhower Medical Center, just next door to the Ford clinic. Sara Sothern Taylor, 92, had been admitted during Thanksgiving week in serious condition with bleeding ulcers. With her mother semicomatose and near death, Liz was allowed several visits. "Elizabeth spent the afternoon with her mother, stroking her head, combing her hair and talking while her mother stared off into space," says a friend. "She was composed inside the room, but the minute Elizabeth returned to the wheelchair in the hallway, she broke down and cried hysterically."
Ordinarily, though, Taylor maintained a regal mien, keeping regular morning hair appointments at the Ford clinic's salon and refusing to appear even in the hallways without full makeup. She was, in short, conducting herself like Liz. "Even though she doesn't feel well, Elizabeth is still vain," says an acquaintance. "She's not about to go public without her hair [being done], and she'd never go out without darkening her eyebrows."
Miraculously, Sara Taylor recovered—as did Liz. "Sara's a tough old bird," said a friend. "And remember, Elizabeth is her daughter. They're two of a kind." But for Liz, the stay at Betty Ford proved to be something of a mixed blessing. Finding it difficult to battle all her addictions simultaneously, she sometimes wheel-chaired into the Eisenhower hospital cafeteria for carry-out sandwiches, complaining about the clinic's usual fare. Occasionally she was seen outside the Ford center wearing a large muumuu. Once off pills and booze, Taylor quickly regained much of the weight she had struggled to lose.
She also picked up a new man. This was no R.J. Wagner, George Hamilton or Malcolm Forbes—all of whom have served as Liz's pro forma escorts. Larry Lee Fortensky, 37, is a strapping 5'11" ex-truck driver with three arrests for drunk driving and one for marijuana possession. The Ford clinic, Liz has said, "is a great leveler. All kinds of people go there, including street junkies."
May Najem and her husband, Moe, proprietors of Mr. Philly's Restaurant in Stanton, Calif., 35 miles south of Los Angeles, have circled Jan. 20 on their shop's wall calendar. That was the day a dark-haired woman and a man pulled into their lot in an Aston Martin Lagonda. The woman, who ate a cheese-steak sandwich with grilled onions and mushrooms, wore elaborate silver jewelry and dramatic Western boots. "The first thing I noticed was her boots," says May. "At first I said to my husband, 'Look at those boots. They either belong to a drug dealer or a movie star.' Then we realized it was Elizabeth Taylor. She looked beautiful. A little heavy, but still beautiful. Of course, there were her eyes."
When Fortensky came in another time, driving Taylor's car, Moe was overcome with curiosity. "I asked him, 'Are you her bodyguard or her driver?' He replied, 'No, I'm her boyfriend—make that a friend.' "
A Stanton resident, Fortensky is a regular at the tanning parlor next door to Mr. Philly's. "Last time he was in here, he said he had to go meet Michael Jackson," says the parlor's owner, Bob Lieberman. "Larry's a nice enough guy. He never causes any trouble."
But there was evidently a time when he did. A member of Teamsters Local 420 (whose insurance policy covered his Betty Ford stay), Fortensky is serving three years' probation following a 1987 drunk-driving conviction. That happened only weeks after local police found him in a San Clemente parking lot, "very intoxicated" and in possession of a Baggie of marijuana. According to an arresting officer's report, Fortensky said, "I drink and do a little coke now and then, but I don't smoke marijuana."
Divorced in 1985 from his wife, Karin, Fortensky accused his wife of having a "violent nature [that] will result in physical harm to me or her in the event I am forced to protect myself." Karin, on the other hand, said in court papers that Fortensky had tried to choke her during a fight and that lab coats she wore to work "had been slashed with either a knife or scissors."
Since Taylor's release from Betty Ford last Dec. 10, she and Fortensky have attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings together and visited her recovering mother at her home in Rancho Mirage's Sunrise Country Club. Fortensky has also reportedly been spending time at Liz's lavish Bel Air home—a far cry from the digs he's accustomed to. His residence, located in a middle-class Stanton neighborhood, is a small stucco ranch covered with flaked-and-peeling rust-brown paint and surrounded by a parched, nearly knee-high lawn. A pit-bull terrier standing guard over the place has chewed through the bottom of the front gate. "That mean dog has gotten out a couple of times," says a neighbor. "I'm scared of him."
As Larry Fortensky's presence attests, Elizabeth Taylor's liaisons are not always star quality. But even if this latest romantic venture should sour, it is unlikely to dim her glittery persona. If it should, Liz I would probably not give a damn. "What I do on the screen is my responsibility to the public," she said on the night of her tribute. "I have to be true to myself and live according to my standards. If they don't meet everybody's approval, that's too bad. It's my approval—and that of those close to me—that matters."
That couldn't have come as a surprise to those at the Hope Award ceremony, nor did it make any difference. As the title of a song performed by Dudley Moore and Carol Burnett put it: "How Could We Not Love Elizabeth?" The song's subtitle: "Warts and All."
"She's an earthy girl as well as a sophisticate," says Charles Bronson. "When we were on location in Monterey [making 1965's The Sandpiper], my wife had to go to the bathroom. Elizabeth and someone else held up a blanket. Elizabeth said, This is our bathroom. This is what we use on our beach.' "
"Elizabeth has never been afraid to tell us that we are human," says Gregory Willenborg, who was the executive producer of the Hope Award gala. "We have a lot of people that hide, that don't let us see their problems. Elizabeth has said, 'Here I am. Here are my problems, and you can learn from them.' "
It was evident on the night of the ceremony that Taylor was still having at least one problem. At a post-show party held at the nearby Vintage Club, she had to walk gingerly down a ramp for the handicapped to reach her seat on the main floor. "There has recently been significant speculation about my health," she said that night. "It's true this summer I fractured my back—a compression fracture of the first lumbar. It's taken a long time learning to live with it. But I'm fine now."
The 450 party guests took her at her word and applauded her courage. Many Liz stories were swapped that night, and much credit to a brave lady was paid. But it may be actor Robert Stack who best puts her life in perspective. "People make a lot of noise about the ones who grow up with terrific notoriety," says Stack, who first worked with Liz 40 years ago in A Dale with Judy. "I think you have to be in their shoes and be a movie star at 12. It's a highly unnatural situation—you're a star at an age when you should be in school. It's all tinsel and moonlight. And the fact that any of them survive it at all is remarkable. I take my hat off to Elizabeth."
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New Mexico's unemployment rate has dropped slightly to 6.3 percent for October, but state labor officials say the job growth rate remains negative.
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions said Tuesday the negative 0.7 percent over-the-year job growth rate represents a loss of about 5,900 jobs.
The current round of job loss started in June after 10 months of positive growth. Those industries that are losing jobs include construction and professional and business services.
The educational, health services and hospitality industries added about 5,000 jobs since last October.
Labor officials say New Mexico's unemployment rate is an improvement over last October, when New Mexico's rate stood at 7.2 percent. The national rate is 7.9 percent.
Nationwide, Labor Department statistics show 37 states saw lower jobless rates in October thanks to hiring increases.
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In this New York City political thriller just oozing with cynicism, Pacino—still stuck, for some reason, in his blaring Scent of a Woman mode—turns up as a mayor with presidential aspirations. He is in the middle of greeting a Japanese dignitary when he learns that a Brooklyn boy has been killed by a stray shot during a cop-drug dealer gun battle. The ensuing uproar throws Pacino and his young deputy mayor, Cusack, into a tortuous controversy. It also exposes an old scandal involving a judge (Landau), a political boss (Aiello) and a Mafia family head (Franciosa).
Tension does indeed run high—at least until the whole thing fizzles out in a series of sputtering anticlimaxes, due possibly to the fact that four writers share credit for the story. Apparently, there was more emphasis on compromise than on mystery.
Excess volume notwithstanding. Pacino is adept enough. What brings more pleasure is watching Cusack, the best actor of his generation, get a substantial role, and the graceful comeback of Franciosa as the old Mafioso. (R)
Chris Farley, David Spade
Watching this is like spending the evening at Wrestlemania: The movie is loud, crude, full of pratfalls, and its bulky leading man (Farley) has resplendent blond tresses that nearly steal the show.
Farley and Spade team up here again after last year's Tommy Boy. The formula is the same: the big, stupid lug with a heart of gold who can't stay out of trouble, and the sneaky little guy who keeps him in line. This time, Farley's antics threaten the campaign of his older brother (Tim Matheson), who's running for governor. "He's like Roger Clinton, Billy Carter and Ronald Reagan's whole family rolled into one," moans Matheson's aide after Farley has accidentally mowed down parking meters with a campaign truck and scared the Geritol out of senior citizens with his enthusiastic proselytizing for his brother: Indeed.
Farley strives mightily, but there is nothing delicate about his clowning—it's like watching Baby Huey audition for MTV. Spade has a couple of snappy lines ("Is there an Opie convention in town?" he asks a carload of freckled redheads), but mostly he just seems snide. (PG-13)
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It's strange enough to find Travolta in this sort of hardware action picture, full of exploding choppers and jeeps. Stranger still, he's the villain, an Air Force major who deliberately downs his top-secret fighter plane and then tries to make off with its nuclear warheads. (Object: blackmail.) This major is the sort of adrenaline-loving sadist who can't resist upping the ante, even if the result is incineration in a mushroom cloud. Informed that his latest gambit borders on insanity, he responds, "Yeah. Ain't it cool?"
Travolta has squeezed out all his natural charm and turned his handsome smile into a crocodile's grin. But there doesn't seem to be anything left in his performance. His anger never seems potentially ballistic. More often, he appears merely to be put out, as if he were disappointed with room service. That would make Slater, as a pilot out to thwart the conspiracy, the bellhop. He has virtually no presence.
The explosions and crashes, as directed by John Woo, are all thumpingly good. (R)
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Three friends, one a Jew, the second an Arab and the third a black man, are trying to get through another day in one of the many bleak housing projects that ring Paris. Over the next 24 hours, these young men aimlessly lounge on a rooftop, jeering police; attempt to visit a comatose pal who has been hospitalized after being beaten up by cops; insult bourgeois poseurs upon crashing an art gallery opening; and tangle violently with skinheads. Theirs is a world where one minute you are teasing each other over who cut the cheese and the next, guns are drawn.
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Annabeth Gish seemed poised for stardom when at age 18, and hot off the 1988 sleeper Mystic Pizza—starring another promising young actress, Julia Roberts—she left Hollywood for Duke University. "It was," she says, "a very hard decision. Some powerful people in movies told me I was making a big mistake." At 24, with cum laude honors in English and theater, she has returned to the screen, as Julie Nixon Eisenhower in Nixon, and holding her own with Uma Thurman and Timothy Hutton in Beautiful Girls. Gish talked with us from her book-filled West Los Angeles apartment.
What has it been like returning to Hollywood?
It's been hard re-educating people. They think in terms of your last film, and in mine I was an awkward adolescent. Returning is like coming out.
Do you feel you've lost ground?
What's happened to Julia [Roberts] is amazing. You can't compare that to anything. But watching what my friends were doing is hard. That's the beast that rises up, and you just have to learn to tame it.
Did you consider giving up acting while you were in school?
I thought about writing. I studied poetry all through college, and I'd love to publish my poetry, but I'm shy about showing it. Maybe someday.
What attracted you to Beautiful Girls?
The writing. There's a monologue delivered by Rosie O'Donnell about how women on the covers of magazines are airbrushed, their images perfected and phony. She tells them to appreciate what they have. I just said: "That's so true. That's something I want to save."
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2, Budget: The commission right sized county government and cut most of the fat. Commissioners were able to craft a fiscal 2014 spending plan that sets aside cash for much needed capital improvements. Also, the county's day to day operations are not dependent on additional funds from the legislature.
3, Bessemer jail: The county commission and sheriff's office reopened the Bessemer jail after it had been closed for four years. The 1,040-bed county jail in Birmingham has been overcrowded, which has led to both security and legal issues for the county. The first of 200 inmates housed in Birmingham jail returned to Bessemer this month.
1, Cooper Green: "Abject failure." "Bleeding professionals." Those are descriptions from some doctors to describe the new model for indigent care at Cooper Green Health Services, formerly the county owned hospital for the poor, which began operations Jan. 1. Business leaders, lawmakers, doctors warned the majority not to downsize without a plan. They did so and even Commissioner Jimmie Stephens, who supported the downsizing, later called it a "miscalculation."
2, Car tag lines: Despite numerous set, and missed, deadlines that began earlier in the year, additional hires and promised new software that the problem would be addressed, the commission still has not found a way to reduce the wait time in the revenue dept. This is a problem that dates back several years and this commission is no closer to fixing the problem. Also, many county roads remain in terrible shape.
3, Consent decree: A federal judge said the current commission was "incapable" of complying with the consent decree over hiring and firing of county employees. Judge Lynwood Smith said he had no choice but to appoint a receiver over the county's human resources dept.
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The season 3 poster for HBO's hit Girls shows Hannah (Lena Dunham) and her friends at the end of what looks to have been a big night – with beer bottles and pizza boxes strewn on the floor.
The tagline is "Happily Whatever After," but a look at the new season hints that maybe the girls are finally getting it together – or not.
When the new season premieres on Jan. 12 with back-to-back episodes, we see Marnie (Allison Williams) saying: "I am okay. I may not seem okay or be okay now, but I am, like, okay."
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ugust 7, 2000
Attack of the killer roots
by Bronwyn Wilson
No one should be fooled by their peaceful appearance. This row of stately London Plane trees looks innocent enough, lined up along NE Woodinville-Duvall Rd at the 140th Ave. NE intersection. The trees, adjacent to Bank of America, were planted in the 70s when Gerald Ford was president and have flourished over time. Today they stand forty or fifty feet tall spreading out their massive branches to shade the sidewalk and street below. But looks, in this case, are deceiving. The fact is, these innocent-looking trees are bent on destruction. Lurking beneath the surface, the trees' root system wreaks havoc with whatever stands in the way. The roots are interfering with the underground infrastructure that controls the sensors to the traffic lights. They're causing the sidewalk to buckle and they're pushing up the asphalt in the road. This concerns the City of Woodinville. "It's not easy for pedestrians to pass on the sidewalks, especially those in wheelchairs," said Becky Perkins, Woodinville's city planner. "At the same time, losing the trees will impact the community," she added.
The ravaging roots have been on a destroy mission for some time now. "The City has been looking at this sidewalk/intersection restoration project since '96," Perkins said. "We've had three arborists look at the whole area and we've assessed each tree." The question before the City is what to do now. The trees are valuable enough for the City to make efforts to save the them ‹ at least some of them. One effort includes hiring certified arborist, Ian MacCallum. On August 9th, MacCallum will cut out a small area of the street to look at the roots and determine if pruning is a viable solution. If his test proves that it is, the next step is to dig up large sections of sidewalk and road to get at the extensive root system. After pruning, underground plastic barriers would be placed around the roots to keep them from causing future punishment to Woodinville's roads and sidewalks.
"London Plane is a really great tree for harsh conditions and they can thrive anywhere," MacCallum said, explaining why King County planted this particular type of tree next to a busy street. He added that the American Elm was once the tree of choice for municipalities to plant along city streets. Like the London Plane, the elm is hardy and will tolerate poor conditions. However, Dutch Elm disease wiped out many elms in the early 70s. It was at that time cities looked for a replacement tree and picked the London Plane as their next choice. The City of Seattle began planting London Plane trees and soon other cities in King County followed suit. Back then, the trees' destructive ways weren't considered. "They start to rear their ugly head later on," MacCallum said. And not only have they reared their ugly heads, but their ugly roots. "They break up sidewalks, they break up curbs, they crack asphalt," MacCallum said.
Although it would appear to be less expensive up front to remove the trees, Woodinville doesn't take its trees lightly. Woodinville, named "Tree City, USA" through the National Arbor Day Foundation, appointed a Tree Board to focus on tree matters. One of those matters concerns a Street Tree Plan, a 3-10 year plan phasing trees out over time and replacing them with trees that won't grow into the power lines or have roots that interfere with traffic lights or add mini-hills to level sidewalks. Another matter for the Tree Board is to honor trees that bring beauty and stature and grace to Woodinville with the Heritage Tree Award. Two trees honored include: the Little Leaf Linden, which stands in all its glory at Molbakís and is over a hundred years old; and the majestic Spanish Chestnut at NAPA Auto Parts, also over a hundred years old.
Though the London Plane trees aren't even close to a hundred years old, the trees have added charm to the city with their leafy green canopy. Their fate, however, is now in the hands of the City and will be determined within the next couple of weeks. According to Perkins, some of the trees will have to go no matter what the test results show. And the City has its sights on the replacements. "We're looking at a couple of different species," Perkins said. One possible replacement is the Lavalle Hawthorn. This beautiful tree intensifies from bright glossy green in Summer to a bronze-green in fall. Another tree being considered is the Bowhall Maple which makes a splashy show of color in fall.
MacCallum concluded, "The ideal is to put in trees that won't have aggressive root systems, won't grow up into the power lines and won't have to be whacked." Whatever the outcome, the City will continue to seek ways to beautify Woodinville's landscape with trees.
For anyone wanting to nominate a great-looking tree deserving of a Heritage Tree Award, contact Becky Perkins at 425-489-2700.


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They may be young, but they've got skills when it comes to performing music.
Local high school students Cole Craven, Noah Littlejohn and Erin Weber each have a chair in the Amarillo Symphony this season.
"I want to be playing music for the rest of my life. I might as well get started in high school," Craven said. "It's a thrill to play at this level."
Craven, 17, and Littlejohn, 16, play cello. Weber, 17, plays the violin.
All are high school juniors. Littlejohn and Weber attend Amarillo High School; Craven goes to Tascosa High School.
Craven and Littlejohn started playing in fifth grade. Weber began playing at age 3 in the Suzuki string program.
Now they all balance teenage lives with the rigorous schedule of being employed in a professional symphony orchestra.
"We do schoolwork all day, then come home and eat dinner, then go to rehearsal, then come home and do more schoolwork," Littlejohn said. "But there's nothing else we'd rather do."
To play with the Symphony, the students also must perform with the Amarillo Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as in their respective high school programs.
"You have to have a written-down schedule," Craven said. "It can get pretty tiring, but it's so much fun."
The students auditioned for the Symphony along with about 50 other hopefuls (of all ages) in August. Only about 12 newcomers made the cut.
The auditions were "blind" - a five-judge panel based its decisions on playing abilities alone.
"For a high school musician who wants to excel, this is the kind of encouragement they need to progress," said Nathan Newbrough, executive director of the Symphony.
The students, who represent the Symphony's youngest performers, play in all seven of the orchestra's season concerts.
"It's a great educational opportunity for us," Littlejohn said. "You learn so much almost by osmosis sitting next to these top-notch musicians."
Not only are the students exposed to veteran musicians, but they learn under world-class conductors - namely, Kimbo Ishii-Eto, the music director and conductor of the Symphony.
"Kimbo is fantastic," Craven said. "We haven't had a chance to work with great conductors like him before."
The trio keep the Symphony youthful and energetic, Newbrough said.
"They do add a level of freshness and enthusiasm in their playing," he said. "They certainly play as well as other members, but their presence brings a little extra spark."
Despite their youth, however, the three don't receive any special attention as musicians.
"We don't look at them as any different from anyone else on stage," Newbrough said. "They're not a novelty, just solid, standard members."
Craven, Littlejohn and Weber join a handful of other musicians who started playing in the Symphony while in high school.
Just last year, the Symphony hired high school senior Heather Sechrist to perform as a violinist. Sechrist, now a student at West Texas A & M University, still plays with the Symphony.
Charlotte Harbin started playing with the Symphony in 1962 as a junior at Amarillo High School.
Harbin now shares a stand with Craven during rehearsals and concerts.
"Music was so very important to me at an early age, and I can see these students have the same love for it that I experienced," Harbin said.
"It's fun to work with them and see them excel."
All three have interests besides playing - fly fishing for Craven, art for Weber and composing for Littlejohn.
But they also all acknowledged an intense addiction to music.
"I'm not sure that we're normal high-schoolers," Craven joked.
As members of the Symphony, the students learn first-hand about their future careers as performing artists.
"I've always loved music and playing. It's something that comes natural to me," Weber said. "My heart is set on going into music."
Playing in a professional setting like the Symphony is challenging, but ultimately rewarding, she said.
"The music has to be played at a high level in a short amount of time," Weber said. "But when it all comes together, it's unbelievable."
Cole Craven
Age: 17
School: Tascosa High School, junior
Instrument: Cello
Hobby (besides playing music): Fly fishing
Noah Littlejohn
Age: 16
School: Amarillo High School, junior
Instrument: Cello
Hobby (besides playing music): Composing music
Erin Weber
Age: 17
School: Amarillo High School, junior
Instrument: Violin
Hobby (besides playing music): Drawing, digital graphics
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Posted at 7:42 AM on April 13, 2007 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)
A Republican, a DFLer, and a reporter walk into a bar....
OK, I have no idea where that joke could lead but the other day I noted that Rep. Abeler filed a bill for a new Twins stadium location.
Here's how it reads.
1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to sports; providing an alternative location for a major league ballpark;
1.3amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 473.751, subdivision 6.
1.5 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 473.751, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
1.6 Subd. 6. Development area. "Development area" means the area in the city of
1.7Minneapolis bounded by marked Interstate Highway 394, vacated Holden Street, the
1.8Burlington Northern right-of-way, Seventh Street North, Sixth Avenue North, Fifth Street
1.9North, the Burlington Northern right-of-way, and the Interstate Highway 94 exit ramp or
1.10the city of Ramsey.
Ha...ha... ha. That one still gets me. Oh, you didn't see the joke? Ummmm... me neither.
Apparently, it's a joke in legislator-speak. Rep. Jim Abeler sends along the press release that apparently this refers to:
St. Paul - In response to what has been snail-like progress on getting the new Twins stadium to become a reality, Rep. Jim Abeler (R - Anoka/Ramsey) has introduced legislation (HF 2418) to allow the placement of the new open-air stadium in the City of Ramsey.
Despite news of the recent "breakthrough" where the Hennepin County will condemn the land and have to pay an undetermined price for the privilege of cramming the stadium into a postage stamp size lot next to a garbage burner, Abeler says this new option just might make sense.
Abeler points out that the City of Ramsey has a lot of open space of which would require neither condemnation, nor negotiation with the tough-as-nails Burlington Northern Railroad. Plus, he says, the city is eager to attract new industries in an area noted for its clean air and open spaces. "The game day experience could include a canoe ride on the wild Rum River or a hike by the Trott Brook. These low cost options could make an outing to the Twins game a true family experience."
Also, he points out, on those chilly game days, the additional time outdoors would help game attendees acclimate to the frosty or torrid game time temperatures made possible by the stadium's open-air design.
Even though he admitted that he has spent little time working with the Twins organization on this proposal, Abeler felt that the team could find merit in it. "This project must be underway and costs are increasing by the day. In true Minnesota tradition, when we see somebody stalled on the highway, we stop and help them out. In the same way, with the stadium project stalled out and over budget, how can the City of Ramsey sit idly by and not come to the aid of this true statewide Minnesota resource?"
The financing mechanism would remain the same. Abeler remarked that he expected that the City of Ramsey would be fully comfortable in allowing the new Hennepin County sales tax revenues to be used for this project. "I expect we wouldn't charge them any extra for the larger site and the fresh air," he explained.
The Hennepin County Board has yet to comment on this proposal.
Yes, the bill still gets MFL points. On a more serious note, Rep. Abeler noted these points in his e-mail to moi.
On another note, I have noticed where a few MFL bloggers seem to think my coauthoring of bills is some relation to the goal of success in your league. A better explanation of my actions is the desire to avoid being meaningless as a minority member. It is harder than anybody thinks to get much done as a minority, even with 9 years of tenure. So I have concentrated on building bridges instead of planting IED's.
Maybe if you want to really test legislators' prowess, put any of the current legislative "movers and shakers" into the minority and see what effect they have on policy and politics, and put some long-term members of the minority (like GOP senators) into the majority and see what they can do. That would maybe be a "fantasy" fantasy team...
Of particular interest to me is the level of being ignored by formerly attentive lobbyists and others that has happened since the election turned the tables. Even eliciting a simple greeting from some of these seems to be a milestone these days.
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He stole my punch line:
"Abeler remarked that he expected that the City of Ramsey would be fully comfortable in allowing the new Hennepin County sales tax revenues to be used for this project."
Posted by bsimon | April 13, 2007 9:10 AM
A Republican, a DFLer, and a reporter walk into a bar....
Well I want to say something snappy about the smoking ban, but don't think most folks would find it as funny as it is in my head.
Posted by Brian Hanf | April 13, 2007 10:04 AM
A Republican, a DFLer, and a reporter walk into a bar....
....then walk right out again when they realize that none of them has ever picked up a tab! bada-BING
Go Carriers! Go Abeler!
Posted by Doug Gray | April 13, 2007 1:34 PM
Got to love Jim Abeler.
That is, unless he HASN'T scored nearly 5,000 points for your team as he has for mine.
Posted by Nate Dybvig | April 13, 2007 11:45 PM
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Will Wright Makes Surprise Lecture at GDC, Includes Horses, Hello Kitty and M&Ms
Learn about the "metaphysics of game design."
At the Game Developers Conference, which just wrapped up yesterday, many attendees wondered about one of the final sessions held at the show. Little was known about it, except its title, "Metaphysics of Game Design," and its speaker, someone called "Phaedrus."
It turned out that the mysterious session was being headed by none other than SimCity and Spore creator Will Wright.
"I am not Phaedrus," Wright said, as he made his way to center stage amid thunderous applause. He said that the reason the panel was under a pseudonym was because he wasn't entirely sure he could attend the conference.
Wright then proceeded to give a presentation on his ideas of the underlying principles of game design, imbued with humor, Star Trek references and his trademark profundity. Take a look a few select slides from the presentation, which may or may not leave you scratching your head:
Coffee + Advance Wars = Genius?: Wright said that every morning he has a cup of coffee and plays about 15 minutes of Advance Wars on his DS. "I've played that game more than any other in my life," he said. "I love Advance Wars; it lets me relax while I spin up my brain."
Being a Game Designer: Throughout the presentation, Wright outlined the goal of video games as perceived by others outside the industry, thus coming up with different names for "independent game designer." ("Child pornographer" was thanks to Jack Thompson.)
Hell-o Kitty: Wright explained how ideas for games come from executives, then trickle down to mid-level folks, writers, and designers. Then the publisher makes every version possible of that idea...
Horses!: ...like games about horses. "There are more (games about horses) than there are Sims expansion packs," Wright quipped.
M&M Deathmatch: Wright told the story of a guy who would take two M&Ms and try to crush them with his fingers. The loser went into his mouth, and the other went on to battle against the next piece of candy. The final surviving M&M was mailed to the candy company, so that it could be used for breeding purposes. (He later got a lifetime supply of M&Ms.)
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M&M's StoryPosted: Mar 15, 2010 12:00AM PST by Amedeus
Everyone on the Internet's heard this. At the very least, anybody who's been to /b/ has to have. They stop you at the door and read you the story as though you're five, it's your bedtime, and your family is a lot less dysfunctional than it really is. And then pedobear shows up and the crying starts.
My point is, was there a point to him telling the M&M's story, or is Will Wright just subtlely announcing that he's a /b/tard?
MEEPPosted: Mar 15, 2010 12:00AM PST by past_tense_verb
I would probably punch an elderly person for the opportunity to attend a Will Wright lecture.
Here's one of my favorites of his regarding the Russian space program:
ZOMG XDPosted: Mar 15, 2010 12:00AM PST by Gold_Ultima
It`s amazing when a presentation about bussiness can make you piss your pants laughing.
Amazing...Posted: Mar 15, 2010 12:00AM PST by beanburritos
He always likes to approach things from odd angles. I do pity him, though, having to scour the internet for a SFW furry illustration.


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από damien 26 Σεπτέμβριος 2003
if something is 'badong' it is both bad and wrong
if u see an old woman with saggy boobs in a bikini, its 'badong'
'woah, dude, don't look, its badong!!'
'woah, dude, don't look, its badong!!'
από soph (pepperoni) -word derived from tom 2 Σεπτέμβριος 2003
bad wrong
stealing is badong, stealing from little kids is badong.
από barnibus 27 Αύγουστος 2003
A combination of Bad and Wrong, when one adjective doesn't quite explain how truely awful something is.
Ben, your new girlfriend is Badong!
από The Flying Swallow 13 Ιούλιος 2010
A person with a big, fat, round nose. Commonly found playing Runescape in the town of Varrock. Usually has a nasty, and manly voice. Badong can also refer to a floppy penis, or a 'wonky eye'.
Example 1: Dayuuuum, that french woman playing Runescape at the art gallery is a badong.
Example 2: HOLY SHIT, you can see his badong through his sweatpants !
Example 2: HOLY SHIT, you can see his badong through his sweatpants !
από badongadong 19 Μάιος 2009
Adj. New English
It means Bad and Wrong
It means Bad and Wrong
if you say Ah that's bad as in that's coo or tight your using it as it was a good thing but if you say Badong it means literally bad and wrong eg.Satan is just Badong.
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A combo of bad and wrong
People who kill are badong
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The Altoona Redevelopment Authority is checking out the pros and cons of creating a land bank to eliminate liens and clear titles on vacant, abandoned, tax-delinquent and foreclosed properties to spur development.
Land banking - recommended in the city's proposed new comprehensive plan and its Act 47 financial recovery plan - has helped pave the way for projects in big cities like Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit and Flint, Mich., where there are big swaths of blighted properties and vacant ground, according to Planning Director Lee Slusser, who's doing the analysis.
But it's not clear whether it will help much here, because - as former Planning Director Larry Carter liked to say - the blight is spotty like measles.
"We have been tremendously unsuccessful in doing [the equivalent of land banking] in the past," said City Manager Joe Weakland, citing land collected along 10th Avenue for a never-done extension of 10th Avenue Expressway; in East Juniata, where there's been only occasional development of individual homes; and at Cricket Knoll, where lots of ground remains.
But it might work better now, given that Act 153 of 2012 allows for creation of local agencies to handle the job, with powers that were not previously available to municipalities, Weakland acknowledged.
Don Devorris, chairman of the authority, is also unsold, for now.
"The last thing we need is more bureaucracy and more committees, unless there is a real advantage," Devorris said.
Slusser plans to find how many tax delinquent and foreclosed properties there are in the city and how much demand there is for land.
The city would need the approval of the Altoona Area School District and Blair County - the other property taxing bodies - because they have an interest in the tax liens the land bank would wipe away, Slusser said.
All three taxing bodies would be sacrificing 50 percent of any taxes that accrue for the first five years after purchase by a new owner, as that money would go to support the land bank.
"But 50 percent of something is better than 50 percent of nothing," Slusser said.
The current system by which the county handles tax delinquent properties - "upset" sale, judicial sale, then placement in the "repository" - results in the elimination of tax liens in three years, Slusser said.
Having a land bank could shorten that period.
Land banks don't wipe out liens placed by the Internal Revenue Service, Slusser said.
Unlike redevelopment authorities, land banks can't take property by eminent domain, Slusser said.
Like redevelopment authorities, however, they can sell property to whomever they choose, without having to put them up for bid publicly, and can put conditions on sales, Slusser said.
That gives them discretion to pick developers and encourage projects likely to benefit the public and avoid developers likely to fail and undesirable projects, according to Slusser.
Land banks "set priorities for the reuse of land" and "bring transparency, efficiency and predictability to land recycling," according to the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania's Quick Guide: New Tools to Address Blight and Abandonment.
"Without land banks in place, tax delinquent properties are exposed at public auction to be sold to the highest bidder, without regard to his or her capacity for development or impact of the sale on the adjacent properties or community," the guide states. "Or they continue to sit in limbo without a buyer amassing debt and further harming the community."
Ultimately, the most common buyers of property that may come through the land bank could be homeowners wanting additions to side yards, Slusser said.
City Council would need to create the land bank by ordinance, Slusser said.
Even if it doesn't work out, "it's always fun looking at new tools," Slusser said.
Mirror Staff Writer William Kibler is at 949-7038.


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I would incorporate some kind of overhead press using dumbells, something like a military press. Decide on a weight that will let you do, say, 12-15 reps, with the last three or so reps being hard but not so hard that you lose your good form.
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Imagine my surprise (really, sit there and imagine it) when I saw the supposed likeness, on the coins, of William Henry Harrison. You remember your history, right? Harrison was the president who caught pneumonia at his own inauguration and died a month later.
Yes, he was also known as Tippecanoe and won fame for fighting Indians, but that isn't really great cocktail-party chatter these days.
Apparently there are dollar coins for every president through FDR.
I've got to ride the train more.


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Texodus on the charts
Greetings from the UK!
A couple of examples of real acceleration for you guys this weekend. Thanks to your help, Texodus is #18 on the Euro Americana chart and #14... Read more
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You did it.
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BOOM! Final stretch goal
That was the sound of us breaking the sound barrier.Integrated Systems, Inc., an innovative local robotics company, just put in their matching funds and sent us over the top... Read more
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If this doesn't go viral I'm gonna cry. Well, I already did from laughing so hard. Thanks to Loo, my friend in Australia, for producing a fantastic 11th hour promo... Read more
15% off Go Dutch Tix; Stretch goal #2!
Well that didn't take long! You guys knocked out stretch goal #1 in no time at all! As a result, every backer (current and future) will receive a unique coupon... Read more
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This brief report presents some preliminary results of part of a study currently being conducted (Gale, 1992, May). The study is a qualitative analysis of a couple's and therapist's perspective of meaningful moments in therapy using Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) (Elliott, 1986). The methodology of this study involved the collaborators (aka: subjects) in a manner that was self-reflexive and recursive (see Steier, in press). The impact of the study was such that the research interviews themselves were reported to have greater therapeutic impact than the therapy. Following eight sessions of marital therapy, the couple reported that therapy was not helpful, and they were together only because of the children. Following the second IPR interview, which was post-therapy, the couple reported that the interview was very useful and therapeutic. This seemed to occur, in part, from three different factors. These factors include: the relationship of the couple to the researcher; the contextualization of the research talk; and clarifying procedures used by the interviewer.
A couple seeking therapy at the University MFT Clinic was elicited to participate in the study. Reimbursement was offered for each IPR interview. The couple was interviewed 48 hours following their first marital therapy session. At this time, the IPR interviewer and couple watched the video of their therapy session. The husband and wife were told that during this time, either one of them could stop the tape when he or she identified a moment as meaningful, either in a positive or negative manner, to therapy. At that point, both the husband and wife would describe that event and rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for him/herself, as well as how he/she thought the other person perceived it (1 being very negative, 3 being neutral and 5 being very positive). When they finished writing down their comments, they were then interviewed together in order to further elaborate on that event and the implications of that event to their therapy. When the discussion was finished, they would again observe the video until the next moment was identified.
An IPR interview was conducted with the therapist 72 hours after the session. A similar procedure as above was followed, with the therapist identifying moments and rating them, and then being interviewed. Four months after completion of therapy, the couple again were interviewed. At this time the IPR interviewer questioned them about their experience of therapy and their thoughts on the first IPR interview. Additionally, at this time, the couple was given a summary of the first session and a summary of first IPR interview with them. A discussion then followed with the couple sharing their comments on the reports. The couple identified eight meaningful moments in their therapy session, while the therapist identified six moments from the first session.
In presenting the following factors that seemed to have some impact on the therapeutic effectiveness of the research activity, it is important to mention that these factors are interactive. They are presented in no particular order, as each has a recursive bearing on the others.
It appears that the relationship of the couple (Dan and Sally) was different to the researcher than to the therapist. Both Dan and Sally looked to the therapist to direct them in the process of therapy. There was a hierarchical arrangement where they each wanted the therapist to be an "objective referee" of their issues. The therapist was seen as someone who would fix things.
In the IPR interviews there was a different relationship and a different agenda. The agenda of the interviewer was not to fix problems, but to better understand each person's perspective. There was a rotating triadic relationship with the interviewer. That is, by the nature of the questions asked, both Dan and Sally became the expert of their own phenomenological perspective. There were not questions of blame or truthfulness, but rather, a probing quest or curiosity (see Heath, 1992) of understanding each person's perspective of the issues. The meta-message of relationship between Dan and Sally could be different in the IPR interviews. Each person could have the acknowledged opportunity of being the holder of knowledge. This collaborative relationship was further highlighted, when during the second IPR interview, the report of the first IPR interview was shared with Dan and Sally. The researcher asked Dan and Sally to improve on the document, in that they had the authority from which to know best what each understood.
In the first IPR interview, the interviewer requested that the couple not "do therapy" during the interview. The project task for them was to look at their first session and share their thoughts and feelings about the session, and not to deal with any of these issues. If issues arose during the interview, they were told they could talk about it with their therapist later. The context of the IPR interview was constrained to limit certain types of talk and interactions. That this was understood by the couple can be noted by the times both Dan and Sally would stop what they were saying and comment that they were "getting into therapy. "At those self-reflexive times, they would then change the intensity or focus of their comments. This also occurred in the second IPR interview, where again Sally and Dan constrained their talk in a particular manner.
This was significant in that Dan noted that during therapy, whenever he and Sally argued, he felt discouraged about their progress. During the IPR interview, there was a constraining mechanism set up such that points of disagreement could be examined without Sally and Dan needing to argue about who was right. Both Sally and Dan did comment that they thought that the playback element of the interviews was very helpful. It is likely that the ability to watch themselves, without having to defend their position, or try to fix it, allowed them to gain flexibility in viewing the other's position. In a sense, this seemed to help them achieve multiple descriptions of their story.
Several times in the first interview, and even more times in the second IPR interview, the interviewer would offer analogies to better describe Dan and Sally's situations. While on one hand, these might be seen as therapeutic reframes or therapeutic metaphors, they were presented not to change the couple, but to clarify understanding. Dan and Sally even participated in helping to clarify the analogies to better describe their situation. This seemed to lead to a collaborative telling of their story, that allowed for new chapters or punctuations to emerge. In a sense, the unsaid of the therapy session could be explored and rewritten through the collaborative effort of developing new descriptions (see Anderson & Goolishian, 1988; and de Shazer, 1991).
The benefit of the IPR interviews can be noted in several ways. During the interviews, both Dan and Sally were able to laugh at their own interactions, they both acknowledged new appreciations and responsibilities for their behaviors, and Dan even considered returning to therapy. Additionally, when the interviewer was set to pay them for their time in doing the interview (which lasted about 90 minutes), Dan and Sally refused to be paid and Dan stated, "you don't need to be worrying about it. I think we should be paying you. We got something out of this."
It is important to add that doing these IPR interviews was more than simply adding an activity to therapy to help with stuck cases. If the research element is framed as still being therapy, the dynamics are very different. Elements of relationship, context delineation and the interviewer's talk need to be considered. The interviewer has his/her own agenda, and this agenda does impact the development of the talk. Additionally, the interviewer's communication skills will also influence the weave of the talk. Research is not neutral or non-interactive. It is necessary to consider how one presents the ideas and creates the context between the different settings. It should also be added that the data from this study is still being analyzed and the results are preliminary. The nature of the project itself has been that each stage has influenced the next level of study. Another follow-up interview with the couple will be conducted as well as interviewing the therapist.
Anderson, H. & Goolishian, H. (1988). Human systems as linguistic systems: Evolving ideas about the implication for theory and practice. Family Process, 27, 371-393.
de Shazer, S. (1991). Muddles, bewilderment, and practice theory. Family Process, 30, 453-458.
Elliott, R. (1986). Interpersonal process recall (IPR) as a psychotherapy process research method. In L. Greenberg & W. Pinsof (Eds.), The psychotherapy process: A research handbook (pp. 503-527). New York: Guilford Press.
Gale, J. (1992, May). The preliminary results of a study of a couple and therapist's perspective of meaningful moments in therapy. Paper presented at 42nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Miami, Florida, May 25, 1992.
Heath, A. (1992). One thing therapists have learned from qualitative research. AFTA Newsletter, 47, 23.
Steier, F. (in press). From universing to conversing: An ecological constructionist approach to learning and multiple description. In L. Steffe & J. Gale (Eds.), Alternative epistemologies in education. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.


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Rihanna spoke out for the first time since allegedly being assaulted by Chris Brown, issuing a statement of thanks to her fans.
"At the request of the authorities, Rihanna is not commenting about the incident involving Chris Brown," says the statement from her rep on Friday. "She wants to assure her fans that she remains strong, is doing well, and deeply appreciates the outpouring of support she has received during this difficult time."
The statement comes on her 21st birthday and a day after she was spotted in Los Angeles after spending nearly two weeks in seclusion.
The singer was photographed Thursday heading to an airport the same night a graphic photo reportedly showing her battered face surfaced on the Internet, upsetting her father, who criticized police for their "sloppy work."
Prior to the statement, neither Rihanna nor her representatives had commented since the arrest of Brown, 19, on Feb. 8
On Friday, friends in Rihanna's native Barbados marked her birthday by taking out an ad in the local paper wishing her a happy 21st "amidst all the negativity about Ri Ri. God will continue to bless her."
"I just really love that girl," Sharon Thompson, who bought the birthday greeting, tells PEOPLE. " Some nights I cry because of what I'm hearing. It has me deeply hurt. She's just so lovely."
Chris travels the globe to be with Rihanna
See Rihanna's style evolution
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Rihanna Assures Fans She 'Remains Strong'
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Title: Fog at Buoy, New London to Marblehead Race, 1949
Accession Number: 1984.187.123635F
Category: PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Type: black-and -white negative
Maker: Rosenfeld and Sons
Date: 1949
Materials: safety film, Kodak
Description: 5x4 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons late June or July 1949 during the time of the New London to Marblehead Race. Image of bell buoy in calm water on a foggy day to the right in the negative and an unidentified sloop in fog in the background to the left showing a starboard beam view on starboard close reach with a marconi-rigged mainsail and jib. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "123635F / [Box] 5059". Handwritten: "New London - Marblehead / Fog". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 152.
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