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The five nominees for the John Cassavetes Award at this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards are a diverse lot representing five very different films: Chris Eska's "August Evening," Stephane Gauger's "Owl and the Sparrow," Aaron Katz's "Quiet City," Jeff Nichols' "Shotgun Stories" and Chris Smith's "The Pool." indieWIRE spoke with each of the nominees about their acclaimed films, their backgrounds, and their future plans. The prize honors the best of the low-budget films produced each year, singling out five films each made for under $500,000.
Chris Eska ("August Evening")
"August Evening," a tale about the father-daughter relationship between an undocumented farm worker and his young, widowed daughter-in-law, has its roots in Eska's own upbringing in a small Texas town.
"I worked on a chicken farm there, and met some people there who were somewhat like the characters in this film," Eska says. "I decided this was what I wanted to do as my first feature." The underlying theme of the film is about family and the sense of duty between generations. Eska was pleasantly surprised with the film's dual nominations for the Spirit Awards (in addition to the Cassavetes, actor Pedro Castaneda is also nominated for Best Male Lead). "I knew I was short- listed, but I didn't think we'd ever get nominated for the big awards," Eska says. "A Spirit Award is the very top thing that an indie filmmaker can hope for. "
Eska has had his hands full finishing up getting "August Evening" ready for its theatrical distribution, and hasn't yet started work on his next project, but he does have some idea of what he'd like to do next. "August Evening is sort of a film about surrogate families, a surrogate father- and-daughter relationship," he says. "My next film will probably be a surrogate father-son film centered around the Mexican mafia." Don't expect a shoot-'em-up story from Eska, though. As with "August Evening," his next effort will focus on relationships. "I try to make universal stories that have a clear sense of place but the intent is to show the universality of the human experience," he says. "I like the flexibility of setting the same story in Texas, or even in India."
Stephane Gauger ("Owl and the Sparrow")
When he set out to make "Owl and the Sparrow," Gauger wanted to do a "fast and loose" film in the vein of French New Wave, and he because he was born in Vietnam, he wanted to set it there. He wrote the script in a couple of months and went into shooting with the second draft, shooting in just three weeks. Casting the role of the young orphaned "flower girl" was pivotal.
Pham Thi Han, the young girl eventually chosen for the part, did not have acting experience, but she had dancing experience. "She knew how to take direction, but she was very natural in her acting," Gauger says. "The tone of the film was very naturalistic, I didn't want to have a child that was too cute, I wanted a child who would be natural."
Gauger had originally envisioned the film as being about the stories of three different characters, but over the course of shooting, the character of the young girl evolved into the protagonist, and the film became more about her journey. "It really changed in the editing room," Gauger says. "As we were putting the film together, it felt like the girl had the biggest journey to take, so we started and ended with the girl."
Gauger has several things on his plate at the moment: a 60-minute documentary shot in Vietnam, another narrative feature also set in Vietnam, and theatrical release of "Owl and the Sparrow." "I don't want to pigeonhole myself into just doing Vietnamese films" Gauger says, "but I still have stories to tell."
Aaron Katz ("Quiet City")
After his first film, "Dance Party, USA" premiered, Katz got right to work on his next project. "I was writing a film set in Pittsburgh, but it wasn't really coming together." Katz says. "I decided to buy a blank notebook, start over, and make some rules for myself about how I was going to write it, to avoid the problems I was having with that script. Somewhere in the root of it, it wasn't truthful, it never felt right."
Katz wrote the script for "Quiet City" longhand in the notebook in about a week and then input it into a screenwriting program. "I showed it to (producers) Brendan (McFadden) and Ben (Standler); we made some changes but what we ended up shooting is pretty close to that draft." He shot the film in October 2006, and with a very fast turnaround, the film premiered at SXSW in 2007. "I'm still proud of 'Dance Party," and I think we did a good job with it," Katz reflects. "But with 'Quiet City,' I really tried to foster an organic environment in the writing, the performing, even the editing. The one question I always ask myself is, 'Does it feel truthful?'"
Katz is keeping busy with his next project, a period film called "Lay of the Land." This film is set in the early 1970s on the outskirts of Sacramento, and revolves around "a black guy who's a jazz drummer and a white guy who's a country musician." Katz notes that he was holding off a little bit on that script because of the writer's strike. "Even though I'm not a WGA member, it was kind of a respect thing," he says. "Now that it's over, I can work on that."
Jeff Nichols ("Shotgun Stories")
When working on the script for "Shotgun Stories," Nichols looked back to his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. "I always knew that my first feature would take place in southeast Arkansas. I wanted to share this landscape, the people from this area." The film is about three brothers coming to terms with their relationship with their abusive father who's just died; the father, who later in life stopped drinking and found Jesus, started a new life with a new family, but never reconciled his abusive past with the sons from his first family.
The idea for "Shotgun Stories" popped into Nichols' head one day. "I had this idea for a funeral scene where someone would spit on a casket - I felt that would be a really tough scene," he says. "So why would someone do that, and how would it play out?"
Nichols built up a lot of back story in writing the script. "That was part storytelling style and part the way I just like movies," Nichols says. "It affects the dialog, the way scenes play out; the violent fight scenes take place off-screen. They're short, fast, awkward and clunky. You don't get any pleasure out of watching the fights; it's just kind of awkward. "
Where typically in a revenge film, you'd want the audience feeling, "go get the gun and kick some ass," Nichols says, he wanted his audience thinking "No, I don't want it to play out this way, I want them to stop." It was a bit of a risky move, Nichols admits. "I wanted to debunk that structure of the revenge film and still make a film that would hold the audience's attention."
Chris Smith ("The Pool")
"The Pool" had its roots in India. While helping a friend shoot a short film there, Smith met a room boy, "a young kid who worked 6.5 days a week, but his attitude was positive, so different from the US where everyone seems to find a reason to complain," Smith says.
Smith adapted his script from a short story called "The Pool," which is about "a guy who becomes obsessed with a pool and tries to meet the owners so he can swim in the pool." But the story, Smith notes, becomes more about the relationships that develop, and the idea of the pool becomes secondary. "What people think they want in life and in the journey to get there, that can change. In looking at trying to adapt that story to a film I kept thinking back to that place where we shot the short film, and that kid that I met there, and decided to adapt the story to that place and that boy."
The film shot in India for five months, and then spent about a year-and-a-half in post. "The Pool," Smith's fifth film to play at Sundance, will finally get a theatrical release in September."I was trying to make something that would have an emotional resonance for people. I'm always looking for stories that intrigue me, and I hope that if it's something I like, that an audience will also find it intriguing."

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August 28, 2006
Madeline Vann
Michael DeMocker
Laura Maloney says she doesn't believe in fate. Or maybe she never used to. Or maybe it's too overwhelming to see one's own role in unfolding history. In any case, at this moment, Maloney, B '01, the executive director of the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is talking like she's been touched by fate's hand.
"Things have really fallen into place over the past four years. I just really feel I am where I was meant to be," she says.
And where she was meant to be was in New Orleans, at ground zero of the nation's worst natural disaster and, subsequently, the largest animal rescue in the country's history. Maloney, her staff and volunteers from all across the country retrieved 8,500 animals from the flooded city, far exceeding any similar recovery effort. It is early March, and Maloney still can hardly talk about the rescues.
She prefers to display a collage of images: desperate dogs stranded on roofs that she and her team could not get to; drowned dogs, still tied to fences or inside their owners' yards; animals that were in floodwater so long their skins peeled off; and the long night at the shelter in the Lamar Dixon Expo-Center in Gonzales, La., where she waited with the 750 rescued animals to be processed. She talks about that time and her voice intones the spectrum of emotion, reflecting the stress, the chaos, the sadness and the palpable respect she has for her staff who worked through those weeks knowing their homes were destroyed, but not knowing where friends and family had landed.
Maloney's husband, Dan, general curator of Audubon Zoo, was still at the zoo caring for the animals. She was not able to talk to him for a couple of weeks.
"I can finally say 'dogs stranded on roofs' without crying," says Maloney, who believes she and her staff all have some degree of post-traumatic stress disorder. "It was very warlike but unlike the military, we aren't prepared to see such devastation. But we will be prepared next time. I actually woke up in mid- February and felt normal. And I took a day off on Fat Tuesday. It was great."
Yet Maloney and her team were as prepared as they could be. On Saturday, two days before Katrina hit, they evacuated 263 shelter animals to the Houston SPCA. On Tuesday, after the storm had passed, Maloney met with state officials to plan the opening of the temporary shelter in Gonzales and called the Humane Society of the United States to assist them in managing the disaster. On Wednesday, Maloney and her staff returned to New Orleans to begin rescuing animals, many of whom were left behind when their owners were evacuated.
"It was like the Wild West during that time," says Maloney "There were rules, and not everyone followed them."
Many New Orleanians, believing they would return to the city as soon as the storm had passed, left their animals behind with a supply of food and water. Of those New Orleanians plucked off rooftops or otherwise removed after the flood, only a few were allowed by military and federal representatives to bring their pets. The majority, including handicapped individuals relying on service animals, had to leave their pets behind at the last moment.
In comparison to those days, business has become almost routine. Pet adoptions resumed on Valentine's Day and strays have returned to the city's streets, but not as many as before. As for Maloney, her life is far from normal, however.
The way she does business has changed and she has new staff to train, a temporary warehouse to fit for sheltering animals and a permanent shelter to build. [Editor's note: two months after Maloney was interviewed for this story, the LA/SPCA announced it was purchasing a 10-acre site under the Crescent City Connection bridge. The intention is to have a facility built and ready for occupancy by late 2007.]
"It's a constant state of urgency," says Maloney, who is grateful for the financial and moral support from other animal welfare organizations across the country.
The ASPCA of New York is funding a position for two years to help direct the rebuilding of the shelter. If fate has played a hand in this, it not only placed Maloney in the right place at the right time, but made sure she was qualified for the tasks ahead. In 2001, Maloney graduated with an MBA from Tulane's A. B. Freeman School of Business, conferring to her more than an academic degree.
"The MBA enhances my credibility with corporate and professional contacts," says Maloney. "It boosts confidence in my skill-set beyond being just another animal lover."
These days, few people will write her off that easily. At 44, Maloney is a classically beautiful, willowy blonde who manages an annual budget of $3 million for the nonprofit and has gone toe-to-toe with supporters of rooster fighting, sought arrests for men who run dog-fighting rings and successfully pushed for legislation to outlaw "hogdogging," a sport the pits aggressive dogs against wild boars.
Maloney, who signed on with the LA/SPCA in 2001, has applied modern business practices to the 118- year old nonprofit, instituting programs that reduced the rate of euthanasia, including foster homes for animals, educational programs to reduce animal abuse, expanded spay/neuter programs and behavior-management services to frustrated pet owners on the verge of giving up.
Her experiences have led her to explore the peculiar interaction between business management practices and the nonprofit world.
"If I am effective in leading this organization, more animals live. If I am not effective, animals die," says Maloney.
Reducing euthanasia over the long term is an important goal. Her bottom-line approach often seems out of place in the highly emotional world of animal rescue and adoption.
"What often motivates people in the for-profit world is cash and compensation," Maloney says. "In the nonprofit world, people are usually motivated by passion and a desire to make a difference."
She says emotional decision-making can lead to disaster, particularly where money is concerned.
"If you make decisions emotionally then one day there is an event like Katrina, and you don't have the resources to handle it."
When Maloney came on board, the LA/SPCA was maxed out on credit and was spending twice what the city provided for animal control. The nonprofit's $2 million endowment was intact, however. Maloney and her board of directors went to the city for increased animal-control funding and began working to make the organization's operation more cost-effective, while increasing donations and memberships.
In the process she has maintained the delicate balance between the two missions. In Orleans Parish, the LA/SPCA holds the contract to provide animal-control services, which means that it has to pick up all stray animals and issue citations for violating local ordinances.
"The animal-control mission is to protect the public, and the LA/SPCA mission is to work toward more humane treatment of animals," says Maloney. "Sometimes those two missions are in conflict, but we choose to keep the animal-control function because someone has to provide that service and we're the only agency in town to do that at the moment."
Maloney credits much of the organization's success to a strong staff, volunteers, board and support both locally and from around the country. Although donations have slowed since March, more than $6 million has been pledged from the ASPCA and the Humane Society of the United States to build a new permanent shelter. Now that she can look beyond the immediacy of the disaster, Maloney is planning for the future. There are dozens of lessons learned, says Maloney, who disliked the chaotic nature of the rescue efforts.
Among her proposals are advanced planning of jobs for volunteers of all skill levels, a credentialing system for volunteers, a bigger stock of rescue gear and supplies, a centralized database of animals potentially needing rescue, a backup communications system, global positioning systems to help find addresses, professional help with the media, and a strong command structure that all local agencies know and practice.
In the future, Maloney, her staff and all volunteers will be prepared for a similar or worse disaster. She has become popular on the speaking circuit, sharing her lessons learned with others in animal control and protection.
Growing up on a farm in Maryland, Maloney says she always knew she would work with animals. She went to West Virginia University for a degree in wildlife management and found her way to a teacher's certificate in high school science. With that under her belt, she worked on educational programs for the Philadelphia Zoo and the Audubon Institute in New Orleans, and was assistant director of the Central Park Zoo in New York, one of the premier zoos in the country. As her administrative career blossomed, Maloney began to see the rough edges in her training.
"I realized I could tell you anything at all about the biology of, say, the orangutan, but I knew nothing about spreadsheets and accounting." She began to consider returning to school for an MBA. "I was also thinking about what made organizations successful. I worked at the Audubon Institute, which was so creative with limited resources, and then I worked for one of the top zoos in the country, where people were brilliant and well-funded. The two could not have been more different but both are successful in their own ways."
When the Audubon Zoo hired her husband in 1997, they returned to New Orleans. That year, two choices changed her life. The first was the decision, for the first time in her life, to adopt a dog. She says her trip to the Japonica Street shelter, home of the LA/SPCA, was eye-opening.
"I had nothing to compare my adoption experience with, except the zoos I had worked in, where the visitors' experience is a top priority. My experience as a visitor was not terrific. There were so many things that I thought the shelter could do more effectively," says Maloney.
The second decision was to get the MBA. She spent one semester at the University of New Orleans before transferring to Tulane, where one of her professors mentioned a chance to work on a project with the SPCA. She jumped at the chance, only to find out that the project was on hold because the SPCA was looking for an executive director. She applied for the job, and the rest is history. Or, just possibly, fate.
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Homeland Security officials will make it clear in newly written guidelines that a federal program that lets local police enforce federal immigration laws is primarily for going after immigrants who commit serious crimes.
But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Thursday that he would likely drop out of the program if immigration officials attempt to curtail his enforcement powers, including his ability to arrest immigrants for merely being in the country illegally.
That wouldn't be the end of Arpaio's controversial immigration crackdowns, which have led to allegations of racial profiling.
Arpaio said that even if he drops out of the federal program he will continue arresting illegal immigrants under the state's human smuggling law and employer sanctions laws. He said he also would turn over any suspected illegal immigrants his deputies encounter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement even if they haven't committed any offense other than being in the country illegally.
"If the (federal) program gets too strict, then I am going to have to seriously reconsider," Arpaio said. "But I'm still going to enforce state laws, and when we come across illegal immigrants, we are going to take action."
ICE officials are rewriting the rules of the program, known as 287(g), in response to a federal report that found the program lacks clear goals about what kinds of criminals should be targeted. The report by the Government Accountability Office also found that the program fails to supervise local officers and does not detail what kind of crime and arrest data local agencies should be collecting.
The new rules and agreements will clarify that program participants are to focus on undocumented immigrants who commit serious crimes, such as assault, rape or murder.
"I like it the way it is now," Arpaio said of the two-year-old agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The two-pronged agreement allows sheriff's deputies to identify and arrest illegal immigrants they encounter on the street while investigating other crimes. It also allows jail officials to place immigration holds on inmates suspected of being in the country illegally.
"I signed up not for the jail (portion of the agreement), I signed up to enforce the laws on the street. That is where the action is," Arpaio said.
Arpaio does not need the ICE agreement to continue his immigration raids. He has classified all of his neighborhood crime sweeps and worksite raids as an enforcement of state laws, not federal immigration laws. He says, and ICE has agreed in the past, that the agreement doesn't apply to those raids, even though deputies cross-trained as immigration agents frequently arrest people on immigration violations during those operations.
Michael Keegan, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, declined to respond to Arpaio's comments. He said that while the rewritten agreements will continue to allow local police trained to enforce immigration laws to arrest any illegal immigrants they encounter, the agreements will emphasize a focus on those who commit serious crimes.
Keegan said the rewritten agreements also will call for better supervision and data collection of local police enforcing immigration laws.
With 160 deputies and jail officers trained to enforce immigration laws, Arpaio is the largest participant in the rapidly growing program. His officers have arrested about 1,500 illegal immigrants under the program, and placed immigration holds on more then 22,000 inmates. Four Democratic senators have called for an investigation of Arpaio's sweeps, concerned about accusations that deputies are unconstitutionally looking for illegal immigrants based on race and primarily target immigrants for traffic violations and other minor offenses.
DHS does not have data that shows whether the majority of immigrants arrested by Arpaio's deputies committed serious or minor crimes but the department plans to request that data from ICE, Keegan said.
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(From L to R) Tamaryn Hendler, Bernard Tomic, Caroline Wozniacki (a dead-ringer for Katie Couric), Olga Savchuk and Katarzyna Piter gathered for, what else, Mexican night during Tradition-ICAP Liverpool International Tennis Tournament.
Is this what's called "paying your dues" for young ballers on the tennis tours?
My apologies, really...
(Thanks for tip David!)
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Friday, June 13, 2008
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Quote of the Day: Rafa
- Rafael Nadal response on Kei Nishikori's potential
After taking a set of the French Open champ at Queen's Club, Kei must be feeling pretty good. And to get those props from Rafa, I'd say his future's looking pretty bright.
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FASHION FIX: Nicole beaten by Bethanie in Birmingham but crushes American with Reebok style
Here are two things I haven't written about in a while: Nicole Vaidisova + Reebok. Why you may ask? Well, Nicole had been on a 6-match losing streak and Reebok hasn't been worth writing about until now.
The Czech finally broke the curse with a 6-1, 6-3 first round win over Frenchie veteran Natalie Dechy at Birmingham and won her next match against Ekaterina Makarovato to make the quarterfinals. But, alas, the good times weren't meant to last as Nicole was blasted today 6-3, 6-0 by fashionably crippled Bethanie Mattek working bebe.
The 19-year looked great, though, in her white Reebok tank dress with a ruffled hem - a classic look with a touch of femininity. A perfect look for the green lawns of Wimbledon (sans the sky blue visor.)
In any case, a tough loss to the American Nicole but at least you won the fashion battle today. Need proof? Check it:
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A-Rod gives Outside magazine and inside peek, works out hairy situation
Andy Roddick, who's being supported by a fashion-y Brooklyn Decker as he defends his Queen's Club title this week, is featured on the cover of Outside magazine working his recent hairy situation out. It's amazing what hair stylists can do, right?
The mag also shot some behind-the-scenes video of the American baller and, in his usual dead-pan way, he "talks about what he would be doing if he wasn't on the pro tour and his honeymoon plans with fiancé, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker."
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
VIDEO VAULT: Verdasco gets naked for a cause
Fernando Verdasco, who I think has one of the best tennis baller bodies around, got naked for Cosmopolitan magazine. No I didn't stutter.
The Spaniard speaks about the photoshoot and reveals it's to benefit a charity that deals with prostate cancer, for which is grandfather died.
Okay - did you hear me? FERNANDO VERDASCO GETS NAKED. Fine, just watch:
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Forbes lets us know that Fed, Maria, Serena + Justine are famous and well-paid
Tennis has some of the most powerful and well-paid celebrities in the world. Like, duh.
Forbes just released their annual "Celebrity 100" list which ranks celebrities based on "earnings, then factors in media metrics like Google hits, press mentions as compiled by Factiva, TV/radio mentions from Lexis/Nexis and the number of times an A-lister appears on the cover of more than 50 consumer magazines." Wow - that's so scientific!
Anyway, Roger Federer, Maria "Shriek"apova, Serena Williams, and Justine Henin all made the list this year. Here's their ranking and what the mag had to say about our ballers:
Fed - (rank: 23) The world's top tennis player won $10 million in prize money in 2007—and another three grand slams. He recently signed up for 10 more years with Nike, one of the biggest deals ever in tennis.
Maria - (rank: 61) After the recent sudden retirement of Justine Henin, Sharapova moved to the top of the WTA Tour rankings for the fourth time in her career. She won her third Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open in January. In the past 12 months, she has renewed her endorsement deals with Canon and Tag Heuer, and she'll be getting double what they previously paid. She also has signed on to be a face of Sony. Also in her portfolio of global sponsors: Colgate-Palmolive, Motorola, Nike and Pepsi.
ReRe - (rank: 69) The younger Williams sister is back with three tournament wins so far in 2008 after chalking up only three wins in the three previous years combined. She signed a $2 million deal with Hewlett-Packard that adds to her hefty endorsement income, and she partners with Kraft, Nike and Wilson. Her $19 million in career prize money is the sixth highest among female tennis players.
Justine - (rank: 81) Henin shocked the tennis world with her sudden retirement in May. She is the first Tour player to quit while ranked No. 1. She had a phenomenal 2007, winning 10 of the 14 tournaments she played in and became the first woman to snag $5 million in prize money in one season.
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PHOTO OP: Top ballers hit the skids at Queen's Club
Slippin' n slidin' seemed to be the name of the game today at Queen's Club (wait isn't the clay season kaput?) Not one but three ballers hit the skids on the slick grass today but managed to dig out wins - and isn't that all that matters?
Rafael Nadal defeated Japan's rising star Kei Nishikori 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, Andy Murray avoided serious injuries to his groin and ankle defeating the talented Latvian Ernests Gulbis 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 and Lleyton Hewitt dismissed Frenchie Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 6-4.
(images via Getty)
Labels: Andy Murray, Lleyton Hewitt, photo op, Queen's Club, Rafael Nadal, tennis
FASHION FIX: Stacey watches Fish fall, channels Brooklyn's trench-style/fly-away moment
Mardy Fish's fiancee, Deal or No Deal's Stacey Gardner, was spotted at Queen's Club watching her husband-to-be default from his match against friend Andy Roddick with a left ankle injury after losing the opening set 6-7 (5).
Stacey looks to be working the same trench-style/fly-away hair moment I spotted Brooklyn Decker in yesterday. Love. Plus, the spring scarf is a big trend this season so she hits the mark there as well. But I'm not loving the shape of her sunglasses - makes her face look bugged out or something.
In any case, I'm getting excited about seeing the ballers' significant others getting their fashion on in preparation for their oh-so-glam Wimbledon moment. Who'll be next? Stay tuned!
(image via Getty)
Labels: fashion, Queen's Club, Stacey Gardner, style, tennis
Mystery solved: Murray's hot friend revealed, one more to go
A-ha! One mystery solved in the case of Andy Murray's hot-ass friends.
The cutie on the far right of the picture from yesterday's post is Venezuelan Dani Vallverdu, the Brit baller's doubles partner at Queen's Club this week and old friend from the Sanchez-Casal Academy days.
Andy's site gives us the low down on Dani but doesn't let us in on which "team" he plays for (sorry Isa!). Let's take a read:
If you've seen the doubles draw for the Artois Championships, you'll have noticed that Andy is playing with his good friend and junior doubles partner Dani Vallverdu.
Dani is a a four time All-American college tennis player based at the University of Miami where he's a business management major.
He's also an old classmate of Andy's from the Sanchez academy in Barcelona and has since gone on to represent Venezuela in Davis Cup.
The guys play Richard Gasquet and Nicolas Mahut in the first round, so we caught up with Dani to find out a bit more about him.
Ed: So how did you and Andy first meet?
Dani: I remember being at Sanchez, playing on a hardcourt there, and I was told to play with him. I thought he was pretty confident in himself! A couple of days later we had dinner together at the college and I realised I had the wrong impression of him. He's a really nice guy; we've been good friends ever since.
Ed: Did you guys come into contact much at Sanchez?
Dani: Yeah, we practiced a lot, but he travelled a lot too. You know, he would be gone for a couple of weeks, and then he would come back. It was fun when he was based at the dorms, but then he moved. It was a bit harder to see as much of him then.
Ed: You guys had a decent record in junior doubles right?
Dani: Yeah. We started playing when we were 17, played five tournaments together. We won four of them, but had to pull out of the fifth; I had to go play qualies for the US Open juniors. We were good.
Ed: We don't see so much of him on a doubles court, what was he like to play with back then?
Dani: He's an unbelievable doubles player. He's got great feel. You know, we had a lot of fun on court together. He didn't take it so seriously. Singles was his job, doubles was a different opportunity.
Ed: So playing doubles with him on the ATP tour must be a big thing for you?
Dani: It's been a dream since I was little, you know, to play on a show court at an ATP tournament. They're probably gonna be wondering who the hell this guy is! No, because it's the UK, I know we'll get good support; people will be cheering for us.
Ed: Nervous?
Dani: I'll be a little nervous for sure, first couple of games. But once I settle in, I'll just try my best, and enjoy it.
Ed: And what do the rest of your team back in Miami make of it?
Dani: They're really happy for me. We've been talking on MSN, so they know all about it. They'll be supporting for sure.
Ed: Can't imagine there were many grass courts in Venezuela growing up?!
Dani: Yeah, the first couple of days playing on grass was difficult, but I'm feeling rally comfortable on it now. I don't think it'll be a problem. It's my first time around a grass court tournament, and it's amazing. Everyone is talking about it, everyone is interested; you go out in Wimbledon village and you can see all the players. It'll be good.
Never really watched doubles but I may have to now...well, at least Murray's matches.
(image via andymurray.com)
Labels: Andy Murray, Dani Vallverdu, player sites, tennis
Dani still not healed, will skip Ordina Open
More bad news for Daniela Hantuchova.
The slender Slovak, who's been dealing with a stress fracture that kept her out of Roland Garros, is still not healed and won't be competing at the Ordina Open as she hoped:
It is very disappointing but after almost two months of being out of competition due to a stress fracture in my foot, I am still not completely recovered and I am sad to announce that I won't be able to compete at the Ordina Open this year. I really enjoyed playing in s-Hertogenbosch last year and was looking forward to coming back and preparing for Wimbledon. Unfortunately it takes a while to fully recover from such injury and I have to be patient throughout this recovery process. I hope to be ready for competition soon and I wish everyone a great week of tennis and much love to all the fans!Oh boy. As I've talked about previously, stress fractures suck and have ended a few baller's careers most notably Monica Seles'.
I really do enjoy the pureness of Dani's play though her tendency towards implosion makes me cringe (think: Aussie Open '08 semis people.) Let's hope her recovery continues, though, and she's back soon.
(image via dhantuchova.com)
Labels: Daniela Hantuchova, injuries, player blogs, player quotes, tennis
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
SIGHTING: A-Rod + Brooklyn reminisce at Nobu London
A bit o' romantic reminiscing maybe?
Andy Roddick and our new fave tennis fashionista Brooklyn Decker were spotted leaving Nobu in London. A-Rod returned to action this week in the English capital as the third seed and defending champion at Queen's Club. He defeated compatriot Robby Ginepri 6-7 (6), 6-1, 6-1 in the second round and showed no effects of the shoulder injury that kept him out of the French Open.
It was last year during the US Open that the tennis twosome were spotted getting their romance on at the restaurant's New York City location for the first time.
Pop quiz: Does anyone remember what Nobu London is also infamous for in the tennis world? Here's a hint - I wouldn't go into the broom closet if I were you...
(image via roddickwatch.com via justjared.com)
Labels: Andy Roddick, Brooklyn Decker, celebrity, tennis
Marion's got a hairy situation and Pocahontas is its name-o
Yikes Marion Bartoli.
It seems the Frenchie, who was "fed up" recently after her first round Roland Garros loss, has resurfaced as the top seed at the DFS Classic in Birmingham after a number of top ballers withdrew. Unfotunately her stay wasn't long as she was booted by Petra Cetkovska today 5-7, 6-4, 6-0 and later said she may miss Wimbledon after complaining of tendinitis still lingering in her wrist.
Let's not forget the duel-fisted groundstroker has tons of points to defend at Wimby after making last year's final and needs to get herself in gear.
Marion may also want to get her hairy situation in gear too. If you're a 23-year old woman on the world stage of tennis, do you really want to channel Pocahontas a la Tatiana Golovin?
Pretty it's not.
(image via Getty)
Labels: Birmingham, hair, Marion Bartoli, tennis
PHOTO OP: Murray has hot friends - who wudda thunk it?
Okay Andy Murray. Now that you're a gay icon and all, I guess I can ask: what's up with the cute boys you're hanging with at Queen's Club (no pun intended, I swear)?
Oh, and speaking of gay icon...you may not want to hang out in this pose too long:
Just something to keep in mind...
(images via andymurray.com)
Labels: Andy Murray, photo op, Queen's Club, tennis
FASHION FIX: Smart + sexy Brooklyn trumps Bec's beachgirl anyday
Brooklyn Decker, like Bec Hewitt, Jon Leach, and Barbara "Zen Master" Streisand before her, has taken her rightful place as supporter extraordinaire in the ballers' box. The swimsuit model is, of course, engaged to be married to Andy Roddick who is the third seed at Queen's Club this week.
I have to say I'm loving the trench-style shirt jacket, blackened aviator sunglasses and fly-away hair Brooklyn's working here. It's smart and sexy without being too casual. In any case, she's already won style points over the trashy beachgirl look of Mrs. Hewitt:
Let's be sure to keep and eye on their fashions, shall we?
(image via Getty)
Labels: Bec Cartwright, Brooklyn Decker, fashion, style, tennis
Letter to the readers: Down the Line! celebrates its first birthday today
Hey y'all,
Today is Down the Line!'s first birthday. I can't believe it's been a whole year since I started writing this blog. Check out the very first post here...
It's been a blast not only writing about the sport we're all obsessed with but to read the great comments left by readers around the world. Whether you agree, disagree, question, or tell me to fuck off (yes that's happened too...fun!), the reader comments keep me motivated and entertained.
So thanks to all of you for reading and I look forward to continuing to bring a raw + uncut look into the world that we all love: tennis!
P.S. - I'm always looking for contributors with a unique voice for previews, wrap-ups, and on-the-ground reporting from the Grand Slams so if you're interested in writing/blogging (and come with thick skin) hit me up with your best stuff at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Labels: housekeeping, tennis
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Quote of the Day: Uncle Toni
- Uncle Toni Nadal, Rafa's coach, on Roger Federer during his French Open drubbing
Yeah, he basically called it a day after he was first broken in the opening set. No fire, no intensity of any kind. Fed seems so mentally drained right now.
(image via Getty)
Labels: coach quotes, French Open, Roger Federer, tennis
Mirka may not want to look in The Mirror today
One of the UK's biggest tabloidy newspapers, The Mirror, had some harsh words about Sunday's Roland Garros bloodbath and they weren't directed at Roger Federer but at his constant companion Mirka Vavrinec.
In today's edition the paper said,
Roger Federer was highly embarrassed at Roland Garros on Sunday afternoon. And he's only himself to blame for letting his tubby fiancee Mirka sit in the stands.
Poor old Fed - he offered as much resistance to Rafael Nadal during the French Open as Mirka does when the dessert trolley appears.
Oh that's rough, but Mirka has been looking hefty these days. If only those pregnancy rumors were true...
(image via Getty)
Labels: media, Mirka Vavrinec, newspaper, tennis, The Mirror
PHOTO OP: Ivanovic returns to Belgrade, greeted by thousands at City Hall
Ana Ivanovic, who's looking pretty stunning here if you ask me, is finally enjoying the fruits of her labor as the new world no. 1 on the WTA Tour and reigning French Open champion.
The 20-year old attended a press conference in Belgrade, Serbia to discuss her great win and then, like Novak Djokovic after his win in Melbourne, was greeted by thousands of cheering Serbians as she stood on the City Hall balcony showing off the mini take-home prize.
(images via AP)
Labels: Ana Ivanovic, French Open, photo op, tennis
No rest for the wicked: Rafa's Paris celebrations end, arrives at Queen's Club
Rafael Nadal had one more stop during his Roland Garros celebrations before making his way to London for The Artois Championships at Queen's Club. The Spaniard is the top seed and features a great draw including Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick and David Nalbandian.
Rafa and his Coupe des Mousquetaires trophy stopped for a photo op on Pont Alexandre III bridge yesterday and Nike gave the French Open champ a new marquer l'histoire polo with the "2008" now crossed out to signify his fourth consecutive win in Paris.
But the ever-ready Rafa doesn't waste time with long, drawn out celebrations and hit the road for London. Today, the 22-year old was spotted with traveling coach Francisco Roig already sharpening his grass-court skills at Queen's Club.
(images via Getty)
Labels: photo op, Queen's Club, Rafael Nadal, tennis
FASHION FIX: Preview of Nike Wimbledon gear for Fed + Rafa
Will this be the scene again on the final Sunday of Wimbledon this year?
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will try to match their final efforts at Roland Garros from the last three years by making a third consecutive Wimbledon final. Let's hope for Fed, though, that he recovers from his beatdown by the Spanish steamroller and makes it that far.
And what about their Wimbledon Nike fashions? Of course, all ballers are required to work their whites so Fed will be wearing the Federer Wimbledon Polo in white + dark obsidian and the Control Short in white for match play. Rafa continues with the Global Power Sleeveless in white and the Nadal Longer Length Short also in white.
Additionally, Fed + Rafa will be getting new colorways in their popular Vapors and Cages.
But what will Swiss stylist be wearing this year as he enters Centre Court at The All-England Club? Stay tuned!
(images via tt.tenniswarehouse.com)
Labels: fashion, Nike, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, style, tennis, Wimbledon
Monday, June 9, 2008
FRENCH OPEN 2008: It's a wrap!
When the clay finally settled in Paris, a dominant champion grew his legacy while a new queen took her rightful place at the top of the tennis world.
What the men's draw lacked in drama and suspense, it gained with the awe of watching one baller pick apart all pretenders with surgical precision: Rafael Nadal. Though whispers of an upset began brewing when the defending champion lost early in Rome, the Mallorcan Matador silenced all speculation with his herculean effort these past two weeks, dominating the entire men's draw (making his semifinal Marquee Matchup a mismatch with Novak Djokovic), claiming his fourth consecutive Roland Garros championship (tying Bjorn Borg's record) without losing a set (first since Borg in 1980) and saving his most devastating performance for the final where he thrashed a lethargic Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 in the most lopsided Grand Slam final since 1977. And for the third year in-a-row, he prevented the world no. 1 from becoming the sixth man ever to claim the elusive career Grand Slam and keeping a perfect 28-0 record in Paris. Oh yeah, Rafa also turned a ripe old age of 22.
And what about Fed? Well, the top-ranked Swiss made his way through the draw with relative ease but hit some turbulence in his semifinal against Frenchie Gael Monfils. But no signs pointed to the what would become Fed's worst Grand Slam performance ever, only winning four games and losing his first 6-0 set since 1999. In a year where he has only one title to his name so far, Estoril, Fed seems to be suffering a crisis in confidence after his preparations for the season were disrupted after contracting mononucleosis. The 26-year old's favorite time of the year, however, starts now and he'll be looking for a record sixth consecutive Wimbledon title in a few weeks time. But with the state of his game in shreds after a sound beatdown by 2-time finalist Rafa, his dominance at the All-England Club will be challenged not only by his Spanish nemesis but from the all-courter Novak Djokovic. (BTW - is it me or did Fed look half-a-step slow on Sunday?)
Nole, for his part, lived up to his third seeding making the semifinals for the second straight year where he ran into the Spanish steamroller. Expect the Serb, though, to rebound nicely on the green grass of London where he made the semifinals last year. Centre Court seems a fitting place for the 21-year old to begin making his big push towards the top ranking.
Gael Monfils and Latvian Ernests Gulbis became the breakout stars of the French Open this year. La Monf, the former top-ranked junior, became the first Frenchman since Sebastian Grosjean in 2001 to make the semifinals at their native Grand Slam stealing a set from Federer, hanging with girlfriend Dominika Cibulkova and entertaining the home crowd with his explosive athleticism and jubilant celebrations. Ernests won as much praise for his lovely locks and nerdy cuteness as he did for his big game, making his first Grand Slam quarterfinal and taking old friend Novak Djokovic to his 3-set limit.
All hail the (new) queen! Ana Ivanovic made 2008 Roland Garros her coronation ceremony as she earned her maiden Grand Slam title by defeating Dinara Safina and ascended to world no. 1 on the WTA Tour - the first Serbian to ever hold the top ranking (that ringing you're hearing are the sponsors calling Ana!) She also played the best women's match of the tournament, going the distance with countrywoman Jelena Jankovic in their semifinal Marquee Matchup with no. 1 on the line and showcasing the most lethal forehand in the women's game and much improved defensive skills. A semifinalist last year at Wimbledon, it'll be interesting to see how Ana transitions to the grass and how she deals with the new pressure and expectation of a world no. 1.
The breakout star on the women's side, Dinara Safina, seemingly conquered here mental demons this fortnight defeating 3 top ten ballers on her way to the final including former no. 1 Maria "Shriek"apova after being a set, a break, and then match point down in their fourth round battle. Unfortunately the Russian had little left in the tank after two tough weeks on the terre battue, competing valiantly in the finals but eventually folding. Dinara, like her brother Marat, is not a grass court lover by any means and has already pulled out from Birmingham this week with a back injury. Don't expect a similar scenario for Dinara in London that she had in Paris.
Another baller who also pulled out of Birmingham this week is Jelena Jankovic. The Serb is still dealing with the brown-nosing right arm injury she received during the French Open. Regardless, JJ still made the semifinals winning the second set and going up a break in the third before eventually succumbing to Ana's more courageous play.
And what's there to be said for the efforts of Maria "Shriek"apova, Venus + Serena Williams, and Svetlana Kuznetsova? Not much, but we can be sure that at least the first three ballers will be feeling a whole 'lot better once their feet hit the grass. Sveta, well, we never know what fun (or misery) she'll bring to the party.
(image via Getty)
Labels: French Open, tennis
Sunday, June 8, 2008
PHOTO OP: Rafa crushes Federer for fourth consecutive Roland Garros title
The greatest clay court baller ever? Perhaps.
In one of the most thoroughly dominating performances in Grand Slam final history, Rafael Nadal turned the French Open final into a clay-court clinic, dismantling a clearly befuddled Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3, 6-0 and grabbing a fourth consecutive crown. The Spaniard tied Bjorn Borg's record for consecutive wins at the French and handed the world no. 1 his first 6-0 set since 1999.
Even Rafa felt compelled to tell a humbled Fed during the trophy ceremony, "I'm sorry..." Enough said.
(images via Getty)
Labels: French Open, photo op, Rafael Nadal, tennis


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I'm a new programmer to vb.net, so apologise for what is likely to be ignorance. I'm building a simple gui for a database interface, with many parent and child items within it. Upon a form I create buttons depending on how many items (parents/children). I've got the creation of the buttons thus:
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A steam engine chugs along the Mall. The Knights Templar parade down an unpaved F Street. Workmen finish an arch at the new Library of Congress building. And the paddleboats are lining up for a concert at the Watergate Barge.
In Washington Seen Fredric Miller and Howard Gillette bring together nearly four hundred unique photographs from the Gilded Age to the Great Society. Throughout, the focus is not on streets and monuments but on the complex relationships among the people of Washington—men and women, black and white—and the way they worked and lived.
At the second district police station, black faces among the white reveal that in 1878 racial integration had come—temporarily—to the nation's capital. (Sixty-five years later, marchers would demand the hiring of black bus drivers to help win the "fight against fascism.") At the Treasury Department in 1910, men in white shirts work as engravers while women count the newly printed currency; in an adjacent photo, a lone black man bends over a washtub in the "Cuspidor Washing and Sterilizing Room" of the Capitol.
Everywhere in these photographs is a richness of detail that captures a bygone moment with startling precision. Ancient tools and pipes surround a workman in the "plumbing room" somewhere in the depths of the Capitol. A pair of young girls stand, smiling, in a Depression-era back alley, every brick and paving stone sharp and clear. Assembly line workers in an eerily lighted loft peer out from behind a row of artificial limbs. A boy leans down for a better look at the well-stocked candy counter of a black-owned grocery store.
Here are Washingtonians at home and at work, at restaurant tables and lunch counters, in schools and churches, dancing the jitterbug and going to the movies, cheering the Redskins, the Senators, and the Homestead Greys. In the accompanying text, Miller and Gillette invite readers to enter into an intimate "conversation with the past," offering insightful commentary on the images of people whose faces cannot fail to captivate.
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On the English Wikipedia, the entry about the Research Works Act that aims to roll back the NIH's Public Access Policy is currently featured on the Main page under "Did you know" (bottom left in this screenshot):
… that the Research Works Act proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives would ban open access mandates for federally funded research?
In the top right of the same page, Open Access is featured a second time: as reported on Wednesday, the smallest vertebrate known to date – the frog Paedophrynes amauensis, originally described in PLoS ONE on Tuesday – was featured in the news section on Wednesday. It is still there, albeit the image has been replaced by one of the cruise ship Costa Concordia that shipwrecked on Friday off the coast of Italy.
As far as I know, this is the first time that Open Access has been featured twice on the Main Page of the English Wikipedia (happy birthday, by the way!). As for coverage in other Wikipedias, Paedophryne amauensis is still featured – with image – on the Main Pages of the Thai, Bulgarian, Finnish and Norwegian Wikipedias. I am working on a more detailed report for the January issue of This month in GLAM.


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ok someone asked me to do this so im gonna anyways here's the rules
1. Put your music player on shuffle.
2. Press forward for each question.
3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn't make sense. NO CHEATING!
How do you feel today?
holding on (not to sure if that makes sense but whatever)
What's your outlook on life?
make it bun dem (ok i rly don't know now... so life is gonna burn them, how nice)
What does your family think of you?
Pompeii (ok so im going to be covered in ash from a volcano, wonderful ^_^)
What do your friends think of you?
Rock N'roll (well i suppose that's a positive thing... i think)
What do strangers think of you?
SAIL (well...umm.. i honestly don't know eather)
What do your exes think of you?
THRIFT SHOP (lol well to be honest non of them did ever complement me on my fashion seance )
How's your love life?
just give me a reason (well im not sure what thats trying to say about me lol)
How will your love life be in the future?
ready or not (lol well at least its optimistic)
Will you get married?
scary monsters and nice spirits (yea well i hope i get a nice spirit lol)
Are you good at school?
PROMISES (well i cant say i understand that, obviously way to deep for me)
Will you be successful?
radioactive (ok... well i hope this isn't a reference to north Korea)
What song should they play on your birthday?
i could be the one (well there's much worse songs)
What song should they play at your graduation?
boomerang (now hats not very nice, i don't intend to have to go back lol)
The Soundtrack of your life?
levels (well i do kinda set myself goals)
You and your best friends are?
no mercy, only violence (well at least that wasen't the answer for my love life lol)
Happy times:
levels (now i realize that i need more songs... lol)
Sad times:
just give me a reason (yep more songs needed)
Every day:
sail (i don't have a boat lol)
For tomorrow:
radioactive (aarrggg dam u north Korea)
For you:
rock n' roll (well im not one to put on a show but if u want a stone then i suppose i can roll over for u to )
What does next year have in store for me?
set fire to the rain (oh cool, super powers!!!)
What do I say when life gets too hard?
pompeii (ok well idk how that fits)
What song will I dance to at my wedding?
SAIL (hmm not very romantic)
What do you want as your career?
radioactive (... ok this isn't funny, im not working for the Korean government)
Your favorite saying?
levels (i have nothing to say)
How will I die?
thrift shop (well i guess shopping isn't the worst way to go)
What will be the Title of this Journal?
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Bougainville President, Former Captors Hold Reconciliation
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, Nov. 26, 2012) – The president of Papua New Guinea's autonomous Bougainville Government, John Momis, says a reconciliation for him, held over the weekend, was vitally important for the province.
In 1997, during the Bougainville Civil War, Mr. Momis was taken hostage by rebels allied to the separatist leader, Francis Ona, and held for about a month.
At the time he was Bougainville's regional member in the national parliament and Mr. Momis says the rebels held him responsible for the PNG Defence Force being used to put down the insurrection.
Mr. Momis says he forgave his captors long ago but the weekend's formal ceremony at Tinputz was important.
"The leaders wanted to have the reconciliation soon after I was released, but it took such a long time because the member who represented them, for some reason or other, was not really committed, so it was important that this public demonstration of reconciliation be held and in a formal way and also in a traditional way, following the traditional ritual."
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Evangelicals' tactical retreat from politics
Russell Moore, the new president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, stirred up conservative evangelical culture warriors and stirred the hearts of their liberal counterparts by sounding a tactical retreat in the culture wars and a spiritual repositioning in Christ. "We are involved in the political process, but we must always be wary of being co-opted by it," he declared.
This has become a trend among Christian leaders, now that Reagan-era evangelical leaders are passing from the scene, and young people—who are themselves evidence of the lost battles against feminism and gay rights—are increasingly turned off by some of their parents' concerns. A couple of years ago, Focus on the Family announced it was backing away from political involvement and (true to its name) refocusing directly on family and marriage issues. The ministry's president, Jim Daly, said, "Christianity must transcend politics in order to change culture and politics."
In Rome, Pope Francis may be reading the same signs of the times. He caused a stir on a more global scale with his cautionary remarks on what has been the Catholic Church's focus on certain moral issues to the exclusion of others. "It is not necessary to talk about these issues [abortion, same-sex marriage, contraception] all the time. The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. … We have to find a new balance, otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the gospel."
This rethinking began in 1999 when Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson published Blinded by Might, their sober reflections on the one-generation reign of the religious right. The political push to save America for Christian culture, they noted, had lost decisively on every battlefront, and in the end did more harm than good.
A decade later, in To Change the World, University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter argued that our "desire to change the world" has been a form of self-assertion born in resentment. To detoxify our souls, Christians should "be silent for a season and learn how to enact their faith in public through acts of shalom rather than to try again to represent it publicly through law, policy, and political mobilization."
Reforming the church in doctrine and morals is hard enough. Purifying a decaying society that is bolting from the church seems comparatively hopeless. But God gave us government to serve Him for our good (Romans 13:4). So government needs to hear from Christians what God says is good. In a democratic society with a republican form of government, Christians have a love-obligation to make that known. In the public square, what Hunter calls "faithful presence" has policy implications.
But the manner in which Christians advocate what is right should testify to our faith in the one who directs the course of nations, and to our awareness that, as Moore reminds us, "We are not Americans first. We belong to another kingdom."


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posted at 1/13/2012 8:16 AM ESTwhat a disgrace to hockey and his team,he pulls off a hit like that then falls to the ice covering his face while ference is dragging him around the ice,lol, anyone who says this kid has skill, crap like that takes it away.not to quote vancouvers coach but someone needs to teach this kid a lesson.
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HootSuite creator Invoke acquires digital production house Thirdi
Vancouver's Invoke announced this morning that they recently acquired Thirdi, a local digital production house focused on making web apps.
Invoke is a full-service interactive agency, specializing in Web, mobile, and social app development and their in-house products include HootSuite, memelabs, Eat St. and Food.ee.
"Invoke has grown substantially this year," said David Tedman, the co-CEO of Invoke. "Acquiring Thirdi reinforces our growth strategy both in US markets as well as here in Vancouver."
Invoke's services — including social media and digital strategy, web and mobile app development, Facebook development and website design and development — position it to smoothly take over Thirdi's services which include social apps and online tools.
Invoke is now handling all of Thirdi's existing accounts and providing ongoing support for clients and their apps. Web, mobile development and social media support will be done out of Invoke's Vancouver office.
"This is a great move for everyone involved, and I'm excited it's Invoke taking over," said Matt Friesen, Thirdi's founder. "There's no doubt our clients will love their new agency. I spent the past five years growing Thirdi to what it is today and I'm proud to pass the ball to Invoke."


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June 4, 2016
2–8 pm
Studio Gang Chicago
May 27, 2016
5:30 pm
Sala F, Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy
Join the Avery Review and Columbia GSAPP at the Venice Biennale for the international launch of Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary.
May 27, 2016
6 pm
Studio Gang Chicago
Writer, author, and curator Geoff Manaugh discusses his new book, A Burglar's Guide to the City.
May 25, 2016
7-8:30 pm
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
Austin, Texas
Join Gia Biagi to find out why parks matter and how cities can benefit, as part of the Imagine Austin Speaker Series.
May 24, 2016
6 pm
Villa Aurelia, Rome
April 26, 2016
Studio Gang Chicago
April 19, 2016
Pruis Hall, Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana
April 5, 2016
Artscape Sandbox
March 9, 2016
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Kalamazoo, Michigan
February 19, 2016
The American Theatre
January 28, 2016
University Auditorium at Cartwright Hall
Kent State University
November 17, 2015
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago Cultural Center
Studio Gang convened a panel of community leaders, policing strategists, developers, and architects to discuss how design could help rebuild trust between citizens and police. Using the Chicago Architecture Biennial project Polis Station as a starting point, the panel discussed strategies, both spatial and social, that could repair relationships between police officers and the communities they serve.
November 6, 2015
The Hideout
Studio Gang's Senior Director of Urbanism and Civic Impact Gia Biagi talked cities, Polis Station, and more with The Interview Show's Mark Bazer.
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, and the Association of Architecture Organizations
October 29, 2015
Nelson-Atkins Museum
Kansas City
October 27, 2015
Grand Hyatt
New York
October 19, 2015
6 pm
October 18, 2015
Chicago Ideas Week — Architecture: From the Skyscraper to the Riverwalk
The Art Institute of Chicago
Gia Biagi, Senior Director of Urbanism and Civic Impact at Studio Gang, spoke with Carol Ross Barney, Sarah Astheimer, Bill Doerge, and Ed Purver about Chicago's enduring architectural influence.
In her first lecture at Columbia since 2012, architect, MacArthur Fellow, and GSAPP Visiting Professor Jeanne Gang presented the work of Studio Gang Architects. The Chicago-based firm's acclaimed portfolio includes the Aqua Tower and Columbia College Media Production Center. In Gang's work, Richard Meier notes a "continuation of Chicago's modernist tradition of structural rationalism. She does this in a way that is at once deeply personal, socially progressive, and incomparably innovative." Response by Amale Andraos.
October 5, 2015
2:15–3:15 pm
Austin Convention Center 6A
Rebuild by Design and HUD's National Disaster Resilience Competition sparked deep thinking about the relationship of cities to water. In a panel discussion at SXSW Eco, Gia Biagi, Studio Gang's Senior Director of Urbanism and Civic Impact, joined resiliency experts to discuss creative ideas to build climate resiliency into city and county infrastructure around the country.
October 4, 2015
10th District Police Station
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12 pm
Polis Station
On Sunday, October 4, Studio Gang, the Chicago Police Department, the City of Chicago, and 24th Ward Alderman Michael Scott Jr. inaugurated a new basketball court in the parking lot of the 10th District Police Station in North Lawndale.
The basketball court is a real-world example of interventions proposed by Studio Gang's Polis Station installation for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The court adapts a portion of the station's under-used parking lot as part of a larger effort to create spaces for social connection where officers and neighborhood residents can interact in positive, informal ways.


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Charter athletes head for college play
HUNTERSVILLE – Eleven Lake Norman Charter athletes will continue their careers at NCAA Division II and III schools and community colleges.
Pictured are (standing, from left) Nathan Lane (UNC Wilmington, diving), Harrison Sipe (Mars Hill College, football), Devin Ponton (Guilford College, baseball), Josh Ford (Wingate University, lacrosse), Nathaniel Mikuleza (Hampden-Sydney College, soccer), Zach Quest (Emory and Henry College, soccer), Davis Elkins (College of Wooster, tennis) and Jake Williams (Lenoir Community College, baseball). Seated (from left) are Cameron Kruger (Mars Hill College, football), Randon Hassell (Guilford College, lacrosse) and Ryan Jones (William Peace University, soccer).
Hough player picked for East-West All-Star game
CORNELIUS – Hough High's James Jackson was picked to play in the East-West All-Star boys soccer match July 23 at UNC Greensboro. Jackson, a senior, will play for the West squad in a game against the top seniors from high schools in eastern North Carolina. Jackson, a midfielder/forward, scored 14 goals and had six assists. He was all-state, all-region and all-conference.
Pro wakeboard tour headed to Lake Norman
MOORESVILLE – The MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour, presented by Rockstar, will host its second event of the season May 31-June 1 on Lake Norman. The event will feature the world's best wakeboarders competing in the Pro Men's Division, and the sport's future stars in the Overton's Junior Pro Men Series.
Competitors accumulate points based on their finish at each tour stop. The highest points-earner in the five-event season will be crowned the Pro Tour champion.
The competion on May 31 will feature qualifying rounds and is free to the public. Tickets for the June 1 finals cost $7 for online buyers. Gate prices are $13 for adults, $5 for ages 6-12, and free for ages 5 and younger. For information, go to www.kingofwake.com
Register for SouthLake Christian summer camps
HUNTERSVILLE - SouthLake Christian Academy will host several summer sports camps in June and July. The programs, managed by Southlake faculty and coaches, will include tennis, basketball, football, soccer, powder puff football and cheerleading.
For information, go to www.southlakechristian.org/student-life/summer-programs.html, or contact SouthLake Director of Enrichment Russ Clemmer, at 704-949-2310 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Davidson football adds nine to incoming class
DAVIDSON – Davidson College announced nine football recruits, which brings its total to 26 in the incoming class.
Grant Polofsky, a two-time all-state defensive end from Butler High, is the lone local product. Three others were all-state players, including quarterback John Cook (North Raleigh Christian) and defensive backs Ryan Felice (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Ben Kase (Oakton, Va.).
The other signees are running back Dustin Atchley (R-S Central), wide receiver Will Barefoot, Jr. (Raleigh Ravenscroft), defensive end Alex Behrend (Alpharetta, Ga.), offensive lineman Michael Bigach (St. Ignatius, Ohio), quarterback Jared Carr (West Carteret), linebacker Nate Casey (Westminster Catawba, S.C.), offensive linemen Chase Davis (Palmetto Ridge, Fla.) and Raphael Douglas (Patuxent, Md.), linebacker James Gessner (MacArthur, Tex.), defensive lineman Eric Haas (Walnut Hills, Ohio), offensive lineman Connor Harp (Milton, Ga.), tight end Obai Kamara (Landon, Md.), defensive lineman George Law (St. Mark's, Tex.), cornerback Ryan Leak (Scotland County), defensive back Jay Mize (Buford, Ga.), running back Patrick O'Connor (Thomas Jefferson, Va.), defensive lineman Nick Ragsdale (Cherokee, Ga.), defensive back Dylan Sandlin (Fort Bend, Tex.), wide receiver Tom Scheper (St. Francis, Calif.), linebacker Craig Stevens (Richmond, Va.), offensive lineman Travis Stubblefield (Justin, Tex.) and cornerback Landry Taylor (Chattanooga, Tenn.).
Sign up for Giants football
CORNELIUS – The Lake Norman Giants Pop Warner Football organization is accepting registration for its upcoming season.
The Giants are the largest youth football organization in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties and the second largest in the state. Play is open to ages 6-13 against others of similar size and age. Registration is online at www.lkngiants.com.
Register for JEFA football
HUNTERSVILLE - The Junior Eagle Football Association (JEFA) is accepting registrations for the upcoming season. JEFA is a youth tackle football league hosted by SouthLake Christian Academy and is open to families in the Lake Norman community. All practices and league games are on SouthLake's campus. There are three age/weight divisions for ages 8-13. Information and the online registration form is online at www.southlakeeagles.org/athletics-dept/junior-eagles.html#jefa


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Sand is placed at Monmouth Beach, N.J., part of the beach renourishment project for coastal storm risk reduction that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is managing in partnership with the state of New Jersey. (Photo by New York District, public affairs)
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Jul 25 2007Homer Does Monologue, Schneider Does Lohan
"What? No, I'm not making bad topical jokes about the astronaut from two months ago and catholic priests, I'm pretending to be Lindsay Lohan! Because she totally does that! Get it? I'm an actor."
It was brave of him to play Lindsay Lohan as a hacky, old school comic, not a lot of people would've take that risk. By the way, anyone else notice that even with platform shoes on, Schneider's still a head shorter than Jay Leno? Is he like 4' 11"?
Reader Comments
i want to crap on Rob Schneider's face. fuck, i hate him.
I only wish Chris Benoit was around to strangle Rob Schneider.
YAyyyy, I love Rob Schneider (he's an acquired taste and a really decent human being), I love Homer Simpson. Good for him for calling that BITCH out on TV.
It's times like these that I live this country.
I meant "love."
He's short cuz he's half Phillipino (I guess that's why he's small)
Seems to me that Jay Leno gets the same reaction as Homer from your average & confused channel hoper all across the world during his monologue.
Connan for the Tonight Show!, Joel McHale (from E!'s The Soup) for the Late Night Show! pleeeeeease!
this show was hilarious last night! glad that i caught it. i loved "lindsay's" ankle monitor cos it was actually a flask that she drank from during the whole interview. soo funny.
Damn that homer thing was stupid.
Rob Schneider was terrific in the first Deuce Bigalow but his other movies really sucked rocks. Making fun of Lindsey when she wasn't there seems to me a way to cash in on her persona for free - it's not like she wanted to go to jail...
I actually think Rob Schneider is really funny and dressed in drag he is far classier than Blohand.
That is all.
The SImpsons have had a ridiculously good run, but I think this movie and the promo around it will finally kill it off.
I zaw Rob pretend to be Lindzay
He iz zo fuckin cute az a girl♥♀
I zaw it on E.T. tonite....
victor...leave Jimbo alone
it wazn't juzt him, dude☺
Wow.. that Homer monologue was really atrocious. If that was supposed to be a Simpsons movie promotion it backfired massively, with me at least. Definitely not watching it till it comes out on dvd now.
RIP The Simpsons
what the hell are you talking about? i love leno!!! and the simpsons!!!!
Someone call Fox, quickly! they're still in time to cancel the whole Simpsons movie thing and sue Matt. I mean, Ben there did not like one Homer joke! that, by the way, it wasn't supposed to be funny as they were making fun on how unfunny Leno's monologues are.
Poor Fox. Good thing Ben was here to stop them.
11/ yea ...it wazn't juzt him...it waz the real FRIST!!! for real...
Dear 11 and 15,
Your hip misspellings make me die a little on the inside. Why don't you take a break from the library computer and read a book for a change? Besides, I think a little girl needs to type up a school paper.
Though somewhat simplistic, Homer's monologue touches everyone in the audience.
I'm sorry, but "The Hot Chick" is still one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
I truly love him.
And the "Makin' Copies" skit was probably a perfect 4 stars of annoying humor.
christ on a crotch: It's FILIPINO, not Philippino
and just because he's half-Filipino, it doesn't mean he's short
I wish Leno would have held him down and took a crap on his face while chocking him out...and then raped the corpse while Homer masterbated in the corner.
We're the Aristocraaaaaaats!
Jay sounds like a bad Seth McFarlane impersonation as a cartoon...
jay leno was on the simpsons a long time ago...he washed krusty's hair!
o man, how i miss those days...


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TV One has announced that the network will premiere R&B Divas LA, the newest chapter in the network's highly successful R&B Divas reality series franchise, via Video on Demand (VOD), on Sunday, July 7, a three days before the series' network premiere.
The VOD premiere marks the first time in network history that TV One will debut and promote an original series on VOD before it airs on the linear network, which will be on Wednesday, July 10, 10 PM/ET.
A follow-up to TV One's popular R&B Divas Atlanta series, the Los Angeles series centers on West Coast divas Kelly Price, Chante Moore, Dawn Robinson, Lil' Mo, Claudette Ortiz and Michel'le.
"The R&B Divas franchise has sustained heated buzz and anticipation among our viewers and we are delighted to offer them the LA series premiere early, via the VOD service," said Maureen Guthman, SVP Program Strategy and Acquisitions. "As with R&B Divas Atlanta, the Los Angeles series provides an intimate group portrait of highly respected female R&B artists, their professional successes and struggles, and the interplay between their careers, relationships and families - but with a uniquely LA flavor."
To further commemorate the R&B Divas franchise's success, TV One has saturated a full month of original specials and encores covering all things diva. June kicks off with an R&B Divas Atlanta Season 2 finale, Wednesday, June 19, 10PM/ET. Subsequent June and July specials include a two-part R&B Divas Atlanta Season 2 reunion and Season 2 marathon.
R&B Divas specials and airdates are as follows:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 10PM/ET: R&B Divas Atlanta Season Two Finale, "Till Divas Do Us Part" - With doubt still looming over the validity of Nicci's Brownstone charity event, Keke and Monifah are the only ladies to attend. The Divas attempt to organize a surprise birthday dinner for Keke where Monifah plans on sharing life changing news. However, with conflict between the Divas at an all-time high, the party doesn't exactly go as planned.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 10PM/ET: R&B Divas Atlanta: The Reunion Part One (one hour special) - Atlanta divas Faith Evans, Nicci Gilbert, Monifah Carter, Syleena Johnson, Keke Wyatt, LaTocha Scott and Angie Stone reflect on Season Two.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 6PM/ET: R&B Divas Atlanta Season Two Marathon - An encore airing of all eight episodes.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 9PM/ET: R&B Divas Atlanta: The Reunion Part Two (one hour special) - The Atlanta reunion concludes.
SUNDAY, JULY 7: R&B Divas LA Season One Premiere, "Lights, Cameras, Divas" - Kelly Price, Chante Moore, Lil Mo, Claudette Ortiz, Michel'le, and Dawn Robinson come together as the R&B Divas LA. These West Coast Divas attempt to take over the City of Angels with new deals, new drama, and new directions for their careers and their lives. The Divas are coming together for a secret project showcasing their talents, trials, tribulations, and most of all triumph. Success is the only option for these 6 friends -- but is there room for all of them at the top? (Available on VOD)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 10PM/ET: R&B Divas LA Season One Premiere, "Lights, Cameras, Divas" (TV One Network Premiere)


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BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch Director Suzi Fox says an unusual number of turtles on Sarasota and Manatee beaches are becoming disoriented this nesting season and wandering inland.
Mote Marine scientists recorded 23 instances of disoriented turtles. That's nearly twice the number of season totals from previous years.
Fox says turtles are seeking higher ground because their beach nest habitats are disappearing.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (http://www.ittybittyurl.com/Uqy) reports that educating the public has helped. The beach area has reduced artificial lighting and residents know not to leave out beach chairs and other trash because turtles can easily get caught in them.
Holmes Beach police officers also went through training so that when they are patrolling the waterfront they can also oversee nesting activities.
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02/28/2013Cardiologist Elected to Serve as a District Councilor Of NY's ACC ChapterThe New York State Chapter of the American College of Cardiology recently announced that Donna Denier, MD, FACC, has been re-elected by its membership to serve as the chapter's District 2 Councilor. The three-year term begins at the close of 2013.
"I am grateful that my colleagues are putting their trust in me to do my part to ensure that the organization fulfills its mission of providing quality educational programs and services and leadership and advocacy that advances the field of Cardiology and facilitates practical, sensible solutions to issues that affect the practice and advancement of cardiology in New York," said Dr. Denier.
Dr. Denier's primary responsibility as a district councilor is grassroots advocacy at the state and federal government levels. This includes scheduling meetings with local government as well as state and federal legislators, including members of the state senate and assembly and U.S. Congress, to discuss issues impacting the practice of cardiology and practical solutions to the issues.
Dr. Denier is a clinical cardiologist at South Nassau Communities Hospital's Center for Cardiovascular Health. She is board-certified in cardiology and internal medicine. Prior to joining South Nassau, Dr. Denier was in private practice in Franklin Square, NY and was also the chief of cardiology at NSLIJ Health System-Franklin Hospital.
Dr. Denier is a fellow in the American College of Cardiology and the Nassau Academy of Medicine and is a former member of the Congestive Heart Failure Task Force at North Shore/LIJ. She earned a B.S. degree from Long Island University-C.W. Post and obtained her medical degree from SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She completed both her residency and cardiology fellowship at Winthrop University Hospital.
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