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LOS ANGELES, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/15/13 -- En Pointe Technologies, a solution provider of IT products and services, today announced it is the partner of choice for deploying and implementing Microsoft System Center 2012 as part of its solutions offerings to customers across the West. As the rising leader in Systems Center solutions for end users, En Pointe helps administrators manage their IT environments across traditional datacenters, private and public clouds, client computers, and devices.
"We're excited to be regional partner of choice for System Center, especially with the latest version's enhancements and capabilities," said Herb Hogue, VP of Professional Services & Data Center Practice at En Pointe Technologies. "We value our long standing relationship with Microsoft. Working directly with their team of professionals and product groups allows us to maintain a deep knowledge of System Center and remain ahead of the competition."
In addition to helping customers implement the 2012 System Center Suite, En Pointe provides a variety of add-on services including:
- System Center 2007 to 2012 migration
- Windows 7 and 8 upgrade planning, application rationalization, and deployment consulting
- System Center endpoint protection, implementation, and migration
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- Incident management, problem resolution, CMDB, and IT asset management consulting, utilizing System Center Service Manager 2012
- Private, public, and hybrid cloud strategy
- Business continuity and disaster recovery solutions
En Pointe also works closely with vendors like LANDesk, Provance, HP, Dell, and others, to provide customized solutions to the end user using a variety of plug-in tools that tie into System Center. One example is LANDesk's Data Analytics tool which gives granular control and total visibility into an end user's inventory. By providing additional add-on capabilities, En Pointe can offer a more customized and comprehensive approach to System Center deployments, helping IT organizations realize an even bigger ROI during the first year of ownership.
Most recently, En Pointe closed major deals with a variety of companies across the U.S., including a large mutual fund company, power companies, a manufacturing company, private universities, and several others.
"En Pointe is dedicated to providing the best solution along with strong customer satisfaction as we architect and implement our customer's public and private cloud solutions," said Peter Renner, Director of Microsoft Professional Services. "Through the dedicated work of our architects and consultants, En Pointe has achieved Gold Management and Virtualization Microsoft competencies, enabling us to grow our partnership with Microsoft and become a thought leader in the System Center arena."
Microsoft's new licensing model for System Center 2012 provides organizations with an "all or nothing" licensing structure, helping reduce capital expense on third party management tools. The augmentation of monitoring tools, antivirus/anti malware, datacenter/desktop systems management, and help desk tools can reduce IT budgets by tens of thousands of dollars. En Pointe's System Center competency architects and consultants are poised to help IT organizations maximize their investments and deliver cutting edge management solutions.
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En Pointe Technologies is a national IT solutions provider that serves commercial accounts, government agencies, and educational institutions, with information technology hardware, software licensing support, and IT solutions. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Los Angeles, En Pointe is well represented in leading national markets throughout the United States. En Pointe has the experience and the technology to help organizations simplify the management of their information technology infrastructure. For more information, visit www.enpointe.com, www.linkedin.com/company/en-pointe-technologies, www.youtube.com/enpointetech, or follow @EnPointeTech on Twitter.
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Hi there We have a brand new set of Sram xo trail brakes available which we are looking for a quick sale on. These were purchased brand new through raleigh who are Sram's new distributor in the uk. They have not been used and are brand new in origional packaging. We are looking for £150 for the front and rear set. If you would like any more information feel free to get in touch thanks for looking
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2012 Specialized Demo 8, Frame less than a year old! £1600! Hi Guys and Girls. I am needing to sell my Demo to fund stock for my new store opening in November so need this gone by next Friday at the latest! The bike is mint! It has been professionally set up and its suspension has been tuned and serviced both front and rear. It has had a full service before being handed over to myself. The previous owner of the bike is one of my team riders whom looked after the bike meticulously. It has been used for a seasons racing so there are some scratches here and there but the frame is dent and crack free and mechanically is perfect. It has had whatever its needed including full bearing replacement before the bike was sent to myself so it is running spot on perfect! the spec is as follows: 2012 demo 8 medium frame. Bought late 2013 and not even a year old yet. Boxxer RC forks (Freshly serviced) Fox RC4 2013 with a TI spring - new condition. Renthal Chainring XO Chainguide Descendant Cranks with a new bottom bracket - only had a few rides. (Crank rub as pictured) DMR Vault Pedals ZEE Shifter and Deralier Renthal direct Stem, only a few weeks old - looks new! 2013 Nukeproof Bars (750) Yeti ODI grips Nukeproof Generator wheels (A few small dings in rear and 1 in the front) shwalbe tyres Avid CR brakes and rotors or Avid trail XO brakes. Nukeproof seat post and a Cutter seat to finish it off! I will include a brand new shifter and mech along with a brand new set of winter tyres as spares. Price £1600 ono
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Solid Magix All Models Available$1716 GPB
Welcome to our Pinkbike Store. We here at Stepup Cycles are working closely with solid bikes to bring you a UK direct sale store to offer top level service on all there products. Early 2015 we will have demo bikes available in store for customers to come try and for you to view. We are there UK spares and warranty specialist and have a full range of spare parts available 24 hours a day! Working closely with solid bikes to bring you a UK direct sale store gives you not only piece of mind but enables you to have someone here in the UK to answer any questions and offer full support for anything solid bikes/reverse components related! For more information on how we work as solids UK direct sale specialist please see the bottom of this advert for more details! 2015 Solid Magix comes in two variants. These are the Magix comp which is an entry level enduro bike with a great price and a great spec for the money. The latter is the Magix X11 which is a top spec enduro bike which has an incredible price for the parts included in the build! 2015 solid Magix Comp: Frame: SOLID Magix Fork: ROCKSHOX Pike RC 27.5", 160 mm Shock: ROCKSHOX Monarch RT3 High Volume 216x64 Deraileur Rear: SRAM X9 T2 Long Cage 10-speed Deraileur front: Shimano Deore 2x10 Cassette: SRAM PG-1050 11-36, 10 speed Chain: SRAM PC-1031 10-fach Crankset: SRAM S1000 GXP Disc Break Front: Sram Guide RS, 180 mm Disc Break Rear: Sram Guide RS, 180 mm Bottom Bracke: SRAM Grips: REVERSE Stamp, black Handlebar: REVERSE Black Line Headset: FSA Gravity SX 1 1/8" top, 1.5" bottom Hub Front: Reverse EVO 9 VR Multi Use Hub Rear: Reverse EVO 9 Pro HR, 142x12 Spokes: SAPIM D-Light black Nipples: SAPIM Alu 14 mm black Rims: REVERSE 650B FR, black, 32 h Saddle: REVERSE AM Seat Collar: REVERSE D34,9 mm, black Seat Post: REVERSE remote seatpost Shift Lever Rear: Trigger X9 10-speed Shift Lever front: Trigger X9 2-speed Stem: REVERSE S-Trail 50 mm, 8°, black Tires Front: Schwalbe Hans Dampf Tires Rear: Schwalbe Hans Dampf Chainstay Cover : Reverse Price: £1716 this includes free tracked shipping, standard solid warranty and 1 year extended support from ourselves. 2015 Solid Magix X11: Frame: SOLID Magix Fork: ROCKSHOX Pike RC 27.5", 160 mm Shock: ROCKSHOX Monarch Plus RC3 High Volume 216x64 Deraileur Rear: SRAM XO1 11-speed Cassette: SRAM XG 1195 10-42 Chain: SRAM PC1170 11-speed Crankset: TRUVATIV XO1 Bashguard Disc Break Front: SRAM Guide RS 180 mm Disc Break Rear: SRAM Guide RS 180 mm Bottom Bracket: SRAM Grips: REVERSE Classic black Handlebar: REVERSE RCC-750, carbon Headset: REVERSE Twister 1.5"-1 1/8" Hub Front: Reverse EVO 9 VR Multi Use Hub Rear: Reverse EVO 9 Pro HR, 142x12 Spokes: SAPIM D-Light black Nipples: SAPIM Alu 14 mm black Rims: REVERSE 650B FR, black, 32h Saddle: REVERSE AM Seat Collar: REVERSE D34,9 mm, black Seat Post: ROCKSHOX Reverb Stealth 300,9x420 Shift Lever Rear: SRAM Trigger XO1 11-speed Stem: REVERSE S-Trail 60 mm, 8°, black Tires Front: Schwalbe Hans Dampf Tires Rear: Schwalbe Hans Dampf Chainstay Cover: Reverse Our price: £2340 this includes free tracked shipping, standard solid warranty and 1 year extended support from ourselves. How can you offer these bikes as well as solid? aren't they only direct sale now? Yes solid are direct sale now. We are working with solid bikes to set up there own uk direct sale store here in the uk to offer uk customers better service across the board. So whilst we are a separate business and we sell other brands too we are also working as solid bikes uk. We work under terms set by them so the prices you pay are the same prices you would get from there website. We will in early 2015 be opening a small showroom where you will be able to come view the bikes and demo them we are also hoping to hold demo days so you can try the bikes out. Offering this service and working as solid bikes uk enables us and solid bikes to offer you a better service now that they have gone direct sale. You will have a team here in the uk to deal with who will handle any requests or questions you have. It means you have support for your products here in the uk and overall that means you get a greater level of customer service from solid bikes! something they pride themselves on having at very high standards. If you would like more information on this feel free to contact us. We have already many references from customers who have purchased solid bikes through ourselves and are more than happy to send these on. Many thanks! Stepup cycles/solid bikes uk
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May 21, 2013This is my second consecutive Noah B. movie starring Greta Gerwig which just fell flat for me. Sure, it's somewhat real, it's clever, and urbane, but it's also very catty, nasty, and trendy. I chuckled twice in the movie, but didn't fully laugh once. I wanted to like it and laugh more, but the movie didn't pull it out of me.
May 28, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If you want to relive your 20's something screaming scenes that involve either yourself or watching your roomies, friends, lovers, ex-lovers, or maybe lovers about paying the rent...go ahead & enjoy...I did not. One of the very, very few movies that I have walk out on.… Expand
Jun 20, 2013A big disappointment. I wanted to like it, but I couldn't. Frances is terribly self-absorbed and oblivious to the feelings of those around her. Up until the last five minutes, every chance she has to make a decision, she make a bad one. That isn't realism to me; in real life we make a mixture of good decisions and bad ones. Only the ending, where she finally wakes up, saved the movie from being a complete disaster.
I saw this with our weekly movie group, and none of us gave it thumbs up.… Expand
Jun 3, 2013This movie could have been a good story about an almost 30-year old trying to find herself. Or about how infantile this generation is. Could have. The potential is there. But it is not. With a notable exception of a few funny lines, it left me bored, looking at my watch and mentally scratching my head why on earth it got critic reviews so high...
Jan 15, 2014The movie is only 86 minutes long and yet after the combination of being bored to death and listening to one of the most irritating characters in movies this year, it felt like 186 minutes. The movie seemed to rely on the quirkiness of the main character, which faded very quickly.
Jun 16, 2013This movie attempted to live completely by the quirky nature of its main character. Unfortunately for me, she was quite unsuccessful as a person, in a career, and somewhat boring after the first two or three quirks. I rank it as a movie that the critics give high points for an attempt to be different and uncommercial. This movie did not ring my bell in any way.
Dec 29, 2013Worst "critically acclaimed" film of the year.
I walked out, which I haven't done in a very long time. The last one was "Greenberg"...
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Aug 26, 2014Frances is an "apprentice" dancer - which is hard to believe since she is very ungainly. Apart from "dancing" she never worked a real job in her life. Frances shares an apartment with BFF Sophie, in a sort of a "celibate" lesbian relationship (at least, from Frances' side).
Both girls have boyfriends, but Frances has no problem with dispassionately dumping hers, when he proposes she moves in with him. Unfortunately for Frances, Sophie actually moves in with her man, Patch. Frances, feeling hurt and betrayed (more strong lesbian vibes) cannot pay rent and moves in with another couple of slackers. Then she gets "temporarily" sacked from the dance company she works for and "sort of" runs out of money.
This does not stop her from flying to Paris for a weekend and from refusing a job as a "mere" accountant, which would not fulfil her artistic delusions. She meets with Sophie and Patch and comes to terms with them getting married. In the end, Frances accepts the "normal" job and moves into her own apartment, while maintaining her status as "undateable".
Shot in black & white, by director Baunbach, the movie tries and fails miserably to look like a mix of French nouvelle vague (specifically Jules & Jim) and early Woody Allen (specifically Manhattan).
Gerwig plays Frances as a lethargic young woman, lacking elegance and discipline, which presumably are needed for such a competitive and physical profession. Sophie is played by one of Sting's children and one of Streep's daughters plays another dancer, completing the cast of VIPs. Neither shines, but I guess being mediocre actresses will not hurt their careers.
Baumbach and Gerwig were (still are? Really don't care) a couple during the filming. Actress/director relationships usually produce mediocre movies, and this is just another one to add to the list.… Expand
Oct 6, 2014This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How have so many people enjoyed this movie? I thought it was poorly acted, predictable, then unbelievable all at once. I had no empathy whatsoever for Frances, who was annoying, if not depressing, to watch. There's no story here, really. So she ends up as a choreographer for a pretty embarrassingly bad dance scene at the end of the movie? Who cares? I wanted her to give up on her dream 20 minutes into the movie. What's the message here: we should all get sentimental over mediocrity? There were no depth to the characters, either. So surprised this came from Noah Baumbach!… Expand
If films were gestures, this one would be a perfectly timed shrug, with the smile to match.
Although the monochrome photography will invite comparisons with Manhattan, Frances Ha is closer in spirit to Godard than Woody Allen. Anchored by a charming performance from Greta Gerwig, it's as light and breezy as a walk in Central Park, and just as refreshing.
Charming, poignant and often very funny, Baumbach and Gerwig's latest collaboration is a joyous portrait of an unformed personality that should strike chords of recognition in all who watch it.


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CARS Conversations November 2014
"The hand bone's connected to the...silk worm?"
Lathadeui 'Karuna' Chintepenta moved more than 8,000 miles from Hyderabad, India, to Dover, Delaware for her present job as a Post Doctorate Research Associate in the College of Agriculture and Related Sciences.
In Kakinada, a town near Hyderabad, Karuna taught graduate level biochemistry and microbiology for 4 years before moving to Hyderabad, India where she worked as a Research Associate and conducted research for a biotech company. Her research focused on isolation and production of a protein "Serratiopeptidase" that is produced by bacteria "Serratia marcescens" which are present in silkworms, which can ultimately heal bone joints. Though Karuna enjoyed conducting research, her desire to return to academia and student interactions led her to seek her PhD in Biological Sciences.
After obtaining her PhD and working on her continuous research, Karuna decided to travel to the United States in search of new approaches and studies in science and technology. She immediately started looking for jobs and found the Marine Biology position posted by Dr. Ozbay, professor in DSU's Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. "I felt like it was the right thing to do," Karuna says.
As a post doctorate research associate, Karuna manages the labs, and the work of undergrad and grad students; assists research technicians; and writes grants. Along with those duties, she is also responsible for her own research in Blackbird Creek, Delaware, which includes finding the symbiotic microbes associated with native marsh plants; the microbes may help farmers grow crops in drought and other abiotic stress conditions.
At home, Karuna's full attention goes to her husband Sridhar Mannem, her young son, Teja Mannem, and infant daughter, Sreeja Latha Mannem. She also enjoys listening to Indian music. When asked what she likes about her job she replied, "Everyone here (CARS) is like family. When I came to the United Sates, I left behind my son and family. I came alone and I became homesick. But everyone is friendly." She also gives a lot of credit to Dr. Gulnihal Ozbay, who is very supportive of her and also gives her tons of encouragement. Karuna also enjoys the various outreach programs available through Cooperative Extension and having access to Dean Dyremple Marsh via his open door policy.


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I made two Peter Pan collar jackets last weekend. One jacket is for my soon to be born nephew and the other for my best friend's baby. I followed Kwik Sew's 3127 pattern and used two different fleece – a stripy one and a dinosaur one from the baby sleeping bag I made the week before. I've had my first sewing disaster though as the fleece I started with does not want to bounce back after stretching. You can see the making of the jackets on my blog:
Fleece, resin snaps, woven cotton as lining for the collar
Sep 13, 2012, 02.05 AMby elisana
Sep 10, 2012, 09.40 PMby Vanessa Velasquez
Oh, so cute!!!! you really put effort and love in your sewing, what a luckies babies!!!
Sep 12, 2012, 01.07 PMby vchan38
LOL, thank you! I enjoyed the whole sewing process as well!
Sep 10, 2012, 01.15 PMby prettysewinggirl
oh goodness! so cute! I recenty discovered the joy of sewing for little ones!!! will be sure to visit your blog, thanks for sharing!
Sep 10, 2012, 04.47 PMby vchan38
Thank you! I'm enjoying baby sewing a lot, I think I'll get a shock when I restart adult sewing again (with all the fittings and pattern alteration….)
Sep 10, 2012, 10.11 AMby Mary Athey
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Review: TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT
A conversation with her husband and further dialogue throughout reveal that she has been voted out of her job because the boss said it was a big bonus or her. She's been away from work for a while and it's been found that 16 can do the work without her seventeenth. Why her? That's the pills. She is recovering from a deep depression and on the eve of her return to work she is being rejected by co-workers who value a short term gain more than her. Tough times.
Her husband recognises the teetering his wife is suffering and gently stirs her to action. If she can convince the boss to run another ballot and then nine of her workmates to vote for her she'll have a job. And so she does, one by one, approaching each with an increasingly fragile confidence to plead her case.
This is my first Dardenne brothers film. I've known about them from about Rosetta onwards but haven't pursued any of their work until now. I have nothing against their choice of stories from the poor and downtrodden of the world it's just that given the choice of the kitchen sink or some zappy concept-rich sci-fi ... Well, I'll eat that sentiment. Far from being the grimly worthy Belgian Ken Loach this film shows a plainer and lighter hand with none of the affectations I find irksome about Loach.
First thing I notice is that there is no score. The only music we hear is from the scenes where there are music players. Only once does this line blur and then only very subtly at a rare moment of joy. Apart from that it's all atmos tracks and library sound. Marion Cotillard must carry the burden of this film alone. She does. Seldom has such disassembling vulnerability felt so intimidating from a cinema screen.
There is no time play of flash backwards or forwards; we begin at the start of the string and end where it runs out. We are going to follow her for the time in the title. The rest is up to us.
The visual style is deceptively plain. The streets and buildings Sandra walks through form a kind of geometric monkey puzzle which seems to keep her at a distance even before she encounters each coworker who might as easily refuse as agree to her plea. She is keeping herself aloof through medication but there is something in the shapes of the backgrounds that constrain her. One of the dingy apartments she must visit is accessed through a dirty green and claustrophobic stairwell. The car she travels in to her appointments with either triumph or disappointment is forced to become her home, however temporarily; its confines are a comfort rather than a constraint and she seems to wear it like a doona.
Each meeting with one of the people she hopes to convince contains a physical line between the two. Whether it's a crack in a wall, a fence or a door jamb it's there every single time. Even when the two move a few paces another line will be established to separate them. This does not feel like clever auteurism but plain function, letting us know that the filmmakers are keeping the visual side unambiguous, providing a sturdy setting for dialogue that carries a lot of weight, however unaffected it sounds.
I'm surprised to be compelled to call this film about the cold reality faced by the lower percentile of society elegant but there really is no better word for a piece that lays its issues so simply and delivers its punch with such effortless skill: this is an elegant film about suffering. The old saw about amateurs bringing attention to the difficulty of their work and professionals making it look easy applies here. If you can see the broken juggling plate in a Ken Loach film (I think he's a great filmmaker but at his worst he's a barking P.E. teacher) the Dardennes here at least will not let you spy the slightest falter.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Review: WHIPLASH
Andrew is a young drumming student at an elite NYC music school. The teacher who shuns him in the opening scene is Fletcher, the fiercest instructive monster on screen since Sgt Hartman in Full Metal jacket, is given a career second-act performance by JK Simmons, a kind of Vladimir Putin with New York smarts. Andrew who must endure the bruising nurture for his emergence into life is given life by Miles Teller whose compelling plainness lifted The Spectacular Now from indy okayness to something strong and dark.
Fletcher's approach is to weaken bravado by removing self-confidence, switching drummers after a very few bars at a time to kill the idea that the kit belongs to any of them. We can see the strategy and also that its subjects cannot and why. When we see Andrew taking his newly-built cockiness into his family and romantic life we witness gross mistakes made through the intoxication of hard narcissism and we wince. But we also project on to the downcast eyes of Andrew, as he is leaving a brutal marathon rehearsal, the exhaustion, anger and perfectionism of a student who has just experienced the rewards of belonging to commitment. And later when one of his narcissistic flubs returns to bite him we are allowed to linger on his sadness and deflation, feeling them acutely.
Acting sorted, how's the travel? Well, if you thought watching someone tap a drum kit for minutes of precious screen time on end spelled death of attention know now that the frenetic MTV style editing of someone playing complicated jazz drumming feels like the heavily taxed alertness of a drummer. Drumming is hard. I can play an ok guitar or keyboard and even stay in tune on a theremin but I can never get past the first bar at a drum kit; it's like swimming for two with one; the sheer coordination of it kills me long long long before I could think of anything creative to do and that's just servile rock common time. When, as one of the lightning cuts of one of these sequences shows, the time signature of a piece includes the numeral 14 it's like the second you understand a maths problem before it slips away and your brain clanks back to normal gearing. We see the parts of the drum kit as details of central control as the loose syncopation rustles and thunders around them. The bandaging of bleeding finger joints and ice buckets remind us of the boxing ring rather than the cross and the jaw slapping lesson in keeping exact time hurts but feels necessary. The sheer intensity of musical performance has not to my knowledge be so intimately captured in fiction cinema as here. Don't compare it to Shine but Jimi at Monterey.
Music runs through this film well outside of the moments when it is played digetically. A scene in the rehearsal room involves a kind of choir of buzzes and clicks as the players set up but it isn't some campy sampler sonata it sounds natural but pushed so that you know it's intended; a kind of movie score concrete. The editing itself has a jazziness that belies the cold-seeming re-enactment of the school performance of jazz and that tension keeps up until the end which presses and delights if it is not meant to surprise. This story is made of music.
On that, if the idea that this is a pursuit of excellence tale about not just a jazz drummer but an academic jazz drummer puts you off then think of this: the struggle to deliver individuality shed of its placental egocentricity, a struggle mounted between a promising neophyte and a violent teacher, is more usually told in a sporting context but here it is expressed through one of our greatest pleasures. We are discomforted to know this but are as glad of our own effort as that which we witness. And this is all done with cinema.
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Labels: J.K. Simmons, Miles Teller, review, Whiplash
Monday, November 10, 2014
Review: INTERSTELLAR
This is a real cinematic feast. Nolan knows his movies and trusts you to follow him without the need to wink at this reference to Kubrick or that subversion of convention. He creates a layer that is constantly plain and compelling. Motivation, location, information are all administered at the optimum doses. This frees him up to do some fancy footwork with his concepts and serve all that with some muscular imagery. When we arrive at Saturn in full IMAX we feel the heft of how we got there as we marvel at the scale and majesty without the faintest whiff of cheese. When we sit in the middle of a discussion of the drastic time shift involved in being on a planet with strong gravity we are rivetted. When we drive through the whipping chaos of a cornfield or leave the Earth's atmosphere we feel privileged to be in a cinema. Christopher Nolan, champion of celluloid shooting and projection and the IMAX format, adds that pleasurable solemnity to the thrill as much as a Kubrick or John Ford did.
The central tale of a parent and child reconciling their separation over time and distance, an arc older than Noah's, weaves so beautifully into the outer layer of breathtaking concept that its delivery almost masks the fact that you pretty much got it half way through. This is not just a sci-fi setting, it's real sci-fi. The substance of this film contains real awe and joy.
It's godless. Apart from the curlywurly preponderances 'pon love which could (but don't) plummet into the porridge of the concept of spirituality, this story does not suggest a sentient cosmic force. What we do get is something you'll work for yourself about halfway through but something so beautifully delivered that it will leave you smiling. That's one less globe of Gouda to deal with in an epic so stuffed with them. Unlike in Prometheus there is none of the "choose to believe" nonsense.
The casting is sensational (for an exception see below). Matthew McConaughey again shows us why he's been appearing in such gift roles for the past few years as he stands as tall as a Gary Cooper, comments as wryly as a Roland Coleman and is as chiseled and present as a Gregory Peck. His performance actually transcends the cheese he is frequently asked to munch on. The scene of parting between him and his young daughter is genuinely heartrending. This is is large part due to her casting by the young un Mackenzie Foy who if she can stick with it and get into a YA lit adaptation around nineteen will wow us all again.
Why is Michael Caine in this film? He loiters near the teleprompter, his old man slacks stapled to his ribcage, delivering trailer soundbites and pages of exposition with a kind of wall-eyed somnambulism. He exhibits no affinity with his lines at all except for the Dylan Thomas quote about raging against the dying of the light which, on reflection might have been appropriated by Nolan as Caine was caught on mic murmuring something that did mean something to him. Chris, next time cast someone who cares.
There's a moment in James Cameron's hokey but fun The Abyss where Ed Harris is getting kitted up for a possible suicide mission and is asked by a character "why him?" It's a good question: he's the captain of the sub and has so far done a bang up job at the helm, fending off the openly loony military maven and taken the crew through some very nasty straits. So, why should he be the one to deprive his vessel and crew of his highly capable leadership? "Someone's got to do it," he says. And we are meant to think," oh, ok, it's just a movie, let's go with that."
In Interstellar these big goofy cheese sandwiches are down to Matthew McConaughey and feel so clumsy that they bring all the fast thinking to the big grinding halt that happens when the picnic whinger finds out the wrong kind of tomato sauce was packed. During a pretty fascinating dialogue about the strategy to approach a planet with a big time shift issue (an hour spent there is seven years everywhere else) Cooper (M Mc) flips a digital display of the planet to find a white board which he draws a stick figure version of exactly the same picture and suggests a viable plan to minimise the time damage. The hard core sci-bods around him light up with recognition and approval. One smiles: "that could work." Really? It could work? Even I understood the plan. They knew everything else about the problem on earth and yet not one of these family-sized brains thought of it back on Earth. Really? Really?
Later Cooper rattles off a perfectly serviceable list of the biological reasons for the existence of love and a scientist overrides them with obfuscation so bullshitty it might have been written by M. Night Shamylan. It's like the "that's what I choose to believe" line that undermined the entirety of Prometheus (well, there were other things but that's the one that killed it for me).
I am usually happy allowing the credibility stretches of a piece of fiction to slide along and let the story take wing but Interstellar contains so many of the "if you knew that thing could do that minutes ago why the hell did it take you so long ....?" moments that it might as well have been as dire as Prometheus. It is saved, to its credit, by being less abjectly idiotic as that one, though, despite these winces.
This really should have been around ninety minutes long. It's not a blockbuster with brains so much as a brainy film with bloat. If you can track it down there's a Spanish film called Time Crimes which deals with time anomalies in a dizzying but complete fashion and contains none of the baggage in the hold of Interstellar to make it feel as big as its ideas. I also think of the bonus disc in David Lynch's Lime Green Set. That disc included a feature length collection of scenes left out of the final cut of Wild At Heart and it's instructive viewing. Each of the scenes not only makes perfect sense but could have come from any conventional film, despite sharing the look and setting of the released version. What Lynch excised from his film was everything ordinary and created something that, while not my favourite of his, is in its every frame and sound signed by him. Nolan has heavy talent as a filmmaker but is too given to quite needless playing to the gallery. Could I suggest the gallery would be better pleased if he eviscerated his films of everything but that core whose intellect invites us in so that we thrill at our own discovery as the gifts meet us from the screen? I'm not asking for Tarkovsky; Nolan, the Nolan of Memento and The Prestige, will do just fine.
So, how do I deal with a movie I have to keep apologising for if I am to publicly admire it? I remember the pleasures of the ride to keep from feeling dirty.
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Labels: Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, sci-fi, science fiction
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Thirteen for Halloween
No, I haven't bought into the bend-over-for-the-empire practice of Americanising my October but I am a fool for any opportunity to make a list of horror films. This time, though, I'm going to do two, one for the horror-curious and another for those who just want the genre for the occasion.
While I as an Australian born and raised didn't experience Halloween as part of the calendar I knew about it from American shows and kind of envied the costumes and rituals. Most of all I liked the mood and always considered horror fiction nourishment for the imagination and I loved how even though I've never believed in ghosts I would be haunted awake in the pre dawn by the stories of M.R. James or Sheridan LeFanu. The Christmas tales from UK television added location and atmosphere. In the end I had to admit that I lived in the tropics which see neither snow nor fog and when there were human atrocities in the air they had the weight of close reality. Otherwise there were the movies and I never tire of the best of them nor discovering new avenues into the self-confrontation that genuine horror demands.
As you'll read, I'm biased toward originality and genre-warping but these qualities are by no means prerequisite for a good horror fiction experience. There's a lot of real cinema to be had with movies that just behave themselves in their margins and deliver what they say. There is, of course, a spectrum of how well this is done.
Hey, there's more than thirteen here! It rhymes with Halloween .. and count the genres in the second section
For non-horror fans...
Contemporary Mainstream
|Wahhahahahahahahahahahahahaha! which
is the kind of dialogue I hear when I see
something like this.
There is a notion afoot that these are generationally restrictive so if you're too old you'll gurmpily reject them and if you're young enough you'll dig them. If that worked I'd prefer the 1982 Thing over the 1956 one and Friday the 13th over The Exorcist (wrong in both cases). Sorry, it's not me being old, it's these movies being mediocre.
But quite seriously, if you aren't into horror but want to use the occasion, these will work.
Remakes of 70s and 80s genre. It's often observed that it's only bad movies that should get remakes to correct the errors of the past. Instead, we get the errors of the present whose makers have learned nothing from the originals. You can count the as-good or better remakes on one hand. Like the contemporary Hollywood fare mentioned above, these are not taxing and have been declawed so that only the serviceable gore gets through and none of that disturbing concept work to bring things down.
Remakes of films originally in languages other than American. If you can't read subtitles you shouldn't be reading this. Seriously, if getting close to a good arresting idea is blocked for you by a series of titles in the most basic of English (as they have to be for speed alone) then all you can experience is a series of someone else's ideas at a cultural remove. Not it's not Let Me In but Let the Right One In. Not The Ring but Ringu (seriously, this one involves a major failure of interpretation when in English). Not Quarantine but .REC. The American version of Pulse has a line about the use of gaffer tape common to both films: "It just seems to work somehow." Why didn't anyone in Kyoshi Kurosawa's original have to say that? Because they wanted YOU to work it out. I have known no exceptions to this rule that didn't take a lot of indulgence and apology.
Would you really rather hear a note perfect cover band play your favourite songs or the original band? If the latter aren't available wouldn't you at least want some interpretation to be part of it rather than a re-enactment? You wouldn't? Fine, the remakes are over there. Let's just never talk about music.
Mainstream gothic
|All the scares of the Ghost Train ride
Horror Comedy
|This is a good one. It's almost the only one.
Well, that should do you. Or ....
For horror fans and the curious of heart...
Body Horror
Found Footage
See also Lake Mungo: local and vocal masterpiece. You will NOT expect the climactic scene. Did you see it? What did you see?
See also Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) had two remakes on a par but this original still feels like the best with its American dream gone wrong or horribly right.
Also, the only available dvd and blu-ray of the Exorcist are of the long and plodding "version you've never seen" which is the only one anyone after 2000 has seen. You can get the original in a deluxe package from overseas sources so, if you're interested, hold off until you can see the shorter, tighter and scarier one.
The Brotherhood of Satan. Low-budget big concepts as the children of a small town vanish and toys come horrifically to life. Youth and age clash in a kind of Lewis Carrol verite.
Short Form
See also Halloween (if it doesn't say 1978 somewhere in the details you are watching the wrong one).
Sui Generis
See also Martyrs which starts like any Euro revenge piece but takes a terrifying turn halfway through. The violence dissipates into control and the control has a disturbing force. I'll sing with Mark Kermode on this one, though: CAUTION! This is a VERY rough ride.
See also Lips of Blood:Jean Rollin's mix of perve and unnerve with a genuinely poignant ending to surprise.
See also The Wolf Man: uses pathos rather than threat to suggest the pity of heredity but also the anger in response to it. Lon Chaney Jr might have had a few things on his mind about that issue playing this role.
See also Black Sunday, Bava bravura in black and white with a mad eyed Barbara on the roam.
So, happy happy Halloween.
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Labels: Halloween, horror cinema
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Review: GONE GIRL
This story has too many spoilers to go further than that. Something that isn't a spoiler is that this is a David Fincher film so there is a whole lotta filmmakin' goin' on.
At one point in this film a character comments that calling a bar The Bar is very meta. To do that in a David Fincher film is cute enough but Gone Girl is not Fight Club or Social Network so instead of folding itself into the general metafest the line scrubs up as meta as we are aware we are watching a David Fincher film. The line is played throwaway but is key to getting to know this piece about personae public and private and that most strident of personality tests: marriage.
As a probable meta comment on this Fincher has shot big and clean this time. The silver retention shadow detail and grime-on-the-Rolex-band of everything he's done with an urban setting is absent here. And apart from some fancy footwork of the flash back and forth of the present timeline and diary scenes is kept in strict reign with titling and narration. Everything plays up front and fair. So you know there's a lot hiding in the light.
At two hours and twenty minutes Gone Girl never bores but does keep to a leisurely novelistic pace that might make Fight Club fans restless. The pace can be wearyingly even. It can, at times, feel like three episodes of a tv series sewn together. Then again, the evenness is clearly deliberate. It gives us a constant examiner's eye view of the events (and some do demand close inspection).
Also, it allows us time to appreciate some of the strongest film acting we will be seeing all year with everyone on screen going beyond the call. We are led into some finely wrought duplicity and are often compelled to believe accounts that we might otherwise resist and that is good reading of good writing, pure and simple. There is one moment in particular (the only detail I'll give is creme brulee) in which two characters separated by the intimate distance of a tv screen reach a perfect allignment. We don't expect it but unlikely as it would be if played poorly, we don't doubt it for a moment.
So, while my sense memory still complains about unnecessary length the delight I take in re-examining the evidence as laid so patiently out by Fincher and co resonates. We love our fictions, even those thrust upon us, but then we are compelled to.
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Labels: David Fincher, Gone Girl, review
Monday, September 15, 2014
Review: BOYHOOD
What you get is a journey through a family album. So what? Well, a family album can tell you a lot. I had a great job a few years back digitising collections of glass negatives from the early twentieth century. Among them was a series of family photos taken in the back yeard of a Melbourne house and spanned decades. They were not rich people but could dress for church which is what they did for their annual group photo. When World War One comes up the oldest brother is suddenly in a slouch hat and puttees. And then he is absent forever. Sometime after the flu year of 1919 the mother vanishes never to return. The garden, a mix of food and flowers goes to seed and eventually disappears. At some point in the early twenties the father, too, vanishes and in his place is a slightly younger man who can hold a grin for the camera and doesn't mind if it catches the glint of his pocket watch. The photo is black and white but that watch is gold plated. Uncle made good? Someone. No one else is happy. I took extra care on that set. They were glass negatives and delicate to begin with but the extra care was from being so moved by what I was witnessing.
Richard Linklater at his best is painstaking. Whether it's deceptively meandering like Slacker or the Before series or disciplined and tight like Me and Orson Welles, he's one to sweat the small stuff so the big stuff shines. And so it does here as we turn page after page of family history, smiling knowingly, laughing at sibling competition, wincing uncomfortably at the leavings of dysfunction and pain.
We come to know how Lynne (Patricia Arquette) makes such hasty and poor judgements in her choice of partner but we don't judge because we see how hard she works to keep everything afloat. One of those poor judgements is, of course, Mason Snr (Ethan Hawke) whose dad-of-convenience learns to accept his responsibilities not through a sudden trauma but over time. The other two big mistakes we meet are believably magnetic. We see, too, the saddening ease by which a parent or parental figure can fall in a child's eye from natural authority and trust to disappointing weakness. And we understand the weakness, the shift to self-medication in the face of unbearable self-dissapointment.
Ellar Coltrane, who goes from seven to eighteen in the running time, develops as we would expect him to: quietly confident and increasingly capable of concealing profound anger at the unfairness around him. We come to know his flaws and the plaguing doubts that nurture them. When he is brought up for these by two authority figures their chiding at first feels annoying but soon proves accurate. Mason Jnr is slow to take direction, self-sabotaging the way that every teenager can be. When he is compelled by his teacher to go and photograph a local football match even his friends tell him to turn around and shoot the game. He's been perversely taking pictures of the crowd. He's a kid and resents authority more because it inconveniences him than from any nascent revolutionary fervour.
It is Lorelei Linklater (yes, director's daughter) who diverts us throughout as the mischevious Samantha, Mason Jnr's sister. She sneaks torment of her younger brother, throwing pillows at him while yelling a version of Opps I Did It Again. She serves him at the dinner table in a made up language and protests after he does that she only speaks perfect English. There might not be a single scene that includes her that doesn't involve some infruiating and genuinely funny smart-arsery. As with Ellar Coltrane, her personality arc feels natural. You will not be surprised at her response when the moment comes to make good for all those years and give her brother a proper sororal hug.
While what I said at the start of this review is true. You don't have to care about the epic-scale feat of this movie's production. However, if you do care, you will experience the same pleasant alienation at moments as you might have at the sight of the rescaled actors in Lord of the Rings. You really are seeing people grow up in front of you AND it looks and feels like one film. A girl from one scene is visibly older in a later one. Her only line is, "I'm thirteen," answering a question put to her by Samantha whom we remember first seeing as an eight year old. That alone, feeling as big as life and small as fiction at once, is an epic moment.
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Review: PREDESTINATION
We already know that the bartender is a time travelling agent on the trail of the infamous Fizzle Bomber whose 911-like atrocity is (in the guy-walks-into-a-bar time) soon to take place. Could he have his man here? Is he recruiting from the down and out who have no ties and nothing to lose? Well, it's complicated.
I already knew this new piece from the Spierig brothers was based on a mind bending short story I'd already read. It's an easy read by virtue of its length but it does make your head spin and, despite all the author's influential novels, I'd call it his masterpiece? Author? Title? Even that much would spoil this film. See it and check the credits for the story. But then read the story.
So what is there to say if I can't spoil this extremely spoilable movie?
It's two central performances by Ethan Hawke and Sara Snook give good gravity to this tale which, if played a hair below seriousness, might easily collapse in the first act. Snook brings a cold loneliness to her character, sustained through some sizeable changes. Hawke's isolation has more padded assurance but his thousand kilometre stare when alone shows inescapable pain. Without these neural fields buzzing this film would be just a cool idea. The short story, similarly remembers to go beyond the brain-tearing central conceit and deliver a big boomy sadness. It's the weakness that makes it strong.
The various time periods are expressed by pallette as well as decor and costume; brown 70s bar, Kodak-bright 60s colour etc. This is good show-not-tell and the dialogue extraneous to the pretty strictly adhered bar-room exchanges of the short story is kept light so that much is expressed without spoken exposition. I appreciate this feather touch with the necessary expansive material as it allows some weighty thinking in through what always feels quite breezy. The only time this is compromised is in the closing scenes where too much is explained. The notion at the heart of this story is a fragile one, for all its power, and would be better served by the trust in the audience we began with. It doesn't ruin the film, by any means (the Spierigs are going from strength to strength: may they work long and prosper) but a few lessons in restraint from the oft recalled 70s might have gone a long way.
A vote for Peter Spierig's score should be recorded here: a fine mix of orchestral and electronic is kept to supporting the energy rather than overwhelming it. Always a pleasure.
This film about balancing what can change you with what you can change is a sustained howl we all have loosed at some time. It's fitting that this time an approach that involves an educated retrograde approach recollects the special feeling of sci-fi's great eras (late 60s, early 70s, early 80s). Hang the over-explained ending, this movie feels like something.Yeah, that'll do. It feels like something the way that Blade Runner, Liquid Sky and The Quiet Earth felt like something: seamlessly produced or gaffer taped together, you've just seen a movie. That's more than I can say for most of what I've seen this year.
See it. And read the story. In that order.
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Wedding photos of Lenny Dykstra and Tony Soprano breaking bread? Sign me up!The embattled former big leaguer's son Cutter can now add "Jamie-Lynn Sigler's fiance" to the adjectives preceding his name.The 23-year-old infielder popped the question over the weekend and, naturally, he and his new bride-to-be ran to Twitter to tell their legion of followers. The pair was introduced by mutual friend (and fellow ball player) Nick Swisher."Jamie couldn't be happier. Cutter is the perfect guy for her," a friend of the couple told US Weekly. "Although they have only been together for a year, they both know that this is it for both of them. They are both on cloud nine as are their families and friends."Cutter Dykstra spent last year with the Washington Nationals Single-A affiliate, the Hagerstown Suns. He hit .291 and swiped 32 bases. Sigler, of course, played Tony Soprano's daughter Meadow for six seasons on, you guessed it..."The Sopranos".Perhaps, the younger Dykstra can get in on his fiance's former ficticious family business and whack some of the fellas out to get his pops?
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Manchester BOE approves renewal levy, school calendar
Two major items were discussed at a special meeting of the Manchester Local Schools Board of Education (BOE) Jan. 21.
The board approved the renewal of a five- year, 6.9-mill operating levy that will be on the May 6 Primary Election ballot and approved the school calendars for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years.
The levy was first approved in 1989 and has been approved every five years, said Superintendent Sam Reynolds. The levy generates $682,250 a year and is approximately 5.26 percent of the General Fund.
The levy would cost the owner of a $100,000 home $103 per year, Reynolds said.
The levy funds general operations of the district, including purchased services, textbooks, transportation, salaries, supplies and extracurricular activities, said Reynolds.
"This is critical to our operation, and the community understands this is not a tax increase," said Reynolds.
In another matter, the board approved calendars for the next two school years. The calendars were voted on by the Manchester Education Association (MEA). The MEA votes on vacation days and when school should start and end, and determines professional days and conference days, said Reynolds. Administrators determine grading periods and schedule interim and final exams.
For the 2014-15 school year, the first day will be Aug. 19 and winter break will be Dec. 22 through Jan. 2. Spring break will be March 30 through April 3, and the last day of school will be May 29.
For the 2015-16 school year, the first day will be Aug. 18 and winter break will be Dec. 21 through Jan. 1. Spring break will be March 21-25, and the last day of school will be May 26.
The MEA wanted the school year to start earlier than in past years in order to give teachers more days before Ohio standardized tests are administered, said Reynolds. The Ohio Achievement Test is administered to students in third through eighth grades in the spring, and 10th-graders will take the Ohio Graduation Test in the spring, he said.
"Next year, teachers will be evaluated based on the achievement of students, and they are concerned about having enough time to prepare their students for testing," Reynolds said.
Another change schools will face next school year is the elimination of calamity days, said Reynolds, and Manchester has potential calamity makeup days scheduled for Saturdays, if needed.
According to the Ohio Department of Education, the school year will be measured in hours, not days. Students in first through eighth grades must have 910 hours and students in ninth through 12th grades must have 1,002 hours, excluding lunch.
"The district is analyzing the new law and will determine how makeup days will occur. We will decide between various options," said Reynolds.
In other business, the board approved Charlotte Bunner as a regular cafeteria employee and Evelyn Duve as a substitute aide.
Reynolds extended congratulations and thanks to board members who were elected this past November: Richard Sponseller (board president), Kelly Dolan and Randy Hoppe.
"You are making the choice to step forward for children," said Reynolds to the board members. "You are making very important decisions for Manchester's children and are putting your hearts out and taking responsibility."
The next meeting will take place Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. in the Administration Building, located at 6075 Manchester Road.
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Made with fresh plums and a crunchy oat topping, this crisp is a lighter alternative to classic fruit pie. It goes over well with the women in my church group.—Deidre Kobel,Boulder, Colorado
8 Servings
Prep: 25 min. + standing Bake: 40 min.
3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar,
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
5 cups sliced fresh plums (about 2 pounds)
1 tablespoon quick-cooking tapioca
2 teaspoons lemon juice
In a small bowl, combine the oats, flour, 1/4 cup sugar, brown sugar,
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N.A. Juniors Game Night: 3/5Submitted by chad on March 6, 2008 - 09:23
Seattle Thunderbirds 5 @ Prince George Cougars 2
G Riku Helenius, SEA: Win, stopped 22 of 24 shots
C/W Dana Tyrell, PG: 0-0-0, E, 2 PIM (tripping)
After battling a knee sprain and a tandem goaltender on a hot streak, Helenius made his first start since February 20 and earned a win for Seattle. Seattle sits in fourth in the Western Conference, four points ahead of Everett and five ahead of Kelowna. Tyrell and PG have long been out of the running for a playoff spot. Tyrell has just two assists in his last five games.
Vancouver Giants 4 @ Kelowna Rockets 1
G Torrie Jung, KEL: Did not play
Vancouver outshot Kelowna 35-17 in the game. Jung has not started a game since February 23 and has not won a start since January 30. Kelowna is currently in sixth in the Western Conference with a secured playoff spot. They could move up as high as fourth with a strong finish, but will more likely be the fifth or sixth seed.
The WHL regular season ends March 16.
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AHL Game Night 3/5: Admirals at SharksSubmitted by pete on March 5, 2008 - 22:45
Denis drops the donut on Worcester.
Marc Denis stopped 32 of 32 shots faced to register the shutout victory.
First Period
NOR Smaby, (1) , 1:44
NOR Smolenak, (9) (Henrich, Quick), 10:21
Second Period
NOR Kearns, (5) (Rosehill), 17:13
Third Period
NOR Keller, (11) (Quick), 18:23
Matt Smaby, Denis, and Adam Henrich were the game's three stars.
Kevin Quick registered his first two points as a pro with a pair of helpers.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
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Artyukhin PlayoffsSubmitted by yakacack on March 5, 2008 - 19:39
Not that many care but me still, but Arty has scored in two straight playoff games for CSKA. They won the first 8-0 and the second 6-1. One goal was on the PP and the other was even strength.
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BCHL Playoffs Game Night: 3/4Submitted by chad on March 5, 2008 - 09:52
BCHL Coastal Conference, First Round
Game 4: No.4 Burnaby Express 5 @ No.5 Victoria Grizzlies 2
Best of 5 Series tied 2-2
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Game: 0-0-0, 2 PIM (high sticking)
Series: 4 GP, 2-0-2, 4 PIM
The decisive Game 5 will be played tonight (Wednesday) in Burnaby.
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N.A. Juniors Game Night: 3/4Submitted by chad on March 5, 2008 - 09:47
St. John Sea Dogs 1 @ Lewiston MAINEiacs 3
D Michael Ward, LEW: 0-1-1, +1, 2 PIM, 1 shot on goal
Lewiston, the defending QMJHL champions, is holding down the fifth seed right now in the Eastern Division, but is just two points out of third and seven points out of first with five games left. They have clinched a playoff spot.
Everett Silvertips 5 @ Tri-City Americans 2
D Dane Crowley, EVT: 0-1-1, +3, 0 PIM
Seattle Thunderbirds 5 @ Prince George Cougars 1
G Riku Helenius, SEA: Made 1 save on 1 shot in 3:50 of work.
C/W Dana Tyrell, PG: 0-1-1, E, 0 PIM, *Third Star*
Jacob DeSerras started for the T-Birds but left late in the third period. Helenius finished the game and is expected to start tonight (Wednesday) in a rematch with PG. Seattle is currently two points ahead of Everett for the Western Conference's fourth seed. The WHL is using a new playoff format this year, where the division winners (2) in each conference automatically get the top two conference seeds and the rest fall in line in a traditional format. Previously teams would play within their own division during the first round (1-4, 2-3).
An example of some WHL craziness from this game (per Jim Swanson of the Prince George Citizen): "(Prince George goaltender Real) Cyr stopped the (Holloway) shot, but slid into the net, across the line, and after a lengthy discussion involving the four on-ice officials and the goal judge, it was correctly ruled a goal. Interesting that the third period was played without a goal judge at that end -- the story is the original goal judge walked away because he disagreed with the referees' decision. A child sat in his chair for part of the period, but no one sat in the seat for the final 15 minutes.â€
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