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Skip to comments.Oops, Sorry' Doesn't Let Israel Off the Hook
Posted on 08/01/2006 7:57:21 PM PDT by Nachum
IN THE WEST, Qana, a small Lebanese village southeast of Tyre, is believed by some to be the place where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine. In Lebanon and throughout the wider Arab and Muslim world, however, the village's name has for the last decade been synonymous with something else: the killing in April 1996 of more than 100 men, women and children who had taken refuge in a U.N. compound, hiding from Israeli shelling directed at Hezbollah. Over time, Qana has been sculpted by Hezbollah into a symbol of martyrdom, a Shiite version of Sabra and Shatila.
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...then you would think the citizens would wise up there and get the Hezzies out since they seem to be bombed every now and then for said reason.....keep it up....we shall keep bombing....no "time outs" for you guys
How about, war's a nasty business, sh*t happens?
Perhaps this Liberal idiot would like to get the facts straight before condemning Israel. But, when did the MSM ever care about the truth? No blame for the Hezzies is there?
Mr. Shatz has the right last name ,because he's certainly full of Shatz !!!
Shatz should get the Noam Chomsky Award for the self-hating Jewish anti-Israeli rant of the day.
If "sorry" won't help, I would try "too bad, so sad"
This clown Adam Shatz is Jewish. That's the sad part.
If you harbor terrorists, you are as guilty as the people you harbor. It's just that simple. Don't like it, either kick them out, or get the hell out of the way.
I'll reserve smart-aleck comment on this one. This "journalist" needs to learn how to to research. OTOH, I have an opinion too, can I get paid for it?
I guess this writer hasn't heard that there were only a few dozen killed, and that it's likely the building came down 7 hours after the Israeli airstrike, likely because the Hezzies brought it down on the women and handicapped kids they brought in (and were they alive or dead when the Hezzy demons brought in the "victimes")?
One of these might be his email
What this has shown anyone paying attention is that there is no more patient a country than Israel and that Hezbollah uses that to its advantage to kill Israelis.
"Oops sorry..."
Worked for me. I feel fine about it!
Mr. Shatz, the LA Times and the MSM don't care.
It's Israel's fault!!!
Or, maybe, it's Bush's...
Another example of a Jew from the "Lost Tribe" of Israel - the STUPID TRIBE -- most of whom found their way to America...the only place on the planet where the stupid can thrive and multiply...
Semper Fi
Hezbo made a mistake too ..they were trying to kill civilians,old men ,women,and children, and accidentally killed 2 soldiers
Too many people miss the point. Civilians die in war.
There are some obscure small towns that suffered mild damage from bombs and rockets. London, Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and a few others.
Estimated casualties were between 150 and 200 thousand.
His namesake is very fitting.
la timid times needs to get some email
"This clown Adam Shatz is Jewish. That's the sad part."
"Oven Jews" like Adam Shatz are beyond contempt. I despise them more than the Islamofascists.
This author won't let Israel off the hook but turns a deaf ear to the suffering and murder perpetrated by terrorists like Hezbollah. Nice objective article! (sarc)
Why doesn't Hezbollah call an end to hostilities if it's all so terrible? If Hezbollah waled away today, the Israelis wouldn't take over Lebanon, they'd go home to their families. Even the fogged out left knows this, so they shout and wave their arms to distract us.
And what better place to stage a 'massacre'?
Believe it or not a sister in law of Chomsky was on a local talk show. She was a hopeless peacenik which Noam Chomsky is not
Sorry ....that does'nt fit the MSM mantra.
If he's going to throw this in as "A FACT", tells you a whole lot about the rest of the 'story'. Plus as Rush says, people like this are LIBERALS FIRST, Jewish second
Shatz - "Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Israel did, in fact, make the same mistake twice in Qana or, to take another recent example, in Gaza, where a family of eight spending an afternoon on the beach was killed by an errant Israeli shell in June."
CNN - The explosion on a Gaza beach that killed seven people last Friday was caused by explosives planted there by Palestinian militants, not artillery fire from an Israeli navy gunboat, Israeli military sources said Tuesday.
An Israeli commando unit used the beach to enter Gaza for a mission in recent weeks, prompting the militants to place the mines, the sources said.
Intelligence information gathered by Israeli investigators showed that Hamas quickly removed the remaining mines from the beach after the blast, the sources said.
Hezbullah has the option of not firing from residential areas or surrendering.
In a war you can't complain that one side killed too many on the other side, it's war. Where was this guy when suicide bombers were killing women and children? Did he complain that Israel didn't kill enough of the bad guys?
The ironic part is that the terrorists would kill this guy without batting an eye simply because he is a Jew, if he survived a terrorist attack he'd probably die of guilt
How about the fact that news reports today are saying that it is now believed that Hezbollah held the children there, launched a missle to Israel knowing there would be retaliation, to do an ugly PR job on Israel.
Hezbollah has alway been masterful at turning the tables on their enemies in the PR arena.
Just once, let's hear the the UN condemn Hezbollah or any other mass murdering group for purposely killing Israeli children at school, in buses, at home in their beds, at restaurants, at play? I don't buy it. Remember the big fake job the Palestinians pulled in Jenin 4 years ago. They claimed they had suffered a massacre - same words as now - turned out to be vastly exaggerated and the media with any integrity quietly admitted they backed a lie.
Guess the LA Slime did not get the updated information that Qana was another staged "Atrocity" like Jelin. It a lie put out by Hizbulla.
"Yes, dumbasss. Israel is deliberately targeting terrorists"
Plus, does Hezbollah drop leaflets or notify the villages in Israel that they are going to be bombed or targeted?
Bias is as bias does.
ummmm.. yes it is more acceptable. Its the difference btw accident and deliberate. If I punch you in the face on purpose is that worse than your 2 year old accidentally hitting your nose? this guy is an idiot. If you want to end civilian casualties try to resist using them as shields.
Israel responds with restraint, responding to an unprovoked attack, and inevitably there are some civilian casualties - this is war buddy, stuff happens - and suddenly "no apology is good enough."
Yes, this is assymetrical warfare, all right. It is assymetrical because the media and fools like this guy make it so. Give the terrorists a complete pass, and act as if Israel has to follow the laws as if it were a private citizen in the US. It's completely ridiculous. This author is a moron. The US faces the exact same problem when the terrorists attack it - we must be "so careful" not to hurt a single innocent fly overseas, whereas the terrorists not only have no such limitations, they don't even get criticized in the media. I just read stuff like this and can't believe it.
They are not a "lost tribe" they are jews, that are not lost, they abandoned ship a long time ago during the battle.
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 2, 2006
HOT AIR.com - VENT with Michelle Malkin: "WHAT HAPPENED IN QANA?" (Video)
August 1, 2006
Note: See Map. See Video.
August 01, 2006
A large one.
btw, (for the "reporter") WRONG KANA, MORON! the biblical cana is in ISRAEL! been there.
should i warm up the flame deflector?
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Changing the World is Child's Play
Changing the World is Child's Play is a lovely little book designed to help parents make the most of everyday interactions with their children by turning them into playful encounters.
The forward of this book was written by┬ĀMiriam McCaleb and Nathan Mikaere Walli and says:┬Ā"Play is central to all aspects of human development, and while it's a simple idea, it is one of the most complicated processes of systems integration and cognitive stimulation we know of" How very true!
The book is divided up into 2 page topics such as anger, touch, responsibility, water, song. Each topic has a brief context, an example of this in a child's life and some ideas for how to experience this topic.


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Celebrate Mother's Day At The Binghamton Zoo
Mother's Day is Sunday and it looks like it's going to be a nice day outside. Try something special and take her to the Zoo...and it won't cost you a cent for Mom.
Take a walk on the wild side and bring Mom to the Binghamton Zoo at Ross Park. In recognition of all mom does, they are offering free admission for all mothers throughout the day.
That's just the beginning of events in May at the Zoo.


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NEWCASTLE, England (AP) – Swansea beat Newcastle 2-1 in a matchup of Premier League mid-table sides at St. James' Park on Saturday.
After a scoreless first half, Miguel Michu opened the scoring for the visitors in the 58th minute when he headed in Pablo Hernandez's ball from close range. Jonathan de Guzman doubled the advantage in the 87th.
Demba Ba scored a consolation goal in stoppage time but the Magpies' comeback bid fell short as Swansea secured its first victory in Newcastle since 1980.
The victory was the just the second in 10 league games for the Swans, who moved up to 10th place with 16 points.
Newcastle, meanwhile, remained on 14 points and dropped to 12th in the standings.


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Preseason has been completed, the roster has been finalized and the Orlando Magic are on their way to the regular season.
Although the team has struggled to find victories in the preseason, we have learned a significant amount about the identity of Jacque Vaughn's new-look team.
Without Dwight Howard in Florida, Vaughn has set about putting his own stamp on the franchise and initiating the rebuilding process.
Roles have been adjusted and minutes have been shared around in an attempt to find a rotation that will see the Magic be competitive this year.
While many outsiders have predicted only doom and gloom for Orlando, there is a sense from inside the organization that the team is headed in the right direction.
So what have we learned from the Magic's preseason?
Here are five things that have become clear over the past three weeks.


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Sorry for the delay, everybody - it was unavoidable - and sorry that this isn't my best work, either. It will have to do, though. Owing to circumstances not wholly within my control, I can't bring myself to revisit this chapter
Chapter Seven: Happy Trails
There are myriad pleasant ways to wake up, and Portland Smythe had experienced a great many of them during the course of his life. From the extravagance waking in a vine-wrapped bower in the beating heart of a verdant rainforest to the simple joy of opening one's eyes to the sight of one's lover, he had lived through the lot and, in fact, had ranked his top three favourites during one dull night spent hiding from Czech mercenaries in the Balkans.
This method of waking, however, was not to be found among the top three. It did not even make his top ten. In fact, had Smythe ever thought to compile a list of his
favourite ways to wake up, this one would have gone straight to the top without a second's consideration.
And that was because he was woken from a peaceful dream about cucumbers by a voice that ground upon his consciousness like skeletal feet across the floor of a crypt.
"Wake up."
To say Smythe was alarmed would be an understatement. With a sudden involuntary contraction of his legs, he bent his body into a perfect arc and flung himself clear off the mattress, coming to rest a moment later in an undignified heap on the floor.
"Sumvahwassit!" he yelled, which could have been either an incoherent cry of panic or a florid curse in Hoennian, and looked around wildly for the source of the voice. At first, he saw nothing – and then his eyes came to rest on the Purrloin on the bedside cabinet.
"I found them," it said, in the unmistakeable voice of Teiresias. "Ready yourself. I will take you there."
Smythe stared at it. Within his mind, a brief battle raged between fear and confusion; neither won a clear victory, and in the end they settled for a coalition.
"What?" he said at length, which was, if anything, more coherent than could be expected of a man in his position.
"Has the change of shape confused you? I could not find another Liepard," Teiresias said impatiently. "Now get ready. We must return to the dark paths at once."
Smythe closed his eyes, counted to three and opened them again. The Purrloin had not disappeared.
, he thought dismally, and got slowly to his feet.
"All right," he sighed, trudging listlessly to the bathroom. "I'm going."
Never, thought the hotel receptionist as Smythe paid her, had anyone ever looked so dismayed to be checking out.
"You're quiet this morning," noted Cheren.
I blinked.
"Something's bothering you."
It took a moment for my mind to wrap itself around his words; it had been drifting pretty far away.
"Oh. Yeah." I poked the dying fire with a stick, and watched as a flame streaked out of the cinders and vanished in the crisp dawn air. "I guess... I guess it's that N guy."
"I see. That
quite odd." He speared a sausage – neither he nor Bianca were any good at cooking, especially not over an open fire, and my skills had been much appreciated this morning and last night – and chewed it thoughtfully. "What exactly is it that's bothering you?"
"What he said about Candy." The little Archen looked up at the sound of her name, and I reached out to press my palm against her breast. Her heart hummed with the rapid pulse of a bird – and her chest rose and fell almost as fast. Alarmingly fast. "I never noticed before... She does have trouble breathing. It's just that you can't hear it."
"She's survived this long," Cheren said pragmatically. "I suspect she's tougher than N thinks." He frowned. "What kind of name is
, anyway? I'd like to have seen the look on the midwife's face when his parents came out with
"Uh... yeah, I guess." My mind was still on Candy; I'd always taken her quick breaths and feverishly hot skin to be something typical of all Archen, but what N said made sense. I had looked it up last night on Cheren's phone: there'd been thirty percent more oxygen in the atmosphere back then, and it had been warmer right across the world. I knew from the disaster three years ago at Castelia Zoo that animals from Africa had a hard time surviving Unova's winters as it was; how could I expect a creature dislocated not only in space but time as well to fare any better? "I should have realised," I mumbled.
Cheren looked at me.
"I really wouldn't worry," he said, more gently than before. "By the number of lizards she's rounded up and slain already this morning, I'm fairly certain there's plenty of life left in her."
I looked at Candy's little heap of corpses, piled neatly on the other side of the fire, and sighed.
"I guess so," I said, not wholly convinced.
Cheren sighed.
"Sorry," he said, and though there was no hint of emotion in his voice I could tell he meant it. "I can't help you other than with logic."
"I know. Don't worry. I'll be fine." I looked back at Bianca's tent, which remained as silent now as it had been when the sun first rose. "Does she always sleep late?"
He gave me a look.
"What do you think?"
"OK, OK... Why do you get up early, then?"
"Because Cheren likes to watch the world go by, don't you?"
Halley seemed to slink from nowhere, appearing from between the edges of a gap in the air; she was really getting into the business of being a cat, I thought. The next thing I knew she'd be playing with string and chasing butterflies.
"Oh. Hi, Halley," I said. "Where have you been?"
"I've been to London to visit the Queen," she replied sardonically.
"It's a joke, 'cause – never mind. You must have different nursery rhymes in Unova." She grimaced. "I actually went hunting. Can you imagine that? I pounced on a jay and suffocated it by biting down on its throat. I almost felt bad when it screamed, but by that point I could already taste its lymphatic fluid so I kind of forgot about how brutal the whole thing was." She sat down next to Candy and yawned. "Seriously, I don't know why I haven't done that before. Think of how much bigger prey I could tackle if I were still human."
"Oh." A sick feeling rose in my throat, and I found myself wondering how human Halley actually was; had she always been like this? Surely she couldn't have been so... bestial before her transformation?
"I seem to have lost my appetite," murmured Cheren, and flicked his sausage over to Lelouch, who regarded it quietly for a second before picking it up delicately between its tiny claws and nibbling at it like a squirrel with a nut.
"Don't Snivy get their energy from sunlight?" I asked.
"They get as much as they can," Cheren replied. "Unfortunately, that isn't enough to sustain extended periods of activity, so they supplement it with berries, fruit and small quantities of meat."
"Plants playing at an animal's game," said Halley scornfully. "Photosynthesis ain't shi— shining snail eggs compared to heterotrophic nutrition." She blinked. "Shining snail eggs? I hope you're pleased with yourself, Lauren. Look what you've reduced me to."
"I'm just happy you aren't swearing," I told her truthfully; I could have added that I didn't understand half the words she'd just used, but didn't want to complicate things and attract more needling criticism. I got it anyway.
"Huh. Of course you are.
would be."
Candy cawed at her, apparently aware that her owner was being harangued by this wildcat; Halley, unlike last time, reacted with no more than a withering glare that shocked the little Archen into submission.
"Yeah, you shut up, you little b*tch," she muttered moodily, and fell to staring at the flames in silence.
I looked at Cheren, and Cheren looked at me.
"What," I began, but got no further before Cheren held up a hand for silence.
"I think it's best we don't ask," he replied. "Something has evidently happened to Halley to make her sourer than normal, and frankly
is a prospect I'd rather avoid."
"OK," I said, relieved to have avoided a line of questioning that, while rooted in compassion, would probably have resulted in a scratch from Halley. "Um... should we wake Bianca? It's nearly seven."
"She'll wake up soon enough," Cheren told me. "Well... Perhaps not. Give her another half hour; she's not used to this much walking, and it really tires her out."
As a White Forest resident, I'd been out on extended hiking trips more than most in Unova, and was pretty good at it – better than Cheren and Bianca anyway, it seemed, although Cheren's self-discipline and encyclopedic general knowledge meant he was catching up fast. He only needed a bit more experience and a couple of cookery lessons and he'd have overtaken me; I hoped I could teach him a little, to go some way to showing my gratitude for letting me come with them.
"Are you, then?" I asked.
"No," he answered. "But it's a case of mind over matter. My goal is to become the Champion eventually, and it won't happen if I don't value the objective over my immediate comfort."
I stared at him, amazed. I didn't think that kind of resolve really existed; it was like something out of the old stories, the kind that dated from the days of the first Treatise. Cheren seemed different to me now, like a lordless knight wandering the hills of mediaeval Europe, determined to seek out glory at whatever cost...
, I thought to myself.
He's just like you.
And yet... There was a spectacular steel in his mind. He laid out the facts so calmly and clearly that I had no doubt that nothing whatsoever would cause him to waver from his path.
"I... I see," I said. "OK. That makes sense."
Thankfully, I was saved from having to come up with anything else to say by the sudden and noisy emergence of Bianca from her tent.
"Oh, so
," she groaned, blinking in the sunlight. "Frige, it's so cold."
"Not that cold," said Cheren patiently. "Good morning, Bianca."
"Morning!" She disappeared for a moment, then reappeared with Smoky in her arms. The little Tepig was, as ever, asleep, and I wondered if maybe that was why she had the Munna as well. Smoky didn't seem to me to be the battling type. "Is that breakfast? It smells good."
"Courtesy of Lauren," Cheren informed her. "She has cooking over an open fire down to a fine art."
I smiled.
"Thanks. Here you go, Bianca."
Smoky opened one eye as the sausages passed above his head, shifted just enough to snag one with his lips and draw it into his mouth, and fell asleep again before he'd even swallowed it.
"Isn't that kind of cannibalism?" I asked dubiously.
"I don't think he cares," replied Cheren. "It's mainly humans that find cannibalism revolting. Many other animals will cheerfully eat their own if it seems like a good idea."
"Oh. I see. That's... um... unpleasant."
Cheren raised his eyebrows.
"I told you. Human."
"Ignore Cheren," said Bianca confidingly, as if he couldn't hear her. "He's just being silly again."
I couldn't be sure, but I thought the ghost of a smile crossed Cheren's face then, and suddenly it seemed a lot clearer to me why he and Bianca remained friends. I smiled, and pulled the last of the sausages off the fire.
"I think these are done now," I said. "Bianca, they're mostly for you, unless your Pokémon want any."
"I think he might, but I don't really want to give him any," she said, taking them from me. "I don't really want Smoky to be a cannibal."
"I told you, I don't think he minds—"
," sighed Bianca in exasperation. "Shut up!"
"Fine, fine," he said. "I'll be quiet."
"What about Munny?" I asked. "Does he... she... it want anything?"
"No, it lives off... um, Cheren, what was it called?" Bianca asked. "Background...?"
"I thought I had to be quiet?"
"OK, OK," he said, holding up a hand to forestall further outbursts. "Background imaginative radiation. Munna and its evolved form, Musharna, absorb daydreams, fantasies and waking nightmares, and convert them into regular dreams that can be experienced at night. As a by-product of this, they occasionally emit a pinkish mist known to cause disturbing hallucinations."
"I see," I said slowly, though I didn't really. I wasn't entirely sure how anything could derive energy from dreams – in fact, I had no idea how
psychic worked. All I knew was that Psychic- and Ghost-types were weird.
"Yeah," said Bianca. "So Munny doesn't need any regular food."
"Then why does it have a mouth?" I asked, curiously.
"It's vestigial," explained Cheren. "Their ancestors were organoheterotrophic feeders; in modern Munna, the entire digestive tract is atrophied, while the skull and ribcage have fused to create a protective case for the massively developed brain."
I stared at him.
"How do you know all this?"
He shrugged.
"When either of us catch something, I like to do my research," he said. "Or if we face one in battle. The more you know, the more effectively you can use a Pokémon's strengths or aim for its weaknesses."
"Oh, OK."
"By the way," said Halley abruptly, "I thought you should probably know that the forces of evil are closing in on us."
All conversation stopped immediately.
"Mm. Something wicked this way comes." She stretched and stood up. "I can feel it coming. Must be some animal instinct or something."
"What exactly do you feel coming?" asked Cheren, frowning.
"Dunno. Teiresias, maybe? Seems pretty lethal, at any rate."
Teiresias. So it had found us, then – as I'd known it would. Hiding in the woods might fool a human, but against that black and midnight being it seemed a pretty paltry stratagem. I was certain it could have found us even if we'd hidden on the moon.
I bit my lip.
"We should go, then," I decided. "I don't want to be here when it arrives..."
"Hold on," said Cheren. "We have no concrete evidence that anything is actually coming for us—"
"I guess you don't trust me," said Halley slyly. "Well, maybe you'd better think about the fact that if Teiresias and Smythe get to us, the main casualty will be me. I'm not going to screw around with you on that topic."
"I wouldn't put it past you," replied Cheren darkly.
"I believe her," I said. "Please, can we go? I mean, shouldn't we be going anyway? And if Teiresias is coming, we don't want to be here when it does."
"I agree with Lauren," put in Bianca, shuddering. "That thing – that thing is nasty."
"Understatement of the century," muttered Halley to herself.
"All right, all right, I see I'm outvoted here," sighed Cheren. "Fine. Let's pack everything up. If you really think that monster is coming, we'd better move fast..."
," moaned Smythe in his native Hoennian, and collapsed face-first into the leaf litter.
Teiresias regarded him with such distaste that one could have been forgiven for thinking it could actually see.
"Get up," it said. "We are half a mile from where I saw their encampment."
"Why so far away?" wheezed Smythe, spitting out decaying vegetation.
A shadow crossed Teiresias' broken face.
"I..." It trailed off uncertainly. "I... Why?"
Smythe stared. This was very far from normal behaviour for Teiresias. In fact, it was about as far from normal as it could get short of actually shedding tears.
"Because Halley is perceptive," it said suddenly, its usual manner returning abruptly. "It is perhaps a result of the feline senses she has been gifted with. If we had emerged from the dark paths any closer to her than this, we could well have been detected." It leaped down from the stump it had been sitting on and stalked over to Smythe. "Now get up. We have ground to cover and little time to do it in."
Smythe struggled to his feet, brushed dirt from his suit and sighed.
"I haven't even had breakfast," he murmured sadly to himself.
"What was that?"
"Nothing," he said quickly, and trudged off after Teiresias as it began to make its way through the forest. How it knew where it was going was a mystery to him; perhaps the strange psychic eye through which it viewed the world was currently locked onto Halley or White, and acted like a beacon to guide it; perhaps it had simply memorised the layout of all the forest between them and their destination beforehand. Frankly, either option seemed equally plausible where Teiresias was concerned; the vile creature seemed to positively
in flouting the laws of reality.
Smythe heaved the sigh of the oppressed, and put the matter from his mind. There were no alternate options available to him. Abandoning Teiresias would incur the demon's wrath, and that was almost as frightening as incurring that of Harmonia. He turned the mess over once more in his head, winced at the thought, and trudged on with a heavy heart.
It was a bright clear day, the kind that looks far, far warmer than it is, and as the sun rose higher into the sky the forest should have brightened.
It did not.
Instead, the shadows deepened, darkening to the colour of pitch, and the spring green of the leaves seemed to turn a dull viridian. The birds fell silent. The wind died down.
None of us dared look back.
"Is it me, or does this seem worse than last time?" asked Halley quietly.
I nodded. I could barely speak; the air felt thick with tangible menace.
"Much worse," I managed.
"Indeed," agreed Cheren, only the faintest hint of discomfort in his voice. "It's interesting... Perhaps Teiresias' powers take time to charge to their full potential. Previously, it has attacked abruptly, but this time, it has time on its side..." He trailed off, thinking hard. "You know, it might be that it's a slow hunter in its wild state, slowly stalking its prey and weakening it with this psychological barrage of menace before moving in to paralyse and finish it off."
"Che-Cheren," said Bianca weakly, reaching up and clutching Munny tight to her chest, "could you maybe not theorise for a bit, please?"
He blinked.
"Ah. Right. Um, sorry about that." He coughed and adjusted his glasses hurriedly, falling silent abruptly; I wouldn't have thought it possible, but he actually seemed flustered. It seemed he wasn't totally mechanical after all.
"I hate this," growled Halley, her voice suddenly twisting into a cat's snarl. "F*cking Teiresias... I wish it would just attack. I hate waiting like this."
"That's probably why it's doing it," Cheren pointed out, and she hissed at him for his pains.
"I don't – do you think we can beat it this time?" I asked fearfully, jags of memory suddenly stabbing into my mind: a rotting floor, a pounding heart, white eyes that saw nothing but one's soul...
Cheren considered.
"Munny's Psychic attacks seem to confuse whatever it uses to sense us," he said. "Perhaps we can make good our escape that way. But I'm not sure – its power does seem to be building this time, although maybe it only seems that way so that we are more afraid of it and thus easier for it to subdue." He shook his head. "I just don't have enough information, I'm afraid, and until we can look up Teiresias in one of the Treatises, it's going to stay that way."
So even Cheren believed it was a demon, then – which didn't bode well, I thought, another claw of fear curling around my brain. If any of us could have thought of a more mundane explanation for the creature and its powers, it would have been him; now that he seemed to think it was something from another realm as well, any hope we might have of stopping it seemed to evaporate into thin air.
No. Calm down, Lauren
, I thought desperately.
It's not real, it's a psychological trick, it's just a demon's joke, meant to make you weak; Munny will protect you, blind Teiresias, shut down its eye while you all get away...
A raven screamed and flapped away overhead. I didn't convince myself.
The shadows grew longer.
Distant footsteps sounded behind us.
"It's eight o'clock in the morning in the middle of spring," muttered Cheren. "And yet... to create this kind of atmosphere even on such a bright, cheery day... fascinating."
It might be an interesting opportunity to study our mysterious opponent. It might be an unparalleled insight into demonic hunting tactics.
But that was for Cheren, and for my part, I felt like I was only half a step ahead of Córmi himself, the dark
's great black wings reaching out to snatch me into death. I had been afraid before, walking in the woods alone – of
, of ettins, of rogue Liepard and black Grimveldt wolves – but this was something else. This was fear for fear's sake, welling up from nowhere and everywhere at once, climbing up the walls of my skull in dark waves and crashing down again into tides of paralytic fear. It was an effort to put one foot in front of the other, and when I looked at Bianca and Cheren I wondered how they kept going, how they were resisting the urge to lie down, curl up and wait for Teiresias' long shadow to fall over them.
It knows you're weak
, I thought to myself.
It knows you're afraid. It knows Cheren is too cold and Bianca too careless; this performance is all for you, to slow you down and shut you off and make you give yourself up.
"I promised Halley," I murmured, so quietly no one else heard. "I promised..."
I felt, as if from a great distance, tears gather in my eyes.
"I promised I would help," I said again, more forcefully, and the voice in my head retreated.
I blinked and looked up. The shadows were still dark, the birds still silent. The footsteps sounded, if anything, closer.
I was still afraid, I realised, but I could carry on. I could – just barely – resist.
Halley brushed against my leg, and I started.
"You're doing great," she said, voice low and gruff. "Uh... keep going."
With that, she stalked away from me again, and for a moment I stared after her. That had been – that had been concern, right?
"Halley," I muttered, a small smile crossing my face despite the rounding menace, and walked on.
Half an hour later, the aura of menace was still with us, despite our efforts to speed up, and it was then that Cheren hit upon an idea.
"All right," he said, "going faster isn't doing anything. We may have to try and use Munny to scramble Teiresias' trace."
"Oh yeah," I said. "That... why didn't you say that before?"
"Because there's a small chance that Teiresias doesn't actually know where we are exactly, and is spreading this aura around the entire area to try and startle us into showing ourselves," he replied. "If that's what it's doing, then it will be watching for Psychic-type attacks – if we use Munny, it will know what direction to go in, and then it can send in Smythe to deal with Munny before moving in itself."
I stared at him.
"How did you think of that?"
"It's what I would do," he replied. "It's the most efficient course of action. But given how alien Teiresias' mind is, I'm not sure that it would think of doing it." He chewed his lip. "Do we risk it?"
"Don't ask me," I said firmly, shaking my head. "I don't know anything about tactics or anything like that."
Cheren sighed.
"Fair enough," he muttered. "Bianca?"
I can interrupt?" asked Halley, before she could reply. "Cheers. For your information, Cheren, Teiresias knows exactly where we are. It's waiting because it's making Lauren afraid, and the more afraid people are of it, the stronger it gets."
Cheren frowned.
"How do you know that?" he asked. "Do you know what Teiresias is?"
"No," she replied. "Yes. I'm... I'm not sure." She frowned. "I can – I can half remember something. Like a long-forgotten..." She shook her head. "I used to know!" she growled furiously, slapping herself in the face. "F*ck!"
"All right, leave it for now," Cheren said tersely. "You'll have time for this later." He glanced at Bianca. "Are you ready?"
"What do I do?" she asked helplessly. "I mean... there's nothing for Munny to attack."
"I don't know, aim at the sky or something. Just don't hit any of us."
Bianca nodded.
"OK," she said. "Psywave, Munny. Just, uh, up."
The Munna didn't move, but the same strange silky ripples in space that I had seen it generate the night before poured out of its body in sinuous waves. Despite its efforts to keep the move away from us, part of it must have hit me, because for a moment I had a headache and a strange understanding of the shape and taste of the colour blue – but a moment later, both pain and synaesthesia had gone, and the rippling aura was spreading out through the air above us.
"Well?" I asked, blinking hard. "Did... did it work?"
"I'm not sure," said Cheren. "The shadows don't seem any lighter." He looked around. "And – and aren't those footsteps faster now?"
I froze.
"Yeah," I said softly. "Yeah, they are."
In fact, they were
fast, and very near.
I looked at Cheren, and Cheren looked at Bianca.
"Well, don't just stand there, morons," hissed Halley. "
I could describe the chase. I could describe how we raced down the trail; how on my shoulder Candy shrieked in delight at the wind rushing through her feathers; how Munny trailed a vaporous stream of psionic strings behind it in its agitation; how Halley's breath came in wheezy spurts of curses, even after I picked her up.
But I won't.
I could describe how the tree in front of us, rotted through with Teiresias' corrosive magic, collapsed to block the trail ahead. I could describe Smythe, bearing down on us like Córmi in the legend.
But I won't.
Because none of it mattered except that Teiresias was here, its long black shadow cutting the path in half as it stalked towards us at Smythe's side.
It had changed. It was no longer a Liepard; it was smaller now, a little under Halley's size – a Purrloin. But its eyes were still white, and its voice still dead, and when it spoke my name my feet froze in place on the dirt.
"White," said Teiresias, drawing to a halt a little way off. "And Halley. That is all we desire. You others may leave."
"You've made that rather difficult," observed Cheren, patting the fallen log. "In fact, I don't think you've left us much choice but to stay and help."
"Yeah, um... what he said." Bianca nodded vigorously. She might not have Cheren's way with words, but she definitely shared his spirit; it was about the only thing they seemed to have in common, and distantly I wondered if that was what bound them together—
"Lauren. Snap the f*ck out of it," hissed Halley. "Come on, girl, don't go all panic trance on me here. We need to focus."
I blinked. Yes. Halley was right. I'd made a promise, and I had to honour that.
"Look," said Smythe, raising his hands as innocently as he could when Teiresias was at his side, "I really,
don't want any trouble. I had that damn Munna invade my skull last time, and I'm not really keen to repeat that. I just want Halley and White. That's all."
"Then why aren't you taking them?" asked Cheren. "You're standing here talking when you could be taking action."
"Smythe insists you can be reasoned with," hissed Teiresias. "I am here to ensure that is so, and to safeguard against the possibility that you cannot."
"I'm a very reasonable person," said Cheren, "but I don't think it would be reasonable of me to let you spirit people away without due explanation. How about you tell us why you want Halley and Lauren, and then we'll decide what to do?"
Smythe glanced at Teiresias.
"I have no time for this," it rasped. "
Take them
The ground went black.
No slow spread this time: the entire trail, for as far as I could see, turned black with rot, little curls of it twisting away in coils of decay. I jumped back, but there was nowhere safe to flee to. Cheren snapped out an order and Lelouch dived for Teiresias' throat; dissolving into a green ribbon of light as he snaked across the ground—
The Purrloin swung a paw lightly in his direction, and with a momentary dark flash the Snivy arced away into the forest. It did not come back.
"Do not attempt to use the Munna," said Teiresias. "It will end badly for you."
No one said anything. I don't even know if they could. The smell was back, the smell from the train – the smell of a dead man's hand bloated in the wreckage of the flood – and the fear returned with it. This time, though, I could
the demon, and that made it a thousand times worse. Everything vanished: self, memory, all rational thought was swept away in a tide of unrelenting terror—
—except one tiny little thought that refused to go away.
Why doesn't it move?
I held onto it tight. It was all that was left of me; all I had that wasn't fear.
Why doesn't Teiresias move?
On the train, it had sat down to spread its aura of terror; in the street, it had only moved once Munny had scrambled its psychic 'sight'.
Is it that it
Now, as then, Teiresias was stationary, and it was Smythe who was walking towards us, Smythe who was doing the actual capturing. Teiresias itself hung back, impervious to harm, motionless as ever. Why?
And then an idea came into my head, and, fighting through the paralysis, I turned my head to Candy and whispered:
"Get it, but
stay back."
For a heart-stopping moment I thought she wasn't able to, or she hadn't understood, or she didn't know how—
—and then there was a small
by my ear and Candy's head whipped forwards like a striking snake, at almost the same moment as a large stone slammed into Teiresias' rotting body and sent it flying backwards.
Immediately, the spell broke. Shadows faded, darkness dissolved; the rot on the trail withered and vanished and the sun came out from behind a cloud. Suddenly released from the supernatural force that had gripped us, Cheren, Bianca and I staggered forward a step; Halley, lighter on her feet, simply bobbed a little.
Smythe stared, dumbfounded.
"Again, Candy!" I said, as Teiresias climbed back to its feet, a crater of snapped ribs and blood-matted fur in its chest where the rock had impacted. She squawked gleefully and another stone popped into existence between her jaws, swelling to full size as she snapped her head forwards and shooting towards the demon—
—who stuck out a paw and shattered the boulder with another of those flashes of black light.
"You are percep—" it began to say, but Candy was getting excited now, and sent another boulder whistling towards it – and another, and another, and now Teiresias was flickering and twisting in a loop of purple fur, desperate to save its borrowed body from destruction.
"All right, time to run," murmured Halley. "Into the woods.
No one argued. Cheren, Bianca and Munny went first, heading off the trail in the direction Lelouch had vanished in; Halley followed a moment later, streaking across the dirt as only a startled animal can. I went last, Candy maintaining the bombardment from my shoulder. Teiresias was getting better, I noticed; it was moving less now, settling back into position and destroying the rocks without so much effort, and I knew that in a moment it would have adjusted to the new threat and begun to weave its spell again—
I turned, Candy hurling one last boulder over my shoulder, and fled into the woods.
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|Ryan Spooner benching a reminder Bruins' can't embrace potential as much as they've said
|11.18.15 at 2:52 pm ET
The Bruins have long said that this season is about potential. Yet it seems that they feel their best chance of realistically winning games is to bank on more sure things than embracing that potential. They're not necessarily wrong in thinking that; they just might need to cool it on that P-word for a while.
When Claude Julien benched Ryan Spooner in the third period of Tuesday's loss to the Sharks, the worst part of it was that the change didn't allow the Bruins to complete their comeback. The second-worst part of it is that it loaned more evidence to the historically incorrect Claude Hates The Kids argument.
If the Bruins had their act together on the back end and could kill penalties, do you really think Julien would have benched Spooner for his bad second period Tuesday? Of course not. Yet this season has seen him limit players like Spooner and David Pastrnak when they've struggled because the Bruins, for all the gushy stuff they've said about their young players, can't actually give them the keys because the Bruins aren't good enough to absorb their mistakes.
Asked after the game why he gave Spooner no even-strength time in the final period, Julien snapped back at the reporter, asking if he had noticed that Joonas Kemppainen had earned the ice time inherited by Spooner's benching. On Wednesday, Julien was more willing to elaborate on his decision to limit Spooner's third-period shifts to just the power play and the final minute with an extra attacker.
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|Claude Julien named assistant coach of Team Canada for World Cup of Hockey
|11.05.15 at 2:03 pm ET
Claude Julien will be an assistant coach for Team Canada at 2016 World Cup of Hockey, Team Canada announced Thursday.
Julien will be joined by Barry Trotz, Joel Quenneville, and Bill Peters as assistants to head coach Mike Babcock. The announcement comes as no surprise, as Julien was one of Babcock's assistants on Canada's Gold Medal-winning Olympic team in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Julien was also an assistant coach of Team Canada at the 2000 IIHF World Junior Championships.
The World Cup of Hockey will take place in September of 2016, with eight teams competing in Toronto. In addition to six teams representing individual countries (United States, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic), there will be a Team Europe for European countries not represented, as well as a Team North America for North American players ages 23 and younger. Former Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli is the general manager of Team North America.
|Bruins' first home win 'a pride thing'
|10.27.15 at 11:57 pm ET
If they'd lost on Tuesday, the Bruins would have been in Original Six territory.
As in the 1951-52 Original Six Bruins, the last version of the B's to start a season winless on home ice for more than four games; that season Milt Schmidt's boys went 0-5-4 out of the gate en route to a fourth-place finish.
Instead of Original Six, the 2015-16 Bruins went Additional Six on Tuesday night with a 6-0 shutout of the Coyotes to snap their 0-3-1 homely open to the year.
"It was nice to finally get a home win and get that out of the way," Bruins winger Loui Eriksson said with a satisfied sigh.
Instead of the Bronx cheers that were heard sprinkled in at TD Garden during losses to Winnipeg, Montreal, Tampa Bay and Philadelphia, Tuesday night's win ended with a standing ovation of approval raining down from the local faithful who stayed to the final horn.
"We felt like we kind of owed them a little bit. We owed them the win," David Krejci said on a night when he added two more goals to his growing personal collection of seven markers on the year. "Big for the standings and our fans as well. Obviously, you like to get the first one at home. We were close the last couple times, but it was big to get the first one finally. The way we played today, we got the fans on our side."
Bruins coach Claude Julien didn't want to go so far as saying the poor home start was weighing on his team, but he certainly acknowledged that home success is important. After all, just two years ago Boston's 31-7-3 mark on home ice buoyed the team to a 117-point season and the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
"I think the fact that we were playing better the last four games [overall] — we had the one overtime loss — I think our guys felt if they kept playing the way they could it was just a matter of time," Julien said. "I think it's more about a pride thing. Our home building has to be something that doesn't bode well for teams coming in here. And right now we've made too many teams feel comfortable. That's what we're trying to change."
In discussing his new-look lines for Tuesday night's game, Claude Julien stated the obvious on Tuesday: He's probably going to be tinkering with his lines a lot this season.
Though the Bruins enter Tuesday's action third in the NHL with 3.9 goals per game, they've only kept the same forward lines in consecutive games one. Injuries aside, Boston's new group of wings and the ongoing search for an ideal fit for Ryan Spooner has made Julien more active than he was in Boston's recent heyday, when filling out his lineup was a set-it-and-forget-it affair.
"In order to coach, you've got to make the right moves at the right time," Julien said Tuesday. "For me, [Tuesday's lineup] is a start. We'll see how that goes, and if it doesn't go I've got to make some adjustments here. That could be happening all year round. I know people are used to seeing me with certain lines and sticking with them, but I think that stage of that consistency is gone right now. It's not there yet, or it's gone. Like any coach, you adapt to what you have, and that's what I'm doing right now."
By the looks of morning skate, both the third and fourth lines will be different from last game. Matt Beleskey, returning from injury, will skate with Spooner's line for the first time after skating with David Krejci's line in the first five games. Loui Eriksson will remain with Krejci, while Boston's fourth line looks to be Joonas Kemppainen between Chris Kelly and Tyler Randell, a line that has not been iced this season.
Krejci has had David Pastrnak on his right wing for all seven games this season, though there's no guarantee that they'll stick together. Pastrnak has had more growing pains this season than he did as a rookie, so Julien could eventually tinker with Krejci's trio again.
The veteran center, who is tied for the NHL with 12 points (he's played seven games; the other three players with 12 points have played at least eight), had a good four year stretch in which his linemates rarely changed and barely ever changed in-season. Milan Lucic was his left wing and Nathan Horton was his right wing (Rich Peverley would sub in when Horton was concussed), until Horton departed in free agency and Jarome Iginla replaced him.
Last season, in addition to being in and out of the lineup, Krejci had numerous different right wings and expressed unhappiness that he didn't have Eriksson as his full-time right wing. He said Tuesday that playing with different linemates has been a learning experience.
"It's always nice to play with the same guys, that's for sure, but what I've learned from [these] last couple years when I've had different linemates is don't worry about who's on your line," Krejci said. "The chemistry will come, but just try to be the best you will be. Then your wings will try to be the best they can be and the chemistry will develop. Sometimes it will develops early, sometimes later, but don't try to change your game for the guy next to you. Just keep playing your game."
As for his left wing of the last two games, Eriksson has been bounced around Boston's lineup enough over the years — with Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand, without Bergeron and Marchand, with Carl Soderberg, with Krejci, etc. — that he's used to different linemates. Arguably Boston's best player this season, it would be hard for Eriksson to complain about his current spot.
"I'm kind of used to it," Eriksson said. "I played with different lines in Dallas, too. … It's been the same thing here in Boston. It's always a challenge, but when you get used to it and find some chemistry with some guys, it's always easier."
|Bruins blown leads a troubling trend
|10.22.15 at 8:49 am ET
The so-called most dangerous lead in hockey, the two-goal advantage, used to be downright safe for the Bruins to the tune of a 158-9-7 record over the past four seasons. But, with three of their first six games this season featuring blown two-goal leads, the B's are quickly rekindling fear about the old hockey adage.
Wednesday night at TD Garden, the Bruins enjoyed a 4-2 lead heading to the third period, but watched their potential two-point reward slice in half as the Flyers came back for a 5-4 victory in overtime.
A 2-0 second period lead over Tampa Bay on October 12 at the Garden also ended in defeat for Boston this year, and a lost 3-1 third period lead on October 17 in Arizona was restored to a win thanks only to the Bruins white-hot power play. There was no such salvation on Wednesday.
"We have to play with more composure when we score a goal or get scored on," said team captain Zdeno Chara. "[We have] some mental breaks like that. Things that are easy to be corrected. Just have to work harder and take pride in winning the battles."
Lost puck battles were the theme of head coach Claude Julien's critique of the Flyers' loss.
"We played a light game," Julien said. "We had too many guys with light sticks, too many guys playing a light game. It's unacceptable. What happened tonight we probably deserved. [Philadelphia] was the hungrier team. We didn't respond well. A lot of guys would just go into battle, take a swing at the puck, and curl the other way. Again, that's not the way we play and it's not the way we're going to accept players to play on our team."
On the bright side for the Bruins, goal scoring has been plentiful to put some leads in place. Boston has netted 18 goals over their last four games. But the 2-1-1 record that's resulted over that span has left a feeling of missed opportunities.
"When you score four goals you should have more than enough to win the game," said Patrice Bergeron, who added two more points against Philadelphia to give him seven (four goals, three assists) through six games played. "Too many slow reactions defensively and lack of communication. Poor decisions. It ends up hurting us big time."
Bergeron's colleague Chris Kelly, whose shorthanded tally gave Boston a 3-2 edge on the Flyers in the second period, agreed.
"We mismanaged the puck, especially in the third [period]," Kelly said. "A team that has capable scorers like [Philadelphia has], it didn't take much, a couple turnovers and misplays and they tied it up pretty quickly. It's a combination of things. It's about managing the puck, [not] putting the other guys in a tough spot changing, and maybe not changing at the right times. Little things. It's the combinations of a lot of little things that lead to a goal. That was the case, especially their fourth goal, the [Wayne] Simmonds goal."
"The effort is there," Kelly continued. "It's just focus needs to be sharper throughout the course of 60 minutes. There's times in all four home games where we've played extremely well and done a lot of good things, just to maintain that composure for 60 minutes seems to be an issue right now."
|Claude Julien on draft pick compensation: 'Once you're fired, you're fired'
|10.21.15 at 12:10 pm ET
The fact that John Tortorella isn't the most ridiculous part of the Blue Jackets hiring John Tortorella shows how backwards the NHL's rules regarding compensation for fired employees is.
Tortorella, who was fired after the first year of a five-year contract with the Canucks at the end of the 2013-14 season, had two-plus more years on his contract with Vancouver before being hired by the Blue Jackets. With Columbus hiring him during his contract, however, the Canucks are within their rights to seek a second-round pick as compensation for the coach, as the Bruins are doing with Peter Chiarelli and the Oilers.
That the Canucks are now off the hook for his contract should be enough, as they chose to can him. The Blue Jackets could (and should) have viewed the second-round pick compensation as a deterrent for hiring Tortorella.
Asked about the situation Wednesday, Bruins coach Claude Julien was vocal about teams seeking draft picks for people they fired. Should he be fired, Julien could find his job search more difficult if the Bruins chose to seek draft pick compensation. The fact that the Bruins are doing so with Chiarelli (they'll get a second-rounder from the Oilers in one of the coming years) shows that they might not be inclined to waive their right to a pick if they eventually fire their coach.
"The league is going to look into that, but as a coach, I find it a shame that I wouldn't be able to get a job somewhere because the compensation was too high, yet they thought enough of me that they would be willing to hire me, but they wouldn't be willing to give a first, second or third-round pick," Julien said. "To me, once you're fired, you're fired.
"If it's a different situation and you're not fired, you step down, you say, 'I don't want to be here anymore,' or whatever, well [they] still own your rights until the end of the contract. I agree with that, because they still wanted you. You're the one that wanted to step down. Once you're fired, you shouldn't be held back from working anywhere because of compensation. Whether it's called a selfish thing on our parts, the thing that we want to do, we want to get back and work again. At the same time, it's definitely a benefit for the team that fired you because they don't have to keep paying you for doing nothing. This is something I know the league is going to look into, and we'll see what happens there."
Julien said that he understands draft pick compensation for coaches who are under contract and are sought after by other teams.
"I think it's important to understand that there's teams that develop coaches," Julien said. "[I'll] use the example of Detroit. How many coaches have they lost? Todd McLellan, being an assistant coach and them giving him the opportunity to be a head coach [in San Jose]. Well, he had an opportunity to grow in [the Red Wings] organization, so all of a sudden they say, 'Well, we should get some sort of compensation.' He wasn't fired. He was promoted, so I understand the logistics of where that argument comes from. I'm not naive when it comes to that.
"Having said that, I think there's two sides to it, but as coaches, I think our biggest thing is being fired — not promoted — being fired, we should be able to get another job without being held back because of compensation."
|Claude Julien 'disappointed' by no-goal ruling, but says he won't hesitate to use challenge in future
|10.10.15 at 11:24 pm ET
Goalie interference? Uh, okay… pic.twitter.com/KpkX8qykna
' Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) October 11, 2015
Claude Julien and the Bruins got their first taste of the NHL's new coach's challenge Saturday night, and they came away from the experience more confused than anything.
The play and review seemed pretty straightforward. The refs waved off a Loui Eriksson goal because Patrice Bergeron made contact with Carey Price. However, Bergeron was clearly pushed into Price by Alexei Emelin, meaning the goal should have been allowed.
It was understandable that the refs missed it in real time; hockey is a fast game and sometimes you just don't catch that push. But once Julien decided to use his challenge, it seemed like a pretty safe bet that the no-goal call would be overturned.
Instead, the refs upheld the call on the ice. Why they upheld it remains a mystery, with the league's official statement saying simply that the review "confirmed that Boston's Patrice Bergeron made incidental contact with Montreal goaltender Carey Price before the puck crossed the goal line, preventing Price from doing his job in the crease." No mention of Emelin's shove. No mention of the fact that Bergeron actually made an effort to stay out of the crease while getting pushed.
Julien said he was "disappointed" with the call and didn't understand why it wasn't a goal.
"I really felt, and I looked at it in between periods, and I said how can that not be a goal when the guy has both feet outside the blue paint and is doing everything he can to stay out of his way and is really trying to fight off the guy trying to push him in," Julien said. "So, I thought that warranted obviously a goal, but for some reason they saw it some other way."
Goalie interference plays are one of two things coaches can challenge (with goals scored on a potential offsides being the other), and Julien said it's his understanding that whether or not a player was pushed into the goalie is part of what can be reviewed, which would rule out the possibility that the refs could only look at Bergeron's contact with Price and not how he got there.
Bergeron couldn't make sense of the ruling either, as he also thought that being pushed into Price should've negated the interference.
"That was my understanding of the rule," Bergeron said. "They thought otherwise and we can't really control that, I guess. … It happens fast, so I guess I understood that maybe he thought that I pushed into the goalie. But then on the replay, I thought it was clear that I got pushed into him. My understanding was that if I get pushed into the goalie and I'm working hard to get out of there, it's fine."
Julien said that despite the fact that this challenge didn't go the way he expected, he wouldn't hesitate to challenge a similar situation in the future.
"That's a thing you've got to be careful of — you can't [be discouraged]," Julien said. "In our minds, the people that looked at it in the first place all felt it should have been a goal, and I went back to my office in between periods and I felt it should have been a goal. But if you're afraid to call those then you may miss an opportunity to either get a goal called for you or the other way around, a goal rescinded from what you think was interference."
The disallowed goal certainly isn't the reason the Bruins lost Saturday. More turnovers, more defensive mistakes and an inability to get the puck out of their own zone had a lot more to do with Saturday night's 4-2 loss than that one call. But there's no denying that it was a turning point of sorts, especially since the Canadiens scored just over a minute later to make it 3-0.


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Dogged determination being what it takes to survive as an artist, it's not surprising to find dogs prominently present in one current exhibit: Kalee Fuqua Doche's, in Roasters Coffee & Tea in Wolflin Village. On one hand, I applaud the doggedness, but on another I wonder about art going to the dogs.
If you carefully study the eyes of the dogs - or cats, which also are well represented in a variety of (dis)guises, such as "Salvador Dogi," a Dali take-off - you may be surprised at encountering something like soulfulness. Especially in "Thompson Twins," which isn't a takeoff on any other artist I know of. I suspect some sort of private joke.
Doche's brushwork is adept but sometimes rather careless. The coherence of her compositions varies, perhaps being at its best in the still lifes. In a number of cases, composition depends substantially on the pre-existent work of a famous artist. So a kind of willful irreverence for famous reputations is an aspect of the exhibit, which may make it a hoot for the art-historically informed.
But in the reduction of Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" to "Birth of Squiggly Squigg" (a cat), we may wonder whether the artist's evident talent is being overly devoted to trivia. Nevertheless, talent is clearly present.
Talent? What's that? Is it a matter of using paint in heavy impastos where strokes are emphasized, but still add up to a recognizable image? The "cuisine of the brush" and more are amply evident in Deborah Lyn's exhibit at Against the Wall, 4310 S. Western St.
Lyn applies the paint most thickly in still lifes, which are probably intended to appeal to champagne tastes for elegance. Is there an expectation here of ecstatic reactions to expressive technique? If so, what's being expressed, other than technique?
Maybe that's just what people want, acquiring art essentially for decoration. Lyn has some watercolors of birds that seem to be more than that - sensitive renditions of feral life. And her small oil of a child with a stuffed animal has been done in sketchy brush-strokes that create a vigorously fluctuating atmosphere, giving the impression that meaningfully personal feelings are involved.
Weddings are the subject of Davy Knapp's exhibit of photographs at Roosters Espresso Cafe, at 3440 Bell St. I'm not quite sure whether to consider this an exhibition or a promotional display. "Exhibition," for me, implies pride in the individually composed piece, whatever the medium, and Knapp's inclusion of a business card in the frame of each work, partially obscuring the composition, makes it seem that "art" is secondary to advertising.
The service being promoted here is, as stated in a comment, "to capture the emotion and beauty of your wedding day as it unfolds." These aren't just bride and groom photos, but documents of "moments" during weddings.
This is a refreshing approach to photography in a specialized context: to document not just the main event, but various little peripheral happenings - moments when people aren't occupied in looking their best.
And yet all the photos look that way - with a sort of glossy softness that's very colorful yet remains centered on black and white. Formalizing the magic of informal moments?
That's ambiguous. So is a lot of fine art. How to be personal, true to a vision that's integral to this one artist - or artistic approach - and at the same time appeal to a market. It takes doggedness.
Hunter Ingalls received a Golden Nail Award for support of the arts with Lost Circus gallery and performance center in 1989. His many years of experience as a teacher include faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University, where he earned a Ph.D. in art history in 1970. He may be reached in care of the Globe-News or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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RVB: Bulger resumed throwing a couple weeks ago and took his first snaps under center this week. By all accounts, things look well. The pinkie doesn't seem to have a negative impact on his ability to feel and throw the ball. His accuracy has been sharp through camp and in his brief play against the Jets in the preseason opener. Bulger will start this week. The benefit of having Boller as a backup is his experience and age, no small consideration after having Gus Frerotte and Trent Green as backups. Pat Shurmur's playbook features plenty of short passes and dump-off options with tight ends and running backs, something that should, hopefully, mitigate his propensity to overthrow downfield and some of his questionable decision making. Boller can also scramble his way out of trouble much more so than Bulger.
DF: Between Pat Shurmur's Philly resume and Steven Jackson being the epicenter of the offense, will the Rams be more West Coast or smashmouth? And is there any reason for every defense not to stuff eight in the box on every play?
RVB: The assumption among the chattering classes says smashmouth, up the gut. Obviously Steven Jackson will be running the ball plenty, but this won't be Marty-Ball. Shurmur will call for the pass more than most realize precisely to prevent teams from stacking the box. We saw that happen a few times in the preseason, when the playbook actually got opened up for a series or two. They even passed more than once on 2nd and short. Jackson will get plenty of work as a receiver too; he did catch 90 balls in 2006.
DF: With Torry Holt gone, the perception is that it's now Donnie Avery and the Pips. Is there a surprise sleeper in the Rams' receiver corps?
RVB: Laurent Robinson, acquired on the cheap, has looked sharp in preseason. Behind him the Rams have a decent assortment of possession, lesser-known types guys that populate similar offensive systems, like Philly's.
DF: There have been many changes along the offensive line – Orlando Pace gone, Alex Barron to the left side, Jason Brown and Jason smith brought in. How have things been working out there? Is this going to be a decent line, and how is Smith adjusting to the three-point stance (something we've both written about before)?
RVB: After the last three seasons, nobody thought the offensive line would be a strength for the Rams. It just seemed impossible. The addition of Jason Brown between Incognito and Jacob Bell gives the Rams a nice middle. I am slightly dubious of Bell, but we have good depth in the middle. Jason Smith struggled, getting schooled by Leonard Little in practice some and then giving up some tough plays against the Jets and Falcons in preseason play. However, he noticeably improved, and already looks like he be a top-tier pass blocker by season's end. He has learned to get lower in his stance, but will struggle some as he learns the technique against live opposition. Barron's the one we're all watching closely. There are some questions about him on the left side, but if he doesn't work out, Smith will slide over.
DF: The Rams have put a lot into their front seven, but results have been mixed. With Adam Carriker out for the season and Chris Draft gone, who are the leaders?
RVB: James Laurinaitis has really come into his own, and already looks like a seasoned player. He is the real leader of the front seven. Chris Long has a lot riding on this season; if he looks like they player they drafted him to be (Patrick Kerney is a good comparison for expectations) then he'll be a key guy as Leonard Little rides into the sunset. The Rams are really lacking at DT, with or without Carriker.


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