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A meeting to discuss the work of the Halifax Peace Coalition and plan upcoming events. Come for a coffee/tea and talk about peace & justice. All welcome! Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition
Tuesday, May 7 4:00-5:00 p.m. Outside US Consul General Office Purdy's Wharf Tower II 1969 Upper Water Street, Halifax
An action in solidarity of the prisoners on a hunger strike at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison. Canadians are concerned about these men and we want the prison closed. Today, 166 men remain in detention without charge or trial. These men have been held for upwards of 10 years without due process. President Obama has failed to live up to his promise to close Gitmo. We are going to deliver an open letter to President Obama through the US Consul Office in Halifax to close this shameful prison and to call on the US government to respect the rule of law and human rights. Read about the prisoners' terrible plight here: http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strikers-502/
Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition
Saturday, June 1 1:00-2:00 p.m. Victoria Square Park, Halifax
International Day of Action Bradley Manning is the US soldier who released the classified US cables to Wikileaks that exposed US war crimes. The US government's treatment of Manning in detention has been widely condemned. Manning has been placed in solitary confinement and was detained for years without due process. His trial is finally expected in June. Blowing the whistle on war crimes is not a crime. For more information, please visit "Bradley Manning Support Network": http://www.bradleymanning.org Please read "We are all Bradley Manning": http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/chris-hedges-we-are-all-bradley-manning
A Rally for Earth DayMonday, April 223:00-4:00 p.m.Outside the Irving Shipyard3099 Barrington St., Halifax(At the Niobe Gate Entrance near Devonshire Ave.)
A rally in support of Earth Day. The federal and provincial governments should be investing taxdollars in a green economy to take action on climate change and to protectour air, water and soil instead of wasting billions of tax dollars onwarships that are not a priority. Canada needs a green, peaceful economy fora sustainable future.Find out more at www.demilitarize.ca
Wednesday, April 24 12:00-1:00 p.m.Outside the Irving Shipyard3099 Barrington St., Halifax(At the Niobe Gate Entrance near Devonshire Ave.)
A weekly protest against the federal government's plan to spend $25 billionto build new warships for the navy instead of investing in urgent social andenvironmental needs of Canadians.Find out more at the blog "Wednesdays against Warships":http://demilitarize.ca/wp/
Dr. Todd Gordon, York University, Political ScienceDr. Gordon exposes Canada's imperialist past and present, at home and across the globe. He interweaves histories of indigenous dispossession in Canada with the cold facts of Canadian capital's oppression of peoples in the global South. He digs beneath the surface of Canada's image as global peacekeeper and promoter of human rights, revealing the links between the corporate pursuit of profit and Canadian foreign and domestic policy. Drawing on examples from Colombia, the Congo, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere, he makes a passionate plea for greater critical attention to Canada's role in the global order. Dr. Gordon teaches political science at York University in Toronto. He is the author of the books: Imperialist Canada (Arbeiter Ring, 2010) and Cops, Crime and Capitalism: The Law-and-Order Agenda in Canada (Fernwood, 2006).Free public talks. All welcome.
Thursday, November 1 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.Lord Dalhousie Room, Henry Hicks Arts & Admin Building (with clock tower), 6299 South Street, Halifax
&Thursday, November 1 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.Atrium 101 Room, Atrium Building (next to library), Saint Mary's University, 5946 Inglis St, Halifax
William Hartung, Author and Director, Arms & Security Project, Centre for International Policy, Washington D.C.
Free public discussions about military spending and defence procurement in Canada. William Hartung will talk about his new book "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex" and reveal the economic and social risks of the Canadian government buying the F-35 Stealth Fighters and new warships. The talk will include a discussion about the rise of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons manufacturer, in Nova Scotia under the provincial government's business growth strategy.BIO: William Hartung is the Director of the Common Defense Campaign and Arms & Security Project at the Centre for International Policy in Washington D.C. He is the author of the new book Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (Nation Books paperback, 2012). He is also the co-editor, with Miriam Pemberton, of Lessons from Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm Press, 2008). His previous books include And Weapons for All (HarperCollins, 1995), a critique of U.S. arms sales policies from the Nixon through Clinton administrations. From July 2007 through March 2011, Hartung was the director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Prior to that, he served as the director of the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute. He also worked as a speechwriter and policy analyst for New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams. Hartung's articles on security issues have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and the World Policy Journal. He has been a featured expert on national security issues on CBS 60 Minutes, NBC Nightly News, the Lehrer Newshour, CNN, Fox News, and scores of local, regional, and international radio outlets. He blogs for the Huffington Post. His latest publications include "Myths vs. Realities of Pentagon Spending" (July 2012) and "Bombs Versus Budgets: Inside the Nuclear Weapons Lobby" (June 2012), which are both available for free online. For more information about Hartung and his work, please visit: http://www.ciponline.org/about-us/experts-staff/william_hartungBooks will be available for sale at the events and in advance from King's Co-op Bookstore, 6350 Coburg Rd. Organized by the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary's University, the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie University, and the Halifax Peace Coalition.
Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:00pm until 6:00pm Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road, Halifax (behind the Westin Hotel)
The vigil takes place during the Canadian Defence Security and Aerospace Exhibition Atlantic (DefSec 2012) where the biggest weapons dealers and military aircraft manufacturers in the world, such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics, will be exhibiting their war-fighting systems. At the Cunard Centre on Thursday, September 6 at 4pm, these weapons manufacturers will be celebrating their "Hour of Good Cheer": http://www.defsecatlantic.ca/ We will send them a message that the death & destruction caused by their weapons systems is nothing to be cheering about. We will also be protesting the federal government's planned spending of Canadian tax dollars on warships and the F-35s. Note: This year, the weapons manufacturers are partnering with video game companies such as HB studios and Huminah Interactive to discuss war game simulations. Please join us to send them a message that war is not a game. The weapons production must stop, we need a peace economy, and that war is not part of a sustainable future. Please join us! Become a Friend of the "Halifax Peace Coalition" on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/2306217425/events/
Tuesday, April 17, 201212:00-1:00 p.m.
Halifax Public Library, Spring Garden Library, Halifax Organized by theHalifax Peace Coalition and the Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace toraise awareness about the $1.6 trillion spent globally on war and weapons.In Nova Scotia we will call attention to the federal government planning tospend $29 billion on Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters and $25 billionon Irving warships. For more information please visit www.demilitarize
Saturday, November 19th, 1 pm Westin Hotel, 1181 Hollis St.-
Anti-War Rally at the 3rd Annual Halifax International Security Forum, Cornwallis Park (otherwise known as Halifax Peace & Freedom Park), across from the Westin Hotel, 1181 Hollis St. This is a rally to condemn NATO and Canada's militaristic approach to foreign and defence policies. Please come to say NO to the planned purchase of the $29 Billion F-35s. Canada should not be welcoming war criminals: NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Stephane Abrial, the US Defence Secretary Leo Panetta, and Israel's Ehud Barak etc… Join the 99% who want peace & justice in the world! Speakers include spoken word poet El Jones, professor Isaac Saney, Halifax Peace Coalition rep Tamara Lorincz, Voice of Women rep, Occupy NS rep, Canadians Arabs & Jews for Just Peace rep, etc...Find out more about this war conference here: http://halifaxtheforum.org/
Organized by:Ad Hoc Cmte Against the Halifax War Conference & the Halifax Peace Coalition. For further info: noharbourforwar_AT_hotmail.com
Monday, January 16 7:00pm-8:30 pmStudent Union Building Dalhousie University (Room TBD)6136 University Avenue, Halifax
Free public screening to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day. Filmmaker PBSHost Tavis Smiley gives greater insight into Dr. King's anti-war views anddeconstructs his most important but least known speech "Beyond Vietnam: ATime to Break the Silence". This 2010 film puts Dr. King's legacy in acontemporary context, particularly in light of the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan. A must see! Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition, Films onCritical Issues, Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group, the CanadianDepartment of Peace Initiative, and Occupy NS. All welcome! More informationwww.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca
Wednesday, February 15 5:00-6:30 p.m. Just Us Café 2nd floor, 5896 Spring Garden Road, Halifax
David Heap was on the Tahrir, the Canadian boat to Gaza, that sailed last November in attempt to break the blockade on Gaza and deliver medical aid. Heap will speak about the voyage and the experiences of the Tahrir crew when the Israelis captured the boat. Heap was arrested and imprisoned by Israeli authorities. He will speak on the ongoing efforts to challenge the blockade on Gaza.
David Heap is a life-long peace and social justice activist and a University of Western Ontario French/Linguistics Professor.
Special introduction by Miles Howe, a participant on the Canadian Boat to Gaza part of the Freedom Flotilla II July 2011.
Free admission. Donations are encouraged to cover travel expenses. All welcome.
Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Independent Jewish Voices, and Canadians, Arabs & Jews for a Just Peace For more information, please contact the Halifax Peace Coalition: halifaxpeacecoalition_AT_gmail.com or visit our web site: www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca
Monday, January 167:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m.
Peaceful protest in recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day & to markthe 51st anniversary of U.S. President Eisenhower's Farewell Address 1961warning against the military-industrial complex. In front of the entrance tothe Stadacona Base on Gottingen St., Halifax. Lockheed Martin, US weaponsgiant, has an office inside the base. Speak out against Canada's growingmilitarism and to express our opposition to the planned purchase of the $29billion stealth fighters. Occupy NS is planning to join us! SAY NO TOLOCKHEED MARTIN'S F-35 FIGHTER JETS - INVEST IN EDUCATION, GREEN JOBS &KIDS!Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition. Co-sponsored by Occupy NS. Allwelcome! More information www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca
Saturday, November 19th, 2 pm will leave from the park across from the Westin Hotel, 1181 Hollis St.
Wednesday, September 21 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. Just Us Café, 5896 Spring Garden Road, Halifax
Free public film screening to mark International Peace Day. "Peace One Day"charts the remarkable 10-year journey of award-winning filmmaker JeremyGilley to establish an annual Peace Day on 21 September. The camera followsJeremy as he galvanises the countries of the world to recognise an officialday of ceasefire and non-violence.
October 11, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. McNally Auditorium, Saint Mary's University, Halifax
Free public lecture by Lia Tarachansky, Israeli-Canadian journalist
Lia Tarachansky is a video-journalist and Middle East correspondent for The Real News Network (www.therealnews.com.)
Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Tarachansky and her family moved to Israel in 1991, residing in Ariel, one of the most controversial settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. With The Real News Network, she has produced dozens of video chronicles of current events in Israel-Palestine and the struggle for a just peace. For a sample, go tohttp://leichik.webs.com/apps/videos/
Organized by the Canadians, Arabs and Jews for a Just Peace, Independent Jewish Voices, the Halifax Peace Coalition and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
Visit: www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca, or the Facebook Event, or other Facebook Event
Free public talk & film screening
Scott Taylor, a former professional soldier, has been the editor and publisher of Esprit de Corps since 1988; this year marks the magazine's 20th anniversary. As a war correspondent, he has reported from global hot spots including Kuwait, Cambodia, Western Sahara, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. Taylor will provide his first-hand observations of events leading up to the rebel incursion in Libya and subsequent overthrow of Gaddafi in the context of the challenges faced by journalists reporting the "truth" from war zones. This year, Taylor released an investigative documentary about Lockheed Martin's F35 Joint Strike Fighters. In 1996, he was awarded the Quill Award for his outstanding contribution to Canadian communications. He lives in Ottawa.
Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition (HPC). Co-hosted by the School of Journalism, University of King's College. For more information, visit: www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca / Email: email@example.com
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For all you creative and artistic people out there, check out the Seattle Mini
Maker Faire on June 8 – 9! While not just for the technologically and
scientifically inclined, projects at this year's fair include unique and
artistic hands-on projects.
Some of the best directors started out with a good story and a small budget. Try your hand at Tabletop Moviemaking! The structure for this workshop is informal, where people can drop-in, make a movie and then check out more of the fair. To speed things up, all the backgrounds, characters and props are laser perforated so you could easily pop them out and stage it in minutes.
We invite you to record your movie on your smart phone! You can leave the workshop with your story on your phone! "Creativity is necessarily chaotic and messy," says workshop creator, Brick Maier . When he ran the workshop in LA he says, "It was kind of amazing to see just how quickly the students would stage a story, and how different each set was even though they were starting from a common set of materials. I think this is an excellent demonstration of how we all have a unique perspective and given an opportunity will showcase it through the stories we tell."
You can learn a new skill and practice in a supportive workshop at "A Stitch in Time: Sewing Through the Ages." An interactive sewing experience, "this collaborative workshop represents several different eras of sewing. Tamara Clammer of FaceOdd Masks will bring a 1910 treadle sewing machine and teach sewing leather using two harness needles and the saddle stitch. Fay Shaw of bitwise E-textiles will demonstrate e-textiles and invite visitors to add to a collaborative embroidery piece. You can try many different forms of sewing, and a computer slide show loop will portray sewing in various forms." This is the perfect workshop to practice your artisanal skills! Come check it out!
Another great garage project is "Scroll Wood Shop," by Cliff Nelson. Mr. Nelson "cuts 16-24 piece jigsaw puzzles out of postage stamps glued to plywood, pentomino and hexiamond math puzzles that use 12 natural hardwoods for animal shapes of my own design, and jigsaw coasters that marry function with the beauty of natural wood grain."
He plans to "demonstrate how he makes his puzzles with his scroll saw and will even provide fairgoers with a kit that provides clear instructions about how they can make their own intricate puzzles using scroll saws". This project is a great one for anyone who enjoys woodworking and do-it yourself projects!
And last but not least, for all of you who love to build things out of paper, then "Artigami Flights of Fantasy" is the place for you! Learn how to construct wreaths, kites, crystals, aircrafts, and castles from Miss Karah Pino of the organization, "Unwind your Mind and Get Creative!" You will leave with a whole new knowledge of the mathematical, scientific, and creative aspects of crafting origami, and will get to take home several new trinkets that you can play around with and share with friends!
So, for all of you aspiring artists out there, take some time at the start of summer to participate in the workshops at Seattle Mini Maker Faire! You'll get to learn and make some really neat art projects, and you never know what will get your creative juices flowing.

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Will You Boycott Businesses That Avoid Paying Employee Health Insurance?
In response to Obamacare, some franchise owners are planning to cut employee hours to avoid providing health care.
Businesses across the country are attempting to formulate a response to the Affordable Health Care Act, with some business owners and restaurant franchisees saying they will be cutting hours.
One of the latest cases is a Wendy's franchisee in Nebraska announcing it would cut employees' hours — affecting roughly 100 employees — to avoid providing health care. Wendy's Corporate, which directly operates stores in Massachusetts, has not discounted cutting employee hours even as they distance themselves from the statement out of Nebraska.
"We are still reviewing our approach to the Affordable Care Act, when the employer mandate goes into effect in 2014," Wendy's Corporate Media Contact Bob Bertini told Patch this week. "Our franchisees are independent business people, and they make the decisions regarding benefits for their restaurant teams."
There are some signs that a business planning to cut hours to avoid providing health care is a turn off to customers.
What do you think? Would you boycott a company that cuts employee hours to avoid providing health care? Tell us in the comments.
live local
6:51 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
No! Business should not be forced by government to conduct their business this way.
Danielle Lizotte
7:12 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Unless we stop tying people's health care to their employment status, we the taxpayer's will continue to subsidize the profits of corporate America by providing Masshealth, not to mention SNAP benefits, to their underemployed workers. That is unless we demand that businesses share some of their profits with their employees in the form of health care. This isn't anti-business. It is simply humane.
Maureen Agley
10:41 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Income gaps are leaving a huge segment of the US vulnerable to dangerous health related consequences - just look at this year's "typical" flu epidemic and the number of deaths already around the country. If this was a more major disease, such as past epidemics, it would have a devastating impact throughout all socio-economic levels, even among the insured. The lower and low middle income earners, a large segment of the population are poorly covered for health insurance. To protect everyone something had to change. It is all well and good to be concerned about who pays the brunt of this and what effects it will have - as all "solutions" create problems. But something has to be done and what is the better, real solution? I believe this is another case where inaction and lack of social concern to maximize large profits for big corporations has dumped yet another problem on government and small business. But that's just my opinion.
8:39 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I agree with living local. The long term consequences of this mandate is only going to raise prices for the consumer, force businesses to reduce staff, and put small businesses out of business. It sounds great in a perfect world- but businesses have to operate with profits in mind. Our government should consider this concept.
Michael Soares
8:53 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
When are we going to separate health insurance from employment!? My employer doesn't supply me car, homeowners, or liability insurance. So why health and dental? Give me the extra $10K a year it costs and ill buy my own
Ed Bertorelli
9:11 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
the very premise of this article is absurd ...why single out Wendy's...if we are to boycott anyone it should be politicians who enact laws like this you're right Deb Blasko !
9:19 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Hey America. Don't cry. You voted for Obama now suffer the consequences. This is just the beginning.
Susan LaDue
9:19 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I own a small business and can not afford to pay for health care for my four employees. I think it's fair to force businesses like Wendy's that are larger and very profitable to provide healthcare, but there should be a defined amount of profits to be included in that category. I'm hoping that's the case with the ACA. Does anyone know?
1:21 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
The pols who drank the kool-aid and voted for whatever the Messiah Obama wanted don't even know what's in the AHA! I asked a number of our state pols if they read it, not one of them answered me back. THAT is disgusting.
9:28 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Cutting hours will only help slightly. In case you don't know, the State adds up all hours worked and computes every 40 hours into a full time employee, even if they are all part time employee hours. And Danielle, you base your comment on all businesses making enough profits to afford this and that is not always the case. What about a family business that brings in just enough to get by. With obamacare they will now not survive. What good is forcing a business to provide healthcare when that business will go under as a result! FYI - I had a discussion with a state rep. Yesterday - do you know that MA Connector- our obamacare costs MA $1Billion a year!! Not sustainable !!
9:44 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I would never boycott a business that did what it thought it had to reduce expenses. As long as what they do is legal (I realize Democrats have a hard time understanding the difference between laws which exist and laws they wish existed) I will buy the products and services of that business.
Tara Rogers
9:46 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Nice to see where people are going with this. I also own a business in town and payroll alone is 75% of the income. Then we need to still purchase supplies, etc. If we had to provide health care to our employees, we'd have no choice but to close the doors. I wish that weren't the case. I'd love to do anything and everything for the people I employ, but it's just not realistic. We are family a family owned business and just make it by payroll each week as it is.
For the record, I did NOT vote Obama in either time!! :) LOL
Tree Hugger
9:54 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
The businesses had a bad law foisted upon them. Everything the government does has consequences. While America cheered when SCOTUS validated ObamaCare, they overlooked some of its failings.
10:33 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I won't boycott Wendy's because unfortunately I am addicted to the triple stacker.
Neil Herzig
10:43 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I don't blame Wendy's or any other business one single bit. Unfortunately this is the very tip of the preverbal iceberg; and we have hit the iceberg dead square on. This healthcare law is a catastrophe of monumental proportions. It will substantially drag down U.S. economic growth for years and years to come. It will also diminish drug development, result in a massive shortages in healthcare professionals, chase American jobs overseas and levy a series of huge middle-class tax increases (e.g. 3.8 percent surtax on investment income, 0.9 percent surtax on Medicare taxes , 2.3 percent excise tax on medical equipment, 40 percent tax on comprehensive health coverage that costs more than the designated cap; and new taxes on Flexible Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts to name a few). The law should be renamed Obama-I-Don't-Care.
10:48 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Perhaps if we required proof of legal status before extending anything other than emergency healthcare (as well as other taxpayer paid assistance) the cost of health care would plummet and the cost of Masshealth for CITIZENS and legal aliens would be reasonable. Of course the Illegals' friends like Menino,Eldridge, McGovern, Patrick and Obama would oppose that since they put Illegals interests ahead that of CITIZENS.
Bob Mac
10:57 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Let's see how long people will boycott the 99 cent burger from a chain that does not pay health insurance when the other chain has to charge $10 fore the same burger. by the way Danielle Lizotte all businesses share their profits, it's called payroll! Where do you think that money comes from, so maybe you need to say employees may need to share their profits (the paycheck) with the company to pay for insurance (oh ya, they will by sending more taxes to government to spend money inefficiently).
Danielle Lizotte
7:55 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Right, but business are sharing much less of their payroll with their workers these days. And guess who has to help big corporations support their "lucky to have a job" minimum wage workers? We the taxpayers do. I have a hard time crying for Wendy's or Olive Garden or Walmart when this stuff is going on. http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/corporate-subsidy-watch/hidden-taxpayer-costs
11:01 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Folks - look at the employee side of it as we'll. if an employer doesn't offer insurance and pay 1/3 then where are the people going to get insurance coverage? The emergency room cannot continue to be used as the uninsured's primary care. I do own a small bussiness and have offer reed health ins even though not required to. If it raises prices so be it. Taking care of employees is important!
4:19 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Then it is better to run the employer out of business so no one has a job? We are all in agreement that taking care of employees is important! But it also has to be feasible for the business to support or everyone is out of a job.
Paul Bishop
11:47 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Once again, people suggest boycotting Wendy's (who did NOT cut hours and has distanced themselves) and the local store- and neither of them are involved in any way.
The company name is being used for flash, and that harms Wendy's corporation. Boycotting the local store which is NOT owned by the local store owner in Nebraska is also unfair- yet the story shows the local store next to the headline.
I am CLEARLY not wrong. Read the comments above, suggesting that Wendy's be boycotted or treated as if THEY had done anything. THAT impression could be avoided, but that wouldn't sell as much advertising, I am sure.
Irene Del Bono
9:14 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
You are clearly wrong - the article says Wendy's Corporate has not discounted cutting employee hours. Now is the perfect time to send a message that if they cut hours to avoid paying benefits some people will choose not to go there (remember - the law does not go into effect until 2014, so anyone claiming their cuts now are due to having to provide health care are liars).
Irene Del Bono
11:47 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
No medical or sick time means employees are going to work sick, spreading it to other employees and customers, including at restaurants where we eat. Does anyone wonder why the flu is so widespread? People without insurance or sick time line up at emergency rooms after work with their sick kids, often giving up after the tired, hungry very sick kids have been sitting in the emergency rooms for 6 hours or more - I saw it when I waited 8 hours for stitches on my hand. The poor kids and their parents left at 10 pm when they discovered it would still be another couple of hours before they were seen (my stitches were put in at 1:30 am). I have seen people fired for taking time off to be in the hospital with their kids who were fighting for their lives they were so sick. Is this what America is all about? Many business owners who claim to be "hurting" are like the slumlords who live in great mansions with their half dozen 6-figure cars sitting in their multi-car garages, while taking deductions for their meals out, seasons tickets, entertainment, cars, yachts, 2nd and 3rd homes (which they allegedly use to "entertain clients") while the taxpayers have to find emergency housing for their tenants who have no heat or are overrun with rats. When taxpayers take a cold hard look at the realities and facts, they will realize the taxpayers pay for the free rides businesses get. I definitely will boycott businesses who cheat all of us by not providing basic benefits for their employees.
Neil Herzig
1:58 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Ok….so Obama Care has been in place for over a year. So how long has the wait been reduced in the emergency rooms? Also I'm curious to know how you will determine which businesses "cheat" by not providing benefits? I sense that you will probably have to boycott most of the local small businesses here. And I'm willing to bet that you are probably one that is not happy with the big business either. Sounds like you'll be saving a lot of money this year!
Irene Del Bono
6:28 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
The requirements for employers were in place long before Obama, and small businesses were always exempt. Obamacare simply offers options for employees of small businesses. How do I determine which businesses cheat? Let's see. The ones the AG and Labor Department go after for keeping employee's tips, or not paying them overtime, or making them work BEFORE and AFTER clocking in, or the businesses that pollute or illegally dump to increase their profits and leave the mess for the neighbors to contend with and the taxpayers to pay for. Big or small, the same standard applies - plenty of big businesses are ethical and law abiding, and see their relationship with employees as a two way street. I have sympathy for small businesses because of the labrynth of things they have to know, and I know it is hard for them to "do it all." Most local small businesses are exempt from providing health care or benefits. But I know many who do provide benefits anyway - they don't need a law to do the right thing. Oh - and other ways to know who cheats? How about the ones who deduct health insurance from wages, but don't buy the health insurance - and then won't pay the medical bills when employees end up in the hospital and only give back the money they deducted for the insurance? Or the restaurants who have you clock out during slow times but you have to hang around the mall in case they call you back, to save money? I could go on and on and on....
Irene Del Bono
12:01 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Adam, thank you for treating your employees, and by extension, your customers and the taxpayers, right. As for those who may boycott the local Wendy's, it is easily remedied. The local stores can simply put up a sign "we treat our employees right" and list the benefits they offer to their employees - including full time or sufficient hours to qualify for benefits. If I saw something like that, I would make it a point of patronizing the business. This country would be a better place if people would start taking pride in doing the right thing, instead of shirking their responsibilities and blaming the government and everyone else. Just look at the shenanigans of the owners of the "Upper Crust" - not only not paying their employees, but when they were fined and ordered to pay them the money they were owed, they then were fined again for deducting the money from the paychecks of the employees who received their back wages! While they were flitting between their mansions, fancy cars, boats and vacation homes, paid for by cheating their employees. And now they have declared bankruptcy, to get out of paying their contractors and suppliers. Do I want to give my business to a place like this? No way - at least not until a new owner who is willing to be a responsible business owner takes over.
12:46 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Bonnaci, does Patch provide you with healthcare?
Michael Gelbwasser
12:54 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
A reminder: keep your comments directed at the topic, not specific people.
Ed Bertorelli
1:05 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Shame on the Patch for putting this up !!-it;s garbage journalism- it's phoney and not based on fact.
Ron king
1:09 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Very well said Irene Del Bono. We must send these scum business a message...LOUD AND CLEAR! I will ask at the Drive thru window, and at he Order here counter, about their policy, from here on out. Even the local business need a warning shot across the bow!
1:36 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
What is a business to do? The only way it can survive and provide jobs is to make a profit. When the government makes a business spend extra money on health care, the options are to 1. cut the # of employees; 2. cut the hours to under 30 for existing employees; or 3. raise prices. Am I missing something here?
Ron king
2:27 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Yes, raise prices to reflect actual costs of doing business, or take a cut in profit, is what I suggest the the 1%.
Jan Galkowski
2:57 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Businesses which are so marginal in their profitability that they "will close" if they pay for health care should probably close up anyway. They won't survive the next increase in energy prices, or building insurance, or increase in inflation anyway. To the degree this does not happen, whining about paying employees for health care is equivalent to a Chicken Little move.
Right Side Bob
4:00 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Obama screwed us with this government grab and now the middle class is paying for it while businesses try to remain competitve. No, actually it makes me want to give them more business for standing up to the Dem Lib Machine that is grabbing from the middle class constantly and then blatently lying about it.
Neil Licht
4:02 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Before deciding, have you any idea of what covering employees for health care costs????
Its astounding. Have you ever run a business and tried to make a profit at it?
If you don't know the answer to that then shut up because you don't know how badly this has effected any business.
The problem was not health care coverage it was and still is runaway healthcare bills and costs at the care provider level and the drug maker level.
Thats the issues we did not address and its what will continue to kill us re insurance rates and costs.
How about we do something about the $1000 aspirin in a hospital or the $3000 per shot cancer treatment. As usual, we go and hurt the small businesses and blame business as the culprit.
Irene Del Bono
6:40 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Have you ever looked at what your health care providers bill, and what the insurance companies actually pay? I don't know how a doctor survives, having to pay a receptionist, nurse, billing person or company, payroll person or company, and then getting $45 or less for an office visit. You are right, Neil, the pharmaceutical companies and someone (insurance companies) seem to be making plenty of profits on the backs of all businesses and patients who the insurance companies seem intent on denying coverage for. Fix those problems, and costs will come down. Unfortunately, the private sector will not stand for it, so we will continue to see Americans paying far more than people in other countries pay for the same (often better) care.
8:17 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I agree to a point, but a good percentage of that $1000 aspirin and chemo cost is also do to people with insurance coverage having to pick up the cost for those that do not or are on public assistance a.k.a MassHealth. I don't think that most people realize that MassHealth pays rehab facilities less than $300 dollars a day to care for a person that is totally dependent for all levels a care. Oh! They don't pay for rehab either but the facility is expected to provide it.
Alice Mask
4:15 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Boycotting a business isn't going to change anything. Blame falls on the politicians that voted for something that they didn't read. Blame goes to those that voted Obama to a second term without fully understanding what that meant. As a former small business owner, there's no way I could have paid my employees health insurance. It's not about the want, it's about the ability to do so.
Mary Gonzales
4:23 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Shouldn't the business in Massachusetts already figured this out? Massachusetts has required health care for several years now.
Paul Bishop
4:53 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Companies with under 50 employees are exempt from the employer mandate. You really ought to read the law and not Faux News' cartoon version..
Right Side Bob
6:46 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Read the 2,000+ pages, really Paul? The Democratic dunces in Congress didnt have the time to read it. Even Pelosi said we had to pass it before we could see what was I. It. BTW Fox is the only reliable source of bipartisan news, have you checked the Nielsen ratings for cable news? I don't think CNN is even in the top 10 with Fox #1 for years. How do you explain that?
Irene Del Bono
6:58 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Fox the only reliable source? Really?? Nearly every time I fact check something from Fox, I find that their "spin" has so twisted the facts (if there is even a factual basis) that they lose their credibility. Ratings are about sensationalism, fear mongering, character assasinations, which are so much more interesting than boring factual reporting. "Just the facts" can make for awfully dull news - so put a spin on it, dress it up and make it sensational, and people are drawn to it. There is a big difference between facts and infotainment news. I watch Fox because it's entertaining - but definitely not for a factual, reasoned analysis of anything. Their election night was fun - I have to say.
6:53 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
No company, small or very large, owned by wealthy people or not, should reduce their profits to pay for healthcare for employees beyond what is legally required of them. If management believes they can succeed in the marketplace with fewer employees then that decision should be up to them. Fortunately the US is driven by a capitalistic engine.
Danielle Lizotte
8:26 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
A capitalistic engine that gets free fuel from the government safety net for its workers, and then whines when being ordered to actually pay for it. I agree with many of these comments that health care costs are out of control. I don't believe ether party had the temerity to take on the insurance industry though.
Irene Del Bono
8:26 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
This statement says a company should not be able to provide anything for its employees not required under the law if it will reduce profits? This kind of thinking is what results in the need for laws to protect employees - the very laws many people on this list are complaining about! Profits are what is left over after the cost of doing business - and for some employers, attracting and retaining good employees by providing benefits is part of those costs. No one has commented on the outrageous salaries, perks, and platinum parachutes the heads of companies give themselves - which all come out of profits, and are paid for on the backs of employees and American taxpayers. The link provided by Danielle shows the thousands upon thousands of employees of the Walmarts, Stop and Shops, Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds whose medical costs the taxpayers of MA are paying for - so that the companies can increase their profits to provide billions in benefits to a few people at the top of the corporate ladder. By your logic, the corporate management should not be given all those benefits, perks, stock options and platinum parachutes because the law does not require it. So...does your logic extend to corporate management, who take a huge chunk out of profits to pay for their perks?
10:30 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
No, I won't.
Businesses should be free to offer or not offer a particular benefit based on whatever they think is in the best interests of the business.
The cost of providing Obama mandated insurance is too high for many small margin low cost businesses like fast food restaurants. Higher costs leads to higher prices and lower margins both of which impair the long term financial viability of the enterprise.
The same scolds who are eager to force compliance of this onerous law would be the first to complain, and then boycott, these same businesses for the higher prices that would inevitably result.
Government mandates that add to the cost of employment lead to less employment. Econ 101.
12:16 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Actually I hear whining from people about business owners or managers exercising their right to manage expenses - and profits - the way they want to (and can continue to do so as long as what they are doing is legal). Consumers have a right not to do business with any company. Business owners and managers have an equal right to hire as few or fire as many employees as they want. One perk of our market-based capitalistic engine country is that no-one is or should be guaranteed life-time job security.
12:19 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
It's amazing to see how utterly uninformed many of the posters on this site are on the health care law. Anyone who followed the process with any critical thinking skills applied whatsoever, knows that the law known as "Obamacare" is based on Republican ideas at it's core. The individual mandate at the center of the law was dreamed up in conservative think tanks in the 90's, and championed by guys like Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole. That's why when Romney passed it in Mass, no one cried "tyranny"!! The fact is, when Obamacare was passed, the Repubs got exactly what they wanted...a windfall for the insurance companies. What's even funnier, is that all the complaints about the law by these posters would actually be solved by a truly liberal plan...a single payer. Imagine that... business would shoulder zero healthcare burden. But you wont hear that angle on the Hannity show, as truth is not Fox's strong suit.
6:58 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Heh. Sorry but lots and lots of people complained when the Mass Health bill passed. They still do. Thanks to the implementation of that law, we have the highest health insurance premiums in the country.
Now, thanks to Obama (and Jim above, who seems keen on deflecting blame for Obamacare onto the GOP -- go figure) the rest of the country is beginning to feel our pain.
Irene Del Bono
9:02 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
What make you think we have the highest health insurance premiums in the country? Do you have some facts to back that up - adjusted for MA higher costs of living? Re-read the article - the employer mandate doesn't go into effect until 2014. So employers cutting employees now claiming it is because of Obamacare are flat out lying. It's just like the coal companies, who are claiming they are closing their mines because of regulations, when it is clear that the fracking and cheap gas prices have severely reduced the demand for coal. And from all the deaths and mine accidents caused by failure to implement required safety precautions and drilling in a manner prohibited by regulation, they ignore regulations anyway. Same with big oil, whose CEOs only concern is "getting back to their lives" - i.e., they could care less about the loss of lives or damage their cheating caused. And they are still lying, paying for ads that say everything is back to the way it was, when nothing is further from the truth. As for Obamacare having been proposed by the GOP first (designed to add profits to line the pockets of insurance companies), not only is it true, but it was speculated to be one of Romney's biggest stumbling blocks, distancing himself from Obamacare while bragging about implementing Romneycare, a GOP-based idea. Too many people conveniently forget facts that conflict with what they choose to believe, as in "my mind is made up - don't confuse me with the facts."
1:35 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Here's one study. I have read countless other studies and articles that support the fact that Mass has the highest insurance premiums. Of course, that honor may soon be lost thanks to Obamacare.
And despite your protestations to the contrary large junks of ObamaCare have already been implemented -- remember those thousands of waivers from the law that Obama granted his friends last year?--including taxes and employer requirements.
Irene Del Bono
2:29 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
milfordman, I generally go to a site like governing.com for national data comparing states (interestingly, this month highlights Massachusetts and what good shape it is in). Were you aware that Obamacare provides a disincentive for insurance companies to deny coverage, and so one way or another, either through reduced rates, or the rebates mandated by Obamacare, they have to fork over and can't pad their pockets with money from denying customers medical care - to the tune of $167 million in Texas. To my mind, that is a good thing. Am trying to access the report you referenced (thank you! I am always interested in good sources).


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LSC Baseball Championship: ASU Claims Tournament Title
By: LSC Press Release
Updated: May 9, 2012
ASU (40-15) rebounded after being held scoreless in Tuesday's initial title game, to win the tournament with a 4-1 mark including a 45-8 advantage in runs scored.
The Rams, who were the top seed as the LSC Champions by virtue of the best regular season record, scored five runs in the second inning to take control of the game.
Brett Parsons started the frame with a base hit, before scoring on Doug Snover's double to left field. Andrew LaCombe then singled through the right side to plate Lee Neumann, who reached on a fielder's choice, and Snover. Tate Allison delivered the final two runs with his fifth home run of the season.
ASU added one more run in the third, when Snover singled to bring Neumann, who had reached on an error, home.
Michael Lange (9-0) earned the victory for the Rams, allowing three hits in five innings with three strikeouts. Michael Weatherly and Craig Blair also saw action in the combined shutout effort.
Tarleton (30-21) managed eight hits but left seven on base. Matt Buckmaster (6-2) took the loss for the Texans.
The all-tournament team included seven players from ASU and four from Tarleton.


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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:12 pm
Post subject: Cyborg suspended for steroids
Cyborg suspended for steroids
Sat, 07 Jan 04:51:00 2012
The baddest woman on the planet tested positive for anabolic steroids the day before her most devastating career win, according to a release sent out Friday by the California State Athletic Commission.
Cristiane Justino Santos, 26, the Strikeforce womens featherweight champion, better known as Cyborg, tested positive for the anabolic steroid Stanazolol, also known as Winstrol. The test took place on Dec. 16, the day before she knocked out the top contender for the title, Japans Hiroko Yamanaka, in 16 seconds.
The result of the fight held on the Dec. 17 Strikeforce show at the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego has been overturned by the commission and ruled a no contest.
Our primary concern is for the health and safety of fighters, CSAC Executive Officer George Dodd said in a press release sent out on Friday.
Anabolic agents and other banned substances put not only the users of those agents at risk, but their opponents as well. The commission simply will not tolerate their use.
The release stated that the commission received the test results on Dec. 23 from the World Anti-Doping Agency lab at UCLA.
The release didnt state the length of time of the suspension, but that it would start retroactively on Dec. 16. In the past, California has suspended fighters who have failed steroid tests for one year. Santos, generally considered the best female fighter in the world, has the right to appeal the suspension.
Calls to the commission for comment stated that Dodd had left the office and would be unavailable until Monday.
In its history, the UFC on three occasions has suspended sitting champions after positive steroids test. Josh Barnett was the first, as he tested positive around his 2002 victory over Randy Couture for the heavyweight title in Las Vegas; Tim Sylvia failed in 2003 after a successful title defense against Gan McGee, also in Las Vegas; and lightweight champion Sean Sherk failed in California in 2007 after a title defense against Hermes Franca.
In all three cases, the champions were stripped of their titles.
Stanazolol is the anabolic agent that sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for in the 1988 Olympics. It is used in weight-class sports because it is believed to lead to increases or maintenance of strength levels while cutting weight to make a weight class.
Generally, injectable Stanazolol clears ones system when it comes to urine tests in about two months, while the oral version clears in three weeks.
Santos, like most fighters, walks around significantly higher than her weight class and in the past has had trouble making weight (145 pounds).
With a physique reminiscent of a female bodybuilder, Santos had been the most dominant female fighter on the U.S. scene ever since her arrival from Brazil in 2008. She became the first Strikeforce womens champion on August 15, 2009, when she stopped Gina Carano at the HP Pavilion in San Jose before 13,976 fans. It was the first time a womans fight was the main event of a major boxing or MMA show, and the match set ratings records for MMA on Showtime. The fight was the most searched item on Yahoo! and the single most talked about topic in the world that night on Twitter.
Santos, who was noted for fighting with a wild, aggressive, crowd-pleasing style, was too physically strong for Carano that night and finished her with strikes on the ground at 4:59 of Round 1. But Santos fights since that time have not generated the same level of interest, and the fight with Yamanaka was the first for Santos in 19 months after a lengthy contract dispute.
Originally a standout handball player, she began fighting at the age of 19. A native of Curitiba, Brazil, she started at the same academy that produced Wanderlei Silva, to whom her fighting style has always been compared, and Mauricio Shogun Rua. She married Evangelista Cyborg Santos, a well-known fighter who became a star in Japan and at one time challenged for the Strikeforce welterweight title.
The couple moved to San Diego, where she teaches and trains at a gym called The Arena.
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Are articles like this normal for European sports coverage? Well-written, well-researched, and informative for casual viewers without being insulting or taking any sort of slant? No op-ed vitriol or journalistic trolling? No condemnation or ridiculous inaccuracies? Just nuanced, professional journalism? Wtf is this shit?
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Are articles like this normal for European sports coverage? Well-written, well-researched, and informative for casual viewers without being insulting or taking any sort of slant? No op-ed vitriol or journalistic trolling? No condemnation or ridiculous inaccuracies? Just nuanced, professional journalism? Wtf is this shit?
I take it you never read the Dailymail.
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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:52 am
Post subject: cyborg on steroids
As indicated below, I previously posted about Cyborg being on steroids, but my head was bitten off by some posters for daring to suggest that. I agree you cannot conclusively know whether a competitor is on steroids without proper testing, but the physical appearance of some persons, like Cyborg, or Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa certainly indicates that is likely the case.
Women's MMA is having a hard time getting a foot hold in the popularity of MMA. One way women's MMA could set itself apart from Men's MMA is to establish a legitimate testing system for competitors. If promoters won't require testing, I suggest all women MMA competitors who want to compete in matches against their opponents whom they know are not on steroids, the best way to accomplish this is for the women to unionize or at least sign some binding agreement to provide for steroid testing for competitors before a match.
Rosi smile recently stated she wished MMA was steroid free. I don't know if that would ever be possible, but if the majority of women's MMA fighters signed such an agreement, it would go a long way to ensuring a level playing field in these bouts. MMA is brutal enough; it is not fair to an honest competitor to have to face one that is "juiced up", as it provides a competitive edge for the cheater and increases the risk of injury to her non-cheating opponent.
I would be willing to draft a legal binding agreement between competitors that would require steroid testing free of charge. We just need women who are willing to step up and do the right thing to make sure their sport is clean.
My client Angela Magana has told me repeatedly she would take any testing for steroids. I am sure there are many other female competitors who would be willing to do the same. I hope women's MMA can learn from the Corina Damm's anc Chris Cyborg that an honest sport is more likely to be accepted by the public who pay to watch honest fights between evenly matched opponents.
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PostForum: Fightergirls Forum Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:26 pm Subject: Official Marloes Coenen vs Cris Cyborg Discussion Thread
On what kind of stuff is Cyborg?
I don't know whether this was a serious question, but I feel there should be a discussion regarding Cyborg's possible use of steroids. Female MMA has more than en ...
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We were going to hold that division and just do fights with Cyborg whenever there was a new contender, White told ESPN Radio in Las Vegas. Shes getting stripped of the title. This pretty much kills the division.
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I think we all suspected, but it's still very disappointing.
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just lost a ton of respect for Cyborg...do promotions test atheletes too? If not I think they should...what a disappointment! Makes u wonder about the losses of her past opponents...I feel bad for Shayna, Gina, Marloes, Jan and the 3 Japanese fighters who lost to her in the past few years. Is there anyway those fighters can contest their losses? I know it probably cant be proven she was on the juice then...but damn! IMO...big promotions like Strikeforce should monitor their athelets more closely not only to keep it fair...but to save themselves the embarrassement of having one of their atheletes busted by the commission...and a "champion" is just more insulting.
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Her last fight has been declared a no contest.
All the other results stand as she passed the tests at those events.
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Her last fight has been declared a no contest.
All the other results stand as she passed the tests at those events.
Does anyone actually know for a fact that she was tested at each and every one of those previous events?
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I am going to have to assume that she wasn't tested in the other events. I wonder if Strikeforce will sign her right back after her suspension?
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Honestly, everyone is going to lose respect on Cris for trying to stay below 160 because that is what Strikeforce has demanded from the female fighters that wanted to fight with them? Cris is still the same person and the same fighter with or without steriods. (Especially when it is a type of steriod that helps to cut) You cannot tell me that Cris is the ONLY female that has done steriods.
I think it sucks for us female fighters who normally walk around 160+ and then when it comes to fight time to squeeze our weight to 145 or 155 then try and hold out till weigh in. IT SUCKS!
Cris, I still have respect for you and good luck!
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You cannot tell me that Cris is the ONLY female that has done steriods.
And your point is?
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My point was clear.....
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OKLAHOMA CITY - Ray Allen said after the Celtics' loss Saturday in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals that he would have ankle surgery the next day if he could. Allen confirmed Monday night that he will undergo surgery at New England Baptist Hospital on Wednesday.
Allen, who turns 37 next month, was bothered by bone spurs during the second half of the season and missed three weeks in April. He returned for the postseason but was hampered by pain and soreness. He averaged 10.7 points and shot 30.4 percent from the 3-point line in 18 postseason games, well below his career averages.
Allen is a free agent and said he wants to play next season. He just finished a two-year, $20 million contract.
Heat exhaustion
The Heat returned to the NBA Finals after a grueling series with the Celtics. Less than 48 hours after eliminating Boston, Miami players couldn't help reflecting on the series.
Miami was trailing, 3-2, before LeBron James collected 45 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 assists to take Game 6 in Boston. He then tallied 31 points - including 11 in the fourth quarter - to take Game 7, 101-88. Just moments after the final buzzer, Celtics end Doc Rivers embraced James and told him to "go do it,'' as in win a championship.
James was asked whether he was exhausted after perhaps the best back-to-back games of his playoff career.
"Game 6, I felt great,'' he said. "Mentally it was draining. Physically it was draining, as well, but I felt great throughout that whole game. It's draining when you finally get into the locker room and you guys see me got my feet in the ice tub and my knees are wrapped.
"Then after Game 7, it was even more draining, just the emotions around that series, knowing the team we beat, I mean, it's probably one of the best-coached teams that you can ever compete against. Doc Rivers keeps those guys prepared, and they have four future Hall of Famers in Paul [Pierce], [Rajon] Rondo, KG [Kevin Garnett], and Ray. It's challenging going against those guys. So it was very draining not only Game 6 and Game 7, but the series in general.''
The Heat said they will use their victory over Boston as a confidence-builder for this matchup with the Thunder. Last year's Heat team went through a series of highs and lows and that carried into the Finals when they were one quarter from taking the first two games, only to lose a 15-point lead in Game 2.
After winning Game 3 in Dallas, the Heat dropped the next three games, including the series clincher at home.
Dwyane Wade said Miami's Game 2 win, a point of controversy for Celtics fans because of the officiating and noncall against Rondo in overtime, was a perfect example of the Heat's growth in maturity from last season.
"[Against] Dallas, we had a lot of leads in that series in the fourth quarters, and we didn't close them out,'' Wade said. "But, you know, we're just a different team now. I remember, I think Game 2 versus Boston, and we were down, I think, 15 in that game or something and we came back and won it in overtime. I remember me and LeBron telling Shane [Battier], I don't know if we would have won that game [last year].''
"That's how much we've grown in a sense. We learn how to stick to it no matter what the situation is looking like, no matter what the outcome may be. We've learned now to be able to stick to it a little more, and last year we kind of let it go for whatever reasons. We just wasn't the team that Dallas was . . . you're going to be challenged in the Finals. There's going to be a lot of moments where teams are challenged, and it's how you respond.''
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Miami has been able to limit the effectiveness of Thunder All-Star guard Russell Westbrook over the past two seasons. In four games against the Heat, Westbrook shot 31.2 percent from the field (25 for 80) with 23 assists and 16 turnovers. Miami has blended defenders on Westbrook, from Wade to James to Mario Chalmers.
"They're a great defensive team,'' Westbrook said. "They attack the ball real well, especially in pick and rolls, and do a great job of rotating. It definitely can be tough at times to score on them, but I watched a lot of film and try to find a way where I can be effective.''
Wade was stunned when told the Heat had limited Westbrook, one of the game's top point guards.
"We have? Westbrook? That's news to me,'' Wade said. "He's a phenomenal athlete, man. He's only getting better and better. Obviously we've got to have different guys guard him, to give him a different look. I always say this is a very good team, but Russell Westbrook is what makes them very special, because there's no one else like him in the NBA. I think he's the most athletic guy in the NBA for what he does and how he does it and how quick he does it.''
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Miami coach Erik Spoelstra wasn't giving any hints to his starting lineup for Tuesday. Chris Bosh is a candidate to start after his 19-point effort in Game 7 against the Celtics but he could also go with Battier and Udonis Haslem in the frontcourt . . . Kevin Durant will draw the assignment of defending James, making for a matchup between the league's reigning MVP (James) and three-time scoring champion.
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