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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Session 3: Homework
Problem H1
The meter was originally based on the size of the Earth, with the distance from the equator to the North Pole being arbitrarily defined as 10 million m. What is another way to express the distance of 10 million m?
The Earth is not quite spherical, but for practical purposes we can think of Earth as having a circumference of 40 Mm. Thus, originally the meter was considered to be about 1/40,000,000 of Earth's circumference. Use the Web or reference books to find out how a meter is officially defined today.
Problem H2
Match the metric quantities on the left with the approximate lengths/distances on the right:
1 gigameter
(1 109)
A. distance a fast walker walks in 10 minutes
1 megameter
(1 106)
B. size of an atom
1 kilometer
(1 103)
C. waist height of an average adult
1 meter
(base unit)
D. size of bacteria
1 centimeter
(1 10-2)
E. thickness of a dime
1 millimeter
(1 10-3)
F. distance from Atlanta to Miami
1 micrometer
(1 10-6)
G. width of a fingernail
1 picometer
(1 10-12)
H. Earth's distance from Saturn
Problem H3
A nickel is said to weigh 5 g. How much is 1 kg of nickels worth?
Problem H4
Give the approximate mass of the following volumes of water:
30 cm3
18 mL
12 m3
Problem H5
Why might a student be confused by this question: Which is more, 1.87 kg or 1,869 g? Explain.
Suggested Reading:
The article "Do Your Students Measure Up Metrically?" points out some of the challenges of helping students in the United States learn the metric system. Discuss or think about how you might improve instruction on the metric system in your classroom or school.
Taylor, P. Mark; Simms, Ken; Kim, Ok-Kyeong; and Reys, Robert E. (January, 2001). Do Your Students Measure Up Metrically? Teaching Children Mathematics, 282-287. Reproduced with permission from Teaching Children Mathematics. © 2001 by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. All rights reserved.
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Lakehurst Cinema 12
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The Lakehurst Cinema, next to the now-demolished Lakehurst Mall, opened in 1974 as a triplex, and was increased to five screens in 1984. By 2004, it had 12 screens. The theater was originally opened by General Cinema, which closed it in 2001. It sat abandoned for a year and a half before Village Theaters re-opened it.
The Lakehurst Cinema was closed in January 2007 and the building demolished in July and August 2007. It will be replaced on the site by a hotel.
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I can't believe they were still using reel to reel on this theater. It wasn't uncommon for General Cinema's union to run all of the theaters by themself. All GC had union until late'95 when the smaller units had the managers start running the booth part of the time after they brought in a former vp from AMC. At the Mall of America 14 they had 1 projectionist run both sides rather than one on each side.
The description above implies that this place expanded to 12 screens when it was operated by Village Theatres. Is this true?
No, it was expanded to 12 screens in 1987 by General Cinema.
Before it was demolished, the Lakehurst Cinema looked like this.
Actually, in response to Aaron Wood's comment, the largest screen in the northern suburbs is at the Regal Cinemas Lincolnshire IMAX Theatre… it's 5-stories tall and 89-feet wide.
I was an Assistant Manager of this Theatre from June 1989 to January 1992. I would love to reconnect with anyone I worked with there.
Hey there KLUNKE!!! I remember you back then those were great times there and I stayed til 1997. You'll remember me as Janssen's Adm Asst.
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Jessi Cowden erupted for 44 points as the University of Charleston women's basketball team earned a 87-70 home conference win over Bluefield State Thursday at Eddie King Gymnasium.
Charleston (13-10, 10-9 West Virginia Conference) got a huge first half from Cowden, who 9 for 12 from the floor, hitting five 3-point buckets to account for 26 first-half points, two off the record by a UC woman in a half.
Bluefield fell to 12-10 overall and 10-9 in the conference.
TECH MEN WIN: David Rawlinson and Terrale Clark combined for 51 points as WVU Tech edged Ohio Mid-Western 100-97 Thursday in Montgomery.
Rawlinson finished with 26 points for the Golden Bears (17-10) while Clark added 25 points and 11 rebounds. Jaren Marino and Brandon Burgraff each had 17-point performances for Tech. Greg Howard posted a game-high 38 points for Ohio Mid-Western (5-13).
STATE MEN WIN: Anton Hutchins tallied 18 points and Raymon Austin had 15 as the West Virginia State men's basketball team earned a 88-79 road win over Ohio Valley Thursday in Vienna.
David Ford and Juan Johnson also contributed 11 points apiece for the Yellow Jackets (10-15, 7-12 WVC). David Sinickas paced the Fighting Scots (3-22, 2-17) with 19 points.
STATE WOMEN LOSE: Shelby Way hit a pair of free throws with seven seconds left to give Ohio Valley a 70-69 win over West Virginia State Thursday in Vienna.
Way finished with 14 points and eight rebounds for the Fighting Scots (2-21, 2-17 WVC) while Kayla Parsley and Jasmine Gibson each chipped in 12 points. The Yellow Jackets (10-13, 9-10) were paced by Jasmine Blanton with 19 points and Kashauna Cook with 16.
MU WOMEN WIN: Suporia Dickens netted 15 points as the Marshall women's basketball team scored a 59-47 win against UTEP at the Cam Henderson Center.
Shay Weaver also contributed 13 points for the Thundering Herd (8-15, 2-8 Conference USA) while Erica Wood had 12. UTEP (18-5, 6-4) was paced by Anete Steinberga with a game-high 21 points.


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The technology enables an integrated touch panel function by forming the display pixel electrodes and TFT within the LCD panel using LTPS TFT technology and creating a detecting circuit for electrostatic capacitance changes between the electrodes and the peripheral object. Compared to conventional LCDs with an external touch panel, the thickness is reduced by 57% to approximately one millimeter, the weight is reduced by 48% to 225 grams and the surface reflection ratio is reduced by 10%, TMD said.
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DX Monitor Nagios 1.0.0
Dell DX6000, DX Monitoring Nagios, 1.0.0
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Installation instructions
DX Monitoring via Nagios Plugin install instructions. (Version 1.0.0)
The DXMonitorNagios bundle contains nagios open source packages in RHEL5 directory. The corresponding source rpms are in the SOURCES directory. Both the rpms and sources were obtained from the following locations:
NOTE: DXMonitorNagios1.0.0 is supported on RHEL5.5 for the CSN2.1.1 bundle *only*.
Installation instructions:
1. Download the latest version of DXMonitorNagios package from http://support.dell.com under the DX6000 product.
2. Copy the zip file to /opt/dell directory on your CSN.
3. unzip DX Monitor Nagios zip.
# cd /opt/dell
# unzip DXMonitorNagios1.0.0.zip
4. change the directory to DXMonitorNagios
# cd DXMonitorNagios1.0.0
5. Run the DX Monitor Nagios installer
# ./DXMonitor-Nagios-install.sh
5.1 Provide your email address to receive DX monitoring notification emails.
5.2 Provide your SMTP email server address or DNS name.
5.3 The installer will install and configure DX Monitoring service using Nagios.
5.4 Once configuration is complete it will send you a test email to the email address you provided. Once you receive the email, enter 'yes' to confirm correct installation and configuration and to exit the installer program.
NOTE: DO NOT change the preconfigured Nagios configuration files.
The DX Monitor preconfigures the Nagios web console to run on HTTP port 9090, with a default username and password of nagiosadmin and dell, respectively.
1. Enter http://localhost:9090/nagios in your web browser to login to the Nagios web console.
2. Click the Current Status -> Services tab in the Nagios web console to list and monitor all preconfigured DX Services.
3. For information on Nagios usage, click the General -> Documentation tab.
4. The installer has preconfigured all of the settings required for DX Cluster monitoring and notification. The Nagios configuration files are installed in the /etc/nagios directory.
Using DX Monitoring via Nagios:
1. Login in Nagios web console using "http://localhost:9090/nagios" address with username "nagiosadmin" and default password "dell".
2. Click "Current Status -> Services" in Nagios web console to list and monitor all DX services. DXMonitorNagios will pre configure Nagios services to monitor your DX cluster including CSN services.
3. Check DX Monitor Nagios Admin Guide for more information.
NOTE: Do NOT change the Nagios configuration files preconfigured to manage your DX cluster.
Uninstall instructions:
1. Run the DX Monitoring uninstaller to remove all packages and configuration files from the CSN.
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Brace Yourself Mayer, Saving Yahoo Won't Be Easy: Analysts
It's Marissa Mayer's first day on the job at Yahoo and there's no shortage of opinion about her challenges.
Mayer has won over her fair share of supporters, including the company's board members and activist investor Dan Loeb, who is known for his outspoken criticism of the company's past CEOs, but the reality is, she still has to prove she has what it takes to save Yahoo, analysts told CNBC Tuesday.
"I think Yahoo has a chance," Paul Meeks, an equity analyst for Windsor Asset Management, said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." "It will be very tough. I think it would be even tougher for Christ himself to come there and turn around that company."
Establishing an Identity
The Internet pioneer has a laundry list of challenges, including a stagnant stock price, leadership challenges and an identity crisis.
Along with a revolving door in the C-Suite, the company has struggled for several years to clearly identify itself as a media company, an advertising company or a product company.
"It's been a company in limbo for the last few years. They've tried to become a media company, but I don't really think they had a clear vision of what a media company was or what kind of media company they were," Claus Mortensen, principal of emerging technologies research of IDC Asia Pacific, told CNBC. "And obviously, other areas that they used to be strong in, like search, well the train has left the station, they're not really on it anymore."
The 37-year-old Mayer, a 13-year veteran of Google, is known for her involvement with Google's search, gmail and Google news features. Considering her engineering background, it's widely speculated she will to introduce new products to Yahoo.
'What kind of product would stop the kind of slow bleeding away of consumers to Yahoo's site? I don't have any ideas. Hopefully, Marissa has some ideas right off the top," Mark Mahaney, an Internet analyst at Citigroup, told "Squawk Box."
Eric Jackson of Ironfire Capital said he thinks she will be more product focused as well.
"She's an engineer, she's a techie, she going to bring more of a products focus," Jackson said on CNBC's "Halftime Report." "There's going to be more home-grown Yahoo products that are going to be successful under her watch."
Mayer's plans for Yahoo, however, still remain ambiguous, although she did tell the Financial Times on Monday that she will include "innovating in some of the verticals like finance, sports, video and messenger," while also "being relevant to consumers in their everyday lives — email, search, the homepage and now mobile."
Will Mayer Be Able to Lead the Company?
Another uncertainty about Mayer's appointment is whether or not she has the leadership experience in management to run such a big organization, Mahaney said.
"She's going to have to prove herself as CEO of a very large company," he said. "There are a couple of major assets that are part of Yahoo. Asia's stake in Yahoo Japan, her ability to help negotiate those stakes in those deals is far from proven."
Yahoo sold a large stake in Alibaba, China's e-commerce company, earlier this year, which is expected to bring in about $7 billion. But the company is still negotiating a deal with Yahoo Japan.
Ross Levinsohn, the interim CEO who led the company between Scott Thompson's departure and Mayer's appointment, was widely speculated to be appointed as chief.
Levinsohn helped close the deal with Alibaba and an advertising partnership deal with Facebook, moves that better positioned the company and may have proved he was more qualified than Mayer, Meeks said.
"He showed some leadership in closing that deal with Facebook. He showed some leadership in closing that deal with Alibaba. I thought it was his job to keep," Meeks said.
Despite Mayer's star status at Google as one of the top engineers, Meeks said he is not enthusiastic about her appointment.
"I was a little bit surprised by the choice. Obviously, this is someone who is a senior at Google and had been one of the earlier employees," Meeks said. "However, it seems to me that her career, no offense to her, had been a bit on the slide since Larry Page came in, in April of 2011 as a CEO."


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For those of us who face a cold wet winter ahead, the tendency to want to do as little as possible and hibernate until its all over is natural enough.
Although a certain amount of hibernating is a good idea, keeping active is vitally important for keeping a raised body temperature that helps us to function properly. This is particular true for seniors and some form of exercise such as just moving around at home, going for short walks and doing some simple stretches or yoga can all help to keep everything circulating making you less prone to illness.
When the days are bright and dry, go for a walk if possible. Make sure you bundle up well with several layers of clothing and good sensible shoes along with a warm hat and gloves. Just being outside in the fresh air in natural light can lift your mood and make you feel better.
Also make sure you eat plenty of fruit to give you that extra vitamin C along with plenty of good nourishing foods.
Winter is also that time of year when you might become aware of drafts that you didnt know you had. It is vital not to sit for long periods of time in a draft as this can dramatically lower your bodys temperature, making it harder for you to warm up again. As insulation can be costly, why not try a bit of recycling, using sleeves from old clothes. Stuff them with other recycled materials to make draft excluders to stop up those gaps. If this isn't possible for you, change your seating position to make sure you are not constantly sitting in a draft. Wear fleece slippers and have a fleece blanket handy to wrap around you when sitting still for long periods of time, they are very cheap to buy and really keep the heat in.
It is also important to keep the mind active by reading a good book or getting stuck into a hobby. Invite friends round for lunch or tea and have fun together doing crosswords or puzzles.
So dont dread the winter. See it as a time to test your resilience and discover how ingenious you can be at staying warm and healthy. Tackle it as a project to get you through the winter months. Even if you cant get outside on those beautiful bright winter days take the time to look out of the window and notice the changes in nature. Raindrops look beautiful in different lights. Remember we are all part of nature and need to feel connected to feed our body and spirit and in five or six months time everything including us will be springing back.


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2014 Harley-Davidson® Softail® Heritage Softail® Classic
Heritage Softail® Classic Key Features
Heritage Softail® Classic
Key Features
Hidden Rear Shocks
If you want a comfortable bike but love that rigid-suspension look, you've come to the right bike. We've kept all the modern comforts where they belong—below the surface of a rad, vintage-looking bike. You get the classic lines of a vintage "hardtail" frame with the horizontal rear shocks hidden in the guts. It's a signature rigid look, and you'll only find it on a Softail® model.
Nostalgic Custom Style
Do laced wheels, whitewalls and studded leather add to the way a bike feels on the road? Of course they do. It's these extras that make the Heritage Softail® Classic model the quintessential boulevard cruiser. As rallies were gaining grassroots traction in the '40s, you'd roll into Daytona Bike Week expecting new stories and new styles. There was really something going on, and it's still alive and well in this bike. Take the saddlebags, studded with style straight from that golden era, with hidden quick-detach buckles. Or the fenders—full and fluid, with chrome highlights and matching paint. Or that big, commanding 7-inch ball headlamp, chromed and classy. And let's talk wheels. You can go with the standard steel-laced wheels on blackwalls with a chrome hub. Or turn the clock all the way back with the optional chrome laces and wide whitewalls.
Old-School Tank and 3-D Medallion
The unique medallion on the Heritage Softail® Classic motorcycle is glass-inlayed, cloisonné-and-chrome style and shows that Harley-Davidson® Softail® model heritage that runs in your blood. With a five-gallon capacity for long weekend cruising, we top off this tank with a nostalgic chrome "cats-eye" consolle, paint for days and style to spare.
Tank-Mounted consolle
The speedometer face boasts a big, bold display for the odometer, along with an ancillary display for gear and rpm, offering up the information you need on the fly.
Pure Harley-Davidson Styling
Feast your eyes on the Twin Cam 103™ engine and there's no mistaking its roots. This is authentic Harley-Davidson style through and through with an attention to detail you won't find from any other motorcycle company. Black powder-coated heads and cylinders are highlighted by machined cooling fin tips and chrome rocker covers. It's a jewel machined out of metal. Pure. Dripping with power. From the classic edge of the cooling fins to the clean lines of cases and covers—the Twin Cam 103™ engine makes an ironclad statement about holding on to what's right and staying true to what satisfies.
Six-Speed Cruise Drive® Transmission
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Lying in wait for you on nefarious cruise ships.
Ambushing you in Europe with smörgåsbords in Sweden, MooMoo in Russia, Big Lukes in England.
Trapping you in South America, with names like Rodizio or El Gaucho.
The All You Can Eat Buffet.
Wherever you find them, the strategy is the same.
Avoid them at all costs.
But we know that's impossible.
First, let's lay blame to the person who came up with the idea.
Herb Macdonald, a Las Vegas hotel manager, in 1946, while working late at the El Rancho Vegas, MacDonald innocently brought some cheese and cold cuts from the kitchen and laid them out on the bar to make a sandwich.
Gamblers walking by said they were hungry, and the buffet was born. From the modest 'chuckwagon' buffet that cost $1.25, the buffet evolved with the Strip itself.
William Pearson, in his 1965 novel, The Muses of Ruin:
"We marvel at the Great Pyramids, but they were built over decades; the midnight buffet is built daily. Crushed-ice castles and grottoes chill the shrimp and lobster. Sculptured aspic is scrolled with Paisley arabesques. Laid out with reverent artistry: hors d'oeuvres, relish, salads, and sauces; crab, herring oyster, sturgeon and octopus."
So how do mere mortals resist?
Go for the good stuff first. Do not load up on carbs.
If it's a breakfast buffet, don't even think about that bagel and cream cheese. Go straight for the smoked fish.
For dinner, realize soups, breads, pastas and rice are simply roadblocks intended to fill you up and save the restaurant money.
The ham, beef, chicken and lobster will likely be tucked away in a far corner someplace, but that's your first target. A simple "No thank you," will suffice when the devious attendant attempts to push some mashed potatoes on you.
Your beverage of choice? Nothing. Or maybe a little water. Liquids take up space that could be put to better use.
Recovery? Resist the urge to sleep.
Resist to urge to blame yourself.
Or to blame me.
Try to stay up for at least three hours to allow your upper digestive system time to process your meal.
We have much to digest.
Food for thought. Aye, aye.
Mighty sagacious advice, Mr. P.
My advice:
Don't begin at the designated buffet line starting place.
Go to the opposite end of the line.
That is where the good grub is.
Gonna write a book.
Gonna call it "Buffets for Dummies."
Gonna give you something to chew on.
Like lobster.
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I'm not sure what today's subject really is about...think it's about food and/or eating/ or ???...but not sure. Will assume it's about food. One of my favorites is barbecue. Now am not talking about BBC, or anything that's served in a bar, or with 'sause'. But, real old fashioned barbecue. I remember it being prepared...always in a publiic park, or something similar. On a Friday (usually, because the barbecue was served on a Sunday); early in the morning , men would dig the pit. About the size of a grave. Then they would put in the wood, and start the fire. The wood would burn throughout the day, and throughout the night. The next morning, the pit would be full of red hot coals. A dressed out beef, wrapped in linin would be prepared. Small rocks would be let in upon the hot coals, and then some sand; and the the beef would be let done into the pit. The beef would be covered with more linin and then sand, and finally with soil.....completely covered...and then it would be left for a day and a half to cook. Sunday morning, just before noon, it was dug up and unrapped. then sliced ans served to the waiting croud. It was the best tasting beef in the world. Absolutely!!!
There was no BBQ, or no 'sause', or no sports bars, or no little backyard cooking things....just real barbecued beef...fresh out of the ground and fresh off the hot coals. It couldn't be beat...still can't. But like so many really good things,,, it's gone.
That's what I remenber about really good eating. Cheers friends; Lee
Lee LaFontaine - I believe there are still places as you describe here in the South... Though like many things, so many of the little treasures of our youth - or younger days - food included have disappeared or were "deleted" to make room for the endless buffet of life/lifestyle pelting us each day.
Taking a moment respite, just a moment and my mind has been pelted with memories of the "Buffet" - The Indian buffet I enjoy way too much in Asheville once or twice a year; Paris in Las Vegas teeming with delight. The Brekfast Buffet at Caesar's Palace - ridiculous. But no, while these are a fine assault on my lack of self control, the real catapult to my youth and memories of hard rolls of all kinds laden with sausages of all kinds, yogurts, cheeses, and more are only found in Europe - only there can I come full circle back to childhood favorites no longer found in my "real life" world. Doesn't matter how big the hotel, how small the offerings. Always fresh, always amazing. Always a ticket back to gastronomical delight.
Watching people around an all you can eat buffet is similar to watching vultures swarm around a carcas.
I love sea food buffets; any others I generally don't bother. But yes, it is a mission if I go to a buffet. Always , tasting portion just to start, and stay away from stomach fillers, and oh, never feel guilty about not finishing it.
ever wondered how the establishment makes money? Apparently, the economic theory of adverse selection explains it all:
I am not a buffet person at heart. I like my salad brought to me...forgoing a drink or a fresh roll to make space does not compute for me. I like my food hot and delivered with a smile. I eat everything but sometimes just a taste which is why Ms T and I usually order different items. I enjoy watching people eat but rarely go back repeatedly when at a buffet. As time passes I like contentment without the sensation of stuffed but to everyone who enjoys a good buffet strategy- Enjoy!
more on the honor rollWe love cruises, but don't do the buffets. We go to the restaurants that have menus and servers.
Making a plate? I can do that in my own kitchen.
Because I don't eat enormous amounts, all-you-can-eat(s) are wasted on me. And in recent years I've begun avoiding all salad bars; I see them as virtually crawling with vermin invisible to the naked eye; after all, how long has that lettuce been sitting there -- no matter they refresh it with sprinkles of water. Perhaps I've become paranoid, but there've been too many cases of salmonella-and-everything-else to make me comfortable. House salad in a restaurant? Yes, indeed, but spare me the salad bar. A friend dates the beginning of the decline of our civilization to the first salad bar.
Moreover, I admit I dislike intently the impression people from other countries have about how we Americans eat because they've seen the all-you-can-eat signs, and are puzzled; worse, if they haven't a good guide, they've happened into such a place. Unfailingly, my experience is they mention it; ask if it's true, and so on.
Our genial host mentions something in England, but I've not encountered it on any trips to that country so can't speak for it. The closest I've seen is, in pub food, the "Ploughman's Platter." And never have seen that in a restaurant (other than a pub). It is aptly named, and likely had its birth to feed hungry
workers. I've not ordered one, but have seen them -- piled high with something. There's such better food in England now than perhaps there used to be; I can't complain about a single meal eaten in a restaurant or hotel. A shop owner asked me once what I thought of the food, and I replied
positively. Her response: "People in the food business here finally realized not all of us want to live on fish and chips." Much hotel food is French or "Continental," as are maitre d's, so England's once-poor-cuisine reputation is no longer deserved.
oops: fifth word in second paragraph should be "intensely." But you knew that.
Buffet?! Yikes! Unless you are at an event like a wedding reception where a buffet is constructed for that event only, it would be best to Step Away From the Buffet. Its early yet so I will refrain from what some refer to as my "pontificating" on the subject, but the topic IS Food and its What I Do.
I so dislike buffets. People seem to swarm in to them as if they are starving and have never seen food before. There are exceptions as in weddings and beautifully done and sanitary buffets which are monitored etc. However, GERMS. People sneezing and breathing over the food. Perhaps touching it. I am so opposed to buffets and feel they promote gluttinous over-eating. How can one truly enjoy the culinary talents and taste of the food when a plate and our tastebuds are so overladen with over -indulgence. A meal well prepared is met to be savored and enjoyed with the different levels of taste and combinations culminating in a soft harmony that blends well together. and satifies hinger as well as the soul. It is art. Not to be messed together on a plate and then gulped down in order that another plate can quickly be loaded up. Lets get our moneys worth right? Where is the joy of eating?
It's strange that noone as yet has said anything about good company. I can't imagine good food without good company. When I was still working, I had the immense pleasure of working with Oregon's Native America population. This often meant travelling to one or another of the nine reservations for meetings or conferences. I remember some of the people...really generous, kind people. And the food!!! And, no, not that casino stuff. Their are a number of casinos that have resturants, and they serve food about two steps up from hospital food....about on a par with Wendy's. But the food that the Native People eat is entirely different. I've shared their company, and their food. Wonderful!!!
I remember what a treat it was to go to the Warm Springs Reservation for any of their feast days. They always served tons of fresh salmon. The salmon was always cooked in the same way. A long, narrow pit was dug and filled with alder. and other wood and then left to burn untill mid-day. Then large fillets of salmon would be pinned to planks of alder wood. The planks then leaned, one against the other, along the narrow fire-pit. After some time over the glowing, red-hot coals, the salmon was served.
It was not hard to see why these people have a special reverence for their traditional foods. It is not hard to see why the despoiling of our rivers...including the great ones like the Columbia...with dams and other obstacles that prevent the salmon from spawning are taken as a personal affront to Native Americans.
A heaping plate of traditionally prepared salmon, coupled with the laughter and story telling of friends is unbeatable. Cheers; Lee
At the worst, the buffet concept may be observed at such places as Ryan's and Golden Corral, which I have seen rarely and only when traveling and that was the extent of food choices at the location where we had stopped. Spring rain's image sums up the worst of this sort of feeding station. Yes, it is an ugly sight to observe large adults and equally large children pawing over the rolls, or turning the fried chicken to find just the right piece, having touched several along the way. One thing I'd suggest for those buffet places is a hand-washing station at the entrance right after you pay and put your money away. Imagine where that money has been!!
Perhaps a second to those food bars would be the ubiquitous lunch or breakfast bar on board a cruise ship, but again, there are options, so one may dine elsewhere or simply go for one thing, break into the line to get just the smoked salmon, or beef hash, and then retreat. I cannot remember ever going back for seconds, so the huge variety and quantity is not a devilish temptation to me. I will put 6-8 steamed-in-shell shrimp on my plate and happily enjoy stripping off the shells, dipping the creatures in hot butter or cocktail sauce with horseradish, and then devouring them for a snack, lunch, hors d'oeuvre, or a meal. I may be kidding myself, but I rationalize that the boiling or steaming process has cooked away any germy bugs that might have been onboard, and peeling the shells off discards the outer surface that might have been in contact with dirty hands or worse. I have never been sick from a salad bar, so must have excellent immunity or lucky in the choice of location.
AS TT opines, I also prefer to be seated in a nice restaurant or at home and be served. Unfortunately, in my own kitchen, it is almost impossible to get everything for a meal all prepared, hot, then on the plates at the same time, without losing some of the warmth-- by the time "mama" gets to sit down! I am the one asking "Does anyone else need anything before I sit down?" More often than not there is a plea for salt, butter, ice, napkin, or something.
As for buffet serving at home, that is a convenient way to feed a large group in your own home: put the food out with lids and warmers, set up the drinks and ice, stack a number of plates, seilverware, napkins at the end of the counter, and tell everyone to "Come on, dinner's ready." A tray of hot grilled ribs, a cold bowl of slaw or potato salad, a hot casserole of baked beans, buttered garlic bread, and cold iced tea serve well in a buffet style for that family or group of 8-10 friends.
I always think of Margie (from the movie Fargo) and fricassee when I think of buffets.
Some of the plates that leave the food trough often defy the laws of gravity and physics. Piled high and over the edges. Soup that stays in the bowl even though it is above the edge of the bowl. The transformation of loaves and fish to feed the masses doesn't even compare to this phenomenon.
I think it takes all of the fun out of eating.......
I would like it if Mooseloop's family was more thoughtful and independent.
We have many seafood buffets here in Ocean City. I avoid them like the worst thing possible. The smell when I walk in the door has me turning right around. I'd rather cook that food at home and serve it myself.
The 'all you can eat' buffets are the autobahn to obesity. It is where moderation and good health sense goes to die. Where a diet Coke at the free refill station is considered a counter-balance.
The only element that is missing is an attached vomitorium.
....but I do like the self-serve soft ice-cream. You get to oull the handle down to create a sculptured master piece.
They are temptations protected by sneeze screens...
They've got a green bean salad and pork barbecue
Honey baked bread and fried chicken too
Beets and sweets and jello treats
But Lord I'm so forlorn
I just can't find the roasted corn.
Had the best herring ever at the Smorgasbord in Helsinki, Finland.
I Dream of tasting it again.
Smorgasbord always takes me back to the Swedish chef. Here I go...
Oh PL, do you think they have ever cleaned the soft serve machine (the inside)?
Love the Swedish Chef, love Smorgasbord in its own locale, but most buffets and salad bars not only need sneeze guards, the food itself is extremely dubious and recycled.
My father's rule of never ordering anything that doesn't have to be cooked only for you (fried eggs vs. scrambled---who knows what old carton the scrambled "eggs" came out of)still holds decades after he wouldn't let me order an egg salad sandwich at the counter in the drug store.
I bet they don't clean the outside of the machine either. Anyroads, I like my icecream so frozen that you break into a sweat trying to scoop it out with a scoop kept in warm water.
But now I have a hankerin' for an egg sald on soft white bread with pickles and lettuce....and don't forget the chips.
Peace out kids.
An experience from some years ago was like a buffet in Amsterdam and The Hague when I had rijstaffel which is lots of rice and a huge assortment of things to eat on the rice! Some of it was so hot I could not take more than the first exploratory bite. But the entire buffet experience was memorable.
Georgia, and all Villagers, you are definitely invited! We will serve a casual buffet in the Club Car Friday night from 7 til...and beverages will be open bar with your choice, and I don't mean iced tea! Although we can have that too!
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Hi imbue,
Yours is a valid question and certainly deserves a better than a 1 rating. I have seen a lot of 1 ratings lately and it is infuriating when people amuse themselves with abusing the rating system. That said, coming back to your question, I have never felt being treated like a 2nd class citizen when using LL packages. On the contrary, in my experiences, hotels were always eager to please. We have been on at least 25 LL packages, and not once have we had a problem with service.
Hope you will be treated as well as we have when you use your packages.
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imbues....we've noticed this matter discussed in a couple of previous postings. From our personalexperiences of havingtaken at least 17 auction trips through LL, we have never felt the slightestindications of reducedservices.The exact terms ofarrangements between theindividual properties and LL are a mystery to us, but they must included providing these packages in exchange for advertising and exposure on this web site. We assume there is some type of "barter" system involving the exchange of the accommodationswith LL.
Whatever the system and arrangements, we haven't been treated as, nor have we ever felt like,second class citizens at any of the destinations. On the contrary, most of the owners of the smaller properties we've stayed at using LL packages haveappeared to have taken extra efforts in seeing we enjoyed out visits and encouraged us to tell our friends and family aboutour stay.
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Thank you Travelfan, you're one of the most traveled here, so your experience means a lot. It's good to hear that traveling under LL's packages results in decent treatment. Although, many of the auctions are deeply discounted they are not for free. Then most spend more money on food and drink at the property. I don't expect to be treated like a queen, but at least like a paying customer.
LOL, Some passive aggressive, numb skull has been following me around and giving me one ratings for a while. Anyone that has that much time on there hands, and uses it to do that, is a true idiot. If they think it will chase me away than they have a long wait. I'm way beyond caring if everybody likes me, in life. Hehe I do hate seeing others get a one rating though and if it hurts there feelings that sucks. You and me though, were New Yorkers so petty spitefulness couldn't penetrate our armor. Some bully isn't going to chase me away with childish behavior.
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Hi Omegeat, Thanks for your extensive experience too, it's reassuring to hear that after so many packages you've always been treated well.
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Hi Imbues We have not had the good fortune to travel on as many LL packages as LH or O but each experience has been wonderful so far. Our stay in Tortola was made even better by the Long Bay Beach LL resort welcoming us back with wine in our room and great treatment after the extention that I selected was unacceptable. Icis villas that I picked was terrible! Long Bay Beach quickly cleaned a room for our return - it was worth the lost deposit to leave Icis! Other memorable LL purchases have included our own villa in Tuscany ( one step closer camporsevoli), superb accomodations in Umbria - (Villa Zuccari) , checked out LL property in Gubbio We would definitely reccommend it too! Canada Cathedral Mountain Lodge was a dream! We have plans for London, Antigua and Jamaica all with LL this yearI'm certain all your LL trips will be fantastic! Best of luck with the ratings - unimaginable that someone would stoop so low - when we each enjoy your comments and posts - after all we are each here to learn from one another and gain travel knowledge- too bad - by the way your last post had a 2 before I replied ... maybe your stalker is feeling better in this community lately
Hang in there and Happy travels! ...Funtimes
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hi imbues,
I haven't purchased as many LL packages as others, but I can say that I have never been treated less than appropriate (I'm not sure I deserve the royal treatment - as much as I'd like to think I am) at any of the properties that I have stay at through LL purchases. In fact, when I contact the hotel(s), I immediately tell them that I have "won" a the package and start working with them. Only once did I have a bit of a time trying to find a weekend that would work with the hotel/my schedule as this hotel did have some restrictions on availibilty. Having said that, the hotel actually allowed me to extend the offer longer than what was listed because we could not come up with a mutual time that worked!
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Hey, check out thetavern'supdate regarding the Chanler Inn... itaddresses in some partwhat you were questioning...The Chanler Inn conveyed to thetavern that LL patrons were important to them.
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I'm glad you posted as well! No matter how many great travels I have been on with LL, I always worry that something like that will happen.
I will admit to one less than perfect experience out of many wonderful experiences, so your post doesn't sound like a total endorsement of LL. I won't recant the details here. I did post some of the pluses and minuses for people who chance upon it as they are bidding. That said, I can't confirm that our issues at that property were the result of being an LL customer and not just dumb bad luck. The latter is more likely the case
In general, I echo the positive comments of others;and I know you as a seasoned LL traveler have probably also experienced. Particularly, for the more random out of the way packages, the properties do tend to treat you as if they are hoping you will go back home with the very best of memories and encourage all of your friends to take a look.
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[QUOTE=imbues;31575]This has probably been brought up before, but it's something that can be updated with every package taken.
Have any of you ever felt that you were given 2nd class service because you were traveling on an LL package deal?
Now and then I dig through some of the early threads.
I think most of these contributors have moved on. Let me see, I think lhbrown has changed her name (it that one of those witness protection issues) and is still active.
Anyway, I've always received top of the line treatment from resorts when using a Luxury Link package.
How about others?
Feel put upon now and then by hotel staff?
Treated like second class citizens by the front desk?
Anything you need to carp about?
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by Percy Bysshe Shelley
This on-line version of "On The Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci" by Percy Bysshe Shelley is edited by Melissa J. Sites and Neil Fraistat. The text is taken from Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary W. Shelley (London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824), pages 139-40. Mary Shelley's transcription of the poem can be found in Bodleian MS Shelley adds. d.7, pp. 97-8, 100, reproduced in the Garland Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, volume 2.
This hypertext also contains both an evolving bibliography of critical works focused on this poem and a Dialogic Commentary which allows users to enter an edited discussion about the poem using a simple, on-line form.
I T lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, | |
Upon the cloudy mountain peak supine; | |
Below, far lands are seen tremblingly; | |
Its horror and its beauty are divine. | |
Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie | 5 |
Loveliness like a shadow, from which shrine, | |
Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath, | |
The agonies of anguish and of death. | |
Yet it is less the horror than the grace | |
Which turns the gazer's spirit into stone; | 10 |
Whereon the lineaments of that dead face | |
Are graven, till the characters be grown | |
Into itself, and thought no more can trace; | |
'Tis the melodious hue of beauty thrown | |
Athwart the darkness and the glare of pain, | 15 |
Which humanize and harmonize the strain. | |
And from its head as from one body grow, | |
As [ ] grass out of a watery rock, | |
Hairs which are vipers, and they curl and flow | |
And their long tangles in each other lock, | 20 |
And with unending involutions shew | |
Their mailed radiance, as it were to mock | |
The torture and the death within, and saw | |
The solid air with many a ragged jaw. | |
And from a stone beside, a poisonous eft | 25 |
Peeps idly into those Gorgonian eyes; | |
Whilst in the air a ghastly bat, bereft | |
Of sense, has flitted with a mad surprise | |
Out of the cave this hideous light had cleft, | |
And he comes hastening like a moth that hies | 30 |
After a taper; and the midnight sky | |
Flares, a light more dread than obscurity. | |
'Tis the tempestuous loveliness of terror; | |
For from the serpents gleams a brazen glare | |
Kindled by that inextricable error, | 35 |
Which makes a thrilling vapour of the air | |
Become a [ ] and ever-shifting mirror | |
Of all the beauty and the terror there- | |
A woman's countenance, with serpent locks, | |
Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks. | 40 |
Florence, 1819. |
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Last Updated 03/02/97 The source of Shelley's lines ["Yet it is less the horror than the grace/Which turns the gazer's spirit into stone"], I would guess, is not "theoretical/critical" but rather literary-historical. There is a series that runs from Ben Jonson to Milton to Pope that develops the figure of the hearer or reader or spectator as turned to stone, hence the appropriateness of Shelley's applying it to Medusa. The sequence goes as follows:
The first hint is given by Ben Jonson in his tribute to Shakespeare in the First Folio (1623):
Thou art a Monument without a tomb
And art still alive while thy book doth live
And we have wits to read and praises give. (22-24)
John Milton, in "On Shakespeare" prefaced to the Second Folio (1632), then expands upon Jonson's figure so that the monument is explicitly the spectator turned to stone in amazement:
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Has built thyself a livelong monument. (7-8)
Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,
Dost make us marble with too much conceiving. (13-14)
Milton returns to this figure in "Il Penseroso" when he addresses Melancholy, personified as a "pensive Nun" who is looking to the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes;
There held in holy passion still,
Forget thyself to marble.... (40-42).
Pope remembers these lines when he writes about the melancholy of a historical nun, in "Eloisa to Abelard." Eloisa addresses the statues of saints, saying,
Though cold like you, unmoved and silent grown,
I have not yet forgot myself to stone. (23-24)
I could expand upon an interpretation of this trope in its contexts, but that it beside your point. It is easily established, of course, that Shelley read all of these poets, even if one can't find *prose* references to the specific poems.
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Tel Aviv University
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Candace Kern infers that Burke is not one of the sources for Shelley's lines in his posthumously published poem "On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery," but the discourse surrounding the French revolution is probably a relevant context for this fragment. Neil Hertz, in "Medusa's Head: Male Hysteria under Political Pressure" (_Representations_ 4 [1983]: 27-54) points out that the image of Medusa was widely employed by British writers in popular representations of the Terror. Both W. J. T. Mitchell, in the essay Kern mentions, and Jerome McGann, in "The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology" (_Studies in Romanticism_ 11 [1972]: 3-25), emphasize the importance of this context for Percy Shelley's poem. I discuss it as well in the course of relating the poem to Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_, published the year before Percy composed his stanzas, and to Percy's "Preface" to his wife's novel (see my essay "Concealed Circuits: Frankenstein's Monster, the Medusa, and the Cyborg," in _Raritan_ 15 [Spring, 1996]: 53-69).
Shelley's interesting fragment has not received much attention, but in addition to the articles mentioned above, Carol Jacobs has a provocative close reading in "On Looking at Shelley's Medusa," in a Special Issue of _Yale French Studies_ on the topic of "The Lesson of Paul de Man" (69 [1985]: 163-79). Daniel Hughes also has a short note, "Shelley, Leonardo, and the Monsters of Thought," in _Criticism_ 12 (1970): 195-212.
While on this topic, let me thank Bob Griffin for his interesting sequence of references in Ben Jonson, Milton, and Pope. This alternative context seems germane, and it will improve my appreciation of Percy Shelley's fragment.
Jay Clayton
Vanderbilt University
Shelley's interest in Medusa and the Gorgons spanned his entire career and is evident as early as 1810, when he used the following passage from Aeschylus' *Eumenides* (V.48 49, 52-54) as an epigraph to Canto IV of *The Wandering Jew*:"No! women they were surely not, Gorgons I rather call them. Nor yet can I liken them to forms of Gorgons either. . . . sable, and altogether detestable. Their snorting nostrils blow forth fearsome blasts, and from their eyes oozes a loathly rheum" (trans. Herbert Weir Smyth [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1926]: II, 277).
Neil Fraistat
University of Maryland, College Park
Just a couple of thoughts about Shelley's "Medusa". I took it (perhaps incorrectly) that Candace Kern's query was directed less towards the fact of the viewer being turned to stone than towards the fact that it is the "grace" rather than the "horror" that effects this. This apparent paradox is less striking, of course, when we read these lines in context:
Yet it is less the horror than the grace
Which turns the gazer's spirit into stone;
Whereon the lineaments of that dead face
Are graven, till the characters be grown
Into itself, and thought no more can trace;
'Tis the melodious hue of beauty thrown
Athwart the darkness and the glare of pain,
Which humanize and harmonize the strain.
To some extent, then, Shelley is merely playing here. He presents us with the rather shocking notion that the Medusa's "grace" is what turns us to stone, only to carry on to elaborate the image so that it is more clearly conventional (placing it in precisely the lineage that Bob Griffin outlined: the viewer/audience becomes the monumental record of the subject's beauty).
But I would argue that Shelley wants us to retain some sense of our initial reading of the image as well. Shelley believed in the power of beauty - that it was potentially radical, dangerous. The interesting figure to compare with the Medusa is his Witch of Atlas:
For she was beautiful - her beauty made
The bright world dim, and everything beside
Seemed like the fleeting image of a shade:
No thought of living spirit could abide,
Which to her looks had ever been betrayed,
On any object in the world so wide,
On any hope within the circling skies,
But on her form, and in her inmost eyes. (137-44)
The Witch, of course, is forced to veil her beauty - and as such she stands for (among other things) the necessarily veiled nature of poetry ("veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed" - as he puts it in the "Defence"). Medusa, then, is a kind of unveiled Witch - which raises interesting questions in the light of the famous lines from "The Witch of Atlas":
If you unveil my Witch, no priest nor primate
Can shrive you of that sin.-- if sin there be
In love, when it becomes idolatry. (46-8)
The relationship between our transformation into monumental stone, graven with "the lineaments of that dead face", and this "idolatry" is reasonably straightforward. But while most commentators would agree that - for all his tongue in cheek attitude - Shelley is "seriously" opposed to any attempt to "unveil" the Witch (to hypostatize what should be fluid, indeterminate), it seems less clear that he is similarly troubled by the Medusa's capacity to turn us to stone. Any thoughts about this? (P.S., I haven't reviewed the literature on this poem in a long time, so if I'm just traipsing back over someone else's well-won argument, forgive me).
Hugh Roberts
Victoria University of Wellington
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Shelley's interest in the Medusa carries over into politics--by way of anthropology. As Tobin Siebers has shown (in The Mirror of Medusa, 1983), the Gorgon has traditionally been associated with curses and with amuletic, ritual language. As I've argued (in Shelley's Satire, 1994), this tradition allows Shelley to load the figure with an ambivalent rhetorical power, especially as it's deployed in his personal and political satire. In fact, once we look at other contemporary satire and political journalism, we find that Gorgonian heads--or that other monster, related by image and association, the hydra--are everywhere, symbols of inhuman (or frighteningly collective) conspiracies of power. See, for example, the radical Painite journal actually titled the Medusa (founded 1819), or the famous William Hone pamphlet, THE POLITICAL SHOWMAN--AT HOME!.
Steve Jones
Loyola University Chicago
The only facsimile that I have been able to locate of the "Head of the Medusa" that inspired Shelley is in Gli Uffizi Catalogo Generale, ed. Luciano Berti et al (Florence: Centro Di, 1979), inventory number P1472, page 485. The facsimile is a tiny greyscale reproduction. In order to avoid copyright infringement, and in order to elucidate the details that I can make out in the facsimile, I have made a line drawing, so that people can see how, in general, the painting is organized. This should be paired with the verbal descriptions of other scholars, such as McGann, in his "The Beauty of the Medusa."
Melissa J. Sites
University of Maryland, College Park
In the text of Shelley's poem published in Posthumous Poems and in the manuscript lines reproduced in the Bodleian Shelley, vol. 2, the terror and grace with which the Medusa figure transfixes viewers seems to me to belong to a larger Romantic interest in the allure and risk of figured abstractions. The stony or "astonied" appearance of these figures is a resonant emblematic image of the fact that they are not life but art. At times, though, as in Shelley's poem, these figures are presented as though they were once living beings. The frequency with which the Medusa image crops up in the French Revolution might thereby register the troubled alliance in that history between beauty, theoretical abstraction, and the Terror. The eroticism which Shelley and Keats invest in such female figures insists on their fascination as well as danger for these male Romantic poets. I have written about Shelley's Medusa and allied figures in Reinventing Allegory, forthcoming from Cambridge UP. Susan Wolfson discusses the implications of Keats's interest in the Medusa in Formal Charges (Stanford, 1997).
Theresa M. Kelley
University of Texas
n on-line discussion of Shelley's "Medusa" began on NASSR-L in mid-January, and a few of the original NASSR-L postings have been reproduced here with the permission of the authors. We hope that our hypertext edition can grow through users' comments on the poem, and comments on the comments of others. Also welcome are related images, texts, and links--as well as additions to the evolving bibliography.
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It comes to no surprise that the general NBA audience either love or hate the Miami Heat. Whether it's just how the team came about or the individual players, the NBA Champions have battled opponents on the court and opponents in the form of haters.
Perhaps it's just sheer jealousy. The Heat roster is jam-packed for next season as well with some offseason acquisitions in Rashard Lewis and Ray Allen.
Being over-the-top could be another reason for all the hate. With "The Decision" being so overplayed by the anti-Heat members of the NBA universe, there was a sudden urge of despise for everything Miami Heat. The Big Three introduction could have something to do with it as well.
The haters are still out in full force, but perhaps have simmered down a little since the Heat have won a NBA title.
Here are some statements that Heat haters still make.
Yes, the hairline is getting pretty bad with LeBron James. We've all noticed it and the headband.
I guess that's now what the Heat haters have left since King James won a ring. If you want a good look at it, here it is.
Ouch indeed. Well, he gets his millions of dollars and the NBA audience will get their laughs and kicks of LeBron's hairline.
The hairline jokes will still be coming in full force. It's now the ultimate form of criticism for Heat haters.
Yes, LeBron James needed more help than the D-League team he had in Cleveland. After much thought, he joined D-Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami. Who could blame him? It's an opportunity he couldn't refuse.
Did Jordan do it? No, but does that mean he didn't have help? Come on, get real. James brought the Cleveland Cavaliers to the NBA finals. A team that had no shot to be at that stage without a player like King James.
Of course he needed more help. Haters simply can't forgive James for the cardinal sin of switching teams. Some of the haters saying this aren't even Cleveland fans.
Did James commit a crime? He's one of the more responsible athletes out there. The 3-time MVP is the best player in the league and a true role model. He truly doesn't deserve all the hate.
How about criticizing the Cavs organization a little? It just didn't do enough to keep him satisfied. It's a business, so realize that.
What Heat haters won't give is any credit to the strong points of the team in South Beach. How about giving some praise to how Miami plays as a unit? The transition game, shooting and ball movement was quite impressive in the playoffs. But you won't hear that often.
Any poor performance will be noted to the end of day, though. If James has a poor performance, you will hear it like no other.
What's even more sad is that the Heat haters will probably get more satisfaction for the Heat's failure than their own team's success. It's rather sickening, no?
Joakim Noah said it after the Game 5 loss to the Miami Heat in the 2011 Eastern Conference Finals. In this video, Noah goes on to say the Heat are 'Hollywood as hell, but a good team.'
What the Chicago Bulls forward meant by this is how the team came about. Miami had a big celebration and welcome party prior to any games being played with the Big Three.
Perhaps Noah said it out of frustration, but he meant it. He doesn't seem to be the biggest Heat fan out there at the time.
James, Wade and Bosh came together in a Hollywood manner, but all they did was just welcome the Heat fans to the future. Perhaps make it a bit of a South Beach entrance.
Just give the Heat credit where it's due. The haters continue to bring up the refs and persuade people that the NBA playoffs were one-sided in the Heat's favor.
LeBron James and the squad were on a mission this year, it's as simple as that. The inexperience showed in the finals with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Heat shot the ball well from long range. They improved with free throws as the playoffs went on. OKC couldn't handle the Big Three and role players like Mike Miller, Shane Battier and Mario Chalmers stepped up in big ways.
The refs are a mere excuse for Heat haters. The officials shouldn't win or lose you a game. That's just a poor, poor excuse.
I wonder if Game 5 was the refs' fault as well? Just give credit where it's due. OKC will be around for sometime with all the talent it has, but it wasn't the time.
Yes, LeBron James has only won one ring. He has promised way more than that. However, miracles don't happen overnight.
It will take time. James has finally gotten over the hump to win his first. Now, with an even deeper roster, the Heat look to repeat.
LeBron has felt the feeling of winning, but he now has to live up to his words. The haters will keep talking about his guarantees until he wins more.
Then again, he still won't get the credit he deserves most likely. The numbers he put up in the playoffs were remarkable, but it's just one ring, right?


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Inspired by Philip K. Dick's classic "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". Which we all probably know better as Blade Runner.
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Do you like super soft chocolate chip cookies? ETA Made them in chocolate, too.
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on Dec. 15, 2012 at 3:37 AM
I have to make these! I do not like crispy chocolate chip cookies. They have to be soft and chewy. I'm not picky about a lot of foods, but this is definitely one food I'm very picky about.
on Feb. 6, 2013 at 2:29 PM
Ill definitely be testing these out! Thanks for the recipe!
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