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Maybe you are buying your first home in Massachusetts, or perhaps you're relocating to Massachusetts from another state. Then again, you may be a long-time Massachusetts resident who is looking to either refinance your current mortgage or take out a home equity loan for home improvements. Regardless of your situation, it's important that you educate yourself on Massachusetts home loans before shopping for a home and/or mortgage. Here, we explain what you will need to know before seeking a home loan in Massachusetts.
The median price of a home in Massachusetts is $284,000. Recently, homes in Massachusetts have been appreciating at rates well above the national average. As a result, income levels in many parts of Massachusetts are too low to purchase a median-priced home with a conventional loan. Although average interest rates in Massachusetts are below the national average, Massachusetts has one of the lowest levels of home affordability in the nation.
In Massachusetts, before a buyer submits an offer on a home, their real estate agent is required to present them with a completed Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Statement. This document, completed by the seller of the property, requires the seller to name all of the property that will be included in the purchase (refrigerator, stove, alarm system, etc.) and rate certain aspects of the conditions of both the included property and of the house itself. This document requires the seller to disclose any potential problems or hazards that may discourage the buyer from putting an offer in on the home.
Massachusetts's Civil Code Provision of the Real Estate Act regulates the issuance of variable interest rates for the purchase of real estate. Therefore, borrowers who are issued large mortgage amounts are guaranteed a fixed rate mortgage. Massachusetts law also prohibits the charging of interest more than one day prior to the recording of the mortgage even if the borrower received the loan prior to that time.
In July of 2002, Massachusetts law enacted a set of anti-predatory lending laws in order to help protect Massachusetts homebuyers from predatory lenders. Some of the provisions of this new set of laws include the prohibition of a lender charging points and fees in excess of 6% of the total principal financed amount, the prohibition of a mortgage company issuing a loan to a borrower in an amount that the borrower could not reasonably afford to repay, and the prohibition of the financing of single-premium credit insurance, among others.
If you're buying a home in the state of Massachusetts, you qualify for both federal and state FHA, USDA, and VA loans. First-time home buyers qualify for Massachusetts FHA loans with below-market interest rates, and, depending on their eligibility, may also qualify for a loan in order to cover down payment and/or closing costs. Teachers and other professionals who work in an educational capacity may qualify for Massachusetts's Extra Credit Teacher Home Purchase Program, a down payment assistance loan with forgivable interest.
In addition to FHA loans, the state of Massachusetts also offers comparable programs to persons with disabilities or persons who live with and care for persons with disabilities. The state also offers several unconventional loans designed to aid homebuyers with the costs of their monthly mortgage payment. For example, Massachusetts's Interest Only PLUS loan provides qualified homebuyers with a 100% financing 35-year loan that only requires payments toward the accrued interest on the mortgage for the first five years of the loan — borrowers do not have to pay toward the principal amount borrowed until after the first five years. The individual requirements of each of these loans vary depending on the county in which you are buying a house. Specific requirements can be obtained through the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency.

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(Update: Zhai Xiaobing's name was misspelled in an earlier version of this story.)
As jokes go, it was hardly funny. Ahead of China's 18th Communist Party Congress, which saw the top leadership positions transfer for the first time in a decade, Beijing investment banker Zhai Xiaobing tweeted a spoiler of an imaginary film he called Final Destination 6. A great hall will collapse, and out of the 2,000 people inside, just seven will live, but the survivors will begin to mysteriously die off, he tweeted on Nov. 5 under his handle @stariver. "Is it a game of God, or the wrath of Death? How will 18, the mysterious number, unlock the gate of Hell?" he wrote. "Premieres globally on November the 8th."
The tweet combined the plots of the Final Destination teen horror films with the Party Congress, which started on Nov. 8 and culminated with the announcement of a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, China's top governing body. Zhai's friends recognized his message as a parody. Beijing police, who were in the midst of an extensive security crackdown ahead of the Party Congress, didn't see the humor. The local authorities had forced prominent dissidents out of town, restricted sales of knives, Ping-Pong balls (on which subversive messages could be written) and remote-control model aircraft and ordered taxi drivers to remove window handles. So jokes about the Communist Party's leadership dying in a disaster were out. Zhai, 36, who studied ancient Chinese literature at Peking University, was detained Nov. 7 by police in Miyun, a Beijing suburb, on suspicion of spreading false terrorist information, according to friends.
Word of Zhai's detention, which only emerged after the Party Congress ended on Nov. 14, provoked indignation among his friends and Twitter followers. "Anyone who has seen the Final Destination movies will understand he was just cracking a joke, not fabricating untruths to endanger state security," said a longtime friend of Zhai's who asked not to be named because of the risk of arrest. "If the police send him to a labor camp or even sentence him to prison because of something he posted on Twitter, that's just totally unacceptable." As of Nov. 21, more than 500 people had signed an online petition calling for his release.
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Zhai's case highlights the push and pull of free speech in China. Domestic Chinese microblogs like the popular Sina Weibo service, which recently announced it had more than 400 million registered accounts, are censored, with searches for sensitive words blocked and edgy posts removed. But users can still write highly critical commentary and firsthand accounts of breaking news, like recent environmental protests. Such material is often deleted, but time lags mean that many users can see sensitive posts before they disappear. On Twitter, which is blocked in China but accessible by using virtual private networks, Chinese commentary flows more freely. Many Chinese liberals and activists jump through the technical hoops to post on Twitter without fear of having their comments deleted.
The result is an unpredictable environment. Chinese are vastly freer to speak their opinions now than they were during the Mao era, and the most common response for online criticism of the government is deletion rather than detention. Even complaints can find a place within the restricted space of the Chinese Internet. A recent study by Harvard researchers, who collected data on millions of social-media posts in China, found that the chief priority of the country's censorship regime was not to block negative views of the leadership but to restrict information that might spur a collective response.
Of course, online criticism of Chinese officialdom doesn't necessarily go ignored. A U.S. State Department cable released by WikiLeaks in 2010 said that China initiated an investigation into Google after a Politburo Standing Committee member, later identified by the New York Times as propaganda czar Li Changchun, discovered that criticism of him in Chinese could be found after he used Google to search his own name.
In the southwestern city of Chongqing, where Bo Xilai was party boss until his dramatic downfall this spring, several people were detained and sentenced to labor camps for positing criticism of Bo and his policies. Ren Jianyu, a 25-year-old former village official, was released from a re-education-through-labor camp on Nov. 19. He served about half of a two-year sentence for posting comments that linked Bo's campaign promoting Maoist-era songs with the Cultural Revolution, the 1966–76 period of widespread political violence in China. Ren's attorney, Pu Zhiqiang, said no specific reason was given for canceling his client's sentence. It undoubtedly helped that some of Bo's most powerful opponents, including Premier Wen Jiabao, made similar criticisms of his flashy campaigns in Chongqing. With new leaders installed in Chongqing following the Party Congress, Pu says he expect the limits on speech to ease. "No one, not even Bo Xilai, can keep these coercive policies going for a long time," he says. Still, he notes that at least 10 people remain in detention for criticism of Bo.
In a recent speech at Peking University, prominent blogger Li Chengpeng said he worried that restrictions on speech in China risked repeating disasters of earlier eras, when citizens and even officials couldn't question bad policies. "We're like the world's largest army of mutes marching forward," he said, according to a translation by Liz Carter on the blog A Big Enough Forest. "The most terrifying thing about this country isn't poverty, or hunger, or not winning a Nobel Prize, or not realizing a high enough GDP, or not producing enough party reports, it's that the people have lost their ability and right to speak."
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WASHINGTON – The United States Helsinki Commission held a briefing today to survey domestic violence in participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
The briefing examined research data on domestic violence in the OSCE region with a focus on Albania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, the United States and Uzbekistan. The briefing examined the extent to which governments, particularly law enforcement authorities, have fulfilled their responsibilities to protect individuals from such abuse.
Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Rep. Christopher H. Smith moderated the briefing.
"Domestic violence is perhaps the most pervasive human rights abuse in the world," said Co-Chairman Smith. "Last year I worked for passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act which addressed the barbaric practice of human trafficking and re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act."
Panelists at the briefing included Robin Phillips, Director of the Women's Human Rights Program, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights; Winnie Bartel, Executive Chair of the World Evangelical Fellowship's Commission on Women's Concerns and the Task Force to Stop Abuse Against Women; and Nancy Murphy, Executive Director of the Northwest Family Life Learning and Counseling Center.
"Women are being seriously injured and killed by their husbands and intimate partners in countries around the world, including countries in the OSCE region," said Phillips. "Women's human rights are being systematically violated and the governments of these countries are not responding appropriately to the problem."
In many OSCE countries "the police do not take the problem seriously. They do not respond to calls for assistance or when they do respond, they do not remove the perpetrators from the home," Phillips added. "These governments are not complying with their obligations under international human rights law to protect the human rights of everyone in their countries."
"In our modern world today, women are increasingly filling significant roles in business and society, as well as in the church and in the home. However, along with these greater responsibilities has come a proverbial onslaught of all forms of abuse," said Bartel.
"As a world leader in the evangelical church, I sadly share with you that – battered and bruised, hundreds of thousands of women quietly fill houses of worship around the world, keeping silent about the secret that rules their lives: they are victims of domestic violence and abuse," Bartel added.
"Spiritual leaders have a valuable, distinct role in the fight to end violence in the family, but their practical and emotional assistance is far more effective when offered alongside the resources of other professionals and agencies," Bartel said.
"In addition to being a psychological issue, a legal issue, a social issue, and a religious issue, domestic violence is a human rights issue," Nancy Murphy said. "If there is no excuse for domestic violence, if safety in the home is to be our basic human right, then we must come together to close the gap that exists to permit such a crime."
"We must insist that the problem is resident within the one who does the abusing, the one who exercises power and control over another in an intimate relationship," Murphy said. "We must call the abusers to account for their actions and persist in the work of facing them with the consequences of their behavior."


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The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance fell by 10,000 last week, to 340,000 from 350,000 the week before, the Employment and Training Administration said Thursday.
Though it's the third straight week that claims have dropped, the number of applications is still within a range that signals a sluggish labor market. So Thursday's report would seem to be in line with Wednesday's news that private employers added only an estimated 130,000 jobs to their payrolls in October.
Because of the 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government, we won't get the always anxiously anticipated Bureau of Labor Statistics report on job growth and unemployment in October until next Friday — Nov. 8. The jobless rate stood at 7.2 percent in September.
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I like to have a nice collection of quick, easy and tasty side dishes on hand and I am always on the lookout for more. A while ago I came across this one for harissa roasted squash on What do I want to cook today? that sounded like it fit the bill perfectly. I had picked up some harissa a while ago but I had only used it once and I was looking for new ways to enjoy it. Harissa is a red sauce from Northern Africa that is made from chili peppers, garlic and other various things. This side is really easy, you just peel and cut the squash, toss it with some oil and the harissa and pop it in the oven to roast. Roasting the squash brings out its flavour along with its natural sweetness which went really well with the spicy harissa. I served it with my roasted lamb in coffee sauce dinner and it went well with the lamb. Overall I was quite pleased with this quick and easy side dish and I will be making it again.
Harissa Roasted Squash
- 4 cups squash (cut into bite sized pieces)
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 tablespoon harissa
- Toss the squash in the oil and harissa to coat.
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In seven days, the federal government runs out of money.
While the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a resolution Friday that keeps the government funded through Dec. 15, the measure also defunded President Obama's signature health care law — which means it has virtually no chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate.
If a budget resolution doesn't hit President Obama's desk before Oct. 1, that's a big problem: The government will be forced to close its doors.
With that prospect looming, here are eight things you should know about the possible shutdown:
It won't be the first time
Since a new budgeting process was put into place in 1976, the U.S. government has shut down 17 times. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan each dealt with six shutdowns during their terms in office, lasting anywhere from one day to 2 1/2 weeks.
The last actual shutdown came in 1996 — though the government came close during budget negotiations in 2011.
The last shutdown lasted three weeks
The three-week shutdown that lasted from Dec. 16, 1995, to Jan. 6, 1996, ranks as the longest in U.S. history. As a result, about 284,000 federal workers were furloughed, and around 475,000 essential employees went without a paycheck, although they were eventually reimbursed.
They weren't the only ones inconvenienced. Some benefits for military veterans were delayed, and cleanup at more than 600 toxic waste sites was stopped. The government also shut down for six days in mid-November 1995, initially resulting in the furlough of 800,000 federal employees. The Congressional Research Service reported the shutdowns cost taxpayers a combined $1.4 billion.
Only the "essentials"
Only federal employees deemed "essential" would continue to come to work during a shutdown. Employees who qualify as essential include those involved in national security, protecting life and property and providing benefit payments.
That means members of the military, border control agents, air traffic controllers, the FBI and the TSA are among those who would remain on duty. The president and members of Congress are also exempt from furlough and must decide which of their respective staff members to keep around during a shutdown.
The checks are in the mail
Even in the event of a shutdown, Social Security beneficiaries will still find their checks in their mailboxes and doctors and hospitals will receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. However, if the government does not resolve the budget situation by Nov. 1, those entitlement program payments could be delayed by up to two weeks.
Even in a shutdown, the Postal Service delivers
One reason Americans will get their entitlement checks: A government shutdown would not hit the operations of the U.S. Postal Service. Government agencies that the Treasury Department does not directly fund, like USPS, would be relatively unaffected in the short term by a shutdown . Some postal employees would very likely face furlough, but it wouldn't be enough to completely close down the agency.
National parks and museums? Forget it
Have plans to visit a national park or go sightseeing in the nation's capital? You might want to cancel them. During the Clinton-era shutdowns, 368 national parks closed, resulting in the loss of 7 million visitors. In Washington, D.C., the public would be unable to visit the monuments and museums that millions of tourists flock to every year. The Capitol building would remain open, though.
Visa and passport delays
Those hoping to enter or leave the country during a shutdown would most likely experience some difficulty. The government was unable to process around 200,000 pending passport applications and a daily average of 30,000 visa and passport applications by foreigners during the 1995-96 shutdowns. This would result not only in a headache for would-be travelers but a loss in millions for the airline and tourism industries.
Who would be blamed for a shutdown?
Generally speaking, no one comes out looking good if the government shuts down. A Pew Research poll conducted Sept. 19-22 shows 39 percent of Americans would blame Republicans if a shutdown were to occur, compared with 36 percent who would fault the Obama administration and 17 percent who would hold both sides responsible. According to a Pew poll from a comparable period during the 2011 budget battle, the public spread the blame around nearly identically.
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Do algebra problems 15 through 25. Conjugate the verbs on page 50 of your French workbook. Read pages 12 through 20 of the Shakespeare play, and when you're finished with that, don't forget to fill in the missing chemical symbols on the Periodic Table of Elements worksheet.
Sound like a roster of your homework for the next few nights — or maybe even just for tonight? Homework is a major part of going to school: It's your teachers' way of evaluating how much you understand of what's going on in class, and it helps reinforce important concepts.
Luckily, you can do a few things to make homework less work.
Create a Homework Plan
First, be sure you understand the assignment. Write it down in your notebook or day planner if you need to, and don't be afraid to ask questions about what's expected. It's much easier to take a minute to ask the teacher during or after class than to struggle to remember later that night! If you want, you can also ask how long the particular homework assignment should take to complete so you can budget your time.
Second, use any extra time you have in school to work on your homework. Many schools have study halls that are specifically designed to allow students to study or get homework done. It's tempting to hang out with friends during study periods or unstructured time, but the more work you can get done in school, the less you'll have to do that night.
Third, pace yourself. If you don't finish your homework during school, think about how much you have left and what else is going on that day, and then budget your time. Most high school students have between one and three hours of homework a night. If it's a heavy homework day and it seems like you've got an assignment in every subject but gym and lunch, you'll need to devote more time to homework. It's a good idea to come up with some kind of homework schedule, especially if you are involved in sports or activities or have an after-school job.
Watch Where You Work
When you settle down to do homework or to study, where do you do it? Parked in front of the TV? In the kitchen, with the sound of dishes being cleared and your brothers and sisters fighting?
These places may have worked when you were younger and your assignments didn't require as much skill and concentration. But now that you're older, a bedroom, study, or any other room where you can get away from noise and distractions is the best place to get homework done. But don't study on your comfy bed — opt for a desk or table that you can set your computer on and is comfortable to work at. It doesn't need to be large, just big enough to spread out your stuff.
Get Started
When you start your homework, tackle the hardest assignments first. It's tempting to start with the easy stuff to get it out of the way, but you'll have the most energy and focus when you begin, so it's best to use this mental power on the subjects that are most challenging. Later, when you're more tired, you can focus on the simpler things.
If you get stuck on a problem, try to figure it out as best you can — but don't obsess and spend too much time on it because this can mess up your homework schedule for the rest of the night. If you need to, ask an adult or older sibling for help or call or email a classmate for advice. But don't pick someone you'll be up all night chatting with or you'll never get it done!
Take a Break
Most people's attention spans aren't very long, so take some breaks while doing your homework. Sitting for too long without stretching or relaxing will make you less productive than if you stop every so often. Taking a 15-minute break every hour is a good idea for most people. (But if you're really concentrating, wait until it's a good time to stop.)
Once your homework is done, you can check over it if you have extra time. Be sure to put it safely away in your backpack — there's nothing worse than having a completed assignment that you can't find the next morning or that gets ruined by a careless brother or sister. (And no teacher still believes that "chewed by the dog" line — even when it's true!) Now you're free to hang out.
Get Help When You Need It
Sometimes even though you're paying attention in class, studying for tests, and doing your homework, certain classes seem too hard. Although you may hope that things will get easier or that the explanation to the geometry theorems will magically appear in your dreams, most of the time this doesn't happen.
What does happen for many people is that they work harder and harder as they fall further and further behind. Naturally, this makes them hate a class and everything to do with it. If you need extra help, the most important thing to know is that there's nothing weird or embarrassing about it. No one is expected to understand everything, and people have very different learning styles.
The first place to turn for help is your teacher. He or she may be able to work with you before or after school and explain things more clearly. But what if you don't feel comfortable with your teacher? If you're in a big enough school, there may be other teachers who teach the same subject. Speak to a guidance counselor or to the other teacher directly and you may be in luck. Sometimes it just helps to have someone new explain something in a different way.
You might also be able to get some help from another student. If there's someone you like who's a good student, think about asking that person if you can study together. This might help because you'll be hearing the information from the perspective of one of your peers. However, keep in mind that this might not get you the results you need. Lots of people understand something perfectly without being able to explain it.
Another option for extra help is a tutor, either after school, on weekends, or in the evening. You'll need to talk to an adult about this because it costs money to hire a tutor. Tutors sometimes come to your home, but there are also tutoring centers across the country. A tutor may have broad knowledge of many things or may be trained in just one subject. Tutors work with you one on one, helping review and further explain things taught in the classroom. The advantage of having a tutor is that it gives you the opportunity to ask questions directly and work at your own pace.
If you're interested in a tutor, check the internet or the yellow pages of your phone book, or get a referral from a teacher, a friend, or classmate who has a tutor. If you live in or near a town with a college or university, you may find tutors there. Often college students will tutor high school students in their areas of study to help cover the costs of school.


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Now, I know what you're thinking.
"Jim," you're thinking, because you've once again forgotten my name and now apparently my gender as well, "Jim, don't be so gosh durn silly." (You're also from the South.) "'Bairth' isn't even a word! So obviously NO baker would EVER...uh..."
Not bad, not bad. Sounds like a good plan.
What if they take your handy-dandy Post-its, copy them, and then paste them on the cake?
Aha! I see from your stunned expression that thought hadn't struck you yet.
Brace for impact.
Well played, Wreckerators. Well played.


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The stories of supernova 1987A, as told by Science News
By Kate Travis
The planning for our supernova special issue began months ago. In one early meeting, astronomy writer Christopher Crockett lit up as he told the story of the night supernova 1987A was discovered. The account has all the ingredients of a blockbuster. There's a struggle (with an observatory door), the element of surprise (an unexpected burst on a photographic plate), disbelief (by our protagonist and a collaborator), a scramble (to figure out how to report the discovery of the supernova), and an action scene that seems impossibly quaint: A driver races to the nearest town 100 kilometers away to send a telegram and alert the world that 166,000 light-years away, a star has exploded.
That story opens Crockett's feature article commemorating the 30th anniversary of the supernova's discovery. And we've brought it to life in video form as well. Ian Shelton, the telescope operator who spotted 1987A on a three-hour exposure he took of the Large Magellanic Cloud, was kind enough to consult with us for the video. He stars in it in clay form, and his voice makes a few guest appearances too.
Our anniversary coverage of 1987A offers a great summary of the importance of the discoveries that came from the stellar explosion. But Science News has been telling the story of SN 1987A for years. In fact, we began telling its story just days after the discovery. News of the explosion reached the International Astronomical Union on a Tuesday; on Wednesday, the day we went to press, Science News editors slipped a mention of it into that week's issue. The following week's issue carried a full story. Dozens more followed. We've pulled many of those together in the timeline below, which includes links to PDFs of the original magazine articles. Happy reading!


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Wal-Mart workers plan Black Friday walkout
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A group of Wal-Mart workers are planning to stage a walkout next week on Black Friday, arguably the biggest holiday shopping day for the world's largest retail store.
The walkout builds on an October strike that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles and spread to stores in 12 other cities. More than 100 workers joined in the October actions.
One of the workers who plans to join next week's walkout is William Fletcher, who works at a Wal-Mart in Duarte, Calif.
Fletcher, who also participated in the October strikes, claims Wal-Mart cut his hours after he asked to move from the receiving department to another division because of a knee injury. He has since switched departments.
"I kept asking myself, 'when is the retaliation for speaking our mind and acting on our rights going to stop?' " he said. Wal-Mart did not have an immediate comment in response to Fletcher's claim.
The union-backed groups OUR Walmart and Making Change at Wal-Mart, and a watchdog group Corporate Action Network, are calling on the nation's largest employer to end what they call retaliation against employees who speak out for better pay, fair schedules and affordable health care.
On Black Friday, the organizations expect employees at about 1,000 stores to strike.
A Wal-Mart spokeswoman said the number of workers who are raising concerns is very small and don't represent the views of the vast majority of its workforce of 1.3 million.
But labor experts say that even a small number of workers could make an impact.
"Even if there aren't that many people, it could have an effect, because their campaign in front of stores could discourage shoppers," said Ken Margolies, senior associate at the Worker Institute a Cornell University.
The strike could have an even greater impact if workers from its supply centers participate, according to Margolies. He said it could impede distribution of merchandise on what is usually the busiest day of the year.
Organizers have planned a social medial blitz, mobilizing workers through Facebook pages, a YouTube video, Twitter and Tumblr. They're also using online platforms to collect donations to sponsor striking workers. So far, the campaign has raised more than $22,200.
Wal-Mart workers have been battling with management over pay, benefits and their ability to speak up for years, experts say.
According to Anthony Bianco, author of Wal-Mart: The Bully of Bentonville, butchers at a Wal-Mart supercenter in Jacksonville, Texas, voted to form a union in 2000 -- the first time employees had done so. But soon after that, Wal-Mart eliminated butcher departments in its stores across the country, he said. It has been reported that Wal-Mart said it got rid of its meat department as a cost cutting measure.
A similar thing happened when workers at a Quebec store attempted to unionize in 2005, Bianco said. Wal-Mart closed that store a few months after that. The company said at the time that its decision was prompted by the union wanting to change how the store operated.


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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
When Decorators Need to Practice Their Roses
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The "Rose Bush".
(I'm told there's a cake under there...)
The "Rosy Age".
I had to stare at this one for several long seconds before I realized the roses are supposed to spell out the number 20. The cool thing is, though, this cake has a built-in clock: see where the light pink roses meet the darker ones on the 2? That's when the first decorator's shift ended.
(Gotta love that candle placement, too.)
And of course, the "Haven't-Learned-to-Write-with-Icing-Yet".
No room for an inscription = no complaints about messy handwriting! Not to mention there's no chance of spelling errors, random quotation marking, or becoming famous on the 'net for all the wrong reasons.
The best part? The people who ordered the first and last cakes didn't even ask for that many roses. So Kim C. & Jill S., thanks for showing us just how specific we need to be when ordering baked goods. Now we know.
(Everybody together now: "And knowing is half the battle!")
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- jaxx79 said...
Actually considering my family always fights over the roses those cakes would great for us, even if they are rather tacky.
- October 1, 2008 at 9:19 AM
- Unknown said...
- October 1, 2008 at 9:21 AM
- pika23 said...
Go Joe! *in response to the last sentence of post*
Actually I like the roses...I think it's really pretty...and perfect for those of us who always fight to get the piece with the icing flower - October 1, 2008 at 9:22 AM
Holy arbors, Batman! Those are some impressive sets of roses.
And bless you for getting in a GI Joe reference first thing in the morning. - October 1, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Jennifer Foster said...
The upside of these cakes: Calling out "I get the rose" won't be an issue! There's enough for everyone!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- Unknown said...
Is that a "finger" swipe on the first cake?
- October 1, 2008 at 9:29 AM
- Tracy said...
Okay... I love icing, don't get me wrong. But icing without a cake? Not so much...
- October 1, 2008 at 9:30 AM
- ajnabi said...
And knowing is half the battle!
Thanks, Sgt. Slaughter! LOL If my kids saw a cake with that many roses, they'd pass out from the ecstasy. - October 1, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Eli said...
LOL! They aren't as God awful as some of the cakes I've seen on here, but I would be in a sugar coma if I tried to eat a piece of that!!!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:38 AM
G.I. Joe!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- Beth said...
As a mom of 4 kids that always fight over the roses (leaving me with none... sniff, sniff...) these cakes of floral abundance look like a dream come true!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:42 AM
- WhatTheHay said...
ajnabi said...
"Thanks, Sgt. Slaughter! LOL If my kids saw a cake with that many roses, they'd pass out from the ecstasy."
Heck, I'd be the one passing out from ecstasy! That would be after I ate all the roses.
Seriously, I do kind of like the first cake...would use different colors tho.
Love this blog!! - October 1, 2008 at 9:46 AM
That's like my dream cake! After all isn't cake just a frosting delivery system...
- October 1, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- Unknown said...
I think I'm going into a sugar coma just from looking at these!
- October 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM
- mere9 said...
the roses are fine and all, but i'm pretty sure my blood sugar levels went up just by looking at all of that frosting (and i like the corner piece of cake, but wow.. that's a lot of... FROSTING).
- October 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM
- Trevor said...
What's with the really blue roses on the first cake? They aren't natural.
You're right on the second cake, not only did the color change, but so did the style of the rose! And second on the candle placement! - October 1, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Kopperhead said...
Everything's coming up roses....and roses...and roses.
I'm one of those people who actually do not want a piece with a rose on it...tough luck in this case, huh.
"and knowing is half the battle"...been my motto for a long time! - October 1, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- Maryogim said...
i think i just went into a sugar coma just from looking at those cakes -er- wrecks
- October 1, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- chefann said...
I have to laugh at how many people here are cake-philosophy brethren to my husband. He always wants the piece with the flowers and/or the border (i.e. corners). And his ideal cake has a one to one frosting to cake ratio. He really believes that cake is just a means to get the frosting to your mouth (just like muffins are a butter delivery system).
- October 1, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- Persnickety Ticker said...
OMG! I'm drooling here. Those are like my fantasy cakes! Oh the lovely sugary floralness of it all!
- October 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Sarah+2girls said...
As everyone else has said, the people in my family fight over the roses....however that is overdoing it!!!
The 20 cake only used 19 roses... - October 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM
boy oh boy. Those are dream cakes. The more sugary crisco buttercream the better. yum yum yum. I'd eat that first one in one sitting.
That's why i'm unhealthy you see. - October 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM
- Unknown said...
I love the last one! I like the colors and all the frosting!!
Thal - October 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- Jennifer Vanderbeek said...
I _totally_ made a cake similar to these back when I was learning roses. (granted, it wasn't for sale...) My office LOVED me when I brought in my practice pieces.
(former Wilton instructor) - October 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Those cakes boggle my mind. I mean, just because one is practicing making roses doesn't mean one has to use all of those damn flowers; just throw it back in the pastry bag. And for the color difference on the "2", the decorator should have done just that and evened out the color a bit. I'm a cook, not a baker, and I can see that. *facepalm*
- October 1, 2008 at 10:28 AM
- MaxPhray [M.E.L] said...
Been a fan of your blog a while. Thanks for making my day today! :D
- October 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Amanda said...
Wow, that first one looks sort of like the lamp that the last owners of my house left behind, except all the roses on the lamp were pink.
- October 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
My husband always calls dibs on the roses, even when it's not his birthday cake, which I think is very rude (is there a protocol for that sort of thing?).
- October 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Jessica said...
As someone who will stab old ladies and children with my cake fork to make sure I get a piece with a rose, these look fabulous to me!!
- October 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM
i dont feel good. i hate frosting. i cant imagine getting a cake with all that frosting all over it. im sure it would make me sick. YUCK!
- October 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM
- JAMIE'S CREW said...
Wow! That gives new meaning to "stop and smell the roses" !!!
- October 1, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- Michelle said...
I have to say the first one is beautiful . .too pretty to eat. I love roses and we too fight over them. Usually we only get cakes with roses for birthdays, so the person with the birthday gets first dubs on the roses, then of course, being mom, I dish up the rest and I always save myself a rose piece.
- October 1, 2008 at 10:44 AM
I may be no botanist, but it seems to me that one bush does not usually produce three different colors of roses...and that's once you get past the concept that there may or may not be a cake underneath all that frosting.
Like you, it took me a little while to figure out that all those roses on the second cake made up the number 20. I think the drastic difference in color may have slowed me down...or perhaps it was just the placement of all the candles into a little ghetto. Not ghetto? Planned Living Community? - October 1, 2008 at 10:48 AM
- beloved30 said...
Does anyone else see the number 211 written in those roses rather than 20?
- October 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- Nikki said...
I think it's hilarious that there are only 19 roses spelling out the number 20. I mean, if you're going to write a big number with roses, wouldn't it be cool to have the same number of roses? :)
- October 1, 2008 at 10:54 AM
mmmmmm now i know what to ask for on my b-day cake. Lots of roses! and i want them all. Frosting is king. Imagine what color your mouth would be after eating all those roses in the first cake!
- October 1, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- Dea said...
Is it just me, or can you see the cake through some of the leaves at the left middle of the first cake? I see golden brown yellow cake through that meeting of leaves...
- October 1, 2008 at 10:58 AM
- Mrs. Burns said...
Does the age cake actually say "Billy" in the lower right corner? Did a BOY get that cake?!?!?!
Lord Help Us.... - October 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM
I think I'm going into a sugar coma...
- October 1, 2008 at 11:05 AM
G.I. Jooooooooe!!!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:15 AM
What is on the second cake in the lower left hand corner? Is it a name?
- October 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Morriskats said...
If only they could have fit one more rose on the "20" cake...!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- NanU said...
Am I the only person on earth who actually prefers cake to frosting? All those roses, perfect, dystrophic, garish, or whathaveyou, will all end up in a sad pile at the edge of the plate.
-Nancy - October 1, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I dont hate the last one.. it kinds makes me think of a funeral you know the casket piece that just covers everything ...the first one i was looking closely at, and you know i dont think they put a layer of icing on the cake before the roses. It looks like naked cake under all those.. now that might have taken some talent (of some sort) to cover the entire cake with minimal empty spots *shudder!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Amy.mangos said...
Why, on the first cake, is there no frosting UNDER the roses? Seems a little crazy to put so much time into the roses and not choose to actually frost the thing!
Thanks for the G.I. Joe reference this morning! Your blog always makes my day brighter :-) - October 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM
oops in my last post about the first one... i meant to add that it looked like they just squirted chocolate icing where the roses met. why else would the icing come up over some of them?
- October 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM
- writtenwyrdd said...
I actually like these, except the two-toned pink 20 cake. But I wouldn't want to eat any of that frosting goodness.
- October 1, 2008 at 11:28 AM
- Nichicakes said...
Aww the big 20 just shy of 20 roses :(
- October 1, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- sues2u2 said...
Well I've sent you my own "flower wreck" but I don't think my kids would have a problem w/ all of the flowers. As a matter of fact my SG would be in heaven!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- Garret said...
The top one is "pretty" but I think as I've gotten older, the sight of so much frosting makes me want to gag.
- October 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM
I just love how the 20 in roses cake only has 19 roses!
- October 1, 2008 at 11:35 AM
- Carrie'd Away Cakes said...
These cakes look good to me! Everyone in my family wants the rose pieces. Perfect cake to frosting ratio! Cake is really just for holding up the frosting, isn't it?
- October 1, 2008 at 11:53 AM
My only issue is that the first cake isn't frosted underneath the roses. It's just roses placed directly on top of the cake. At least they know how to make roses, otherwise, it would be worse!
- October 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM
If you're brave enough to enlarge the images by clicking on them, you can see that the brown between the roses on the first cake is definitely frosting. And the second cake (the only true wreck of the bunch, in my opinion, though I can see why you'd shy from the other two) says "Happy Birthday" in the upper left corner, and what looks like "Billie" in the lower right...though it could be "Billy" with an erroneously dotted y.
- October 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Crystal said...
I think it does say Billie, but that can be a girl's name. My cousin's name is Billie. (girl)
- October 1, 2008 at 12:16 PM
And don't you just love how on the number cake the decorator could only make one size of rose, so when it came time to put the Happy Bday on it she had to make little extra "flaps" that extend out to write on in teeny letters that you can't even read?? BRILLIANT!!
- October 1, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- Thistledew Farm said...
The children at the home of those cake receipients were in heaven! I may be in the minority, but my favorite part of the cake is the residue leftover on the bottom, I would prefer my cake without icing so all those pretty roses would be swished to the side! Hours of wasted effort!
- October 1, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Unknown said...
Mmmmm that first cake looks delicious. I honestly don't like cake (to eat, I love looking at cakes) so I always take a slice and just eat the frosting off. That first cake is like my dream dessert. lol (In fact, maybe that swipe off the cake was me and I was in such a daze of excitement I forgot I did that. Sorry guys!)
- October 1, 2008 at 12:29 PM
Eww. I hate icing roses. They mess up the cake to icing which should be like 3:1 not 1:1.
- October 1, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Diabetic coma, anyone?
- October 1, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Jen,
I just love your blog. From the day I found your blog on the Blogs of Note, I have been following it every day. My son was diagnosed with leukemia 3 months ago. So your blog just lighten me up every day. Thanks for sharing all these "wrecks"...haha!
Evelyn - October 1, 2008 at 12:38 PM
- Jennifer said...
Have to say that these are my ideal cakes! Lots and lots and lots of frosting! :-)
- October 1, 2008 at 12:41 PM
- Ronnica said...
Sometimes when I look at these cakes I get jealous that I can't eat them. Today is one of those days.
- October 1, 2008 at 12:44 PM
"Knowing is half the battle...
...the other half is violence." (I have that on a T-shirt). Violence, caused by a snap in the brain when one is confronted with too many hideously coloured roses, unevenly-coloured and -placed roses, or just too many darned roses, period, on a cake. Teeth hurt! :D - October 1, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
Click to enlarge the first picture. That looks like chocolate frosting under all of those roses!
- October 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- MetalNoir said...
That first cake resembles a vintage-retro women's bathing cap, visible here:
Wanna wear a cake on your head? Wanna eat a bathing cap? - October 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- Amber / Obsidian Dragon said...
nom nom nom sugar rush.
- October 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Abbie Nelson said...
The idea of all that icing makes me want to barf, but my son is drooling...
- October 1, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Number three does look like a casket. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
- October 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM
At least these cut down on the battles of "I want the rose!" "No! I want it!" There are enough roses for everyone!
- October 1, 2008 at 1:24 PM
I'm not sure the first and last cakes are wrecks. If you like frosting like my husband and kids, they're perfect! With your 600 submissions, I'm sure you could find something worse than these.
- October 1, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- Lauren T. said...
beloved30, I saw 211 instead of 20 as well. Great minds!
- October 1, 2008 at 1:28 PM
- Kat Mortensen said...
Eegads! That first cake is just ghastly!
The second one reminds me of the little tiny pink candleholders my mother used to have - they were little plastic rosettes and the candles fit in the centre of each one.
LOL on the "clock". I was a bit puzzled about that colour-change.
P.S. Blue roses are just wrong! - October 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Does anyone else think that the 20 looks like 211? That's what I saw when I first looked at it.
Karen - October 1, 2008 at 1:39 PM
I think my mom used to have a bathing cap that looked an awful lot like that top cake.
- October 1, 2008 at 1:49 PM
- sandeep said...
I only count 19 candles on the 20 cake
- October 1, 2008 at 1:51 PM
- Tiona said...
I think the reason the first and last one were wrecks is because that's not what was ordered.
While they do look nice and I am one of those always wants the corner piece or one with a rose on it, these are making sick to my stomach just looking at all that frosting to eat. - October 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM
- October 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM
- Nancy Frye said...
Finally, a cake that my sister and I can share equally. She likes the frosting globs, I want the cake. Score!
Wow, that is WAY too much crisco & sugar goo. I think I just got a cavity. - October 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Seriously thought that the 2nd cake would have been so much better had they put 20 roses instead of 19. Then they could have put a candle in each one!! K
- October 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Hm. Guess I don't consider the first a wreck. I like the way the lovely brown color of the cake peeks through the roses and leaves. 'Course, if it was my cake, it would probably be thrip and aphid infested as my real roses are. *sigh*
- October 1, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- clueuin said...
sciencegirl: Just leave me your roses gurlfriend! LOL
Mind you that 20 does look like 211. As for the third cake, if they didn't order it I just don't see them getting mad.
Orderer: Those darn bakers look at all this yummy roses on this cake! Now what I am going to do?
Kids at the party: Arrghuhguggle (Sound of kids drooling)
Save me a slice!!!!!
Clueuin - October 1, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- Manders said...
Yikes! Look at all that icing...My blood sugar rose just looking at these cakes!!
- October 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM
- Ashlie said...
Sometimes, too much of a good thing is not always good!
- October 1, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Ok, now you just outed your age with the GI Joe quote! ;) I use that line about 5 times a day...so ya know what gen I'm in!
www.fuzzynoodlecraft.com - October 1, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Thistledew Farm said...
Ugly cake, cute cats. I just went to their site and they have some pretty cakes.
I also spent about an hour surfing your site. Hilarious.....but my boss says I should get back to work....oops didn't realize the lunch hour slipped by so fast! - October 1, 2008 at 3:46 PM
- sumatra22 said...
Aw jeez...these are my dream cakes! I'm an icing nut...sadly, I'd be offered a slice of any of these and still think I was cheated on the flowers. Wreck or not, I'm all about icing. (I swear I have my cholesterol checked regularly!) LOL
- October 1, 2008 at 4:02 PM
- Carie said...
Two words here....BLUE ROSES???
That is not natural. As a cake decorator that is a rule for me: NO blue Roses!!!! I will make other blue flowers but never roses. - October 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Okay, these are my dream cakes, because I LOVE icing roses.
- October 1, 2008 at 5:47 PM
- Stephanie said...
i kinda love the first one that's all covered in roses, but it is pretty awful that that's NOT what the client asked for.
the other two.... so bad. - October 1, 2008 at 6:47 PM
- hollyml said...
What's REALLY funny abut the "211" is that it would've been much easier to make the "11" look like an "0" if the decorator(s) had spaced it just a little differently and used one more rose, to round out the curves you know, and that would have resulted in...20 roses!
Blue roses, bleah. - October 1, 2008 at 7:46 PM
Just for clarification:
As eye-sore as those cakes are, my mother ordered similar ones for all of my birthdays growing up. I remember kids crying over 3 roses, and who got one. It was a pretty smart solution to ensure that every kid could get their frosting rose goodness... - October 1, 2008 at 7:58 PM
At first glance I thought the 20 cake was a cupcake cake with a rose on every cupcake. A closer look disabused that notion.
- October 1, 2008 at 8:09 PM
- LindaBudz said...
I rather like the first one.
- October 1, 2008 at 9:11 PM
This might be wrong, but I kinda consider the first and third cakes cute.
Then again, I know #3 is pleasing to me simply because orange is my favourite colour.
I would not want to eat any of these, though.
Anyway, though, I guess I'm like chefann's husband. I'm actually really not big on cake. But I do like chocolate or mocha icing ^_^ - October 1, 2008 at 9:17 PM
- Lancastermom said...
People at my job would love these cakes bc they are always fighting over who gets the roses.
- October 1, 2008 at 9:44 PM
- purple-goat said...
"So many roses..." :)
Like alot of other people who posted, I like eating the flowers. Those look yummy, even if they are tacky. - October 1, 2008 at 11:19 PM
- Red Wolf said...
Yum! Everyone I know loves icing roses so that would be a great cake for me. Even better if they used those premade roses that taste like "safety" ice cream cones. I love those! I'd pay extra to have that many on a cake even if it did look wreck-y.
- October 1, 2008 at 11:39 PM
- Unknown said...
But the roses are always the best part! Doesn't everyone fight for them? So, these cakes solve a lot of problems.
(Actually, I think the first one is kind of beautiful.)
Elizabeth - October 2, 2008 at 7:20 AM
Does anyone else think these all look suspiciously like funeral wreaths? You can just see them all piled in the back of a hearse!
- October 2, 2008 at 7:47 AM
- Unknown said...
I thought the 20 looked like 211...
- October 2, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Still seeing a lot of Frosting hare in the comments. Granted there are some SANE posters here that understand cake is only a devise to deliver frosting to ones mouth, but still All you frosting haters, you're on notice! Frosting lovers Unite! Oh and the rose cakes? Love them. They are wrecktacular!
- October 2, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- Gothic Dragon said...
My father was a pastry chef. He made really beautiful roses. They looked like proper roses and not these big gigantic icing ploops.
My mother and I used to go to other bakers, including the ones in the supermarkts, and laugh over the gargantuan cabbages otherwise thought of as roses on these cakes.
People need to learn how to make proper roses! Great call on these cakes!
Chrissy - October 2, 2008 at 11:06 AM
The top one looks like those old fashioned swim caps with all the flowers!
- October 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM
- Unknown said...
I really hate a lot of frosting so I would probably gag trying to eat those. That being said, the first one is really pretty to look at :).
- October 2, 2008 at 12:44 PM
These...these are not wrecks. These are glorious and I want one now.
Also I was expecting shapeless "rose" blobs instead of actual icing roses. :( - October 2, 2008 at 2:28 PM
That birthday cake is so ironic. It has 19 roses! They could't fit a 20th!?
- October 2, 2008 at 3:26 PM
The roses on the third cake make it seem more like a coffin than a cake!
- October 2, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Almost all showy roses are grafted onto rootstock. You could easily graft several different colors onto one rootstock.
Blue roses are a standard of fantasy stories about "True Love" (emphasis deliberate).
If it's good quality icing, yum. Otherwise, too much. - October 2, 2008 at 5:57 PM
- DK said...
My sister, mother and I always argue over who gets the rose and/or corner piece. (We're frosting fanatics!) So these ROSES cakes would be perfect for us. :-)
- October 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM
- Alicia @ Oh2122 said...
When my cousins and I were little, there wold be full on brawls over who got the flowers on the birthday cakes at Nana's house. Flowers = more frosting, of course.
Nana finally got wise and started ordering cakes with extra flowers.
Nana's got nothing on these cakes, though! - October 4, 2008 at 1:54 AM
As someone who loves cake but hates frosting, these cakes make me cringe.
All icing! No substance! Going for the middle piece won't save me now. - October 4, 2008 at 4:59 AM
- Maddy said...
I am also guilty of burying a cake under a mountain of icing.
Cheers - October 5, 2008 at 5:02 PM
I think the roses looked good on the first cake - not sure about the colour choice, but whatever. The cake as a whole was rather ugly though. And I loved your clock joke on the second cake, LOL!
- October 17, 2008 at 4:54 PM
I wish a guy from my school would give me that cake. Then I'd have a reason to reject him.
- November 2, 2008 at 11:39 PM
I don't get all the frosting whining - the more flowers for the icing nuts, the better. I am someone who prefers the cake to the icing, and just can't eat all that sticky sweetness, but I don't have any guilt about scraping it off. The icing lovers have no such easy solution to a sadly under-iced cake.
- November 15, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- Jillian said...
Dude, these were probably all made by request. Have you never seen the carnage of a dozen grade-schoolers killing each other over who gets the most frosting? Edge-pieces and rose blooms are in HIGH DEMAND.
- July 21, 2009 at 6:09 PM
if people only knew what bucket buttercream was made of...
william danube - February 22, 2010 at 12:55 AM
- JillyBiehn said...
I trained to be a decorator at Dairy Queen, and I actually did have to practice my roses. And practice and practice...but once I'd filled the board and they were critiqued, they'd get scraped off, whipped back up in the mixer (ahhh, Bettercreme) and stuffed back in the piping bag for another go-round.
- April 8, 2010 at 5:40 PM
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MIAMI — Victory in Game 7 brought more than another crown for LeBron James and the Miami Heat. It validated the team and its leader, forever cementing their place among the NBA's greats.
For the vanquished San Antonio Spurs, it simply compounded the misery of a championship that got away.
James led the Heat to their second straight title, scoring 37 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in a 95-88 victory Thursday night in a tense game that was tight until Miami pulled away in the final minute.
Capping their best season in franchise history — and perhaps the three-superstar system they used to build it — the Heat ran off with the second straight thriller in the NBA's first championship series to go the distance since 2010.
Two nights after his Game 6 save when the Heat were almost eliminated, James continued his unparalleled run through the basketball world, with two titles and an Olympic gold medal in the last 12 months.
"I work on my game a lot throughout the offseason," said James, who was MVP for the second straight finals. "I put a lot of work into it and to be able to come out here and (have) the results happen out on the floor is the ultimate. The ultimate. I'm at a loss for words."
He made five 3-pointers, defended Tony Parker when he had to, and did everything else that could ever be expected from the best player in the game.
The Heat became the NBA's first repeat champions since the Lakers in 2009-10, and the first team to beat the Spurs in the NBA Finals.
"It took everything we had as a team," Dwyane Wade said. "Credit to the San Antonio Spurs, they're an unbelievable team, an unbelievable franchise. This is the hardest series we ever had to play. But we're a resilient team and we did whatever it took."
Players and coaches hugged afterward — their respect for each other was obvious from the opening tipoff of Game 1 through the final buzzer.
A whisker away from a fifth title two nights earlier, the Spurs couldn't find a way to win it all in what was perhaps the last shot for Tim Duncan, Parker and Manu Ginobili to grab another ring together.
"In my case I still have Game 6 in my head," Ginobili said. "Today we played an OK game, they just made more shots than us. LeBron got hot. Shane (Battier), too. Those things can happen. But being so close and feeling that you are about to grab that trophy, and seeing it vanish is very hard."
They were trying to become the first team to win a Game 7 on the road since Washington beat Seattle in 1978, but those old guys ran out of gas just before the finish. Fans stood, clapped and danced as the clock ticked down, when every score was answered by another score, each stop followed by a better stop. The Heat pushed their lead to six points a few times midway through the fourth but San Antonio kept coming back.
Duncan had 24 points and 12 rebounds for the Spurs, but missed a shot and follow attempt right under the basket with about 50 seconds left and the Spurs trailing by two.
James followed with a jumper — the shot the Spurs were daring him to take earlier in the series — to make it 92-88, sending San Antonio to a timeout as Glenn Frey's "The Heat Is On" blared over the arena's sound system.
He then came up with a steal and made two free throws for a six-point lead, and after Ginobili missed, James stalked toward the sideline, knowing it was over and that he was, once again, the last one standing.
Wade had 23 points and 10 rebounds for the Heat, who overcame a scoreless Chris Bosh by getting six 3-pointers and 18 points from Battier.
"It was a great series and we all felt that," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "I don't know if 'enjoy' is the right word, but in all honesty, even in defeat, I'm starting to enjoy what our group accomplished already, when you look back. And you need to do that, to put in perspective. So it's no fun to lose, but we lost to a better team. And you can live with that as long as you've given your best, and I think we have."
Streamers fell from the arena ceiling onto the fans for the second year in a row, but this one meant so much more. A narrow escape in Game 6 was still fresh in everyone's mind.
They were down 10 in the fourth quarter of that one before James led the charge back, finishing with a triple-double in Miami's 103-100 overtime victory. This one was nearly as tight, neither team leading by more than seven and the game tied 11 times.
Kawhi Leonard had 19 points and 16 rebounds for the Spurs, who had been 4 for 4 in the championship round. Ginobili had 18 points, but Parker managed just 10 points on 3-of-12 shooting.
"Just give credit to the Miami Heat. LeBron was unbelievable. Dwyane was great. I just think they found a way to get it done," Duncan said. "We stayed in the game. We gave ourselves opportunities to win the game, we just couldn't turn that corner."
The Heat and coach Erik Spoelstra collected the Larry O'Brien trophy again from Commissioner David Stern, presiding over his final NBA Finals before retiring next February.
He couldn't have asked for a better way to go out.
James avenged his first finals loss, when his Cleveland Cavaliers were swept by the Spurs on 2007. That helped send James on his way to South Florida, realizing it would take more help to win titles that could never come alone.
He said he would appreciate this one more because of how tough it was. The Heat overpowered Oklahoma City in five games last year, a team of 20-something kids who weren't ready to be champions yet. This came against a respected group of Spurs whose trio has combined for more than 100 playoff victories together and wanted one more in case this was San Antonio's last rodeo.
Duncan is 37 and Ginobili will be a 36-year-old free agent next month, the core of a franchise whose best days may be behind them.
Meanwhile, it's a potential dynasty along Biscayne Bay, but also one with a potentially small window. Wade's latest knee problems are a reminder that though he came into the NBA at the same time as James and Bosh, he's a couple of years older at 31 with wheels that have seen some miles.
James can become a free agent again next summer with another decision — though hopefully not another Decision — to make. He's comfortable in Miami and close with Wade, and the Heat have the leadership and commitment from owner Micky Arison and president Pat Riley to keep building a championship core around him.
Why would he want to leave?
San Antonio's most recent title came at James' expense. The Spurs exploited the weaknesses in James' game though knew someday they would be gone, Duncan telling him afterward that the league would someday belong to James.
And James simply isn't giving it back.
He came in averaging 33.8 points in Game 7s, already the best in NBA history, and was even better in this one.
He can't be defended the way he was six years ago, too strong inside and too solid from the outside. He drove Danny Green back like a tackling dummy to convert a three-point play in the second quarter, then knocked down a 3-pointer for the Heat's next score.
Heat fans, criticized over the last two days after many bolted before the finish Tuesday and then tried to force their way back in, weren't going anywhere early in this one. The game was too good. And there was another celebration to watch.
The Heat had the classic championship hangover through the first few months of this season, too strong to lose at home but not committed enough to win on the road, where they were just 11-11 following a 102-89 loss in Indiana on Feb. 1.
They won in Toronto two nights later on Super Bowl Sunday and didn't lose again until well into March Madness, running off 27 straight victories before falling in Chicago on March 27 and finishing a franchise-best 66-16.
The small-market Spurs have always been a ratings killer, but interest grew throughout this series in their attempt to toppled the champs. Game 6 drew more than 20 million viewers, a total that Game 7 was expected to top.
And the games got better, too. Games 2-5 were all decided by double digits, neither team able to carry its momentum from one game to the next.
This one was back and forth for more than three quarters, with Mario Chalmers' 3-pointer at the buzzer giving Miami a 72-71 lead heading to the final 12 minutes of the season.
Game 6 could have shaken the Spurs, who were so close to holding the trophy that officials were preparing the championship presentation before Miami's rally. The Spurs held a team dinner late that night, figuring the company was better than having to dwell on the defeat alone in their rooms.
The pain of that game or the pressure of this one had little effect on their veterans but brought out a change in their leader, the subject of some rare second-guessing for his rotations near the end of the collapse.
The famously blunt Popovich was in a chatty mood pregame, actually preferring to stay and talk even when there were no more questions, saying the busier he was, the less he'd worry.
"It's torture," he said earlier of Game 7s. "It's hard to appreciate or enjoy torture."
But it sure was beautiful to watch.
The sport's most pressure-packed game had a nervous start, each team making just seven baskets in the first quarter and combining for seven turnovers. The Spurs took an early seven-point lead, but a pair of 3-pointers by Battier during an 8-0 run helped Miami take an 18-16 lead.
The Heat nursed a narrow lead for most of the second quarter, and after San Antonio went ahead in the final minute of the period, James tipped in a miss before Wade knocked down a jumper with 0.8 seconds left to send the Heat to the locker room with a 46-44 edge.
c Notes: Home teams are 15-3 in Game 7s of the NBA Finals. … Miami improved to 5-3 all-time in Game 7s in the postseason and became the fourth team to win the final two games at home since the finals went to a 2-3-2 format in 1985, joining the Lakers in 1988 and 2010, and Houston Rockets in 1994. … Green was just 1 for 12, going 1 for 6 behind the arc. He started the series by making 25 3s in the first five games, a finals record for an entire series.
Heat 95, Spurs 88
Leonard 8-17 2-4 19, Ginobili 6-12 4-4 18, Duncan 8-18 8-8 24, Parker 3-12 4-4 10, Green 1-12 2-2 5, Neal 2-7 0-0 5, Diaw 2-2 0-0 5, Splitter 1-2 0-0 2, Joseph 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-82 20-22 88.
James 12-23 8-8 37, Miller 0-5 0-0 0, Bosh 0-5 0-0 0, Chalmers 6-15 1-4 14, Wade 11-21 1-2 23, Allen 0-4 0-0 0, Battier 6-8 0-0 18, Andersen 1-1 1-2 3, Haslem 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-82 11-16 95.
San Antonio 16 28 27 17 — 88
Miami 18 28 26 23 — 95
3-Point Goals—San Antonio 6-19 (Ginobili 2-5, Diaw 1-1, Neal 1-3, Leonard 1-4, Green 1-6), Miami 12-32 (Battier 6-8, James 5-10, Chalmers 1-7, Bosh 0-1, Allen 0-2, Miller 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 50 (Leonard 16), Miami 54 (James 12). Assists—San Antonio 13 (Ginobili 5), Miami 14 (James, Allen 4). Total Fouls—San Antonio 19, Miami 19. A—19,900 (19,600).


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