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who do you think will have the most productive year out of Roy Hibbert, Paul George, and George Hill. I am going with Paul George, i think this is his breakout year.
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who do you think will have the most productive year out of Roy Hibbert, Paul George, and George Hill. I am going with Paul George, i think this is his breakout year.
i hope it's Paul George. He is the guy with the most potential.
But if I had to pick, I'd pick Roy Hibbert. He is the guy that seems to be getting better every year.
It better be Roy Hibbert's overpaid ***.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
Hib hib
It's more likely going to be George Hill.. He's the most agressive one and he is strong mentally..
I really Hope PG ups his scoring to 16 PPG.. We need him.. I can see GH easily having 18 ppg and 5-6 assist per game.
Hibbert man.. As long as he is our defensive anchor he'll be worth every penny.. It's about defense.. 15 ppg would be icing on the cake.
But I'll be happy if he becomes a paint monster.
I was thinking about starting a thread similar to this asking... Who will be the best player on the team next year? Of course, narrowing this down to PGeorge, GHill and Hibbert leaves Granger and West out of the equation, so of the three guys mentioned at the top, I'd go with PGeorge. At least I'm hoping PGeorge steps his game up enough to be the better player of the three.
I realize Hibbert got the big contract and all, but I think much of that is because of his uniqueness, not because he's going to be our most productive, or "best" player. He fills a rare void in the league today, so he got paid. I have no problem with that.
I do think a player who isn't getting much talk lately who could really step up and be the leader in many ways is West. A year removed from major knee surgery, he was a 19-8 guy before his injury. If he gets back to that level again, he might very well be the most productive player next year.
Its going to be Hibbert, but I wish it was George. If George doesn't get "it" together this year, the Pacers are screwed moving forward.
I think it will be Hibbert, indirectly because of Hill's improvement. I think that, given a full offseason and starting security, Hill will make a huge leap in the facilitating department; specifically in feeding Hibbert. I think Roy will be looking at an extra 3-4 shots a game this year (somewhere closer to 15, compared to the 10 he averaged this season) and will maintain his efficiency. To go with that I think that means Hill could see some APG boost and we will get to see what a full season of his statistics looks like when given consistent starter minutes.
I think George will improve drastically on offense this year (4-6ppg more) but I don't think his improvement will be enough to overcome Hibbert's overall value to this team.
No they're not. If George doesn't get it together, the Pacers let him walk or trade him. If Hibbert doesn't get it together he will have a $58 million untradeable guaranteed contract. Now THAT would be screwed.
I think we have put Danny, Roy and Paul on faster than realistic tracks, myself included (Danny in the past obviously). I think this is the year Roy rounds out what his NBA career game is going to be, meaning I don't expect drastic changes past this season in terms of output. I think NEXT YEAR will be where Paul really peaks out, though certainly we should expect more improvement this season.
It also helps that Roy is older than Paul and hitting his maturity/body-youth peak (old enough to know, young enough to do), Paul is several years his junior.
I really like George Hill but I think a big part of his success was getting right to his top form quickly with the Spurs. I don't think he's on a big progression track. Mostly I think he's finding his identity rather than improving his skill set. I really like Hill's game, I just don't see him as some "just you wait till 2 years from now" type. Hill to me has plateaued (at a solid level).
The core 5 will benefit more than any one guy as they get more PT together and improve their on-court comfort levels. Even last year you had the DC starting section, West was new too, and the schedule was compacted. When you saw the 1998-2000 team what you saw more than any one guy reaching his talent limit (all were plateaued well before then except Rose), you saw the power of FAMILIARITY. That was the growth mechanism in terms of team output improvement.
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Biggest improvement? My guess is Paul George. In my opinion when you join the league and get playing time during the first two seasons, and get further credit during your 3rd year, it'll most likely be your breakout one (unless you have injuries). This is especially true for wings. You know what you can and can't do, you know what you gotta improve.
I think Hibbert is going to improve, but not make a leap. He doesn't have that much potential.
Hill will be Hill, I can see him having something like 12-14 ppg, 5-6 apg
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I hope it's George, but my guess is he'll be tough pressed to match Hibbert's production this upcoming season.
Paul, if the measure is who improves the most. We are so impatient. He went from 7.8ppg to 12.1ppg over one season while raising his 3pt% dramatically. I fully expect his scoring average to exceed 15ppg this year and if he really blossoms he's going to be pushing 20ppg.
Roy will remain the team's MVP and we may see him improve further from his first all-star season. Hill is rather mature already and he may improve but only marginally. Paul is more likely than either to make a noticeable jump, partially due to his age and experience. He's getting to that age where his body is starting to mature and he will convert shots he used to miss simply due to maturity level. Unlike Hill, he's never had a preseason with a good coaching staff...and he's never really had good coaching like Hibbert did at GTown.
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lol disputed by who? I think more people agree then disagree with me at this point.
The idea going around here that Paul's some kinda disappoint is what bothers me. Especially, when it's partially our fault.
I will say this though, people are writing off the 22 yr old a lil quickly. Though he will never be T-Mac like so many wanted, he still could easily grow into a 17-19 ppg scorer simply by getting comfortable enough to be more aggressive and utilizing his size and athleticism.
When your wing players are a combination of Danny Granger, Paul George, and Gerald Green, you are always creating a mismatch somewhere. The team and Paul himself seem to be putting an emphasis on improving his ball-handling. If he can become an average ballhandler for SG he creates so many advantages FOR us that him playing slightly out of position shouldn't be an issue.
We were forced to overpay for Hibbert, and it's hard to argue against our decision to match. But Hill making $8mil a year being no better than a backup combo guard? No excuses for that.
I think we're really holding the kid back. Playing him out of position with no play makers around him is setting him up for failure. As long as Danny feels the need to shoot 15+ shots per game, and we have West and Hibbert in the paint, I don't see Paul getting the shots he needs to develop into an all star caliber offensive player. If that's what we're banking on, we need to deal Danny and get a SG that can handle the ball and make a play asap.
If we're gonna keep him at SG I'd rather him work on a post game, though.
so we overpaid 1M for a hometown kid who is good in the community, and has a championship pedigree. imo pacers coulda saved a million but its not as bad a signing as some fans want to make it out to be.
i also disagree hill has peaked, i think his shooting can and will improve. also, a year with the same players and continuity will be huge for him as well..
in many ways a point gaurd is a floor general and we have searched for one .. hill is not that pure pg on the floor but he is a general in some ways. hill has strong leadership abilities most likely inherited as a member of the spurs.
if i had to choose mayo or hill.. i go hill at 8M. for the simple fact i know what we are getting with hill. mayo is way too much of a wildcard.
IMO I see PG having a break out season this year. It will be close because I see big Roy coming in with imptovement as well. I am hoping Hill will come in and focus more on running the offense and being a distributor. His stats may not show the improvement but he will have almost as much impact on the teams success. Add to the fact that I see Danny and West improved due to spacing made by the our young three. I also see that even with PG and big Roy out the 2nd unit players will be much better because of the improvement in athleticism and scoring potential.
i see no rush in turing george into the primary offensive weapon simply because i dont believe he is ready. nothing wrong with having paul focus on defense and letting his offense come to him.
anyone who considers george a dissapointing right now in his career is not worthy of paying attn to imho.


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Sylvester wrote:Thank you, Dmytro. This is most useful.
Now to the hard part - what do you think is the nature of the word appatiṭṭha? Should it function as a verb or as an adjective?
Patiṭṭha being the past participle of the intransitive verb patiṭṭhahati would function in an active voice and thus retain its function as a verb in Pali.
This much seems to be the sense conveyed by the past participles patiṭṭhā and virūḷha in SN 12.38, in the passages where cetanā or anusaya are present. Yet, BB's translation of the negation appatiṭṭha in SN 12.39 looks ambiguously like an adjective (unestablished), whilst at the same time, he left the negation avirūḷha in its verb sense. Strangely enough, in his draft of the translation, he translated appatiṭṭha as "not established", thereby retaining the verb sense.
One cannot be sure that BHS usage have not been allowed to creep into the Prakrit Agamas.
If I recall correctly, the Chinese parallels to the Vakkali and Godhika suttas mentioned above put the "non-establishment" as a case of "no rebirth consciousness", thereby excluding the possibility of a consciousness predicated by an "unestablished" adjective.
Yasmiṃ kho pana, bhikkhave, padese cakkaratanaṃ patiṭṭhāti tattha rājā cakkavattī vāsaṃ upeti saddhiṃ caturaṅginiyā senāya.
Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, apaṇṇako maṇi uddhaṃ khitto yena yeneva patiṭṭhāti suppatiṭṭhitaṃyeva patiṭṭhāti;
Saddho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu na cavati, patiṭṭhāti saddhamme. Hirīmā, bhikkhave, bhikkhu na cavati, patiṭṭhāti saddhamme. Ottappī, bhikkhave, bhikkhu na cavati, patiṭṭhāti saddhamme. Āraddhavīriyo, bhikkhave, bhikkhu na cavati, patiṭṭhāti saddhamme. Paññavā, bhikkhave, bhikkhu na cavati, patiṭṭhāti saddhamme. Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu na cavati, patiṭṭhāti saddhamme"ti.
Patiṭṭha being the past participle of the intransitive verb patiṭṭhahati would function in an active voice and thus retain its function as a verb in Pali.
I don't understand how such a thing can happen. Perhaps you would give an example?
Ārammaṇe asati patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa na hoti.
Sylvester wrote:However, could present participles in Pali function as adjectives?
Might it be possible that patiṭṭhā (with the long a) is the feminine noun meaning "establishment"? This seems like the only reading I can give to a conjunction of patiṭṭhā with viññāṇa in the genitive case.
Sylvester wrote:Going by the context set by SN 12.38 and SN 12.39, I think I'll treat the phrase "appatiṭṭhita viññāṇa" in its various cases as simply a negation of the proposition "patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa hoti", ie it would connote "there is no establishment of consciousness". That negation seems the most natural from the context, since "appatiṭṭhita viññāṇa" as a proposition flows from "patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa na hoti ".
Of course, I would not disagree that going just by its grammatical form alone, it probably lends itself just as easily to a reading of "there is an unestablished consciousness" or the more ambigious "consciousness is unestablished". Which of course creates doctrinal problems, if the understanding of the noun patiṭṭhā is as something other than a process connected with rebecoming.
Precision would also require to specify the nature of 'establishment'.
Thus kamma is the field, consciousness the seed, and craving the moisture. The consciousness of living beings hindered by ignorance & fettered by craving is established in/tuned to a lower property. Thus there is the production of renewed becoming in the future.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
Iti kho ānanda, kammaṃ khettaṃ, viññāṇaṃ bījaṃ, taṇhā sineho. Avijjānīvaraṇānaṃ sattānaṃ taṇhāsaṃyojanānaṃ hīnāya dhātuyā viññāṇaṃ patiṭṭhitaṃ. Evaṃ āyati punabbhavābhinibbatti hoti.
What one intends, what one arranges, and what one obsesses about:[1] This is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being a support, there is a landing [or: an establishing] of consciousness.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
Yañca bhikkhave, ceteti yañca pakappeti, yañca anuseti, ārammaṇametaṃ hoti viññāṇassa ṭhitiyā. Ārammaṇe sati patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa hoti.
Sylvester wrote:This sutta suggests that patiṭṭhā is a process of creating the potential for a type of rebecoming in the future. The allowance for both the present event and the future possibility existing in the same proposition is in fact attested to in the special grammatical construction used in "Tasmiṃ patiṭṭhite viññāṇe virūḷhe āyatiṃ punabbhavābhinibbatti hoti." from SN 12.38.
It is this connection to the rebirth potential that causes me to reject the translation of "appatiṭṭhita viññāṇa" as referring to a "consciousness that is unestablished". If such a consciousness exists from the time of the non-establishment all the way to the end of the Arahant's life, we are left with Sati the fisherman's son's belief in some unchanging sub-stratum. I think it therefore makes better sense to treat the term as a reference to the event of non-establishment, rather than as a reference to a special ante-mortem consciousness of the Arahant (or worse, some 'unconditioned' post-mortem consciousness!).
This establishment/patiṭṭhā process looks closely connected to the verb tiṭṭhati which you helpfully pointed out in SN 35.235. I think the only discernible difference I can make out is the fact that patiṭṭhā is a reference to the creation of a future potential, while tiṭṭhati is the present action. Might it be possible to view it sequentially so that "if one tiṭṭhati, then there is patiṭṭhā."?
This split in the respective functions of tiṭṭhati and patiṭṭhāti is in fact explicated by SN 12.38 and SN 12.39 as follows -What one intends, what one arranges, and what one obsesses about:[1] This is a support for the stationing of consciousness. There being a support, there is a landing [or: an establishing] of consciousness.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html
Yañca bhikkhave, ceteti yañca pakappeti, yañca anuseti, ārammaṇametaṃ hoti viññāṇassa ṭhitiyā. Ārammaṇe sati patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa hoti.
Perhaps we could discuss further in a separate thread.
Sylvester wrote:Reading patiṭṭhā as a footing, instead of the process of establishment in rebirth, is also a fair interpretation that avoids the Sati problem. There might be some quibble, though, on what this would mean in relation to an Arahant's consciousness' footing not existing (patiṭṭhā viññāṇassa na hoti).
I just think that SN 12.39 might be a better candidate for this interpretation, rather than SN 12.38, as SN 12.39 does not address rebecoming, but the descent of nāmarūpa. Somehow, I try to avoid a same-life model of multiple punabbhava, and allow nāmarūpa to take on the role in both rebirth and multiple cognitive contacts.
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The Long Island City art scene will soon welcome a new neighbor, according to published reports.
The American Folk Art Museum, located at 2 Lincoln Square in Manhattan, is looking to open a 17,000-square-foot annex in the western Queens neighborhood near the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The New York Times reported.
It will contain the museum's collection, library and provide additional room for exhibitions, with a 2,000 square-foot exhibit hall, the publication said.
"We think it's a real opportunity to share pieces for which we often get inquiries," Anne-Imelda Radice, American Folk Art Museum's director, told The Times. "And Queens is a great location for us."
The museum's annex, expected to open in early 2015, will share the neighborhood with many local art institutions including Socrates Sculpture Park and MoMA PS 1.
This is not the first time the American Folk Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art have shared the same area. The museum was formerly located next door to MoMA in Manhattan, until it had to reportedly move due to financial issues, and MoMA purchased the building in 2011 to create a 100,500-square-foot expansion to its complex.


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Trophies are nice—and the Stanley Cup is the nicest—but they won't tell the full story of the NHL's 48-game season.
Spector: The Stanley Cup will go to .... | Award picks
There also are some big questions as hockey makes its return. Fortunately, Sporting News has a Magic 8 Ball, so we have answers.
Will Roberto Luongo play the full season with the Vancouver Canucks?
OUTLOOK GOOD: Keeping Luongo and using him in tandem with Cory Schneider would set the Canucks up well to have a fresh goaltender, whichever one is playing better, when the playoffs start. The next—best option would be to trade Luongo at the deadline, perhaps extracting a better return from a team fighting for a playoff spot (hello, Florida?) and then going with a better—rested Schneider in the playoffs than Vancouver would have had with an early Luongo trade.
If Sidney Crosby and the rest of their top players stay healthy all season, can anyone stop the Penguins?
IT IS DECIDEDLY SO: As good as the Penguins are, the New York Rangers have the most complete top—to—bottom roster in the league, and they are in the same division. Come playoff time, there is still an open question of whether Marc-Andre Fleury can win a series that comes down to goaltending.
Will Darryl Sutter ever smile?
SIGNS POINT TO YES: The Los Angeles Kings less-than-animated coach may turn his thoughts to his farm in Alberta, or he'll break out the pearly whites while celebrating a repeat championship.
Will Alex Semin's one-year deal work out for Carolina?
MY SOURCES SAY NO: Hmm. It seems like it should be a good fit, with a needed change of scenery but familiarity with the Southeast Division and a less-harsh spotlight than in Washington.
Magic 8 Ball, are you saying that because you buy into the "enigmatic Russian" baloney?
CANNOT PREDICT NOW: Fine, you're off the hook for now.
Is this really going to be Teemu Selanne's last season?
WITHOUT A DOUBT: Curse you, Magic 8 Ball.
Can the Ducks at least trade him to a playoff team, then?
Will they?
BETTER NOT TELL YOU NOW: Building the drama? Okay.
How about Jarome Iginla? Is he going to stay in Calgary forever?
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Will Roman Josi make Nashville forget that Ryan Suter ever existed?
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Why doesn't Jimmy Howard get the recognition he deserves as a top-level goalie?
IT IS DECIDEDLY SO: Right. Forgot it has to be yes-or-no questions.
Will Brendan Shanahan have a more consistent disciplinary system in his second year on the job?
SIGNS POINT TO YES: A revamped appeals process should be helpful, too.
By the time the Stanley Cup is presented, will everyone pretty much forget the lockout ever happened, the way they did in the NBA last year?
OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD: It probably doesn't help that Gary Bettman hands the Cup to the champion.
But will hockey fans forgive the league enough to welcome it back with open arms and wallets, and enjoy a great season ahead?
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Snider confident a few days' rest will do the trick
PITTSBURGH -- Neither outfielder Travis Snider nor first baseman Pedro Alvarez was in the lineup on Friday, as both left games early with injuries earlier in the week.
Alvarez sprained his left foot while diving after a ground ball on Tuesday. He was removed from that game in the seventh inning and was unavailable on Wednesday.
Snider left Wednesday's game after tweaking his hamstring on the basepaths. Snider, who has taken over in right field since Gregory Polanco went into a slump and was sent to Triple-A, underwent treatment on Thursday's off-day.
"Going into today, [I'm] doing some baseball activities and seeing where we're at. Whether I'll be able to pinch-hit tonight or the next night or two will be decided on how things progress through practice and how I'm feeling afterward," Snider said on Friday.
Despite having just two hits in his last 21 at-bats, Snider is hitting at a .328 clip in his last 16 games, with three homers and nine doubles. He noted that he's had similar injuries in the past and hopes that a few days of rest -- though he didn't have an exact timetable -- would set up a healthy return.
"I've dealt with these types of injuries in the past where if you can limit the exposure over the first couple of days, it puts you in a good position to be healthy in the coming weeks," he said. "I'm not putting a date or time on anything, but really [just] understanding how my body reacts to these kinds of things and doing everything I can in the next however many days it takes to get ready to go."
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The question was qualified, the answer was brief and it's tough to imagine what would have happened had Bill Daly taken his other option, but the National Hockey League's deputy commissioner said on Wednesday — Day 95 of the NHL lockout — that he thinks there will be a season.
On Canada's HNIC Radio, journalist Elliotte Friedman closed an interview with Daly thusly: " 'I hope so' is not allowed to be an answer to this question, or 'want to believe so,' is not an answer to this question. Yes or no: Do we have a season?"
Daly's answer: "Yes."
There are a few ways to take that. One is that the league indeed believes an agreement is within reach. The other is that Daly was covering his bases and "negotiating in good faith," which is important, given that the situation is on the verge of entering the legal system, where that concept is key.
What's more likely is that it was a mixture of both.
So, good news, or bad news, or good and bad news, or no news.
— Fehr: Union awaits on Bettman to restart talks | Hainsey: Let's talk
It's also worth noting that Daly didn't say he thought a deal was close. One doesn't need to be, really — in order to play a 48-game season, which commissioner Gary Bettman has set as the minimum, a collective bargaining agreement doesn't need to be done until mid-January. Daly confirmed that another round of games will be cancelled by week's end. If the league holds its pattern, that will take the schedule up to Jan. 14.
— SBJ: A guide to the lockout's point of no return
And, of course, that's the ballpark drop-dead date Daly gave. The league isn't going to set a firm deadline because of NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr's track record of waiting as long as possible to come to agreements
Other notes from Daly:
He said the league was open to a "different trade" in negotiations, which, right or wrong, is an attempt to put the ball back in the players' court after the league called off negotiations two weeks.
"There does need to be a reason to meet and given, I guess, where we are, somebody has to have a new idea or something new to put on the table to move the process along," he said.
"I think our view is, 'We've done as much as we can do. If you have a different idea or a different trade, even, on some of the issues we talked about two weeks ago, let's hear it.' "
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And Daly continued saying that a deal isn't as close as Fehr implied, because the union took parts of a deal contingent on others and then asked for more. That's where the "different trade" comes back into play.
"When you don't get A, B and C," Daly said, "then X, Y and Z aren't there anymore, and you might have to re-trade those,"
Daly also noted that the players' proposed cap on escrow is a back door at getting more than 50 percent of hockey-related revenue, and defended owners who, in New York, told players that involving Fehr in those negotiations would be a deal-breaker.
Daly said owners thought players wanted to involve a larger number of union staff members — closer to 10-12 — and that played a part in their pseudo-warning, which can also be interpreted as an attempt to bypass Fehr and get players to agree on a deal without their union leader.
"The whole concept of the meeting was an owners/players-only meeting," Daly said. "(Asking to involve staff like Fehr was) fine. They have a right to do that. They didn't have an obligation to continue that or do it in the first place. But it doesn't mean that the owners want to continue in the format they proposed. And that was what was communicated to them."


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A FORMER nuclear physicist and Mastermind contestant says people who were trying to help him out of poverty have hit a brick wall.
Martin Cresdee was discovered last year after living in squalor for five years with a mental disorder.
His plight attracted the attention of the managing director of London's International Resolution Centre, Oxfordshire resident Damian Hickman.
Mr Hickman took Mr Cresdee to visit a doctor, put £30 on his electricity key so he had electricity for the first time in five years, and tried to get him assistance from a welfare fund for former Culham employees.
But now Mr Cresdee, 60, of Hobbs Close, Abingdon, says things are worse than ever.
He told the Oxford Mail he had not seen Mr Hickman since before Christmas, and said: "I can understand, I expect it was costing them money.
"I am the problem."
He said he had only used electricity once, to boil his kettle for a pot noodle.
Mr Cresdee also said his brother Neville, who lived in Newcastle, had died over Christmas, aged 66.
He said his feet now hurt so much he cannot walk into town, and no longer leaves the house.
He said: "It would take me ages to walk into town, and I haven't got any money anyway."
Mr Cresdee has lived alone since his wife went into care five years ago, and hasn't had the money to heat his house or pay for electricity. He has not had hot water to take a bath in all that time.
He was diagnosed with a mal-adjustment disorder which he says makes it progressively more difficult to deal with problems when things go wrong.
After getting a physics degree from Imperial College London, he worked for the Atomic Energy Agency (AEA) at Culham for 20 years.
But in 1992 he lost his job after an argument with his boss and walked out.
He was later told by a doctor that he had a maladjustment disorder.
Mr Cresdee's wife died in April last year, aged 71.
One of Mr Cresdee's neighbours, who did not want to be named, said: "Mr Cresdee is in serious need of help, and he has not been able to get this via the normal agencies.
"Worried neighbours have asked social services to intervene as well as the mental health people but no one wants to help this guy who was clearly a genius but has been further reduced to degradation and left to his own devices."
Elizabeth Mansfield, chairwoman of the Harwell, Chilton and Culham Welfare Fund (HCCWF) said Mr Cresdee was eligible to apply for financial assistance from her organisation as well as The Nuclear Industry Benevolent Fund (TNIBF).
She said: "The HCCWF has received an application from Mr Cresdee, but the details provided so far are insufficient for trustees to make a properly informed decision as to how best to improve Mr Cresdee's situation in the most constructive way.
"We are very grateful for the intervention of Mr Hickman and the assistance he has provided both directly to Mr Cresdee and for facilitating the application to the HCCWF. We will continue to work through him, with the objective of identifying the most effective way we can help Mr Cresdee to improve the quality of his life."
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The Miss Rodeo Texas 2012 pageant pulled into San Antonio for three days of receptions, photo ops and the crowning of the new queen, Rosanna Pace, 23, of Wharton.
In between, a fashion show featuring women in western wear from designer Patricia Wolf styled with accessories from Kippys and coats and jackets from San Antonio's Elegant Furs drew a full house to the runway at Oak Hills Country Club.
Pace, 23, was later crowned the 53rd titleholder and awarded more than $15,000 in scholarships and other prizes. She is a graduate student at Texas A&M University.
Avery Greene, 18, of Inez, was named the 2012 Miss Rodeo Texas Teen, and Alysia McCormick, 11, of Blossom, was crowned Miss Rodeo Texas Princess.
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ESOP's Fable
Why companies should hire advisors before considering ESOPs.
May 12, 2011
Once upon a time there were two companies, Hare Industries and Tortoise Enterprises. Both companies were reasonably successful, comfortably profitable, privately owned companies. Seeking ways to share ownership with employees, both company's owners and managers sought advice from professionals.
Hare Industries (Hare) opted to establish an employee stock ownership plan or ESOP. Hare's approach was not unique. Over 11,000 companies now have ESOPs, with more than 13 million participating employees. Hare sought several advantages from its ESOP:
Tortoise Enterprises (Tortoise) decided to follow a more traditional approach toward shared ownership. It chose to allow employees to purchase company stock directly. Tortoise also established a stock bonus plan and a stock option plan for its employees.
Hare's ESOP
An ESOP is somewhat like a profit-sharing plan. A company sets up a trust fund into which it can contribute new shares of its own stock or cash to buy existing shares. Shares in the trust are allocated to individual employee accounts. Generally, all full-time employees over age 21 participate in the plan. Employees must be 100 percent vested within three years to six years.
When employees leave the company, they receive their vested stock. Since the stock of Hare is not publicly traded, the company must be willing to buy back the employees' stock at its fair market value. In addition, the company must pay for an annual outside valuation to determine the price of the shares. In private companies like Hare Industries, employees must be able to vote their allocated shares on major issues, such as closing or relocating. It can choose whether to pass-through voting rights on other issues, like the election of directors. Public company employees must be able to vote on all issues.
Hare's Fast Start
Hare and its owners initially gained significant tax advantages from its ESOP:
When Hare decided to pay dividends, the company was entitled to a tax deduction for any dividends that were:
Tortoise's Approach
Tortoise decided to forego the immediate attractiveness of an ESOP. As a result, it had a choice of business entities not available to Hare, including limited liability corporation (LLC), partnership and most professional corporations. Although ESOPs can be used by S corporations, the employer has lower contribution limits and employee distributions do not qualify for rollover treatment.
As time passed, the company did not suffer the same cash drain as Hare. Tortoise avoided the potentially burdensome commitment to provide the cash to fund the ESOP's loan obligations. Moreover, as Hare's business and employees both matured, Hare found it more and more difficult to find the funds necessary to repurchase the growing amount of shares owned by departing employees.
Tortoise also avoided the cost of setting up the ESOP, which can be significant for even the simplest of plans in small companies and the cost of an annual stock appraisal. Its owners also did not suffer the dilution that occurs each time new shares are issued.
While Tortoise got off to a slower start by not taking advantage of all the tax benefits offered by an ESOP, it avoided the "drag" that an ESOP can place on a successful company, if its workforce begins to age and its growth curve starts to level out.
Moral of This Fable
Companies considering an ESOP should hire advisors to study both the short-term benefits and longer-term obligations before proceeding.
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Everyone go back and read page 5 of the Game thread. Able is right, pure comedy gold there
Here are some gems from Page 5... I don't mean to pick on y'all but it's really funny after this awesome win.
and the voice of Reason in all the madness. Gold for president!
Not so sure about this. Scal is said to be a nice guy. When he was recalled after the lockout he gave back all of his salaries to the Italian club that he played in order to say sorry that he did not stayed with them all year.
I would like him as well after a similar move
PS: Just like I liked Danny more after the dinner.
Another game where I feel the pacers would have lost if David West wasn't on our team
If you have LP for TV, you can get either teams broadcast if that network is televising it.
But yes. They are by far the worst announcers I've ever heard.
They make fools of themselves and they make it sound like they don't know anything about basketball.
They must get raises for kissing the Bulls' asses. Their homerism is to the point where it's sickening.
Absolutely great way to bounce back from the horrible 2nd quarter ending and the loss to Orlando.Hibbert once again was a beast.A true beast.I can't see how he won't be an All Star.I was gonna post that the only negative element of the game was the rebounds and our inability to box out but the box score says we outrembounded them by 3 (44-41).I guess Bulls won some crucial boards down the stretch and clouded my perception.Finally i like what i saw from PG offensively.He was, at last,aggressive and had a couple of great dunks if i am not mistaken.Massive massive win and from what i see from other boards now they recognize us as legit.
He's not consistent yet. He makes mistakes. He's not focused all the time.
But sheesh, he's got all the talent, athleticism, skills, intelligence and work ethic to suggest he could very well be something special.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of anyone else on the roster, we've got PG and Hibbert...a guy with the potential to be a fantastic wing, and a skilled great Center. Not a bad core.
And btw, I love Frank Vogel.
What a crazy end to that game. I was pretty pissed off at halftime as it seemed like so many of our guys forgot how to play basketball. But I'm impressed that we pulled it out in the end. I know the game thread is always a place where overreactions happen, but we're a good team people. Not elite, but good. Good teams respond to bad losses and they find ways to gut wins out more often than not in the end. That's us so far. We're also young, we're going to be up and down a bit.
But so far we're better than we are young.
I love beating Chicago, especially IN Chicago. So sweet.
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I'm still frantically sending text messages to all those Bulls fans that laughed at me claiming the Pacers would play them close.....Oh this is fun......I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!
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Solid win for the Pacers. Can't say enough about the depth and talent on that team right now. They make the EC race much more interesting.
I assume Rose and Boozer are the other two in that quartet. I personally think Noah and Rip are more important than Taj Gibson, but that's just one dude's opinion.
Don't look now Granger haters but over the past 5 games Danny is averaging 19 PPG and 5 RPG with a block and a steal and shooting 45% from the field and 42% from the 3 point line.
Just outstanding. Allow me to state one more time, give Roy whatever he wants.
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i loved that block he had in the fourth, can't remember whose shot it was but it was just like GET THAT **** OUT OF HERE YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH
Hard not to feel good about that win.
The players, the fans, the announcers, the mascot.
It's a rivalry on both sides.
This win was a great way to show how much better we really are this season compared to last season.
You could tell he was a calming factor during timeouts. Also, loved seeing Paul take responsibility for the defensive breakdown that resulted in the Noah dunk.
Taj Gibson is living mostly on hype. He wasn't very good the second half of the season for the Bulls last year or really in the playoffs and he's got off to a sluggish start. Saying he is one of the 4 best players on that team is a bit like saying Hansbrough is a top 4 Pacer.
Brewer abused him on the other end of the floor.
Anyway, I loved hearing the resignation in their voice when they realized the Bulls were losing this one.
Watching the Bulls Postgame, Thibodeau claims he didn't feel we played physical at all. He also stated that the Pacers are a much better team than last year, as well as PG is going to have a long career in the NBA....I am somewhat surprised that there were no excuses or scapegoats.....just acknowledging that we are a solid team with a good core;;;;
This is who we NEED him to be if we're going to make any noise in the playoffs. I hope he keeps up the effort on the other end of the floor.


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1 1/2 pounds 80 percent lean ground chuck
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
3 teaspoons granulated garlic
3 teaspoons chipolte powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
12 slices spanish serrano ham thinly sliced (10 to 12 ounces)
12 slices manchego cheese (12 to 14 ounces)
1/2 medium red onion, thinly sliced 1/8 inch thick
chimichurri sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
6 slider sized crusty rolls
3 tablespoons red-wine vinegar
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon blanched garlic minced (3 cloves)
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Blanching the garlic reduces the raw garlic of it's bitter bite and mellows out the flavor.
To blanch the garlic put the unpeeled cloves into boiling water for 1 minute.
Removed from boiling water and plunge into ice water until cool. Unpeel.
Stir together the vinegar, water, garlic, salt,
red pepper flakes, and black pepper.
Whisk in oil and parsley until combined.
Let stand for 30 mintues at room temperature.
In a small bowl mix the smoked paprika, granulated garlic, chipolte and salt.
Add the hamburger to a large bowl and mix in spice mix.
Divide the meat into 6 portions of 4 oz. each. Form each portion into a patty.
Wrap 2 slices of Serrano ham criss-crossing on one side of the hamburger patties.
Flatten the ham onto the burger to adhere as well as wrapping and adhering the overlap
of the ham on the other side.
Slice the rolls so that the bottom is roughly 1/4 the height of the bun.
Pull out and discard some of the bread from the top.
Brush each side of the buns with the olive oil.
Heat a gas grill to high or burn coals in a charcoal grill until they glow bright and ash over.
Grill the burgers ham side down, with the grill covered, until moister starts to bead
on the top of the burgers and the ham becomes crusty and charred, about 4-5 minutes.
Flip the burgers and cook until lightly charred on the second side, 4 minutes more
for medium rare, or until cooked to desired doneness.
Put the oiled hamburger buns on the grill and toast until the sides are golden.
Add 2 slices of cheese to the tops of the burgers during the last minute of cooking.
When cheese is melted serve immediately on grilled buns topped with sliced onions and a large spoonful of the chimichurri sauce.
This recipe was equally inspired by my love of Spanish cooking and ingredients and Saltimbocca in how I love how the ham melds with the beef for a crunchy, crusty blend of flavors.
The title is an ode to the three spanish regions featured in the recipe: Mexico through the chipolte based seasoning, Spain through the Serrano ham and Manchego cheese and Argentina through the chimichurri.
I like to present all the burgers on a platter with the burgers sitting on stacked buns, the burger sitting on the bottom bun which is sitting on the top.
This was the original recipe that I developed. I have varied the recipe using different ketchup's and mayonnaise sauces to compliment the chimichurri but always come back to the simplicity of this version.


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'"You heard it at least a few times a year, especially growing up when you were younger. People say things and you only want to use it against them and prove them wrong. But you hear it everywhere, at every level, too. It doesn't matter if it's college or junior … even the pro level, you still hear it. So you just want to go out there and prove everyone wrong."'
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The Minnesota Wild has made a quick turnaround this year, taking the lead in the Northwest Division after the blockbuster offseason signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. Now, Jason Pominville is on his way to Minnesota, adding some offensive depth to a team that needs it heading into the playoffs.
Pominville has scored 10 goals with 15 assists this season, and will join three double-digit goal scorers with the Wild. Parise has scored 15 goals, Devin Setoguchi has netted a dozen, and Dany Heatley has tallied 10.
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"He works hard," Parise told reporters. "I just think you look at the way he's been used, on the power play, penalty kill … he's reliable. He puts pucks in the net, he makes plays, he gets points. I think he plays a really all-around game. That's what we're going to see."
It's an impressive haul for Buffalo: They received two good prospects, a first-round pick in 2013 and a second-round pick in 2014.
Last year, Pominville was an All-Star for the first time in his career. He has played with the Sabres since Buffalo drafted him in the second round of the 2001 draft, and it will be a bit of a shock for him to not play with Thomas Vanek, who has had points on 13 of the 25 goals where Pominville had points this year.
An interesting part of the deal for the Sabres is bringing back 23-year-old goaltender Matt Hackett, who has played 13 games in his NHL career, and figures to at least compete with Jhonas Enroth for a backup job, if not push Ryan Miller for the starter's job eventually. If the Sabres go into a full rebuild, Miller could find himself as part of a crowded market for goaltenders this summer, along with Roberto Luongo and possibly Ilya Bryzgalov, if the Flyers make him a compliance buyout.
Also headed back to the Sabres: center Johan Larsson, a second-round pick in 2010. From Hockey Prospectus' Corey Pronman:
Larsson can be dynamic with his playmaking skills and thinks the game at a really high level. He's also a smart, dependable defensive player who can log tough minutes. Larsson may only be average sized, but he's a fine physical player because of his great compete level. He's versatile and can be effective on the wing and at center.


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Clinique Deep Comfort Body Butter Reviews
Amazing!I prefer cocoa and shea butter, but this lavish cream sinks in skin pretty quickly and deeply and thoroughly moisturizes. Especially great to use during bitterly cold winters! — 4 years, 3 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
AmazingI tried this because Clinique's face moisturizers are my holy grails. Their youth surge, moisture surge, and turn around are around $50.00 and I shell it out no questions asked, in order to have such radiant skin on my face. Their body butter, different story. I rated this a three, because while it's very moisturizing and great for dry skin, there are other products that work just as well for a li...read morettle cheaper, and have fragrance. If someone has an allergy to fragrance, they may find this is the perfect moisturizer. Clinique Body butter is $25.00 for 6. 7 ounces, while Bath and Body Works Shea Cashmere is $17.50 for 7 ounces. I use the shea cashmere and so does my Mother, who has horrible allergies to fragrances. The shea cashmere is a little sweet, but the scent is barely noticeable on the skin, and has the same moisturizing properties as Clinique's body butter. But my point is, since I prefer fragrance, I use Victoriassecret, or Bath and Body Works body butters, because they are the exact same thing as this, only with fragrance, and with more product for less money. Plus, Victoria's Secret nearly always has a sale where I get 5 products for 25 or 30 dollars - and I stock up on the body butters. I'm having a hard time thinking of any cheaper body butters without fragrance, so I think those with sensitive allergies may benefit from this, even if they are paying more money for the same thing, just fragrance- free. Those of us who can tolerate fragrance, and enjoy them in our lotions, are better off shopping body care lines elsewhere. Great moisturiser, it does not stick or smell. A little goes a looooong way. On the expensive side (especially if compared to nivea), but worth the splurge once in a while. It leaves my skin moisturised all day and very soft. There are several things about this product that I do not like. First of all, it's extremely expensive. I think it's a very good moisturizer, but I don't think that the price is justified, because except for moisturizing, it doesn't have any special properties. I also have a problem with the packaging. The thing I like about jar packaging is that I can use every last bit of the product. However, it is easy to contaminate the product and any anti-oxidants that might be present will soon be rendered ineffective. That said, I will probably buy this product again. My skin gets very dry during the winter and is also very sensitive. Before using this body butter, I was not able to find a moisturizer that provides me with the moisturization I wanted without including fragrance. However, the Deep Comfort Body Butter is very moisturizing, yet does not irritate my skin. So yes, I would repurchase, until I've found something cheaper that does the trick. Edit: I have found something cheaper that works even better (La Roche Posay Lipikar Baume AP), so I will not repurchase this, even though it is a very good body butter. I love this stuff! It's unscented, absorbs easily, and doesn't leave me feeling greasy. It leaves my skin feeling great for hours - if I use it before I go to bed, I can still notice it working in the morning. I especially appreciate that this is unscented because while I love scented things, I don't want to wear them all the time and I don't like having too many that clash and cause confusion. This is perfet by itself without having to worry about scent. When I do want a scent, I've even mixed my scented moisturizes with this before applying. I've noticed that many of my scented lotions don't seem to moisturize as well as unscented ones, so mixing this with a scented lotion is a great combination. I have been tried some other products but so far this product is quite good for sure. It hydrates my skin and keep my skin more moisture! — 5 years, 8 months agomihshelle | 182 reviews
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Bravo!If you don't like to use cocoa butter or Shea butter products because of their fragrance, try this "almost" fragrance-free body butter by Clinique. This is super rich and thick cream. It feels heavy at first, yet, wow, it absorbs into skin pretty quickly. I love using this butter after swimming. It moisturizes and hydrates my skin really well, and that feeling lasts for a long time. — 7 years, 10 months agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
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Moisturizing & Fragrance FreeThis body butter was virtually fragrance free and quite soothing for my knees and elbows, making them moisturized and definitely less painful. Yes it was fairly pricey so I wouldn't use it as a "lotion" that you can get at the drugstore but it was excellent for those parts of the body that need something extra without having to get a medication. — 3 years, 8 months agoleo1999 | 678 reviews
So Moisturizing!The best thing about this product, besides how well it works, is that it's fragrance free. This product does everything it claims to do. It's great for those rough spots like knees and elbows, but also fantastic to make the rest of your body feel soft and smooth. Perfect for allergy sufferers too! It's very, very rich, though, so you only need a little bit to go a very long way! — 3 years, 11 months agoThePastyHarlot | 173 reviews
Very Moisturizing!This lotion works very well for super dry skin. The smell is nice and the texture is super rich. I'm a fan of this product for when my skin is really parched. Although this isn't too expensive, I'm still more likely to buy drug store brand lotions rather than department store lotions because I really don't think the more expensive options are significantly better, so that is why I'm only giving 8 stars, for price. — 3 years, 8 months agoposhinprogress | 181 reviews
Awesome!I love this stuff! I first found it when my cousin was in chemo and her skin was literally falling off from dryness- my friend worked at Clinique at the time and recommended this when I was complaining that no lotions helped. This body butter made her skin good as new (I admit that for skin that severe, it took a LOT, but hey, NOTHING else worked at all. So fast forward a few years and now I have ...read moresuch severe dry skin on my back that I am driven to distraction during the day, can't fall asleep at night, and sometimes even wake up crying or screaming because of the itching. Instead of messing around with cheap lotions that never work, I went right for this magic stuff. I had only put it on my back for 2 days when the itching calmed, and now, one week later, ALL the itching is gone, there is NO flaking skin whatsoever. And my skin doesn't even feel greasy after. — 4 years, 3 months agoCirbii | 67 reviews
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Very moisturizingI like it, it does wonders on my dry skin (especially during the winter). But i really like my body butters/lotions to smell good, and this is pretty much fragrance free. It is very moisturizing but i find Cetaphil to deliver the same results and it doesn't cost as much. — 3 years, 9 months agoDazedNdConfused | 40 reviews
love this!!!this is one of those moisturizers that you cant live with out. Clinique being so safe and hypoallergenic it helps woman like myself who has the "if it smell, im gonna break out i already know it skin" the smell is light so already i feel safe. its thick enough to be thin enough once it hits your body temperature. i have never gone wrong with a clinique product. my mom introduced this to me years ago. — 5 years, 4 months agotanje_zammiello | 10 reviews
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The best of the butters!This is my all-time favorite body butter. My sister turned me onto this about eight years ago and I've never been without it since. I love how it feels after shaving. It's scent while very faint is pleasing and the product just melts into skin without feeling heavy or oily. I have given this to many, many people as gifts. It's great because it's so mild that most everyone can use it. — 5 years, 6 months agosilvermarigold | 5 reviews
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text: Alpha: $265M Massey safety settlement near By Ken Ward Jr. October 31, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Alpha Natural Resources is close to reaching a $265 million settlement in a lawsuit it inherited over allegations that Massey Energy misled shareholders about its safety practices, the company said Thursday.Alpha officials said "additional material terms must still be negotiated" but that the tentative deal would "close the book on the most significant Massey-related litigation issues passed on to Alpha in the acquisition.""Whether Alpha can resolve those issues, and when, remains uncertain, but if the case can be resolved, it would staunch the uncertainty, distraction, risks and potential costs that pursuing this litigation would involve," Alpha said in a statement reporting its most recent quarterly financial results.Alpha reported a net loss of $458 million for the three months that ended Sept. 30, citing a "tough market environment" and extended downtime during the repositioning of a longwall machine at its Cumberland Mine, in Pennsylvania."We are encouraged that the metallurgical coal market appears to be gradually improving from its recent apparent low point, and domestic thermal coal inventories have trended down, planting the seeds for healthier market conditions in the future," said Alpha CEO Kevin Crutchfield. "Regardless, we are not standing still and we continued to make significant progress this quarter."In a conference call with industry analysts Thursday, Alpha said it plans another round of cuts aimed at reducing costs by at least $200 million annually in 2014.Later in the day, spokesman Ted Pile said Alpha is eliminating about 230 positions across the company. About 130 workers will be let go, Pile said, and 100 vacant slots will be eliminated."This is not something we like to do at all, but it's critical, if you're in the coal business today, that you keep your cost structure competitive and you match your administrative support appropriately to your production footprint, which, for us, is considerably smaller now," Pile said.The reductions announced Thursday come after a major restructuring and several other layoffs last year that cut more than 1,500 positions at Alpha. The company did not identify what operations will be affected by the new round of cuts."The affected positions are in numerous locations spread across our entire organization and are a combination of people in jobs now and vacancies," Pile said in an email message. "We're not prepared to go into that level of detail and certainly not before affected employees have been informed."In West Virginia, Alpha employed about 5,800 miners during the second quarter of 2013, the latest period for which figures were available Thursday. That's down from nearly 6,700 miners employed at Alpha operations during the first quarter of 2012, according to disclosures filed with the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration.Overall, Alpha employs about 11,000 people, including miners and other employees, the company said.In the lawsuit Alpha is working to settle, the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Trust and other shareholders filed suit after 29 miners were killed in the April 5, 2010, explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine, in Raleigh County.The lawsuit alleged that Massey officials misled investors by regularly touting its safety practices as among the best in the industry, while routinely ignoring government standards and systematically hiding violations from federal inspectors. Alpha bought Massey in June 2011, acquiring the now-closed Upper Big Branch Mine and various liabilities associated with West Virginia's worst coal-mining disaster in a generation.U.S. District Judge Irene Berger turned down Alpha's efforts to have the shareholder case dismissed, and court records indicate the parties were seeking the help of a mediator to negotiate a settlement.Berger also delayed the litigation at the request of U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin so that the shareholder lawsuit would not interfere with the ongoing criminal investigation of the mine disaster and Massey's safety practices.Reach Ken Ward Jr. at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1702. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 City of Milton tries to revive Morris Memorial property 2 Books and Brews expanding to Charleston's West Side 3 Former Boone school board members indicted 4 Morgantown coal operator Laurita indicted in alleged campaign finance scheme 5 Kanawha Parks Commission sells former Sandy Brae tract Raleigh County man convicted of operating open dump Previous Story Jackson Kelly remains under fire for black lung work Next Story


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Vanilla Ice's Ninja Turtles Mac & Cheese Commercial Is, Um, Cheesy and Terrible
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Like almost everyone else who's ever heard 'Ice Ice Baby,' we sorta assumed Vanilla Ice would have just gone away after his one big hit way back in 1990. You know the song — the one that angered classic-rock fans, hip-hop heads and anyone else with taste with its unparalleled offensiveness.
But somehow he's managed to sustain a career on the fringes of pop culture over the past two decades with movies, motocross racing, reality TV and a bunch of other stuff guys like Vanilla Ice end up doing after they become a national punch line for a generation or two.
His latest bid for relevancy in a culture that's cast him to the sidelines of everything that matters is a commercial for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. But it's not just any boxed mac and cheese that Ice is selling here; it's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mac and cheese. And if you haven't flushed the thought from your brain, you may recall that Vanilla Ice recorded a song called 'Ninja Rap' for another TMNT product years ago.
And as you'll see in the above commercial, Ice is rapping the "Go, ninja, go" part from that track as he stocks shelves with the green-boxed and turtle-shaped mac and cheese. It then breaks down into a supermarket danceathon between the guy who once held the record for the fastest-selling hip-hop album of all-time and some poor kid's mom, who busts a move while the ninja, um, rap plays out in the background.
It's all setup, of course, for a "word to your mother" joke, which Vanilla Ice busts out to the eye-rolling kid who's watching his mom get all super-funky fresh with a 'Behind the Music' casualty everyone still wishes would just go away.
If you have a couple spare minutes in your life to waste on such things, there's also a behind-the-scenes video in which the Ice Man spreads the love for everything Ninja Turtle. He even shows off a leg tat to prove his devotion to the sewer-dwelling reptiles. You can watch it here if you have nothing else to do:
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This stair nose does match the flooring by color, but it does not have the hand-scraped texture and it's slightly thicker than the flooring too so it's not flush with the rest. It still looks pretty good though. It's expensive and we could only get one stair out of each 6 ft. piece unfortunately because our stairs are 39 in across, not 3 feet.
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(copy of threshold review) Neither the threshold or stairnose sold as matching Sufong Palace handscraped bamboo is an exact match to the floor boards. These two are smooth and have a satin-like finish, which shows clearly on our 8' & 12' step-downs to our sunken living room. The handscraped floorboards have a "matte" finish. Just something to consider if you need stair nose or threshold for your job. We love the Sufong Palace so much we decided this was a minor thing to over look and refuse to allow it to bother us.