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Lawmakers there are considering a tax on big box retailers to offset welfare costs for low-paid employees:
- The measure would impose a 1 percent tax on stores with more than $20 million in sales. It would rise to 1.5 percent for more than $30 million and 2 percent for sales of more than $40 million.
Then again a common alternative to low wage employment is, well, unemployment. My hunch is that those who have a job, even if the pay isn't great, impose less welfare cost on the rest of us than the unemployed.
Montana might now have more opportunity to examine the effects of unemployment since the bill
- has irked retailers and prompted Costco to postpone plans to build a larger store in Kalispell, population 13,000, in the northwest corner of the state.
"We're waiting to see how the legislation shakes out," said Doug Schutt, head of operations for Costco's northern division. "The bill singles out retailers, and we think that's unfair."
These legislators do seem to be jumping on the hate-the-big-box bandwagon.
Fast food restaurants don't pay that well. Neither do movie theatres. And lots of these establishments are run by big corporations. Why not target these cash cows?
I don't want to give them any new ideas, but If we're going to slip into Orwellian rhetoric where job creators are welfare leeches, fast food joints and theaters would seem to be fair game, too.
But this is more about following fads, and right now bearing down on big boxes is the thing to do. It's probably even more about government greed.
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On March 15, 44 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate by a group of senators led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus. The "liberators", as the senators called themselves, felt they were saving the Roman Republic from the grip of tyranny by removing Caesar from power.
One of the most famous accounts of the assassination is Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Among the most oft-quoted of the play's lines are those spoken by a soothsayer warning Caesar of the impending attempt on his life: "Beware the Ides of March" - the Ides referring to the 15th of the month according to the Roman calendar.
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Detectives arrested 28-year-old Fidel Perez Bernal at his home in the 31000 block of Silex Court in the French Valley area of Winchester about 7:30 a.m., according to San Diego County sheriff's Sgt. Jose Montion.
The alleged rape occurred Jan. 13 in San Diego County, according to Montion, who declined to say more about the crime.
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---- — OTTUMWA — Main Street Ottumwa's busiest season is closing in, with a slew of events to attract people downtown.
MSO executive director Bob Untiedt said the organization's annual events — Margaritas on Main, Walk on Art Street and History Walk — will be mixed in with a couple of new events: a Latin dance club and "Putting Around Downtown."
Starting on Sept. 13, a new Latin dance club will be held monthly at Tequila Grill. An instructor will teach salsa, merengue and cumbia styles for the first half hour, then dancers can practice what they've learned the rest of the night.
When someone walks into his office with an idea, Untiedt's first reaction is if they're willing to put some work into it and help MSO find community support, the idea can move forward.
That's how the Latin dance club was born. During strategic planning, one committee member wanted a place in Ottumwa to go salsa dancing.
"I said, why don't we just make it happen?" Untiedt said. "The most important goal in our organization is to be tighter with business and building owners in downtown Ottumwa. The second most important thing is we want to double the number of volunteers we have in the next two years."
Another new event is "Putting Around Downtown" on Oct. 10. MSO is working with the Ottumwa Area Chamber of Commerce to organize 18 downtown businesses for the miniature golf event.
Teams of four will pay $10 to participate. They'll keep score throughout and at the end, an award ceremony will be held in the grassy area next to Market on Main. So far, nine businesses have signed on and each will set a three- to five-stroke miniature golf hole in their building, using obstacles already in the business to challenge the putt-putters.
"It's not a huge thing, it's not a fundraiser, it's just to get people involved," he said. "My hope is some of the hundreds of people who work downtown every day will be engaged this way."
The next event on the calendar is Margaritas on Main on Aug. 29. The event launched last year and ended up being MSO's biggest fundraiser for the entire year.
It even won the award for best fundraising event in the state at Main Street Iowa's celebration in May.
The event includes, of course, margaritas as well as "heavy hors d'oeuvres" and a silent and live auction. This year, a women's mariachi band will be added to the mix.
"It ends up producing about 10 percent of our annual budget," Untiedt said.
Two days later, the sixth annual Walk on Art Street will be held downtown.
Untiedt said 28 artists have signed up to display their crafts, but he's most excited about the kids' activities.
"We have a lot of really good stuff for kids, too," he said. "We're having belly dancers, African drumming, different art stuff. I actually want to go and just be 12 years old."
Finally, MSO will hold the third annual History Walk, this year in the 300 block of East Main Street. Actors will represent well-known Ottumwans from 1929, who will describe downtown Ottumwa as it was back then.
This is Untiedt's first fall as the new MSO executive director since he began in February, and he said it's the organization's busiest season.
"The upside of it is this really is a very strong volunteer-led organization, so I don't have to manage every detail," he said.
In an average year, Untiedt said MSO has around 100 volunteers.
Upcoming Main Street Ottumwa events: 6-9 p.m. Aug. 29: Margaritas on Main at Las Palmas, 231 E. Second St. Tickets can be purchased at Main Street Ottumwa, Chamber of Commerce, Hotel Ottumwa or the Little Bake Shop for $30 for one or $100 for four. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 31: Walk on Art Street on Third Street next to Central Park. Includes art and food vendors, a children's area and entertainment on the park stage. Free to the public. 9 p.m.-midnight Sept. 13: A monthly Latin dance club at Tequila Grill. $5 per night. Oct. 10: Putting Around Downtown. Miniature golf course through 18 downtown businesses. Tournament starts at the chamber offices. Team of four: $10. 2-5 p.m. Oct. 13: History Walk. Tour the 300 block of East Main Street as actors recreate historic figures from Ottumwa's past. Tickets: $10. For more information, go to www.mainstreetottumwa.com.


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by Himanshu Singh on Jan 11, 2013 at 05:07
Wall Street rose on Thursday, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index hitting its highest level in five years, as better-than-estimated data on Chinese exports spurred optimism about global growth prospects.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 81 points, or 0.6%, to 13,471. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 11 points, or 0.76%, to 1,472. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 16 points, or 0.51%, to 3,122.
According to analysts, rally followed an upbeat economic data out of China, which showed the country's overseas sales rose 14.1% in December from a year earlier, almost triple the 5% gain predicted.
Contributing to the positive sentiment, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the eurozone economy will slowly return to health in 2013 as the region's bond markets stabilise after three years of turmoil.
Financial and energy stocks gained the most. Bank of America rose 3.1%, while Morgan Stanley was up 3.7%, one day after sources said the bank plans to cut jobs.
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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. Thats me.
This is the story of Skip Sandsspy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcongand the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.
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Last night at 3:00 a.m. President Kennedy had been killed. Seaman Houston and the other two recruits slept while the first reports traveled around the world. There was one small nightspot on the island, a dilapidated club with big revolving fans in the ceiling and one bar and one pinball game; the two marines who ran the club had come by to wake them up and tell them what had happened to the President. The two marines sat with the three sailors on the bunks in the Quonset hut for transient enlisted men, watching the air conditioner drip water into a coffee can and drinking beer. The Armed Forces Network from Subic Bay stayed on through the night, broadcasting bulletins about the unfathomable murder.
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As reports suggest problems cracking the script to Prometheus 2, Damon Lindelof has issued a response...
Spoilers for the ending of Prometheus lie ahead...
A story broke last night, over at Bloody Disgusting, that was suggesting all wasn't well at all with the in development Prometheus 2. According to the site's unnamed sources, 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott are "freaking out" over how to continue he story of Prometheus, and where to take the adventures of Noomi Rapace's character next. Furthermore, it suggests that they "are taking pitches from anyone who can crack the story".
It also suggests that Prometheus 2 remains in limbo, partly as a result of the desire to turn the first film into the opener for a trilogy. And the site's story also digs into what changed when Damon Lindelof boarded the original film to rework Jon Spaihts' screenplay. It specifically states "Lindelof transformed Prometheus into a 'trilogy', thus stripping the first film's conclusion of any meaning and setting Ridley and Fox up for disaster. This disaster was perpetuated when Lindelof announced he wouldn't be penning the sequel. So, in short, the guy who convinced the filmmakers to make a trilogy, left them in the dust…"
It also said that "while a sequel is nearly inevitable, it definitely puts it in flux, and in a state of jeopardy".
Interestingly, Damon Lindelof has now responded, in an statement that he's posted via Slashfilm. Bloody Disgusting seems adamant in the light of it that its story regarding problems with Prometheus 2 is on the money. Given that we have no access to anyone who can clarify things one way or the other, we're advising requisite amounts of salt for the time being.
Lindelof, meanwhile, comes out of this in quite a classy way. He opens his response by declaring "while I'm happy to maintain my ongoing role as Internet's whipping boy (well, not happy, but at least resigned), this is weird attack piece, even for someone who should be used to it by now".
Lindelof clarifies that those behind Prometheus "had a strong desire for this film to launch off in its own way so that by the end, it would not connect directly to the original Alien, but instead run parallel to it", which was mentioned several times around the movie's release. With specific relation to the sequel rumours, Lindelof said that "if there was a sequel to Prometheus, it would not be Alien", and admitted that during the making of the first film, "Ridley did occasionally riff on what he felt might happen next as Shaw and David's head ventured off of LV-223 in search of wherever The Engineers had come from".
"As to whether Ridley and Fox are 'freaking out' about me not working on a sequel, well that's news to me. I retain awesome relationships with both", he said.
"I did not map out a trilogy and then walk when the going got tough", Lindelof added, "anyone who says otherwise doesn't know me and doesn't know the truth". He ended by saying that "Bloody Disgusting was very clever in tagging their story with the sentiment that denials were going to come. This would seem to throw shade on me denying the veracity of the story simply by anticipating that I would. But denying the story I am. As I said, I will take all the abuse in the world for the things I have done, but I refuse to take it for the things I have not".
You can read his full statement at Slashfilm, here. And Bloody Disgusting's original story, which has been updated with Lindelof's statement, is here.
At the end of it all, we can't help but feel that we're none the wiser really. Ridley Scott's slate remains jam-packed, although we'd imagine that he'd like, and perhaps need, to get Prometheus 2 going by the end of 2014 at least. We will, of course, keep you posted.
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Normally a writer or director will have a story they are desperate to tell.
Prometheus (and its sequel) seem to have it backwards; they wanted to do something in the Alien universe and are trying to find some story as an afterthought.
Also, if you design a film around the premise of setting up a sequel, shouldn't you have a pretty solid idea of what that sequel will be?
I suspect that all involved fell victim to a locked-in release date. So much so that when Lindelof was asked to come on board to make changes, time was of the essence. That's probably why the film felt schizophrenic and/or half-baked (much the same as Green Lantern, really, which seemed to me like an shoddy patchwork of different drafts and different visions).
Poor first film that's going have it's work cut out to make a second part any better.
Maybe Alejandro Jodorowsky should write it. His work with Moebius was quite mind blowing. He also worked on the original unfinished pre-production for Dune, which led to Alien. He's mad, but no more crazy than the Prometheus script!
LOL are you fricken kidding me, blaming this on the script writer. One question answers this: "who made the frikcen movie?!!".
Fox and stupid locked in release dates seem to go hand in hand a lot. sometimes they get away with it it (X-Men First Class) sometimes they don't (X3)
It's a strange attack story on Lindelof, The script before his polish is out there and he didn't change anything radical, The main faults of the story were there before Lindelof got involved. This does seem like an attack for the sake of one, and to boost page hits
Shaw sits up in her pod. David smiles and hands her a cup of water [optional: really obvious pickup shot of him not putting his finger in the drink].
SHAW: "God, what an awful dream!"
DAVID: "Yes, the Company are trying a reverse-psychology subliminal training technique."
SHAW: "Okay. Let's go exploring like proper scientists."
DAVID: "Don't forget your helmet at all times. And don't touch anything... alien-looking."
SHAW: "As if!"
(Author's note: There you go, Ridley, insert logical film from here on. My number's on the bog wall if you get stuck/pretentious.)
Yes, in fact let's have the whole film be about satellite surveys and rock sampling, and data analysis in MS Excel 2190, so that it really is a real film with real science. They should also remake every horror film ever made so that a teen never wanders off to investigate by themselves. Every alien craft that visits Earth must present viable technology for travelling faster than light, rather than some vague mumbling about wormholes, and every cop must be shown filling out the paperwork in real time, including standing silently waiting for the kettle to boil.
Having seen the first one, I've absolutely no desire to see a second. Everyone I went with seemed to feel much the same way, so I'm wondering how viable a sequel to this mess would be anyway.
Ha! So true!
I'm morbidly curious to see what they do with the proposed sequel as they really painted themselves into a corner with the ending and they obviously haven't got a clue what to do next.
Not that I'd actually waste money going to see it, mind - I'm not a mug. I'm just really curious to see how the adventures of one woman and a robot's head in a bowling ball bag traveling to a planet full of murderous giant albinos to 'ask them some questions' could possibly make a solid basis for a two-hour blockbuster...
My suspicion is that there won't be a sequel at all, completely punking all the apologists who said the sequel would make it all make sense, which would be priceless.
For the sake of all the great horror/thriller sci-fi movies, something doesn't have to be nonsense to be thrilling. "Logical", as Ian suggested, is something that you can let yourself believe as "true" and not get distracted all the time by bad writing - it's a contextual realism. It's simple: just imagine whatever crazy scenario you want, then imagine how real people would behave, and not what will look cooler in visual effects (like the giant donut rolling and the chick running straight like it was a car chase, when she could just take five steps to the left and get out of the way. Not blaming just Lindelof... Scott should be on drugs not to have the whole script rewritten before shooting.
Everyone should take a note of Jos Whedon and MARVEL; plan things out!
please don't let Damon anywhere near this script/project - he really screwed the pooch on the first one.
the ending to Lost was one of the worst ever. Prometheus just insulted the intelligence of the audience with poor characters. Lindelof needs to go far far away
Everyone seems to attack Lindelof. Oh wait, he wrote Lost and Prometheus. He deserves it.
Not partial to the Lost ending myself, or even the entire of it's final season, but I'm interested to know what you think Lindelof changed to the earlier script which is floating about the Internet that "insulted the intelligence of the audience". I'm not going to argue with anyone who says Prometheus is a very patchy movie which has characters acting in random ways to advance a plot which isn't close to being finally delivered. It's the Lindelof specific blame which interests me, even Bloody Disgusting's accusation of having planned a trilogy and bailing after the first one is a vague and frankly strange one. It would seem the problems they have in developing a sequel isn't because Lindelof has the master plan locked securely in his head, but because of problems inherent to the first movie, problems that a team of professional movie makers which include Ridley Scott should have been able to see and fix at the time.
The biggest problem with the Prometheus 2 script is that it actually exists.
Let's talk about the giant doughnut then. Maybe she knows it's not a full circle so she might get away with it before it stalls and falls sideways. Because it does fall sideways, even though Shaw veers off to the side, she only survives by virtue of luck. So both forwards and sideways were a bit of a bum deal really.
You do recall what happened with Whedon at Fox...
Dear Everyone.
The problem with Prometheus was and is simple. It started out as being a direct prequel to Alien. That's what it was always going to be, that's what Ridley Scot talked about, and promoted it as when they started filming.
Then part way through the filming , for some inexplicable reason they decided it was NOT going to be a prequel to Alien, but "set in the same universe"
Then when it came out, they go to the same star system as Lv426 and find the same ships, the same alien race and end up with something that obviously is a prequel to Alien but ended up a total mess with some great scenes and ideas and acting.
They should have just gone with what they started with and done a prequel to Alien and not changed it part way through.
The major problem with the film is the Engineers themselves. They started out in Alien looking really ALIEN. More Alien than the Alien itself. But in Prometheus they just turn out to be big white bald blokes in suits. So you turn your most interesting and mysterious monster into just another bloke in a rubber suit. It was just stupid and a really bad idea.
All that to one side though, I wonder if Ridley Scott is going to end up as George Lucas the second. By that I mean a once great director that has produced some classic films, going back to revisit old work and doing prequels and messing up not only the prequel but also tarnishing the originals. After Prometheus, it makes you wonder how the new Blade Runner sequel / prequel or whatever is going to turn out.
Simple way to solve the problem for Prometheus 2 is to turn the Engineers back into proper spooky Aliens. Have the engineers we have seen so far just turn out to be slaves that handle the dirty jobs and dangerous stuff and wear suits that look like and are modelled on their real masters. Then you can have proper elephant trunked freaks causing trouble and being really scary. Its easy to come up with lots of good ideas etc, and everyone is right in saying that anyone who had anything to do with LOST should never be let anywhere near a film again, never mind Prometheus 2.
Bull, Prometheus is a really good movie.
Hardly, he was brought in at the last minute to do a re-write to make the script less of an Alien prequel (while still keeping all the major set pieces.)
You can read the initial draft that he re-wrote and a fair few of the movies faults are still in there (so in theory Ridley Scott wanted them in the film.) His script also added the little character flourishes to David (like the Laurence Olivier obsession) that helped make him one of the films better creations...if you are going to blame anyone for the faults in Prometheus, blame Ridley Scott! (he had complete control over how the film ended up, the script is the way it is because that is how he wanted it!)
I agree. The original article is obviously just telling the people who didn't like Prometheus what they want to hear instead of being based on anything of substance.
Agreed, the way some people talk about Lindelof you would think he forced Ridely Scott at gun point to make his script into a film! When from all we've seen he didn't have all that much say in what he could actually put into the script....Also despite Bloody Disgusting's claims, from all I've seen Lindelof's lack of involvement in the sequel seems to have been a studio decision (not his choice) look at how enthusiastic he seemed about a sequel before the release, then after the release and all the attacks on him we get an announcement that he won't return!
Erm. Sorry, no idea what your talking about; I was just referring to how he does his MCU.
I was just referring to how Whedon had things planned out with Firefly, then Fox shuffled the deck. I do agree that Marvel seems to have a plan and it's working quite nicely so far.
You can argue it away all you want, but it's irrelevant if people in the cinema are laughing at the film.
Panic makes people think strangely. Also pretty sure the ship was more than 5 steps wide, it was massive so running either way would be difficult!
Cowboys and Aliens.
All good conceptual ideas (ok C&A maybe not quite so much) made a bit pants by the writer involved. You can't deny there's a common thread there.
I'll probably skip the new Star Trek at the cinema now he's involved.
Can't see myself paying for more of his pointless waffle with no meaning and way too much pretension.
Prometheus is the Marmite of movies, personally I'm in the 'love it' category (although they could have expanded on Elba's crew more).
Although not a great fan of all his work (Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk excepted), I have watched online interviews with DL and found myself thinking, "He's an alright kind-of bloke." My question is; if the script he was brought in to work on was already full of flaws, then why didn't fix those? My second question is; why did Ridley Scott feel confined to the two-hour run-time? My third queation... NO! I have to stop there. This is Prometheus we're talking about. Once started the questions could go on for hours.
Tru dat!
Never underestimate the spending power of idiots. There's seven billion of us now and although even the stupidest of us is light-years ahead of the closest competition (chimpanzees, dolphins, pop-stars that film their own documentaries) very few of us are really worth having. Now don't get me wrong here, I am a fascist but not a racist or eugenicist - I do think we could do with 80% fewer humans on the planet but I wouldn't descriminate by religion or race, and by my own standards I would have to include myself in the useless percentage because instead of doing something useful I'm writing comments in a geeky internet forum. All I'm saying is, idiots (myself included) will watch anything (I'll probably watch WWZ even though I know it's going to be poo - I live in hope, which is the purest form of stupidity).
Just to clarify - I'm not actively planning the extermination of 5.6 billion people - just in case Homeland security are monitoring this thread - but if I was a character in Utopia then I probably would have gone the way of Winston. Very few of us would willingly subscribe to G'Kar's philosophy of "for all to live many sacrifice their lives". Free-will is always going to be a sticking point when it comes to culling humans.
I saw it twice in two says when it came out and no-one laughed. You can make that up that sweeping generalisation of all audiences to try and make a point if you like, but it ain't exactly true.
I agree, people exaggerate massively to make it sound as if she could just sidestep it like it was someone on a bike coming at her. The thing was huge, irregular in shape, it had just fallen out the sky, and it got to a point and fell SIDEWAYS.
Come on now, Lucas messed with the originals to fit the prequels, and didn't want to release the unaltered versions that people remembered. The original Alien remains intact and untouched. Ridley Scott also has a variable but not-too-bad recent track record, whereas Lucas made Indiana Jones 4.
I think for the most part Lost was quite well handled (and despite what most of the internet thinks, most of its questions were answered.) It obviously wasn't perfect, and had strong and weak points, but that can hardly be all stacked up to Damon Lindelof (at any one point he would be working on around 5 episodes of the program, so there are bound to be some slip ups.)
Cowboys and Aliens he was one of five credited writers, plus several uncredited writers, and how much of his contributions made it into the script is a mystery (from most interviews before and after the film came out the script seems to be mostly the work of Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci, who also produced it...so they would have had much more control over what got into the script than Lindelof.)
Not sure if you know this, but he was also heavily involved in the previous Star Trek (he may not have been a credited screenwriter, but if you listening to the audio commentary it becomes clear that he was a strong part of the story/ screenwriting process) so it's not as is suddenly crashing the party...he was a huge part of the last film (which I think was a brilliant film, and this next one looks even better.)
In any-case if you're going to compare his work on Lost to Prometheus, look at the individual episodes he wrote (some of the most praised in the series and they were nominated for numerous awards)...you might not like the work he did in the overall mythology, but that says more about his abilities as a producer than as a screenwriter (Prometheus he had no say in the overall mythology, he was told what to write, including the ending...literally the exact opposite of Lost!)
Of course he should have been able to do a better job with Prometheus, but presumably the script he wrote was the one Ridley Scott wanted to film! (It's not as if Damon Lindelof forced Ridley Scott as gun point to use his script, Ridley seemed more than happy to use it...and even cut some scenes out that actually would've helped the movie make a little more sense!)
The answer to both those questions is Fox interfering
"confined to the two-hour run-time?" Films are too long anyway, a longer version of Prometheus would not fix its numerous problems!!!!!!
Everyone should take note of when Whedon wrote the script for Alien Resurrection, which he admitted was not really changed in the filming, it was just "filmed wrong".
You could very well be completely correct. However, Prometheus is a very strange movie riddled with moments of true Sci-Fi beauty and lots of contradictory confusion. The movie has everything in the world going for it - director, franchise, cast, crew - and yet it still, in my opinion, stinks. It is a really bad movie and that is a source of great puzzlement to me. In my humble opinion Fox are to blame, but not for interfering, rather for mismanaging the project and not interfering enough. Over time I have come to the conclusion that Prometheus is an example of the soul-less suits not doing their job properly. Why this might of happened has, I believe, a one word answer - Scott; and that should be very worrisome to anyone who loved Blade Runner.
At the end of the day, it just goes to prove that the producers of Prometheus had no idea of any kind of overarcing story when they made the mess that is Prometheus. lLindelof is not a bad screenwriter...it's just that he sucks at one important thing...He has no conclusion to all the interesting ideas he puts up. The producers made an aggravating movie on purpose to attract viewers to a SERIES of movies. They brought in the absolute best guy at seeding seemingly important clues into a story...and then not paying them off. It's the producers' fault that this idea is languishing (and, in my personal opinion, that Prometheus is absolute, unalderated, Pure-D Shiite.) Lindelof should have to eat, FOREVER, the crap that was LOST in the end....but he really doesn't need to eat this. He just did what they asked him to do.
I know. i would take R Scott over Lucas anyday. I was just wondering if we would see another mess up in the new Blade Runner movie. Hence the comparison. We will just have to see what its like. If its pants then it will draw the same thoughts from others I am sure. I just think Blade Runner needs leaving as it is and was.
Even if no one laughed in your screening, the fact that it's become a running joke since suggests that it is a problem, one of many serious problems the film has. If you like the film, good for you, but you can't really argue that it isn't hugely flawed at best.
The ending 'reveal' still baffles me. So, there's now an proto-alien on the planet. A deserted planet where there is no other life. So presumably the alien will promptly starve to death.
So.... how is that in any way important and how does it make any sense regarding the original Alien?
Just typical of a film that desperately throws images and ideas into the mix with little or no thought. Another lame-ass twist in a film of lame-ass twists.
Because the script they had was trashy nonsense, and they thought that if they got someone in to chop up the script to make everything vague and ambiguous and insert sporadic religious imagery enough people would be fooled into thinking it was an intelligent film.
It worked!
I don't even know why people were surprised it sucked. I mean come on, this is Ridely Scott! There seems to be a collective amnesia regarding the last two decades of his career. Remember Hannibal?!?!
Excellent post; although self-awareness in an idiot is a bit of a dichotomy (most probably the 'dich' bit) that has caused me to question my own raison d'etre.
Hopefully theyll ruin Bladerunner first, then get back to putting all their energy into ruining Alien.
Yep, the big bald grey polish-looking guy was terrible.
Did you see the How It Should Have Ended they did from Prometheus? It was a much better movie.
When you see some girl screaming through the dark woods when a psycho is chasing her, you think "that's stupid", but that's what most people would do. So, what matters is not what people in panic would do in real life, 'cause it's all BS if people are laughing at the scene, as Tom said. And yes, people did laugh in my screening. Maybe if it was shot slightly different it would prove the case that it was the best option...
Hannibal was a beautiful movie, considering the source material. In fact in the book, Clarice and Hannibal run off and become lovers. Ridley did a great job what was in fact material the American public would have never been able to follow. American Gangster wad great, and I even enjoyed Matchstick Men....certainly not horrible by any means.
She still would havegotten crushed......that ship was wide.
Each to their own - I thought Hannibal was an awful, awful movie. There's actually very little Ridley Scott has done that I like. Gladiator was OK, but insanely overrated.
I am hoping someone can explain to me how Prometheus was a bad movie? CT has a sweet sweet ass in those tights. I was entertained.
It's rather obvious where Prometheus 2 needs to go. The clue is in the name of the 2nd film - Paradise. It means that Shaw and David will arrive at the home planet of the Engineers, but where as we imagine Paradise to be a place of beauty, it also holds dark secrets.
Shaw and David will literally be 'Adam and Eve' arriving in God's garden. There, Shaw will find out, that there has been a bitter argument between the two factions (a 'War in Heaven'), where half of the Engineers (the Good Angels (and the ones at the start of Prometheus)) are the Creators and they create life. The other half are Fundamentalists. They believe that they were created by God, and what the Creators are doing, is going against God's will and thus it is sacrilege (sound familiar with the Church going against the medical profession in some of the stuff that we do).
The movie, I believe, will be a deep thought one for the audience. What should the two sets of Engineers do with Shaw and David. One wants to glorify their success, while the other wants her, and her race dead ...and then we have David who could screw everything up, as he is not human, but we know he is a mischief-maker (Satan).
I believe the film will end with expulsion of Shaw and David from Paradise. Where the third film goes, could be the beginning of a war between Man and the Fundamentalists. This is where Shaw intervenes again, and it leads to the crashed alien ship that we see in the original Alien movie. However, the Fundamentalists never reach Earth (as it is never mentioned in any of the other alien movies!)
That would be my take on the sequels.
They find another ship on the planet and fly off. Or an alien ship comes to check up on the planet and they get on board


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Colavita says sewage has been coming out of her sidewalk ever since Maple Shade Township replaced the sewer pipe and repaved the road on Fork Landing Road five years ago.
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Voters aren't as dumb as Democrats think they are.
Clearly the Ryan plan to save Medicare is a huge threat to the Democratic Party. Here's a clue that it's hitting a nerve, a new ad by the far-left Agenda Project just out yesterday. In it, "Grandma" is wheeled up to the edge of a cliff by a Paul Ryan look alike, and then tossed over the edge in an effort to show what his Medicare proposals would do to current seniors. If you want to teach your kids what demagoguery looks like, show them this video.
[Check out editorial cartoons about the Democrats.]
How did the Democrats get themselves in such a desperate position? Let's go back a few weeks. For a while now, they've been trying to get Americans to believe that that the Republican Party is breaking down over Paul Ryan's budget. That hasn't been going so well, especially when the House passed Ryan's plan with the support of all but four Republicans last month. That looked pretty unified to me.
But when Newt Gingrich went on Meet The Press last weekend and attacked Ryan's Medicare plan as "right wing social engineering," Democrats must have been pleased. Here was the newest GOP presidential candidate sniping at the House Budget Chairman, a dream come true for the DNC. But then came the uh-oh moment for Democrats: the response from both the House leadership and rank and file members, as well as from conservative opinion leaders such as Charles Krauthammer and Rush Limbaugh, was swift and broad, with some even calling for Gingrich to end his candidacy. Boy, did Gingrich apologize quickly and fall back in line on the budget, faced with a wave of Republican support for the Ryan plan. So much for the "Republicans are fighting" narrative. [Check out editorial cartoons about the 2012 presidential contenders.]
Then the DNC released a video (http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/19/the_litmus_test.html#041439a) yesterday stating that Ryan's plan has become the new conservative litmus test. They're right, it has become that--and it's about time entitlement reform moved to the top of the Republican agenda. As Dick Armey, the chairman of Freedomworks put it in Friday's Wall Street Journal: "A candidate who is timid on entitlement reforms is not qualified to be president." Armey knows he's right--because he's seen the latest CBS/New York Times poll, showing that a plurality of Americans (47 percent) actually approve of Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms. In poll after poll, Democrats see they're facing growing public support for reducing the deficit, reining in entitlements, and cutting spending.
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No wonder Sen. Tom Coburn announced this week he was leaving the Gang of Six. He quoted Erskine Bowles that our nation is facing "the most predictable economic crisis in history," denounced the "partisan political theater" in the Senate, and blamed Majority Leader Harry Reid for failing to direct attention to the central challenges of our time.
Coburn's decision was big news in Washington, because he told the truth.
That's why the left is getting so desperate. They're threatened because their leadership has no plan, and they realize the public tide is turning against them. Every time Democrats lash out with hysterical charges and inflammatory accusations, they continue to turn off voters who are tired of the gridlock, disgusted at the demagoguery, and fed up with politicians who think we're stupid.


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A display case full of pipes and pipe bags from a past Osage culture sit in the middle of the Osage Tribal Museum as a new exhibit.
"Not all the pipes and pipe bags are Osage, but most of them are," said Joe Don Brave, the museum's technician. "Different tribes had their own different herbs and plants, certain barks from trees they used to make their own tobacco. Some were made for medicinal purposes, some had sedative ingredients; it wasn't like the tobacco we have today. If it was, the bags would have been resonated and discolored."
Brave, who spent eight years working for the Smithsonian in New York City working with collections and designing mounts and impact objects, has worked with the Osage museum for nearly a year and was honored to go through the collections and redesign the exhibits.
One of the most prominent collections, which has been with the museum since it opened in 1938, is the John L. Bird Collection. The Bird Collection is where Brave picked most of the new items for display. Among those items is the shield of Hereditary Chief Black Dog.
The descriptive plaque that accompanies the exhibit is a reprint from the book, "Art of the Osage." According to the plaque, feathers on the broadcloth flap below the shield are from immature bald eagles, and a crescent of golden eagle feathers adorns the front edge of the upper flap. Hawk feathers hang from either end. Several smaller feathers, possibly from the wing of a woodpecker, are attached to the center of the shield along with a silver disc at its center, according to the plaque.
"The loop at the top of the cloth may once have held a sacred object," according to the plaque. "While many interpretations of the shield's painted surface have been offered, the original intent of the paintings was to strike fear in the heart of the enemy, and in this regard, the shield could be said to emanate the face of death itself."
To the Osage, like all other activities, warfare had to have a meaning, according to the Warfare exhibit. Warfare was strictly controlled by the clan priests who had to sanction the organization of the war party. The thirteen war honors, O-don, were awarded only the men upon participation in an organized war party, according to the exhibit.
Museum patrons Rick and Vicki O'Brien, who were visiting the Osage Tribal Museum for the first time on Jan. 28, traveled from Sand Springs to search for a photo of Rick's mother in the museum's "2229" exhibit that shows photos of Osage original allottees.
"It's a nice facility," said Rick O'Brian. His wife Vicki was taken with various artifacts on display. "What's fascinating to me are the different things that I wasn't aware of, like the woodpecker bills on the headdress and the beads," she said, referring to the Otter Turban Headdress worn by Osage clan priests.
An exhibit dedicated to Osage mothers and cradle boards shows photos of babies in cradle boards and Osage women taking care of their infants. Other exhibits showcase Osage beadwork, yarnwork, ribbonwork, men and women's clothing, the evolution of moccasins and the history of the Osage's involvement in the Native American Church.
There is an exhibit dedicated to Osage veterans and an exhibit dedicated to the opening day of the museum in 1938. Photos of Osage women and men practicing archery, women cooking the feast and Osage dignitaries celebrating the opening day of the museum line the exhibit.
The museum has received numerous compliments on the new displays.
"It's good to have everything change," said Kathryn Red Corn, OTM director. "People have commented on the fact that they are seeing new things."
New Web site
A new Web site for the museum can be found at www.osagetribalmuseum.com. The site is built as a research tool and has approximately 6,000 photos in the search engine. Visitors of the site can look up original Osage allottees by their name or number. The site creators strived to make the search easy by putting in numerous spellings of the Osage names. Osage history is also on the site.


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By Jon Gremmels
Herald Sports Editor
Gone is the Class of 2012, a group of swimmers that brought Clinton High School some of its best success in the swimming pool since the glory years under legendary coach Howard Judd.
The River Kings placed eighth in the state meet last winter, Matt Boyd won two state titles and he and Andrew Howes, Tyler Hemingway and Shawn Mauritz rewrote most of the school record book.
But they've all moved on now. Gone, but not forgotten.
One of the great things about high school athletics is there's always somebody ready to take the place of yesterday's stars.
While they know they're not in the same class — at least not yet — Bret Determan, Josh Hill and Trevor Kao are ready to lead the next group.
"All of us trained with them over the summer," Kao said. "They pushed us, worked on our weaknesses and built us up. Them mentoring us helps us with our teammates and helps the whole team."
It's a team that lacks the star power of recent years, but coach Albert Hayton likes the foundation that is in place and his three captains — Determan, Hill and Kao — who have taken on the leadership role in and out of the pool.
"We have a group of 30 who are working hard," Hayton said.
"We have a lot of newbies who didn't know too much about swimming," Hill said. "Now they know how it runs."
Thanks in large part to Determan, a senior; Kao, a junior; and Hill, a sophomore.
"I'm impressed with my three captains," Hayton said. "They've stepped up and taken over the (leadership) role. I have no fear putting them in any event. If we want to win an event, I can put any of those three in and give the other team a run for its money."
One of the three has recorded Clinton's best time in each individual event.
Hill ranks 15th in the state in the 500-yard freestyle and 24th in the 200 freestyle. He also leads Clinton in the 100 freestyle. Determan ranks 23rd in the state in the 100 butterfly. Kao has the Kings' top times in the 50 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke and 200 individual medley.
They also have combined with Nathan Harden to post top-30 times in the state in each of the three relays, the 200-yard medley, the 200 freestyle and 400 freestyle.
The captains say last year's seniors deserve much of the credit.
"They were good team leaders," Determan said. "They always looked at us as the future."
As much as Boyd and Co. owned the glow of the spotlight, they never forgot about those pushed into the background.
"I don't think they hogged it," Kao said. "It was their time. But having them in the pool pushed us. They even always encouraged everybody and pushed us so we could perform better as a team."
And they did the little things have given the new leaders a solid work ethic.
"Last year, Matt Boyd kind of personally gave me more of a drive for swimming," Hill said. "Sometimes I didn't want to go to the 5:30 a.m. practice but he was knocking on my door. This year, it's me knocking on the door at 5:30."
Those knocks will continue next week. While most high school students enjoy time away from school, the swim team will keep practicing, hoping it pays off in the second half of the season.
"We still have winter break to come," Hill said. "That's when people get pushed hard, and that's when you'll probably see pretty good time drops for everybody."
And the current group of swimmers will have a chance at the name recognition their predecessors enjoyed.
Still, the memory of the Class of 2012 — along with the Tuisl twins, Evan and Andrew, who were seniors the previous year — will live on at least as long as their names remain on the record board at the end of the new pool. But, the new group wouldn't mind erasing some of those memories.
"It's great they broke so many records, but that doesn't mean we don't want to break some of them, and we have the potential to do it," Kao said.
Last year's stars might not mind it, either.
"I swam with all four of those guys since I was 7. I think they would enjoy it if all three of us would break one of their records," Hill said. "I also think it would make them mad, but we're all friends here and it's all right to see them mad."
Records or not, though, the goal for these River Kings is to attain their maximum amount of success. Hill said he believed they were well on their way.
"I knew coming in last year we were going to lose them, and it would leave big shoes to fill, but it inspired us to fill those shoes," he said. "I told the team at the beginning of the year we had some big shoes to fill, but I think they've stepped it up, and they have surprised me."
Just like the tide on an ocean beach, a new wave is ready to replace its predecessor.


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LAKE FOREST, Calif. - - The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren says his 27-year-old son has committed suicide.
Warren's Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., says in a statement Saturday that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression.
Warren is the author of "The Purpose Driven Life." In 2008, his church sponsored a presidential forum with Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney had been invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.
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O'Toole: Chris, Boulder has become kind of a Mecca for outdoor companies. How large is the sector - and what has led to Boulder's dominance?
Wood:Well, Erin, about 75 members of the Outdoor Industry Association, which is based in Boulder, hail from the Boulder Valley. Most of those are in Boulder itself, with some companies in Lafayette, Louisville, Longmont and Broomfield. But the cluster is actually far larger, with some estimates that as many as 200 active-living businesses are located in the Boulder Valley.
As for Boulder's dominance, the city is widely recognized as the national leader in the outdoor sector. The reasons are probably a combination of the great natural environment and a love locally for active living. Boulder has been recognized by many national groups for its sports and outdoor amenities — from hiking to climbing to biking — including being named the number one sports town in America by Outside magazine.
You take those assets and combine them with Boulder's entrepreneurial mindset, and you get a very active and growing industry cluster.
O'Toole: So what are some examples of outdoor companies located in the Boulder Valley?
Wood: One prominent company is GoLite, which produces everything from outdoor-oriented apparel to backpacks. Sea to Summit produces camping and hiking gear. Scarpa North America is also in Boulder. That company produces a wide variety of products for the ski, climbing and trail industries. And the list goes on.
O'Toole: So, efforts are under way now by other communities to lure away some of Boulder's companies. Who is behind those efforts?
Wood: Two of the cities that have emerged as would-be Boulders are Ogden, Utah, and Portland, Oregon. Both communities also enjoy very attractive natural environments, outdoor cultures and a base of companies catering to that sector. But one thing they've done that Boulder and Colorado has not is to develop a comprehensive strategy to build the outdoor industry. Boulder's dominance has come with little state or local economic-development support. But these other communities are taking a much more aggressive approach, actively meeting with Boulder companies and offering them incentives to relocate.
O'Toole: Are there particular companies they've approached?
Wood: Many companies have been approached, but one particular effort by Ogden and Portland illustrates the aggressiveness of their efforts. They're currently trying to lure away the Outdoor Industry Association itself, which is headquartered in Boulder and which is looking for new space when its lease expires in February. Portland and Ogden attempted to lure the OIA from Boulder three years ago, and the association opted to remain in Boulder. But those efforts have renewed with a vigor.
OIA president Frank Hugelmeyer recently told a Boulder audience that the mantle of the global leader in the outdoor sector is "Boulder's to lose."
O'Toole: What does he think should be done about it?
Wood:Well, in a recent guest column in the Boulder County Business Report, Hugelmeyer outlined several steps that Boulder should take to retain its status as the leader in the outdoor sector. He recommended that the local industry itself help to identify its needs and create more cohesiveness and communication locally. That's beginning to happen with the formation of the Active Living Group by the Boulder Chamber, supported by the city. But Hugelmeyer said there also needs to be greater recognition of the industry locally and at a state level, with an economic-development plan to retain and grow the outdoor cluster.


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In partnership with Garnier Fructis, Rolling Stone's "Women Who Rock" contest celebrates the diverse array of female artists currently dominating the music world. Karmin singer Amy Heidemann will grace the flip cover of the iconic "Women Who Rock" issue, on newsstands Sept. 28th, and the duo is featured in the magazine along with other female musicians.
Karmin took the internet by storm last year after posting a cover of Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now" on YouTube. The clip instantly went viral and became one of YouTube's most viewed videos of 2011. The duo has since released debut album Hello and racked up over half a billion views for their videos.
"Congratulations to Karmin!" says Nathan Brackett, Rolling Stone Deputy Managing Editor. "They approached the 'Women Who Rock' contest like they've approached the rest of their career – with a lot of hard work, enthusiasm and a real grassroots talent for connecting with their fans. They've earned this."
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ok, i dont usually post anything needing help anymore since i seemed to have gotten the hang of obd1 systems. however this will be the 4th time that a code 34 has come up with this system in the past 5 years. so here are my questions:
1: are the map sensors that bad that they go out this often?
2: is there something else that could possibly be effecting the map sensor?
3: is there an upgrade of any sorts so i can get rid of the map sensor and still stay out of default mode?
4: what is a code 83 and how do i go about fixing it?
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Kyle Chipchura scored twice and Mike Smith made 29 saves last night as the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-2. Antoine Vermette (AN'-twahn vuhr-MEHT') and Mikkel Boedker (mih-KEHL' BAHD'-kur) each added a goal and an assist for Phoenix, which was coming off back-to-back losses to Edmonton and Calgary over the weekend. Jason Garrison and Henrik Sedin (seh-DEEN') replied for Vancouver, which got 18 saves from Cory Schneider.
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Sounders defender Marc Burch says the suspension he received for using a homophobic slur during a playoff game last season needed to be harsh. Burch spoke with reporters after practice yesterday for the first time since receiving a three-game suspension last November for using "unacceptable and offensive language." Burch says he is now focused on proving that is not who he is. Burch also says he believes MLS will be the first league to accept an openly gay player.
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• The JJ Sharpe Impact Foundation for Youth Against Violence, a new organization named for nine-year-old Jaeden Sharpe, who was Durhams first murder victim in 2014, joins D3 Community Outreach for D3s Fourth Annual Charity Basketball Game at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Emily Krzyzewski Family Life Center, 904 W. Chapel Hill St., Durham.
• The Orange County Animal Services center has Valentines specials of reduced cat and some kitten adoption fees, $50, and dog and some puppy adoption fees, $60.
• Cornucopia Cancer Support Centers Chocolate 5K fundraiser will be at 8 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 919-401-9333, cancersupport4u.org.
• Cornucopia Cancer Support Centers 14th annual A Chocolate Affaire fundraiser will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Sheraton Chapel Hill, 1 Europa Drive. There will be chocolates, hors doeuvres, auctions, a raffle and live music. Tickets cost $60. 919-401-9333, cancersupport4u.org.
• Durhams Human Relations Award Ceremony will be at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21, in the Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St., Durham. bit.ly/JGEHzu.
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills Minority Health Conference will be Friday, Feb. 28, at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill. Registration costs $30 for seniors and students of any college or university, $70 for university faculty and staff, $50 for government employees and $80 for anyone else. Register by Friday, Feb. 14. minorityhealth.web.unc.edu.
• The second annual St. Paul Village Community 5K Walk/Run will be on Saturday, March 1, at McDougle Middle School, 900 Old Fayetteville Road, Chapel Hill. The walk and run will raise money for the St. Paul Village, TABLE (a hunger relief nonprofit) and Club Nova (a nonprofit that supports Orange County residents with mental illness). Register online at bit.ly/1hTlKG8. 919-967-3961, stpaulamechapelhill.org.
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Christopher A. Viehbacher
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Pace allows for strong work/life balance and flexibility to often work remote as needed (in 11 reviews)
Great benefits - generous 401K match, PTO, annual bonus, and transit subsidies (in 17 reviews)
Senior Management is overly focused on metrics (in 10 reviews)
years, management promoted based on years of service rather than merit, terrible work/life balance, stagnant career growth since Sanofi acquisition (in 4 reviews)
"reserch oriented truly one of the greatest palce to work for ."
Pros – best culture with skill development and best employee benefits and reawarding culture gives motivation to perform to the fullest .
Cons – very less field force so we have to cover very big areas there are very few promotion opportunities inside the organization .
Advice to Senior Management – launch new products in indian market
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
"Excellent Co-op program for graduate students!"
Pros – Good working environment in both labs and office cubes, interesting projects, nice people!
Cons – Career development is slow
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
"Keep Changing"
Pros – Good pay, good working environment, the cafeteria with an overlook of Charles river is nice, location is good too, keep changing for good,
Cons – Although the town hall meetings are good, lack of next level of communication.
Although keep changing in a right direction is good, employee get confused when the lower level of communication is absent.
Advice to Senior Management – Make sure that the middle level of management communicate more often.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
"Great Place to work"
Pros – Smart, talented group of people
Cons – High turnover, very complicated systems and policies. Very big company that requires multiple input to complete tasks
Advice to Senior Management – employee satisfaction
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
"Senior Research Associate"
Pros – Good mid-level management. Competitive industry compensation.
Cons – Very low ceiling for mid-level associates.
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"Lacking true leadership"
Pros – Some good people, some good scientific knowledge, people very dedicated to the company
Cons – Lack of leadership, long hours/little work-life balance (many of the "in" people practically live there), very political environment, little recognition/appreciation, poor control of management processes
Advice to Senior Management – Take control, or get out of the way.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
"Best review ever"
Pros – paycheck, good 401K, time off, noble mission
Cons – procurement woes, health insurance, lack of carrer advancement structure
Advice to Senior Management – keep on managing
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
3 people found this helpful
"Great if you can ignore the Corporate BS"
Pros – Great benefits - generous 401K match, PTO, annual bonus, and transit subsidies. Health premiums are affordable and based on pay and family size. In the office environment work hours are flexible and you have the ability to work from home part of week either regularly or on occasion as needed. Colleagues are dedicated, care about the work they do, and support each other, great team atmosphere. The work on my project is challenging, and I am never bored. The office space is pleasant, even in the cube farm. Overall the pros outweigh the BS in the cons section. Seriously, I love my job and working here despite the things in the "Cons" section. My team is great, the benefits are great, and I love the work I do, and that counts for a lot even when I can't give many stars on some of the individual ratings.
Cons – Raises were cut drastically and do not keep pace with the rise in COL. My co-workers refer to them as "pay cuts" for this reason. There is now more use of contractors rather than giving great workers perm jobs. My team is down to 2 employees, both hired prior to integration. All other positions have been lost or converted into contractor positions as they were vacated by regular employees. My division needs a long term stable team, not temporary workers. The inability to hire regular employees has left us dealing with turnover and difficulty in attracting people with the experience and skills we need. We are often short on resources, and unable to keep up with the workload, seem to be in a constant training mode. Once we have someone up to speed, they either leave for a regular position elsewhere or a more lucrative contract. That's the nature of using contractors. This is totally appropriate for some work, but not in my division and it is costing the company piles of money in lost productivity and lost talent.
As other people have mentioned communication leaves a lot of be desired, especially around changes and moves. Some decisions seem to be nonsensical from any possible perspective (removing all plastic ware, plates, napkins, and milk/cream service from the kitchenettes to "save money" but then replacing all of the water coolers with even fancier models WTH?) We face constant budget cuts and had a hiring freeze, but apparently we can now enjoy corporate jet service at a premium cost for commuting between Boston and NJ and we needed fancy big monitors on every floor rotating messages too fast too be able to read. It's entirely possible one morning you will boot up your computer and not be able to access programs you need to do your work. IT support (or lack there-of) will make you want to cry into your keyboard. Critical issues can be left for a month or longer and need to be escalated by upper management to get any kind of response, even when employees are literally unable to work until the issue is fixed.
Advice to Senior Management – Improve communication and re-examine some of these business decisions that are likely actually costing money rather than saving it. Stop making IT and accounting decisions in a vacuum that end up having critical impact on employee's ability to get work done. Rethink all using outsourcing and contractors where it's clearly not beneficial. If you want to compete with Google for talent, you first need to make jobs available, period. You can't attract the superstars when you refuse to offer them regular jobs in the first place.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
"Good company, good experience"
Pros – Pros: work-life balance, bonus structure, dedicated staff and great projects to work on
- High potential for career growth and development, you may just have to seek it out yourself depending on your manager
Cons – Cons: There is a sense that there is too much focus on cutting back on staffing
-sometimes unclear decision making throughout the ranks lead to issues
- some business practices are efficient, while others are burdened by bureaucracy/ wasted resources
-Constant changes to SOP's and training department, often multiple people will say to fill out different SOP's for the completing the same training task, leading to confusion and extra paperwork.
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
"Fairly typical for a big company"
Pros – Benefits are not bad, nice campus
Cons – Top-heavy beaurocracy, extremely silo-ed culture.
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Around 1,000 amateur radio enthusiasts are expected to take part in a convention Saturday at the North Georgia Fairgrounds.
"It's the Dalton Hamfest, and amateur radio operators will be coming from all over the United States. A lot of them will be coming in for the weekend, and that will generate some money for the community," said David Stanley, a member of the Dalton Amateur Radio Club, which is sponsoring the event.
"Ham" radio operators and vendors will be buying, selling, trading and displaying amateur radio equipment and other electronics. Stanley said many of the dealers will have some of the newest radio equipment available on hand.
"Anybody is welcome to come, especially if they have an interest in radio or electronics," said Stanley. "We are there for people who are interested in amateur radio and want to get involved. We will answer any questions they might have."
Stanley said recent severe weather may have gotten some people interested in amateur radio.
"It's a hobby, and all of us really enjoy it. But we also provide a community service during severe weather and other emergencies. When phones and cellphones don't work, we can still communicate with the rest of the world," he said.
The Dalton Hamfest takes place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the North Georgia Fairgrounds. Admission is $5 at the gate. For more information, go to daltonhamfest.com.