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Harve Bennet
Leonard Nimoy
Main Cast :
James Doohan
Montgomery Scott
DeForest Kelley
Leonard H. McCoy
Walter Koenig
Pavel A. Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Nyota Uhura
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner
James T. Kirk
George Takei
Hikaru Sulu
Grace Lee Whitney
Janice Rand
Guest Cast :
Vijay Armitraj
as Starship captain
Michael Berryman
as Starfleet communication officer
Mike Brislane
as Saratoga science officer
Robin Curtis
Lieutenant Saavik
Scott DeVenney
Bob Briggs
Tony Edwards
as Pilot
David Ellenstein
as Doctor #1
Robert Ellenstein
Federation Council President Hiram Roth
Thaddeus Golas
as Controller #1
Richard Harder
as Joe
Alex Henteloff
Doctor Nichols
Catherine Hicks
Doctor Gillian Taylor
Greg Karas
as Intern #2
Joe Knowland
as Antique store owner
Joe Lando
as Shore patrolman
Everett Lee
as Cafe owner
Mark Lenard
Jeff Lester
as FBI agent
Judy Levitt
as Doctor #2
Jeffrey Martin
as Electronic technician
James Menges
as Jogger
John Miranda
as 2nd garbageman
Tom Mustin
as Intern #1
1st Sgt. Joseph Naradzay
as Marine sergeant
Brock Peters
Admiral Cartwright
Martin Pistone
as Controller #2
Nick Ramus
as Saratoga helmsman
Phil Rubenstein
as 1st garbageman
Bob Sarlatte
as Waiter
John Schuck
Ambassador Kamarag
Madge Sinclair
as U.S.S. Saratoga Captain
Raymond Singer
as Young doctor
Eve Smith
as Elderly patient
Michael Snyder
as Starfleet communications officer
Viola Stimpson
as Lady in tour
Newell Tarrant
as CDO
Kirk Randolph Thatcher
as Punk on bus
Mike Timoney
as Electronic technician
Theresa E. Victor
as Usher
Jane Wiedlin
as Alien communications officer
Jane Wyatt
Amanda Grayson
1st Lt. Donald W. Zautcke
as Marine lieutenant
No explanation is ever given for how the whales are communicating across interstellar distances. Certainly sound waves shouldn't be able to communicate across space.
The HMS Bounty approaches the sun at warp 9+, flying around it and coming out the other side. However, according to the official original series scale, warp 9 is 729 times the speed of light. In even two seconds at that speed, the Bounty could have flown from Earth to the sun three times over.
Similarly, when racing to rescue the whales, Kirk orders full impulse. The speed of "full impulse" is not canonically known, but in official literature it is stated to be 25% of the speed of light. At this speed the Bounty would circle the entire world in approximately half a second.
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Spock, Kirk and Dr. Taylor in the car after she picks them up.
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This film was originally meant to star Eddie Murphy, who is a big fan of Star Trek, as a reporter who thinks the crew are aliens and is determined to expose them.
In some versions of the script, Saavik remained on Vulcan because she was pregnant with Spock's child, having had sex with him on Genesis when he went through pon farr.
Almost all of the whale shots were created with animatronic model whales. These were so realistic that many criticised the film when it came out because they thought that the film crew had gotten far too close to the obviously real whales. The producers took great glee in informing everyone that apart from the 'whales leaping' scenes at the end of the movie, there were no real whales involved.
The producers wanted to film aboard the actual USS Enterprise, but the ship was at sea on duty during shooting. Instead the USS Ranger (CV 61) was used. Ranger is a conventionally powered vessel with no nuclear reactors on board, so a reactor was mocked up for those scenes. In truth, even if the real Enterprise had been available the movie would not have been allowed to film inside the highly classified reactor compartments.
When Spock suggests the slingshot method of time travel, Kirk comments that "we've done it before". This is a reference to the Original Series episodes "The Naked Time" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday", when the combination of warp engines and shifting gravity allowed the Enterprise to travel in time.
The table seen in Starfleet Command was subsequently turned into the control table in main engineering on the Enterprise-D.
The whaling ship used in the film was a World War II minesweeper called "Golden Gate". The crew of the ship are heard speaking Finnish, despite the fact that Finland has never had any sort of whaling industry. But there are minority groups in Norway which speak Finnish, and Norway is a whaling nation. So the crew are likely Norwegian.
When Gillian Taylor slaps Bob Briggs, actress Catherine Hicks really did slap Scott DeVenney hard in the face. He was quite upset about it, but took it in stride once he had a chance to calm down.
Leonard Nimoy was proud of the fact that at no point does any person in this film fire a weapon at another person. In fact there are only two uses of a weapon in total; once when Kirk uses a phaser to melt a door lock, and once when Chekov tries to use one to stun some FBI agents, only to find that the weapon won't work.
The film opens with a large cylindrical object moving through space, broadcasting an eerie signal. A Federation Miranda class starship - incidentally the first such ever seen under the command of a woman - is intercepting the object, but as it comes within range of the immensely powerful broadcasts the ship loses all power and begins to drift out of control. The object continues on its way, heading directly for Earth (aren't they always?).
On Earth the Klingons are claiming that the death of their Bird of Preys crew at Kirks hands is little less than an act of terrorism, with Kirk co-ordinating the whole Genesis project in an attempt to destroy the Klingon people. Despite the efforts of Ambassador Sarek they claim that there will be no peace between the Federation and the Klingon Empire while Kirk lives.
Meanwhile, on Vulcan Spock is completing his re-training in science and logic after the events of the last film. He is easily able to answer questions about science, history, alien cultures, etc. - but when asked the simple question "how do you feel?" he is at a loss. His mother tells him that as a half human, he has human emotions and these will surface whether he wants them to or not. Spock dismisses the idea, and it becomes clear that this is not quite the Spock we know - he seems to have lost his human side entirely. Kirk and his crew have been on the planet for several months, and although they are under Sareks protection and so immune from prosecution for stealing and later destroying the Enterprise, they vote unanimously to return home and face the consequences of their actions. Using their captured Klingon Bird of prey - now named HMS Bounty by McCoy - they set off for Earth.
Back on Earth, they are tracking the probe as it heads for the planet. Every ship which comes anywhere near the probe is immobilized, and there seems to be nothing they can do to stop its advance. As it reaches Earth the probes transmissions begin to vaporize huge volumes of water, threatening to create cloud cover across the whole planet. The president transmits a planetary distress signal warning all ships to avoid Earth.
On route back home, the Bounty picks up the signal. Spock analyses the probes transmissions and realizes that they are a distorted version of the songs sung by Humpback whales - a species which was hunted to extinction by Humanity centuries before. The crew surmise that the whales were somehow in contact with an alien species, and that this species sent the probe to determine why they lost contact. With no whales left alive there can be no answer to the probe, and so no way to convince it to leave.
Kirk decides that they must travel back in time to retrieve a whale or whales from the past and return it to the present, in the hopes that it will then tell the probe - as McCoy puts it - "what to go do with itself". The Klingon ship isn't an ideal candidate for time travel, but after a rough ride they manage to reach the 20th century successfully. Unfortunately the trip drains the ships dilithium crystals to the point where they are decrystalising and will soon be useless. Spock suggests that they might collect high energy photons from a nuclear reactor on Earth and use them to recrystallise the dilithium. Cloaking the ship they land in Golden Gate park, and split into teams - one to create a whale tank in the ship, one to find the whales, one to locate a reactor and collect the necessary photons.
Kirk and Spock search out the whales, finding a pair named George and Gracie in a huge tank at the Cetacean Institute. Unfortunately Dr Taylor, the institutes assistant director, tells them that the whales are due to be released to the wild soon. Spock mind melds with Gracie, much to the annoyance of Dr. Taylor, and gets her agreement to their plan. As they are on their way home they meet Dr Taylor again and Kirk manages to get a dinner invitation out of her.
McCoy and Scotty locate a factory which manufactures the materials they need for their whale tank. Pretending to be visiting academics studying construction methods, they bribe the factory owner to give them what they need by offering him a little advanced materials technology - rationalizing it by wondering if he didn't invent the stuff in the first place.
Kirks date with Gillian goes reasonably well - she is worried about releasing the whales into the wild because of the danger from hunters, and Kirk tells her he could take them somewhere where this will never be a problem. Although she seems to sense that he is being honest, she still thinks he must be some kind of lunatic - an impression not helped when Kirk admits that he works in outer space! When she drops him off in the middle of the park, Gillian drives away - then stops and turns around only to find that he has mysteriously vanished from sight.
Meanwhile, Chekov and Uhura have managed to locate a nuclear reactor - none other than the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. They beam into the ship that night to collect the photons, but have trouble beaming back as the Bounty's power reserves are so low. Uhura manages to make it through with the collector, by Chekov is captured by Marines and arrested. He is interrogated by the FBI, who quickly decide that he must have some sort of mental illness. He attempts escape, but as the Marines chase him he falls from the deck of the ship and is badly injured. Back at the ship, Scotty begins to recrystallize the dilithium and get power back.
The next morning, Gillian arrives at the institute to find George and Gracie have gone - they have been shipped out early to avoid the media, and she was not told in case it hurt her feelings. Distraught, she goes to the park and begins running around yelling Kirks name. She soon gets a couple of nasty surprises - she sees a helicopter lowering one of the whale tank walls into the top of the invisible ship, then runs into it herself. Kirk beams her aboard and she tells him about the whales.
Uhura manages to locate Chekov in a local hospital, and the crew set off to rescue him with the help of Gillian. They find him about to undergo surgery, and after fixing his injuries they try to sneak him out of the hospital. After a police pursuit they manage to get out of sight long enough to beam back to the ship.
Kirk convinces Gillian to give him the frequency of the homing signal attached to the whales, and beams aboard - only to have her literally jump on him at the last second so she can tag along. She tells him she has nobody to miss her on Earth, and anyway if they take the whales back with them they will need an expert since nobody in their time knows anything about them. Kirk agrees to let her come along.
The Bounty takes off and heads for the source of the signal, but they detect a whaling ship closing on the pair. It is a race it looks like the whales are going to lose when the whaler fires off a harpoon - only to see it bounce of the hull of the invisible ship. Kirk orders them to decloak, and the whaler turns tail and runs like hell as the ship hovers menacingly above it.
Scotty beams up the whales and they head back into space and slingshot around the sun again to return to their own time, arriving back just before they left. Unfortunately the probes transmissions neutralize the ship as soon as it appears, and it crash-lands in San Francisco bay and begins to sink. Kirk orders the crew to abandon ship while he makes his way to the tank and blows an emergency exit open to release the whales. George begins to sing almost as soon as he is released, and he and the probe exchange information for several minutes. Then the probe shuts its transmitter down and quietly heads away into space, leaving Earth to recover behind it.
With the crisis over the crew are taken to the Federation council to stand for their crimes. The president declares that all charges except one - disobeying orders - are summarily dismissed, and that this charge will only be directed against Admiral Kirk. He is found guilty, reduced in rank to Captain, and ordered to assume command of a Starship as a consequence. A delighted Kirk is congratulated by his friends, including Gillian - who is herself off to serve on a science vessel while she does a little catch-up learning.
Spock meets his father in the chamber; Sarek tells him he may have been in error in opposing his enlistment in Starfleet and asks if there is any message for Spocks mother. Spock asks him to tell her "I feel fine".
The crew head off to Spacedock to pick up their new command. McCoy gloomily predicts that they will be assigned a freighter, while Sulu tells everyone he wants the new Excelsior. The shuttle heads for the Starship... only to pull up above it and reveal a Constitution class Starship behind bearing the name Enterprise and the number NCC 1701-A. Kirk declares "my friends... we've come home".
Star Trek IV is the most successful Trek film ever made, and one of the few that managed to appeal to a fairly wide audience beyond the fans. There are several reasons why; Leonard Nimoy is justifiably proud of the fact that this film has barely any physical violence in it; at no time in this movie is a weapon fired at a person, something that no other Trek film can say. Most of the film is solidly based in the present, or at least it was when it was made, and this ensures that even the casual audience has a lot to connect with. The ecological theme also strikes a popular note which needs little explaining.
Nimoys directing is again good. As in ST III he gives almost the entire cast at least one good scene. The only exception is Sulu, and this was not an oversight but rather an unfortunate result of circumstance. Originally Sulu was to have had a scene in which he encounters a young oriental boy, only to realize that it is an ancestor of himself. Unfortunately, the young actor hired for the part was unable to perform on the day and there was no money to do another days shooting, so the scene had to be cut. But the rest of the cast acquit themselves well in their respective scenes.
Where ST III used these scenes for the dramatic stealing of the Enterprise, this is a much more light-hearted movie and most of the scenes are used for comedy. The humour mostly comes from the culture clash between our heroes and present day society, and this works very well. From Scotties overacting at Plexicorp through the scene where the russian Chekov stands in the middle of a street asking passers by and a nearby cop for the location of "nuclear wessels" and up to McCoys disgust at 20th century medicine - "sounds like the goddamned Spanish Inquisition to me", this film is one which will make you laugh out loud more than a few times.
Having said that, humour is not all this film has to offer. The alien probe is both menacing and mysterious, and its final dialogue with the whale has an eerie quality which has survived many viewings. The time travel scenes are well done - most especially, in this scene you can faintly hear dialogue which will later feature in the film proper, as if the characters are experiencing their future actions as they travel back in time.
So much for the good, what of the bad? Well, oddly enough in many ways the good and bad parts are one and the same. In creating a film with mass appeal, Nimoy has by default created one which is a little less appealing for a heavy-duty fan such as myself. Don't get me wrong - I still like ST IV, but for me it just lacks that certain something that sets a Trek film apart from the rest.
Technically, there are a few nits - some minor, some major. Many of the more minor points concern the time travel. At warp speeds the Bounty should have been able to whip around the sun in milliseconds, rather than the half minute or so which it actually takes. There is talk of not even making breakaway speed, yet warp speed is literally hundreds of thousands of times faster than the escape velocity of the sun. Then there is talk of breaking thrusters which will slow the ship down - just shutting down the warp drive will do that just fine. We also see the Bounty go to warp within the Earths atmosphere - while strictly speaking there's nothing in the canon to indicate that this is difficult or dangerous, I am far from alone in finding it a peculiar thing to do.
By far the biggest nit of the film is its whole premise. Supposedly, the whales singing is actually a form of communication with an alien intelligence. But there is absolutely no explanation of just how sound is meant to propagate into space, let alone across countless thousands of light years. Like most nits, it's one which could have been fixed with one or two lines of dialogue - it doesn't even need an explanation, a simple recognition of the fact that the mystery exists would be sufficient.
Overall then, this is a film which I think is very good, but not quite up to the standard of the likes of ST II.
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As Edgar and Maynard were called to the center of the Octagon for the start of round one, there was no question that they were going to leave it all out there
Frankie Edgar made his 6am flight back to New Jersey Sunday. And as the UFC lightweight champion walked to his seat, you would have mistaken him for any other passenger on the plane if not for the bumps and bruises of his previous night's work displayed on his face.
There was no loud entourage, no championship belt slung over his shoulder, so you could forgive those who looked at the pride of Toms River and wondered what he was up to on Saturday night. Two such folks mumbled to each other. One said, 'he must be one of those MMA guys.' The other responded, 'he probably won, because the loser wouldn't make his flight.'
Edgar didn't hear the comments, and if he did, you can guarantee that he wouldn't respond. It's not his way. But if he did choose to respond, he probably would have just smiled at being called 'one of those MMA guys.'
His dance partner on Saturday night, Gray Maynard, would likely agree with the man he shared 25 minutes in the Octagon with at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. As a resident of Las Vegas, he didn't need to make a flight this morning, so there's no need for talk of winners making flights, and losers sleeping in. When the 155-pound championship bout was over, a draw verdict was rendered, so there were no winners, no losers, only talk of what happened over the course of those five rounds and what will happen in the next five or less that they fight.
It's been said over the years in boxing that a draw is like kissing your sister, and while Edgar keeps his title belt and Maynard keeps his unbeaten record, the idea that there was no resolution to their rematch Saturday night is something that will likely haunt both fighters in the coming weeks. There's no getting around that, nothing you can say to soften that blow; yet for those of us watching what amounted to 25 minutes of high drama, it was a night that should have reminded you why you began watching the sport in the first place.
Before the addition of the bantamweight and featherweight divisions to the UFC, the lightweights were long considered the "little men" of the organization, yet with a mix of speed, technique, and intensity, the 155-pounders would more often than not deliver excitement like few others. Edgar and Maynard did their share over the years, Edgar in bouts against the likes of Tyson Griffin, Hermes Franca, and Matt Veach; Maynard against Joe Veres, Rob Emerson, and Dennis Siver.
But the popular water cooler jab at both men leading up to Saturday's bout was that they weren't "finishers", that their championship bout wouldn't hold a candle to more visceral undercard bouts, let alone some of the championship epics of years past. Edgar had fights go the judges' scorecards in six of his last seven bouts; Maynard, seven in a row. Forget that they were engaging in fights against top level competition, the equation was decisions=boring. Try telling that to Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva, Randy Couture and Minotauro Nogueira, or Jens Pulver and BJ Penn, three pairs of UFC superstars who engaged in distance level wars for the ages.
For Edgar, the knock was that his stick and move style wasn't going to crack an egg, let alone a world-class fighter's chin. Yet what people don't realize is that Edgar doesn't need to cut weight to make the lightweight limit like most of his peers do. That means on fight night, he could be giving up 15 to 20 pounds. Yet he still gets in there with bigger, stronger fighters who could probably send him packing with one shot. It reminds me of what one of my boxing mentors, Mike Katz, told me one time about former heavyweight boxing champion Chris Byrd. He called Byrd the toughest and bravest fighter in the sport. I raised my eyebrows, only thinking of Byrd as defensive wizard and slipmaster. Katz explained, saying that Byrd went into every fight knowing that he couldn't hurt his opponent, yet he still made that walk up the steps and won more often than not, armed only with his smarts, guts, and two fists. Edgar faces similar hurdles every time he steps into competition, but you won't hear that out of his mouth.
That's a fighter.
So is Maynard, and in a recent conversation he told me that drama is nice for the movies and television, but he's not in the drama business; he's in the domination business. He's not looking to have a rock 'em sock 'em fight or roar back from the brink of defeat to win by spectacular Rocky-esque knockout. He's in a fight to beat you up from the opening bell to the last, or better yet, when the referee pulls him off. If you don't get off one shot or gain one dominant position on him, that's the point. He's not looking for 12-11 baseball slugfests; he wants a two-hit shutout.
So as Edgar and Maynard were called to the center of the Octagon for the start of round one, there was no question that they were going to leave it all out there – not for your entertainment, but for themselves. Both were born with a competitive gene that means you give it everything you have in whatever you do that involves a winner and a loser. It could mean a championship prizefight, a video game with your little cousin, or a game of checkers. For guys like Edgar and Maynard, winning is part of their identity, and dealing with the alternative is something they don't even want to address.
This was evident after Maynard dropped Edgar with a left hook in the opening stanza. It was probably the first time anyone saw Edgar in trouble, let alone rocked. Maynard moved in for the finish, and Edgar did everything in his power to avoid it. Edgar was running on pure instinct as his legs didn't want to obey what his brain was telling them, and Maynard furiously emptied his gas tank in order to end the bout. For the former Michigan State University wrestling standout, the fight went from a five round marathon to a 30 second sprint. There was no saving it for later; he was going to finish now. For his part, a bloodied Edgar stumbled and tried to get his wits back as he was on the receiving end of more solid power punches than he had probably absorbed in his last five fights combined.
Through it all, no one would have complained if referee Yves Lavigne would have intervened and halted the bout, but the Canadian veteran pulled off the hardest job in sports with grace. It's often said that the best referees are the ones you don't even notice in the ring or Octagon, and that you can call 100 fights perfectly, but if you make a bad call in the 101st, you're a pariah. In a championship fight especially, you want the fighters to decide the fight, and Lavigne did that, giving Edgar the ability to decide his own fate. If Edgar wanted out, he could have just put his hands up on the mat and let Maynard fire away, or he could have turtled up and let Lavigne halt the fight. He didn't and you wouldn't expect him to, and just when things seemed darkest for Edgar, he would put his hands out, scramble, or do something to let the world know that he wasn't ready to give up his belt yet.
When the bell rang, the crowd roared, both for Maynard's power punching assault and for Edgar's undeniable heart. It was a crowd that thankfully stayed away from the chants for an elbow or for one of the fighters to "kick his ass, Sea Bass". Whether the members of the crowd were cheering for Edgar or Maynard, they were watching the fight and reacting to the ebb and flow of the bout. That's a good sign for the New Year.
As round two commenced, you would have expected that one more clean shot from Maynard would have sent Edgar back on a one way trip to Wobblesville, but that shot never came. Instead, Edgar again showed the heart that will be his trademark as he roared back to clearly win the second round. In the days and weeks following this bout, that will likely be the focus – Edgar's comeback from a truly horrific first round. But what about Maynard? What about him going all in for the knockout in the first five minutes and still having 20 minutes left to fight? Try holding your hands up in a defensive posture for three minutes. Not easy. Now do it for 25 minutes with someone trying to punch you, dump you on your head, or choke you. This is what Maynard did on Saturday night, and he survived Edgar's punches, a couple cuts, a thudding slam, and a guillotine choke attempt while still getting his licks in. Heart? Edgar's got it, but Maynard's right there with him.
Before the third round, UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture, one of the most soft-spoken athletes you will ever meet, yelled at his fighter, Maynard, with an intensity that reached all the way to press row.
"Just beat him up, you don't need the knockout," said Couture. "You just gave him that round."
Couture has forgotten more about championship fights than 95% of fighters will ever know, and if he had the opportunity he probably would have grabbed a pair of gloves and jumped in the Octagon himself Saturday. But that would not be the case, and the only way a fighter can learn about fighting in a championship bout is by doing it. Frankie Edgar got his education in his title-winning effort against BJ Penn last April. When he met Penn again four months later, it was a different, better, more confident fighter, and he won even more convincingly the second time around. Maynard, a competitive athlete since he was barely out of diapers, would have to get his championship lesson, like all fighters, on the job.
And while many say that fighters are born, not made, I'd like to think that they are equally born and made. If you're a fighter, you've got something inside you that separates you from everybody else. But to become an elite fighter, a world champion, you have to learn how to build your game, learn new techniques, and adapt under enormous pressure. Only instruction, listening, and hours in the gym will build that type of muscle memory. So when Maynard's takedowns were stuffed by Edgar, he had to go to Plan B. When Edgar's head was rattled by Maynard's strikes in round one, he had to find a way to survive while the challenger chased after him with bad intentions. The Edgar and Maynard who both made their UFC debuts in 2007 wouldn't have been able to hold a candle to the 2011 versions. That's not luck.
The final verdict wasn't luck for the fighters either, though both would probably call it bad luck. In a sport where judges' decisions are met with the anticipation of an IRS audit or root canal, Saturday's final tally was one most wouldn't find fault with. Many thought Edgar pulled off the miracle comeback, and just as many felt Maynard had done enough to win his first world title. Some just said, 'hey, it was a great fight, it could have gone either way, let's call it even.' So when the decision came back as a draw, it was just. Of course Edgar believed he won, while Maynard felt the victory should have been his, but that's what fighters do, and they both had valid cases. Yet in making those cases, the two lightweight standouts did so with their characteristic class.
It's not what you expect from professional athletes these days, and that's a sad commentary in and of itself, but in the Octagon and outside of it, Edgar and Maynard proved that they're not who many say they are – they're even better. And if Saturday night's bout was a precursor for what we can expect in 2011, it's going to be a good year.
So yeah, Frankie Edgar is one of those MMA guys, but that's a description he and Gray Maynard wear proudly.
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Shift Leaders are responsible for coaching Crew Members throughout their shift to execute Dunkin' Donuts operational standards and deliver a great guest experience.
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Team Environment - Talk employees into, through, and out of position on each shift, communicating responsibilities, providing feedback, and recognizing achievements in a respectful manner. Deploy team members appropriately to meet guests' needs and service standards throughout shift. Support training of Crew Members as directed by Restaurant Manager or Assistant Manager. Communicate goals and hold team members accountable for performance during shift.
Operations Excellence for Guest Satisfaction - Hold guests as highest priority and role model exceptional guest service. Drive sense of urgency through Crew Members to satisfy guests' needs and resolve problems. Reinforce the use of systems, tools, and procedures throughout shift, while taking appropriate steps to correct deficiencies. Monitor team performance to ensure quality, service, and cleanliness standards are met throughout shift. Complete all required training including ServSafe® certification.
Profitability - Ensure restaurant standards and marketing initiatives are properly executed during shift. Follow all systems and processes to control labor costs, food costs, and cash throughout shift. Monitor and ensure Crew Members comply with all policies and procedures related to cleanliness, food safety, and restaurant safety and security during shift. Report equipment issues, provide Crew Member performance feedback, and discuss other restaurant opportunities with Restaurant Manager. Comply with all restaurant, Brand, and franchisee policies.
- Must be able to fluently speak/read English
- Math and writing skills
- Restaurant, retail, or supervisory experience preferred
- At least 18 years of age (where applicable)
- High school diploma (or equivalent)
Required Competencies
- Guest Focus – anticipate and understand guests' needs and exceed their expectations.
- Passion for Results – set compelling targets and deliver on commitments.
- Problem Solving and Decision Making – make good decisions based on analysis, experience and judgment.
- Building Effective Teams – get the right people in the right places, enabling them to make decisions and celebrate success as a team.


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We're not positive what horse sense is, but it sure looks like Houdini here has it.
Teaching your pets or livestock or thoroughbred racehorses or whatever animal(s) you own how to escape from their pens is a risky idea. Sure, it's cute to see a horse unlock the door and then open the container with all those delicious sugar cubes, but do we need to explain how this might go wrong in the end? Now, if you could teach him to, say, drive a car, that'd really be something ...
The Daily Distraction is your Internet break from reality. Whether you're eating lunch at your desk or avoiding high school exes on Facebook, you might just laugh, say "aaahhh" or not believe what you just watched.


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It's not clear at what age kids begin to dream, but even toddlers may speak about having dreams — pleasant ones and scary ones. While almost every child has an occasional frightening or upsetting dream, nightmares seem to peak during the preschool years when fear of the dark is common. But older kids (and even adults) have occasional nightmares, too.
Nightmares aren't completely preventable, but parents can set the stage for a peaceful night's rest. That way, when nightmares do creep in, a little reassurance and comfort from you can quickly restore your child's peace of mind.
Helping kids conquer this common childhood fear also equips them to overcome other scary things that might arise down the road.
When Do Nightmares Happen?
Nightmares — like most dreams — occur during the stage of sleep when the brain is very active and sorting through experiences and new information for learning and memory. The vivid images the brain is processing can seem as real as the emotions they might trigger.
This part of sleep is known as the rapid eye movement or REM stage because the eyes are rapidly moving beneath closed eyelids. Nightmares tend to happen during the second half of a night's sleep, when REM intervals are longer.
When kids awaken from a nightmare, its images are still fresh and can seem real. So it's natural for them to feel afraid and upset and to call out to a parent for comfort.
By about preschool age, kids begin to understand that a nightmare is only a dream — and that what's happening isn't real and can't hurt them. But knowing that doesn't prevent them from feeling scared. Even older kids feel frightened when they awaken from a nightmare and may need your reassurance and comfort.
What Causes Nightmares?
No one knows exactly what causes nightmares. Dreams — and nightmares — seem to be one way kids process thoughts and feelings about situations they face, and to work through worries and concerns.
Most times nightmares occur for no apparent reason. Other times they happen when a child is experiencing stress or change. Events or situations that might feel unsettling — such as moving, attending a new school, the birth of a sibling, or family tensions — might also be reflected in unsettling dreams.
Sometimes nightmares occur as part of a child's reaction to trauma — such as a natural disaster, accident, or injury. For some kids, especially those with a good imagination, reading scary books or watching scary movies or TV shows just before bedtime can inspire nightmares.
Themes of a nightmare tend to reflect whatever the child is going through at that age, whether it's struggles with aggressive feelings, independence, or fears of separation. The cast of characters might include monsters, bad guys, animals, imaginary creatures, or familiar people, places, and events combined in unusual ways.
Young kids might have nightmares of being gobbled up, lost, chased, or punished. Sometimes a nightmare contains recognizable bits and pieces of the day's events and experiences, but with a scary twist. A child might not remember every detail, but can usually recall some of the images, characters, or situations, and the scary parts.
Encouraging Sweet Dreams
Parents can't prevent nightmares, but can help kids get a good night's sleep — and that encourages sweet dreams.
To help them relax when it's time to sleep and associate bedtime with safety and comfort, be sure that kids:
- have a regular bedtime and wake-up time
- have a sleep routine that helps them slow down, and feel safe and secure as they drift off to sleep. This might include a bath, a snuggle from you, reading, or some quiet talk about the pleasant events of the day.
- have a bed that's a cozy, peaceful place to quiet down. A favorite toy, stuffed animal, night-light, or dream catcher can help.
- avoid scary movies, TV shows, and stories before bed — especially if they've triggered nightmares before
- know that nightmares aren't real, that they're just dreams and can't hurt them
After a Nightmare
Here's how to help your child cope after a nightmare:
- Reassure your child that you're there. Your calm presence helps your child feel safe and protected after waking up feeling afraid. Knowing you'll be there helps strengthen your child's sense of security.
- Label what's happened. Let your child know that it was a nightmare and now it's over. You might say something like, "You had a bad dream, but now you're awake and everything is OK." Reassure your child that the scary stuff in the nightmare didn't happen in the real world.
- Offer comfort. Show that you understand that your child feels afraid and it's OK. Remind your child that everyone dreams and sometimes the dreams are scary, upsetting, and can seem very real, so it's natural to feel scared by them.
- Do your magic. With preschoolers and young school-age kids who have vivid imaginations, the magical powers of your love and protection can work wonders. You might be able to make the pretend monsters disappear with a dose of pretend monster spray. Go ahead and check the closet and under the bed, reassuring your child that all's clear.
- Mood lighting. A nightlight or a hall light can help kids feel safe in a darkened room as they get ready to go back to sleep. A bedside flashlight can be a good nightmare-chaser.
- Help your child go back to sleep. Offering something comforting might help change the mood. Try any of these to aid the transition back to sleep: a favorite stuffed animal to hold, a blanket, pillow, nightlight, dreamcatcher, or soft music. Or discuss some pleasant dreams your child would like to have. And maybe seal it by giving your child a kiss to hold — in the palm of his or her hand — as you tiptoe out of the room.
- Be a good listener. No need to talk more than briefly about the nightmare in the wee hours — just help your child feel calm, safe, and protected, and ready to go back to sleep. But in the morning, your child may want to tell you all about last night's scary dream. By talking about it — maybe even drawing the dream or writing about it — in the daylight, many scary images lose their power. Your child might enjoy thinking up a new (more satisfying) ending to the scary dream.
For most kids, nightmares happen only now and then, are not cause for concern, and simply require a parent's comfort and reassurance. Talk to your doctor if nightmares often prevent your child from getting enough sleep or if they occur along with other emotional or behavioral troubles.


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Physician Otolaryngology GCMCScranton, Pennsylvania
Geisinger is comprised of 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, a college of medicine and a nearly 600,000-member health plan serving more than three million residents in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and beyond. We have approximately 26,500 employees, including over 1,700 employed physicians, all of whom share a commitment to quality healthcare.
Our reputation for delivering the best care to every patient, every time, traces back to our ability to create an outstanding work environment for our physicians, nurses and employees.
That's why, at Geisinger, the caring that we provide to our patients and members also extends to you and your family. Our competitive compensation and benefits package helps you and your loved ones stay healthy, meet your financial goals and thrive professionally and personally.
Health and medical
We offer a comprehensive suite of healthcare benefits, including medical, prescription drug, vision and dental coverage. And with our healthcare benefits, you'll also receive care from one of the top innovative healthcare systems in the country.
Family support
Our suite of benefits supports you and your family in a variety of ways, including coverage for same-sex or opposite-sex spouses, domestic partners and their children and stepchildren.
Retirement and Insurance
We provide generous saving and investment programs that help you achieve your financial goals as well as life insurance to protect your future.
Professional development
We invest in your professional development from day one.
Time off
Your friends and family are important to you, so that means they're important to us.
Community involvement
We provide many ways for you to feel connected to the wider Geisinger community. You can participate in community volunteering activities or join one of our Employee Resource Groups.
For Central/Northeast positions:
Geisinger fosters an atmosphere of clinical excellence in an area offering a high quality of life – complete with good schools, safe neighborhoods, affordable housing and a wealth of cultural and recreational activities. The surrounding natural beauty provides opportunities for fishing, skiing, canoeing, hiking and mountain biking. Urban life is easily accessible, with New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia or Washington D.C. just a short drive away.
For Western positions:
The State College region offers an outstanding quality of life in a university town environment, including excellent restaurants and cultural activities, and some of the top nationally-ranked public and private schools. State College offers easy access to Interstate-80 and a local airport for weekend getaways to Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and New York City.
Discover for yourself why Geisinger earns national attention as a visionary model of integrated healthcare.
Join the team that America is watching.
David T. Feinberg, MD, who began his tenure as president and chief executive officer of Geisinger Health System last year, said it best: "Practicing at Geisinger is a tremendous opportunity to further your career at an organization that is having an impact on healthcare throughout the United States. America definitely pays attention to what we are doing here, and we welcome the opportunity to set an example as we provide innovative and compassionate care and better serve our patients."
Geisinger Medical Center (GMC), located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
Janet Weis Children's Hospital (JWCH), located on GMC's campus in Danville, is the region's only dedicated 5-floor, 89 bed children's hospital with a full-service hospitalist program. JWCH's team of medical and surgical specialists provide care in over 30 pediatric specialties, including high level care with a Level IV C NICU and Level I PICU. JWCH provides medical malpractice insurance with tail coverage.
Henry Hood Center for Health Research (HHCHR), located on GMC's campus in Danville, Pa. was founded in 2003 and is a comprehensive enterprise that promotes traditional health services and clinical, epidemiologic and translational research.
Geisinger- Bloomsburg Hospital (G-BH), Bloomsburg, Pa., licensed for 72 beds, is an acute care hospital offering patients a variety of primary and specialty care services, a broad spectrum of surgical services, including in-and out- surgery, obstetrics/maternity, behavioral health and a progressive emergency medicine and hospitalist program. G-BH is affiliated with Geisinger-Bloomsburg Health Care Center and Columbia Montour Home Health & Hospice.
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (GWV), located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is an acute care hospital that is licensed for 274 beds, and houses the only Level II Trauma center in Luzerne County. The campus includes the Frank M. and Dorothea Henry Cancer Center, The Richard and Marion Pearsall Heart Hospital, the Janet Weis Children's Hospital Pediatric Unit, a transplant program and the Brain & Spine Tumor Institute. Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre is GWV's ambulatory campus.
Geisinger-Community Medical Center (G-CMC), Scranton, Pa., is an acute care hospital licensed for 297 beds and houses the only Level II Trauma Center in Lackawanna County and Scranton's only neurosurgery program and adult in-patient behavioral health unit. It is also home to comprehensive cardiovascular and orthopaedic services, as well as a broad range of other surgical and radiological services. The campus is affiliated with Geisinger-Mountain View Care Center, Scranton, Pa., a 180-bed long term care facility.
Geisinger – Lewistown Hospital is a 123-bed acute care community hospital serving the 80,000 residents of Mifflin and Juniata counties and members of the contiguous counties of Centre, Perry, Snyder, and Huntingdon. Established in 1905, the hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, wellness and community services while employing over 1,000 full-time and part-time employees and providing a Medical Staff consisting of more than 150 physicians and allied health practitioners representing specialties ranging from family medicine, internal medicine, and cardiology to infectious disease and general/cardiovascular surgery.
Geisinger-Gray's Woods, Port Matilda, Pa., is a multi-specialty clinic and outpatient facility offers primary and specialty care, and ancillary services for the Centre County area. The new building includes 70 exam rooms, 16 procedure rooms, an expanded imaging center, laboratory services and an on-site pharmacy.
Geisinger Medical Group (GMG) consists of 43 community practice sites throughout our service area. These office locations provide primary and specialty care. In conjunction with Geisinger Health Plan, the Medical Groups staff offers their own unique version of medical home.
Geisinger Holy Spirit
Geisinger Holy Spirit is a strong and growing healthcare provider serving south-central Pennsylvania. Geisinger Holy Spirit includes its flagship Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital, a 311-bed Joint Commission accredited acute care facility located in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Geisinger Holy Spirit employs more than 2,600 people and has more than 500 physicians and advanced practitioners on its hospital medical staff. Sponsored by the Sisters of Christian Charity, Geisinger Holy Spirit delivers patient-centered care guided by Catholic values and the Ethical and Religious Directives of Healthcare. Geisinger Holy Spirit provides a comprehensive array of both inpatient and outpatient services across the continuum of care, including acute care, home health, emergency medical services, physician practices, and a host of outpatient facilities located throughout south-central Pennsylvania. For more information, visit www.hsh.org, or follow Geisinger Holy Spirit on Twitter and Facebook.
About AtlantiCare
AtlantiCare, a Baldridge Award-winning healthcare system, is renowned for medical innovation and performance excellence, that values and rewards your contributions, and that respects your need for work/life balance and your desire to make a difference. You'll have it all, here in beautiful southeastern New Jersey, with its pristine beaches, welcoming neighborhoods, and abundance of history, culture, arts, entertainment and recreation.
The MyCode Community Health Initiative is a precision medicine project at Geisinger Health System in which Geisinger patient-participants have consented to donate blood and other biological samples to a system-wide biobank designed to store those samples for wide research uses and for genomic personalized or precision medicine. Currently, there are more than 110,000 participants in the study.
The MyCode Study was launched in 2014 by Geisinger in collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In the MyCode Study, patient-participants have consented to have parts of their genomes read or analyzed – the technical term is "sequenced." That part of the genome being sequenced in the study is known as the exome — therefore, technical specialists refer to the MyCode Study as a "whole exome study" or "WES" study. The exome is that part of the genome that is responsible for protein coding, which give instructions on the function of a gene. It is the richest target for health and disease-related information in the genome. The information gleaned will contribute to a broad range of research aimed at understanding, preventing or improving treatments for disease. The goal is to help improve health care by finding ways to diagnose medical conditions earlier or before they appear and also to help find new treatments or medications to manage these diseases.
More About the MyCode Study
The Geisinger-Regeneron collaboration in the MyCode Study is the largest whole exome-sequencing* project in the US that 1) is linked to the electronic health records of a single, integrated healthcare delivery system and 2) which makes a commitment to return the genetic results to the research participants.
Geisinger's genomic research program offers some unique features, including:
*The exome is that part of the genome that encodes proteins and is the richest target for health and disease-related information.
**Geisinger has established criteria specifying which findings are 'clinically actionable' and reported back to patient-participants.


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Battersea Arts Centre brings people closer to theatre with the One-on-One Festival, exploring the relationships between audience and performer.
Audience participation in theatre is an intimidating prospect for most people. The idea of being dragged onstage in front of friends and family to participate in a performance is mortifying. Yet, despite this, 2011 is the second year that Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is staging its One-on-One Festival and tickets are selling fast. For an event that specialises in extraordinary performances played out for one audience member at a time in a series of intimate one-on-one encounters that's pretty phenomenal. David Jubb, one of BAC's two artistic directors, explains that when they first decided to develop the Festival and celebrate this most intimate of theatre formats they discovered something fascinating: "The people that it's most intimidating for tend to be theatre audiences because they know how awful audience participation can be, so the threat of a one-on-one performance for those particular audiences can be terrifying." This in turn meant that the audience the 2010 One-on-One Festival actually succeeded in attracting was outside the usual pool of theatre-goers: "Whilst the work is the cutting-edge of new theatre practice, it's also really accessible. We were amazed last July because the audience was just so incredibly diverse."
The Festival format offers a great deal of support in encouraging people to experience this sort of work, not least because it allows BAC to present over 28 different performances of one-on-one work over two weeks. This is important with an art form that could potentially attract only a limited number of participants: "One of the risks of the work is that it is ultimately one audience member at a time, so if you present a piece of one-on-one work over a two or three day period it might be that you can only get 60 people to see it." By using the festival structure it means that a larger audience can be built up for the work. It also means that a communitas is created amongst the participants: audience members are given stickers to show what sort of performances they've been to so that similar experiences can be shared and discussed. David Jubb explains that last year "people were having quite personal, intimate experiences but then really wanting to talk to people about the experiences they'd had. The conversations in the foyer were just remarkable."
This is one of the reasons why BAC built a dining experience into the Festival this year; to further develop and encourage the opportunity for people to sit and share the work that they have seen. In addition to this they are also holding an "Overnight Open Space", giving audiences an opportunity to stay at the building late into the night to confide and partake in discussions about intimacy and performance. The idea of prolonging work and instigating a conversation and a legacy around something like performance, which is by its nature transient, is something that BAC has been working on for some time now. Their "Playgrounding" process was developed in partnership with architects Haworth Tompkins, also the architects for the Royal Court Theatre and the Young Vic. Jubb puts their ambitions very concisely: "Playground projects is about how we use the theatre that we make to leave legacies for the building." In practice this meant opening up 35 new spaces when BAC collaborated with innovative British theatre company, Punchdrunk, to make The Masque of the Red Death in 2007 and putting the long-disused chimneys in the building back into action. Now the spaces are used in numerous different ways, for weddings, exams and parties, and the chimneys have been complemented by two woodburning stoves in the cafe/bar area, creating a convivial atmosphere in which to share experiences and thoughts on the events at the Centre.
The One-on-One Festival will contribute to this ongoing objective: this year there is a series of exciting new additions, set in bedroom spaces that have been developed by the artists. These works include You Only Live Twice (But Die Once) with Kazuko Hohki and Melanie Wilson's Self-Portrait with Frida, in which Wilson has created a room reminiscent of Frida Kahlo's bedroom and encourages the audience member to partake in the making of a self-portrait to contribute to the surroundings. Jubb explains how these commissions will enrich the building: "Once the One-on-One Festival finishes, we'll have six very uniquely different bedrooms all having been created and used in the Festival and those unique worlds will each become a residency space for artists and they'll be able to stay in the building for up to four months at a time to live and work and eat and sleep." The addition of resident artists to the Battersea Arts Centre means that the venue will develop a kind of society and exist as a fully living, breathing building. This change appears to be one of those defining moments in an organisation's legacy and Jubb is confident that having the artists living in the Centre will have a profound impact. Inspiration doesn't work 9 to 5 and the artists in residence programme is designed to further encourage the flexible nature of creativity and an intimate relationship with the building and its many functions.
Intimacy seems to be the cornerstone of the projects commissioned and created by Battersea Arts Centre, evidenced by their support of one-on-one theatre: "We're really excited about it as a form, because it's ultimately about the relationship between an artist and an audience member, and what can happen. It's quite exciting and visceral; it gets to the heart of what theatre is." If theatre is designed to stimulate and affect people then the One-on-One Festival certainly achieves this; it offers a unique combination of performances, many of which are highly personal and some of which are extremely challenging, and Jubb remarks that last year there were a number of people profoundly moved by their experiences.
There is a degree of intensity that accompanies these searching performances, though, which may make some people uncomfortable. One piece in particular that comes to mind is Adrian Howells' The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding and Holding in which the audience member is fully bathed, fed and then hugged by the artist. This level of closeness crosses the boundary of most people's comfort zone; however the beauty of this Festival is the way in which it can connect to the individual and the reasons that people do choose to participate in Howells' piece can be intensely personal. Last year a woman attended the Festival specifically to partake in this performance: her mother had been ill for six months and she had started to bathe her and care for her and she wanted to stand in her mother's shoes for a day and learn what that experience was like.
Jubb is aware that people have varying degrees of comfort and boundaries, though, and the Festival is carefully curated to appeal to a range of tastes. Ten different menus are offered, with choices from "Dreamy" to "Immersive" and an accompanying "chilli chart" in the nature of Indian restaurants, demonstrating the intensity of the experience: "While some of it is challenging or personal, there's lots of other work that's fun and playful." In spite of this, it seems that the challenging menu was the one that sold the quickest, proving that many people are open to pushing themselves that bit further.
From the projects they run it's clear that Battersea Arts Centre is passionate about theatre re-engaging with audiences, something which is entirely necessary if theatre is to continue to occupy the position it does within the British arts scene. Jubb is adamant that theatre has to retain its dynamism if it is to remain a relevant art form: "I think one-on-one work is another iteration of how theatre refreshes itself and reminds itself about how it must be live: it's doing that job of reminding all theatre-makers and audiences of the vital nature of the art form." In a landscape where our priorities over the arts are constantly shifting, events such as the One-on-One Festival are crucial in bringing people closer to theatre and keeping it significant to our times.
The One-on-One Festival took place at Battersea Arts Centre until 9 April 2011 and the ongoing work of their resident artists and other theatre-makers can be seen at their tri-weekly Scratch nights. Scratch nights take place on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and are a place to watch work grow and to share feedback on ideas. Please visit www.bac.org.uk for more information and tickets.
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The statewide average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in California rose to an all-time high Monday, the third record-setting day in a row that is prompting calls for a federal investigation into the price spike.
The average price in the state hit $4.668, according to AAA. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate, saying residents need to be protected from "malicious trading schemes."
Feinstein in her letter Sunday asked the FTC to determine if the price spike was caused by illegal manipulation of the market and to start monitoring the market for fraud, manipulation, or other malicious trading practices.
"Publically available data appears to confirm that market fundamentals are not to blame for rising gas prices in California," she wrote.
Despite a pipeline and refinery shutdown, she said, state data shows gas production last week was "almost as high as a year ago, and stockpiles of gasoline and blending components combined were equal to this time last year," she said.
In some locations, fuming motorists paid $5 or more per gallon while station owners had to shut down pumps in others.
A station in Long Beach south of Los Angeles had California's priciest gas at $6.65 for a gallon of regular, according to GasBuddy.com. Meanwhile, customers at an outlet in San Pablo north of Oakland paid just $3.49, the lowest.
The dramatic surge came after a power outage at a Southern California refinery that reduced supply in an already fragile and volatile market, analysts said. The refinery came back online Friday. Prices were expected to stabilize in the coming days. Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, predicted the average price could peak as high as $4.85 before coming back down.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday ordered state smog regulators to allow winter-blend gasoline to be sold in California earlier than usual to bring down prices.
Winter-blend gas typically isn't sold until after October 31. Few refineries outside the state are currently making summer-blend gas, putting the pressure on already-taxed California manufacturers.


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General Motors to Build V8 Engines at the Former Saturn Plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee
GM says it will invest $148 million to repurpose flexible machining and assembly equipment at its Spring Hill Manufacturing plant to build V8 engines to meet market demand, retaining approximately 200 jobs. The investment will enable Spring Hill to quickly add capacity to build the Small Block 6.2L V8 engine in the popular truck and SUV segment. This will be the first time Spring Hill will build V8 engines. The 6.2L truck engine is currently available in the Chevrolet Silverado Crew Cab, GMC Sierra Crew Cab, Yukon Denali, Yukon XL Denali and the Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV.
Saturn Manufacturing Techniques
Saturn's innovative manufacturing methods have not only helped it build world-class cars, but it also helped the company forge stronger labor ties with its workers. While all of Saturn's production techniques cannot be listed on one page, I've attempted to highlight a select few that stand out. These were methods used in Saturn's Spring Hill, TN manufacturing plant.
Did You Know? (Part 1)
This morning's "Did You Know?" trivia focuses on Saturn and the environment. Saturn was concerned with how its cars affect the environment throughout the car's lifetime -- from design, to manufacture, to use by owners, to final disposal.
Saturn Was Also a Different Kind of Manufacturer
In the early days, Saturn manufactured its own cars at its own plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee. In addition to innovating on the sales, service, and engineering sides of its business, Saturn's founding fathers spent a significant amount of time developing new manufacturing techniques that were based on some of the "best in class" processes used by companies from around the world.
Fisker, Tata, and DeLorean Said to be Interested in Former Delaware Saturn Plant
Andrew Eder from the Delaware News Journal: At least three auto companies have toured the empty Boxwood Road assembly plant near Newport in a bid by the governor's economic development team to revive the state's moribund manufacturing sector. Delaware is competing against suitors in Michigan and other Midwestern states where the American auto industry has cut back production leaving dozens of abandoned auto plants. Access to foreign markets through the Port of Wilmington and a commitment to green technology could help Delaware revive a 62-year legacy of building cars that ended when General Motors closed Boxwood in July.
Saturn: A Car Relic and History Left Behind
Ken Newton from St. Joseph News-Press: General Motors, feeling the pinch of foreign imports, dangled the idea of opening a new plant to build a "revolutionary" car. Such a factory would employ 6,000 people while also creating 15,000 jobs in supporting businesses. Workers there would not only have the benefit of a paycheck, they would stand, shoulder-to-shoulder, at the vanguard of a new era of American industrial might. Perhaps to seem egalitarian, or more likely to create buzz and cajole some incentives, GM executives offered the pending plant to interested states, hoping they would compete for the car company's affections.
Report: GM Stopped Production of all Saturns Last Thursday
David Thomas from Cars.com: Current owners' warranties are still fully backed by GM and will be serviced by other GM brand dealerships — Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and Buick. As of September 1, Saturn's total inventory was 14,700 units, according to Automotive News data. Saturn representatives say there is an inventory of 12,000 vehicles on dealer lots and in transit.
Spring Hill, Columbia Worry About Life after GM
G. Chambers Williams III from the Tennessean: Tom Smith opened the Video Shoppe in north Columbia a year after GM announced it would build a new Saturn plant in nearby Spring Hill. To his delight, the automaker put a giant training facility right next door, and rentals of his movies boomed. "I had a good run because of it," he said. But today, more than 20 years later, the South Central Tennessee Career Center has moved in next door, where unemployed people go to look for work. "Their business is great, but mine is not," Tom Smith said.
Flashback Friday: When GM Gave Birth to Saturn
ABC News looked back on its evening news telecast from July 26, 1985 when GM announced construction of the Saturn plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
GM Adds Third Shift at Three Plants
General Motors will add a third shift at its Fairfax, Kansas; Ft. Wayne, Indiana; and Lansing Delta Township, Michigan plants - restoring 2,400 jobs and enabling GM to increase its manufacturing plant utilization in the U.S.
Random Article from the SaturnFans.com Archives
2008 Saturn Vue Hybrid Print Ad
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I've become one of THOSE people.
I know you're thinking 'underwear model,' but that's not what I mean.
(Hanes...call me)
No..this Halloween I became one of those people...
...who DRESSES UP THEIR DOG.
* blink
You know, for Halloween.
The other times I dress her up are strictly for sexual purposes.
Perhaps I've said too much.
We planned on taking our new dog, Sophie, out with us for Halloween.
My daughter Payton BEGGED me incessantly to buy her an outfit.
Payton: "Hey Dad, can we buy her a Halloween costume?"
Me: "Okay."
Maybe 'begged' is too strong a term.
We tried a few things on her.
Count Soph-ula:
Sophie Montana:
Wonder Sophie:
My wife, upon seeing these photos looked at me and said:
Wife: "I guess I know what you do when I'm out of the house, now."
Honey, you have NO idea.
Regardless, we ended up settling on a little outfit with a tutu that said:
"So Cute, It's SCARY!"
On a related note:
I may be gay.
So, some random notes about Halloween this year:
The Kids
My kids went as a Vampiress and a Ninja.
My daughter, Payton, got tons of great comments about her Vampire costume.
My son, Cam, instead got shit like this:
"Oooh..a Jedi!"
"What are you...a sous chef?"
"Wow...Darth Vader!"
Darth Vader?
When someone looked at him and said, "Cool Ninja," my son yelled out:
"FINALLY! Someone gets me!"
And now I'm jealous.
No one ever gets me.
The Pencil Lady
Every year the kids stop at one house where the lady just apparently doesn't get it.
Last year, she handed out pencils.
Listen, lady, if I wanted to spend forty bucks on costumes so my kids could get office supplies, I'd take them to fucking Staples.
So this year, as the kids were heading up to the door we reminded them to say 'thank you' no matter what they got...
..even if it was a stupid fucking pencil.
Seriously, lady.
The fuck you thinking?
So, the kids go up, she pops out and drops something in their bag.
My son, still standing at the top step with the woman still in the door, turns around and yells to us in the street:
Not too embarrassing, Cam.
No..no pencil this year.
They got a plastic centipede instead.
Lady, you suck at this shit.
Just do us all a favor and shut your lights off next year.
The Chinese Kid
My wife and I, and a couple of our friends are standing on the street as the kids go up to another house.
An Asian family comes up, and their son runs to the door as they stand right next to us.
My son recognizes the boy and says 'hi' to him as they pass each other.
As Cam is walking towards us, he yells:
"Hey mom! You know that Chinese kid I told you about..?!"
* cricket
Our friends look up, stifling a laugh, and immediately flee the area.
Another Halloween done...
...and all we got was plastic bugs, beastiality references and embarrassing racism.
Can't wait til next year.


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This actually happened. An e-commerce website had been designed and developed. Launch had been initiated, and it was abruptly taken offline in mid-air.
I became involved with this project just as the website was launching and advised the decommissioning. This was not a comfortable position for me to take with my new client: advising them to shut down their site.
Pulling it offline was an even more difficult decision for the owner. After all, this was not my client's hobby. They were expecting this website to provide them with a living.
This project was a typical e-commerce site with one significance difference: the site hosted multiple stores (under a single domain), with a similar look and feel for each. The stores were managed individually, but offered products for sale through a common shopping cart.
It should go without saying that the complexity of the design, development, and deployment almost surpasses comprehension. Creating a "multi-vendor" website is a savagely nontrivial task.
The original quote my new client had recieved from their vendor was a measly $10,000 (a website of this magnitude typically costs in the range of $75-100K). When all was said and done, the final cost jumped to over $25,000. How could the initial estimate be so far off (two times)? This simple answer is that the scope of the project was never properly defined, and gross mismanagement completely ignored front-end and back-end users.
Management Mayhem
It takes many skillsets to build, deploy, and manage modern websites: project management, graphic design (creative), software engineering, software development, usability testers, website beta test management, marketing, and client management.
As I see it, the cause of most website failures is little or no project management. "No need to define and manage, lets just build something and see what becomes of the website," seems to go the thinking.
The customer in this case learned after the project failure just how blindly they'd gone into site design and how poorly the project was managed. When I asked what happened, the details came pouring out:
- "There was never a roadmap for the website's design, form, fit, and function."
- "Page layout design wireframes were never defined and presented to us for review and acceptance."
- "There was no formal project acceptance criteria provided."
- "We did not know enough about the design an development process to have any doubts regarding the website vendor's abilities."
- "We were an experiment for our website vendor."
- "They learned how manage website development from our project."
- "During the sixteen months of the project lifecycle, there were many organization changes."
- "The deploy environment was basically launch the website and see what happens."
- "We did not know any better, as website development deployment was new to us."
There had been no bridge between the website customer to the vendor's creative staff. The customer tried to develop "crude" graphics to show them the desired look and feel for website. The customer was the designer.
I find the statements from my beleaguered client chilling. Plenty of them give reason enough for website shutdown decisions prior to launch.
A Ruined Experience
As I mentioned earlier, this website was to provide multi-vendor ecommerce services, where vendors could set up a their own unique shop identities and publish products—including photos—linked to them. This capability required an easy to use content management system. The website was neither alpha or beta tested with users. Instead it was fully launched as a means of testing.
Furthermore, the shopping cart had to hold product orders form multiple vendors. The ordering system had to process orders and notify multiple vendors for product shipment. The website vendor's answer was to use the free and open source CMS Joomla an add-on module called the IXXO Multivendor Shopping Cart designed for guru-level IT personnel, not the casual user.
Pity the poor vendor, thrown through pages on Joomla component pages with weird names like: Banner, D-Mack Recommend Friends, Jumi, and LyftenBloggi.
The site owner tried to support about six early adaptor vendors though the UX nightmare, but they hadn't seen the content management and multivendor shopping cart administrative pages prior to launch. After more than two weeks of attempting to support early adaptor vendors, things were going nowhere: pulling the website offline was the only solution I could see.
How The?
How did this happen? The one and only website software developer was young and inexperienced. He selected the Joomla and IXXO software for without discussing it with anyone, including the website customer. The website vendor was a creative-centric enterprise with low experience in software development and a void of UX and usability skills.
The form, fit, and function of the entire website—particularly the content management, multivendor shopping, and the customer interaction—was not shared with the website customer. Sixteen months of design and development more than $25,000 wasted, to say nothing of the lost market opportunity.
How to Never Do This
Bad UX, front-end and back-end, can kill a website. There are finer points (don't deploy general-purpose software modules for a narrow purpose to save time or money), but more crucially, the client needs to be involved from day one.
Engage a full team of website deployment project members, covering all of the disciplines required. Above all else, have a full-time, experienced UX professional available on the website development team. You can't start a user experience review two weeks before launch.
If you ever hear anyone asking, "Hey, can you look over this website? We are just about ready to launch," be very afraid.
Image of rocket launch courtesy Shutterstock.


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Coaches & Managers: Enter Results
Game results can only be added once an events start time has passed. This means if an event starts in the future, even by 1 minute, the results for that event cannot be entered. Once a game has been played, you can enter results on the team's Results page.
1. Navigate to the team's Results page.
2. If an event does not have a score entered, click the button.
3. Enter in the result details, and submit to save.


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About the man (from the website)
Stubb was born March 7, 1931, in Navasota, a small town on Texas' Brazos River, one of 12 children born to a Baptist evangelist preacher and his wife. Some say that Stubb inherited his love for cooking from his father who would feed his congregation barbeque along with the gospel. Stubb recalls revival meetings followed by potluck dinners featuring beef, pork and even raccoon and possum. When he was still a young boy, Stubb and his family moved to a farm near Lubbock. Stubb spent much of his youth picking cotton.
About the BBQ (from the website)
Take a road trip across the U.S. and you'll find countless variations on the same tasty theme: meat, slow-cooked with fire and smoke. A truly regional practice, barbecue has evolved over time to reflect the people who cook it and the places they hail from. In the Carolinas, for example, they love mustard sauce and pulled pork. In Memphis, they can't get enough dry rub. And who could forget about Kansas City? Barbecue is beloved wherever it's practiced, perhaps nowhere more than Texas. Texans enjoy a sweet, tomato-based sauce, with more than a hint of tangy spice, and they'll slather in on pork, beef, sausage, chicken, even mutton. More important than what it is, barbecue brings people together. It's meant to take a long time, so friends can smell it and talk about it, anticipate that first savory bite and celebrate when it's all over. Fire up those coals!
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Guidance to assist Parties in updating their NIP to address the new POPs
The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Stockholm Convention decided to list 9 new chemicals in 2009 and an additional one in 2011. These newly listed chemicals are commonly referred to as the new POPs. Parties to the Convention must develop a national implementation plan (NIP) for meeting the obligations of the Convention. To date the majority of Parties have submitted an initial NIP to the COP. When chemicals are added to the Convention, Parties need to review their NIP and update it with information on how they will address the newly listed POPs. The process of reviewing and updating the NIPs can be challenging for Parties that lack adequate resources and technical capacity. Parties have expressed the need for assistance in that regard and in particular in obtaining information on the presence of new POPs that are widely used for industrial purposes and are contained in articles.
To assist Parties in updating their NIP to address the new POPs, a set of guidance documents has been developed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), working in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention (SSC). The set of guidance documents aims at supporting Parties in developing strategies to restrict and eliminate the new POPs, by providing guidance on establishing inventories, monitoring the presence of products and articles containing new POPs, and selecting best available techniques and best environmental practices for situations when production, use and recycling of industrial POPs are allowed by the Convention.
Although each document focuses on a specific topic, they complement one another in many areas and will be published together as a complete set. The documents seek to provide guidance to all Parties to the Convention and in particular developing country Parties and Parties with economies in transition.