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Big Freight Systems founder Seaton "Red" Coleman stands next to a 1948 Dodge and a 1949 Mercury operated by South East Transfer, the company he and his father bought in 1948. South East Transfer adopted its new name, Big Freight Systems, in 1996.
Big Freight celebrates 70 years hauling across North America
American Trucker staff | Jun 29, 2018
Canadian-based freight management and transit company Big Freight Systems Inc. turned 70 this year.
Big Freight was founded in 1948 as a small, four-truck operation called South East Transfer, which changed to the current name in 1996.
The fleet enterprise consists of 150 trucks and 350 trailers that make hauls across North America. It earned the Truckload Carriers Association's National Fleet Safety Award in 2016, and in 2017 it earned the Canadian Shippers' Choice Award and joined Daseke.
The company's president and chief executive Gary Coleman said for 2018, the company is focusing on maintaining the quality customers count on.
"Our existing clients are asking us to do more, and new clients challenge us to provide creative and profitable solutions for their shipping needs," Coleman said. "We'll be ready for both."
In addition to hundreds of vehicles, including power-sports vans, the company provides warehousing and distribution, maintenance and logistics management. The warehouse, located in Winnipeg, is a 300,000-square-foot storage facility, and distribution has expanded into niche markets to meet varying customer needs.
A new generation Big Freight Systems truck hauls a 1942 and a 1946 Mercury from Big Freight Systems' early days when the company operated as South East Transfer. The two Mercury trucks are now on display at the Mennonite Heritage Museum in Steinbach, Manitoba.
Coleman said his father, who co-founded the company, is still involved; it's an enthusiastic collaboration that has led Big Freight to success,
"The people at Daseke are extremely smart, very hard working and completely supportive of what we're doing in Canada," Coleman said. "I've been very fortunate to have an equally bright and dedicated team at Big Freight that understands our short- as well as long-term objectives."
Big Freight executed a continuous improvement program in 2013 to further emphasize safety and productivity. By 2017, driver miles increased and accidents and claims decreased.
"Our company succeeds when all members of our team have the opportunity to excel and reach their highest potential in a work environment that reflects dignity, encouragement and respect," Coleman stated. "The continuous improvement program encourages everyone to participate, communicate and be recognized for their achievements."
Although the company has been challenged by the driver shortage, Coleman said, focusing on the current employees makes drivers and customers happy.
"The driver shortage is more prevalent than it has ever been and this creates all sorts of opportunities for well-run companies. At the end of the day, he who has the driver, hauls the load. We plan on Big Freight being the one that has both."
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Dr. Hanif Hassan, Minister of Health announces today the winners of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences	07 September 2010
Prof. Najib Al-KhajaTonight evening, H.E. Dr. Hanif Hassan Ali Al-Qasim, Minister of Health, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences holds a press conference at Dubai Press Club to announce the names of the winners of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, at its sixth term 2009-2010.
All details of the 6th Dubai International Conference for Medical Sciences which will be held after the awards ceremony during the month of December will also be announced.
Last week, the Patron of the Award H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al- Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance adopted the names of the winners in three categories the international awards, the Arab world awards and the United Arab Emirates awards.
Prof. Najib Al-Khaja, Secretary General of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al- Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, said that since the beginning of the sixth term of the award two years ago the Scientific Committee of the award in collaboration with a panel of international arbitrators have proposed the topics of the awards, determined the timing of nominations' receipt, evaluated nominations and determined the winners in addition to identifying the theme, Endocrinology for the 6th Dubai international conference for Medical Sciences and selecting the speakers.
Prof. Najib Al-Khaja said that the Scientific Committee for the prestigious Award is formed in its current term under the chairmanship of Prof. Youssef Abdul Razzaq. The subcommittees of the award are chaired by several senior doctors, namely Dr. Hussein Saadi, the head of Grand Hamdan International Award, Dr. Sehamudin Galadari, the Chairman of the Committee for Hamdan Award to Support Medical Research in UAE, Prof. Miodrag Lukic, the Chairman of Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence, Dr. Omar El-Agnaf the Chairman of Hamdan Award for Best Original Research Paper published in the Journal of Medical Sciences, Dr. Saad Ghazal Aswad the Chairman of the Committee of the Arab world Awards, Professor Frank Braniki the Chairman of Hamdan Award for the Outstanding Clinical Department in the Public Sector in the UAE, Dr. Salim Bastaki the Chairman of the Committee for Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services.
Dr. Najib Al Khaja, Secretary General of the Award added that the international awards include numerous awards. The first award is Grand Hamdan International Award which is decided to be given in current term to the most important scientific achievement made in the treatment of Diabetes Mellitus like the discovery of a treatment or a new drug or the invention of a tool or a new surgical technique.
The second award of international awards is Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence for which diseases of obesity, osteoporosis and thyroid have been identified.
The third award is Hamdan Award for Volunteers in Humanitarian Medical Services.
As for the Arab world awards, it includes Hamdan Award for Best Medical College, Institute or Centre in the Arab world.
The second Award in that category is Hamdan Award for honoring distinguished personalities from the Arab world. The winners are selected through the recommendations from the Health Ministry of the countries from the Arab world and based on the individual's scientific and academic achievement which reflected on the medical development in the Arab World.
The first Award of the category of the United Arab Emirates awards is Hamdan Award for an outstanding clinical department in the public sector in the UAE which have provided exemplary medical services and care for the people of the United Arab Emirates.
The second Award in this category is Hamdan Award for honoring individuals working in the field of medicine and health.
As for the third of those awards is Hamdan Award for original research paper published in Journal of Medical Sciences from inside and outside United Arab Emirates.

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Foundation skills catalogues are made up of eLearning modules covering a wide range of subjects essential to employees at all levels. They are created to a high standard by industry experts and can be used to drive up standards within your organisation. They represent best practice not simply in the content they deliver, but also in the way they optimise learning, retention, and transferability of skills. They incorporate best practice in learning design to attract and engage learners and make the subject matter relevant to the tasks people need to perform.
The fundamental message here is: don't replace what's working, but instead, identify places where the new skills catalogue provides a solution. The catalogues should enhance, not replace your existing training provision. For that to work, you need the involvement of your L&D team. This isn't about pushing them to one side, but rather giving them additional tools to do their job. And their expertise will be vital in assessing the various eLearning modules and working out where and how best to deploy them. It's L&D too who will drive any customisation of the catalogue.
This drive can begin with new employees at the onboarding stage. It's important to make them see that training is part of working within the organisation and not just a nice-to-have or something to be endured and then forgotten.
Given the ubiquity and portability of mobile devices, it makes sense to encourage people to use them in their training. Also, by providing your own approved content on these devices, you reduce the reliance on search engines and information-sharing websites as a source of quick, but potentially unreliable information. In forestalling these random quests for information and enabling access to the right information, you help standardise knowledge and procedures across the organisation. So, you're both opening access to knowledge and guiding people to reliable sources.
To make training fully accessible across devices and platforms, you need to make sure your content is adapted and adaptive. One of the clear benefits of digitised content is its flexibility and adaptability. Make sure you consider options to re-use content and to repurpose it so that it's usable in a variety of circumstances.
This represents a departure from the traditional dichotomy between the two, where first you do the training and then you do the job. If we're to up- or re-skill our people, we need to re-imagine training and work as a single component that is constantly recharged.
You need to make sure that you build evaluation into your virtuous circle of continuous training. This means analysing learner completion, access and achievement data to know what's working and, equally important, what isn't. Analyse the findings, and use them to anticipate changes and foresee gaps (particularly if skilled staff are leaving or you're hiring a new batch of employees). Make sure you avail of the regular updates and extensions to the training catalogue and give feedback to the providers on what new areas you need to be covered.
In a corporate environment that requires continuous learning, you can't, and mustn't, stand still.


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After 75 years, Augusta's downtown traffic will again travel both directions
When the project is complete, motorists will begin traveling both ways on the now one-way section of Water Street through downtown.
By Keith EdwardsKennebec Journal
This undated postcard shows two-way traffic on Water Street looking north from Winthrop Street in downtown Augusta. Contributed image
AUGUSTA — Nearly 75 years since traffic last flowed through downtown Augusta in both directions — and a year since city councilors approved a return to two-way traffic — work to make the change on Water Street is finally expected to start.
The nearly $200,000 project is scheduled to start Monday. It should take about a month to install new traffic signals, put down a new layer of pavement to cover up the current lane markings and alter crosswalks and some sections of sidewalk, including making them accessible to people with disabilities. Workers also will paint new striping to indicate travel and turning lanes, and parking spaces, and make changes at intersections to accommodate the traffic pattern change on the middle section of Water Street.
"Right now, the most important thing is making sure this is as smooth of a transition as possible," said Michael Hall, executive director of the Augusta Downtown Alliance and a major advocate for converting downtown Water Street to two-way traffic. "Just like with anything new, give it a chance.
"The majority of roads we take every day are two way, so we're already conditioned to think that way," he added. "I think it's going to feel more natural, to come off Bridge Street and make a left-hand turn onto Water Street."
Hall and city Engineer Nicholas Hartley said disruptions to traffic, parking and downtown businesses should be minimal for most of the project, since much of the initial work will take place along sidewalks, not out in the street.
While the street is expected to remain open to traffic for the duration of the project, there will be no on-street parking on Water Street during the repaving. That work is expected to take place near the end of the project and to take about two days.
"Once paving starts, the street will be closed to all parking for two or so days," Hartley said. "They'll have to close all the parking in the work area."
Traffic in the one-way section of Water Street heads north on March 9, 2018, in downtown Augusta. Kennebec Journal file photo by Joe Phelan
Alternative parking is available for free on Front Street. During the construction project, parking along the railbed between Winthrop and Bridge streets, which normally is by permit only, also will be free.
All downtown businesses are expected to remain open and accessible during the project.
"It should be business as usual," Hall said.
Once the work is complete, the street will be opened up to two-way traffic. Road signs indicating the new traffic pattern and message boards alerting motorists to the change will be in place when the new traffic pattern begins. The city also will seek to spread the word with advertising and social media posts.
Sargent Corp. is the contractor on the job and was the low bidder in a project combining the Water Street conversion with a larger project that includes the reconstruction of Commercial Street, which sits just above Water Street.
Converting the mid-downtown section of Water Street from the current one-way traffic flow to traffic moving in both directions was initially projected to cost $156,000 but increased to $196,000 as the city struggled to find a contractor to take on the work.
Officials initially hoped to covert downtown to two-way traffic last fall, but work was delayed due to the inability to find a contractor.
City Manager William Bridgeo said contractors able to do the job told the city they couldn't meet the deadline for completing work because the tight labor market left them busy and lacking workers.
In response, the Water Street work was wrapped into the larger Commercial Street job, which will follow the traffic conversion project.
The cost of that work swelled from the previously budgeted $825,000 to $1.4 million, with the city again struggling to find a contractor. It finally received two bids for the overall project, after initially drawing none, but at the higher than expected cost.
The larger project will rebuild Commercial Street, which will remain one-way headed south as it is now and create wider sidewalks. That work also includes installation of more decorative streetlights and improving the street's aesthetics to make it a better fit with the rest of the adjacent downtown area.
Councilors voted 5-2 in July 2018 in favor of the controversial proposal to open up the heart of the downtown to traffic flowing in both directions.
The proposal to make the change faced opposition from critics who said it wasn't needed or worth spending money on. Those in opposition said it also would take away much-needed parking spaces and negatively alter traffic patterns in the city.
While the project is expected to take away several parking spaces to allow for new turning lanes, Hartley said nearly that many new parking spaces will be created as part of the Commercial Street work. The net result will be about the same number of parking spaces downtown after the work as there are now.
The downtown street was two-way until July 15, 1945. Then-mayor Sanford Fogg Jr. announced the plan to convert both Water Street and the parallel Commercial Street to one-way traffic, in opposite directions from each other, on May 28, 1945. He said it had been worked out by then-police Chief Vernard W. Dudley. The goal of the change, according to a May 29, 1945, Kennebec Journal report, was to speed up traffic. Fogg was quoted in that day's paper as saying the police chief believed the change in traffic flow "will clear Water Street faster and I think we should give it a trial."
Hall said a goal of changing back to two-way is to slow that traffic back down.
He said advocates for the change looked at almost 40 different studies of cities where they switched from one-way to two-way traffic, and in nearly every case, those downtowns fared better economically than they had before. Hall said change should bring more traffic through downtown, which is good for the businesses there and will be safer because traffic will move slower. The new traffic pattern will be less confusing to tourists and other visitors, he said, who are currently forced to drive around downtown Water Street if coming from the north.
"The reason it changed was to push traffic through as fast as possible. We don't need that anymore. There are alternative routes you can take around downtown now," Hall said. "We're very excited about it, and think it's going to be a positive change."
Judge ends state senator's lawsuit calling for more public health nurses
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It is the responsibility of every Christian is to be Christ's ambassador (II Corinthians 5:20). No one ever had a more important task. If that be true – and I believe it is – then it is necessary that we know who Christ is.
Caiaphas, the high priest demonstrated what he thought of Jesus by becoming the cheerleader for a lawless mob that cried out, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" The unscrupulous moneychangers who were using the Temple courts for the purpose of selling merchandise said, "This man is going to hurt our business. Obviously He has to go." The enemies of Jesus knew that if His influence continued to increase, their influence would diminish.
The friends of Jesus had a far different view of who He was. John the Baptist looked up one day while preaching to see Jesus coming in the distance and said, "Look, it is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (John 1:29). John the disciple, having been closely associated with Him for three years or more, described Him as "The Word made flesh, who has made His dwelling among us" (John 1:14). Andrew, having met Jesus, ran to tell his brother, Simon, "We have found the Messiah" (John 1:41). Philip, having walked a short distance with Christ, ran to Nathaniel and said, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets spoke" (John 1:45).
When Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Who do men say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God" (Matthew 16:16). When the woman at the well in Samaria met Jesus, she ran back into the village and said, "Come, for I want you to see a man who told me all the things that I ever did: could this be the Christ?" (John 4:29). The soldiers who were sent to arrest Jesus returned empty-handed, saying, "No one ever spoke the way this man does" (John 7:46). Pilate, the Roman prefect, said, "I find no fault with this man" (Luke 23:4). The Roman soldier who supervised the crucifixion said, "Truly this man was the Son of God" (Mark 15:39).
Christ lived in the context of history. He is not the fruit of human imagination, or a creature of fiction, or the projection of human desires. Jewish and Roman historians mentioned Him, and those records are still extant. On no other ground can we account for the division of history into B.C. and A.D., for the existence of the New Testament, or for the existence of the early church.
Christ lived as a human. He was born. He grew. He ate and drank and slept. He lived in the context of a human family. He experienced hunger and thirst. He knew what it was to be lonely, become exhausted, and experience pain. He walked with people, talked with them, touched them, and they talked with Him and touched Him. He wept as others weep. He worked as others work.
Christ was more than human. He was God incarnate. I need a Savior, not just a good teacher or a worthy example. I need someone who has the power to cleanse me of sin and provide the assurance of life beyond death. If Christ is only a philosopher like Aristotle, Plato, or Socrates, then I can afford to be indifferent toward Him. But if Christ is God incarnate, God come to save us, it is only logical that I take Him seriously.
If Jesus were only a man, then we can turn our churches into lodge halls, civic clubs, or classrooms. If He were only a man we would be idolaters. We could throw away our hymnbooks that speak of His deity, and delete from our libraries all of the books that proclaim Him to be the divine Redeemer.
Because He was both God and man, the God-man, I can join the Apostle Paul in saying, "I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20).
Every now and then I have what I believe to be a brilliant idea! I am not trying to impress anybody with my brilliance, or even take credit for the idea I would like to share. I believe God gave me the idea.
But I am! And if you will stay with me until you have heard how to implement the idea, I believe you will share my enthusiasm. The individuals I would like to challenge your church to adopt are not infants or young children. The majority of them are well beyond sixty-five years of age, and they reside in nursing homes.
In many nursing homes – sometimes called retirement facilities – there are men and women whose family lives too far away to visit them on a regular basis. The family members of other residents live nearby but do not visit them regularly. Loneliness dominates their lives. Each twenty-four hour day seems interminable in length. Nothing new happens. They just sit there . . . or lie in bed day after day after day.
The physical and health needs of most nursing home residents are well cared for by nurses and other staff members. Those who are regularly visited are blessed and generally are happy. But those who are seldom or never visited – by members of their family or by members of their church – are deprived of meaningful conversation and spiritual care. Why not organize an adoption agency in your church and adopt them? If you will do that, you will be meeting genuine spiritual and emotional need.
Here is how your church's adoption agency could work: (1) Visit the nursing homes near your church, ask the management personnel for the names of those who receive few or no visits from family; (2) Ask as many Sunday School classes as you have residents who would benefit from being visited to adopt one of them; (3) Visit them on a regular basis – especially on their birthdays, at Easter, and during Christmas holidays.
If each class will share friendly conversation periodically with their adoptee, find out if there are specific needs that can be met, encourage them in any way possible, and especially share the love of Christ with them, what a blessing it would be to the adoptee – and to your Sunday School Class members as well.
The joy you can create, the smiles you will generate, the friendships you can initiate, the needs you can meet – all these are at the heart of what it means to minister in Christ's name and for His glory. If your church has a church staff member or a committee whose responsibility is to meet the needs of senior adults, they could spearhead this ministry. Each Sunday School class could add its adoptee to its class roll.
Go regularly to visit and to share. Listen to his or her needs. On Sunday morning or in the class meetings (if your class has class meetings) a brief report could be given by the person or persons who have visited your adoptee. I promise you that the time you give and the money you invest will be worth more to you than all the gold in Fort. Knox. You can't take the gold in Ft. Knox to heaven with you, but you can take what you have done in Christ's name to minister to lonely individuals in a nearby nursing home.
He had everything! At least that is what his friends thought.
He wore his rubber boots when it rained. In extreme cold weather he put on plenty of clothes to protect himself from unnecessary exposure. He knew that if he were not adequately dressed it would be easy to catch a cold, and this could turn into pneumonia.
His family doctor examined him twice a year, and every kind of specialist was readily available in the event anything showed up in a test that his family doctor thought could cause a problem. He brushed his teeth regularly with a nationally recognized brand of toothpaste that contained a secret ingredient – don't they all? He even took time to use dental floss daily. He had relinquished his tonsils when he was thirteen, and his appendix was removed when he was a sophomore in college.
He slept with the window of his bedroom slightly ajar every night so there would be plenty of fresh air available to breathe. He watched his diet carefully, always eating plenty of fresh vegetables and citrus fruits. He avoided foods that could cause his cholesterol level to rise like a rocket. He avoided eating junk food, and the few fried foods he ate were cooked in oil that was poly-unsaturated (whatever that means).
He golfed once a week – but never more than eighteen holes on a given day. In addition, he belonged to two health clubs where regular exercise strengthened his cardio-vascular system and his muscles were kept in tone. He was careful to get at least eight hours of sleep every night.
He never smoked tobacco, never used alcohol in any form, and never lost his temper. He was determined to avoid the problems that are caused by living a life of dissipation, for he had seen this happen to some of his friends. His blood pressure, unlike many men his age, constantly stayed at a healthy level, and he never lacked the energy to live an active life.
He had a fine wife and three lovely children. He had a very responsible job, and was recognized as a man of stature and influence in his community. Every summer he and his family spent a week, and sometimes two weeks, at the beach or in the mountains on vacation. His neighbors envied him in many ways, for he seemed to have everything. He was all set to live until his hundredth birthday.
His funeral will be next Monday! He is survived by his wife and three lovely children, one brother, two sisters, several nieces and nephews, his family doctor, several specialists, two health clubs, four golf courses, one fishing boat, and numerous manufacturers of health foods and antiseptics.
His one mistake? He forgot to include God in his life. He was involved in so many things that he did not have any time left for God. He had a family that loved him and numerous friends who would have done anything he asked them to do. He did a lot of things right in his life. He had a lot going for him. But he is now with those who say, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved" (Jeremiah 8:20).
You don't have to leave God out of your life. You can make time for Him – but you must consciously choose to do that. And you must follow through. Otherwise, the time will come when it will be too late.
Give it some serious thought! You don't have to make life's biggest mistake!
The most unique and interesting cemetery in the world is located in West Texas inside the grounds of a Bible camp. This Bible camp would have never come into existence without this cemetery.
So, what is the story behind this unique cemetery in West Texas? In the early days when the Bible camp was just a dream, those who could have made it possible were saying, "IF we only had the money we could make the camp a reality", or "We CAN'T go through with such a difficult plan because the time is not right," or "It is IMPOSSIBLE to build a Bible camp in this particular location." They were stymied until they came up with a dramatic idea for getting rid of their stumbling blocks. They buried them!
What a fantastic idea! Why should Texas be the only state in the union where "IF" and "CAN'T" and "IMPOSSIBLE" are buried? Progress in every area of life is blocked by these three hindering words. It is especially true that they obstruct progress needlessly in many churches. There is no way of knowing how many more dreams might have been realized, achievements made, and obstacles pushed aside.
Is your church satisfied with the status quo? Or does it have a vision to do greater things for the glory of God than it has ever done before? If it dares to dream, do you have individuals, even in positions of leadership, who say things like, "IF only we had the money", or "We CAN'T do that", or "That would be IMPOSSIBLE for our church." If so, why not schedule a funeral and bury those three negative words? Why is it important to do that? A church needs workers, not a wrecking crew.
Churches are divided or stagnated on a regular basis – all because of an unwillingness to have a cemetery in which words that hinder are buried. If you want your church to be known as one where God is worshipped, and where sinners are regularly born into the kingdom of God, it will not happen accidentally. You must both believe in what God has called it to accomplish and be willing to help make it happen. The tragedy is that the only time many church members attend church is when they are hatched, matched, and dispatched.


Chapora Harbour is known as the hub of fishing industry in Goa. This busy harbour will introduce you to the true local colours of Goa. Here you can witness the daily routine of a fisherman and other members of his community. Watch them settling prices with sellers, sailing on colourful boats on their way back to the harbour with day's fresh catch. You can also see here how trucks are loaded for other parts of Goa. You would surely like to catch these memories in your camera.
Chapora is well-connected by road network to nearby foremost places.
The closest airport is Dabolim Airport, about 43 km from Chapora Beach.
State and Private buses are available from key points and cabs can be hired from anywhere in Goa to reach Chapora Beach.
The closest railway station is at Thivim, which is about 19 km away to Chapora.


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Globally known electronics company Samsung was already experiencing millions of fans visiting their site regularly, but they wanted to think of a way to thank them for their loyalty and engage with them even further. Enter Samsung Nation, the newest gamified platform still in BETA. Launched in November, users can earn badges for completing activities such as watching videos, participating in forums, writing reviews, and engaging with other members. Since Samsung's main website already gets tens of millions visits annually, they didn't need to do much in addition. The main reason they rolled out their social loyalty program was to increase engagement and the number of product reviews. It has been working too. So far they have seen the number of product reviews increasing by hundreds of percent per month. The key takeaway here is huge - instead of spending millions of dollars to acquire a new audience, focus on the people already engaging with your brand and expressing a keen interest.
Audodesk, a 3D automation software used for games and films, revamped their 30-day product trial page with a fun, gamified experience that was tailored to their creative audience. The response has been overwhelming. Not only did they reimagine how the trial page would look, they also created a new 8-step guided tutorial on how to take the in-game data from a sketch to a fully realized 3D creation. This effectively showed trial users how the Autodesk 3D Max would fit into their art creation workflow, should they choose to purchase the full version. In addition to this, they created an intriguing storyline complete with rewards to incentivize users to complete the entire trial and understand Autodesk completely. This new trial demonstrated that prospective customers were twice as likely to purchase the full version of Autodesk if they had used the software at least 3 times during the trial period. Overall, they found a 54% increase in trial usage, a 15% increase in buy clicks, and a 29% increase in channel revenue per trail start.
Multinational biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has harnessed the power of gamification to educate and inspire employees internally with their latest game based learning solution called Go To Jupiter. So far it has been used to teach 500 agents about new medicine. In order to motivate them to learn about new pharmaceuticals, agents must earn a certain amount of points to reach a Stadium. A Stadium represents the official launch of a medicine event, where agents can answer questions using a remote control and earn points and badges to improve their ranking. AstraZeneca's goal with Go To Jupiter was to focus agents' attention on the release of new products, check real-time training results, foster team competition and cooperation, and to create an effective team building tool. They observed a very high usage rate of 97%, with most employees using the platform outside of work hours. On top of that, 95% of users completed each training session. This is a prime example of how much gamification can help a business, no matter the size or circumstances.


The Temple University Marching band performed Walk The Moon's "Shut up and Dance with Me" on Saturday and it was awesome. So good in fact that Walk the Moon themselves gave them a special shout out on twitter.
Temple has become the kings of getting shout outs from popular bands. Last season Paramore gave them some love as well.


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Family Promise of Gainesville benefits from the generous support of individual donors. These donors in many cases have supported the agency for a number of years. In addition support also comes from congregations and faith groups. These groups provide direct financial support, as well as hosting volunteers and shelter space. The support Family Promise of Gainesville receives from individuals and congregations in direct support and in-kind, form an important part of the foundation that supports our services to homeless families with children.
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The Origins of Political Order in Asia
An undergraduate course offered by the Department of Political and Social Change.
Code ASIA1999
Offered by Department of Political and Social Change
Course subject Asian Studies
Areas of interest Political Sciences
Colum Graham
Offered in Second Semester 2021
The Origins of Political Order in Asia (ASIA1999)
This course traces the historical development of Asia's diverse political systems. It examines underlying geo-political realities and their implications for political structure and focusses on the religious and political systems of thought that have shaped Asian political systems, especially regarding leadership, the family, ethnicity, social class and age. The course commences with the emergence of civilization in Asia, examines political structures as they were influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam and Christianity, the transformation of ethnic and national identities brought about in the era of western imperialism, and the assertion of new political ideals inspired by communism, liberalism, religions and reinterpretations of the past.
1. Demonstrate a knowledge of the broad outlines of Asian political history
2. Identify links between political structures and ideological and religious thought in the Asian context
3. Use the categories class, gender, ethnicity and age as analytical templates for identifying diversity in Asian political systems.
4. Identify the argument in a scholarly article or chapter.
5. Prepare an analytical essay based on responsible practice and course presentation guidelines
Diagnostic essay 15% [LO - 1,2,5]
Weekly quiz 10% [LO - 1]
Tutorial presentation 10% [LO - 4]
Final essay 25% [LO - 1-5]
Final exam 40% [LO - 1-3]
Attendance and class preparation: 1 x 2 hour lecture, 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week, 1 x 1 hour reading
Preparation on completion of assessment items: 120 hours (unevenly spread through the semester)
Sahlins, Marshall, 'The Stranger King', Indonesia and the Malay World 36, Issue 105 (July 2008) pp. 177–199
Shamsul A. B. 'Malaysia's Nation-of-lntent' in Asian Forms of the Nation, edited by Stein Tonnesson and Han Antlov, pp. 323-347. London: Curzon, 1996.
Van Schendel, Willem, 'Geographies of knowing, geographies of ignorance: jumping scale in Southeast Asia', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 20, 6, 2002, pp. 647–68.
Jonathan Spence, 'Chinese Society and the Reign of Qianlong,' in The Search for Modern China, chapter 5, pp. 90-116.
Nicholas Dirks, The Scandal of Empire, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006, Ch. 1.
Nicholas Dirks, 'The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India', Social Analysis, 25, September 1989, pp. 42-52.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Eric Hobsbawm, The Invention of Tradition
Ebrey and Smith, State power in China, 900-1325 (Washington, 2016)
Guy, Qing governors and their provinces (Washington 2012)
Duncan, Origins of the Choson dynasty (Washington 2000)
Palais, Confucian statecraft and Korean Institutions (Washington 2000)
Immanuel Hsu, 'The Opium War', in The Rise of Modern China, pp. 168-93.
Peter Zarrow, 'Ideas and Ideals in the fall of the Qing' in China in War and Revolution 1895-1949, pp. 53-74.
Frank Dikotter, 2010: Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62
Frank Dikotter, 2016: The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976
Mitter, Rana. A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004.
Zarrow, Peter. China in War and Revolution 1895-1949. London: Routledge, 2005.
Owen Lattimore, Inner Asian Frontiers of China (New York: American Geographical Society, 1940).
Thomas Barfield, The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China 221 B.C. to AD 1757 (Blackwell)
Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800– 1830Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Niels Steensgaard, The Asian trade revolution of the seventeenth century : the East India companies and the decline of the caravan trade (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974)
The last stand of Asian autonomies : responses to modernity in the diverse states of Southeast Asia and Korea, 1750-1900 / edited by Anthony Reid (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997)
Crispin Bates, Subalterns and the Raj: South Asia since 1600, London: Routledge, 2007.
J.F. Richards, The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, 1993.
Harald Fisher Tine and Michael Mann (Eds), Colonialism as Civilising Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India, Anthem Press, 2004.
K. N. Chaudhuri, Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750, Cambridge Uni Press, 1990.
Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age, Berkeley: Uni of California, 1998.
Paul Brass, 'Explaining Communal Violence', in The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in
Contemporary India, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003, pp. 5-37.
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition, Yale University Press, London, 2007.
Beasley, W.G., The Meiji Restoration, Stanford University Press, 1972.
Gluck, Carol, Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, Princeton, 1985
Waswo, Ann, Modern Japanese Society, 1868–1994, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 1996.
Dower, John W., Embracing defeat: Japan in the wake of World War II (New York : W.W. Norton, 1999)
M.C. Ricklefs et al., A new history of Southeast Asia (Palgrave, 2010)
Tuong Vu and Wasana Wongsurawat, eds, Dynamics of the Cold War in Asia : ideology, identity, and culture
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History
Plus: New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (by Alan Bullock and Stephen Trombley, HarperCollins, 2000)
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WCW Main Event: January 17, 1993
21st July 2015 by Scott Keith
In the world of professional wrestling, there are shows, there are events, there are special events, and then there's … THE MAIN EVENT! We have a genuinely stacked show tonight; where both the Barbarian and Cactus Jack get to seek a little redemption against Harley Race's gang o' scumbags, and Erik Watts sees his first action since his arrest.
JIM ROSS and MICHAEL P.S. HAYES are your hosts, coming to you LIVE in front of a Green Screen. Superbrawl III, hype hype hype.
The SmarK Rant for WCW Monday Nitro–08.26.96
19th July 2015 by Scott Keith
The SmarK Rant for WCW Monday Nitro – 08.26.96
The skip weeks for RAW really threw off my recapping mojo, so now we had back a couple of weeks to an unopposed Nitro to get us caught up again.
From Palmetto, FL. Really, THAT city warranted a mention? It's only a 1500 seat building, too.
Your hosts are Tony & Larry.
Monday Nitro – February 21, 2000
15th July 2015 by Thomas Hall
Monday Nitro #228
Location: Arco Arena, Sacramento, California
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden
It's the night after SuperBrawl and almost nothing has changed. That's about as close to the truth as you can get here as no titles changed hands, unless you count a tournament final for a new champion. The big story continues to be Hogan/Sting vs. Flair/Luger as we're back in the earliest days of this show, minus Randy Savage. Let's get to it.
WCW Saturday Night: January 16, 1993
InVerse: This is several years from being relevant to this post, but it felt really important to bring to CFB's attention but not quite important enough to warrant it's own thread.
I hadn't realized prior to this evening just how important InVerse was to me – but reading this, it's clear we're going to be inseparable soul mates from this day forward.
SuperBrawl 2000
Location: Cow Palace, San Francisco, California
Commentators: Tony Schiavone, Mark Madden, Mike Tenay
Well the TV shows have been some of the least interesting things I've ever had to sit through, so maybe the pay per view will be the complete opposite and be entertaining. I mean, stranger things have happened right? The main events tonight are Sid Vicious defending the World Title against Jeff Jarrett and Scott Hall in a three way, plus Hogan vs. Luger and Funk vs. Flair because they haven't replaced the Radicalz, but these old guys are still going to be fighting each other no matter who else is on the card. Let's get to it.
Thunder – February 16, 2000
Location: First Union Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Commentators: Bobby Heenan, Mike Tenay
It's the go home show for SuperBrawl and the old guys abound. The big stories here are Hogan vs. Luger and Flair vs. Funk, one of which I can't imagine appearing tonight because he's worked the last two shows in a row. Other than that we get to find out if Prince Iaukea or Psychosis gets to fight Lash Leroux for the Cruiserweight Title. I continue to beg WCW to hire some fresh talent before too late sounds like great days gone by. Let's get to it.
8th July 2015 by Thomas Hall
Location: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
It's SuperBrawl week and you can see most of the card at this point. If you hurry, you can still cover your eyes before your face melts like the Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The big stories tonight are Hogan vs. Flair and Luger vs. Funk as they mix up the big matches before Sunday. Let's get to it.
WCW Worldwide: January 16, 1993
7th July 2015 by Scott Keith
I've finally managed to get Worldwide back in the rotation – and not a moment too soon! Z-Man! Johnny Gunn! Nothing but the biggest names on the planet!
TONY SCHIAVONE and JESSE VENTURA welcome us to an actual arena in Alabama. Tony's displaying a quality part on the mid-right side of his head, with the kind of precision that lets you know, yes, this is the 90's. PAUL ORNDORFF saunters on camera, and he starts screaming about Rick Rude's injury. He apparently knows exactly what needs to be done. And what needs doing? Whether it's Milwaukee, or Philadelphia, he's going to have a match with Steeng. What of Atlanta? St. Louis? Murfreesboro? Does "Steeng" not work those territories?


Synopsis : Banwari steals Rs.10000 from his employer Manoharlal. Manohar files a police complaint, Banwari is caught and sent to jail. He breaks jail, kills Manohar and abducts his daughter Geeta as a revenge. Banwari brings up Geeta as Sangeeta, a famous stage dancer, as his daughter and makes money through her stage shows but he still wants Manohar's wealth and intend to blackmail Sangeeta's mother Kamla once she is found. Deepak, an educated but unemployed young man, is madly in love with Sangeeta but cannot approach her as she is a celebrity. He gets a chance one day and soon they fall in love. Kamla hires detective Sohanlal to search for her daughter Geeta. Sohanlal finds some proof that Sangeeta is actually Geeta. He comes to Banwari's house posing as a Prince with some business proposals and cracks the case to its depth by producing Kamla in front of Banwari. Banwari has no option left but to retaliate. Finally, Banwari & Pyarelal are apprehended by police and Deepak marries Sangeeta.


Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts we came here, we are all now in the same boat.
The Mayflower is arguably one of the more famous ships in nautical history. Had it not carried the Pilgrims across the stormy north Atlantic back in 1620 it would have likely faded away with little fanfare. Such was the fate of many other ships of that era. Like many similar ships, the Mayflower was intended to haul cargo up and down the European Atlantic coast.
Then it got used to haul a group of men, women, and children all the way to the new world across the Atlantic. The Ship's Captain, Christopher Jones, was technically not a captain, but rather the ship's master. This is according to Caleb Johnson on his website about the Mayflower. (www.mayflowerhistory.com). Johnson explains the title "Captain" referred to military ships during that chapter of history.
Master Jones was born in England the late 1500's. He named his first ship Josian, after his wife. He sold that ship in 1608, and then bought the Mayflower, and three other ships. Jones was about fifty years old when he was hired to take the Mayflower to the New World.
After confirming the new arrivals were determined to take their chances on Cape Cod, Master Smith sailed the Mayflower back to England. Shortly after returning to England the Mayflower was stranded along the Thames. It was eventually sold for scrap lumber. There have been reports that the ship was hauled inland and turned upside down to form a barn. However, Johnson considers that theory an urban legend that cannot be confirmed.
We do know from historical accounts of the crossing that the ship nearly capsized in the frigid North Atlantic. After a decade of hauling cargo up and down the East Coast of Europe the Mayflower was already in questionable condition. Then the passenger count significantly expanded because the companion ship, the Speedwell had to be abandoned and all the ship's passengers and cargo crammed into the Mayflower. Failed attempts to repair the Speedwell delayed the journey until late summer, putting the ship at risk crossing during the storm-prone fall and early winter.
Fortunately the Pilgrims had brought tools to hoist lumber to build themselves homes in the new land. These were used to repair the main mast that had cracked under the stress of the North Atlantic storm.
The conditions on board must have been truly horrific with 102 passengers and an additional crew of around thirty. One of the staff was the Pilot, John Clarke. Clarke had been a ship's pilot on a previous voyage to Jamestown in Virginia in 1611, in the fleet delivering Sir Thomas Dale to govern that new colony. Clarke stayed and worked hauling cargo around the Bay for about six weeks until he was taken prisoner by the Spanish. First they took him to Havana, Cuba and later to Spain. Clarke was imprisoned for five years and then released back to England in 1616. He made one other voyage to Jamestown in 1618 with a cargo of cattle before being hired for the Mayflower voyage. (http://mayflowerhistory.com/crew).
I have often thought that if it had depended on me to come to the New World under those conditions my family would still be living in England.


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Rounding Up a Bunch of Recent Reads
Instead of several individual posts, each with its own long review, how about a single post with several short reviews? Is that something you might be interested in? Good, here you go.
Books I'd Whole-Heartedly Recommend
Lost Empress, by Sergio de la Pava — I loved (and was totally in awe of) de la Pava's first novel, A Naked Singularity. With this novel, he came as close to David Foster Wallace as any other writer I've read. His newest novel, and his first from a major publisher, doesn't quite rise to the same level — it's more like DFW-lite. But it's still incredibly smart, mostly entertaining, often laugh-out-loud funny, and is always the case of those writers influenced by DFW, sometimes annoying, infuriating, and just silly, too. And but so, Lost Empress is about a fierce, brilliant woman named Nina Gill who owns an arena league football team and attempts to elevate her team and the league while the NFL is on strike. But the story also includes a huge cast of characters who are all somehow related (in varying degrees of tangentiality) to the Paterson (N.J.) Pork, Nina Gill's team. De la Pava does for football here what Philip Roth did for baseball with The Great American Novel — slapstick sports comedy. But Lost Empress is also a story about how the "have-nots" of society are often overlooked by the "haves." Bring your patience, and read while you're in the right mood to handle this, and you'll definitely find some reward here.
The Comedown, by Rebekah Frumkin — In my mind, the only thing better than a story about one dysfunctional family is a story about TWO dysfunctional families. Two Cleveland families become inextricably intertwined over the course of nearly three decades, first as a result of a violent event one fateful evening and then by subsequently poor choices. Taking on race and addiction, family loyalty and love, Frumkin is an amazingly agile and talented writer. This novel is great, and I'm really excited to see what she does next!
Street of Thieves, by Mathias Enard — This French novel is a bit of a deep cut — recommended by a bookseller at 57th Street Books here in Chicago. But I loved it! It's a coming-of-age story about a Moroccan teenager named Lakhdar who has various adventures around the time of the Arab Spring and the riots against the government in Spain in 2011-2012. The theme of the novel is freedom — Lakhdar feels constantly imprisoned by his circumstances as a young Arab man. If you're looking to expand your reading horizons, I can't recommend this book more highly.
Two Terrific Running Books
Let Your Mind Run, by Deena Kastor — I already wrote about this briefly in my Top 5 Favorites of 2018 So Far post, but as a few weeks have passed (and I'm now really in the teeth of training for the Chicago Marathon), this book continues to be an inspiration. I use a lot of what she wrote about in this book on each run to stay motivated and productive each time out. It really is one of the better running books I've ever read.
Reborn On The Run, by Catra Corbett — Corbett is a trail ultra-runner who is only the second woman to run 100 100-mile races. Also, she used to be a meth addict! And that's just scratching the surface. From bad relationships to the deaths of her parents, Corbett tells us how running has helped literally save her life. To her, running has become an obsession, but a healthy one. The difference between this obsession and her drug addiction is that she wakes up every morning wanting to lace 'em up. Whereas with an addiction, she did her drugs everyday, but it was joyless. She couldn't stop. This distinction (and the mental health benefits of running) is why there are so many former addicts become ultra-runners. It's a tight-knit, fun-to-read-about community. And Corbett's individual story is amazing!
Books I Might Skip If I Were You
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer — Huh? This was the Pulitzer winner? It has its moments, and is charming from time to time, but this story of a failing writer who has a sort of mid-life crisis and decides to accept a bunch of invitations all around the world sort of just meanders somewhat pointlessly.
Something In The Water, by Catherine Steadman — Passably entertaining for a summer/beach/plane read, but wholly predictable. And wow, the protagonist and our narrator is a really, really stupid. I mean, so stupid it's throw-the-book-across-the-room frustrating. I yelled at her many times, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Anyway, so the deal is that a London couple finds a bag of money and diamonds in the water during their honeymoon in Bora Bora. They make a series of increasingly poor and idiotic decisions and of course they end up in serious trouble.
Zahid Fareed August 14, 2018 at 11:42 AM
""If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
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I'm not more often than not an enthusiast of the bildungsroman, but rather Street of Thieves adds a great deal to the class. The contemporary setting, in Arab Spring, and the quick pace kept me turning the pages, while the dim substance and the pressures of the multi-ethnic, worldwide, multi-dialect character hardship kept me tested and locked in. I likewise truly appreciated the between printed setting of the book, running from Ibn Battuta, to Camus, to Foucault - exceptionally reminiscent.
No spoiler here, yet I wish the end were not all that clean, and that Énard controlled himself from the infrequent "we are all in the city of criminals" portrayal. Those are nits however: well worth perusing.
My 5 Favorite Books of 2018...So Far


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The regional squabbles over IMF leadership have started up, according to a Bloomberg report today. As can be expected, European officials are defending their hold on the post and emerging economies calling for change, while the U.S. and China watch from the sidelines.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter and Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado have all urged that a replacement for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be found quickly. European officials are insisting that a European needs to be named while the region's sovereign-debt crisis continues.
"We are in a very difficult European situation and it's quite natural that we would have a strong European influence in the IMF," Sweden's [Finance Minister Anders] Borg told reporters in Brussels.
The apparent front runner among Europeans is French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (perhaps due to a Daily Show bump?). The U.S. is pushing for a quick decision on Strauss-Kahn's successor regardless and China has stated only that the process must be a "fair and transparent process." Emerging economies raised their usual and predictable objections to a continued European hold on the post.
Morris Goldstein, with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former IMF official, suggested there are number of qualified individuals, but that they won't get a hearing unless the emerging economies quickly unite around a single candidate.
Goldstein, the Peterson Institute fellow, said there are several potential candidates from emerging markets, including Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, former Turkish Economic Minister Kemal Dervis and India's Montek Singh Ahluwalia, currently the deputy chairman of the nation's Planning Commission. Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said there's no reason he couldn't do the job.
Kevin Rafferty, writing in the Japan Times, also suggests Tharman as a strong contender from outside Europe, as well as Eduardo Aninat (Chile), Arminio Fraga (Brazil), Trevor Manuel (South Africa), Korn Chatikavanij (Thailand) or current Managing Director at the World Bank, Ngozi Okonji-Iweala (Nigeria).