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Softer Skills of Engineering an Intermodal Perspective with a Millennial Twist: South East Association of Rail Shippers Softer Skills of Engineering An Intermodal Perspective with a Millennial twist: South East Association Of Rail Shippers Dan Pallme University of Memphis Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute March 30, 2016 Softer Skills of Engineering Lessons (from the Big Screen) about the intermodal perspective Dan Pallme Director and Producer March 30, 2016 ! This 1954 storyline was about Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) who dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry (Karl Malden), who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. Nominated for three Oscars. ! IWLU / ILA Negotiations ! Chassis ! Shift to East Coast ! Liner Consolidation ! VGM or SOLAS ! Panama Canal ! Larger ships ! Port turn time ! This movie is a 1971 American dramatic thriller film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Philip D'Antoni. It stars Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, and Roy Scheider. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the 1969 non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives, "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real- life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. Don Ellis scored the film. It was the first R-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Key Takeaways ! Global World ! Overcapacity ! Security concerns A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again. A movie released in 2000 featuring Dennis Quaid (Frank Sullivan) and Jim Caviezel (John Sullivan) Key Takeaways ! Current market comments – ! Mergers ! Modes ! Road ! Rail ! Runway ! River ! WIIFM - Are you dialed in? ! More importantly, are they? A boozy playboy rascal is set to inherit a fortune if he marries an heiress his family thinks will make something out of him. However, he falls in love with a working-class woman and turns to his valet for help when his family makes him choose between money and love. This 2011 film was a remake of the 1981 comedy that starred Dudley Moore by the same name. Key Takeaway ! What is your (Russell) Brand? 2010 Movie about Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the cofounder who was later squeezed out of the business. ! The movie is all about trying to fit in ! Creative ! Celebrate diversity ! Technology ! Listed as a movie that broke the rules ! Use media, especially social media This is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of ____ Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer working as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia. He starts out as a small-time club fighter who later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film, made on a budget of just over $1 million and shot in 28 days, was a sleeper hit; it earned $225 million in global box office receipts becoming the highest grossing film of 1976 and went on to win three Oscars, including Best Picture. ! Winners ! Work – Life balance ! Feedback ! Don’t give up This 2001 movie featured Paul Walker as an undercover Los Angeles police officer (Brian O'Connor) who must decide where his loyalties really lie when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy. ! FAST Act ! Government Regulations ! Vin ‘Diesel’– Also starred in this movie E.L. James' kinky best-seller gets the big screen treatment with this Universal Pictures/Focus Features co-production. The steamy tale details a masochistic relationship between a college student and a businessman, whose desires for extreme intimacy pen from secrets in his past. ~ Featuring Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey ! Gray is the new normal ! Modal shift factors ! Other factors not mentioned Final Thoughts Hopefully, I gave you some food for thought .
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