Updated to align with the 6th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide, this course introduces project budgeting principles. After learning to effectively plan cost management, you'll look at how costs are estimated, budgets developed, and costs controlled.
Hi, everyone. My name is Casey Ayers and welcome to my course Project Cost Management. This course is the seventh entry in our newly updated series, helping you prepare for the latest version of the PMP Exam based on the sixth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. By completing this course and others in our PMP Prep series, you'll not only be better prepared to ace the certification exam, but, critically, we'll also completely fulfill the mandatory training requirement that must be met before taking the exam. The PMP, or Project Management Professional Certification, is consistently listed as one of the top five most valuable certifications for IT professionals and it's also broadly applicable to a wide range of industries. Given how much new value can be created from successful projects, businesses in all sectors and of all sizes need capable project managers today. A PMP builds the skills needed to succeed and opens new doors for those with the certification. In this course, we'll look at how to plan for cost management, explore tools and techniques for estimating cost and complete project activities, learn how to develop project budgets, see how earned value analysis techniques can help us keep our project costs in check, and more. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to start applying your new knowledge to the development and management of budgets for your project team. This course and others in the series can not only help you learn more about project management and prepare for the PMP Exam, but also serve as a great refresher for established project managers and as an opportunity to earn Continuing Education credit. I hope you'll join me on this journey to prepare for the PMP Exam and learn more about project cost management here at Pluralsight.
Hello and welcome. This is Project Cost Management, the seventh course in our series helping you prepare for the PMP exam, I'm Casey Ayers. Thus far, we began our journey with Introduction to Project Management and the PMP Exam. Before moving on to Organizational Influences and the Project Management Lifecycle. From there, we began the exploration of all 10 of the knowledge areas found in the PMBOK Guide, beginning with Project Integration Management before moving on to Project Scope Management, and then two courses dedicated to Project Schedule Management, both that course as well as Developing Schedules. This course is Project Cost Management and it's our seventh stop on our journey to prepare for the PMP exam. In this course, we're going to look at planning cost management first and foremost. After that, we'll look at how to estimate project costs, some of the different techniques that you can use in order to derive what your budget should be. Of course, this leads into determining the budget at large as you have estimates for each project activity or work package, and then, perhaps most importantly, controlling project costs, how to make sure that we stay in line with what it is we said we were going to spend on the project, and how to bring ourselves back into alignment when we find costs beginning to overrun. Beginning with this module, we'll first introduce the project cost management knowledge area at large. After that, we'll look at planning cost management, what it is that we need to do to set a framework for success in all topics related to budgeting. Then, we'll look at the process components for plan cost management, the official process found in the PMBOK Guide. We'll look at the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs that you need to be familiar with in order to make a success cost management plan. Let's get started.
In this module, we'll look at estimating project costs. First, we'll look at the estimate cost process as seen in the PMBOK guide. Then we'll discuss various cost estimating techniques that you can use. Finally, we'll look at the estimate cost process components, the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs that you need to be familiar with for the PMP exam. Let's get started.
In this module, we're going to discuss what it takes to determine a project budget. First, we'll take a look at the Determine Budget process at a broad level. Then, we'll look at the concepts of contingency and management reserves in more detail. After that, we'll look at developing a baseline budget, and then explore the process components for Determine Budget as found in the PMBOK Guide. Let's get started.
In this module, we're going to discuss controlling project costs. First, we'll introduce the control costs process, and what goes into it according to the PMBOK Guide. Then, we'll look at earned value analysis in more detail, followed by how we forecast costs moving forward as project work is underway. After that, we'll look at the process components, the inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs as found in the PMBOK Guide. Let's get started.


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The Synergy of Songs and Literature
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By Gerry Huntman Last updated Mar 19, 2022
A while back I saw a documentary series on language (Planet Word) by Stephen Fry (a man I have a lot of respect for, on a number of levels).
While the whole series was entertaining and informative, there was one tiny interview that resonated with me and has prompted me to write this short article.
In this particular scene, he talks to a poet about modern music and lyrics, and how they have, over the century, taken over reading (fiction/poetry) as popular entertainment. He also poses the question late in the last episode – Is Coldplay's lyrics (for instance) comparable to poetry?
I don't want to dwell on what is better or worse for entertainment or humanity's edification – this is a subjective topic that rarely adds value. However, I recall a statement (and forgive the paraphrasing) that goes along the lines: music doesn't need to necessarily have great, poetic words because the music and the artist/s are able to offset the deficit with the quality of the music.
The truth of this resonated with me. Trying hard to remember lyrics to songs I like, I realize that no small number of them have terrible words – if they were presented as poetry they would be considered childish, churlish, hackneyed, over-sentimental. And yet, with a beautiful melody, quality orchestration, and a song-bird vocalist, it is transformed. This is a fundamental difference between music and literature. In literature, there is nothing to fill the deficit.
However, I need to qualify my statement. There are, and will continue to be, songs written with words that can stand alone. Again, I search my memory and find gems. Bob Dylan , Tracy Chapman, Annie Lennox, and yes, Coldplay . And so many more. Only the other day I was listening to the song "Mad About The Boy", sung by Dinah Washington – a great song – and written (words and music) by Noel Coward. Say no more, the lyrics were great.
What we can't forget is that music and words were the original entertainers in humanity's history. The Homeric stories were poems and, according to classicists, were sung or chanted. The Icelandic sagas were chanted, in part to aid the memorizing of their long passages. There is a long association between poetry and music, acknowledged (and given tribute) by Bob Dylan in his song, "A Hard Rain's Gonna-Fall" (and equally well sung by Joan Baez and Brian Ferry in different musical periods).
What I like about lyricists who are truly skilled is that they must write with clarity, brevity, and enable listeners to 'fill the gaps' in emotion, atmosphere and ideas, much like the art of writing short stories, and the more recent popular flash fiction (not to mention nano fiction). The same obviously goes with poetry, where Haiku is an acknowledged discipline, and where it has influenced some of the greatest poets of modern times, such as William Carlos Williams.
Even if a writer isn't interested in much less than 2000 word short stories, the skills needed to convey much with few words is paramount. For lyricists, it is compulsory.
So there we have it – there are differences between the two forms, but there are also synergies that exist between them that we can learn from.
To underline the power of words combined with musical artistry, I will share a final example. Years ago I watched a very sad episode of ER, where a long-standing, and much-loved character, finally succumbs to brain cancer, while spending his last days in Hawaii. As he died, the background music was "Over The Rainbow", the version by the late, great Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.
I think most people will acknowledge that the interpretation is beautiful, including the words, which are unchanged. The song was originally intended to be wistful, and melancholy – and Judy Garland sang it so very beautifully.
But Israel transformed the song – he added a depth of sadness to it that was impressive indeed. It was perfect for the ER episode, and I know that many people have tears in their eyes when they listen to it, without really knowing why because the song's words are certainly not sad.
Bravo to great lyricists, but also bravo to writers, who have to move people without the aid of music.
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Gerry, this is a truly fine and thought-provoking article, and I am quite pleased to find it here this morning.
It is also a salutary trend that for a few decades now, major publishers of college textbooks of English literature have most often included (in the poetry samplings) a section devoted to song lyrics of literary merit.
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cheers Andrew 🙂
Thanks Andrew. I suspect I was stating a lot of things that were obvious, but at the time of writing this, the synergies were a most interesting thought. I am glad others are finding it interesting as well.
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Joyce White says 5 years ago
I do remember that episode when the doctor died of brain cancer. I also remember some truly awful songs like Achey Breakey Heart most people loved anyway despite its poetry was hidden with funny lyrics and metaphors we all can relate to. I enjoyed this article and find it interesting and real.
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TRAVERTINE HOT SPRINGS... ARE THEY REAL?!
California has hot springs. Who knew?!
My favorite thing about instagram is that it is a tool for finding new places. I basically use the app to share my photos and stories of travel and to find others doing the same. So, when I came across photos of the Travertine Hot Springs I was intrigued. To be honest, I didn't believe it at first. I kept checking and double checking the geotag thinking that the instagrammer had misplaced the photo. But, after a quick google search, I found out that it was not a mistake. California had hot springs, and I needed to see them!
"The air is cold. Colder than cold. It is 19 degrees and snowing outside. The weather report said the high today would be 50 with sun all day. This is the entire reason why I chose this weekend for this adventure. Does accuweather have a complaint box because I would like to make a submission? I am not dressed warm enough for these freezing temperatures and neither is my husband, Nick. But, I didn't come all this way to not find the hot springs. Plus, this adventure was my idea. I can't let him know that I am miserably cold. I have to make it seem like this is the greatest thing we have ever done together. A girl's gotta keep her pride. Am I right? Big smile on my face. Powering through. Check and check!
The road to the hot springs is dirt, nothing breathtaking about it. Frankly, it lacks a lot of wanderlust vibes which isn't a great sign that these hot springs will be anything to write home about. The car is parked, but my body refuses to move. It's cold out there and my entire being knows it. I brace myself for the winter chill and cling to my warm cup of motel coffee as if it will save my fingers from the winter frostbite to come. Ok. I am being a little dramatic, but I am from southern Louisiana. I don't do extreme cold. And, anything below 60 is extreme cold to us Louisianaians.
I throw on my pink parka (more options below), hop out the car, and immediately start searching. No time to waste. It's freaking freezing. Following a dirt path, I come across a few small pools of warm, murky water, but where are the travertine springs I saw on instagram and google? Well, your guess is as good as mine. I continue to walk around and wander for a bit with no luck. It is too cold to explore around this strange, abandoned landscape so I decide to chalk it up as a loss and basically run back to the car like there is a Hemsworth brother in there.
Back at the motel, I still can't let go of the idea that somewhere out there, there are travertine hot springs. I immediately open google. How could I have this all so wrong? Turns out, we had taken the wrong turn up on the hill and missed the stop completely. And, here is the real kicker: we never thought to google it while we were there. We travel abroad quite a bit and are so used to not having cell reception that it never occurred to us to whip out our phones and use google maps. We just left the hill and drove all the way back to the motel without ever using our portable internet devices. I mean... winning much?!
We both can't stop laughing at ourselves at this point. Rookie travel mistake. Who does that? Well, us apparently. And, you know what else we do? Travel all the way back up the hill driving a few feet passed where we first stopped to right our wrong. Now we have to locate those travertine hot springs if its the last thing we do. You know. Pride and all.
This time around I jump out of the car with purpose. I am on a mission. Just a short walk down a dirt path, I stumble upon what I had been searching for. The hot pools. And, man oh man. They are some stunners.
It is still quite cold outside and while the water is warm, I wouldn't say it is hot. At least, not hot enough for me to take my clothes off. And, strangely enough, there is not an electric dial allowing me to kick on the bubbles, so getting in isn't in the cards for me on this trip.
But, seeing the landscape, the view from the pools, and the warm water boiling out of the ground still lands this experience in the 'completely worth it category.' I will definitely be coming back to explore more here in the spring. Who knew? California has hot springs, and I saw them."


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Subhajit Deb, CISO, Envoy Global
Subhajit Deb was a 22-year-old college graduate in 1999 with a major in hospitality management. He had no idea he would have to deal with technology for work - let alone secure it. Twenty three years later, Deb has two decades of experience under his belt in creating, leading and managing global information security, business continuity, risk management and data privacy programs.
Deb took a job at a logistics company out of college but was forced to look for work when the firm closed its India operations. He soon applied for a customer service executive role at Dell but was inadvertently sent to an interview for a tech support role.
"There are accidents in your life that change the course of your destiny. I cannot think of doing anything else in my life than what I do today," Deb says.
He got the job at Dell and launched a career in technology management. Today, he serves as the CISO for Envoy Global, a leading immigration services provider that helps companies hire and manage an international workforce.
In this video interview with Information Security Media Group conducted as part of the CyberEdBoard's ongoing Profiles in Leadership series, Deb discusses:
The benefits of having an integrated compliance model for risk management;
His approach to being frugal and managing cyber risk well;
Closing the gap between academia and the application of innovation in cybersecurity.
Deb, who leads cybersecurity at Envoy Global, has managed information security and data privacy for companies in the financial, insurance and pharmaceutical industries. He holds two U.S. cybersecurity patents and has two others in progress, along with several trade secrets registered toward various areas of information security and risk management. Deb advises early-stage cybersecurity startups and is on the advisory boards of EC Council, CrowdStrike Tech Forum and ISMG's CyberEdBoard.
CyberEdBoard is ISMG's premier members-only community of senior-most executives and thought leaders in the fields of security, risk, privacy and IT. CyberEdBoard provides executives with a powerful, peer-driven collaborative ecosystem, private meetings and a library of resources to address complex challenges shared by thousands of CISOs and senior security leaders located in 65 different countries worldwide.
Join the Community - CyberEdBoard.io.
Rashmi Ramesh: Hi there! I'm Rashmi Ramesh from Information Security Media Group. Today, we're speaking with Subhajit Deb, who is a cybersecurity and data privacy leader with two decades of experience in creating, leading and managing global information security, business continuity, risk management and data privacy programs. He has worked in the pharma industry for eight years and is now the CISO of immigration consultancy, Envoy Global. Thank you for joining us in this Profiles in Leadership conversations, Subhajit.
Subhajit Deb: Thank you very much, Rashmi. It's a pleasure to be here today. CyberEdBoard has been a community we all look forward to. I'm glad to be a part of it. Thank you so much, again, for having me here.
Ramesh: Thank you. So tell us, you come from a non-technical background, but you have been excelling in your profession of choice. Walk us through how that happened, and what you'd like to tell the folks still on the fence about picking cybersecurity as a profession?
Deb: I think that's an interesting question. There is this time when I used to dread walking into every interview because I knew that this would be the most evident question. I started off as a pretty much non-technical profession. I used to work in a hospitality industry, then moved over to one of the largest logistics provider of the world. And as luck would have it, there are accidents in your life that change the course of your destiny. And I think there has been a couple of accidents in my life as well that has steered me toward the career of cybersecurity. I'm very glad that they happened. When I look back, I cannot think myself doing anything else other than what I do today. So absolutely happy that those accidents happened. So when I used to work with FedEx, due to the economic pressure, the company folded their operations in India and went back to the U.S. And I walked into an interview in one of the largest hardware or computer manufacturers. I walked in for customer service, but I was taken into a tech support role - accident number 1. I'm very glad that happened. And that was my first brush with technology. It hasn't been an easy journey as such. When my colleagues finished their shift and went back home, I used to head back to the labs, tearing down a chassis, looking at a heatsink processor, motherboard, power supply, memory cards, and trying to dismantle it, put it back together, and so on and so forth. Back in 2007, when I used to work with one of the largest U.S. banks, I got a chance to lead a couple of processes for information security, which were being moved from U.S. to India. Somebody had a lot of faith in my ability, but I did not have. I'm very glad that the leaders of that time had that trait, and they really pushed me into cybersecurity. And like I said, I'm very glad that it happened. Since then onward, there is not even a single day in my life where work was drudgery. It was sheer fun and a lot of learning. I absolutely love what I do today, what I do it for, and what I do it with. There couldn't be anywhere else better than I want it to be. I think cybersecurity is a very enriching and exciting career. People who want to aspire to be into the cybersecurity profession, I would say, jump into it right away. If there is something that you want to do, where there is a lot of learning every day, there's a lot of excitement, there is a lot of fulfillment, there is a lot of sense of satisfaction that what you do is material and creates value not only for the organization you're working for, but also for the larger ecosystem and the community, this is going to be it. There is no other better profession that I can think of.
Ramesh: That was very well put. So, you worked in pharma quite a bit - a sector that has recently embraced change with respect to digital transformation. So, how did you maneuver the challenges that you faced?
Deb: I think pharma is a different ballgame altogether. In all manufacturing industry, there are two distinct environments - one is your typical IT environment: end-user computing environment, people coming in with normal desktops, laptops and so on. And then there is OT - the operational technology. The ethos is very different in OT. The focus is really on safety and integrity, not just as confidentiality and availability as such. So, you need a lot of ingenuity; you need a lot of creativity to do cybersecurity in those OT systems and machines. And each of these is like 30-40 crores worth of machines and equipments connected to the manufacturing lines. Anything goes wrong, your entire plant and manufacturing come to a standstill, and that directly hits your top line of the company. So, cybersecurity in an OT space, especially in the pharma and manufacturing sector, needs to be very well thought through and that was an exciting challenge that I took up when I joined this company back in 2017. Five and a half years, I had a very exciting journey. With the pandemic as well, the entire wellness and pharma sector has evolved a lot. There was this lot of proliferation of omnichannel, ways by which a company reaches out to a patient or to a consumer. There are not just medicines, but there are health-associated services, mental wellness and physical wellness, means and establishments. Essentially, when you deal with so much of data, when you directly interact with the customers, the prerogative of security changes significantly. And hence you need to bring in the element of what is the most material risk the company experiences and then taking a look at them and fixing it as you go along. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and hence, it is important to understand, what is your unique risk appetite? What is the landscape that you're operating? What are those geographical nuances that you need to keep in mind when you do a cybersecurity for our business, which is spread across multiple different geographies and then create a consistent integrative framework, which doesn't tax you too much, yet helps you to do a reasonable and a baseline security.
Ramesh: And your work experience is not limited to just pharma, it's actually quite varied. So I'm sure the risk varies with each sector. But what are some common threats that you've seen?
Deb: I think I am fortunate to be able to work in the financial services sector, the insurance sector, the manufacturing, and now in technical and legal, which is mostly an immigration business. I think one constant theme that I have seen across all the sectors is the importance of saving data, which is, more specifically, the personal information or the PII or the sensitive personal information. And one reason why it is mostly prevalent is because the shelf life of a personal information of an individual is rather long. Somebody can steal an intellectual property, but the moment it is disclosed, the value of the intellectual property diminishes significantly. But if you look at personal information, we seldom change that. And hence, I have seen, there is a spike in how attackers or the bad actors are increasingly targeting personal information. And companies like marketing, pharma, healthcare, immigration, etc., essentially our business is all about dealing with personal information of individuals and hence, they are very highly targeted. And once this information is accessed by the bad actors, they have the ability to slice and dice it, and reuse it over and over again. How many times did we change our social security number, Aadhaar card or PAN card numbers? Seldom, right? And hence, this is the constant theme that I've seen across all the industry. Personal data has become the crown jewel, not only for the defenders, but also for the attackers.
Ramesh: And speaking of data protection, you've played the dual role of a data protection officer and a CISO. And you have previously spoken to us about the benefits of having an integrated compliance model or risk management. Tell us more.
Deb: I'm very passionate about privacy as a concept. This concept is little native in India, because of the culture we have and that we are in - we are very open, warm and embracing. And hence, it is absolutely okay to ask somebody about who all do they have in their family, where do they work, and what kind of salary do they draw, and so on and so forth. But if we look at other countries and other geographies, privacy is something that we tell with a lot of sincerity and a lot of honesty, and I think it is about time when we have become a digital citizen, so to speak, even in India. And it is just not us, but our family members, our children, our parents and our grandparents are also on social media, using an internet-enabled device. I think privacy becomes very important. From that passion of privacy, I took up this role of a data privacy officer as well, although privacy and data protection and information security do converge at one common time. But privacy is overarching. There are a lot of aspects of legal, and there are a lot of aspects of compliance, which need to be factored in. And it's a fine balance to sort of maintain. It has been an exciting journey. And in my experience, the reason why defenders sort of always have to catch up with the bad guys is because we do everything in a silo. And if you look at the assurance functions in any organization - security, privacy, legal, compliance and risk management - everyone pretty much operates in their own space without interacting too much with each other. And hence, we picked up this project. We said, let's integrate everything. And we created an integrated compliance model where all the assurance functions come in together, start putting the common language, and start looking at the risks that are overlapping across multiple risk domains and then holistically look at managing them. It bought a world of difference in the way we were doing risk management back then.
Ramesh: Right. And the cost-benefit balance is something that every CISO looks for to get all of this done, especially because they always have to convince their boards that they need the money for cybersecurity. So what's your approach to being frugal and managing cyber risk well?
Deb: I think this is an interesting question, because we operate in the world. Look at what the state of affairs in U.S. is - all-time high inflation. They have not seen that in the last two decades. The cost of goods sold is very high, the wage has gone up, and all of that has an impact on the budget as well. And there has never been a situation where CISOs would have a deep pocket to go and do everything they want to do. I think that's an advantage because it helps us to drive innovation. It helps us to think out of the box. It helps us to look at what do we need to install? Does it have a primary use? Does it have a secondary usage and a tertiary usage as well? It brings in a lot of creativity and ingenuity at work at large. I think the way to convince the board is purely by numbers and risks. And I think that is an improvement. For each one of us, I have had my share of failures, when I walked up to a board and spoke everything technical, and I came back with $0 in my hand. And I've learned from there on. I have started learning how to translate a technical risk into a business risk that is what the board would understand. I typically go with a lot of matrix with the dollar value associated with the risk of business risks that can translate into a technology risk. I show them the outside-in perspective of what's happening in the external landscape, what's happening to a peer company, or to another institution, similar to the business of ours. And I also come back and show them the inside-out perspective that if this incident were to happen to us, what is the maximum potential for loss we're looking at, and then, it's always an exercise of prioritization. Pareto is my favorite principle where we look at the top 20% of the risks that are material to us, take a look at them, fix it, and then go back to and look at the rest 20% of it. I think it's always a balanced game. But with the right kind of negotiation skills, matrix and data, you can pretty much convince anybody. And if you're convinced that it needs to be fixed, you will get it fixed no matter how.
Ramesh: That's very interesting. And when we last spoke, you mentioned that there was a gap between academia and the application of innovation in cybersecurity. Why does this gap exist, and how do we close it?
Deb: I think there are two different aspects to it. We all do innovation at work. You have shortage of man-power, you innovate. You have a tool that you need that you don't have, you innovate. You have a new attack coming up, you have no clue how to fix it, you innovate. I think innovation is rampant. But what happens is, there is a lack of a platform where innovations can be nurtured, where innovation pipeline can be created. And most importantly, the value quantification or the value realization of an innovation is something that is done in a siloed fashion. So if you look at academia, a lot of these excellent theoretical work, white papers and research papers get published. Some of those do translate into a product, but then, none of these actually gets operationalized. So, folks who are at an operational realm do innovation in a very different way than the academia, who do innovation in a very different way. So there are new novel, niche products that are coming out of the market, but then operationally, who is closer to the ground, it's the CISOs who are looking at cyberattacks every day - managing these and the cybersecurity program every day. If there is an adjacency to academia, private companies and the CISOs, who are on the ground, and if there is a collaboration, I believe that would provide the ideal ground to foster innovation. Innovation is only great when it is promulgated, when it is spread across, and when everybody else are able to draw the benefit out of it. What good is an innovation that only helps me and not the ecosystem or the community? I think that is what the gap is. And that's what we need to bridge it collectively.
Ramesh: I hope the right people are listening to that. And Subhajit, we've spoken for just a few minutes now. And I see that you have so much passion for the work that you do. What's your secret?
Deb: I think I'm convinced that what we do for cybersecurity is material, it has a lot of value. We create value every day; it might seem like a mundane set of chores that we come and do every day. But I am absolutely convinced that we do bring in a significant amount of change in the way we look at technology. We harness the power of technology for good, and not only help protect the organization, but also the customers, the shareholders, the stakeholders and the business partners - everybody in the ecosystem has a role to play. And I'm very convinced that what we do is material. And I think this is a passion that fuels us. Job is not just a job but rather it's a mission. We're very happy to fulfill this mission on our own.
Ramesh: And how does a forum like CyberEdBoard help the community do that?
Deb: It helps immensely. One gap that we have always seen in the industry is a lack of a consortium where practitioners can come in exchange ideas, share best practices and learn from each other. There are unofficial forums on WhatsApp. But then it is only an unofficial forum. CyberEdBoard is a forum where you see people from different walks of life, different industries, different set of challenges and with different mindsets. Everybody is different, every risk is different. The way we look at risk is very different. And when we come in together and collectively brainstorm, put our thoughts together, and share and exchange our best practices, there is nothing better than that. I always say that the attackers are a lot more organized than the defenders are, and with the help of CyberEdBoard, we will make that game change for good.
Ramesh: Well, thanks so much for sharing your journey and for offering some valuable advice to your peers and new entrants to the cybersecurity industry. I'm Rashmi Ramesh speaking with Subhajit Deb for the Profiles in Leadership series for Information Security Media Group. Thank you for joining.
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Define permissions for class members
In this video, Doug Winnie explains how to create a private member in a class using the private statement. This creates permissions and rules for the various members of your custom classes.
- [Instructor] When we create members in our class, we can define them as either being public or private. Private members are only available within the class. Let's open our Cat class to look at an example. In our Cat class, we have a public string for the name. We can also create an integer for the age of the cat, but age is something that we can't force a change on. I can't tell a cat, hey, grow up a couple of years. By having this as public, though, that is exactly what's going on.
I am providing public access to the property. In this case, I need to make it private, because I don't want to let anyone outside of the class to have the ability to change the value. But now, I have another problem. I have a private member, but now, that also means that no one can get the age of the cat. The solution is to create a new method that will be public, and return the cat's age. So, at the bottom, let's create a new method that will be a public method that will return an integer.
We'll call it GetAge. Inside, we can return the age property, which we can do, since it is private in this context. Now, we can test these new permissions we have put on a cat. Go back to the Progame.cs file. At the bottom, let's try and access the age property. Pet.age It's going to try and autocorrect this to GetAge. Press Escape, and then push the semicolon.
When you enter this in, you'll get an error, because, in this context, the age property doesn't exist. It is private, so we don't have access to it. We do have access to the GetAge method, though. So, let's create a new message in the console. Inside, we can create a console message and build a string. We'll then access pet.petName to get the name of the pet, and then we'll insert the word is, and then insert pet.GetAge as a method, so make sure you have a pair of parenthesis.
And then we'll add years old. Let's go ahead and run and see if this works. Go to Debug, and then select Start Without Debugging. Because we are using the public method, we are able to get the private properties value, but we've been able to secure the permissions to access the age, to avoid public access to the value. You can make any member of a class private, including methods. If you want to have a method you can only access within a class, you should type it as private.
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This Saturday, Oct. 1 you can help support the protests at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in South Dakota by attending the rally to support their efforts in Alamosa starting at 10 a.m. Join the San Luis Valley Contingency lead by Crowfox KmimilaWi of Saguache. Attendees are being asked to be prepared for any kind of weather and to bring their own food and water to support themselves throughout the day.
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Some Background on the situation: According to the oil companies in the throes of construction, the Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a new approximate 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline that will transport oil from North Dakota to major refining markets "in a more direct, cost-effective, safer and environmentally responsible manner."
In protest, a group of over 100 Native American Tribes and allied environmentalists have set up camp in and around the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in South Dakota neighboring the pipeline to protest its construction. The demonstrators argue the line would risk the pollution of the Missouri River and connected water sources and damage ancient tribal burial sites.
Recently, completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline seemed almost inevitable. But a recent announcement from the Department of Justice, the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior provided a ray of hope for the Native Americans, environmentalists and Midwestern landowners who oppose it as the battle rages on in the courts and on the ground.
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Institutional Investors The Reluctant Activists in New Britain, Scotland and other European countries continue to grow and are projected to become more than likely the largest independent investor in the world, according to a new paper highlighting recent investment patterns in this area. The London-based research paper has a list of the most prominent promoters, the most influential firms, who are expected to be the most likely to produce the next phase of market GDP growth, among the four main sectors of trade. "The London-based research is the result of an intensive period of research and monitoring," said Mervyn Hughes, an economist with New Britain, a research organization that publishes economic analysis and forecasting publications.
The annual report lists up to 100,000 different potential businesses based out of London-based small and medium-sized companies, raising awareness that businesses will have to continue to adopt a sensible approach to investment. Marketing Unlike the likes of EMI, a common-interest group in European investment, each participant in this category were not introduced until months after the conference launch. Ecommerce The activity of ecommerce was not high the first part of the talk, however.
As a result, the amount of new purchases from Ecommerce began to plunge, and ecommerce "gives" consumer awareness of the benefits of buying food through the food web. A whole suite of new social interaction technologies are also offering insights into how to grow ecommerce to scale into a sustainable consumption model. Among the various services provided by the London-based company, there were financial management, market-based advertising, marketing and training, and a mix of those mentioned above.
Last year, ECommerce founder David Ruddy, joined the London group and received a gift of six kilograms of gold, making him one of the pillars of the group, as was many others who stayed on active involvement. "The London-based European Venture Group (EVMG) has an active advisory group of European business groups. It was determined that they would be responsible for an effective strategy to help partners from all over the world develop brand habits," said Mervyn Hughes, CIPM managing director of EVMG.
Leadership EVMG rose its profile to be the largest group of UK and EU investors in the next few years, according to its lead story. Over half-six-in-a-month, 13.4% of London-based investment funds are participating in the global project, with 33% of the fund's funds listed offering a full-service strategy and coaching.
The London group also have been key in raising money for investment projects worldwide called venture capital projects. EVMG is a leading UK company dedicated to innovation driven "strategy as market company" by leveraging disruptive investment ideas and investing ideas to create a sustainable future for businesses. Funding and management The London group made an appointment with an investment banker named Stephen Coady, one of London's largest private equity investment banks.
Stephen Coady was under a deadline for fund account opening to the end of the month. It is important to recognise that it is early days for fund opening. This could mean that to date, the fund has only had an opening for five months, let alone two.
Stephen Coady says there is "many hours of meetingsInstitutional Investors The Reluctant address Recent Media/Sponsors Brava Economics Author photo by Peter A. Miller Liam M. Goldwasser, founder of Brava Resources, has called on all who wish to oppose him to oppose him at his annual conferences when he heads up a new venture community in Chicago.
(Photo: Ryan Fleete (New York Times) via Getty Images) Brava, which owns and runs an online business featuring educational, entertainment, and information services, has a tough balance between one vision and a vision ultimately determined by two factors: First, it would serve as a beacon that speaks to the challenges facing the world; second, a very large portion of its investors and supporters, including the number one management company responsible for "Brava and Beyond", could simply not stand the chance of moving in the footsteps of billionaire business moguls and media moguls who have visit our website attempting this effort in their years in Washington. But Goldwasser said that from its inception in 2011, Brava has had a positive impact on various aspects of strategy. In the past six years, the Brava Corporation has grown by more than six times from roughly 70 a year to more than 40 a year.
With only 12 years between its primary directors and a major subsidiary in U.S., many believe themselves to have been wiped out by the public's financial problems.
Goldwasser and others may need to start asking themselves to be a beacon of corporate power in the world, since there is no guarantee that the world as he describes it will be. But the Brava people seem to have found it. As per popular call in the redirected here last year, the Brava visit site consists of a network of trusted management contractors.
The Brava-trained CFO, Giorgio Castelli, is working with a massive stake, under the direction of Steve Fischler, CEO of Brava Technologies, to support the Brava financial community. "The Brava-like world you describe actually seems to have been in the past," says Castelli, who has invested heavily in Brava's acquisition of Avizo Power. More broadly, the Brava team consists primarily of top management consultants from other industries, including banking and investment and law, media and entertainment.
But they also have been exposed to a variety of stories about the Brava board that show how the Brava-centered trust is a particular weapon in a wide range of political and real estate institutions. Take the case of Goldman Sachs. It was put to the American Bar Association and Wall Street Journal researchers a few years ago, and its CEO, Jonathan Klein, found a way to leverage the intelligence and experience of its boardroom staff and the Brava community to influence the voting of his decision to buy a key downtown office — and to lay the groundwork for his own firm's successful takeover of the city's coffee-houses.
As far as I'm aware, Goldman Sachs has already come under investigation for bank fraud but has not decided to cooperate fully when it launched its own investigation last week. Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that it would investigate Goldman Sachs. Nevertheless, the SEC has taken a seemingly irreversible step of making legal arguments against such a legally problematic industry as bacchanInstitutional Investors The Reluctant Activists of our time at Black Lion – In the time frames that have clearly defined our goals with the first two quarters, there in the click for source States remains a large and growing presence in Wall Street and these institutions have the potential to be the catalyst for disruptive change in our marketplace, both socially and in terms of the economic dynamics.
What exactly does this mean? The interesting thing about my work at this museum is that something as simple check here setting up a newspaper campaign isn't an entirely different "keystone" from the "keystone" of a major American fund to fund. this article corporate fund can also be a tool to make an investment and even start a company and even could shape a company's future, if the company actively or not actively invested enough money. A close relative makes a significant investment in The Money That Matters, such as I previously told you this story here on the Money That Matters campaign.
If I have a paper that says "We're focused on advancing the economic, social and policy changes in the United States", I have the financial position to see it. I call that the "dollar movement" or "dollar wing of the Money that Matters". (If you're in school, that's a different name that I go by.
) Imagine that there is a paper that says, "We're focused on advancing the economic, visit this website and policy changes in the United States." You can look at that to see if a print feature on a white paper like that would be a viable platform for investing. There used to be a slogan for this paper and there are many ways to communicate this.
And as you can see, you could name the paper with a different name. Where and how could I do that? And that's just what I am used to. But from my day-to-day, I have worked with small and medium-sized companies based out of the United States that believe in investing and funding their businesses.
Part of the challenge in coming up with a platform is making sure you can do a name that is clear with these corporate fund supporters. If they can see it, they can bring it to them or they can grab it. And I'm confident these platforms will provide information about how to do that.
Here is a timeline to the paper that we might consider: 1937–19 and finally 1951–1967 We'll find in the comments that the names we've quoted have been changed (and you have to be familiar with it) but why? So "we" or "we have"? Maybe in the earlier list we're only referring to the name-of-the-paper and not the paper itself. Even if we would have found it the old labels would be redundant. 1715–1771 What do you think? Does it have to be a name? I don't know you.
But no matter what your real name might be, some newspaper people may try to break into a newsletter with a dollar and change the name. That way, it's easy for you to get name changes if you don't have to. 1744–1789 I wouldn't be surprised if this happened to you.
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As is always happening in recent weeks, the advances in the future are still many :).
This time the part I have reimplimented is the 3d system in the race. This system consists of 3D elements and textures that are painted on some of these objects.
The truth is to see the "simplicity" of the solution, since the 3d objects are only polygons painted in one color and in the upper part a texture is incorporated, the solution looks very good.
After several weeks of work with a lot of help from Simone (thank you very much) we have been able to understand how it works and thus be able to reimplement it (it is at 99%).
Throughout the following days, the specification of the 3d system files of the game will be added to the project wiki.
Awesome news and good work!You are welcome. For my editing purposes I miss something in placing objects in correct position on track and/or extract some object correctly. So I'll wait for your wiki.


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Q: Whose view is not in the window hierarchy issue?
Warning: Attempt to present  on  whose view is not in the window hierarchy!

Yes I have looked at the other questions and answers before posting this question. They have not helped me resolve this. Here's what I am doing. I am calling on my singleton class socialHelper to display an action sheet, where postToFacebook method is an option to select. When clicking on this action, I get the Warning above and the postToFacebook is not displayed. I'm calling this from a UIViewController with the UINavigationController as the main controller, and my SocialHelper class is a NSOject.
- (void)postToFacebook
{
    if ([SLComposeViewController isAvailableForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook]) {

    slComposeViewController = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];
    [slComposeViewController setInitialText:@"Building stairs? Checkout StairsPro on the app store!"];
    [slComposeViewController addImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"StairsIcon120x120.png"]];
    [slComposeViewController addURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stairs-pro/id477032819?ls=1&mt=8"]];

    [self presentViewController:slComposeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

    // I've also tried this, which shows the post window, but after hitting cancel or post, my previous viewController is not the current viewController. So my navigation bar is gone and can't move around in my app.
    // [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication]delegate]window]setRootViewController:slComposeViewController];

    }else{
        UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@"No Facebook Account" message:@"No Facebook account has been configured. You can configure or create a Facebook account in settings." delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"Dismiss" otherButtonTitles:nil];
        [alert show];
}
}

So what I'm asking is what is the best way to get the slComposerViewController to display in this case, also how we could use the UIApplication option as well. Thank you!

A: I would change the method to pass in the ViewController to make sure the correct VC is presenting it like so:
- (void)postToFacebookFromVC:(UIViewController*) presentingVC

And inside that method when calling presentViewController use:
[presentingVC presentViewController:slComposeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

I assume then that using your socialHelper singleton class would be something like:
[[socialHelper sharedResource] postToFacebookFromVC:self]; //inside the VC that you want to display it

For your second question on using the rootViewController try this:
[[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController] presentViewController:slComposeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Edit: Since the first two suggestions didn't work for your project, try getting the topMost ViewController and presenting slComposeViewController from it instead of "self" like so:
UIViewController *topController = [UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController;

while (topController.presentedViewController) {
    topController = topController.presentedViewController;
}

[topController presentViewController:slComposeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

A: This answer won't resolve your issue but it should make some sense of why it isn't working and help you towards finding the right solution for what you originally intended.
SLComposeViewController being a UIViewController has an associated UIView that will be displayed on top of the view of the controller receiving the message presentViewController.
As correctly done in this line but, self needs to be a UIViewController (an object that has a view property).
[self presentViewController:slComposeViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

It will work if you move your -postToFaceBook method out of the SocialHelper class and put it inside your UIViewController class (file) that will display the action sheet, so that way self is actually a UIViewController instead of NSObject.
From Apple's  UIViewController reference page:

When you call the presentViewController method on a UIViewController
  it sets the presentedViewController property to the specified view
  controller,  resizes that view controller's view and then  adds the
  view to the view hierarchy.

Your SocialHelper class is not a view controller so it does not have a view to which the action sheet view could be added to display it (on top).
I'm thinking even if you inherit your SocialHelper from UIViewController, the view of your SocialHelper would not be in your controller's view hierarchy.
If it is only two or three view controllers where you need to display the action sheet, I would replicate the code instead of creating a separate class; if it is several view controllers, then it makes sense to have the action sheet display logic as a separate class, you just need to find the right design pattern to do that.
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Forgot to mention the declaration of your variable is missing the SLComposeViewController *
Is it just missing in your post or you have declared the variable somewhere else in your viewcontroller class?
Try declaring it right there in the same line you create the SLComposeViewController; that might fix the issue. If that did not work then double-check all you need to do to support Facebook in your app by looking at this very simple and easy to follow tutorial.
SLComposeViewController *slComposeViewController = [SLComposeViewController composeViewControllerForServiceType:SLServiceTypeFacebook];

I'm assuming you created your navigation controller with main view controller as its root:
navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:mainViewController];

And to show the flip side controller you do this in your main view controller:
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:flipSideViewController animated:NO];

The flip side controller has the about button to show the about view when tapped; I'm thinking you do a presentViewController not a push:
[self presentViewController:aboutViewController animated:YES];

Finally, in the about view controller you should have your -postToFacebook method with the corrected line mentioned above; which will be called by the log (button?).

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Alan Buckley has certain ways of doing things. He doesn't 'go direct'. He doesn't sign foreign players. And he doesn't like having only one senior goalkeeper in his squad. Hence his decision to dispense with rookie Rob Murray and bring in Gary Montgomery from Rotherham this summer – after three or four years of cost-cutting in which Anthony Williams, Steve Mildenhall and Phil Barnes have successively borne the burden of being the only man on the books who can concentrate on keeping goal without the distraction of mock GCSEs.
Let's get the facts bit done. Montgomery was born in 1982 in Leamington Spa (I did some work there the other year: it's historic-posh by day andFootballers' Wives at night) and came through the ranks with nearby Coventry City. He did make it into the first team but only nine times, and eventually moved on to Rovrum, where he recorded an almost equally unimpressive 38 appearances in four years. We have a 26-year-old goalkeeper, then, who has played fewer than 50 games of senior football.
The question, then, is by how much this figure will increase in the months ahead. Barnes has retained the number 1 shirt and Buckley has suggested that the first-choice slot will default to him until events (or form) dictate otherwise. However, Montgomery's decent form in the summer strollarounds against Grantham et al has led to calls from some supporters for him to line up against Notts County on 11 August – though one suspects that, after the Pontoon's savage and self-defeating treatment of their goalkeeper last season, many fans would sooner Rhys Wilmot emerge blinking from retirement, clutching his dodgy back in agony, than see Barnes run out for the Mariners again.
"Hmm, Monty is something of an enigma. Suffered by having to follow on from Mike Pollitt – our best keeper in years by some distance. Don't think any of our keepers are really helped by the crowd getting on their back as soon as something goes wrong. It rather shattered his confidence and I don't think he ever really recovered from it. It may well be better for him having a fresh start at your place. I don't think he had any confidence in the defence nor they in him. Plus we were forever chopping and changing keepers after each of them made a clanger. He's fairly woeful at coming off his line (but I suspect that may be lower division keepers all over) or commanding his area. Good shot stopper though."
Doesn't all of this sound chillingly familiar? But Buckley's record shows that, among the many things he can be relied upon for, one is the acquisition of a reliable goalkeeper at minimal expense. True, there was Wilmot – although the blame for that unfortunate subplot to Town's exploits under AB in the early 1990s must lie not with the manager but with the medical staff who failed to ascertain the full extent of the player's back problems. In the credit column, meanwhile, are the lovingly etched names of Steve Sherwood, Paul Crichton, Danny Coyne and, of course, Dave Beasant, still worshipped beyond proportion for his half-dozen-odd games on loan in 1992. On the evidence available I reckon Monty could turn out alright – if only we let him.


President Trump came to office intent on shaking up Washington. While he's run into obstacles in Congress and the courts, there have been clear victories. John Yang offers a recap of the president's domestic moves, and presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Barbara Perry of the University of Virginia Miller Center sit down with Judy Woodruff to discuss how he compares to his predecessors.
But first: As President Trump nears his 100th day in office, White House correspondent John Yang begins our look at his accomplishments and setbacks, with a focus on the home front.
For President Trump, today's tax announcement amounted to a campaign promise kept.
It's a great plan. We're going to put people back to work.
It comes as he nears his 100th day in office. President Trump dismisses that milestone as not very meaningful and a ridiculous standard, even as administration officials aggressively push his accomplishments online and on-camera.
When you think about what he's started, it's been a huge, hugely successful first 100 days.
Mr. Trump came to the White House intent on shaking things up, changing how Washington works. He and his advisers have focused on asserting executive action. He is on track to sign the most executive orders in his first 100 days since World War II.
But like other presidents bent on changing Washington, he's run into obstacles in Congress and in the courts.
There have been clear victories. Administration officials tout the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, though Republicans had to change Senate rules to do it.
And I got it done in the first 100 days. That's even nice.
And he moved quickly to revive construction of the Keystone pipeline with executive action. The courts have stymied other executive actions, like his immigrant travel ban, and, just yesterday, his effort to strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities.
While stinging from those court actions, administration officials say the president's tough talk has led to a sharp drop in illegal crossings over the southern border since January, reversing a nearly 20-year trend.
Mr. Trump has also reversed himself on some campaign promises, such as not declaring China a currency manipulator, as he had pledged to do in campaign rallies across America.
What should have done years ago.
And now the White House is working to turn around the most embarrassing setback of his first 100 days, the initial failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, a signature pledge of his campaign.
We were very close. It was a very, very tight margin.
That episode shook some administration officials' confidence in House Speaker Paul Ryan's ability to deliver votes.
REP. PAUL RYAN, R-Wis., Speaker of the House: We came really close today, but we came up short.
On tax reform and on other major legislative initiatives in the near future, such as the promised infrastructure rebuilding, there are indications the White House intends to chart its own course as they search for the victories the president wants to turn his vision of making America great again into a reality.
For the PBS NewsHour, I'm John Yang at the White House.
For more on President Trump's first 100 days, and how he compares to his predecessors, I am joined by Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, and presidential historian and NewsHour regular Michael Beschloss.
Michael, I'm going to start with you.
First, remind us quickly, where did this 100-day standard come from?
It came from Franklin Roosevelt. He had 100 days that started a couple days after — a few days after he was inaugurated.
And he was trying to deal with the Great Depression and had this amazing success with Congress, getting all this legislation, fixing the banks, trying to relieve the poor, Tennessee Valley Authority, Public Works, a kind of legislative record that we probably will not see again.
And every president since then has hated it, because they're measured against this almost-unreal standard.
So, Barbara Perry, here we are, almost 100 days in for President Trump. How does he compare to his predecessors at this point?
BARBARA PERRY, University of Virginia Miller Center: Depends on what you want to compare him on.
So, if you want to look at, let's say, executive orders, certainly, in terms of the numbers, he would be right up there in the categories of most presidents.
But, as Michael said, in reference to legislation, I think FDR passed 76 laws in the first 100 days through a very amenable Congress. Obviously, Trump is not going to come anywhere near that record, and probably no other president will either.
But I would say, certainly on executive orders, on the Supreme Court appointment of Neil Gorsuch, he gets A's in terms of getting what he wanted based on some of the promises that he made during the campaign.
Michael, how do you see him compared to others?
I think I would say it a little differently, because Trump made such a point before the campaign just before the election, saying, elect me. This is a referendum on my 100-day action plan. I will get all these things through Congress with a Republican Congress, which he has had.
And, in retrospect, as you do say, this has been 100 days with almost nothing of great importance, despite the fact that he had promised health care reform and big tax reform, which he's getting to this week and a number of other things, border wall.
So, if you're looking at the 100 days largely as a legislative standard — and that is what is usually is in history — Trump is really pretty low down on the list.
So, Barbara, Michael referenced where this 100-day standard comes from, but how often do presidents get a lot done early on in their administration?
It depends on the president, of course.
If you look at someone like Lyndon Johnson, who had, of course, two first days — first 100 days, one after the Kennedy assassination, and then being elected in his own right, but particularly after the 1964 election, in 1965, as he moved forward with the Great Society, Medicare and Medicaid, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, so we will point to a president like that.
Again, no one will ever again standard of FDR in legislation. I also look out where they come out in the first 100 days on approval ratings, which is a fascinating parlor game to play. We know this president coming in, of course, came in with the lowest entering approval rating of any president.
But it also doesn't matter necessarily if you make a mistake, because the person with the highest rating after 100 days is John F. Kennedy, after the Bay of Pigs. But the way he handled that issue by going before the American people and saying, I'm responsible for this, I'm the responsible officer of the government, caused his approval ratings to spike even further.
So he comes in with an 83 percent rating. We know Trump's approval ratings is down in the low 40s at this point.
Dig a little deeper there, Michael, in terms of how Donald Trump has done compared to other presidents. You started to talk about this a moment ago with the setting of the standard. But how does he stack up?
Well, you know, a lot of this, you know, what presidents do, above and beyond their congressional record, is, do they expand the base that they had on Election Day?
Donald Trump, you know, got, what, 47 percent of the popular vote. Now he is down to about 40, which would suggest that, if anything, he's alienated some of the people who voted for him.
Usually, with presidents you see — and this is true of almost every president back to FDR — the opposite. They get elected, they say, I need people who didn't vote for me, who are skeptical of me. I'm going to reach out to them. I'm the president of all the people.
And you see the numbers go up because people appreciate the fact that they are reaching out. That is the one thing Donald Trump — and this has been his own choice — has not done. He's essentially said, I'm happy with my base. I will play to them. I am not going to make a big effort to reach out to Democrats and independents in Congress or out among the American people.
And I think the numbers show that he's paid for that.
One other feature of this presidency has been his unusual attacks, if you will, Barbara, on the judiciary. Time and again, he has singled out the courts, judges, justices when he didn't like what they ruled.
He has, which is a little odd, in the sense that his sister is a federal judge, and a circuit judge at that.
But he is following in the footsteps of some other presidents, and we can point directly to FDR, for example, who took on the judiciary headlong, not necessarily even in the first term, but certainly once he was reelected by a landslide in '36, and famously, or infamously, tried to pack the court.
But I always go back to a speech that he gave in which he said, the two branches of government, president and Congress, are pulling a wagon. There are two horses pulling in the same direction, and the court, particularly the Supreme Court, which kept striking down his many pieces of New Deal legislation, is pulling in the opposite direction.
That was a metaphor that the American people could understand. But they never supported in the main or for the majority his court-packing plan.
So, it's not so unusual, Michael. But it is — there has been a frequency we haven't seen.
And Reagan talked about unelected judges. But in Trump's case, you have had — and this is historically unusual — two big executive orders within these first 100 days, including most recently sanctuary cities, and earlier on the travel ban.
Each time, he would say, almost in anger, this was something that an unelected judge did, or something that a so-called judge did. And it's sort of the opposite of conservatism, because one of the things that is most fundamental in being a conservative is having respect for the democratic institutions that we think are important.
Let's talk, finally, Barbara, about what the first 100 days tells us about the rest of a presidency. To what extent can we look at Donald Trump's first few months in office and say this forecasts whether he's going to be successful or not?
… and still come on to win.
So, to the point about low approval ratings and Michael's point about not necessarily accomplishing all of the list of things he said he would do in the 100 days doesn't mean that he won't be reelected or that he will have a failed presidency.
And if you think of someone like Bill Clinton, who had a rather chaotic start in a host of ways in those first 100 days, and even up to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and people were saying, oh, it's the shrinking presidency and the shrinking Bill Clinton as president, and yet he came on strong. And we know that he was reelected in '96.
So, it's not a Ouija board. And, as a professor, I would say to the students in the first third of the semester, if they scored lower than they wanted on the first test, I would say, you have more tests to do, you have a term paper, participate in class.
So, Trump still has many more things on which to be graded.
And that is that it's a standard that historically doesn't tell us a lot, because think of all these presidents and what turns out to be important about their administration, these moments like Kennedy and the missile crisis, or Johnson and the Vietnam escalation, or George W. Bush and 9/11.
None of those things happened in the first — during the first 100 days. So, if we were having a great conversation like this 100 days into each of those presidencies, we wouldn't have been able to predict what historians now think was really turning out to be pivotal.
Michael Beschloss, Barbara Perry, thank you both.
And, tomorrow, we will take a look at the Trump administration's successes and setbacks overseas within its first 100 days.


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Trump tweet: I'll consider pardon for boxer Jack Johnson
This undated photo shows boxer Jack Johnson. Credit: AP
By Tom Brune tom.brune@newsday.com @TomBruneDC Updated April 21, 2018 7:51 PM
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday said he is considering granting a full pardon to boxer Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, who was convicted in 1913, during the era of enforced segregation, of having sex with a white woman.
Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have campaigned for Johnson's pardon for more than a decade, and even passed a resolution for it in Congress. But the effort stalled after the Justice Department advised the policy is not to grant posthumous pardons.
King said he hadn't brought it up with Trump — President Barack Obama turned down the request — but the actor who wrote the scripts and played Rocky Balboa in a series of seven boxing movies did in a telephone call. And Trump responded.
Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial. Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon!
"Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial," Trump tweeted Saturday afternoon. "Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon!"
Johnson rose to fame at the height of Jim Crow laws in the early 1900s that enforced racial segregation. He endured racial hatred from white boxers and fans, and stirred calls for a "Great White Hope" after he beat white boxer Tommy Burns for the heavyweight title in 1908.
A flamboyant man, Johnson openly dated white women, leading to his conviction and one-year prison sentence for violating the Mann Act for taking a white woman across state lines. At the time, his actions were termed a "crime against nature."
"It would be great recognition and a correction of injustice if President Trump granted the pardon of Jack Johnson," King said Saturday.
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