How will infrastructure's workforce transform the industry and deliver the networks and services of the future? Human resources leader Mary Finch explores the potential for change, and we hear from young professionals around the world about their hopes and aspirations for a growing focus on social purpose, flexibility, diversity and the use of emerging technologies as the norm.
For these young people, change is more than a fact of life, it is an opportunity. Having grown up in a digitally enabled world — with industries transforming rapidly around them — the next-generation workforce admires those companies equipping themselves to compete in the Industry 4.0 era, 'The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2018' and looks to these organizations to help them succeed.
In turn, with technological innovation outpacing human development, organizations, including those in the infrastructure sector, must find new ways to assess the evolving set of competencies needed to thrive in the new workplace. This is not just about identifying someone's technical ability to do the job they have now well, but also their willingness to learn those skills required for the jobs of the future that do not yet exist.
As an industry, we need to adapt to this digital mindshift and, for young professionals, valuing diversity is an essential part of that. They see diversity as a core component for any forward-thinking organization, defining the concept more broadly to encompass: tolerance, inclusiveness and belonging; respect and acknowledgement of individuals; and different ideas and ways of thinking, 'Deloitte's Millennial Survey' and looks to these organizations to help them succeed.
To find out what the shifting landscape means for future infrastructure, we spoke to young professionals about why they chose to work in this field, their plans for the future and how they believe the sector needs to change to deliver faster, smarter and better.
Lan Duong (LD) — Assistant Project Manager, Abu Dhabi An ICE-qualified civil engineer, with over three years of experience in designing wet utility networks primarily for urban commercial developments in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Channing Bickford (CB) — Transportation Planner, Florida, U.S. Urban planner with a focus on environmental and transportation infrastructure, including bicycle/pedestrian planning and transit-oriented development, with a specific interest in Asia and emerging economies.
Avni Jain (AJ) — Civil Engineer, Sydney, Australia and Hong Kong A pragmatic idealist, passionate about driving efficiencies in infrastructure development.
Roy Yapp (RY) —Assistant Engineer, Transportation, Bristol, U.K. Transportation technician designing and modeling infrastructure projects for private, local and national government clients, and an 'Apprentice Ambassador' and Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) advocate.
Pooja Mahajan (PM) — Civil Engineer, Los Angeles, U.S. Water infrastructure engineer, specializing in design and modeling, with an interest also in strategic planning, data analytics and storytelling.
Jordan Butler (JB) — Graduate Structural Engineer, Perth, Western Australia The Engineers Australia 2018 Young Professional Engineer of the Year for Western Australia, invested in technical excellence and improving the built environment.
Clara Kleine (CK) — Junior Project Engineer, Essen, Germany A georesources manager, who joined the infrastructure industry in 2017, working on environmental permitting and environmental services projects.
Abhishek Malhotra (AM) — Technical Director, Design Planning and Economics, Gurugram, India Having 15 years of professional experience delivering infrastructure — including some mega-urban development projects — to provide better, safer and more liveable city environments.
What inspired you to work in infrastructure?
How has your training equipped you to work in infrastructure?
How would you like your career to develop in the years ahead?
What are the issues that matter to you when you're choosing a company to work for?
How do you think the industry will evolve in the coming five, then 10 years?
What are the big changes that you would like to see happen in the industry?
The younger generation are tech savvy, adaptable, creative and have grown up in a faster paced, digitally connected world. They won't be limited by the practices of the past, but will complement the knowledge held by the older generation and exemplify the value of diversity.
Young professionals' career paths will be fast paced and exciting, but different. They will be more mobile. The corporate ladder will look more like a jungle gym with sideways, and dare I say backwards, moves to progress upward. Young professionals will need to take greater ownership of their own professional and career development. But the breadth of their experience will be huge and enable them to quickly advance their careers.
As an industry, we need to market ourselves to better to engage the best and brightest students. We need to sell the positive impact a career in infrastructure can have on people's lives and communities. We also need to promote engineering and STEM professions as a great career choice for girls. And we need to work harder to retain women in the profession. Finally, we need to raise the status and profile of engineers, ensuring more parents and teachers encourage kids to consider engineering.
Many of today's young professionals grew up with the internet as practically another parent — able to access any information, to learn anything, at the push a button. Pair this with the workforce becoming increasingly social and you can see how approaches like integrated project delivery stand to hugely impact infrastructure in a good way.
Alongside this, on average, the next generation has greater concern regarding sustainability, resiliency, diversity, and social/cultural equity than previous generations. Project-delivery mechanisms, construction techniques, materials, material sourcing, and many other aspects of the infrastructure industry will all see holistic shifts, moving emphasis away from cost as the bottom line.
They are also being driven to greater specialization, while simultaneously being asked to understand the dynamics of the larger infrastructure system. Those able to collaborate well across disciplines will be more likely to succeed.
In response, the infrastructure industry needs to embrace change, including quicker implementation of emerging technologies, as well as allowing more-flexible schedules and locations. By enabling young professionals to integrate work into their life better, organizations will yield a more dedicated and ultimately more innovative workforce. Programming, too, needs to become a key piece of our (and most fields') curriculum.
As highly creative, inquisitive, scientific problem solvers driven by a desire to make a difference, young infrastructure professionals today have much in common with previous generations. The significant difference is the skills they will need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Educated and raised in an era of huge technological change, these young professionals see smart technology and internet connectivity as part of the fabric of daily life and expect these tools to be readily available to use in all aspects of their role. The information they need to help them do their jobs is also only a click away. This gives rise to a different set of challenges, requiring knowledge, judgment, curation, interpretation and assimilation to process effectively.
In addition, the ever-increasing multi-disciplinary nature of infrastructure delivery, combined with digital, means that infrastructure teams will become more diverse, making collaboration, communication, team-working and leadership even more critical.
We're already seeing a new generation of engineers keen to bring their technological understanding into traditional engineering disciplines where, perhaps, it is not yet the norm — with apprentice and graduate digital champions sharing innovation and digital best practice. This generation will be at the forefront in delivering the smart infrastructure revolution that is happening now.
51 percent of Angelenos agreed that requests for feedback about infrastructure improvements came too late in the planning process for their influence to be meaningful.


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Profile: Alan Joyce
By By Lucinda Schmidt
January 24, 2007 — 11.00am
The Jetstar boss is in no hurry to return to his native Ireland.
When Alan Joyce worked as a research analyst for Irish airline Aer Lingus he applied for a job as a pilot but was knocked back. "I'm probably too hyper," laughs Joyce, who is now the boss of about 300 pilots and 1300 other staff, as chief executive of Jetstar. Does he still want to fly? "I think my eyesight is too bad, unfortunately."
After 18 years working in airline management, he says he is well and truly hooked on the industry, even if he doesn't have a licence to fly. "They say the smell of kerosene gets into your blood and you become addicted."
His mathematical skills have been far more useful to his aviation career than a pilot's licence. The Irish-born Joyce holds a master of science degree from Trinity College, Dublin, with a double major in physics and maths, which has proved invaluable when facing complex revenue management issues such as forecasting the percentage of no-shows on a particular route on a particular day (which allows the airline to over-sell seats by up to 3 per cent).
"It's a phenomenally logistically complicated business," says Joyce, 40, who is known as one of Australia's more affable chief executives and enjoys a beer and Australian rules football (he supports Geelong).
Jetstar's low-cost model, launched in May 2004, four years after Virgin Blue, has made air travel affordable for most Australians. Among Joyce's challenges is external communications and the intense media scrutiny over issues such as the 30-minute closeout and unallocated seating.
Joyce says both strategies help keep prices down because they force people to check-in earlier, rather than in a big clump at the end, so Jetstar can roster two rather than three staff on the desk. And because people rush on board to get a good seat, turnaround time between flights is reduced from 30 to 25 minutes, which also saves costs.
Even so, Jetstar was forced to introduce assigned seating in October, after its research showed that a lot of customers, especially in the lucrative business sector, would not even try the airline if they didn't have an allocated seat. Joyce says the change has already generated a "significant" revenue improvement and on some sectors, including Melbourne to Hobart, business traffic has doubled.
Joyce came to Australia a decade ago after rejecting the safe option of a job at Ryan Air in Ireland for the chance to work overseas for Ansett. He moved to Sydney-based Qantas before Ansett collapsed in September 2001, then became chief executive of Qantas' new discount subsidiary in 2003.
Since then, Jetstar has tripled in size, flying more than 12 million passengers to earn a 14 per cent share of the Australian domestic market. In November it launched its international service, flying to five destinations including Bali and Phuket.
Yesterday Joyce announced plans for a Jetstar service to Malaysia and in March the airline begins flights to Japan. Although the start-up costs for the international expansion, plus high fuel costs, have caused Jetstar's profits to fall from $35 million to $11 million, Joyce says he's not concerned.
"We are the first [low-cost carrier spun out from a full-service airline] to make money every year since launch," says Joyce, who notes that similar discount airlines often add costs by using their parent company for too many services.
"We do our own maintenance and our own distribution [mainly through the internet]. And being in Melbourne gives us some independence."
Joyce has been mooted as a possible replacement for Qantas chief executive Geoff Dixon, 66, when he retires.
Two years ago, Joyce knocked back an offer to return to Ireland to head his former employer, Aer Lingus, and he says living in Australia is about as close as he can get to living in Ireland, but with better weather. "Maybe when I retire I'll spend six months in Ireland and six months in Australia each year," he muses.
Biggest break [Qantas CEO] Geoff Dixon giving me the job as chief executive of Jetstar. It's been such an experience, such a great project. The environment was just perfect.
Biggest achievement Pulling such a competent group of people together to run Jetstar.
Biggest regret That Ansett went under. I had a lot of friends there but it did teach me a lesson. Qantas was a lot more aggressive and had a can-do attitude. Ansett, especially once Air New Zealand took over, had analysis paralysis. You have to have management that is determined and aggressive and will do what they have to do.
Best investment Education. My parents are from a working-class background and spent what they had to put four kids through uni. The biggest foundation you can give anybody is education.
Worst investment Time wasted in travelling [he flies for work once or twice a week].
Attitude to money I've always been very conservative, with no elaborate expenditure. Maybe it's my working-class background; you appreciate the resources you have.
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Shakespeare's Home on the Hill Turns 75
Massive Folger Shakespeare Library Was Couple's 'Gift to the American People'
By Bree Hocking
Posted March 12, 2007 at 4:50pm
During World War I, Standard Oil of New York executive Henry Folger and his wife, Emily, were en route to a golf outing in Hot Springs, Va., when their train was held up in Washington, D.C., because of troop movements. To pass the time, the couple — avid Shakespeare collectors who never traveled without card catalogs listing both their Bard-related holdings and objects they were interested in obtaining — took a stroll to the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
It was a serendipitous moment for the nation's capital: The Folgers just happened to be in the market for a location for a library to house their extensive Shakespeare collection.
"When they walked up towards the Capitol I think there was this epiphany, this eureka moment, when Henry Folger said, 'This is where the library ought to be. It ought to be near the U.S. Capitol. It's a gift to the American people,'" said Folger Shakespeare Library Director Gail Kern Paster.
Folger would die before his library, located just a block from the Capitol, was complete, but his legacy has more than endured.
This year, the Folger Shakespeare Library, which opened its doors on April 23 — Shakespeare's alleged birthday — of 1932 is marking its 75th year. It's an appropriate time for the anniversary: The capital city is, after all, in the midst of a six-month celebration of all things related to William Shakespeare.
Building a Legacy
The genesis of the Folger Shakespeare Library dates back to a lecture by Ralph Waldo Emerson that Henry Folger attended in 1879 while an undergraduate at Amherst College. Inspired, Folger began reading Emerson's other works, including a speech on Shakespeare's importance, which fueled his passion for the Bard. It would be a decade before he bought his first rare book, but once he got started there was no stopping him. Aided by the breakup of the great private English libraries and the resulting flood of rare books onto the market, Folger and his wife amassed "thousands of crates" of materials, which soon outgrew their Brooklyn Heights home and had to be housed "all over the place," including in "Standard Oil warehouses," Paster said.
Among the Shakespeare treasures Folger acquired are the Pavier quartos, a unique quarto of "Titus Andronicus" (which Folger purchased after it was discovered wrapped in lottery tickets in an attic in Sweden); the world's largest collection of First Folios (79 of the roughly 240 in existence); and Queen Elizabeth I's Bible. All in all, the library, which continues to expand its collections, comprises 316,000 books and manuscripts, 50,000 paintings, engravings and other images, as well as numerous items ranging from furniture to films. (The library also holds many of the Folgers' personal effects — the couple was childless — and their ashes are interred behind a brass plaque in the grand Elizabethan-style old reading room. "I feel we are channeling them all the time," Paster said, noting that the library has its share of ghost stories.)
Despite its unparalleled holdings, the Folger retains an understated mien. Notably, most of its greatest treasures — in addition to maintaining the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's works, it also boasts the third largest holding of early English printed books, after the British Library and Oxford's Bodleian Library — are out of sight to the general public in its researchers-only reading rooms or in vaulted, fire-proof stacks 22 feet below ground. A stroll through its dark-paneled Great Hall on a typical day might find a smattering of visitors gazing at exhibits behind glass cases. (Last time the library checked, in 2003, its annual foot traffic was roughly 100,000 per year, including theatergoers, said Garland Scott, a spokeswoman for the Folger.)
But that's hardly the whole story.
Beginning with the directorship of O.B. Hardison in 1969, the Amherst College Board of Trustees, which until recently served as the library's main administrators, decided to transform the institution from a largely research-based library to one that also offered expansive public outreach — an emphasis the library has retained to this day. Over the years the library has established the Folger Consort, a chamber music ensemble; a theater group (which would later split from the library and is now known as the Shakespeare Theatre Co., though by the mid-1990s the library had formed its current theater group, Folger Theatre); poetry programs; and student Shakespeare festivals. The library also is home to the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and co-hosts its reading series that culminates in an annual fiction award. Moreover, Paster noted, the Folger editions of Shakespeare's plays "sell more than all other Shakespeare editions combined." And the library's online Shakespeare lesson plans have received "millions of visits by teachers," she said.
Folger Turns 75
To mark the Folger Shakespeare Library's three quarters of a century of existence, an ambitious array of activities has been scheduled. Last week, the library launched the new exhibit "Shakespeare in America," a broad survey of the ways in which the United States has embraced the Bard from its founding to the present day. (Related story, this page.) Next month, a three-part radio documentary of the same name narrated by actor Sam Waterston, which includes interviews with ex-Sens. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Walter Mondale (D-Minn.), will begin airing on public radio (local broadcasts are scheduled for WAMU on May 8, 15 and 22 at 10 p.m.). On April 29, the annual party and open house, during which some of the library's off-limits areas are opened to the public, will be held to mark Shakespeare's birthday. And the Folger's annual spring fundraising gala will be headlined by actors Sir Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave. (While not explicitly linked to the anniversary, Folger director Paster will be featured in a spread in May's Vanity Fair on "libraries that keep it lively," showing her posed in a ruff on the balcony of the library's old reading room, Scott said.)
One notable omission from the anniversary festivities is a presidential component — particularly given the White House's longtime involvement with the library. President Herbert Hoover was on hand at the library's dedication in 1932, for instance. And recent administrations from former Presidents Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton have marked the major anniversaries with some sort of White House reception. Paster is reticent to discuss the lack of White House participation this year, attributing the absence to "mixed signals." She did point out, however, that the president and Mrs. Bush had served as honorary patrons for past Folger galas and once even hosted a Shakespeare birthday party at the White House.
At its founding in 1932, the Folger, along with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress, was one of only a handful of major cultural institutions in Washington. Today, it vies for attention among a broad spectrum of popular draws ranging from the numerous Smithsonian museums that now dot the National Mall to private ventures like the International Spy Museum. And the Shakespeare Theatre Co. — the Folger's "prodigal son," as Scott terms it — is set to expand its already high-profile position in the heart of the economically resurgent Penn Quarter area with the opening this fall of the Harman Center for the Arts, which will include a new 775-seat theater.
But Paster said the Folger is secure in its mission and calls the Shakespeare Theatre Co. "friendly competition." "Our missions are very different," Paster said, noting the Folger Theatre's emphasis on performing works mainly from the library's collections in an intimate Elizabethan-style theater.
And the library is taking some significant steps in modernization.
It's working to increase the ways it disseminates Shakespeare's works, such as digitizing its collection, and it recently added a kiosk with a digitized version of a 1623 First Folio (whose pages you can turn by touching the screen) to the 16th-century-style Great Hall. The library has placed portions of its content online and offers a Web component for its exhibits. Most recently, it added cell phone audio tours for its shows, which are accessible by dialing a number on one's personal mobile phone.
"I think that ultimately we will be a library without walls," Paster said, addressing the future online potential. Now that's Shakespeare for the 21st century.


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This past February, Boston-based band Beeef debuted their first LP, "A Beeef CD." With the LP, the innovative quartet (composed of Perry Eaton, Josh Bolduc, Neil Patch, and Daniel Schiffer) displays blatant strength not only as instrumentalists, but as lyricists and composers as well. These skills not only stand out as individual entities, but seamlessly merge together to create an innovative artistic hybrid of sound and language.
The album's second track, "Dogshit Paradise," immaculately encompasses this skill. The track opens with an infectiously rhythmic bass line that prevails throughout its entire duration, serving as an electric undercurrent that catalyzes sonic energy. Masterfully layered over the bass line are intricate guitar riffs whose sound exude whimsy with a dash of dreaminess. The lyrics are candid to the point of comfort, allowing listeners to develop a sense of connectivity to the track. With mentions of entities representative of both physical and emotional familiarity (such as bedroom walls, progress, walking down a familiar street, and individualism), the track lyrically appeals to facets of the human experience that results in a chord being struck for all who listen to "Dogshit Paradise." In turn, this reveals one of Beeef's most prominent artistic strengths: their ability to invoke a sense of familiarity and connectivity through sound.
"Cream Soda" is another track that exemplifies this unique artistic ability. The opening chords instantaneously radiate a sense of wonder and a feeling as warm and familiar the hot summer sun touching the skin. It allows the listener to relish in a sense of nostalgia; to relish in the ever so human desire for the rest of the world to melt away.
The track's second verse begins with a line that describes all that lies between a memory and a dream, which, consequently, is a strong encapsulation of the song's essence. Both musically and lyrically, the song exudes the degree of comfort and closeness that comes with a memory as well as the ethereal nature of a dream. These two elements are streamlined into a sonic nexus of reflective lyrics, entrancing guitar riffs, drum parts that seamlessly transition from reserved to robust once the verse beings to bleed into the chorus, and potent bass lines to create an impactful auditory experience.
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AMPLIFY: As a band, what aspect of "A Beeef CD" are you most proud of?
Beeef: It's great to have something tangible to reflect all of the practicing and gigging and songwriting that we've done over the past few years. I think that's the part that I'm most proud of. This record was something that was completely our own, we started very loosely a few years ago and little by little we got tighter and grew a bond with many of these songs. Now that the album is out, it's great to see many others becoming close with these songs as well.
Beeef: Slowly but surely! We've always been good players, and because we were all friends and roommates before, we've had the advantage of not taking ourselves too seriously. Truth is though, we started out hacking around in our basement playing songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pavement, and Real Estate. Not a whole lot has changed except now we're hacking around on our own tunes and crafting new ones. Once people started taking notice, I think it drove us to get tighter and try more things.
AMPLIFY: Does your vision "A Beeef CD" align with what you hope listeners take away from it?
Beeef: That's tough to say, but ultimately I think we made this record because it was fun, and I think folks who come to our shows or listen to the record also have fun doing that. There are definitely aspects of it that we take seriously, and some of the themes on the album aren't exactly party music, but at the end of the day, we wanted people to engage with it in one way or another, and so far, I think people are feeling comfortable doing that.
AMPLIFY: Which artists have been most impactful to you, both as individuals and as musicians?
Beeef: We've always been really into the Boston music scene because that's where we're from and it's where we've been going to shows for a number of years. A few of us even started a music blog a while back called Allston Pudding, which is still cooking today. After a while of writing about other peoples' bands, we had quite the pool of inspiration to draw from and that's a big reason why we even started a band. Even in putting the album together, we recruited some friends from local bands, namely Jeremy Lee Given from ABADABAD, Mike Moschetto from Aviator, and Ben Semeta from Black Beach, to mix and master the record. There are too many great bands in Boston to name, but they've all made for this really creative and supportive environment to be a part of. We're also huge Grateful Dead fans.
Beeef: We don't have one set way of doing things, but it typically consists of me writing some lyrics or bringing a chord progression to a practice and then as a band we kind of flesh things out. This record is funny in that it contains songs that I wrote like 7 or 8 years ago and were collecting dust in a notebook somewhere. It also has a tune that I just kind of wrote on a whim and recorded a few days later and I now have no clue how to even play it. As we move forward, we're bringing new and different songs to the table and the other band members are writing tunes, too.
AMPLIFY: How did the creative objectives for "A Beeef CD" differ from those of your previous releases?
Beeef: The only release we had before this was an EP and all of the songs from it appeared on this album, just more polished. That EP was recorded live in our basement, which we loved doing. This full-length was tracked in like 5 different locations and took almost three years to completely finish. It took a lot of work and I think we learned a lot from the process and how we could maybe trim the fat next time. We're really pleased with how it came out though.
Beeef: A lot of bands we listen to have this kind of slackerish, sloppy, reckless punk quality to it that we really admire. As much as we strive to have that sound, our chemistry kind of rejects it at times. The way our songs are put together kind of calls for us to be pretty tight and we tend to obey that. Any time we play a show and are able to loosen up a bit and make fun mistakes, I think we kind of like that though. It's a good problem to have, and I think it reflected positively on the record. There are some stretched-out parts, but it's mostly pretty tight and that's a good thing to have on a recording.
AMPLIFY: The "Airplanes" music video is awesome. How did you guys come up with the concept for it, and what was the filming experience like?
Beeef: Andrew Gibson is basically the fifth member of our band. He's our roommate and he documents many of our shows. He's also a huge Deadhead which is pretty sick. He filmed our first music video for "Dogshit Paradise," which was pretty elaborate and took a lot of planning and coordinating. The "Airplanes" video was a bit more off-the-cuff. Gibson got his hands on a green screen, he set it up in the basement, and he just had us all take turns doing ridiculous things in front of it. We really love how it came out and that we were able to rock turtlenecks in it, too. Gibson is in a couple sweet bands, he plays in Gymshorts and is the frontman for a legendary band called Gutterbugz. He's got a great look, too.
AMPLIFY: What is your favorite aspect of Boston's creative community? Has it impacted you as artists? If so, how?
Beeef: Boston's music scene has had an immense impact on us. We've been around it for so long that we're also critical of its flaws, but the fact of the matter is, it's a small city filled with a lot of young, creative people. In my apartment alone, we have like 6 bands represented, and we all get together to play really gnarly Dead covers on Friday nights. It's the informality of it that makes it so fun. We look up to so many bands in our community, and there are so many important people around that make sure that this creativity is seen. We're really thrilled to be a small part of it, and to have so much great music in our neighborhood.
AMPLIFY: Lastly, what's coming up next for Beeef?
Beeef: We have a vinyl for the record that we're about to release on May 6, and we're taking preorders on our Bandcamp page. We're gigging a lot this spring, too. We're playing a great festival called Boston En Masse with some terrific bands like Birthing Hips, Lina Tullgren, and Hassan Barclay. We're also playing Providence, which is a great scene, a local festival called Porchfest, and we're super honored to be playing Waking Windows, an awesome festival in Burlington, Vermont. That festival will feature a lot of great Boston friends and some cool headliners like Real Estate, Dan Deacon, and Pond.
To learn more about Beeef and listen to their work, click here to visit their bandcamp page. In the mood for some reading? Click here to check out Allston Pudding.


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Huh, Whah? Prez Pitch to Paper Strictly Hush Hush
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:37 AM
From The Des Moines Register staff blog comes a journalistic milestone: Obama makes the case for the paper's endorsement off the record, and the paper is perplexed. "No reason was given for the unusual condition of keeping it private," they write. "We relented and took the call. How could we not? It's the leader of the free world on line one."
Probably going off again about transparency again.
The Des Moines Register's publisher and I spoke with President Barack Obama this morning — but we can't tell you what he said.
Just four days before the Register's presidential endorsement is released, Laura Hollingsworth and I received a phone call from the president. He was calling from Florida, on the heels of a morning campaign appearance and about 14 hours after his debate with GOP nominee Mitt Romney at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
The conference call lasted nearly 30 minutes and was an incredibly informative exchange of questions, answers and an insightful glimpse into the president's vision for a second term. He made a genuine and passionate case for our endorsement and for reelection.
Just two weeks before Election Day, the discussion, I believe, would have been valuable to all voters, but especially those in Iowa and around the country who have yet to decide between the incumbent Democrat and his Republican opponent.
Unfortunately, what we discussed was off-the-record. It was a condition, we were told, set by the White House.
Romney's October 9 appeal to the e-board, by the way, was audiotaped and posted. Why not?
Read the rest of the weirdness here.


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Examining American Exceptionalism
By Stephen J. Bergstrom
On the surface, American exceptionalism appears to represent a boldly-stated concept but when contrasted to the subtleties of personal experience, the lessons and flow of history and individual geographically-rooted place, horribly small-minded and delusional, conceivable only as a statement by a crazed, power-hungry overlord to an underling.
Synchronized beautifully in 2004 by a senior aide to Bush Jr. to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind writing in the New York Times Magazine, American Exceptionalism is,
"…an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do…" (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html).
To begin examination, let's take a closer look at basic definitions (courtesy of Merriam-Webster).
Exceptional:
not usual
unusual or uncommon
unusually good
ism:
the act, practice, or process of doing something
behavior like that of a specified kind of person or thing
unfair treatment of a group of people who have a particular quality
Exceptionalism:
the condition of being different from the norm; also
a theory expounding the exceptionalism especially of a nation or region
Combining the above, we realize that exceptionalism equates to perception or a perceiving of self that endows the perceiver with uncommon power.
In the case of the United States, seeming high-level leadership self-perceives that the U.S. is "exceptional" (i.e., unusual or unusually good in possession of the ability to act) and does not need to conform to normal rules or general principles. In worldly terms, the U.S. exits the brotherhood of nations and is empire among middling servant states.
Voicing American Exceptionalism
U.S. President Barack Obama speaking at the 2009 NATO Summit, Strasbourg, France,
"I believe in American exceptionalism…we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that, though imperfect, are exceptional…"
U.S. President Barack Obama speaking to West Point's graduating class 2014,
"America must always lead on the world stage…The United States is the one indispensable nation…I believe in American exceptionalism with every fabric of my being…"
Then actor and to-be President, Ronald Reagan at the First Conservative Political Action Conference, 1974,
"…We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.'
We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth."
The City on the Hill: Finding the Roots to American Exceptionalism
First Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop (1588-1649) represented early American Puritanical Tradition. Addressing a bevy of puritan emigrants waiting to disembark the Arabella to create the first settlement in what would become the first of the New England states, Winthrop declared,
"…we shall find that the God of Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies…for we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us…"
(https://thehistoricpresent.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-city-upon-a-hill-and-puritan-hubris/)
That forenamed city destined to be recast time and again by America's political leadership and undoubtedly favored by those behind that leadership, first by Reagan in his same above speech;
"Standing on the tiny deck of the Arabella in 1630 off the Massachusetts coast, John Winthrop said, 'We will be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.' Well, we have not dealt falsely with our God…"
President-elect John F. Kennedy said, in an address to the Massachusetts Legislature on January 9, 1961,
"During the last 60 days I have been engaged in the task of constructing an administration…. I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arabella [sic] 331 years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a government on a new and perilous frontier. 'We must always consider,' he said, 'that we shall be as a city upon a hill—the eyes of all people are upon us.'"
From George H. W. Bush's "thousand points of light" to Bill Clinton's "America has a special role in the eyes of God" to John Kerry's "…we have moved closer to the America we can become – for our own people, for the country, and for all the world…", to lesser weighted John Bolton's "The most important thing you need is a president who is proud of the United States of America, who believes in American exceptionalism" to Condy Rice's, "When the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful economic and political experiment in human history. That is the true basis of American exceptionalism…" special effort has been made to convince America she is biblically-blessed and exceptional.
A Truth Hidden, Half Told
But conviction does not always mesh with contradiction nor will those convicted remain so in the face of evidence, direct personal experience and the geography of place.
Alexis de Tocqueville was one. The son of Norman aristocrats, de Tocqueville lives a short life. Born in Paris, July 29th, 1805, he travels to America in 1831 and publishes the tome upon which his fame rests,Democracy in America, in the year of his thirtieth birthday, 1835 and in which he observed that America was creating "…a distinct species of mankind…(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/american-exceptionalism/).
But in what ways distinct?
In Tocqueville's eyes, Americans will be birthed first by mindset in the Winthropian, "… Puritanical origin…" and meshed then with "…exclusively commercial habits…"
And in what ways convicted?
The American, this distinct species of mankind, de Tocqueville asserts will become convicted, will become aware of their personal distinctiveness through uniqueness of place, through the,
"…country they inhabit which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe … to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward…" (http://www.visionandvalues.org/2011/04/the-roots-of-tocqueville-s-american-exceptionalism/#sthash.CIhYaf5j.dpuf).
And therein lies contradiction and echoes so much of what the world says about America, about despising the policies of a government etched in puritanical righteousness and commercial industry and imported inventiveness that exports war and fiat currency but loving a people contradicted and tempered by place, by the geographical, by the land, by windswept prairies, by three coasts, by 14,000 foot mountaintops, by desert, by waterways, by Great Lakes as big as oceans, by the echo and remaining presence of the country's native Turtle Island, by the original earth-based inhabitants, by the combined sources of the continent's non-corporate literature and artistic impulses and the unbidden anti-hero like suspicion, resistance and mockery at the everyday level to technological boondoggle and oversized government.
This Curious Exceptional Dilemma
In the hands of the few, trademarked American Exceptionalism acts as a battering ram, is a corporate brand name front that unites evangelism, militarism and Keynesianism, that installs dictators, that perpetuates privately-owned fiat currencies, that topples the same dictators to create in name-only democracies, that trains militants and insurgents, that funds gladio-styled terrorism, NATO, international banking organizations, the IMF, the World Bank, Export-Import Banks, that emasculates Europe, that fans and funds conflict between installed dictators and in name-only democracies, between insurgents and loyalists, this City on the Hill, these thousand points of light.
But below the surface, this thing about America that is exceptional but not distinct from other cultures, her land, her native roots, her resistance by natives long thought exterminated and to be made extinct by cavalries and cannons, by legislation, by armed men riding trains gunning down millions of bison, acts of terrorism and food and shelter-based genocide, by reservation life, this America inspired by the land, by her earthiness, influences this unexceptional America, is non-corporate artistic, makes small press literature, invents good things, does not war, combats big pharma, forced vaccinations, big ag, big biz, big banks, chemtrails, opposes GMOs, opposes false flags, staged shootings and propagandized media, billion dollar political campaigns and privately-owned, fiat-issuing central banks, hallmarks all of Exceptional Empire, writes songs, sings, dances, drums, shapes pottery, tears down pork barrel, fractionalized fiat currency hydro-electric dams, honors the sacred, loves animals, grows gardens, all as if a secret to celebrity-promoted corporate media but known by the hearts of many, by foreign tourists walking through centuries old Santa Fe, traipsing through Navajo country, watching salmon run, peering at petroglyphs in HOPI land, known by creatives, known by seekers, known by the evidence, becomes human, not exceptional.
About Stephen: Stephen J. Bergstrom possesses a BA in Literature and Philosophy and an MFA in Creative Writing. His Strategic Wealth, a one-time internet best seller, detailed the historical rise of the now entrenched worldwide private banking system. His blog Rue d'Awakening and Literary Fiction can be found at StephenJBergstrom.com
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Northrop Grumman Submits Plan to Fix Virginia's IT Problems
Transition phase for outsourced consolidation and management of Virginia's IT services to be finsihed by June 2010.
by Matt Williams / August 31, 2009
Northrop Grumman has sent the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) a 40-page "corrective action plan" to remedy problems and meet the terms associated with the vendor's 10-year, $2.3 billion contract for consolidation and outsourcing of the state government's IT services.
The plan would finish Northrop Grumman's transition of IT services by no later than June 2010, a year later than originally anticipated. The delay has been caused by "a number of factors and unforeseen complexities," according to the plan given to VITA on Aug. 28 and announced Monday. The agency transitions are scheduled for completion by March 31, 2010 -- but wiggle room is built in if there are unexpected delays.
Northrop Grumman announced that the plan includes better planning and scheduling, the creation of management teams that are able to take quick action, and an improved escalation process when problems are identified.
Virginia CIO George Coulter, who was named to the post in August, was unavailable for comment Monday, but he was quoted in a press release from Northrop Grumman: "Significant progress has been made on modernization of the infrastructure, which includes networks, mainframes, servers, personal computers, messaging, help desk and facilities," Coulter said. "While the plan must be finalized, I believe the public-private partnership can accomplish transformation in the coming year."
Coulter said VITA will thoroughly review the plan and work with Northrop Grumman to refine it.
E-Mail and Other Projects Unfinished
More than 90 percent of the project's milestones are done, according to Northrop Grumman. But two key initiatives remain unfinished: An enterprisewide e-mail migration and backup system is planned to be completed in April 2010; and a complete LAN migration, is due in January 2010. Server consolidation, a desktop refresh and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) optimization are nearing completion.
Some critics and lawmakers have complained the outsourcing contract and partnership has been plagued by poor service and cost overruns. A VITA oversight board dismissed former Virginia CIO Lem Stewart in June, shortly after he said he wanted to withhold a scheduled $14 million payment to Northrop Grumman because he said the vendor wasn't fulfilling its contractual obligations. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said in July that he believes that the problems stem from VITA's management, not the vendor. Kaine has asked lawmakers to change state law so that VITA reports directly to the governor's office.
According to the text of Northrop Grumman's plan, the scope of the consolidation and transformation has expanded beyond the original contract terms that were agreed upon in 2005. The company says individual agencies have been slow to buy in to the consolidation, which it claims has caused delays and cost overruns. Most recently, VITA reported a $6.2 million budget deficit.
When the transition is complete, 85 of Virginia's government agencies will have moved to the new infrastructure. Northrop Grumman estimates it will manage 200,000 devices across 2,200 locations.
Matt Williams Associate Editor
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Vincent Philip Yglesias, was born at St Pancras, London on 7 March 1845 and baptised on 12 June 1845, son of Spanish born Miguel Joaquin Yglesias (1808-19 August 1868), a wine merchant, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth née Evans (1811-9 November 1896), who married at St Pancras Old Church on 9 September 1837. In 1851, Vincent was a 6 year old, living at St Mary's Road, Islington with his parents, 43 year old Miguel and 39 year old Sarah, and his four siblings, Emily 12, Fanny 10, Miguel 8 and Mary 4, all born in London, and the family were still there in 1861. Vincent married at Lambeth, London in 1867, Emily Thynne Whitmore (1846-1910) and in 1871, a 26 year old 'independent', living at Private House on Barracks, Mitcham Road, Croydon, Surrey with his 25 year old wife Emily and 2 month old daughter Beatrice Annie Emily. Vincent and Emily were divorced in 1875 and in 1887 he married again, at St Pancras, London, Edith Mary Lawrence (25 January 1862-5 September 1941). In 1891, a 47 year old 'artist landscape painter', living at 2 Grove End Road, Marylebone, London with 29 year old Edith Mary and their two children Vincent Lawrence Francis 2, and newly born Dorothy Sarah, they had two further daughters Phyllis Maud, who was born in 1892 and Mary Philippa in 1896. Vincent was associated for 13 years with the artists' colony at Walberswick, Suffolk and elected an associate of the Royal Society of British Artist where he exhibited in 1884, 'The Wobbleswick Well', 'Southwold from Walberswick' and 'The Ferry, Walberswick', in 1885 'Evening at Walberswick' and 'High Tide at Walberswick', in 1888 'Sea Holly on the Suffolk Coast', 'in 1890 'Walberswick' and in 1897 'At Walberswick'. Vincent was of 28 Grove End Road, St John's Wood, London when he died at The Sanatorium, St Anne's Heath, Virginia Water, Surrey on 20 March 1911 and a monument to him was raised in Cornwall. After Vincent's death the family moved to Cornwall where Edith and daughter Phyllis were artists with Phyllis, also known as 'Pog', concentrating on sculpture.


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T 1892/13 (Sharing a Trusted Platform Module/HEWLETT-PACKARD) of 11.10.2016
G06F 9/48
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING ATRUSTED PLATFORM MODULE
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Inventive step - (no)
I. The appeal lies against the decision of the examining division, with reasons dispatched on 21 March 2013, to refuse European patent application No. 07 867 226.8 for lack of inventive step.
II. A notice of appeal was filed on 17 May 2013, the appeal fee being paid on the same day. A statement of grounds of appeal was received on 25 June 2013. The appellant requested that the decision be set aside and that a patent be granted on the basis of the pending application documents.
III. In an annex to a summons to oral proceedings, the board informed the appellant of its preliminary opinion that the claims were unclear, Article 84 EPC 1973, and lacked inventive step, Article 56 EPC 1973, in particular over the prior art acknowledged in the application itself.
IV. In response to the summons, with a letter dated 11 August 2016, the appellant filed an amended set of claims to replace the claims on file.
V. Oral proceedings were held on 11 October 2016. During these proceedings, the appellant filed several new sets of claims, each replacing the earlier one, in which a number of features with which the board had issues under Article 84 EPC 1973 and Article 123(2) EPC were deleted. Claim 1 of the final set of claims 1-8 (filed at 15:05) reads as follows:
"A method for sharing a trusted platform module, TPM, (130) the TPM being in a computing system (10) using an operating system, OS, (121), the OS (121) extending from a user process layer (21) through a system process layer (22) and into a kernel model layer (23) of the computing system (10),
the TPM (130) being a single command processing device configured to operate a single process at any time and which allows connection only with the entity which initiated the currently running process, the TPM (130) being unchangeable by a user,
the method using a device (234) being in communication with the TPM (130) via a first communication path, the device being in communication via a second communication path with the OS (121), the device (234) being configured to access to restricted TPM internal cryptographic functionalities via the first communication path
the method comprising:
at an OS level (21, 22, 23), accessing a desired security functionality of the TPM (130) disposed outside the OS (121) by executing (301) an OS-level process on the TPM (130);
receiving (304), from the device (234) via the second communication path, through the OS (121), a request for use of the TPM (130) by the device (234);
pausing execution of the OS-level process by the TPM (130); and
after pausing execution of the OS-level process, performing a communication between the TPM (130) and the device (234) using the first communication path and executing (312), by the TPM (130), the non-OS-level process."
The wording of independent system claim 5 corresponds largely to that of claim 1.
VI. The appellant requested that the decision under appeal be set aside and that a patent be granted on the basis of the claims filed during the oral proceedings at 15:05. At the end of the oral proceedings, the chairman announced the decision of the board.
The invention
1. The application refers to the "industry standard specifications for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies", in particular for what is called a trusted platform module (TPM) (see description, paragraph 1).
1.1 According to the description, a TPM provides security relevant operations such as encryption and decryption to an operating system (OS) and "securely wraps" them in a dedicated piece of hardware (see paragraph 1, lines 3-5). The description further states that a TPM is "essentially a single command processing device" which can only operate on a single process at a time and which allows connection only with the entity that initiated the currently running process (see paragraph 1, lines 5-10).
1.2 The application seeks to overcome limitations of the standard. Firstly, the application states that "it may be preferable to perform security operations [...] outside the control of the OS" because "firmware, which is outside the OS, may be more resistant to interference by user actions ..." (page 1, paragraph 2, lines 5-8). Secondly, if access to the TPM by other entities than the OS (e.g. BIOS, firmware or external devices) is allowed, then the single-process limitation of the TPM may cause problems such as "delays and state corruption" (see page 2, lines 1-5). The description also alludes to protecting against "spoofing" by a "rogue OS" (see paragraph 8, lines 11-13).
1.3 The invention relates to "sharing a TPM" between a computing system and what the description refers to as a "system locality entity (SLE)" (see paragraph 8, lines 1-4). An SLE may effectively be any device close to the computing system which requires access to the TPM service (a smart card or USB device, firmware, BIOS, some circuit, "etc."; see paragraph 9, lines 5-10), provided it "adheres to TPM restrictions of not exposing the TPM internal cryptographic capabilities to a user or an application for general use" (see paragraph 8, lines 4-7). It is stated that the SLE "proves its 'locality' using either a hardware signal that cannot be spoofed by a rogue OS" or by communicating with the TPM on a designated memory mapped input/output (MMIO) range for that locality" (paragraph 8, last sentence).
1.4 When an SLE needs to access the TPM (figure 3, no. 302) the SLE authenticates itself to the TPM in order to obtain authorization (figure 3, no. 303; paragraph 18). Thereafter, the running "OS-level" process may be pre-empted. That is, the SLE process takes priority over the OS-level process, which is paused and eventually resumed (see paragraphs 19-21).
Claim construction
2. Claim 1 refers to a "trusted platform module", which, at first glance, may be understood as a component complying with the corresponding specifications according to the standard of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) mentioned in the description (see paragraph 1).
2.1 The standard (in its relevant version) is however not identified in the description, let alone set out in the claims. Moreover, the term "TPM", as used in the application, would be understood by the skilled person as not being compliant with the standard (see paragraph 7, last sentence).
2.2 The board therefore takes the view that the term "trusted platform module (TPM)" is a label for a hardware component which does not, by itself, imply any features. Rather, a TPM according to the claims is any component having the features expressly mentioned in the claims, namely that it is a "single command processing device" which is "unchangeable by a user" and provides "cryptographic functionalities". Hence the board takes the view that the skilled person would understand that the "desired security functionality of the TPM" must lie in providing "internal cryptographic functionalities".
3. Claim 1 does not define what it means for a TPM to be "unchangeable by a user". This justifying a broad reading, the board takes the view that any integrated circuit has this feature, because it is, to a degree, "unchangeable by a user".
4. Claim 1 refers to a "device" having two "communication paths", one between the TPM and the device and the other between the device and the OS. It is claimed that the second one is used for the access "request" from the device, through the OS, to the TPM and that the first one is used for "a communication" between the TPM and the device after an OS-level process running on the TPM has been paused. The board understands that the latter communication must be distinct from the access request. Otherwise, it is undefined what that communication is or achieves. Also the nature of the communication paths is not specified.
Inventive step
5. The board considers that the most suitable starting point for assessing inventive step is the prior art acknowledged in the description.
5.1 It is clear from paragraph 1 of the description that a TPM is, inter alia, a single-threaded integrated circuit providing cryptographic services, and receives, from the main processor of the computing system and "through the OS", requests to perform "OS-level processes". Further details of the TPM are, in the board's judgment and as explained above, immaterial for the assessment of inventive step.
5.2 The differences between the subject-matter of claim 1 and the generic set-up acknowledged in the description are as follows.
(a) The TPM functionality is also accessible "through the OS" from an external "device".
(b) A running "OS-level process" is pre-empted (i.e. paused and replaced) by one originating from the device, referred to as a "non-OS-level process".
(c) After the OS-level process has been paused, "a communication" is performed between the TPM and the device.
5.3 Feature (a) implies a call to a corresponding OS interface function and thus the existence of one "communication path" between the device and the TPM. The "communication" according to feature (c), as it must be different from the access request, represents another, second "communication path". The board therefore considers that the claimed two communication paths do not represent a further difference between the claimed invention and the known set-up.
5.4 The appellant argued that feature (a) solved the problem of increasing security by providing the TPM services to the device "outside the control of the OS" (see the description, paragraph 1). The board disagrees. Claim 1 as it stands does not exclude all communication between the device and the TPM being "through the OS" and thus, to some extent, under the control of the OS.
5.5 The board therefore considers that features (a) and (b) solve the problem of making the valuable TPM services more widely available, i.e. to some "device" outside the computing system of which the TPM is a part.
5.6 In order to solve that problem, the skilled person would provide a suitable interface to the device, for instance as an obvious option, by making the existing OS interface available to it. This is difference (a). The skilled person would also be aware that multiple requests might have to be scheduled and be familiar with, inter alia, the concept of pre-emptive scheduling. During the oral proceedings, the appellant conceded that pre-emptive scheduling was common knowledge in the art. If the requests from the device were more urgent than the internal ones, an obvious scenario, the skilled person would, without taking an inventive step, handle them by means of pre-emptive scheduling. This is difference (b).
5.7 An effect of feature (c) is that it provides a tighter coupling between the TPM and the device during scheduling. A more specific problem cannot be derived from feature (c) for lack of details in the claim of the communication in question.
5.8 The skilled person would realize, as a usual matter of design, that it would be useful for the device to be informed when its request is being served. Under these circumstances it would be obvious for the skilled person to provide "a communication" between the TPM and the device when execution of the "non-OS-level" device process is about to be executed.
6. In summary, the board comes to the conclusion that the subject-matter of claim 1 lacks inventive step over the the system known from the description, Article 56 EPC 1973.


Companies may utilize crowdfunding for a number of reasons – to expand their inventory, grow staff, open a new store, or even get them out of debt. Earlier this year, there was a lot of buzz about the production of "CWK Straight Plates," which promised nearly silky, straight hair without the use of heat, answering the prayers of many naturals. The project was successfully funded and backers are expected to receive their plates this fall in the first production run.
The owners of PuffCuff, an innovative hair tool that is NOT a banana clip, started an Indiegogo campaign to expand their inventory to various sizes of the PuffCuff, rather than produce it for the first time. They requested $3,700 from supporters in exchange for bundles with the new different sizes of the tool once funded. Unfortunately, the campaign did not meet its goal, but the original PuffCuff is still available for purchase.
In a bold move, ayurveda-based line AfroVeda started a gofundme campaign in order to get their "business back on track." At the time, there were several complaints on the AfroVeda Facebook page about customers not receiving orders, so it seemed that they needed the funds to buy ingredients for their products and fulfill back orders. The owner stated that she would need to come up with "$7,520 in loans and over due debts that must be paid by the end of the first full week in August in order to keep the business open." This campaign seems to have been deleted from the gofundme site, and you can still place orders on the AfroVeda site, though several items are on 3-4 week backorder.
Okay, so the "bad times" point is a big deal to me. I'm all for supporting businesses and helping them grow, especially black-owned businesses, but please, don't expect customers to pull you out of your debt. We're consumers, we are not a bank. I also take issue with companies who have not shown their business savvy in the past and depend on consumers to bail them out of their situation. There is a difference between expanding your business and keeping your business afloat.
Obviously, people will contribute if they believe in the company or the person, but make sure you know where your money is going. And that's all there is to it.
Do you contribute to crowdsourcing campaigns? Do you think crowdfunding is an efficient business strategy?
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For really good reasons yes! My friend won her home in a lottery and needed help with additional items a loan couldn't cover. I have her money. But for a business, I would not, because as a business it's expected you will fail. That's how you get back up and succeed. Because people think it's an option, they will use it. If it wasn't, they would not have a choice. But I guess it's the same as investors for other types of businesses.
I do not contribute because I don't get it. I get so many emails every day from random companies asking me to donate and then when they fall through or don't produce what they say – I am just out? Where's the accountability?
I definitely understand the issue of accountability. Of course, there are companies that have failed to hold up their end of the bargain, but overall most of them do follow through on their projects and the rewards/perks.
One way for a company to combat this fear is to update their campaign a lot. Communication is key.
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The French and Indian War: British Expulsion of the Acadians (1755)
Figure 1.--The French prevailed in the early battles of the French and Indian War fought in the interior of the continent. The British were more effective in coastal actions where they could be supported by the Royal Navy. One of the best known tragedies of the War, largely because of a Longfellow poem, was the British expulsion of the Acadians (1755).
The French prevailed in the early battles of the French and Indian War fought in the interior of the continent. The British were more effective in coastal actions where they could be supported by the Royal Navy. One of the best known tragedies of the War, largely because of a Longfellow poem, was the British expulsion of the Acadians (1755). The French colony of Acadia was primarily made up of modern Nova Scotia, but included Prince Edward Island and mainland coast south of the St. Lawrence River south into Maine. The principal town was Port Royal which was founded in 1605 before any of the English colonies to the south. Port Royal was taken by the British (1710). With the outbreak of hostilities with the French, the Britiosh sought to secure their hold on coastal strongpoints. French settlers who refused to swear allegience to the British crown were deported. Many were shipped to Caribbean Islands. Others made their way to New Orleans, at the tome a Spanish outpost. Louisiana Cajuns are descendents of the Acadians. Longfellow's great poem "Evageline tells the story of one Cajun community--St. Martiville, Louisiana. The Louisiana Cajuns were part of the force that General Andrew Jackson assemled to defeat a sizeable British invasion force trying to seize New Orleans (1815). The British attempted another mass expulsion (1762), but were twarted. After the War, some Acadians managed to return. In modern Canada, the term Acadian meads inhabitants of the Maritime Provinces.
New France: Canada
France following the voyges of expolorations attempted to found permanent colonies. Early attempts failed. The Fur Craze rekindled interest in the colonization effort. The experiece of Wuropean fishermen on the Grand Banls alerted the French Criwn to the availability of valuavle furs in North merica. The French Crown attmted to interest French nobels in founding a colony by offering a fur monopoly. A young geographer named Samuel de Champlain became the founder if New France. His first experiebce was at Port Royal on Nova Scotia, but he went on to found Quebec which became the French stronghold. From an early stage control of North America became an issue in the on-going competition between England and France. The colonization effort developed along very different lines in the English and French colonies. The English colonists pursued agriculture and developed along democratic lines. New France was centered on the fur trde and copied the feudal and absolutist model of France. The major outcome was that the French population in North america was very small while the English population reached substantial numbers in the colonies along the eastern seaboard. French ijnterest in NewFrance waslimited and the supression of the Hugenots limited that interest. The French also recreated the French political system in New France. Unlike the English colonies there was no separtion from France at an early point. The English Civil War cut off the colonies and a trditoin of colonial parliaments developed ith little or no royal supervision. Nothing like a democratic system developed in New France. The King appointed a governor, the senior colonial figure and representative of the King. Like the French monarch, he had virtual absolute power. He was responsible only to the monarchy, not the people of New France that he governed. King Louis XIV created a new post with the appointment of an intendant (1665). His duties were finance and the judicial system. This change in the colonial administration did not work well. There was considerable overlap between the responsibilities of the governor and intendant. This generated friction and complicated cooperation as only the king could resolve disputes. The English and French alo pursued different policies toward the Native Americans. The French perhaps because of their small population and limited lznd usage developed amicble relztions with the ntive Americans. They also lzunched a mjor missionry activity. There was a major problemn with the Iriquois.
Champlain aboard the "Sieur de Mont" landed at modern Acadia National Park in Maine before going east to Port Royal (1604). The French established a fort (1605). Within 2 years French settlers arrived. Champlain went on o found Québec (1608). The Maritime Provinces of Canada, where many French settled, was named "Arcadia" by Giovanni da Verrazzano, the explorer. The Arcadia district in Ancient Greece had the meanings of Refuge or idyllic place. In the 1600s Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer, spelled Arcadia without the "r", thus establishing the place name as Acadia; it's French inhabitants were thus known as Acadians. The French colony of Acadia was part of New France or Canada. They lived along the Bay of Fundy, primarily at Grand Pré. The colonuy was primarily made up of modern Nova Scotia, but included Prince Edward Island and mainland coast south of the St. Lawrence River south into Maine. The principal town was Port Royal which was founded before any of the English colonies to the south. Acadia was a quiet country people by farmers, shepards, and fishermen. Poussin painted a fabulous painting "The Shepherds from Acadia". They developed good relations with the Mi'kmaq, learning from them hunting and fishing techniques. The French lived mainly on coastal lands reclaimed by diking. Most were small farmers. Many were more willing than the English settlers to the South to live with Native Americans. The French settlers or Acadians lived on the frontier between territories of two great world powers, Britain and France. Inevitably, the Acadians found themselves caught up in the power struggle between those two nations. Acadia often passed from one side to the other, and the Acadians survived by remaining neutral, refusing to shoulder arms against either side.
War of the Spanish Sucession (1701-14)
The last of Louis XIV's wars was the War of the Spanish succession (1701-14). Port Royal was taken by the British (1710). The Treaty of Utrecht ended the figting between the British and French (1713). France ceded to Britain the part of Acadia now known as Nova Scotia, except for Cape Breton Island. In 1730 the Acadians signed an oath swearing loyalty to the British crown with the provision that they would not be required to take up arms against the French or the Indians.
Tensions between the British and the French, first in the Ohio country (1754) and later in Acadia, would make the policy of neutrality untenable. The French and Indian War, as it is known in North America began in the Ohio Valey, ironcically with a British forced led by George Washington leading Virginia militiamen. The British Governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, had doubts about the Acadians' neutrality in the conflict. The British demanded of the Acadians an oath of absolute loyalty to the British crown, which would mean their taking up arms against the French and the Indians (1754). The French prevailed in the early battles of the French and Indian War fought in the interior of the continent. The British were more effective in coastal actions where they could be supported by the Royal Navy. Here along the coast, the Acadians would suffer the consequences. The French built a massive fort at Louisbourg. It was a threat to the developing English colonies to the south. With the outbreak of hostilities with the French, the British sought to secure their hold on coastal strongpoints. Louisbourg became a principal objective. When it fell, the British controlled all of the Maritimes.
Expulsion (1755)
One of the best known tragedies of the War, largely because of a Longfellow poem, was the British expulsion of the Acadians (1755). The British deported the Acadians or French settlers who refused to swear allegience to the British crown. The main reason the British deported the Acadians in 1755 and not Québécois in 1763 was the fact that Acadians refused to pledge allegiance to the British Crown after the fall of Louisbourg. Why did the British hand the Acadians this ultimatum? The Acadians had maintained strict neutrality for decades as a modus vivendi between two warring powers. Why should they abandon a policy that had worked so well. An oath of absolute loyalty to the British crown to the Acadians would be a betrayal of their Roman Catholic faith. Knowing that the Acadians would never cede to this demand, did the British set the Acadians up for what we call today "ethnic cleansing"? Once the Acadians were removed from Nova Scotia, the British could consolidate their power in the Atlantic Maritime region and establish a position of power in North America. Or, did the British strike pre-emptively, removing a potential adversary before it could do them harm? This fortress at Louisbourg was a threat to the English colonies in New England . The potentially disloyal surronding population represented a continuing threat. The action was overseen by Governor Charles Lawrence. In what is called the Great Expulsion (or Le Grand Derangement) of 1755 - 1763 more than 14,000 Acadians were expelled, their homes burned, and their land confiscated.
Families were split up, and the Acadians were displaced throughout British lands in North America and the Caribbean. Thousands more were sent to France. The deportees were held on prison ships for several weeks befoe being moved to their destinations. Hundreds died on the prison ships and thousands more died before reaching their destinations or in harsh winter conditions during their displacement. Of some 23,000 Acadians who lived in North America before the expulsion, only 10,000 survived epulsion.
The British shipped many Acadians to the British Caribbean Islands.
Louisiana Cajuns
Others Acadians made their way to New Orleans, at the time a Spanish outpost. Many Acadians who were deported to France did not feel that France was their home. Many lived for years in poverty there until the opportunity to go to Louisiana arose. While now Spanish, Louisiana before the French and Indian war had been French. After years of preparations, Spain paid for more than 1,600 Acadians to travel from France to Louisiana, which was now a Spanish colony. As a result of the War of the Spanish Sucession, a Bourbon was placed on the Spanisg Crown. As a result, until the French Revolution the Spanish and French were often united against the British.Some Acadian exiles had already made their way to Louisiana , believing that it was still French, only to discover upon their arrival that it belonged to Spain. Although the Spanish treated the Acadians quite generously, allowing them to speak French and to practice Roman Catholicism, many Acadians felt abandoned by France. The Spanish wanted the Acadians to move to Louisiana which had only a small population. The Spanish believed that a larger Catholic population and settlement would protect against an English invasion. The journey to Louisiana was arduous. There were outbreaks of smallpox aboard some ships. Many who arrived safely in New Orleans took about a month to recuperate. The Acadians had wanted to settle around the Mississippi River where many had relatives. They found, however, that the best lands had already been taken, and they migrated to what is now southwestern Louisiana, where good land was available. About 22 parishes in this section of Louisana form a triangle which is known today as the "Acadian triangle". Louisiana Cajuns today are thus descendents of the French Acadians. Longfellow's great poem "Evageline tells the story of one Cajun community--St. Martiville, Louisiana. The Louisiana Cajuns were part of the force that General Andrew Jackson assembled to defeat a sizeable British invasion force trying to seize New Orleans (1815). Where does the name "Cajun" originate? Acadian would by fropping the "A" be elided into "Cajun". During the 18th and 19th centuries, "Cajuns" came to be identified as the French-speaking people of rural southwestern Louisiana. The descendants of these rural people became the working class of their region. Changes in social and economic circumstances of these families created a nostalgia for a romanticized version of the past. "Cajun" once was considered an insulting term, but today it is a term of pride among many in Louisiana. The mascot for the University of Louisiana-Lafayette sports teams is the "Ragin' Cajuns"!
Quebec (1759)
The Acadians were not as well organised as the French community in Québec in Signories. When Wolfe came down the the St. Lawrence River before the battle of Québec in 1759, he was surprised to see a socio-political organization with a powerful clergy who discussed the future of the colony with the English. A Canadian reader tells us, People here were disciplined and obeyed the clergy. For more than two centuries, the real leaders in Quebec were the bishops. Today, religion is disappearing maybe for that main reason we lived in a theocraty for long. Too long. But thnks to them if we still speak French."
Second Expulsion (1762)
The British attempted another mass expulsion (1762), but were twarted.
After the War, some Acadians managed to return. Many Acadians came back and settled in Quebec but mostly in the north of New Brunswick (Madawaska), the eastern coast , Les Iles de la madeleine in the Gulf of st-Lawrence, small parts of Prince Edward Island (Mont carmel) and the western coast of Cap Breton Island (Cheticamp). Something less of the modern local population are descendents of the original Acaduans and speak French.
Modern Term
In modern Canada, the term Acadian meads inhabitants of the Maritime Provinces.
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I'm home from Columbus, Ohio and more or less decompressed from spending four days at Cinevent, so I think I'm ready to give a quick rundown of the highlights I saw there. The Midwest's venerable Classic Film Convention is always an embarrassment of riches, some of them quite obscure. It's hard not to feel movie after movie passing in a sort of blur. Still, some stand out.
Any day that includes a screening of Frank Capra's The Bitter Tea of General Yen is bound to be dominated by that delirious Orientalist melodrama. The picture was chosen to open the Radio City Music Hall in 1933, but it performed so poorly that Music Hall management yanked it halfway through its contracted two-week run. The fervid theme of interracial sexual attraction packs a punch even today, even with the "Chinese" warlord played by Scandinavian Nils Asther, and it made 'em positively squirm 80 years ago — those who showed up at all. Barbara Stanwyck played the naive American missionary in the thrall of Asther's General Yen (that picture on the poster doesn't look much like her, does it?), but it's the all-but-forgotten Asther who dominates the picture, in a performance of grace, intelligence and dignity that (like Luise Rainer's O-Lan in The Good Earth four years later) wins over all but the most rigidly PC viewers today.
The 1932 Fox western The Golden West, with an epic Zane Grey story that strained at the picture's modest 74-minute running time, told the saga of two generations of star-crossed lovers, with George O'Brien playing the male half in both generations (and with an ultimately happy ending). This one featured an unusual supporting character: an Irish-Jewish peddler named Dennis Epstein (played by Bert Hanlon). There was also a buffalo stampede that was a real pip — thanks to the generous insertion of stock footage from The Iron Horse, The Big Trail and other Fox westerns.
Upstaging The Sea Beast, and just about everything else shown at Cinevent this year, was a real discovery, an absolute bolt out of nowhere, a picture almost nobody had ever heard of. It was The Canadian (1926), directed by none other than William Beaudine. Yes, the notorious "One-Shot" Beaudine, who cranked out some 368 features, shorts and TV episodes over his 53-year career — including the sexploitation "documentary" Mom and Dad ('45) and, towards the end of his run, the camp titles Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (both '66). But back in the '20s, Beaudine was a director to reckon with, and The Canadian shows why. It's a simple story: Young Englishwoman Nora Marsh (Mona Palma) is left penniless at the death of the aunt she's been living with, and has no choice but to emigrate to Canada, where her brother is a struggling farmer on the frontier of western Ontario. Pampered, stuck-up and generally useless, Nora clashes with her brother's no-nonsense wife, until at length the wife lays down an either-she-goes-or-I-go ultimatum. Nora impulsively marries Frank Taylor, a neighboring farmer (Thomas Meighan), and the rest of the picture tells how this prissy little snob learns to carry her weight in her new household, where she and her stranger/husband slowly grow to love each other.
Based on Somerset Maugham's play The Land of Promise, The Canadian was actually a remake; it was first filmed in 1917 under Maugham's original title, with Thomas Meighan playing the same role (opposite Billie Burke). By 1926, Meighan was a well-established and popular star, billed above the title (and with the title changed to give him the title role), and he's certainly good in The Canadian.
But the picture belongs entirely to Mona Palma as Nora (shown here with Meighan's Frank early in their hasty marriage). She gives one of the most remarkable performances of the entire silent era — subtle, sensitive and finely tuned; her face is as immobile as Buster Keaton's, and yet (as with Keaton) you always know exactly what she's thinking. Frankly, for much of the first half of the picture, those thoughts aren't pleasant, and Nora Marsh isn't very sympathetic; as she gradually grows up and shoulders the responsibilities of her new hardscrabble life — as Nora Marsh becomes Nora Taylor — she wins our sympathy just as she wins over the other characters in the picture. It's simply an amazing performance. Alas, it's virtually all we have of Mona Palma. She made only seven pictures in her four-year career (three under her real name, Mimi Palmieri). The Canadian was her big break and first lead, but she made only one more picture (Cabaret, 1927) before retiring from the screen at age 29. She lived to the ripe old age of 91 but never made another movie.
By Sunday, things are generally beginning to wind down at Cinevent; this year, certainly, The Canadian cast a shadow that the rest of the film program was hard-pressed to live up to. There were a couple of high-profile silents on view this day.
First was The Nut (1921), Douglas Fairbanks's last modern-dress comedy before devoting himself entirely to the costume swashbucklers that began with The Mark of Zorro ('20), and for which he's best remembered today. The Nut was…well, if somebody asked me what was the big deal about Doug Fairbanks, this isn't the picture I'd refer them to to find out. The Obnoxious Schmuck would be a better title, I think, as Doug plays an overbearing inventor whose every effort to win the heart of his beloved backfires in spectacular and embarrassing fashion. The program notes called the picture "episodic"; I'd call it "monotonous", with the irrepressible Doug's character decidedly off-putting.
Then there was Stella Maris (1918), one of Mary Pickford's biggest successes. She plays a dual role: as the title character, a cheerfully sheltered and pampered heiress confined to a wheelchair by some mysterious unnamed disability; and as Unity Blake, a pitifully mistreated orphan whose harsh life contrasts sharply with that of the silver-spooned Stella. It's a very well-made picture and Pickford is excellent in it, plus there are some first-rate effects when both her characters appear on screen together. But the story itself, from a 1913 novel by William J. Locke, is a specimen of the kind of sickly Victorian melodrama that was going out of fashion even then, and that only a star of Pickford's caliber could pull off.
Probably the highlight of the day — and certainly the most fun — was Hold That Co-ed, a 1938 musical with John Barrymore as a Huey Long-ish governor running for the U.S. Senate while simultaneously (and corruptly) trying to wangle a national championship for his pet college football team. Barrymore is a full-throated hoot, the songs are pleasant, and the supporting cast (George Murphy, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Davis, Jack Haley, George Barbier) delightful.
Other memorable Sunday titles: Nazi Agent ('42), with Conrad Veidt (Casablanca's Major Strasser) as a naturalized German-American taking the place of his Nazi spy identical twin brother; The Man Who Lost Himself ('41), another lookalikes-switch-identities drama, this time with Brian Aherne replacing his double, the tycoon husband of Kay Francis; and The Disciple ('15), one of William S. Hart's early westerns, more a strong domestic drama than shoot-'em-up, with Hart a frontier parson determined to clean up a sinful town, even as his wife succumbs to local temptations.
And so we come to the last day — or half-day, really. As usual, most of the dealers have packed up and left, as has a large percentage of the attendees. Still, there are pleasures to be had for those (like me) who choose to stay to the bittersweet end. I think my favorite was The House of Fear (1939) — not to be confused with the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes picture with the same title. This one is a niftly little mystery with police detective William Gargan posing as a theater producer to crack a year-old cold case in which an actor was murdered onstage during his opening night performance. Other titles on Monday were The Social Secretary ('16), a silent romantic comedy with Norma Talmadge at her most charming; and Henry Aldrich, Editor ('42), in which our Andy Hardy/Archie clone hero (Jimmy Lydon) tries to run his school newspaper, only to get in hot water over an arson investigation. These Aldrich comedies have been running for a couple of years now at Cinevent, and they're always pleasant, well-made comedies. This one, according to the program notes, is widely considered the best of the series, and I'm not surprised.
The movies are only part of the fun at Cinevent, of course. There are also the dealers' rooms, where you can find a vast array of items for sale — film, video, books, stills, posters, lobby cards, magazines, sheet music, souvenir programs and other memorabilia. As always, I stocked up on much of this — and, as always, I didn't realize how much I'd bought until I had to pack it all up to come home. I get quite a bit of exercise dragging my luggage through airport security and heaving it up into overhead compartments.
Then there are the people themselves, who have become good friends, a cozy community united by their shared love of classic Hollywood. Two such are John McElwee (left) of Greenbriar Picture Shows and Richard M. Roberts. Both are major contributors to Cinevent's program notes, and both were there this year selling their recently published books: John's Showmen, Sell It Hot!: Movies as Merchandise in Golden Era Hollywood; and Richard's Past Humor, Present Laughter: Musings on the Comedy Film Industry 1910-1945, Vol. One: Hal Roach. I'll have more to say about both books next time.
I read your posts out of order, but now that I see the great films that are offered at Cinevent, I'm even more chagrined that I didn't know about this.
You see what a valuable public service you're offering here?
Silver: It's Cinevent that provides the public service; I'm just the messenger. I hope you'll consider joining us next year; if you do, as I told Karen, be sure to look me up and say hi.
Now I'm bummed that I didn't see The Canadian. But it is hard sitting for so long, especially know there are so many people there to talk to, and so much memorabilia to see.
Samantha: Don't feel too bad; I almost skipped The Canadian myself. Who knew? (I have to thank Richard Roberts for piquing my interest with his program notes.) It was great seeing you again in Columbus, and I look forward to seeing you yet again next year.


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