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Q: Android TableLayout Width I have a two column TableLayout as the only child of a scroll view. The first column contains TextViews ('labels') and the second column contains EditText/Spinner/DateWidget etc ('values'). Even though I have have specified android:layout_width="fill_parent" for TableLayout, TableRow & all widgets (in 'values' column).
The screen looks perfect when the activity is created. However, when one types a really long value in the EditText, the 'values' column goes beyond the visible screen area.
How do I tackle this?

A: This worked for me..
tableLayout.setColumnShrinkable(1,true);

A: You may want to define the sizes of the columns by using a weight. So you will define the table layout height to fill parent but for each column you should set the width to "0px" and the weight to the percentage you want the column to span. So assuming you want the first column to be 30% of the screen width you set it's weight to "0.3" and the second column to "0.7".
Try it and see if that works.

A: <TableLayout
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp">
<TableRow
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_width="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="Name "
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
</TextView>
<EditText
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:hint="name"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>
</EditText>
</TableRow>
</TableLayout>

This code worked for me to align text view on first column and edit text fill parent.

A: The pragmatic way to solve this is to use the stretchColumns and shrinkColumns attributes in TableLayout. Their values should be 0-based indexes of columns.
For example, if you have a two column Table layout and:

*

*You would like the second column to fill up with empty space (stretch) so the TableLayout fits the entire parent view on a large screen device

*You would like the first column to be shrunk (and its contents possibly wrapped / ellipsized) on a small screen device

you would define your TableLayout as:
<TableLayout
    android:id="@+id/my_table_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:stretchColumns="1"
    android:shrinkColumns="0" >
</TableLayout>

A: Try this, make sure android:singleLine="false" and android:inputType="textMultiLine":
<TableLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:stretchColumns="1">
    <TableRow android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent">

        <TextView android:text="Label:" />
        <EditText android:id="@+id/entry" android:inputType="textMultiLine"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:singleLine="false" />
    </TableRow>
</TableLayout>

A: I had similar problem with EditText on Android 2.2. In my case adding android:maxWidth="0sp" property helped. Now EditText field is displayed as I wanted - so it is still of the same size as other EditText fields, but additionaly it is not resized when long text is entered.
Here is my EditText definition:
<EditText android:id="@+id/extra_edit"
       android:padding="3dip"
       android:inputType="textImeMultiLine"
       android:maxWidth="0sp"
       android:layout_width="fill_parent"
       />


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Q: How to use malloc and memset for array in c++? I want to declare an array that is stored in a pointer A. I have the following code.
int length = 8;
int *A;
A = (int*) malloc(length*sizeof(int));
A = {5, 1, 3, 5, 5, 2, 9, 8};

However, the array cannot be initialized like above. The error says "cannot convert  to 'int' in assignment". How do I fix this issue?
Additionally, are malloc and memset necessary in c++ when declaring an array (for a pointer)?
Thanks!

A: Quick answer:
A[0] = 5;
A[1] = 1;
A[2] = 3;
A[3] = 5;
A[4] = 5;
A[5] = 2;
A[6] = 9;
A[7] = 8;

Basically, when you say "A = " you are changing "what A is pointing to". If you want to change "the value of what A is pointing to" you must use [] or *.
cplusplus.com has a good article on that topic
Edit
I must warn you that it is not a good pratice to use malloc in C++ because it will not initialize neither destruct complex objects.
If you have:
int length=8;
class C_A {
    C_A() {
        std::cout << "This cout is important" << std::endl;
    }
    ~C_A() {
        std::cout << "Freeing is very important also" << std::endl;
    }
};

C_A* A;
A = (C_A*) malloc(length*sizeof(C_A));
free(A);

You will notice that the cout will never happen, while the correct is:
A = new C_A[length];
delete[] A;

A: NO. You don't need malloc to declare an array as a pointer since an array in its nature is a pointer. The difference between using malloc or no is that when using malloc the array is declared in the heap instead of the stack.
Second, you can fill an array directly if and only if you are filling it when declaring e.g.
This is right : int a[3]={1,2,3};
This is wrong :
int a[3];
 a= {1,2,3};

A: A reasonably efficient way to do what you want, with malloc() and memcpy(), is
int initializer[] = {5, 1, 3, 5, 5, 2, 9, 8};
int *A;
A = (int*) malloc(length*sizeof(int));
memcpy(A, initializer, length*sizeof(int));

A: Use new instead of malloc, it returns T* and not void*, and support exception:
int *A = new int[length];

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Hello Katherine – our New Zealand curator — July 28, 2013
Hello Katherine – our New Zealand curator
July 28, 2013 /Kate Kendall
I think New Zealanders like to take a chance in both life and business… Adventure is in our blood. Both Auckland and Wellington are full of creative, driven people who also really value work-life balance.
After the great Kim Lesch kicked things off with our first Fetch in NZ last November, we're now excited to hand the reins over to Katherine Field. Part of the curator's code within The Fetch community is for the outgoing person to recommend a replacement [we also take applications for new cities] and I couldn't be happier with Kim's suggestion. Katherine is simply incredible and we're looking forward to all the great happenings she uncovers! You may already recognise her from her role in building community at The Biz Dojo coworking spaces.
Why did you want to get involved in The Fetch'?
I see a real need for this community to be able to easily discover awesome events and opportunities, so I'm really excited to be part of a solution. It's also a really great excuse to meet kiwis at the top of their game, and sit them down for a chat. The Fetchers are a real welcoming bunch and I feel like I've immediately extended my global family!
What things excite you about your community right now?
I think people are really starting to harness the hyper-connectedness (must be a word) of this city and use it to create super-charged projects. Every new initiative and event that involves this community seems to be the product of some serious collaboration. The power of doing things together – working smarter not harder – seems to be amping up – and really paying off.
How did you end up where you are today?
I grew up in Christchurch, and then moved to Wellington to go to University, and studied Art History and Criminology. Although a Da Vinci Code-inspired lifestyle was tempting, I ended up managing Toi Poneke Arts Centre – a City Council-run gallery and studio facility for emerging artists. I was part of a great team and it was really inspiring to be surrounded by over 100 talented creatives every day!
Two years ago, I jumped on board at The Biz Dojo – a coworking network for innovative tech and creative businesses – to be the community manager for the newly established Wellington space. We've had a lot of really amazing people and businesses join our Dojo family over this time. Not only do I get to watch their businesses grow, but I'm also able to get out and meet a lot the people creating interesting work, products and businesses throughout Wellington – and Auckland too. Dream job!
Nailing a new recipe, filling out forms and poking my tongue out at small children.
What makes you ick?
Mushrooms and rude people.
What events can we find you at?
I'm often gate-crashing tech events that go way over my head, but the people are awesome and I learn something new each time. Through The Biz Dojo and my involvement in Startup Weekend, I'm also often seen dishing out the pizza and opening beer bottles at a lot of events for the local startup community.
What's your favourite thing about your city?
My favourite thing about Wellington is the walkability! Having shops, restaurants, work, museums, theatres, waterfront, bike tracks and lookouts all within 20mins walk from home is pure luxury! Also, the fact that you will see someone you know around every corner!
What's unique about Auckland and Wellington?
Both AKL and WLG are in the weird situation of being plonked at the bottom of the world..
The country is full of the descendants of crazy people who took a chance to emigrate to a tiny island at the bottom of the world. Adventure is in our blood.
I think New Zealanders like to take a chance in both life and business.
Both Auckland and Wellington are full of creative, driven people who also really value work-life balance.
Where can we find you in New Zealand?
You can normally find me in Wellington, on a coffee-date of some description! There's no better way to get to know a new friend of business connection than over a delicious cup of local brew. 😉 I also love to get up to Auckland, hang out with the Dojo crew on K Rd, and get to know the great businesses and creatives up there. I've also started to find the hidden foodie gems!
How can we connect with you?
On Twitter at @kathfromwelly, @thefetchAKL, on LinkedIn or at katherine@thefetch.org.
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TALKING GOLF WITH GARY 11-15-2010
GARRIGUS WINS AT DISNEY
Robert Garrigus shot an 8-under 64 and won the Disney and with it secured his tour card. Garrigus blew an easy victory earlier this year in Memphis when he tripled bogeyed the final hole, but he made up for that this weekend.
Garrigus finished three shots clear of Roland Thatcher for his first tour victory.
Garrigus began the week 122nd in earnings and needed a solid finish to stay inside the top 125 the cutoff for full PGA Tour status. Thatcher shot a final-round 70 and jumped from 179th to 122nd to keep his playing privileges, blowing a four-stroke lead but keeping his card.
Garrigus began the final round five strokes behind Thatcher who led everyone by at least four and put pressure on a player who needed an even stronger finish. Thatcher had to have at least a solo second place or he was heading to qualifying school next week.
Thatcher imploded with three bogeys on the back nine, including back-to-back at 16 and 17, when he badly misread putts. But saved his card with a pressure-packed par putt from 5-feet on No. 18.
Thatcher joined Mark Wilson and Michael Connell as the only players this week to jump inside the top 125 after starting the week outside of it.
APPLEBY IS MASTERFUL
Stuart Appleby was a non entity this week in Australia until the final round.
He rallied from a seven-shot deficit in the final round, stayed in the game by making a 30-foot par putt on the 16th, pulled ahead with a 25-foot birdie on the 17th and two-putted for birdie on the final hole.
Adam Bland, who had a three-shot lead going into the final round, was the last one with a chance to catch him. Bland hit 6-iron to 10 feet on the par-5 18th, but missed the eagle putt that would have forced a playoff.
Appleby already had reason to celebrate this year, winning The Greenbrier Classic with a 59 on the last day. This might have been even sweeter. It has been nine years since he won on home soil, dating to the 2001 Australian Open.
Tiger Woods, the defending champion, finished in fourth place going winless this season for the first time in fourteen years.
Woods now gets two weeks at home before finishing out the year in California for his Chevron World Challenge.
KIM IS VICTORIOUS IN MEXICO
In-Kyung Kim won the Lorena Ochoa Invitational on Sunday for her third LPGA Tour title, closing with an 8-under 64 for a three-stroke stroke victory over Suzann Pettersen.
Kim matched the tournament record set by Cristie Kerr in the first round with her 64, playing the front nine in 6-under 30 and adding three birdies and a bogey on the final nine. Kim finished at 19 under on the Guadalajara Country Club course.
Pettersen shot a 68. The Norwegian star has 11 top-five finishes in 18 starts this season. She's winless since the 2009 Canadian Women's Open.
Karine Icher was third at 15 under, Kerr and U.S. Women's Open champion Paula Creamer tied for fourth at 14 under, and Ai Miyazato finished at 13 under.
Ochoa, playing her first LPGA Tour event since retiring in April, shot a 74 on her home course, leaving her 19 strokes back in a tie for 25th.
Kim also won the 2008 Longs Drugs Challenge and 2009 LPGA State Farm Classic.
SCOTT TAKES SINGAPORE OPEN
Adam Scott won is second tournament of the year by taking the Barclays Singapore Open. Scott won by three strokes over Anders Hanson.
Adam Scott claimed his third Barclays Singapore Open title with a composed performance at Sentosa Golf Club.
The Australian landed his seventh European Tour title over the Serapong Course where he won in 2005 and 2006 with a closing round of 68 to finish 17 under par
The leaders had returned on Monday with ten holes of the final round remaining after a five and half hour delay for thunderstorms on Sunday, and Scott never really looked like throwing away his three shot lead on the extra day.
Graeme McDowell made inroads into Martin Kaymer's lead in The Race to Dubai despite going into the trees on the 11th leading to an early bogey.
The Northern Irishman recovered with birdies at the 13th and 14th before making a great par at the 15th after hitting his tee shot so close to the water he was standing on rocks for his second, which he proceeded to shank into the rough.
A round of 70 gave him a 13 under total and a share of third place alongside Swede Rikard Karlberg, while PGA Champion Kaymer was tied for tenth.
SAIKI WINS ON JLPGA TOUR
Miki Saiki faced a front-9 31 from JLPGA money list leader Sun-Ju Ahn and a late charge from Hiromi Takesue in the final round of the Ito-En Ladies, but she got off to a fast start herself with 4 birdies of her own on the front to keep them at bay and played just well enough on the back to hold off Mie Nakata and Na-Ri Lee and take her 1st title since her rookie season in 2007.
Lee failed to make a birdie in her last 6 holes and had to settle for 70 and 3rd place after a walkoff bogey. Nakata fired a bogey-free 67, but despite birdieing both par 5s on the back and pulling within 1 shot of the lead when Saiki bogeyed the long par-3 17th, just couldn't catch the leader on the final hole. Saiki's par secured her 2nd career victory on the JLPGA
LAURA DAVIES WINS HER 77TH
English star Laura Davies won the Women's Indian Open on Sunday for her 77th worldwide victory, beating Thailand's Nontaya Srisawang, South Africa's Tandi Cuningham and Sweden's Louise Friberg with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.
Davies eagled the par-5 18th in regulation for a 2-under 70 to match Nontaya (71), Cuningham (73) and Friberg (70) at 3-under 213 on the DLF Golf & Country Club course. In the playoff, Davies reached the green on the 18th in two and two-putted for the victory.
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland has decided not to join the PGA Tour next year, which could leave as many as three of the top 10 players in the world rankings not belonging to golf's strongest tour.
McIlroy told British newspapers Monday evening he found himself not wanting to be in America, especially during the FedEx Cup playoffs when the majors were over. In his first season on the PGA Tour, McIlroy closed with a 62 to win at Quail Hollow, and finished among the top three at the British Open and PGA Championship.
England's Lee Westwood, the new world No. 1, has not been a PGA Tour member for several years. PGA champion Martin Kaymer of Germany, who is No. 3 in the world, has indicated he will not join the U.S. tour next year.
Phil Mickelson plans to start the 2011 in the desert he said he is planning to make the Abu Dhabi Championship his first tournament of the new year. It will be held the same week as the Bob Hope Classic.
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package domain.security;

import io.swagger.model.PublicKey;

import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.util.Random;

public class RSA {
    // A random generated big prime number
    private BigInteger p;

    // A random generated big prime number
    private BigInteger q;

    // The product of the two prime numbers as well as part of the public and private key
    private BigInteger N;

    // The phi to compute e and d
    private BigInteger phi;

    // Part of the public key
    private BigInteger e;

    // Part of the private key
    private BigInteger d;

    // The lenght of the key
    private int bitlength = 2048;

    private Random random;

    private PublicKey publicKey;

    private static RSA instance;

    private RSA() {

        // Create a random number generator
        random = new Random();

        // Gets a random big prime number
        p = BigInteger.probablePrime(bitlength, random);

        // Gets a random big prime number
        q = BigInteger.probablePrime(bitlength, random);

        // Calculate the product of the prime numbers
        N = p.multiply(q);

        // Compute the phi as (p-1) * (q-1)
        phi = p.subtract(BigInteger.ONE).multiply(q.subtract(BigInteger.ONE));

        // Gets a random prime number
        e = BigInteger.probablePrime(bitlength/2, random);

        // e has to be coprime to phi                   e has to be 1 < e < phi
        // So their gcd have to be 1
        while (phi.gcd(e).compareTo(BigInteger.ONE) > 0 && e.compareTo(phi) < 0 ) {

            e.add(BigInteger.ONE);

        }

        // Compute the d as e^-1 % phi
        d = e.modInverse(phi);

        // Compute the public key
        publicKey = new PublicKey().e(e.toString()).n(N.toString());

    }

    public static RSA getRSA(){
        if(instance == null) {
            instance = new RSA();
        }
        return instance;
    }

    // Decrypt message

    public byte[] decrypt(String message) {

        // Converts the message to a BigInteger to do the decrypt algorithm
        BigInteger messageAsBigInt = new BigInteger(message);

        // Do the decrypt algorithm and return as a byte array
        return messageAsBigInt.modPow(d, N).toByteArray();

    }

    public PublicKey getPublicKey() {
        return publicKey;
    }

}

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I am trying to use the new OF plugin (openflow 1.3 plugin) and I follow the instructions that the wiki provides. After "mvn clean install" in openflowplugin and run the "run.sh" script.
Actually, the controller runs well at this moment. However, when I try to run my mininet script, ( a simple topology, just create 2 openvswitches with 4 hosts) there are lots of errors showing up.
BTW, when I run this mininet script in openflow 1.0 in controller, everything works fine.
I am trying to use the new OF plugin (openflow 1.3 plugin) and I follow the instructions that the wiki provides. After "mvn clean install" in openflowplugin and run the "run.sh" script. script, the controller runs well in the beginning.
Actually, the controller runs well at this moment. However, when I try to run my mininet script, ( a simple topology, just create 2 bind openvswitches with 4 hosts) to the controller) there are lots of errors showing up.
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ALLAN Picken may still not be the last new face checking in at Walsall ahead of Saturday's League Two kick-off.
Saddlers boss Richard Money, who has now signed six new players since arriving at Bescot earlier in the summer, is still in the market for a creative attacking talent to "add spice" to his well-balanced squad.
"I think we still have room for one more attacking player," he said. "We're actively looking for that person right now and are making progress but it's nothing concrete.
"It depends on who it is that we are looking for as to whether it turns out to be a loan signing or something permanent.
"I wouldn't be unhappy if we didn't get anyone in because I think we've got a nice balance to the squad.
"But of course it would give us a boost if we could get someone to add that little bit of spice, someone who can dribble the ball."
Picken's arrival at Bescot today follows other Money signings Martin Butler, Tony Bedeau, Clayton Ince, Hector Sam and Michael Dobson.
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By Madeline Hancock
Those crimson-bleeding Sooner fans who love watching their team battle the Texas Longhorns have reason to rejoice. Oklahoma will compete against Texas at the Cotton Bowl until at least 2025.
Oklahoma City's News 9 reported that officials have confirmed a five-year extension for the "Red River Showdown" to be played at Dallas' Cotton Bowl.
The matchup takes place once a year during the Texas State Fair.
Joe Castiglione, Oklahoma's athletic director, said that he is excited that the tradition of this game will continue.
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The Revolution In Access Control Will Be Wireless, According To ASSA ABLOY's Chris Bone. In Fact, It's Already Happening.
Q: Before we start, Chris, perhaps you can tell us a little about your career in access control?
Chris Bone: I guess, an "industry veteran" is how you would describe me. I spent most of the 1980s in the Australian Army. I then joined Honeywell, and worked for them for 20 years. Over those 2 decades, I worked in almost every area of the industry but primarily in access control, from installation and tech support to product management and marketing, culminating in the project to secure the London 2012 Olympics. The experience has given me a very good overview of the industry. I have now brought my knowledge to ASSA ABLOY to apply to several access control product lines, but especially our wireless products like Aperio and SMARTair.
Q: You mention wireless product lines, and it seems that electronic access control is gradually moving down the customer chain from large corporates to smaller businesses and beyond. Will wireless security penetrate all the way to the household level?
CB: It is already going on. Personally, I don't understand why we still use keys. I don't use a key in my own home. I have a Yale digital lock and a fob. My kids use a PIN to get in. Mechanical keys are our comfort zone, obviously, and digital locks are still a little expensive for the mass market user, but ASSA ABLOY is rapidly addressing that. Early adopters are there already. We sell thousands of residential digital locks every month in Scandinavia.
Q: Apart from this "democratization" of wireless locks, what will the access control landscape look like in 5 years?
CB: Even the commercial market is still relatively untapped when it comes to access control. Maybe only 5 per cent of doors are integrated. And yet, I have still to meet a security manager who likes having to manage mechanical keys, which is why we have projects under way that cover thousands of doors, in properties which are trying to go completely keyless. This will be mainstream in less than 5 years, especially for new builds. Student accommodation is already there. And what's driving this? Wireless products.
Q: So, this is why ASSA ABLOY is increasingly focused on wireless products?
Q: What are the specific challenges with integrating access control products into other security systems like CCTV?
CB: The key is to make it all as simple as possible for the OEM. We have developed the ASSA ABLOY Device Protocol, with a simple SDK that allows Aperio to talk to other installed security products. Our standard messaging helps OEMs integrate Aperio into their product ecosystems just like any other component. The customer only sees one system, and gets one holistic system view.
Q: You mention OEMs. What, for you and ASSA ABLOY, is the key to a successful partnership?
CB: Absolutely the most important thing is loyalty. We have no direct market offering with Aperio. We support OEMs and their customers, not try to bypass them. It is a partnership in true terms. We do have a wireless access product aimed at direct sales, SMARTair;. But it is a different channel altogether, for small-scale, standalone projects. With Aperio it is all about interoperability with other OEM systems and larger scale access control projects.
Q: So, can you give us a sneek peek of what is coming later in 2014 from Aperio?
CB: The year is looking busy! We are updating the current range with a new generation of electronics, incorporating the latest technology developments. We are launching an extension to our mechanical range, to allow more than just doors to run wireless locks—cabinets and server racks, for example. We will be embedding Aperio into more hardware, and announcing more partnerships with major OEMs. We will also support more RFID technologies, including iCLASS SE from HID.
Q: You don't mention the cloud there. To what extent will the future of access control be tied into cloud technology?
CB: There is certainly a lot of "noise" about the cloud at the moment, and ASSA ABLOY is taking a long-term view. The cloud really breaks down into two approaches: cloud-based access control, where the access system lies entirely in the cloud, versus cloud-based management of an access control system. I look at it from a user experience point of view. It used to take a couple of seconds for an access control decision at a door. Now, it's around half a second between presenting the credential and an access decision. If totally cloud-based access control stretches the access decision back to 2 seconds, that takes the user back 20 years. On the other hand, cloud-based management is already here: sitting here, in the UK, I can remotely unlock the door on our office in Spain, from my smartphone. Access control will move into the cloud when the time is right. But it has to be about the user at the door. And not just their experience, but their privacy and security, too.
Q: Finally, and also looking forward: the price of energy never seems to be out of the news. What, if anything, are likely to be the effects of increasing energy prices on the access control market?
CB: I mentioned earlier that I was no fan of keys. Well, I hate magnetic locks. They are seen as a low cost option, but they are really a false economy, because they are ugly when you look at their energy use. Over a year, they consume more than wireless locks by a factor of ten. Then there are the shipping costs—these things are heavy—and the metal content is very high. As energy prices increase, it only adds to the value of a move to wireless locks.


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#ifndef OSMIUM_OSM_TYPES_HPP
#define OSMIUM_OSM_TYPES_HPP

#include <cstdint>

namespace osmium {

    /*
     * The following typedefs are chosen so that they can represent all needed
     * numbers and still be reasonably space efficient. As the OSM database
     * needs 64 bit IDs for nodes, this size is used for all object IDs.
     */
    typedef int64_t  object_id_type;          ///< Type for OSM object (node, way, or relation) IDs.
    typedef uint64_t unsigned_object_id_type; ///< Type for OSM object (node, way, or relation) IDs where we only allow positive IDs.
    typedef uint32_t object_version_type;     ///< Type for OSM object version number.
    typedef uint32_t changeset_id_type;       ///< Type for OSM changeset IDs.
    typedef uint32_t user_id_type;            ///< Type for OSM user IDs.
    typedef int32_t  signed_user_id_type;     ///< Type for signed OSM user IDs.
    typedef uint32_t num_changes_type;        ///< Type for changeset num_changes.
    typedef uint32_t num_comments_type;       ///< Type for changeset num_comments.

    /**
     * Size for strings in OSM data such as user names, tag keys, roles, etc.
     * In Osmium they can be up to 2^16 bytes long, but OSM usually has lower
     * defined limits.
     */
    typedef uint16_t string_size_type;

    // maximum of 256 characters of max 4 bytes each (in UTF-8 encoding)
    constexpr const int max_osm_string_length = 256 * 4;

} // namespace osmium

#endif // OSMIUM_OSM_TYPES_HPP


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Digital transformation is crucial at Rabobank: the Rabo app needs to become the gateway to a range of financial products and services. Bart Leurs, its chief digital transformation officer, is clear: 'You no longer need bricks and mortar for banking.'
Before the corona crisis exploded, Rabobank had just decided to process credit applications of up to €1 million entirely digitally. The bank also wanted to focus more on Fundr, a service that gives entrepreneurs an offer for a loan including the maximum amount and charges, or allows them to adjust their current loan, all online and within 15 minutes. Since the corona measures came into effect, the digital transition has accelerated. Almost all employees work from home and almost all customer processes can be done remotely.
'The crisis has actually accelerated the expansion of our digital lending,' says Bart Leurs, Rabobank's chief digital transformation officer. 'Almost all our employees, including the call centre staff, have been working from home since mid-March. We see that our digital lending process is very fast and smooth. This is crucial for entrepreneurs, who frequently make an extra request for a guarantee or bridging loan right now and want a quick answer.'
The app is the bank
Digital transformation is crucial for Rabobank, says Leurs. The employees of local Rabo branches, traditionally deeply embedded in the local community, for a long time stuck to the old business model where personal contact between customer and relationship manager came first. But now interactions with customers have changed fundamentally: 76% of all new customers find Rabo online. They no longer need to visit a local bank branch because the customer relationship starts via the Rabobank app. When customers purchase a product or service, almost 70% do so digitally. These percentages are slightly lower for business customers – but even for this group, more than 80% of daily contacts are now online. 'You no longer need bricks and mortar for banking today,' says Leurs. 'Actually, our app, which provides access to a range of digital services, has become the bank. Digital is our new normal. Of all of our activities with customers, I expect that about 95% will happen online in the near future.' He emphasises that personal contact with the customer is still crucial at certain times: 'Whether you are a large business customer, an SME or a private individual, there are always points in your life when you really want to talk it through with a financial specialist. This might be about a mortgage, your wealth, a new business loan, taking over another company – you name it. This requires a number of things from our relationship managers, for example. They certainly need be able to provide more high-quality advice.'
Bart Leurs (1972) After studying business administration, he started his career at ING in 1997. After a traineeship, he began working as a relationship manager for the business market, before becoming head of strategy of ING Direct and ING Belgium's head of daily banking services. In 2016, Leurs moved to Rabobank, where he worked as head of fintech and innovation. In 2017 he was appointed chief digital transformation officer and also a member of Rabobank group's management.
How 'digital' is Rabobank now?
The bank's role as coach
Rabobank is constantly working on expanding its app into a digital platform, where the bank acts as a financial coach for its customers. One function, for example, is called 'where is my money going?' and gives customers some insights into their income and expenditure, while the app can also offer services from other companies, says Leurs. These include services from Peaks, a start-up that emerged from Rabobank's Moonshot campaign (an internal 'acceleration programme' that gives Rabo employees the opportunity to work on innovative ideas). Peaks enables automated investing via an app and is especially aimed at novice investors. This allows you to automatically transfer your digital 'change' to Peaks, which then invests it for you. Leurs explains: 'The aim of Peaks is to help young people to build up a savings pot and discover investing in an accessible way. Another digital service is GreenHome's 'HuisScan', which allows Rabo customers to find out about measures to make their house more sustainable, before we help them think about how they can finance their renovation. We want the Rabo app to really grow into an innovation platform.' Rabobank also offers ever more online options for business customers, such as that digital lender Fundr. Leurs explains: 'Fundr collects transaction data from the applicant's bank when it has permission from the applicant. We supplement this with company data from the Chamber of Commerce database. We then use machine learning to analyse the customer's creditworthiness and offer a made-to-measure loan. Before the loan is actually granted, the customer still needs to have a video call with a Rabo employee.'
Handling customer data confidentially
Any organisation that goes digital should consider the use and management of customer data in accordance with privacy laws such as GDPR. This is an especially sensitive area for banks: when ING hinted a few years ago that it planned to start a pilot where third parties could also offer services to ING customers, based on their data, there was such a stink that ING dropped it post-haste. Leurs says: 'We've been a data company for 120 years so customers trust that we are careful with their data. They entrust us with their data, which means we can, for example, use data analysis to provide them with better insights into their financial needs now and in the future. We do regular customer surveys to find out what they expect from us in this regard, and what they think we can and cannot do with their data.'
'Actually, our app has become the bank.
Digital is our new normal'
Agile working gets results
Just like its competitor ING, a textbook example of an agile bank, Rabobank also now works with squads and tribes according to the Spotify model. The bank is well on the way in transforming itself to a 'fully agile model', says Leurs: 'We have more than 32,000 employees in the Netherlands. About 4,000 of them work in ten tribes, which are divided again into self-managing squads. This includes employees in IT, marketing, product management and other support services. Many employees work in our local offices and this is not yet the case for them. Meanwhile, abroad we also work according to a traditional organisational model.'
What are the results of this agile working?
Leurs says: 'People in self-managing teams find this way of working more inspiring. Because they can decide what they want themselves, they feel much less control from management. They know how they contribute to realising our strategy so their sense of involvement is much greater too. What I really like about the squads is that you see more of a feeling of ownership there. These teams do everything they can to optimise service for the customer.'
'We've been a data company for 120 years so customers trust that we are
careful with their data'
The bigtech threat
In recent years, some traditional banks have felt increasingly threatened by emerging fintechs and "bigtechs" such as Amazon, Apple and Google. Leurs sees a more nuanced picture: 'Many fintechs are little more than a digital bank with a payment card, which we as Dutch banks have been offering for a long time. Don't forget, the Netherlands is at the forefront of digital banking internationally. I think the threat from bigtechs is much more serious. Apple Pay is serving many millions of customers. We are also looking carefully at Amazon: if it launches a platform in the Netherlands for SMEs, for example, it might want to offer credit via that platform. And what is Google going to do? I think these firms are the greatest threat.' What about banks collaborating with bigtechs under the motto: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em"? Leurs says it's certainly an option: 'I assume that big techs do not want to develop all those financial services themselves. They are looking for specialists to do that and we have to jump into that gap. For example, we built Fundr in such a way that you can easily plug it into an Amazon platform.' He also foresees a future in which banks are no longer the centre of the universe. 'Customers also expect to be able to purchase banking services and products from all sorts of non-banks. Our challenge is to offer those services on other people's platforms whenever possible. Why would entrepreneurs using an Exact accounting system not want to apply for credit via that system, for instance? Fundr would fit very well within that platform. In a nutshell, we want to be where our customers are. Our digital journey is far from over, but we already have a good digital foundation in our local Dutch market. In the coming years, we can expand upon this at home and abroad.'
Sector: Financial services | Workforce: 43,000 | Innovation/technology team 6,000 | Activities Private and corporate banking for clients in 41 countries | Net profit 2019 € 2.2 billion
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Dependency injection is a powerful pattern that is relatively simple to implement. However, it is often overlooked—or even misunderstood—in the development of many web applications.
In .NET there is nice tool called the Unity container that facilitates the use of dependency injection. There are a few different ways in which dependency injection can be applied. This post will focus on injecting dependencies via the constructor (also known as Constructor Injection).
Before looking at how the Unity container works, let's take a brief look at what dependency injection is.
So, we see here that "injecting the dependency" is just a fancy way of saying "passing the dependency to the object." In this example we've modified the PizzaServiceController constructor to accept the dependency as an argument—hence "constructor injection."
With this change, we now need to create an instance of the repository somewhere in order for us to be able to pass it in. This could be done in Main if it were a desktop application. But, where do we instantiate objects in a web application? In a typical MVC web application, this will happen in the controllers. But, since there are always multiple controllers—each with dependencies of their own—we still need a solution for resolving these dependencies in one area.
At runtime, the Unity container will instantiate PizzaServiceController because it is specified in Resolve. Then it will create an instance of PizzaRepository and inject it into the constructor of PizzaServiceController on our behalf due to the fact that the signature specifies that we need an object that is an IRepository. As a nice benefit, it will also dispose of the PizzaRepository that it created when the PizzaServiceController becomes eligible for garbage collection. There are also a host of other options that provide for greater control over the lifecycle of the objects it instantiates.
For applications that grow and change, the use of dependency injection helps us keep our code loosely coupled, and therefore easier to change. The Unity container helps us manage the instantiation and disposal of dependencies while allowing us to focus on creating a more maintainable application.
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

using CotcSdk;

namespace CotcSdkTemplate
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Methods to display the CotcSdk's community features' results.
	/// </summary>
	public class CommunityHandler : MonoSingleton<CommunityHandler>
	{
		#region Display
		// Reference to the community panel UI elements
		[SerializeField] private GameObject outClickMask = null;
		[SerializeField] private GameObject communityPanel = null;
		[SerializeField] private Text communityPanelTitle = null;
		[SerializeField] private GameObject loadingBlock = null;
		[SerializeField] private Text errorText = null;
		[SerializeField] private GameObject noFriendText = null;
		[SerializeField] private GameObject noUserText = null;

		// Reference to the community GameObject prefabs and the community items layout
		[SerializeField] private GameObject communityFriendPrefab = null;
		[SerializeField] private GameObject communityUserPrefab = null;
		[SerializeField] private GridLayoutGroup communityItemsLayout = null;

		// List of the community GameObjects created on the community panel
		private List<GameObject> communityItems = new List<GameObject>();

		/// <summary>
		/// Hide the community panel at Start.
		/// </summary>
		private void Start()
		{
			HideCommunityPanel();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Hide the community panel.
		/// </summary>
		public void HideCommunityPanel()
		{
			// Hide the community panel with its outclickMask and loading block
			outClickMask.SetActive(false);
			communityPanel.SetActive(false);
			ClearCommunityPanel(false);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Show the community panel.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="panelTitle">Title of the panel to display. (optional)</param>
		public void ShowCommunityPanel(string panelTitle = null)
		{
			// Set the community panel's title only if not null or empty
			if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(panelTitle))
				communityPanelTitle.text = panelTitle;

			// Show the achievement panel with its outclickMask and loading block
			outClickMask.SetActive(true);
			communityPanel.SetActive(true);
			ClearCommunityPanel(true);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Clear the community panel container (loading block, texts, previously created items).
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="showLoadingBlock">If the loading block should be shown.</param>
		public void ClearCommunityPanel(bool showLoadingBlock = false)
		{
			// Show/hide the loading block
			loadingBlock.SetActive(showLoadingBlock);

			// Hide all texts
			errorText.gameObject.SetActive(false);
			noFriendText.SetActive(false);
			noUserText.SetActive(false);

			// Destroy the previously created community GameObjects if any exist and clear the list
			foreach (GameObject communityItem in communityItems)
				DestroyObject(communityItem);

			communityItems.Clear();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Fill the community panel with friends (or blacklisted gamers).
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="friendsList">List of the friends to display.</param>
		public void FillCommunityPanel(NonpagedList<GamerInfo> friendsList)
		{
			// Clear the community panel
			ClearCommunityPanel(false);

			// If there are friends to display, fill the community panel with friend prefabs
			if ((friendsList != null) && (friendsList.Count > 0))
				foreach (GamerInfo friend in friendsList)
				{
					// Create a community friend GameObject and hook it at the community items layout
					GameObject prefabInstance = Instantiate<GameObject>(communityFriendPrefab);
					prefabInstance.transform.SetParent(communityItemsLayout.transform, false);

					// Fill the newly created GameObject with friend data
					CommunityFriendHandler communityFriendHandler = prefabInstance.GetComponent<CommunityFriendHandler>();
					communityFriendHandler.FillData(friend["profile"]);

					// Add the newly created GameObject to the list
					communityItems.Add(prefabInstance);
				}
			// Else, show the "no friend" text
			else
				noFriendText.SetActive(true);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Fill the community panel with users.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="usersList">List of the users to display.</param>
		public void FillCommunityPanel(PagedList<UserInfo> usersList)
		{
			// Clear the community panel
			ClearCommunityPanel(false);

			// If there are users to display, fill the community panel with user prefabs
			if ((usersList != null) && (usersList.Count > 0))
				foreach (UserInfo user in usersList)
				{
					// Create a community user GameObject and hook it at the community items layout
					GameObject prefabInstance = Instantiate<GameObject>(communityUserPrefab);
					prefabInstance.transform.SetParent(communityItemsLayout.transform, false);

					// Fill the newly created GameObject with user data
					CommunityUserHandler communityUserHandler = prefabInstance.GetComponent<CommunityUserHandler>();
					communityUserHandler.FillData(user.UserId, user["profile"]);

					// Add the newly created GameObject to the list
					communityItems.Add(prefabInstance);
				}
			// Else, show the "no user" text
			else
				noUserText.SetActive(true);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Clear the community panel and show an error message.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="errorMessage">Error message to display.</param>
		public void ShowError(string errorMessage)
		{
			// Clear the community panel
			ClearCommunityPanel(false);

			// Set and show the error message
			errorText.text = string.Format("\n{0}\n", errorMessage);
			errorText.gameObject.SetActive(true);
		}
		#endregion

		#region Screen Orientation
		/// <summary>
		/// Adapt the layout display when the current screen orientation changes.
		/// </summary>
		public void OnRectTransformDimensionsChange()
		{
			// If on landscape orientation use 2 columns, else (portrait) use 1 column
			communityItemsLayout.constraintCount = Screen.width > Screen.height ? 2 : 1;
		}
		#endregion
	}
}


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COVID -19 Vaccines: FG to leverage on using influencers, Imams, Bishops, top Musicians, to drive acceptance – Fayemi
As the Federal government ramp up preparations for administration of the COVID-19 vaccines, government is said to be leveraging on using top influencers, Imams, Bishops, top musicians, highly successful Nigerians and sports personalities, to drive vaccines acceptability.
Governors forums chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi disclosed this to State House Correspondents, after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja .
Speaking after what he described as " a routine meeting with Mr. President", Fayemi said the meeting reviewed " a number of issues that are of interest to me and my colleagues, the governors. Security, economy, vaccines management and the general outlook for 2021"
The use of top influencers is being proposed as a way to reduce the growing negative misconceptions over the efficacy of the vaccine and its side effects which has dominated public discussions in recent weeks.
Following government decisions to roll out 100,000 doses of vaccines in Nigeria, there have been fear of alleged resistance to taking the vaccines, emanating from Nigeria's recent experience with the Polio vaccines
The Governor said the management of the vaccines remains the number one priority as it relates to public health and risk communication.
"I commended the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 for at least, wanting to use Mr. President and the Vice President as their publicity vehicles for reassuring those who may have their doubts about vaccines use that, this is no threats to them.
"But the good thing is, Mr. President has agreed with me that he would convey to the PTF the necessity of using other influencers, maybe the Chief Imams, the Bishops, top musicians, our sports personalities. Because, the more of such people are seen taking the vaccines the more the likelihood of resistance will break down in our various localities. So, we discussed that.
He also cited cultural and religious concerns in various parts of the country as major reasons , but stated that " we are at the state level, we are reviewing that with all of our colleagues.
"But the good thing is, Mr. President has agreed with me that he would convey to the PTF the necessity of using other influencers, maybe the Chief Imams, the Bishops, top musicians, our sports personalities.
"Because, the more of such people are seen taking the vaccines the more the likelihood of resistance will break down in our various localities. So, we discussed that.
Fayemi who said the procurement of vaccines we also discussed, however, expressed the need for Nigeria to look inwards , to develop the vaccines locally, rather than wholly rely on importation.
" We really need to ramp up manufacturing of vaccines locally. It's okay that COVAX that Nigeria is part of is going to be delivering some vaccines to us. As we understand, the first 100,000 and then 43 million and ultimately 165 million doses. But, there is nothing as good as having the ability to manufacture our own vaccines locally.
"And we understand that there is a partnership with May & Baker, which is important for the Federal Government to really accelerate, so that we can produce the vaccines here in Nigeria and not be dependent on what is coming from other parts.
"Well, the federal government is already part of the WHO-GAVI Alliance-COVAX partnership and from what we understand from the PTF, vaccines will come from that alliance. Some of it from Pfizer in the first instance and then maybe from other various producers of the vaccines later.
"But there is no clarity as yet as to when these vaccines will arrive Nigeria. So, one of the issues raised with Mr. President is the need to accelerate the delivery of vaccines to the country, so that it will be available to our people.
" Those of us at the receiving end in the states, know that this is an issue. We also need to ramp up our own preparedness, in terms of getting our states ready for vaccines storage particularly, the freezers and cold chains that will be required for that process. We need to get ourselves ready at the state level.
He also suggested a situation whereby the federal government can procure but, States will be allowed to receive and administer in their various locations " adding that " there is a lot of work to be done in that respect.
He also assured that the Governors will Publicly take the vaccines as part of efforts to enhance acceptance at the grassroots.
"Absolutely. We too will like to demonstrate to our citizens that we believe that vaccines would work. Don't forget, we have a lot of experience on this. Governors forum managed the polio vaccines administration in the country and we have garnered a lot of experience. We have worked with the Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Federal Ministry of Health and will be happy to work with NCDC, PTF, the primary healthcare development agency on this as well. So, we would take a lead as well in our various states.
Fayemi also revealed that details of financial management of are being worked out.
"But we also know that there are a range of approaches to take, the health approach is there. Because, for us at the Governors Forum is not just a health issues, it is also a security issue and it is an economic issue too. We would work in partnership, we are involved with PTF, we have a representation at the PTF and we will work with them generally on them.
Speaking on the issues of security, the Governor, the President has promised clearly that help is on the way, adding that Mr. President is very determined that this year will see a rapid reduction in the free access that bandits, kidnappers, criminals have had in the country.
"I believe there is a whole range of strategies that he is putting in place in order to address that. I have also expressed to him the commitment of governors to step up, both in terms of providing support for our security agencies and also sensitizing our population as well as address the root causes of some of these crimes in our states.
"So, it's a partnership. He is our commander in chief, we are his field commanders and insecurity is ravaging the land collectively. So we all have do do whatever we can to reduce it and to work in collaboration with the Federal Government"
⟵Al-Qalam University, Katsina Resumption Date 2020/2021
States and their resumption dates for schools in 2021⟶


Treat her feet to style and comfort with these pretty pumps. Constructed in black shimmer fabric, design features include fun pom pom detailing, together with a thin durable sole. These statement shoes will no doubt become a firm favourite with your little one.


UPDATE: (8.22.18) Due to the anticipation of Hurricane Lane, all remaining C-SPAN events have been cancelled for Maui and Oahu.
C-SPAN, the Washington, D.C.-based public affairs network, in coordination with Spectrum, is heading to Hawaiʻi August 15-25 as the next leg of the network's 14-month 50 Capitals Tour.
Together, C-SPAN and Spectrum are bringing the 45-foot C-SPAN Bus on a boat to the islands of Oʻahu and Maui, where, in addition to hosting community events, C-SPAN will produce public affairs programming, including segments for its ongoing C-SPAN Cities Tour.
That programming, showcasing a variety of Hawaiʻi venues, public officials, non-fiction authors and local historians, will be featured on all three C-SPAN networks during the October 6-7 weekend. The C-SPAN Bus visit to the state Capitol in Honolulu is the 39th capital city visit along the tour.
On Tuesday, Aug. 21, a bus welcome event will take place at the County Building in Wailuku from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; followed by a visit to the Queen Kaʻahumanu Center in Kahului from 3 to 5 p.m.
On Wednesday, there's a morning event at Baldwin High School, a mid-day visit to the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College for the Campus Fest, and an afternoon visit with the Maui Economic Development Board.
On Thursday, Aug. 23, the bus will visit Lahianaluna High School in the morning, and hold a mid-day event with the Kiwanis Club of Maui.
*During the visit, C-SPAN will also conduct interviews (media-only events) scheduled at the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum in Kahului and ʻĪao Valley State Monument in Wailuku. More events/shoots will be confirmed within the next week.
Moving the C-SPAN Bus around Hawaiʻi requires a great deal of logistical planning. C-SPAN will ship its motor coach by boat from San Diego, California, on August 8, arriving in Oʻahu on August 15. Following events around Oʻahu, the Bus will depart by boat for Maui and then sail back to Oʻahu before its August 28 return voyage to San Diego.
The C-SPAN Bus, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, embarked on the 50 Capitals Tour in September 2017 to engage students, community members and elected officials in every state — through on-board interactive tablets and stations and by talking with residents about issues important to them for C-SPAN's social media campaign, Voices from the States.
C-SPAN3, featuring American History TV, on channel 46 and on the web at C-SPAN.org. All funding for C-SPAN operations, including Bus and Cities Tour visits, are provided by cable and satellite television providers.


Flower Friday brings us the sweetest little blooms on a scented geranium out on the island. We have a pair of these on the steps going down to the outdoor shower. We have never had this variety before, but will most certainly get again as we are utterly charmed by all those tiny flowers. Apologies, not remembering the variety name. It is on my list to find out. Thought you would all enjoy the profusion of color set against all that lush green. Have a lovely, lovely July week-end everyone!
Herbs & leaves can add such a hit of happiness to your kitchen table, anywhere really. Often the leaves on flowers or plants can rival the beauty of the bloom, so showcase them in low bowls where the weight of the leaf is supported by the rim of the bowl. Herbs either planted or in a clear glass of water adds to the tableau. A piece of fruit or berries just gives another layer to the lusciousness.
I find it so interesting how a color combination just starts striking your fancy. Right now I am loving the combination of blue and green together. Not surprising about the green, I know, but bits of dark blue with it is also quite fetching. The above and below table showing how lovely they play off one another. I guess the whole blue sky and the green grass scenario is at it again.


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Q: REGEXMATCH across multiple cells My team is entering values (Discovery|Demo|Proposal|Contracting) into a set of cells (F2, I2, L2, O2, R2) to reflect sales progress. If there is no progress, they are leaving those cells blank. I would like to display in cell C2 whether any of the previously specified cells have the specified values entered into them. I can correctly populate C2 when I query against a specific cell using the formula below, but am getting errors when I try to either manually specify the additional cells ) or use an array (F2:R2).
=IF(REGEXMATCH(F2,"Discovery|Demo|Proposal|Contracting"),"yes","No")

A: You have to use ArrayFormula() in case of array input. Try-
=ArrayFormula(IF(REGEXMATCH(F2:L2,"Discovery|Demo|Proposal|Contracting"),"yes","No"))

Or INDEX() function will give you same result.
=INDEX(IF(REGEXMATCH(F2:L2,"Discovery|Demo|Proposal|Contracting"),"yes","No"))


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Blowing the Whistle on the Iraq War
by John Kendall Hawkins
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
— Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma"
SPOILER ALERT — Plot lines of the film Official Secrets revealed.
In May 1989, just a few months before the Berlin Wall fell, the United Kingdom upgraded its Official Secrets Act (OSA). Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, unhappy with the way embarrassing classified information had been leaked to the press during the Falklands War, saw to it that the OSA was tightened up to such a degree that future breachers of government non-disclosure agreements would face serious jail time.
Future whistleblowers would even be limited in their legal defense, as they would be unable to discuss the confidential leak with an attorney. The OSA of 1989 was the stuff of police states.
From John F. Kennedy ("Ich bin ein Berliner") to Ronald Reagan ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"), the Berlin Wall had been regarded by the West as the symbol of the Iron Curtain separating free democratic societies and closed totalitarian regimes controlled by Moscow.
But the OSA suggested that the West had learned the value of deep, unnecessary secrecy. As the East opened up, the West began its movement toward clamping down on privacy and freedom, through the growth of the Internet, leading to the surveillance state we have today.
In 2016, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, noted this catastrophic irony. Speaking before the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, a disillusioned Drake said,
I never imagined that the US would use the Stasi playbook as the template for its own state sponsored surveillance regime and turning not only its own citizens into virtual persons of interest, but also millions of citizens in the rest of the world.
Of course, it's not only America that's gone this route, but the UK (which has the most surveillance cameras turned on its public than anywhere else in the world, bar China), Australia, New Zealand and Canada — the Five Eyes that control world surveillance.
But long before Drake, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and many other whistleblowers and reporters drew our attention to the secret criminal activities of our governments, in our names and against our democratic interests, in 2003, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) translator and analyst Katharine Gun refused to stay silent — non-disclosure agreement or not — while her country was 'special-friended' by the US into illegally going to war against Iraq.
Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers that detailed the active US criminality of the Vietnam War, said of Gun's leak that it was "The most extraordinary leak … of classified information that I've ever seen, and that definitely included and surpassed my own disclosure of top secret information…." Gun was trying to stop a war, not end one.
The newly released Official Secrets is a docudrama that tells the story of Katharine Gun's heroic decision to risk everything (career, marriage, freedom) to blow the whistle on Great Britain's collusion in blackmailing UN Security Council members into supporting an illegal war (the US and the UK knew there were no WMDs) against Iraq in the spring of 2003.
The US was looking for "legal" cover and was willing to use the NSA and GCHQ's extraordinary surveillance abilities to find kompromat on UN members to force them to vote Yes on war. This is war criminality — the kind the UN was established to prevent and punish.
Official Secrets is directed by Gavin Hood, whose last major film was the British surveillance thriller, Eye in the Sky (2015). The film stars Keira Knightley, MyAnna Buring, and Ralph Fiennes. It is one of those must-see films that seems almost impossible to find. Cinema runs seem limited. It's available through Apple, Amazon and Vudu, but, of course, online, your viewing is duly noted and databased.
In a flashback, very early in the film, we see Gun lounging at home watching British journalist David Frost interview Prime Minister Tony Blair. Frost is pushing Blair to come clean about war path allegations that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, and therefore represents a clear and present danger to America and her allies.
The film has very effective editing. Once the viewer is reminded of Blair's criminal collusion with the Bush administration about WMD in Iraq months before the invasion (here, Gun is heard shouting from the couch in protest of Blair's lies), we cut to the GCHQ office Gun works in and watch as she reads, for the first time, the document she will leak to the press. The scene enacts two colleagues unhappy with the contents of the document from the NSA, and the first stir of conscience for Gun.
As the memo indicates, the push to go to war with Iraq in 2003, brought in a variety of actors, including "good guys" like Colin Powell, whose favorability among the American populace — Democrats and Republicans alike — was leveraged; he was the lipstick on the flying pig. Still unaccountably, he allowed himself to be the 'credible' salesman for a criminal lie. It was a mistake that cost him the chance to be the first Black American president. (Even during the 2016 presidential election, three electors ignored the public vote and chose him for president. Which tells you something about the electoral college process.)
There are a lot of anxious moments depicted in the film — people just not knowing what to do: friends are afraid of being caught up in a situation that could amount to treason; Gun's husband, a Kurd, is threatened with deportation; newspaper staff fear giving up a cozy relationship with the government; lawyers who tell their clients, 'I think you might be fucked.' This is what the criminals exercise and leverage. All the people who signed on to do the right thing as friends, lovers, reporters, and lawyers wring their hands in anguish, while the lying leaders sleep. And Official Secrets makes certain that the viewer knows that the prospect of war with Iraq was "historically unpopular." It's a war crime from the onset.
After Gun secrets the NSA memo out of GCHQ she calls a friend, Jasmine, an anti-war agitator, who she knows has press contacts, so that she can get the word out. This is a poignant moment, because implicit is the proposition before the viewer: What would you do? And you can feel Jasmine and Gun's terror at being caught.
Drake knows how Gun is feeling when it comes to the conflict she has between holding to her non-disclosure agreement and her responsibility to make government accountable for criminal behavior. In a 2014 interview with Federal News Network, Drake said: "Is your non-disclosure agreement, which involves what's actually classified, does that somehow trump the Constitution and First Amendment? Is secrecy, in this case the trust, even if it's misplaced where trust becomes loyalty and if you break loyalty, then you get punished, which is sort of like the Omerta pact?"
How the film depicts the press is amusing, suggesting a low-level of interest in rocking the ship of state. An Observer journalist named Ed Vulliamy (played by Rhys Ifans) is already working on a lead that supports the suspicion that George W. Bush is aching for an excuse to polish off Saddam Hussein. Nobody wants to touch his copy at the then pro-war Observer. Heading back to the States to track his lead, Ed yells over his shoulder at colleagues, "We're the press, for God's sake, not a fucking PR agency for Tony Blair." Hear, hear.
Later, once the memo gets to the Observer, they muddle over what to do, as the document has come not directly from a GCHQ source but through a notorious intermediary, casting doubt upon the veracity of the memo. When they finally run the story, it is discovered by the Americans that the NSA memo uses British spelling — a secretary's mistake, it turns out — making American media nervous about picking up on the Observer's exclusive story. The story founders on the 'typo' and causes high anxiety at the paper. Even Gun begins to fear that she risked everything for nothing. Before the newscycle spits out the shaky story, Gun confesses to GCHQ: "I did it. It was me," Gun says.
After that Official Secrets moves towards Gun's legal defense. The Official Secrets Act is further spelled out. The harsh realities of the non-disclosure agreements signed amplified by the war with Iraq now underway and the indifference to Gun's plea for understanding her rationale for whistleblowing become apparent. In the end they come up with a plan: necessity defense.
The necessity defense is a difficult argument to make, because, among other things, the defendant has to make the case that their action clearly supersedes an executive decision, often built upon confidential information the defendant might not be privy to. The defense had to show that by changing the Official Secrets Act in 1989 the Thatcher administration essentially locked in immunity from criminal executive behavior in the future. Further, they could demonstrate that the invasion of Iraq, which the Blair government signed on to, was predicated upon lies (WMD). Further, the NSA memo, with its request for British intelligence-gathering on UN Security Council members, for the purposes of blackmail, left the government open to criminal responsibility for the doings in Iraq.
Gun's case was dropped.
Gun's experience and its aftermath raises a couple of important questions still relevant today. How do we strengthen whistleblower laws — internationally — so that otherwise decent, law-abiding government workers, like analyst Gun, are not forced by NDAs to become silent accessories to crime committed by their superiors. Gun was faced with having to live with doing nothing amid reports of the slaughter that Shock and Awe caused. Necessity defenses are not frivolous and should be an option for whistleblowers. Snowden would have a legitimate appeal to such a defense. Also, such trials should be held in neutral jurisdictions, such as The Hague. Real whistleblower trials are political events, not criminal.
Also, it should be noted that so much of what Snowden says in his memoir, Permanent Record, of his self-described Deep State career has the golden ring of truth to it. But his title says it all, really. The government wants to keep a permanent record — a dossier — on every person on the planet connected to the internet. (And the pressure is there to see that just about everyone is enrolled eventually.) As Snowden writes in Permanent Record:
At any time, the government could dig through the past communications of anyone it wanted to victimize in search of a crime (and everybody's communications contain evidence of something). At any point, for all perpetuity, any new administration — any future rogue head of the NSA — could just show up to work and, as easily as flicking a switch, instantly track everybody with a phone or a computer, know who they were, where they were, what they were doing with whom, and what they had ever done in the past.
This is invasive surveillance capacity almost beyond belief; totally undemocratic — and all kinds of criminal. The NSA attempt to blackmail UN security council members is, as Gun knew, an example of their potential for evil deeds that nobody can stop.
The UK is saturated with surveillance cameras aimed at its population — by one estimate there are at least 4,200,000 cameras or one for every 14 citizens. At one point you could sign on to a now-defunct service (Internet Eyes) to monitor activity online and be paid for it. It's not just the UK though — in America, there is a site where you can sign up to become an online 'deputized' set of eyes on the look-out for immigrants crossing the Mexican border. It's even worse: another service invites presumably insomniac viewers to check out the live CCTV feeds from IP cameras around the world. We are becoming the beast with seven billion eyes.
Another important point Snowden makes in Permanent Record is that his is the first generation growing up in the post-9/11 world. A world of young people that has lived with mass surveillance its entire life. It has become normalized, institutionalized — a part of keeping Freedom 'safe from harm'. Sounds sensible, but it's scary — especially in the scoundrel patriotism it requires you to take refuge in. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, former Stasi employees must look on at Five Eyes with penal envy. And we are in danger of getting to that point we see in another film, The LIves of Others, portraying the sinister brutalities of the Stasi, where the logic of our imprisonment is expressed as a contradiction in our introjected daily interrogation by the algorithms of our collective demise.
Meanwhile, speaking of smoking guns, Donald J. Trump continues to dog-whistle his basket-case full of deplorable supporters as he publicly savages the whistleblower who may spell his demise and lead to his impeachment. The unleashed press hounds are baying at the blood-red moon. Ukraine, not Russia, may bring his presidency down. And it remains to be seen whether the spy is a whistleblower or merely another a politically motivated leaker.
Official Secrets is the story of a hero. Like Snowden, Drake and Manning, and all the others who brought attention, at great risk to themselves, we need — of all things — more vigilance when it comes to our freedom and privacy. For inspiration see the film.
John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelancer based in Australia. He is a former reporter for The New Bedford Standard-Times.


"I Can't Wait (Be My Wife)" by Ben Rue is a country-filled breath of fresh air. I heard it this morning on my way to work, and be the sappy hopeless romantic that I am, immediately started crying with the first chorus. There are so many songs out there today about meeting the love of your life and wanting to marry them, but the lyrics of this song, while not the most poetic, are honest and true, which I think makes the listener connect with them ten times more. Originally performed by Runner Runner, Ben Rue's cover has actually taken the Sirius radio world by storm and has been played on many different stations, what we in the music industry like to call a cross-over artist (or song in this case). I think it's the relate-ability of this track that allows it to have such a broad audience range. It's not just country, it's not just a love song, it's an every day-I-think-I-found-the-one-that-makes-me-happiest kind of song.
Anyone who is or has ever been in love can reminisce on the little things that made them feel that way in the first place. The wrinkle in their nose when they got upset, the way they could always tell if something was on your mind, the smile they gave you that only you knew what it really meant. The tiny things are the moments that have the biggest impact in a relationship because they're the things you miss most when that person isn't around. You don't miss the flowers, or the dinners, or the material things. You miss the nights spent sleeping on their chest, or the way their hands felt when they were holding yours. There are so many songs about losing those feelings, about break-up's and heartache, but there aren't too many songs that capture the little things leading up to the biggest moment of your life, your wedding day.
Rue's music video for this song is exactly what the song represents. A simple journey to, and need for love.
I think that is the perfect song to spend your afternoon playing on repeat.


In 7th International Immersive Projection Technologies Workshop and the 9th Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments. ACM, 2003.
A Virtual Environment (VE) is not an application in itself. It should further be seen as a complex, multi modal human-computer interface. Immersive VE systems must be able to couple resources, most likely distributed in a cluster, into a parallel, real-time simulation. The shortcoming of most VE software libraries is the inability to provide an environment that satis es the three main requirements in the implementation of a VE system, namely the design of the VE interface, the implementation of the actual application and the distribution of parallel tasks to appropriate resources within a cluster system. This paper presents Open ActiveWrl, an open source software project that tackles these problems by a generic software development approach. It is tailored for heterogenous cluster systems. Open ActiveWrl uses a general-purpose middleware that interprets VRML/X3D as an interface de nition language.
The paper won the Best Poster Award.