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Does the WPS Agenda Matter for Emergent Grassroots LGBTQ+ Movements in Ghana and Nigeria?
October 13, 2021 by Wadeisor Rukato
An activist from the LGBT community holds up a rainbow flag inside the courtroom at the High Court in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, May 24, 2019. Kenya's High Court on Friday upheld sections of the penal code that criminalize same-sex relations, a disappointment for gay rights activists across Africa where dozens of countries have similar laws. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
State-sponsored homophobia and homophobic violence are security issues of critical concern for LBGTQ+ individuals in African countries; few countries have legislative protections for LGBTQ+ people and same-sex relations are legally prohibited in at least 32 out of 54 African countries. Studies also suggest that there is no sign of a societal shift toward greater acceptance for LGBTQ+ individuals among younger age groups. Recently, protests around the treatment of LGBTQ+ communities in Nigeria and Ghana have amplified calls for the protection of LGBTQ+ people by providing platforms for LGBTQ+ youth to demand human rights.
The growing visibility of LGBTQ+ issues in these two countries has revealed how the under-resourcing of emergent LGBTQ+ movements impacts their ability to protect and advocate for their members. The absence of an overarching framework for embedding LGBTQ+ rights into government- and non-governmental organization-led work around human rights and gender equality contributes to this under-resourcing. Moreover, some African countries, including Nigeria, have implemented restrictions around the registration and activity of sexual orientation-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Although the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda and its national action plans provide a structure for efforts to ensure the protection and inclusion of women in peace and security processes, its current narrow interpretation of gender makes it ill-equipped for use as the basis of a legal or policy instrument aimed at addressing violence against LGBTQ+ people.
Limitations of an Expanded WPS Agenda in African Countries
The exclusion of LGBTQ+ rights in the WPS agenda should be viewed as a factor that inhibits its successful implementation. As noted by Jamie Hagen, most peace processes and national action plans continue to use a narrow framing of gender that excludes diverse groups of women—including lesbian, bisexual or transgender women. In its efforts to address gender inequalities, the WPS agenda is largely failing to account for the experiences of LGBTQ+ people and the pervasive and particular forms of violence they face, both in African countries and globally.
Although there has been some progress towards the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people in the WPS agenda—including greater reference to LGBTQ+ people in the UN secretary-general's annual reports on conflict-related sexual violence or the inclusion of references to LGBTQ+ people in the national action plans of at least seven UN member states—it remains slow.
While there are many WPS policymakers and practitioners who see the potential of the agenda for the advancement of the rights of gender and sexual majorities, in most African countries the effective implementation of a more inclusive WPS agenda is constrained by the impacts of entrenched systems of homophobia at the state, legislative, and cultural levels. As a result, for there to be any chance for the inclusion of LGBTQ+ related issues in WPS national action plans, LGBTQ+ rights first need to be recognized and provided for by African governments.
#QueerAfricanLivesMatter: Emergent LGBTQ+ Activism in Nigeria and Ghana
LGBTQ+ rights movements on the continent are the first frontier in the journey toward having African governments recognize the human rights of LGBTQ+ communities. In 2021, protests and activism in Nigeria and Ghana highlighted the diverse strategies being deployed by LGBTQ+ activists in these countries—both online and offline—in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. It is worth highlighting these strategies, which are geared toward the provision of protection through the cultivation of collective welfare practices, and whose success relies on the building of pan-African and transnational networks of solidarity and support with LGBTQ+ communities and allies around the world.
The use of hashtag activism is a popular approach for online mobilization and awareness-raising. In Nigeria, #QueerNigerianLivesMatter represents the online debate that emerged following the harassment of LGBTQ+ #EndSARS protestors who sought to highlight the experiences of queer Nigerians with police brutality and homophobia.
In Ghana, the hashtags #QueerGhanaianLivesMatter, #Killthebill, and #LGBTRightsGhana are being used to raise awareness about the harsh crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in the country, particularly following the introduction of the "The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values" ("Family values") bill in 2021, which proposes a prison sentence of up to ten years for any person who advocates for LGBTQ+ rights.
Beyond Twitter, the video-sharing app Tik Tok and Instagram have emerged as relatively safe spaces for young queer Nigerians to create content that reflects their lived experiences and to engage with a broader community of queer content creators. Creating and sharing content on the app enables queer Nigerians to feel joy and pride, which in itself is an act of resistance and subversion. Notably, international media is also playing an important role in amplifying activism in response to recent surges in discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in Ghana and Nigeria.
Physical organizing around LGBTQ+ rights in African countries is important for the gradual process of movement-building and for ensuring that the attention drawn by hashtags is grounded in strategies that, over time, seek to change the ways LGBTQ+ people are treated. The emergence of LGBTQ+ movements in Ghana and Nigeria online has, where possible, been supported by the physical coming together of LGBTQ+ communities.
For example, LGBT+ Rights Ghana, run by a team of 12 LGBTQ+ individuals, is an organization with five specific aims: to create a safe space for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana; to ensure equal rights for all LGBTQ+ people; to ensure that all LGBTQ+ people's rights are respected and protected; to develop activities that will empower the LGBTQ+ community; and to create a strong alliance with pro-LGBTQ+ individuals, activists, organization, institutions, and movements. However, in February 2021, three weeks after the organization had opened its doors, the office in Accra was raided by police and forced to close. Members of the organization's leadership team went into hiding for fear of being targeted by the government, and have relied on online networks to continue their activism.
The decision by the leaders of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana to go into hiding also illustrates the dangers of physical organizing around LGBTQ+ rights in African countries, and shows online mobilization is an important complement to offline organizing due to the intersection of state repression and homophobia.
Online Communities and Collective Welfare
Online activism has been extremely effective in supporting LGBTQ+ people in African countries to foster communal bonds and to cultivate collective welfare. This is of critical importance due to the pervasiveness of perceptions of LGBTQ+ people as immoral, anti-African, or irreligious in African countries, which contributes to their exclusion from access to public goods and basic services.
The core idea of collective welfare is that members of a community contribute resources that benefit individuals within that community who happen to be in need. The community support fund established by LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana to provide long-term financial support for members of the country's LGBTQ+ community is an example of this.
In Nigeria, during the #EndSARS protests, collective welfare strategies were employed in the formation of a non-profit organization called Safe Hquse whose main objective is to "cater to the needs of queer #EndSARS protestors in Nigeria." The organization was formed after queer activist Adaeze Feyisayo expressed concerns on Twitter around the need to provide housing and food for queer Nigerians whose safety was in danger during the protests.
Collective welfare and transnational solidarity
Feminist scholar and researcher, Dr. Awino Okech, describes transnational solidarity as the global connections between groups of people that exist through shared experiences—oftentimes living, surviving, and attempting to thrive under oppressive structures and systems.
The value of transnational solidarity is that it allows people from different geographical contexts to see themselves in each other and locate themselves within each other's struggles against oppression. For example, in February 2021, Black Lives Matter UK issued a statement of solidarity with LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana and oppressed queer and transgender people in Africa after the LGBT+ Rights Ghana offices were closed by Ghanaian authorities. In Ghana and Nigeria, online activism has enabled the organizers of LGBTQ+ protests and emerging movements to forge pan-African and transnational relationships that are a critical source of both material and moral support.
Transitional solidarity is especially important due to the lack of support for LGBTQ+ rights among domestic communities in Ghana and Nigeria. For example, according to the findings of a 2020 poll by Pews Research, only seven percent of Nigerians believe that homosexuality should be accepted by society.
LGBTQ+ Rights in Africa and an Expanded WPS Agenda—We Need Both
Until African governments recognize LGBTQ+ rights as human rights, it is unlikely that WPS national actional plans in Ghana, Nigeria, and other African countries will include language around LGBTQ+ issues. In the absence of this, LGBTQ+ communities in African countries are unlikely to benefit from an expanded WPS agenda. Since attaining LGBTQ+ rights in African countries is a priority, it is important for emergent LGBTQ+ movements on the continent to be protected and for their calls for an end to state-led homophobia to be supported.
Although experts from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recently condemned the Ghanaian government's proposed 'Family values' bill—describing it as attempting to establish a "system of State-sponsored discrimination and violence against the LGBTI community"—the extent to which the organizations at the forefront of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in Ghana are engaging with UN structures is unclear. Similarly, it is unclear how or whether an expanded WPS agenda features on the list of priorities for other emergent LGBTQ+ movements on the continent.
However, to the extent that transnational linkages continue to provide support networks for emergent LGBTQ+ movements, the individuals leading these movements stand to benefit from building connections with efforts at the global level to lobby for greater recognition of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities under the UN's peace and security pillar, and for a more inclusive WPS agenda.
It goes without saying that achieving meaningful progress on expanding the scope of the WPS agenda or improving LGBTQ+ rights in Nigeria, Ghana, and other African countries will be slow. Achieving both will require collaboration between LGBTQ+ movements, women's movements, NGOs, and policymakers to gain traction.
This article is part of a series reflecting on the current state of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda.
Wadeisor Rukato is a Zimbabwean researcher and co-founder of From Africa to China. Her work focuses on youth, politics, and peace and conflict in Africa, including queer rights movements led by African youth.
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David McCourt was with two other Irishmen in a bar. But there was no joking around when he began whining about not getting paid for some contracting work his company did. His friends told him to stop whining and to go do something. David has spent the rest of his life doing a lot and is now pushing people to blow up their model and do a total rethink.
David was born and raised in Watertown, a suburb of Boston. Growing up, he was the youngest of seven siblings. He describes his first challenge as working out how to get into the one bathroom shared by nine family members.
David's grandparents left Bally Winna and Bally Ward, Co Galway, in Ireland at the tender age of 16 and sailed from Cork for a better life in America. He still has the box that contained all their possessions they travelled with in his house in Co Clare, Ireland, saying it acts as a great reminder for how fortunate we are, and how little you really need in life.
At the age of sixteen, young David wanted to become a cop. The decision was then taken away from him when the job offer was withdrawn because they said they had minority set-asides. Instead, he got a spot at Georgetown University, where alongside his studies, David started working for Tip O'Neill, the legendary politician who would go on to be one of the longest-ever-serving speakers of the House of Representatives.
David's entrepreneurial path really got started at the age of 23 with McCourt Cable Systems, when he invented the industry standard of making a conduit with the cable already inside to make it easier to lay cable quicker with little disruption.
At 24, David moved out of the construction business after realizing that he needed to be in a business with recurring revenue. From there, he built Corporation Communications Network, the first competitive phone company in America, which used fibre.
He merged with MFS to create MFS McCourt and within several years, MFS sold for $14.3bn. David went on to repeat this model in Europe and in Mexico.
In media, he has founded a television network produces award-winning TV shows and documentaries. His personal Emmy came for producing the long-running PBS Kids series 'Reading Rainbow' and he has produced documentaries with stars including Angelina Jolie, Michael Douglas, Meg Ryan and Sônia Braga, and worked alongside Spike Lee, LeVar Burton and Bill Duke.
Today, David channels his interests through his investment company, Granahan McCourt Capital, as founder and CEO. He has become one of the most prominent investors in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industries.
David's book 'Total Rethink: Why Entrepreneurs Should Act Like Revolutionaries' is a best-seller with the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon, striking a chord with young entrepreneurs looking to disrupt the status quo.
The White House presented McCourt with its first-ever award recognizing extraordinary accomplishments by private sector businesses. He has been named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young LLP, Harvard Business School and Georgetown University. The American-Irish Historical Society presented him with its gold medal, an award previously bestowed on Ronald Reagan, Mary Higgins Clark and Bono, and he was awarded the Science Foundation Ireland medal for outstanding contribution to technology and innovation.
David currently splits his time between Miami and London.
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Jim Rembach: (00:00)
Okay. Fast leader Legion today. I'm excited because I have somebody on the show today who's going to really assist us in rethinking everything.
David McCourt was born and raised in Watertown, a suburb of Boston. Growing up, he was the youngest of seven siblings. He describes his first challenge is working out how to get into the bathroom shared by nine family members, David's grandparents, left belly winner and belly McCord County in Galway in Ireland at the tender age of 16 and sailed from cork for a better life in America. He still has the box that contained all their possessions they traveled with in his house in County, Clare Ireland saying an acts as a great reminder for how fortunate we are and how little you really need in life. At the age of 16 young David wanted to become a cop. The decision was taken away from him when the job offer was withdrawn because they said they had minority set asides. Instead, he got a spot at Georgetown university where alongside his studies, David started working for tip O'Neill, the legendary politician who would go on to be one of the longest ever serving speakers at the house of representatives.
David's entrepreneurial path really got started at the age of 23 with McCourt cable systems when he invented the industry standard of making a conduit with the cable already inside to make it easier to lay cable quicker with little disruption. At age 24 David moved out of the construction business after realizing that he needed to be in a business with recurring revenue. From there, he built corporation communications network, the first competitive phone company in America, which used fiber. He merged with M F S to create MFS McCourt and within several years, MFS was sold for 14 point $3 billion and David went on to repeat this model in Europe and in Mexico and media. He has founded a television network which produces award-winning TV shows and documentaries. His personal Emmy came from producing the long running PBS kid series reading rainbow, and he has produced documentaries with stars including Angelina Jolie. Michael Douglas, Meg Ryan and so Sonia Braga and worked alongside spike Lee LaVar Burton and bill Duke today.
David channels his interests through his investment company. How do you say thank you, grant, a hand McCourt capital. As founder and CEO, he has become one of the most prominent investors in the technology, media and telecommunication industries. David's book total rethink why entrepreneurs should act like revolutionaries is a bestseller with the wall street journal USA today and Amazon striking a cord with young entrepreneurs looking to disrupt the status quo. The white house presented McCourt with its first ever award recognizing extraordinary complements in the private sector business. He's been named entrepreneurial nearby Ernst and young Harvard business school and Georgetown university. The American Irish historical society presented him with its gold medal and award previously to stowed on Ronald Reagan, Mary Higgins, Clark, and bono and he was awarded the science foundation Ireland medal for outstanding contribution to technology and innovation. David currently splits his time between Miami and London. David McCourt, are you ready to help us get over the hump?
David McCourt: (03:16)
Absolutely, Jim. Absolutely. Thank you for having me on.
Oh, I am so glad to have you on the show because you are going to share with us one of these most powerful topics. I think that underlies all of our future success. But I've given my Legion a little bit about you, but can you share what your current passion is so that we can get to know you even better?
Yeah. Thanks Jim. Well, you know, I spent my whole life in telecom and media, so that's, that's my thing and that's what I do. Um, I'm blessed now that I have a little bit more choice of what I do and who I do it with. So I do what I love with people I love and we are lucky enough recently, um, as in two weeks ago we were just awarded the largest public private partnership in Europe. It's a $5 billion project to, um, fiber up all of Ireland. Every man, woman and child will have a fiber to the home in Ireland. And I'm going to be doing that. My company grant him a court in partnership with the Irish government. So we're very excited about that and I'm obviously very excited about my book. Total rethink. So I'm out peddling the book to Jim.
Well and, and you know, I, after going through the book and I had mentioned that, um, I haven't done a word for word read, I've done a deep skim of it so that we can have this interview, but I'm looking forward to going back to the book because you share so many of your life stories. I mean it's going back at an early age talking about that, you know, trying to get into the bathroom, you know, all the way to where you are today. It's just been a bunch of challenges and navigation points for you that you've pivoted and just continued to, to, to move forward. But one of the things that you said in the book for me, I think resonates pretty strongly and that you talk about us needing to leap forward and then look back to see how we got there and really just start our navigation.
That's exactly right Jim. When you, when you look, when you stand in the present, look at a big problem. Big, big problems like we have today. We have housing crisis today. We have a healthcare crisis today. We have educational costs rising faster than wages. So we have big problems right now. Housing, healthcare, education, big, big issues, the environment, big issues. When you're looking at initiative, it's that big. You need to put yourself in the future when the problem is already solved and then look at that in its finish date and then work backwards and how you got there and work your way all the way backwards to the present. And then you can see what the steps are. Because if you start from the present and look forward at a problem that's that big, you'll be overwhelmed and you'll never be able to solve it. And you'll keep on making incremental steps. But if the problem is getting bigger, faster than you're making incremental incremental steps, as is the case around housing, education and health care in the environment, then you're never going to get there. You're never going to solve the problem fast enough. So you have to put yourself in the future and then imagine the problem all solved and then back into how you got there. It's the only way you can solve problems of this size in my view.
Well, and in the book you talk about the whole U S political issue with the duopoly, you know, of the, of the two party system. You talk about collaboration, you talk about all of these things that are necessary in order for us to, you know, really get to that solution. Uh, but I think for most of us, you know, that's the, that's a grand scheme that we can never reach. So we have to kind of look at it from our own perspective. And you talk about, you know, your creative thinking needing to be holistic. What do you really mean by that?
Well, for this, I think there's two questions in there. First of all, we have this do opoly these, these two systems, right? We have the left and the right and one side says the problem is all big business. Another side says the problem is all big government and they're both lies. Neither is true. We need a functioning government. Government is not all the problem all the time and we need functioning businesses. Otherwise you and I won't be able to be talking over this, this technology if it wasn't for functioning businesses, right. But businesses over the last 50 years have extracted value from communities instead of contributing to communities. And that's it. You know, it used to be the businesses would contribute to the community and they'd make money. Now they seem to, many of them are just trying to extract value from the communities they do business in.
If they have a division that's not making as much money as all the other divisions, but it's very important to a community, they'll shut it down in a, in a heartbeat rather than say, well, we have to fix this. It's not as profitable as the other ones, but it's still important to the community. And that way of thinking has gone away. And that's made people angry at business and businesses angry at government because government just keeps getting bigger and bigger and it, and it gets less and less done. But the both, not bad. We just need a sensible middle. And when I, you mentioned in my introduction that he used to work for a guy named tip O'Neill, speaker of the house. My little desk was right outside his office and every day when he'd come back from the floor, I'd say, mr speaker, how'd we do today?
And he would always say to me, well, Davey used to call me Davey. Well Davey, we've got half and half is better than nothing. That attitude of of compromise is gone in gym. You may have a view of something and I may have a view of something that doesn't make you wrong, that your view is different than mine. It means that based on where you stand or where you sit based on your life experiences, based on your knowledge, that's your position. Based on my knowledge, based on where I stand on where I sit, I have a position we should exchange those, those ideas. It doesn't make either one of us wrong, it just means we have a different view and politicians should accept both views and get to the sensible middle. But that that's, that's left us and that needs to come back. We need to rethink politics. We need to rethink that attitude.
You know, I think you and I could definitely go on for a long time associated with this because I think underlying in your book and you come out and talk about it and you know, you, you're really saying it here is that a lot of this is about relationships and having deeper connections and relationships. You know, it used to be, you know, in tips day and prior to that, you know that on both sides, you know, actually be having social functions and events with one another and they had deeper relationships. You know, now that's just not the case.
And they listened, they didn't attack you, can't you? If you attack another man or a woman, they're going to defend themselves. And that's not a way to get anything done. And now it's all about attacking the other side. It's all about, let me, you know, Jim says one thing, so I say Jim is wrong. Jim is stupid. Jim doesn't know what he's talking about. Jim is going to destroy the country. Jim is going to destroy the world. We can't listen to Jim. That's not a, that's a way me never getting through to Jim. That's a way. And then all of Jim's friends and followers are gone. Then I'm going to attack Dave because Dave is attacking Jim. And then you just end up with this. And of course social platforms, we award you for this because they get you more followers and more comments. So you think you're doing well because you're getting more likeminded people to follow you. And then you have more likeminded people on the other side to follow them. And then the circles get bigger and bigger. But there's still two opposing circles that get nothing done.
Well, and I think, um, you know, again, I don't want to get too far into this, this political thing because it takes him, distracts away from your book. But you know, even Howard Schultz, Schultz, um, you know, the CEO of Starbucks, you know, thought and considered, you know, making a run as an independent to help, you know, maybe break this up, pulled out. He did for 45 minutes. Exactly. It was the quickest campaign ever. Exactly. Uh, and the fear was that it would just, you know, split, you know, the votes and things like that and people would get in that you didn't want to get in. And it's just, it's, it's craziness. But I think for us when we start thinking about our own things that we can really take advantage of and, and empower, you know, that's really, it has to start with us. Um, and so you talk about, you know, people and building that tribe and building, you know, even a followership, you know, and think about it as a work environment and you talk about somebody always being excited for somebody that is continually looking to blow up the model. What do you, what do you mean by that?
Well, Jim, from the industrial revolution, or even before that, up to about the 1990s everything was about incremental change. You could live your life and you could run your business, but incremental change. And in business, we even had names for like six Sigma and another turn of inventory. Another point of EBITDA. It was all about just doing everything every year a little bit better. Now the world is moving too fast. Plus because of the internet, because of social media, because of the polarization of the political system, because of the way we consume news, all of the, because of globalization, because of all those things you can't, incremental change is no longer viable. You need to blow up a model and start over. You need to just scratch it. You can't make incremental changes. We're not going to be able to solve our way through the fact that education costs, healthcare costs, housing costs are growing faster than wages.
We have to blow up the model. We're not going to be able to make incremental changes around this crazy political system that we have now and you can see all over the world gym people are getting are getting pissed off. You see that in the Arab spring, you see that in Hong Kong and you see that and then as well you see that all over the world. People are are angry and that gives you Brexit. I'm in London today. We just had elections here today. That gives you Trump that, that, and you may be far Brexit that are against Brexit. You may be for Trump or against Trump. My point is it that people are angry and people are angry because the problems for the middle-class are getting bigger and bigger and we're solving them on a very incremental basis. But the problems are growing by leaps and bounds. So people are feeling that they get left behind in businesses and have got to take leadership in helping to solve these problems. These problems are not going to get solved by politicians. Businesses have got to take leadership and start contributing in, in adding value to the communities as well as making money. You have to add value to the communities they do business in.
Well, when you start talking about the business landscape though, um, I mean it's, you know, at least in America, you know, they say America is run on small business. You know, people that have, you know, less than 10 people, um, that are part of the company. And so if we start talking about business, you know, solving these problems, what businesses are you really talking about?
Well, look all the PR, let's talk about the environment. We talked about the environment, right? You can make money by solving the environmental problem. You know, we have, um, so I was yesterday, I'm in London today. Yesterday I was in, I was in Ireland. We have 137,500 farms in Ireland, right? Most of them are beef, beef, cattle. The cow, Jim, the cow doesn't have a good future, right? If people are eating less meat, they're saying meat's not good for you. They're saying that, um, the amount of methane gas that farms put out is far more than, than automobiles put out, you know, per area. In Ireland, about 20% of our MFA, our, our, our carbon footprint is attributable to automobiles, about 25% towards houses, 35% towards agriculture. So how do we rethink all that methane on the farms and turn that into and turn that into energy?
How do we rethink storing electricity? How do we rethink, uh, batteries? How do we rethink electric cars? You don't have to plug them in. You remember, Jim, when you used to travel, you know, 20 years ago, you'd go to a hotel room and you were looking for that blue coat to put into your laptop. No. You know, no. If you went to a 20 year old kid and asked him about that new cord that he used to plug into his laptop, when you got no hotel room, you have no idea what you're talking about. You can't have electric cars that you have to look for a place in the side of the road to plug them into. There's gotta be a way that those, that those are charged, there's gotta be a way that they store more power, that they're charged for longer periods of time, that you charge them quicker and you don't have to plug into charging.
You just have to drive over a pad or you drive under a charging station. So, um, how we rethink the, the agriculture, how we think the sustainability of farms, how we think the sustainability of our energy sources in our food, all of those things, uh, ways to make money. How we rethink rural life right now in the world is seven, the equivalent of seven New York cities a year, the equivalent of the size of New York city, seven a year being added to the globe. So everybody's going to an urban environment. Well, we're a life will die in. And obviously that doesn't help housing private practices up prices prior to me. Obviously that doesn't help the environment. We have to rethink the rural environment as business opportunities there. We have to rethink healthcare education. Why is it cost in America $50,000 to send your kid to a top 50 university in America? Crazy. You can't afford that. So all of those things, uh, business opportunities, every one of them, Jim,
they are. And so all of this is founded in really this creative thinking, you know, that we're talking about. And that's the whole, you know, disruption element. That's a whole, you know, you're talking about being a revolutionary in that. But when we start thinking about some of these modern societies, all of them are experiencing what is referred to as a creativity crisis, right? Um, because of how we do education because of how many other factors come into play. We are stripping out and taking out that creative thinking process and you talk about in the book, you know something about asking a 10 year old, you talk about thinking big but think young. So elaborate on that a little bit.
Well that's, that's a tip I got from my mother and my mother who was with us until she was in our hundred and third year and vibrant and living alone in till five days before she died. She just died a few months ago and she to always tell me, and I'm talking about when she was a hundred, she was telling me this, she'd say, Dave, don't hang around with old people. They'll bring you down. Hang around with young people. We all need to hang around with young people to stay vibrant, to stay relevant, to keep on getting those ideas. And we have to read a lot and we have to listen to other people. And in right now, the way the world is working, we're all getting satisfied in our own little echo chambers because that's where we get our likes and our, uh, positive comments on social media.
We need to go outside of that environment to people who have a different viewpoint, listen to what they're saying. Now I have the luxury and I'm blessed because I can travel all over the world and I do travel and I do business all over the world. So I get to sit down with people like yourself, Jim, and, and, and hear someone else's viewpoint, someone else's, um, view of the world, someone looking at the same situation through someone else's, uh, optics, someone else's prison. And that's what you need to do to stay young and stay creative in the educational system is not going to help that cause the educational system is very rigid. Educational system was built over hundreds of years for an old way of doing business. We're doing business and we're living our lives a very different way, but we're educating our kids the same way. And that's a problem. And it's a business opportunity to, for someone to solve that.
Well, and you even talk about in the book something about a lot of universities trying to step up and having, you know, entrepreneurial type of programs. And you talk about even, you know, really the, the, the mindset of the students in those entrepreneurial types of programs. And I think that's important for you to share. What did you, what are you finding there?
What I mean there is that a lot, and I speak at a lot of universities in, in schools and I hear a lot people that say young people that say they want to be an entrepreneur. And when you ask them why they don't want to have a boss, they want to make a lot of money. They want to have their own hours that they work. And those are all bad reasons to be an entrepreneur. Um, w you do, you want a mentor and that might be a boss or something like a boss. Uh, and you're going to work endless hours and you're not going to have, you're gonna have less freedom. You're gonna make less money as an entrepreneur in most cases. So you have to do it for the love of solving problems that people say can't be solved. You have to do it for the, for, for the love and the passion that brings you to, to focus on problems that people say can't be solved.
And we need to bring that way of thinking to everything, including business, not just business, because business people gym, they're like mice. You know, they'll, they'll find a crumb somewhere, they'll find a way to make a living. We need to bring an entrepreneurial way or revolutionary way of thinking to doctors in Deloitte [inaudible] into judges and to police woman and to teachers and to fire woman in firemen. We need to bring a, a, a more entrepreneurial way of thinking to the entire middle-class of the world, of, of, of what makes up the world. What makes up all of our neighbors. So in the book, is that what you're calling the, it's this empowerment culture yet? Well, the empowerment culture is, is from, from day one. Until recently the world was managed from the top business and government and people have influenced, set the rules for for organized law abiding society and we all followed them, but now we're looking at an environment where a the doing a bad job at the top for the reasons we talked about earlier, businesses extracting too much value and not contributing as much value as they should.
Politicians have got to the point where their only job is to get reelected every day they wake up with one thing in mind. How do I get reelected? What do I say or do to keep my job? They've forgotten who they represent so that the politicians that have taken on a new, a new life of just staying in power. You've got businesses that have gotten a little too greedy so you've got this, this problem going on. Then you've got the world moving very, very fast so and you've got the internet and social media where people on the bottom can see the difference between the haves and the have nots. The difference between the haves and have nots has gotten wider and wider and people can organize because of social media. They can organize around a person or a thought or a cause and that's why you've see what you see in Hong Kong.
That's what you, that's what you have, what you've been seeing in France. That's why you have what you've seen in Beirut recently. That's what you, that's what you've got, what you saw in the Arab spring. You've got people organizing around a thought or a cause or a person and saying, time out, I've had enough. You guys at the top have not done a good job. We want change and you're going to see it pop up all over the world until finally the bottom gets organized. Cause right now they're a little disorganized. When they get organized, they'll force change from the bottom up, which will be much more effective than the top down because what the top is doing,
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The politicians are just saying things that sound right. Like it's the one percenters problem. They're there. They're calling, you know, rich people, the one percenters in the saying it's their fault. Well, it's everybody's fault. And by blaming one group and saying, we're going to take away what you have to solve, the problem that doesn't solve the problem, what we want to do is give to the bottom what they're asking for, which is the basic things that make you feel dignified to not keep on falling farther and farther out of reach, like able to own a house, being able to have proper health care, being able to educate your kids. My grandfather, you mentioned him earlier, um, when he came over at 16 years old, now my grandfather and grandmother came from two villages that were very close to each other, but they didn't meet till they were in America.
They met in Boston, but my grandfather was a janitor. So a janitor is a man that cleans toilets and floors for a living. But he owned his own house and his dog, he educated his daughter who turned out to be my mother and he could pay his doctor bills and he could pay it. And he knew if he ever lost his job, you wouldn't lose this house cause he owned his own house. Today in America, a janitor can't afford to own a house. So what does that mean? That we're going to take a whole piece of American society and say, you don't get to own the American dream, but yet I still want a clean bathroom. That doesn't work either. Either. We decide that we all get a piece of the American dream. You talked about what America is. To me, America is the country of hopes and dreams. As soon as we lose that, we're screwed. In my book, what I try to do in my book is say, let's all rethink everything. Politics, education, healthcare, uh, uh, uh, how we elect people, uh, campaign reform, educational reform. Let's rethink them all.
Well, and so you kind of alluded to there in a book, you, you, you talk about, you know, creating a revolution, but you talk about create, being able to have creative revolutionaries because this isn't about fighting. I mean, that's still that same polarization thing that we're talking about that we don't need for that. So how do we incubate either in ourselves and in others, you know, this creative, revolutionary type of person?
Well, the first thing we need to do, and not all you know, revolutionaries, we're, we're, we're fighting. You know, Gandhi wasn't a big fighter, right? Mother Teresa wasn't a, wasn't a big fighter. So not everybody was, was trying to fight. But the first thing you do is you try to let people know that they can make a difference. You try to give people confidence. You try to instill confidence in people that didn't have the same opportunities that maybe you and I had, but are very, very creative. They just don't have the confidence. So try to give them the confidence, then try to give them a playing field in which they can, they can be compared to mainstream and let them add it. Let them at these problems. Let people who can't afford to go to university still have the same access that you and I have to the world. And you know, step one is giving people confidence. Step two is giving them a platform.
Well with me as you're talking, even going through this book, the fact is, is we don't have to be an independent, you know, uh, employed person and an entrepreneur to really take advantage of all the things that are, you know, learning lessons, uh, and, and really life things that you've gone through in this book. I mean, really is starting today with where you are, you know, and doing that leap forward. You know, you may find that you're, you know, you are where you want to be. Um, and it's just widening things. You know, may, it may give you the opportunity to see that you need to be somewhere else, but I don't think people go through that exercise and activity enough. How often should somebody actually do that leaping forward? And then looking back
every time they're confronted with a problem that they feel is insurmountable, every single time someone is faced with a problem that they feel is overwhelming them because it's too big. If you got to close your eyes for a minute, put themselves in the situation where that problem is solved. Paint a picture in their mind of what that looks like, solved. And then say, okay, what was the last thing that happened? What was the second to last thing? The third to last, the fourth to last, the fifth to last and work their way backwards. And they'll see that it's not that unsolvable that it needs to look for once they get back to the present. They need to look forward and take one step at a time.
Okay. So what's you're talking about there is something that I've studied called retrospective engineering. I'm also, they say that's the same methodology that chess grandmasters use in order to win at the game of chess
retrospective engineer. And that's a fancy word for what I was talking about.
I thought I'd share that with you.
All of what we're talking about and what we've talked about requires a whole lot of inspiration. And one of the things that we look at on the show in order to get that are quotes because they help us hopefully get some white points. Um, is there a quote or two that you liked that you can share?
Yeah, ma ma, like my book, my book, I tried to take my book, Jim and I tried to put a quote at the beginning and at the end of every chapter, because it's funny you should say that because I think quotes really help people. Uh, and I tried to put a quote at the beginning and then, or two, and then I'd write my story to try to get my point across from my own perspective to try to humanize it. And then I'd end with a quote unquote my fate. My best quote in the book is the very last one. I'll read you the last one. No matter what happens in your life, remember, someone has it worse. Triers how does, it seems to always accept what has happened, but one foot in front of the other and move forward. Always forward. Catherine McCourt. That's my mother.
And um, that's the best. That's the, that's the best quote in the book. But there is, there are a lot of them. Um, eh, here's one on page two 57. Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. Viktor Pinchuk. I mean, there's a, there's a lot, you know, I got some, um, uh, comments on, on social media. Uh, my book became a, um, a bestseller and some, some people were saying, you know, how can you, how can you, uh, quote shake of R and B, a, B, a wall street journal bestseller, you know, he was a revolutionary, you know, he was a murderer or whatever. Look, I'm not saying that everybody in this book is, um, you know, I quote Tom Brady in this book. If you're a jets fan or a giants fan or a Dallas cowboy fan, you're not going to like Tom Brady. That doesn't mean as quotes not good. Tom, Tom Brady has a great one here. He says, too often in life something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we will have choices and we make the choices to accept people or situations or not to accept situations. I mean, whether you're a new England Patriots fan or not, that's still a good quote.
Oh, a lot of places that we absolutely have to find inspiration. And your book also too is loaded with some thing that we focused in on, on the show. And that is getting over the hump because we can learn and a lot of people will learn from the lessons that you've learned from, you know, everything from, you know, needing to go to the back of the bathroom at the white house and, and seeing a friend of a, uh, a good friend.
You did, you did read the book. Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome sir. Um, but we talk about getting over the hump. So now you have a lot of stories in the book. Yes. But what one story that you would, that you could share on the show really stands out for you that people can learn from?
Probably. Um, a story I tell early in the book, um, about how I started as a contractor and I wasn't being paid and I was in a bar with a couple of friends of mine. Um, a top tip O'Neill son, Tommy, was one of them. Jim Finnigan was another one. Um, and you know, as three Irishmen, that's where we were in a bar. Right. That's, that's, that sounds like the beginning of a joke. Right. And I, you know, I said that I was whining that I hadn't got paid, and one of the guys said, look, you got to stop whining. No one gives a shit. No one wants to hear what y'all whiny, just do something. So I went out and I called the owner of the cable system, hadn't paid me. And I said, look, if you're not going to pay me, I'm going to take my work back.
And I started digging up with a backhoe. I started digging up the cable I'd put in for them, would shut the system down, which created this huge turmoil, which brought them to the table. Um, and that was like on a Tuesday, and by Thursday I had been paid and I probably still would've been paid had I not done that. And the point is not that people should go around, you know, dig enough cable with the backhoe. That might've been a little bit aggressive. Um, you know, but I was in my twenties at that time. But the point is that you, you, you can't spend time whining. You've got to face the situation. You're in face the reality you're in. Don't try to pretend that's not the reality. Don't try to brush it under the rug, face it, deal with it. Make decisions, move forward.
Ah, that is so true. Now talking about that, moving forward, I mean do you have a lot of things going on? Everything from you know, television and producing to investments and, and all these things that you know, you currently have in front of you, the book and promoting the book. So I dare to say that you probably have several goals that you have in store and in mind for you and several of those leaps and look backs that you want to do. What's one of those that you can share?
One of the things I want to be better at in this coming year is saying no. The difference between successful people and really successful people is really successful. People have learned how to say no to things that aren't part of their base mission cause you, cause life is not long enough to accomplish everything you want to accomplish. So you've got to be able to keep on bringing your focus back to what the one thing is. There was a, I pick up a book called the one thing, not that I'm trying to plug someone else's book. I'd rather all your listeners read my book first, but I picked that book up called the one thing in the airport not long ago and I read it on a flight. It was actually right. You know, the premise of the book is that every day, every minute or every hour, every day, every week, every year, there's always one thing that's more important than everything else and focus on that one thing and get that done. Um, so if we talk next year, this time I'll let you know how I'm doing, but that, that's my goal for this year and to get people to read the book, not because I want, you know, to be continue to be a bestseller, not because I, you know, um, you know, want to get, uh, you know, a small royalty off the book. I want to use the book to help people to have confidence, to rethink their life, to rethink their station in life so they can be everything they, they were born to be
and the fast leader. Legion wishes you the very best. Now before we move on, let's get a quick word from our sponsor.
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from Jack Welsh, which is one, once you decide what's what your mission is for your company, repeat it over and over and over and over and over again. Even if you have to say the same thing 10,000 times. Just keep on repeating it.
And what is one of your secrets that you believe contributes to your success?
Being born to the right family. Having, having the mother I had and the father I had that that gave me confidence. Luck. [inaudible].
And what is one of your tools that helps you lead in business or life?
Persistence. I'm a persistent guy.
And what would be one book that you'd recommend to our Legion? You mentioned something about the one thing with that understood notes page. What other book would you recommend?
You know, it's, it's, it's, it's been around for a long time, but Isaacson's um, uh, well any of Isaacson's books, but his book, uh, about Steve jobs is very inspiring, very, very inspiring for me. It was. Anyway.
Okay. Fast leader Legion. You can find links to that and other bonus information from today's show by going to fast leader.net/david McCourt. We'll also put a link to total rethink on your show notes page as well. Okay. David, this is my last Humpday hold on question. Imagine you were given the opportunity to go back to that age of 25 and you have all the knowledge and skills that you have now and you can take them back with you, but you can't take it all. You can only choose one. So what skill or knowledge would you take back with you and why?
That is a good question. Um, passion would be the one that I would, if I had to give up all the others, if I could, if I could hold on to passion, that'd be the one I'd hold on to. Because with passion gym, even if you don't accomplish everything you, you want to, you know, you feel, you feel like you died trying. So the one thing I would not want to give up and the one thing I take with me, if I went back with only one, one quality, it would be passion.
David, I had a fun time with you today. How can the fast leader Legion connect with you?
You can use either um, at DC McCourt for Instagram at DC McCoy for Twitter, uh, or LinkedIn, any of the Instagram. I'd love to have your, your followers follow me on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Let me know what they think of the book. I'd love them after they read the book to go on Amazon, let Amazon know what they think of the book and I'll stay. I'll stay in touch with you and I'll stay in touch with, with all your followers.
David McCourt. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. The fast leader Legion honors you and thanks you for helping us get over the hump.
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It claimed that it features improvements in network administrators' workflows to make the management of large network environments easier, with the 'type ahead search' allowing administrators to find correct elements in any context.
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* @file CGraphScreen.cpp
* @brief Содержит реализацию класса CGraphScreen
* @author Shazhko Artem
* @version 0
* @date 03.10.17
*/

#include "CGraphScreen.h"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>

CGraphScreen::CGraphScreen(CWheel * _wheel):wheel(new CWheel(_wheel)){}
CGraphScreen::~CGraphScreen(){
	if (wheel)delete wheel;
}
void CGraphScreen::SetDataSource(const CWheel &_wheel){
	if (wheel)delete wheel;
	wheel = new CWheel(_wheel);
}

CWheel CGraphScreen::GetDataSource()const{return new CWheel(wheel);}

void CGraphScreen::ShowHeader()
{
	SHORT originDiameter = (SHORT)this->wheel->GetDiameter();
	SHORT originWidth = (SHORT)this->wheel->GetWidth();
	SHORT half = ((originDiameter << 1) + originWidth + 3)/2;

	for (SHORT i = (originDiameter << 1) + originWidth + 3; i != 0; i--) {
		if (i == half) {
			std::cout << "Graphics";
		}
		else
			std::cout << "-";
	}
	std::cout << "\n";
}

void CGraphScreen::ShowContent()
{
	double originDiameter = this->wheel->GetDiameter();
	double originWidth = this->wheel->GetWidth();
	SHORT diameter = (SHORT)originDiameter;
	SHORT radius = ((SHORT)diameter) >> 1;
	CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO cursorinfo;
	if (!GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &cursorinfo)) { std::cout << "\nERROR\n"; return; }
	cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.X = radius;
	SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.X,cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });

	for (SHORT i = 0; i <= radius; i++)std::cout << "*";
	this->PrintWidth(originWidth, { diameter << 1, cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
	for (SHORT i = 1; i < diameter; i++) {
		cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y++;
		SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { (SHORT)abs(radius - i),cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
		std::cout << "*";
		if (i <= radius) SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { (diameter + i),cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
		else
			SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { (diameter + (radius - (i - radius))),cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
		std::cout << "*";
		this->PrintWidth(originWidth, { diameter << 1, cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
	}
	cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y++;
	cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.X = radius;
	SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.X,cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
	for (SHORT i = 0; i <= radius; i++)std::cout << "*";
	this->PrintWidth(originWidth, { diameter << 1, cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y });
	SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { (SHORT)0,cursorinfo.dwCursorPosition.Y + 1 });
}

void CGraphScreen::ShowFooter()
{
	SHORT originDiameter = (SHORT)this->wheel->GetDiameter();
	SHORT originWidth = (SHORT)this->wheel->GetWidth();
	for (SHORT i = (originDiameter << 1) + originWidth + 10; i != 0; i--)std::cout << "-";
	std::cout << "\n";
}

inline void CGraphScreen::PrintWidth(double width, COORD pos) {
	SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), { pos.X,pos.Y });
	std::cout << "|    ";
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Le chien courant serbe, anciennement chien courant des Balkans, est une race de chiens originaire de Serbie. C'est un chien courant de taille moyenne, d'allure robuste, à la robe bicolore roux et noir. Il s'agit d'un chien de chasse employé comme chien courant.

Historique
L'origine de la race serait un groupe de chiens courants répandus dans les Balkans et qui seraient eux-mêmes issus des chiens courants d'Asie mineure. Franz Laska est le premier à décrire un chien curant serbe sous le nom de  en 1905. Le premier standard est rédigé en 1924 et la Fédération cynologique internationale (FCI) reconnaît la race le 14 mai 1940 à Bled. L'association cynologique yougoslave contrôle l'élevage et procède aux inscriptions dans le livre des origines officiel. Le 12 novembre 1996, le comité général de la FCI officialise à Copenhague le changement de nom en  sous proposition de l'association cynologique yougoslave.

Standard
Le chien courant serbe est un chien courant de taille moyenne, de constitution robuste. Forte à l'attache, la queue qui prolonge la ligne de la croupe s'amenuise progressivement jusqu'à son extrémité. Légèrement recourbée vers le haut, elle est portée au-dessous de la ligne du dos. La tête est dolichocéphale et les lignes supérieures du crâne et du chanfrein sont divergentes. De grandeur moyenne, les yeux de forme ovale sont le plus foncés possible. Attachées haut, d'une longueur et d'une largeur moyennes, les oreilles sont pendantes, bien accolées aux joues. Leur extrémité est de forme rappelant un ovale.

Le poil est court, abondant, brillant, assez épais et bien couché sur tout le corps avec sous-poil. Il est un peu plus long sur le bord postérieur des cuisses et à la face inférieure de la queue. La couleur de la robe est le roux et noir. Le roux, dit  varie du roux jaunâtre à rouille. Les plages noires s'étalent en manteau ou en selle et remontent jusqu'à la tête qui présente des marques noires des deux côtés des tempes. Sur le poitrail, une marque blanche ronde est admise si elle ne dépasse pas deux centimètres de diamètre.

Caractère
Le chien courant serbe est décrit dans le standard FCI comme plein de tempérament, vif, aimable, sûr de lui et tenace. Il est déconseillé de le faire vivre en appartement.

Utilité
Le chien courant serbe est un chien courant utilisé dans son pays d'origine pour la chasse au sanglier et aux carnivores. Il est connu pour son sens de l'orientation remarquable, pour sa constance dans le suivi de la piste. En Serbie, il est également dressé comme chien de garde et chien de défense.

Notes et références

Annexes

Liens internes
Chien courant
Liste des races de chiens
Chien de chasse
 Chien courant tricolore serbe

Liens externes

 Le standard de la race sur le site de la SCC

Race de chien originaire de Serbie
Chien de chasse

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The impact of spycraft on how we secure our data
The history of cyber security owes much to the world of espionage, as a recent, pre-lockdown Science Museum exhibition showed
The cyber security industry has come a long way since its inception. The ancestors of cyber were the men and women working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, long before the introduction of what we would consider modern cyber security practices – but even before then, humans used codes and ciphers to keep information safe for millennia. Even Julius Caesar popularised a cipher which was named after him.
More recently, developments have been driven by the intelligence and defence sectors, which have a real need to uncover as well as keep sensitive intelligence safe. Some of these innovations were showcased recently at the Science Museum's Top Secret exhibition, which ran from July 2019 to February 2020 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security and cyber agency.
It also gives us the context as to where developments have originated, and the ways in which they will subsequently impact how businesses keep their data safe from cyber criminals in the future.
The threats organisations face today are varied – from organised crime groups to nation-state hackers, as well as individual hackers. One of the ways organisations try to defend themselves is through encryption.
Ciphers have been around for centuries in one form or another – from non-standard hieroglyphs in the walls of tombs built in ancient Egypt almost 4,000 years ago, to substitution ciphers developed 1,200 years ago by Arab mathematician Al-Kindi. The rise of electronic communications during the Cold War led to monumental developments in ciphers and encryption technology, which were used to keep phone conversations secure.
Today, the focus for many organisations and businesses is the use of encryption on mobile devices, enterprise networks and cloud services. Given the impact of mobile devices and digital communication on how organisations conduct their business with partners and customers globally, this has been a key development – ensuring conversations remain private while enabling fast and secure communication.
Today, encryption is used in all sectors – for medical data in healthcare, customer information in banking, and much more. This highlights the importance of all areas of industry, outside of tech and IT, learning from the intelligence community's experience developing advanced solutions to secure communications and data.
Continually learning
Many technologies initially developed by the intelligence community have become commonplace in keeping our everyday communications secure, according to Elizabeth Bruton, curator of the Science Museum's Top Secret exhibition.
"Randomness has always been used to disguise messages," she said. "Though the technology today is radically different, the basic principles of encryption using long strings of random characters – letters and numbers – have changed very little over the past 100 years. The Top Secret exhibition features letter tiles used by the Government Code and Cypher School staff at Mansfield College, Oxford, during the Second World War.
"GC&CS staff pulled these tiles out of a bag to create long strings of random numbers or letters," she said. "They were used to make encryption keys and one-time pads to keep British wartime messages secure. Today, randomness underpins some of the encryption systems we use to keep our communications secure.
"Also featured in the Top Secret exhibition is a chaotic pendulum used by the internet security company Cloudflare to help keep online messages secret. Cloudflare uses readings from devices such as this pendulum and a wall of lava lamps to make long strings of random numbers," said Bruton. "These random numbers help create keys that encrypt the traffic that flows through Cloudflare's network."
The next generation of threats
Although it's interesting to see how today's cyber security solutions have been influenced by the past, emerging technologies can also help us gaze into the future. One of the exhibits in the Top Secret exhibition consists of parts from a quantum computer. This new computing paradigm has the potential to rewrite how we use technology.
Quantum computers could significantly weaken our cyber defences by processing information in a manner completely different to that of traditional computers. Work is already underway to develop quantum-resistant encryption that is likely to become a common business practice in the next decade.
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The National Cyber Security Centre has launched a reporting service for scam emails as part of a campaign to help people protect themselves from cyber criminals exploiting the pandemic.
The government is turning to online learning to find the next generation of cyber security talent.
Breakthroughs such as quantum computing are a reminder that organisations should constantly be thinking about how the threats they face evolve. After all, cyber crime is set to cost businesses over $2tn this year alone. Today's new tech could be tomorrow's threat, and bad actors such as organised cybercriminals and nation-state attackers will always look to exploit the latest and greatest tech.
Cyber criminals are often quick to use new technologies. Since they don't operate in regulated industries or need to consider customers and users, they can be more efficient at harnessing these technologies for harm than organisations are at harnessing them for good.
The cyber security sector is experiencing tremendous growth, driven by our dependence on technology. Global cyber security spending is expected to reach $248bn by 2026.
As such, it's prudent for all organisations to look at both the past and the future if they want to remain safe from cyber criminals and invest wisely. The crossover between what technologies the intelligence sector has developed and how these have been adopted into mainstream cyber security solutions highlights the many years of research it takes to keep data safe.
As organisations face ever more threats, they should look to learn as much as they can from every sector and be open to sharing best practices to ensure robust defences.
Subject to the anticipated reopening of the UK's museums as Covid-19 pandemic restrictions ease, the Top Secret exhibition is scheduled to open at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum in October 2020.
Mark Hughes is senior vice-president of security at DXC Technology
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Why Birdman soars: the art of the 90-minute single take
Michael Keaton, former superhero actor, plays Riggan Thompson, former superhero actor, in Birdman's deft exploration of truth through artifice
Saw Birdman with my son Sam last night, and it really is as extraordinary as they say. Every character, however small, is well delineated and has at least one great scene; Emma Stone is particularly brilliant, as so often.
But from a film buff's point of view, the most exciting and head-scratching element is that it appears to be shot in one continuous 90-minute take, without a single cut. Ever since Orson Welles pulled off a wonderfully complex 3 min 20 sec tracking shot as the opening to Touch of Evil, directors have vied to outdo him. Gravity raised the bar last year, with Cuarón's 17-minute opening shot made possible by digital technology. His fellow Mexican Iñárritu has now forever smashed that record with an entire film's length. (Admittedly Russian Ark got there first, in 2002, but Birdman is filmed in a far more fluid and dynamic style.)
Fiendishly complex as it was to pull off, it is of course a digital trick, with the cuts hidden in digitally blended scenes when the camera pans to one side without a person in view. But beyond a "look ma, no hands!" desire to show off what can be done, why did Iñárritu decide to do this?
My son, who is perceptive when it comes to films, pointed out that Iñárritu's trademark is the interlocking multiple narrative which was first displayed in Amores Perros, was developed in 21 Grams, and reached its apotheosis in Babel, which is set in four different countries in four different languages. Birdman's single continuous take goes to the opposite extreme. Perhaps Iñárritu just wanted to do something different. He told Variety, ""It was like I was on a ladder, and I was getting a little too comfortable."
But what is the technique's impact on the film, its effect on the viewer? I noticed a weird thing. We are so used to the grammar of film, the cuts between characters and the sudden shifts in time and location, that they are no longer intrusive. In fact, to me, the definition of a great film is one where I lose myself within it completely, where I am no longer aware that I am watching a film but inhabit it completely, and 15 minutes or more can pass before I blink and remember that I am in a cinema at all. That's why I always sit up close, in the third row, so I cannot see the edges of the screen.
So the long take in Birdman, which you would expect to feel more naturalistic than constant cuts, to me has the opposite effect. It is stylised, it reminds you continually of the artifice of film. The performances, as befits a comedy that is not quite a comedy, are somewhat stylised, too.
And this perfectly suits the theme of the film. On one level it is the story of a mid-life crisis, of a man who is famous for doing something he does not value (grossing billions of dollars 20 years previously in a superhero franchise) trying to achieve self-worth through putting on a "serious" play based on a story by Raymond Carver.
But it is also about the power of dreams, and the nature of truth, and the thin line between reality and fantasy, and how each can inform the other. That the superhero its protagonist used to play is Birdman, whose superpower is flight, is no accident. Nor is it that Iñárritu has cast in this role an actor, Michael Keaton, who himself is burdened with the fame of playing a superhero – Batman – in a blockbuster franchise. That Keaton is putting on a play within the film allows Iñárritu to explore notions of truth and artifice: Edward Norton's character is a charming and manipulative bastard who can only "be real" when he is acting, on stage. He even tries to have sex with his girlfriend for real in the play's bed scene, because it is only on stage, in character, that he has managed to get it up in the last six months.
When Keaton stands on a roof ledge, increasingly drawn into his schizophrenic fantasy that he really is Birdman, a woman shouts out: "Is this for real, or are you shooting a film?" "A film!" he says. "You people are full of shit," she shouts back. His Birdman alter-ego, who whispers in his ear, tells him to make another blockbuster: "People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit." Which, of course, is the kind of film Iñárritu has just made, though smuggled into the multiplexes under the guise of a film about a superannuated superhero, including a gigantic fantasy scene three quarters of the way through of SWAT teams and exploding helicopters and a giant robot bird-villain so it can have its cake and eat it: criticising blockbusters while at the same time benefiting from the action scene's trailer value.
The result is an intensively artificial film which, through artifice, gets closer to exploring truth and the nature of reality than perhaps any this year. Birdman is also funny, and touching, and something of a masterpiece. Go see.
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And now, this weekend. I guess it started on Thursday when everyone converged upon Havana for some sort of party where there wasn't too large of a crowd. After a while, Scottie and I went over to Moe Bar because Michael Cera was supposed to show up for his movie's afterparty with the Cobrasnake. We at first assumed that we'd missed whatever was happening, since the distribution of sunglasses and fake mustaches seemed to have stopped and the overcrowdedness dissipated after a few minutes. However, some faulty intelligence, inspired us to stick around, crowded into a booth and on the lookout. Eventually, we gave up. I went back across the street only to find that our friends had migrated up the hill to Pony, where there was a whole lot of fog and lasers. We managed to get in a drink or two, some epic pictures, and a rousing game of air hockey before the lights came on and we were all sent out into the cold.
Somehow, I didn't do anything on Friday.
Last night we fortified ourselves with Thai dinner and walked down to Re-Bar to see a friend performing in a drag show / underwear product placement event called Bacon Strip. True to its name and tone, bacon was served throughout the evening by a guy in a dreidl costume who was also toting a bottle of Manichevitz (that he didn't seem as into sharing). Parts of it were funny and enteratianing, but the makeup and costumes are kind of a degree or three away from clowns, which everyone knows are horrifying. I also made the terrible mistake of going to get a beer at the bar during one of the acts. The lines for bartender attention were so long that I ended up unknowingly missing the act that we came to see. By the finale, we had kind of maxed out; so instead of staying for the danceparty we paid a quick visit to the photobooth and then raced (really) up the hill to the Living Room and its fake fireplace upstairs lounge.
Today during the long long wait for a brunch table, we made the incredibly overdue discovery that waiting is a lot more palatable if you just order a beverage from the bar to help pass the time. Honestly, I'm not sure why it took me this long to figure this out. When our leisurely meal was completed we walked downtown, looked around at a few stores (a new backup fur lined hat, half-price!), and took in a second (for most of us) viewing of the Fantastic Mr. Fox. I still died with laughter and tears at many many parts. It's just so meticulous and funny and whimsical and a little sad and generally burbling over with big emotion and, to me, pretty much perfect all around. It's strange that it's gotten near-universal acclaim, but nowhere near as much buzz as it seserves.", "url": "https://joshc.livejournal.com/763072.html", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://l-stat.livejournal.net/img/sign.png" }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "josh", "image": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/113815909/429321" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Journal joshc", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://joshc.livejournal.com", "contentUrl": "https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/113815909/429321" } } }
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Today during the long long wait for a brunch table, we made the incredibly overdue discovery that waiting is a lot more palatable if you just order a beverage from the bar to help pass the time. Honestly, I'm not sure why it took me this long to figure this out. When our leisurely meal was completed we walked downtown, looked around at a few stores (a new backup fur lined hat, half-price!), and took in a second (for most of us) viewing of the Fantastic Mr. Fox. I still died with laughter and tears at many many parts. It's just so meticulous and funny and whimsical and a little sad and generally burbling over with big emotion and, to me, pretty much perfect all around. It's strange that it's gotten near-universal acclaim, but nowhere near as much buzz as it seserves.


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APPLE is preparing to make its App Store more expensive for British people.
The tech giant will increase the cost of software on its App Store by 25 percent after the pound slumped to a 30 year low against the dollar.
It also whopped up the prices of its iPhones, iPads and other gadgets by up to 20 percent last year following Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
"Price tiers on the App Store are set internationally on the basis of several factors, including currency exchange rates, business practices, taxes, and the cost of doing business," Apple said.
Apps which are on sale in America for $0.99 will now cost £0.99 rather than £0.79, Mac Rumours reported.
Apps which were priced at £1.49 will now be on sale for £1.99.
"It was certainly inevitable that Apple would change the price point for apps in the App Store to reflect currency changes," said Ian Fogg, a consultant with IHS Technology.
"But this is a normal part of the way the store works because it does not have dynamically changing prices that would change gradually."
Since the vote to leave the European Union last June, the value of the pound has fallen from more than $1.45 to $1.21.
Apple's App Store serves users of the iPhone and iPad and in 2016 its sales rose to more than £23 billion.
Prices in India and Turkey are also expected to rise.
Other technology firms, including HTC, Microsoft and Tesla, have also previously announced UK price rises for some products in response to the fall in value of the pound.


I made these 'Talam Serimuka Telang' sometime back when I hosted a Nasi Lemak Lunch Party for a few good friends. I cut them into random shapes and serve them on a plate with a Pandan leaf on it, just so they get the idea of what goes in and what's Pandan. I tinted the glutinous rice with Bunga Telang given by Sonia. The original recipe was from the book 'Steamed Cakes' by Zubaidah Bt. Chepa. I got it when I was in Malaysia. It's called 'Talam Serimuka Batik' where the author uses a mixture of black and white glutinous rice but I decided to go blue naturally.
Wash the glutinous rice under running water tap until no longer cloudy. Mix water with Bunga Telang and rub and squeeze it to extract a deep dark blue hue. Strain it and mix the water with the glutinous rice and soak it overnight. Drain it well and mix it with the coconut cream and salt. Pour into a greased pan and place the knotted Pandan leaves over and steam it over high heat for 25 minutes.
Mix all the ingredients for custard in a bowl and strain it once. When the rice is done, fluff it up with a fork and compress it into a greased pan (I use the same pan). Use a banana leaves or a glass covered with foil to compress well. Pour over the strained custard and cover the whole pan with foil tightly. Steam it over medium-low heat for 30 minutes.
Cool completely before slicing into diamonds or triangles. The book traced it out with a flower shaped cookie cutter but make sure you oil your cutter well. And use a plastic knife, lightly greased to slice them. It helps in getting neat cuts and they don't stick to the plastic knife.
This is a typical Malaysian Style Kuih you could easily get from wet markets. The Bunga Telang is solely optional but it does lend a nice fragrant to the rice. The Pandan leaves and paste was my addition but the book didn't say you need it. If your custard has bubbles in it, use a blow torch and run it across the surface and the bubbles will all magically disappear.
Try making it, it's easy and looks fantastic!
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Lovely-looking kuih. nothing like natural stuff. Clitoria ternatea or butterfly blue pea flowers are popular with the nonyas. My Mum-in-law used to sun-dry them and use them in kuihs. i am too lazy and i use colouring.
This is beautiful and looks so yummy.
Anyway Quinn, if you still have the dried Bunga Telang, you can just stuff it into a pot of soil and its can grow easily.
Wow these look so fun!!
Despite me not liking coconut milk, I love this kueh.
Quinn, this is beautiful, good idea to have the rice with all blue but not part of it.
Oh, this looks great. My hubby's favourite seri muka. I'll try this with blue too, next time when I plant my own flowes.
Thanks all for the very much appreciated comments and views.
Zurin: Yeah, when it comes to kuiha nd glutinous rice stuffs, nothing beats a plastic knife, you know those cheapo that comes with birthday cakes? Works beautifully!
Anncoo: It's dried and I still don't quite get it how on earth is it going to grow????
Gert: Did you plant with the dried bunga telang that Sonia gave us???
Sonia: Thanks! I usually do part blue and part white in Pulut Tai Tai and Rempah Udang but for this instance, I just wanted to do all blue and see how it'll look like!
Elin: Awwww Elin, can't say that. You're such a great cook/mum and everything great! Your stews and pasta, they're all so easy to follow. You can make kuih, they're easy. Must try and have faith!!!


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Q: Custom tokenizer for apache lucene 4 I have a tokenized text(splitted sentences and splitted words). And going to create Apache Lucene index, based on this structure. What is the easiest way to extend or replace a standart tokenizer to use custom tokens. I was looking at StandardTokenizerImpl, but seems very complex. May be there are any other ways?

A: StandardTokenizerImpl is complex because it has been generated from a JFlex grammar.
If you want to implement your own tokenizer, all you need to do is to extend the Tokenizer class.
For example, WhitespaceTokenizer is a simple tokenizer that splits tokens at whitespaces.

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