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[ UPDATE: Much credit to Sam for engaging in the conversation. I'm not sure how people claim he's closed on this topic when he is clearly open to exploring it. ]
I don't agree with all of it. But this is a very good response to my remarks about encryption. https://t.co/rMl8zgtuWN@danielmiessler— Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) February 28, 2016
I've been planning on doing a podcast episode on the Apple encryption debate for some time, but I was unsure of the format I should use.
This problem was just solved for me when I listened to Sam Harris—who is someone I respect greatly—miss the mark significantly in a recent podcast.
The thing that compelled me to respond was the fact that I don't often disagree with Sam. His logic is usually impeccable, and we often end up with nearly identical opinions.
So it was somewhat surreal to hear him be wrong about something. Or at least disagree with me (which, of course, may not be the same thing).
Anyway, being in information security myself I felt like a response was important.
This essay takes the form of a retort to his comments, followed by my own points and then a summary.
Sam's points
[ The points are summarized, by the way, not necessarily exact quotes. ]
- Apple built the lock, but didn't build the key, and now they're telling us that building the key would put us all at risk. Self-serving abdication of responsibility.
- Community in tech swayed by Snowden. Even when the government gets a court order, they think they shouldn't give access
- Gives cases where text messages could have helped solve a murder, but the texts are unread because the iPhone is unbreakable. Imagine being a family member!
- Could someone build an impregnable room inside their own house?
- What if you could take a drug that could make your DNA unanalyzable? So you could never be linked to any crime. The only people who would benefit would be criminals!
- Apple could maintain the backdoor and it'd be fine, just like banks have your banking information. They're trading on paranoia.
My responses
[ NOTE: This will come in the form of a podcast, which I may still record. I wrote it largely in the voice of a spoken conversation. ]
First, let's start with where we agree.
You speak of a "Cult of Privacy", where people are blindly saying that Snowden did nothing wrong whatsoever, that he didn't set a dangerous precedent, that any violation of privacy in any case is always bad, etc., etc.
I absolutely agree with you that this is not an intelligent way to understand and discuss current events.
But there's another cult on the other side, and it's one that you're coming dangerous close to membership in. And that's "The Cult of Safety". This one works like this: If there is any situation in which some amount of data could be used to help learn where a kidnapped girl is, or where a terrorist's bomb will detonate, then it's within the rights of a government to legally seize that data.
Notice that both sound good to their adherents. Privacy at all costs! Sure. Safety at all costs. Sure.
The problem is when they conflict.
Now, I'm partial to the idea of a model of a spectrum. On one side you have complete privacy, which we can call the Cult of Privacy, or the Snowden Extreme. Which, by the way, would not be perfectly accurate. Snowden doesn't believe that the government should have ZERO access to our lives in order to gain security. His position is far more nuanced than that.
But anyway, on that side you would not do ANYTHING to sacrifice privacy, even if it threatened the safety of billions.
On the other side of the spectrum you have the Cult of Safety. And here you are willing to do ANYTHING, no matter how much it violates the personal privacy of billions, if you think you can gain one iota of public safety.
So, can we first agree that both of these are too extreme? Yes. I think so. Perfect.
So now let's move on to Sam's examples.
He first says that Apple built the lock, but didn't build the key, and now they're telling us that building the key would put us all at risk. And he calls this a self-serving abdication of responsibility.
This is not correct, and the easiest way to see this is to ask where the lock came from? What lock? The lock is private conversation. The lock is two people interacting with each other in secret.
Apple did not invent this. They built no lock. If you are in a crowded room and you see a friend, and you want to tell him something deeply personal, or politically sensitive, or whatever, and you decide to walk outside under the stars and whisper this to your friend, that's the lock.
It's a natural lock. A human lock. And we've been using it for tens of thousands of years.
So technology has not created anything new. All it has done is allowed that private whisper under the stars to cross long distances, and to be stored. But it has not fundamentally changed.
So, no. It's not fair to ask Apple to provide a key to that. Because it would be a key to private human communication, not a key to an iPhone.
Sam then talks about how the tech community is unduly swayed by Snowden. So even when the government gets a court order, they think they shouldn't give access.
Well, there's a reason for this. It's not a perfect reason. It's not an absolute reason. But it's a solid reason.
Basically, there's a difference between a government behaving well and a government behaving badly, and the Snowden case revealed that there was quite a bit of the latter happening.
I'm far left on government, in ideal situations. In a properly functioning society I don't see the difference between the people and their government. I want to trust my government. I'm happy to give them all manner of powers to help protect my safety.
But I'm also a student of history and psychology. I know that groups can take on characteristics of evil that the individuals lack. I think Orwell taught these lessons best. If you doubt this, try to imagine a Ted Cruz presidency where he's in charge of the NSA.
Would he be trying to do evil or trying to do good? He'd be trying to do good. What would he actually be doing? Evil. Or something close to it. And it gets even more muddy when you have good people just following rules in an organization, as we learned with Germany in the 30's and 40's, as well as through countless psychology experiments.
People and organizations can become tainted by precedent, procedure, fear, and just the banal response of, "It's my job."
So when you see a government (which I actually see as dozens of distinct groups of various maturities and alignments, by the way) that continues to abuse its powers to violate peoples' privacy, and you see that the scope is accelerating rather than slowing down, you have to think that maybe we're approaching a Ted Cruz police state.
Not because surveillance is bad. Not because privacy always beats safety. Not because the Cult of Privacy is true.
Just because the government has a touch of mental illness right now, and that's not the time to hand them weapons.
This does NOT mean government is bad. This does NOT mean healthy, responsible, and transparent governments that actually represent the people should not have some powers of this kind. They absolutely should.
But right now we are in the unfortunate position of having to defend against overreach from certain government groups. We're in the position of having to push back because they're slurring their speech, screaming "TERRORIST" at the top of their lungs, and asking for guns. More guns. Bigger guns.
Giant anti-privacy guns.
And that's not a good thing.
If Jean Luc Picard and Rachael Maddow and Rand Paul were in charge, I'd have a completely different perspective. And my perspective is temporary. We just need to wait until the slurring and stumbling stops before we can relax a bit. That's all.
Ok, next point.
Sam then talks about cases where text messages could have helped solve a murder, but the texts are unread because the iPhone is unbreakable. Imagine being a family member!
I'm surprised he took this line, honestly. Almost identical logic applies to negotiating with terrorists.
You don't negotiate with terrorists to get Sally back for 1 million dollars for a very simple reason: it will lead to the abduction of 100 more girls like Sally.
Now it's true that bypassing privacy doesn't lead directly to more abductions the way paying a ransom can, but there is a clear, unifying thread: the placing of the good of a few over the good of the many.
In the case of terrorist ransom, the family who gets their kid back benefits, while many other families are placed in more danger. That's the good of the few over the good of the many.
And in privacy bypass, if you give the government powers to peer into private, encrypted communications every time they can loosely point to security or safety, then you will be exchanging the privacy of millions for the increased safety of relatively few.
That is a tradeoff that must be made with extreme caution, which is precisely the point that Apple is making. They see my previous point about the current sick state of some of our government groups with regard to overreach and slippery slopes, and they get that it could have horrible implications to privacy overall.
But that's not even the interesting part.
Let me ask a scarier question regarding the safety issue. I talked about how two people in an open field under the stars who are sharing whispers. I talked about how the content of those conversations are private today because they're not being captured.
Well, they ARE being captured. They're in the brains of the two people who had the conversation. So let's change your statement from above, and put it 20 years in the future.
What if this man knows the location of the body but simply won't give it to us? How would you feel if you were the family? Wouldn't you want to have the data extracted from his brain?
Or to use a different analogy of yours, let's say Apple built a brain scanning device so people can control their daily tasks without speaking. Now you could say that they built the lock but not the key.
Unfortunately the key is to the single most private thing that we have: our own thoughts and memories.
So, first they wanted to come after a private conversation between two people just because it used technology to cross distances, and now they could say it's ok to read minds because technology allows that as well.
Let's be very careful with this.
Take a step back and let's redefine what privacy is, and what should be considered private between humans. I don't have a great answer there (it's a hard problem) but I'm willing to start with human interaction between two people, and the thoughts in one's own mind.
Just because we develop technology to view and capture communication between humans (whether that's from nano microphones that live in the air, or mics in every building, or whatever), or the we achieve the ability to read people's thoughts and memories through whatever means, this doesn't mean that the stored, encrypted content of those conversations and thoughts now constitute a lock that deserves a key.
We must realize that if the right to capture, store, and parse human communication applies across mediums, then it will likely extend to reading thoughts and intentions from the brain as soon as we're able to do so.
That's not sci-fi, it's just a logical progression.
So we need to be very cautious about drawing privacy lines correctly, agnostic of technological capabilities, because our capabilities soon be (and already are) extraordinary.
Next Sam gives another example of the impregnable room in the house.
I actually just covered that. The room is your own mind. And yes, you do have the right to have it be private.
The only reason we accept that now is because it's not possible to read it. But as soon as it becomes possible, we will run into this issue head-on.
Now again, I'm not part of the cult of privacy, so do I think there could be situations where it's ok to forcibly read someone's mind to find a memory, or a thought?
Maybe. I can't imagine a situation, though, because to do so is to open the door. You start with the situation of reading one guy's mind to save a billion people. And soon that becomes reading the local perp's mind to see if he stole a Twix at ShopMart.
I wish that were the argument from absurdum, but it's actually just the way systems work. And you have to work REALLY hard to counter the inertia in that direction.
And that's entirely the point. At what line do we say "no more". If there is such a line it has to be the human mind, since it's identical to the human soul.
Sam then asks whether it'd be ok to take a drug that makes your DNA unidentifiable.
It's a great question, but he then goes on to say a very dangerous statement associated with the Cult of Safety. This is something only criminals would do.
Right. Only criminals want anonymity. Only criminals want to use encryption. That's the underlying sentiment here.
If we lived in Star Trek the Next Generation and everything was super chill and the government was completely benign (like I believe it absolutely can be, by the way), then I'd absolutely agree with this.
It's the same with guns. If there weren't any reason to have guns then the danger would outweigh the benefit in overwhelming fashion. But it's not that simple. There are situations every day where people have to defend themselves where there are no police to help them.
So they need guns.
And sometimes people need (or want) anonymity. And privacy.
And I'm ok with people wanting that at this stage of our development. I think it's ok in concept.
Let's say for example we have a futuristic society where you walk around and everything is controlled mentally. Every object and every other human knows exactly who you are. You simply wish something and it appears. And criminals are identified quickly via various methods, and crime is mostly unheard of.
Well what if someone said they want to live in the countryside and raise sheep? They don't want the brain and DNA scanner. They don't want to the mind-reader implants and the instant wish granting.
They want to be off the grid chopping firewood.
I say absolutely.
Now maybe they can't come into town like that. Maybe they have to switch their stuff back on, and de-cloak, as part of the social agreement for using shared services.
But when they are done, and they go back to their cabin, absolutely. Cloak your DNA, turn off your DNA transponders, disconnect the Intention Prediction Engine.
Sam then says that Apple could maintain the backdoor and it wouldn't be a problem, just like banks being able to see our banking details but not sharing them with the public.
This is just fundamentally different, as I've already covered.
If you imagine human attributes and interactions as a set of concentric circles, ask yourself what are at the center vs. the outside.
How much money you have is something like ring 2 or ring 3.
What you say privately to other humans on the planet is perhaps ring 1.
And what you think and believe and fantasize about, in your own mind, is ring 0. It's the center of your being. It's your actual soul.
So banks having access to your balances is one thing. But governments having access to your private conversations is another. It's sacred human interaction, and should be violated by only the most trustworthy and reluctant authorities in the world, and in VERY FEW situations.
And that's fundamentally our problem.
Right now we have many government groups (not all, mind you) that are not trustworthy. They are eager rather than reluctant. And they are trying to dramatically increase how often they can make these intrusions.
That's 3/3 wrong answers.
The way I see the Apple case is that they perceive a giant mess of overreach and abuse and slippery slopes. I would wager that Tim Cook would agree with the fact that in an ideal world we should be able to trust government groups to break privacy in some situations.
I certainly believe that.
I certainly think that there are some situations where public safety is more important than personal privacy.
And I also believe that it's possible for government to use their powers correctly, and even that there are some groups doing that today.
But it would absolutely be irresponsible, in today's political climate, with the clear evidence not just abuse but acceleration of that abuse, to enable further unchecked intrusions into millions of peoples' privacy.
Here are a few additional points:
- The underlying challenge facing intelligence right now is not actually encryption. The problem is poor intelligence infrastructure. Our intelligence services don't even have enough linguists to know what terrorists are saying to each other in the clear. So many terrorist coordinations (including much coordination of the recent Paris attacks) are actually being done without any encryption at all, simply because they don't need it.
This is from my recent piece titled Failing at the Basics in Intelligence and InfoSec:
If you're getting successfully attacked by people on known terror lists, speaking in the open over unencrypted channels, then you don't get encryption legislation. That's for mature organizations who've used their existing tools to the fullest, and can be trusted with the additional powers.
There is an additional, well-known security principle which says that any weakness placed in a system for legitimate use will eventually be used illegitimately. If a friendly government has a backdoor, it's likely only a matter of time before hostile governments and criminals also have access to it. This is yet another reason to avoid creating the opening in the first place.
There's also a potential danger if U.S. government starts prohibiting companies from making products that are perfectly secure (meaning from themselves as well). If they do this, they'll likely drive business to non-American companies, both in the form of consumers but also in partner countries. Cases in point: Europe and China. They are extremely focused on privacy, and if they knew that all U.S. companies were required to give the U.S. government access under certain circumstances it would materially reduce the competitiveness of American products.
Expanding on that point, imagine U.S. companies not being allowed to make self-secure products, and the subsequent exodus to non-US manufacturers who do offer that option. Because the government will still be facing some instances of terrorism using those new, foreign-made phones, the next logical step will be to prohibit U.S. citizens from PURCHASING and USING self-secure technologies. That would be an absolute mess, but the first step to it seems perilously close.
Finally, the concept of authorities compelling entities to do things they don't want to do, in the name of security, is rather troubling due to how many other situations it could apply to.
Could they come to a private citizen and tell them to interact with and mislead a suspected terrorist? Could you be compelled to do so if asked? Could they go to a certificate authority and have them issue certain certificates, or sign certain ones, or grant access to private keys, all in the name of security?
Once there is a precedent of, "Do this thing that violates your conscience…for security", it seems obvious that this will become difficult to contain.
- The truth of this encryption debate lies somewhere between two, incorrect extremes: "The Cult of Privacy" that believes no amount of public safety is worth losing one shred of privacy, and "The Cult of Safety" that believes any amount of public privacy can be sacrificed to gain any degree of public safety
- Most peoples' positions are somewhere between these, but it's important to start by acknowledging that both sides are flawed and that the answer at any given moment lies on the spectrum in-between
- It's sometimes ok to sacrifice some degree of privacy to gain some degree of safety
- It's sometimes ok to sacrifice some degree of public safety to preserve some degree of personal privacy
- The amount of trust that should be given to public representatives (i.e. the government) should depend on how they're handling that trust. When they're representing our interests transparently, they should have strong capabilities to intrude in our privacy for public safety, because we know they will do so with extreme reticence and judgement, only when needed. When that trust is being significantly abused, the public should be able to dial back the powers of the government until they can regain their organizational and/or moral footing
- The current state of a number of government organizations, with respect to their treatment of the public's trust to do the right thing with privacy-breaking powers, is poor. We can see this from multiple sources and examples over the last several years. For this reason, it is a strong and defendable position for companies to deny them backdoors and other attacks against privacy while there is a reasonable expectation that such powers will be abused
- When you place backdoors, they are as likely to be abused as used over long periods of time
- If a precedent is set such that governments can compel individuals or organizations to do things they are uncomfortable with, in the name of security, this will quickly expand to cover a great many situations
- Apple's position reflects these observations, and that's why I support it. If and when the behavior of our government changes, I will support expanded government powers to peer into private communications, as needed, in very limited circumstances, as I believe such behavior to be in the best interest of a global community
In short, there is a world where creating this backdoor, and other privacy bypasses like it, would be the right thing to do.
We simply don't live in that world.
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- In fairness to Sam, he has said very plainly that at the moment of recording this podcast, he hadn't put that much thought into the issue, and that he could change his opinion with more information. Hopefully this response will serve that purpose.
- [ EDIT 28.02.16 ] Cleanup and addition of two other points to the close.


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Do you remember the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego? The three Chaldeans who were thrown into the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel (Chap 3)? It seems that they were given two choices: either defile their God or be thrown into the fiery furnace. They chose to serve God and be thrown into the furnace. Their faith was so evident and strong, the king had the furnace fired up "seven times more than usual."
Well, the Bible is timeless, because we have a similar story today. It seems that there were three Carmelites who had to make a similar decision. God or sports? They chose God and their faith was so evident and strong.
It seems that Alex, JT and Zach (as well as all the students at SSS Parish on the track team) had to make a decision: either go to a Penn Qualifying Race or go to the Stations of the Cross during Holy Week. As the story unfolds, on the day of the original competition, it rained. The rain lasted only an hour, but the commissioner of the Catholic Conference decided not to run that day but to reschedule a Catholic sports event during Holy Week. She scheduled the make up race on Wednesday of Holy Week, telling everyone "that was the only available time."
Wednesday of Holy Week is also the time that the youth of St. Simon Stock Parish celebrate a gothic interpretation of the Stations of the Cross. These young men and women rehearsed for two months every Tuesday and Sunday night, which shows their commitment to faith, considering how busy their schedules already are. We have a rule at St. Simon Stock Parish (which includes OLMC/SAA Regional School) that there are no activities during Holy Week, only church services. Everything is cancelled, even basketball.
It seems that Alex, JT and Zach had to choose between going to the Stations of the Cross and prayerfully celebrating Holy Week, or going to the Penn Relay Race and competing in sports. They chose God! How refreshing in this day and age. They knew what they were giving up, but the alternative was a much better Catholic-Christian choice. Holy week is a time of faith-filled experiences, and the choice that Alex, JT & Zach made was truly a testament to their faith.
The commissioner, according to the coaches, said that Wednesday of Holy Week was the only option. But this was not a "competition race," it was a "timed race" which means it could have been done at any time. Since this was not a "competition race" but a "timed race" the principal of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel/St. Andrew the Apostle Regional School wanted to help her students and said she would even release the students early from school to go and "be timed," or allow them to go the day before and be timed. The commissioner said no for some reason. We also offered the option of having official timers at Paul VI High School time the boys at their track by the assistant athletic director of PVI. She would have given these times to the commissioner, whom she knows. Still the answer was no.
We also mentioned that they were eighth grade boys and there is not an opportunity to try again next year. We covered every base including offering the track here which was still open on Tuesday even though we weren't using it. No was all we heard.
I do not know what prompted her decision to schedule this event on that particular day. Yet, even if her decision seemed reasonable to her at the time, it seems to me that, at the very least, that it is not unreasonable to expect that a Catholic league would be especially attentive to the solemn importance of Holy Week.
Needless to say, our three boys, Alex, JT and Zach, were thrown into a fiery furnace, and did not compete (nor did the rest of our parish's track runners). They survived the fiery furnace that night.
The boys were not the only victims. Barb, one of our seventh graders, was a runner on the girl's team and in "Follow Me" the Youth Stations. We had no alternate for the girls so they were unable to compete and the commissioner was aware of this as well. What is the purpose of sports in a "Catholic" environment? Who really won the race this day? WWJS (What would Jesus say)?
As a very proud pastor, I truly believe the track team of St. Simon Stock Parish won the Penn Qualifying Race of the Catholic Conference that day. They did not receive any trophies or medals, just a prayerful applause at church that night. "It is faith that matters, nothing else!"
Father Joe Ferrara is pastor of St. Simon Stock Parish and presiding pastor of OLMC/SAA Regional School
Carole M. Fesi, commissioner of the Catholic Track League, responds
The commissioner, as well as the Catholic Track League, understand and are proud of these athletes, as we would be for any other athletes who had to make this decision.
Since its founding in 1973, the schools of the Catholic Track League share a common faith and have endeavored to promote interscholastic track competition in a Christian atmosphere of fair play and good sportsmanship. The league has established policies and procedures which are reviewed every year and each team votes on the passage of these rules for the upcoming season. The league is dependent on the availability of public high school tracks for all of its meets and makes their schedule based on this availability. The league does not compete or practice from Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday. The league understands that there are scheduling conflicts due to individual parish or school events such as Holy Communion, class trips, school plays, etc.
The Penn Relays is a unique event outside the scope of league control and as such will occasionally necessitate deadlines within the Lent/Easter season. The procedures for the Catholic Track League Penn Relay Qualifying Meet are part of the League Rules and are reviewed and approved by its members at the beginning of the season. This is and has always been a head to head competition so that all teams are running on the same track, under the same conditions and with the same set of officials. This is central to the integrity of the process. The date of the Qualifying Meet is set in advance so a track may be secured and the meet may be held within the guidelines and due date established by the Penn Relays. If there is inclement weather the meet moves to the rain date established and continues to move forward to the next available day and track until conditions permit the meet to be held. Weather conditions are highly unpredictable. For a meet with qualifying at stake, the league may tend to be more conservative weather wise so that all of the boys and girls teams run under the best possible and safest conditions.
After poor weather on the original qualifying meet day and also on the rain date and the day after, most of the schools (eight of the nine schools) in the league who had tracks available to them tried to secure them earlier on Wednesday to avoid the conflict with the performance of the Stations of the Cross by the Our Lady of Mount Carmel children. However, none of the tracks were available at the earlier time requested since the high schools use them for their own track teams or other sports teams' events. We did try alternate days and times, but due to the weather and the unavailability of the tracks we use, we had no choice but to have the qualifying meet on Wednesday evening. Of course, it goes without saying that we would not have this meet at any time during the Holy Thursday through Easter Sunday timeframe due to the solemnity of these holy days.
We regret that a situation beyond our control resulted in a lost opportunity for these children to run. But by making a difficult choice, the Our Lady of Mount Carmel team has earned the respect and admiration of all.

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When the renowned architecture writer and broadcaster Ian Nairn visited Derry more than fifty years ago, the title of his essay was both concise and reflective of his ever-present pragmatism. 'Proud Derry' was the summation of his feature on the North's second city, written in December 1961 for The Listener magazine; a series then collected and updated several years later in a volume called 'Britain's Changing Towns'. Much of Nairn's work has long been out of print but thankfully this anthology is available again in a beautiful copy published by Notting Hill Editions. Something resembling a Nairn revival is afoot as well, with a book on the irrepressible writer released by Gillian Darley and David McKie (Words In Place), while BBC4 ran an entertaining programme detailing his life. Nairn's ruminations on Derry are wonderful to read. He must have felt comfortable there: Nairn did not suffer fools and was always direct in his manner and writing. When he visited a place, he not only studied the bricks and mortar surrounding him, but he concerned himself with the heartbeat of somewhere too, visiting the shops and pubs and getting to know local people. How else could he have come up with this nugget about an economically choked Derry, which nevertheless was continuing to breathe with some degree of dignity: 'If there were only rags to wear (here), they would be worn with a swagger.'
Nairn wasn't being blithe in writing this. He understood the turbulent history and tough topography of Derry – a border location suffering from the effects of partition; a divided community; a port town hit hard by the shipyard closure in 1924; and a place long forgotten by London, despite its strong Plantation links and the original idea of Derry being a 'little-London-in-Ulster'. In his essay, Nairn gives the powerbrokers an angry blast of his horn: 'if the experts at the Treasury were forced to live in Derry for six months to experience the exact result of their abstract fiddlings with the Bank Rate, it might be a very good thing.' A similar charge could easily be made today, as Dublin and London-centric politicians and financial analysts trumpet an Irish and UK-wide recovery, which in reality seems to have stalled outside Howth and Watford.
Despite his acknowledgement of Derry's many problems in 1961 – high unemployment, lack of investment, its remote location, and a frosty relationship with its privileged cousin Belfast (what has changed, you may ask?) – the place enters Nairn's imagination, describing it as 'one of the most unexpected and paradoxical of our cities. For every hundred Englishmen who know York and Chester, how many know Derry?'
It is significant that Nairn places a pre-Troubles Derry firmly within the UK (our city) yet never reverts to the Anglicised title of Londonderry. Instead, his recognition of Derry's English character is more nuanced: he sees it in buildings such as St Columba's Church, with its 'cockney' details which 'hammers home the London connexion.' Other buildings and places he notes with appreciation include Bishop's Gate ('compact, tough design'), the 'suavely done' Walker's Column (which was permanently damaged by an IRA bomb in 1972) and the residential St Columb's Wells, marked out for how a city can work for people first and foremost; keeping social patterns intact, or as Nairn wanted, 'the crazy human touch'.
Nairn coined the term 'subtopia' when he made his first splash in the 1950s with the Architectural Review in a special issue titled 'Outrage', in which he railed against the 'steamrolling of plane into one mediocre pattern.' Pugnacious from the outset, he started writing for the Observer, Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, with his searing prose shaking the town-planning establishment with articles such as 'Stop The Architects Now'. It is little wonder that he is not widely read by architects and that this book is his first to be in print since the 1980s (Nairn's London, meanwhile, is his masterpiece, and will bring you to love this sometimes heartless metropolis). Along with his vivacious, and frequently funny writing, his outsider status is also probably the core of Nairn's appeal: no architectural training, no public school, no Oxbridge. He looked at and recorded this art form (and profession) with new and uninhibited eyes. Nairn wanted preservation on the one hand, yes, but engaging modern architecture too, while reputations meant little to him, as he travelled from place to place by train or in his tiny convertible Morris Minor.
Getting back to his essay on Derry, Great James Street also suitably impressed him, as did Clarendon Street ('elegant and stately as anything in Dublin') with their buildings decorated with distinctive doorcases and fanlights. However, he reserved his highest praise for Derry's Court House, 'Derry's best Georgian building', he writes, marking out the white sandstone brought locally from Dungiven to build it in 1817.
Nairn was an enthusiastic imbiber and, although the habit was eventually his undoing (he died of cirrhosis of the liver aged only 53) he was a solid believer in the role the pub had to play in society; just as important to the local fabric as the corner shop, the local bank branch or the butchers. A pub is a place 'to shake off loneliness without being in anyone's company' was his melancholically, typically poetic judgment. Sadly his thirst was not sated in Derry, with Nairn bemoaning the lack of pub decoration compared to Belfast (particular appreciation is given to the Crown Bar) and the problem is little rectified today, had he the opportunity to visit, with few pubs giving little sense of history. In fact, a few of them feel like they've been cobbled together over the course of a weekend. Another great void in the city is the long-departed Café Nobile on the Strand Road, a place that surprises Nairn with its 'high-backed dark wooden benches and marble-topped tables.'
Nairn wrote about the lack of many new buildings to look at in Derry in 1961, however he does give reference to Altnagelvin Hospital (designed by Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall, creators of the original Gatwick Airport Terminal). He recommends that the building is best seen coming from Belfast, with his usual tuneful phrasing: 'the eastern front, square-on in the morning sun fixes you with its complicated skip of balconies as a good jazz rhythm would…'
Summing up, Nairn captured the strong soul of Derry and how its practical problems forged much of what is likeable about the place: it is a town displaying something approaching good grace in the face of adversity. It's worth quoting him in full here: 'a less proud place would have had its spirit broken under its crippling topographical disadvantage. Derry needs help, and its pride is not the false variety that would scorn assistance.'
Nairn returned to Derry in 1967 to find that little had changed although he does refer to the developments in 'Irishtown' (the Bogside as its better known) and the large rebuilding operation, taking place at the time. The final thought of his essay proved he was no great reader of the political wind blowing round the buildings he was weighing up: 'the tension has lessened: the six and twenty-six counties may have begun a slow growing-together.' Nairn seemed blissfully unaware how the system of gerrymandering was rotting the heart of the city at the time. In his defence, considering how quickly the Troubles erupted, he was not the only observer caught on the back foot and any foundations of fraternity Nairn had in '67 would depressingly crumble over the coming years. But if he was alive and returned to Derry today, one would hope that he could see some of the invisible scaffolding – the people – helping the Maiden City get up off its knees, in order to stand tall once more.


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This idea crossed my mind recently after reading through the color and complexion thread. Has anyone here done this? I like shopping for clothes and I'm fairly successful on most outings. I do have a bunch of stuff that I never wear though because I think some of the styles and colors I gravitate to don't always look best on me. I thought it might be useful to have a "professional" give some guidance as to what looks good and more importantly what things to avoid. Ideally even a booklet with swatches and notes to help with shopping.
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I'm flying off to Seattle next Friday to visit my brother! He's been living there for over 12 years now and it's always a joy to visit him – because we get to see the family of course, but also because Seattle is a beautiful city and there's so much to discover in the area. For example, did you know that Washington State ranks second in the United States in the production of wine, behind only California? The above picture was taken when we visited the Yakima Valley, one of Washington's three wine regions (with Columbia Valley and Walla Walla). I had never tasted the region's wines before touring it a few years ago, but I've kept on buying Washington wines ever since. Over 80 grape varieties are grown in the area and while the most popular varieties are similar to California's (Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Syrah, Pinot Noir), Washington wines stand apart, in my humble novice opinion. Never can you notice the importance of terroir (all the natural elements that influence the taste of grapes grown in a particular region) than when you tour a wine region. After a couple of tastings, you begin to notice common characteristics, which allow grasping what makes a wine-producing region different from all others.
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Help is on Its Way: Cherokee Nation Sends Water to Standing Rock
Published August 27, 2016
TAHLEQUAH – In a gesture of solidarity, the Cherokee Nation sent 19 pallets of water to the encampments near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
With the three camps near the Dakota Access pipeline construction site near Cannon Ball, North Dakota are in need of water for the estimated 2,500 people who are there to show their support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Earlier this week, the State of North Dakota Division of Homeland Security had water tanks removed because state officials fear of potential damage to equipment. State officials have consistency referred to "unlawful activity" taking place at the camps. Camp organizers have vehemently denied there is unlawful activity taking place at the camps. There is no vioence by those who have come from various points of Indian Country.
The Cherokee Nation is one of over 100 tribal nations that have passed resoutions or sent letters of support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to demonstrate their opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline.
With campers vowing to stay as long as it takes to stop the pipeline, the water will be welcomed upon arrival.


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We are delighted to announce the 12th Annual Psychology, Health and Medicine Conference, a collaborative event between the Division of Health Psychology, Psychological Society of Ireland and Division of Health Psychology, Northern Ireland Branch of the British Psychological Society. This year the conference is hosted by the School of Psychology, Ulster University. The venue is Stranmillis University College, Belfast.
The Psychology, Health and Medicine conference continues to be an important annual event for people working in the areas of psychology and health in Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as visitors from Europe and further afield. The conference aim is to promote health psychology and provide a forum to share research findings from high quality research on psychology and health. The conference also provides an opportunity to meet practitioner colleagues working in these areas and strengthen professional networks.
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1107 GMT December 07, 2019
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi touched upon the visit of Emmanuel Macron to Iran during his weekly press conference on Monday, IRNA reported.
Underlining that relations between Iran and France are positive and the trend will continue in the future, Qasemi said no conditions have been placed over talks and meetings with French diplomatic delegations.
Unfortunately, he regretted, French officials are sometimes influenced by Iran's enemies; some of their positions are wrong; and we can inform them about the realities in the region during bilateral talks.
Qasemi noted that Iran has called on France not to be swayed by the wrong policies pursued by the US and those who promote the Iranophobia project. He also called on the new French government to understand the significance of Iran and avoid making mistakes to appease certain countries.
"Especially in the time that the United States is pushing for wrong policies, Europeans must be more careful about the position they take," Qasemi said, adding that we will be explicitly discussing Iran's positions in the negotiations, and will recall how Iran has held a very influential and positive role in countering terrorism and in creating peace and stability in the region, ensuring the security not only in the region, but also in Europe.
Pointing to UN General Assembly's vote in opposition to US Trump's new move to transfer Zionist regime's capital to al-Quds, Qasemi said "we have already mentioned that today's world is different from the past, and that the United States can no longer, in any matter, seek universal consensus."
He underlined that given the opposition of majority of countries to Trump's policy, even those who hold differences of opinion with us, the United States is moving more towards international isolation.
Qasemi expressed hope that the Arab and Islamic world, instead of involving in internal conflicts, think about solving the most important issue of the Muslim world, which is al-Quds liberation; he added that the current situation in the region is what foreign powers and Zionist regime's sponsors require; they have tried to sow discord in the Islamic world so that there would be no single voice heard against the Zionist regime.
Regarding President Rouhani's incoming visit to Azerbaijan, Qasemi hoped for necessary preparations for president's regional trips.
Foreign ministry spokesman declined the news about abolition of visas between Iran and Oman, saying "this is rejected because it has not happened at all, and no debate has been made regarding the issue."


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Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Brian Collins;
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent James Allen
: The Supervisory Leadership Training (SLT) program provides new first-line supervisors with the practical leadership skills and management tools needed to successfully manage the responsibilities and challenges in their supervisory role. It also serves as the foundation upon which supervisors will build other leadership competencies throughout their career. The SLT was redesigned in 2016 and used the DHS Cornerstone Accountability Guide as a blueprint for success. The redesigned course exceeds all DHS leadership training requirements and federal mandates, and incorporates recommendations from two independent audits. It is essential that supervisors understand and are capable of fulfilling their many roles and responsibilities to sustain a workforce that is ready, willing, and capable of mission excellence. The SLT redesign was an investment in both the strategic direction of CBP and in creating conditions for an engaged and high-performing workforce in support of mission achievement. The 13-day course covers the essential soft skills of leadership theory and weaves those skills through the procedural and regulatory processes that govern supervisors in the federal workforce. The result is an agency-specific program that allows participants to discover their leadership talents and apply them to real workplace issues. Each lesson includes an opportunity for self-reflection, time to develop personal leadership philosophies, scenarios, and time to work on workplace case studies. An experiential learning trip to Manassas Battlefield blends all of the lessons learned throughout the course and pulls them together in a historical framework, allowing participants to see how leadership behaviors and characteristics shaped history.
: US Coast Guard, Yorktown
: USCG Precision Marksman Observation Team Front End Analysis
Project Team Information
: Eileen Maeso, Lead Analyst,
LCDR Nathan Hudson, PTC Analysis Branch Chief,
Mr. John Martin, Performance Analyst,
MSTC Amanda Lea, Performance Analyst,
Ms. Veronica Hocutt, Performance Analyst,
Mr. Mark Quinlan, Program Representative Office of Specialized Capabilities,
CDR Timothy Holt, Office of Aviation Forces, Program Representative,
CDR Baldueza and LCDR Taylor Carlisle, Special Missions Training Center
: The CG Precision Marksman Observers (PM-O) primary function is to provide the real-time accurate information through surveillance techniques on the capabilities, intentions, and activities of an actual or potential adversary or Target of Interest (TOI) and the reporting of that information. PM-Os may work in pairs, which constitutes a Precision Marksman-Observer Team (PM-OT).
Outstanding Human Performance Communication
: ISPI Bay Area/Boise State Chapter
: ISPI Bay Area/Boise State Chapter
Project Team Information
: ISPI Bay Area / Boise State (BABS) Chapter is a chapter of ISPI. What is it that you want from a professional organization? Would you like to: #Build enriching, rewarding relationships? #Develop your leadership skills? #Partner with professional peers? #Keep up-to-date on proven practices and industry trends? Then you are looking for the ISPI BABS Chapter! ISPI BABS is a young and rapidly expanding professional association. The Boise State Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (OPWL) department and student body have joined forces with what was the ISPI Bay Area chapter in Northern California to form a new, organizational chapter that operates virtually—and that is the BABS chapter. Although the group has strong roots in Northern California and the Boise OPWL community, we welcome new members in Northern California and other educational institutions.
: The chapter's communication supports ISPI's purpose of being better matters. We are helping universities and other organizations, both public and private, to build up human performance technology (HPT) practitioners' competency through attending webinars, holding webinars, publishing articles, holding networking events, and participating in conferences to ultimately make the world a better place. The objectives and strategies pertaining to marketing and communication are located in our yearly strategic plan. In general, the target audience becomes aware of our communication through different channels. We post on our website, and we send out flyers to our contact list (more than 500 people) as well as to our chapter members and other ISPI chapters. We use LinkedIn and Twitter to advertise upcoming events. We depend on the external publications such as the
Performance Improvement Journal
to do their own communication about the upcoming journals and publications. We are also starting to experiment with blogging on social media channels. We currently do an outreach to all ISPI chapters about our webinars to invite them to attend our webinars at no cost. We have been doing this consistently over the past four years. The process is being formalized with collaboration with the Texas Chapter of ISPI. This has taken off with ISPI BABS sharing all webinar content, and the attendance from other chapters has increased over 50%! The practical aspects of the communication are as follows: (1) use of HPT concepts in the universities; (2) use of university research findings shared with the chapter; and (3) the chapter, in turn, sharing that information.
: Institute for Needs Assessment and Evaluation (IFNAE)
: Partner for Performance: Strategically Aligning Learning & Development
Project Team Information
: Ingrid Guerra-Lopez, PhD Professor, Design & Performance Systems Wayne State University;
Karen Hicks, PhD Director of Assessment Lansing Community College
Performance improvement professionals know not to take a client request at face value. But can they effectively steer misguided initiatives in the right direction, arriving at a solution that works for their customers and organization based on measurable needs? For decades we have heard frustrated professionals say that "conceptually" they know they should not jump into solution selection without first validating performance needs, but they simply do not know how to transition from taking solution requests to partnering with clients to help them arrive at meaningful results.
Partner for Performance: Strategically Aligning Learning & Development
offers an actionable framework and a wide range of validated tools for aligning the practices and solutions used by learning and performance improvement professionals with the organization's needs. The authors? Ingrid Guerra-López and Karen Hicks offer a detailed approach to help professionals in our field become trusted allies to managers and respected consultants to business leaders. The success of their approach is based on taking deliberate actions that build lasting partnerships with stakeholders at the beginning and throughout the strategic alignment process. This is typically taken for granted in other front-end approaches, and yet it is the basis for managing change and delivering sustainable solutions. The book provides a detailed process for uncovering and calibrating stakeholder expectations to effectively transition to the technical phase of needs assessment, root cause analysis, and solution selection. Additionally, it provides guidance and tools for defining effective implementation, transfer, and monitoring strategies that support sustainable solutions and continual improvement.
: The Boeing Company
: Publications Strategy for the Boeing Company ISPI Chapter/Performance Consulting Skills Community of Excellence
Project Team Information
: The Boeing Company Mary Rita Roux-Zink, Boeing ISPI Chapter lead for Publications Team, Boeing, Leadership, Learning, and Organizational Capacity (LLOC);
Perri Kennedy, Boeing ISPI Chapter member, Publications Team, Boeing, LLOC;
Anna Aziz, Boeing ISPI Chapter President, Boeing, LLOC;
Martin E. Zink, Boeing ISPI Chapter President Elect (2018), Boeing, LLOC.
: For the past three years, the Boeing ISPI Chapter / Performance Consulting Skills Community of Excellence has focused on deployment of their publication strategy. In alignment with ISPI's emphasis on publication of topics that are relevant to performance improvement (PI) practitioners, the Boeing Chapter's focus has been to work in teams to develop, write, and publish articles that provide insights and tools for the PI practitioner. The work of the publication strategy team has resulted in three publications in the past three years. This application will include the most recent publication.
: State Grid Corporation of China
: Fostering Young Leaders in Western China to Achieve Business Goals
Project Team Information
: Li Li, Director, Advanced Training Center, Section Leader State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC.com.cn);
Tao Cheng, Advanced Training Center, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC.com.cn);
Xianchao Zeng, Section Leader, Advanced Training Center, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC.com.cn);
Lu'nan Cheng, Section Leader, Advanced Training Center, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC.com.cn);
Jing, Wu, Section Leader, Advanced Training Center, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC.com.cn);
Yuming Pan, Co-President, Advanced Training Center, State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC.com.cn)
: Talent is an important driver and engine for strategic development, especially for State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), ranking second on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017. Responding to the West Develop Strategy and "Belt and Road" initiative of China, the company must speed up to construct the Strong Smart Grid. The western region of China reserves more abundant energy, especially clean energy. However, being the region yet to be vastly developed, enterprises from this region were short of talent. The challenge is to develop young qualified talents to take over the challenging projects within a relatively short period of time. To answer this call, SGCC initiated this project. It set up a framework to systematically select and develop young frontline leaders from seven western provinces, including Shaanxi, Qinghai, Gansu, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Tibet, etc. The project took a holistic approach containing three stages—a two-week concentrated training, a six-month job rotation in the east, and a one-year on-the-job project assignment. It was measured at all four levels of Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model. From 2011-2015, 309 trainees were trained, easing the talent shortage situation in western region. In total, they participated in 850 research projects and won 674 awards. About 25% of them were promoted. As a result, the west power grid achieved 367.9 billion KWH of electricity sales in 2015, and the gross business income increased 54%. The power grid line loss rate was 2.97% in 2015, under 3% for the first time. The region's average personnel productivity increased to USD 57,800 per year, up 100.46%.
: Sanofi China
: Building a Learning & Measurement System to Help Sales Grow
Project Team Information
: Liang Tian, Head of Sanofi University;
Jean Chen, Assessment and Project Director;
Bingchun Chen, Senior Assessment and Project Mgr;
Gordon Lu, Assessment Project Manager;
Lei Zhao, Senior Assessment Manager; Susie Liu, Assessment Project Manager;
Xiaoyan Zhou, Senior Assessment and Project Mgr;
Chi Duyi, Assessment Specialist; Yuan Yaqi, Assistant
: Due to China's regulation changes in the pharmaceutical industry since 2014, multinational companies in China faced huge business challenges. At Sanofi China, these challenges included erosion of market share by competitors, record-breaking low client satisfaction, incapability in execution of marketing strategies, troubled team morale, and so forth. To find an appropriate solution to cope, these challenges became crucial. We collected data from
interviews of the executive committee, over 50 BU heads, sales directors, and regional managers; external professional-level test of sales force (RDPAC MRC test); and third-party client research data (IMS Health). After systematic analysis of the internal and external data, it pointed to the huge gap in the sales force's capability. To identify the root cause and solve the problem, we worked with internal partners (marketing, medical, HR, IT) to design and implement a large interactive learning and measurement system covering about 6,000 sales employees since fall 2015. The system focused on improving their professional knowledge and skills by learning, practice, assessment, and feedback. It has been routinely running for two more years. The solution also includes: (1) marketing strategy fine-tuning based on insights of assessment data, (2) HR process optimization to address the motivation problem (including incentive plan and promotion opportunities), and (3) tracking of behavior changes. The results show significant customer satisfaction improvement and business outcomes beyond expectation, through the enhancement of sales employees' knowledge, skills, and changes in their behavior.
: Fidelity Investments, Asset Management Talent Development
: Global New Hire Onboarding Program and Execution Support Tools
Project Team Information
: Lisa Miller, Program Director
Donna Tortorella, Director, Project Management and Instructional Design;
Niles da Silva, Director, Technology and Operations;
Melissa Koester, Onboarding Training Manager;
Gopi Pandra, Web Developer;
Yogish Gowda, Web Developer;
Mary Lou Bowen, Contract Project Manager/Instructional Designer;
Cara Cantarella, Contract Project Manager/Instructional Designer;
Jennifer Latanowich Villeda, Contract Learning Coordinator;
Allison Vey, Director, Human Resources
: China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
: Shortening Time on Receiving and Processing Work Order by IT Service Center
Project Team Information
: Qu Jiehua OA Head Wuhan CSOT Co., Ltd;
Pao Yinji Deputy Director of Information Center Wuhan CSOT Co., Ltd;
Xu Xianhua Head of Engineering Dept. in Colored LCD Film Factory Wuhan CSOT Co.., Ltd;
Ren Zhongfeng Head of Quality Dept. Shenzhen CSOT Co., Ltd;
Huang Tianjun Head of RAID Color Box Design Dept. Shenzhen CSOT Co., Ltd;
Xiao Yujun Head of Optics Mechanism Dept. Shenzhen CSOT Co., Ltd;
Luo Junbin Head of Technical Service Dept. TCL Business IT (Huizhou) Co., Ltd;
Huang Ting Training Specialist (Director) in Technical Talent Development Office Shenzhen CSOT Co., Ltd;
Zhu Lei Dean of TCL University TCL Corporation;
Guo Li Head of Leadership School in TCL University TCL Corporation;
Qi Hui Manager of Leadership Program in TCL University TCL Corporation;
Sun Maoliang Manager of Business Effectiveness Program in TCL University TCL Corporation;
Yi Hong External Advisor SinoTrac Consulting Co. Ltd;
Xiong Jie External Advisor SinoTrac Consulting Co. Ltd
: Industrial Bank Co., Ltd.
: The Marketing Efficiency Improvement Project of Key Corporate Customers of Industrial Bank Co., Ltd.
Project Team Information
: He Shuanggang, Director of Education and Training Division under Human Resources Department of Industrial Bank Co., Ltd.; Zhang Ruifen, Deputy Director of Education and Training Division under Human Resources Department of Industrial Bank Co., Ltd.;
Zhang Guanrong, Deputy Director of Education and Training Division under Human Resources Department of Industrial Bank Co., Ltd.;
Mo Xiuling, Director of HR Division under Corporate Finance Business Management Department of Industrial Bank
: University of North Texas
: The Leadership Development Spectrum, University of North Texas
Project Team Information
: John R. Turner Assistant Professor University of North Texas;
Karen Johnson Assistant Professor University of North Texas;
Jae Schroeder Doctoral Student University of North Texas;
Chih-Huang Chung Assistant Professor Taiwan University
: Leadership development programs vary from developing individual competencies to more dynamic and collective developmental methods. Individualistic leadership development methods have been viewed as being too linear and of limited value in today's complex environment. As more organizations move into increasingly dynamic, complex, and global environments, their leaders need to function in nonlinear ways. This integrative literature review captured the leadership capacities and leadership developmental techniques from the human resource development (HRD) and performance improvement (PI) literature over a 15-year period. These leadership capacities and developmental techniques were categorized and placed into a developmental typology. The leadership development spectrum in the typology highlights the main transition of leadership development, from individual to collective development. This leadership development spectrum provides a tool for scholar-practitioners to utilize when designing leadership development programs that better meet the needs of their organization and the demands of the current environment.
: University of North Texas
: Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation (TELDE) Model University of North Texas
Project Team Information
: John R. Turner Assistant Professor University of North Texas;
Rose Baker Assistant Professor University of North Texas;
Kerry Romine Doctoral Student University of North Texas
: This leadership development model is designed to utilize the self-organizing, self-managing, and self-regulating functions found in teams and small groups. This theoretical model presents the Team Emergence Leadership Development and Evaluation model as a new dynamic leadership development model designed to function in complex and non-predictive environments. Complexity theory, complexity leadership theory, and emergence were utilized to connect this theoretical model to leadership development, team cognition and learning, and knowledge management. This new theoretical model provides a new way of viewing leadership development, by incorporating naturally occurring team processes as a means of replicating the characteristics traditionally viewed as being related to leadership development. Emergent events occur through distributed leadership among various agents and are defined by levels of meaning, providing new knowledge to the agents, and allowing for the collective to move onto the next step toward goal attainment. Connecting leadership development competencies with the environmental factors is critical for successful leadership development programs. The methods and procedures within the evaluation plan and protocols should move beyond a reliance on competency development as confirmation of leadership development. Complexity theory can help to shed light on the formation of these connections while aiding other agents to become potential emerging leaders themselves.
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