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At Build 2016 we announced the first developer preview of the new generation of authentication SDKs for Microsoft identities, the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) for .NET.
In the past year, we made significant progress advancing the features of the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD and Azure AD B2C. The new MSALs take advantage of those new capabilities and, combined with the excellent feedback you gave us about the first preview, will simplify integrating authentication features in your apps like never before.
The libraries we are releasing today are still in preview, which means that there's still time for you to give us feedback and change their API surface – however they are fully supported in production: you can use them in your apps confidently, and if you have issues you'll be able to use all the usual support channels at your disposal for fully released products. More details below.
MSAL is an SDK that makes it easy for you to obtain the tokens required to access web API protected by Microsoft identities, that is to say by the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD (work and school accounts or Personal Microsoft Accounts), Azure AD B2C, or the new ASP.NET Core Identity. Examples of web API include Microsoft Cloud API, such as the Microsoft Graph, or any other 3rd party API (including your own) configured to accept tokens issued by Microsoft identities.
MSAL offers an essential set of primitives, helping you to work with tokens with few concise lines of code.
Under the hood, MSAL takes care of many complex and high risk programming tasks that you would otherwise be required to code yourself. Specifically, MSAL takes care of displaying authentication and consent UX when appropriate, selecting the appropriate protocol flows for the current scenario, emitting the correct authorization messages and handling the associated responses, negotiating policy driven authentication levels, taking advantage of device authentication features, storing tokens for later use and transparent renewal, and much more. It's thanks to that sophisticated logic that you can take advantage of secure APIs and advanced enterprise-grade access control features even if you never read a single line of the OAuth2 or OpenId Connect specifications. You don't even need to learn about Azure AD internals: using MSALs both you and your administrator can be confident that access policies will be automatically applied at runtime, without the need for dedicated code.
You might be wondering, should I be using MSAL or the Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL)? The answer is straightforward: if you are building an application that needs to support both Azure AD work and school accounts and Microsoft personal accounts (with the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD), or building an app that uses Azure AD B2C, then use MSAL. If you're building an application that needs to support just Azure AD work and school accounts, then use ADAL. In the future, we'll recommend all apps use MSAL, but not yet. We still have a bit more work to do on MSAL and the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD. More on ADAL later in the post.
Developing with MSAL is simple.
Everything starts with registering your app in the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD, Azure AD B2C, or ASP.NET Core Identity. Here you'll specify some basic info about your app (is it a mobile app? Is it a web app or a web API?) and get back an identifier for your app. Let's say that you are creating a .NET desktop application meant to work with work & school and MSA accounts (v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD).
In code, you always begin by creating an instance of *ClientApplication - a representation in your code of your Azure AD app; in this case, you'll initialize a new instance of PublicClientApplication, passing the identifier you obtained at registration time.
Say that you want to call the Microsoft Graph to gain access to the email messages of a user. All you need to do is to call AcquireTokenAsync, specifying the scope required for the API you want to invoke (in this case, Mail.Read).
The call to AcquireTokenAsync will cause a popup to appear, prompting the user to authenticate with the account of his or her choice, applying whatever authentication policy has been established by the administrator of the user's directory. For example, if I were to run that code and use my microsoft.com account, I would be forced to use two-factor authentication – while, if I'd use a user from my own test tenant, I would only be asked for username and password.
After successful authentication, the user is promoted to grant consent for the permission requested, and some other permissions related to accessing personal information (such as name, etc).
As soon as the user accepts, the call to AcquireTokenAsync finalizes the token acquisition flow and returns it (along with other useful info) in an AuthenticationResult. All you need to do is extract it (via ar.AccessToken) and include it in your API call.
MSAL features a sophisticated token store, which automatically caches tokens at every AcquireTokenAsync call. MSAL offers another primitive, AcquireTokenSilentAsync, which transparently inspects the cache to determine whether an access token with the required characteristics (scopes, user, etc) is already present or can be obtained without showing any UX to the user. Azure AD issues powerful refresh tokens, which can often be used to silently obtain new access tokens even for new scopes or different organizations, and MSAL codifies all the logic to harness those features to minimize prompts. This means that from now on, whenever I need to call the mail API, I can simply call AcquireTokenSilentAsync as below and know that I am guaranteed to always get back a fresh access token; and if something goes wrong, for example of the user revoked consent to my app, I can always fall back on AcquireTokenAsync to prompt the user again.
This is the main MSAL usage pattern. All others are variations that account for differences among platforms, programming languages, application types and scenarios – but in essence, once you mastered this couple of calls you know how MSAL works.
We are making MSAL available on multiple platforms. The concepts remain the same across the board, but they are exposed to you using the primitives and best practices that are typical of each of the targeted platforms.
Like every library coming from the identity division in the last three years, MSAL is OSS and available on github. We develop MSAL in the open, and we welcome community contributions. For example, I would like to acknowledge Oren Novotny, Principal Architect at BlueMetal and Microsoft MVP, who was instrumental in refactoring MSAL to work with .NET Standard targets. Thank you, Oren!
Below you can find some details about the MSALs previews we are releasing today.
You can find the source at https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet.
MSAL .NET is distributed via Nuget.org: you can find the package at https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Identity.Client.
MSAL .NET works on .NET Desktop (4.5+), .NET Standard 1.4, .NET Core, UWP and Xamarin Forms for iOS/Android/UWP.
MSAL.NET supports the development of both native apps (desktop, console, mobile) and web apps (code behind of ASP.NET web apps, for example).
There are many code samples you can choose from: there's one on developing a WPF app, one on developing a Xamarin forms app targeting UWP/iOS/Android, one on developing a web app with incremental consent, one on server to server communication, and we'll add more in the coming weeks. We'll also have various samples demonstrating how to use MSAL with B2C: a Xamarin Forms app, a .Net WebApp, a .Net Core WebApp and a .Net WPF App.
You can find the source at https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-js.
You can install MSAL JS using NPM, as described in the libraries' readme. We also have an entry in CDN, at https://secure.aadcdn.microsoftonline-p.com/lib/0.1.0/js/msal.min.js.
You can find a sample demonstrating a simple SPA here. A sample demonstrating use of MSAL JS with B2C can be found here.
You can find the source at https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-objc.
MSAL iOS is distributed directly from GitHub, via Carthage.
A sample for iOS can be found here. A sample demonstrating use of MSAL iOS with B2C can be found here.
You can find the source at – https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-android.
You can get the binaries via Gradle, as shown in the repo's readme.
A sample showing canonical usage of MSAL Android can be found here.
MSAL iOS and MSAL Android display authentication and consent UX taking advantage of OS level features such as SafariViewController and Chrome Custom Tabs, respectively.
This approach has various advantages over the embedded browser control view used in ADAL: it allows SSO sharing between native apps and web apps accessed through the device browser, makes it possible to leverage SSL certificates on the device, and in general offers better security guarantees.
The use of system webviews aligns MSAL to the guidance provided in the OAuth2 for Native Apps best current practice document.
MSAL iOS, MSAL Android and MSAL JS are making their debut this week; and MSAL .NET is incorporating features of the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD and Azure AD B2C that were not available in last year's preview.
We still need to hear your feedback and retain the freedom to incorporate it, which means that we might still need to change the API surface before committing to it long term. Furthermore, both teh v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD and B2C are still adding features that we believe must be part of a well-rounded SDK release, and although we already have a design for those, we need them to go through the same preview process as the functionality already available today.
That means that, although the MSAL bits were thoroughly tested and we are confident that we can support their use in production, we aren't ready to call the library generally available yet.
Saying that MSAL is a "production-supported preview" means that we are granting you a golive license for the MSAL previews released this week. You can use those MSALs in your production apps, being confident that you'll be able to receive support through the usual Microsoft support channels (premier support, StackOverflow, etc).
Each future preview refresh can (and likely will) change the API surface. That means that if you were waiting for the next refresh to fix a bug affecting you, you will need to be prepared to make code changes when ingesting the new release – even if those changes are unrelated to the bug affecting you, and just happen to be coming out in the same release.
When MSAL will reach general availability, you will have 6 months to update your apps to use the GA version of the SDK. Once the 6 months elapse, we will no longer support the preview libraries – and, although we'll try our best to avoid it, we won't guarantee that the v2 protocol endpoint of Azure AD and Azure AD B2C will keep working with the preview bits.
We want to reach general availability as soon as viable; however, our criteria are quality driven, not date driven. MSAL will be on the critical path of many applications and we want to make sure we'll get it right. The good news is that now you are unblocked, and you can confidently take advantage of Microsoft identities in your production apps!
For all intents and purposes, MSAL can be considered ADAL vNext. Many of the primitives remain the same (AcquireTokenAsync, AcquireTokenSilentAsync, AuthenticationResults, etc) and the goal, making it easy to access API without becoming a protocol expert, remain the same. If you've been developing with ADAL, you'll feel right at home with MSAL. If you rummage through the repos, you'll see that there was significant DNA lateral transfer between libraries.
At the same time, MSAL has a significantly larger scope: whereas ADAL only works with work and school accounts via Azure AD and ADFS), MSAL works with work and school accounts, MSAs, Azure AD B2C and ASP.NET Core Identity, and eventually (in a future release) with ADFS… all in a single, consistent object model. Along with that, the difference between the Azure AD v1 and v2 endpoints is important – and inevitably reflected in the SDK: incremental consent, scopes instead of resources, elimination of the resource owner password grant, and so on.
Furthermore, the experience and feedback we accumulated through multiple versions of ADAL (the ADAL.NET nuget alone has been downloaded about 2.8 million times) led us to introduce some important changes in the programming model, changes that perhaps go beyond the breaking changes you'd normally expect between major versions of the same SDK.
For those reasons, we decided to clearly signal differences by picking a new name that better reflects the augmented scope – Microsoft Authentication Library.
If you have significant investment in ADAL , don't worry: ADAL is fully supported, and remains the correct choice when you are building an application that only needs to support Azure AD work and school accounts.
If you are at Build and you want to see MSAL in action, stop by session B8084 on Thursday at 4:00 PM. The session recording will appear 24 to 48 hours later at https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2017/B8084.
Keep your great feedback coming on UserVoice and Twitter (@azuread, @vibronet). If you have questions, get help using Stack Overflow (use the 'MSAL' tag).


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The BGT English Theatre Company has announced that it has begun rehearsals for its production "David's RedHaired Death", scheduled to take place in mid-September 2020 at the International School of Luxembourg (ISL).
The upcoming production is the second in the BGT summer project series aimed at promoting young performers in Luxembourg. This year's play is "David's RedHaired Death", written in the early-1990s by American writer Sherry Kramer. This powerful piece will showcase the talents of two local actresses in their mid-20s, Cindy Bloes and Lina Peller, as well as 17-year-old assistant director Tiara Partsch, who is set to study theatre directing in Michigan from September.
First preformed in 1992, "David's RedHaired Death" is a moving story of the love between two women and the way that one man's death can affect it. Jean and Marilyn are redheads. They are used to getting their own way and to using the mythical power of the "redhead" to have who or what they want. But when they meet each other, they have met their matches. As they fall in love, it seems they have found the partner, and the sister, they have always looked for. That is, until David's death changes everything...
A moving mix of absurd comedy and heart-breaking tragedy, the play is a poignant and sensitive look at the way bereavement can change everything.
"David's RedHaired Death" is the second play in the BGT's summer project to encourage young trainee performers. It follows the success of last years's "Wolves are Coming for You". It is scheduled to play at the ISL Studio on Thursday 10 and Friday 11 September at 19:00 and on Saturday 12 September 2020 at 14:30 and 19:00 - sanitary restrictions permitting.
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Cherwell Software, LLC, is a privately held American technology company specializing in IT service management software. The company headquarters is in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It also has offices in Swindon, UK. The company name is taken from the River Cherwell, which runs through Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, England.

History

Cherwell was founded in 2004 by Vance Brown, a former CEO of GoldMine Software (later, a product by Ivanti), Arlen S. Feldman and Timothy G. Pfeifer. Cherwell announced their first product in 2007.

Venture capital
In November 2012, Cherwell received a $25 million investment from Insight Venture Partners. The investment was highly unusual for the industry: in exchange for their capital investment, Insight Venture was only granted common stock in the company and did not receive control over day to day operations.
CEO Vance Brown told the media that he did not want to worry about having an exit strategy.

In January 2013, the Service Desk Institute accredited Cherwell service management.

On February 27, 2017, Cherwell secured a $50 million investment from investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).
In January 2018, Craig Harper resigned as CEO, and was replaced by Vance Brown on an interim basis.
On April 4, 2018, an additional $172 million investment from KKR included acquiring much of the Insight Venture Partner stake, made them a majority owner.
In August 2018, Brown left to lead the National Cybersecurity Center, and Sam Gilliland became chief executive.

On June 4, 2020, Cherwell announced Rob Salvagno of KKR and Drew Harman of Insight Venture Partners joined their board.  Dave Welsh from KKR, a board member since 2018 became chairman.
In January 2021, Ivanti announced it would acquire Cherwell for undisclosed terms.

Products
The Cherwell Service Management platform (CSM) is a suite of IT service management applications.  Cherwell developed and sells applications designed with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) methodology. Cherwell Service Management 5.0 was released in September 2014 and 6.0 in August 2015.
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CSM server is available only for Microsoft Windows as is the main client interface.

Cherwell  developed mobile applications for iOS and Android but they have since been retired as of September 2019.
StrataCom Inc., a Cherwell partner, released a Cherwell mobile app and Kanban boards for Cherwell shortly after this.

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"Order to the units of the Western Direction #07
Acting Army
On all fronts, the Red Army is offering staunch resistance to the enemy, showing examples of heroism and bravery, delivering crushing defeats to the enemy armies.
However, in several units and formations of the Western Direction there have been isolated examples of cowards, panic-mongers, and those who seek to save their own skin who fled from the battlefield out of imagined fear of enemy aircraft and tanks, without resistance and without engaging the enemy, betraying the army and our great Motherland.
Cowards and panic-mongers cannot be allowed to abandon their weapons and flee from the battlefield, sowing panic in our companies, battalions, and regiments, weakening the units who are fighting.
The parties guilty of these great crimes have been judged and executed.
I order that:
All political command staff and soldiers who value the interests of our Motherland must ruthlessly combat these shameful traitors and explain that leaving one's weapons and leaving the battle without them is a terrible crime. The political command staff must inspect weapons constantly and daily, and promote conscious protection of weapons and military vehicles.
Political command staff are warned that they are now responsible for the condition of weapons and vehicles. Commanders and commissars of units and formations that allow a loss of weapons or vehicles without due cause will face a military tribunal.
Not a single cannon, not a single tank, not a single car, not a single machine gun, not a single rifle can be left to the enemy. No matter how hard the situation is, all personnel must strive to preserve weapons and vehicles. It is not allowed to give in to panic and destroy materiel needlessly. Cannons are powerful and fearsome weapons that must be used in battle fully and to the end. It is only in a completely hopeless situation when weapons and vehicles are about to fall to the enemy that measures to evacuate cannons and vehicles are to be taken. If this is impossible, the cannons and vehicles must be destroyed so that they cannot fall into enemy hands no matter what.
Abandoning a tank must be considered treason. It is better to die in the tank than to leave the battlefield without it.
All commanders of units and formations must form teams to collect weapons. Commanders of divisions, commanders of corps, and commanders of armies must provide conditions in which this order can be carried out.
Military prosecutors of the Western and Central Fronts are instructed to present anyone that violates this order to the military tribunal.
The order should be read and explained to all companies, batteries, squadrons, and crews.
Supreme Commander of the Western Direction, Marshal of the Soviet Union S. Timoshenko
Member of the Military Council of the Western Direction, Bulganin
Chief of Staff of the Western Direction, Marshal of the Soviet Union B. Shaposhnikov"
Via Yuri Pasholok
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jospeh_mckeller 6 January 2020 at 18:52
"Abandoning a tank must be considered treason. It is better to die in the tank than to leave the battlefield without it" how regularly and strictly was this enforced? It seems contrary to execute trained, expensive and scarce tankers for abandoning a burning tank.
Peter 6 January 2020 at 21:53
I've never seen this policy enforced in practice. Theoretically, leaving a perfectly good tank on the battlefield and hoofing it is desertion, but I've seen enough award orders for crews whose tank was destroyed and that broke out of an encirclement, so as long as you could credibly claim that your tank was lost in battle you would be fine.
There were certainly cases of tankers convicted of intentional disablement of their own vehicles to avoid battle, that was a pretty serious crime too.
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The Record of Bergen County featured James Valvano, a partner in the New Jersey/New York offices, in a March 10 article on litigation involving millions of dollars in missing investments. Valvano leads a multistate team of Gordon & Rees attorneys representing nine investors in Robert R. Ammarell, et al. v. George Swan, et al.
In November 2012, the manager of a fraudulent national hedge fund, George L. Swan, died in a mysterious car accident in which he drove directly into a parked tractor-trailer in the middle of the day. Swan was managing over $6 million in hedge funds known as the Theory Funds after receiving a lifetime ban from the NASD. Upon his death, none of the investors were able to receive answers as to the location of their investments.
In January, Gordon & Rees filed an Order to Show Cause and Verified Complaint in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County, to freeze the assets held by the entities controlling the Theory Funds, cease all trading, and freeze all assets of Swan's estate and all insurance proceeds.
The team prevailed on the Order to Show Cause, obtaining substantial injunctive relief. Significantly, the court entered an order freezing all assets held by Swan's estate as well as the entity defendants involved in the Theory Funds. The court also ordered all insurance proceeds received by Swan's wife, Kathy, to be placed in her attorney's trust account; she may receive proceeds in excess of $13 million.
Gordon & Rees's Feb. 20 Second Amended Complaint asserts claims against Swan and his accomplices under state and federal securities laws, fraud, and civil RICO. Valvano's clients seek the return of their investments, which total more than $2.2 million.
Besides Valvano, Gordon & Rees attorneys on the case are New Jersey associates Dan DiMuro, Yao "Emma" Xiao and Jane Adele Regina, and Hartford senior counsel Thomas Blatchley and associate Joseph Geoghegan.
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To read The Record article, click here.


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It would be awesome if we could get a pizza icon for tagged locations.
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Q: Why do I get a train when I run 'ls'? I have recently noticed something odd that I don't like very much:

So why am I getting a train upon running ls? And how can I stop this and make it behave normally? Is this an Easter Egg that I have discovered? I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.04.
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Running which ls gets me the same train, and running ls -l $(which ls) just gets me another type of train.
Running command -v ls outputs nothing. And running command -v sl also outputs nothing.
This may all have something to do with the cow (or something like that) package that I recently installed that promised to 'lighten things up a little'.

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*Try to remove the funny package via
sudo apt-get purge sl

*Check your aliases for ls e.g. in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.

*Check the binary /usr/games/sl and delete
sudo rm /usr/games/sl

*Check the output of
strace sl |& grep execve
strace ls |& grep execve

if point three has no success.

*And in future, do NOT install anything that promises to 'lighten things up a little' in the description. ;)

A: Generally, you can prepend \ to a command to disable aliasing only for that instance of the command run.
E.g.,

[2023]$ alias ls
alias ls='ls -F -Chs --color=tty'
[2024]$ ls
total 140K
4.0K bin/           0 Downloads@           0 prog.git@
...

[2025]$ \ls
bin  Downloads     doc.git  freertos.git  prog.git  tmp
...

So, I recommend trying your ls with  a prepended '\'
Next, you can try running the ls command directly with full path.

/bin/ls

Next,
command /bin/ls
also, check your path,

echo $PATH
make sure that /bin is the first entry.
$PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

But, I believe that removing cow would help.

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Passing through Pacific Sea Nettle Jellyfish in a kayak is an amazing to experience. I had to make sure nothing was coming towards my drive and getting tangled. Such a cool creature!
Kayak Fishing Oregon will be hiring a couple of guides in 2017. If you are interested in guiding part time at Kayak Fishing Oregon, please contact me here through the website if you are near the Portland Metro or Coos Bay and would be interested in guiding kayak fishing lessons and guided trips.
Just wanted to give a special shout out to SPRO for their awesome tackle they shared with us at Kayak Fishing Oregon. It's such a huge honor having such big sponsors like SPRO involved in the kayak fishing community. There is a reason why our sport continues to be the fastest growing segment of fishing worldwide year after year. Please check out their tackle online and order at a fishing and tackle shop near you.
I love how smooth and silent these Hobie pedal drive kayaks can be. I caught both of these Coho trolling plug cut Herring with Dicks Sure Spin Helmets in about 8 feet of water.
One of my favorite times of year to fish in the Pacific Northwest is late summer and early fall. The salmon fishing this time of year for both Chinook and Coho is amazing and Astoria is one of my favorite places to be. Here's a 28 pound Chinook or King Salmon I caught trolling a cut plug herring near "Shipwreck" in August.
Kayak Fishing Oregon just finished another Hobie First Cast with Next Adventure last Saturday near their Scappoose, Oregon location. One of our clients Darrel ended up catching his first ever Chinook Salmon during our salmon class. I think his smile says it all! For more info contact me here at KFO or at Next Adventure by clicking the link below.


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Recombination: The Missing Link Between Linear and Non-Linear Views of Change
November 6, 2010 Cameron D. Norman	306 Views chaos theory, complexity, health behaviour change, psychology, systems thinking
I teach a course in health behaviour change and one in systems thinking perspectives on public health. Both courses complement each other and both deal with change. However, most of the major theories of behaviour change deal with the subject in a straightforward, linear manner. Models and theories like the Health Belief Model, Theory of Reasoned Action, and Social Cognitive Theory all have elements explicit or implicit to them that suggest change occurs in a largely linear manner from problem state to desired state.
One of the more popular models of change is the Transtheoretical Model, which included the concept of Stages of Change. Developed by James Prochaska and colleagues at the University of Rhode Island (and others), the model has become widely popular and used all over the world to guide change efforts. The problem is that the evidence for its effectiveness, despite the logic it brings with it, is weak.
Robert West, the editor of the journal Addiction, and others, issued a rather stinging set of criticisms against the Transtheoretical Model's Stages of Change concept, pointing to the evidence that suggests that as many (if not more) people quit smoking or behaviors like that with no apparent plan in place. "It just happened" .
Indeed, the data suggests that Stages of Change is not that strong as a predictor of eventual change, yet its popularity suggests something that goes beyond evidence. At its root is the idea of "ready, set, go" and taps into our deep-seated interests in making plans and moving ahead in a straightforward manner. In short, it fits linear thinking to a tee.
Over time, proponents of the Stages of Change theory and related models and theories have asserted that people do move forwards and backwards through the stages and that it is not simply a one-way view of change, but in both cases the end is still some form of linear trajectory.
What makes behaviour change theories like the TTM and others problematic from the perspective of complexity is that they are linear. Yet, linearity is the way we define the problems in the first place. These theories are all based on some form of cognitive-rational foundation that take at its core the idea that information is the starting point for change and that the way information is perceived and worked through will serve as a touchpoint for further motivational activities.
What is embedded within this assumption is the idea that, once configured, information is organized in a relatively stable, consistent manner. What it does not do is account for the ways in which our memories, circumstance, situation, and the addition of new information can only only change what we know, but also the way in which we know it. Thus, recombination of information leads to new insights and activities, not all of which are necessarily in support of the trajectory that was initiated.
Richard Resincow and Scott Page start to probe some of this terrain in their article published a couple of years ago looking at quantum change. The article, which was widely discussed, challenges the very notion that the approach we take to behaviour change is misaligned with much of what we know about complex adaptive systems. And to this end, the human mind and body is indeed a complex adaptive system in many respects. Certainly our social worlds fit this description.
If this is the case, and we take this idea that recombination of information can and does occur, it has profound implications for how we develop social institutions and the way in which we support individuals looking to make changes. It means not expecting that changes will stay in place, but rather always anticipating the possibility that something might shift and dramatic transformations could occur.
Flexible strategies, adaptive strategies and those that attend to context and the constant, dynamic flow of information are those that will provide more useful models for change in this worldview. It might now repudiate the models we use now, but it certainly casts new light on the directionality of change that they invoke. And in simply shifting those arrows around, we open possibility for understanding change in a wider way that might eventually lead us to one that takes complexity into account more fully, and learning.
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I am a designer, psychologist, educator, evaluator, and strategist focused on innovation in human systems. I'm curious about the world around me and use my role as Principal and President of Cense Ltd. as a means of channeling that curiosity into ideas, questions, and projects that contribute to a better world.


Were you there on the 28th of June? What a night spent worshipping Olowogbogboro. It was amazing. It was awesome. In short, it was spectacular. So many people came for the event. The crowd was so much that they kept people outside and people went to stand at the veranda of the hotel opposite the event centre. What an awesome time. I hope you didn't miss out?
How's the new month? Welcome to 2017 Part 2 lol. Anyways, in the Three Musketeers news, I'm currently reading the volume titled: The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Our heroes, Athos and D'artagnan have set out on separate paths to restore the monarchy of England to Charles II. Men of honour and courage. Took sometime off to write on this week's post. Cool weather, got light, Travis Greene in the background singing 'You waited' (beautiful song, please get it). In order to paint a picture of a mighty arm, I would imagine we would all think of Arnold Schwarzenegger flexing during his muscle building career. The muscles on the arm could stop a bullet. True talk! Porthos, one of our famed musketeers, also had a powerful arm which he used to dish out justice to anyone that dared form an obstacle in his path.
Even Sage's arm is a bit powerful but only strong enough to open a can of Coke and mix rice and stew. This post is a bit personal as I recently witnessed and I'm still witnessing the Valiant hand of the Lord turning the tide.
Ever been in an ocean and had to swim against the tide? It's a very tiring exercise and one that would most likely lead to you losing all hope and, eventually, energy thus causing you to drown. The tide represents anything that is producing averse results to what we expected. Imagine going from a place of comfort to a place of struggling for survival. As Christians, the tide is going to be part of our daily walk. Christianity isn't bread and blueband butter neither is it a bowl of KFC chicken or for the fit fam crew, a plate of salad. Even the bible warns us that the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force. So why should we expect life to not have us against the tide every now and then? Even your guy has been swimming against the tide. Don't believe me? Oh boy, bone packaging oh. There have been days when Sage had just 500 Naira in his pocket. Some years back, I once joked to my friend saying: "Spiragos as your guy dey, I no get two 50 Naira to rub together." There are families that face times when they can barely afford to have three square meals or even have to forfeit one or two of such meals. I've had times when I had bread for breakfast and garri for dinner (be rest assured it wasn't a matter of choice). In such times, I learnt that we still need to thank God. An example of another of such tides I recently faced was that for like 4 months, the tank of your guy's car barely rose above the reserve level. Every time I drove out, na so so yellow we go dey see for dashboard but as I was driving, as per man of faith, I would just be saying, God this is your car ... please fuel it and I'd keep driving. The point is that times were tough. But the devil didn't know that as a man of faith, I would enter the kitchen, see only bread and butter (whenever I wanted variety, I'd use the syrup for pancake (wetin man want do) and scream Jehovah Jireh! The great provider! That is what faith is. Thanking God in the midst of the tide. Why? Because God said so (IThess. 5:16&18).
What tides are you experiencing? Does it seem like it will never end? Do you know that when things are getting worse it's because the devil knows that your breakthrough is near and he's fighting his hardest to keep you down? This is when Olowogbogboro shows Himself.
When I saw this verse, my spirit jumped and screamed Yes! This is the word at last. Do you know what it means for God's hand to be raised in victory? For His hand to have turned the tide? If you notice, it was written in the past tense. It means that your present and future is God's past and whatever circumstance or tide you're facing has been defeated because His hand is raised in victory. Everyday, I meditated on this word, prayed on it and thought of it. When the walls were closing in on me and the devil intensified his attack, I took out my bible and read it again. The bible is an amazing resource. Before I knew it, the tide began to turn and through this Word, my faith stayed strong even when I was eating bread and syrup lol.
What are we to do to when faced with the tide? Hold on to God. Never give up your faith. Search His word for a word from Him to you. Ps. 118:15-16 was the word I got from God. Meditate and pray. Be violent! Worship Him continually. As always, you're free to add to it. When you do this, you will see Olowogbogboro moving on your behalf and even when it hasn't manifested physically, be rest assured that He has risen his mighty hand in victory concerning your circumstance. One tide He turned is that I prayed that when going for the Hallelujah Challenge event, I wanted the tank of my car to be full. Did He do it? He had done it and it manifested just as I prayed to God that it should on the day that I asked for it to manifest.
The charge therefore in this second half of the year is to become violent and take what the enemy has denied or taken from you by force. Olowogbogboro is fighting in your corner, on your behalf. Also, never forget Hebrews 11:1-3! Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, the substance of things not seen. Happy new month y'all.
P.S. I'm not sure I'll send this post to my mum. Not ready to answer which tides I'm talking about lol. There are still other tides in my life but Olowogbogboro has raised His hand in victory. Olowogbogboro has turned the tide! So I'm not worried or afraid. Fear is the opposite of faith. I'm now listening to Onise Iyanu by Nathaniel Bassey.


We start this brand New Year with this super useful write up that comes to you directly from the experts. Most of our subscribers are travelers who do it all by themselves and explore the new destinations at their own pace and on their own terms which means hiring a self drive vehicle. Carolina from HAPPYCAR shares important insights to get it right from the word go, with these 8 tips!