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2012 Predictions – Technology Will Shape Who We Are As People And Businesses
Posted by Brian Hopkins on January 12, 2012
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In the first phase of the information age, technology helped us achieve new levels of productivity. In the next phase, technology will shape who we are. Why? Because technology is everywhere – and savvy businesses are paying attention. I did a check on a recent trip and noticed that, on average, 80% of the people around me were nose down in their technology. That's amazing if you stop and think about it….(pause for thinking)…When you spend that much time using something, it ceases to be a helper and starts to shape who you are.
I think 2012 will be a watershed year for the global business environment as technology moves from being "out there" to "part of us." In 2020, we will look back on 2012 not as the year the world ended but as the year it changed for good. Check out the TED video We Are All Cyborgs Now. Here are four predictions about business in 2012 that all start with the fusion of business and technology and the impact that it will have on shaping business. I hope will add some new thought food to your mental garden:
- "Big IT" continues its vanishing act. In 2010, we wrote about the crumbling of IT in our report "BT 2020: IT's Future In The Empowered Era," and I drew some sharp criticism earlier in the 2011 when I blogged "What Happens When Central 'IT' No Longer Exists?" It would be interesting to see if anybody has changed their mind over the year. With so many choices for acquiring technology, this vanishing act should come as no surprise. Consider: Many SMBs I talk to are adopting a cloud-first policy and eschewing investment in big enterprise systems, while larger enterprises look around them and scratch their heads trying to figure out how they can do the same. I predicted in "The Top 10 Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014" that leading IT shops will become service brokers, and 2012 will see that become reality.
- Data hype turns to focus. More than half of the trends in "The Top 10 Business Technology Trends EA Should Watch: 2012 To 2014" were directly or indirectly about data. Why? We all know it is "exploding." What's new is that we can finally do something about it. Our answer through 2010 was to deal with the data explosion by "managing it better." Big data, massive parallel processing, advanced analytics, eventually consistent NoSQL databases, etc. are arriving that recognize that the chaos will never be managed. Leading firms in 2012 will let go and learn to live in the chaos, focusing on what they can control. The data hype will continue, but enterprise deployments of big data systems will lead to focused results for the front-runners.
- Social and mobile converge on local. SoLoMo is a new, catchy buzzword that I've been tweeting about lately, and it has been blogged about on both NY Times and Forbes. The term indicates that the future of mobile computing is to connect users socially in a local context – that is, without needing to go through some big social software in a data center somewhere. I read about a great example just yesterday in which a college professor designed an iPad app that let his students collaborate visually on his lecture notes there in the classroom. The applications of this concept outside the classroom are limitless. We call this the App Internet (see our founder's August 2010 blog post). In 2012, leading companies will really figure out how to exploit this to: 1) disrupt how products and services are sold, and 2) empower their workforce to meet consumers where they are.
- Cloud migration begins in earnest. Last, I had to say something about the cloud, because it was THE HOT TOPIC of our July emerging technology tweet Jam. I think cloud hype reached a crescendo in 2011 and will significantly subside in 2012 as reality sets in and enterprises get down to the hard work of making it real. I say this because in the many reports, blogs, articles, and tweets I've read, a few themes stick – it's not always cheaper, you have to know when it's appropriate, and your environment must be ready for it (that's a really squishy way of saying application architectures must be elastic, security issues must be resolved, policies must be in place, skills must be present, etc.). My prediction for 2012 is that we will see far less media hype about cloud as some real solutions hit the market and clients get their cloud plans off the ground. What does this have to do with my theme? Cloud is a platform that further's the proliferation of technology into business and our lives.
Brian, I was disturbed by the
Comment from Stuart Boardman (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 13:36
Brian, I was disturbed by the headline. If technology defines who we are then "we" are not anything - as individuals. The headline was not really reflected in the content. I'm glad of that but I wouldn't mind some clarification on what your actually intent was with the headline.
Hmmm...agree and disagree
Comment from Brian Hopkins on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 13:47
I agree that "define who we are" is not correct. I've changed it to "shape" based on your feedback...thanks for pointing that out.
To larger point, however, please watch Amber Case's video on our becoming cyborgs (and not the terminator kind). The underlying "megatheme" in all my predictions is the penetration of technology into everything we do as 1) people, and 2) businesses, and the impact its having on who we are. Guess I didn't make that as obvious as it probably should have been, but if you ponder about each point it becomes clear.
To your broader point "If technology defines who we are then "we" are not anything - as individuals" - here's why I disagree. Today, I'm hyperconnected - I give and receive information from hundreds of people that I don't really even know, even though they are virtual colleagues and part of my life (such as you.) This shapes how I think about things and makes me a very different person than I was and would be if I didn't do this. The flow of information and the bread of social connections brought about by technology make me a different person (and I hope better, because I understand more of the world). You can apply this same logic to businesses, even though the results are not as dramatic...yet.
The essence of my blog is that business of the future, because technology continues to become part of all businesses DNA, will be fundamentally different than they were in the past. And because it represents a change in the DNA, it will be a transformative, disruptive evolution vice an incremental one.
Comment from Stuart Boardman (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 14:27
Thanks Brian. I agree that "shapes" is much better. I certainly won't deny that technology and specifically social technology has an affect on the total me. To the extent that one is a person capable of learning and, more importantly adapting, technology is a more significant element in that than it was even 10 years ago. I think we're in agreement about that.
Beyond that, I wonder if we don't need some discussion around the concept of identity. That might rather distract from the fundamental point of your blog, so I'm going to think about it for a while before going any further.
Fair enough
Comment from Brian Hopkins on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 15:51
IMO, identity is the right word, because it really does shape how I perceive the world, which makes me who I am, which is my identity. Cheers.
Identity and persona
Comment from Tom Graves on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 14:20
Would agree with both of you that 'shape' is a better term for this: technology is _a_ force, but not the only one.
Have been having a long offline conversation today with Stuart on this. You'd have to bring Stuart more into the conversation, but the key point was a distinction between 'identity' versus 'persona'.
Identity is unitary: I recognise you as 'You', regardless of what form or persona you may wear at this time. I can recognise you as 'You' even after twenty years' absence or so, despite aging and the rest. This isn't just a human matter: a dog would likewise recognise you as 'You' by all manner of subtle cues, though obviously over a somewhat shorter timeframe (given the lifespan of a dog).
Sure, someone could simulate that identity, in what's popularly called 'identity theft' - but it doesn't take over the identity _itself_, it just provides a simulation for the purpose of deception.
The same is true of organisations: they have legal identities, and are recognisable as such. That's part of what causes so much trauma in company takeovers and mergers: the identity is lost, and has to be recreated in some form.
We then have an infinity of personas that are _overlays_ on top of that identity - literally a Mask "through which we sound" ('per-sona'). An 'identifier' is actually associated with a persona - _not_ with the identity itself.
The next catch is that a persona is not necessarily passive: it can _actively_ filter the identity as it acts through the persona. This is part of the role of a uniform, for example, or engagement in an organisational culture: it changes the person's behaviour. There's a lot of study on this in the improvisational-theatre field which we could usefully learn from here: for example, see Keith Johnstone's classic book "Impro".
I'll admit that there's probably a long, long conversation that's needed here before some of this will make sense - but it _is_ all there. As again the improv disciplines make clear, we need to be very careful what Masks (personas) we take on, and how they're used - and in an organisational context, that's definitely a concern for enterprise-architecture.
Framing digital identity
Comment from Stephen Wilson (not verified) on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 19:22
I like Tom Graves' careful analysis, especially the point that role shapes our behaviour. I certainly feel like a different person when I am at the bank depositing a $50,000 cheque for my company, than when I am cashing a $1,000 cheque for me.
I advocate going a little further though. My view is that I am exercising truly different identities and not just different roles or personae. It's a semantic point, and of course I acknowledge that at the core of the matter there is a singular biological person. I just don't think it's useful to force the singular person to the surface all the time.
The engineer's orthodox Identity Management frame is to specify one singular identity (an act they call "authentication") and to associate one or more secondary roles ("authorizations"). There's nothing inherently wrong with that except that it has unintended adverse consequences for privacy and security. A logically equivalent but kinder framing is to specify a *Digital* Identity in place of each (natural) identity-role pair. Each Digital Identity is a proxy for a relationship in a specific context; hence each of us exercises multiple Digital Identities. This is consistent with the much admired Laws of Identity which hold that a Digital Identity is a set of assertions.
There are many avoidable downsides in the orthodox separation of authentication and authorization. See http://lockstep.com.au/blog/2011/01/22/forget-authentication.html. It tends to be expensive, for it encourages people to seek a multi-purpose, context-independent 'core' identity to which all manner of secondary roles can attach. In banking, things are different. After we establish a number of accounts, each stands alone. My separate identities as a business banking customer and as a retail customer are manifest in distinct plastic key cards, even if both accounts originate at the same branch! The total cost of operating as though retail customer Steve Wilson is a different person from Stephen Wilson, Lockstep Company Officer, is lower (and total cost includes the legal apparatus of corporation law that leads to business banking rules; see http://lockstep.com.au/blog/2011/02/02/tco-multiple-ids.html).
It's better for privacy too that we operate distinct Digital Identities.
I think what's happened with Internet engineering is that sound computer network security practices of the 1970s, where a singular authentication underpins multiple roles in an access control list, have carried across by default to the way that e-business systems treat users. Big PKI sought to provide us with a single digital passport and bunches of Attribute Certificates, and it failed because it's just so costly and complex to re-jig diverse transaction contexts to a small number of central authorities. And look at the "intuitive" idea of Single Sign On. It has its roots in computer science, but is actually quite novel in real life. For instance, there is no call to rekey all the locks on my car, my office door, my filing cabinet and so on to match my house key. That would be crazy. In general, "Federated Identity" comes from an engineer's frame and intuitions, and is actually a poor fit for real world business processes and liability arrangements, which are geared towards distinct and often sovereign relationships.
So the singular-identity-plus-personae frame is true, but an equally true and more serviceable perspective is that we each exercise a set of separable Digital Identities.
Framing not-so-digital identity
Comment from Tom Graves on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 03:58
Stephen - my instant response to this was "Ooohh, _nice_!" - you've really made my day with this. :-)
I'll say straight off that you have a far better understanding than I do of Digital Identity and the practical issues that arise from that: I've a lot to learn from you there. Yet I wonder whether there's a risk here that we've jumped in too far into the (necessary) pragmatics of 'solution-space before we have enough of a grasp of what identity _is_ in the first place - the kind of deep-identity that Brian implies when talking about "identity shaped by technology" etc.
As I read it, what you seem to be describing is 'identifiers for identity', the tokens that we pass around to confirm that we are who we claim to be and - to use the US paradigm - that we have the 'rights' to access the respective resources and so on. For example, I definitely take your point about the metaphor or intent of Single Sign-On being carried too far into impracticability.
What I'd like to do is take step or two back from that, and really explore identity _itself_, and how personae and identifiers interact with that. There's somewhat of a risk that some of this could be interpreted as 'semantic quibble', but that's definitely not the intent: what I'm after is that we use a particular type of precision to help us dig deeper. The exact words we use here don't matter that much: it's precision about the underlying concepts that I'm really after.
If I may, I'd like to deconstruct this quote from above:
"My view is that I am exercising truly different identities and not just different roles or personae. It's a semantic point, and of course I acknowledge that at the core of the matter there is a singular biological person. I just don't think it's useful to force the singular person to the surface all the time."
So: each sentence:
-- "My view is that I am exercising truly different identities and not just different roles or personae."
What do _you_ mean by 'identity', by "truly different identities"? If there's a sense that you have a 'truly different identity' when cashing each of those two different checks, what is it that links those identities together. What is the 'I' that exercises those different identities? How would someone else recognise that continuing 'I' (or in their terms, 'you'), despite those "truly different identities"?
How does this 'I' express itself and interact with the different roles and personae that it takes on and drops over time? What changes in each? What remains the same? And if something remains the same, what is that 'I'?
What _is_ a persona? How do we interact with it? How do we retain the 'I' when using a persona as a literal 'per-sona', "that through which I sound"? In what ways does the persona filter our identity, impose its _own_ imperatives on what we think of as 'I'? With a powerful persona - a strong company-culture, for example - how do we avoid being swamped by that persona, such that we would literally lose our own voice?
What _is_ a role? How does persona differ from role? How does a role itself also become a kind of 'per-sona', a 'that through which I sound'?
What is the 'I' that squirms with embarrassment when it realises it's used the 'wrong' persona in a given context - when meeting up with work-colleagues when on family-vacation, for example, or accidentally posting last-night's club-dancing pictures on the company Facebook page?
What personae do others impose on 'I', assume apply to 'I', use to filter their understanding of our 'I'?
-- "I acknowledge that at the core of the matter there is a singular biological person."
Is there? The identity of that 'single biological person' will often extend beyond death - in some cases for millennia, in the case of Plato or Lao Tsu, for example. The identity can extend before birth, both as an unborn child - plenty of law etc about that... - and even beyond, as the focus of hopes and desires of the parent. The identity may apply to any animal - for example, your dog's own awareness of itself _as_ itself, and also the identity you assign to it. The identity may apply to a collective: one of the key points of an enterprise - and hence often the organisation that enacts it - is that it retains a collective sense of identity that may continue beyond the effective working-lifetime of any of its individual members, and is in some senses an emergent property that is in part independent of its members. The same applies to 'things', to places, to cultures, to languages, even to periods of time: and although for the most part we assign those identities, there's also a real sense that "there is an interaction between people and place, yet the place itself has choices too.
Then we have another whole layer of complexity around deep-changes in identity in relation to biological person. If we were to extend the Single Sign-On concept to everything, what happens for someone who needs to change their identity in a witness-protection scheme? For someone who's trying to escape domestic abuse, or an obsessive/possessive stalker? Or for anyone else who, for any legitimate reason (or even non-legitimate reason) needs to 'cover their tracks', to disconnect their past identity from the present biological self?
Look at the impact on identity when people change their name - which happens a lot, even as a 'rite of passage' for many women in Western cultures. Look at the whole concept and impact of _naming_, of cultural traditions such as 'christening'; look at spiritual traditions where a completely new name is assigned at a point of transition.
And explore those cases where there's a fragmentation of the link between deep-identity and the 'singular biological person' - as in multiple-personality syndromes, for example, or dementia (literally, the loss of mind') in some types of ageing.
So to get a deep handle on identity, we need to acknowledge and explore all of these complications and complexities - and then, _somehow_, bring it back to enough simplicity to be able to create workable concepts such as Digital Identity. If we don't do that deep-exploration, we end up with something that doesn't actually work - as we can see all around us...
-- "I just don't think it's useful to force the singular person to the surface all the time."
In my experience it's more like the other way round: the hard part is being able to find 'the singular person' at all. :-)
Layer upon layer of intersecting-sets of personae, in that sense of 'that through which I sound', many if not most of them barely visible within conscious awareness - and without awareness of how those personae act upon us, there's a high risk that it will in effect dictate our choices, leaving us thinking that those _are_ our choices.
So what _are_ these personae? How _do_ they influence 'how we sound'? To come back to Brian's theme, how does technology, and our interaction with technology _as_ personae, shape our sense of identity?
That's the kind of theme I'm looking at here. Concerns about Digital Identity tend to come a bit later down the track. :-)
Hope that makes some degree of sense, anyway? Or would you just assign me the identity (or persona?) of 'crazy'? :-)
Identity is a deep well
Comment from Stephen Wilson (not verified) on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 05:40
Great stuff Tom.
I'm feel intellectually conflicted in this. On the one hand, I too like the philosophy and humanity of identity, very much. On the other hand, I urge Internet engineers to seek simplifying assumptions and to side-step the deep questions. Only because I think the pressing problems in online identity management can be solved without re-examining the social side. It's not that the social side isn't interesting or even relevant, it's just that the great majority of identity management online is actually a tech problem, and engineers aren't ideally qualified to treat the social-scientific ground. And so some of the results of engineers reviewing identity have frankly been unhelpful. For practical purposes, identity is "how I am known in a circle". We can design systems and business processes around that practical perspective.
But back to the philosophy, some insights might come from what I think of as the School Reunion Effect. Most of us know how unnerving it is to hook up after decades with people we knew well as teenagers, only to find everyone has "moved on", and that trying to relate to these people as we all are now is seriously messed up. I always experience a distinct split personality. What's really going on there I wonder?
Stephen - very much
Comment from Tom Graves on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 07:27
Stephen - very much understand/agree with the point about "the pressing problems in online identity management". Yet a little more detail:
"On the other hand, I urge Internet engineers to seek simplifying assumptions and to side-step the deep questions. ... It's not that the social side isn't interesting or even relevant, it's just that the great majority of identity management online is actually a tech problem, and engineers aren't ideally qualified to treat the social-scientific ground."
I'd agree that this isn't a topic that would engage most engineers: getting the job done is hard enough without getting tangled in 'social-scientific' stuff! :-) Yet as architects (wearing our 'architect' persona?) we _do_ need to be aware of and engaged in these issues, otherwise the simplifications that we pass on the the engineers risk missing the point.
Again, wearing your 'architect-hat' rather than your 'engineer-hat', re-read this and see what it implies:
"For practical purposes, identity is "how I am known in a circle". We can design systems and business processes around that practical perspective."
What you've just done there is used 'identity' as a synonym for 'persona': "how I am known in a circle" is about how I'm seen, how I present myself, 'the Mask through which I sound' - not who I _am_. You've also blurred identity _and_ persona with 'identifier' - that which is used to identify my persona (in this case) as a surface identifier for 'who I am'. If you let that kind of imprecision through to engineering, you've left yourself wide-open to 'identity-theft' in quite a wide variety of senses - along with real risks of 'identity-confusion' amongst the system's users and participants.
I know I'm being pedantic here, yet can you see the confusion that this kind of imprecision is going to cause? - especially when you take that blurriness into the engineering-realm where things _must_ be unambiguous and certain? The kind of precision I'm taking about here, about precision in the 'social-scientific' space as well as the technical space, really does matter.
"[S]ome insights might come from what I think of as the School Reunion Effect. Most of us know how unnerving it is to hook up after decades with people we knew well as teenagers, only to find everyone has "moved on", and that trying to relate to these people as we all are now is seriously messed up. I always experience a distinct split personality. What's really going on there I wonder?"
Yes, exactly - it's what I sometimes term a 'mythquake' (see http://weblog.tetradian.com/tag/mythquake/ ).
Two further points:
-- notice what happens when the same kind of mythquake occurs in the digital realms, such as when distinct avatars or Digital Identities turn up in a different context? (example: Google ID and a separate Twitter ID both used for commenting on this website)
-- notice how you are still able to recognise each person at that School Reunion, despite the, uh, damage of the passing years? (the timid nerd now a hyperconfident salesman, the college-beauty now looking like someone's stuck an air-hose into her...) - the _identity_ is still there, despite the layer upon layer of surface changes and surface/subsurface Masks
Your last sentence again:
" I always experience a distinct split personality. What's really going on there I wonder?"
Again, yes, exactly: so perhaps wonder a bit more? :-) - given how much you already do know and understand about identity, I think you'll it really _is_ worth the deep-dive. If a little disorienting at times, of course...? :-)
Comment from Stephen Wilson (not verified) on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 14:33
Tom, you need not accuse me of using 'identity' as a synonym for 'persona'. I said at the outset that these terms are practically the same, but it is more useful to adopt the frame that we each have a number of separate personae/identities, or whatever we chose to call them. You are perturbed by my focus on "how I am known in a circle" because it doesn't touch "who I _am_". This is deliberate (you might call it Information Hiding!). It is rare that any service provider needs to know who I "really" am. A great deal of cost and complexity and harm to both security and privacy is done when identity management frameworks bring users' "true" identities to the front. We should remember at every turn that privacy is improved when designers and service providers purposefully limit what they know about users.
In engineering we need simplifying assumptions, not complicating generalisations and earnest re-examination of social patterns; see http://lockstep.com.au/blog/2011/02/16/simplifying-assumptions.html. I don't see simplification as "imprecision" and I don't see where it leaves us "wide-open to 'identity-theft' in quite a wide variety of senses". Most identity theft is a technologically straightforward problem relating to the easy replayability of plaintext alphanumeric personal data (we probably agree that the more accurate term would be "identifier theft"). The solution is simple (digital signing and personal hardware key media). I put it to you that greater dangers of identity fraud lie in complexity (the enemy of security). In particular, I fear that complex federated identity arrangements based on the radically re-architecting the way "identity" is "provided" and "consumed" will lead to new forms of fraud and privacy invasion (if only because we'll see a bunch of new identity players churning about and cutting corners in an artificial ICT and services marketplace).
Again, I love the philosphy as much as the next guy, and I have no essential objection to any of your points. But it's a conversation that should sit apart from practical identity management. When engineers venture into identity philosophy, it doesn't often help. Frankly, despite all the intellectual goodness of the Laws of Identity, they haven't effected much useful change on the identity management scene. Microsoft themselves have even dropped Cardspace which was almost the reference implementation of the Laws. If there's some fresh academic work that needs to be done, I reckon it's around the mystery of why Cardspace failed, along with a number of intuitively very worthwhile ventures. It would be good to get a better handle on the inherent difficulty of identity federation before programs like NSTIC venture too much further. My main contribution to that question is a new ecological theory of digital identity, at http://lockstep.com.au/library/identity_authentication/an-ecological-the...
Oops... sorry...
Comment from Tom Graves on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:12
Oops... "accuse", "perturbed" - that wasn't what I meant at all... many apologies if you feel that... :-(
"A great deal of cost and complexity and harm to both security and privacy is done when identity management frameworks bring users' "true" identities to the front."
That's a really good point.
"Most identity theft is a technologically straightforward problem ... The solution is simple ... I fear that complex federated identity arrangements ..."
That's detail that's way outside of my technical competence, so I'll be careful (I hope respectful?) to not comment on that.
"When engineers venture into identity philosophy, it doesn't often help."
Exactly - that's why I said that the 'philosophy' discussion needs to be distinct and separate from the engineering discussion: that separation was what I described as 'simplification'.
(I wouldn't describe it as a 'philisophy', discussion, by the way: it's actually intensely practical, but somewhat sideways from engineering, more in the user-experience [UX] space.)
"Frankly, despite all the intellectual goodness of the Laws of Identity, they haven't effected much useful change on the identity management scene."
I will admit my ignorance on this: what are/is the 'Laws of Identity'? (For that matter, what is Cardspace?) Reference/link, please? I kind of presume it's specific to the IT-oriented identity-management space? - which I'll again admit I barely know at all, because it's kind of sideways to my area of 'big-picture'-oriented enterprise-architecture, much more on the people-side than the tech side.
Different lens, different view - tends to create 'lost in translation' if we're not careful, and looks like I haven't been careful enough. Again, my apologies if I've been too much 'flatfoot' on this?
Cardspace and The laws
Comment from Stephen Wilson (not verified) on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 15:48
The "Laws of Identity" were developed by Microsoft's chief identity architect Kim Cameron. He worked and blogged diligently over a long period of time, to come up with seven statements that set the scene for most federated identity work in the past 5-10 years. See www.identityblog.com.
The Laws spawned the idea of an "Identity Metasystem" and Microsoft then implemented an identity management layer called "Cardspace". It comprised an "Information Card" selector (I think a beautiful UX), plus a lot of Web Services libraries and the like which interfaced users' client machines through to IdPs and RPs. Microsoft gifted the Cardspace code to the open source community, and several parallel initiatives like Higgins arose, some generalising from "Info Cards" to "Relationship Cards".
All good stuff but in practice it came to little. So little that Microsoft dropped support for Cardspace last year.
In my view, the Laws of Identity are very interesting and useful, but they're too complicated, they're not Laws, and because they're not really about "Identity" in the sense that you Tom and many others use the term, they are confusing. A more accurare but less catchy title would have been "Theorems for Digital Relationship Management"!
Cardspace was Microsoft's flagship identity offering. It still beats the hell out of me that the IdM industry isn't more shocked it flopped. Remember the old joke about the cub reporter sent to cover a celebrity wedding who comes back to the paper office early? The editor asks what's up? and the cub says "well there's no story coz the bride didn't turn up". Well what we have here is analysts covering identity management seeming to lose interest coz Microsoft dropped the premier product.
Thanks for that, on 'Laws of
Comment from Tom Graves on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:14
Thanks for that, on 'Laws of Identity' - that helps a lot, because I don't know that stuff, and I probably should. (Also like the joke about the cub-reporter... :-) )
Though yeah, we do seem to be talking somewhat at cross-purposes, though - or rather, from very different perspectives. You seem to be focussed specifically on digital-identity, which is one part of Brian's themes; I'm looking more at how technology (and other concerns) impact on identity in a much broader sense, around Brian's headline theme of being 'shaped' by technology. They're not the same, hence apologies if I've confused things a bit too much.
Great conversation, though. :-)
Identity and Persona (and other things)
Comment from Stuart Boardman (not verified) on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 16:21
Stephen (and anyone else who's interested). Having started this discussion, I suppose I should get involved again. Not too much time right now, so may I suggest you take a look at the Jericho Forum Identity Commandments http://www.opengroup.org/jericho/Jericho%20Forum%20Identity%20Commandmen...
It's not a bible, just a very well thought out exposition and in my view directly relevant to practical identity, entitlement and access management.
More later. Promise.
Could you provide a little
Comment from Vasu G (not verified) on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 11:19
Could you provide a little more details on the iPad app that you read about?
Comment from Brian Hopkins on Mon, 01/16/2012 - 19:00
You mean this one "Professor's Classroom iPad App Debuts at Consumer Electronics Show" - http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-classroom-ipad-app-deb... ?
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NY Times again ignored Republican efforts to make illegal immigrants felons
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A New York Times article repeatedly referred to conservative Republicans' support for "stronger border enforcement," but the article failed to note that the legislation backed by many conservatives and passed by the House would designate illegal immigrants as felons.
In an April 24 article on the split among congressional Republicans over immigration reform, New York Times reporters Carl Hulse and Sheryl Gay Stolberg repeatedly referred to conservative Republicans' support for "stronger border enforcement" but omitted the specific proposals they have put forward. In particular, the article failed to note that the legislation backed by many conservatives and passed by the House would designate illegal immigrants as felons. Media Matters for America previously noted an April 5 Times article on the immigration debate that similarly ignored the stringent House bill.
The House passed the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act on December 16, 2005. The bill, sponsored by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI) and supported by 203 House Republicans, would impose criminal penalties for those aiding illegal immigrants, call for construction of a 700-mile-long fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and, most controversially, make unlawful presence in the U.S. a felony.
The felony provision included in the GOP-sponsored House bill provoked widespread opposition from pro-immigrant groups, who in March and April held substantial protests nationwide as the Senate prepared to take up the issue. In turn, the Senate produced two plans, neither of which faced a final vote prior to the Easter recess. One proposal, approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 27, would boost the number of border patrol agents, deploy new technologies to monitor the border and provide a path to citizenship for most of the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States. A subsequent compromise proposal would likewise strengthen U.S. efforts to secure the border, but would offer the possibility of citizenship only to those illegal immigrants who have been in the country for more than two years.
Hulse and Stolberg's article, headlined "Senators to Reignite Debate on Immigration," repeatedly cited the intra-party tensions over immigration reform as a major hurdle for Republican senators as they seek to pass a reform measure in the coming weeks and then to merge it with the more punitive House bill. Their article referred to "the sharp differences among Republicans on the volatile issue" and the recent calls for "House and Senate Republicans to reconcile differences before the Senate passes a bill." It included an explanation of President Bush's favored approach ("a guest worker program"), as well as that of many Democrats and moderate Republicans ("mixing stiffer border controls with potential citizenship for some illegal immigrants").
But rather than inform readers of conservative Republicans' support for criminal penalties, Hulse and Stolberg described them as merely in favor of "stronger border enforcement." They even quoted Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), a vocal supporter of criminal penalties, saying that the differences between the House and Senate approaches "are so great, I do not know how you connect those dots," only to describe his position as simply favoring "more border enforcement."
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Kelli and Derek were married at Cava Event's Rancho Rubalcava in San Jose, California on May 18. This 12-acre venue has amazing views of Silicon Valley. How's the for a dramatic backdrop? The offbeat couple opted for a carnival-theme with lots of whimsical do-it-yourself details. The bride walked down the aisle wearing a strapless beaded lace wedding gown with pleated tulle tiers and a pair of "something blue" peep-toe pumps (only to change into sneakers shortly after), accessorized with her hair down in loose curls and a luscious bouquet of peonies. Inside the reception, umbrellas hung from the ceiling while guests enjoyed comfort foods like baby back ribs, bbq chicken, potato salad, and garlic bread. Yum! And let's not forget about the popcorn and cotton candy too.
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How about sending me my parts? I payed you 2 wks ago and nothing to show for it. Maybe your conscience is trying to tell you somthing, that could explain your situation! Or your genuinely a bag of skin.
Its up to you bro, i got bigger fish to fry, I know how it is to wait for parts, but it happens to all of us, just be patient, i'm really not a bag of skin.
You are not being scammed, it's just hard to ship stuff, when you can't even drive to the post office.
Sorry folks,
Thank you Jettred for coming through.
Nub, would you be interested in making a custom iter-man. for an ABAt for a vanagon syncro?
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on obd1 you just leave the IAC plugged in, cap it, and adjust the idle screw on the tb.
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the curtains in the garage made me do a double take and i thought it was inside the house, like in your room. HAHAHA
I love the headlight intake, but what is the right behind the light that is carbon wrapped? is that just a chamber for the air or is that where the filter is located?
Wish I could afford a name brand one.
The Forge Twintake uses the same style, I may contact Forge.
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Composing With The Nature Of Sound
Gerard Grisey, one of the godfathers of the spectral school, had an almost tactile relationship to sound, saying "I start more with the physical aspect of things, the physical aspect of sound, the quality of spectrums" before composing. This week on Hammered! we try to understand what the heck that actually means with a deep dive into the music of the spectral school.
It seems like commentators are always getting into trouble with spectral composers for attempting to define their compositional approach. So to explain, here's one of the major proponents of spectral music, the extraordinary and fastidious, Tristan Murail:
There are techniques which are shared by a number of composers. These techniques form an attempt to rebuild a coherent sound world, which was destroyed due to many many destructive [aesthetic] experiences. The challenge was to create a new harmonic system which would be coherent. We came up with and developed fully the idea to use sound itself as a model for musical structure. This is what we could call spectral techniques - the way that we use sounds as models.
Murail and the spectralists aimed to create a new musical language based on the properties of sound itself. With the help of spectrographic analysis and ingenious aesthetic intuitions, they explored the rich gradient of sound based on the timbral nuances of the overtones series, devised novel structural schemes, and, for the school's most vehement supporters, reframed the way we perceive and process sound.
Whatever your take, the music from the spectral school is unlike anything being written and often feels like you're caught in some alternative, unearthly sonic universe.
Tune in this week for a complete survey of Murail's piano music, played by the incomparable Marilyn Nonken (including the epic Territoires de l'oubli on Monday, which is performed entirely with the sustain pedal down to induce sympathetic overtone vibrations), along with other giants of the spectral school like Grisey, Claude Vivier, Kaija Saariaho, Julian Anderson, Giacinto Scelsi and more. We'll even delve into "proto-spectralists" Olivier Messiaen, Claude Debussy and Bela Bartok.


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About a dozen pilot whales are now imprisoned in the killing cove at Taiji, Japan. The hammer boats drove them into the cove in two groups this morning. We watched the boats perform their macabre dance out in the ocean. Quickly and efficiently they moved across the water. It would have been poetic had it not been for the terrified whales dashing before them.
It was a surreal scene at the cove today. This is Monday of a holiday weekend and there were many travelers passing through. There were even families here with children playing in the water and seemingly unaware that just 100 meters away whales were held behind nets in the killing cove. Other travelers were aware that the whales were there and lots of photographs were taken today by a couple dozen cameras. Groups of fishermen were also there to keep watch over their "catch." The police warned us that we would be arrested if we broke any Japanese law. I said we were not here to break laws, but to witness laws being broken.
While we were keeping our vigil, I started showing the movie The Cove on my laptop. Several Japanese travelers stopped and watched the scene of the dolphin slaughter. One woman turned away in tears. Other Japanese told us that few people in Japan know what is happening here and that everyone is told that Sea Shepherds are criminals. Dwight asked a woman if she thought that of us after meeting us. She admitted that she did not. We also pointed out that if Sea Shepherd were illegal, we would be arrested. She noted that the police were there and no one was under arrest.
Some of the Japanese who have spoken with us over the past week have offered, "It is their (or our) culture," referring to the killing of whales and dolphins here in Taiji, and it is something that must be respected and certainly not criticized by outsiders. What I see though, does not support this assertion. If something is of cultural significance, it is something in which the participants take pride. There is no pride here or their killing would be in plain view for their families and the world to see. At least the Faeroese are honest about their slaughter. Instead though, the butchers in Taiji hide in a cove and have blocked paths in a national public park. The police back up this policy of seclusion by threatening to arrest any who venture past the barricades. No, this is not cultural. It is just something that they have been doing for a long time and they do it for economic gain. For the participants to call this cultural is a lie. For the members of the Japanese public to call this cultural is a handy excuse to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to the crime. It is a sham as are the claims of research by the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) regarding commercial whaling enterprises in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. I dare the killers to bring their deeds out into the public domain and I challenge the Japanese public to take a real hard look at what is happening here. Do not take my word for it or dismiss my evidence. Come see for yourself. Look deeply into what is happening here and the motives that drive it.
The whales are now trapped, awaiting their fate. We do not know what will happen next. We suspect these whales will be slaughtered at dawn and we will be here no matter what happens.
Our fellow Cove Guardians the Millers have to leave us in two days. Who can come now to help?
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Well it's finally come to an end..Here's the first look at the new Arena Jet Pack Kit. The photos show a fully assembled kit but it actually comes in many sections. Separate nose cones, thrusters etc. Even the triangular wafer details come unattached. (This will really pay off when you begin applying your rub-n-buff top coat) It's the same scale as the classic Boba Fett JP kit but I did flare out the profile a bit more on this version. Re-did all the lines and shaved down more of an angle on the bottom vent section. Construction is the same as the classic Boba Fett kits. Hollow cast, triple layered resin with a forth layer of fiberglass resin for added strength. Weighs in around 3kg. The photos are pretty low light but I do have plans to do a painted version with chromakey backgrounds. This Jet Pack kit will cost the same at the classic version $350.00 shipped in the US and $375.00 for international orders. I'm now accepting pre-paid orders for this kit. Once I fill the list I'll probably take a week off to re-fuel my engines before beginning work so please be patient with me. Please feel free to pm me for details and yes those gauntlets are coming as well.. Best, Christian


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My car is a sedan.
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My 01 SE story
My 01 Se started out as a stock single overhead cam sedan. I was in need of a cheep car to daily drive. I was driving by a car lot and saw this little silver car that had 1200 on the windshield and I turned around and pulled in. The car looked like it was in great shape from the road and I though that's only 1200 bucks! When I got up on it I noticed that the driver fender was smashed and the driver headlight was broke. The salesman, who I knew from purchasing 3 other vehicles from this lot came over. He said the guy hit a deer. Other than that it was in great shape. No rust. I took it for a drive and it ran and drove perfect. I came back and made an offer of 800 and he said no. I then said 900 and im leaving. He said ok. I then said I needed to take it to a garage first and left with the car to a garage that could check it out. They lifted the car and it was in great shape and aside from the fender and headlight, there was nothing wrong. I called my wife and said we just bought a 01 Ford Focus. After getting the car I went to the junk yard and found a silver focus with a perfect fender and headlight. They cost me 125 bucks and a couple hours to put on. The paint was a perfect match. Now the car looked good again. The car had 157,000 miles on it but it ran great for 4 months. Then like all SOHC the valve seat dropped one day. The car sat for 6 months in my drive way while I did my research. That is how I found FF.
After the research I decided to do the SOHC to DOHC conversion and that is how it all began. I have posted a complete write up on FF to do the conversion from everything you need to what to watch out for. You can also see the progression of my car from stock to what it is today in a thread titled My 01 Se Body Kit.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas sandhill crane hunters are being advised to visit one of 30 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement (game warden) offices spread across the state to obtain a free permit, or obtain a permit online or by phone, since private hunting license retailers no longer provide the permit this year.
A federal sandhill crane hunting permit is required to hunt sandhill cranes, and failure to have the permit can result in a citation and fine. The permit is available at no cost. It is important, since it helps wildlife managers estimate hunting pressure and decide how to set sandhill crane hunting seasons and bag limits.
For the 2009-2010 season, private license retailers no longer provide sandhill crane permits. This is because it became obvious to game bird program managers at the state and federal levels over the last several years that many retailers were indiscriminately providing the permits to many hunters, regardless of whether they hunt sandhills, thus rendering permit data useless for wildlife management purposes.
"Last year, close to 125,000 sandhill crane permits were issued in Texas, and before we went to the electronic license sales system in the 1990s we use to issue about 12,000 paper sandhill permits per year," said Vernon Bevill, TPWD small game and habitat assessment program director. "It is highly unlikely the number of crane hunters has increased that much."
"We try to keep tight estimates on crane populations and harvest and this requires a good estimate of hunter numbers," Beville explained. "The U. S Fish and.Wildlife Service surveys sandhill crane hunters each year, and they asked Texas to tighten up its method is distributing crane permits so they can obtain more accurate harvest estimates."
This season, hunters can obtain the free sandhill crane permit at TPWD law enforcement offices located in Abilene, Amarillo, Austin (headquarters) Beaumont, Brownsville, Brownwood, College Station, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Fort Worth, Freeport, Garland, SHouston (two locations, north and south), Kerrville, LaMarque, Laredo, Lubbock, Lufkin, Midland, Mount Pleasant, Rockport, Rusk, San Angelo, San, Antonio, Temple, Tyler, Victoria, Waco, and Wichita Falls. See a complete list of offices with addresses and phone numbers on the department's Law Enforcement Offices Web page .
Hunters can also obtain sandhill crane permits online, and the permit is still free, but online transactions charge a $5 convenience fee covering shipping and handling. Hunters can bundle multiple license purchases into a single online transaction and still pay only one $5 fee.
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Apparently you will be able to play any character you want by building them up from scratch! Lets say i want to play that really cool character on the right beside Jabba The Hutt. I would have to train and work as a Bountyhunter for a very long time and after a while receive my Mandalorian armour. If i deserve it. It's played almost completly through the internet and will be availabel for PC, PS2 and Garbagecube.


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Guavas (scientifically known as Psidium guajava) are one of the most popular fruits in India. Owing to its popularity and medicinal properties, it is known as poor mans apple. Guava plants have been grown in a variety of places in India, irrespective of the climatic and soil conditions. This shows the plants adaptability to grow in different soils under different climates and this factor also has helped enhance its popularity among Indians.
The fruit is eaten raw, or by adding a pinch of pepper powder and salt and sometimes it is used in fruit salads. The fruit is also used in many an ayurvedic treatment , thanks to its high medicinal value. Apart from being a rich source of Vitamin C, guava fruits contain iodine and calcium in abundance. The leaves and bark of guava tree have antiseptic properties and they are used in traditional methods of dressing the wounds. You might have also observed those with tooth ache or gum boils using a decoction of guava leaves to gargle and this helps reduce the pain. The leaf extract is also found effective in curing diarrhea and nausea.
``The guava leaves and the fruit have high medicinal value. While the fruit helps alleviate high blood pressure and enhance the level of good cholesterol in the body, the application of its powdered leaves help reduce rheumatic pains, says Surendra Babu an Ayurvedic geek in Kochi.


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does anyone else have a problem streaming the videos on ravens.com such as game plan, one winning drive etc. i don't live in the baltimore area so i depend on these feeds for these shows.
the shows are always buffering and many times they screw up the sequence of the sections of the show. i use an ipad and my youtube stuff plays fine.
i'm thinking steve needs to hire some IT people and add a few servers.
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I pared down the recipe for these mouthwatering burgers after it was given to me by a dear friend. Cumin and cayenne pepper add to the turkey's wonderful taste. –Marianne Shira of Osceola, Wisconsin
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- 1/3 cup fat-free plain yogurt
- 1/3 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup chopped seeded peeled cucumber
- 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- Dash dried thyme
- 1/2 cup finely chopped sweet onion
- 1/2 cup finely chopped green pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1-1/2 pounds extra-lean ground turkey
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced cucumber
- 6 slices tomato
- 6 hamburger buns, split
- For cucumber sauce, in a small bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until serving.
- In a large bowl, combine the onion, green pepper, cumin, salt, pepper and cayenne. Crumble turkey over mixture and mix well. Shape into six patties.
- Using long-handled tongs, moisten a paper towel with cooking oil and lightly coat the grill rack. Grill, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the heat for 5-7 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer reads 165° and juices run clear.
- Place cucumber and tomato slices on buns; top each bun with a burger and about 2 tablespoons cucumber sauce. Yield: 6 servings.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by markie8002000, Jun 5, 2009.
Rasheed Wallace to Cleveland? - Full-Court Press
Well that article sorta debunks it. I already mentioned, fans need to understand it's not what they think a player is worth or what is fair. It is about who can pay them, and how much competition there is for that player. The market for free agents is very narrow this offseason. Some bigger names but only a handful of teams that can add them.
I hope Sheed realizes that Lebron won't be there for the 10/11 season. Of course, for an extra $10M the last season of his career he probably won't care.
Exactly. If this goes through though, it would be hilarious to watch Cavs practices. We all know how much Sheed loves Flopper Bob. Lord knows what he can do to him during scrimmages where there are no refs. It would be Varejao's most banged up season.
He'll probably spend his last season saving the NBA game by teaching that jackass proper methods of defense that don't involve falling down.
So you're saying that Varajao will be falling all over Sheed to learn defensive skills.
How likely do you think Rasheed is to allow that to happen at any juncture?
Wally Szczerbiak is a free agent and they're gonna need a 3-point shooter.
Good. Let him destroy their playoff run mid-stream. I can already see him and Brown ( coaches name? ) not getting along.
Actually, I think it would be a good fit seeing as LaBron will carry the team so Sheed will only be expected to chip in the occasional block, rebound, 3, etc.... He won't have to take the responsiblity of leading the team on his own which is something he's never been a fan of anyways. He can underachieve while having the occasional HUGE game (you know....16 pts, 9 boards).
DET & CLE are going to do a dual sign and trade. Wally Z is going to be the new SF here.
Rasheed is a better fit in Orlando. It doesn't look like they really have true PF. Plus sheed likes to pull those threes out.
Sheed would help them tremendously. That being said, i chose to believe this article is BS and continue to hold onto the notion that Sheed would never sign with that team.
I rather have him go to Orlando. If I have to see Lebron taking pictures with Sheed with Ben Wallace.....
^ He might as well have fun his last year there...
If Sheed goes to the Cavs, Ben will not retire.
It would seem like they are trying to build the old pistons team, Rock Financial and all. They need a new announcer and a new photographer.
If you read the article it talks about all the issues that would prevent this. Only way would be a sign/trade. I don't know if it would be possible for a Sheed/Verajio trade or even why the Cavs would do this. If we could maybe get Verajio and that Polish center ( whatever his name is ) then maybe it could work out. But the Cavs would be left with a very old front line.
...So were gonna swap Power Forwards with the Cavs huh. Wally will thrive at the 4-spot under Curry.
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A Wisconsin bus driver has been fired after telling a 12-year-old boy that he should have been aborted because his parents had a Mitt Romney campaign sign in their yard.
Durham School Services confirmed in a statement to Fox News that the 78-year-old driver "engaged in a political debate with students" and "made an inappropriate remark to a child."
After a brief investigation, the driver was subsequently fired, the statement read.
"The driver's remark was insensitive and inappropriate," the statement read. "Durham has apologized to the family."
The incident was first reported by the Freedom Eden website. The child's mother was a guest on Fox News Radio affiliate WISN where she told her side of the story.
She said the trouble started two weeks ago when they put a Romney sign in their front yard.
"The only reason your parents are Romney fans is because they're rich," she allegedly told the child.
The boy's mother – who was only identified as Debbie – told the radio station that several days ago some students in the back of the bus were chanting "Romney, Romney."
"She made my son come up to the front (of the bus) and told him all Republicans are liars," she said. "He didn't want to take it. He said Obama is pro-abortion. She said, 'Well, maybe your mom should have chosen abortion for you.'"
The mother said her son was crying and said he never wanted to get on the bus again.
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Who the he77 are you callin' a "good ole boy peckerwood" anyway?That can be seen as a very offensive term by some.Scott
I don't have black friends, gay friends, Mexican friends, south American friends, and so on. I have friends. I see them as friends. Not black people, gays, etc.
>>>>southern poor racist white folks.<<<<Now, that is as bad, or worse, then anything I have seen on this forum. Talk about the frying pan calling the kettle black.Sure looks different when you do it, tho, doesn't it? Or should this southern, "which always includes poor racist, even without typing it", peckerwood say don'jit? By the way, the word is peckerhead, not peckerwood. If you're going to curse, humiliate, and degrade all southerners, at least use the proper terms. :-P :-P :-P :lau: :lau:
Jerrymac, SC is a place we roped off to attract the run-a-way yankees, thinking they were going to the south. NC is where the real southerners live.
White, maybe. Christian, maybe. American? By birth, possibly. By heart, That's debatable.
that's so Republican/Conservative of you, and so predictable. If someone isn't exactly your brand of redneck, gun-toting, xenophobic, closed borders, "there's a raghead behind every bush waiting to shoot us and run up the debt on our children" racist then they can't possibly be a real American.You probably claim to be a Christian too. How very tolerant and "turn the other cheek" of you.Stop thinking like Sarah Palin and the Tea-laban.That leads us to that "Your either for us or agin us" BS we had from the village idiot we elected from Crawford.
That leads us to that "Your either for us or agin us" BS we had from the village idiot we elected from Crawford.
Iddee,When you tell an "Irish" bar joke, nobody really takes it to mean that all Irish are drunks. And the jokes are not aimed at Irish by those who do not like them. It's taken as a joke. Nothing more.
Anyway....I never seen so many jump at the use of a word. Hitting close to home I'm sure.
Quote from: beek4018 on February 01, 2011, 10:59:41 AMThat leads us to that "Your either for us or agin us" BS we had from the village idiot we elected from Crawford.How is "for us or against us" not true? You see someone beating the snot out of another person. You go help the victim and you are for him. If you help the attacker then you are against him.... the beaten. If you walk by and do nothing, that is also against the beaten one.


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I pretty much did as Liesje. My breeder gave me a list of all the things she did with my puppy before he even came my way. She did a lot of environmental exposures off her property but in areas not frequented by dogs.
Genetics still plays a VERY big part IMO because I have seen some dogs raised with all the exposures, very socialized etc. that are nervebags and other dogs who were shoved in a basement or raised in a crate who are mentally fine. (Saw a rescue at a SAR seminar who had been so raised in a crate and never socialized is legs had virtually no muscle, carpals down, etc...and it was amazing how much good nerve and temperament the dog had). Obviously not something ANYONE should do but a testament to good breeding.
Conditioning is definitely required and helpful. Some things are natural and genetic such as drive but that doesn't mean you can't do things to optimize and make your dog the best it can be. A dog born with weak nerves and low fight or defense drive can still be conditioned to not care about loud noises or bangs, etc. if it's been exposed to those things all its life.
Exposure is everything. The key is to provide enough exposure to well, expose the puppy to the new experience and learn to get over the fear or uncertainty by himself/herself but also to not overdo it and create a fear imprint.
Just remember this rule, end on a good note. I learned this from Cesar Millan. I don't worship the man but certain things when it comes to fears and conditioning he's very good at.
When I first got my puppy, I exposed her to all kinds of stuff. She was about 7.5 weeks old and I turned on my music loud with 15" subwoofer (not directly at her but just at the volume I listen at). I remember distinctly she was unsure but not afraid and was continually sniffing the subwoofer. After day 2, I tried playing jarring music like dubstep and heavy rock and roll and she didn't even seem to notice.
next, she was afraid of the loud vacuum cleaner. She would run to her cage or hide behind my legs. But being that we vacuum almost every day or every other day, she no longer fears it. It took her only a few times before she started to chase it around.
Next, I wanted to condition her to not fear a RC car so I can have her chase it. I wasn't sure because she was young and it was a gamble being that RC cars cost lots of money. I bought a small test car for about $50 and she was hesitant and would jump around and bark at the car. I started without moving the car or turning it on. You want to start SLOW. First have her smell it. Then touch it yourself and pat it and hit it, flip it over. Let her smell it again. Then forget about it. Leave it there. Now it went from a new weird object to something that just remains in the room. She will get used to it. Then what I did was I turned it on and slowly moved the car. She was scared at first but after a day she started chasing it and barking at it.
At 4 mo, I was able to sell that car and get a real RC car that costs $1000 that runs well on grass and even though it's bigger than her, she will chase it and its good exercise.
I think the most important thing is to introduce her properly. You never want to throw the dog into the deep end. Don't shock the dog. once the dog can smell and you can see it is okay with the PRESENCE of it (whatever it may be). Do it 3 times and move on to slowly animating the object. (if it's something that moves, such as my RC car). Make sure you praise but end on a positive note where he or she learns that nothing bad happened. Treats can't hurt. And stay calm yourself, present a calm relaxed energy and demonstrate to the dog that it isn't harmful or fearful by touching it yourself.
My puppy freaked out when she first met 2 big siberian huskies on the other side of the fence. I went in by myself and interacted with the dogs to demonstrate that it is okay. She faired better after that. So leading by example is very crucial.
How easy or fast the dog is conditioned depends on their temperament but I'd say for me it's one of the easier things to do. Conditioned her to a bike today, this large metal thing that moves around fast. She ran behind my legs at first, being that she had no idea what this thing that approached was. Then i made her smell it and patted the bicycle, gave her praise, sat on it, had her come close to me and smell it, etc. No problem. Took about 2 minutes.
I have another conditioning coming up and that's a stun gun. I ordered one on ebay not as a toy or a self defense tool (cause they're lousy at that) but for dog deterrents. They're extremely loud and shocking. the electrical sound is terrifying even to humans. i ordered it to carry around on walks so if a stray dog or an aggressive off leash dog comes towards my puppy, I switch it on and scare the dog off. Obviously this would be moot if my own puppy was scared of the noise cause then my puppy would freak out and try to run away AND associate this loud terrifying noise with the other dog. So conditioning her to this noise and sight by turning it on randomly (starting slowly from far away) will allow her to not mind it. thus only affecting the other dog in case a situation like that arises.
|When I have a new pup I try to take it somewhere new (or a new environment) *every day* for the first 2-4 weeks. For me it's easy because I work on a college campus. I can expose a puppy to just about everything - people, other dogs, all sorts of stairs, floor surfaces, bridges, elevators, pond, construction equipment, wildlife, busy traffic and parking lots, loud music... For me it's mostly about bonding and observing my dog's reactions. I'm not really conditioning the dog not to respond, just making sure the dog has a sound temperament. I don't mind a dog that shows some reluctance of something brand new and has to "figure it out" first, as long as they will try eventually, and then be happy and instantly recover from any hesitation. For example if I show the puppy a metal grate, I don't care if the puppy has to sniff at it before being willing to walk over it. I'm not really looking for a dog that is *so* complacent he would step off the edge of a cliff without checking, lol. If the pup hesitates I just help it keep going and not make a huge deal out of it. My last two GSDs were very reluctant to jump into water at first but now they both have dock diving titles and it's one of their favorite sports.
It's not something to focus on per say but you might have to. A well bred GSD...any GSD, doesn't have to be protection, won't be scared of cars, loud noises, swimming, different walking textures...whatever you can think of. They will see that their handler isn't worried about it, so why would they be?
Cars are easy...the dog should be around them all the time on walks and not react. If the dog does react, you have something to work on. Loud appliances/noises...as long as you don't freak out and just go about your day, your dog should do the same. Swimming...some dogs like it, others don't. My dog loves to swim...creeks, ponds, pools, lakes...you name it he's diving in. But he hates baths. He'll go in there, but he's clearly not happy about it. It used to be a struggle when he was younger, now that he's more obedient he does it, but I know he doesn't want to be in there.
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I know the dogs discussed here are protection dogs, not what the breeders of my pup were shooting for but I still thought it would be good to conditiont her as well as possible so she is more confident and less likely to become scared. She is 8.5 weeks old and that site suggest conditioning the pups to startling sounds, vehicles, and water. However, it also says that at this age the pups are entering a fear period where "traumatic experiences have a profound effect. Keep the puppy in stable circumstances, and keep the puppy safe from trauma." Conditioning them to frightening but ultimately safe stimuli and keep the puppy in stable circumstances seems contradictory
I was wondering people who frequent this forum think that means when it comes to conditioning. I figure as long as she is only softly whining it is not too tramatic. I take my pup on car rides and she whines a little at first but eventually stops and then I reward her. I try not to comfort her while she's whining but sometimes she trys to crawl into my lap and I have to hold her back. Pretty much the same with putting her in the tub. I have not tried any additional noise conditioning, other than normal house appliances, yet. Just wondering you all thought.
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The Griffs trailed 36-34 with 8:15 to go in the game, but used a 9-1 run with a pair of buckets each from senior Jen Lennox and junior Kayla Hoohuli, to take the lead for good.
Hoohuli finished with a game-high 15 points, while Lennox tallied a season-high 14.
Both teams struggled from the field in the first half, with Canisius shooting just 32 percent, and going 1-of-9 from behind the arc, but the Griffs managed to head to the locker room with a 20-16 lead.
13 of Canisius' 20 first half points came off 11 Peacocks' turnovers, while the Griffs turned the ball over a season-low seven times in the contest.
The Griffs started the second half 1-of-6 from behind the arc, but would close making three of their final five, including one by senior Jamie Ruttle that would put the Griffs up four with 1:30 remaining.
"I thought when we weren't shooting well we got tentative," said head coach Terry Zeh. "Everyone in the gym knows we're a good shooting team, so when we're not making them it gets tense because everyone is hanging on it. But it was nice to see Jamie make one late and Kayla as well because they need to take those."
Following a pair of free throws from Saint Peter's Antonia Smith, Ruttle answered with a contested shot in the paint to keep the lead at four with 43 seconds to go. Ruttle finished the game with nine points.
Aziza May hit a deep three to cut the Canisius lead to one on the ensuing possession, and promptly fouled sophomore Tiahana Mills. Mills missed the front end of a 1-and-1, but Canisius got the defensive stop they needed to close out the contest.
The Griffs improved to 5-9 (1-4 MAAC) with the win and will travel to face Monmouth on Friday. That game is scheduled to top at noon.
GAME NOTES: Sophomore Jasmine Mungo pulled down a career-high eight rebounds… Canisius was outrebounded in a MAAC game for the first time this season (37-31), but earned a five board advantage in the second half after being beaten 22-11 on the glass in the first.


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So how do students stand out in a crowd of hundreds of job-seeking young professionals? Marketing Specialist Lorena Santoni '11, recruited for Houston Wire & Cable Company last year, and from her employer perspective, she gives six important tips for landing a good job at a fair.
"First impressions are crucial," Santoni said. "Job fairs are just as important as a job interview, so treat it as such, this means dressing-appropriately. Take the extra effort to both dress and act in a professional manner."
She suggests students:
"It is essential to have a resume prepared before you attend a job fair," she said. "If you are not certain what kind of position you are searching for, make sure to create multiple versions tailored to each individual position. It helps to review job postings online so that you can get a sense of the responsibilities of every position of interest."
Santoni suggests proofreading your resume thoroughly and bringing more than you think you need to hand out. Also, students should take advantage of St. Thomas' Career Services for help, and attend an upcoming workshop to have their resumes reviewed.
"Job fairs and interviews don't have to be scary," she said. "Though the thought of a job fair can be pretty overwhelming to a lot of people, all of that can be fixed with a bit of preparation."
Santoni suggests organizing the list of attending companies by your level of interest. Selecting your top companies helps you mentally prepare, allowing you to focus on the task at hand.
"Think of your list as a map guiding you through the job fair chaos," she said. "Companies love it when you come prepared and know a little about their history, so do a bit of basic background research of your top 5-10 companies. This will definitely help you stand out from the crowd."
"Finding a dream job immediately and making an amazing salary does not happen overnight," Santoni said. "Graduates have to continually strive to be the best they can and work to expand their knowledge and talents. Don't ever stop shooting for the stars; everyone has to pay their dues and hard work and dedication to a company never goes unrecognized."
"Practice basic interview questions before the job fair so you don't get caught off guard by the recruiters," she said. "This will help you answer the questions with confidence and ease allowing the conversation to flow nicely."
Ask Career Services for some ideas on sample questions.
"It's never too early to start your professional network," she said. "Make sure you have a LinkedIn account before going to a job fair. Make an effort to go through your Facebook and other social media platforms and clean up any inappropriate photos or comments and make sure your account is private."
Santoni said in the hiring process, companies want to hire someone who will always positively represent the company, whether at work or on the road.
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