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(Site update: Jan 1, 2016)
Enter 2016
[Pictured above is the view from the plane between Jamaica and Cuba, minutes before sunset]
This past year has been an interesting and experiential one. I went as far north as Iceland, and as far south as Jamaica for a second stay at the lovely Sandals Montego Bay. This year has also seen a lot of provincial travel, whether it be for consulting work or going on many fossil hunts with Deb (who has now moved in with me). I taught several courses this past year, and managed to work on various municipal consulting projects, including for the Town of Goderich, a strategic plan for the Municipality of Bluewater, and ongoing work for the Town of St Marys. By year's end I was able to formally register a general partnership consulting firm. I wrote book reviews, had a few articles published, have some co-authoring of articles on strategic planning in the works, and even managed to publish a novel. Health-wise, I have kept to my diet and exercise regimen, seeing good gains and improved overall function. I also went back to school and am now registered in AMCTO's diploma program for municipal administration. On that front, I am proud to say that I scored very well on the first two courses.
Although I initially was aiming to change career tack, it seems that I've simply added another few mini-careers to the mix. I have no idea what this next year will bring. All I know is that there are some consulting projects to complete, a few courses to teach, and a few courses to complete toward the diploma. I plan on writing one academic book and the followup novel to B1T, amidst other projects. In terms of travel, I have no idea where I might end up visiting. In terms of health, I will be making more good modifications to the current regimen to fine tune toward my goals. Will there be fossil adventures? Definitely. If you haven't seen my newest finds this year, go here.
CfP Announcement - Nov 17, 2015
Vegetal Ontologies: a Stroll through the World of Plants and People
A Call for Papers for a special issue of Semiotic Review on Phytosemiotics
With the recent animal and multispecies turns in critical theory and philosophy, everything from cats and dogs to microbes and mycorrhizal fungi have become vital allies against anthropocentrism, yet plants have been largely ignored. This is a call for papers that consider the importance of plants as contributing thinkers and actors within multispecies interactions, landscapes, and worlds. We begin with the path breaking insight of Martin Krampen (1928-2015): that the study of plant life cannot be reduced simply to mechanical descriptions of efficient cause, but must account for phytosemiotics, or sign use and interpretation by plants. Like other life forms, plants are autonomous subjects with their own, meaning- laden life worlds, from which those of human and nonhuman animals emerge. The role of plant cultivation in human civilization, from the rise of the state to the green revolution, is well known. But recent botanical research shows that plants also respond to and communicate about their surroundings, not only by exchanging chemical signals through the air, but also by sharing and stealing nutrients via symbiotic networks underground. In climate change policy and practice, furthermore, plants are leading indicators of, and countermeasures deployed against, the dawning Anthropocene.
Plants lack nervous systems that mediate between life worlds and experience, which means that they are characterized by a degree of immersion in their habitats that other creatures depend upon, and may come to dread or desire for ourselves.1
The activities of "individual" plants give rise to multi-species collectives, including forests, swamps and jungles, of which animal subjects are living thoughts.2 For Krampen, the fact that all animal bodies and behaviors must establish correspondence with the "vegetative rules of endosemiotics" (1981: 208), places an ethical demand on us to know and care for plants lest we asphyxiate ourselves and destroy the planet we share with them.
We seek contributions from various disciplinary perspectives that will consider:
1 Marder, Michael. 2013. Plant Thinking. Columbia University Press, Press, p. 12.↩
2 Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How Forests Think. University of California Press.↩
October 28, 2015 - Fall Roundup
It has been a while since I've updated the page - but mostly on account of being fairly busy with consulting work, teaching, and being a student. There have been several outings this summer, be it to attend local festivals, hiking, fossil hunting, etc. I was recently honoured to win the Dean's Award for Excellence in Part-Time Teaching this year. I am also very excited to be working with the Municipality of Bluewater as we approach the final phase of developing their strategic plan; with St Marys as we revise their existing strategic plan and develop an implementation schedule. And, academically, a colleague and I eked out something on pedagogy/invisibility as a chapter appearing in the International Handbook of Semiotics (Springer). You can read the abstract here.
I did manage to get out to collect fossils, which you can view here. I have snapped a few pictures throughout the year that have no other home than some miscellany page, but if you like nature, go here to see how I captured the changing of the seasons.
And finally, pictured below is a new and treasured acquisition of mine: a leaf from the Strassburg Bible printed in 1485 by Johann Reinhard Gruninger. This is the tenth of the pre-Lutheran bibles printed in German (I believe it is based on the Mentelin Bible of c.1466). Keep in mind that the Catholic Church did not authorize translations, and that this leaf is incunabula (that is, in the first 50 years of the printing press). About 100 or so copies of the Strassburg Bible exist, of which maybe 80 are complete.
New Novel & Other News - July 4, 2015
My new novel, B1t (that's letter B, number 1, and letter T) is now available, and I know your credit card is burning a hole in your pocket to buy it NOW. Okay, so that will prove my only effort at a hard sell for a soft launch! It's a rather (intentionally) disjointed with little to no resolution, which just sets itself up for the sequel. B0T (b, number 0, t) is already in development, along with several other writing projects that I'm tinkering with.
In other news, I forgot to make mention of a small interview I conducted with Mark Rayner at Western News. Definitely check out Mark's site for satirical hard proof of his biting hilarity.
On the education front, I am absolutely thrilled to report that I am now officially registered in the AMCTO's Municipal Administration Program, and am looking to apply to Western's Diploma in Public Administration for the condensed May-June 2016 semester. I'm still undecided as to whether to also go for the MPA, but I already know what sort of project I'd like to focus on as part of my area of specialization. You can take a peek at my municipal musings to get a sense of my thought process. The title of that blog leaves something to be desired, but in terms of content I plan to spruce up a few posts on citizen engagement, collaborative partnerships (intermunicipal, private-public, service clubs, etc), and an important piece on economic development that focuses on diversification on a sector by sector approach.
Solstice Update - June 19, 2015
The tail end of spring has been anything but idle. Not long after I returned from Iceland, there were reports to write and file, strategic planning consultations to be scheduled, and a novel to finish up drafting. On the last item, I am pleased (and exhausted) to announce that the first draft of B1T is complete and now in the hands of a trusted reader. That only leaves the sequel, B0T, to write and sundry other writing projects.
It hasn't all been desk-riding. Deb and I have continued taking advantage of the fine weather and a desire to get out and about. A day trip to Stratford was lovely, and we had a fabulous time at Hensall Fair as I mixed a bit of social fun with official duties.
In just a few weeks, I'll be registering for my first course provided by the Association of Municipal Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario (AMCTO) as part of their Municipal Administration Program. Ultimately, my goal is to complete all units of the MAPP to obtain official designation as a CMO. In other words, I'm going back to school, and indulging my passion for municipalities. I'm kicking off a blog on municipal musings here.
Happy solstice to everyone.
Just so that I can share something more visual, here are some mocks I've worked up for the novels B1T and B0T:
In Bloom, Updates for Spring, 2015
Spring cleaning comes to my website. The last six months has seen so many changes that it is challenging to record them all. I am less than 24 hours from boarding a plane with Deb for a week-long hike in Iceland, and my little prodigious cuddly companion Bebert (pictured above) thought to give me a bon voyage gift by dragging in a rabbit.
It has been busy as I negotiate a shift in career trajectory to cultivate a nascent love for all things municipal. Yes, I am fascinated by municipal government in all its core functions, across its broad range of provided services such as water, policing, curbside collection, fire protection; the concerns of more remote and rural communities such as the ongoing adjustment to amalgamation, economic development, stemming out-migration, etc.; building and sustaining diverse communities, ecological initiatives, drive-through tourism, mixed-use housing development, and meeting the needs and challenges of a changing demographic. Municipal governments ARE the future - direct, local, and an impact on our daily life. If there is going to be change in our country, our provinces, it begins at the local level. My passion for municipal government will find expression as I am returning to school to complete a program as a prerequisite to earning a designation as a Certified Municipal Officer, and I hope to apply next year in a position to add my skills, energy, and leadership to assist rural municipalities in Ontario not only survive, but to thrive.
In a similar vein, I was recently invited to facilitate a visioning session with Goderich Town Council to identify strategic priorities, which was an enormously positive exercise. Work continues with my consulting partner Bill Irwin as we engage stakeholder groups in the Bluewater strategic planning process. Communities such as these are the essence of community spirit, and it is immensely gratifying to work with, and listen to, communities to achieve their goals.
Fossil hunting is still ongoing, and I've been doing a bit of writing on the side when time allows. I'm currently reading a textbook on the history of municipal governance in Ontario, Oil by Upton Sinclair, various field guides on edible plants, insects, mammals of Ontario, wetland plants of Ontario, and eastern North American trees. I eat well, and exercise all the time and just enjoying as much sun and fresh air as possible.
Until my return from Iceland!
From Winter to Spring, 2015
It has been a fairly busy and surprising winter semester. I had a few more book reviews published, but mostly I've been teaching four courses and preparing for the spring and summer. Most of my work has been "in-house", and it involved a rather drastic reassessment of personal and professional priorities, including a new direction I'll detail later. I'm happy, extremely healthy, and ready for the challenges ahead. Yeah, I'll be writing books, too, but I also expect to keep up my active lifestyle. Less desk time, more getting out there on the trails, throwing around the ball, and travel. Deb and I will be off to Iceland in May. Plenty of updates, but they can wait!
[Photo by Deb - we hit up Hungry Hollow for fossils to kickstart the first episode of 2015]
Dec 20-28: The Semester IS OVER! - Pass The Tanning Butter.
It has been a very long, challenging semester: four courses across two universities, 270 students, and over 750,000 words of grading (just shy of the word count for the entire bible, both old and new testaments combined). And it has been challenging for other reasons, too, not least of which having to manage grieving, paperwork, and the last leg of labour negotiations (we reached an agreement that has now been ratified).
The image above depicts exactly where me and the kids are going: Montego Bay, Jamaica. And we certainly deserve it. I'm even willing to relax my usual Marxist anti-colonialist stance to indulge in the simulacrum-paradise of an all-inclusive resort walled off from the grim sociopolitical realities of those who live there. This has been by far the most trying semester in all my years teaching, and I am just relieved that I can take a breather from 90-hour weeks. That means, for the week, I am not answering work emails. In fact, I am abdicating all responsibilities for the duration to be a beach bum.
2015 promises to be a very active and exciting year, but I'm going to allow the last sand grains run out on the hourglass of 2014 in the spirit of full R&R. See you all in January! [Update: some pics here]
On October 6, I appeared on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin on the topic of precarious labour. In an age when 40% of Ontarians are precariously (under)employed, cobbling together a large number of poor paying, insecure jobs with possibly no benefits or pension while major companies continue to net record profits (using said profits for share buybacks or dividend payments instead of job creation), this issue is one of the most pressing for labour health today. Tied in with insecure employment are issues of gender, ethnicity, childcare, and dignity. As a "full time part time" contract faculty member, I am also a member of the precariat. Click on the image above to view the video on the TVO website. I would like to thank my friends and colleagues of the Ontario Confederation of Faculty Associations (OCUFA), and especially Andrea Calver, for helping to arrange this. It was an absolute thrill to work with the producer, Hilary Clark, and have an opportunity to meet Steve Paikin in person.
I also was quoted in a recent Salon.com article, "Professors on Food Stamps" which appeared on September 21. You can read the article here. In addition, I was quoted in a Western Gazette article entitled "The Precarious Path to Professorship" written by Amy O'Kruk, featuring our most excellent President of UWOFA, Alison Hearn. The article references a YouTube video created by Travis Welowszky of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies Undergraduate Students' Council. You can read the Gazette article here, and view Travis' contribution to academic labour woes by clicking on the image below.
I also saw my most recent academic article on precarious labour published by Confero: Essays on Education, Philosophy and Politics. You can read Alienation and Precarious Contract Academic Staff in the Age of Neoliberalism here.
I have also recently joined the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labour (COCAL) as a member of its International Advisory Board, was elected to be OCUFA Director of UWOFA, and continue serving proudly in many capacities on my faculty association during this time of negotiations.
In other publishing news, you can read my most recent entry in my regular column of Contractually Bound at University Affairs entitled "Tips on Surviving Chronic Adjunctivitis." In addition, I had three book reviews published with Western News on September 25.
And finally, my friend, colleague, and fellow pen-rustler Mark Rayner wrote a kind and glowing review of my novel, Professor Montgomery Cristo. You can read his musings here, and do feel free to read his other posts, fiction, and other monkey-pirate-y goodness.
OUR JULIE. November 14, 1963 - September 10, 2014
It has taken me a long time to take this step, and it is likely that it will take me much longer to ever process this. My wife's tribute page will forever be under construction. Please excuse the mess, but it mirrors my state.
AUGUST 27: Summer roundup
Despite a bit of silence on the research front, summer of 2014 was an active one in other areas as I have extended my involvement in issues pertaining to precarious academic labour. The jewel in the proverbial crown regarding such efforts was my attending the biennial Coalition of Contingent Academic Labour (COCAL) conference hosted at John Jay College (CUNY) in New York City on August 4-6 (you can read a small debrief of the event by Sydni Dunn here). Over 200 attendees from Canada, the US, Mexico, and even Argentina converged to discuss strategies and tactics for improving the working conditions of exploited sessional/adjunct labour, and this through a series of intensive interest or working groups, each tasked with a particular issue. I participated in the "Building National Agendas" working group where I suggested the creation of a democracy index to function as a means of re-balancing much of the arguably lost power among faculty of all ranks with respect to budgetary, socioeconomic, intellectual, and other related issues. I will be hard at work with my colleagues in COCAL to develop this metric, which we hope will restore the proper place of higher education whereby it is the faculty - not the money managers - that represent the true university. I am also working with partners at CAUT and OCUFA on the issue of adjunct labour, with some exciting and bold initiatives to be disclosed at the appropriate time.
This upcoming academic year will also see me teaching up a storm as I occupy that position of being a full-time part-timer with no fewer than 8 courses, and an average of about 300 students per semester. My usual courses are being offered at FIMS (Propaganda in Print and Visual Culture, two sections of Social Networking) in addition to one new course (Net-Work: Labour and Profit) and one first-year course to revise (Information and its Contexts). In addition, I will be teaching two sections of an online course (Sociology of Law) and one course for Laurier's Society, Environment, and Culture program (Social and Digital Media).
While all that is going on, I continue preparing column entries for University Affairs, my usual swathe of editorial responsibilities at various academic journals, and continue to serve proudly in many capacities on my faculty association during this very crucial time of collective bargaining. There are a host of other projects and initiatives on my plate for this upcoming year that I may as well not mention until they firm up. My personal writing and research time will most likely have to be put aside as I manage a heavy teaching load, committee work, and throw a hard shoulder into research concerning precarious academic labour.
In other news, I was interviewed by a host of media outlets, including a CBC radio documentary on sessional employment, among other engagements. And so the new academic year begins...
July 1: New Article
My article on digital astroturfing now appears in the Journal of Intelligence, Propaganda, and Security Studies courtesy of the Austrian Centre for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies
I'll be back on the fossil hunt. Catch up with what you missed in 2013 here and read the season opener here.
June 6: The Big Summer Update
What am I doing this summer? Click here to read more about my ongoing research, literary, and labour organizing activities.
May 24: A New novel
Accused of an act of plagiarism he did not commit... Condemned to teach as an underpaid adjunct for 14 years... Resolved to right the scales of academic justice...
Adapted from the masterful epic by Dumas, a retelling of the story of Monte Cristo in the shadow of the ivory tower.
Dantes had it all. Close to defending his dissertation, the praise of his mentors, an insider tip about an upcoming tenure-track hire in his department, and a shot at the prestigious Mercedes Chair - all of it lost when he was accused of plagiarizing his recently deceased supervisor, Dantes' career prospects tumble into precipitous ruin as he must suffer in the purgatory of precarious adjunct teaching at another university. But in the decrepit D'If wing where the adjuncts hold their office hours, Dantes meets a long-time adjunct by the name of Faria who tutors him on how to survive as an adjunct, and is told of a scholarly treasure: a hitherto unknown manuscript by Nietzsche buried in Sils Maria.
Dantes comes to discover who was behind the plot to sabotage him, and how it was done. Under an alias and with the treasure in hand, Dantes rebuilds his academic career from scratch - all to achieve his one ultimate goal: revenge.
Now available in print and on Kindle
May 1: a new friend
Our daughter Paige recently adopted Zooey (who we are cat-sitting as the "grandparents"). She was born with only three legs, but that doesn't seem to present any trouble as she has adapted incredibly well, leaping and scampering about with as much ease as any other kitten.
Coco (1998-2014)
On March 4th, our beloved cat, Coco, went on his last adventure. He is survived by his feline friends Portia, Jackson, and Bebert. The undisputed alpha of the cat clan, he acted as sage and guardian to several kittens. A noble, intelligent, and loving friend, we will miss him dearly. He first arrived 15 years ago, on the doorstep in the rain. Extremely sickly, Coco was nursed back to health and enjoyed a wonderful life with us where all his needs were met.
In his younger years, he prowled the neighbourhood as a small but mighty scrapper who could hold his own. As he grew older, he kept closer to home but could be seen climbing up his favourite tree, teaching younger cats how to bathe, enjoying long summer days on the patio, and rarely more than a few feet away from any of us. He provided a great deal of love and affection to our family.
As he grew even older, he was afflicted with numerous health problems. At a certain point we had to make one of the hardest decisions. But to look into his eyes, it was as if he was telling us it was the right decision, that he was ready.
Those who have lived with cats for any length of time know that they each have their own unique personality. Coco was certainly one of those very distinct creatures with a bold, adventurous, and wise spirit.
Feb 15: Conference talk, interrogating access conference, feb 14-16, 2014
Tweaking the Crowdfunding Model: Supplementing Research Funding
In the Canadian context, it is no secret that available funding resources are both "drying up" due to top-down government-based austerity measures, and an increase in government intervention as to what constitutes valid research as indexed on the ideological context of commercialization of scholarly activity.
The crowdfunding phenomenon differs in both content and intention from its closely resembling cousin, crowdsourcing, in that it makes specific use of online tools for the acquisition of funds from a broad spectrum of disintermediated sources. Heralded by some as an entrepreneurial instrument (Schwienbacher and Larralde, 2010) that mobilizes audiences ("crowds" in some of the literature, "communities" or "customers" in others) for the purposes of either ex ante or ex post facto initiatives (Kappel 2009), it has been popularized as a means by which successful financing for projects can be brought to term.
This paper will explore an alternative funding source specifically for the Arts and Humanities based on the crowdfunding model, but modified in such a way that said initiatives may result in improved funder-fundee matching and evaluation using a phase-based approach. As the current crowdfunding model generally favours entrepreneurial start-ups and content that is more populist or topical in nature, a series of modifications would be required to optimize the potential success of such initiatives. The benefits and limits of such crowdfunding initiatives will be of a piece in this discussion, while ultimately such a model may be repurposed as a supplement to more traditional funding sources, open to a global audience, and of some utility for facilitating research at particularly critical phases.
Kappel, Tim. (2009) Ex Ante Crowdfunding and the Recording Industry: A Model for the US? Loyola.
Schwienbacher, Armin and Benjamin Larralde. (2010). Crowdfunding of Small Entrepreneurial Ventures. Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance. Oxford University Press.
Feb 13: new article
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 12.1 has just published an article of mine on Veblen and social capital.
Veblen 2.0: Neoliberal Games of Social Capital and the Attention Economy as Conspicuous Consumption
Abstract: The purpose of this article will be in reading acts of prosumer behaviour in social networking environments through a Veblenian lens, supported in part by the post-Marxist insights of Guy Debord, especially with respect to the issue of celebrity emulation, conspicuous leisure as constructed by the labour of profile management and promiscuous online interactivity, and acts of status enhancement or aggrandizement. Such a discussion must be set in the current context of the normative frame of neoliberal ideology which champions the values of the entrepreneurial self, devolved competitiveness as a form of - in this case social rather than strictly economic - neo-Darwinism, and the touted virtues of speed and connectivity. Ultimately, it is our hope to link these conspicuous online practices to the ideological framework to demonstrate how prosumption plays an integral role in the quantification of the social economy as expressed as "social capital." In order to achieve these objectives, strict and operational definitions of prosumption, conspicuity in the Veblenian literature, and neoliberalism will be required. The line between social and economic capital is not a definitive one, and that the behaviours and motives associated with increasing social capital may be weighted more to the individual and influenced by neoliberal values that recode the social as derivative of the economic.
Feb 5: new monthly column at University affairs
Introducing the first in a series of entries for my new column at University Affairs on the plight of contract academic staff - and developing working solutions.
jan 21: foreword to new book
Honoured to be given the opportunity to write the foreword to Robert Lort's newest book, Eat the Word, a Deleuzian-inspired series of literary vignettes. The book is due to be released in 5-7 days.
Jan 21: quoted on selfies; jan 22: quoted on digital narcissism
Quoted on "selfies" in a Western Gazette article written by Jacqueline Baker, and on digital narcissism in an article written by Roberto Nanni.
Jan 12: New article / ed intro -
Happy new year.
My editorial introduction to the themed section on digital narcissisms is now out, as well as my article on modular capitalism and geomorphia. Both are now available in the recent issue of Reconstruction.
The editorial intro on digital narcissism: "Triumph of the Id"
The article: Geomorphia: Did the Earth Move for You? Mobile Capital as Geomorphic Agent
Dec 21: New article
The Journal of Documentation Studies just published an article of mine. The full article, as an "early cite" since the issue has not yet been printed, is available for those with institutional access to the Emerald Journal Group.
"An Information Meta-State Approach to Documentation"
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to bring both Simondonian and Deleuzian insights to bear upon the nature of documents and documentation by viewing them as non-representationalist, and as products of transduction and reticulation that render documents assemblages that are in constant negotiation with an environment as instances of a perpetually renewing problematic.
Design/methodology/approach - Simondon's work on metastability and transduction can offer particular insights into how we view documents in terms of their materiality, signification, and possibly to move beyond the phenomenological bias in the treatment of documents.
Findings - In understanding or describing the process of documentation as a reticulation or unfolding, we also come to view the document as an assemblage in perpetual negotiation. This paper adapts Deleuze and Guattari's articulation framework of expression-signification and provides a bit of groundwork toward two registers of information (first and second order) according to the preindividual process of that allows for the individuation of documents.
Originality/value - This paper makes an original contribution to understanding the process of documentation and the product of documents in a more fluid, interdynamic context by shifting or displacing the traditional view of information.
a few old books
Feeling rather bummed out today, but a small bit of solace comes by way of some old books I purchased from Attic Books yesterday. You can read about them here.
breaking books
Every once in a while it is nice to set my geeky work aside and do something... geeky and non-work related.
In this short piece, posted on this site, I take very sharp things and a lot of obsessive patience to the inside cover of a book from 1787 to reveal secret pages hiding beneath!
Join me as I peel back the pastedown to reveal the historical secret inside.
nov 13: usc teaching honour roll
Just learned that I made the teaching honour roll again, along with ten other of my colleagues at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Official news copy from the FIMS website:
"Congratulations go to 11 FIMS faculty members who were recently named to the 2013-2013 edition of the USC Teaching Honour Roll.
Included are: Andrea Benoit, Tim Blackmore, Jacquie Burkell, Chris Clark, Norma Coates, Sally Colwell, Kane Faucher, Amanda Grzyb, Selma Purac, John Reed and Sharon Sliwinski.
The University Students' Council each year names to the Teaching Honour Roll those instructors who receive an accumulated average of 6.3 or higher out of 7 on the first 14 questions of the UWO Senate-mandated course and teacher evaluations."
OCT 31: western news book reviews
Book reviews of four worthwhile books by Rachel M. Heydon, Bernd Steinbock, Don Gutteridge, and various authors under the fine editorship of Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl. The books under review takes us from intergenerational learning, what it really means to be an Athenian, archival practices with respect to women scholars and artists, to a fable on what makes Gavin so great. Check out my reviews in the Read All Over section here.
oct 23: new edition of codex seraphinianus
Rizzoli is issuing a new edition of the Codex Seraphinianus on Oct 29 with new plates supplied by Serafini. This exciting news for Codex nerds like me may precipitate some further work on the Codex, if not also plans to create an homage edition of my own. Those interested can peruse the incomplete analysis and initial attempts to construct some Serafini-esque work here.
This digitized Serafini "majuscule" above was constructed by me, using a mixture of hand-drawn elements that were scanned for processing in font-making software. My own incomplete Serafini alphabet has been converted to true-type font (.ttf) and can be used on most word processors.
OCT 20: presented at apps & affect conference
image streamed from blog.teamtreehouse.com
Hosted at Museum London on October 18-20. This conference will bring together a diverse group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to present work on the significance of apps, be them openly creative points of access and invention, or a form of regulatory control.
My own contribution to the discussion by way of the abstract:
App as Non-Apparition: The Counter-Alethic Function [white walls and black holes]
Apps already grid the subject and its conditions of possibility through a regime of signs, aligned in part by a technocratic restructuring of the myth of progress where the app is positioned as the essential filter through which problems can find their immediate or ready-to-hand solutions. However, despite the optimism of the technocratic solutions-as-tools, like the algorithm the app effectively regulates subjectivity by distributing uniform diversity rather than acknowledge the already-different. In Deleuze and Guattari's sense, it may qualify as simply another, albeit etherealized or computationally embedded, molarity that captures, regulates, and distributes the flows of difference by also shaping the Weltanschaaung through the precise pre-programmed aperture of the app itself. For example, the app of Google Maps alters the way we view and engage space, distance, and point-concentrated relevance. If there is no "app" for that particular "that," it may be implied as part of the computational logic that it is of no value or significance, thus appealing to valuation by omission. The emergence of affect generally must follow an intensive feature where the virtual is made immanent to the process of individuation. The app, however, might conceal the intensive affects and function to cancel out the real differences required for a truly expressive means of creating something other out of the tracing of the subject-user and the object-app, both of which enter into a dialectical relationship. The question upon which this turns would be in determining whether the app provides a mechanism for feedback or feedforward. By an appeal to the works of Heidegger, Simondon, and Deleuze, this talk will trace the logic of the app as possibly being less conducive in recognizing affect or the fold that exists between subjectivity and technology, still subordinating the affect of sense as a secondary quality.
oct 8: Book release
The word "information" carries a number of connotations depending on context, and can be said to be one of the most problematic words to define despite many efforts by statistical theorists, mathematicians, physicists, cyberneticians, communication theorists, computer scientists, and philosophers. Is information physical or non-physical? Is the universe digital, analog, or a "chaosmic" mixture of the two?
This book explores a Deleuzian way of understanding information by retracing Deleuze's ontology of difference back to Gilbert Simondon's concepts of transduction, metastability, and perpetual individuation as a source for Deleuze's concept of the virtual. Although Deleuze did not address information specifically in his oeuvre, this book attempts to construct what a Deleuzian theory of information might look like as a consequence of his philosophical insights.
The reader is presented with a brief survey of information theories, capsule explanations of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze, and a discussion on the roles of metastasis and metastability as a means of addressing the problematic known as information outside of computing regimes, and as a critique of cybernetics, informatics, and memetics. Can information be reconfigured as affirmative difference, transformed into a "nomad science," or must it remain consigned to the realm of probabilism?
sept 26: teaching award
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching recipients announced: 9/26/2013 4:14:33 PM
Susan Knabe, Anabel Quan-Haase, Mark Kearney and Kane Faucher have all received the award for 2013.
The awards were announced at a reception on Wednesday, September 26, held in University College. Acting Dean Nick Dyer-Witheford presented each recipient with a certificate marking the achievement.
sept 7: WNDER's new website
The Western Network for Digital Education and Research website has now been launched. Read about WNDER's ambitious mandate here.
general update - august 22, 2013
Image streamed from Christrains.com
1. An article accepted with revisions; 2. Proofs for my upcoming book with Sense Publishers; 3. Work on the book, Datapolitik in full swing; 4. Course revisions complete for this coming year (Propaganda, Social Networking, Media & Audiences); 5. Nominated for Dean's Teaching Award; 6. Work on "crowdfunding" article with collaborator continues; 7. Co-editorial work on Deleuze and Guattari on Capitalism/Economy continues; 8. A smattering of other articles in various stages; 9. Revving up for a negotiation year at Western; 10. New member of the Western Network for Digital Education and Research (WNDER)
july 15: Back from lisbon
A weeklong stay in Lisbon as part of the Deleuze conference. For those who like pictures, I snapped a few here.
july 8-10: Deleuze conference presentation
On July 8-10: I presented Seed De/Re-Territorialization: Monsanto and Genetic Drift as Deleuzo-Guattarian Capital (6th International Deleuze Conference, Faculty of Science, Lisbon, Portugal).
The abstract is as follows:
Recent legal disputes involving Monsanto's genetically modified organisms highlight issues of enviro-genetic territory with respect to the effects of gene drift from GM crops to non-GM crops. Although Monsanto prides itself on a Baroque-inspired philosophical outlook where human purpose is to "perfect" nature, and in thus controlling and correcting nature in ways reminiscent of cybernetics, gene drift reterritorializes environmental space in ways that cannot be properly contained, and may suggest a purposive plan on the part of Monsanto to recode the environment according to its own genetic capture and hyper-capitalist flows as united with bioinformatics. This paper will apply Deleuze's and Guattari's insights on the war machine and the apparatus of capture to better position Monsanto's relationship to environmental and genetic territory. This paper will argue that despite any superficial resemblance to rhizomatic spread, Monsanto is engaging in a covert arborescent strategy which attempts to overdetermine environmental and genetic space according to a despotic "corrective" regime under the guise of benevolent utility.
Not only will this prove exciting in rubbing shoulders with D&G giants, but I will also have an opportunity to spend time in a city that is older than London (the one in the UK, not here). As someone who is an advocate for farmers' autonomy, organic food, and biodiversity, my hope is that this will be the first in a series of papers and possible articles critiquing the practices of major GM seed developers from a Deleuzian standpoint.
june 14: ulises mejias' new book
UMinn Press has just released the long-awaited (at least by me and a handful of other geeks) "Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World" by Ulises Mejias, a scholar and researcher at SUNY Oswego. One of the central questions Mejias asks (and one that my Debordian 2.0 self asks with respect to the tyranny of the social web algorithm) is how can we unthink networks? What are the hegemonic traits of current largely corporate networks that divide and rule over its "nodes" (are we more than just nodes in a network?), and how has this marginalized others, alienating users from what they can do? - there may be a Nietzschean question in there! Anyhow, while the glut of zombie novellas and Victorian romances continue being extruded by the publishing apparatus, Mejias' book has been bumped up on my beach read list. I hope to pen a review once I have finished it.
June 14: book review
I wrote a review of "From Wahnsinnig to the Loony Bin" by Henry Whittlesey (ed.) on their interesting and procedural method of "transposition" at Sein und Werden. Read about it here.
June 7: consultancy position
I have recently been taken on as an associate consultant for the Toronto consultancy firm, Eco-Ethonomics, which focuses on providing strategic planning, sustainability, organizational development, and social enterprise. Read about what they do here.
JUNE 1: Some advocacy stuff
I recently sent a letter to leaders of all the federal parties outlining my concerns with the proposed changes to the Seeds Act. I received a good reply from the NDP. You can read my letter and their response here. (.doc)
Also, I would urge anyone visiting this site to sign the online petition to save Windsor's Centre for Studies in Social Justice, slated to be shuttered this July. This program not only boasts an amazing pool of talented researchers, but also produces students with the ability to advocate on issues of social justice and labour. You can sign the petition here.
June 1: the Infinite grey released
The final book in my trilogy is now available on Amazon. You can read about it on the infinity page. The publisher, Civil Coping Mechanisms, is currently building the landing page with an excerpt.
This is a "soft release," which means I have no plans on any book tours, signings, interviews, or any other PR mechanism beyond what my publisher arranges. Marketing the third in a trilogy is a distinct challenge since it favours those who have already been following the first two volumes.
The cover image appears courtesy of Dale Dunning (the sculptor and photographer of the image). Check out his other work at his page, and read about my raves on him and the other excellent artists who have supplied images for the trilogy here.
may 12 - goodreads blogpost: black market books
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Free books... at the expense of indie authors and publishers. Read my post on the matter here.
may 5 - goodreads blogpost: The infinite grey... soon!
What a long, strange textual trip it's been. Read some of my reflections on the long lead-up to the final book in my hefty tome-like trilogy here.
april 23 - goodreads blogpost: the art of cover art
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Instead of discussing what is between the covers, I give plaudits to the fine practicing artists who supplied the images that appear on the covers themselves. Read about them here.
April 18: noise matters
I was invited by L.-F. Celine scholar Greg Hainge to give my meandering reflections on his newest book, Noise Matters at 333sound. Why not join in?
Greg has a solid grasp of Deleuze and Guattari in addition to L.F. Celine. For those keeping track, he and I co-authored a short paper back in 2010 on Celine and ventriloquism for Etudes Celiniennes.
april 12 - goodreads post: on the trilogy
Violating my own personal rule that authors should not speak about their own work, I do so anyway - but with a bit of cheek, and then veer off into issue-based rambling. Read it here.
april 5 - goodreads post: ranking practices
Today I got to rank myself 36 / 36 on number of years I have been post-womb. But what do book rankings mean? What can we learn from them, and what can we not? I weigh in on the popularity metrics and algorithmic nature of book rankings. Read it here.
april 4; two book reviews at western news
Two reviews at Western News: Bipasha Baurah and Terence M. Green.
April 3: western annual author reception
Along with several of my Western colleagues, the Western Bookstore put on a little fete for us. Vice Provost Janice Deakin did the honours of presenting us with awards; esteemed shutterbug Lotte Huxley snapped the occasion; President Amit Chakma dropped by; and I had some very lovely conversations with some very talented Western writers.
march 29 - goodreads post: goodreads + amazon = ?
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If Amazon cannot buy out its competition, it can surely edge them out. The recent news of Amazon's desire to purchase the reader network Goodreads may change the very nature of the site. Read about some of my best guesses of what those changes might be here.
march 27: thumbstruck: the semiotics of liking via the phaticon
I had an academic article published in the newly refurbished, online-only, open-source journal, Semiotic Review (formerly The Semiotic Review of Books). What's it about? Digital thumbs, of course! (This piece should not be confused with a more gen-audience piece I wrote many years ago on the "thumbstruck generation").
This article will be an early attempt to ground the ubiquitous icon of the "thumb" present on several SNSs and online comment fora in both semiotic and semantic registers. The digital convention of making use of the thumb must first be clarified in terms of its status as either icon, index, or symbol, and furthermore what role it plays in human-computer interaction (HCI), gamification of SNSs, digital gesturality, and the inherent mechanisms of arithmomania that guide approbation in the command and control environments of computer-mediated communication (CMC) that rely on prompting to guide online behaviour. In addition, we might ask if the thumb functions as part of the currency in online social capital accumulation and social transactionalism.
Read it here.
march 25: western research day
march 8: symposium presentation
On March 8, I presented Creative Engagement and Reflective Practice: Two Approaches to Teaching Social Media (Technology in Education Symposium, J.G. Althouse Bldg, Faculty of Education, Western University). It was a lively panel including other faculty members addressing issues of a digitally interactive (if not ergodic) syllabus, the use of YouTube for instructional delivery, vodcasting lectures for distance studies courses, and other uses of the digital milieu for exploration, teaching and learning.
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All bugs mentioned in this post are now fixed.
Internet Explorer has a number of features designed to render pages more quickly. One of these features is called the "Lookahead Downloader" and it's used to quickly scan the page as it comes in, looking for the URLs of resources which will be needed later in the rendering of the page (specifically, JavaScript files). The lookahead downloader runs ahead of the main parser and is much simpler-- its sole job is to hunt for those resource urls and get requests into the network request queue as quickly as possible. These download requests are called "speculative downloads" because it is not known whether the resources will actually be needed by the time that the main parser reaches the tags containing the URLs. For instance, inline JavaScript runs during the main rendering phase, and such script could (in theory) actually remove the tags which triggered the speculative downloads in the first place. However, this "speculative miss" corner case isn't often encountered, and even if it happens, it's basically harmless, as the speculative request will result in downloading a file which is never used.
IE8 Bugs and their impactUnfortunately, since shipping IE8, we've discovered two problems in the lookahead downloader code that cause Internet Explorer to make speculative requests for incorrect URLs. Generally this has no direct impact on the visitor's experience, because when the parser actually reaches a tag that requires a subdownload, if the speculative downloader has not already requested the proper resource, the main parser will at that time request download of the proper resource. If your page encounters one of these two problems, typically:
If your server is configured to respond in some unusual way (e.g. logging the user out) upon request of a non-existent URL, the impact on your user-experience may be more severe.
The BASE Bug Update: The BASE bug is now fixed.The first problem is that the speculative downloader "loses" the <BASE> element after its first use. This means that if your page at URL A contains a tag sequence as follows:
<html><head><base href=B><script src=relC><script src=relD><script src=relE><body>
<html><head><base href=B><script src=relC><script src=relD><script src=relE><body>
which requests 3 JavaScript files from the path specified in "B", IE8's speculative downloader will incorrectly request download of URLs "B+relC", and "A+relD" and "A+relE". Correct behavior is to request download of URLs "B+relC", "B+relD", and "B+relE". Hence, in this case, two incorrect requests are sent, usually resulting in 404s from the server. Of course, when the main parser gets to these script tags, it will determine that "B+relC" is already available, but "B+relD", and "B+relE" have not yet been requested, and it will request those correct two URLs and complete rendering of the page.
At present, there is no simple workaround for this issue. Technically, the following syntax will result in proper behavior:
<html><head><base href=B><script src=relC><base href=B><script src=relD><base href=B><script src=relE><body>
<html><head><base href=B><script src=relC><base href=B><script src=relD><base href=B><script src=relE><body>
...but this is not standards-compliant and is not recommended. If the page removes its reliance upon the BASE tag, the problem will no longer occur.Remember: The BASE bug is now fixed.
The Missing 4k Bug
Update: The 4k bug is now fixed.
The second problem is significantly more obscure, although a number of web developers have noticed it and filed a bug on Connect. Basically, the problem here is that there are a number of tags which will cause the parser and lookahead downloader to restart scanning of the page from the beginning. One such tag is the META HTTP-EQUIV Content-Type tag which contains a CHARSET directive. Since the CHARSET specified in this tag defines what encoding is used for the page, the parser must restart to ensure that is parsing the bytes of the page in the encoding intended by the author. Unfortunately, IE8 has a bug where the restart of the parser may cause incorrect behavior in the Lookahead downloader, depending on certain timing and network conditions.
The incorrect behavior occurs if your page contains a JavaScript URL which spans exactly the 4096th byte of the HTTP response. If such a URL is present, under certain timing conditions the lookahead downloader will attempt to download a malformed URL consisting of the part of the URL preceding the 4096th byte combined with whatever text follows the 8192nd byte, up to the next quotation mark. Web developers encountering this problem will find that their logs contain requests for bogus URLs with long strings of URLEncoded HTML at the end.
As with the previous bug, end users will not typically notice this problem, but examination of the IIS logs will show the issue.
For many instances of this bug, a workaround is available-- the problem only appears to occur when the parser restarts, so by avoiding parser restarts, you can avoid the bug. By declaring the CHARSET of the page using the HTTP Content-Type header rather than specifying it within the page, you can remove one cause of parser restarts.
So, rather than putting
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
In your HEAD tag, instead, send the following HTTP response header:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Note that specification of the charset in the HTTP header results in improved performance in all browsers, because the browser's parsers need not restart parsing from the beginning upon encountering the character set declaration. Furthermore, using the HTTP header helps mitigate certain XSS attack vectors.
Unfortunately, however, suspension of the parser (e.g. when it encounters an XML Namespace declaration) can also result in this problem, and it's not feasible for a web developer to avoid suspension of the parser.
But, remember: The 4k bug is now fixed.
The IE team will continue our investigation into these bugs and, as with any reported issues, may choose to make available an IE8 update to resolve the issues.
Remember: All bugs mentioned in this post are now fixed.
Apologies for the inconvenience, and thanks for reading!
@figz: No. While it's true that IE9 development is well underway, Microsoft continues to issue updates for browsers for ~10 years after they are released.
Just to inform you that some of us (see URL submitted with this post) encouter that bug is preventing some of us to use the Silverligth interfaces of SharePoint 2010 on XP SP3 client machines.
I've updated this bug to reflect that both Lookahead Downloader issues are fixed.
Note: There's still an active bug on the BASE element failing to be respected when the containing page runs in Standards mode and the BASE URI specifies a HREF that uses the FILE:// protocol.
This is totally unrelated to the preparser issue discussed in this post.
Any idea when we can expect a patch for the base href/file URI bug Eric ?
Just to reiterate for folks who aren't reading the comment thread above:
Unfortunately I'm not able to make any statements or speculations about IE code fixes (either availability or timeframe).
Just one question... Which version of IE is this fixed as of? What KB etc do we need to tell our clients to install?
Ah, finally found your other post regarding the IE8 cumulative update.
@Luke: The bug only existed in IE8, and was fixed in the 3/30 Cumulative Update. Of course, clients should be installing all Cumulative Updates (which are, well, cumulative), but the 3/30 update was KB980182 and until June, that's the latest cumulative update.
Thanks Eric for continually keeping us up to date with regards to the 4k issue. You are a star!
I noticed the following link is no longer accessible. Has the URL been updated?
@Kenza: Nope, that URL still works fine for me. I've heard a few reports from folks that have had problems viewing reports on CONNECT.
FWIW: There's no useful data in the CONNECT bug that you won't find here.
I am using MSIE 9 and encountered exactly the same bug. The difference to the described scenario is only, that the whole document is inside an iframe. Any ideas why this isn't fixed?


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Jazz post first win of year by beating the Thunder
OKLAHOMA CITY — For the first time this season, uniforms weren't the only things that made the pro basketball team from the Beehive State resemble the Utah Jazz.
On Sunday night, the players sporting the J-note logos actually looked and played like a Jerry Sloan-coached, Deron Williams-led, well-executing NBA machine.
After consecutive clunkers to open the 2010-11 season, the Jazz rocked and shocked the Northwest Division favorite Oklahoma City Thunder and showed their revamped potential in a much-needed 120-99 victory at the Ford Center.
On this Halloween night, these guys' costumes and results were quite convincing.
"We proved that we can play defense," Jazz power forward Paul Millsap said. "We proved that we can move the ball like we're supposed to. We proved that we can make shots, and hopefully we can start a string of wins."
Sure beats the alternative.
Not only was it the first of the season after back-to-back double-digit losses, but it also prevented Utah from starting 0-3 for the first time since the inaugural season in Salt Lake City back in 1979.
"This is huge," Millsap said. "Especially starting 0-2, to come into a hostile environment with this good team like the Thunder, to come out with a win — that's good for our team."
And Millsap was one of the many reasons why the Jazz got the chance to thoroughly enjoy being on the other side of a blowout for a change.
The Jazz's starting forward had a monstrous night, scoring 30 points, hauling in 16 rebounds, dishing out six assists and looking like he could be the next Jazz big man to merit All-Star consideration.
Center Al Jefferson had a quick description for Millsap's effort.
"One word," he said. "Beast."
That description was fitting for the team, which came out with a high energy and execution level that was missing from the two lopsided losses.
Pitted against up-and-comer Russell Westbrook, point guard Deron Williams had his own beast of a night making the Jazz offense go and flow. Williams scored 16 points, pulled down six rebounds and had a season-high 15 assists in an enthusiastic effort reminiscent of his previous All-Star performances.
"He was terrific all night long," Sloan said. "He had 15 assists and all of them were terrific plays. It just made our execution look like we knew what we were doing."
The key for Williams?
"That's what yelling at people gets done," Williams joked, poking fun of how he got heat for giving rookie Gordon Hayward heat last week.
Scowls and growls were replaced by smiles and high-fives after the Jazz got things going from early on.
Utah took its first lead of the season at 5-4 on an Andrei Kirilenko 3-pointer, and the Jazz soon went on an 8-0 run that helped them take a 27-23 lead at the end of the first quarter.
That momentum continued through the second quarter, and the Jazz's outside stroke, inside hustle and defensive intensity on Kevin Durant and company helped Utah take a 56-40 halftime advantage.
Going into the locker room, Durant, the small forward phenom who dropped 45 points on Utah last March, had only hit 3 of 11 shots for nine points thanks to some pestering defense by the 6-foot-9 Kirilenko.
Durant finished with what felt like a quiet 28 points, but most of his offensive production came after the Jazz's game-high lead had ballooned to 27 in the third quarter.
"A.K. did a great job on Durant in that first half and made things tough on him," Williams said.
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Package Quality: 3.6
Price: $$
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Black, Straight, Coarse
Eyes: Brown
The place I live at during my school year has incredibly hard water, which makes my hair get dirty sooner, dull, and tangle up. I bought this conditioner hoping that it would make a difference. Well, it didn't, but then I can't really blame it, because nothing else has worked either. This conditioner is light in weight, has a faint smell, and is environmentally-friendly. I'm sure it works fine like any other conditioner, it's just unable to counteract the hard water problem.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Normal, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine
Eyes: Green
This left my hair tangled and dry. Tresemme naturals line works way better, that is what I use now.
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
I wasn't expecting much from this conditioner, just needed something simple to use so I picked this up on a whim. This has a very faint clean smell and rinses out nicely, makes my hair easy to comb after a shower. However, it can be easy to weigh hair down and make it feel a little dirty if you overuse accidentally. The product itself was okay enough to use but there are so many better conditioners out there that I don't think I'd repurchase.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Blue
Left my hair in worse shape than before using it! My hair felt incredibly weighed down, greasy, and was a tangled mess!
Age: 25-29
Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine
Eyes: Green
This was horrible the consistincy is weird and thin. it didn't even de tangle my hair I hate this stuff. the shAmpoo is fine. but this stuff is weird..ill stick to my pureology volume conditioner. expensive but the best I've found ever.
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
Like a couple of other reviewers mentioned, this makes my hair smell like fish. I don't know why. It works okay on my hair but after using it twice I noticed the fishy smell. My cat noticed it too cause he came up behind me last night and began licking my hair! I asked my co-worker today to smell my hair to see if it smelled and she said she could not detect a fishy smell. But I smell it! And so does my cat and we're all that matters...ha...so I won't be buying this again. Now what to do with my giant, barely-used bottle? Grrr. The Pure Clean shampoo is nice, though I can't be certain it's not what's causing the foul odor so I will experiment and try one without the other and see from where the smell originates. I suspect it is the conditioner though...polymers and what-have-you.
UPDATE 11/12/12: I tried just using the shampoo and there was no bad smell! I knew the conditioner was the culprit!
Age: 19-24
Skin: Combination, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
This conditioner almost makes me want to cry : (. I have very thin, almost pure straight, long hair and i absolutely loved the other regular garnier fructis shampoo and conditioner. But this pure clean stuff (although im sure wonderful for the environment) is horrible for my hair. My hair feels like it has a film of crap on top of it. It looks like i went a long day without washing it as soon as it dries. Also, before switching to pure clean my hair was so easy to detangle, but now im ripping out hair every 5 mins because the filmy crap likes to stick together. It just makes me so sad. My hair was my favorite thing about me. Definately not using it again, i've given it a month and it just keeps getting worse. Heard nice things for curls though.
Age: 18 & Under
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Red, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
Why all the negativity? Seriously, one of the best conditioners I've ever used. Maybe you all are using too much? Or maybe the formula is just more suited to curly hair. Not sure, but either way, used in conjunction with it's matching shampoo, Aussie 3 Minute Miracle rinse out, and a Garnier leave in conditioning cream, my hair looks and smells fabulous. Love this stuff.
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I cannot say anything good about this conditioner really. It smelled ok in the bottle, but my hair afterward smelled totally different. Plus it left it oily.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Acne-prone, Fair-Medium, Cool
Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Blue
THIS IS HORRIBLE DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. Leaves hair with a waxy film after about 4 days of use. Really gross.
First off,the only reason I gave it all 5s is because there are so many negative review.
With that being said, I have no idea why people are complaining about this. Not sure if they have changed the formula or what, but I really like this stuff
Smell: different from other Garnier hair products, lighter and frutier. Not unpleasant but I prefer more perfumier scents.
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David Wilcock's phone call to Project Camelot after hearing of Deagle's prediction pretty much nails it in my opinion. Which essentially is that; No he doesn't buy into the nuke thing tomorrow
I think Deagle just freaked himself out with his own dream sign some how. I'm sure there's a waking contextual association for him somewhere in this waking life. Does that mean nukes for all of us? No probably not.
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Just for the record....
Deagle didn't say there would be any nukes on October 7th. He said that something major with the economy worldwide would happen on the 7th which would lead to nukes in the future. (again...which I doubt)
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The time given is an estimate that the interpreters of the linguistics have come up with. I listened to George and Cliff in a radio interview tonight, and they said that it's the median of the timescale given by the program. Given what worldwide markets did yesterday, bank failures are highly possible today, starting a chain reaction that breaks down economies all over the world.


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By John Manuel
Erik Pappas swore that when his baseball career was over, he wouldn�t try to drag it out as a weekend warrior.
The Chicago native played parts of three seasons in the big leagues with the Cubs and Cardinals, his last season coming in 1994. That would have been enough. Before he found out about the Olympics.
�I was playing absolutely no baseball; I had no interest in playing in those over-30 leagues,� Pappas said as he drove to a workout in Sarasota, Fla. �I heard about the Olympics and Greece maybe having a team about five years ago, and thought, �That�s great. I�ll be 38.� I didn�t think the team would concern me.�
He was wrong. Orioles owner Peter Angelos, a Greek-American, took interest and decided to help finance a team for Greece, which automatically gets a spot in any Olympic competition in 2004 as the host nation. Angelos and the Orioles put a notice on the team�s Website to find players of Greek heritage and helped establish the Greek Baseball Federation.
The Orioles� international scout, Rob Derksen, was picked to coach the team and found Pappas, whose father was Greek and whose grandfather lived in Greece. Under international rules, that�s enough for an athlete to become a dual citizen in international play. (Other countries have also taken advantage of the rule. Greece lobbied successfully to have the rule reach back to the great-grandparent threshold.)
Slowly, Derksen found players. Greece won a European Group B tournament in 2002 and finished second to the Netherlands last year in Europe�s Group A championship, with a team featuring players young (Orioles 2003 first-round pick Nick Markakis) and old (Pappas).
Derksen�s Legacy
Some of the players were obvious finds because of their names�Dodgers farmhand Nick Theodorou, for example, or Athletics minor leaguer Vasili Spanos�and Pappas, whose mother was Irish. Elsewhere, however, Derksen had to dig. He discovered players such as lefthanders A.J. Brack and Sean Spencer, and veteran utility player Clay Bellinger, who were just Greek enough.
�I�m like a lot of the guys on the team,� Pappas said, �in that I�m not real Greek. Rob did a great job finding a lot of guys who have Greek mothers. You never would know they were Greek.�
Derksen, who was Australia�s manager in the �96 Olympics, attended conventions of coaches and the Winter Meetings, and blanketed the minor leagues, colleges and even Greek churches with letters. He assembled a preliminary Olympic roster with a solid mix of depth, experience and youth-.
The team is Derksen�s lasting legacy. He died in June of a heart attack at 44, leaving North Florida coach Dusty Rhodes and White Sox scout John Kazanas as the team�s co-coaches.
�We�ll hang Derk�s jersey in the dugout, and we�ll definitely miss him,� Kazanas said. �He did a fantastic job of finding players that should help us be competitive.�
The Markakis Question
Markakis could also be Greece�s most dominant pitcher, but whether he�ll pitch remained up in the air. Markakis was Baseball America�s Junior College Player of the Year in 2002-2003 as a two-way player, and the Orioles drafted him seventh overall last year. While most organizations had Markakis projected as a pitcher due to his low 90s fastball and loose arm, the Orioles preferred his bat.
Derksen was lobbying to have Markakis pitch in the Olympics, and injuries to minor league veterans such as Kevin and Troy Pickford decimated the staff. So Greek team officials went to the Orioles, and Markakis, who was hitting .301-11-60 at low Class A Delmarva, began throwing bullpens in July.
�It was exciting, but I was kind of surprised,� he said. �All of my focus has been on being a hitter since last July. This is the first that I have pitched since then.�
Greece could use Markakis in relief with Diamondbacks farmhands Alex Cremidan and Peter Sikaras. Greece will need its bullpen, with the likes of 37-year-old Clint Zavaras, who pitched with the Mariners in 1989 and has been out of baseball for a decade, slated to be one of the team�s starters.
A native Greek, one of several who will be on the final roster, was expected to log innings in the round robin as well, just to keep the team from taxing its few top arms. The Greek baseball federation was agitating for more Greeks on the final roster, pointing to the nation�s shocking victory in the European soccer championships as proof that it didn�t need help in international sports. The federation also claimed it was one of many Greek Olympic governing bodies that was short of cash as July came to a close, throwing the team�s travel plans in doubt.
�We sure could use Derk right now,� Pappas said, �to smooth a lot of this stuff out. We�re a few weeks away and we don�t know who�s going and who�s not.�
Greece preliminary roster
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This "We're In" photo was taken on June 30, 1958 the day the U.S. Senate passed The Alaska Statehood Act.
The famous photo, above, was taken the next day after the paper was flown to Washington, D.C.
The Statehood Act didn't go into effect immediately–Alaska actually became a state in January 1959.
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Today (June 30) is the anniversary of the day in 1958 when the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska Statehood Act which brought Alaska into the Union. The measure was signed by President Eisenhower on July 7, 1958 and Alaska became the 49th state on Jan. 3, 1959.
You've probably seen the famous statehood photo. The one of the big two-word headline: "We're In." That headline was printed on the cover of the Anchorage paper of that day.
Well, here's an interesting tidbit you may not know about that photo—the one with the officials holding the newspaper.
While the headline was printed on June 30th, the photo itself was taken on July 1st—in Washington, D.C.
That could be arranged in this day of high speed jets and special courier services. But back in 1958, that was some feat.
Special editions of the historic paper were flown to Washington, D.C. by jet bomber for distribution to Washington officials.
There's a photo in the Alaska Digital Archives of President Eisenhower and Alaska Territorial Governor Mike Stepovich holding a copy of that paper in Washington, D.C. on July 1st. The day after it was printed in Anchorage.
This week on The LegHead Report we'll be remembering the signing of the Alaska Statehood Act with stories from our archives about statehood.
And speaking of Archives, the Alaska Digital Archives has a copy of the "We're In" photo as well as thousands of others. The digital archives also has audio and video covering all periods of Alaska history.
Plan to spend a lot of time there if you go. There is so much to look at and enjoy.
Photo & Video: Courtesy of Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Alaska flags are flying at half-staff this week to honor the last living territorial governor, Mike Stepovich.
Stepovich died last week at the age of 94. He was in a California hospital after suffering a bad head injury in a fall earlier this month. His services will be held in Fairbanks on Friday. Despite a home in Medford, Stepovich maintained his Alaska residency and returned each summer.
"Alaska has lost a true pioneer," Governor Parnell said in a press release announcing the death. "Governor Stepovich was a strong, selfless figure. His love for our state is a great legacy that will endure for generations of Alaskan," he said.
Anchorage Daily News columnist Mike Dunham said that in some ways, Stepovich was the John Kennedy of territorial Alaska. He was optimistic and constantly promoting Alaska and statehood Outside.
Stepovich's constant promotion of statehood to the American public played an important role," said Dunham. "No one could see the smiling, handsome young Alaskan charming the panel on "What's My Line?" without liking him and, by extension, the people whom he represented….Here was proof that Alaskans weren't just parky-clad hunters, whiskered sourdoughs or capitalist robber barons," he said.
Stepovich was born in Fairbanks, and served three terms in the Alaska Territorial Legislature before serving as governor from 1957 – 1958. Following his state service, Governor Stepovich returned to his law practice in Fairbanks.
State flags were lowered to half-staff on Valentine's Day and will remain lowered until Governor Stepovich's funeral, which the Fairbanks Daily News Miner says will be Friday morning the 28th. Flags will be raised to full-staff Saturday morning.
Stepovich on Cover of Time Magazine June, 1958. Photo by Mike Dunham ADN.
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Stepovich lived in Oregon much of year, still claimed residence in Fairbanks where his service will be
Photo courtesy Alaska Digital Archives.
January 3 is a special day for Alaska. I guess you could say "Happy Birthday!" to our favorite state since Alaska was officially admitted into the Union on Jan. 3, 1959.
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TLHR Oct. 22 Tues. Why is Japan paying for tsunami cleanup
I saw an interesting article I'd like to share with you. It's got to do with Japan's decision to provide some money to the U.S. and Canada to help pay for cleaning up the tsunami debris that is expected to hit west coast shores.
It's titled: Why on earth is Japan paying for tsunami debris cleanup in North America? It's posted on the Japan Daily Press website which is dedicated to engaging the world with news and editorials on various facets of Japan.
Alaskans and others are concerned about what will happen when all that marine debris hits our coasts. It will require a massive clean-up effort. The big question is: Who will pay for it? Once you've seen the photo of the crew cleaning up part of a dock that washed ashore in Oregon, you get a hint of all the labor and special efforts that will be needed to clean the debris of hazardous wastes.
The author of the article posted at Japan Daily Press is Adam Westlake, who hails from Portland, Oregon but now lives in Japan.
Westlake says the offer of cleanup funds is just "Japan being Japan". The money was not asked for by either Canada or the U.S., says Westlake who states that the gesture, no matter how well meant, is "an incredibly foolish act at this point in time".
They say they want to do this as a way of showing appreciation for the millions and millions of dollars that was donated to Japan in post-disaster relief efforts, says Westlake. But he thinks the money is better spent in Japan as it works to clean up and rebuild from the devastating disaster.
Westlake goes so far as to say he hopes the governments of the United States and Canada refuse the money.
He argues that natural disasters happen and that the victim country has no responsibility for the disaster or for how a natural disaster may affect other parts of the globe as the situation progresses.
"Japan was impacted by these disasters immediately, and now, a year and a half later, North America is feeling the results," he wrote.
Here is what Westlake suggests: "The act on Japan's part is truly of a kind nature, but now is not the time to using money that way. And there's no real way to "pay it forward" when it comes to natural disasters. If Japan really wants to show gratitude for all the recovery aid it received, it should help give to the next country struck by natural disaster. But you can't go paying things like that back when your country's people and economy are not in a healthy condition."
An interesting perspective from an article posted on the Japan Daily Press website. See the link below to read the article.
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