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Why CSPs Will Retain a Strong Position in Video Services
By: Paula Bernier, TMC Executive Editor
Facilities-based service providers that own the access network are ideally positioned to distribute video both today and in the future, according to Chris Croupe, who works in strategic marketing at Alcatel-Lucent. Video comes in a variety of forms, its applications continue to expand, and this kind of content continues to multiply, Croupe notes in his recent TechZine posting, Future of video content: Evolution toward 2020.
Calls leveraging video have become widespread, he adds, noting that 59 percent of smartphone users under 35 years of age make at least one video call a month, and 37 percent of this group does so at least once a week.
'Main-Streaming' Changing Video Game in Content Delivery Networking
By Mae Kowalke
As traditional TV collides with the internet, unprecedented changes are taking place in the video industry. The biggest trend is what Alcatel-Lucent calls 'main-streaming:' video streaming as the new normal mass market model for how consumers get their video.
In short, consumers want video content anywhere, anytime, on any device. In an early 2011 report, Neilson said U.S. consumers spent 34.5 percent more time watching video on the internet, and 20 percent more time watching mobile video, than they did in early 2010. No doubt that number has grown since—and will continue to grow.
Online video is popular with consumers because it satisfies an appetite for flexible consumption. Plus, the success of online services like Hulu+ and Netflix indicate customers are willing to pay for that flexibility.
Content delivery industry players like Netflix and Hulu offer video using ad-funded or direct-subscription business models. These content providers pay traditional content delivery networks (CDNs) like Amazon and Limelight to publish video content online, because doing so theoretically helps ensure quality of service (QoS).
Trouble is, CDNs are making promises they can't keep. The structure of their platforms—where caches are located at the edge of ISP networks—simply can't provide guaranteed adequate QoS for end users. This presents a significant opportunity for network service providers.
Optimizing Networks in a Demand for Video Everywhere Era
By Mae Kowalke
In my blog last week, I focused on some of the changes and challenges in digital media delivery that vendors likeVelocix (an Alcatel-Lucent company) are developing to help service providers maximize the quality of end user experiences while minimizing network traffic. In that piece I cited the first article in a two part series by Richard Gibbs, Vice President Worldwide Technical and Business Consulting at Velocix's article in the Alcatel-Lucent e-zine TechZine, "A New Approach to Publishing and Caching Video." It focused on the architecture and design considerations for a Content Delivery Network (CDN). This post picks up the story with the second Gibbs post, "Optimize Delivery to Meet Demand for "Video Everywhere," which looks in detail at the delivery, management and control functions needed for efficient CDN operation.
Digital Media Delivery Innovations Maximize Video QoE and Minimize Network Traffic
Mae Kowalke
As the consumer appetite for online video content grows, communication service providers (CSPs) find themselves increasingly marginalized in the market. Video content is usually delivered by third-party providers (e.g. companies such as BBC, Hulu, Netflix, CANAL+), which have their own relationships with end users and therefore earn any resulting incremental revenue.
Given marketplace realities, CSPs need to broaden their core businesses beyond merely providing connectivity. They must also offer enhanced digital media delivery. Doing this successfully requires innovative new methods of publishing/storage and caching using next generation content delivery networks (CDNs). These networks enable CSPs to transform themselves into entertainment providers and also allow them to leverage their networks without creating traffic bottlenecks near servers.


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One day after trading a series of contentious remarks and veiled threats, the U.S. and Russia are preparing to come together in talks over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine with Secretary of State John Kerry now scheduled to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris on Wednesday.
In a separate meeting in Brussels, a Russian delegation will also meet with its NATO counterparts as European nations try to find a way to tamp down the tensions with Russia's President Vladimir Putin over the overthrow of the government in Kiev and the military intervention in Crimea.
Plans for direct talks between the new government in Ukraine and Russia, according to reports, are for now on hold.
Meanwhile, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has responded to a request from Kiev by sending "35 unarmed military personnel" who are reportedly on their way to capitol city to act as observers amid the ongoing crisis and oversee aspects of the transitional government. Observers from both the US and UK are included in that delegation.
The announcement of these diplomatic developments overnight and early Wednesday have seemed to calmed the nerves of many around the world as the threat of immediate escalation, especially of a military nature, has dissipated.
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Hopes for the kind of détente that may or may not be forthcoming was the basis for an editorial by The Nation magazine overnight, which called for "common sense" on the highly-charged situation as it chastised hawks in Washington for clamoring for military action and the pundit class for running fast and loose in their prognostications on Ukraine. The editorswrote:
The pundit class needs a strong dose of realism and common sense. It's absurd to scold Obama for "taking the stick option off the table"—the unavoidable fact is that he has no stick in relation to Ukraine. Americans have no desire and no reason to go to war with Russia over Crimea, and the EU and the United States are not about to supplant Russia's economic influence in Ukraine. Washington is not going to provide the aid, the trade or the subsidized energy that Ukraine needs, and the EU—which is still mired in a deep economic crisis of its own—doesn't have the means to offer Ukraine much beyond painful austerity. An unpopular Ukrainian leader has been unseated, but the new government is not elected, not legitimate and not at all settled. The international community should be pushing hard for compromise, before this fragile and bitterly divided country breaks apart.
Frustrated cold warriors filling armchairs in the outdated "strategic" think tanks that litter Washington will continue to howl at the moon, but American policy should be run by the sober. The president should work with the EU and Russia to preserve Ukraine's territorial unity, support free elections and allow Ukraine to be part of both the EU and the Russian customs union, while pledging that NATO will not extend itself into Ukraine. It is time to reduce tensions and create possibility, not draw lines, flex rhetorical muscles and fan the flames of folly.
Those responding positively to this line of thinking, both inside and outside of Ukraine, may have something to welcome if talks on Wednesday can offer progress without violence.

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SHERMAN, TEXAS -- Sherman High School senior Taylor Van Kirk and her mom, Kristina Mazzant Thorp, couldn't get through an interview without crying at the thought of their exchange student, Susi Fuchs, heading back to Germany tomorrow.
"She's my daughter, she will always be my daughter," Mazzant Thorp said.
Susi has been living at Taylor's house here in Sherman for three weeks.
The two first met this summer when Taylor traveled to Germany with the school's study abroad program.
"We go over there in the summer and we live with them for three, bout three and a half weeks, somewhere in there. Then we take a little side trip to Austria and the heart of the Alps," study abroad advisor Suzy Robinson said.
Sherman High School has been leading this study abroad program for 15 years.
This year, Taylor convinced her mom to let her be a part of it.
"And so I just had to beg and beg my mom," Van Kirk said.
"That was the hardest part, sending her somewhere. After she went and I skyped her and she loved their family, I felt so much better and I was at peace," Mazzant Thorp said.
When Susi came here, she had a real Texas experience.
The girls now giggle about the cultural differences.
"They don't have ice in their drinks and no free refills," Van Kirk said.
"Her stepdad made me omelettes and eggs and bacon and pancakes and I really loved it. It's really different," Fuchs said.
They say their biggest lesson learned is that people thousands of miles away aren't all that different.
"People are so different but they're all so alike. I mean now I have a German sister who I'm going to love and I'm going to miss," Van Kirk said.
This year, there were eleven German students in the program.
Robinson says that if a Sherman high schooler is interested in participating in next year's program, they should contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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How many guitars did you end up building for him?
I wound up making him four guitars over that 10-year period. I'd make him one and he'd play it a year or two, and then I'd entice him with something else, maybe a little more trim or abalone, and he'd say, "Yeah—I'd like to have one of those!" So I'd make him another one, and then I'd trade him. Now I've got two guitars that Chet Atkins used to own and play, and I've got lots of pictures of him playing them, so they're kind of my retirement. Probably my kids will sell them at my funeral.
That must have been a huge boost for your business.
In the '90s I made 300 NSE guitars, maybe a few more. I'm 61 now, so that was a good decade for me. I was buried with orders because of Chet. But I'm sure glad it was an instrument that I loved, because I wouldn't want to have made 300 banjos during that time.
You made a 7-string guitar for Lenny Breau back in 1983, and that was kind of unheard of.
What were some of the challenges of designing the 7-string?
Well, in order to get the seventh string tuned up to a high A, we had to really experiment with the scale length, because there isn't a string available that could tune up to the high A without breaking. So I shortened the scale length quite a bit. I experimented using a capo on the guitar and restringing it, moving the capo around and changing the gauge of the string to find just that certain scale length and string gauge that made the first string feel like it was the same tension as the other treble strings. The guitar had a 22 ¾"-scale length, which is very short. And the string was an .008, which is not all that thin, really. I think Lenny even used a .009 at times. The high A actually worked quite well.
What were some of the other distinguishing characteristics of that 7-string?
It was a classical guitar shape, and I incorporated a really deep cutaway. And Lenny wanted it heavy. It was solid mahogany. That thing weighed a ton. He wanted it to sustain—that was a big part of his sound. He'd do those harmonics and they'd just keep ringing like a bell, so he really liked the fact that the guitar was heavy and had the sustain it did.
What sorts of electronics did it have?
Seymour Duncan made custom pickups for it. There were no 7-string pickups at that time. The string spacing was the same as a classical guitar, and the pickups had to be fabricated so the pole pieces were directly under each string. Lenny also wanted those roller knobs that are turned sideways, like on a Fender Jazzmaster. Actually, I used Jazzmaster controls. Lenny would reach down to that volume control and move it back and forth to get a tremolo sound.


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On the first night of HBO's House of Saddam miniseries, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is being shown a prototype of a monument being built to him, a pair of arms bearing crossed swords. It's very small, Saddam says. The flustered demonstrator explains, nervously and cautiously, that it's just a model. Saddam laughs. "I was joking!"
When a leader rises to power and acquires enemies, both sides have an interest in building him up to be greater than he is. In Iraq, Saddam of course built hortatory monuments and spread propaganda. And the two Bushes who fought wars against him (not to mention the Iranians who fought him and his enemies elsewhere), built him up as a world-class monster. He's a nuclear threat! He's a modern-day Hitler!
The project of House of Saddam is to render Saddam (Igal Naor) life-size, or a little smaller, once again. (A project already begun by his being overthrown and plucked out of a spider hole.) It's a refreshing take and an interesting effort, if finally not quite a compelling one.
House of Saddam, which airs this and the following Sunday in four parts, covers the atrocities of Saddam's career—the bloody purge of his enemies, the random cruelties to his aides, the brutalizing of civilians and the manufacture of a state of paranoia—but seen in total, they are less the acts of a world-class mastermind of menace than the standard crimes of a Third World dictator. Certainly he was ruthless and a terror. Obviously his particular oil-rich corner of the world elevated his importance. Still, the miniseries makes it all the more astonishing that he was such an obsession of American policy for decades.
Besides spanning Saddam's career as leader—from taking power in a 1979 coup through his capture after the Iraq invasion—the twist of House of Saddam is its focus on his family life. Because he populated his government with extended relatives, and gave power to sons and in-laws, work-family balance was especially tricky for him.
We see him as a browbeaten son, harried in his early years by an ever-critical mother. We see him as the disappointed father—a la Tony Soprano—with sons who can't fill his ideal of manliness and leadership, especially the psychotic Uday (Philip Arditti). (When his son whines about the heat on a hunting trip, Sadam sounds like Tony bitching at A.J.: "Of course you're hot! We're in the desert! Drink some water!") And we see him as straying husband, who casts aside his first wife (Shoreh Aghdashloo) for a pretty schoolteacher, the wife of another man. ("I would do nothing if I were you," an aide tells the cuckold. "There will be compensation.")
By far the most compelling character is Uday, an unstable, Euphratotrash sadist given to outbursts of random violence. After he beats an associate to death, Saddam blows up at him, but in a revealingly frustrated way: "You think violence is a pastime? It is a tool! What are we, barbarians?"
It's a darkly funny scene, but the miniseries' picture of Saddam himself is not much of a revelation. Naor is a good physical match and conveys both his menace and his pressure-cooker intensity. But for all of the focus on his family issues, Saddam remains fairly inscrutable; we get a better sense of how he acts than how he thinks, why he takes steps like inviting war with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Is he ideological or just cynical? Is he interested in the grand scheme of history or just power and self-preservation? Does he believe his own propaganda? House of Saddam doesn't make this much clearer.
Maybe it's because of the broad sweep of the miniseries, which spans nearly 30 years; we see Saddam characterized mostly through events widely covered in the news. (Some of the more interesting sections deal with the less-chronicled years between the two U.S. wars.) In any event, what we learn about his psyche is largely what you might have guessed about his psyche: that he fears seeming weak, values loyalty but is himself fickle, serves his own interests, learned early on that the route to safety was to completely brutalize the other guy first.
Of course, that may be partly the point: showing that Saddam, ultimately, is not surprising, that he was just a garden-variety dictator. While that may not make House of Saddam a major event, it is in its own way a revelation. We spent how much time, money and blood… on this guy?


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Calhoun's Return: Comparing Him to Other Senior Citizen CoachesPosted by rtmsf on September 1st, 2011
Jim Calhoun's non-announcement announcement that he plans to return to the Connecticut sidelines for the 2011-12 season was no shocker to anybody. If it wasn't the interminable wait for a 'final' decision that tipped you off, it was the well-placed leaks from key recruits and their families; if you still weren't convinced, surely the announcement that superstar center Andre Drummond had chosen to reclassify to the Class of 2011 and play for the Huskies this coming season clinched it. Regardless of when you believed he'd be back, Calhoun will coach his team this season at the rather ripe age of 69 years old (he turns 70 next May) and, despite some health issues in the past, he shows few signs of slowing down. And, in fact, his team will be on the short list of contenders after North Carolina and Kentucky most likely to cut the nets down next April in New Orleans.
We know that with his third national title last season, the curmudgeonly coach passed Kansas' Phog Allen (66) as the oldest coach to win a college basketball national title, but with a stacked team returning and a few more gray hairs on top of his head, it got us wondering who his senior citizen peers are within the other sports. Here's the list of oldest coaches to have won a title in each of the major team sports:
- MLB – Jack McKeon (2003), 72 years old
- NCAA Football – Bobby Bowden (1999), 69 years old
- NCAA Basketball – Jim Calhoun (2011), 68 years old
- NFL – George Halas (1963), 68 years old
- NHL – Scotty Bowman (2002), 68 years old
- NBA – Phil Jackson (2010), 64 years old


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Hi Everyone!
I was browsing through some of Dick Eastman's material at his blog at www.eogn.com. One recent post he had caught my eye because it is similar to the questions I may receive here myself as genealogy coordinator for the library. Dick takes questions from individuals and thought that the question was good and had great applicability among all genealogy researchers. He decided to publish his response as an open response so everyone could see what his suggestions would be.
That question has been "What online genealogy software should I use to create my data and make it easy for me to share?".
Rather than paraphrase what Dick created for a response, I am going to provide a direct link to the entry on his blog that addresses his lengthy and informative response to the questions about what genealogical software should someone use.
You can take a look at what Dick Eastman's thoughts were about the question and look at the long list of suggestions he had based on how you want to create your data and be able to share the data you have created online. Dick's response to the question was broken down into three ways to approach these online resources to place your data:
- Contribute to someone else's database
- Own your own online database
- A blended approach – you control a database that belongs to someone else
Take a look at Dick Eastman's great insights into this age-old genealogical question! You can see Dick's suggestions at:
Which Online Genealogical Software To Use?
In the day of "cloud computing" we ask ourselves how can we create online databases within which we want to work with others in a collaborative effort in order to add new data over time with new genealogical discoveries. The day of the "lineage program only on your computer" may have limited time left as the trend seems to be to want to put your data online and work with others to add to it.
Dick really took some time to put together a list of resources that exist for researchers to use. He noted the "plus" and "minuses" of each resource.
His blog post is definitely worth taking a long look at if you ever wanted to consider moving to the "computing cloud" with your genealogical material. I did not realize how many resources existed for online lineage databases.
He really provided a very comprehensive list of suggestions for you to consider based on three categories of databases and control that I mentioned early on in this post.
Enjoy his article and I believe you will have a much clearer understanding of what is available in "cloud computing" for you to upload your research.
Tony Kierna
Genealogy Coordinator
Schaumburg Township District Library


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The stunning 17 minute Battlefield 4 demo - Fishing in Baku - was running on AMD's Radeon HD 7990, which the firm claims is the "world's fastest graphics card".
"AMD and EA DICE are proud partners in gaming, with a recent history that includes the award-winning Battlefield 3 in 2011. That relationship continues today with the world's first public demonstration of Battlefield 4, powered by the AMD Radeon HD 7990 - the world's fastest graphics card!" wrote AMD Gaming on its Facebook page.
"Today's unveiling not only demonstrates the commitment EA DICE makes to state-of-the-art PC graphics, it stands as further proof that the critically-acclaimed Graphics Core Next architecture in the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series is the best choice for truly advanced PC games."
Battlefield 4 will be released this autumn.
According to Overclockers.co.uk, a 7990 will currently set you back a minimum of £719.99. Let's hope the next-gen console versions provide a more affordable high-end experience.
Source: AMDGaming


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I often get comments that are simply just "nice photos" or "liked the images". I often ponder the importance of the written word is in blogging. I like to write text to go with my posts not just post photos, Although I am by no means a writer. I left school over 5 years ago now to focus on art and design, and despite getting a A and a A* in English at GCSE, my grammar, spelling, punctuation and stuff are awful. I write how I talk and how things flow out of my mouth rather than trying to write formally and "correctly" in a style that doesnt suit me. I know most of the time my posts are a bit TL;DR! They do have a bit of a formula normally, a bit about the clothes, a bit about my day. Not only so you can know what I did, It helps me remember what I've done and when. One day when I'm old and grey I can look back and remember all the daily goings on in my life.
To me, photos are very important in what I believe makes a good blog. But it is only a component in successful blogging. I love reading about other peoples thoughts and feelings. Diary style posts are my favorites, Blogging is voyeuristic by nature, You want to know about the person behind the blog and who they are. Its not just looking at what someone wears or the eye makeup they use. I want to know what they did, where they wore something, how they felt about it. I think the way someone writes says alot more about a person that a photograph. Milly's blog for example is an actual JOY to read!
Things like Tumblr, which personally I think is purely just a website for photo dumps, not necessarily a legit blogging platform, have really made me question how important I feel writing is on a blog. Its all well and good posting 10000 reblogged photographs, but what does it really say about you as a person? Maybe I just dont get it because I dont really find images "inspirational". Like I touched on earlier, I think alot of people follow the person behind the blog, not the blog itself. Personality is a major thing when it comes to successful blogging. Words say so much more than about you photo ever could. But never worry if you cant write "properly". Its a blog not a column for a magazine. Just write, say anything, It doesn't matter if its professional or not.
So just to add a disclaimer, I'm not complaining and this is by no means an attack on anyone. Just touching on some thoughts really. Its not really a very comprehensive or well constructed out post. I just typed as I thought.
PS. I know my eyebrows look weird, I didn't fill them in today, the right one is the one that's been growing back no thanks to a bad eyebrow threading experience! I wasn't wearing much makeup, only liner and a contour so I didn't bother with it!
and PPS. To clarify, I dont HATE people saying nice pics or whatever, It was just the starting point that got me thinking about this! I too fall victim to the nice photos comment occasionally! I do appreciate those comments just as much as the others!


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I've never been one for tearful goodbyes. When I leave Deadspin, I want to go out the same way I came in; crawling through the ductwork. I was going to rob the place, and ended up staying for three years. Anyway, how do you say goodbye to a guy who took you in and gave you the only other key to the site besides his, even though you were a practicing Branch Davidian? That took courage.
Why the Ned photo here? The way I look at it, we all have varying degrees of Nedness. Ned, of course, is a football player who -– despite being barely ambulatory -– hobbled into the maw of the fiercest college football melee of the decade, facing near-certain doom. It's hard to believe that he thought he could make a difference, or that he wouldn't get pummeled with his own crutches for his trouble. But damn it, he had to try. Will Leitch has a high degree of Nedness. What did he think he was doing that day in 2005, when he tugged at the bottom of Denton's suit jacket and timidly presented a worn spiral notebook crammed with ideas for a Gawker sports blog? A what? Who would read such a thing? But Will hurled himself into the fracas, and despite the odds, pretty much changed everything. That's so freakin' Ned.
I was fortunate enough to have a front row seat for it all. I got to read virtually every word Will has written since the beginning; the best part of my day has always been scrolling Deadspin to see what he's come up with. Just like you, I suspect. It hasn't really sunk in that he's actually leaving –- although writing this helps -– which means I'm still in the denial phase, I suppose. (I plan to skip the anger phase, and replace it with cinnamon Pop Tarts).
Anyway, thanks Will, for taking in a "mainstream" journalist and letting him occupy a small corner of this greatness. Thanks for putting up with my stupid ideas, for all the Love and Death quotes, for never letting me get discouraged, and for all those terms you invented which I stole and use in everyday conversation. You believed in me when few others did.
Good luck out there in the big non-Deadspin world, my friend. Leaving has to be a little bit scary, I'm sure. But, as Boris' mother said: "He will go, and I hope they put him on the front lines!"
"Thanks, mom. My mother, folks."


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Southwest Turkey Soup
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes6 servings (2-1/2 quarts)
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 2 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) chicken broth
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 1 cup salsa
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 1 to 2 tablespoons chili powder
- Sour cream and minced fresh cilantro
- In a Dutch oven, cook turkey in oil over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain.
- Add the beans, broth, corn, salsa, chilies and chili powder. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes to allow flavors to blend. Serve with sour cream and cilantro. Freeze option: Before adding sour cream and cilantro, cool soup. Freeze soup in freezer containers up to 3 months. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through in a saucepan, stirring occasionally and adding a little broth or water if necessary. Serve with sour cream and cilantro.
Nutrition Facts1-1/2 cups: 381 calories, 14g fat (4g saturated fat), 54mg cholesterol, 1163mg sodium, 41g carbohydrate (5g sugars, 9g fiber), 24g protein.
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Jan 5, 2016
I love this soup. Also, agree with divadesigner. How can someone rate a recipe they haven't tried or one they've altered so much, it doesn't vaguely resemble the original. Beats me!
Feb 26, 2013
Wicked easy, Wicked delicious, I used cubed chicken instead of ground turkey. Pairs nice with a couple slices of a cheese quesadilla with clinatro on wheat tortillas.
Aug 17, 2012
Love this soup, the only change I made was that I used black beans instead of kidney beans( personnal preference)
Aug 16, 2012
@tdpries1:All you've done is note how you'd change a southwestern flavored soup into basic, boring vegetable soup. Why write a review for a recipe you will not eat? Also, green chiles are available in a mild version with no heat what so ever and chili powder adds smokiness, not heat. It is very irritating to read reviews for a recipe from someone who has not or will not make said recipe.
Aug 16, 2012
It sounds good, basically, but I do not like spicy foods, so would eliminate the chilies and the chili powder. I would add a lot more veggies: carrots and green beans at least. Haven't actually tried it, not into salsa, but would add home-frozen tomatoes instead. Overall, sounds good, especially with a hot loaf of home-made french or italian bread.
Feb 1, 2012
My husband loves it! Said to make it again. I used reduced sodium kidney beans & used homemade chicken broth to reduce the sodium.
Sep 28, 2011
whole family loves!
Mar 21, 2011
Have made this twice now since my hubbie loved it so much. Very easy to make and very flavorful!
Feb 15, 2011
my whole family including a soup hating huband ,9yr old and a 5 yr old loved this soup!


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Anytime two or more parties decide to form a legal entity for economic gain, a joint venture is formed. The parties typically all contribute equity to the startup of the joint venture and then share in the profits and control of the venture. Sometimes the joint venture is very limited and it's created solely for one project, and other times it is an ongoing relationship. There's a lot to consider before you form a joint venture. Before you sign papers to form a joint venture be sure to do your homework on your soon to be business partners. Check their credentials and their credit. Develop a business plan that meets your needs. Then you can move to the next step and decide how to legally form a joint venture. There's no limit on the type of legal structure that you can use to establish a joint venture. Some ventures are simple partnerships, and others are complex corporations, for example. In order to decide which legal structure is the best for your joint venture, you need to consider your short- and long-term goals, your risk adversity, you're available capital and the way in which you want the venture managed


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Back to School: Lessons for Teens Online
As teens go back to school, there are several lessons about social media that kids should keep in mind. Lifelock's Hilary Schneider joins digits. Photo: AP.
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An incredible event came to an end yesterday, seeing Sean Farley (MEX) and Sandy Parker (USA) on top after 20 races in winds averaging 30 knots.
Sean Farley seemed the man to beat at these first official North American Course Racing Championships, but the battle was full on for the places 2-5 between Damien Leroy, Jesse Richman, Sky Solbach and Chip Wasson.
Solbach was clearly in second after the first races of the event, holding down 2008 KPWT Racing Champion Jesse Richman and Damien Leroy. Chip Wasson and Abel Lago battling for 5th and 6th.
With more races during the 4 day event Damien made more pace up to the top, winning some races agains Farley and making his way up to the second place. It came down to the last day of racing, when the race committee scheduled "only" another four races, with 5 points between places 2 and 5.
Richman had a good start, while Solbach struggled on this final day and lost the pace. The decision for second and third had to be taken in the very last race between Leroy and Richman, where finally Leroy had the better and and defeated Richman by only three points after 20 races. With only one discard allowed there was no room for mistakes, and so this event will be memorized for a long time.
In the womens fleet, it was a close battle between Melissa Gil (PUE) and Sandy Parker (USA), with the better end for Sandy. After 20 races, only 3 points separated the first three women, with Melissa and Kristin Boese (GER) tied in points but due to the higher number of better results for Melissa Kristin "only" third in the end.
Together with the results from the European Championships in Douarnenez all eyes are set now for the Course Racing world championships in San Francisco later in the season.


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Welcome everyone to my dorm room, this is a place to party and have fun, i have a mini-bar in that corner over there
/Spy points to a corner and a mini-bar pops into place
Once more people join this place it will be bigger.
The uber l33t gaming system, if your board think of a game and start playing, i have any game you can think of.
We got pool tables over there, and a air hockey table there.
Now all we need is some fine females
/Spy snaps his fingers and 15 girls walk into the room
Damn I only did my snap to bring 14, whered this other one come from.
Oh well, lets party
/Spy walks over and turns on the sound system and puts on Just like Music by Eric Sermon
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
So you know how all art books you have ever read, always tell you to do sketches from life and you read it...think its a good idea, but still never do it? YOU SHOULD. Get over the fear that a person at Starbucks might freak out when you are drawing them..they never do. Often times they'll even ask to see what you drew!
In the last few months I've really ramped up the daily sketching and its helped a ton. It felt a bit like work at the beginning, but now its one of the highlights of my day. It REALLY helps to 'loosen up' your art.
The only frustrating part is that folks never stay still for very long!! Occasionally you'll get a great sketch going, then they move and its finished...its part of the territory! In order to help combat this, or when you can't make it out, just pop in a DVD and sketch out what you see. You can always hit the pause button to help work it out.
My last word of advice on this topic is to go for the GESTURE when life drawing, not the anatomy! I find if I start thinking anatomy, its over...you just dont have the time when you are dealing with seconds per pose. The gesture is really what you should capture here.
Now, when working from a live posing model, I've found....wait, that's a post for another day!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Futurequake cover -line art
Just a quick update today. Have recently finished the lineart for the cover of an upcoming Futurequake (issue #15)
The Extinction Hunter story is set to run in this book. The cover is off the colorist, I'll be sure to post up the color scan early in the new year, closer to the actual publishing date.
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Snaps from the Debenhams SS12 press day. It was in Victoria House, which was actually where one of the Look Shows was held! I knew I remembered the place from somewhere! Was a huge press day spanning across loads of rooms. I loved Henry Hollands offerings and the pops of brights and 60's elements. Really enjoyed the Debenhams Beauty section too, which kindly gave us some generous goodybags! They showed us the new offerings for Spring Summer brands at the Debenhams Beauty Hall. I'm VERY intrested in the new Benefit blush but cannot remember what its called!
Loved all the homeware too, obviously I dont own my own place yet, but when I do its being filled with beautiful things. They had this whole table laid out with Union Jack decor which was just too cute!


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Episode 009 of Head-Fi TV was just uploaded. This episode is a video review of the SPL (Sound Performance Lab) Phonitor. The SPL Phonitor is what SPL calls a headphone monitoring amplifier, and comes with a plethora of imaging/crossfeed adjustments, intended to allow the user to simulate the coherence of imaging from loudspeaker studio monitors.
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Sarah Hyland to Co-Host 2014 Teen Choice Awards With Tyler Poseyby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
Clear your schedules for Aug. 10, because the 2014 Teen Choice Awards is one show you won't want to miss! With Sarah Hyland added as co-host alongside Tyler Posey, audiences are pretty much guaranteed a funny time.
The actress and actor have stretched their comedy legs on their respective TV series 'Modern Family' and 'Teen Wolf,' and now they're going to team up to conquer a very different night of television. The 2014 TCAs are going to be huge — just check out the nominations list — so we're glad that there'll be an experienced lad and lady up on the stage to run the show.
A slew of stars has also been added to the appearance lineup, including Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Ian Somerhalder, Victoria Justice, Ansel Elgort and Laura and Vanessa Marano. That's on top of the previously announced celebs like Lucy Hale, Cody Simpson, Bella Thorne and Zendaya.
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Oobanken . Jerome Ming
Combining fragments of personal history, of memory and imagination, Oobanken builds photographic narratives through constructions and performances. The spaces created are different in character from their wider surroundings, as if confined in an enclave or compound, revealing an attentiveness to what lies beyond the threshold of this self-imposed isolation.
Made while living in Yangon, Myanmar, this series derives from Jerome Ming's early interest in built structures and interventions. While Oobanken may direct us to inquire about the function of objects and the actions presented, Ming's photographs also mirror the context in which they are made: that is, during a time of transition, in a place once isolated, a place once suspended in time.
Jerome Ming
First Book Award
Hardback with silkscreen-printed bare board gatefold cover
68 pages
16.5 x 21 cm
Publication date: May 2019
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Ouarzazate is a small city in the Moroccan desert famous for its movie studios and filming locations, an industry which began with David Lean and Lawrence of Arabia.
Invited by the American Friends of the Marrakech Museum for Photography and the Visual Arts to propose a project for his artist residency there, Ruwedel photographed the movie sets in 2014 and 2016.
Much of the filming activity in Ouarzazate has been for costume and Biblical epics. Cleopatra, The Garden of Eden, The Mummy, The Last Temptation of Christ; but also The Sheltering Sky and The Hills Have Eyes. Many of the sets appear to have been abandoned while others are constantly repurposed.
An Egyptian portal leads to a medieval village. An authentic Kasbah in ruins is actually a ruined replica of a "real" Kasbah elsewhere. Shepherds drive their flocks past "ancient" siege machines and Roman columns. "I was reminded of certain passages in Nathaniel West's Day of the Locust."
Far from the American deserts where he has produced much of his work of the past thirty years, in Morocco Ruwedel continues his long term interest in contemporary ruins and the histories of both landscape and landscape photography. The photographs are eerily reminiscent of 19th century European photography of ancient Egypt and the Middle East.
Mark Ruwedel Ouarzazate
Limited edition
Signed by the artist
136 pages
Publication date: October 2018
There are occasions when you have no time to "see" good images — you have to feel them. Once an image has been consciously "seen", the brain has processed the elements that shape it and very often the image has already vanished; it's too late. I'm talking about reportage and documentary photography, which is the kind of photography I practice.
We need to develop the automatisms or reflexes that may enable us to capture images on the fly, just as we are able to catch objects that slip through our fingers before they reach the ground. These reactions, that after an intense learning process we have transformed into automatisms, are also the reactions that lead us to lift our cameras up to take horizontal or vertical pictures without having had time to consciously decide which is the best option. Insofar as this process has to do with practicing automatisms and the emptying of intention, it is related to the Zen archer described by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
The exercises help us truly notice things and automate reactions. I began by taking the photographs for this essay as a conceptual exercise, to see what happened when I photographed 'what was behind', a variation on the kind of images in BANAL 2, Hide-and-Seek. I soon realised, however, that the main advantage was that it helped me notice the parallaxes and vanishing points, in this case those of the structures of the gratings. The parallaxes and vanishing points determine the perspectives, and it is important to develop the instincts that enable us choose the ideal perspective for each situation. This is even more important when we are looking for images that are constructed in a non-conventional way, because it implies taking an additional step and taking it instinctively and automatically. As is often the case, even in formal exercises on pure images, literature paves its way and insists on taking centre stage. Despite the fact that this is an exercise and not a story, I've followed literary as well as purely formal criteria to page and title this essay.
Cristóbal Hara
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Cristóbal Hara
Design: Roberto Turégano and Cristóbal Hara
24×17 cm. 32 pages. Softcover.
Ediciones Posibles
Beware Of The Dog is the journey that means to mature, the transit where the feeling of desire appears together with the idea of death, and the scars that time leaves behind, replacing the space we give to fiction as children, with "the real" and the conscience of the adult world.
BEWARE OF THE DOG . Alex LLovet
Awards: Voies Off Award Arles, 2018 - finalist / PHOTO IS:RAEL, 2018 - finalist /VI AFTM Photographic Scholarship, 2017 - winner
Binding Hardcover covered with dry blow
Pages 116 +1 detachable
Editorial Ediciones Posibles
Year 2018
Language Spanish, English
Ediciones Posibles
Dewi Lewis
New Zealand's Whanganui River is the lifeblood of the Māori. The tribes of Whanganui take their name, their spirit and their strength from this great river, which flows from the mountains of central North Island through to the Tasman Sea.
In Te Ahi Kā: The Fires of Occupation, photographer Martin Toft explores the deep physical and metaphysical relationships between the river and the Māori. In 1996 Toft spent six months in the middle and upper reaches of the Whanganui River in an area known as the King Country. Here he met Māori who were in the process of reversing the colonisation of their people and returning to their ancestral land, Mangapapapa which is on the steep banks of the river inside Whanganui National Park. At the end of his journey Toft was given the Māori name Pouma Pokai-Whenua.
Returning twenty years later to rekindle the spiritual kinship he had experienced, Toft began to work on this book. Its narrative is situated within the context of the current Whanganui River Deed of Settlement, Ruruku Whakatupua and the projects led by local Māori to settle historical grievances with the government dating back to the 1870s. At the heart of it is the Whanganui tribes' claim to the river, which is seen by them as both as an ancestor and as a source of both material and spiritual sustenance.
Born in Denmark, Martin Toft is a photographer and educator who works on commissions and long-term independent and collaborative projects. He combines elements of documentary and fine art to explore social, anthropological and cultural themes, often immersing himself in communities for long periods of time. His work is underpinned by archival, historical and conceptual discourse and incorporates photography, video, sound and text. Te Ahi Kā – The Fires of Occupation is edited by Rafal Milach and designed by leading book designer Ania Nałęcka-Milach. The book was shortlisted for the prestigious Kassel Dummy Award 2018.
Published with financial support from Creative New Zealand, Lottery Environment and Heritage Fund and Te Mana o Te Awa grant administered by Ngā Tāngata Tiaki o Whanganui.
Martin Toft
Clothbound hardback
200 pages, 205 x 165mm
89 colour / b&w photographs
ISBN: 978-1-911306-38-2 (Green / female cover)
ISBN: 978-1-911306-39-9 (Orange / male cover)
Dewi Lewis
Pier von Kleist
1+1=1 is a mathematical mistake but not necessarily an error of logic: if you add a drop of water to another drop of water, how many drops will you have? In a world where mathematics and economics are now more revered than logic and reasoning, this work tries to be a collection of silent poems on the everyday of anyone anywhere. Poetry as a mean of survival, when all one hears is screams, noises and music you have not chosen. Silence is a blessing and if you add a photograph to another photograph and maybe yet another, how many photographs are you then looking at?
After the highly successful This Business of Living, Blaufuks' 1+1=1 continues his exploration on the experience of time and memory.
1+1=1 by DANIEL BLAUFUKS
1+1=1 by Daniel Blaufuks
Pierre von Kleist editions
Hardcover, 20.5x25cm, 68 pages, edition of 600 books
Pier von Kleist
A deep global investigation that tries to answer as difficult questions as: Do people who are condemned to death really deserve to die? or Does any government believe that it can determine whether a human being deserves to live or die?
Loose Joints
Seabird is a book of moments observed by American photographer Bobby Doherty between 2014 and 2018. Doherty makes photographs that get to the point. At first glance, some of the photographs inSeabirdfeel gloriously oversimplified, objects and situations simmered down to their bare constituent elements; the clearest glass on the reddest tablecloth, the wettest dew on the softest leaf. Doherty is quick to embrace both the meaningful and meaningless of everyday life with equal measure: emotive, bucolic landscapes and portraits sit alongside city trash, animals, food and flowers. What comes out in the end feels like a photographic egalitarianism, where the tiny and the huge, the mundane and the sublime, shake hands across pages. Despite his acclaim as a still-life photographer, Doherty is keen to avoid categorisation or to overanalyse his images, placing himself in a lineage of those with a powerful urge to make photographs, consistently and extensively, without concern for cohesion or retrospection. Within this openness,Seabird becomes an identifiably human tapestry of images, suggesting the changing of moods, or the shifting of emotions. In the blink of an eye, the work jumps from Hallmark-greeting-card kitsch to wry juxtaposition, from the stereotypical to the absurd.
Seabird . Bobby Doherty
Published by Loose Joints, 224 pgs, 16 × 24 cm, hardcover, 2018, 978-1-912719-02-0
Loose Joints
Zen Foto Gallery
"The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips" is how Suda named his Minox Camera that held him in thrall from 1991 to 1992. The Minox camera is popularly known as a spy camera - It fits in the pocket with a shutter release as light as the blink of an eye. The resulting images developed from 8x11mm negatives are grainy and have a flat perspective. Suda comments that "no other camera ever accompanied my activities so closely."
In addition to the Minox works which Suda published in his exhibitions during the 90s - "Trance", "Keelung", "Family Diary", "Naked City", "1987 Taipei City View" and "Before Night Falls", this book includes more than 400 works selected from over 600 unpublished images which had long been stored in "A Box of Lingering", as Suda called it.
"The moment" has finally been released.
The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips
Issei SUDA
Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery
Book Size183 × 128 × 20 mmPages438 pages, 430 imagesBindingSoftcoverPublication Date2018LanguageEnglish, Japanese, ChineseLimited Edition700
Zen Foto Gallery
MATCH and Company
The very first photobook by legendary Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama, "Japan: A Photo Theater," is finally available again in a renewed edition.
Originally published in 1968 – the year which also saw the launch of the influential Provoke magazine – the book already demonstrates Moriyama's trademark visual style. On invitation of Japanese writer Shuji Terayama, Moriyama began photographing members of a traveling theater group, adding shots of dwarf show dancers, strip clubs, street performers, fetuses in formaldehyde containers and other motifs.
This 2018 release is the first to feature English translations of Shuji Terayama's writings. The book, limited to an edition of 700, is numbered and signed by Daido Moriyama.
Japan, A Photo Theater(English Version)
Daido MORIYAMA
Publisher: MATCH and Company Co., Ltd., Getsuyosha
2018 reprint edition
Book Size 308 × 228 mm Pages 232 Binding Hardcover, slipcase Publication Date201 8LanguageEnglish, Japanese Limited Edition 700
MATCH and Company
30 years have passed since world's worst nuclear accident happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) in the former Soviet Union (currently, Ukraine). Photojournalist Kazuma Obara explored Ukraine from February 2015 to April 2016.
Project "30" aims to depict people in Ukraine who have a connection to the explosion; whose lives were altered by the sudden release of atomic energy and subsequent political strife. To depict this, Obara challenged traditional visual representation by creating 3 different types of object: two photobooks and a replica of newspaper. The photobook "Exposure" depicts the first 30 years of life of an invisible girl who suffers ongoing medical problems as a result of the disaster. The images were created by using old Ukrainian colour negative film which was found in the abandoned city of Pripyat. Another photobook, "Everlasting," captured the commute of the ChNPP's workers between their hometown and the plant as a metaphor for the cycle of repetition. Decontamination work has been handed down from generation to generation since the accident.
Given the difficulty of dealing with radioactive waste it seems as though this process could go on for ever. Supporting those two photobooks, Obara make the replica of an old newspaper which was found in Pripyat from the time helps to feel the passing of time.
Selfpublish, Edition 86, 2016(sold out)
Editorial RM, Edition 1900,2017/2018
//Awards, Nominations//
World Press Photo Award 2016, People, 1st Prize
Magnum Graduates Photography Award, Winner
WIRED Audi INNOVATION AWARD, Winner
Photo-eye Best photobooks 2017 selected by Todd Hido
Athens Photo Festival Portfolio Review2015, Winner
Hariban Award, Finalist
Magnum Lens Culture Award 2016, Finalist
Foam Museum
What was once called fashion photography finds itself nowadays positioned along a much broader spectrum of intentions and visual cues. Photographers are borrowing from the aesthetics of fashion, moving away from creating glamorous ideals towards telling stories of social and political inclusivity, diversity, identity, everyday life and an ever changing panorama of lifestyles.
In this issue of Foam Magazine, we present the portfolios of 16 photographers, artists and collectives, each adopting distinct and empowering approaches to contemporary fashion photography. We've also had the chance to include a number of insightful and inspiring interviews with people from the fashion photography field. Alongside this, we feature a long form interview between curator Zoé Whitley and fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, discussing fashion and identity. Furthermore, we are pleased to share an interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, and Tyler Mitchell. They covered optimism, utopias, and how photography can be a way of achieving the impossible. Running throughout are interventions by invited fashion magazines sharing their editorial visions.
Foam Magazine #53: Adorned, The Fashionable Issue
288 pages
Printed on selected specialised paper
300x230x23 mm
1118 g
Foam Museum
Provoke was first published in November 1968 as a dojin-shi, or self-published magazine. It was originally conceived by art critic Koji Taki (1928-2011) and photographer Takuma Nakahira (1938-2015), with poet Takahiko Okada (1939-1997) and photographer Yutaka Takanashi as dojin members. The subtitle for the magazine was "Provocative Materials for Thought", and each issue was composed of photographs, essays and poems. After releasing the second and third issue with Daido Moriyama as a subsequent member, the group broke up with their last publication First, Abandon the World of Pseudo-Certainty - an overview edition of the three issues. Provoke's grainy, blurry, and out-of-focus photographs were initially ridiculed as are-bure-boke and stirred a great deal of controversy, yet it had created a strong impact inside and outside of the photography world during that time. However, today, Provoke has become an extremely rare book and very few people have seen the original.
Published as part of The Japanese Box: Facsimile Reprint of Six Rare Photographic Publications of the Provoke Era*, Provoke's facsimile reprint has its photographic images cropped approximately 3 mm from the edges for bookbinding purposes. The reprint also does not include texts by Takahiko Okada due to copyright reasons. Provoke Complete Reprint by NITESHA maintains the original size of the images and includes all original texts, along with the ones by Takahiko Okada. In addition, the volumes will be accompanied by complete English and Chinese translations of the original Japanese texts as a booklet.
PROVOKE Complete Reprint of 3 Volumes
Photograhs by Koji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Takahiko Okada, Daido Moriyama
Text in Japanese with English and Chinese translations printed separately to accompany the volumes as a supplement
Nitesha, 2018
First edition
3 softcovers in slipcase
Xavier Barral
Half traveler and half migratory photographer, as he likes to introduce himself, Bernard Plossu strides along the world since many years. He captures through his lens furtive moments, where birds are flying in huge swarms or caught alone, standing proudly in the middle of a puddle, or gliding high up in the sky, among the peaks. The photographer looks at birds with tenderness and curiosity, a gaze which underlines fantasy and a "surrealistic" approach, as explains the critic Francesco Zanot about his images.
The flight fascinates the photographer, obsessed with the euphoric speed of swallows as well as the hypnotic inertness of large raptors drifting through the wind at high altitude. Plossu's photographs allow us to see fragments of the world, a world in which birds have reinvested our environment.
The essay by ornithologist Guilhem Lesaffre underlines a fundamental aspect of bird life: migration as brought by Plossu's photographs to light.
This book, along with the one of Pentti Sammallahti, launch our collection Des oiseaux (On birds) celebrating, through the vision of different artists, their immense presence in a world where they are now vulnerable.
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Text (in French): Guilhem Lesaffre
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The photographic oeuvre by Martine Franck (1938–2012) has finally been assembled in this comprehensive monograph, the most exhaustive to date, edited by Agnès Sire, artistic director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. The work on this book has been undertaken in 2011 with Martine Franck. Through a chronological journey, including many unpublished images, the photographer has conceived different chapters spanning her entire life.
Feminism, social deprivation, the elderly, and Buddhism join artists, writers and landscapes as subjects that are visited and revisited over the years and through various travels to the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland or Asia, scrutinized through the lens of her selfless sensitivity, an eye for form and composition for the woman who wished to "greet the unexpected". Her celebration of life, the joy of her knowing eye, and her commitment to different causes made Martine Franck a major figure on the international photographic scene.
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Two versions : English and French
Hardcover, 23 x 29 cm, 328 pages
300 B&W photographs and documents
Agnès Sire, Anne Lacoste
Interview between Martine Franck and Dominique Eddé
Illustrated biography drawn up by Cécile Gaillard with Aude Raimbault
Copublished with the Fondation HCB
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Arts of the Political is the new release penned by cultural geographers Nigel Thrift and Ash Amin, and which explores various manifestations of left wing politics and political movements in order to consider why movements based around equity and community have seemingly achieved so little over the past thirty odd years in the face of neoliberalism. Indeed, this question is particularly pertinent given the financial crisis of 2008, and the inability of the left in places such as the UK (where both Thrift and Amin teach at Warwick and Cambridge respectively) to form a movement seemingly capable of enacting widespread positive changes, or even mounting a serious campaign to challenge the Conservative narrative of enforced austerity as a means for enacting further cuts to public services – a policy David Cameron has recently felt sufficiently emboldened to openly state is a reflection of ideology rather than a situation enforced by economic circumstances.
One might argue that the sweeping cuts made by the Tory/Lib Dem coalition are a prime exemplar of what Naomi Klein has termed the shock doctrine – the neoconservative leveraging of moments of critical instability to enact sweeping changes which increase inequality and benefit elites through privatisations which would likely be too unpopular to pass outside of these specific moments. The question then, is why has the right been so successful at exploiting these opportunities whilst the left has not.
For Thrift and Amin, the answer is primarily that the left has historically been successful when it has been able to articulate new visions, new desires and new organisations which expand the terrain of what is understood to be politics itself, and by doing so energises mass movements through articulating the possibility for a better collective future.
Movements campaigning for the rights ofwomen, the working class, and other neglected and downtrodden subjects managed to turn engrained orthodoxies on their head in the quarter-century before the First World War by building mass support and accompanying socio-political reform. Although these movements applied particular principles and practices, the record shows that their acts of redefinition went far beyond what was originally intended. These movements freed up new imaginations, invented new political tools, pointed to elements of existence that had been neglected or concealed, and created a constituency that, once constructed, longed for another world. In other words, these movements produced a new sense of the political and of political potential. 1he emerging Left both opened the doors of perception and provided the tools with which to do something about these new perceptions. This is what was common, in our view, in the disparate examples we consider, from the American Progressive Movement and British feminism to German Marxism and Swedish social democracy. In their own way, each of these movements disclosed new desires.
The thesis that drives this book is that progressive movements should pay more attention to such world-making capacity, understood as the ability not just to produce a program in the future but also to open up new notions of what the future might consist of. The most important political movements, in our estimation, are those that are able to invent a world of possibility and hope that then results in multiple intertventions in the economic, social, and cultural, as well as the political sphere. They free thought and practice and make it clear what values are being adhered to, often in quite unexpected ways. p9
Thrift and Amin contend that three areas (or arts) of the political which it is crucial for the left to pay close attention towards are invention, the process of bringing forth tangible futures which hold the promise of a better life; organisation, the practices which are used to bind and articulate these movements; and the mobilisation of affect, considering the ways that political decision making goes beyond rational information processing:
In particular, we consider the whole phenomenon of what Walter Lippmann (1961) called the manufacture of consent: how it is being bent to the needs of the Right and how it could be mobilized more effectively by the Left. At the same time, we attend to how the consideration of affect brings space into the frame. A whole array of spatial technologies has become available that operate on, and with, feeling to produce new forms of activism, which literally map out politics and give actors the resources to kick up more and across more places.3 In other words, the practical mechanics of space must be part of the politics of the Left. p15
Thrift and Amin begin by exploring a range of historical examples whereby left wing politics was able to achieve the kind of redefinition of the political they seek, considering the German Socialism of the SPD before world war 1, Swedish Social Democracy, the British Suffragette movement, and progressive capitalists in the US circa 1900. Thrift and Amin contend that:
In all cases, progress depended on prizing open newpolitical ground and filling it with real hope and desire. Appeal and effectiveness-at a time heavily laden with the weight of tradition, vested power, restricted social force, and new capitalist imperative-had to come from an ability to imagine and build community around the yet to come or the yet to be revealed. This meant inventing new historical subjects, new technologies oforganization and resistance, newvisions of the good life and social possibility, new definitions ofhuman subjectivity and fulfillment, and new spaces of the political (such as "direct action," "voting," "public involvement," "class struggle," "welfare reform," "government for the people," "women's rights"). A possible world had to be fashioned to render the old unacceptable and the new more desirable and possible. The Left today seems to have less desire or ability to stand outside the given to disclose and make way for a new world.
In seeking to formulate areas where there is the potential for opening up analogous new political spaces, Thrift and Amin incorporate theoretical material from Bruno Latour regarding the status of democracy and agency with regards to nonhumans, arguing that the traditional binaries between sovereign human subjects and inert and passive nonhuman objects is an area which can productively challenged by a revitalised left wing politics.
bow. We want to take up Bruno Latour's (1999) call for a new parliament and constitution that can accommodate the myriad beings that populate the world, a call that entails acts of definition and redefinition of "actor" so that many humans and nonhumans can jostle for position, gradually expanding the scope and meaning of"collective"
politics. p41
This leads T&A to consider the human as a distributed being, whose processes of cognition stretch far beyond the boundaries of the skin, coming close to Deleuze and Guattari's positions around ecological machinic flows of matter. Arguing from a position which begins to sound fairly close to some of Bernard Stiegler's work, they contend that:
Human being is fundamentally prosthetic, what is often called "tool-being." We are surrounded by a cloud ofall manner of objects that provide us with the wherewithal to think. Much ofwhat we regard as cognition is actually the result ofthe tools we have evolved that allow us to describe, record, and store experience. Take just the example of the craft of memory. 1his has extended its domain mightily since the time paintings were made on the walls of caves, and as a result, a whole new means of thought has come into being…
Memory is a compositional art depending on the cultivation of images for the mind to work with. This state of affairs has continued but has been boosted by modern media technology and its ability to produce communal rhetorics that would have been impossible before and that are inevitably heavily political, especially in their ability to keep inventing new variants of themselves that can be adapted to new situations. p50/51
This sense of distributed being and agency is used to reinforce the Latourian argument surrounding the agency of objects, and thus their importance in a new an enlarged sense of politics and democracy. Using Gilbert Simondon's notion of transduction T&A explore:
The way in which tools and other symbiotes can produce environments that are lively in their own right, that prompt new actants to come into existence. To illustrate this point, we need to look no further than the types of digital technology that have become a perpetual overlay to so many practices and the way in which they are changing political practices. Here we find a domain that has gained a grip only over the past ten years but is now being used as part of an attempt to mass-produce "ontological strangeness" (Rodowick 2007) based on semiautomatic responses designed into everyday life through a combination of information technology based tools and the practices associated with them (from implants and molecular interventions to software-based perception and action). In particular, these automatisms are concerned with the design and prototyping of new kinds of space that can produce different affective vibrations. p64
T&A bring this discussion back in to realm of the more conventionally political by using distributed agency and co-evolutionary strategies as a way of opening up though surrounding ecological crises and how a coherent left political response to climate change requires precisely the type of expanded politics which they characterise as world making:
What is needed instead is a leftist politics that stresses interconnection as opposed to the "local," however that is understood. What is needed is "not so much a sense of place as a sense ofplanet" (Heise 2008, ss) that is often (and sometimes rather suspectly) called "eco-cosmopolitanism." Thus, to begin with, the experience of place needs to be re-engineered so that its interlocking ecological dimensions again become clear. This work of reconnection is already being done on many levels and forms a vital element in the contemporary repertoire of leftist politics: slow food, fair trade, consumer boycotts, and so on. Each of these activities connects different places, and it is this work of connection that is probably their most important outcome. Environmental justice then needs to be brought into the equation. The privileges of encounters with certain ecologies, as well as the risks associated with some branches of industry and agribusiness, are clearly unevenly distributed, and it may well be that certain environmentally unsound practices have been perpetuated because their effects go unnoticed by the middle class. Again, environmental justice movements have to refigure spaces, both practically and symbolically, so that interconnection becomes translucent. Finally, we need new ways to sense and envisage global crowds that are dynamic. The attempts to produce people's mapping and geographic information systems, to engage in various forms of mash-up, and to initiate new forms of search are all part and parcel of a growing tendency to produce new lands of concerned and concernful "Where are we?" Politics starts from this question. p75
This is followed by a a chapter which claims to look at contemporary leftist politics, surveying the landscape through the apertures of anti-capitalism, reformist capitalism, post-capitalism and human recognition. What is striking about the majority of these contemporary left wing political movements is that they aren't actually political movements. Anti-Capitalism is not approached through Occupy or Climate Camp, it is Zizek, and Badiou alongside Hardt and Negri – which conflates two very different theoretical perspectives on anti-capitalism – and is summarily dismissed as hopelessly over-optimistic and unable to visualise a future. Reformism is not Syriza/The Five Star Movment/Bolvarian Socialism, it is Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens's reflexive modernity and third way. By post-capitalism T&A mean 'A third leftist stance on the contemporary world can be described as "poststructuralist," in that it draws on feminist, postcolonial, antiracist,and ecological thinking, much of which heavily influenced by poststructuralist ideas' p91. Conceptually that would seem to fit Hardt and Negri quite well, but here T&A refer instead to GIbson-Graham's work on small scale, local, co-operative ethical and sustainable, which could have been productively mapped onto the actions of groups and initiatives such as transition towns, permaculture groups, feminist networks, Greenpeace and other NGOs and the broad range of groups and movements who actually practice some of these ideas, but instead is again explored as a mere theoretical argument rather than political praxis. Human recognition is used to refer to a liberal left based around ethics derived from Wendy Brown's writings – again rather than exploring groups who actually employ this mode of left politics, probably best embodied by online liberal campaign groups such as Avaaz or 38 Degrees. Finally T&A return to Latour and the notion of Dingpolitik and the role of bringing objects into democracy, a position which has been criticised within academia for being politically conservative as Latour's works tend to entirely ignore issues surrounding inequalities and exploitation, content instead to simply map actor networks, in contrast with more politically engaged posthuman scholarship from the likes of Felix Guattari or Manuel DeLanda. Perhaps there could have been an interesting dialogue here between T&A's Latourian positions and the actions and ideologies of animal rights groups or deep ecologists, but again for T&A the left today does not consist of movements of people actually campaigning, occupying, protesting and organising, it simply appears to be a disparate collection of academics.
Put simply, this was what was most frustrating about Arts of the Political, rather than engaging with the broad and varied range of social and ecological activisms which currently exist, the left is reduced to academic thought, whilst the authours proclaim themselves to be engaged in materialist analysis. Perhaps it is simply indicative of the fact that the book's authors are ageing men living and working in universities who are so totally detached from the actual practices of the left wing groups they claim to represent that they are barely able to acknowledge their existence. Indeed, Thrift has seen protests and occupations from students at Warwick surrounding his astronomical pay increases as Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick over the past couple of years (from 2011 to 2013 Thrift's salary has increased from £238,000 to £316,000 at a time when tuition fees have tripled for his institution's students). That as a background perhaps helps explain why the actually existing left is almost entirely absent from T&A's exploration of left wing politics.
In the following chapters where T&A discuss organisation, there is a mixture of some interesting thoughts surrounding ecology, using Stengers, Deleuze and Guattari, to consider the notion of 'addressing the political as an ecology of spatial practices' p133 alongside a consideration of the organisation of the EU as a potentially fruitful model for the left, as it involves multiple parties across different scales having to cooperate. Such a politics of pragmatic cooperation could of course be understood as a mainstay of anticapitalist politics since the 1990s – the alter-globalisation movement and its manifestations within the world social forum, the peoples global assembly and Indymedia all sought to embody a politics of the multiple, as theorised by Hardt and Negri, and similar claims could be made regarding the anti-war movement, climate change activism and Occupy. But in keeping with their refusal to actually engage with left wing movements, we instead get a lionisation of the EU at a time where elements of the actually existing left are campaigning against the EU's proposed free trade deal with the US which would effectively allow corporations to sue governments using secret panels to bypass parliaments.
This is a shame, as some of theoretical material around affect, space and that relating to the need to build positive visions of a left wing future articulated by T&A are in places very strong. The central argument that the left needs to find a way to escape what Mark Fisher has called Capitalist Realism, the notion that neoliberalism is the only possible game in town (with the alternative being an eco-apocalypse), is undoubtedly correct, and the politicisation of affect and the reorientation of politics towards an ecology of ethical practices are both concepts worth pursuing. However, they require consideration in relation to the actual practices of political movements, rather than simply as abstract theoretical constructs.