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Bernie Sanders, President Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter Origins, Corporate Ties; plus Manufactured Housing Investing, Stock Updates
By MHProNews / Manufactured and Modular Housing News / July 10, 2020 July 10, 2020
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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) website says that: "On July 13, 2013 we disrupted business as usual and impacted the world. Thank you to our organizers, our supporters, and our allies."
"We are doing that through our continued fight against elected officials, be it Democrat or Republican, who don't share a vision that is radical and intersectional," says their website.
Their website makes a direct appeal for "For corporate/foundation grants or other partnership questions…"
Some of what they say they stand for would be widely embraced, but other parts make tens of millions uneasy. "BLM's #WhatMatters2020 will focus on issues concerning racial injustice, police brutality, criminal justice reform, Black immigration, economic injustice, LGBTQIA+ and human rights, environmental injustice, access to healthcare, access to quality education, and voting rights and suppression."
As a flashback, the following to set the stage for the origins of the BLM movement and what is taking place in response to that nonprofit's cause.
In a video posted on YouTube on Aug 9, 2015 from left-of-center CBS News is the following description.
"At a Seattle rally meant to celebrate the anniversary of Social Security and Medicare, demonstrators took the stage from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to speak about Ferguson and Michael Brown."
It is worth mentioning that Black Lives Matter, which sprang up during the second term of the Obama Administration, said they were acting in response to the incidents related to Trayvon Martin, whose killer George Zimmerman, acquitted at trial. Wikipedia says that "Zimmerman was injured during the encounter and said he shot Martin in self-defense. After sixteen hours of deliberations over the course of two days, on July 13, 2013, the six-person jury rendered a not guilty verdict on all counts." ABC News said that "All six of the jurors were women and Maddy, 36…is Puerto Rican…"
The other issue that BLM said sparked their movement was the death of Michael Brown. The BBC said that "Black teenager Michael Brown was shot dead in the US town of Ferguson by a white police officer who said he was acting in self-defence." Ferguson was and is a majority black town that is near St. Louis. Wikipedia said that "Wilson said that an altercation ensued when Brown attacked Wilson in his police vehicle for control of Wilson's gun until it was fired." The Obama-era FBI investigated and "A subsequent FBI investigation found that there was no evidence that Brown had his hands up in surrender or said "don't shoot" before he was shot."
Put differently, the famous 'hands up, don't shoot' – per the FBI – was an urban legend. That finding by the Obama Administration era-FBI was after interviewing numerous witnesses.
Staying with the 2015-2016 election cycle, in an interview with now former Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly, then candidate Donald Trump said that he thought Black Lives Matter was trouble.
Business Insider was among the mainstream news sources that reported at the time that candidate Trump said, "I think they're trouble. I think they're looking for trouble." They also wrote that Mr. Trump said that he was "watching the head of Black Lives Matter being interviewed the other night," – and then Business Insider said "though it's not clear whom he was referring to, as the loosely defined group doesn't have a centralized structure or formal leader." That report was dated Sep 9, 2015.
Weeks before, on a video posted on July 23, 2015, "Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors discusses the history of BLM, its politics, goals and future." It is certainly possible that candidate Trump and/or advisors to his campaign were aware of that video and comment by Cullors when she said that "We are trained Marxists."
"We are trained Marxists." – Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors, "Deception and Misdirection" – Capital Research Center
"I think it's disgraceful the way they're being catered to by the Democrats," candidate Trump told O'Reilly in that 2015 video interview. "And it's going to end up kicking them you-know-where. I don't think it's going to end up good. The fact is all lives matter. That includes black and it includes white and it includes everybody else."
He added: "And we have people, Democrats, that are afraid to even say that. They're apologizing because they say 'white lives matter' and 'all lives matter.' These are people that are unfit to run for office in my opinion."
"He's [former Secretary of State Colin Powell who defended BLM] wrong," candidate Trump said. "He's totally wrong. It's 'All Lives Matter,' and that should be the theme of this country, frankly, or one of the themes. So he's obviously catering to somebody. I don't know who he's catering to."
Candidate Trump made it clear in 2015 that he thought targeting police by Black Lives Matter protestors was wrong and needed investigation. But this brief tee up to this evening's featured focus is a reminder of several points.
Black Lives Matter pre-dates the Trump Administration by several years.
The formal BLM group sprang up during the Obama Administration. It would be difficult for black radicals to call a black president and his administration as being anti-black.
At the time, BLM was as happy to disrupt a Bernie Sanders rally as it was to go after Republican candidates. Today, online donations to BLM are processed through Act Blue, which is a Democratic Party connected processing service.
More on these issues on the origins, funding, and responses to the BLM movement will be in our featured focus for this evening.
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This is a still from the same Black Lives Matter protest that kept self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders from speaking to supporters in Seattle, WA in 2015. See the video, further above.
On June 25, 2020, President Trump said via Twitter that "Black Lives Matter leader states, "If U.S. doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it". This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!"
Black Lives Matter leader states, "If U.S. doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it". This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2020
Left-of-center CNBC said that same day that they had contacted BLM for a response. "As BLM has told Mr. Newsome in the past, and as is still true today, Mr. Newsome's group is not a chapter of BLM and has not entered into any agreement with BLM agreeing to adhere to BLM's core principles."
CNBC said that "By cranking up the same culture wars that helped Trump to win the White House in 2016, the president hopes to galvanize his core supporters, and to drive a wedge between suburban middle-class White voters and the activists protesting in cities across the nation."
That said, facts are facts. It was Newsweek that said Hawk Newsome is the chairman of BLM New York City. "If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it." – Hawk Newsome, Chairman Black Lives Matter of Greater New York.
It was Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder who said in a video interview with progressive Real News that "We are trained Marxists." That video is posted below.
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8:50 P.M. MDT 7.3.2020 – per White House transcript.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much. And Governor Noem, Secretary Bernhardt — very much appreciate it — members of Congress, distinguished guests, and a very special hello to South Dakota. (Applause.)
As we begin this Fourth of July weekend, the First Lady and I wish each and every one of you a very, very Happy Independence Day. Thank you. (Applause.)
Let us show our appreciation to the South Dakota Army and Air National Guard, and the U.S. Air Force for inspiring us with that magnificent display of American air power — (applause) –and of course, our gratitude, as always, to the legendary and very talented Blue Angels. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
Let us also send our deepest thanks to our wonderful veterans, law enforcement, first responders, and the doctors, nurses, and scientists working tirelessly to kill the virus. They're working hard. (Applause.) I want to thank them very, very much.
We're grateful as well to your state's Congressional delegation: Senators John Thune — John, thank you very much — (applause) — Senator Mike Rounds — (applause) — thank you, Mike — and Dusty Johnson, Congressman. Hi, Dusty. Thank you. (Applause.) And all others with us tonight from Congress, thank you very much for coming. We appreciate it.
There could be no better place to celebrate America's independence than beneath this magnificent, incredible, majestic mountain and monument to the greatest Americans who have ever lived.
Today, we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. (Applause.) I am here as your President to proclaim before the country and before the world: This monument will never be desecrated — (applause) — these heroes will never be defaced, their legacy will never, ever be destroyed, their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: USA! USA! USA!
THE PRESIDENT: We gather tonight to herald the most important day in the history of nations: July 4th, 1776. At those words, every American heart should swell with pride. Every American family should cheer with delight. And every American patriot should be filled with joy, because each of you lives in the most magnificent country in the history of the world, and it will soon be greater than ever before. (Applause.)
Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity. No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation. (Applause.)
It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence. (Applause.) They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever when they said: "…all men are created equal."
These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable march of freedom. Our Founders boldly declared that we are all endowed with the same divine rights — given [to] us by our Creator in Heaven. And that which God has given us, we will allow no one, ever, to take away — ever. (Applause.)
Seventeen seventy-six represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization and the triumph not only of spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.
And yet, as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure.
Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.
AUDIENCE: Booo —
THE PRESIDENT: Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our Founders, deface our most sacred memorials, and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they are doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing. They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive. But no, the American people are strong and proud, and they will not allow our country, and all of its values, history, and culture, to be taken from them. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: One of their political weapons is "Cancel Culture" — driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America. (Applause.) This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly. We will expose this dangerous movement, protect our nation's children, end this radical assault, and preserve our beloved American way of life. (Applause.)
In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It's not going to happen to us. (Applause.)
Make no mistake: this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution. In so doing, they would destroy the very civilization that rescued billions from poverty, disease, violence, and hunger, and that lifted humanity to new heights of achievement, discovery, and progress.
To make this possible, they are determined to tear down every statue, symbol, and memory of our national heritage.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Not on my watch! (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: True. That's very true, actually. (Laughter.) That is why I am deploying federal law enforcement to protect our monuments, arrest the rioters, and prosecute offenders to the fullest extent of the law. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: I am pleased to report that yesterday, federal agents arrested the suspected ringleader of the attack on the statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C. — (applause) — and, in addition, hundreds more have been arrested. (Applause.)
Under the executive order I signed last week — pertaining to the Veterans' Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act and other laws — people who damage or deface federal statues or monuments will get a minimum of 10 years in prison. (Applause.) And obviously, that includes our beautiful Mount Rushmore. (Applause.)
Our people have a great memory. They will never forget the destruction of statues and monuments to George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionists, and many others.
The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets of cities that are run by liberal Democrats, in every case, is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.
Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country, and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains. The radical view of American history is a web of lies — all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted, and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.
This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore. They defile the memory of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. Today, we will set history and history's record straight. (Applause.)
Before these figures were immortalized in stone, they were American giants in full flesh and blood, gallant men whose intrepid deeds unleashed the greatest leap of human advancement the world has ever known. Tonight, I will tell you and, most importantly, the youth of our nation, the true stories of these great, great men.
From head to toe, George Washington represented the strength, grace, and dignity of the American people. From a small volunteer force of citizen farmers, he created the Continental Army out of nothing and rallied them to stand against the most powerful military on Earth.
Through eight long years, through the brutal winter at Valley Forge, through setback after setback on the field of battle, he led those patriots to ultimate triumph. When the Army had dwindled to a few thousand men at Christmas of 1776, when defeat seemed absolutely certain, he took what remained of his forces on a daring nighttime crossing of the Delaware River.
They marched through nine miles of frigid darkness, many without boots on their feet, leaving a trail of blood in the snow. In the morning, they seized victory at Trenton. After forcing the surrender of the most powerful empire on the planet at Yorktown, General Washington did not claim power, but simply returned to Mount Vernon as a private citizen.
When called upon again, he presided over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and was unanimously elected our first President. (Applause.) When he stepped down after two terms, his former adversary King George called him "the greatest man of the age." He remains first in our hearts to this day. For as long as Americans love this land, we will honor and cherish the father of our country, George Washington. (Applause.) He will never be removed, abolished, and most of all, he will never be forgotten. (Applause.)
Thomas Jefferson — the great Thomas Jefferson — was 33 years old when he traveled north to Pennsylvania and brilliantly authored one of the greatest treasures of human history, the Declaration of Independence. He also drafted Virginia's constitution, and conceived and wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a model for our cherished First Amendment.
After serving as the first Secretary of State, and then Vice President, he was elected to the Presidency. He ordered American warriors to crush the Barbary pirates, he doubled the size of our nation with the Louisiana Purchase, and he sent the famous explorers Lewis and Clark into the west on a daring expedition to the Pacific Ocean.
He was an architect, an inventor, a diplomat, a scholar, the founder of one of the world's great universities, and an ardent defender of liberty. Americans will forever admire the author of American freedom, Thomas Jefferson. (Applause.) And he, too, will never, ever be abandoned by us. (Applause.)
Abraham Lincoln, the savior of our union, was a self-taught country lawyer who grew up in a log cabin on the American frontier.
The first Republican President, he rose to high office from obscurity, based on a force and clarity of his anti-slavery convictions. Very, very strong convictions.
He signed the law that built the Transcontinental Railroad; he signed the Homestead Act, given to some incredible scholars — as simply defined, ordinary citizens free land to settle anywhere in the American West; and he led the country through the darkest hours of American history, giving every ounce of strength that he had to ensure that government of the people, by the people, and for the people did not perish from this Earth. (Applause.)
He served as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces during our bloodiest war, the struggle that saved our union and extinguished the evil of slavery. Over 600,000 died in that war; more than 20,000 were killed or wounded in a single day at Antietam. At Gettysburg, 157 years ago, the Union bravely withstood an assault of nearly 15,000 men and threw back Pickett's charge.
Lincoln won the Civil War; he issued the Emancipation Proclamation; he led the passage of the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery for all time — (applause) — and ultimately, his determination to preserve our nation and our union cost him his life. For as long as we live, Americans will uphold and revere the immortal memory of President Abraham Lincoln. (Applause.)
Theodore Roosevelt exemplified the unbridled confidence of our national culture and identity. He saw the towering grandeur of America's mission in the world and he pursued it with overwhelming energy and zeal.
As a Lieutenant Colonel during the Spanish-American War, he led the famous Rough Riders to defeat the enemy at San Juan Hill. He cleaned up corruption as Police Commissioner of New York City, then served as the Governor of New York, Vice President, and at 42 years old, became the youngest-ever President of the United States. (Applause.)
He sent our great new naval fleet around the globe to announce America's arrival as a world power. He gave us many of our national parks, including the Grand Canyon; he oversaw the construction of the awe-inspiring Panama Canal; and he is the only person ever awarded both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Medal of Honor. He was — (applause) — American freedom personified in full. The American people will never relinquish the bold, beautiful, and untamed spirit of Theodore Roosevelt. (Applause.)
No movement that seeks to dismantle these treasured American legacies can possibly have a love of America at its heart. Can't have it. No person who remains quiet at the destruction of this resplendent heritage can possibly lead us to a better future.
The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society. It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our free and inclusive society into a place of repression, domination, and exclusion.
They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you!
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
We will state the truth in full, without apology: We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on Earth.
We are proud of the fact — (applause) — that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand — (applause) — that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.
We know that the American family is the bedrock of American life. (Applause.)
We recognize the solemn right and moral duty of every nation to secure its borders. (Applause.) And we are building the wall. (Applause.)
We remember that governments exist to protect the safety and happiness of their own people. A nation must care for its own citizens first. We must take care of America first. It's time. (Applause.)
We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God. (Applause.)
We want free and open debate, not speech codes and cancel culture.
We embrace tolerance, not prejudice.
We support the courageous men and women of law enforcement. (Applause.) We will never abolish our police or our great Second Amendment, which gives us the right to keep and bear arms. (Applause.)
We believe that our children should be taught to love their country, honor our history, and respect our great American flag. (Applause.)
We stand tall, we stand proud, and we only kneel to Almighty God. (Applause.)
This is who we are. This is what we believe. And these are the values that will guide us as we strive to build an even better and greater future.
Those who seek to erase our heritage want Americans to forget our pride and our great dignity, so that we can no longer understand ourselves or America's destiny. In toppling the heroes of 1776, they seek to dissolve the bonds of love and loyalty that we feel for our country, and that we feel for each other. Their goal is not a better America, their goal is the end of America.
THE PRESIDENT: In its place, they want power for themselves. But just as patriots did in centuries past, the American people will stand in their way — and we will win, and win quickly and with great dignity. (Applause.)
We will never let them rip America's heroes from our monuments, or from our hearts. By tearing down Washington and Jefferson, these radicals would tear down the very heritage for which men gave their lives to win the Civil War; they would erase the memory that inspired those soldiers to go to their deaths, singing these words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic: "As He died to make men Holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on." (Applause.)
They would tear down the principles that propelled the abolition of slavery in America and, ultimately, around the world, ending an evil institution that had plagued humanity for thousands and thousands of years. Our opponents would tear apart the very documents that Martin Luther King used to express his dream, and the ideas that were the foundation of the righteous movement for Civil Rights. They would tear down the beliefs, culture, and identity that have made America the most vibrant and tolerant society in the history of the Earth.
My fellow Americans, it is time to speak up loudly and strongly and powerfully and defend the integrity of our country. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: It is time for our politicians to summon the bravery and determination of our American ancestors. It is time. (Applause.) It is time to plant our flag and protect the greatest of this nation, for citizens of every race, in every city, and every part of this glorious land. For the sake of our honor, for the sake of our children, for the sake of our union, we must protect and preserve our history, our heritage, and our great heroes. (Applause.)
Here tonight, before the eyes of our forefathers, Americans declare again, as we did 244 years ago: that we will not be tyrannized, we will not be demeaned, and we will not be intimidated by bad, evil people. It will not happen. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: We will proclaim the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, and we will never surrender the spirit and the courage and the cause of July 4th, 1776.
Upon this ground, we will stand firm and unwavering. In the face of lies meant to divide us, demoralize us, and diminish us, we will show that the story of America unites us, inspires us, includes us all, and makes everyone free.
We must demand that our children are taught once again to see America as did Reverend Martin Luther King, when he said that the Founders had signed "a promissory note" to every future generation. Dr. King saw that the mission of justice required us to fully embrace our founding ideals. Those ideals are so important to us — the founding ideals. He called on his fellow citizens not to rip down their heritage, but to live up to their heritage. (Applause.)
Above all, our children, from every community, must be taught that to be American is to inherit the spirit of the most adventurous and confident people ever to walk the face of the Earth.
Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies and even into the stars.
We are the country of Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Frederick Douglass. We are the land of Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill Cody. (Applause.) We are the nation that gave rise to the Wright Brothers, the Tuskegee Airmen — (applause) — Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Jesse Owens, George Patton — General George Patton — the great Louie Armstrong, Alan Shepard, Elvis Presley, and Mohammad Ali. (Applause.) And only America could have produced them all. (Applause.) No other place.
We are the culture that put up the Hoover Dam, laid down the highways, and sculpted the skyline of Manhattan. We are the people who dreamed a spectacular dream — it was called: Las Vegas, in the Nevada desert; who built up Miami from the Florida marsh; and who carved our heroes into the face of Mount Rushmore. (Applause.)
Americans harnessed electricity, split the atom, and gave the world the telephone and the Internet. We settled the Wild West, won two World Wars, landed American astronauts on the Moon — and one day very soon, we will plant our flag on Mars.
We gave the world the poetry of Walt Whitman, the stories of Mark Twain, the songs of Irving Berlin, the voice of Ella Fitzgerald, the style of Frank Sinatra — (applause) — the comedy of Bob Hope, the power of the Saturn V rocket, the toughness of the Ford F-150 — (applause) — and the awesome might of the American aircraft carriers.
Americans must never lose sight of this miraculous story. You should never lose sight of it, because nobody has ever done it like we have done it. So today, under the authority vested in me as President of the United States — (applause) — I am announcing the creation of a new monument to the giants of our past. I am signing an executive order to establish the National Garden of American Heroes, a vast outdoor park that will feature the statues of the greatest Americans to ever live. (Applause.)
From this night and from this magnificent place, let us go forward united in our purpose and re-dedicated in our resolve. We will raise the next generation of American patriots. We will write the next thrilling chapter of the American adventure. And we will teach our children to know that they live in a land of legends, that nothing can stop them, and that no one can hold them down. (Applause.) They will know that in America, you can do anything, you can be anything, and together, we can achieve anything. (Applause.)
Uplifted by the titans of Mount Rushmore, we will find unity that no one expected; we will make strides that no one thought possible. This country will be everything that our citizens have hoped for, for so many years, and that our enemies fear — because we will never forget that American freedom exists for American greatness. And that's what we have: American greatness. (Applause.)
Centuries from now, our legacy will be the cities we built, the champions we forged, the good we did, and the monuments we created to inspire us all.
My fellow citizens: America's destiny is in our sights. America's heroes are embedded in our hearts. America's future is in our hands. And ladies and gentlemen: the best is yet to come. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: This has been a great honor for the First Lady and myself to be with you. I love your state. I love this country. I'd like to wish everybody a very happy Fourth of July. To all, God bless you, God bless your families, God bless our great military, and God bless America. Thank you very much. (Applause.)
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2001 Danfield LLC has a Loveland address and lists Fort Collins attorney Richard Gast as the registered agent, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's office.
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Amazon's The New Yorker Presents, and the future of magazines as television
Scott Meslow
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How do you turn a magazine into a TV series? On the surface, you could hardly get much closer than The New Yorker Presents, a new weekly Amazon series that tries for an almost alchemical purity in its efforts to make a video screen feel like a magazine page. The opening credits are an animated riff on the magazine's famous covers. From there, the series immediately cuts to a "table of contents," complete with headlines and bylines. It also includes the time at which each particular segment begins, in case you'd like to skip to a specific story like you'd flip to a page in a magazine. And — perhaps most unusually for a streaming-exclusive series — The New Yorker Presents is eschewing a binge model; the series will release one episode per week, in the TV equivalent of a magazine subscription. This is, so far, the only Amazon original that releases weekly.
The New Yorker Presents zigs where the rest of television is zagging. As audiences continue to fragment into smaller and smaller niches, this is the rare series that's unapologetically generalist. Like its namesake magazine, The New Yorker Presents curates a bunch of disconnected pieces of media — a documentary by Jonathan Demme, a short film starring Alan Cumming, a poem read by Andrew Garfield, a couple of very short cartoons — and squeezes them into a 30-minute package. It's easy to see why the series has amassed such a roster of talented contributors; The New Yorker name still carries weight and filmmakers who contribute to the TV series get to camp in the same tent.
What The New Yorker Presents doesn't echo — and can't, if it wants to maintain the high-gloss presentation of these initial episodes — is the magazine's timeliness. On a realistic production schedule, The New Yorker Presents can't be on the pulse of news cycle; the most topical segment is an adaptation of Adam Gopnik's "The Simple Truth About Gun Control," which was originally published in December 2012.
At a recent screening of the series, New Yorker editor David Remnick clarified that the magazine's role in the series is merely "advisory." Though the creative team behind the TV show has full access to The New Yorker's archives, there's not much cross-pollination. But Alex Gibney, who serves as executive producer on the series, told me that he's interested in exploring a closer relationship with the magazine; he floated the possibility of a New Yorker writer and a documentarian developing a story in collaboration in future seasons. He also thinks the series could reach a point at which a documentary segment could be shot, edited, and produced within a week, enabling the show to catch a news peg before it totally elapses.
But in the context of the entire print media landscape, The New Yorker Presents is just one example of a fascinating trend. We're well into the era when an actual print magazine has become a niche specialty product in the larger, more amorphous idea of a "publication." For a while, it seemed like traditional magazines might survive by following their readers online and shifting the focus to digital. As video came into vogue, publications hopped onboard with their own video content, but the results were often lackluster: poorly produced, auto-playing annoyances for stories that would probably have been better in text anyway.
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Identity, a Way Forward (Perhaps)
by Todd Berzon in Articles
Friedrich Adolf Hornemann Lesender, Mönch, public domain.
In a review essay I wrote for the Marginalia Review of Books in November of 2014, I raised questions about the utility and value of "identity" as an analytical category. My remarks in that forum were specific to Aaron Johnson's book Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre: The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity, though they pertain more broadly to conversations about a wide range of ancient authors and texts. Indeed, there is no shortage of monographs (or essays) dedicated to finding, describing, and elaborating the identity of particular ancient writers or ancient communities. The model of identity formation that informs these studies, which emphasizes the fluid, protean, and composed nature of identity, is pervasive and inescapable in this scholarship. It is de rigueur to describe an author's identity not as singular or stable, but rather as multiform and fluctuating. And when an identity is described as fixed, this fixity is said to persist only alongside the counterweight of fluidity. But such observations rarely explain the analytical impact or value of such a theorization of identity. There is, I would argue, no elaboration behind these commonplace discourses; more attention needs to be paid to the a priori assumptions about the term, to the idea that pinpointing identity is an outcome in and of itself, and to the essentialism that underlies even an emphasis on the fluidity of identity, among other theoretical and methodological issues. The editors of the Ancient Jew Review asked me some time ago (one can only demur for so long) if there was anything else I had to say about "The Problem with Identity." More specifically, they asked me to discuss a way forward with respect to the sort of characteristics or dynamics that identity is meant to capture, but usually does not. Identity, after all, does not seem to be going anywhere, which may tell us more about how modern scholars imagine and construct the complex subjective states of ancient peoples than how the former understood their own subjectivity. Allow me, then, to offer a few thoughts on the matter. For as an analytical term, I think identity means both too much and too little. It's here to stay, so we (or at least I) might as well get better at using it.
Let me begin with a disclaimer of sorts. It would be misguided for me to suggest that there is a single way forward, or an obvious way to use the notion of identity "correctly" or "substantively." I do not presume to have a universal or even definite solution to the problems I have diagnosed (it is always easier to diagnose the problem than cure it). By way of suggestion, then, all I can do is explain what I do—or how I think/react—when I find myself employing the word identity in my own writing. These thoughts are neither proscriptive nor prescriptive; rather, they reflect my efforts to grapple with identity as an outsized focal point in the academic lexicon that governs the study of antiquity, as well as the study of religion more broadly. And so whatever my misgivings about the term, at the very least I do think there are ways to sharpen our use of identity as an analytical lens. I will distill my suggestions to two points, which concern issues of definition(s) and opacity. In both cases, I am suggesting that the use of identity operates to conceal analysis rather than illuminate it. The term is not simply under-explained (and under-theorized), but its imprecision hints at a more fundamental problem: identity usually means something else entirely.
Point One: Definition. Identity is not a self-evident concept. Few mentions of identity come with a working definition or elaboration of its general (or even etymological) sense. I, like just about everyone in the field, am exceedingly guilty of this sin of omission. Most of us either take the term for granted or, by contrast, we insist on its ambiguity. Indeed, for most scholars, it seems, the very ambiguity of identity is its analytical value: since, we acknowledge, human self-understandings and social affiliations are a complex affair, the imprecision of the concept seems, by some intuitive logic, to match the gravid mystique of the things being described. Identity is, then, fixed in some circumstances and fluid in others. But such a characterization collapses the distinction between the operation of identity (identity as or in practice) and its actual analytical contours (identity as a category). To say that identity is fluid is not to define it, but rather to define or describe how it works as a developmental or interactive process. But what exactly is it that one thinks is fluid and what exactly is it that one considers fixed? The answer is, usually, too complex to be boiled down to the capacious, vague notion of identity. And so, identity is essentially an analytical crutch, but one that obscures rather than improves a complex, sophisticated discussion of an author or a text. Indeed, when I write identity I often mean group affiliation—attachment to some type of group or community, whether real or imagined (see, Stanley Stowers, "The Concept of 'Community' and the History of Early Christianity," MTSR 23, for instance). That is hardly the only sense of the word, but insofar as I am interested in the ways in which categories are deployed to universalize, arrange, and organize subjects (and I use the word subject precisely to evoke post-modern, Foucauldian notions of the self as constructed via institutional forces and discourses) I tend to think about identity through the prism of individual/communal power relations, wherein the former exists both apart from and as part of a larger social and institutional order. There is a tension, expressed in language, practice, everyday experience, etc. between the individual's self-understanding—his or her subjectivity—and the community with which he or she associates. This processual interaction or unfolding, of course, requires all manner of qualification, and I find the qualification far more important than the term identity itself. What is the logic undergirding my use of the term? What ideas am I invoking with the word identity?
Point Two: Opacity. Rogers Brubaker's oft-cited essay, "Beyond Identity," offers a substantive critique of the multifaceted and contradictory ways in which identity is used in scholarly discourse, with ample illustration of the analytical dispensability of the concept. The essay has had an enormous impact across the social sciences and humanities by virtue of its careful, methodical critique and, likewise, its proposals for doing better. Perhaps the most influential aspect of Brubaker's argument is his emphasis on categorization and identification (instead of identity and identities). Identification, he argues, attends to the ongoing process between creator and created or identifier and identified—it accentuates who or what is doing the identifying and how both sides are influenced by discursive, political, and institutional powers. Brubaker, of course, is making an argument, not asserting a social fact. And he is emphasizing that identity, as an analytical (rather than practical) term, is a second-order category imposed upon a situation. For the study of antiquity, I would frame his point somewhat differently: identity is a heuristic device (etic) rather than descriptive (emic) category (all the more reason to include a working definition!). We impute to authors an interest in identity—how did such and such author negotiate his multiple identities (when we usually mean ethnicity, race, religion, etc. Not that these terms are self-evident either, but that is the point: they aren't made any clearer by the term identity)—that they almost certainly did not have, or at the very least did not frame in terms of identity. When I have used identity in the past, I now realize, it has operated invariably as an analytical placeholder: either to avoid specificity or because, in all candor, I didn't know what I wanted to say.
While Brubaker's case for identification and self-understanding in place of identity remains indispensible, my reading of his argument (and of the use of identity more broadly in the study of religion in the ancient world) stresses his insistence, made almost in passing, that identity simply compounds the opacity of already complex debates and ideas. Identity, he writes, is, invariably, an obfuscation or adumbration:
If one wants to trace the process through which persons sharing some categorical attribute come to share definitions of their predicament, understandings of their interest, and a readiness to undertake collective action, it is best to do so in a manner that highlights the contingent and variable relationship between mere categories and bounded, solitary groups. If one wants to examine the meanings and significance people give to constructs such as "race," "ethnicity," and "nationality,'" one already has to thread through conceptual thickets, and it is not clear what one gains by aggregating them under the flattening rubric of identity. And if one wants to convey the late modern sense of a self being constructed and continuously reconstructed out of a variety of competing discourses––and remaining fragile, fluctuating, and fragmented––it is not obvious why the word identity captures the meaning being conveyed.
When I use the term identity in my own writing, I treat it as an indicator, an indicator that I'm not being as clear as I could or should be. In most cases, there is something more specific that undergirds my use of the term. Identity, in my own work, is really gesturing at ideas of classification, groupness, epistemology, subjectivity, ethnicity, empire, governmentality, etc. And so, I ask myself, if I had to rewrite a sentence or paragraph without the word identity, how would I do it? The re-worked sentence is always better for it. Likewise, I ask myself does the term at which I'm really gesturing benefit from using identity as a qualifier? When we talk about ethnicity, we reflexively make it a synonym for "ethnic identity" (insert: political, religious, theological, national, etc.): adjective + identity=something. The adjectives we tack on to the noun, however, are rarely self-explanatory. Indeed, the categories of religion, race, or ethnicity are hardly obvious, but that is the point: working through a theory or definition or ancient religion is hard enough, and it isn't made any easier or clearer by the term identity. We muddy the waters unnecessarily by modifying terms that only grow less coherent as they are modified.
One could elaborate other facets of identity that require additional clarification—that, for its hallmark fixity and fluidity, identity is not unique among analytical categories (think ideology)—but I mention these two problems of definition and opacity, insofar as they are the two that I most struggle with in my own work. I'm proposing not so much that we re-theorize identity, but rather that we temper our use of it. If we say what we actually mean where we once used "identity," then maybe we will be more confident that we mean what we are trying to say.
Dr. Todd Berzon is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Bowdoin College.
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Warning, there are quite a few color changes on this one. You need to try to make them at the same spot each row to keep the color blocking right. Again this is not tested. If you have questions or problems, please let me know.
Rounds 7-16: 10 rows SC [48 stitches per row.
Stop here to Insert Eyes. Use a piece of white to embroider nose with straight stitches. Fold the curved sides together and mark the halfway points on the front and back of the head. Starting in the center between the eyes, insert your hook. Slip stitch in pink her mask around the eyes.
This next part might vary depending on how much your crochet shifts when you are working in the round and your halfway point.
Round 17: SC in white until you hit the marked halfway point. Change colors here to Pink and SC around to next mark. Switch back to White and finish the row.
Here you are going to start decreasing the head. Continue to switch the colors at the halfway point while you are decreasing.
Fasten off. Thread yarn through last row and pull up tight to close opening.
Make 1 in each color.
Row 1: SC in 2nd Chain from hook, 14 SC (15).
Rows 2-11: 8 rows SC [15 stitches per row].
Fasten off and sew to the back of the head under the colored section of the head.
Round 4: DEC 4 times .
Fasten off. Set aside to sew to jester hat spikes.
HAT – make 2 one in each color.
Round 10: INC, 11 SC .
Round 11: INC, 12 SC .
Round 12: INC, 13 SC .
Round 13: INC, INC, INC, 12 SC .
Round 15: INC, INC, INC, INC, 14 SC .
Rounds 16-23: 8 rows SC [22 Stitches per row].
Fasten off and sew to the hat following the appropriate colors.
Round 1: 6 SC in the 2nd Ch from hook .
Round 4: SC row in BLOS .
Rounds 5-12: 8 rows SC [18 stitches per row].
Round 13: In BLOS, (DEC, SC) 6 times .
Round 14: DEC 6 times .
Fasten off. Thread tail through last row and pull up tight to close.
Note it is hard to count when the number of stitches per row is this small so just repeat until it is 3 inches tall.
Round 3: Repeat row 2 until piece measures 3 inches.
Fasten off. Sew handle to mallet head.
When you are done with the arms you can sew the mallet to her hands. You could also use Velcro so it is detachable.
ARMS – Make 2, start with pink on one and start with white on the other. Switch color to the opposite color.
Round 3: 4 SC, change colors to the opposite color4 in last stitch .
FEET – Make 2, Start one in pink, start the other in white.
Round 5: 2 SC, DEC, DEC, 4 SC .
Round 6: Slip Stitch 3, turn, in FLOs SC row, do not join. [3 Slip Stitches, 7 SC].
Round 7: Turn, SC row [7 SC].
Round 8: Join opposite color in unworked stitches from row 6. INC, SC 6 .
Rounds 9-18: 10 rows SC [8 Stitches per row].
Fasten off 1st leg and make second leg in opposite colors.
Do not fasten off second leg. Keeping the color changes SC around each leg to join. This counts as round 19.
Rounds 20-21: SC for 2 rows [8 stitches in each color].
Round 22: (INC, 7 SC) 2 times [9 stitches in each color].
Rounds 23-24: 2 rows SC [9 stitches in each color].
Rounds 25-30: 6 rows SC [9 stitches in each color].
Round 31: (SC, DEC) 6 times [6 stitches in each color.
Embroider hearts in opposite colors in clusters of three on the legs. Embroider one heart in each arm.
Round 1: 4 SC in 2nd chain from hook. .
Fasten off and sew to chest.
(Ch 3, Slip Stich in 2nd Chain from hook, HDC) repeat 7 or 8 times. Attach under the head.
You can also do Harley Quinn in Black and Red. Embroider Diamonds on that one.
Hi I'm trying to figure out how to start the head with the chain eight then the 5 sc 3sc etc and honestly has me a bit lost could you break it down for me on how I should get started does it start with a magic circle ?
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One of the questions that I'm asked most often, both at my seminars, and by e-mail, is – what software tools do I use; particularly for noise reduction and sharpening. And, how do I do my B&W conversions.
Over the past several years I have tried many of the programs and plug-ins to come to market, on both Mac and PC platforms. Below are brief looks at the ones that are my current preferred choices. The ones that I use every day, and that I count on when producing my commercial images and fine-art display prints.
Are these the best programs available of their type? Possibly. Clearly I can't have tried everything, and even if I had, personal bias and needs play a role in making a statement like this. I should also note that I know personally most of the authors of these programs, though this played no role whatsoever in my selection or mention here.
Please note that these are not reviews; simply descriptions of what I find to be the current best-of-breed in each category. Also, in the case of two of the programs, new versions have just come out this week (early Feb, 2005). Each of these plug-ins are available for both Windows XP as well as Mac OSX.
Noise Ninja
Digital cameras keep getting better and better. In terms of high ISO noise performance, on many of the latest generation cameras ISO 400 is almost as good as ISO 100, and even then shows less noise than film ever did at those speeds. Many photographers now find themselves routinely shooting at ISO 800, 1600 and even 3200 on a regular basis. But, as good as contemporary cameras are at these speeds, theyarerelatively noisy, and you'll want to clean up these files.
Noise Ninjais one of the newer kids on the block, but in the couple of years that it's been available it has gone through constant upgrades. A new plug-in version has been in public beta for some months during late 2004, and in Feb 2005 has started shipping. As good as Noise Ninja was, I am always frustrated by image processing utilities that are stand alone programs. Having to switch back and forth between programs, loading and unloading files, can slow one down. Plug-ins simply make the workflow that much more straightforward.
Tribal Bonfire. Bangladesh. January, 2005
Canon 1Ds Mark II with 24-70mm f/2.8L lens @ ISO 3200
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In addition to now being available as a plug-in, (a stand-alone version is also still available), Noise Ninja has seen a number of strong improvements, both in functionality and in image quality. The new version appears to be faster, and also does a much better job of auto-profiling.
Noise Ninja can be downloaded for a free trial. A fullPro Bundlelicense is $79.95, and includes both the stand-alone and the plug-in version. There are less expensive versions available, but at the price, why not get the best? Current owners can upgrade for just $10.
Simply put, Noise Ninja is the current state-of-the-art in noise reduction software for digital cameras.
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For a long time it seemed that B&W photography was on the wane. But in recent years it's made a strong come-back, and many photographers are newly discovering the joys of printing monochrome images with their inkjet printers.
Of course very few people are still shooting B&W film, but instead are finding that by shooting digital they are able to use image processing tools to convert their colour images into stunning B&W, including all of the filter controls that B&W workers used to use in the field, but which now can be done better after the fact in Photoshop.
There are a great many free ways to convert your image to B&W. The simplest method is to useImage / Mode / Grayscale. But this is also the least satisfactory in terms of image quality and versatility of output. A much better technique is to useChannel Mixer. But Channel Mixer is slow and awkward to use, particularly when it comes to balancing the representation in monochrome of colour values.
Convert to B&W Pro(CTBWP from now on) is a Photoshop plug-in that actually makes the conversion process a joy. You are provided with a variable size preview window, (only on the new Mac version, regrettably), and a full set of tools for adjusting the image to just the way you want it to appear. And for those photographers coming from a background in black and white film processing and printing, the controls are even labeled with their analogue equivalents, right down to being able to choosemulti-gradecontrast.
For me one of the most useful capabilities is that of being able to adjust the colour channels to get just the tonal characteristics that best fit the image. This is equivalent to shooting B&W film, and standing in the field with a full set of colour filters, to provide just the tonality separation that you're looking for. But, of course, now you can do it at the comfort of your desk, change your mind as many times as you like, and do it all at a considered pace.
The animation below shows what moving a slider in CTBWP can do to alter the tonal characteristics of a colour image during the process of converting it to B&W.
At $99 CTBWP is not inexpensive, but you can download a full-featured version for a free 30 day trial, so what have you go to loose?
Mangrove Forest Deer. Bangladesh. January, 2005
Canon 20D with 300mm f/2.8L IS lens at ISO 400
Converted to B&W with CTBWP
Photokit Sharpener
Sharpening is the single most misunderstood aspect of digital image processing. When I look at photographer's prints, especially those relatively new to Photoshop, the most common technical failing is that the prints are usually either seriously oversharpened or undersharpened.
Part of the problem may lie in the fact that digital sharpening has nothing to do with sharpness per se. The wordsharpeningis used, but it really has to do with edge contrast (accutance), not resolution.
The most common tool for doing so-called sharpening is theUnsharp Masktool in Photoshop. The problem with it is that it is difficult to use well, because the settings aren't intuitive, and they vary considerably depending on the image and its intended use.
There are also a great many variations on using the USM tool, including sharpening only theluminancechannel, usingHigh Passsharpening, and the like. All of these work, and some work very well, but they each require skill and experience to use effectively.
There's a better way, and it's calledPhotokit Sharpener. Designed and written by six of the world's leading Photoshop educators, Photokit Sharpener is a powerful set of image sharpening tools designed to approach the task appropriately from both a workflow and an image quality perspective.
The program breaks sharpening down into three stages;Input Sharpening,Creative Sharpening, andOutput Sharpening. Regard is given to the type of original image one is working with, and also the file's intended destination. All sharpening is done in Layers within Photoshop, and each adjustment done is user configurable and changeable, even after the fact.
Girl at Pottery Village. Bangladesh. January, 2005
Canon 20D with 70-300mm f/5.6 DO @ ISO 400
Input and Output sharpened with Photokit Sharpener
In my opinion, the $99 thatPixel Geniusis asking for Photokit Sharpener is the best hundred bucks that you'll ever spend when it comes to improving the quality of your prints. Nothing else that I've yet seen even comes close.
By the way, if you're a long-time user of Photokit Sharpener, please note that it was upgraded in late summer, 2004 to version 1.2.2, and a free update is available for downloading.
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A KIND COMMENTATOR has suggested that I stand for Parliament. I thought it might be helpful to acquaint Bowalley Road's readers with the fact that I have already had a crack at that - back in 1990, when I stood for the NewLabour Party. A glance at the E9 Election Return for the seat of Dunedin North will tell you that I didn't exactly take the electorate by storm! So, "Thanks", to my anonymous supporter, but - "No Thanks". As they say, I've "Been There - Done That".
C TROTTER standing for NL received 1,127 votes (5.3%) of the 21,186 votes cast.
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Those were the days, when we thought the neo-libs were a passing fancy and the neo-cons not yet a nightmare. Akshully ( Planet Key-speak), my post was occasioned by despair at the resurfacing of the dreadful Rebstock and her ilk coupled with a glass too far. I wouldn't seriously ask you to re-enter that snake-pit.
Well not unless Winston decides to pick up where Jim left off!
Insofar as there's anything such as an electoral certainty, North D will always vote Labour. Which makes me happy that I live in a community that shares my outlook.
At least you got your deposit back and did what you could to hold them to account for the excesses of the Fourth Labour government.
No you haven't ... you've tried to get in ...but you haven't been in the chamber long enough to smell the furniture and I think you have deliberately missed the point...people here think that you could actually be a positive force inside the house... your views are well documented.. you'd do well.
When you (we) went to join up with Jim Anderton ,he seemed to be the only voice of reason in the political landscape of our country and the world; (except perhaps for Piggy Muldoon who everyone hated by then).
The tide was coming in in a great rush for the neoliberalists, and you and he were trying to stand against it.
When in 2007/8 the poo hit the fan in the great monetarist casino ,it should have all collapsed, but for now at least the day of reckoning has been postponed by massive fiscal and quantitative easing. This as you know has transferred a colossal debt from the players to the public sectors all over the western world. But the new right policies of the last 30 yrs have transferred real wealth , resources hydro etc etc massively from the public to the private 0.1%. And at the same time western govt's have handed over all means of controlling and managing their countries' affairs to the international casino market , so the public sector worldwide does not have the facilities or the resources to carry or service this debt.Ref Greece .
In allowing the QE process . The relevant govt's and their bank managers have acknowledged in the most profound way possible that the neoliberal experiment has failed , though few of them will ever admit that that is what has happened. But the truth is gradually working it's way through to the masses, and with care and planing you next political adventure could have a very different outcome.
Do you really think labour has thought out any alternative economics than they embarked on under Lange/ Douglas and managed on under Clarke /Cullan? Does Little have any ideas on the subject at all? If you think so this might be your vehicle .
Chris, I think you should. You would do a lot better than a lot of the clowns in there. You have passion, and are half-pie articulate.
Ahhh ... I knew it couldn't be the NLP's manifesto.
Mind you, it has to be said you were comparatively popular in Balmacewen. The only booth where you topped 10% and one of only a handful where you beat your arch-rival, the dreaded Green candidate.
I can't see Chris standing for the Greens even though I'm sure he supports a lot of his policies. Labour is his natural home if they move to the left a bit more.