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Sorry to disappoint, but it's nonsense to suggest we want to ban Christmas
The seasonal attack on secularists harbours a poisonous suggestion that 'our way of life' is threatened by foreigners
Fri 21 Dec 2007 10.15 EST
My thanks to the kind reader who sent me the programme from this year's Christmas carol service at the Old Royal Naval College chapel in Greenwich. It was written by the Rev Jules Gomes, chaplain of the college, and of Trinity College of Music, and also of the University of Greenwich.
Here is the good chaplain's Christmas message: "More Christians have been martyred for their faith in the last century than in any other period of church history. Yesterday's Herod is today's Richard Dawkins and Polly Toynbee, seeking the total extermination of all forms of Christianity. The great irony is that the greatest opposition to Christ comes from so-called broad-minded people who seek to ban Christmas so that people of other faiths are not offended."
Yes, it is that time of year when secularists, atheists and humanists become the Grinches who stole Christmas. As an honorary associate of the National Secular Society and president of the British Humanist Association, here is my cue to offer you all a rattling good Christmas "Bah, humbug!". Except, of course, it's all utter nonsense. No one is out to ban Christmas or Christianity - not atheists nor other faiths. Yet every year the same urban myths are repeated about the banning of Christmas by some pantomime villain local authority suffering from "political correctness gone mad". King Rat Christmas wreckers are unearthed, and every year these turn out to be garbage stories, but they are stored in the attic for another airing next December.
I had at least five calls from broadcasters this year inviting me to say it would be a jolly good thing if Christmas were rebranded Winterval. That myth began years ago when Birmingham city council tried to spread the festive season across the long winter - though it never replaced Christmas, which came with official celebrations in the middle of it. But the Winterval myth lives on. This year it was joined by this: "God rest ye merry people all, Let nothing go to waste, So let us all this Decemberval, Recycle now with haste." Although written by a vicar for Warrington's Christmas recycling campaign, watch Decemberval enter anti-Christmas demonology.
Christmas opinion polls stir the same pot. Theos, the religious thinktank, found a quarter of adults and over a third of 18- to 24-year-olds couldn't say where Jesus was born. Over half didn't know John the Baptist was Jesus's cousin; over a quarter didn't know who told Mary she was pregnant; and 78% had no idea where Mary and Joseph fled to escape Herod. Even the faithful were ignorant: only 36% of regular churchgoers got all four answers right. I regard this as awful. The loss of classical mythology has made much poetry, art and literature incomprehensible to most people. The loss of Christian mythology would make most European history and painting impenetrable. Secularists do not welcome ignorance as a substitute for declining faith.
Pursuing their annual "atheists are stealing Christmas" riff, a Sunday Telegraph survey of 100 schools found only one in five had a traditional nativity play this year, which is odd considering over a third of primaries are Christian. The sad truth is that some did no play, but others did Scrooge, Arabian Nights, Hansel and Gretel, or the Snow Queen, all also cultural treasures.
British Christians yearn to be martyrs, but frankly atheists are a pretty toothless substitute for lions. In a daft parliamentary debate this month on something called Christianophobia, Mark Pritchard MP accused the politically correct of banning religion from Christmas cards and advent calendars: "Many shoppers find it increasingly difficult to purchase greetings cards that refer to Jesus." Alas, market forces are probably rather stronger than humanist plots: with only 7% of people in church of a Sunday these days, Santa and the Snowman trump the nativity.
Evangelicals started a new myth this year that postage stamps with the Madonna and child are only sold under the counter: you have to ask for them, for fear of offending Muslims and Jews. Stuff and nonsense, retorted the Post Office. But you can bet this one will run and run - along with last year's myth that 70% of offices banned Christmas decorations for multicultural reasons. Another year it was the Red Cross banning cribs.
All this would just be seasonal silliness if it were not cover for a more sinister drumbeat. The right has taken to flying the "Christian" flag in ways that suggest none too subtly that foreigners - Muslims - are stealing our culture and traditions. "They" are stopping "us" celebrating Christmas and teaching Christian stories to our children. When Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, appeared on GMTV this week, although as usual he denied any atheist plot against Christmas, the theme in about 3,000 emails afterwards was: "We are not Muslims, our culture must not be silenced to avoid offending them."
The BNP has been quick to cash in. In the Christianophobia debate in parliament, the reported case of a BNP Christmas card was raised, "which portrays the holy family on the cover and inside are the words 'Heritage, Tradition and Culture'". Pritchard warned television firms: "The fear of violence from a particular faith group should not be grounds for hand-selecting or targeting other faith groups who may choose to protest peacefully." Fear of Muslim violence is killing off peaceful Christianity, he implies. But blaming mythical secular political correctness is usually a cover for more sinister suggestions that "our way of life" is under threat from foreigners.
Hastening to defend themselves against the charge, Trevor Phillips, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, assembled imams, rabbis, Sikh and Hindu leaders to protest that they had no objection to Christmas, asserting that they sent Christmas cards, they liked cribs, and "it's a great holiday for everyone". Leave Christmas alone was the message, addressed again to the hypothetical politically correct secularists.
But we are innocent. It is the Christians who are stirring this dangerous pot, inventing non-stories, yearning for martyrdom - and worse, fermenting an outraged sense among the mainly secular population that they had better call themselves Christian because, as the BNP says, British "Heritage, Tradition and Culture" (read Kultur) are under threat from Muslims. While pretending to attack us, covertly these Christians stir resentment against immigrants.
As more faith trouble brews, it becomes ever more important not to ban religions, but to keep religion out of all functions of the state. It needs to be taught in schools, acted out in nativity plays, too, if they want - but without dangerously segregating children by their faith in sectarian religious institutions. And at last we have at least one political party leader brave enough to admit, like most people, that he doesn't believe in God.
As for secularists and humanists at Christmas, Dawkins himself told a disappointed BBC interviewer that he loves singing carols. And so do I. Not just Away in a Manger or Oh Little Town nostalgic childhood tunes, but all the enjoyably rich and strange theology of "Lo! He abhors not the Virgin's womb ... Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity", and other such quaint delights.
Is it hypocritical to sing songs with words whose literal truth you do not believe? Any such sad edict would leave most great love songs, hymns and arias unsung. If the royal family can trill, with solemn faces and gladsome minds, "What can I give him, poor as I am?" then anyone can.
polly.toynbee@theguardian.com


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#define BOOST_CLBL_TRTS_REMOVE_MEMBER_REFERENCE_HPP

#include <boost/callable_traits/detail/core.hpp>

namespace boost { namespace callable_traits {

//[ remove_member_reference_hpp
/*`
[section:ref_remove_member_reference remove_member_reference]
[heading Header]
``#include <boost/callable_traits/remove_member_reference.hpp>``
[heading Definition]
*/

template<typename T>
using remove_member_reference_t = //see below
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namespace detail {

    template<typename T, typename = std::false_type>
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    template<typename T>
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    };
}

//->

template<typename T>
struct remove_member_reference
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//<-
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//->

/*`
[heading Constraints]
* `T` must be a function type or a member function pointer type
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[heading Behavior]
* A substitution failure occuers if the constraints are violated.
* Removes member `&` or `&&` qualifiers from `T`, if present.

[heading Input/Output Examples]
[table
    [[`T`]                              [`remove_member_const_t<T>`]]
    [[`int() &`]                        [`int()`]]
    [[`int(foo::*)() &`]                [`int(foo::*)()`]]
    [[`int(foo::*)() const &`]          [`int(foo::*)() const`]]
    [[`int(foo::*)() const &&`]         [`int(foo::*)() const`]]
    [[`int(foo::*)()`]                  [`int(foo::*)()`]]
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    [[`int (&)()`]                      [(substitution failure)]]
    [[`int (*)()`]                      [(substitution failure)]]
    [[`int foo::*`]                     [(substitution failure)]]
    [[`int (foo::* const)()`]           [(substitution failure)]]
]

[heading Example Program]
[import ../example/remove_member_reference.cpp]
[remove_member_reference]
[endsect]
*/
//]

#endif // #ifndef BOOST_CLBL_TRTS_REMOVE_MEMBER_REFERENCE_HPP

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Dundagas novads – jedna ze 109 jednostek administracyjnych (novads) na Łotwie powstałych 1 lipca 2009 roku. Stolicą jest Dundaga.

Novadi Łotwy

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Omarosa: White House destroyed evidence meant for Mueller investigation
Karen TownsendPosted at 11:01 am on May 6, 2019
Omarosa Manigault Newman is at it again. Saturday she appeared on Al Sharpton's show on MSNBC, I know, and made a remarkable claim. The former member of the Trump administration claimed that five boxes of evidence that should have gone to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation team were destroyed.
Offering no concrete evidence to support such a serious allegation, Omarosa recounted her experience with former Chief of Staff John Kelly when he fired her in December 2017.
"I think it's important to realize that very early on in the administration, we got letters directing us to preserve all information related to the Mueller investigation, all investigations, any information, any emails, any correspondence. We had a clear directive to preserve those documents, preserve emails, preserve text messages," she said in an interview with MSNBC's "PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton."
"So I thought it was very interesting that after my discussion with General Kelly in the Situation Room when I went to take my things, I was instructed that I had to leave seven boxes of documents that came from the campaign, the inauguration, the transition, and they would not allow me to get them," Ms. Manigault Newman said, referring to former Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.
Omarosa went on to justify her claim by saying emails after her dismissal only reference two boxes that she left behind, not seven. She jumped to the conclusion that five boxes must have been destroyed. This is a leap, to be sure, yet this is what we have come to expect from her.
'What's very curious to me is that, as I stated, it was seven boxes of documents, and in my emails, they only referenced two, which leads me to believe that they've destroyed the other five,' Manigault Newman said.
Here is what is "very curious" to me – why did a White House employee think she was entitled to take home boxes of materials that related to the campaign and her work in the White House? Her job in the Trump administration wasn't her first experience working in the White House. She served as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison for Trump. In the 1990s Omarosa worked in the office of Vice-President Al Gore. She was later re-assigned to the Commerce Department.
Work-related paperwork and emails are the property of management, in this case, the White House and not the individual employee. Often a person in a sensitive position is given little or no notice of dismissal and only allowed to gather up personal items like a handbag or briefcase while being escorted from the premises by a security guard. Yes, that sounds very cloak and dagger but you get the picture. It isn't unusual that she wasn't allowed to haul out seven boxes of work product.
Omarosa went further and said she thinks more documents were destroyed that should have gone to Mueller's investigation.
'I believe I'm not the only one who's been subjected to this type of treatment, and I believe that there are more documents that have been destroyed by this administration,' she said.
Manigault Newman said she never saw the boxes again and assumed that the Trump administration would not have handed them over to the special counsel, as her legal team would've had to be informed if they had been.
The former contestant of The Apprentice went onto add that, based on emails she'd received from administration officials about the documents, it appeared that at least five of the seven boxes had been destroyed.
When show host Al Sharpton asked for clarification purposes if she was saying that the Trump administration destroyed five boxes, she replied, "'Oh, there's no question.' So, she clearly staked out her position. She accused the administration of behavior she claims is standard procedure with them.
This all sounds like sour grapes from a disgruntled former Trump administration staffer. Perhaps she was looking for some attention and Sharpton was happy to provide her the opportunity to toss red meat to those in #TheResistance. It's been a minute since she's surfaced on television and her book tour is long over.
'We'll have to see what unfolds,' she continued. 'But I'm sure that I'm just not a one off. I believe that this is a pattern with this administration of being disrespectful to congressional requests, of trying to use intimidation and all types of tactics to keep people silent,' the former White House aide told MSNBC.
During an interview on another MSNBC show in April Omarosa made similar claims to host Craig Melvin so maybe she doesn't think enough attention was paid to her accusations.
'We should really not just focus on what [Trump] is telling people to do or say, but how he's asked people to destroy documents, to destroy e-mails ― in my case, two boxes of campaign-related materials the White House still has in their possession that they claim they don't have or don't know what happened to it,' Manigault Newman said at that time.
Melvin asked her whether the Trump administration had directed her to destroy evidence.
Manigault Newman said that while she had not been explicitly told to do so, 'they were very clear about not wanting us to share those things.'
'Right after the campaign, the day after, they took our e-mails down and told us we had no access to it … They were certainly working to try to hide the things we now know are involved with this investigation,' she alleged.
Given that Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, the hopes of Trump's opponents wishing him to be frog-marched out of the Oval Office are gone. All that is left is bickering over instances of obstruction listed in the Mueller report that didn't rise to an actionable level. Omarosa's claim of evidence being destroyed falls into the obstruction category. It should be taken with a very large grain of salt.
Tags: Al Sharpton evidence MSNBC Mueller investigation Omarosa Manigault-Newman
Cuomo: I'll fine doctors up to $1 million if they vaccinate someone who isn't eligible yet

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A: This is because of the JavaScript changing the visibility of the element.
This should work:
google.maps.event.trigger(map, 'resize');

A: Google maps often has problems if the element that will hold the map is hidden when the page is rendered, or indeed if the element is resized.
You should be able to resolve this by calling resizeMap(); after making the map visible.
If you are using V3 of the google maps API then use the following
google.maps.event.trigger(map, "resize");

A: I had similar problems with the new API. If I see it right you should call the resizeMap() function after toggling your mapcanvas.
Please try this:
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A: The solution that worked is this, to place the resize method on callback..in the fadeOut:
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        $('#map_canvas').fadeToggle();
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Google I/O is an annual developer's conference hosted by Google which features the latest advancements in software at Google. This year, Google held its 7th conference in San Francisco, California, where Google presented its OS for wearables called Android Wear, featuring 3 of the best and most advanced smart watches - LG Watch, Samsung Gear Live and the Moto 360.
As for the display, the watch exhibits a classic dial when the Google Android menu is inactive, always producing a traditional look of grace. Installed with Sapphire glass that is said to be four times more resistant than Gorilla Glass. However, its most amazing feature is the way it is charged. The device uses magnetic induction thanks to Qi charging receiver embedded to the back of the watch. With that in mind, Moto 360 will be made compatible with most Qi charging pads such as the KoolPad and the KoolPuck, others, unlike competitors from Samsung and LG.
The watch can be customised to fit either a leather or a metal strap to create a classy look. Moto 360 Watch is Android's new Star Kid going up against Apple's yet-to-be-announced competitor the "iWatch". While LG or Samsung smart watches could be dismissed as not stylish enough to appeal to anyone outside of the early tech adopters, Moto 360 has thrown down the gauntlet in style and substance, while Apple is still months or even a year away from an announcement, with them still busy hiring employees from fashion houses and Swiss watchmakers.
Moto 360 will be the third Android Watch to come to the market, and is set to be the most advanced and innovative. Moto 360 is slated for release later this Summer, and we are all waiting for it to come out with bated breath here at Fonesalesman.


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In the pressroom in Brazil in 1991 a senior Formula 1 journalist looked up from his computer, peered at a television screen for a few moments as Mike Hakkinen's Lotus was passing through the picture and declared with a certain nonchalance that "That boy is going to be a World Champion one day".
And sure enough he was: twice in fact.
Back then Hakkinen was a happy-go-lucky youngster enjoying his second race in F1. He had been picked out by Peter Collins, a man with an extraordinary eye for spotting talent, for Team Lotus. It was a huge risk for Collins and his partner Peter Wright, who were trying to rebuild Team Lotus without much backing. They believed that talent and good engineering would bring in money and took the risk that Hakkinen and Johnny Herbert would deliver the goods. And they were right - at least in the short term.
Mika didn't say much, even then, but he enjoyed the high jinks that took place with the gregarious (one might say "mad") Herbert. The pair were a breath of fresh air, Herbert always quick with a wisecrack and Hakkinen riding around the F1 paddocks on a monocycle. Mika's ability to balance could be seen from the way he drove a racing car and was developed from the age of six when he started karting. It helped that when he was nine he was racing Volkswagen Beetles on frozen lakes in company with his friend Mika Sohlberg, who went on to become a World Championship rally driver.
He bought his first racing car - a Formula Ford - from JJ Lehto and quickly made his mark and with Marlboro behind him was sent to England in 1988. Three years later he was in F1 and by the end of 1992 he was taken from Lotus to the Marlboro McLaren team to join Ayrton Senna and Michael Andretti at McLaren, initially as a test driver but after Andretti was sent back to the United States as team-mate to Senna.
The timing was not perfect. McLaren had lost focus after too many years of success and there were a series of different engines one after another: Ford was followed by a dalliance with Chrysler and then a Peugeot deal in 1994. Then McLaren switched to Mercedes-Benz.
Hakkinen was the man who did much of the development of the Mercedes-Benz engine but at the end of 1995 in Adelaide he suffered a tire failure and crashed heavily into a concrete wall. His life was saved by doctors who gave him an emergency tracheotomy by the side of the track. At such times F1 journalists know little more than spectators but those who have been around see things happening amongst the medical people and know what it means. I must admit that I retired quietly to my desk with the feeling that I would have to write his obituary.
Mika came back from the dead with incredible speed. But he was a changed man. He was frightened but he overcome that fear and gradually he began to relax again. By 1997 he had a car that was capable of winning races but he had to wait until the end of the year before Michael Schumacher's assault on Jacques Villeneuve at the European GP opened the way for him.
He won the World title in 1998, winning eight of the 16 races and won again in 1999 although he was undoubtedly helped by the fact Michael Schumacher was out of action because of a broken leg.
Hakkinen remained remote and sometimes difficult to understand. He could be an iceman under pressure but at the same time he could crack under pressure in the most basic way.
At the start of 2001 Mika suffered a suspension failure in Melbourne and had a huge accident. He did not say much about it at the time but he was shaken and began to ask questions about whether he had pushed his luck too far. Ron Dennis, who been such an important influence for Hakkinen during his recovery after Adelaide in 1995, had become in some respects a father figure and in the end Mika confessed to Ron that he wanted to retire.
The pressure came off and at the end of 2001 Hakkinen drove to two spectacular victories and then he disappeared off on "a sabbatical". Anyone who knew what had happened knew that Mika was not coming back but one must give credit to Dennis for letting him go in a graceful manner - and making sure that he was sure that retirement was what he wanted.
There are times when one is glad to see a great champion go because too many of them do not know when to stop.
Hakkinen got it right and so brings to an end the story in as happy a fashion as his career began.
Mika may not have had the gift of talking a good game - but he certainly drove one.


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Juvencijus ist ein männlicher litauischer Vorname, abgeleitet von Juventius.

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This Club Book Podcast features Dave Zirin at his March 19th visit to Southdale Library in Edina. Dave Zirin, correspondent and sports editor for The Nation, is the author, most recently, of Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down. His newest expose, Brazil's Dance with the Devil, turns attention on the volatile political situation in Brazil in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics. It's due out this June." Named one of UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World," Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN and Democracy Now! He also hosts his own weekly Sirius XM show, Edge of Sports Radio.
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Connecting women to their inner wisdom is a huge part of the work that I do with my private clients. However there is one element that is completely universal, that I touch upon with every woman I work with, right away, up front and center.
The single most important factor in preparing for your birth.. is surrounding yourself with people that believe in you, your body's wisdom, and can hold your vision for you, unequivocally.
I remember interviewing my first OB… asking her if she could support my desire to birth naturally. She said, "Of course! I will do whatever you want, but keep an open mind. Wait till you feel that first contraction…" If only I had had the wisdom, the courage, and the conviction to walk away at the moment and find someone truly aligned with my desire for a natural birth, I would have saved my body from a whole lot of trauma.
Imagine if your practitioner spoke to you about using pleasure as a holistic birthing tool? About accessing the wisdom of your body, the bliss that is always available within? Imagine if she could fully hold your vision of an Ecstatic Birth for you mind, body, and soul- even when you were doubting yourself?
I hear from doulas, childbirth educators, midwives, (even those that attend natural births) over and over again that they don't have the embodied knowledge, or the training in this paradigm which is why I created this program specifically for practitioners.
Can you imagine how powerful it would be if everyone supporting you during your pregnancy and birth were able to hold your vision for an Ecstatic Birth and support you in that desire?
I'd like to give you an opportunity to get your birth team on the same page and aligned in the paradigm of Ecstatic Birth. I'm hosting an encore presentation of my introductory training for birth practitioners on Monday- a complimentary webinar and invitation into a larger journey.
Please share this link freely with your providers and support team.
Practitioners, I invite you to dive in and share with your networks. Not any one of us can change the landscape of birth alone, but together, we can move mountains.
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Leo Morton
Corporate executive, academic administrator and engineer Leo Morton was born on August 12, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama to Imogene and Leo C. Morton. After graduating from Ullman High School in 1963, he received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Tuskegee University in 1968. Morton went on to receive his M.S. degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987.
In 1968, Morton joined General Motors as an engineer designing the turbine section of jet engines. In 1970, he left General Motors and joined Rust Engineering as a designer, a position he held for two years before joining Corning Glass as a manufacturing supervisor. Morton left Corning Glass in 1973 and was hired at Bell Laboratories as an engineer, eventually becoming a director. In 1987, he joined AT&T Microelectronics as an engineering planning director in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Morton was promoted to director of division staff in February, 1988, vice president of manufacturing in August, 1988, and vice president of performance management in 1992, in Lee's Summit, Missouri. In 1993, he moved to Dallas, Texas, to serve as vice president of enhanced distributed power architecture. A year later, he left AT&T Microelectronics to serve as vice president of performance management at UtiliCorp United, Inc in Kansas City, Missouri. He was promoted to senior vice president in 1995, senior vice president of human resources and operations support in 1997, and chief administrative officer in 2000, before the company was renamed Aquila, Inc. in 2002. In 2008, Morton left Aquila, Inc. to serve as chancellor of the University of Missouri – Kansas City. During his tenure, Morton improved community engagement, enrollment, graduation rates and created a strategic plan for diversity and inclusion. He also significantly improved campus facilities and philanthropic support. In 2017, he stepped down as chancellor and joined DeBruce Companies as president and chief operating officer.
Morton served as chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, the Kansas Area Development Council, Prep-KC and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Board of Trustees. He serves on the board of Union Station, the Marion & Henry Bloch Family Foundation, American Public Square, the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City and the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy.
In 2012, Morton received the Henry W. Bloch Human Relations Award from the Jewish Community Relations Bureau. In 2014, he was inducted into the Greater Kansas City Business Hall of Fame and was named the Kansas Citian of the Year by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Morton received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Economic Development Corporation in 2018. In 2019, was named a Kansas City Legend by Ingram's 45th Anniversary Edition and named a Hometown Hero by Community Linc.
Morton and his wife, Yvette Morton, have three children: Leo, Keesha, and Karla.
Leo Morton was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 4, 2019.
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Academic administrator and engineer Leo Morton (1945- ) served as chancellor of the University of Missouri–Kansas City from 2008 to 2017.
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Laurence Morse
Investment banker Laurence Morse was born on July 2, 1951. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he was awarded the Luard Scholarship and spent his junior year at the London School of Economics (LSE). After obtaining his B.A. degree in economics from Howard University in 1973, Morse earned his M.A. degree in 1978 and his Ph.D. degree in economics in 1980, both from Princeton University. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in 1983.
Morse began his career as an analyst at the venture capital investment firm UNC Ventures, based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was eventually promoted to associate and investment officer positions. Morse became a vice president of Equico Capital Corporation, a subsidiary of The Equitable Life Insurance Company of America, in 1988. In 1991, he became the founding principal of the TSG Ventures investment fund under the TSG Capital Group. In 1992, Morse was hired as a senior venture capital advisor for Coopers & Lybrand International Consulting Services, where he advised on the establishment of a proposed $100 million USAID-sponsored Africa Enterprise Development Fund to be based in South Africa. Morse and JoAnn H. Price then founded Fairview Capital Partners, Inc. in September of 1994, where Morse oversaw the investment of over $3 billion in more than one hundred traditional and specialized venture capital and private equity limited partnerships. In 2004, Morse was appointed director of Webster Financial Corp. and Webster Bank, N.A.
In 2000, Morse joined the board of directors of the English-Speaking Union. He also served three terms on the board of trustees of the Princeton University Investment Company, and joined the Princeton University Board of Trustees in 2012. Morse has also served on the advisory boards of venture capital partnerships, including U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Battery Ventures, Sierra Ventures, ICV Capital Partners and Trinity Ventures. In 2013, Morse became a trustee of Harris Associates Investment Trust, which oversees the Oakmark Family of Mutual Funds. In 2014, Morse became a trustee of Howard University.
In 2003, Morse was named one of "The Top Ten Minds in Small Business" by Fortune Small Business magazine. Morse also authored the novel, Sundial, while attending Princeton University. The book, inspired by Morse's experiences at Howard University in the 1970s, was published in 1986.
Laurence Morse was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 20, 2018.
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Investment banker Laurence Morse (1951 - ) was the founding principal of the TSG Ventures investment fund under the TSG Capital Group before founding Fairview Capital Partners, Inc., a venture capital investment firm.
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Margaret Burnham
Lawyer Margaret Burnham was born on December 28, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama to Louis and Dorothy Burnham. She received her B.A. degree in history from Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi, and her LL.B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969.
Burnham served as a staff attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., in New York City from 1969 to 1972. Burnham then joined the Roxbury Defenders in Boston and worked there from 1972 to 1974. In 1973, Burnham was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts; and, in 1974, Burnham co-founded the Boston law firm of Burnham, Stern & Shapiro. In 1977, she became the first African American female to serve in the Massachusetts judiciary when she was appointed to the Boston Municipal Court bench as an associate justice by Governor Michael Dukakis. She held this role until 1983. She was also named executive director at the National Conference of Black Lawyers in New York City. Burnham was then selected as the 1985 Bunting Institute Fellow at Radcliffe College. In 1987, Burnham established the Law Office of Margaret Burnham in Boston; and, in 1989, she joined Burnham & Hines as a founding partner while serving as a lecturer for the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1993, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Burnham to serve on an international human rights commission to investigate alleged human rights violations within the African National Congress. Burnham joined the Northeastern University School of Law faculty in 2002, and served as associate professor. She was promoted to professor in 2006.
Burnham was named chair of the board of directors for National Center of Afro-American Artists in 1992; and, in 1993, she was elected and served as member of the board of trustees for Old South Meeting House. Burnham has also served as a member of the The Algebra Project and for the National Advisory Board for the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College.
She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including: the 1995 Robinson Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Profession by the Women's Bar Association in Boston, Massachusetts; induction into the YWCA Boston Academy of Women Achievers in 1996; an honorary doctorate degree of laws from Western New England College School of Law in 2000; an honorary doctorate of education degree from Wheelock College in Boston in 2002; the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association Trailblazer Award in 2008; the 2008 Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship at Wellesley College; the 2009 International Criminal Justice Research Fellowship at Grotius Institute, University of Leiden at The Hague, Netherlands; and was a participant in the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program.
Margaret Burnham was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 16, 2018.
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Benjamin F. Davis, Jr.
Football player and entrepreneur Ben Davis was born on October 30, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama to B. Frank and Sallye B. Davis. His sister is activist, author, and professor Angela Davis. He graduated at age fifteen from Fair Lawn High School in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in 1961, and attended Bridgton Academy in North Bridgton, Maine from 1961 to 1963. He received his B.A. degree in business education from Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio and was a running back and wide receiver for the Yellow Jackets football team. He led the team to an undefeated season (9-0) during his senior year and received honors as a Little All-American.
Davis was the 439th overall draft pick in the 1967 NFL Draft, selected by the Cleveland Browns as a defensive back in the seventeenth round. In his rookie season with the Browns, Davis led the league in punt returns, averaging 12.7 yards per return, including one fifty-two yard return for a touchdown. Davis also led the Browns in kickoff returns, with twenty-seven returns totaling 708 yards, including one sixty-three yard return in 1967. In 1968, he started as a cornerback, and led the team with eight interceptions. In 1968, he also led the NFL in interception return yards with 162, the third best in Browns' history and he holds the record for seven consecutive games with an interception. That same year, he was named All Pro Defense Back by Sporting News. A torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) benched Davis for one and a half seasons from 1969 to 1970, but he started for the Browns for three more seasons from 1971 to 1973. He was traded to the Detroit Lions for a fifth-round draft pick in 1974, and played three more seasons for the Lions before retiring in 1977.
After retiring from a ten year NFL career, Davis joined the Xerox Corporation as a sales representative. In 1982, Davis co-founded and served as president of Telecable Broadcasting of America (TBA), a cable TV provider in the greater Cleveland area. TBA was one of the first African American owned and operated cable TV companies in the U.S. Davis started another cable TV company in Jefferson Township, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, in 1986, which he later sold to the Centel Corporation. In 1989, Davis started a radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma (94.1 FM) that he ran for five years, eventually selling the station to Shamrock Communications. In 1990, Davis created Britt Business Systems in Cleveland, Ohio which sold and serviced Xerox office equipment in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. Davis operated Britt for seventeen years until his retirement in 2007.
Davis and his wife Sylvia have two adult children, Cecilie and Benjamin, III, and three grandchildren.
Ben Davis was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on September 26, 2018.
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Football player and entrepreneur Ben Davis (1945- ) played for the Cleveland Browns from 1967 to 1973 and the Detroit Lions from 1975 to 1976, before owning and operating Britt Business Systems, a retailer for the Xerox Corporation.
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Maséqua Myers
Producer Maséqua Myers was born on January 7, 1953 in Birmingham, Alabama to Thelma and Willie Myers. She attended Cook Elementary School in 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Calumet High School in 1970 in Chicago. Myers received her dual A.A. degrees in nursing and theatre in 1974 from Kennedy-King College, in Chicago.
Myers served as project developer for Urban Gateways in Chicago from 1974 to 1976, and worked at LaMont Zeno Theatre/Better Boys Foundation in Chicago from 1974 to 1979. She became the equity union deputy representative at the Goodman and Victory Gardens Theatres in Chicago and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. from 1979 to 1980. Myers served at the Wolftrap Institute for Early Learning as part of the Arts in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. from 1983 to 1985. She also handled contract negotiations at the Independent Professional Performing Artists Institute, in Phoenix, in 1985 and was co-owner and executive producer of Mixed Media Productions, Inc., in Phoenix and Los Angeles from 1986 to 1992. Myers also served as artist in residence at the Wolftrap Arts Institute, Washington D.C. and Phoenix, Arizona from 1986 to 1992.
Myers is credited for her work as producer/co-author of the internationally distributed educational video, Faces of Racism for the National YWCA of the USA in 1990. In 1992, she established and served as chief executive officer at Maséqua Myers and Associates; and, in 2014, she became the executive director, for the historic South Side Community Art Center.
Myers produced Miss Dessa, the romantic-comedy play, which received nine 1993 NAACP Theatre Awards Los Angeles, CA. She produced the pilot and episodes of Stories From the Soul, a half hour dramatic TV series for Robert Townsend, served as director of production for the Black Family Channel in 2005. She produced the documentary, Interview with A Chicago Cop, which was featured in the Arizona Black Film Festival in 2006. She was also the film training director for the feature film, Of Boys and Men starring Angela Bassett and Robert Townsend).
Maséqua Myers-Rami and her husband Pemon Rami have two adult children Babatunde and Tacuma.
Maséqua Myers was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on June 13, 2018.
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Producer Maséqua Myers (1953- ) founded Maséqua Myers and Associates, and was producer and co-author of the internationally distributed educational video, Faces of Racism, for the National YWCA of the USA in 1990.
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Munir Muhammad
Community activist Munir Muhammad was born on March 27, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama to Mary Henley Waller and Robert L. Waller. After graduating from Wenonah High School in 1968, Muhammad moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he first worked in the shipping and receiving department for DeMert & Dougherty, a hair care product and grooming supply company. Then, in 1970, Muhammad became an assistant code enforcer for the City of Chicago.
Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam in 1972, and began reading the texts of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Although he left the Nation of Islam following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, he co-founded The Coalition for the Remembrance of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (C.R.O.E.) in 1987, along with Halif Muhammad and Shahid Muslim. The organization started as a small group of individuals meeting at Muhammad's home on the South Side of Chicago to study and discuss Elijah Muhammad's teachings and speeches. In 1994, C.R.O.E launched C.R.O.E TV; and in 1997, the organization established the C.R.O.E. TV Production Studio in the West Englewood neighborhood. Muhammad served as the executive producer for C.R.O.E. TV. He also hosted several television programs, including The Munir Muhammad Show and Muhammad and Friends, in addition to radio programs Political Talk and The Muhammad Speaks Radio Show. Muhammad interviewed a number of notable individuals, including Minister Louis Farrakhan, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Representative Gus Savage, and actor Harry Lennix. C.R.O.E. TV's programming broadcast in many cities across the United States, including in Chicago, Atlanta, New York City, and Charlotte. Muhammad and Colonel Eugene Scott also initiated an editorial partnership between The Chicago Defender and C.R.O.E. TV in 2001. In 2018, C.R.O.E. held its 31st Annual Founders Day celebration, which was attended by news anchorman John E. Davis, Judges Anne Burke and Dorothy Brown, and Reverend Al Sampson. Muhammad also served as the business manager of C.R.O.E. for over thirty years.
Muhammad served on the Illinois Human Rights Commission, and was also appointed to the Cook County Board of Corrections in 2004.
Munir Muhammad was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on May 5, 2018.
Muhammad passed away on July 9, 2019.
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Community activist Munir Muhammad (1950 - ) co-founded the Coalition for the Remembrance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (C.R.O.E.) in 1987, and hosted The Munir Muhammad Show and Muhammad and Friends on C.R.O.E. TV.
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Entertainment host Rickey Smiley was born on August 10, 1968 in Birmingham, Alabama where he graduated from Woodlawn High School. Smiley then received his B.A. degree in English from Alabama State University in 1992 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Smiley's career began when he participated in an amateur comedy night at The Comedy Club. After that, Smiley began touring with jazz singer Will Downing, comedian George Wallace, gospel singer Dottie Peoples and musician, Najee. He also served as the host of Black Entertainment Television's ComicView. In 2000, he entered into a five-year programming deal with Home Box Office (HBO) and in 2001, he became the host of the BET variety series The Way We Do It. Smiley made a cameo appearance in All About the Benjamins starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps, had a starring role as Santa in Friday After Next in 2002, and appeared in the character role of Ducktape in Sweet Hideaway in 2003. In 2004, he became the morning show host for Dallas' KBFB-FM/97.9, won BET's Platinum Mic Viewer's Choice Award, penned an episode for his own one-hour standup special on BET's ComicView, and contributed to the documentary Super Secret Movie Rules: Sports Underdogs. In 2005, Smiley was cast in the Diamond Life reality TV series.
In 2006, Smiley scripted his own episode of Comedy Central Presents and was showcased at the 2007 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. In 2008, he signed a Syndicated One deal to take The Rickey Smiley Morning Show nationwide. In 2010, he appeared in Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming in the role as Final MC. In 2011, he starred in the one-man show TV movie Rickey Smiley: Open Casket Sharp. In 2012, Smiley guest starred on the BET series Let's Stay Together as well as executive produced and starred in the TV sitcom, The Rickey Smiley Show, which aired on TV One. Smiley also served as host of Dish Nation and appeared in the character role as Calvin in Baggage Claim. In 2015, Smiley served as executive producer for Rickey Smiley For Real a reality television show; and in 2017, he was featured as MC on the television series Star. That same year, he released his memoir Stand By Your Truth: And Then Run For Your Life, (Simon & Schuster, New York).
In 2017, Smiley received the Marconi Award for syndicated personality of the year.
Smiley has five children, including, Brandon, Malik, Craig, D'essence and Aaryn.
Rickey Smiley was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on March 8. 2018.
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Entertainment host Rickey Smiley (1968- ) has been on the air since 2008 with The Rickey Smiley Morning Show.
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Monica Haslip
Arts administrator Monica Haslip was born on June 14, 1965 in Birmingham, Alabama to Cleopatra Cleveland Haslip and Willie Haslip. Haslip graduated from the Alabama School of Fine Arts in 1983, and completed two years at Atlanta College of Art. She went on to work in the photography department at Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. In 1989, Haslip was hired as a senior marketing manager for the mid-western region at Black Entertainment Television (BET).
In 1994, Haslip founded Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, an after school program that she operated out of her home on the South Side of Chicago. She initially employed two artists to instruct children in painting, mosaic, and design from the Hyde Park, Oakland, Kenwood, Woodlawn, and Bronzeville communities. In 2000, Haslip used funding from the Empowerment Zone Initiative to begin expanding the organization. In 2004, Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center moved into a new forty-thousand square foot facility in Bronzeville; and in 2011, Haslip opened Options Laboratory School, a charter school that offered an arts, science, technology, engineering, math, and business centered curriculum to at-risk youth. Haslip secured a contract with Chicago Public Schools in 2013, and the school was renamed The Little Black Pearl Art & Design Academy. As executive director of both the art and design center and the academy, Haslip facilitated sponsorships from the W.K. Kellog Foundation, the Greater Chicago Food Depository and the Jordan Brand.
In addition to receiving a Grio Award in 2011, Haslip was named as a White House "champion of change." She was also honored by the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, and was featured in O Magazine and in The Chicago Tribute. In 2017, Haslip was included in a mural painted by Kerry James Marshall on the Chicago Cultural Center. She was a recipient of the 2013 Mary McLeod Bethune Living Legends Award from the IDeaL Education Foundation. Additionally, Haslip served as a workforce innovation board member of the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership.
Haslip and her husband, Leon Haslip, have one son.
Monica Haslip was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on February 20, 2018.
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Arts administrator Monica Haslip (1965 - ) was the founder and executive director of Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center and the Little Black Pearl Art and Design Academy.
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C. Virginia Fields
Legislator C. Virginia Fields was born on August 6, 1946 in Birmingham, Alabama to Peter Clark and Lucille Clark. Fields earned her B.A. degree in sociology from Knoxville College, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1967; and her M.S.W. degree in social work from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 1969.
Fields was active in the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager and marched with Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham and spent six days in jail. After graduating from Indiana University, Fields moved to New York in 1970 to pursue a career in social work. She began her political career in 1981, when she was elected as chair of the Community Board 10 in New York City. Fields held that position until 1983. Fields was first elected to the New York City Council in 1989 as a representative of the 5th District. She was then re-elected to the New York City Council in 1993 as a representative of the 9th District. Fields served two terms as the president of the Manhattan Borough and was only the second African American woman to hold that position. She was also the highest ranking African American elected official at the time. Fields remained as president of the Manhattan Borough until her term ended in 2005. After her term as president ended, Fields became the first African American woman to run for mayor of New York City in 2006, although she lost in the Democratic Primary.
In addition to her political career, Fields was also active in her community. In 2008, she was appointed as president and chief executive officer of The National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS. Fields also served on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Region II Health Equity Council after being appointed by Governor David A. Paterson in 2011. In 2014, she was appointed by Governor Anthony Cuomo to the New York State's Ending the AIDS Epidemic Task Force. She has also served on the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, Policy Committee and Public Justice Project Steering Committee. Additionally, Fields is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the Links Incorporated and Abyssinian Baptist Church.
C. Virginia Fields was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on April 11, 2017.
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Reverend Gwendolyn Cook Webb
Civil rights activist Reverend Gwendolyn Cook Webb was born on February 15, 1949 in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1963, Webb was arrested when she marched with hundreds of local students in The Birmingham's Children's Crusade, which took place following the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. She later graduated from Western-Jackson Olin High School in Birmingham, Alabama in 1967, and went on to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
In 1975, Webb joined the Birmingham Police Department as the second African American female hired by the law enforcement agency. The following year, she began working in the business services unit handling fraudulent financial activities. In 1979, Webb was assigned to the Birmingham Jail. She then served as a team investigative officer for James K. Baker, the City Attorney of Birmingham, in 1980. Webb subsequently served as a security staff member for Richard Arrington, the mayor of Birmingham, and became a personal security officer for the mayor and his family. In 1985, the documentary In The Name of Love was released. The film paid homage to the interracial marriage of Webb and her late husband, Lieutenant William Webb, who was a white officer in the Birmingham Police Department. In 2000, she began serving as administrative assistant to Gwendolyn Sykes, a member of the Birmingham City Council. Webb then began working as a code enforcement officer for Birmingham Public Works.
An active participant in her community, Webb was involved in establishing the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, the Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail, and the Birmingham Black Radio Museum. Webb also served as vice president for The Travel Scene travel agency, and founded the charity and human rights organization, Foot Soldier International in 2012.
Webb's participation in the Civil Rights Movement has been widely documented. In 2004, the documentary Mighty Times: The Children's March, which featured Webb and won an Academy Award for "Best Documentary." Her participation in the movement has also been documented by the Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trial and the Birmingham Black Radio Museum.
Webb has one daughter, Theresa.
Reverend Gwendolyn Cook Webb was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on May 5, 2017.
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Civil rights activist Reverend Gwendolyn Cook Webb (1949 - ) was the second African American female officer for the Birmingham Police Department and founded the human rights organization, Food Soldier International
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The Little People, Big World star, who shares 20-month-old son Jackson with her husband, Zach Roloff, opened up about the experience in an Instagram post on Tuesday, January 8.
Tori admitted she was "so bummed" that they had to leave her "favorite place on earth" but mostly because her child was suffering.
The reality stars took Jackson to get checked out, but by that point the pain had subsided and he was using his arm again. Soon Tori, Zach, 28, and Jackson were back at Disneyland.
Tori and Zach tied the knot in July 2015.


TAC is a group of high school students that works as a team to create positive opportunities for Elk Grove teens. TAC members organize community service projects, create events for teens, and learn to become better leaders in the process! Members are selected to participate in TAC through an annual juried application process.
Join us for a night of swimming, hanging with friends, and watching a movie at the Wackford Aquatics Complex. Teens will have access to each of the pool amenities including the water slide, pools, and grass area for lawn games! This event is open ONLY to teens. You must have a valid school ID to enter.
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TAC members meet every other week to discuss current youth trends and plan positive events that better their community. Past events and activities include an open mic night, a teen film festival, and resume workshops.
Applications to become a TAC Committee Member will be available May 2019. If you or a teen you know are interested in joining TAC (pending availability of positions), please contact The Grove Teen Center at 916-405-5622 to discuss the application process with staff.


This book delivers sensible emergent aesthetics, explaining the processes that happen in human minds when we share ideas as works of art, skewering the orthodoxies of contemporary art with pragmatic wisdom about why representational art thrives in the new millennium.
Art in the Age of Emergence has captured the imaginations of thinkers and artists alike. This is an indispensable read for those who want to understand representational art in the 21st Century.
Michael J. Pearce, PhD, MFA, is a figurative painter and an outspoken proponent of skill-based art. Originally from England, he now lives in Thousand Oaks, California, where he teaches at CLU. In 2012, he founded and chaired The Representational Art Conference series.


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Nicolas Poussin, "Apollo and Daphne," 1625. Oil on canvas, 16 3/4" by 2".
Two recent exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art give insight into our heritage from the tradition of European art. The first is Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions (February 12 – May 11) and the second is Courbet (February 27 – May 18). Incredibly, Arcadian Visions is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to Poussin's landscape painting. Courbet is the artist's first full retrospective in 30 years. Seen together, they are a voyage backward through three centuries of French painting, to the Italian tradition of which Poussin was a student. Tradition in today's art world often seems a matter of choice and it is easy to lose track of its continuity. What I wish to emphasize is the inclusiveness of the tradition of which contemporary art is a part. It would be hard to imagine two more different artists than Courbet and Poussin, but they are necessary counterparts to one another. They show us the complete tradition of painting for what it is: a problem of the relationship of the human mind to the body.
Why is Cezánne always the door through which we must walk to understand painting? Was it Meyer Schapiro or Leo Steinberg who first convinced us it must be so? The mere fact that the walls of two such different exhibitions as Courbet and Arcadian Visions are papered with Cezánne's words should be reason enough to convince us we've been had. The mention of Cezánne confers contemporary currency and curators never miss a chance to exploit it. But viewing Arcadian Visions, I did not see Cezánne; I saw Magritte. Poussin was gradually eliminating gods and men from his landscapes in favor of an undulating tapestry of nature in which the forms of the clouds echo those of the trees. Poussin is as interested in the story he can tell through the changeable attributes of paint as he is in the ostensible subject of his paintings: the mythology that was meant to explain human nature. Among his last paintings, "Landscape with Three Monks" (ca.1650) is a giant canvas almost entirely devoid of human presence and shrouded in darkness. Magritte's masterwork, "Empire of Light II" (1950), seems derived from the atmosphere of "Three Monks," so similar is Magritte's sense of unearthly light to that of his predecessor. Magritte's contrasting of unlikely objects appears straight out of Poussin's eerie equation of leaves with clouds. He took what Poussin did and enhanced it, applying it to urban and interior spaces. Sure, Cezánne took a cue from Poussin. But others did too, in totally different and equally formidable ways.
For Poussin and Magritte, nature signifies transformation. In his own lifetime, Poussin was criticized for making the pastoral backgrounds of his Christian and mythological commissions more real and lively than the figures in his paintings. "Apollo and Daphne" (painted approximately 1625), though small, is a fine example. Poussin returned to this theme multiple times throughout his career and left his last and most impressive version incomplete at his death. The god Peneus, the story goes, transformed his daughter Daphne into a tree to protect her from Apollo's inappropriate advances. In Poussin's painting, Daphne raises her arms, already becoming branches, toward the sky and throws her head back in anguish. As her legs form a trunk, her dark blue mantle slips from her shoulders, the last remaining detail distinguishing her from the landscape. Apollo looks on, his own form all but dissolving into the light that bathes the scene. At his feet, Peneus reclines while a small, culpable putto rubs the trunk that once was Daphne's thigh. The official line on this painting is of chastity's triumph over physical love, but nature is also the victor here, absorbing the action of gods and men into the same stuff that makes its mountains and hills. How many times did Magritte employ these types of transformations in his paintings? What makes Cezánne's claim on Poussin more legitimate?
The idea that certain artists are more representative of art history than others is a millstone around the neck of creativity. We envision art history as our tradition, but the former is simply a construct imposed on the latter. The misapprehension comes from a misidentification of tradition exacerbated in New York at a time when it seemed essential to legitimate abstraction as the essential expressive mode of modernism. Cezánne was central in this as the figure that united Cubism and the New York School with all preceding art history. Abstraction needed American defenders to make this argument and ensure it a place at history's table (of course it already had one anyway, developing nicely in Europe in the hands of Kandinsky, Mondrian et al.). Among abstraction's most successful advocates was Ad Reinhardt, a polemicist among polemicists, who set it down in clever koans like "Art is against art," reinforcing the evolutionary, art historical narrative and placing abstraction at its cutting edge.
Of course, Reinhardt was a part of a group of painters temporarily excluded from the mainstream. But abstraction is both something less and something more than the justification these early theorists gave it. Poussin begets Courbet; Courbet begets the Impressionists who beget Cezánne who begets Matisse and Picasso who beget Pollock and so on and so forth. In fact, abstract artists possess a tradition that reaches back to the ancients, and it is the same as that of figurative artists. Abstraction was never the sine qua non of artistry any more than it was the black sheep, though passing tastes may have made it seem first one and then the other. We compose art history, like history itself, as a set of fractious teams rebelling against one another which tends to exclude consideration of what all art has in common.
Gustave Courbet, "The Desperate Man."
The view of art as antagonistic towards itself encourages judging art by the standards of other art. One might look at a painting by Catherine Murphy and say, "This reminds me of Courbet," and go on to describe the former in terms of the latter. Relying on what we already know about past painters to assess contemporary painting is a symptom of our art historical conditioning. Ever since Heinrich Wölfflin, we've treated art history as a pseudo-science through which we can get to the bottom of things like an etymologist dissecting specimens. As if knowing exactly what a Courbet painting is (as if we could) would somehow tell us what a Cezánne painting is. This approach encourages blindness toward the object of inquiry itself. So, it appears that our art history is not the way to encourage creative or artistic thinking. Let us rename the tradition "The Mind-Body Problem." This, I think, gets us a little closer to judging each work on its own merits and to assessing work in terms of what art has in common with other art: an exploration of what it is to be human, caught in a body with a mind.
I'd say Jeff Koons is a contemporary stop on the train linking Poussin with Magritte. Koons's bizarre associations of objects—a basketball and a fish tank; a vacuum cleaner and a museum vitrine—are what originally brought him attention as someone doing something different. Koons saw a way to bring the strangeness of Poussin and Magritte to contemporary sculpture by reinforcing the tradition. Today we have Color Field Surrealist paintings and Impressionist Dada. Artists mix and match styles like party favors. But simply combining styles once thought to be antithetical—proof of one's art historical savvy and proof against the confines of bygone categories—is not adequate to the demands of art. This sort of all-inclusiveness (destructiveness you might say) is often associated with the Pop Art movement. Those who hated it hated it for precisely this reason: that it failed to differentiate between high and low forms in art, failed to adhere to tradition. I don't believe such a thing is possible. As artists are already caught in the tradition, demonstration of one's knowledge of the tradition is superfluous. Originality today can emerge only in the form of profoundly personal work.
It is often said of Poussin that his was an art of the mind. He might be considered the forefather of that side of the Mind-Body Problem in painting—the Cartesian side—which views the mind as the tool that constructs reality for us, providing a model for the body to navigate: I think, therefore I paint, and therefore I am. By comparison, Courbet seems the manic sensualist, rushing to grasp stimuli that just as quickly slip away. A self-proclaimed realist, he paints to pin things down and identify them for good. The result is often an unnatural quality in his painting—his animals somehow excerpted from the habitat that surrounds them, his landscapes over-determined in their forms and his figures sometimes caught in contrived poses. Did any great painter ever make a vase of flowers look more boring? Or a deer look more uncomfortable? He hit his stride with the nude and, thereafter, his painted grottoes and seas became pale reflections of that singular motif.
"Nothing but nudes!" Courbet declared for the Salon of 1853. By 1866, he had perfected his technique with "Sleep," two women entwined in homage to sexuality. Everything seems right here—the tender absorption in the painting of the flesh and the relative roughness of the bedside and drapery: the violence that is the other side of sexual love. And then there is "The Origin of the World" (1866) a painting of diminutive scale, little different in some ways from much of the pornography of its day, given monumentality by its deft inscription in paint and its extraordinary title. At the Metropolitan, it is given its own side room in a seeming nod to the 19th-century mores that kept the painting concealed from view in the home of Courbet's patrons. Here, it has been surrounded by examples of the sort of erotic imagery Courbet may have worked from as well as a few derivative works by other artists—a historicizing presentation that, unfortunately, takes some of the bite out of this still-radical work.
Had Courbet been born in Poussin's generation, he surely would have relished the opportunity, afforded by mythology, to paint one swooning nude upon another. As it was, he invented his own pretext. Courbet's interest in painting is physiological but it puts him behind the eight ball. The exhibition's banner image, "The Desperate Man" (1844-45) says it all. Courbet depicts himself: eyes wide, hands agitatedly running through his thick black hair, his decidedly handsome, delicate, almost feminine features as inviting to contemplate as they are troubled. Here is a man possessed by what he feels and unable to express it, a man whose appetite clearly exceeds his means.
John Currin, who does an audio tour for Courbet, is often identified as an artist influenced by Courbet. Currin's is a contrived approach: his realism imposes an ugly opinion about what is "real" onto the depiction of experience, thus negating altogether the notion of anything categorically real. For Currin, there's nothing to be desperate about because his work acknowledges nothing larger than his deliberately skewed view of things. Paul McCarthy is a more legitimate heir to Courbet's side of the Mind-Body Problem. His performances are absurdist descents into a scatological abyss. Descents, in short, into physicality. Like Courbet, McCarthy seems thwarted—the more madly he enacts his sickening physical scenarios, the more impossible it becomes for him to extricate himself from them. Physicality is like this. The mind, though unable to grasp reality without the aid of the senses, can provide a haven of contemplation from the barrage of experience. The body is forever at the mercy of stimuli—one cannot control what one feels. One can only understand it afterwards. We are time-bound creatures and, thus limited in our perspective, the closest we come to knowledge of what happens to us is by reenacting the processing of experience through art.
Jake Berthot, "Testing Tree (Tyrant and Target) Stanley Kunitz," 2007. Oil on linen over panel. 46 1/4" x 52".
The two European branches of the Mind-Body Problem flow together into the completely American painting of Jake Berthot. Berthot is the aesthetic descendant of Ralph Albert Blakelock and Albert Pinkham Ryder, so much so that, if one is not careful, one might be tempted to dismiss his work as derivative. But it is only that Berthot's painting is completely indifferent to the contrivance of art history. He is totally absorbed in his own history, insisting on the primary experience of nature in his paintings and a dialogue with the artists whom he loves. The impenetrable atmosphere and gnarled surfaces of Berthot's art reflect the painter's exploration of his own nature. The landscape is a screen against which he unsparingly examines himself, and his paintings are as much a product of this inward-probing eye as of his outward gaze. It is as though, in picking apart the facets of a tree or a passing haze, he might find some truth about himself: an uncomfortable vision of our faculties' union in art.
Ben La Rocco
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, Remembered Light & Landscape
By Rebecca Brantley
Atlanta's High Museum is a meaningful conclusion—the only truly Southern one—for an exhibition that foregrounds the American South. Curators Sarah Greenough and Sarah Kennel grouped Mann's work into five themes: Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains. Almost 50 previously unpublished photographs provide fresh insight.
Yun Hyong-Keun: A Retrospective
SEPT 2019 | ArtSeen
Upon entering the ground floor of the fabulous Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, visitors encounter a series of sparsely hung "portals"—a term the artist used to identify paintings with spatial openings structured between various mixtures of burnt umber and ultramarine blue. For Yun, these colors symbolically represent the earth and sky.
Hands On: Working with Artist-Endowed Foundations and Trusts
By Patterson Sims
DEC 18-JAN 19 | Critics Page
Working with artist-initiated entities charged with stewarding a creative legacy, both artist-endowed foundations (charitable tax-exempt organizations) and artists' trusts (private, non-exempt entities), has been the core of my professional life since 2009 and a deeply gratifying culmination of nearly fifty years of work in the visual arts.
A Hunger Artist
By Betsy Kaufman
MAY 2019 | Critics Page
On my first date with an artist who would eventually become my husband, I said, "Look at me, look at me, look at me!" I am also an artist and I wanted him to know, from the beginning, that I not only live for my work, but that I need an audience to view that work. Eventually my husband gave me "A Hunger Artist" by Franz Kafka.


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What I'm reading for November 2018
Posted on 21 November 2018 19 November 2018 Author Rachel StrohmCategories Agriculture, Books, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Conflict, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Gender, Governance, Health, Law, Lesotho, Links, Maps, Mawazo Institute, Nigeria, Religion, Rwanda, Scholarships, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Here's my latest link roundup, cross-posted from Africa Update. We've got evangelical real estate in Lagos, the Boy Scouts of Bangui, Kinshasa's dodgy voting machines, Julius Nyerere's translations of Shakespeare, and more.
West Africa: Read about the three women running for president in Nigeria, in the first election which has ever had more than one female candidate. BudgIT is making strides in using publicly available budget information to track the completion of infrastructure projects across Nigeria. Here's what happens when evangelical churches get into the real estate business in Lagos. This was a great discussion of how the #BringBackOurGirls movement has expanded into other types of activism, thanks in part to a decision to reject all outside funding. In northern Nigeria, mosque attendance is dropping as Boko Haram's attacks make people more skeptical of organized religion. Dakar has elected its first female mayor (in French). In Cameroon, women and girls are disproportionately bearing the cost of the conflict in the country's Anglophone region.
Via Mohamed Keita: "Artist Pierre-Christoph Gam's mixed media series pays homage to Burkinabé revolutionary Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's president from 1983 – 1987"
Central Africa: Rwanda is one of the first African countries to offer cashless payments on buses. This was a gripping article about the violence of daily life in a refugee camp in the CAR, and how the extreme fragmentation of rebel groups undercuts attempts at disarmament. Despite the CAR's challenges, the Boy Scouts continue to support young men in Bangui. In northern Uganda, citizens are protesting after they were displaced from their homes during the LRA war and their land subsequently gazetted into a wildlife reserve, leaving them without any homes to return to. Do unions have a future among informal workers in the DRC? Some good news on the Congolese ebola crisis: experimental treatments have been proving fairly effective at reducing death rates.
Congolese presidential elections: If you read one article about next month's elections, make it this one on Kabila's intentional choice of a weak candidate as his replacement. For a deep dive, read about the politicization of the country's electoral institutions, its selection of easily hackable voting machines, the new archbishop who promises to hold the government to account (in French), the latest polling results on support for opposition candidates (in French), and the rapid demise of the opposition's promise to pick a single candidate.
Map of gender parity in African legislatures via the UN Economic Commission for Africa
East Africa: Kenya is considering privatizing its prisons, a policy which has been roundly criticized as an attempt to profit from prison labor rather than improving conditions for inmates. The military has been deployed to buy cashew nuts in Tanzania after farmers in an opposition stronghold complained of low prices. An Ethiopian company is betting on the growth of coffee consumption in China with plans to open dozens of cafés across the country. Tourism pushed women out of Zanzibar's public spaces, but one NGO is helping them reclaim their access. South Sudan wants to build a new capital called Ramciel in an uninhabited area which lacks any infrastructure. In Somalia, Al Shabaab earns millions of dollars annually by illegally exporting charcoal through Iran. This is essential reading on the way that the US supported the Siad Barre regime in Somalia in the 1980s even as it killed over 200,000 citizens. Somalia's persistent insecurity even affects responses to academic surveys, as people more exposed to violence are less likely to answer questions about their clan identity.
Southern Africa: In South Africa, participating in a peaceful protest for better service delivery could land you in prison without bail. Zambian doctors are warning women to stay away from herbal Chinese contraceptives, which are inexpensive but poorly regulated. Zambia has also indefinitely suspended all junior and senior secondary school exams after the questions were leaked on social media. Lesotho's sheep farmers are up in arms over a decision to ban wool exports and require them to sell all their wool to a single firm. Zimbabwe is making up for its lack of mental health support by training older women to provide informal therapy to people in their neighborhoods.
Some context on where the standard gauge railway (SGR) is supposed to extend in east Africa, via Africa Confidential
Industry + infrastructure: Uganda is balking at extending the SGR to Kampala, although Rwanda and Tanzania are pushing on with their portions of the railway. Several Chinese and American firms have signed deals to assemble mobile phones in Uganda. The Kenyan government has set up a fund to encourage local mobile production as well. Kenya's newest tech jobs focus on creating training data for AIs. Somalia's e-commerce scene is tiny but growing. The Mombasa airport is switching to solar power. This Kenyan start-up is producing smart meters for natural gas canisters, which should lower the cost of access to canisters and encourage people to switch away from relatively more polluting charcoal.
Arts + literature: Here are five African documentaries you'll want to see. Read about the Ottoman heritage of Somaliland's architecture. All of the stories by African authors shortlisted for the Brittle Paper Awards are freely available online. If you read Kiswahili, check out Julius Nyerere's translations of Shakespeare's works. This is the essential reading list on African feminism. Don't miss Nanjala Nyabola's new book on digital democracy in Kenya.
Congratulations to Nompumelelo Kapa, who is one of the few South African academics who has received a PhD for a thesis written in isiXhosa (via Sure Kamhunga)
Scholarships: Mawazo has a new page with updated fellowship opportunities for African scholars posted each month. African citizens who would like to pursue a PhD in anthropology should apply to the Wadsworth fellowship. Encourage the African scientists in your life to apply for the Next Einstein Foundation fellowship. The Center for Global Development is recruiting post-docs. If you'd like to apply to Oxford, check out the Africa Society's Mentorship Programme for tips on navigating the application process. The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership offers funding for health research by early career African scholars. East African citizens between the ages of 20 – 30 should apply for the LéO Africa Institute's Young and Emerging Leaders Program. Check out the Africa Peacebuilding Network's individual research grants.
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