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The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume 1offers a fresh presentation of the varieties of world literature from the ancient world to the early modern period.The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected and grouped materials in ways intended to foster connections and conversations across the anthology, between eras as well as regions. The anthology includes epic, lyric poetry, drama, and prose narrative, with many works in their entirety. Classic major authors are presented together with more recently recovered voices as the editors seek to suggest something of the full literary dialogue of each region and period. Engaging introductions, scholarly annotations, regional maps, pronunciation guides, and illustrations will provide a supportive editorial setting.For anyone interested in world literature.
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VOLUME A: THE ANCIENT WORLD THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST The Babylonian Theogony (c. 2 nd millennium B.C.E),(trans. W. G. Lambert) A Memphite Theology (c. 2500 B.C.E.),(trans. Miriam Lichtheim) Genesis: Chapters 1-11 (1 st millennium B.C.E.), (trans. Robert Alter) Translations:Genesis POETRY OF LOVE AND DEVOTION (c. 3 rd to 2 nd millennium B.C.E.) Last night, as I, the queen, was shining bright(trans. S. N. Kramer) Egyptian Love Songs(trans. W. K. Simpson) Distracting is the foliage of my pasture(trans. W. K. Simpson) I sail downstream in the ferry by the pull of the current(trans. W. K. Simpson) The voice of the turtledove speaks out(trans. W. K. Simpson) I embrace her, and her arms open wide(trans. W. K. Simpson) One, the lady love without a duplicate(trans. W. K. Simpson) How well the lady knows to cast the noose(trans. W. K. Simpson) Why need you hold converse with your heart?(trans. W. K. Simpson) I passed by her house in the dark(trans. W. K. Simpson) THE SONG OF SONGS (1 st millennium B.C.E.),(trans. Jerusalem Bible translation) THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH (c. 1200 B.C.E.),(trans. Maureen Gallery Kovacs) Perspectives: Death and Immortality The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (late 2 nd millennium B.C.E),(trans. Stephanie Dalley) fromThe Book of the Dead (2 nd millennium B.C.E.),(trans. Miriam Lichtheim) Letters to the Dead (2 nd to 1 st millennium B.C.E.),(trans. Gardiner and Sethe) Kabti-Ilani-Marduk: Erra and Ishum (8 th century B.C.E.),(trans. David Damrosch) Crosscurrents THE BOOK OF JOB (6 th century B.C.E.),(trans. Revised Standard Version)


Nine-year-old Fuchsia Ward was playing in the front yard of her family's new home just off Cottonwood Road one day in 1954 when she stopped and, perhaps for the first time, carefully surveyed the southern horizon.
She screamed like she'd never screamed before.
Her father, Arthur Ward, came scrambling out of the house. "What's the matter?," he sputtered, perhaps expecting a lurking stranger or a pack of wild dogs.
Fuchsia pointed south, her index finger trembling: Cotton, as far as the eye could see, interspersed with distant stands of corn. This was California, not Arkansas, she cried, and she had no intention of picking cotton ever again.
For the thousands of sharecropper families that came west to postwar California — black, white and Latino — that was a central part of the dream: No more poverty, no more subjugation, no more backbreaking labor. No more of the Arkansas "plantation," as Fuchsia called it.
California didn't always deliver for them.
Fuchsia Ward was one of the relative few for whom it ultimately did: As a teen, she did indeed pick some cotton — by her own choice — but she escaped Cottonwood Road for college and the opportunity for what became a long, rewarding career in education. But she came back to rescue some of those she'd left behind — or, more accurately, better their lives by helping to transform Cottonwood Road itself.
Today, Cottonwood has a whole host of Fuchsia Wards.
It has the good people who run the Friendship House Community Center, which has fed, clothed, educated and motivated four generations of families from Cottonwood Road and beyond.
It has Jerusalem Mission Church, at 924 Cottonwood Road, where for 49 years the Rev. and Mrs. Freddie L. Thomas have preached the love of Jesus and the power of transformational thinking.
And it has local activists — like Arleana Waller, a lifelong member of Jerusalem Mission — who have engaged elected officials in a long-neglected cause: Bringing new residential, commercial and industrial growth, and the jobs they would represent, to a section of the city that has suffered from the stigma of drugs, gangs, poverty and crime for too long.
Drive south on what was once Lakeview Avenue, now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, past Brundage Lane, where MLK transitions back into Cottonwood Road, and you'll see a succession of modest landmarks you might remember for all the wrong reasons — crime scenes from the past few years such as Central Cali Market (now Sam's Liquor), Roy's Market and Cottonwood Market, all within one sporadically blighted 3-mile stretch.
Recurring gang violence here has too frequently spilled the blood of innocents: In February 2017, less than a mile west of Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 5-year-old Kason Guyton was hit by a stray bullet fired into a car that Bakersfield police say was driven by his mother's boyfriend, a member of the East Side Crips. Two known members of the West Side Crips were arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the boy's death. Heartbreaking, yes, but not unprecedented.
For decades, tragedies like that have been a persistent and painful part of the Cottonwood story. Well-intentioned residents have just as persistently tried to intervene; some, like longtime resident Isaiah Crompton, one of the founders of the Stop the Violence gang intervention group, heroically so. It may seem to many, though, including those who have called Cottonwood home, that the rest of Bakersfield is content to leave it be.
White Bakersfield hasn't always treated Cottonwood as an African-American community with African-American problems that only African-Americans can solve — it just sometimes might seem that way.
Fuchsia Ward admits that, as a girl, she simply did not like white people. The only Caucasians she knew before her family moved to Bakersfield were the Arkansas landowners who did not treat her sharecropper father with sufficient kindness or respect. When the Wards moved into the 1940s-era Crystal Springs development just off Cottonwood Road, they seem to have brought segregation with them: "Used to be, (the 1940s Cottonwood-area tract known as) Hacienda Heights, just down the road, was all white," she said. "Then one black family moved in and the for-sale signs went up. The white flight began."
But Friendship House, which opened in 1957, changed all that for her. Its sponsors, a predominantly white group of people from Bakersfield's United Church of Christ, genuinely cared; the proof was not just in their financial commitment but in their commitment of time. They fed, mentored and befriended.
Fuchsia became an after-school regular, as did several of her 11 siblings, doing homework, learning needlework, singing songs. Her mother, Lueether, became a regular volunteer. "And pretty soon," Fuchsia said, "I saw that people are just people and there's a good in all of us." Remarkably good, in some cases: Ray and Joan Dezember, members of the Church of Christ, helped acquire land for a permanent Friendship House building. They also saw promise in Fuchsia and sent her to college. "I know Ray is with the Lord now," Fuchsia said. "The Dezembers are in my heart forever."
In 1962, Friendship House leaders helped launch a Target Area Program through President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, and the local program evolved into Community Action Partnership of Kern, according to James Burger of CAPK, Kern County’s official anti-poverty agency. CAPK, which today is one of the county's largest nonprofits, continues to operate Friendship House.
For all its goodwill and good work, however, Friendship House has not been able to transform Cottonwood on its own, and it cannot. But others have stepped up. The Bakersfield City School District is building Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School immediately west of Belle Terrace Park, which, thanks largely to Kern County 5th District Supervisor Leticia Perez, will apply $650,000 in Community Development Block Grant funding to new curbs, gutters and lighting throughout the area. That includes the park, which will be renamed Coretta Scott King Park, in honor of the civil rights leader's activist wife: It will be outfitted with new playground equipment, and a baseball field and community center will be renovated. The school itself will focus on STEM education — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — an investment in Cottonwood's future perhaps like nothing before.
Bakersfield Ward 1 City Councilman Willie Rivera, who has worked closely with BCSD officials to make MLK School's STEM program a reality, is also pursuing the annexation of some of Cottonwood's multiple county pockets — jurisdictional gaps that exacerbate public safety and infrastructure inconsistencies. One recent annexation is already complete and the wheels on a second have just started turning. More rural sections of the Cottonwood area within Rivera's ward have already received new crosswalks, speed bumps and patrols designed to stop illegal dumping and target shooting.
It all has the support of Assemblyman Rudy Salas, who has been active in the area's Safe Streets Partnership, which among other things establishes pathways to help Cottonwood residents escape gangs.
Waller, whose contractor-father, the late Willie J. Frink, built much of Cottonwood and Bakersfield in general, is fortifying Cottonwood in a completely different sense with the help of the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas. They have convened a working group of Cottonwood residents, former residents and friends to study ways to stabilize and redirect the community. They're pursuing zoning changes that will allow more residential development, which in turn, they hope, will encourage more commercial development, which in turn, they hope, will bring jobs to one of the city's double-digit unemployment zones.
"The people at these community meetings are bright, they're smart, they're community-oriented," Waller said. "They have all the tools. This is a community that's ready, that knows it's been overlooked. They just don't know how to do it yet. They're ready to learn."
The group, which meets next on Nov. 12, wants to develop a master plan for the area. A 1.1-mile extension of (South) Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, overlying Cottonwood Road, is but one step. (New Caltrans signage is the only holdup.)
"We want that stigma attached to this area, maybe deservedly, pushed out," Waller said. "We want the area we remember as children. If you raise the standards for your child, they're going to step up and elevate that community when it's their time."
The Rev. Thomas is a big believer that words can inspire.
"When people hear the words of Dr. King, they can envision the possibilities for their life and their community. Words matter, if we truly listen to them and feel their power," he said. "That's what we must do in this community."
Words, life-changing though they may be, matter more when they are accompanied by action.
Fuchsia Ward is happy to see both in play today in Cottonwood.
"Good people live here, proud people, determined people," she said. "I see it every day."
Contact The Californian’s Robert Price at 661-395-7399, firstname.lastname@example.org or on Twitter: @stubblebuzz. “Where We Live,” a look at a unique Bakersfield-area neighborhood, enclave or community, appears monthly.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Companies sold $356.5 billion in debt in the first quarter of 2011, according to Informa Global Markets. Excluding the first quarter of 2009, which included a lot of what is considered untraditional government-backed bank issuance, the first quarter of 2011 was the busiest month ever for the market. March alone brought $130 billion in bond sales, including sales this week from Home Depot Inc.
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silver streak: Anthony Vaccarello taps the legendary filmmaker for Saint Laurent’s latest men’s campaign.
Jim Jarmusch and Pedro Almodóvar’s spiky silver hair, David Cronenberg’s back hair stroked, Abel Ferrera’s disheveled silver hair, and the black-and-white photography by photographer David Sims, the main takeaways are the major attitudes. is.
Jarmusch and Ferrera are already making a Saint Laurent movie.
Armed with sunglasses and even a fur coat, Almodóvar was commissioned to create a 30-minute English-language film. The Western stars his stars Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal and is set to release later this year. All characters are reported to be wearing Saint Laurent clothing and accessories designed by Vaccarello.
Vaccarello has made bespoke films a key feature of his tenure, and Saint Laurent doesn’t just dress for the movies, he makes them. These are part of his Self project, launched in 2018, and are intended as an artistic commentary through the lens of Saint Laurent.
Previous iterations include film and photography signed by writer Brett Easton Ellis, performance artist Vanessa Beecroft, photographer Daido Moriyama, and film director Gaspar Noe, curated by Hong Kong’s Wong Karway. and included a chapter directed by Wing Sha. Noe’s film debuted at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. — MILES SOCHA
Honor of Naeem: The National Arts Club will award Naeem Khan a Medal of Honor 2023 for his achievements in the field of fashion.
He will be honored at a dinner and reception on January 20th at the National Arts Club’s mansion in Gramercy Park. The evening will include speeches by model Pat Cleveland, lifestyle advisor and author Colin Cowie, and Linda Fargo’s senior vice president. Director of Bergdorf Goodman’s fashion office and women’s fashion and store presentations.
“Naeem Khan embodies the style, vision and accomplishments that made the Medal of Honor more than 110 years old. Not only are his designs iconic, he is recognized as an icon himself.” said NAC President David Doty.
Born and raised in Mumbai, Khan said, “Dreams do come true. From designing with Halston to winning an award at the National Arts Club, this is a very happy and fulfilling chapter in my life.”
Developing his knowledge of textiles from his grandfather and father, who designed the intricate garments worn by the Indian royal family, Khan moved to the United States as a teenager and later began his career as Halston’s apprentice. Khan launched his own brand in 2003, and since then, Beyoncé, Jennifer his Lopez, Taylor his Swift, Chrissy his Teigen, Rachel McAdams, Michelle Obama, Queen Noor of Jordan, Princess of Wales I have dressed up celebrities such as
Previous Medal of Honor winners include Jeffrey Beane, Carolina Herrera, Arnold Scarsi, Patricia Field, Norma Kamari, Iris Apfel, Narciso Rodriguez, Anna Sui and Valerie Steele.
Founded in 1898, the National Arts Club fosters and promotes public interest in the arts. The club offers over 150 free programs, both in person and virtually, to the public, including exhibitions, theater and music performances, lectures and readings. — Lisa Lockwood
Fashionable Bugs Bunny: Amsterdam-based fashion brand Scotch & Soda has partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products to launch its spring capsule collection. The capsule highlights the Looney Tunes character Bugs his bunny.
Featuring graphics and details, the capsule features gender-neutral styles for adults, such as the Varsity Jacket featuring Bucks Bunny on the front and back, and the iconic Looney Tunes and letter S (Scotch & Soda). Finished with the line “That’s All Folks”. on the chest. Capsules also include printed t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweaters and accessories. ‘Good Vibes’ is printed all over the sweatshirt and tee.
For girls, capsules of sweat dresses, sweatshirts, tie-dye t-shirts and more are made from organic cotton. Boys’ styles include short sleeve shirts and organic cotton tees. Additionally, the capsule includes a gender neutral hoodie and matching sweatpants.
Retail prices range from $58 for kids’ skate-fit organic cotton tees to $558 for gender-neutral bomber jackets.
The line is available at Scotch & Soda stores and scotch-soda.com, as well as select wholesalers. — Lisa Lockwood

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8 oz ricotta cheese
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1/4 tsp black pepper
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1 small can sliced olives, drained
4 ounces slices pepperoni
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Arsenal want to tie up loan deals for Barcelona stars Denis Suarez and Malcom before the transfer window shuts later this week.
The Gunners only have enough budget to make loan moves this month, manager Unai Emery has said. This could have changed if the club could have offloaded Mesut Ozil, but there haven’t been any takers – for a permanent or loan deal – with clubs put off by his £350,000-per week wages.
Winger Suarez has been on Emery’s radar for most of the month. The 25-year-old Spaniard is a peripheral player for Barcelona and boss Ernesto Valverde would let him move out on loan to get regular game time. Talks with Arsenal over a deal are ongoing, with a positive conclusion hoped for soon.
Meanwhile, during those talks, the Gunners have also enquired about taking Brazilian forward Malcom on loan to the Emirates Stadium as well.
Malcom moved to Barcelona from Bordeaux for £37.5 million last summer but has not been a hit at the Camp Nou this season. So far, he has made just 12 appearances in all competitions, scoring 2 goals. However, the Barcelona hierarchy still rate the 21-year-old highly and don’t want to let him leave permanently but would be open to letting him go out on loan to play more often.
Other clubs are thought to be interested in signing Malcom, including AC Milan and other clubs in Spain.
A move for both to Arsenal would seem to be a win-win; both players would likely be playing more often and it would provide more competition for places for Emery, who has yet to really put his stamp on the Gunners squad.

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Spotlight turns to when the Government could go ahead with planned selldown.
Air New Zealand's share price hit a five-year high yesterday, turning the spotlight on when the Government could go ahead with its planned selldown of its stake in the airline.
Following a forecast earnings upgrade, shares hit 153.5c at one point yesterday before easing to close up 8c for the day at 152c.
The airline forecast that normalised earnings before tax will be between $235 million and $260 million in the year ending June 30, up from $91 million a year earlier.
Air New Zealand said the outlook was based on "the current market conditions and trading environment".
The Government holds a 73 per cent stake in the company following a taxpayer bailout 12 years ago and has said it could sell down to 51 per cent as part of its mixed ownership model for some state-owned firms.
While it was expected to be sold down last, Air New Zealand's strong performance and the raft of problems selling Mighty River Power has turned attention back on the airline.
Executive director of Milford Asset Management Brian Gaynor said although there were no signs of movement to sell a chunk of Air New Zealand, some in the investment community had wondered why it was not first off the block.
"Air New Zealand would have been ideal, the only thing being it would have been so much less revenue for them. They wanted to get the electricity companies moving," he said. Selling 22 per cent of the airline at the current price could yield $370 million for the Government compared with $1.6 billion to $1.9 billion for Mighty River Power.
A sale would not require a prospectus because the airline was already listed on the sharemarket but given the Government's aim of attracting small retail investors the process would be more complicated than selldowns of other companies, Gaynor said.
An analyst at Craigs Investment Partners, Chris Byrne, said the timing of any sale was difficult to assess. "The Government's hands are pretty full, when, how, to whom I wouldn't like to speculate on, but this is no doubt a positive for the Government."
Forsyth Barr head of private wealth research Rob Mercer said it was not clear what the Government's goals were on the price for Air New Zealand.
In figures for March released yesterday, the airline said it carried 1.362 million passengers, 5.2 per cent more than a year earlier. Mercer said Air New Zealand was benefiting from the falling price of fuel, made cheaper by the strong dollar.


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My first short-story ever sold was military science fiction, and here we are over twenty years later back to Milscifi- a novel this time that is actually based, in part, on that short story. I gotta say, I’m digging it.
But the future may go back to the past in a way that I never anticipated. Going back to a spring day twenty-eight years ago…
I was taking classes at the community college and had forgotten one of my textbooks. A pal loaned me his 1983 Harley Davidson Sportster to run home and get it. I was feeling good. I was in excellent shape, had a decent haircut and was wearing a pair of Levi’s, Dingo boots, a nice flannel shirt and a pair of Ray Ban Aviators. I got to a left-turn lane, kicked back and lit a Lucky Strike just as a stunning blonde in a canary-yellow ’65 Mustang convertible pulled up next to me and was conspicuously checking me out. I remember thinking, “I could ride a bike for a hundred years and it will never be better than this moment.” It was a peak experience and I decided then and there that I was done with motorcycles. The light changed and I gave her an infinitesimal nod and drove off. When I got back to town I gave the keys back to my friend, thanked him and have been on a bike only once, briefly, since then. For over twenty years I have avoided temptation… until yesterday.
We were at Hinshaw’s Honda in Aubern so Aedan could talk to them about servicing his trike and I spotted a Honda CB1100 in fantastic shape. I was surprised that it looked new until I realized that it was new. The salesman, a fella about my age, commented that they had brought it back with a few modern improvements. I actually sat on the bike while he and I reminisced about great bikes in our past for a bit.
Then he said, “I need to show you something.”
He walked me across the (huge) showroom to a low-slung monster and wheeled it out into the aisle. It was gorgeous. Beautifully proportioned, beefy yet elegant. Every line bespoke power and grace, but with a nod to the great American bikes of the past. I swung a leg over and settled into the saddle, put my hands on the handlebars and my foot on the peg. It was like coming home; it fit like it was made for me and I felt right down to my gut what it would feel like to ride the beast, to wheel down the street, lean into a corner and power through, riding the wave of torque from the massive V-twin. In the back of my mind I could hear the red-and-black demon between my legs howl in triumph: “MINE.”
The Bike is a Victory Judge, a modern low-rider with a 1731cc DOHC V-twin and it’s a beautiful, brutal animal of a bike.
We talked about price, helmets, riding armor and possibly a side-car. I kept coming back to sit on the bike once again… I couldn’t get enough; I’ve never had such a visceral response to a vehicle. It was frightening and exhilarating. We were also told that the price included a full day of riding instruction at their private race-course and a significant Veteran’s discount. Damn, that salesman was good.
All hope is not lost; I may be smitten but I am still an adult. Sort of. There are a lot of practical considerations to think about, and it will be at least a few days before it would be possible for us to purchase the bike. Lust can be blunted by time, infatuation fades until common sense can overcome it. There is still hope.
Oh, who am I kidding… I’m doomed…

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One of the aspects of quilting that impressed the art deep into American culture is its storytelling nature. Every facet of a quilt is meant to tell a part of a story, from the blocks, to the layout, the fabric, the quilting…players in the maker’s memoir. When a quilt is extracted from a box, buried deep in a basement or attic for a generation, fascination ensues as the lucky finders wonder about the materials and workmanship. Who made this? Why these fabrics…this design? If they’re lucky, there might be a bit of information scrawled on the label: the maker’s and the recipient’s names, the date it was made and where. Every quilt has as story.
Some quilts stories are about a fabric or color combination or pattern that caught the quilter’s fancy. Others mark an important event or milestone. I made this quilt as a part of an Instagram swap with the theme of “Mini with a Story”. Typically, a mini swap is about using preferences and clues from the recipient to make a secret project they’ll (hopefully) love. This one, however, was different in that I got to use my own discretion to design a mini quilt to tell my own story.
“Out of Alaska”
This mini illustrates the first half of my life, and that of my parents and grandparents, under Alaska’s stunning sky. I incorporated a skyline of high rise building, magnificent in its own way, to represent the current leg of my journey in Chicago. The piecing is improvisational in nature, while a typical pattern can be lovely, I wanted to show my penchant for carving my own path. This is my story, after all.
I loved the adventure of creating a new material, piece by piece. I worked in small sections adding bits and combinations to create something usable from scraps of solid and low-volume blues. The textures and the play of the shades of blue were a delight to work with. I started by laying out small cuts in the way I thought they might work for my scene, to act as a sort of sketch to guide the improv. I do I wish I’d used a greater variety of shapes; I think the combination of squares and rectangles worked well enough for this piece but when I recreate a version of this for my home I’ll definitely remember to vary the bits I used for the sky.
Once the top was completed, I used a combination of free motion motifs to bring the scene to life. In the sky, I used a line of lazy eights in a variegated thread to draw a line of dancing northern lights, and a shiny gold thread for the eight stars that represent Alaska’s flag. Throughout the sky I drew swirls and waves in two different shades of blue and on the buildings I used a flat black thread in a variety of angular meanders to portray the urban textures. The quilting is, by far, my favorite part of this quilt, both to create and to look at.
I used two fabrics to piece the binding, a navy speckled with white stars for the sky and a black and white grid to coordinate with the lower half.
I’ve done several mini swaps, the swap community on Instagram is a fabulous place to find quilty people, so this isn’t my first go-round with sending off something I’ve made. This is, however, the first piece I designed from start to finish, and it’s the first I’ve done specifically to tell my own story, so this one was a little tricky to let go of.
But, mail her off I did and nervously waited for my partner to receive it. Words can’t even describe my delight when I received word from my partner that not only did she love it, but would be hanging it in her husband’s office in honor of his own childhood in Alaska. I cried when I read that. What a perfect end to this quilt’s story.


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What is the reason behind the green leaf?
Leaves are green in the spring and summer because that’s when they are making lots of chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is important because it helps plants make energy from sunlighta process called photosynthesis. The summer sunlight triggers the leaves to keep making more chlorophyll.
Why do leaves change color essay?
The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible and give the leaves part of their fall splendor. At the same time other chemical changes may occur, which form additional colors through the development of red anthocyanin pigments.
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Leaves are green because of a pigment known as chlorophyll. The chlorophyll masks the colors of any other pigments in the leaf cells. In the autumn, chlorophyll breaks down revealing other colors present in the leaf.
Why are plants green in color quizlet?
Green photosynthetic organisms that use chlorophyll absorb light energy in red and blue wavelengths. Plants appear green because their chlorophyll containing chloroplasts reflecting green wavelength.
What role do pigments play in plants?
Because they interact with light to absorb only certain wavelengths, pigments are useful to plants and other autotrophs –organisms which make their own food using photosynthesis. In plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, pigments are the means by which the energy of sunlight is captured for photosynthesis.
What are the 4 types of plant pigments?
Plant pigments include many molecules, such as porphyrins, carotenoids, anthocyanins and betalains. All biological pigments selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light while reflecting others.
What is the main function of photosynthetic pigments?
Photosynthetic pigments are the molecules responsible for absorbing electromagnetic radiation, transferring the energy of the absorbed photons to the reaction center, and for photochemical conversion in the photosynthetic systems of organisms capable of photosynthesis.
What is pigment system?
Pigment systems are a group of photosynthetic pigments found in the chloroplast of a plant. Based on the pigment at the pigment on the central core there are two types of pigment systems (PS) the PS-1 with P700 as the central core and the other PS-2 with P680 as the central core.
What does pigment mean?
noun. a dry insoluble substance, usually pulverized, which when suspended in a liquid vehicle becomes a paint, ink, etc. a coloring matter or substance. Biology. any substance whose presence in the tissues or cells of animals or plants colors them.
What is another word for pigment?
In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pigment, like: coloring matter, artist’s material, paint, shade, stain, oil-paint, orpiment, color, colorant, tint and colorlessness.
What does PSII do?
Photosystem II (PSII) is a membrane protein supercomplex that executes the initial reaction of photosynthesis in higher plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. It captures the light from the sun to catalyze a transmembrane charge separation.
How does carbon dioxide enter the plant?
Carbon dioxide cannot pass through the protective waxy layer covering the leaf (cuticle), but it can enter the leaf through an opening (the stoma; plural = stomata; Greek for hole) flanked by two guard cells. Likewise, oxygen produced during photosynthesis can only pass out of the leaf through the opened stomata.
What occurs in photosystem?
The light reaction of photosynthesis. The light reaction occurs in two photosystems (units of chlorophyll molecules). High-energy electrons, which are released as photosystem I absorbs light energy, are used to drive the synthesis of nicotine adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH). …
What is happening with matter in PSII?
The energy absorbed in PSII is enough to oxidize (split) water, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere; the electrons released from the oxidation of water replace the electrons that were boosted from the reaction center chlorophyll.
What is produced in photosystem 1?
Photosystem I is an integral membrane protein complex that uses light energy to catalyze the transfer of electrons across the thylakoid membrane from plastocyanin to ferredoxin. Ultimately, the electrons that are transferred by Photosystem I are used to produce the high energy carrier NADPH.
What is co2 fixation?
Carbon fixation or сarbon assimilation is the process by which inorganic carbon (particularly in the form of carbon dioxide) is converted to organic compounds by living organisms. The organic compounds are then used to store energy and as building blocks for other important biomolecules.
Does photosystem 2 produce oxygen?
Photosystem II is the first membrane protein complex in oxygenic photosynthetic organisms in nature. It produces atmospheric oxygen to catalyze the photo-oxidation of water by using light energy. It oxidizes two molecules of water into one molecule of molecular oxygen.
What is the main difference between the two photosystems?
The two main multi-subunit membrane protein complexes differ in their absorbing wavelength, where the photosystem I or PS 1 absorbs the longer wavelength of light which is 700 nm while photosystem II or PS 2 absorbs the shorter wavelength of light 680 nm.
Why is it called photosystem 2?
Photosystem I vs. There are two types of photosystems in the light-dependent reactions, photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI). PSII comes first in the path of electron flow, but it is named as second because it was discovered after PSI.
What is used in photosystem 2?
Energetic Electrons Photosystem II is the first link in the chain of photosynthesis. It captures photons and uses the energy to extract electrons from water molecules. These electrons are used in several ways.

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Fracture Behaviors of Dam and Wet-Sreening Concrete by Direct Tensile Test
The emphasis of this paper is to experimentally study the fracture behaviors of dam and wet-screening concrete such as softening curve, uniaxial tensile strength , maximum crack width and fracture energy . The direct tension tests were performed on prismatic specimens with no initial notch include dam concrete specimens which size is 250mm×250mm×500mm and wet-screening concrete specimens which size is 150mm×150mm×300mm by employing a servo-hydraulic closed-loop testing machine with large stiffness. The uniaxial tensile load-strain curves, uniaxial tensile stress-strain curves, uniaxial tensile stress-deformation curves were acquired. On the basis of principle of fracture mechanics of concrete, the stress-crack width curves and the relative stress-relative crack width curves were obtained. Finally, the expressions of softening curves and fracture parameters such as , and of dam and wet-screening concrete were achieved. The relationships of the foregoing fracture parameters between dam concrete and wet-screening concrete were discussed in this paper. The achieved softening curves and fracture parameters can provide input data for the fracture simulating analysis of dam and wet-screening concrete.
Jingsi Huo, Yan Xiao, Zongjin Li and Shuaib Ahmad
Z. F. Zhao et al., "Fracture Behaviors of Dam and Wet-Sreening Concrete by Direct Tensile Test", Key Engineering Materials, Vols. 400-402, pp. 233-238, 2009


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Here’s a cool poster from my Tron collection, but for me, the tag line should read - PLAY THE GAME. SEE THE MOVIE.
My introduction to Tron wasn’t in a movie theater but instead at an arcade. My brother and I discovered the Tron coin-op video game one hot and humid day in midsummer at the Rebel Arcade. (The Rebel lacks air conditioning.) It would be a few months before we got to see the film. Here’s a photo of my local arcade back in the 1980's.
When we walked into the arcade, we noticed a line of kids waiting to play a new game. I’m sure we both asked the same question, “Hey, what’s Tron?” After a long wait we finally got to deposit a few of our pocket burning quarters into the machine. I’m not sure if it was the four games in one, the unique sound effects or that glowing blue joystick that hooked us, but I do know we were instantly hooked on Tron.
Hey, I was so taken by the game I even made a Tron light cycle drawing. Once the movie came out, Tron became a favorite art subject for me, but this drawing is the only surviving piece of Tron kid art that I have. Oh, oh. Looks like the bottom cycle is in trouble.
It’s amazing, but the Rebel Arcade is still open and what’s more amazing than that, is the very same Tron machine that I grew up playing is still there. Even more amazing than that, is the machine is still sitting in the same spot right next to Pac-Man, like it did in 1982. Here’s a photo from 2004 -
The poor machine has challenged many a video warrior thru the years, but time has not been kind. The side art is heavily worn and the blue joystick disappeared in the ‘90's. I checked a few months ago and it still sits right in front waiting for a quarter. Click on the photo below and if you look really close you’ll see it in the front next to one of those big dance machines.
The Rebel still has the ultra cool Discs of Tron. Unfortunetly, it has seen better days too.
The Tron video game was a big part of my childhood and like any nostalgic fool like me, I eventually got a nice cabaret model for the house. A good friend set me up with one about ten years ago. Boy, it sure has saved me a ton of quarters!


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Maybe the Pakistanis don't mind the killer drone strikes too much, after all.
For months, American and Pakistani observers have worried that the unmanned aerial assaults on militants in Pakistan could wind up destabilizing the country. "If we want to strengthen our friends and weaken our enemies in Pakistan, bombing Pakistani villages with unmanned drones is totally counterproductive," U.S. counterinsurgency adviser Dr. David Kilcullen recently told Danger Room. The attacks -- and the civilian casualties that follow -- have "now moved America into the position of 'principal hate figure' and all-purpose scapegoat," the News of Pakistan warned.
But a survey of Pakistan's tribal regions, released today in Pakistan's *Daily Times, *tells a different story. "Over two-thirds of the people viewed Al-Qaeda and the Taliban as enemy number one, and wanted the Pakistani army to clear the area of the militants. A little under two-thirds want the Americans to continue the drone attack[s] because the Pakistani army is unable or unwilling to retake the territory from the Taliban," researcher Farhat Taj says.
58% disagreed that "anti-American feelings in the area increased due to drone attacks." 52% said the "drones are accurate in their strikes,"
according to Taj. Only a minority -- 45% -- said the unmanned strikes spark "fear and terror in the common people."
Now, any public opinion poll of an area as rural and as underdeveloped as Pakistan's tribal wildlands has to be viewed with a gimlet eye. And Taj's group, the Aryana Institute for Regional
Research and Advocacy, isn't exactly a collection of impartial observers -- here is a photo gallery from one of their many anti-Taliban protests.
Spencer Ackerman cautions against reading too much into Taj's data. "Forty-five percent of respondents who say that the drone strikes cause 'fear and terror in the common people' is a very large figure," he writes. "Just because it’s a narrow minority that lives in fear of having a missile descend out of nowhere is no excuse for profligacy in dropping one. That's a number that doesn't indicate a great margin for error. Indeed, overinterpreting that figure is pretty much what al-Qaeda hopes we'll do."
[Photo: USAF; spotter: Bill Roggio, Weekly Standard]
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Baby Queens - Cara, Estelle, Monique, Ruth and Vanity - are five girls from Cardiff. Two sisters, two cousins and their adopted sister - each equal parts songwriter, musician and music lover. As distinct in their fashion as they are their music, each band member's individual personality and style can be heard in their music. In 2013, they released their first single "Red Light". It was a viral hit, and soon won the attention of BBC Radio 1, who made them "Artist of the Week", with repeated plays across the station from the likes of Fern Cotton and Greg James. They've also had support from the likes of Huw Stephens, DJ Target, DJ Semtex and Mista Jam. They've also had continuous support from BBC Wales, where they've been "Artist of the Week", three times. Since "Red Light", the girls have been releasing tracks, readying their debut album and cutting their teeth on the live circuit. They've played festivals like The Great Escape, Boomtown, T in the Park, X Fest, and Swn festival and toured with Welsh super band The Earth. And now the album is finally ready to be heard. Produced by Super Furry Animal's Cian Ciaran, the self-titled album crisscrosses the narrow divide between rock, hip hop, soul and reggae - it's a blissed out, musical odyssey written by all five members of the band. The sickly sweet overtures one might expect from an all-girl band are ditched in favor of beats that force the melodic content to the fore, with the principles of classic soul and R'n'B song-writing, catching up with the present day sounds of British street genres. Lavishly layered vocals are wrapped up in slick production that marks out Baby Queens's intentions to push boundaries and reintroduce to the masses what a vocal group with melody and beats in their hearts is all about. "Our love of street poetry, spoken word and rap has influenced many of the songs, but also rock n roll bands, soul/Motown, trippy '60s and '70s bands, the roots reggae and roots hip hop artists, basically anything that is heartfelt and soulful and stands for something positive," says Cara.


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Nance Buchert poses for a picture outside the YWCA.
The board of directors for the Muncie YWCA wanted a leader who had strong connections to the local community, experience in fundraising and a passion for women's issues.
And in their opinion, they couldn't do better than Nance Buchert.
"We didn't do a national search because we believed there was someone in our community who could head this organization ... someone we needed," said Sandy Markert, the interim executive director for the local YWCA. "Nance is great. She's exactly what this agency needs right now." ...


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I think the old Opel has been parked in from of the Hotel Royal International or Jaipur for little while now. I’m not to sure how the two folks on the left are related to the car if at all. Anyway I spotted the old wreck on my way to lunch and could not resist walking back and take a shot. When I was complimenting them, one of the guys spotted I was was french and started speaking the lingo.
Argh I’m still crawling trough the 2000 pics of Rajasthan, I managed to reject nearly 1000 so far, I think getting down to 200 pics would be pretty nice, a reasonable set to post on flickr and to print a s book on blurb. I’ll share a tip; when I do a travel book on blurb it is mainly for myself, but when i order mine I also order a couple to give away to the parents and inlaws, a way of sharing with them…
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I was carrying my Leica and Hasselblad around Waterloo street that Sunday morning trying to finish my two rolls when I shot this scene.
I found it very funny the woman on the right showing her fist and apparently cursing the stall kippers and the smiles of that one, may I add that this did not look like a real argument but rather a game between people who knew each others.
Alas, all of this is a bit lost in the resulting picture, the hands of the person in the right are not easy to see and the stall kippers are too much in the dark. Well if you look at it carefully though…


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Jack walks down the hall of Twenty-something Terrace, wearing a lace-festooned floral slip-dress under a gray Perry Como cardigan. She knocks on Jill's door, then puts an ear to it before heeding the Manual of Sit-Comical Hijinks and letting herself in with her key. The Clarinet Of Incipient 'Splaining To Do makes itself known as she enters and sits on Jill's bed -- ostensibly intending to drop off her own key with a cutesy note. Jill's headboard is an Art Deco woodcarving of the Chrysler building that looks capable of impaling anyone who leans on it. Jack puts the key in the box, then rifles through her purse for a pen and paper. But it's the darnedest thing -- the pen doesn't work, so she has to open a drawer in the bedside table to look for one . . . and it just happens to be the drawer where Jill's journal is kept! Of all the -- but Jack fondles the other knick-knacks in the drawer before closing it and starting her note, which she doesn't finish, because she's too busy fishing Jill's diary out of its drawer and reading it, with accompanying hyperbolic eyebrow gymnastics! Jill's voice helpfully reads along, accompanied by the Ragtime Noodlings Of Trespassed Privacy: "July 30, 1993: It was the most amazing sex I've ever had. Becky's so open! I can't imagine ever feeling this free with anyone else. Except maybe Antonio Banderas, but he doesn't return my calls!" Oops, it segued into Ivan Sergei's diary at the end there. "The most . . . amazing sex . . ." Jack whispers, circumflexing her eyebrows as Barto barges in to catch that varmint red-handed! Jack swallows guiltily and says, "Hi!" but Barto's not buying it. He's clearly read Jill's diary enough times to recognize it on sight. "Barto, please don't tell him, it was an accident," Jack sputters, putting the journal back in the drawer. "An accident," says Barto, his voice dripping with righteous sarcasm. "I'm begging you," she whimpers. Barto fixes her with a THC-laced glare and says, "You know about the code, don't you? Buddies over babes?" How could she not know about it, it's needlepointed into samplers on every wall of the Bachelor Barn -- right next to the samplers reading, "We're all gay!" "Couldn't you overlook the code? Just once?" Jack whispers plaintively to Barto's impassive face. "Look, it will never happen again," she blathers, claiming not to have actually read anything and promising to forget everything she didn't read. "I just skimmed," she fibs, "It was just -- more of a skim -- please?" Barto cocks his head inscrutably and Jack slumps with resignation.
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The female comic is proud and posing on the coveted cover.
Tiffany Haddish is enjoying the ride of her rising fame. She is widely appreciated for telling hilarious stories during her interviews and the public can always count on the entertainer to serve us the tea. Recently, she dished about the person who bit Beyonce on the face. She also told us about the time she asked Leonardo DiCaprio if he would let her "hit that." The comedienne is obviously very generous with her fans and the general public. She doesn't hold back.
Today, she is proudly sharing her W magazine cover with the caption: "Just female comic on the cover of @wmag guys thats all. #sheready!"
Here is another peak at the visuals. It's not as striking as the red Valentino getup, but it's still Haddish.
This might not seem like a big deal since most famous entertainers snag covers seemingly often. The thing is that Tiffany is big right now, but she hasn't always been. Even though it seems like Haddish rose to fame overnight with her breakout role in Girl's Trip, she's been paying her dues for years. At one time, she was even living out of her car while staying on her grind and looking cute doing it. We love seeing her win. Catch her co-starring with Kevin Hart in Night School this September. Hart happens to have helped her out when she was homeless. Now this, my friends, is called full-circle.


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ANDREW RAFACZ is pleased to announce Paradiso, a solo exhibition of new works from Melissa Leandro in Gallery Two. The exhibition opens Saturday, February 26th and continues through Saturday, April 9th, 2022. This is the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery.
With Paradiso, Melissa Leandro presents a series of new hybrid textiles that combine weaving, dyeing, needlework, screen & sun printing, foiling and other fabric manipulations. These new works are elaborate physical embodiments of her imaginary oasis and address how that refuge is both suspended in reality and disillusion.
Leandro’s woven and collaged textiles evoke lush, flourishing natural landscapes, depicting representations of grasslands, forests, and flowering plants. The varied forms of flora extend the parameters of the frame and convey an environment that holds no horizon line, perspective or end point. The background of each woven piece is blurred through the use of hyper saturated dye painting, batik wax and repeated over-dyeing. There is often no singular focal point in the many recurring motifs that take root in the imagery. These works are an amalgam of an imagined biodiversity and an artificial and fabricated relationship with the natural world, particularly manifested in her use of appliqued flowers. Clearly synthetic, they are made of plastic and wood and often found in flea markets and dollar stores, which were always a household staple throughout the artist’s childhood. These artificial flower forms are thoughtfully composed and expressively stitched onto the surface of the artist’s textiles in a way that imitates their delicate existence in the natural world.
Leandro has also continued to employ the acts of dyeing, printing, cutting and repairing in her elaborately layered textiles to evoke further depth. This disruption of a seamless woven structure is central to her practice. She writes, ‘I see this intuitive and gestural action of purposely cutting holes in my weavings— only to then immediately after, slowly suture and mend them— as a way to assuage the fragmentation I feel in my own life. My relationship to nature has been interrupted and it is often filled with observations and frustrations caused by trash filled streets, and neglected and systemically underfunded neighborhoods.’
Lately, Leandro’s interests have led her to spend more time researching and investigating herpetology, entomology and horticulture. She is interested in the practice of creating bioactive ecosystems that can thrive or just as quickly decay- simply by neglect or diligence in their maintenance and preservation. Leandro explains, ‘I think the act of creating, maintaining and sometimes unintentionally damaging these ecosystems and fauna helps me focus, and get control over external situations I can’t affect in a similar manner or with the same level of impact.’
With the new works in Paradiso, Leandro responds to the suspension of growth, change and deterioration in her own life, art and home. This body of work is an accumulation of dyed and printed residue, sewn and patched textures that represent idyllic spaces, lush and thriving, a fictional paradise where both the artist and the viewer can find sanctuary.
MELISSA LEANDRO (American, b. 1989) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Leandro received her MFA in 2017 and her BFA in 2012, both from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has participated in residencies, including The Vermont Studio Center, The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, The Jacquard Center, and The Weaving Mill. She is the recipient of The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation Artadia Award for 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), The University Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL), and the Union League Club of Chicago (Chicago, IL). Recent group exhibitions include University of Nebraska (Omaha, NE), DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL), and MCC Art Gallery (Mesa, AZ). She has exhibited at art fairs in solo and group presentations, including Frieze (New York, NY), Untitled. (Miami, FL), and Intersect (Palm Springs, CA). Her work is included in numerous public and private collections. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery.


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Blue and white ceramic, lower base-rim of cup or vase with oriental pattern (possibly willow pattern).
Light blue milk glass specimen vase or ornament in the shape of a monkey holding up a basket or vase. Traces of paint/ gilding remain.
Sky-blue-glass specimen vase, with a clear-glass stem. Vases of this sort were for holding a single ‘specimen’ flower. The stem and pedestal foot are broken off.
White glass globular pedestal vase or pot pourri holder, with a flat flared lip, etched with grasses and ferns around the body. Damage to the lip.
Blue milk-glass vase, moulded with drapery or ribbons and hanging flowers or berries. The pedestal base is broken off.
Miniature grey ceramic vase, missing the neck and handle.
Many different colours of glass are brought together in this specimen vase (for a single flower), the top of which has broken off. Found amid ash and domestic refuse of the 1890s.
Tiny white ceramic specimen vase, painted with red floral decoration, made for the Chinese export market. This was one of three oriental vases discarded after the death of Mary Everett in 1908, probably because her daughters did not share her tastes. Other crockery...
White ceramic oriental vase with blue and white painted decoration, discarded with two others after the death of Mary Everett in 1908.
Imported oriental white ceramic flower vase, with transfer-printed design in blue, showing human figures and animals. This was one of at least three small imported oriental vases discarded, in 1908, after the death of Mary Everett, along with old and worn crockery....
Small majolica flower vase, from the School House, Bergh Apton.


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The international and the local will share the spotlight in this edition of the lively football programme with Dylan Ebenezer. In Brussels, Sioned Dafydd will be chatting to James Lawrence, the Welshman who has spent his entire career playing overseas. Closer to home, we’ll be getting to know the colourful characters of Blaenau Amateurs. As well as featuring the JD Welsh Cup and the restart of the Welsh Premier season, we’ll also find out who are the latest club to face the Cicio’r Bwced challenge.
On this day in 1924 Wales played Scotland in a British Home Championships at Ninian Park in Cardiff, in a rare occasion where both international captains were Cardiff City players

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Where is the Democratic senator who will play Howard Baker?
In the summer of 1974, the U.S. Senate held hearings to investigate what happened regarding the so-called "Watergate burglary." The operatives involved were Republicans and the media figures Democrats. During the televised hearings, many senators spoke out, but one who stood out in particular was the Republican Senator Howard Baker. Despite the fact that Richard M. Nixon, his own party leader and the sitting president, was being investigated, Senator Baker asked tough questions of the witnesses and tried to discover what really happened. Famously, he asked, "What did the president know? And when did he know it?" In many ways, Baker played a statesmanlike role in the proceedings. In the 2016 presidential campaign, there appears to be considerable evidence that the CIA and FBI, led by appointees of a Democrat president in conjunction with the Democrat candidate, spied on the Republican...(Read Full Post)


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Rare in Washington west of the Cascades and known from just two places in the Park (around the Nisqually entrance on Westside Road and on the Cowlitz Divide). It grows in crevices on rock faces. Photographed on Westside Road on August 13, 2014.


A week where he’s been beaten upside the head by former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta just got even worse for the hapless Barack Obama. Now he’s being eviscerated by Jimmy Carter.
This is pretty much as low as it gets.
Former President Jimmy Carter is criticizing key foreign policy decisions of President Obama, including drone strikes on four Americans abroad and a failure to act promptly to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Obama’s Middle East policy is difficult to determine as “it changes from time to time,” Carter said in an interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Tuesday.
“I noticed that two of his secretaries of Defense, after they got out of office, were very critical of the lack of positive action on the part of the president,” Carter noted.
In a media blitz this past week, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta blasted Obama, in one interview suggesting the president might have “lost his way.”
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates also criticized Obama in his memoir, saying the president “doesn’t believe in how own strategy.” Recently, Gates said that Obama would need U.S. ground troops to defeat ISIS, something Obama has repeatedly rejected.
“First of all, we waited too long,” Carter told the Star-Telegram about Obama’s response to ISIS.
“We let the Islamic State build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria,” he said. “Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.”
It’s pretty much over when Jimmy Carter questions your credibility.


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Avery Parrish (born January 24, 1917 in Birmingham, died December 1, 1959 in New York City) was a jazz pianist best remembered for his 1940 song of "After Hours", which he recorded with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra.
Born in Birmingham, Parrish, like his older brother Curley, learned to play piano early. He and fellow Industrial High School student Sonny Blount (later known as "Sun Ra") became friends, playing duets together and challenging each other to write songs. He graduated from the Alabama State Teachers College (now Alabama State University) and there joined the Bama State Collegians in 1934, which evolved into the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra. He worked with the band during the height of its popularity while they were recording on the Bluebird label. He left the band in 1941 to move to California. While there he was injured and partially paralyzed in a bar fight, ending his playing career at the age of 24.
Parrish's composition, "After Hours", has become a standard and a recording of Ray Bryant's 1972 Montreux Jazz Festival performance is used as the theme music for the PRI program "Jazz After Hours". Parrish was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1979.
- Avery Parrish at AllMusic.com
- After Hours performed by the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra on YouTube.com