Kamal Al Haj has gone from being the dean of media studies at Damascus University to being a freelance academic in Bielefeld, a city in northern Germany. But the 46-year-old professor casts his journey as being more about career development than being a stereotypical refugee.
His path out of Syria is a common one: Around 20 percent of university professors in Syria have left their jobs during the war, according to Atef Naddaf, the higher education minister. At the faculty of media, a quarter of the professors have left.
Al Haj moved to Germany almost 20 months ago. He left behind his family and friends in Damascus, as well as more than 15 years of experience in media research. He made his decision only after considering all his options in Syria.
Directly after graduating from the journalism department at Damascus University in 1992, Al Haj embarked on his media-studies career.
Dealing with students' complaints in the newly opened faculty was just of many problems Al Haj had to address. The faculty was created from the former journalism department. The new faculty was given fully-equipped broadcast studios for students to train in, but no one knew how to use them.
As the dean, he pushed the university to offer training for newly hired engineers so they could instruct students in skills such as lighting, video editing and operating cameras. He arranged partnerships between the university and private media outlets to help prepare students for jobs, since internships had not existed previously.
"Those training courses were individual initiatives with no real cooperation between the university and those facilities. They were just to acquaint the students with the facilities, not to really train them on media and journalism production," Al Haj admitted.
Most journalism classes at Damascus University were theoretical, and very little journalistic training was offered even with the new studios. One reason was that professors who taught journalism had no journalism experience. Legally, professors could not belong to the Journalists Syndicate. Most professors resented the attempt at changing the curriculum.
The faculty's library was empty. "It was a beautiful and modern library, it just didn't have any books," Al Haj said. To fill the shelves, Al Haj brought his own books and asked the ministry of culture to provide some. But a year after the young dean finished his two-year term, most of the books had vanished, apparently spirited away by professors and students.
When asked whether his life was at risk in Syria, Al Haj preferred not to answer, but insisted that if he had stayed there, he would have continued to teach in his former typical way.
Al Haj left Damascus for Beirut, and then took a plane to Istanbul, in autumn 2015, when Turkey did not yet require visas for Syrians. He described his boat trip from the Turkish shore to Greece as "safe and comfortable." Syrian friends and relatives were waiting to help him when he arrived in Germany.
Almost two years after his trip to Europe, Al Haj found himself serving on the academic evaluation committee for a masters' student he was supervising, as part of his work at the Arab Open Academy, in Denmark.
He met virtually with the student, who was in southern Turkey, along with two other committee members, who were on their laptops in Stockholm and Baghdad. The student, Anas Alkurdy, had graduated from Damascus University seven years before and was once Al Haj's student.
"The presence of Professor Kamal gave me a motivational push to continue. I would text him over WhatsApp with questions and he never took more than 24 hours to reply," said Kurdy whose thesis was about the coverage of refugees on Arab TV stations.
Al Haj is one of seven Syrian professors at the academy. "The number of Syrian professors at the academy is starting to grow, and I am depending on them more. My trust of Al Haj grows every day," says Walid Al-Hayali, the founder of the Arab Open Academy. The academy was started in 2005 when a wave of Iraqi refugees fled to Europe. The academy teaches largely in Arabic and is still seeking international accreditation.
To work as an academic in Germany will take time, as Al Haj will need to speak German more fluently. When applying for jobs, he describes his German as "akzeptiert," or acceptable. He passed the test for the language level that is needed for a refugee integration course in Germany, but he needs to improve his fluency in order to teach and write in the language. He needed eight months to get his Syrian degrees accepted in Germany. "The foreign degree is equivalent to a German doctorate," the equalization document noted.
Going back to Syria one day is a possibility, but he does not know when.


In anticipation of Michael McClure's book, "Mysteriosos and Other Poems", (published in April by New Directions), Steven Fama wrote a blog post called "17 Reasons Why…I Love the Work of Michael McClure!".
Number one on the list was the October 7, 1955 reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. It was McClure's first poetry reading, and the first time Allen Ginsberg read "Howl" in public. Philip Lamantia, Philip Whalen, and Gary Snyder also read that night, and Jack Kerouac brought the wine.
Organized by Kenneth Rexroth and billed as a "a remarkable collection of angels on one stage reading their poetry", the Six Gallery reading was pivotal at a time when San Francisco poets were stirring up something new and exciting, and resurrecting the art of poetry from what McClure describes in Scratching the Beat Surface as "the gray, chill, militaristic silence".
At a 2008 reading at UC Berkeley, McClure recalled the Six Gallery and read three of his poems from that night: "Mystery of the Hunt", "For the Death of 100 Whales", and "The Breech".
Through a barrier of white trees!
Rotten lettuce — perfume — The damp carroty street.
It is my head — These are my hands.
Out in the light — Noon — the City.
A Wall — a stronghold.
UC Press will publish Michael McClure's Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems in January 2011.
This video was made at a 2008 Holloway Series in Poetry reading at UC Berkeley.


As a former high school English teacher, books are very near and dear to my heart and I love pointing my readers to good literature! Here, you will find some of my favorite reads — neatly organized and ready for you to add to your own bookshelf! Enjoy!
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As gene therapy products are developed and brought to clinical trials, the US FDA requires collection and storage of materials that can be accessed, as needed, at later time points (PDF). Some material may need to be stored for years (up to 15) after the clinical trial. To assist with these requirements, the NGVB provides archiving services at no charge to the investigator.
Clinical Trial Samples. Clinical trial samples collected during post-trial monitoring can be sent and stored in the Indiana University Biorepository at no cost to the investigator. See Clinical Trial Testing/Archive - Request Form to request clinical trial sample archive services.
Pharmacology and Toxicology Archive. If you have performed Pharm/Tox studies submitted to the FDA and have material that must be maintained under GLP conditions, the NGVB will store the samples at no cost to academic investigators. All we ask is that your study be summarized in the NGVB Pharm/Tox database. See Pharm/Tox Archive Request Form to request pharm/tox archive services.
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Le rhodium est l'élément chimique de numéro atomique 45 et de symbole Rh.

Le corps simple « rhodium » est un métal dur et cassant de la catégorie des platinoïdes légers.

Généralités et histoire de l'élément
Avec le ruthénium, le palladium, l'osmium, l'iridium et le platine, il forme le groupe du platine au sens large, aussi nommé « ensemble des platinoïdes ». Le rhodium, dont le corps simple a des propriétés similaires à celles du platine, ne fait pas partie du sous-groupe du platine mais du sous-groupe de l'iridium.

En 1803, William Hyde Wollaston découvrit cet élément, de même que le palladium, à partir de minerais provenant d'un gîte de platine natif originaire d'Amérique du Sud, en particulier de minerai d'une mine de platine colombienne pour le Rh et du platine brut de Colombie pour le Pd. La « liqueur jaune » obtenue par l'addition d'eau chaude, après avoir retiré l'osmium des reliquats noirs de fabrication du platine, contient essentiellement des platinoïdes tel que l'iridium, mais aussi de manière variable (suivant les échantillons) du rhodium, du ruthénium et parfois du platine.

L'addition de sal ammoniac ou chlorure d'ammonium à cette liqueur permet d'y précipiter l'essentiel des platinoïdes, hormis les composés oxydés et chlorurés du rhodium solubles. Après évaporation, un traitement par réduction à l'aide de gaz dihydrogène permet d'obtenir le corps simple métal rhodium. Notons qu'un lavage à l'acide nitrique ou à l'acide chlorhydrique s'impose pour éliminer les impuretés conséquentes ou les traces de fer ou de cuivre, qui se révèlent à leur couleur rouge foncé, et obtenir des cristaux de rhodium relativement purs.

L'autre partie, minoritaire ou parfois négligeable, du rhodium a formé un chlorure double et se retrouve avec le précipité chloruré de ruthénium et d'iridium. Une réduction au rouge par le gaz dihydrogène permet d'obtenir une éponge de métal platinoïde, il faut fondre cette dernière matière avec le plomb pour obtenir de façon séparée les cristaux d'iridium et de ruthénium. Le plomb fondu dissout les reliquats de rhodium, de platine rhodié voire de platine. En attaquant le plomb par l'acide nitrique, l'opérateur reprend les composés à base de rhodium et de platine, le rhodium sera séparé par l'acide sulfurique sous forme de sulfate de rhodium et le platine par l'eau régale sous forme de complexes hexachloroplatinates.

Le nom dérive du mot grec ῥόδον (rhodon) qui signifie « rose ». Ce nom a été proposé par son découvreur à cause de la couleur rose-rouge de quelques composés phares du rhodium, en particulier de l'hydroxyde. Le premier métal obtenu semble aussi avoir été légèrement impur, recelant des traces significatives de cuivre ou de fer à effet rougeoyant.

Le terme gréco-latin « rhodium » n'apparaît en français qu'en 1805 dans les rapports sur les travaux de Wollaston présentés par les « Annales de Chimie ».

Isotopes

Le rhodium possède  connus avec des nombres de masse variant entre , ainsi que . Parmi ces isotopes, un seul est stable, 103Rh, et constitue l'intégralité du rhodium naturel, faisant du rhodium un élément monoisotopique et un élément mononucléidique. Sa masse atomique standard est donc de .

Occurrences dans les milieux naturels, minéralogie et géologie
Le clarke de ce platinoïde est estimé à  ou  dans la croûte terrestre, ce qui est très similaire à l'iridium. Il est aussi présent dans certaines météorites.

Le rhodium natif, très rare, est le minéral qui correspond au corps simple métallique, alors que la rhodite est un alliage d'or et de rhodium.

Le rhodium est un métal rare et cher, la production mondiale provenant principalement de la récupération au cours de traitement d'autres minerais. Elle n'était que de  par an dans les années 1990 et de  par an en 2010. . Ils l'extraient laborieusement des gangues minérales où il se marie au palladium, à l'argent ou au platine.

Corps simple et composés chimiques

Propriétés physiques et chimiques du corps simple métallique
L'apparence du corps simple est celle d'un métal blanc brillant et argenté, cristallin de maille CFC (cubique à faces centrées), de haute réflectivité mais toutefois moins que celle de l'argent. Il est moyennement dur et relativement inerte sur le plan thermochimique (donc grande résistance à la corrosion).

Le rhodium fondu dissout l'oxygène gazeux et lorsqu'il se solidifie, l'oxygène qu'il contient se libère avec force sous la forme de crépitements. Il se travaille facilement avec une torche à fusion propane–oxygène.

Le rhodium compact est insoluble dans les acides forts mais sous la forme d'une poudre fine, qu'on appelle noir de rhodium, il se dissout aisément dans l'acide sulfurique ou l'eau régale.

Le rhodium est soluble dans les bains de cyanures fondus et les sels alcalins fondus.

Il présente des propriétés catalytiques à l'état divisé, mais aussi en phase homogène, assez analogues à celle du platine. Le rhodium montre des propriétés bactéricides (il détruit les germes).

Alliages
Les alliages avec le platine et le palladium sont durs et résistants.

Chimie du rhodium
Les valences les plus communes sont de II à VI.

Le rhodium métallique réagit directement avec l'oxygène gazeux à partir de  en formant le sesquioxyde de rhodium  qui se décompose en ses composants atomiques si on le chauffe au-delà de .

Le rhodium réagit avec le fluor gazeux au-delà de  :
Rh solide cristal, en poudre +  F gaz  →  RhF gaz

Sous incandescence, le rhodium réagit avec le chlore gazeux pour former divers chlorures de rhodium dont . On connaît aussi le bromure de rhodium .

Le rhodium, comme les autres platinoïdes, est attaqué par le soufre ainsi que par de nombreux semi-métaux : P, Se, Te, As, Sb

Il n'existe pas de cations monoatomiques simples du rhodium, mais des oxoanions et de nombreux complexes.

Composés chimiques
Le dioxyde de rhodium  et le sesquioxyde de rhodium  sont les principaux oxydes stables connus.

Il existe ainsi différents fluorures avec le Rh de valence III à VI, comme le , , , , ce qui rappelle les composés analogues de Ru.

Il n'existe principalement que le trichlorure de rhodium , le tribromure de rhodium  et le triodure de rhodium .

Il y a également le nitrate de rhodium   et le sulfate de rhodium .

Il existe divers sulfures, tels que ,  ou , ainsi que les séléniures et tellurures simples  et .

Il forme des complexes, par exemple avec le monoxyde de carbone (différents carbonyles, par exemple tétrarhodium dodécacarbonyle ou hexarhodium hexadécacarbonyle, voire chloro-carbonyle ou carbonyle avec l'ion chlorure de type dichlorure de dirhodium tétracarbonyle), avec diverses oléfines ou cycle de bonne conformation (rhodocène…) avec l'acétylacétone.

Utilisations
Les catalyseurs utilisés dans les véhicules automobiles à essence contiennent souvent un alliage de platine, de palladium et de rhodium sur un support en céramique (80 % de la production totale). Plus généralement, il est utilisé comme catalyseur dans l'industrie chimique et comme élément chauffant pour les très hautes températures (il fond à , soit , ).

En chimie, le rhodium est présent dans un grand nombre de catalyseurs. En phase homogène, il catalyse en particulier l'hydrogénation, et notamment l'hydroformylation des alcènes.

Le rhodium est employé :
 pour les contacts électriques : en métal recouvert d'une très mince couche de rhodium (ou d'alliage de Rh) ;
 dans plusieurs appareillages scientifiques, par exemple les pyromètres de précision ou les thermocouples ;
 dans certains tubes à rayons X, sur leurs anodes, notamment dans le domaine de la spectrométrie de fluorescence des rayons X ;
 pour certains revêtements de miroir à grande réflectivité. Tirant profit de sa réverbération excellente et sa grande dureté, on l'applique sur les miroirs des projecteurs. Il est ainsi présent sur les projecteurs de cinéma et sur les miroirs astronomiques ;
 pour des articles d'argenterie en couches brillante-sombre et dure et des pièces d'appareils photographiques (avant l'ère du numérique). Du fait de son inertie chimique bien supérieure à celle de l'argent ou de l'or, il est toujours utilisé sous forme de fins plaquages en joaillerie et bijouterie. Il est toujours utilisé dans l'électrogalvanisation de l'argenterie, ce qui  ;
 dans la fabrication de supports de pierres en joaillerie (bijoux Swarovski et autres) ;

 exceptionnellement, dans l'industrie de la musique, remise d'un «disque de rhodium» en 1979 à l'artiste Paul McCartney ;
 , afin d'avoir un coefficient de friction faible (plus faible que la céramique) tout en conservant un brillant métallique limité. En effet, ce métal a la faculté, avec un certain traitement, de limiter son éclat (apparence mate). Il s'agit du rhodium noir ou  connu en joaillerie.

Ses alliages avec le platine et le palladium servent aussi pour l'outillage ou l'équipement de laboratoire (creusets), mais aussi en bijouterie (pièces de supports), également comme catalyseurs variés (convertisseurs catalytiques automobile), comme bougie de moteurs d'avion, comme électrodes, comme contacts électriques…

Toxicité
Comme pour tous les métaux du groupe du platine, la plupart des composés du rhodium sont reconnus toxiques, écotoxiques et potentiellement carcinogènes. Lors du test classique de la daphnie (sur Daphnia magna) le rhodium se montre cependant nettement moins toxique que le platine, lui-même moins toxique que le palladium (la LC50 (48 h) est de 14 μg/L pour le palladium, 157 μg/L pour le platine et 56800 μg/L pour le rhodium (et dans les trois cas la durée d'exposition a un effet aggravant).

Ces trois métaux sont dispersés dans l'environnement (perdus par les pots catalytiques et retrouvés dans les biotopes aquatiques où ils s'accumulent notamment dans les sédiments des mares, lacs et cours d'eau). Le nématode Caenorhabditis elegans a aussi été utilisé comme espèce-modèle (mais avec aussi une étude des effets (en 96 h) sur la croissance, la fertilité et la reproduction). Ce travail a confirmé la différence de toxicité des 3 métaux du groupe du platine selon le schéma Pd > Pt ⪢ Rh (évoqués plus haut).
Les prospectivistes s'attendent à une large diffusion de nanoproduits au , dont des nanoparticules métalliques "nobles" facile à synthétiser et présentant des propriétés catalytique, de fonctionnalisation de surface et optoélectroniques intéressantes pour l'Industrie. Ces métaux se dispersent notamment dans l'air. Il est donc probable que les êtres vivants (notamment) soient de plus en plus confrontés à l'inhalation ou à l'ingestion de nanoparticules d'argent, d'or, de platine, de palladium et de rhodium. De nombreuses études ont mis en évidence des effets toxicologiques préoccupants pour ces métaux quand ils sont sous forme de nanoparticules ou dissoute, dont in vitro sur des lignées cellulaires humaines. Il est probable que les organismes filtreurs (moules par exemple y seront les premiers exposés, avec des risques de bioconcentration du rhodium (conjointement à d'autres métaux toxiques ou catalytiques avec lesquels il pourrait agir en synergie). En 2017, divers écotoxicologues suggèrent de travailler non pas sur le rhodium seul, mais sur les autres métaux du groupe du platine qui émanent avec lui de la pollution automobile.

On sait par l'étude des allergies professionnelles (et par quelques études in vitro) que la plupart des composés du rhodium agressent et teignent durablement la peau humaine (surtout en présence de blessures ou de sueur et d'un pH acide), en s'y fixant et amenant parfois localement des nécroses. C'est aussi un irritant des muqueuses (nasale notamment). Ce n'est pas le cas du corps simple métal dans sa forme massive mais sous forme dissoute, de poudre fine ou en aérosols et plus encore sous forme de nanoparticule, c'est un métal dangereux.
De plus, ces particules divisées peuvent générer des explosions en présence d'oxydants (dispersion dans l'air, l'oxygène, les gaz halogènes… en proportion adéquate avec une ignition initiale ou le contact d'un point chaud).

Évolution du cours et commerce en France
Selon le cabinet , ce métal valait  l'once Troy () en , soit  le kilogramme. Il valait dix fois moins en 2004. En , son prix avait reculé à  l'once puis regrimpé à  en . La demande est soutenue par la forte croissance du marché automobile, en raison de la nécessité de ce produit dans le respect de normes environnementales (les métaux du groupe du platine sont presque indispensables aux convertisseurs catalytiques des pots d'échappement de l'industrie automobile, responsable de 90 % de la consommation mondiale). Selon le type de motorisation et de carburant, des quantités diverses de ces métaux du groupe du platine seront utilisées, en particulier le platine, le palladium et le rhodium. Qui plus est, ceux-ci aident à la filtration des rejets automobiles. Or il est admis que la voiture est un marché mondial en expansion. Il nous faudra donc de plus en plus de métaux du groupe platine, dont le rhodium fait partie. En 2021, son prix oscille entre  et  l'once.

D'après les douanes françaises, la France était en 2014 une importatrice nette de rhodium. Le prix moyen au gramme à l'import était de .

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We've already established that there appear to be more bus stops in Charlotte than, well, just about anywhere.
I know that the DMV lines can be bad, but that's not unique to Charlotte (or the South) – that happens everywhere I've ever lived.
There may certainly be a correlation between Charlotte drivers and the issue they have with divided highways and understanding when to stop for a school bus – but frankly, based on my observation, they seem to come to a stop for just about anything other than a yellow light, and it's not just unique to Charlotte. It seems to be the entire South. So I'm not sure what it is.
This is actually a two-pronged issue.
Most commonly, you're moving along and all of a sudden the speed drops. If the speed limit is 45, you find yourself traveling at perhaps 20. No school bus in sight, no people, rain, snow, dogs, or any other potential problems can be found. It just seems like there might be an issue. Usually this happens at the most inopportune time – like when a garbage truck pulls alongside, or a lengthy line of cars in a funeral procession starts moving by in the next lane, so you have no chance of passing. But it's a fairly common happening.
At some point in the next 5 miles, you notice that this person starts looking all about – at first they seem lost, but then you realize that they are just looking around because they feel like it and have no concern for the fact that they are causing such inconvenience to the entire world. Eventually, they glide into the turn lane and you can finally be on your way. Unless they are turning into a driveway, or some other turn that approaches 90°. If that's the case, they will come to a complete stop, at which point they will start moving only after reaching a state of zero momentum (and just about causing you to impale yourself on the rear of their car). Then they will pull into the driveway at approximately 5 miles per hour, where you can then be on your way. Assuming someone else doesn't need to turn.
The next possibility is someone who may actually be traveling at a reasonable speed, but because they have recently turned, they have forgotten to turn their signal off. Since you just experienced this nightmare, you expect that they will drop their speed in half at any given moment. Usually this is actually not the case – instead, they will turn in the other direction – if the left signal is on, they turn right, if the left one is on, they turn left. Just enough to annoy you and completely disrupt traffic.
Why these jokers cannot realize that they do not have to coast for a few miles before turning, I do not know.
There is one other type of driver you might run into, and this is the person who doesn't know how to use the turning lane. They will invariably wait until both lanes are clear on both sides of the road and then pull out. Or perhaps they will even pull their car perpendicular to the turning lane, blocking it and at least one of the travel lanes on each side of the turning lane. Nice.
Move. Either move their car (unlikely, but the most relevant solution to the problem) or move somewhere that the problem doesn't exist, or that it doesn't bother you. Perhaps somewhere that you expect people to drive in this manner. I suggest Amish Country.


America's Left Coast runs deep in this ambitious city on the edge of wilderness.
But the city's left-coast isolation, its ambivalence towards established norms, and its legacy of cooperation and neighborliness—to hew trees and carve out one's place among the encroaching wilderness—makes this one of the most earnest cities on the planet.
One of Portlandia's zingers identified its lampooned target as a "place young people go to retire." But it's more like reinvent themselves, taking what was there all along, finding its best parts, and doubling down on what works.
The proof of its people is in Portland's performance: its citizenry ranks #26 for Educational Attainment and #27 for GDP per capita globally. Portlanders get things done.
The same can be said for the city's dedication to preserving and treading lightly. Already one of North America's most pedestrian and bike-friendly cities, Portland applies its Reduce, Reuse and Recycle edict to city planning with mesmerizing results. Dated, run down buildings—some with fantastic stories of timber empires and East Coast outcasts—are lovingly restored to create a sense of place impossible to build new.
Take the Sentinel Hotel, a 100-room, six-storey former timber society hotel, carpet factory and flop house (playing itself in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho). After a $6-million reno by boutique operator Provenance Hotels unveiled ornate ceilings, secret room with strategic acoustics and enigmatic nooks, the building is today a destination on par with a small museum.
This and others preserved since, like The Society Hotel, "once a sailor's hotel," are Portland history and the city, now comfortable with an identity coveted by urban centers around the globe, is increasingly mindful of protecting the gnarled roots of its special sauce.
Speaking of sauce, the city continues its militant pursuit of local everything. This place doesn't just have craft breweries, it has an Innovation Brewery that pours 15 site-only experimental beers, many never to be repeated again.
Portland jewelry makers don't just craft pieces—they personally rockhound gemstones in the deserts of Southern Oregon. See the obsession for yourself at Aylee & Co. appropriately housed in a repurposed shipping container.


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This pre-concert talk was hosted by the BBC Radio 3 Night Waves presenter Rana Mitter on 19 July 2015. Held at the Royal College of Music across from the Royal Albert Hall, it was part of a Proms Extra series designed to celebrate 1895 and hence, in 2015, the 120th anniversary season of Prom concerts. The programme was produced by Jacqueline Smith, recorded in front of a live audience and edited down for broadcast during the evening Prom's interval.
Discussing the original performing space, Queen's Hall, and key performers including Henry J. Wood were Sir Nicholas Kenyon, now Barbican Managing Director and former Proms Director, and the cultural historian Leanne Langley. Together they ranged broadly over how and why the concerts began, what early programmes and audiences were like, and how Wood gradually expanded his skill, repertory and hold over players and listeners.


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Mikhaïl Mikhaïlovitch Prichvine (), né le  à Krouchtchevo et mort le  à Moscou, est un écrivain russe et soviétique.

Biographie
Mikhaïl Prichvine est né dans le manoir de la famille de Krouchtchevo dans le Gouvernement d'Orel (actuellement dans le district de Stanovliansk), dans l'oblast de Lipetsk) dans la famille d'un riche commerçant. De 1893 à 1897, il étudie à l'Institut de technologie de Riga et il est une fois arrêté pour son implication dans les cercles marxistes. En 1902, Prichvine est diplômé de l'Université de Leipzig avec un diplôme en agronomie. Au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, il travaille comme journaliste militaire. Après la guerre, Prichvine est employé en tant que publiciste, puis comme professeur rural. Il commence à écrire pour des magazines, en 1898, mais sa première histoire courte, Sachok, est publiée en 1906. Il publie dans la revue Oktyabr. Les œuvres de Prichvine sont pleines de poésie, d'une exceptionnelle finesse de l'observation, et de descriptions de la nature. Plusieurs de ses œuvres ont été traduites en plusieurs langues et sont devenues une partie du patrimoine de la littérature pour enfants de l'Union soviétique.

Mikhaïl Prichvine tient également un journal intime tout au long de sa vie, c'est-à-dire entre 1905 et 1954, dont les dernières notes ont été rédigées la veille de sa mort. À l'exception du volume Mamontov écrit en 1919, et disparu du vivant de son auteur, l'intégralité de cette œuvre a été conservée pour être publiée en 1991-2014.

Mikhaïl Prichvine est enterré au cimetière de la Présentation. Iouri Kazakov lui dédie sa nouvelle de 1957 Arcturus, chien courant.

Prix et distinctions
Mikhaïl Prichvine a été décoré de deux ordres et a reçu diverses médailles, dont :
 Ordre du Drapeau rouge du Travail.
 Ordre de l'Insigne d'honneur.
 Médaille du Mérite au travail de la Grande Guerre patriotique.

Sélection d'œuvres
 Le Cellier du soleil avec Le Miel polaire, Le Maître de la forêt et Vassia Vessiolkine de Mikhaïl Prichvine (Éditions du Progrès). Traduit du russe par I. Kotomkina,  et  nouvelles, par T. Bodko pour les deux autres.
 Au pays des oiseaux sans peur (, 1907)
 En suivant la galette enchantée (, 1908)
 Sous les murs de la ville invisible (, 1909) - sélection d'œuvres

  (1910)
  (1913)
  (1923)
 Sources de Berendeï (, 1925-1926) - Augmenté et publié / Calendrier de la nature (, 1935)
 Ginseng, la racine de vie, suivi du Calendrier de la nature. Récits d'un chasseur (, 1933). Traduit du russe par G. Welter. Paris, Payot, 1946, 304 pages.
  (1940)
 Gouttes de la forêt (, 1943) - sélection d'œuvres
  (1945) (Le Cellier du soleil)
 La Chaîne de Kachtcheï (, 1923-1954; publié en 1960)
  (1957)
  (1954)

Notes et références

Liens externes
  La maison musée de Prichvine à Dounino Сайт музея-усадьбы М. М. Пришвина в Дунино, посвящённый как творчеству писателя, так и самой усадьбе

Auteur russe de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
Auteur russe de journal intime
Auteur soviétique de journal intime
Journaliste de l'Empire russe au XIXe siècle
Journaliste de l'Empire russe au XXe siècle
Journaliste russe
Journaliste soviétique
Auteur soviétique de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
Étudiant de l'université de Leipzig
Récipiendaire de l'ordre du Drapeau rouge du Travail
Récipiendaire de l'ordre de l'Insigne d'honneur
Titulaire de la médaille « Pour le Travail Vaillant dans la Grande Guerre patriotique 1941-1945 »
Naissance en janvier 1873
Naissance dans le gouvernement d'Orel
Décès en janvier 1954
Décès à Moscou
Mort d'un cancer de l'estomac
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière de la Présentation
Mort d'un cancer en Russie


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Bryce Harper homered into the bullpen restroom at Citizens Bank Park
By Bill BaerApr 17, 2016, 5:29 PM EDT
AP Photo/Nick Wass
The Phillies and Nationals entered the 10th inning of Sunday's series finale tied at 1-1 and for some reason, the Phillies chose not to pitch around reigning NL MVP Bryce Harper. Harper made them pay for it, smoking a Jeanmar Gomez sinker into the visiting bullpen at Citizens Bank Park. As luck would have it, the ball went directly into the bullpen restroom.
The MLB.com video doesn't have a camera angle that shows the ball's final destination, but someone uploaded a quick video that does show it — here.
Closer Jonathan Papelbon took the mound in the bottom of the 10th to try and nail down the save against his former team, but he couldn't get the job done. Peter Bourjos hit a one-out double, then came around to score when Andres Blanco hit a line drive RBI single to left field, tying the game at 2-2. Freddy Galvis followed up with a double over the head of left fielder Jayson Werth to bring Blanco home for the walk-off 3-2 win.

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Tag Archives: Brian A. Nichols
Confirmations: Donald Lu (SCA), Brian Nichols (WHA), Brett M. Holmgren (INR)
September 16, 2021 By domani spero in assistant secretaries, Confirmations, Functional Bureaus, State Department, U.S. Senate, WHA|Western Hemisphere Tags: Brett M. Holmgren, Brian A. Nichols, confirmations, Donald Lu, State/ONR, State/SCA, State/WHA
The U.S. Senate confirmed by voice vote two nominees for the State Department's geographic bureau and one nominee for the functional bureau.
2021-09-13 PN551 Department of State | Donald Lu, of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs (SCA).
2021-09-13 PN268 Department of State | Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode Island, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere Affairs).
2021-09-13 PN273 Department of State | Brett M. Holmgren, of Minnesota, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Intelligence and Research).
The #Senate confirmed by voice vote:
1.Donald Lu to be Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs.
2.Brett M. Holmgren to be an Assistant Secretary of State, Intelligence & Research.
3.Brian A. Nichols to be an Assistant Secretary of State, Western Hemisphere Affairs.
— Senate Press Gallery (@SenatePress) September 13, 2021
Career Diplomat Brian A. Nichols to be Asst. Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA)
March 29, 2021 By domani spero in Ambassadors, assistant secretaries, Biden, FSOs, Nominations, Regional Bureaus, State Department, WHA|Western Hemisphere Tags: Biden Nominations, Brian A. Nichols, SFSOs, State/WHA, Thomas A. Shannon Jr, US Embassy Harare
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On March 26, 2021, President Biden announced his intent to nominate senior career diplomat Brian A. Nichols to be Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA). The WH released the following brief bio:
Brian A. Nichols, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister, currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe. He was U.S. Ambassador to Perú from 2014 to 2017. Previously, Nichols served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). Prior to that he was a Deputy Assistant Secretary in INL. He also served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs, and Counselor for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Indonesia. Earlier in his career, Nichols served as Deputy Political Counselor in Mexico. He also worked in the Office of UN Political Affairs, the Office of Central American Affairs, and the Executive Secretariat. Nichols began his Foreign Service career as a Consular Officer in Perú and then as a Political Officer in El Salvador. He received the 2016 Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development, two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards, and 13 Senior Performance Awards. He speaks Spanish. A native of Rhode Island, he is a graduate of Tufts University.
According to history.state.gov, the Department had first established a Division of Latin American Affairs in 1909. The Department of State created the position of Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs during the general reorganization of Dec 20, 1944, after Congress had authorized an increase in the number of Assistant Secretaries of State from four to six (Dec 8, 1944; P.L. 78-472; 58 Stat. 798). On January 12, 1999, the Bureau assumed responsibility for Canada and was renamed the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. More here.
The most recent career diplomat confirmed by the U.S. Senate to lead the Western Hemisphere bureau was Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. who served from 2005–2009. He was succeeded by political appointees: Arturo Valenzuela (2009–2011), Roberta S. Jacobson (2012–2016) under the Obama Administration and Kimberly Breier (2018-2019) under the Trump Administration. At least four designates have also served in an acting capacity: political appointee Mari Carmen Aponte; SES Michael Kozak, career diplomats Francisco "Paco" Palmieri and Julie J. Chung .
According to AFSA's appointment tracker going back to 1975, the Western Hemisphere bureau has a 50 percent split between career and political/other appointees.
The AP notes that Ambassador Nichols would be the first Black assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs since Terence Todman in the late 1970s (see Terence Alphonso Todman ).
Congratulations to Amb. Brian Nichols @usembassyharare on his nomination as Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs!!@WOLA_org @LatinamericaR @rpsp_pajph @OAS_official @pahowho @Cartajuanero @ABANatSec @ABAInternatl https://t.co/kTaER7aZ5j
— Steven E. Hendrix (@hendrixse) February 3, 2021
Brian Nichols, who has been tapped to be Assistant Secretary for the Western Hemisphere, made headlines last year with this powerful letter after the George Floyd killing. https://t.co/AMZsJp0c4s
— Michele Kelemen (@michelekelemen) March 26, 2021
Oct 2018: New Ambassadors Saying Hello: Poland, DR, Luxembourg, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Rwanda, Lesotho
July 2018: What did we miss?
Dec 2015: Whoa! That's a Pretty Thin Senior Foreign Service Promotion List You Got There!
June 2014: US Embassy Peru: The Ghost of Ambassador Past
Dec 2013: Senate "Nuclear" Fallout Snares State Department Nominees
U.S. Ambassadors in the News: Iceland, United Kingdom, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, South Korea
July 29, 2020 By domani spero in Ambassadors, FSOs, Political Appointees, Realities of the FS, State Department, Top Ranks, Trends, U.S. Missions Tags: Brian A. Nichols, Eswatini, Harry Harris, Iceland, Jeffrey Ross Gunter, Lisa Peterson, South Korea, United Kingdom, Woody Johnson, Zimbabwe
GOP donor/California dermatologist-turned-ambassador wants:
-A gun
-A stab-resistant vest
-Door-to-door armored vehicle service.
He was in Iceland, one of the safest countries in the world. He left for Calif. and wants to work remotely.https://t.co/ne8ocpKJrF
— David Beard (@dabeard) July 26, 2020
We are United to defeat the Invisible China Virus! 🇺🇸🇮🇸 https://t.co/7X1k5S7dNb
— Ambassador Gunter (@USAmbIceland) July 20, 2020
NEW: Woody Johnson, billionaire NFL owner & US ambassador to UK, was investigated by State OIG after allegations he made racist & sexist comments to staff & sought to use his gov't post to benefit Trump's personal biz in UK
(w. @kylieatwood & @NicoleCNN) https://t.co/1JfZ9S9N3F
— Jennifer Hansler (@jmhansler) July 22, 2020
NEW: Trump asked the US ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, to see if the British government would steer the British Open to his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. W/@jakesNYT & @maggieNYT https://t.co/7KVFxQ7df6
— Mark Landler (@MarkLandler) July 21, 2020
ESWATINI (SWAZILAND)
US Ambassador to Eswatini, Lisa Peterson, directly criticises king Mswati III and his family for their profligacy when the people of Eswatini are suffering from dire poverty. pic.twitter.com/xMrEsijIt4
— Rejjie Snow Stan Account (@Tioranta) July 26, 2020
The US Ambassador to Swaziland (eSwatini) Lisa Peterson has called for the kingdom's constitution to be changed to stop absolute monarch King Mswati III's lavish spending.https://t.co/00lZqyhDxv
— The African Heralds (@AfricanHeralds) July 28, 2020
Zimbabwe brands US ambassador 'a thug' as crackdown on dissent intensifies https://t.co/nOh3yKtTPe
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 28, 2020
Comments from #ZANUPF – while sadly not surprising – are deeply offensive. We have summoned the Ambassador of Zimbabwe to explain. https://t.co/dWjDEVqZqM
— Tibor Nagy (@AsstSecStateAF) July 28, 2020
Blaming the summer heat, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea lopped off a bit of facial hair that had reminded some of brutal colonial Japan https://t.co/WgtnXhCBve
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) July 27, 2020
Glad I did this. For me it was either keep the 'stache or lose the mask. Summer in Seoul is way too hot & humid for both. #COVID guidelines matter & I'm a masked man! Enjoyed getting to know Mr. Oh & appreciated his heartfelt words about how much he values the #USROKAlliance. https://t.co/ja2WMD49Fr
— Harry Harris (@USAmbROK) July 25, 2020
Confirmations: Nichols, Wells, Nix-Hines, Harper, La Lime, Moreno
June 24, 2014 By domani spero in Ambassadors, Confirmations, Congress, Govt Documents, Nominations, State Department, U.S. Missions, UN, Uncategorized Tags: Alice G. Wells, Brian A. Nichols, Carlos Roberto Moreno, certificate of demonstrated competence, Crystal Nix-Hines, Helen Meagher La Lime, June 2014 confirmations, Keith M. Harper, May 2014 confirmations, Senate Confirmations, Senior Foreign Service, UNESCO, UNHRC
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The Senate confirmations of President Obama's nominees continue at a turtle's pace. Here are the following State Department nominees who made it through the confirmation process so far. The nominees for non-embassy positions do not appear to have their Certificate of Demonstrated Competence per Foreign Service Act, Section 304(a)(4 posted online.
Brian A. Nichols, of Rhode Island, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Peru.
– Certificate via State/FOIA (pdf)
Alice G. Wells, of Washington, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
–Wells, Alice G – Kingdom of Jordan – 04-2014
Crystal Nix-Hines, of California, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
Keith M. Harper, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Representative to the UN Human Rights Council.
Helen Meagher La Lime, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Angola.
Carlos Roberto Moreno, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Belize.
Sec. Kerry Heads to Ethiopia, DR Congo, Angola; Nine Ambassadorial Nominees for Africa Still Stuck in Confirmation Chamber (diplopundit.net)
Senate "Nuclear" Fallout Snares State Department Nominees (diplopundit.net)
Here Comes the Sun: U.S. Senate Confirms A Slew of New Ambassadors as It Runs Out the Door (diplopundit.net)
Obama Names L.A. Attorney and 'Alias' Writer to State Department Post (variety.com)
Obama Names Former 'Alias' Producer To Ambassador-Level UN Gig (deadline.com)
Today at the SFRC: AM – Bush, Childress, Daughton, Harrington, Reddick, Hoover, Hoza; PM – Malinowski, Harper, Nix-Hines, Hamamoto (diplopundit.net)


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(6363) Doggett es un asteroide perteneciente al cinturón de asteroides, descubierto el 6 de febrero de 1981 por Edward Bowell desde la Estación Anderson Mesa (condado de Coconino, cerca de Flagstaff, Arizona, Estados Unidos).

Designación y nombre
Designado provisionalmente como 1981 CB1, fue nombrado en memoria de LeRoy E. Doggett (1941-1996), astrónomo del Observatorio Naval de EE. UU. conocido por su aplicación de los polinomios de Chebyshev a la mecánica celeste y la astronomía posicional. Experto en calendarios, fenómenos astronómicos, historia de la astronomía y teoría planetaria, fue jefe del Nautical Almanac Office de EE. UU., editor asociado de Archaeoastronomy , organizador del programa nacional "Moon Watch" para determinar la visibilidad más temprana de la luna creciente. y secretario-tesorero de la División de Astronomía Histórica de la Sociedad Astronómica Estadounidense.

Características orbitales
(6363) Doggett está situado a una distancia media del Sol de 2,312 ua, pudiendo alejarse hasta 2,647 ua y acercarse hasta 1,976 ua. Su excentricidad es 0,145 y la inclinación orbital 5,655 grados. Emplea 1283,74 días en completar una órbita alrededor del Sol.

Características físicas
La magnitud absoluta de (6363) Doggett es 13,54. Tiene 5,060 km de diámetro y su albedo se estima en 0,301.

Véase también
 Lista de asteroides del (6301) al (6400)
 Cuerpo menor del sistema solar

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Circunstancias de Descubrimiento: Planetas Menores Numerados

Asteroides del cinturón principal
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos por Edward Bowell
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos desde la Estación Anderson Mesa
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 1981
Wikiproyecto:Asteroides/Artículos de asteroides


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Venezuela condemns at ECLAC meeting unilateral coercive measures (+Photo)
Caracas, Oct 26 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela's Foreign Minister, Carlos Faría, condemned today during the 39th session of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the implementation of unilateral coercive measures against our countries.
Published by: Ana Luisa Brown
In his Twitter account, the head of Venezuelan diplomacy indicated his participation in the Dialogue of Foreign Ministers of that ECLAC meeting, held in Argentina, where on behalf of 'President @NicolasMaduro we condemn the terrible consequences generated by the Unilateral Coercive Measures against our countries'.
Also this Wednesday, the Venezuelan Deputy Minister for Multilateral Issues, Rubén Darío Molina, intervened in panel three of the conclave, in which he explained the strategies of the Economic Agenda of the Bolivarian Republic.
He pointed out that Venezuela has its doors open to investments and exemplified with the availability of 10 million hectares available for crops, whose production would contribute to guarantee the food security of the country and the region, informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Molina explained that the Bolivarian Economic Agenda is aimed at consolidating the potential of the South American nation, through actions and mechanisms for the development of markets, national production, fair prices and export and import processes of goods and services.
He considered that the organization and participation of the Venezuelan people was key in the process of activation of the economy, despite the persistence of unilateral coercive measures implemented by the United States and its allies.
The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs explained that the effects of the punitive regulations not only affect the Venezuelan economy, but also transcend the Latin American and Caribbean region.
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Latin America Tour - Turnê da cantora e compositora estadunidense Christina Aguilera.
Latin America Tour - Turnê da banda inglesa de rock alternativo Coldplay.

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Quick Answer: What kind of force turns an electric motor?
What is the force that produces rotation in an electric motor?
What force does Electric motors use?
What makes electric motors rotate?
What is a motor force?
How does a motor create a turning force?
How a motor works physics?
Which law is used in motor?
What is electric motor in physics?
What force makes the coil spin?
What is motor rotation?
How do you get the direction of force created in motor operation?
How does an electric motor works?
What is motor effect?
What is motor effect and generator effect?
Electric motors use the forces produced by magnetic fields to produce a turning motion. If you put a length of wire in a magnetic field and pass a DC current through it (such as from a battery), the wire will move. This is called the motor effect . two bar magnets.
A coil of wire carrying a current in a magnetic field experiences a force that tends to make it rotate. This effect can be used to make an electric motor.
Electric motors involve rotating coils of wire which are driven by the magnetic force exerted by a magnetic field on an electric current. They transform electrical energy into mechanical energy.
Inside an electric motor, permanent magnets are set onto a ring surrounding a coil of wire. When the appliance's switch is flicked on, electrons flow through the wire, turning it into an electromagnet. The attractive and repulsive forces of the permanent magnets around it make the electromagnet spin.
IMPORTANT: You asked: What do the numbers mean on drone motors?
A current-carrying wire or coil can exert a force on a permanent magnet. This is called the motor effect. The wire could also exert a force on another nearby current-carrying wire or coil. … The force increases if the strength of the magnetic field and/or current increases.
Electric motors use the forces produced by magnetic fields to produce a turning motion. If you put a length of wire in a magnetic field and pass a DC current through it (such as from a battery), the wire will move. This is called the motor effect .
An electric motor converts electrical energy into physical movement. Electric motors generate magnetic fields with electric current through a coil. The magnetic field then causes a force with a magnet that causes movement or spinning that runs the motor.
Faraday's law of induction is the fundamental law on which electric motors operate.
An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a wire winding to generate force in the form of torque applied on the motor's shaft.
A coil of wire becomes an electromagnet when current passes through it. The electromagnet interacts with a permanent magnet, causing the coil to spin.
Rotation. The direction in which shaft rotates: CW-Clockwise; CCW-Counterclockwise; CW/CCW(Reversible), rotation can be changed by electrical reconnection. Unless stated otherwise inSpecial Features column, rotation is viewed facing shaft end on single-shaft motors, and lead endon double-shaft models.
IMPORTANT: You asked: Why is my engine stalling?
The direction of the mechanical force is the literal one.
Then go through the following actions:
"Fire the field" out through your index finger.
"Feel the force" of the gun recoil up through your thumb.
Finally you display your middle finger as you "kill the current"
Electric motors work by converting electrical energy to mechanical energy in order to create motion. Force is generated within the motor through the interaction between a magnetic field and winding alternating (AC) or direct (DC) current.
A wire carrying a current creates a magnetic field. This can interact with another magnetic field, causing a force that pushes the wire at right angles. This is called the motor effect.
The generator effect is when a current is induced in a wire which is experiencing a changing magnetic field while the motor effect is when a current carrying wire's magnetic field interacts with the magnetic field around it, resulting in a force being exerted on it, causing it to move.


Today's church in the West is in the midst of a culture war—a clash of biblical and secular worldviews that has been waged since at least the 1990s. On one side stand people who hold more "traditional" values. On the other side stand those who hold more "progressive" values. The battles between these two sides can begin suddenly and be intense. Abortion. Sexuality. Immigration. Race. Marriage. Politics. Euthanasia. Truth.
While the battle lines tend to be distinct (although they are shifting with some of the issues) and the skirmishes out in the open, as in any war, there is a guerilla war transpiring as well. This stealth war began long ago and occurs today in social media, television, magazines, movies, office buildings, and even churches. It is the fight over self-worth.
The first shot in this guerilla war was fired in the garden of Eden when the serpent tricked Eve into thinking that God was holding something back from her and that she deserved more. Eve fell for that lie, and Satan found an effective battle tactic.
Several millennia later, we are still grappling with questions of self worth—either thinking too much or too little of ourselves—fed by the world around us. We, for instance, post on social media sites, hungry for affirmation from others in the form of "likes" and "follows." Sometimes we look in the mirror and wonder who we are and what good we are.
Where we find our worth is a critical question to answer. Is it from somewhere within ourselves? Is it from what our culture values— possessions, power, or influence? Or is it from somewhere else? How we answer this question and understand our worth—and that of others— shapes the other battles in the culture war and, more importantly, informs our own worldview.
That's why we've created this new study, "Wonderfully Made," for your use on or around Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. This study is designed to help ground your groups in the gospel as you stand up publicly against abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, recognizing that all people—regardless of age, gender, race, or social status—have been made in the image of God.


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Zik, Obiano & Nwodo: History Will Vindicate The Just
By Comrade Vincent Ezekwueme, CLO Chairman, Anambra State
Onyeabo Obi, widely regarded as among the three most effective senators in the Second Republic of 1979 to 1983—the others being Abraham Adesanya and Emeka Echeruo—made a soul-stirring statement to the Igbo recently. Senator Obi, according to Donac Pilot, a publication of the Anglican Diocese of Nnewi in Anambra State, has strongly advised Ndigbo against putting all their eggs in one basket as regards the 2019 general elections. His message couldn't get to many Igbo because, as the aphorism goes, the medium is the message. The newspaper is not well known.
The senator, scion of the great Chief Z.C. Obi, the legendary president of the Igbo State Union, stated unequivocally: "We have to learn the politics of Nigeria. No tribe puts all her eggs in one basket. Imagine that your choice goes wrong. Then you are in enmity {with the victor} in the next four years. The Yoruba have learnt that lesson. So have the Hausa and other tribes. It is time we grew up and not put all our eggs in one basket".
It is, of course, only poor thinking and an awful strategy that could lead any persons to attempt to get Ndigbo, highly reputed across the globe for republicanism, to embrace in the 21st century what social scientists call groupthink. Groupthink may just be defined as social conformity, which is the enemy of innovation, creativity and rapid progress. Asian countries and territories have been making fantastic progress since they began to question and abandon old cultural values like groupthink. Propagandists, mind menders and autocrats love groupthink because the victims cannot challenge them.
Against this backdrop, it is curious that the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the apex socio-cultural organization of the Igbo, could still indulge in the old and risky practice of endorsing a presidential candidate in every general election and ordering all Igbo to comply. As Senator Obi has adumbrated above, African leaders are vengeful. In the inimitable language of the late Professor Ali Mazrui, the most published African scholar, African leaders have a long memory of hate. They reward those who voted for them and severely punish those who didn't.
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State deserves praise for calling the attention of the Ohaneze leadership to the dangerous enterprise of endorsement of a particular candidate during an election. At the meeting of Ohaneze's inner caucus, known as Ime Obi, on Friday, January 24, Governor Obiano had planned to counsel participants not to adopt any of the candidates in the February 16 vote because it is not in the strategic interest of the Igbo for their apex socio-cultural organization to publicly back a particular candidate.
In the introduction to the second edition of his great novel, Arrows of God, Professor Chinua Achebe resists the temptation to name this novel his favourite, even though, according to him, he could be caught rereading it more than any other work of his. Prof Achebe notes that no wise parent proclaims any of his or her children the favourite in public without consequences. No wonder, once the Ohaneze president announced the adoption of a candidate, leading Ohaneze members like the secretary general rose against the action which is now threatening the organisation's unity. Obiano foresaw this crisis and appropriately advised against such an endorsement.
It is painful, therefore, that the Anambra delegation sent by Governor Obiano to canvass the state's position of neutrality couldn't because the meeting in Enugu had ended long before the time it was announced it would hold. Indeed, both the processes leading to the Ime Obi meeting and the outcome are what the former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, would describe as a conundrum wrapped in mystery. They are truly baffling.
Historians may never understand why the Ohaneze leadership would uncompromisingly insist on holding the Ime Obi meeting on January 24, the very day Nigeria's president was leading the nation to commission a mausoleum built in Onitsha, Anambra State, in memory of Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, who led Nigeria to independence in 1960 and had served as the country first indigenous Governor General and the first Senate President and was to become the first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on October 1, 1963. What was so sacrosanct about January 24 that the Ohaneze leadership couldn't shift the meeting by two or three days?
It is befuddling that the determination to erase the Great Zik of Africa in history is masterminded by Chief John Nnia Nwodo, the Ohaneze president whose father was made a minister in the Eastern Region by Zik, becoming the first person from Nsukka to be a minister. It is difficult to imagine any person from Nsukka other than Nnia Nwodo who could enthusiastically do what Nnia did on January 24. Nnia nwodo's action may be likened to murder in the cathedral. Zik built the famous University of Nigeria at Nsukka. Zik relocated to Nsukka with his entire family at the end of the Nigerian Civil War in 1970 and lived there until he died in 1996 at 92. How else could he have demonstrated deep affection for this beautiful town and its fine people? Is what Nnia Nwodo has done the best way to immortalize the Great Zik? William Shakespeare writes most movingly: "I hate ingratitude in a man more than lying, vainness, blabbing, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
If the Federal Government was honouring Zik in Lagos where he grew up and Afenifere chose the same day to hold a meeting that could deny statutory members of its inner caucus an opportunity to attend and refused all entreaties to postpone it, Nwodo's Ohaneze would have loudly and dramatically condemned it as "a calculated attempt to humiliate the Igbo nation". If Nigeria was honouring Zik at Zungeru in Niger State where he was born and the Arewa Consultative Assembly elected to hold a crucial meeting the same time which could prevent key people from participating, Nwodo's Ohaneze would have denounced it sensationally as part "of the grand design to marginalize Ndigbo in the national scheme of things". But it is now Igbo elements like Nwodo dancing so joyously on the grave of the greatest Nigerian ever.
Good a thing that there are thoughtful and farsighted Igbo leaders like Senator Onyeabo Obi and Governor Obiano who can say no to sacrilege and courageously chart a new direction for Ndigbo. Obiano, for one, has declared November 16 a work-free day in Anambra and has been campaigning for the Federal Government to make Zik's birthday a national holiday, as Ghanaians have done in memory of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president who was tutored and mentored by Zik. As the Great Zik wrote in 1983, history will vindicate the just.
Ezekwueme is chairman, Civil Liberties Organisation, Anambra State.
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With Friends Like These: Al Qaeda and the Assad Regime
Brian Fishman
Last week Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu accused the Syrian regime and the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) of being "in a partnership backstage," a vaguely worded assertion that seems intentionally couched so that it can be read to imply an explicit partnership or an implicit alignment of interests. On the surface, the suggestion may seem ridiculous. Not only do jihadis excoriate Bashar al-Assad and the Alawite sect, but al-Qaeda itself has a long history of anti-Assad rhetoric. Nonetheless, there is an equally long history of jihadis striking operationally useful deals with various factions that they consider strategic enemies. Moreover, there should be very little debate that the jihadi presence in Syria, and particularly that of ISIS, benefits the Syrian regime.
Nonetheless, the accusations of an alliance have not been backed by hard evidence, which makes it difficult to give them much credence. That the Assad regime benefits politically from the specter of ISIS presence in Syria is clear, but that is not evidence that Assad is responsible for either the group's creation or its clashes with fellow rebel organizations. (Though, it is easy to imagine the Syrian or Iranian intelligence services trying to sow internal discord among the opposition.) One might argue that it hardly matters whether Assad has struck a formal alliance with ISIS or simply finds ways to bolster the organization as it fights intramural battles against other rebels. Either way, Assad and ISIS are tacitly aligned. Although not erroneous, that is a shortsighted and narrow perspective on the conditions that have allowed ISIS, and other jihadis, to build such a strong foothold in Syria. For Western powers designing policy, a broader aperture—one that includes the support Syrian rebels and their backers have offered jihadi-affiliated groups—is necessary.
The Charge
The case that Assad is working with al-Qaeda in order to divide the Syrian opposition goes something like this: as described in the Sinjar Records (a cache of al-Qaeda in the Iraq personnel files captured and declassified in 2007), the Assad regime facilitated the movement of al-Qaeda foreign fighters into Iraq during the heart of the Iraqi insurgency. Since then, a smattering of Syrian defectors have affirmed that Assad's regime facilitated al-Qaeda's operations, including those of Abu Ghadiyah, one of the most notorious human smugglers. As the insurgency to unseat him developed, Assad—hoping to portray himself as a bulwark against a jihadi uprising in the region—actually supported the development of Jabhat al-Nusrah, ISIS, or both while facilitating some spectacular jihadi attacks in Damascus to make the jihadi threat seem more credible. Moreover, Assad may have released various jihadis from prison, including Abu Mus'ab al-Suri (Mustafa Setmariam Nasar), a key ideologue, from custody in early 2012 in order to either spur the growth of jihadi groups or simply to warn the west of their danger. All of that cooperation has paid off today, the argument goes, because ISIS is waging war on anti-Assad rebels and is more focused on building an emirate in northern Syria than deposing Assad. In return, Assad does not bomb ISIS controlled territory.
The rebel Syrian National Coalition (SNC) summed it up, saying that:
ISIS is closely linked to the terrorist regime and serves the interests of the clique of President Bashar Al-Assad, whether directly or indirectly…The murder of Syrians by this group leaves no doubt about the intentions behind their creation, their objectives, and the agendas they service, which is confirmed by the nature of their terrorist actions that are hostile to the Syrian revolution.
The Facts as they are Known
So, how accurate is this storyline?
Well, for starters it is plausible that an al-Qaeda affiliate would cut a deal with an Alawite regime like Assad's, despite their incompatible ideologies. Al-Qaeda came to a limited accommodation with Iran a decade ago, despite al-Qaeda's vigorous anti-Shi'a views and combat with Iranian proxies in Iraq and elsewhere. Moreover, elements of the Assad regime did enable jihadi smuggling of personnel into Iraq. It would be incorrect to assume that an al-Qaeda affiliate, holding a deeply sectarian ideology, could not collaborate with the Assad regime. Stranger things have happened.
But, the suggestion that an ISIS-Assad alliance is plausible is not evidence that an explicit relationship actually exists. The story is much more complicated. For example, it is true that the Assad regime enabled some smuggling of foreign fighters into Iraq, but there is evidence it may have tried to limit how strong those networks could grow. There was more than one smuggling network and they were tremendously varied: some of the facilitation networks were ideological and others criminal. One reasonable way of interpreting the limited data on Assad's policy is that it favored the criminal smuggling networks in order to empower anti-American fighters in Iraq while limiting the strength of diehard jihadi smugglers active on Syrian territory. Likewise, the reports of Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's release from a Syrian prison are uncorroborated and some analysts suggest he may still be confined. It is true that there have been several public statements attributed to jihadis that appear to have been fabricated by supporters of Assad. Reports that the Assad regime has released jihadis from prison with the intent of dividing the opposition and shares the benefits of a war economy with Jabhat al-Nusrah and other militants holding territory in Syria are backed only by anonymous sources, but reasonable. Nonetheless, that would hardly be the first time a Middle Eastern government released jihadis from prison in an amnesty of one kind or another. Jordan's release of Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the grandfather of ISIS, in the 1990s comes to mind. The further claim that the Assad regime does not target ISIS territory, despite being a common talking point among opposition figures, is thus far empirically unsubstantiated.
While absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, there is no public smoking gun that Assad is collaborating directly with ISIS. The argument that they are in cahoots finds fertile soil because it is obvious that the Assad regime benefits from the presence of ISIS and other jihadis in Syria. There are three basic reasons:
ISIS (and Jabhat al-Nusrah) is a poison pill for the rebellion that dissuades western powers from offering the opposition extensive support;
The jihadi presence in Syria, by minimizing the prospect of a negotiated solution and promising scorched earth warfare, helps cement the internal cohesion of the Assad regime;
ISIS attacks on other rebel factions divides the weak rebel coalition and further degrades its ability to challenge the regime.
The rebel struggle with ISIS ultimately boils down to the fact that ISIS and the other Syrian rebels have different strategic priorities. Rather than seeking to overthrow the Assad regime, ISIS's first priority is establishing an Islamic state in liberated areas. As Bruce Hoffman put it in the New York Times, "anything above that is gravy."
That approach is quite different even from other al-Qaeda-linked groups operating in Syria. Jabhat al-Nusrah, which includes a larger percentage of Syrians than ISIS, aims to eliminate Assad first and then focus on building a transnational Islamic state. Likewise, Ahrar al-Sham has traditionally portrayed itself as a Salafi organization focused only an Islamic state in Syria, which has facilitated strong ties to the Gulf states such as Qatar and Kuwait. But, the group's leadership, most notably Abu Khalid al-Suri, has longstanding ties to al-Qaeda leaders and recently announced that he considers himself following their path.
Regardless of the precise extent of Assad's relationship with ISIS, the more important story about the rise of al-Qaeda in Syria is that the opposition and their supporters made the tragic strategic blunder of tolerating and sometimes enabling al-Qaeda linked organizations. That does not vindicate or validate Assad, who is a murderous criminal that deserves to be overthrown, but it must not be ignored lest other organizations and countries make similar mistakes.
That this strategy has been counterproductive raises several fascinating, interlinked, and critical questions, most notably, why did the rebels do that? And, can Syrian opposition groups trust Jabhat al-Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham going forward in light of the betrayal of ISIS?
The simplest answer to the first question is that the Syrian rebels forgot their Clausewitz. In a desperate effort to increase their battlefield effectiveness in 2011 and 2012, the rebels overlooked what war is all about—politics. Namely, the rebels overlooked the political extremism of jihadis and, in particular, fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq entering the fray and the impact this would have on prospects for western support and the cohesion of the Syrian regime. When the United States designated Jabhat al-Nusrah as a terrorist organization in December, 2012, the SNC denounced the decision, offering a "full rejection of any accusation of extremism and terrorism to any of the forces that are fighting the Syrian regime."
The surprising aspect of rebel infighting in Syria is not that ISIS has infuriated the other insurgent factions; it is that Jabhat al-Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham have managed to avoid the same fate. As noted by various jihadi scholars, jihadi factions from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Iraq have squandered battlefield success by alienating themselves from more reasonable tribal and militant actors. Jabhat al-Nusrah's seemingly successful collaboration with secular and state-backed Islamists is the exception, not the rule. At least so far. So, what does that mean for rebel collaboration with Jabhat al-Nusrah going forward?
The ongoing ISIS confrontation is only the beginning for non-jihadi Syrian revolutionaries. Whereas Jabhat al-Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham look like allies today, over the long-run, jihadi organizations do not build sustained cross-ideological alliances. They will ultimately turn on other elements of the Syrian rebellion—and the leaders of these jihadi groups may even turn on the Syrians in their own organizations, who are reportedly less radicalized. When the day comes that Jabhat al-Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham either turn on other elements of the Syrian resistance or operationalize their more radical ideas, the Syrian rebels and their supporters in the Gulf and beyond should look in the mirror, not to Damascus, where Assad will continue laughing comfortably from his palace.
Disgruntled Conclusions
Foreign support for jihadi organizations operating in Syria is unacceptable from an American policy perspective. Saudi and Qatari frustration with American policy toward Syria and Iran is understandable, but empowering jihadi elements—even Jabhat al-Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham—is shortsighted and counterproductive. It has been so counterproductive, in fact, that it is now plausible for the foreign minister of a NATO ally to accuse the Assad regime of sponsoring the jihadi factions because their interests align so well. The reports that rebels, including Jabhat al-Nusrah and Ahrar al-Sham, have turned on ISIS do not invalidate this point. Both groups are now linked closely with al-Qaeda (Ahrar al-Sham will likely join Jabhat al-Nusrah as a U.S.-designated terrorist organization), the presence of both helps Assad more than it hurts, and both have visions of a post-Assad Syria very different than other rebel factions.
It is hard to overstate how much the instrumentalization of al-Qaeda in Syria—by both the regime and its opponents—undermines the broader fight against that group. Despite 9/11, the horrific abuses of Zarqawi in Iraq, the ugly 2003 jihadi uprising in Saudi Arabia, and the challenge of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to Saudi security, the temptation of Sunni extremist proxies in Syria has been too much for America's Gulf allies to resist. Of all the victories against al-Qaeda in years since 9/11, seemingly one of the most important was general agreement—even among Gulf Salafi movements—that jihadis are too volatile to be used as proxies. That agreement led to intelligence sharing, communications collaboration to stifle jihadi recruitment, and operational assistance of various kinds. The uninhibited inflow of foreign fighters to Syria, including thousands from Europe that transited Turkey, shows that some of that operational cooperation has already ended. And maybe the consensus that undergirded it never really existed. Many of those fighters will go home to their previous lives, but some will fight again in Europe or the Middle East. When they do, the West should not first blame Bashar al-Assad (who remains guilty of many other crimes). Instead, the West will look to the Syrian opposition and their supporters, who in the service of a just cause found the temptation of jihadi shock troops too much to resist.
Brian Fishman is a War on the Rocks Contributor and a Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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