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MURFREESBORO — Soft-spoken but oozing a hardened resolve, civil rights legend Bernard Lafayette Jr. captivated his MTSU audience Thursday with memories of growing up in the throes of segregation yet fueled by a burning desire at a young age to fight for equality for all, a news release from the university reports.
Lafayette gave the keynote address for MTSU's 24th annual Social Science Symposium, a two-day event at the James Union Building to allow undergraduate students to showcase their research, according to the news release.
This year's symposium carried the theme of "Voting Rights 1965-2015: Commemorating 50 Years," a recognition of the anniversary of the Voting Rights Act while looking at challenges today. The event is free and open to the public.
With current youth-led movements such as Black Lives Matter harkening back to the activism of the 1960s and stirring controversy of their own today, perhaps it was fitting for an audience made up heavily of MTSU students to hear words of wisdom from a man who was arrested 30 times, kidnapped twice and was with Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on the morning of his assassination, the release stated.
The 75-year-old Lafayette shared the story of the "life-changing moment" when he was 7 years old that planted the seeds for his activism. He was with his grandmother in Florida trying to catch a segregated streetcar one day.
Though black riders paid the conductor at the front entrance of the car, they had to enter the rear door and sit in back. And it wasn't unusual, the news release states, for black riders, as they made their way along side the car to enter in back, to be left standing in the street by a conductor who pulled away too soon.
To prevent this, the young Lafayette would usually run ahead of his grandmother to put his foot on the steps to the rear door to keep it from closing and allowing him and his grandmother to get on. But on this particular day, as they were running toward the rear, his grandmother fell in the street. He remembers reaching for her and the car door as the streetcar pulled away, the release stated.
"I was not able to do either successfully," he was quoted in the release. "And I remember how I felt, that emotional memory will never go away. It felt like a sword had cut me in half. I was the victim in that sense.
"I said to myself, 'When I get grown, I'm going to do something about this problem,'" he was quoted. "So my motivation for getting involved in the movement was not so much so that my grandchildren could have a better life. I wanted it immediately so that my grandmother would be able to have the opportunity to be treated as a human being after all the years she had lived."
In the audience was friend and fellow civil rights soldier Ernest "Rip" Patton, both veterans of the Nashville lunch counter sit-in movement and Freedom Rides. Patton also shared his memories from the front lines during a voting-rights panel discussion held Wednesday in same room.
Both men received nonviolent protest training from the Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the movement who visited MTSU last month with fellow activist the Rev. C.T. Vivian.
Lafayette spoke about the social symbolism behind the lunch counters during segregation, and how segregationists knew that if black and white people had the opportunity to frequently sit down to a meal together, everyone would soon enough find out that "different really doesn't make a difference," the release stated.
Pat Embry, director of the John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at MTSU, served as moderator for Lafayette's appearance, and in introducing him to the audience read a quote from the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, who covered the civil rights movement in Nashville for The Tennessean.
"(Halberstam) said, 'Of all the people in the civil rights movement, Bernard Lafayette was the easiest one to underestimate. He's a very quiet American hero,'" Embry was quoted in the release.
Only in his early 20s at the time, Lafayette co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was a key organizer of the Selma voting rights campaign and the "Bloody Sunday" march depicted in the movie "Selma," which was shown Wednesday as a part of the symposium.
"There comes a time when you have to take a stand and be recognized as a human being," Lafayette was quoted in the release.
While cautioning those with activist ambitions to remember that you can't accomplish all of your goals all at once, he also reminded the audience that there are still segregationist laws on the books in the state of Tennessee that have not repealed.
Since 2006, Lafayette has served as Distinguished Senior Scholar in Residence at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. He is chairman of the board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by King.
The MTSU Social Science Symposium has been held every year since 1991 as a way to provide MTSU students a forum for presenting their research, officials said. The symposium was funded and sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, department of sociology and anthropology, department of history, department of political science, Distinguished Lecture Series, Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies, Middle Tennessee Anthropology Society and the Sociology Club.


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For the past 20 years, Klein has been dedicated to making flying cars a reality.
In a statement, Kleinvision was awarded a certificate by the Slovak Transport Authority after successfully completing a "rigorous flight test compatible with European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) standards" for 70 hours.pdf).
Flight tests include more than 200 takeoffs and landings, and a full range of various flight and performance operations that Kleinvision states has demonstrated "amazing static and dynamic stability in airplane mode." Was there.
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A team of experts has spent more than 100,000 people transforming an aircraft design into a mathematical model to create the final two-seater 1,000-kilogram (2,200-pound) vehicle with a 1.6-liter BMW engine. It took.
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society Told to CNN I hope the AirCar will be on the market within 12 months, but I need a pilot's license to drive a hybrid car. That is, you won't see many flying cars right away.
Anton Zajac, co-founder of KleinVision, said the vehicle can fly at maximum operating altitudes of 18,000 feet and run on "fuel sold at any gas station."
AirCar successfully completed its first 35-minute intercity flight between the airport in Nitra and Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, last June.
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ScienceMatters - Season 3, Episode 7 - Finding the Magic in Materials Science
Georgia Tech science powers the technology behind TV and smartphone screens, thanks to breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, and materials science. Carlos Silva is adding to that legacy with his research into the next generation of semiconductors for electronic devices.
Renay San Miguel: Hello and welcome to ScienceMatters, the podcast of the Georgia Tech College of Sciences. I'm Renay San Miguel.
(Football stadium sounds)
Renay San Miguel: The next time you watch sports on your flat screen TV, or on your smartphone, you can thank Georgia Tech scientists.
Not for the action on the field, but for the technology behind that screen. After all, not even a Nobel Prize-winning physicist can keep a quarterback from throwing an interception.
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Renay San Miguel: Georgia Tech researchers in physics, chemistry, and materials sciences, have sparked winning advances over the years in photonics and optoelectronics, which involve the study of light. These are the sciences that bring you those crystal-clear images on large and small screens, specifically thanks to semiconductors called light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.
They are also the sciences that get the attention of Carlos Silva, professor in the School of Physics and in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research group is looking for the next generation of semiconductors, and looking at new advanced materials as a way to turn light into energy, and energy into light.
Carlos Silva: Yes, I think that Georgia Tech has been a leader in many technologies that are associated with optoelectronics, namely displays, solar cells, photovoltaics, detectors, and so on, in a very wide range of materials. The area of research that I'm involved in and that I know most about Georgia Tech involves so-called "organic" and "hybrid" optoelectronics.
Renay San Miguel: For our purposes, organic simply means molecules containing carbon, like carbon-based polymers or plastics. Their properties can be modified in specific ways to achieve specific effects. They are typically easier to process than inorganic materials. Hybrid means a combination of organic and inorganic materials. Typical semiconductors are complex inorganic materials, such as gallium arsenide, which Silva will mention later.
Carlos Silva: And so they are attractive because, being molecular materials, they can be tuned by chemical design, by chemical synthesis, and that's where there has been very world-leading activity here at Georgia Tech.
Renay San Miguel: Silva is searching for less expensive, more energy efficient, and more environmentally safe materials in the semiconductors that go into electronic devices.
Silva and his team are working to realize new applications that could include better and cheaper solar cells, wearable electronics, biomedical sensors inside our bodies, or spacesuit fabrics that can help astronauts monitor radiation as they explore a distant world.
Using lasers and spectroscopy – that is, using light to study matter -- Silva's team studies what happens to certain particles when you overload them with energy – what are called excited states.
The excitement for Silva is that some of those applications have already resulted in cost benefits.
Carlos Silva: There has been a lot of interest in the last few years for photodetectors, ranging from specific wavelength, detect a specific color detectors, to solar cells, and there is now a renewed drive to achieve organic or plastic solar cells. The efficiencies of these devices have been creeping up to the point where now they're competitive with other technologies.
They're cheap to produce or cheap to run. Really, the flexibility that the material platform provides is one of the main advantages in terms of spectral range, which colors are being absorbed by the material, and how that energy is being transformed to electrical power. It's something that is, on the one hand, complex, on the other hand provides opportunities for new applications.
Renay San Miguel: By transforming that energy to power, Silva may open the door to a new class of semiconductor materials.
Renay San Miguel: As mentioned earlier, photonics is the study of light; how it's generated, detected, and manipulated. Optoelectronics is a subset of photonics in that it refers to light-emitting or detecting devices.
A lot of brainpower from Georgia Tech colleges and schools goes into developing the next generation of materials used in those disciplines.
Renay San Miguel: Your website, the lab website, says you and your researchers "think of our work as a linear combination of physical chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials physics, and materials chemistry." Can you elaborate? What do these four disciplines allow you to do here?
Carlos Silva: Yes, well, one of the interesting aspects is that these disciplines are not, by any means, very well delineated. They are delineated in curricula, perhaps, in disciplinary listings in universities, but not in world-class research.
And so that is one of the aspects where, as you mentioned, Georgia Tech is extremely strong. In fact, I moved here one and a half years ago. One of the reasons why I wanted to move to Georgia Tech is because interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research is not just allowed or tolerated or accepted, but it is a way of life at Georgia Tech. It's encouraged and this is a very important aspect in materials research. Materials research, materials sciences is a very multidisciplinary area where individual groups and individual expertise is part of a contribution for a broader outcome. And you really need to have different expertise, different groups with different techniques and backgrounds working together.
Our group has chemists, has physicists, has materials scientists working in conjunction in a way where everybody brings in a very specific expertise and interest and contributes to bigger objectives.
This is how our group operates. This is also how we pick our problems.
Renay San Miguel: That interest includes as we mentioned, so-called "excited states," when particles are exposed to more energy than they're used to. Light, heat, electricity, any kind of energy. How do materials change when their particles are in excited states? Silva's group uses ultrafast spectroscopy and quantum optics – that's how materials react to light on the subatomic level -- to understand the optical and electronic properties of semiconductor materials. Those include certain promising hybrid materials, meaning they are in part made of organic molecules.
Carlos Silva: Mainly the advantages of these materials stem from the fact that they are low-energy consumption in their production. And so the devices themselves are not fully but largely fabricated by low-energy methods.
The fact that they are molecular means that there's ample opportunity for tuning of their properties: color, the efficiency by which they absorb light, the way they absorb light. There's a lot of flexibility in chemical design.
Renay San Miguel: So when somebody goes to Best Buy and they see a monitor that says OLED organic light-emitting diodes, that's what we're talking about.
Carlos Silva: That is one example.
And a lot of the important conceptual development in the field that leads to these devices stems from work at Georgia Tech and largely led by the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics.
Renay San Miguel: That center, known by its acronym COPE, is part of Georgia Tech's STAMI, or the Center for the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials and Interfaces. Silva is COPE's co-director. Its members study what happens when certain liquids, foams, gels, liquid crystals, and other substances are subjected to stimuli like electricity, light, heat, or chemicals.
Imagine artificial retinas made of semiconducting polymers that connect to your eye's neurons, and improve vision. A host of applications like that, ranging from health and medicine to engineering and manufacturing, could result from the Silva group's research.
Carlos Silva: There are non-traditional applications. For example, organic materials, particularly polymers, being plastic means that they have mechanical advantages that traditional materials may not have. So people talk about wearable electronics and flexible electronics and printable electronics.
And these are all opportunities that these materials provide.
Renay San Miguel: A major telephone, a smartphone maker just came out with a screen that folds. Are we talking about that kind of technology going in there?
Carlos Silva: That is one of the platforms that is certainly amenable to these technologies. And my understanding is that organic materials are used in some of these applications.
Renay San Miguel: Professors love metaphors, and so do students, because usually, they make it easier to understand complex scientific concepts.
(Ballroom dance music)
Renay San Miguel: For Silva, a dancing metaphor comes in handy to explain unusual behavior that could lead to more powerful and versatile semiconductors.
Silva uses dance to talk about hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites, or HIOPs. These are layered mixes of organic and inorganic materials with intriguing electrical properties and can be cheaply made at low temperatures.
Remember those excited states we talked about earlier? When you add energy to an electron, the electron jumps to a new energy level in the atom. The space it left is called an electron hole. That hole, believe it or not, becomes the dance partner, if you will, of the original electron. They join forces to become a new particle called an exciton.
This is where the dance really kicks in.
Silva says the excitons can leave their atoms and dance with excitons from other atoms. You can have many electrons and many holes dancing in a very close-knit choreography.
Carlos Silva: They dance very closely and very precisely together in this environment that is very noisy. So these lattice, these semiconductors are very different from traditional semiconductors in that way.
You can think of them as opposed to a very calm beach. It's a very, very noisy earthquake in Mexico City. And that would be the comparison between these materials and let's say a gallium arsenide semiconductor. And in spite of that, the energy by which the electrons in the holes interact in the multi-particle way is much higher than you find, for example, in gallium arsenide.
Carlos Silva: So very strong electronic correlations, in spite of the fact that they're dancing on an earthquake.
Renay San Miguel: I'm kind of picturing two couples doing a beautiful slow waltz or a couple doing a beautiful slow waltz while everybody's doing a polka and the chicken dance and everything around them.
Carlos Silva: Yes, imagine a group of 10 salsa dancers doing a perfect choreography in an earthquake, as opposed to a polka dancer or, let's get more extreme, let's say body slamming—
—on a very tranquil surface.
Renay San Miguel: Absolutely, punk rock bands playing, throwing themselves at each other.
But here are these couples just slowly gyrating in the middle.
Carlos Silva: Yes.
Renay San Miguel: Why does it matter that these excitons are dancing calmly to their own tune in the midst of all that chaos? That's the part that excites Silva, because it can mean a faster conversion to energy than is possible with traditional semiconductors.
Renay San Miguel: When you were a little kid, were you dissecting frogs when everybody else was going no? Or were you like… Did you have a chemistry set? Was there something that your folks saw in you as a kid? Yeah, he's heading in that direction.
Carlos Silva: Well, I don't know that they knew what direction I was heading in, but they certainly recognized that I was highly inquisitive. I did things that would be highly experimental.
For example, I ate a scorpion once because that was an experiment.
Renay San Miguel: Eating a scorpion as an experiment? You could say that. Yeah.
Carlos Silva: I dissected a live wire once with scissors because that was an experiment.
There were signs in my childhood that were pointing to kind of the scientific method.
Renay San Miguel: I would imagine. But maybe experiment on something else besides your own body.
Renay San Miguel: Did you get sick from eating a scorpion?
Carlos Silva: No, it turns out I did not. I tell my son… My son really loves Spiderman, and I said that I'm probably a scorpion man.
Renay San Miguel: What is it that that drives you to come to work every day and not see it as work and see it as I'm researching something that could really help humanity?
Carlos Silva: I'm absolutely fascinated by the applications and the context of the applications. That is a very important driving force.
I'm also fascinated by the process of doing science. I have never ceased to be excited about the process of doing science. Just being able to put the two together is really what I would say is a privilege as a scientist and the scientists at Georgia Tech. So I'm definitely very much an experimentalist, and I get just joy out of just doing experiments. That is something that I always have enjoyed, and I enjoyed doing experiments that have a real context in both a scientific problem and being part of the puzzle to come up with new technologies. So all of that is so exciting. And that's really what I think I will never stop being excited about.
Renay San Miguel: The American Physical Society elected Carlos Silva one of its 2019 Fellows, for his work using ultrafast lasers s optoelectronics research.
I thank Carlos Silva for his time, and encourage you to check out his lab's website at ww2-dot-chemistry-dot-gatech-dot-edu-slash-silva.
If you like ScienceMatters, please subscribe. We're on Apple Music and Soundcloud.
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UCLA broke out to a 14-0 lead and, despite Stanford making it close in the second half, where able to pull away with a 35-24 win over the Stanford Cardinal in their home opener. Stanford had played their last seven games away from home because of COVID-19 protocols.
The Cardinal struggled to move the ball early in the first half with 3 of their 4 running backs missing the game due to injury. Quarterback Tanner Mckee finished the day 19-32 for 293 yards and three touchdowns, but at the end, it wasn't enough as Stanford fell short.
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TG4 will provide extensive live coverage of the top GAA matches this weekend including the Allianz Hurling League Quarter Finals and the AIB All-Ireland Club Championship Finals from Croke Park. Colm Cooper's Laochra Gael documentary will premiere on TG4 on Sunday aftertoon after the All Ireland Club Finals while TG4 will also provide new innovation by streaming Sunday's AIB All Ireland Club Finals on Twitter at @GAA_BEO.
Presented by Micheál Ó Domhnaill with commentary and analysis by Brian Tyers, Mac Dara Mac Donncha, Aoife O'Connor, Diarmuid Lyng, Pat Fleury and Cathal Moore.
Presented by Micheál Ó Domhnaill with commentary and analysis by Brian Tyers, Marcus Ó Buachalla, Donal O'Grady, Cathal Moore, Michael Rice, Seán Óg de Paor, Kevin Cassidy and Aodán Mac Gearailt.
*Wide camera coverage of the AIB Club All Ireland Finals on Twitter.
In continuation of TG4's "Súil Eile" approach to GAA coverage, GAA fans in Ireland, for the first time, will have the opportunity to watch a live stream of Sunday's AIB Club Finals on Twitter at @GAA_BEO. This live stream of both games will give the viewer a unique wide camera angle of all the action along with the usual replays and sideline presentation. This is the latest innovation of GAA coverage to be provided by Nemeton TV (producers of GAA BEO) along with TVM facilities partner.
The pressure, heartbreak and joy. The personal story behind the medals. A once-in-a-generation talent who defied convention by showing that Gaelic Football does not have to be a big man's game. This episode of Laochra Gael delves behind the 5 All Irelands and 8 All Stars and reveals the origins of an extraordinary talent in an ordinary Killarney housing estate. The documentary also explores the personal pain away from the pitch during the years of dealing with his father's death, as well as looking back on the testimonial controversy. Participants include Colm Cooper, Vince Cooper, Vincent Hogan, Marc Ó Sé, Malachy Clerkin, Anthony Lynch, Damian Lawlor, Conor Gormley, Bracker O'Regan, Eddie O'Connor, Noreen Buckley, Michael McCarthy.
Another chance to see Kerry v Offaly in the 1982 All Ireland Football Final.
Weekly GAA highlights series with action from the weekend's GAA matches including Cork v Donegal (Lidl Ladies Football Leagues), Cork v Donegal, Dublin v Tyrone & Kerry v Mayo (Allianz Football League), AIB Club Finals and the Allianz Hurling League Quarter Finals.
Andrew O'Shaughnessy; an extraordinary underage talent whose career was cut short by Multiple Sclerosis. He was most talked-about young hurling in the country at the turn of the millennium, but O'Shaughnessy's intercounty career was over by the time he turned 24, after a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis that turned his world upside down. The programme looks back on O'Shaughnessy's extraordinary underage career, the brief success under Richie Bennis, the controversy under Justin McCarthy, and how O'Shaughnessy has rebuilt his life since receiving the devastating diagnosis. Participants include Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Eimear O'Shaughnessy, Denis Ring, Stephen Lucey, Maurice O'Brien and Gráinne McElwain.


I don't know if every part of Ghana is as busy as Winneba is right now. From my personal observation, it seems as though the Effutu constituency will be the most tensed constituency in the whole of Ghana next year. I have been in Winneba for almost five years and even though I am worried about the fact that I have to travel to Takoradi every fortnight to see my family, I seem to be enjoying the current political happenings in Winneba so much that I have forgotten to push for my transfer.
Before I delve into this, let me own up that I am an unapologetic NPP member. If in the course of this write up you read me to be tilting towards the NPP please do forgive me but I will try my best to be as objective as I can.
It all started early this year, when the Winneba Fancy Dress became the hottest issue in Winneba. It was my first time to witness the overhyped Winneba Fancy Dress Festival. I am saying it was overhyped because I think the publicity exceeded what I witnessed on the park. I would not want to compare the Winneba Fancy Dress Festival to my very own Takoradi Masquerade Festival. Maybe, in future I will write another article to do that but for this very piece I want to send a notice to the NPP National Executives.
So the Winneba Fancy Dress Festival in my view was totally politicized. The current Member of Parliament seemed to be pushing an agenda and the organizers seemed to be pushing a different agenda. In the end there was an unfair power play that marred the beauty of the festival. That was when it all began, the aftermath was just interesting, series of radio banter here and there, WhatsApp and Facebook messages and audio and many other interesting happenings. I like controversy, so I was really enjoying it. What made the banter even more interesting is that, it was coming from two renowned NPP gurus in Winneba that is Hon. Alexender Afenyo Markin and Dr. James Kofi Annan. These two persons, I hear, were once very good friends. It is rumored that the later even financed the political campaign of the former in the last elections. I don't know how true that is.
This arguments continued for almost about a month and then bum a video dropped. The video on the surface appears to be promoting Winneba but embedded in the message of the video was a strong signal and some punchy lines. To be honest, the video was beautifully crafted and creatively woven to the extent that it will take only a person with four eyes and ears to fully decode the content of the video. For some of us, we can't be deceived, we know what the producers sought to achieve. The video, in my view, was primarily created to introduce the concept "WINNEBA IS KING". This may sound funny to readers outside of Winneba but to those in Winneba, this term is now the subject of discussion. If you have travelled to Winneba recently you may have seen some billboards with the inscription Winneba is King. Do not be tricked it is not there just to promote Winneba, it is a masterminded political movement of an independent candidate.
Initially when I saw it, I thought it was a joke and I managed to convince myself that this was not going to have any impact. My conviction was motivated by the fact that two people from the same political party may be sensitive in attacking each other. Most people in my party may have also thought same. I saw most people from the NPP making a joke of the slogan, some were teasingly writing "Winneba is Queen", "Winneba is a king and Alex is a kingdom" and all that. Some even argued that the slogan was grammatically wrong. It was funny from the beginning but it's looking as though we were all wrong.
I think the whole thing has gotten to a stage where the NPP party's National Executives should officially step in before it becomes late.
The tension in Winneba is building up every day and surprisingly I feel it is attracting some panic reactions from the Hon. Alex and that is what makes me feel that the intervention of the National Executives is needed now.
Within two months of introducing that concept, "Winneba is King", it has grown to be the force to reckon with in Winneba. Unfortunately, it is looking as though they are now determining the direction of the political campaign in the constituency. I don't know if intensive campaigns have started in other constituencies, but in Effutu campaign has started.
I personally see the current Member of Parliament in Effutu as controversial and smart. Like I said earlier, I like controversy so I have a thing for people who have the penchant for controversy. I have been following him since I was transferred to Winneba in 2014 and I admire his charisma. I monitored his campaign before the 2016 elections and right from the beginning one could tell that he knew what he was about. I was not surprised at all when he won massively in the 2016 elections. He is the reason why the NDC party is weak in Winneba and in my view it was going to take a while for the NDC to bounce back. They just could not predict him and he was way ahead of them. To put it in the NDC's own words, He was in a comfortable lead.
But unfortunately, I am feeling this appeal is weaning off now. It looks as though the new Winneba is king movement knows what to do and when to do that more than the NPP. They are quite proactive in predicting their opponents. Within the last two months I see the NPP rather trailing the Winneba is King movement and this is what surprises me. They appear to have a plan for their campaign and they are more proactive in its implementation. For the first time since I came to Winneba, I see some genuine anxiety in Hon. Alex Afenyo Markin and this has been overly exhibited in his recent speeches. I was very surprised when in an interview with Umaru Sanda on Citi Fm, he described his opponent Dr. James Kofi Annan as a busy body independent candidate. That was so uncharacteristic of Hon. Alex. I don't know what he sought to achieve but the moment I heard that I knew there is a fire on the mountain. In my view, that tag alone took James Kofi Annan's candidature to another level. He gave James Kofi Annan free publicity and clearly one could tell the anxiety in him.
Candidly, from that time till now whatever the Hon. Alex has done is just a replica of what James Kofi Annan is doing. I don't know if my people have seen that but that is the hard truth. I recently saw a video showing some things that Hon. Alex has done and the first few seconds of the video was just an imitation of the Video of Winneba is King. Not only that, I have seen several videos from Hon. Alex's camp that takes the same form like that of James Kofi Annan.
All of a sudden there seem to be more meetings and social media engagement from Hon. Alex camp and this was after James Kofi Annan has started meeting people and initiated a social media drive. All these things are subtle but what eventually pushed me to write this piece was the NPP's reaction after the UEW impasse and some other things. After the school was shut down due to the demonstration by students. The NDC constituency released an official statement and blaming Hon. Alex for the happenings in UEW. Surprisingly, the Effutu NPP decided not to respond but they were busy responding to comments from James Kofi Annan. This is not a good sign and in my view, the so called busy body candidate is rather getting Hon. Alex busy.
It is rumored that the Winneba is King Movement will be going for health walk this Saturday. I am yet to see any official advert from them though. Just few days ago, I saw an advertisement on Facebook advertising a float by Hon. Alex and the NPP party on Sunday. And unpredictably, this is very unusual of the Effutu NPP. In my almost five years of staying in Winneba, I have never seen any float organized by NPP on Sunday and in this manner. The NPP party in Effutu may pull a bigger float more than that of Winneba is King. But if Winneba is king succeeds to get even 500 people for their health walk then my people should know that there is something wrong somewhere.
I hear Hon. Alex intends to organize a football match in Winneba as part of the Aboakyer Festival and hence called some footballers from Winneba to his office in Accra to deliberate on it. This Aboakyer football match is something that is being done by Dr. James Kofi Annan for some years now and organizing same will mean copying it from him again.
I am enjoying the whole controversy and happening yet I am worried. Generally, I feel the tension is not favoring NPP as a party. Let's not forget this independent candidate is also from among us and the more he gains popularity the more he weakens our front. He seems to have also succeeded in showing the Effutu NDC how to strategize against their biggest rival, Hon. Alex. If this continues and the NDC succeeds in getting a solid candidate we may lose our seat to the NDC. On the other hand, if the NDC decides to align with Winneba is King then automatically Hon. Alex will lose the seat to Dr. James Kofi Annan. If this happens we may not know if James Kofi Annan will still sympathize with NPP or not. I hope you now understand why I think the national executives should intervene now before things become late.
If we have these two smart and equally competent people, I think we should rather focus on uniting them and tapping into their resources to make the Effutu seat a comfortable seat for the NPP rather than we leaving them to pitch themselves against each other. We have what it takes to make Effutu a comfortable seat for NPP, let us do it before it's too late.


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Keishawn Qualls redeems costly mistake with heroic performance in Pine Forest playoff win
Brian Achatz
Keishawn Qualls went through a variety of highs and lows during Pine Forest's 21-20 win over Suwannee on Friday – but ultimately came away as a hero.
Though he finished with five catches for 108 yards and one touchdown, he also had a costly mishap early in the fourth quarter as he muffed a punt deep in his own territory.
Suwannee recovered the football inside the 10-yard line and scored three plays later to grab a 20-14 lead.
But Qualls knew he would have chance to redeem himself, and he did just that.
The Eagles faced a field of 97 yards ahead of them to endzone, trailing by six with less than four minutes in regulation.
Eagles quarterback TJ Wilson saw Qualls streaking down the sideline and connected with him for a 56-yard gain.
On the next play, Wilson ran a post to pick up another big chunk of yards.
It all set up a go-ahead touchdown run and extra point kick, by Detayvious Grandison and Dakota Weaver, to yield a victory for the Eagles.
Qualls' determination to keep his head in the game after a crushing mistake exemplified Pine Forest's grit through two playoff thrillers, as the Eagles have strung together consecutive wins for the first time this season.
More:Detayvious Grandison lifts Pine Forest to overtime win in thriller over Wakulla
"He redeemed himself, Keishawn is a gamer and a great young man," Douglas said. "I'm proud of him and proud of TJ getting him the ball. The O-line gave us some time there. Our kids just never quit. They hung in there. Suwannee is a good football team. Every week we are trying to get to the next week. Our kids worked hard and had a good week of practice."
Qualls rarely left the field in Friday's win as a dynamic returner and wideout all season, he's now picked up duties at defensive back as the playoffs have approached.
He's certainly taken the challenge in stride and has enjoyed every minute of it.
"That last drive felt good," Qualls said. "I knew I had to make it up after dropping that punt. I had to do what I had to do to set it up and help my team. It means a lot to get this win. Especially when we come from a tough start, to winning two playoff games.
"I just started playing DB in the playoffs. I have a little experience at DB but not really. I just knew they needed me so I had to step up."
Qualls leads the Eagles with 597 receiving yards this year and three touchdowns. After transferring in from Tate after his junior year, he made it a priority to add muscle and became immensely dedicated to the weightroom.
He's always had the speed, and Douglas credits Qualls for having a second-to-none catching ability, but there was room to add to his frame.
Qualls estimates he added 15 pounds of muscle and is now 6-foot, 195 pounds.
"He's just a consistent player and has some of the greatest hands around here," Douglas said. "He's done anything we asked him to do. He's a great receiver but he's a good defensive guy too. In the playoffs, it's every man up.
"He never came off the field tonight. That's the kind of young man he is."
Rapid Recap
The Eagles and Bulldogs locked up in a defensive struggle early on as the game entered halftime tied 7-7 after a Pine Forest touchdown by Detayvious Grandison and an answer from the Bulldogs with a touchdown pass from Jacquez Moore to Garrison Beach.
With four minutes to play in the third quarter, Pine Forest linebacker Deontrez McLamb made a spectacular, highlight play as he tipped a pass to himself and returned it 20 yards to the Suwannee 15 yard line.
Three plays later, Wilson connected with Qualls for a 22-yard touchdown pass to give Pine Forest a 14-7 lead.
Moore showed great speed on the next possession and provided a rapid answer with an 82-yard touchdown run on a quarterback keeper to tie the game.
Midway through the fourth quarter, disaster struck for Pine Forest after Qualls' muffed punt and Moore rushed for a touchdown three plays later to grab a 20-14 lead.
The Eagles turned the ball over as Moore – who also plays safety – grabbed his second pick of the night.
Pine Forest's defense stood tall and a botched snap on a field goal attempt kept the Bulldogs from putting the game out of reach.
With 3:38 remaining, Pine Forest conducted its game-winning drive that ended with a Grandison touchdown.
Cameron Kelley grabbed an interception to seal the win as Moore threw a desperation pass to the endzone as time expired.
Pine Forest (4-4) hosts Baker County (8-2) in the regional semifinals on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
"We've got to come back out hot," Qualls said. "It ain't over yet. It's 0-0 again and we've got to go hard at practice next week and get ready to play."
Brian Achatz can be reached at bachatz@pnj.com.


Manipulation of the flow of light is demanded for several applications such as communication, data storage, sensor, photovoltaic cells, microscopy, lasers and light emitting diodes for the purpose of designing compact, high-throughput and high efficiency optical devices. Nevertheless, the control of the propagation of the light becomes much harder in devices with smaller geometries mostly because of diffractions, loss mechanisms and fabrication difficulties. Furthermore, materials that are already available in the nature do not provide unprecedented optical properties for nanoscale optical applications. Due to this fact that fabrication of artificial materials is needed for utilizing novel and intriguing optical devices. For this purpose, some relatively new research fields have emerged like photonic crystals, metamaterials and high contrast gratings. We propose several designs based on aforementioned meta-structures to achieve compact and practically realizable optical devices. We presented compact optical demultiplexer, diode-like device and electro-optic modulator designs that are based on photonic crystals. We also proposed two circular polarizer designs based on metamaterials and high contrast gratings. Further, we investigated unidirectional transmission and polarization manipulation properties in chiral metamaterials. For most of the proposed designs, we also experimentally verified the numerical and theoretical findings. In conclusion, we can claim that the utilization of artifically structured materials give opportunity to realize the control of light much more easily in nanoscale designs.


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According to my website stats, 85 lovely people stopped by my blog between Christmas Eve and the morning of Boxing Day to download a copy of THE LESSON PLAN. Thank you all for taking some time away from your families to come and visit me. I hope you all enjoy the book and are having a wonderful holiday season. And know that if you downloaded a book, you fed three people, as yesterday I donated a dollar for every book to the San Diego Food Bank.
I have one last Lords of Lancashire cover and cover copy to reveal. And since the novella is set during the Christmas season of 1804, it seems as good a time as any to do so :).
With his facility for languages and gift for diplomacy, Thomas Pearce is perfectly suited for his recent position in the Foreign Office. Or so he imagines until he receives his first assignment. Instead of a safe consular post in a friendly European capital, Thomas is going straight into the eye of the continental storm: France. On the eve of Napoleon's crowning as emperor, no less. There is, it seems, a small matter of indiscretion just outside Paris that requires immediate attention. An indiscretion by the name of Sabine Rousseau, who happens to be the illegitimate daughter of Britain's prime minister.
When a handsome gentleman arrives at her family's home right before Christmas, claiming to be a long-lost cousin, Sabine is suspicious for reasons she can't articulate. Perhaps it's just that he's far too attractive for her to think of him as a blood relation. She is, therefore, not entirely displeased when he sneaks into her bedroom and announces they aren't kin. Her pleasure dissipates, however, when she learns he has come to smuggle her out of France…and why.
Now, Sabine and Thomas have a week to make their escape, and it won't be easy. Her uncle considers her a ticket to win favor with Napoleon, and the French military has been alerted to the presence of a British "spy" on their soil. To avoid detection, the couple must pretend to be amorous newlyweds…and this proves the most difficult task of all. Because it isn't long before neither of them is pretending, and a small matter of indiscretion may become large indeed.
I'm going to have to write my little tail off to meet this schedule, especially since I have a 2/3rds written contemporary targeted at Harlequin Blaze that I would like to finish in the first quarter. But I really do think I can meet it as long as I stay on track and have these goals to keep me honest.
Also, remember that you'll be able to download The Lesson Plan here free on Christmas Day. (I've scheduled the post to come up at 8:00 EST on Christmas Eve so it'll be a little before Christmas begins for some folks and after it began for others.) And for every copy downloaded up to 300, I'll be giving a dollar to the San Diego Food Bank. So come one, come all, come download.
It can't have escaped too many authors' notice that most of the major publishers are opening digital-first/only romance lines. Harlequin was first out of the gate with Carina Press, but now we have Avon jumping into the game with Avon Impulse and Random House with Loveswept. I'm sure the other major houses can't be far behind. There's a lot to be said for the digital first/only publishing model in this age of shrinking shelf space and expanding digital book sales. Why shell out for a print run when orders for print books are declining and you may even take a bath on the book if one of the big boxes (Walmart or Target) decides not to stock it? Better to test the waters in digital first and, if the book does really well, cross the author over into print when you're more certain of the return on investment. And romance readers have clearly been the early adopters on this front. Digital books and romance readers are a match made in heaven because we like to read a lot of books and we want them yesterday.
Now, 25% of net is pretty standard when you sign with a major publishing house, but usually, you're getting that lower rate in exchange for print exposure AND an advance. The publisher is making a significant upfront investment and taking the lion's share of the risk in traditional print deals, both because they're giving the author a guaranteed minimum royalty payment in the form of the advance and investing in the print run and print distribution, not to mention the possibility of returns. From a business perspective, it's reasonable for an author to take relatively low royalties in exchange for a guarantee that, even if the book tanks, he/she will never receive less in payment than the advance.
When digital publishing first started catching on, one of the things that made the no-advance model work was that, although there was no advance, the royalty rate was much higher. The publisher was taking much less risk by giving no advance, but there was no cost to the author to produce the book and the potential earnings if the book did well were much greater. Even so, back in the day, there was a LOT of skepticism about the no-advance digital model. RWA and many authors looked askance, viewing it as a too-risky proposition because there was absolutely no guarantee that the author would ever earn any money at all. For quite a while, RWA refused to "recognize" digital publishers like Samhain and Ellora's Cave because there was so much uncertainty associated with earnings.
Let's see if I have this straight, shall we? You are not going to pay me an advance for my book, so you are not going to guarantee me a minimum payment. In addition, you won't be investing in a print run or physical distribution for my book, thereby significantly cutting your production costs. But, because you are (Insert Big 6 Publisher Name Here), I should be happy to accept the exact same royalty rate for my books as authors who are getting both of the benefits? Hmmmm, forgive me if I'm not impressed.
So, what I foresee is that publishers will start pushing their current midlist authors into these digital lines in addition to attempting to acquire new authors for these lines. It remains to be seen whether they'll be successful at keeping authors on, though, if they offer such poor royalty rates and no advance.
All I can say is that, if I were a Big 6 publishing house and I planned to launch a digital line, I'd be thinking about offering either a royalty rate to match the digital small presses or a modest advance. But I wouldn't count on my big name to convince authors to take it on the chin when they have other options.
Hot Off the Presses: Hot New Cover Art!
So, I have two cover reveals to do today. The first is a cover you've seen before but in a slightly reworked form. Carrie over at Seductive Musings took the cover I created with my limited GIMP skills (er, maybe I ought to say "complete lack of GIMP skills") for Wrong Side of the Grave and made a few modifications to it that really make it look more like it belongs with the cover of Incarnate. I think she did a lovely job and, as she's starting up a cover art business, I'm happy to recommend her work.
Next up, I have another gorgeous design from Kim over at Hot Damn Designs for an as-yet unwritten novella. (Hey, I find cover art motivating. What can I say?) As I was finishing up The Lesson Plan, it dawned on me that I had two characters who really needed happily-ever-after's of their own. It also occurred to me that if I had two more related novellas, I'd be able to package them in print. I get the occasional request from readers who don't read digital books for my work, but it doesn't make sense to print a 25,000 word novella as a standalone. But three novellas…yeah, that starts to pencil out.
Despite the old saw about third sons being destined for the church, no one ever expected the rakish, irresponsible Walter Langston to take up the collar, least of all himself. After an accident renders him unfit for military service, however, he has few other options. When he's given the post of vicar of a parish in a sleepy, coastal village, he's convinced he'll molder in obscurity. Instead, his arrival brings a sudden resurgence in church attendance…or at least, the attendance of female parishioners. As word of the eligible young vicar spreads, every well-heeled family for miles with a marriageable daughter fills his pews, aiming to catch his eye. Unfortunately for these hopeful members of his flock, Walter's eye has already been caught—by the one woman who doesn't come to church on Sundays.
Artemisia Finch left a lucrative career as a celebrated member of London's demimondaine to care for her ailing father. Returning home hasn't been easy, though, as her past isn't even a poorly kept secret in the village. When the new vicar arrives on her doorstep, Artemisia is determined to send him on his merry, pious way. But Walter Langston is nothing like any man of the cloth she's ever known—he's funny, irreverent, handsome, and tempting as sin. Falling in love with a vicar would be a very bad idea for a former courtesan. Why does this one have to be so hot under the collar?
I don't remember how I discovered Nanci Griffith. I know I was in graduate school at The University of Chicago at the time and the proud owner of my first CD player, and that Griffith's live album, One Fair Summer Evening, was one of the first CDs I purchased. But I can't for the life of me recall who told me about her or how I first heard her music.
I also lucked out and found the video recording of the performance she did of this song at the concert where One Fair Summer Evening was recorded. This has a pretty long introduction about Woolworth stores that I simply adore, and it's well worth listening to the whole thing. Trust me on this, Griffith is wonderful!
If all goes according to plan, we'll be getting our Christmas tree this afternoon. As usual, however, my kids have been pestering me to get one for three weeks solid, despite the fact that every year, we are always among the last of our friends and neighbors to get one. Despite the fact that I've told them repeatedly that I like to wait to get the tree until fairly close to Christmas Day so that it will last until Epiphany (January 6).
And it's because I like to maintain this tradition that the misunderstanding I see of the concept of the "12 Days of Christmas" during this time of year tends to drive me a little batty. A lot of people (not to mention businesses) seem to think that the 12 Days of Christmas are the 12 days before Christmas, but the 12 days actually start with Christmas and end on January 5th, the day before Epiphany (which, according to tradition, is when the wise men arrived in Bethlehem). It's not Christmas yet, folks. It's Advent. We're supposed to be ANTICIPATING Christmas now, not CELEBRATING it :)!
Now, I don't know quite WHY I'm so adamant about this point of Christian tradition, seeing as how I don't identify religiously as a Christian. Although we celebrate Christmas, the holiday is decidedly secular in our household, more solstice-related than anything else. I do have to admit, however, to a fondness for nativity scenes (I made one myself in the 6th grade as an art project), unabashedly religious Christmas carols, and for the whole story of Jesus's birth. I guess I'm a sucker for music and babies, lol.
Anyway, as I say, this is a mini-rant not a major one, so I'm not going to browbeat you if you started the Twelve Days of Christmas on the 13th. But hey, maybe next year, you can try starting on the 25th instead ;).
On Christmas Day, if you come here to the blog, post will give you links to download a FREE copy of The Lesson Plan in whichever format you prefer: epub, mobi (Kindle) or PDF. Or even in all three, if you like :). That's my gift to you, my readers. I'll probably run the post for closer to 36 hours to give folks on both sides of the International date line the opportunity to do their downloading on Christmas Day in their part of the world.
So, just for taking a few minutes to hop on the Internet on Christmas (and you know you want to anyway, if only to avoid your crazy relatives for a few minutes ;)), you can have a free novella. Not too shabby, eh?
So, remember, on Christmas Day, stop by http://www.jackiebarbosa.com, download your free copy of The Lesson Plan, and donate $1 to the San Diego Food Bank. It's that simple :)!
Dec 14 ONLY: Get BOTH My Spice Briefs for 38 Cents on eHarlequin!
So, I just found out that Harlequin is having a nifty ebook special today. If you use the coupon code E5DOLL11 when you check out, you'll get $5 off your purchase. This means that, if you buy both Grace Under Fire and Taking Liberties, you'll pay a grand total of just 38 cents.
Of course, this works for a lot of other authors' books, too, and I'd be remiss if I didn't say that with this code, you can get Courtney Milan's Unveiled or Unclaimed for $1.29, any of Victoria Dahl's contemporaries for between 67 cents and $1.47, and all Laurie B. London's Sweetblood vampire books for $1.29. You could also buy TWO category novels for less than what you'd normally pay for one.
Such a deal! If you're an eHarlequin book buyer, today is a great day to scoop up some terrific titles for next to nothing. Enjoy!
Since Amazon announced the KDP Select program last week, there's been a lot of discussion about whether it's the best thing since sliced bread for self-published authors1 or a harbinger of impending doom (which will be brought about by Amazon taking over the digital bookselling world). In case you've missed all of this and have no idea what KDP Select is or why anyone cares one way or another, allow me to explain.
About a month ago, Amazon launched a new benefit for its "Prime" members called the Kindle Lending Library. Amazon Prime members pay an annual fee for benefits including free shipping, access to online videos, and now, the option to borrow one Kindle book a month from the Lending Library. Most of the major traditional publishers, however, refused to allow their books to be enrolled in the library (although Amazon did an end-run around them in some cases by claiming it had bought the digital books "wholesale" rather than under the Agency model, but that's a whole different issue). This meant that when the program was rolled out, the Lending Library consisted of mostly books published by Amazon itself under imprints like Encore and Montlake, and books publishers had either chosen to opt-in or that Amazon made available under the "wholesale" model.
Everyone knew when the Lending Library was launched that Amazon would eventually give authors self-publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) the option to opt their books into the program, but no one knew what the terms would be. The terms were officially announced last week. Basically, if you want to make your digital book available for borrowing by Amazon Prime members, you have to sell it exclusively at Amazon during the time it is in the program (currently, you do this at 90 day stretches). In exchange for this, you get a "share" of a pot of money ($500k for December) based on the percentage of total "borrows" for that month and the option to make your book free for a five-day period. It also appears that, if your book is in the Lending Library, "borrows" are counted toward your overall sales rank on Amazon, which means books in the program are likely to have higher rankings than they otherwise might. In theory, being in KDP Select will give your book better visibility on Amazon, with a corresponding improvement in your earnings.
There's been plenty of hand-wringing about KDP Select (Mark Coker of Smashwords is particularly exercised about it), but a lot of self-published authors apparently see real advantages to the program. In a matter of days, the Lending Library ballooned from perhaps 5,000 titles to almost 100,000, and it may be more now.
I don't want to limit my books to a single retailer, even if that retailer represents a sizable percentage of my sales. At this point, I sell more copies of Carnally Ever After at Amazon than anywhere else, but my sales at other outlets are far from negligible. In October, my sales at Apple were actually almost equal to Amazon, thanks to Apple putting my book on the front page of the Romance section under "Books Under $5". I did nothing to get that placement, and it was gold. I don't want to "reward" Apple for that by not listing my book with them any more.
More to the point, I don't want to cut out readers who don't have a Kindle/Kindle app and who want to read/buy their books elsewhere. Even if they are a small percentage of my total readership, they are readers, and I respect and appreciate them too much to treat them that way. Even for 90 days. Even for a theoretical increase in income.
Call me lazy, but taking my book down from other retailers' sites in order to give Amazon the exclusive is WAY too much work. It can take weeks for Smashwords, which distributes to outlets like Kobo, Sony, and Apple, to get my books out to those other vendors. I can't imagine how long it would take to get them taken down. In the meantime, I'd be losing sales from the vendors who did respond quickly but unable to enroll in Select until it's down everywhere. Why would I do that?
In theory, enrolling a brand new release in Select for 90 days and then making it available elsewhere would be relatively easy. At least I wouldn't have to hassle with removing it from the other sites. But, see above about readers. I'm just not doing that to them. When I release a book, my goal is to have it in as many retail outlets as possible. Self-publishing already restricts me to some extent; I won't deliberately restrict myself, even for a potential increase in sales.
In addition to the above issues, I think there's a real question as to how much any individual stands to gain from participation in the program. Since payment of royalties for borrows is based on percentages rather than per unit borrowed, unless your book is very popular, you're not likely to see a whole lot of money.
Add to this the fact that my self-published books thus far are all short stories or novellas and therefore priced very reasonably (The Reiver is currently free), it's hard for me to imagine that I'd see any significant number of borrows. Why would people who can only borrow one book per month choose to borrow something that costs only 99 cents, or even 1.99? If I had such a limited benefit, I'd only use it to borrow books I considered too expensive to buy. Now, I have heard on the Kindleboards that authors are seeing borrows of books priced under $2.99, but I'm still having a hard time imagining my books would benefit much from that.
In other words, I think I'd be giving up a lot in exchange for a very limited payoff. I could be wrong about that, but I'll also never know.
As to the other retailers like B&N and Smashwords, who fear self-published authors will be fleeing them in droves, I had a suggestion: Make yourself more attractive to self-publishing authors in the first place. For example, B&N offers 40% on books priced from 99 cents to $2.98 to Amazon's 35%, but only 65% on books priced $2.99 to $9.99 to Amazon's 70%. If B&N wants to keep authors from pulling their books, maybe they should consider at least matching Amazon's royalties on higher priced books, if not exceeding them. As for Smashwords, they could consider allowing you to upload formatted files, instead of forcing you to upload a Word document that gets run through their "MeatGrinder", with often less-than-pleasing results. And they could improve the speed at which they distribute your books to third parties. Both B&N and Smashwords could improve their search algorithms and the overall customer experience to make self-published books more discoverable.
All in all, while I won't be opting into KDP Select, I'm not sorry Amazon introduced it. If the prospect of losing a large number of books from their catalogs induces other retailers to improve what they're doing, it may just be as big a win for those who opt out as those who opt in.
1I refuse to use the term "indie author." I've sometimes used it in the past, but I've come to the conclusion that the main reason for saying you are an independent or indie author, as opposed to a self-published author, is that you feel there's a certain "taint" associated with the act of self-publishing. I'm not ashamed or embarrassed to be publishing myself (I have the world's BEST publisher, lol, and she always meets my expectations), so I feel no need to obscure or soft-pedal that fact by using another term.
Side note: I must be in the mood for music by artists who met tragic ends. This song is my absolute favorite by INXS, a band whose every album I bought as a teeneager and whose HAWT frontman, Michael Hutchence, was the Jim Morrison of my generation, right up to the premature death. (And did I mention he was HAWT?) I love this song both for its painfully romantic lyrics and for its prescience.


In the last century people increasingly turned away form established religions towards political and social ideologies as they searched for meaning and solutions to the very challenging social and economic problems of the time. Initially communism believed that by changing people's outer circumstances, humanity would take a quantum leap in brotherhood and consciousness. At the time of this discourse series, and in the presence of a TV crew from the Soviet Russia, the communist bloc is rapidly disintegrating.
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This new article is another example of the recent excellent scholarship on abortion in peer-reviewed journals coming out of the People's Republic. There is no bigger data base than China, where there are an average of 8.2 million pregnancy terminations every year, and 40 abortions for every 100 live births. Chinese researchers and physicians are unencumbered by abortion politics, and do not cover up data showing long term effects of induced abortion, as do their US counterparts in governmental, professional and consumer organizations.
Huang's study shows an even stronger increase than the 30% higher risk found in the 1996 meta-analysis by Joel Brind and colleagues on abortion as an independent risk factor for breast cancer. The Brind meta-analysis, combining the results of 23 studies, gave a more complete view than any single study. But even though it was the most comprehensive study on the topic at the time, it was disregarded by establishment medical groups.
Brind, a professor of biology and endocrinology at Baruch College, is not unique in having experienced censorship of his findings for the past two decades, including at the notorious National Cancer Institute (NCI) workshop on "Early reproductive events and breast cancer" in 2003. This important workshop was manipulated by its chairperson NCI epidemiologist Louise Brinton to suppress critical information on the abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. The main speaker on abortion and breast cancer, Leslie Bernstein, who had never published on this topic, openly said "I would never be a proponent of going around and telling them (women) that having babies is the way to reduce your risk," even though it has been an established fact, conceded by abortion proponents that this is true.
This workshop was designed to influence subsequent governmental policy, academic scholarship, physicians, and popular perception of the topic, and succeeded in doing so. It also influenced the individual life trajectories of many women who were led to believe, falsely, that an abortion decision would not have an impact on their future breast cancer risk. Because there is a lag time between abortion and the appearance of breast cancer, the effect of an abortion is not immediate for an individual. And abortion is only one of a number of factors influencing breast cancer risk, such as family history, use of hormones, and age at first childbirth. The majority of women who have breast cancer have never had an abortion. Nonetheless, there will be some women who develop breast cancer and die from it, impacted by the failure to inform them of the ABC link, or its dismissal by establishment medical and consumer groups such as the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Susan Komen Foundation. This is an ethical breach of huge proportions.
The new Chinese meta-analysis not only concerns the ABC link on an individual level, but also confirms the observation of statistician Patrick Carroll, who predicted the rise in breast cancer in several European countries following legalization of abortion. Again, because of the lag time between abortion and the appearance of breast cancer, the link is not immediately apparent. Carroll's work is important because he finds that not only is induced abortion an independent risk factor for breast cancer (separate from such factors as late child-bearing) but that it is the best predictive factor for forecasting a nation's future breast cancer rates. Nations such as China, with traditionally low breast cancer rates, are now seeing an increase, many years following their legalization of abortion.
Unfortunately, the ABC link is not unique in suffering a systematic cover-up by ideologically-driven medical organizations intent on suppressing information about complications of abortion. Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal death in the USA, taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of infants annually, with a cost of 26 billion dollars. It has risen 20% in the last two decades. It causes cerebral palsy, long-term intellectual and visual handicaps, and much suffering. There are 135 studies from diverse locations world-wide that link abortion and preterm birth. The relationship is most pronounced with multiple abortions, and very premature infants born before 28 weeks gestation, the "million dollar babies" that spend months in neonatal intensive care units. Preterm birth disproportionately affects African Americans. Yet the medical community, WHO, and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) have long ignored this association in their official publications and task forces to combat the problem. Another big cover-up involves the psychological consequences of abortion, especially suicide, which are inadequately acknowledged by mainstream groups because they conflict with the propaganda-driven view of abortion as a health "benefit."
This year I was personally prevented from delivering a paper at a conference at the last minute, along with two other women physicians presenting papers on abortion complications, at the MWIA (Medical Women's International Association) in Seoul, South Korea. These were academically sound presentations on maternal mortality, psychological issues, and preterm birth that had been accepted months earlier. Shelley Ross, the Secretary-General of the organization personally barged into an interview with Korean journalists to attempt to prevent us from speaking to them, almost causing a fist fight. In a press release regarding this incident, she claimed that the presentations threatened a woman's reproductive rights, and further asserted that "the evidence is overwhelming and undisputable that a woman's control over her reproductive health is linked to...the health of women and children." But if she is talking about abortion, it is obvious that breast cancer and suicide do not improve the health of women, and preterm birth and abortion obviously do not improve the health of a woman's future children or the aborted babies.
It is a disgrace that a more honest discourse about difficult medical topics can be found in the People's Republic of China than in the USA. The censorship of medical journals, prevention of conference presentations, denial of grant money and faculty promotions, and self-censorship of honest scholars in academic medicine who want to tell the truth but feel they cannot, impoverishes us, should not be tolerated.
Mary L Davenport, MD, FACOG is Medical Director, Magnificat Maternal Health Program and on the Board of Directors of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute. She is the immediate past president of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists.


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Echinacea tablets or tincture. Produce different companies.
: таблетки — 322 р.; Average price online * : pills - 322 p .; drops - 311 p.
The drug "Immunal" refers to immunostimulating agents that increase the body's resistance to various viruses and pathogenic microorganisms, and also helps it fight against infectious diseases of the respiratory system.
in chronic inflammatory diseases: polyarthritis, rematism, prostatitis, gynecological diseases.
Immunal is available in the form of light brown round tablets with the smell of vanilla, as well as a clear or cloudy solution.
The solution is intended for oral administration, the average dose for adult patients and children over 12 years old is 20 drops, which are diluted in a small amount of warm liquid or in pure form. In the acute stages of the disease, Immunal is taken as follows: 40 drops one-time, after which 20 drops with a break of 1-2 hours over two days, then proceed to treatment with medium doses.
Children of the year the drug is contraindicated. At the age of 6 years, it is recommended to take 5-10 drops three times a day, at the age of 6-12 years - 10-15 drops three times a day.
The drug in the form of tablets is recommended to be used in the following dosage: adults and children over 12 take a pill of 3-4 r. per day, children from 6 to 12 years old - a pill of 1-3 p. per day, from 4 to 6 - a pill 1-2 p. per day. The drug should be taken with water, and young children can crush the pill and dilute with liquid.
To achieve the desired therapeutic effect, Immunal is taken for at least a week, and the maximum course of treatment is no more than 8 weeks. If after 1-2 weeks after using the drug, the clinical symptoms of the disease remain unchanged, you should consult with your doctor.
There are no data on the teratogenic or negative effects of Immunal and its components on the fetus, but its use during pregnancy and breastfeeding is possible only after consulting with your doctor.
Signs of intoxication with an overdose "Immunal" are not observed.
In patients with a tendency to allergic manifestations in some cases, the following side effects may occur: rash, swelling of the face, itching, shortness of breath, increased pressure.
The tool in the form of a solution for internal use contains ethanol, because of which the use of the drug can enhance or alter the effect of other medical preparations. Clinically significant interaction "Immunal" observed with antibiotics from the group of cephalosporins, as well as the simultaneous use of substances containing ethanol.
In this case, possible reactions in the form of facial flushing, sweating, nausea, headache, tachycardia. On this basis, the drug in the form of a solution can be taken three days after the end of treatment with cephalosporins. When used simultaneously with immunosuppressants, a mutual weakening of the therapeutic effect is possible.
The main active ingredient of the drug is Echinacea Purpurea, which contains active substances that stimulate the body's defenses. It increases the number of leukocytes and stimulates phagocytosis, inhibiting the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms.
In addition, research data has shown that echinacea purpurea is effective against herpes viruses and influenza. Data on the pharmacokinetics of "Immunal" not provided.
The drug is available without a prescription. Keep it out of the reach of children at room temperature (not above 25o) for a maximum of 3 years.
I do not belong to people with strong immunity, so in the spring and autumn I always have to "push up" the body's defenses. I didn't try what means and popular recipes, but in the end I stopped at Immunal. Interestingly, I used to buy Echinacea tincture, which is part of the drug, but for the sake of saving, but I was completely dissatisfied with the effect. But Immunal helped me get rid of the eternal seasonal colds, and at the same time protect my body from the effects of antibiotics.