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We continue our WAC men’s basketball preview with a look at #5 Louisiana Tech.
Team: #5 Louisiana Tech
Coach: Kerry Rupp, third season (21-42)
Last year’s record: 15-18 (6-10 WAC, T-6th)
Key losses: G James Loe
Why they’re here: With three proven double-digit scoring threats spread around the court, the Bulldogs have more than enough firepower to keep up in what should be a high-scoring, fast-paced Western Athletic Conference season. They upset Idaho in the WAC Tournament quarterfinals last year and fell just short of taking down Nevada in the semis. Returning five of their top six scorers, Louisiana Tech will be a very dangerous team this year.
There are two key issues the Bulldogs need to solve, though. One is their lack of effective point guard play. Louisiana Tech had the lowest assist total of any team in the conference last year, averaging just over 10 per game, and no player averaged more than 2.7. More than the numbers, the floor leadership was missing. The second (and probably related) issue is inconsistency. The Bulldogs were the WAC’s most schizophrenic team, finding a way to beat Nevada on their home floor but also losing ugly games to D-I transitional Seattle U. and even D-II Alaska-Anchorage.
Coach Kerry Rupp hopes the addition of juco All-Star point guard DeAndre Brown will solve the first problem — but it’s going to be down to his coaching and his players to solve the second. The pieces may all be there for a run into the top of the conference, but we’re not sold that Rupp can fit them all together in time to keep up with the WAC’s upper echelon.
Why they could finish higher: If DeAndre Brown can make the successful jump up from juco to Division I without the benefit of a redshirt season, his talent at the 1-guard slot should prove game-changing for the Bulldogs. With an undisputed floor leader dishing the rock to playmakers like Kyle Gibson and a bigger, stronger Magnum Rolle pulling down a double-double every night, there’s potential for La. Tech to make a run for the WAC Tournament title.
Why they could finish lower: Despite the presence of three solid double-digit scoring threats, the Bulldogs still finished last in the conference in scoring. La. Tech’s underwhelming bench was part of the problem, but the Bulldog starters deserve blame as well. Jamel Guyton shot an abysmal 38 percent last year, one of the worst shooting performances from any WAC starter. The Bulldogs’ combined shooting percentage of .436 put them firmly in the conference’s bottom third. Either La. Tech learns to shoot, or they’ll struggle for traction again this year.
Most Valuable Player: G Kyle Gibson (16.1 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.7 apg) — Louisiana Tech’s all-around star, Gibson was also the most consistent performer on a team marked by inconsistency. Only four times in 16 conference games did he fail to reach the double-digit mark, and he came on strong in the season’s final weeks to record four consecutive 20+ point performances, including upsets of Boise State and Idaho.
Most Important Player: C Magnum Rolle (12.2 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 1.7 bpg) — As goes Rolle, may go the Bulldogs’ hopes this season. The bottom line? He must find a way to be consistent. As Parsing the WAC’s Kevin McCarthy expertly broke down, Rolle was alternately capable of going off for 25 points and 12 boards — or imploding for two points, two boards and four fouls. Those are off nights La. Tech simply can’t afford, particularly from a inside man who has the talent to own the paint.
Non-conference degree of difficulty: 2 — The Bulldogs won’t play a single team with an RPI higher than Arizona’s 62, and most of the schedule is far worse. Rupp is clearly trying to kindle local rivalries and control travel costs by scheduling games against Louisiana-Monroe, McNeese State and Centenary — but all three squads lost at least 20 games last year. Ouch. Booking a home-and-home series with a 10-win Texas-Pan American team is the final insult.
Fun fact: Among WAC teams, only Idaho has a longer tournament drought than Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs were a power in the Southland and American South conferences in the mid to late 1980s, but haven’t made the Big Dance since 1991.
Predicted record: 16-15 (8-8 WAC)

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The Institute of Medicine Report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Care, includes several recommendations for strengthening nursing education. Nurse residency programs are one avenue for doing that, while also boosting nurse staffing at hospitals and helping those hospitals retain new nurses.
An article in the Anchorage Daily News looks at one nursing residency program at Alaska Regional Hospital and how it's preparing nursing school graduates and increasing nurse staffing. In addition to classroom instruction, Alaska Regional's program includes nurse-to-nurse mentoring, daily debriefing and frequent testing and evaluation.
The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action includes several Action Coalitions working to develop or expand nurse residency programs. Most recently, the Rhode Island Action Coalition launched a statewide clinical nurse residency and mentoring program with a State Implementation Program grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Rhode Island program will place nursing school graduates in a range of settings from nursing homes to community clinics, as well as hospitals.
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“Rising Prices and Interest Rates are a ‘One-Two Punch’ to Home Buyers” Lennar Chairman Says
Rising prices and accelerating interest rates are a “one-two punch” to homebuyers, Lennar Executive Chairman Stuart Miller told CNBC on Thursday.
“The combination of both higher prices … together with the acceleration and adjustment of interest rates — that is a one-two punch to what our buyers purchase, which is basically [a] monthly payment,” Miller told CNBC’s Diana Olick during a “Power Lunch” interview.
“Higher prices mean higher down payment and higher monthly payment. And higher interest rates, of course, accelerate that monthly payment as well,” he added.
Homebuilder stocks have taken a direct hit from the rising interest rates rattling financial markets this month.
The iShares Home Construction exchange-traded fund, which includes homebuilding products and homebuilders, is down 27 percent since January. The SPDR S&P Homebuilder ETF is down 21 percent, also in a bear market. Both funds have fallen more than 3 percent in September.
Lennar shares are down about 31 percent year to date.
“We certainly believe it’s an overreaction. Not one we didn’t anticipate, as well, because the stock market does react to the homebuilders when interest rates start going up,” Miller said, arguing that that value is unhinged from the underlying fundamentals of the company.
But rising interest rates might especially hurt high-end homebuilders, like Lennar, as prospective buyers may have to adjust their target pricing lower to accommodate higher rates.
“The impact of interest rates rising, and especially at a very quick pace, is having a palpable impact on our customers and customers across the country,” Miller said.
With the exception of lumber, materials costs are rising due to tariffs. Labor costs are rising, too, Miller noted.
“It exacerbates what is the affordable housing crisis we feel across the country right now. Very hard to deliver affordable housing with costs going up,” Miller said.
But with a labor shortage comes higher wages, and with higher wages come wealthier buyers. Although there is a ceiling as to how much Lennar or rival homemakers can charge on homes, Miller said they can benefit from “pent up demand that’s going to come to market even while prices are going up.” He also emphasized Lennar’s size and scale in local markets as a strength.
Concerning whether the Fed is making the right choice in hiking interest rates, Miller was candid.
“Of course, we respect, like many, the independence of the Fed, but at the same time, would we like them to slow down the pace? Of course we would,” he said.


April 02, 2013
Kinlaw favoring Tennessee and UNC
By Eric Guimaraes
RB Caleb Kinlaw of Goose Creek named Tennessee and North Carolina as his top two. The Lowstate running back recently visited both schools. "I liked Tennessee a lot," he said. "I liked everything, especially the hospitality. They educated us on the program and what would be expected of us. UNC was the same deal. They took us on a tour of the campus." Kinlaw also visited USC but is not sure of how his relationship will progress with the Gamecocks. "I got to know my positions coach (Everett Sands) better and joked around with (Steve) Spurrier, Jr.," said Kinlaw. "I'm not sure how things are going (with USC). We'll have to see how things play out." Kinlaw has also cooled on Clemson. "The last time I saw them was about a month-and-a-half ago at my school," he said. "I don't really talk to them anymore." His offers are from Clemson, USC, North Carolina and Tennessee. Other schools courting Kinlaw include Arizona, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Florida State, Miami, Florida and Ohio State. He did not name a leader.
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Phone conversations over the next two days between the mother of LB Amonte Caban of Smiths Station, AL and the recruiters from the five schools he's still considering will play a major role in Caban's decison which he hopes to make by Wednesday. If he's not able to do so by then, Caban said the decision will come Monday at the latest.
Published September 1
6-5 Tevin Mack of Dreher attended the football games at USC and Georgia and spent time with the Bulldogs basketball staff while in Athens according to his AAU coach. Major Williamson wasn't sure if Mack saw the Gamecock coaching staff while he was at Williams-Brice. But he will see Frank Martin next week.
Published September 1
USC Monday offered 7http://sportstalksc.com/wp-admin/post-new.php-0 center Rozelle Nix of Pensacola State JC, FL according to NextUpRecruits.com.
Nix is a native of Cincinnati He averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds per game last season.
Some of his other reported offers are Miami of Ohio, Morehead State, Bowling Green and Ball State.
Published September 2
Junior WR Bryan Edwards (6-3 208) of Conway plans to attend the Georgia at USC game in two weeks. It will be his first visit this season. USC, Clemson, North Carolina, Florida, Duke and Virginia Tech have offered Edwards and he's been drawing interest from Texas, Tennessee, Georgia and Michigan State among others.
Published August 27
USC 2015 commitment DE Shamiek Blackshear of Bluffton injured his knee Friday night and will have an MRI on Tuesday. His coach, Ken Cribb, said the injury occurred without contact.
“He didn’t get hit, it was where he stepped,” Cribb said. “You can’t see it on film.”
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In Fire and Ice, geologist and solar system maven Natalie Starkey reveals to us that Earth is not the only host for active volcanoes. You can find them in places not previously imagined, like the surfaces of other planets and their moons. And you think you've seen everything? Some of these volcanoes even spew ice. Read all about it in this mind-expanding book.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist American Museum of Natural History
A FANTASTIC exploration of the hidden workings of the planets, and a timely reminder of what a fascinating and dramatic place our solar system is.
Dallas Campbell, Science television presenter and author
Fire and Ice explores a unique blend of space volcanoes – from the inner workings to the outer landscapes. Natalie journeys into the weird nature of volcanism and dives into current outstanding questions that we are still exploring.
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Natalie Starkey leads us on an incredible journey across our solar system, revealing a wonderful variety of volcanic geology. A fascinating look at volcanoes and the space science that enables us to study them.
Rebecca Williams, Volcanologist
Starkey's latest popular science book is an exhilarating exploration of volcanoes and cryovolcanoes … Starkey, an expert in cosmochemistry, writes with authority and wonderfully imagistic language as she describes explosive activity within the most awe-inspiring bodies of our solar system, including Earth … After examining Earth's unique status, Starkey escorts readers on stunningly magnificent and detailed flybys showcasing our celestial neighbors' lively and fascinating volcanic activity. From lava lakes to warm subsurface oceans, ice mountains to near-earth-like environments, Starkey piques the imagination and makes it abundantly clear that where volcanic activity exists, so, too, does the potential for life.
Starkey (Catching Stardust), a geologist and cosmologist, breaks down what volcanoes can teach people about Earth and other planets in this fascinating tour of the solar system … vivid, immersive descriptions. The result is a thoroughly accessible look at a lesser-known part of the universe.


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There is a remaining controversy regarding water coolers for rent deionized water or pure water. There are concerns about the security of this type of water. If you try checking out some write-ups about distilled water, you would discover a few posts about mineral leaching. Inning accordance with some speculations, water that does not consist of ions can get rid of ions in the body. Since minerals are soaked up by the body as ions, the leaching of minerals as apparently triggered by pure water can lead to mineral deficiencies in people.
However, this negative result of deionized water is not backed up by enough scientific research to verify the claims. Makers think that this could be part of campaign to impair the market of distilled water. The wrong info produces confusion among consumers.
Basically, DI water is chemically just like pure water, as the latter does not contain ions too. So if water that has actually been deionized is bad for the body, then water that has actually been distilled is likewise bad for the body- however this is unreasonable.
According to professionals if you drink DI water, it will rapidly end up being re-ionized as it goes through the mouth down to the esophagus. What reaches the stomach is already re-ionized water. Let's assume this may impact ionic concentration of the body. It does, however to some insignificant degree. The body is a natural system with complex anatomy and intricate mechanisms. The ionic makeup of the human body is not modified by simply drinking deionized or pure water because the body's fluid structure is a buffered system. Some individuals believed that drinking water without ions accelerates electrolyte loss through excretion. However the human excretory organs are assisted by the body chemistry. Just the excess ions shall be excreted through urination. Drinking demineralized water does not eliminate ions that your body requirements.
Deionization of water gets rid of minerals to a severe degree, but it does not make it hazardous and unhealthy. In reality, it can become effective in eliminating hazardous chemicals in the body.
It is unreasonable to think that DI water can cause mineral deficiency due to the fact that the body does not get minerals from water. Even if it holds true that faucet water includes minerals, the mineral content is unimportant in providing the suggested quantity. You should drink tens of gallons of liquid to be adequate for the mineral requirements of the body. You get minerals from veggies and meat, not from water. Nutrient shortage is the outcome of wrong food choice not an outcome of drinking pure water.
Deionized or demineralized water is often subject to doubts regarding sanitation because according to some people, deionization eliminates ions only. While this is true, water deionization is merely a single procedure of an elaborate innovation of water treatment. Water treatment centers do not subject water from tanks or from natural sources straight to deionization since this is among the latter procedures. It goes through filtering and treatment to eliminate sediments, solids, and microbes. Many public utility likewise include reverse osmosis treatment to get rid of large particles, normally of natural and covalent compounds, prior to deionization. If filthy water is fed to resin beds, it might easily spoil the deionization center, triggering larger cost for maintenance and regrowth of ion exchange beads.
So anyone who says that it is not pure does not truly comprehend the intricacy of water treatment. Nevertheless, if you are unsure whether a business produces dependable DI water, you can have a sample tested for presence of impurities.
The most significant importance of de-ionization is it removes all ions, including toxic metal ions and sulphates. Thus, it results to water with the most healthy quality. If you put a prime on health and sanitation, DI water is the perfect option.

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The girl blurts, breathlessly, on their walk. I’m moving to Colorado Springs. She brushes red bang-frizz from her eyes. A flock of honking stripe-necked geese splash down on the lake. Today was her last at work. She’s leaving Monday, she’ll drive down the coast—she wants to see the redwoods before she leaves the Pacific Northwest. There’s no job lined up, no apartment. She’s not worried. It’s more affordable there. She’ll figure it out.
The woman thinks, You’re not worried because you don’t know what’s ahead.
The girl knows no one in town, but she’s not worried about that either. She’ll make friends. She needs a break, a fresh start—if she stays in Seattle nothing will change. Besides, she can do anything. She’s looked online and there’s lots of work. Maybe she’ll go back to school—she wants to do something with her anthropology degree, like teach high school history—she’ll figure it out. There’s plenty of time.
The woman almost says, You’ll never be as free as you are now. Her cheeks flush with the shame of so-called wisdom that the naif already knows. That’s why she going: because she can.
Besides, why spoil it? Stenotic and arthritic are decades from the girl’s vocabulary. Her youth is imbued with a preternatural sense of the walls closing in—and the dexterity to escape. The hairs on a spider’s legs sense the slightest waft of air; the world swipes its calloused hand, and the girl deftly back-scrabbles to a new corner.
Nah-nah, can’t get me.
Ahead: a revisioning. The girl’s first grown-up orgasm. A major breakup that changes her. A crushing discovery of a seemingly obvious existential truth—and the resulting gut-punch: her adolescent versions of these epiphanies, dramatic as they were, were merely amuse-bouche. Before she’s ready, the main course arrives.
Ahead: career change. A friend’s sudden death. A friend’s not-sudden death. One parent’s illness followed by the other’s decline. The fuzzy burden of late-night phone calls in the event of, for which she is wholly unprepared. The first time something becomes the last without a proper adieu. No warning, no ceremony—just empty skyfall, her stomach plummeting, and the crooked jag between wishing she had known what was coming, and knowing she was better off blissfully unaware.
What we take for granted. I thought we’d see Paris again. Which is to say, everything.
It’s stopped sprinkling. A man dashes his hazel eyes across the wet paved footpath. The late August sun swells behind the parting clouds, cooking the Bermuda grass until it stinks of green. There was a time this man would have been too old for her; now he’s age-appropriate. Gross. From his wiry body and expensive shoes the woman knows his type: divorced, healthy diet, reformed of most vices. His faint crow’s feet will stay comely, even at seventy.
The woman is surprised: that low knotty thrum between her legs. He’s handsome, and she’s not dead, after all. Not yet. She fantasizes about the hard come she’d wring from him, or the soul-deep intimacy, and the treachery of knowing which she’d accept one over the other—and feel grateful for. Push eventually does come to shove.
When did she outgrow matchstick jeans? Will she go the rest of her life without sex? What was left behind when her great-grandmother fled the bloodlands? What if the aneurysm bursts? Does worrying prevent a thing from happening or does it call energy to it, bidding it to unfold? What’s beyond the last door? The woman remembers: there’s always something to be made of pain.*
The man’s eyes graze her body—or the girl’s. The woman regrets wearing baggy black capris, which she picked for their pockets. For practicality. To hold, however lumpily, the life-junk her hands have grown tired of juggling, but that she’s obligated to schlep anyway. She balances fleeting horniness against the ultimate betrayal: her own complicit shrug in dressing that morning: Who cares? Besides, no one will notice.
Two giggling gamine twenty-somethings on rollerblades, their flapping wings perilously linked, fly past the man and honk, Hellooooo, Daddy!! He chuckles, thrilled at the ribbing. The girl jabbers on as the wild geese take flight, their calls harsh and exciting**: the untenable shibboleth of not-knowing—still, at fifty-two—what lay ahead.
They circle the curve of the lake moving in different directions.
Gabriela Denise Frank is a transdisciplinary storyteller, editor, and educator living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in True Story, HAD, X-R-A-Y, Bayou, DIAGRAM, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The author of "Pity She Didn't Stay 'Til the End" (Bottlecap Press), she serves as the creative nonfiction editor and managing editor of Crab Creek Review.

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The gain of an antenna can be enhanced through the integration of a lens, although this technique has traditionally been restricted to planar antennas due to fabrication limitations of standard manufacturing processes. Here, through a unique combination of 3D and 2D inkjet printing of dielectric and metallic inks respectively, we demonstrate a lens that has been monolithically integrated to a non-planar antenna (helix) for the first time. Antenna measurements show that the integration of a Fresnel lens enhances the gain of a 2-turn helix by around 4.6 dB, which provides a peak gain of about 12.9 dBi at 8.8 GHz. The 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of the antenna with the lens is 5.5%. This work also reports the complete characterization of this new process in terms of minimum features sizes and achievable conductivities. Due to monolithic integration of the lens through a fully printed process, this antenna configuration offers high gain performance by using a low cost and rapid fabrication technique. © 2016 IEEE.


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The impassable mountains of the locality twinning with the children’s art class mountains had the story to tell. The frozen ice, covering majestically the exposed area to sunlight had greatly hidden the fractured image of the inhabitants living around the area. It was like the perfect scenery images from the picture and from the farthest window belonging to any of the house of the opposite town. The snow laden bridges untold the bloodiest of the stories, of the memories lost forgotten, unhampered images of the mosaic of human lives that was more dead than the snow imbibed things of nature. The town comprised of few uneducated people of accents different than the one’s from the city, the laughter though was real among them, because they were some of the people who had faced reality, faced struggles. Most of them dwelled their time in agriculture, from step wells, to padded fields, to irrigation, to the export and import of the same. They were one of the beautiful races of the humans ever lived on the earth next to the Greeks. Their faces which resembled one of those war faces of Greek soldiers, who lost everything in the war. Blond hair, unwashed, not maintained, and hysterically pinned from the forehead to the shoulder or whatever length the women possessed was a unique tale in itself. In one of the areas of Kashmir, India did the (Pahari’s) resided with their own small community, traditional dialect, and culture. The women would wake up before the sun rose and thanked nature for the immeasurable amount of blessings they were bestowed. The women would pray, and wash the utensils from the flowing chilled water of gigantic waterfalls, which was one of the first sights they saw.
The men however , would quickly collect finest of the woods , knowing the temperature inside out would go into the wilds , not caring about the wilds , and the nature produced species but would go in groups , singing folk songs of the traditional lives of their inmates , and realizing how far they have come. The slopes would grow in intensity when they would go down, but they would never hesitate to go back to their women. The area had seen a lot, from European filmmakers shooting the documentaries, to cliché Bollywood makers romancing the hell out of their lives. The traumatic natural disasters from the cloud bursts to hailstorms also ranging from the mightiest of the avalanches, it had seen all and the people were made of iron flesh and not a raw one. They were the mountaineers, the one who already knew heights of life and not the depression bowl of calamity. The secrets to their hearts were the motto of hard work, and food for every member of the family. Amidst, such happenings Shahista Khan, weaved her own story and never hissed it in the market. Largely known as the most beautiful women among the tribes people, she wore anklets which had turned bronze but otherwise were silver always adored her beauty. The beauty of herself started from the head to toe, her hair would drop from the circumference of the forehead to the area were her hips would make a marvelous U shape and would be perfect for any man of any age drool over it. She wore her hair loose and also smiled hesitantly which would give her a blush of the natural sign of maturity when she would be praised for the same. Her eyes were the cruelest of the body feature because they were beauty, large eyes full of stories and hidden scars of untamed violence that had made histories on her body. She wore earrings which would expose her bold side and always tried to maintain a distance from someone attacking it, timid and shy were not in her dictionary but she definitely wore the biggest fear on her as the invisible cloak. She wore those long flower designed tattered gowns for weeks, for she had just three of them. One was that of the red flowers, imprinted on each edge of the shirt and she always kept it unbuttoned. The other was that of the laced pink flowers, which she had got from her first husband, forgetting about the past of themselves which was as frozen as other. The last one was that of the blue flowers of the same patterns of that of the above mentioned which maintained the sanctity of the purity and freshness each time Shahista wore. She flaunted her breasts which were a little visible if viewed from the height of her unbuttoned buttons , kept opened deliberately or in deliberately one couldn’t comprehend , but would always love to enhance and analyse . The first marriage was an understanding between her infatuation and serenity of love with her five year old boyfriend to two year old fiancé and finally two and a half year husband Shafi Khan. Apart from the surnames that they shared, nothing was common in them and almost all of their friends were all quidnuncs because they aspired that Shahista might have slept with Shafi before their alliance of marriage ship. After a lot of delays and dissented conversations, the friends were obliged to conclude that they might have , for Shahista was seen hiding her neck bone which for many lovers is a sensitive area of affection .
A lot of times, however the two would escape into the city, with Shahista under the veil and Shafi wearing a Muslim cap observing each and every item in the shops that they wanted to purchase for their hut after they would get married. A lot was said behind their back, and many responses were very anonymous but none could delight from the fact that Shahista was no more a free body, no more a mass of flesh, no more a sight to see because the minute Shafi would catch hold of a person glancing Shahista he would get very angry and also feel agitated, likewise a person who is expected to receive an interview call, but fails to cease the moment. Shahista was not aware of where she was landing herself to. She had loved Shafi when he would be all protective her, she would love him when he would tell him to eat unlike the other men who would always ask her to be as oblique as she was. She loved his eyes which spoke more than his mouth and uttered every ounce of honest tales, and lifetime advices. But this was not at all what she thought of him because at time she just wanted to get rid of him just like when the rainbow feels agitated and finally comes out from the grasps of clouds and sun. She hated him when he used to touch her at inappropriate places; she used to hate him when he used to stare in public with the lecherous eyes of a lover that gazed each curve, and symmetry of her body.
At times, Shahista would demand him to go and he would go like he knew that they had become two kinds of inseparable atoms. After they had decided about their marriage, Shahista realized that she was unsure. She was too late to step back that they had together manipulated her life, but it was too late. It was too late to settle down. She was in a great distress; the ministry of unhappy mistakes was yet to be decorated. But after few races with her heart, after the unabridged soliloquies, she and Shafi were separated from the curtain of heavenly devotions and purity. On each side of the curtain were the groom and bridegroom themselves. Shahista who wore a subtle pink flower printed suit which Shafi had bought for her from the busy lanes of bazaars. For Shafi, he wore his father’s sherwani and called himself jokingly
THEN A FATHERS BOY, NOW A WIFE’S LAD
Both after Molvi announced the declaration of the marriage, both uttered it obligatory three times,
Qabool hai, for Shafi was pride and for Shahista a tryst with her unlaced fate of her own conscience. Both started on the journey to unravel the jewels of the curtain that covered the black hole of Shafi’s mysterious world of unfaithful degrees of companionship.
For the first few weeks of their marriage, Shahista felt as if she was played along the musical tones of Shafi’s family. Shafi’s father Salati ul abbas, a renowned sheep owner of their clan, was the most wanted man in the city. It was a known fact that Salati had bluffed a business man of a promise of three sheep on the eve of Eid ul baqr but had failed to fulfill it, despite taking a sum of Rs 80,000 as advance. Salati had to hide his face for quite a long time, until he decided to flee the city and runaway for a new business. But what could he possibly do? He had no other occupation, no other choice to feed his two sons ,Shafi then fifteen years old , and Osman his five year old . After a lot of trials , he had settled into New Delhi’s Old delhi , and had started to work in one of the restaurants which only served “Halal Chicken and Wazwan”.
The Hustle bustle of the old bazaar streets had made him forget about the advance till some of the men, with knives and bullets had entered his shop , and threatened him to return the money back failing to which he would not be spared death . Salati was embarrassed and he also grew miserable in health thinking almost every day and night about the money and the death. After his head chef had been told about the incident by his co-workers, he had threatened him of losing job and also for a restriction letter which would go out to every restaurant present in the locality. Salati had made no friends and had nothing in his legacy. His family was waiting for him, on the mountains and his sons were beginning the tale of revenge. They wanted to take care of their father’s surname which had been spilled in the mud. Torn and fragile, Salati crept back one day to his home which was situated on the peak, all lost and weak. And this changed the outlook of Shafi’s consideration about life. To see his father struggle, had made Shafi a stone of evicted emotions and for Salati, he had his hero. Shafi had a lot of will in himself, for whom he made the best possible way .The bond he shared with Osman, was more than the brotherhood, fraternity bond. It was like if they both were into contemplation with each other, in the tranquility with each other. They had grown to be of the same height, complexion and intellect. It was always impossible to look for a change or for a disassociation between them; it was like two lovers under the spot of time, healing each other’s wounds. Both playing with the symmetry of each other, with the angles of each other. Osman, younger to Shafi was a little hesitant but with time he grew much bolder about his relationship with his brother which was almost at every night spent together in the bait ul khan (House of khan) by intriguing each other’s privacy and each other’s silent lips which would resonate nothing but the inside feelings which had developed as a result of the age. After a lot of struggle and sickness, Salati ul Abbas, had died fighting for the survival of the fittest and exploration of the city suburbs with nothing to gain.
Shahista, who was always seen on the side in every conversation of the family, had lately begun to feel cornered in the house. Even if the infatuation had really begun to start growing into love, it was Shafi who was reluctantly playing with the game board, and had a lot of convincing power to convince Shahista that everything between them was fine, was okay. Almost three weeks passed and Shahista had never seen him at night, it was always a guess game for Shahista about his whereabouts. After hours of decorating herself, Shahista would always take a siesta in the afternoon, and then whine about her marriage, about Shafi and how she could change it. She had praised the brothers for their relationships, but she was bland about the things that were going on. Once, Shahista also thought of running away, but she couldn’t as Shafi had called her inside for a conversation immediately when she was to take her step. It was also the time, when the city was erupting into the voices of Azaadi, slogans like “Hum kya chahtay Azaadi ”, “Cheen kay lengay azaadi ”, “ragdo , ragdo ”. Five killings in one day , and the number increased day by day . With each resonating sound of the pellet , the sound reaching to Shahista’s ear suffocated her and made her believe that everything is going to be fine , patience was the only key . On fifteen august, when the city was under the curfew, Shafi and his family could hardly move, the army had covered whole of the mountain range and had commanded each one of the Pahari’s to inform them about any intrusion from Pakistan. Indian army had released armed forces all over, and was alarmed that the neighbor would attack anytime, with AK 47’s, and suicidal bombs. Shafi was in the terror of everything that was going around. They had taken Osman. Few of the army men had barged into their little hut and had taken Osman. They wanted a strong built man who would have fought for the pro azaadi, or would have not. It was not into their records, but they had to detain Osman, just because he was a boy, he was a man; he was a forced stone pelter. When the army had gone, Shafi had gone half crazy in finding Osman. He had tried his best to find him, he even had thought of crossing Pakistan as he had the armed forces talk one day.
The city was going through inteqaam and each of the individual had the story to tell. After his failure in saving Osman , Shafi one fine night , when the snow was melting down and was forming icicles of different forms , and figures , he went inside Shahista’s room , to unleash the anxiety , to successfully wonder around his love tale , to find his love for Shahista grow into the business , he went closer to Shahista who was sleeping whilst keeping her back to the side , where from Shafi couldn’t see her properly . Shafi, unbuttoned his shirt , laid next to his beloved , wrapping her around the waist only to find blood , only to find the waist cut open , only to find her bride in pink printed salwar suit which was now pink red salwar suit too . That whole night Shafi kept his eyes wide open, sat on his hunches and went motionless, until the dawn break the loudspeakers of the mosques openly announced crackdown in the whole area, which ended with the slogan
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NASA’s first dedicated laser communication in space, the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD) Mission on NASA’s LADEE spacecraft in 2013, sent data across 400,000 km at a rate of 622 Mb/s. [NASA / Amber Jacobson]
Laser communications through optical fibers move tens of terabits of data every second between cities and across oceans. But for the majority of Earth’s surface, where running fiber is impractical physically or financially, communication satellites in space provide connectivity—to remote ground users and also to mobile platforms such as aircraft, ships and even other satellites. These links rely on radio-frequency (RF) communications, which, while reliable, are orders of magnitude slower in moving data than optical fiber links, and have issues related to antenna footprint, power requirements and limited available spectrum.
The potential for the laser to overcome these issues in space was realized soon after its invention, although its special properties introduced new issues, such as the pointing and tracking of narrow beams over great distances while overcoming cloud cover, turbulence and other hurdles introduced by the atmosphere. Although the first laser communication systems were demonstrated in space in the 1990s, it is only recently that the technology, reliability and economics of photonic components have combined with the need for more bandwidth to push these systems more broadly into operation. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are now deploying their first operational systems, which could pave the way for later commercial suppliers and, in future years, revolutionize communication both across the globe and across the solar system.
This article offers an update on recent developments and next steps in laser-based communications in space. It focuses especially on efforts at NASA, which—while a somewhat late entrant in this game—has lately shown rapid progress, culminating in a recent demonstration of a 622-Mb/s error-free data downlink from the moon to the Earth in 2013. More recently, NASA has been investigating new space-to-space and space-to-ground applications closer to Earth. In both realms, progress in terrestrial optical technology continues to push the limits of what can be done in space.
An opportunity to move beyond radio
RF communications have become a bottleneck for moving data at Internet speeds in space. The centimeter-long wavelengths of microwaves in high-frequency RF transmission bands, such as Ka-band at 26 GHz, result in widely diffracting beams that spread over hundreds of kilometers on the Earth when transmitted over 39,000 km from a satellite above in geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Increasing data transmission to speeds in excess of 1 Gb/s require a more concentrated signal at the target, which for RF systems means transmission antennas larger than a meter to narrow the beam, and higher transmit powers to deliver the same energy per bit to the receiver. The spatial overlap among users of RF’s wide beams also means that RF users must acquire, and often pay for, a license for a specifically allocated frequency band to minimize interference. Competition for RF spectrum is fierce; licensing can be expensive and complex; and individual nations tend to view the RF spectrum in their territory as a “natural resource.”
Free-space optical communication (FSOC) using lasers offers the promise of breaking through that RF bottleneck. Laser transmitters, at wavelengths some 10,000 times shorter than RF waves, result in beams that are far narrower for the same unit aperture size—providing more concentrated communications power at the receiver with lower required transmitted power from smaller, lighter apertures. The upshot is a lower size, weight and power requirement for transmit and receive apertures of a laser communications terminal. Perhaps just as important, there is almost no spatial overlap among various users, so the FSOC optical spectrum is at present unregulated—a significant advantage for space-based users.
Yet FSOC also has its own distinct challenges. Signals from space to Earth need to cross mostly cloud-free zones, which raises questions about availability. Moreover, atmospheric turbulence can cause large and sudden drops of signal (or “fades”) that can last for many milliseconds, and may also require adaptive optics to improve coupling into single-mode fibers for high-bandwidth phase-sensitive detection. Perhaps most daunting, the extremely narrow divergence of the beams introduces challenges for their pointing, acquisition and tracking across the vast distances of space.
Illustration by Phil Saunders / Source: Don Boroson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Laser communication’s first steps in space
The first efforts in space-based laser communications, achieved by Japan and Europe, showed some success in overcoming these hurdles. Japan’s 1-Mb/s laser link to ground from the ETS-VI satellite in GEO in 1994—the first successful demonstration—was followed in 2001 by ESA’s SILEX/Artemis link demonstrations from GEO to ground and from GEO to low-Earth orbit (LEO). These initial experiments successfully demonstrated pointing, acquisition and tracking of narrow laser beams between spacecraft and directly to Earth stations, laying the groundwork for future systems in both Europe and Japan.
Development of FSOC flight systems continued in the early 2000s. The U.S. government launched the GEOLite laser communications mission in 2001. In 2008, the German Aerospace Center demonstrated a data rate of 5.6 Gb/s across 4,000-km crosslinks in space between its TerraSAR-X satellite and a corresponding terminal on the NFIRE spacecraft managed by the U.S. Department of Defense. Europe is now building on that experience to provide up to 1.8 Gb/s of laser-driven bandwidth to its Earth-observing Sentinel satellites in LEO, which will be the first operational laser communication users of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS) system, launching into GEO in 2016.
The economics of space laser communications changed significantly with the growth of terrestrial optical-fiber communications in the early 2000s.
The U.S. space agency has followed a more tentative path for laser communications in space. Although NASA initiated multiple efforts during the 1980s and 1990s, all were eventually cancelled due to growth in costs and the difficulty of obtaining reliable photonic components for use in space. But the economics of space laser communications changed significantly with the growth of terrestrial optical-fiber communications in the early 2000s, which suddenly boosted the availability of high-performance, low-cost components such as stable and efficient distributed-feedback (DFB) lasers, low-loss LiNbO3 modulators, and high-power and low-noise erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), all in the 1550-nm wavelength band. And the stringent environmental and reliability requirements of the Telcordia certifications, which govern terrestrial optical-communications equipment, are well-aligned with those for spaceflight.
From moon to Earth: NASA’s LLCD mission
NASA’s approach has been to leverage this Earth-based development for space, purchasing commercial components and, via rigorous space-qualification testing, moving them into new, reliable and lower-cost laser communications systems for both deep space and near Earth. Using that approach, NASA demonstrated its first laser communication system in space in 2013, with the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration (LLCD) mission, aboard the Lunar Atmosphere Dust and Environment Explorer (LADEE). The mission broke new ground in a number of areas:
Longest-range dedicated optical communications link. LLCD demonstrated error-free data downlink rates of up to 622 Mb/s from the moon at a distance of some 400,000 km—ten times the range of earlier GEO-to-ground experiments, and thus overcoming a link loss that is 100 times greater. This included error-free operation through the turbulent atmosphere.
High data rates. LLCD was an order of magnitude higher in data rate than the best Ka-band radio system flown to the moon (100 Mb/s) on the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
High-definition video link. LLCD also demonstrated a 20-Mb/s uplink, which was used to transmit error-free high-definition video to and from the moon, a communication capability crucial to possible efforts to send humans beyond low-Earth orbit.
Pinpoint ranging. LLCD’s communication system provided simultaneous centimeter-class precision ranging to the spacecraft, which can be used to improve both spacecraft navigation and the gravity models of planetary bodies for science.
Low size, weight and power. LLCD’s space-based laser terminal required only half the mass (30.7 kg) and 25 percent less power (90 W) than the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter RF system (61 kg and 120 W, respectively).
The LLCD mission’s real breakthrough, however, was its demonstration that such a system could return real, high-value science data from the LADEE’s instruments as they probed the moon. The LLCD space terminal and primary ground terminal—both designed, built and operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory—showed near-instantaneous laser link acquisition on every possible pass, followed by closed-loop tracking of the 15-microradian uplink and downlink beams. Data was imparted with pulse-position modulation (PPM) of an amplified single-frequency laser, then transmitted across the vast distance to the ground receiver through narrowband spectral filtering, in front of a state-of-the-art photon-counting detector. This device consisted of 16 superconducting nanowire detector arrays (SNDAs), and is so sensitive that only two received photons were required for every error-free bit detected.
SNDAs are also large enough to be efficiently coupled to a multimode optical fiber, which in turn is large enough to collect the signal spot—blurred due to atmospheric turbulence—at the telescope focus. Powerful error-correcting codes mitigated atmospheric scintillation or “signal fades,” as did a channel interleaver that partitions and distributes the “code words” in time on a scale much longer than the length of the fades, so that only a fraction of any given code word is lost. The code words are then re-assembled at the receiver, where the decoder finds and corrects the parts of the code word lost in the fade.
These techniques provided error-free data under a range of conditions, including through thin clouds, while LADEE and the moon were less than 5 degrees above the horizon—that is, through hundreds of kilometers of atmosphere—and even during daylight, while the LADEE spacecraft was within 3 degrees of the sun as seen from the ground station.
NASA’s LCRD Setup: (Left) LCRD optical module with 10.7-cm aperture, (right, top) LCRD multi-rate modem (MRM) with user rate from 2 Mb/s to 1.244 Gb/s (2.88 Gb/s uncoded) and (right, bottom) LCRD controller electronics module. [Enlarge image]
From demo to operation: The LCRD mission
The LLCD mission’s capabilities proved comparable to those of NASA’s venerable, RF-based Deep Space Network (see Optics & Photonics News, June 2014, p. 44), and provided a strong case for laser communications as a viable operational complement to the RF infrastructure. Unfortunately, however—by design—LLCD’s operations were limited to three months, and officially ended with the planned impact of the LADEE spacecraft on the moon in April 2014.
The next step for NASA will be a longer-term demonstration of FSOC in space, in the form of the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD). Slated to fly as a hosted payload on a commercially built satellite launching in mid-2019, LCRD is designed to demonstrate high-bandwidth, bidirectional optical communications relay services between geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and Earth—and to develop and demonstrate reliable optical relay services from GEO over a time frame of two to five years.
The LCRD payload is currently being built at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. The payload consists of two independent laser communication terminals, which are connected via a new electronic switch to provide high-speed frame switching and routing between the two optical space terminals (OSTs) while also serving as the interface to the host spacecraft. Each OST, based on the MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s design for the earlier LLCD, includes a copy of an optical module with a gimbaled, inertially stabilized 10.7-cm telescope, along with a copy of the pointing, acquisition and tracking controller electronics, using commercially available equipment.
LCRD will also fly a new multi-rate modem (MRM) design to generate user data rates from 2 Mb/s up to 1.244 Gb/s via a differential phase shift-keyed (DPSK), burst-mode modulated beam at 1550 nm. And, as with LLCD, LCRD will leverage commercially available components from the optical fiber telecommunications industry: DFB master oscillator, high-power EDFA in the transmitter, low-noise EFDA preamp for the receiver, and many fiber-coupled optical isolators, wavelength multiplexers, filters and even monitor photodiodes.
Managing clouds and turbulence
To maximize availability due to cloud cover, the system will communicate with optical ground stations in two generally cloud-free zones—the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) telescope facility on Table Mountain, California; and the White Sands telescope facility near Las Cruces, New Mexico—with each station fully instrumented to characterize the local atmospheric stability and meteorological conditions.
The ground stations will be fitted with adaptive optics to actively compensate for atmospheric turbulence and to allow for coupling of the weak LCRD downlink signal into a single-mode optical fiber that will lead to the ground modem receiver. Unlike the LLCD demonstration, single-mode fiber is required, since demodulation of the DPSK signal through narrowband delay-line, Mach-Zehnder interferometric filters requires spatial coherence. Each ground modem will support full user-rate (1.244 Gb/s) duplex communications with the LCRD orbiting terminals; the received data will be delivered via optical fiber to the LCRD Mission Operations Center in White Sands for analysis.
LCRD’s goals over its multiyear operation are to measure and characterize the system performance across a variety of atmospheric conditions, while developing new software and operational procedures to adapt to them. These may include buffering data via the disruption-tolerant network (DTN) protocol for short outages, or performing fast handoffs between the two ground stations to mitigate longer outages due to passing clouds that might block the beam. The system will also provide an on-orbit capability to test and demonstrate new modulation schemes, as each modem is software defined and thus reprogrammable in orbit.
The culmination of the LCRD mission will be a demonstration of a “space relay” communications link from a spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) up through LCRD in GEO and then down to the ground. Specifically, NASA is developing a new optical terminal to demonstrate on the international space station (ISS) in 2020 that is interoperable with LCRD for future space users in LEO or higher. This next-generation terminal will leverage recent developments in integrated photonics, which should reduce the size, weight, power and cost of the flight modem by an order of magnitude relative to RF systems. The new terminal may even replace the current LCRD terminal design for GEO if radiation requirements can be met.
If all goes according to plan, LCRD will allow service at data rates of up to 1.244 Gb/s to NASA’s next-generation Earth-orbiting scientific satellites. Those capabilities have positive implications not only for NASA but for other international space agencies and commercial space companies, which will receive access to the program as guest investigators.
Integrated photonics in space communications
Powered by recent developments in nanostructures, metamaterials and silicon waveguides, integrated photonics could have a significant impact in the evolution of space-based laser communications. The lithographic techniques to create a photonic integrated circuit (PIC)—analogous to CMOS technology, but with photonic components replacing electrical traces—can realize hundred-fold reductions in size, mass, power and especially cost, because the PICs can be printed en masse. While PIC development is currently driven by the need for lower-footprint optical interconnects and transmission in data centers, their attributes are also critical to spreading free-space laser communications in the future.
NASA plans to place a PIC in the heart of its Integrated LCRD LEO User Modem and Amplifier (ILLUMA), leveraging access to custom device fabrication through the newly inaugurated AIM Photonics public-private partnership, sponsored by the DoD and currently managed by the State University of New York (SUNY). This technology should drive the eventual cost of the ILLUMA and other FSOC modems to well below that of today’s RF modems, allowing this technology to become ubiquitous in the space data links of the future.
(Above) PIC image courtesy of Photonic Integration Group, Eindhoven University of Technology
Lasers to deep space and beyond
The 2013 success of LLCD also provided new impetus to laser communications in another realm: deep space. NASA’s Space Technology directorate and Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program are now teaming to bring the agency’s Deep-Space Optical Communications (DSOC) effort to “Technology Readiness Level 6”—meaning a prototype unit fully ground-tested to space environmental levels, a.k.a., “shake and bake”—by the end of fiscal 2017, as a precursor to flight of a working laser communication system on the upcoming Discovery mission scheduled for 2020.
NASA JPL’s DSOC is designed to work from near-Earth asteroids out to Jupiter, and could deliver data at speeds of more than 250 Mb/s from Mars at opposition (0.42 AU, or 63 million km), while amounting to only 25 kg of mass and consuming only 75 W of power. But DSOC will face substantial additional challenges that LLCD did not—including a link that is 1,000 times farther from Earth, with a million times greater link loss; a required kilowatt-class uplink beam from the ground; development of a new photon-counting detector array on the spacecraft to see and locate that uplink beam; and the need for an order-of-magnitude improvement in inertially stabilized beam pointing and larger point-ahead angles for the downlink beam.
DSOC will also require larger receiver apertures on the ground than LLCD. NASA is studying development of a 12-m telescope for that purpose, though plans at present are to use the venerable 5-m Hale telescope on Mount Palomar to capture more than 100 Mb/s from Mars at opposition. Even that rate, however, constitutes an improvement of more than an order of magnitude from the highest RF data rate previously demonstrated from Mars—6 Mb/s from the Ka-band transmitter on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Hence, DSOC could constitute a profound shift in possibilities for the Mars science community.
Finally, commercial companies seeking to improve Internet bandwidth worldwide have a significant interest in FSOC. The governments of the world are leading the way on this technology by investing in the initial infrastructure while retiring the technical risks. If the promise of integrated photonics can truly be realized to drive the costs of FSOC to well below those of RF systems, then commercial networks of “fiber-in-the-sky” may soon follow, and lead to yet another communications revolution in the very near future.
Donald Cornwell is director of the Advanced Communications and Navigation Division within the Space Communications and Navigation Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., USA.
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When did you arrive to Iceland? “This morning at 4:10 AM!” Vanessa says, laughing. “I haven’t slept yet. I just jumped on this South Coast tour.”
Why did you choose to come to Iceland? “It’s only a 4.5 hour flight from Boston and I had 5 days free so it was kind of a perfect amount of time,” Vanessa explains. “The main reason I am here is to see the Northern Lights, so hopefully they will be prominent this weekend!
How have you found Vík so far? “We just came from the Reynisfjara rock formations. It was beautiful, but very windy,” Vanessa says, grinning. “Plus, I’ve been watching this show on Netflix called ‘Sense8’ and they do a lot of filming there. It’s a gorgeous landscape.” She pauses. “I love the elements here: the severe wind, the drastic change in weather.”
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Ages: 27 & 27
How did you hear about Vík? “We are on a bus tour traveling down the south coast,” Gideon says. “We saw the pictures of Vík and thought it looked amazing. We had to come here.”
Have you been to Iceland before? “No, this is our first time,” Gideon says. Becky quickly interjects, “And it’s perfect, just beautiful.”
How does Vík strike you? “This is probably the most scenic place we have ever seen,” Becky says with a bright smile. “We were just saying, the sea is so wild. It’s beautiful.”
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Occupation: The Tourist Information Centre at the Katla Centre
What is your favourite part of Vík? “The community,” Holly says quickly. “Here, people are very welcoming. They combine multicultural ways—whether that be food, events, holidays—so that people who move here feel welcome from the very beginning.” She smiles. “Then, of course, it’s a beautiful town by the sea. We are very lucky to live here.”
How do you like working with tourists and visitors? “For me, it’s very interesting,” she explains. “I love the geology around Iceland. It’s one of the main reasons I am here, so to share something I love with others is really nice.” Holly pauses. “Also, giving travellers the opportunity to do something on their bucket list. That could be seeing the northern lights, or booking them a glacier show. Vík has a lot to offer.”
What would you recommend for tourists when visiting Vík? “Lava show. Black beaches. Getting on the glacier. They aren’t going to be here forever, it’s important to learn about them now,” Holly says, smiling.

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This Year It Will Be Different
And Other StorieseBook - 2007 | Delta trade pbk. ed
A collection of Christmas-centered feel-good tales about love and family snarls in the season of comfort and joy. All are set in either England, Ireland, or Australia. A bit of sentimentality and a touch of romance, along with humor and hopeful turns to treat those with cases of the holiday blues.
Publisher: New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2007
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Enjoy a stunning collection of fifteen Christmas stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius.

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Hair Transplant Surgery Scars: Best Ways to Deal With Them
Any type of surgery has a higher incidence of resulting in a scar tissue. Adhesions may also occur, especially in the case of internal surgeries. Biologically, the body has its own healing mechanism that results in a scar. Scars differ depending on the severity of the wound.
With hair transplant procedures, there is a normal extent of scarring that is expected in every type of hair transplant surgery. With the FUT technique (Follicular Unit Transplantation), a linear scar is expected since a strip of hair is extracted.
With the FUE (Follicular Unit Extraction), dot-like scars are expected since a needle-like instrument is utilized harvest single follicular units. Either way, the following ways approaches are recommended to reduce the scarring extents in patients.
An experienced Surgeon
There is an assurance that any hair transplant procedure results in scarring, but an experienced surgeon certainly possesses manipulative skills to reduce scarring. Consider our centre for a hair transplant in Patiala for minimal and unnoticeable scarring.
Since patients’ healing mechanisms differ, some patients may still witness visible scar tissue regardless of the surgeon’s artistry skills utilized. The Trichophytic Closure technique is a minimally invasive surgery that acts as a scar revision.
Proper Post-Operative Care
Accidents, injuries or improper care have a higher incidence of hiking your scarring extent. Consider following the surgeon’s instructions while caring for your scalp.
This technique of scalp tattooing is commonly utilized to camouflage scalp scars, though it is itself a form of hair loss treatment.

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Long Title: To amend section 5747.70 of the Revised Code to increase the maximum income tax deduction for contributions to the state's 529 college savings program from $2,000 to $3,000 per beneficiary per year.
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Michael Gove had to abandon a meeting with Boris Johnson and devolved leaders after he was alerted by the NHS test and trace app.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was pinged by the coronavirus app that he had come into contact with somebody who had tested positive recently.
It is understood to have happened as he flew back to the UK after attending the Champions League final in Portugal with his son last weekend.
Instead of self-isolating for 10 days, Mr Gove will be able to take part in a pilot scheme for workplaces, where he can instead be tested every day for a week.
Returning football fans have been told to self-isolate after some flights reported passengers testing positive for Covid.
Posting on a fan forum, passengers reported as many as five flights organised by Manchester City for the match against Chelsea had been affected.
Mr Gove was in the middle of a meeting with the PM, Chancellor Rishi Sunak, other ministers and the leaders of devolved administrations when he got the notification.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford and Northern Ireland’s leader Arlene Foster were all taking part remotely in the meeting on recovery from the pandemic.
A spokesman for Mr Gove said: “The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is participating in the daily contact testing programme after being advised to isolate today by NHS Test and Trace.
“He has followed COVID-19 regulations and guidance at all times and will continue to do so.”
But shadow sports minister Alison McGovern said it was unfair that Mr Gove will not have to self-isolate in the same way as ordinary fans who may also have received an alert.
Ms McGovern said: “Doesn’t that sound like one rule for him and one rule for everybody else?”
Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley asked Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick: “Forgive my cynicism, but you talk about caution – how is it that your Cabinet colleague Mr Gove has been pinged on track and trace and yet, like the rest of us, he doesn’t have to isolate, he’s just doing tests?”
Mr Jenrick said: “I haven’t spoken to Michael so I don’t know all the details exactly but it sounds like the system worked. He’s taking part in a pilot, as I understand, where people can have slightly different circumstances.
“But I’m sure he’s going to take all of the necessary precautions, he’s not been coming into the office.”
About 12,000 football fans made the trip to Porto for the final, with each team allocated half of the figure in match tickets.
Dom Farrell, a sports journalist for Stats Perform, travelled to Porto for work and received a notification from NHS Test and Trace four days after flying home, telling him he needed to self-isolate for seven days.
He said a colleague on the same flight had received the same notification, leading him to believe that others onboard had too.
Andy Saunders, from St Albans, was told by his NHS Test and Trace app to self-isolate for 10 days after returning on a flight from Chelsea’s “appointed travel partner” – a Tui flight, he said.


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Check Out The First Look At The Final Season Of ‘House Of Cards’ [VIDEO]
The first look at the final season of Netflix’s hit show “House of Cards” was released Wednesday.
A short, 12-second video was tweeted out showing Claire Underwood sitting on something that resembles the Lincoln Memorial.
She simply says, “Happy Independence Day…..to me.”
A message from the President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/yx0P3qyHfW
— House of Cards (@HouseofCards) July 4, 2018
It’s going to be fascinating to see what happens in the final season. I was on team Frank Underwood, right up until Kevin Spacey got tossed off of the show after several allegations of sexual misconduct. (RELATED: ‘HOUSE OF CARDS’ PRODUCTION RESUMES — WITH TWO NEW ADDITIONS)
Now, we’re left with Claire running the whole show. At the end of Season Five, we saw her finally take the power she had so desperately wanted. Claire was finally running the whole country as the president.
Obviously, there had to be some rewrites when Spacey was shown the door. The main question now is how are they going to explain Frank Underwood’s sudden disappearance from the show. My guess would be they’re going to just kill him off. I’m not sure there’s any other option.
As for Claire, I can’t wait to see how this whole story wraps up with her as president. It should be a hell of a fun ride. I have no doubt she’ll try to do everything in her power to soak up as much power as humanly possible. Should make for some great content.


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Mediation is a process through which people meet to resolve their differences in a peaceful, non-adversarial, confidential and mutually acceptable way. The process offers the opportunity to make decisions that will positively influence how disagreements are resolved now and in the future. Mediation works best when the participants have a vested interest in maintaining a relationship. Mediators have experience to help family members and disputing parties identify their common ground and common interests. Once common interests are identified, mutually agreeable options can emerge. The mediator facilitates this process so the parties can make their own agreements. Because all the decisions are made by you and not imposed by an outsider, you are able to tailor your agreement to fit your particular needs and those of the other parties. The old expression, "If you want something done right, do it yourself", certainly applies here.
The mediator is an impartial third party who helps you:
For matters involving legal issues, mediation is a non-adversarial process that is usually less costly than
litigation, and tends to generate more creative and client-centered solutions than would an order from a judge. Because the mediation is confidential, any discussions during the mediation process cannot be brought up in court by the other parties. Mediation does require work and it can be an emotional experience negotiating with family members, caregivers or other parties. We have strategies for helping you to manage your emotions during mediation.
Mediation is a short-term process focused on resolving issues both in the present and the future. Mediation is neither psychotherapy nor counseling and should never be used for that purpose. The length of a mediation session or the number of sessions needed is determined by the parties involved and the complexity of the issues to be resolved. It is important to proceed at a pace that is comfortable for everybody. Since mediation is a case-specific service, we suggest that you contact us for more information regarding your particular situation.

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The 2004 Caf Confederations Cup winners have been given a huge respite, having been awarded points which all but save them from a possible demotion
The disciplinary committee of the Ghana Football Association has upheld Hearts of Oak’s protest against Asante Kotoko for fielding an unqualified player in a Ghana Premier League matchday 25 match.
The Phobians launched a charge against the Porcupine Warriors for fielding Obed Owusu in a clash at the Accra Sports Stadium on August 2, a tie lost 2-1 by the former Caf Champions League winners.
Owusu had received four yellow cards before the game, and was, thus, expected to serve a mandatory one-match suspension in the said game.
However, Kotoko maintain the attacker had earlier served the suspension in an Elite Cup game against Dunkwa United, an encounter the disciplinary committee says “did not constitute an official match”.
“Having found that Obed Owusu was unqualified to play against Hearts of Oak, the next question is to decide the consequences that follow from the act of Kotoko in fielding that unqualified player,” a disciplinary committee ruling read.
“The consequences of fielding an unqualified player are spelt out in Article 34 (1) (e) of the GFA General Regulations as leading to a forfeiture of the match played by the team which fielded the unqualified player, pursuant to a protest.
“Article 34(2) mandatorily requires that no matter the scores at the end of the match in question, the team which fielded an unqualified player shall be considered as having lost the match and three points and three goals shall be awarded in favour of the innocent team, unless the innocent team is leading by more than three goals at the time of the offence in which case the scores will stand.
“Three points and three goals are further required by Article 34(5)(a) to be deducted from the total accumulated points of the defaulting club. A fine of GH¢5,000 is also to be imposed if default was in respect of the Premier League.”
Previously occupying the third position, the Porcupine Warriors have dropped to 15th on the league log, having been docked six points, while previously 15th side Hearts move to the seventh spot.
“The Committee has no option but to apply the various punishments specified by the GFA Regulations,” the ruling continued.
“Accordingly, Hearts of Oak is awarded three points and three goals in respect of its 25th Week Premier League Match played against Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
“Three points and three goals are also deducted from the total accumulated points of Kotoko in the Premier League. A fine of GH¢5,000 is to be paid by Kumasi Asante Kotoko, half of which is to go to Hearts of Oak.
“The Committee is baffled by the conscious effort by Kotoko to ensure that Obed Owusu supposedly served his suspension in a match which, on a cursory reading of the relevant provisions, did not constitute an official match.”


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The centre is typical of the dance world. It is situated in a less than desirable area of Cardiff, Adamsdown and is itself less than glamorous as buildings go. I’d think twice about parking your car outside the centre as there is a youth related crime problem in the area and I always feel very threatened by the ‘hoodies’ when I park my flowery Beetle there!
I never have understood why it is always the case that dance school are so grotty when what they teach is one of the most glamorous and decadent of arts. No one in the audience of a performance of the Royal Ballet would dream for a minute that the beautiful ballet dancers on stage spent gruelling hours in freezing ramshackle halls to get to where there are now. The sad fact is that teaching dance is not the most profitable of businesses so in terms of dance schools you just have to be grateful they exist at all.
However, Rubicon Dance is one of the better schools and it would be unfair to condemn it to the ramshackle category! Once you get to the studio it is actually rather lovely. A full wall of mirrors, a good quality dance floor and high ceilings actually make it a very enjoyable place to dance.
In terms of ballet classes, there are three for adults: levels 1 to 3. I attend the level 3 class every week. This level is more or less equivalent to Intermediate/ Advanced 1 RAD. It is taken by Caryl Wilford a lovely Welsh lady who demands musicality and light and shade rather than focussing on technique. So for those of you who like a good dose of constructive criticism, this is not the class for you.
All three levels are free-work classes that change each week, but throughout the term there is a grand allegro that becomes a constant fixture and is built upon. It is quite a shock to an out of shape dancer to be expected to find the stamina to dance a 2 minute plus allegro, but it’s great to have a challenge again.
The classes are £6.50 and last for an hour and a half. However the first class is a taster and only costs £5. The attendance is good and everyone interacts to make it a fun class. The dancers range from trained dancers and dance teachers right up to very old dancers and surprisingly quite a few men.
I definitely recommend Rubicon Dance’s adult ballet programme and the best proof that it provides worthwhile classes is that I have attended every week since I discovered the centre in September.


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- If passed, the Federal Government’s IR Omnibus Bill will mark the most significant employment law reform in more than a decade.
- The IR Omnibus Bill is best understood as a patchwork of measures aimed at improving, rather than replacing, the system put in place by the Fair Work Act.
- The final form of the Bill remains uncertain, as one of its most contentious proposed provisions has already been withdrawn while other provisions remain the subject of heated stakeholder debate and political opposition.
In the shadows of COVID-19, the Federal Government through June to October last year, undertook a consultation process about the operation of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (‘FW Act’). The outcome was the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 (‘IR Omnibus Bill’).
The IR Omnibus Bill is set against some of the reactive and temporary measures introduced in response to COVID-19, but is directed at addressing employer concerns that have arisen over a number of years about various aspects of the FW Act. Chief among these concerns was the stated ‘broken’ enterprise bargaining system and the uncertainty associated with casual employment.
The Federal Government has positioned the IR Omnibus Bill as assisting Australia’s recovery from COVID-19 by way of evolution, not revolution. The changes in the IR Omnibus Bill are stated to remove inefficiencies in the FW Act and achieve practical wins that benefit both employers and employees. The Government has therefore promoted it as creating certainty and flexibility for employers and employees, and jobs.
Industrial relations reform, however, is controversial. Aside from the brief bi-partisan response to COVID-19 last year, changes are hard fought. So it is with the IR Omnibus Bill. Labor opposes the IR Omnibus Bill and has used the opportunity to set out its vision for industrial relations reform, and the final form of the legislation appears to be in the hands of the crossbenchers. The Government has already stepped away from one of the more controversial aspects of the IR Omnibus Bill, citing its willingness to listen and work constructively with the crossbench.
This article summarises the key elements of the IR Omnibus Bill as at the date of writing, focussing on the high profile issues of enterprise bargaining and casual employment.
The IR Omnibus Bill makes a number of material changes directed at simplifying and streamlining the making and approval of enterprise agreements (‘EA’). The proposed changes reflect an attempt to address the fall in the number of new EAs being made since the introduction of the FW Act, and tap into a sentiment that effective collective bargaining is ‘broken’ but remains the best way to achieve the FW Act goals of productivity and fairness. The changes seek to address employer criticisms that the current process places excessive weight on an overly technical (and on occasions, hypothetical) application of the ‘Better Off Overall Test’ (‘BOOT’), as compared to the practical realities of what is actually required to deliver overall benefits to employees.