Any physical channel of communication offers two potential reasons why its capacity (the number of bits it can transmit in a unit of time) might be unbounded: (1) Infinitely many choices of signal strength at any given instant of time, and (2) Infinitely many instances of time at which signals may be sent. However channel noise cancels out the potential unboundedness of the first aspect, leaving typical channels with only a finite capacity per instant of time. The latter source of infinity seems less studied. A potential source of unreliability that might restrict the capacity also from the second aspect is delay: Signals transmitted by the sender at a given point of time may not be received with a predictable delay at the receiving end. Here we examine this source of uncertainty by considering a simple discrete model of delay errors. In our model the communicating parties get to subdivide time as microscopically finely as they wish, but still have to cope with communication delays that are macroscopic and variable. The continuous process becomes the limit of our process as the time subdivision becomes infinitesimal. We taxonomize this class of communication channels based on whether the delays and noise are stochastic or adversarial; and based on how much information each aspect has about the other when introducing its errors. We analyze the limits of such channels and reach somewhat surprising conclusions: The capacity of a physical channel is finitely bounded only if at least one of the two sources of error (signal noise or delay noise) is adversarial. In particular the capacity is finitely bounded only if the delay is adversarial, or the noise is adversarial and acts with knowledge of the stochastic delay. If both error sources are stochastic, or if the noise is adversarial and independent of the stochastic delay, then the capacity of the associated physical channel is infinite.


We describe natural K\"ahler or para-K\"ahler structures of the spaces of geodesics of pseudo-Riemannian space forms and relate the local geometry of hypersurfaces of space forms to that of their normal congruences, or Gauss maps, which are Lagrangian submanifolds. The space of geodesics L(S^{n+1}_{p,1}) of a pseudo-Riemannian space form S^{n+1}_{p,1} of non-vanishing curvature enjoys a K\"ahler or para-K\"ahler structure (J,G) which is in addition Einstein. Moreover, in the three-dimensional case, L(S^{n+1}_{p,1}) enjoys another K\"ahler or para-K\"ahler structure (J',G') which is scalar flat. The normal congruence of a hypersurface s of S^{n+1}_{p,1} is a Lagrangian submanifold \bar{s} of L(S^{n+1}_{p,1}), and we relate the local geometries of s and \bar{s}. In particular \bar{s} is totally geodesic if and only if s has parallel second fundamental form. In the three-dimensional case, we prove that \bar{s} is minimal with respect to the Einstein metric G (resp. with respect to the scalar flat metric G') if and only if it is the normal congruence of a minimal surface s (resp. of a surface s with parallel second fundamental form); moreover \bar{s} is flat if and only if s is Weingarten.


PDP region and shall not be considered to be such a plan purposes of meeting the requirements of this subsection. ``(ii) Designation as a fallback plan.-- Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the Secretary may designate the medicare operated prescription drug plan as the fallback prescription drug plan for any fallback service area (as defined in section 1860D-11(g)(3)) determined to be appropriate by the Secretary.''. (2) Section 1860D-13(c)(3) of such Act, as added by such section, is amended-- (A) in the heading, by inserting ``and medicare operated prescription drug plans'' after ``Fallback plans''; and (B) by inserting ``or a medicare operated prescription drug plan'' after ``a fallback prescription drug plan''. (3) Section 1860D-16(b)(1) of such Act, as added by such section, is amended-- (A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' after the semicolon at the end; (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; and''; and ``(E) payments for expenses incurred with respect to the operation of medicare operated prescription drug plans under section 1860D-11A.''. (4) Section 1860D-41(a) of such Act, as added by such section, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(19) Medicare operated prescription drug plan.--The term `medicare operated prescription drug plan' has the meaning given such term in section 1860D-11A(c).''. (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of section 101 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.


We present HST/ACS observations of 19 nearby M subdwarfs in a search for binary systems. Other than the wide common proper motion pair LHS 2140/2139, none of our sdM and esdM targets are found to be binaries. Our survey is sensitive to equal-luminosity companions at close (2-8 AU) separations, while sub-stellar secondaries could have been detected at separations in the range of 6-30 AU. To check for wide binaries, we have compared the POSS I and II images in a field of view as large as 10'x10', but could not detect a single co-moving star for any of the targets. Combining our results with those from Gizis & Reid, we have a binary fraction of 3% (1/28). Detection of a small number of M subdwarf binaries reported in the literature suggests a higher fraction than the one obtained here, probably comparable to that found for the more massive solar-type stars in the halo (13-15%). Comparison with the disk M dwarf fraction (25%) however suggests multiplicity to be rare among the lowest mass halo stars, implying the two populations formed under different initial conditions. The low binary fraction in our survey could be explained by selection biases. A decrease in multiplicity has been observed in the disk for masses below 0.1Msun, the peak in the disk mass function (MF). The globular cluster MF is found to peak at about 0.33Msun, with a decrease in the number of stars per unit mass below the peak mass. Our sample being composed of stars with masses between ~0.2 and 0.085 Msun suggests that a decrease in multiplicity similar to the disk may also be true for the halo stars, but perhaps below a mass of ~0.3Msun. A higher M subdwarf binary fraction may be obtained if the selected primaries have masses near or higher than the peak in the MF.


If your industry requires components to be 'functionally safe,' Imagination has a high-powered processor for you. Picture this: The networking stack on the main pump controller has crashed, and you need to reboot it -- but it's 20 meters underground, on another continent -- and there's no-one on site to hit'reset'. Or you're bowling along the highway and one of the processor cores in your self-driving car gets zapped by a cosmic ray (yes, this could actually happen). The software can't tell whether the resulting error is a transient glitch or a hardware fault, so limits you to 50 kilometers per hour for safety: No fun with a monster truck hurtling up behind you. Chip designers such as ARM and Imagination Technologies are applying industrial safety design techniques to their processor cores so that they can get themselves out of situations like this. You could soon feel the benefit even if you don't run a subterranean pumping station in Azerbaijan, nor yet have a self-driving car in your garage. Functionally safe We place a lot of faith in the processors in our internet of things, counting on the software they run to perform to spec in all circumstances. But there are problems that no amount of bounds checking, input sanitization or exception handling can fix. That's why manufacturers in many industries seek to make their products functionally safe -- that is, ensuring that they remain in a safe state and respond as expected, regardless of environment, inputs or hardware failures. There are even standards for how to do so: The generic IEC 61508 has variants for specific industries, including ISO 26262 for automotive manufacturing. It's one thing building such a system when you're designing or specifying every detail of every component yourself. Relying on an external suppliers for complex subsystems -- or your suppliers' supplier in the case of microprocessors designed by one company and built by another -- is something else entirely. The standards describe how to incorporate such components -- known as safety elements out of context (SEooCs) -- into functionally safe systems, and companies such as ARM and Imagination Technologies are applying them to their processor cores designs. ARM has offered functionally safe variants of some of its Cortex-R series processor designs for a couple of years now. These are processor cores designed for hard real-time applications, where a response must come within a fixed window of time. The blazing fast cores that you will find in computer vision applications or the latest flagship smartphones, though,


We present a study of the core of the Fe Ka emission line at ~6.4 keV in a sample of type II Seyfert galaxies observed by the Chandra High Energy Grating (HEG). The sample consists of 29 observations of 10 unique sources. We present measurements of the Fe Ka line parameters with the highest spectral resolution currently available. In particular, we derive the most robust intrinsic line widths for some of the sources in the sample to date. We obtained a weighted mean FWHM of 2000 \pm 160 km/s for 8 out of 10 sources (the remaining sources had insufficient signal-to-noise). From a comparison with the optical emission-line widths obtained from spectropolarimetric observations, we found that the location of Fe Ka line-emitting material is a factor of ~0.7-11 times the size of the optical BLR. Furthermore, compared to 13 type I AGNs for which the best Fe Ka line FWHM constraints were obtained, we found no difference in the FWHM distribution or the mean FWHM, and this conclusion is independent of the central black hole mass. This result suggests that the bulk of the Fe Ka line emission may originate from a universal region at the same radius with respect to the gravitational radius, ~30,000 Rg on average. By examining the correlation between the Fe Ka luminosity and the [O IV] line luminosity, we found a marginal difference in the Fe K line flux between type I and type II AGNs, but the spread in the ratio of L(Fe) to L([O IV]) is about two orders of magnitude. Our results confirm the theoretical expectation that the Fe Ka emission-line luminosity cannot trivially be used as a proxy of the intrinsic AGN luminosity, unless a detailed comparison of the data with proper models is applied.


WASHINGTON — Extending NAFTA negotiations into 2019 would prolong uncertainty for the Canadian economy and trim anticipated growth over the next year, says a forecast released Friday. Scotiabank estimates that the lingering doubts would shave 0.2 percentage points off Canada’s potential GDP, while the bank projects the country would still see modest economic growth of 2.3 per cent on the year. The timing question is increasingly relevant. With serious negotiating on the hardest issues just barely begun and national elections in Mexico and the U.S. later this year, conversations are turning to what might happen when the current schedule of talks concludes in March. One scenario involves the talks slowing down, then picking up again after the American congressional elections and after a new Mexican president has taken office in December, setting the stage for a final push for a deal in 2019. “The ongoing efforts to ‘renegotiate and modernize’ NAFTA look set to extend beyond the current end-March 2018 deadline,” said the Scotiabank forecast. “Difficult issues remain unsettled and the remainder of 2018 features a packed political calendar that could delay further talks.” The forecast says the U.S. will not experience any significant investment chill. But it says the lack of clarity could be felt more in Canada, and in Mexico. It echoes similar findings from the Bank of Canada. In its recent Monetary Policy Report, the central bank detected a slight slowdown in foreign companies’ building operations in Canada. It said the trend has been going on since 2016 and projected it would continue through 2019. “(This investment) has declined since mid-2016, especially from Europe but also from the United States,” said the report. “(It’s) a possible sign of the effects of the uncertainty around trade policy. Trade-policy uncertainty is expected to reduce the level of investment by about two per cent by the end of 2019.” The Canadian government has also cited concerns about a lingering cloud over investment as one reason to want an agreement soon. The cabinet member leading the negotiations made the point Friday. “We would like to get this deal done as quickly as possible,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in Mexico during a meeting with her North American counterparts. “Uncertainty is never good for business confidence.” That being said, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added Friday that the country must be prepared to walk away from negotiations if it is offered a bad deal.


Current expectations on the signal to noise ratios and masses of supermassive black holes which the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) can observe are based on using in matched filtering only the dominant harmonic of the inspiral waveform at twice the orbital frequency. Other harmonics will affect the signal-to-noise ratio of systems currently believed to be observable by LISA. More significantly, inclusion of other harmonics in our matched filters would mean that more massive systems that were previously thought to be {\it not} visible in LISA should be detectable with reasonable SNRs. Our estimates show that we should be able to significantly increase the mass reach of LISA and observe the more commonly occurring supermassive black holes of masses $\sim 10^8M_\odot.$ More specifically, with the inclusion of all known harmonics LISA will be able to observe even supermassive black hole coalescences with total mass $\sim 10^8 M_\odot (10^9M_\odot)$ (and mass-ratio 0.1) for a low frequency cut-off of $10^{-4}{\rm Hz}$ $(10^{-5}{\rm Hz})$ with an SNR up to $\sim 60$ $(\sim 30)$ at a distance of 3 Gpc. This is important from the astrophysical viewpoint since observational evidence for the existence of black holes in this mass range is quite strong and binaries containing such supermassive black holes will be inaccessible to LISA if one uses as detection templates only the dominant harmonic.


If you’re an Earthling who plans on acquiring a Martian citizenship in the sorta kinda near future, bon voyage! Also, you’re going to want to hear the latest news on the Red Planet: A new study shows that “sideways tornadoes” helped shape the surface of Mars, and yeah, we’re totally nerding out. On the off chance that you, future Mars resident, have been out of the space loop, tornado sightings on Mars aren’t exactly new. Obviously, scientists have kept us well-informed on tornadoes that strike here on Earth, so naturally these Martian twisters have us just as intrigued. Back in 2012, NASA’s Martian Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured images of a tornado on Mars and enhanced it using video simulation. Needless to say, it’s pretty incredible. As Forbes reports, the crater rays aren’t visible during the day but when shown through a nighttime infrared view, they give off the appearance of massive, wide-reaching bright streaks due to the amount of heat they hold. According to Brown University geologist and the study’s lead author Peter Schultz, the large Martian crater rays that dot the planet’s surface at are attributed to these unique tornadoes. Schultz collaborated with graduate student Stephanie Quintana to determine the origin of the streaks. In the findings published in the journal Icarus, the pair found that once the surface is struck by an asteroid or other body, powerful vapor plumes rise and travel outward from the impact point at an extremely high speed. When the plumes make contact with a previously raised surface (such as with a pre-existing crater), it produces a “tornadic vortice,” which in turn, causes the streaks. “Where these vortices encounter the surface, they sweep away the small particles that sit loose on the surface, exposing the bigger blocky material underneath, and that’s what gives us these streaks,” Schultz said. Aside from being completely mind-blowing, the streaks left behind by these Martian tornadoes could help researchers understand more about the planet, including rates of erosion or whether ice was present when an impact occurred. We’re so addicted to all of this new info about Mars, and we’re not sorry about it.


If you love bookshops, Parisian charm and an intriguing mystery, then this beguiling story could be your favourite summer read. Break open a bottle of vin rouge and get lost in the bittersweet life of American Leah Eady as she journeys through uncharted waters in search of her missing husband, and ends up finding both herself and a new way of life in the heart of the French capital. Paris by the Book – an enchanting portrait of both a lost soul and a magical city – comes from the pen of Liam Callanan from Wisconsin, an author, teacher and journalist whose first novel, The Cloud Atlas, was a finalist for an Edgar Award. Set in the Marais, a historic and fashionable district of Paris famous for its trendy restaurants, fashion houses and hip galleries, Callanan’s seductive blend of reading and romance peers between the pages of two French landmark books as a marriage and a mystery start to unravel in haunting and poignant style. Once a week, Leah Eady chases men in the hope that they might be her husband. It might sound bizarre but her story began nearly 20 years ago when she met and fell in love with aspiring and somewhat eccentric writer Robert Eady in their home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Their shared interest in classic children’s books, The Red Balloon by French author and film maker Albert Lamorisse, and the Madeline series by Austria-Hungary-born American writer Ludwig Bemelmans, was the spark that brought them together. Leah gave up her dreams of being a film maker when they married and she dedicated her life to becoming a loving, organised mother to their two daughters Daphne and Ellie while Robert pursued a career as a successful children’s book author. Over the years, Leah accepted that Robert would sometimes disappear for days on end for what she called his ‘writeaways,’ time and space alone to write. But in recent years, his career has been ‘taking one wrong turn after another’ and now he has walked out and not come back. The only clue to Robert’s whereabouts is the discovery of plane tickets to Paris and Leah sets off for France with her teenage daughters. There she discovers an unfinished manuscript, one Robert had been writing without her knowledge, and featuring a story set in Paris. Hoping to uncover more clues, Leah takes over a small, struggling English-language bookshop in the bustling Marais district, only to realise that Robert might just be closer than any of them had ever imagined…


Timing noise in the data on accretion-powered millisecond pulsars (AMP) appears as irregular pulse phase jumps on timescales from hours to weeks. A large systematic phase drift is also observed in the first discovered AMP SAX J1808.4-3658. To study the origin of these timing features, we use here the data of the well studied 2002 outburst of SAX J1808.4-3658. We develop first a model for pulse profile formation accounting for the screening of the antipodal emitting spot by the accretion disk. We demonstrate that the variations of the visibility of the antipodal spot associated with the receding accretion disk cause a systematic shift in Fourier phases, observed together with the changes in the pulse form. We show that a strong secondary maximum can be observed only in a narrow intervals of inner disk radii, which explains the very short appearance of the double-peaked profiles in SAX J1808.4-3658. By directly fitting the pulse profile shapes with our model, we find that the main parameters of the emitting spot such as its mean latitude and longitude as well as the emissivity pattern change irregularly causing small shifts in pulse phase, and the strong profile variations are caused by the increasing inner disk radius. We finally notice that significant variations in the pulse profiles in the 2002 and 2008 outbursts of SAX J1808.4-3658 happen at fluxes differing by a factor of 2, which can be explained if the inner disk radius is not a simple function of the accretion rate, but depends on the previous history.


We study $k$-colored kernels in $m$-colored digraphs. An $m$-colored digraph $D$ has $k$-colored kernel if there exists a subset $K$ of its vertices such that (i) from every vertex $v\notin K$ there exists an at most $k$-colored directed path from $v$ to a vertex of $K$ and (ii) for every $u,v\in K$ there does not exist an at most $k$-colored directed path between them. In this paper, we prove that for every integer $k\geq 2$ there exists a $% (k+1)$-colored digraph $D$ without $k$-colored kernel and if every directed cycle of an $m$-colored digraph is monochromatic, then it has a $k$-colored kernel for every positive integer $k.$ We obtain the following results for some generalizations of tournaments: (i) $m$-colored quasi-transitive and 3-quasi-transitive digraphs have a $k$% -colored kernel for every $k\geq 3$ and $k\geq 4,$ respectively (we conjecture that every $m$-colored $l$-quasi-transitive digraph has a $k$% -colored kernel for every $k\geq l+1)$, and (ii) $m$-colored locally in-tournament (out-tournament, respectively) digraphs have a $k$-colored kernel provided that every arc belongs to a directed cycle and every directed cycle is at most $k$-colored.


ING FOR OR VOLUNTEERING AT A STATE OR LOCAL AGENCY OPIOID OVERDOSE PROGRAM. (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subsection (b), no individual who provides an opioid overdose drug shall be liable for harm caused by the emergency administration of an opioid overdose drug by another individual if the individual who provides such drug-- (1) works for or volunteers at an opioid overdose program; and (2) provides the opioid overdose drug as part of the opioid overdose program to an individual authorized by the program to receive an opioid overdose drug. (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if the harm was caused by the gross negligence or reckless misconduct of the individual who provides the drug. SEC. 7. LIMITATION ON CIVIL LIABILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ADMINISTER OPIOID OVERDOSE DRUGS. (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subsection (b), no individual shall be liable for harm caused by the emergency administration of an opioid overdose drug to an individual who has or reasonably appears to have suffered an overdose from heroin or other opioid, if-- (1) the individual who administers the opioid overdose drug-- (A) obtained the drug from a health care professional or as part of an opioid overdose program; or (B) is doing so pursuant to a prescription for an opioid overdose drug under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 355) or is licensed under section 351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262); and (2) was educated in accordance with section 5(a)(2) by the health care professional or an opioid overdose program. (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to an individual if the harm was caused by the gross negligence or reckless misconduct of the individual who administers the drug.


(A)), by striking ``provide for a reduction by 15 percent'' and all that follows and inserting the following: ``provide-- ``(A) for such cost reporting periods that begin before October 1, 2002, for an adjustment to the cost limits described in section 1861(v)(1)(L) of such Act so that the total amounts payable for such services in a fiscal year is equal to the greater of-- ``(i) the applicable amount (as defined in paragraph (2); or ``(ii) the total amount of payments for such services that would have been made in such fiscal year if such cost limits (as those limits would otherwise be in effect on September 30, 1999) had been reduced by 15 percent; and ``(B) for such cost reporting periods that begin on or after October 1, 2002, for a reduction by 15 percent in such cost limits (as so in effect).''; and (C) by adding at the end the following: ``(2) Applicable amount defined.--In paragraph (1), the term `applicable amount' means the following amount: ``(A) For fiscal year 2000, $21,200,000,000. ``(B) For fiscal year 2001, $23,300,000,000. ``(C) For fiscal year 2002, $25,200,000,000.''. (b) Temporary Restoration of Periodic Interim Payment for Home Health Services.--Section 1815(e)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395g(e)(2)) (as amended by section 4603(b) of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997) is amended-- (1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``and'' at the end; (2) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following: ``(D) home health services until the end of the 12-month period following the date that the prospective payment system for such services is implemented pursuant to section 1895; and''. SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect as if included in the provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to which they apply.


section 48(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by-- (1) deleting ``Portland'' and ``Seattle'' in the item relating to the ninth circuit; and (2) inserting after the item relating to the eleventh circuit the following: ``Twelfth................................ Las Vegas, Phoenix, Anchorage, Missoula, Portland, Seattle.''. SEC. 6. JUDGESHIPS. (a) In General.--Each circuit judge of the former ninth circuit who is in regular active service and whose official duty station on the day before the effective date of this Act is in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Guam, Hawaii, or the Northern Mariana Islands or Nevada shall be a circuit judge of the new ninth circuit as of such effective date. (b) Appointment of Judges for the Twelfth Circuit.--The President shall appoint, by and with the advice of the Senate, 17 circuit judges for the new twelfth circuit, selected from the States assigned to the new twelfth circuit. The official duty station of a judge appointed under this paragraph shall be the locations in the table contained in section 48(a) of title 28, United States Code, as amended by this Act. SEC. 7. ELECTION OF ASSIGNMENT BY SENIOR JUDGES. Each judge who is a senior circuit judge of the former ninth circuit, whose official duty station on the day before the effective date of this Act is in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, or the Northern Mariana Islands, may elect to be assigned to the new ninth circuit or the twelfth circuit as of such effective date and shall notify the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts of such election. SEC. 8. SENIORITY OF JUDGES. The seniority of each judge appointed under section 6(b) shall run from the date of commission of such judge as a judge of the twelfth circuit. SEC. 9. APPLICATION TO CASES. The following apply to any case in which, on the day before the effective date of this Act, an appeal or other proceeding has been filed with the former ninth circuit: (1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), if the matter has been submitted for decision, further proceedings with respect to the matter shall be had in the same manner and with the same effect as if this Act had not been enacted.


If Warren Buffett can do a cartwheel, he’s probably doing one right now, as Apple Inc.’s stock continued its surge and notched yet another record close. The famed billionaire investor’s investment vehicle, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.B, +0.66%, disclosed in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it loaded up on Apple’s stock during the fourth quarter, increasing its stake to 57.36 million shares as of Dec. 31, up from 15.23 million shares as of Sept. 30. Apple’s stock AAPL, +1.30% rose 2.5% during the fourth quarter. But since then, aided by stronger-than-expected first-fiscal-quarter results, reported Jan. 31, the stock has shot up $19.20, or 16.6%, closing Tuesday at a record level for a second straight day. If the stake remained unchanged, Buffett’s Apple shares would be worth $1.1 billion more than they were just a little over six weeks ago. FactSet Among other moves Buffett’s Berkshire made during the fourth quarter, it slashed its stake in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, +1.31% to 1.39 million shares from 12.97 million shares. With the stock down 0.7% so far in 2017, Buffett may have saved $5.33 million by selling Wal-Mart shares. Berkshire also added a new 8.04 million–share stake in Monsanto Co. MON, -0.04%, a new 166.64 million–share bet on Sirius XM Holdings Inc. SIRI, -0.42% and a new 43.2 million–share investment in Southwest Airlines Co. LUV, -0.75%, while selling off his entire 20 million–share stake in Kinder Morgan Inc. KMI, -0.04% and cutting his bet on Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, -0.58% to just 928 shares from 15 million shares. Berkshire more than doubled its stake in American Airlines Group Inc. AAL, -1.77% to 45.54 million shares as of Dec. 31 from 21.77 million shares on Sept. 30. His stake in Delta Air Lines Inc. DAL, -0.40% spiked nearly tenfold to 60.03 million shares from 6.33 million shares during the same time, while


by any person if the aggregate amount of liquid held by such person on such date does not exceed 2,000 gallons. The preceding sentence shall apply only if such person submits to the Secretary (at the time and in the manner required by the Secretary) such information as the Secretary shall require for purposes of this paragraph. (2) Exempt fuel.--For purposes of paragraph (1), there shall not be taken into account fuel held by any person which is exempt from the tax imposed by subsection (a) by reason of subsection (d) or (e). (3) Controlled groups.--For purposes of this section-- (A) Corporations.-- (i) In general.--All persons treated as a controlled group shall be treated as 1 person. (ii) Controlled group.--The term ``controlled group'' has the meaning given to such term by subsection (a) of section 1563 of such Code; except that for such purposes the phrase ``more than 50 percent'' shall be substituted for the phrase ``at least 80 percent'' each place it appears in such subsection. (B) Nonincorporated persons under common control.-- Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, principles similar to the principles of clause (i) shall apply to a group of persons under common control where one or more of such persons is not a corporation. (g) Other Laws Applicable.--All provisions of law, including penalties, applicable with respect to the taxes imposed by chapter 31 or 32 of such Code shall, insofar as applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this section, apply with respect to the floor stock taxes imposed by subsection (a) to the same extent as if such taxes were imposed by such chapter.


Aiming at comparing different morphological models of galaxy clusters, we use two new methods to make a cosmological model-independent test of the distance-duality (DD) relation. The luminosity distances come from Union2 compilation of Supernovae Type Ia. The angular diameter distances are given by two cluster models (De Filippis et al. and Bonamente et al.). The advantage of our methods is that it can reduce statistical errors. Concerning the morphological hypotheses for cluster models, it is mainly focused on the comparison between elliptical $\beta$-model and spherical $\beta$-model. The spherical $\beta$-model is divided into two groups in terms of different reduction methods of angular diameter distances, i.e. conservative spherical $\beta$-model and corrected spherical $\beta$-model. Our results show that the DD relation is consistent with the elliptical $\beta$-model at $1\sigma$ confidence level (CL) for both methods, whereas for almost all spherical $\beta$-model parameterizations, the DD relation can only be accommodated at $3\sigma$ CL, particularly for the conservative spherical $\beta$-model. In order to minimize systematic uncertainties, we also apply the test to the overlap sample, i.e. the same set of clusters modeled by both De Filippis et al. and Bonamente et al.. It is found that the DD relation is compatible with the elliptically modeled overlap sample at $1\sigma$ CL, however for most of the parameterizations, the DD relation can not be accommodated even at $3\sigma$ CL for any of the two spherical $\beta$-models. Therefore it is reasonable that the marked triaxial ellipsoidal model is a better geometrical hypothesis describing the structure of the galaxy cluster compared with the spherical $\beta$-model if the DD relation is valid in cosmological observations.


By Paul Lewis If you agree on the phone or online to pay a firm using a credit or debit card, you will often be authorising a Continuous Payment Authority or CPA. When you do that you give the firm the right to take any amount from your account whenever it chooses to do so. It is a huge power to give – especially to a company you do not know very well, which may be based abroad. CPA on a credit card will appear on your statement like any other payment. If you authorise the CPA on your debit card, the money will be taken directly from your bank account. Some firms will ask for your card number for a free trial – of a gym, a magazine, or a service – without making it completely clear that you are in fact authorising a regular subscription. If you do not specifically cancel the subscription then you will find yourself with a regular commitment. That technique is turned into an out-and-out scam by some foreign firms that charge a low starting fee for health foods or perfumes and then commit you to an expensive monthly subscription. Always check your statement carefully and question any entries you do not recognise. It can seem very difficult to cancel these CPAs and the firms may well insist you have a contract to continue paying. However, you do have an absolute right to stop a CPA with your bank or credit card provider. Once you say you do not authorise any further payments, it must obey that instruction. If it makes another payment after you have cancelled then it has to refund you. Of course, the supplier may still argue about whether you owe them money. Be firm. If you authorise a CPA on your debit card, make sure you have enough money to pay it when it falls due. Items normally paid on a certain date may be taken a bit early or a bit late to fit in with weekends or public holidays. If you go overdrawn because of a CPA, or if a payment bounces, it will be expensive.


We develop a numerical solver for the integral-differential equations, which describes the radiative transfer of photon distribution in the frequency space with resonant scattering of Lyalpha photons by hydrogen gas in the early universe. The time-dependent solutions of this equation is crucial to the estimation of the effect of the Wouthuysen-Field (WF) coupling in relation to the 21 cm emission and absorption at the epoch of reionization. The resonant scattering leads to the photon distribution in the frequency space to be piecewise smooth containing sharp changes. The weighted essentially nonoscillatory (WENO) scheme is suitable to handle this problem, as this algorithm has been found to be highly stable and robust for solving Boltzmann equation. We test this numerical solver against analytic solutions of the evolution of the photon distribution in rest background, analytic solution in expanding background without resonant scattering and formation of local Boltzmann distribution around the resonant frequency with the temperature same as that of atom for recoil. We find that evolution of photon distribution undergoes three phases; profile is similar to the initial one, a flat plateau (without recoil) or local Boltzmann distribution (with recoil) forms around the resonant frequency, and finally the distribution around the resonant frequency is saturated when the photons from the source is balanced by the redshift of the expansion. This result indicates that the onset of the W-F coupling should not be determined by the third phase, but by the time scale of the second phase. We found that the time scale of the W-F coupling is equal to about a few hundreds of the mean free flight time of photons with resonant frequency, and is independent of the Sobolev parameter if this parameter is much less than 1.


If they had a choice, members of the urban poor group Kadamay would not live in government housing projects that looked like a dog’s shelter. “Sinasabi lang lang po natin kung tayo ay may regular na trabaho, may sapat na sahod, baka hindi na natin gustong tumira dun sa malayo e. Mangupahan na lang tayo ng apartment, ng condominium kung meron tayong trabaho na maaayos,” Gloria Arellano, chair of Kadamay, said during the hearing of the Senate committee on urban planning, housing, and resettlement on Tuesday. (What I am saying is if only we had a regular job and sufficient pay, we would not live in a far-flung area. We would just rent an apartment or a condominium unit if we had a decent job.) ADVERTISEMENT “E ang nakakatiis lang po sa ginawa ng NHA e mga mahihirap lang po e, ang liliit at sira sira na. Baka sa inyo, kwarto lang ng alagang aso ‘yung mga ginawa nila doon,” Arellano added. (Only the poor can stomach living in houses built by NHA; they are too small and dilapidated. For you, these houses may look like dog shelter.) Last month, Kadamay occupied the housing units in Bulacan intended for military and police personnel. READ: Homeless take over gov’t housing projects in Bulacan After taking over the housing units, the group is now demanding a permanent and decent work for poor people like them. READ: 2 senators say giving housing units to Kadamay may cause anarchy “Hindi po tamad ang mahihirap. Gusto po namin ng trabaho, ng disenteng trabaho. Tungkulin ng gobyerno na lumika nito kaya hindi pa po tapos ang laban ng maralita. Magkaisa at lumaban,” Arellano said. (The poor are not lazy. We want jobs, decent jobs. It’s the government’s duty to create jobs; the fight of the poor is not over. Let us unite and fight.) When the committee chair, Senator Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito asked if Kadamay members are willing to work to pay for the housing they occupied, Arellano said: “Y


The thermal state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) provides an indirect probe of both the HI and HeII reionisation epochs. Current constraints on the IGM temperature from the Lya forest are restricted to the redshift range 2<z<4.5, limiting the ability to probe the thermal memory of HI reionisation toward higher redshift. In this work, we present the first direct measurement of the IGM temperature around a z=6 quasar by analysing the Doppler widths of Lya absorption lines in the proximity zone of SDSS J0818+1722. We use a high resolution (R= 40000) Keck/HIRES spectrum in combination with detailed numerical modelling to obtain the temperature at mean density, T_0=23600\pm^5000_6900K (\pm^9200_9300K) at 68 (95) per cent confidence assuming a prior probability 13500K<T_0<38500 K following HI and HeII reionisation. This enables us to place an upper limit on the redshift of HI reionisation, z_H, within 33 comoving Mpc of SDSS J0818+1722. If the quasar reionises the HeII in its vicinity, then in the limit of instantaneous reionisation we infer z_H<9.0 (11.0) at 68 (95) per cent confidence assuming photoheating is the dominant heat source and that HI reionisation is driven by ionising sources with soft spectra, typical of population II stars. If the HI and HeII in the IGM around SDSS J0818+1722 are instead reionised simultaneously by a population of massive metal-free stars, characterised by very hard ionising spectra, we obtain a tighter upper limit of z_H<8.4 (9.4). Initiating reionisation at higher redshifts produces temperatures which are too low with respect to our constraint unless the HI ionising sources or the quasar itself have spectra significantly harder than typically assumed.


Happy Fourth of July! Celebrate Independence Day with this fruity star-spangled sangria from lifestyle blog Heart and Seam. From fashion and beauty to wellness and recipes Heart and Seam founder Janet Cooke shares real-life experiences on her blog from her home in New Hampshire -- including her festive and tasty summer sangria recipe. Heart and Seam Lifestyle Blog "This is a fun festive spin on a classic sangria recipe," Cooke told "GMA." "The best part about this recipe is that you can make it in large batches so it's perfect for a Fourth of July cookout where there will be lots of family and friends to enjoy." Check out the full recipe and pour this red, wine and blueberry beverage all day for friends and family. Heart and Seam Lifestyle Blog Ingredients 1 bottle red wine (I like Pinot Noir or Shiraz) 1-1/2 cups cranberry juice 1 cup brandy juice from one large orange 2 cups fresh blueberries 8 ounces fresh strawberries cut in quarters Club soda Directions To a large pitcher add wine, cranberry juice, brandy and orange juice. Add blueberries and strawberries. Chill for a few hours. To serve, fill glasses half full with ice and use a slotted spoon to add fruit from the pitcher to each glass. Pour liquid over ice and fruit, top with club soda and serve. Tips Add raspberries, blackberries and even apples to create even more of a festive drink. Be sure to add the ice to the glasses and not the pitcher itself. You will dilute the sangria if you add directly to the pitcher.


(47 U.S.C. 405) is amended by adding to the end the following: ``(c) Expedited Action Required.-- ``(1) Time limit.--Within 90 days after receiving from a two percent carrier a petition for reconsideration filed under this section or a petition for waiver of a rule, policy, or other Commission requirement, the Commission shall issue an order granting or denying such petition. If the Commission fails to act on a petition for waiver subject to the requirements of this section within this 90-day period, the relief sought in such petition shall be deemed granted. If the Commission fails to act on a petition for reconsideration subject to the requirements of this section within this 90 day period, the Commission's enforcement of any rule the reconsideration of which was specifically sought by the petitioning party shall be stayed with respect to that party until the Commission issues an order granting or denying such petition. ``(2) Finality of action.--Any order issued under paragraph (1), or any grant of a petition for waiver that is deemed to occur as a result of the Commission's failure to act under paragraph (1), shall be a final order and may be appealed.''. (b) Effective Date.--The provisions of this section shall apply with respect to any petition for reconsideration or petition for waiver that is submitted to the Commission on or after the date of enactment of this Act. Pending petitions for reconsideration or petitions for waiver shall be subject to the requirements of this section as if they had been filed on the date of enactment of this Act.


Image copyright Getty Images England fans woke up thinking about only one thing on Wednesday - the fact that football is well and truly coming home. There were scenes of joy in living rooms and pubs across the country, as well as in the streets. Celebs were just as overwhelmed as us by Jordan Pickford's heroics as England won a World Cup match on penalties for the first time. Stormzy was among just two celebs to have their reactions filmed. The rapper was headlining his own festival in Ibiza as the match took place - but stopped it to watch the penalties. Needless to say it went off as Eric Dier's decisive spot-kick went in. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Stormzy on stage at his Merky Festival in Ibiza Elsewhere, Ross Kemp's reaction - filmed topless as well as completely breathless - has got him a lot of attention on social media. It's pretty intense. Little Mix's Jade didn't have time to get an England shirt - but she did have something that very few other England fans had to help with their celebrations. And in the studio in Russia, Ian Wright showed what the last-16 win means to him. Devlin's reaction was Ross Kemp-esque. How can someone look so angry and so happy at the same time? It was a pretty different picture back in Ibiza where Stormzy was - there's no doubting how Dave, Avelino and Michael Dapaah are feeling. As for the rest of us? Well - our celebrations are just as worthy of being written about. If England progress past Sweden on Saturday, who knows what level the celebrations might reach. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.


junior school when I decided that my life wasn't as good as it should have been and I didn't want to live with my dad anymore. "I did try and help him. Loads of people did." She turned to her landlady, Shaz, for help. "I used to stay over at her house, and it was nice because I felt safe enough to talk to her about what was going on. "At first I was scared about what to say, because I didn't want to admit that my dad was on drugs, so I said stuff like'my dad's been acting weird'. "Because she lived next door she saw how my dad was behaving, and she helped me through it." Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Picture posed by model. Today's report suggests that many children in similar situations aren't able to find help and funding for services to help vulnerable young people at an early stage has been cut by 60% since 2010. Over time, Kimberley also sought out help from a social worker at school, and the NSPCC. She now lives with Shaz who she calls her "step-mum", and no longer sees her dad. "I did have one day out with him after I left home, but before long he started shouting at me and stormed off. I haven't spoken to him since. That was a few years ago. "I don't really miss seeing him, because I've realised my life is better now." For help on coping with drug abuse and family problems, visit the BBC Advice pages. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.


Surprisingly, skew derivations rather than ordinary derivations are more basic (important) object in study of the Grassmann algebras. Let $\L_n = K\lfloor x_1, ..., x_n\rfloor$ be the Grassmann algebra over a commutative ring $K$ with ${1/2}\in K$, and $\d$ be a skew $K$-derivation of $\L_n$. It is proved that $\d$ is a unique sum $\d = \d^{ev} +\d^{od}$ of an even and odd skew derivation. Explicit formulae are given for $\d^{ev}$ and $\d^{od}$ via the elements $\d (x_1), ..., \d (x_n)$. It is proved that the set of all even skew derivations of $\L_n$ coincides with the set of all the inner skew derivations. Similar results are proved for derivations of $\L_n$. In particular, $\Der_K(\L_n)$ is a faithful but not simple $\Aut_K(\L_n)$-module (where $K$ is reduced and $n\geq 2$). All differential and skew differential ideals of $\L_n$ are found. It is proved that the set of generic normal elements of $\L_n$ that are not units forms a single $\Aut_K(\L_n)$-orbit (namely, $\Aut_K(\L_n)x_1$) if $n$ is even and two orbits (namely, $\Aut_K(\L_n)x_1$ and $\Aut_K(\L_n)(x_1+x_2... x_n)$) if $n$ is odd.


section 2, shall apply with respect to complaints of unlawful employment discrimination that are filed after the end of the 6-month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act. Any complaint filed before the end of such period shall be resolved in accordance with the procedures in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 4. WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION FOR TITLE 38 EMPLOYEES. (a) In General.-- (1) Application.--Chapter 74 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end of subchapter V the following new section: ``Sec. 7465. Disclosures of violations of law, gross mismanagement, and certain other matters: protection of employees (a) Section 2302(b)(8) of title 5 shall apply with respect to an employee, or applicant for employment, in a position covered by this chapter in the same manner as if that position were a `covered position' within the meaning of section 2302(a)(2)(B) of title 5. ``(b) Subsection (a) shall apply for purposes of applying to such an employee or applicant the provisions of subchapters II and III of chapter 12 of title 5 that relate to any authority to conduct investigations, or to seek or administer any corrective action, disciplinary action, or other remedy in connection with a prohibited personnel practice described in section 2302(b)(8) of such title.''. (2) Table of sections.--The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 7464 the following new item: ``7465. Disclosures of violations of law, gross mismanagement, and certain other matters: protection of employees.''. (b) Effective Date.-- (1) Application.--Subject to paragraph (2), section 7465 of title 38, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to personnel actions occurring before, on, or after the date of enactment of this Act, if an action for relief relating to the personnel action is commenced prior to the applicable deadline. (2) Administrative proceedings.--Such section shall not affect any administrative proceeding pending on the date of enactment of this Act, and orders shall be issued in any such proceeding, and appeals shall be taken from the orders, as if such section had not been enacted.


An aperiodic tile set was first constructed by R. Berger while proving the undecidability of the domino problem. It turned out that aperiodic tile sets appear in many topics ranging from logic (the Entscheidungsproblem) to physics (quasicrystals). We present a new construction of an aperiodic tile set that is based on Kleene's fixed-point construction instead of geometric arguments. This construction is similar to J. von Neumann self-reproducing automata; similar ideas were also used by P. Gacs in the context of error-correcting computations. This construction it rather flexible, so it can be used in many ways: we show how it can be used to implement substitution rules, to construct strongly aperiodic tile sets (any tiling is far from any periodic tiling), to give a new proof for the undecidability of the domino problem and related results, characterize effectively closed 1D subshift it terms of 2D shifts of finite type (improvement of a result by M. Hochman), to construct a tile set which has only complex tilings, and to construct a "robust" aperiodic tile set that does not have periodic (or close to periodic) tilings even if we allow some (sparse enough) tiling errors. For the latter we develop a hierarchical classification of points in random sets into islands of different ranks. Finally, we combine and modify our tools to prove our main result: there exists a tile set such that all tilings have high Kolmogorov complexity even if (sparse enough) tiling errors are allowed.


Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of odd characteristic $p$ and $X$ a proper smooth scheme over the Witt ring $W(k)$. To an object $(M,Fil^{\cdot},\nabla,\Phi)$ in the Faltings category $\mathcal{MF}^{\nabla}_{[0,n]}(X), n\leq p-2$, one associates an \'{e}tale local system $\V$ over the generic fiber of $X$ and a Higgs bundle $(E,\theta)$ over $X$. Our motivation is to find the analogue of the classical Simpson correspondence for the categories of subobjects of $\V$ and $(E,\theta)$. Our main discovery in this paper is the notion of periodic Higgs subbundles, both in positive characteristic and in mixed characteristic. In char $p$, it relies on the inverse Cartier transform constructed by Ogus and Vologodsky in their work on the char $p$ nonabelian Hodge theory. A lifting of the inverse Cartier transform to mixed characteristic is constructed, which is used for the notion of periodicity in mixed characteristic. We show a one to one correspondence between the set of periodic Higgs subbundles of $(E,\theta)$ and the set of \'{e}tale sub local systems of $\V\otimes_{\Z_{p}}\Z_{p^r}$, where $r$ is a natural number. The notion turns out to be useful in applications. We have proven, among other results, that the reduction $(E,\theta)_0$ of $(E,\theta)$ modulo $p$ is Higgs stable, if and only if, the corresponding representation $\V$ is absolutely irreducible over $k$.


Funds Not To Avoid Penalty.--Paragraph (4) of section 527(i) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to failure to notify) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term `exempt function income' means any amount described in a subparagraph of subsection (c)(3), whether or not segregated for use for an exempt function.'' (b) Procedures for Assessment and Collection of Penalty.--Paragraph (1) of section 527(j) of such Code (relating to required disclosure of expenditures and contributions) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``For purposes of subtitle F, the penalty imposed by this paragraph shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as penalties imposed by section 6652(c).'' (c) Application of Fraud Penalty.--Section 7207 of such Code (relating to fraudulent returns, statements, and other documents) is amended by striking ``pursuant to subsection (b) of section 6047 or pursuant to subsection (d) of section 6104'' and inserting ``pursuant to section 6047(b), section 6104(d), or subsection (i) or (j) of section 527''. (d) Duplicate Electronic and Written Filings Not Required.-- (1) Subparagraph (A) of section 527(i)(1) of such Code is amended by striking ``, electronically and in writing,''. (2) Subsection (i) of section 527 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(7) Electronic filing.--The Secretary shall develop procedures for submission in electronic form of notices required to be filed under this subsection and reports required to be filed under subsection (j).'' (e) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the amendments made by Public Law 106-230.


is in the form of a treaty under article II, section 2, clause 2 of the Constitution of the United States; or (2) an agreement that requires implementing legislation to be enacted into law for the agreement to enter into force with respect to the United States. SEC. 6. DISCLOSURE OF AND REPORT ON RUSSIAN FEDERATION SUPPORT OF BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAMS OF CHINA, SYRIA, IRAN, AND NORTH KOREA. (a) Disclosure of Support.--The President shall seek to encourage the Government of the Russian Federation to disclose any support by the Russian Federation or Russian entities for the ballistic missile programs of the People's Republic of China, Syria, Iran, or North Korea. (b) Report Required.--The President shall submit to the congressional defense committees a semi-annual report on any disclosure by the Government of the Russian Federation of any such support during the preceding 6-month period. (c) Initial Report.--The initial report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and in addition to addressing any such support during the preceding 6-month period shall also address any such support during the 10-year period ending on the date of the enactment of this Act. (d) Form.--The report required by subsection (b) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex, if necessary. SEC. 7. CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES DEFINED. In this Act, the term ``congressional defense committees'' has the meaning given that term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.


combination of approaches); (B) standards to assess volume growth; and (C) how volume control policies should be implemented, including the extent to which the policies should be codified in law. (2) The report shall address the appropriate level of discretion for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make necessary adjustments to alter physician payments or otherwise intervene to affect provider behavior. (3) The report shall also include findings and recommendations on the work of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Relative Value Update Committee (RUC), including-- (A) whether the current pricing system accurately reflects resource costs; (B) whether adjustments should be made to practice expense to better estimate marginal cost; (C) identification and review of overvalued services; (D) the effectiveness of the five-year review process; (E) comparison of relative values among categories of services; (F) the ability for such Centers to develop and utilize external resources (including as medical directors from carriers or health plans) to determine appropriate pricing; (G) strategies that should be available to such Centers to make adjustments to payments when necessary; (H) any additional recommendations for reforming the current pricing system, such as whether bases other than resource costs should be considered in determining the relative value of services in the physician fee schedule; and (I) the extent to which alternative payment methods should be used for certain types of providers or patients (such as payment by episode and payment by capitation or partial capitation). (4) The report shall evaluate the effect that Medicare and private plan payment policies have on the development and maintenance of the physician workforce. SEC. 4. REPEAL OF MEDICARE COST CONTAINMENT PROVISIONS. Subtitle A of title X of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 is repealed and the provisions of law amended by such subtitle are restored as if such subtitle had not been enacted.


The video will start in 8 Cancel Get Daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email The Met Office has issued another weather update and is now forecasting heavy snow for Crawley for this afternoon. The forecast has changed repeatedly over the last 12 hours - with heavy snow having initially been forecast for this morning's rush hour. The latest update says there is a 60% chance of snow between 1pm and 2pm, which turns to 90% between 2pm and 3pm. It then drops once again to 60% until 4pm, after which the snow is supposed to die down. Temperatures will rarely exceed freezing, and the cold winds will make it feel more like -6°c. There is a yellow weather warning for snow and ice on roads and pavements until 4pm today (Monday), which is then replaced with a yellow ice warning until 11am tomorrow morning (Tuesday). The warning says: “Some injuries are possible from slips and falls on icy surfaces and there will probably be some icy patches on untreated roads and cycle paths. “Some roads and railways are likely to be affected with longer and more difficult journeys.” The snow and ice has already caused severe disruption nationwide on all forms of public transport, with trains, buses and flights all experiencing delays and cancellations. And on the roads, ice and snow is causing delays for commuters, and the cold weather is causing breakdowns, with a reported 25,000 occurring on Sunday. Please be careful when leaving your house, and be sure to wear enough clothing if going outside for a prolonged period as temperatures are not set to rise any time soon.


Secretary, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Secretary, the amount of the tax imposed by this chapter which is submitted to such State under subsection (a) and a copy of the State tax return of each employer making such a submission. The Secretary may, after consultation with such organizations or other entities as the Secretary considers appropriate, prescribe regulations requiring that additional information be submitted by such State with respect to the amount of such tax payable by such employer.'' (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for chapter 23 of such Code is amended by striking the item relating to section 3311 and inserting the following new items: ``Sec. 3311. State collection of tax. ``Sec. 3312. Short title.'' (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to calendar years beginning after December 31, 2004. SEC. 303. REQUIRED DISTRIBUTION OF STATE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION PACKETS. (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 3304 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to approval of State laws) is amended by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (18), by striking the period at the end of paragraph (19) and inserting ``; and'', and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(20) the State will distribute to unemployed individuals State-specific information packets explaining unemployment insurance eligibility conditions.'' (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to certifications of States for 2005, except that section 3304(a)(20) of such Code, as added by subsection (a), shall not be a requirement for the State law of any State prior to July 1, 2006, if the legislature of such State does not meet in a regular session which closes during the calendar year 2005.


(A) New buildings constructed on the premises shall have setbacks as follows: (i) 100 feet from any lake or river. (ii) 50 feet from any side or back lot line or any road centerline. (B) Requiring a minimum lot size equal to the lesser of 5 acres or the size of the parcel conveyed. (C) Improvements on the premises shall be maintained in a good state of repair and the premises shall be kept clean and orderly. No accumulation or dumping of trash or unsightly materials shall be permitted on the land. Any trash or refuse shall be disposed of as required by State or local laws and regulations. (D) Owners of the land and operators of any business thereon shall comply with all Federal, State, and local laws and regulations applicable to the land or any use thereof. (E) Any new or remodeled buildings, or additions thereto, shall be constructed and maintained on the premises in harmony with the color, design, and type of construction of buildings presently located on the lands. (F) No material shall be disposed of on the land by burning in open fires during any closed season established by law or regulation without a written permit as required by law or regulation. (G) No waste or by-product shall be discarded into any surface water or onto any land surface in violation of Federal, State, or local regulation. (H) The land shall not be used for any purpose other than single family residences, resorts, lodges, outfitters, and normal accessory uses. (2) Preserve any rights-of-way or easements reasonably necessary for public and administrative access to, and management of, adjacent National Forest System lands. (3) Preserve any archaeological sites or valid existing private property rights on the land. (d) Map.--The map described in section 3 along with legal descriptions of all lands to be conveyed, shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture. The maps and legal descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in the Act, except that the Secretary may correct clerical and typographical errors.


The jobless 30-year-old who still lives in his parents’ home is scrambling to pack up his mess of a room as eviction day looms — and he deals with his newfound notoriety. Michael Rotondo is coming off a whirlwind week of media interviews and a trip to Texas to appear on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ radio show for $3,000 after the story of his parents suing to evict him went viral. But now, Rotondo has only three days — Friday at noon — to leave his parents’ place in Camillus he’s called home for the past eight years. “Looking around my room and stuff, how much more is all this going to take to pack?” Rotondo told Syracuse.com after schlepping to a Lowe’s to buy $30-worth of boxes and tape. He’ll keep his belongings – piles of books, crumpled clothing, a computer and a bed, according to a photo of his disheveled room – in a self-storage unit until he finds a new place to stay. “There’s no more urgency after that,” he added. “Everything else is just finding a long-term place.” Rotondo said he’s looking for “someplace inexpensive, with internet.” The unemployed father of one has been mooching off his parents Mark and Christina for the past eight years and showed no signs of moving out until they sued him earlier this month. The familial spat garnered international headlines and Rotondo shot to overnight infamy, appearing on Fox News, CNN and even earning a paycheck from Jones last Friday. A Home Depot employee also offered to pay for Rotondo’s moving expenses after he complained he was too broke to fly the coop but he declined. “Alex Jones makes money for having me on his show,” Rotondo explained. The woman “does not,” he told Syracuse.com. But with his newfound celebrity has come “harassing” phone calls, Rotondo claimed. On Monday, someone with a blocked phone number called his cell and muttered, “Loser,” before hanging up. Rotondo called 911. “I can’t have my phone getting jammed up with nonsense like that,” he said. “I can’t have that happen.” Police responded to his complaint that afternoon but it’s unclear what, if any, action was taken.


Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 321) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``(rr) The term `comparative clinical effectiveness' means the clinical outcomes, effectiveness, safety, and clinical appropriateness of a drug or device in comparison to 1 or more drugs or devices, respectively, approved to prevent, diagnose, or treat the same health condition for the same patient demographic subpopulation, on the basis of research that meets standards adopted by the Secretary under section 4 of the Informed Health Care Decision Making Act.''. (b) Labeling and Advertising Information.--Section 502 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 352) is amended-- (1) in subsection (f), by striking ``for use; and (2)'' and inserting ``for use; (2) such information in brief summary relating to comparative clinical effectiveness as shall be required in regulations which shall be issued by the Secretary in accordance with the procedure specified in section 701(a); and (3)''; (2) in subsection (n)(3), by striking ``and effectiveness'' and inserting ``effectiveness, and comparative clinical effectiveness (or a disclosure that there is no such information relating to comparative clinical effectiveness if another drug has been approved for the same use),''; and (3) in subsection (r)-- (A) by striking ``In the case of any'' and inserting ``(1) In the case of any''; (B) by striking ``(1) a true'' and inserting ``(A) a true''; (C) by striking ``(2) a brief'' and inserting ``(B) a brief''; and (D) by striking ``and contraindications'' and inserting ``contraindications, and, if appropriate after taking into consideration the type of device, effectiveness and comparative clinical effectiveness (or a disclosure that there is no such information relating to comparative clinical effectiveness if another device has been approved for the same use)''.


If Travis Stork has learned anything, it's that sometimes you just have to leap. Twenty-five years ago, the host of "The Doctors" didn't even know he wanted to be a doctor — let alone that he would end up on TV as "The Bachelor" and become one of television's best-known doctors. "To say I had zero intention of ever being in front of a camera would be an overstatement," he says. Stork was working as an actuarial consultant after college when he volunteered at a medical clinic and found his true calling for medicine. His calling to TV came later — he was discovered after an ER shift by producers who were auditioning potential bachelorettes nearby. "I literally went to dinner and then a month later I was in Paris in a castle as the Bachelor," he says. "It happened so quickly that I think the lesson I learned in that is sometimes you just have to take chances in life. … If you want your life to be an adventure, it can be." More than a decade later, and single again, Stork is in season 9 of hosting "The Doctors," with a new book out, "The Lose Your Belly Diet: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life." He reflected on his path with NBC News' BETTER. Here he is in his own words: An Unlikely Sex Symbol My nickname when I was growin' up was Stork the Dork. And I was really small and sickly.... I grew a foot in I think less than a year. So I was the small little guy, smallest guy in the class, and then one day I grew like a beanstalk. And now I'm almost 6'4".... I tell kids all the time, "Find something you're passionate about, do it with reckless abandon and don't worry about what the cool people are doing." Because the cool people, usually deep down, are incredibly insecure. Finding His Passion I volunteered at a medical clinic in D.C. and I realized that I was missing something: the interpersonal interaction, that connection that you have with other humans. And so a few years after college I went back and did all of my post-baccalaureate classes while I was working during the day. And next thing you know, I'm in medical school. So that journey alone was the one I'm the most proud of, because I had a career set out in front of me, working


The ionization fraction plays a key role in the chemistry and dynamics of molecular clouds. We study the H13CO+, DCO+ and HOC+ line emission towards the Horsehead, from the shielded core to the UV irradiated cloud edge, i.e., the Photodissociation Region (PDR), as a template to investigate the ionization fraction gradient in molecular clouds. We analyze a PdBI map of the H13CO+ J=1-0 line, complemented with IRAM-30m H13CO+ and DCO+ higher-J line maps and new HOC+ and CO+ observations. We compare self-consistently the observed spatial distribution and line intensities with detailed depth-dependent predictions of a PDR model coupled with a nonlocal radiative transfer calculation. The chemical network includes deuterated species, 13C fractionation reactions and HCO+/HOC+ isomerization reactions. The role of neutral and charged PAHs in the cloud chemistry and ionization balance is investigated. The detection of HOC+ reactive ion towards the Horsehead PDR proves the high ionization fraction of the outer UV irradiated regions, where we derive a low [HCO+]/[HOC+]~75-200 abundance ratio. In the absence of PAHs, we reproduce the observations with gas-phase metal abundances, [Fe+Mg+...], lower than 4x10(-9) (with respect to H) and a cosmic-rays ionization rate of zeta=(5+/-3)x10(-17) s(-1). The inclusion of PAHs modifies the ionization fraction gradient and increases the required metal abundance. The ionization fraction in the Horsehead edge follows a steep gradient, with a scale length of ~0.05 pc (or ~25''), from [e-]~10(-4) (or n_e ~ 1-5 cm(-3)) in the PDR to a few times ~10(-9) in the core. PAH^- anions play a role in the charge balance of the cold and neutral gas if substantial amounts of free PAHs are present ([PAH] >10(-8)).


itory nostalgic thing that brought people back into Pokemania," Samantha says. "They [Nintendo] saw a surge of new players that maybe hadn't picked up a Pokemon game for 20 years and wanted to get back in." Let's Go includes significant crossovers with Pokemon Go, which has received over 750 million mobile downloads to date. Players will be able to transfer caught Pokémon from the mobile game into the Switch experience. "I think Nintendo saw the success of Pokemon Go and wanted to cash in on it," Samantha says. Nintendo also confirmed that an "all-new core series" title is in development, which will continue the tradition of in-depth Pokemon RPGs begun by Red and Blue in 1996. Some Pokemon fans have reacted positively to the news online, but those who are passingly familiar with the brand will have to be convinced to buy a Nintendo Switch to play. The decision to release these new Pokemon games aims to dismantle any barriers to entry for those without a Switch by tempting them to purchase a Switch ahead of the core RPG launch next year. "Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu have the Pokemon you know," Samantha says. "My Mum even knows who Pikachu is - she can't spell it, but she knows who Pikachu is - and that's the sort of experience they want to deliver people sort of to wean them back into the experience and maybe even get a few more people playing on Switch too." Nintendo remains tight-lipped on how Let's Go will actually play for now, with more information expected in the coming months. Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.


) Extreme fire risk.--Areas determined to be extremely vulnerable to wildfire based on a combination of fire history, weather patterns, topography, accessibility, visitor intensity, and fuel loads. (3) Secretaries.--The term ``Secretaries'' means the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 4. DECLARATION OF EMERGENCY. The United States Congress declares the reduction of natural fuels, on Federal lands within the State of California identified as extreme fire risk, to constitute an emergency action to prevent or to reduce risk to public health or safety or to serious resource loss, for the duration of the drought as determined by the Secretaries. Notwithstanding direction in land management plans, Congress directs the Federal agencies to work cooperatively with State agencies to immediately identify areas of extreme fire risk and take immediate action to reduce natural fuels. Congress authorizes the use of emergency fire suppression funds to reduce natural fuels in such areas provided reductions in the Sierra forests are consistent with the fuels management guidelines of the California Spotted Owl EA or subsequent EIS. In areas identified as requiring additional treatments due to drought or pest infestation on National forest lands, the Forest Service is directed to prepare a budget request declaring an emergency, pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. SEC. 5. STRATEGIC FIRE PLAN AND BUDGET. The Federal agencies are further directed to prepare, in consultation and coordination with other federal agencies and the State of California, a strategic fire plan and annual budget. The plan and budget shall be submitted to Congress by March 1, 1995 for inclusion in the 1996 appropriations request with a supplemental appropriations request, if needed, for 1995 funding of natural fuels treatment.


The paper comments on properties of the so-called "Unified approach to the construction of classical confidence intervals", in which confidence intervals are computed in a Neyman construction using the likelihood ratio as ordering quantity. In particular, two of the main results of a paper by Feldman and Cousins (F&C) are discussed. It is shown that in the case of central intervals the so-called flip-flopping problem, occuring in the specific scenario where the experimenter decides to quote a standard upper limit or a confidence interval depending on the measurement, can be easily avoided by choosing appropriate confidence levels for the standard upper limits and confidence intervals. In the F&C paper "upper limit" is defined as the upper edge of a confidence interval, whose lower edge coincides with the physical limit. With this definition of upper limit (F&C limit), in an approach which uses the likelihood ratio as ordering quantity, two-sided confidence intervals automatically change over to "upper limits" as the signal becomes weaker (Unified approach). In the present paper it is pointed out that this behaviour is not a special property of this approach, because approaches with other ordering principles, like central intervals, symmetric intervals or highest-probability intervals, exhibit the same behaviour. The Unified approach is presented in the F&C paper as a solution to the flip-flopping problem. This might suggest that the F&C limit is a standard upper limit. In order to exclude any misunderstanding, it is proposed in the present paper to call the F&C limit "upper edge of the confidence interval", even if its lower edge coincides with the physical limit.


If you own a Sony Xperia XA1, Sony Xperia XA1 Plus or Sony Xperia XA1 Ultra smartphone, chances are you can now update your devices to the Android 8.0 Oreo software update. Announced last year in September, the Sony Xperia XA1 family came as Xperia XA1, Xperia XA1 Plus, and Xperia XA1 Ultra, powered by Google's Android 7.0 (Nougat) operating system, but Sony promised that it would offer the Android 8.0 (Oreo) release via a future software update, though no release date was given. Now, Xperia Blog reports that owners of the Sony Xperia XA1, Xperia XA1 Plus, and Xperia XA1 Ultra smartphones can now finally update to the Android 8.0 Oreo operating system, which introduces numerous new features and improvements. The update also includes February 2018's Android Security Patch level. Sony Xperia XA1 owners can finally enjoy Android Oreo With this significant software update, Sony Xperia XA1 owners can finally enjoy Android Oreo's enhancements, including Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode, background limits for apps, Android Instant Apps, smart text selection, Autofill improvements, notification dots, and numerous stability and security fixes. Android Oreo also brings Night Light, new emojis, app shortcuts and widgets, a new Settings menu, Google Play Protect, Wi-Fi Aware, new battery features, scalable icons for a more unified look, smaller persistent notifications, revamped Quick Settings, as well as the ability to snooze notifications. Without any further ado, go ahead an update your Sony Xperia XA1, Xperia XA1 Plus or Xperia XA1 Ultra smartphone to the Android 8.0 Oreo operating system right now to receive all these goodies. The build number of the Android 8.0.0 Oreo update is 48.1.A.0.116, which upgrades the 48.0.A.1.131 firmware based on Android 7.0 Nougat. With the Android 8.0 Oreo update now rolling out to the Sony Xperia XA1 family, we're hoping that Sony will also prepare the Android 8.1 Oreo incremental update in the coming weeks. Until then, let us know if you managed to install Android Oreo on your Sony Xperia XA1, XA1 Plus or XA1 Ultra and how it works


Based on the results of Chen & Li (2009) and Pakmor et al. (2010), we carried out a series of binary population synthesis calculations and considered two treatment of common envelope (CE) evolution, i.e. $\alpha$-formalism and $\gamma$-algorithm. We found that the evolution of birth rate of these peculiar SNe Ia is heavily dependent on how to treat the CE evolution. The over-luminous SNe Ia may only occur for $\alpha$-formalism with low CE ejection efficiency and the delay time of the SNe Ia is between 0.4 and 0.8 Gyr. The upper limit of the contribution rate of the supernovae to all SN Ia is less than 0.3%. The delay time of sub-luminous SNe Ia from equal-mass DD systems is between 0.1 and 0.3 Gyr for $\alpha$-formalism with $\alpha=3.0$, while longer than 9 Gyr for $\alpha=1.0$. The range of the delay time for $\gamma$-algorithm is very wide, i.e. longer than 0.22 Gyr, even as long as 15 Gyr. The sub-luminous SNe Ia from equal-mass DD systems may only account for no more than 1% of all SNe Ia observed. The super-Chandrasekhar mass model of Chen & Li (2009) may account for a part of 2003fg-like supernovae and the equal-mass DD model developed by Pakmor et al. (2010) may explain some 1991bg-like events, too. In addition, based on the comparison between theories and observations, including the birth rate and delay time of the 1991bg-like events, we found that the $\gamma$-algorithm is more likely to be an appropriate prescription of the CE evolution of DD systems than the $\alpha$-formalism if the equal-mass DD systems is the progenitor of 1991bg-like SNe Ia.


of what his daughters endured at the hands of Nassar until he listened to their accounts in court. A tall, burly man with thick gray hair, Margraves said his relationship with his daughters had long been "strained, distant and difficult. Now I know the main reason. The reason was Larry Nassar." "Now I have to deal with the fact that I failed to protect my daughters," he added. The courtroom disturbance came after Margraves, standing alongside his daughters and wife, asked if Judge Janice Cunningham, as part of sentencing, would "grant me five minutes in a locked room" with Nassar. The judge replied that was not an option and rebuked Margraves for his vulgar language in calling Nassar "a son of a bitch" in court. Margraves then asked for one minute alone instead. The judge demurred again as some in the courtroom laughed uncomfortably. The father then bolted towards Nassar, seated in an orange jump suit behind a nearby table. Margraves' daughters' hands flew to their mouths, and one of Nassar's lawyers moved to shield his client. 'WHAT IF THIS HAPPENED TO YOU?' Gasps, cries and shouts filled the courtroom as Margraves was wrestled to the floor, knocking items off a desk on the way down before he was handcuffed, while Nassar was whisked to safety. "One minute!" Margraves demanded repeatedly, his head pinned down. As uniformed officers pulled him from the courtroom, he implored them, "What if this happened to you guys?" The judge then ordered a recess. The attempted attack underscored the anguish Nassar's abuse has caused his victims' parents, some of whom were present in the doctor's exam room even as Nassar, unbeknownst to them, was molesting their children. Several have spoken in court about the guilt they feel for exposing their children to a sexual predator. "I failed my own daughter," Lynn Erickson said tearfully in court on Friday, as her daughter Ashley, one of Nassar's victims, wiped away tears. Margraves' daughters had also described the impact on their parents. At Nassar's first sentencing hearing last month, his oldest daughter Morgan said her father "went out driving to look for him around East Lansing" after news of his abuse broke. "I'm not exactly sure what he would have done if he saw him," she said.


if not carried out, by the Emirati government. Emirati activist Ahmed Mansoor became famous in August 2016 when he worked with security experts to reveal three previously undisclosed weaknesses in Apple's mobile operating system after he was allegedly targeted with a phishing text message he didn't open. Mansoor and others believed the United Arab Emirates was behind the attack, as it involved so-called "zero day" exploits — flaws in programming that hackers can use to potentially install spyware or gain control of a system — that can be worth over a million dollars each. Mansoor was arrested by UAE authorities last March for his online posts. Authorities later said he was being held at Abu Dhabi's central prison and had "the freedom to hire a lawyer" and receive family visits. Another hacking campaign targeting Mansoor and others, dubbed "Stealth Falcon," also appeared to be coordinated by the government, said Bill Marczak, a research fellow at Citizen Lab. DarkMatter's close work with the Emirati government, and the experience of its staff, raised flags about the company, Marczak said. "When you're talking about human rights activists like Ahmed Mansoor... there's nothing he can do and the government gets access to him and his contacts and then can take further actions against his contacts," he said. "It's one thing to use them against people you may think are committing terrorist acts or criminal acts, but using them against someone who is just kind of sitting around their living room tweeting, it seems kind of disproportionate." Al-Bannai said DarkMatter had no depository of "zero day" exploits, nor did it take part in so-called "offensive hacking." He pointed to one of the company's signature products, a secure mobile phone called "Katim," or "silence" in Arabic, as showing the firm's interest in defensive technology. He added that DarkMatter hired CIA, NSA and other ex-government employees for their experience. "If you think an NSA guy is a spooky guy, the NSA guy is the one protecting you in the U.S.," al-Bannai said. "These are not the bad guys." He did, however, acknowledge that questions remain about how much information authorities should have and be able to use. Pegasus, a DarkMatter subsidiary, now has a "big data" contract with Dubai police. An example offered by al-Bannai suggested police could be able to pool hours of surveillance


2119(c) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300aa-19(c)) is amended by striking ``not less often than four times per year and''. SEC. 9. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO TRUST FUND PROVISION. Section 9510(c)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``(as in effect'' and all that follows through ``for vaccine-related injury or death'' and inserting ``(as in effect on the effective date of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2003) for vaccine-related injury or death''. SEC. 10. INCREASE IN LIMIT ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. (a) Increase in Limit on Administrative Expenses.--Section 9510(c)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``(but not in excess of $9,500,000 for any fiscal year)'' and inserting ``(but not in excess of $10,000,000 for any fiscal year)''. (b) Administrative Expenses of Bureau of Public Debt.--Section 9510(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by section 9 and subsection (a), is further amended-- (1) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking ``or'' at the end; (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the period at the end and inserting ``, and''; and (3) by adding at the end the following: ``(C) the payment of administrative and personnel expenses that the Bureau of the Public Debt incurs for financial services for the Trust Fund.''. SEC. 11. PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CAMPAIGN. Section 2110(c) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300aa- 10(c)) is amended by striking the period at the end and inserting ``, including by conducting a public service announcement campaign.''. SEC. 12. APPLICATION. The provisions of and amendments made by sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 apply to a petition filed under section 2111 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300aa-11) if the petition is pending on or filed after the date of the enactment of this Act.


Important contributions to meson-nucleus scattering are produced by terms in the multiple-scattering series, which is defined as the sum of all diagrams where the meson scatters back and forth between a pair of static nucleons before leaving the nucleus. In particular, the sum of this series is needed for an accurate description of kaon-deuteron scattering, and appears as part of the nucleon-nucleon potential. In this article we present some effective-field-theory (EFT)-based insights into this series in the case of two-nucleon systems. In particular, we discuss the fact that, if meson-nucleon scattering is approximated by the scattering-length term, individual terms of the series are divergent, and enhanced with respect to the straightforward expectation from chiral perturbation theory ($\chi$PT). This apparently indicates the presence of similarly enhanced counterterms. However, we show that when the series is resummed the divergences cancel, such that no additional information on short-range interactions is needed to obtain predictions for observables after resummation. We discuss the conditions under which this resummation is justified. We show that the same issues arise in the $NN$ potential, where the resummed series produces poles whose appearance indicates the breakdown scale of the $\chi$PT expansion for that quantity. This demonstrates unequivocally that $\chi$PT cannot be applied to compute $V(r)$ for distances smaller than $r \sim 1$ fm at least in the theory without explicit Delta(1232) degrees of freedom. We briefly discuss whether this bound can be lowered if the Delta resonance is included in the EFT as an explicit degree of freedom.


The Nernst effect has recently proven a sensitive probe for detecting unusual normal state properties of unconventional superconductors. In particular, it may sensitively detect Fermi surface reconstructions which are connected to a charge or spin density wave (SDW) ordered state, and even fluctuating forms of such a state. Here we summarize recent results for the Nernst effect of the iron pnictide superconductor $\rm LaO_{1-x}F_xFeAs$, whose ground state evolves upon doping from an itinerant SDW to a superconducting state, and the cuprate superconductor $\rm La_{1.8-x}Eu_{0.2}Sr_xCuO_4$ which exhibits static stripe order as a ground state competing with the superconductivity. In $\rm LaO_{1-x}F_xFeAs$, the SDW order leads to a huge Nernst response, which allows to detect even fluctuating SDW precursors at superconducting doping levels where long range SDW order is suppressed. This is in contrast to the impact of stripe order on the normal state Nernst effect in $\rm La_{1.8-x}Eu_{0.2}Sr_xCuO_4$. Here, though signatures of the stripe order are detectable in the temperature dependence of the Nernst coefficient, its overall temperature dependence is very similar to that of $\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, where stripe order is absent. The anomalies which are induced by the stripe order are very subtle and the enhancement of the Nernst response due to static stripe order in $\rm La_{1.8-x}Eu_{0.2}Sr_xCuO_4$ as compared to that of the pseudogap phase in $\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$, if any, is very small.


If the peculiar motion of galaxy groups and clusters indeed resembles that of the surrounding baryons, then the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) pattern of those massive halos should be closely correlated to the kSZ pattern of all surrounding electrons. Likewise, it should also be correlated to the CMB E-mode polarization field generated via Thomson scattering after reionization. We explore the cross-correlation of the kSZ generated in groups and clusters to the all sky E-mode polarization in the context of upcoming CMB experiments like Planck, ACT, SPT or APEX. We find that this cross-correlation is effectively probing redshifts below $z=3-4$ (where most of baryons cannot be seen), and that it arises in the very large scales ($l<10$). The significance with which this cross-correlation can be measured depends on the Poissonian uncertainty associated to the number of halos where the kSZ is measured and on the accuracy of the kSZ estimations themselves. Assuming that Planck can provide a cosmic variance limited E-mode polarization map at $l<20$ and S/N $\sim 1$ kSZ estimates can be gathered for all clusters more massive than $10^{14} M_{\odot}$, then this cross-correlation should be measured at the 2--3 $\sigma$ level. Further, if an all-sky ACT or SPT type CMB experiment provides similar kSZ measurements for all halos above $10^{13} M_{\odot}$, then the cross-correlation total signal to noise (S/N) ratio should be at the level of 4--5. A detection of this cross-correlation would provide direct and definite evidence of bulk flows and missing baryons simultaneously.


Over the past few days, a fun if implausible rumor has spread about Kid Rock being named as a potential Republican candidate for Debbie Stabenow’s Senate seat, which the Democrat has held since 2000. Judging from the headlines of local news outlets and Roll Call, you’d think Rock was seriously being considered for the roll, but alas the entire thing can be traced back to a quote by a single Tea Party operative in the state. The Detroit Free Press first reported the story on Saturday as part of a larger article about the discussions to retake the seat at a Michigan Republican Party convention last weekend. From the Free Press: Wes Nakagiri, a Livingston County Tea Party activist who was elected to the party’s central committee Friday night, said Kid Rock, who endorsed President Donald Trump, “has name I.D., is an out-of-the-box idea, and would kind of get rid of that stodgy Republican image.” The Trump candidacy could be “a template” for a Kid Rock candidacy, and “I’ll bet you he would generate as much excitement as Trump did,” Nakagiri told the Free Press. Those quotes were picked up two days later by local affiliates for ABC and CBS, both of which went with headlines that appeared to take Nakagiri seriously: “Could Kid Rock launch a campaign to take Debbie Stabenow’s Senate seat?” and “Kid Rock’s Name Tossed Out For Possible Senate Run.” One day later, national politics publication Roll Call published the story with the headline “Kid Rock Eyed as Potential Senate Candidate.” While Nakagiri is certainly active in Republican politics in Michigan—he ran for lieutenant governor in 2014, was one of the delegates from the state for the 2016 Republican National Convention, and was recently elected to the state party’s central committee—it seems safe to say that Kid Rock’s potential candidacy for Senate is just a rumor that, three days after it began, still hasn’t been addressed by Rock’s representatives. That said, we hope he runs, if only so we can all relive the glass dildo Insane Clown Posse controversy.


the United States. (b) Modification of Allocation.--If the Secretary and the Counties determine the public interest will be better served thereby, they may agree to modify the precise water allocation made pursuant to this section or to enter into cooperative agreements (with or without reimbursement) to use, share, or otherwise administer such water rights and associated facilities as they determine appropriate. SEC. 8. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. (a) Time Requirement for Completing Transfer.--If the Counties make a timely offer, pursuant to section 2(a), the transfers of lands authorized and directed by this Act shall be completed no later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Boundary Modifications.--The Secretary and the Counties may mutually agree to make modifications of the final boundary between tracts A and B prior to completion of the exchange authorized by this Act if such modifications are determined to better serve mutual objectives than the precise boundaries as set forth in the maps referenced in this Act. (c) Tract A Easement.--The transfer of tract A to the Counties shall be subject to the existing highway easement to the State of Colorado and to any other right, title, or interest of record. (d) Validity.--If any provision of this Act or the application thereof is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and application thereof, except for the precise provision held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. (e) Forest Headquarters and Administrative Offices.--The White River National Forest headquarters and administrative office in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, are hereby transferred from the jurisdiction of the United States General Services Administration to the jurisdiction of the Secretary, who shall retain such facilities unless and until otherwise provided by subsequent Act of Congress.


If you’re a business owner or manager, holiday marketing is something that you probably should have thought of months ago. Marketing plans should technically be in place 6-12 months in advance. This allows for planning, budgeting, and the ability to add a new idea or event without panicking. Play Facebook Twitter Embed How retailers can prep for holiday shoppers 4:42 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog The reality though is that a lot of businesses only develop their marketing plans few weeks in advance. So with Q4 looming, here are a few tricks to boost your holiday marketing efforts. Form a Marketing Partnership The old adage “team work makes the dream work” rings true even with marketing. Find another business to collaborate with for an event or joint marketing effort. Pick a business with a bigger social media presence or email mailing list than you, so that you can leverage the business’s broader reach. Then offer a complete marketing plan and offer to do most of the heavy lifting like event descriptions, clean up, and hosting to make it easy for them to say yes. Capture Your Customer’s Dollar Early Get customers through your doors before the holiday craze begins, and incentivize them to purchase early. Offer discounts, deals, preview nights, VIP customer access and more as a way to bring them into your business. Invite customers onto your site with a value proposition that is meaningful for them. For example, if you’re a bakery, host a free class on how to decorate cookies. If you’re a brewery, maybe it’s a beer tasting. Once customers are through your doors find ways to get them to spend money right away or soon after the event. Use the time that you have with them to promote whatever holiday specials, products or services you offer. Don’t wait for the customer to get into the holiday mood. It’s your job to get them there. Get Your Staff Involved Your staff should have a specific daily sales goal for Q4. If you’re a retailer, try to add on one item to every sale they ring up. If you’re a restaurant, make it a goal to have every table order at least 1 dessert. If you’re a gym, try to get every member to buy a one-month package for their loved one. Keep the goal simple and specific. Make sure your staff knows what the goal is and give tips on how to execute. Management can even make it into a game by giving prizes to the staff member or members