Program, including-- (A) developing and disseminating an online survey instrument (designed to establish baseline data, including data on need for services) to veterans attending the institutions of higher education described in paragraph (1) of this subsection; (B) developing and disseminating (not earlier than 18 months after the start of the pilot program) a follow-up online survey instrument (designed to gather data, including data to assess engagement with peer- support, experience accessing services, and adjustment to higher education) other on the possible impact of the program); and (C) tabulating-- (i) the number of veterans who meet on an individual basis with such peer; (ii) the number of referrals such individual makes; and (iii) the outcome of such referrals. (d) Duration.-- The authority of the Secretary to provide services under the pilot program under this section shall terminate on the later of the following dates: (1) The date that is three years after the date of the commencement of the pilot program. (2) The date of the last day of the academic year that ends not more than 180 days after the date that is three years after the date of the commencement of the pilot program. (e) Report.--Not later than nine months after the completion of the pilot program under this section, the Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the pilot program. The report shall include the following: (1) A description of the implementation and operation of the program. (2) An evaluation of effectiveness of then peer-outreach services provided under the program in-- (A) reducing the prevalence of veterans failing to continue higher education pursuits using their entitlement to educational assistance under chapter 33 of title 38, United States Code; (B) improving other outcomes related to higher education for veterans using such entitlement; and (C) the use by such veterans of needed behavioral health and other services. (3) An analysis of the costs and benefits of the program. (4) The Secretary's recommendations.


We present constraints on the values of $\Omega_m$, $n$, $\sigma_8$, obtained from measurements of the X-ray luminosity function of galaxy clusters as compiled in EMSS, RDCS and BCS galaxy cluster samples. The values obtained $\Omega_m=0.25^{+0.15}_{-0.05}$, $n=-1^{+0.05}_{-0.05}$, and $\sigma_8=0.8^{+0.1}_{-0.1}$ are in agreement with WMAP data. We then put constraints on the quoted parameters and the dark-energy equation-of-state parameter, $w$, using Chandra observations of 37 clusters with $<z>$=0.55 derived from 400 deg$^2$ ROSAT serendipitous survey and 49 brightest $z \simeq 0.05$ clusters detected in the All-Sky Survey. In the case of $\Lambda$CDM model, we get $\Omega_m=0.25^{+0.1}_{-0.08}$ and $\sigma_8=0.75^{+0.08}_{-0.05}$, while in the case of the $w$CDM model, we get $\Omega_m=0.28^{+0.10}_{-0.10}$, $w=-1.25^{+0.30}_{-0.35}$, and $\sigma_8=0.8^{+0.09}_{-0.09}$. Our results are consistent with those from recent analyses of type Ia supernovae, cosmic microwave background anisotropies, the X-ray gas mass fraction of relaxed galaxy clusters, baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmic shear. The improvement in data quality from EMSS, RDCS, and BCS to Chandra observations leads to an improvement in the constraints even.


The amendments made by such subtitles) shall not apply until the date on which the last of the collective bargaining agreements relating to the coverage terminates. Any coverage amendment made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement relating to the coverage which amends the coverage solely to conform to any requirement added by this subtitle or subtitle A (or amendments) shall not be treated as a termination of such collective bargaining agreement. ``(e) Definition.--In this title, the term `grandfathered health plan' means any group health plan or health insurance coverage to which this section applies.''. (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148). SEC. 6. ESSENTIAL HEALTH BENEFITS. (a) In General.--Subsections (a) and (b) of section 1302 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18022) are amended to read as follows: ``(a) Essential Health Benefits Package.--In this title, the term `essential health benefits package' means, with respect to any health plan, coverage that provide for benefits and cost sharing as required in the States in which such plan is offered. ``(b) Essential Health Benefits.--Essential health benefits shall be defined to include those required by the State in which a health plan is offered.''. (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as.


The term `helper' means a semi- skilled worker (rather than a skilled journeyman mechanic) who-- ``(A) works under the direction of and assists a journeyman, ``(B) under the direction and supervision of the journeyman, performs a variety of duties to assist the journeyman, such as-- ``(i) preparing, carrying, and furnishing materials, tools, equipment, and supplies and maintaining them in order, ``(ii) cleaning and preparing work areas, ``(iii) lifting, positioning, and holding materials or tools, and ``(iv) other related semi-skilled tasks as directed by the journeyman, and ``(C) may use tools of the trade which are under the direction and supervision of the journeyman.''. SEC. 7. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACT-SPLITTING. Section 1 (40 U.S.C. 276a) (as amended by section 6) is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: ``(d) Any person entering into a contract under which wages are to be determined in accordance with this Act shall not divide any project into contracts of $500,000 or less if the project would not have been so divided but for the purpose of avoiding the application of this Act. ``(e) Whenever the Secretary of Labor determines that a division for such purpose as described in subsection (d) has occurred, the Secretary may-- ``(1) require that the contracts, grants, or other instruments providing Federal financing or assistance be amended so as to incorporate retroactively all the provisions which would have been required under this Act or other applicable prevailing wage statute, and ``(2) require the contracting or assisting agency, the recipient of Federal financing or assistance, or any other entity which awarded the contract or instrument providing Federal financing or assistance in violation of this section, to compensate the contractor, the grantee, or other recipient of Federal assistance, as appropriate, for payment to each affected laborer, mechanic, and helper, of an amount equal to the difference between the rate received and the applicable prevailing wage rate, with interest on wages due at the rate specified in section 6621(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, from the date the work was performed by such laborers, mechanics, and helpers. ``(f) The Secretary shall make a determination that a division for such purpose as described in subsection (


The cost of the state's newborn health screening would nearly triple under a budget provision aimed at expanding the number of health conditions included in the screening. The fee would increase from $44 to $128 to cover the equipment and personnel costs of the expanded screening. "We're pretty excited about this provision being in there and what the implications are," said Rep. Nelson Dollar, a Wake County Republican, adding that the fee is covered by insurance or Medicaid for most families. "The sooner you can treat this babies, the better their health outcomes are going to be." But the provision, in a state spending plan released Monday and scheduled for votes this week, drew criticism from Gov. Roy Cooper's administration. SIGN UP Help us deliver journalism that makes a difference in our community. Our journalism takes a lot of time, effort, and hard work to produce. If you read and enjoy our journalism, please consider subscribing today. SUBSCRIBE TODAY "Republicans tripling a birth tax on new mothers while giving more tax breaks to corporations and those earning more than $200,000 per year epitomizes the priorities we need to change," Ford Porter, a spokesman for the Democratic governor, said in an email. Republicans aren't allowing changes to the budget, so the fee is likely to become law. During a committee hearing, Rep. Carla Cunningham, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, questioned whether parents could opt out of the new elements of the screening and pay a lower fee. "The screening panel is not like a cafeteria style," replied Rep. Greg Murphy, a Pitt County Republican and the legislature's only doctor. The new conditions being added to the screening are Pompe disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (MPS I), and X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). Murphy noted that Duke University has developed a cure for Pompe disease, but doctors have to catch it early. "Yes, it costs more, but in the long run it'll save lives," Murphy said of the increased fee. The provision allows the Department of Health and Human Services to expand the conditions tested in the future to match a federal list, with the ability to increase fees to cover future additions to the testing cost. Parents are allowed to opt out of the screening.


Under existing law for the cleanup of hazardous or solid wastes on the property, nor shall the United States or Shishmaref Native Corporation become liable for the cleanup of the property solely by virtue of acquiring title from the State or from the United States. SEC. 9. PURCHASE OF SETTLEMENT COMMON STOCK OF COOK INLET REGION. (a) In General.--Section 7(h) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1606(h)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(4)(A) As used in this paragraph, the term `Cook Inlet Regional Corporation' means Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated. ``(B) The Cook Inlet Regional Corporation may, by an amendment to its articles of incorporation made in accordance with the voting standards under section 36(d)(1), purchase Settlement Common Stock of the Cook Inlet Regional Corporation and all rights associated with the stock from the shareholders of Cook Inlet Regional Corporation in accordance with any provisions included in the amendment that relate to the terms, procedures, number of offers to purchase, and timing of offers to purchase. ``(C) Subject to subparagraph (D), and notwithstanding paragraph (1)(B), the shareholders of Cook Inlet Regional Corporation may, in accordance with an amendment made pursuant to subparagraph (B), sell the Settlement Common Stock of the Cook Inlet Regional Corporation to itself. ``(D) No sale or purchase may be made pursuant to this paragraph without the prior approval of the board of directors of Cook Inlet Regional Corporation. Except as provided in subparagraph (E), each sale and purchase made under this paragraph shall be made pursuant to an offer made on the same terms to all holders of Settlement Common Stock of the Cook Inlet Regional Corporation. ``(E) To recognize the different rights that accrue to any class or series of shares of Settlement Common Stock owned by stockholders who are not residents of a Native village (referred to in this paragraph as `non-village shares'), an amendment made pursuant to subparagraph (B) shall authorize the board of directors (at the option of the board) to offer to purchase-- ``(i) the non-village shares, including the right to share in distributions made to shareholders pursuant to subsections (j) and (m) (referred to in this paragraph as `nonresident distribution rights'), at a price that includes a premium, in addition to the amount that is offered for the purchase of


The study of the interplay between the testability of properties of Boolean functions and the invariances acting on their domain which preserve the property was initiated by Kaufman and Sudan (STOC 2008). Invariance with respect to F_2-linear transformations is arguably the most common symmetry exhibited by natural properties of Boolean functions on the hypercube. Hence, an important goal in Property Testing is to describe necessary and sufficient conditions for the testability of linear-invariant properties. This direction was explicitly proposed for investigation in a recent survey of Sudan. We obtain the following results: 1. We show that every linear-invariant property that can be characterized by forbidding induced solutions to a (possibly infinite) set of linear equations can be tested with one-sided error. 2. We show that every linear-invariant property that can be tested with one-sided error can be characterized by forbidding induced solutions to a (possibly infinite) set of systems of linear equations. We conjecture that our result from item (1) can be extended to cover systems of linear equations. We further show that the validity of this conjecture would have the following implications: 1. It would imply that every linear-invariant property that is closed under restrictions to linear subspaces is testable with one-sided error. Such a result would unify several previous results on testing Boolean functions, such as the testability of low-degree polynomials and of Fourier dimensionality. 2. It would imply that a linear-invariant property P is testable with one-sided error.


We solve two-dimensional large-N QCD in the presence of a nonzero baryon number B, and for arbitrary quark mass m and volume L. We fully treat the dynamics of the gluonic zero modes and check how this affects results from previous studies of the B=0 and B=1 systems. For a finite density of baryons, and for any m>0, we find that the ground state contains a baryon crystal with expectation values for psi-bar gamma_mu psi that have a helix-like spatial structure. We study how these evolve with B and see that the volume integral of psi-bar psi strongly changes with the baryon density. We compare this emerging crystal structure with the sine-Gordon crystal, which is expected to be a good approximation for light quarks, and find that it is a very good approximation for surprisingly heavy quarks. We also calculate the way the ground state energy E changes as a function of the baryon number B, and find that for sufficiently large densities the function E(B) is well described by the equation of state for free massless quarks, thus suggesting a quark-Hadron continuity. From dE(B)/dB we calculate the quark chemical potential mu as a function of B and see that the baryons repel each other. The way mu depends on B also allows us to translate our findings to the grand-canonical ensemble. The resulting phase structure along the mu-axis contains a phase transition that occurs at a value of mu equal to the baryon mass divided in N, and that separates a mu-independent phase with intact translation symmetry from a mu-dependent phase with spontaneously broken translation symmetry. Finally, our calculations confirm the presence of a partial large-N Eguchi-Kawai volume independence, as described in Phys.Rev.D79:105021, that arises only.


We investigate the mean electromotive force in the kinematic framework, that is, ignoring the back-reaction of the magnetic field on the fluid velocity, under the assumption of axisymmetric turbulence determined by the presence of either rotation, density stratification, or both. We use an analogous approach for the mean passive scalar flux. As an alternative to convection, we consider forced turbulence in an isothermal layer. When using standard ansatzes, the mean magnetic transport is then determined by nine, and the mean passive scalar transport by four coefficients. We give results for all these transport coefficients. We use the test-field method and the test-scalar method, where transport coefficients are determined by solving sets of equations with properly chosen mean magnetic fields or mean scalars. These methods are adapted to mean fields which may depend on all three space coordinates. We find the anisotropy of turbulent diffusion to be moderate in spite of rapid rotation or strong density stratification. Contributions to the mean electromotive force determined by the symmetric part of the gradient tensor of the mean magnetic field, which were ignored in several earlier investigations, turn out to be important. In stratified rotating turbulence, the $\alpha$ effect is strongly anisotropic, suppressed along the rotation axis on large length scales, but strongly enhanced at intermediate length scales. Also the $\OO\times\meanJJ$ effect is enhanced at intermediate length scales. The turbulent passive scalar diffusivity is typically almost twice as large as the turbulent magnetic diffusivity. Both magnetic and passive scalar diffusion are slightly enhanced along the rotation axis, but decreased.


NGC 3147 is so far the most convincing case of a "true" Seyfert 2 galaxy, i.e. a source genuinely lacking the Broad Line Regions. We obtained a Suzaku observation with the double aim to study in more detail the iron line complex, and to check the Compton-thick hypothesis for the lack of observed optical broad lines. The Suzaku XIS and HXD/PIN spectra of the source were analysed in detail. The line complex is composed of at least two unresolved lines, one at about 6.45 keV and the other one at about 7 keV, most likely identified with Fe XVII/XIX, the former, and Fe XXVI, the latter. The high-ionization line can originate either in a photoionized matter or in an optically thin thermal plasma. In the latter case, an unusually high temperature is implied. In the photoionized model case, the large equivalent width can be explained either by an extreme iron overabundance or by assuming that the source is Compton-thick. In the Compton-thick hypothesis, however, the emission above 2 keV is mostly due to a highly ionized reflector, contrary to what is usually found in Compton-thick Seyfert 2s, where reflection from low ionized matter dominates. Moreover, the source flux varied between the XMM-Newton and the Suzaku observations, taken 3.5 years apart, confirming previous findings and indicating that the size of the emitting region must be smaller than a parsec. The hard X-ray spectrum is also inconclusive on the Compton-thick hypothesis. Weighting the various arguments, a "true" Seyfert 2 nature of NGC 3147 seems to be still the most likely explanation, even.


We present the results of daily monitoring of 6.7 GHz methanol maser in Cepheus A (Cep A) using Yamaguchi 32-m radio telescope as well as the results of imaging observations conducted with the JVN (Japanese VLBI Network). We indentified five spectral features, which are grouped into red-shifted (-1.9 and -2.7 km/s) and blue-shifted (-3.8, -4.2, and -4.9 km/s), and we detected rapid variabilities of these maser features within a monitoring period of 81 days. The red-shifted features decreased in flux density to 50% of its initial value, while the flux density of the blue-shifted features rapidly increased within a 30 days. The time variation of these maser features showed two remarkable properties; synchronization and anti-correlation between the red-shifted and the blue-shifted. The spatial distribution of the maser spots obtained by the JVN observation showed an arclike structure with a scale of $\sim$1400 AU, and separations of the five maser features were found to be larger than 100 AU. The absolute position of the methanol maser was also obtained based on the phase-referencing observations, and the arclike structure were found to be associated with the Cep A-HW2 object, with the elongation of the arclike structure nearly perpendicularly to the radio continuum jet from the Cep A-HW2 object. These properties of the masers, namely, the synchronization of flux variation, and the spectral and spatial isolation of features, suggest that the collisional excitation by shock wave from a common exciting source is unlikely. Instead, the synchronized time variation of the masers can be explained.


Protoplanet eccentricities of e >~ H/r can slow or reverse migration, but previous 2D studies have shown that gravitational scattering cannot maintain significant planet eccentricities against disc-induced damping. We simulate the evolution of low-mass protoplanetary swarms in three dimensions. The aim is to examine both protoplanet survival rates and the dynamical structure of the resulting planetary systems, and to compare them with 2D simulations. We present results from a 3D hydrodynamic simulation of eight protoplanets embedded in a protoplanetary disc. We also present a suite of simulations performed using an N-body code, modified to include prescriptions for planetary migration and for eccentricity and inclination damping. These prescriptions were obtained by fitting analytic formulae to hydrodynamic simulations of planets embedded in discs with initially eccentric and/or inclined orbits. As was found in two dimensions, differential migration produces groups of protoplanets in stable, multiple mean-motion resonances that migrate in lockstep, preventing prolonged periods of gravitational scattering. In almost all simulations, this leads to large-scale migration of the protoplanet swarm into the central star in the absence of a viable stopping mechanism. The evolution involves mutual collisions, occasional instances of large-scale scattering, and the frequent formation of the long-lived, co-orbital planet systems that arise in > 30% of all runs. Disc-induced damping overwhelms eccentricity and inclination growth due to planet-planet interactions. Co-orbital planets are a natural outcome of dynamical relaxation in a strongly dissipative environment, and.


An individual too young to sue). The court, however, said that PETA didn’t have a significant relationship with the monkey, which is required in next friend lawsuits. After all, Slater and PETA can’t even agree on the monkey’s name — and try tracking down an individual monkey in an Indonesian jungle. The judges even went as far as accusing PETA of using the monkey as a pawn: “Puzzlingly, while representing to the world that ‘animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way,’… PETA seems to employ Naruto as an unwitting pawn in its ideological goals. Yet this is precisely what is to be avoided by requiring next friends to have a significant relationship with, rather than an institutional interest in, the competent party…” a footnote in the published decision reads. “I thank the judges for their decision today, that comes at a legal cost of berating a previous precedent about animals having at least some Constitutional rights in the USA,” Slater wrote in a Facebook post. “My case may indeed be a catalyst at overturning a previous but limited animal rights victory that granted animals, at least, some U.S. Constitutional respect … I so hope that wild animals are granted more and more fundamental rights in the future — like rights to dignity, survival, homeland, and their evolutionary privileges. They accept us as part of their landscape, with a big smile.” Along with dismissing the lawsuit, the judges also approved Slater’s request for attorney fees.


Facebook is making it harder to see what your friends are liking and commenting on right this minute — the ticker feed recently joined Facebook’s list of axed features. A Facebook representative confirmed through a help forum last week that the ticker, which showed friend activity in real time from status updates to likes and comments, was removed after users started asking where the option was. The ticker is about as old as Facebook’s algorithms that determine what content you see first. The tool launched back in 2011 as a real-time alternative to news feed algorithms. While the feed chooses top stories based on past likes and other data, the ticker showed everything as it happened, including not just status updates but likes and comments on other posts as well. While Facebook only recently confirmed the feature got the ax, users have been reporting the tool missing for several weeks before that. The platform appeared to either test a ticker-free feed first or may have simply gradually removed the feature. Facebook’s decision to remove the feature likely wasn’t on a whim — the platform tested the removal of the real-time tracker in 2013, creating a panic (or in some cases, excitement) when the feature was part of an outage. Facebook returned the feature after the temporary outage. The removal of the ticker has mixed reactions for Facebook users. Many inside the Facebook help forums are reporting that they used the tool often and liked being able to have both an algorithmic feed and a real-time option. Others have different names for the feature, including “creeper feed” because of the tool’s inclusion of not just status updates but all activity on the platform. Without the ticker, Facebook’s right-hand sidebar on desktop browsers is divided into different sections with Stories at the top, followed by event invited, trending topics, Instant games, and a list of episodes (if you follow any) as part of Facebook’s new push for original video content. And of course, some ads. With only a one-line response inside a help forum confirming that the ticker is no longer available, it is unclear why Facebook decided to remove the feature. Users could previously remove the ticker from their sidebar and then turn it back on again later.


A polytropic quark star model is suggested in order to establish a general framework in which theoretical quark star models could be tested by observations. The key difference between polytropic quark stars and the polytropic model studied previously for normal (i.e., non-quarkian) stars is related to two issues: (i) a constant term representing the contribution of vacuum energy may be added in the energy density and the pressure for a quark star, but not for a normal star; (ii) the quark star models with non-vanishing density at the stellar surface are not avoidable due to the strong interaction between quarks. The first one implies that the vacuum inside a quark star is different from that outside, while the second one is relevant to the effect of color confinement. The polytropic equations of state are stiffer than that derived in conventional realistic models (e.g., the bag model) for quark matter, and pulsar-like stars calculated with a polytropic equation of state could then have high maximum masses (> 2 M_sun). Quark stars can also be very low massive, and be still gravitationally stable even if the polytropic index, n, is greater than 3. All these would result in different mass-radius relations, which could be tested by observations. In addition, substantial strain energy would develop in a solid quark star during its accretion/spindown phase, and could be high enough to take a star-quake. The energy released during star-quakes could be as high as ~ 10^{47} ergs.


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amid record-setting heat in the state's south, California's water managers will measure the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies water to millions. Department of Water Resources officials will trek to the mountains Thursday to check the snow depth, one gauge of the state's water supply. Electronic sensors show snow levels are about one-third of normal. At the peak of California's recently ended five-year drought, Gov. Jerry Brown ordered 25 percent water conservation in cities and towns and declared a drought emergency. Heavy rains in Northern California last year finally snapped the drought, and Brown declared the emergency over in April. But the drought never really seemed to end in some Southern California areas, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with the University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles received only one significant rain in almost the last 12 months. In Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, which are about 100 miles (161 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, the lack of rain and dry vegetation were perfect fuel for a December wildfire that grew to be the largest recorded in state history. When it finally rained, the scorched earth turned into deadly mudslides. The most recent weekly U.S. drought monitor, a product of the federal government and others, shows only small patches of the state, in Southern California, in the mildest form of drought. That compares to 2014 and 2015, some of the driest years in history in California, when much of the state was rated as in the most severe categories of drought. In the middle of the state's winter rain and snow season, no rain is in the forecast. In Southern California, "it really is pretty grim," said Swain, who has tracked the stubborn weather patterns blocking rain from the state's south for years. Doug Carlson, spokesman for the state's Department of Water Resources, which carries out the snowpack surveys, said the dry weather is a growing concern, although reservoirs are still fuller than usual thanks to last year's rain in Northern California. Considerations of what constitutes a drought vary, and include: rainfall, the state of waterways, soil dryness, and other measures. Any decision to declare a new drought emergency.


Neutrinoless double beta decay, which is a very old and yet elusive process, is reviewed. Its observation will signal that lepton number is not conserved and the neutrinos are Majorana particles. More importantly it is our best hope for determining the absolute neutrino mass scale at the level of a few tens of meV. To achieve the last goal certain hurdles have to be overcome involving particle, nuclear and experimental physics. Nuclear physics is important for extracting the useful information from the data. One must accurately evaluate the relevant nuclear matrix elements, a formidable task. To this end, we review the sophisticated nuclear structure approaches recently been developed, which give confidence that the needed nuclear matrix elements can be reliably calculated. From an experimental point of view it is challenging, since the life times are long and one has to fight against formidable backgrounds. If a signal is found, it will be a tremendous accomplishment. Then, of course, the real task is going to be the extraction of the neutrino mass from the observations. This is not trivial, since current particle models predict the presence of many mechanisms other than the neutrino mass, which may contribute or even dominate this process. We will, in particular, consider the following processes: (i)The neutrino induced, but neutrino mass independent contribution. (ii)Heavy left and/or right handed neutrino mass contributions. (iii)Intermediate scalars (doubly charged etc). (iv)Supersymmetric (SUSY) contributions. We will show that it is possible to disentangle the various mechanisms and unambiguously extract the important neutrino mass scale.


This clause for payment to the first physician; and (ii) payment may be made to a physician for physicians' services (and services incident to such services) which that physician pays a second physician on a per diem or other fee- for-time basis to provide to individuals who are patients of the first physician if (I) the first physician is unavailable to provide the services, (II) the services are not provided by the second physician over a continuous period of longer than 90 days (or such longer period as the Secretary may provide), and (III) the claim form submitted to the carrier includes the second physician's unique identifier (provided under the system established under subsection (r)) and indicates that the claim meets the requirements of this clause for payment to the first physician''. (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to services furnished on or after the first day of the first month beginning more than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Medicaid Program.-- (1) In general.--Section 1902(a)(32)(C) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(32)(C)) is amended to read as follows: ``(C) payment may be made to a physician for services furnished by a substitute physician under the circumstances described in subparagraph (D) of section 1842(b)(6), except that, for purposes of this subparagraph, any reference in such subparagraph to `a carrier' or `the system established under subsection (r)' is deemed a reference to the State (or other fiscal agent under the State plan) and to the system established under subsection (x) of this section, respectively.''. (2) Effective date.--(A) The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to services furnished on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. (B) Until the first day of the first calendar quarter beginning more than 60 days after the date the Secretary of Health and Human Services establishes the physician identifier system under section 1902(x) of the Social Security Act, the requirement under section 1902(a)(32)(C) of such Act that a claim form submitted must include the second physician's unique identifier is deemed to be satisfied.


We study the effect of Coulomb drag between two closely positioned graphene monolayers. In the limit of weak electron-electron interaction and small inter-layer spacing ($\mu_{1(2)}, T\ll v/d$) the drag is described by a universal function of the chemical potentials of the layers $\mu_{1(2)}$ measured in the units of temperature $T$. When both layers are tuned close to the Dirac point, then the drag coefficient is proportional to the product of the chemical potentials $\rho_D\propto\mu_1\mu_2$. In the opposite limit of low temperature the drag is inversely proportional to both chemical potentials $\rho_D\propto T^2/(\mu_1\mu_2)$. In the mixed case where the chemical potentials of the two layers belong to the opposite limits $\mu_1\ll T\ll\mu_2$ we find $\rho_D\propto \mu_1/\mu_2$. For stronger interaction and larger values of $d$ the drag coefficient acquires logarithmic corrections and can no longer be described by a power law. Further logarithmic corrections are due to the energy dependence of the impurity scattering time in graphene (for $\mu_{1(2)}\gg T$ these are small and may be neglected). In the case of strongly doped (or gated) graphene $\mu_{1(2)}\gg v/d\gg T$ the drag coefficient acquires additional dependence on the inter-layer spacing and we recover the usual Fermi-liquid result.


Let $i_t(G)$ denote the number of independent sets of size $t$ in a graph $G$. Levit and Mandrescu have conjectured that for all bipartite $G$ the sequence $(i_t(G))_{t \geq 0}$ (the {\em independent set sequence} of $G$) is unimodal. We provide evidence for this conjecture by showing that is true for almost all equibipartite graphs. Specifically, we consider the random equibipartite graph $G(n,n,p)$, and show that for any fixed $p\in(0,1]$ its independent set sequence is almost surely unimodal, and moreover almost surely log-concave except perhaps for a vanishingly small initial segment of the sequence. We obtain similar results for $p=\tilde{\Omega}(n^{-1/2})$. We also consider the problem of estimating $i(G)=\sum_{t \geq 0} i_t(G)$ for $G$ in various families. We give a sharp upper bound on the number of independent sets in an $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\delta$, for all fixed $\delta$ and sufficiently large $n$. Specifically, we show that the maximum is achieved uniquely by $K_{\delta, n-\delta}$, the complete bipartite graph with $\delta$ vertices in one partition class and $n-\delta$ in the other. We also present a weighted generalization: for all fixed $x>0$ and $\delta >0$, as long as $n=n(x,\delta)$ is large enough, if $G$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta$ then $\sum_{t \geq 0} i_t(G)x^t \leq \sum_{t \geq 0} i_t(K_{\delta, n-\delta})x^t$ with equality.


Why it matters to you Paying for data, especially on monthly subscription plans, can get expensive pretty quickly. But Ultra Mobile wants to offer an affordable prepaid plan that can compete with the big dogs. Forget about what you think you know about prepaid phone plans. Ultra Mobile wants to give you a whole new look at what it means to pay before you talk, text, and otherwise use your smartphone. On Monday, the mobile carrier announced the launch of two new high data plans, which give users 10GB or 20GB of data every month for the relatively low price of $45 and $54, respectively. This marks the largest amount of data ever offered to Ultra Mobile customers. The company, which is focused on folks with international needs, said that these higher data plans were created to appease customers who, now more than ever, are demanding high-speed data. Citing a recent Ericcson’s Mobility Report, Ultra Mobile noted that the average data consumption for 2016 was 5GB, but many other service providers “put international calling at a premium over large data allotments.” Ultra Mobile, however, has the international component built into its plans, allowing customers to pay less for what could amount to more. “Our customers and retail partners continue to request larger data offerings and we’ve listened by rounding out our portfolio with these new data plans,” said Tyler Leshney, president of Ultra Mobile. “At Ultra Mobile, we are always looking for the next best way to service our rapidly growing customer base and with these new data plans, we truly see an opportunity to satisfy the needs of a growing customer base while also offering our current subscribers additional upgrade options. As our international customer base grows we will continue to innovative and provide valuable service to our users.” Ultra is also working to expand its unlimited calling list to more than 60 countries around the world. Some existing plans, like the New $19, already allow for unlimited talk and text across the U.S., along with 100 MB 4G LTE data and calling to over 60 countries for $19 a month. So.


Threshold' is-- ``(i) $50,000 in the case of a committee which is an authorized committee of a candidate for the office of President or for nomination to such office; and ``(ii) $15,000 in the case of any other committee. In determining whether the amount of bundled contributions provided to a committee by a person exceeds the applicable threshold, there shall be excluded any contribution made to the committee by the person or the person's spouse.''; and (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``the amount'' each place it appears and inserting ``each amount''; (4) in paragraph (5), by striking ``described in paragraph (7)'' each place it appears in subparagraphs (C) and (D); (5) by striking paragraph (7) and inserting the following: ``(7) Separate reporting for certain persons.--Each committee required to include a schedule under paragraph (1) shall also include a separate schedule setting forth the name, address, and employer of each person listed on the schedule required under paragraph (1) who, at the time a contribution is forwarded to a committee as described in paragraph (8)(A)(i) or is received by a committee as described in paragraph (8)(A)(ii), is-- ``(A) a current registrant under section 4(a) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995; ``(B) an individual who is listed on a current registration filed under section 4(b)(6) of such Act or a current report under section 5(b)(2)(C) of such Act; or ``(C) a political committee established or controlled by such a registrant or individual. The schedule required under the preceding sentence shall also include the aggregate amount of bundled contributions provided by each such person during the covered period.''; and (6) in paragraph (8)(A)-- (A) by striking ``and a person described in paragraph (7)''; and (B) by adding at the end the following flush sentence: ``The term `bundled contribution' shall not include any contribution forwarded by or credited to (through records, designations, or other means of recognizing a certain amount of money has been raised) a person who is a regularly paid employee of the committee.''. (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take effect as.


We study opinion dynamics in a population of interacting adaptive agents voting on a set of complex multidimensional issues. We consider agents which can classify issues into for or against. The agents arrive at the opinions about each issue in question using an adaptive algorithm. Adaptation comes from learning and the information for the learning process comes from interacting with other neighboring agents and trying to change the internal state in order to concur with their opinions. The change in the internal state is driven by the information contained in the issue and in the opinion of the other agent. We present results in a simple yet rich context where each agent uses a Boolean Perceptron to state its opinion. If there is no internal clock, so the update occurs with asynchronously exchanged information among pairs of agents, then the typical case, if the number of issues is kept small, is the evolution into a society thorn by the emergence of factions with extreme opposite beliefs. This occurs even when seeking consensus with agents with opposite opinions. The curious result is that it is learning from those that hold the same opinions that drives the emergence of factions. This results follows from the fact that factions are prevented by not learning at all from those agents that hold the same opinion. If the number of issues is large, the dynamics becomes trapped and the society does not evolve into factions and a distribution of moderate opinions is observed. We also study the less realistic, but technically simpler synchronous case showing that global consensus is a fixed point. However, the approach to this consensus is glassy in the limit of large societies.


Given linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) L_1 and L_2, it is natural to ask: (Q1) when does one dominate the other, that is, does L_1(X) PsD imply L_2(X) PsD? (Q2) when do they have the same solution set? Such questions can be NP-hard. This paper describes a natural relaxation of an LMI, based on substituting matrices for the variables x_j. With this relaxation, the domination questions (Q1) and (Q2) have elegant answers, indeed reduce to constructible semidefinite programs. Assume there is an X such that L_1(X) and L_2(X) are both PD, and suppose the positivity domain of L_1 is bounded. For our "matrix variable" relaxation a positive answer to (Q1) is equivalent to the existence of matrices V_j such that L_2(x)=V_1^* L_1(x) V_1 + ... + V_k^* L_1(x) V_k. As for (Q2) we show that, up to redundancy, L_1 and L_2 are unitarily equivalent. Such algebraic certificates are typically called Positivstellensaetze and the above are examples of such for linear polynomials. The paper goes on to derive a cleaner and more powerful Putinar-type Positivstellensatz for polynomials positive on a bounded set of the form {X | L(X) PsD}. An observation at the core of the paper is that the relaxed LMI domination problem is equivalent to a classical problem. Namely, the problem of determining.


Many models of shallow water waves admit peaked solitary waves. However, it is an open question whether or not the widely accepted peaked solitary waves can be derived from the fully nonlinear wave equations. In this paper, a unified wave model (UWM) based on the symmetry and the fully nonlinear wave equations is put forward for progressive waves with permanent form in finite water depth. Different from traditional wave models, the flows described by the UWM are not necessarily irrotational at crest, so that it is more general. The unified wave model admits not only the traditional progressive waves with smooth crest, but also a new kind of solitary waves with peaked crest that include the famous peaked solitary waves given by the Camassa-Holm equation. Besides, it is proved that Kelvin's theorem still holds everywhere for the newly found peaked solitary waves. Thus, the UWM unifies, for the first time, both of the traditional smooth waves and the peaked solitary waves. In other words, the peaked solitary waves are consistent with the traditional smooth ones. So, in the frame of inviscid fluid, the peaked solitary waves are as acceptable and reasonable as the traditional smooth ones. It is found that the peaked solitary waves have some unusual and unique characteristics. First of all, they have a peaked crest with a discontinuous vertical velocity at crest. Especially, the phase speed of the peaked solitary waves has nothing to do with wave height. In addition, the kinetic energy of the peaked solitary waves either increases or almost keeps the same from free surface to bottom. All of these unusual properties show the novelty of the peaked solitary waves, although it is still an open question whether or not they are reasonable in physics.


You're not imagining it. More than 30 airports around the country now have regular programs that bring certified pet therapy dogs and their handlers into the terminals to mingle with passengers and help ease the stress of traveling. At both Mineta San Jose International Airport (the first airport to have an official pet therapy program) and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, they're called the K9 crew. At Los Angeles International Airport the PUP (Pets Unstressing Passengers) team roams the concourses. And at Denver International Airport it's the Canine Airport Therapy Squad (CATS) that welcomes passengers to hug, hang out and get their pictures taken with dogs wearing "Pet Me" vests. During 2016, some airport pet therapy teams broadened their membership beyond dogs. Last summer, when passengers were encountering excessively long lines at security checkpoints at many airports around the country, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport began welcoming miniature therapy horses and their handlers to visit several times a month. And as the winter holiday travel season went into high gear, two airports announced that pigs were joining their pet therapy teams. LiLou, a Juliana-breed pig, joined San Francisco International Airport's Wag Brigade to add "more moments of surprise and delight for guests at our airport," said Christopher Birch, SFO's Director-Guest Experience, on LiLou's first day on the job. Lilou, the pig will be at #sfo on 12/26/16 at 12 pm in T3. Please be patient, give her space, and always ask her mom before touching LiLou. pic.twitter.com/nekpaxYxXh — flySFO (@flySFO) December 26, 2016 And a pot-bellied pig named Bacon Bits is now part of Albany International Airport's Canine Ambassador program. More animals in the air Of course, not all the animals you see in airport terminals these days are just there to be petted. According to the American Pet Products Association, there are around 77 million pet dogs and 85 million pet cats in the United States — and a growing number of their owners take them along when they travel by air. And when they fly as carry-on passengers in the cabin, those pets need to have tickets. On Alaska Airlines and JetBlue, the domestic fee for a pet in the cabin is $100 each


In a prior study, I introduced a simple economic growth model designed to be consistent with general thermodynamic laws. Unlike traditional economic models, civilization is viewed only as a well-mixed global whole with no distinction made between individual nations, economic sectors, labor, or capital investments. At the model core is an observationally supported hypothesis that the global economy's current rate of primary energy consumption is tied through a constant to a very general representation of its historically accumulated wealth. Here, this growth model is coupled to a linear formulation for the evolution of globally well-mixed atmospheric CO2 concentrations. While very simple, the coupled model provides faithful multi-decadal hindcasts of trajectories in gross world product (GWP) and CO2. Extending the model to the future, the model suggests that the well-known IPCC SRES scenarios substantially underestimate how much CO2 levels will rise for a given level of future economic prosperity. For one, global CO2 emission rates cannot be decoupled from wealth through efficiency gains. For another, like a long-term natural disaster, future greenhouse warming can be expected to act as an inflationary drag on the real growth of global wealth. For atmospheric CO2 concentrations to remain below a "dangerous" level of 450 ppmv, model forecasts suggest that there will have to be some combination of an unrealistically rapid rate of energy decarbonization and nearly immediate reductions in global civilization wealth. Effectively, it appears that civilization may be in a double-bind. If civilization does not collapse quickly this century, then CO2 levels will likely end up exceeding 1000 ppmv; but.


And white as some people make it out to be." He could think of only one time he was genuinely worried about his game. McIlroy was 19 and in his first full year as a pro in 2008. He had only two top 10s all year on the European Tour. He wasn't eligible for any of the majors. He had missed three straight cuts in Sweden, Holland and Scotland. He was concerned he might lose his card. And then he lost in a playoff in Switzerland, lost in another playoff in Hong Kong and won his first pro event early in the next year. "And I was off and running," he said. McIlroy reached No. 50 with that playoff loss in Hong Kong, and he hasn't fallen out since then. He's had a few dips, sure, "but it's not as if I've had to panic." Palmer and McIlroy share one other connection, at least for now. They are one leg short of the Grand Slam. Palmer never won the PGA Championship. McIlroy needs the Masters. When they had dinner at Bay Hill in 2015 — right before McIlroy's first crack at the fourth leg of the slam — the topic never came up. "It's amazing to think, all that Arnold did in the game, he never won that Grand Slam," McIlroy said. McIlroy at the Masters, Phil Mickelson at the U.S. Open and Jordan Spieth at the PGA Championship each have a chance at the career slam this year. "I'm glad to be part of that conversation, get the first shot at it in a few weeks," McIlroy said. "So we'll see how we go." His game is never far away, even.


Much of the mobile news will revolve around the buzzwords that dominated 2016. Case in point: Huawei. When its CEO delivers his keynote on January 5th, he'll unveil a mobile strategy that centers around "artificial intelligence, virtual reality and connected technologies." Expect many, many other companies to take a similarly trendy focus. ASUS, meanwhile, could continue its history of boundary-pushing CES launches by introducing the second phone to use Google's Tango depth-sensing technology for augmented reality. Even though 5G data won't be ready for the real world in 2017, we should hear a lot about the forthcoming technology at CES. It's close enough that device makers and carriers are envisioning what they can do with that much bandwidth, such as smarter self-driving cars and robots. You should see some bread-and-butter phone updates, of course. Many companies use CES for launches that would otherwise be overshadowed at Mobile World Congress a month later. That's not to say that they'll be pedestrian, though. Take LG's 2017 mid-range lineup as an example -- the company is making a point of including features that were previously reserved for higher-end devices, like fingerprint readers. Sony, in turn, is rumored to be reviving its 4K smartphone dreams now that the technology is more mature. In some ways, these could be the most important introductions at CES. They won't revolutionize the mobile landscape, but they should make once-exotic technology more commonplace. TV / home theater Richard Lawler Coming into CES 2017, several of the big players in home theater are holding their cards closer to the vest than usual. Of course, even without a slew of pre-event reveals, we have some ideas about what's in store for TVs and the devices that surround them. OLED is well-known for offering up the best display quality out there -- so what comes next? Price cuts, for one: LG's has made its series of 4K OLED TVs much more affordable while keeping the quality up, but it will need to go further to match LCD for value. As for the competition, we're waiting to see if anyone else will try the technology on for size. Panasonic and Sony are good candidates for OLED TVs in 2017, even if they end up using LG's panels. There's no indication yet that Samsung will switch gears on its display


But with all the attractions within walking distance of each other, then Nottingham is right up your street. Hotels to meet every budget, bars, a plethora of ever-evolving restaurants catering for every cuisine and attractions for all ages and tastes, the choice is seemingly endless. Plus, at this time of year, there is an endless selection of festive fun from an ice-rink at the heart of the city among the Winter Wonderland to a Christmas fairground, ski chalet bar and a huge amount of festive cheer and shopping choices. Gone are previous misconceptions about the city, which greatly benefits from the redevelopment of the famed ‘Slab’ Square, or Old Market Square, at its heart. And because Nottingham is so compact, it has a great buzz and atmosphere as people scurry between the designer shops, independent retailers and eateries peppered everywhere. During a recent visit to the city we enjoyed an overnight stay at the wonderful St James Hotel on Rutland Street. The view from the balcony in Delilah Having undergone a full redevelopment in 2014, it has a real boutique feel that is clear to all from the public areas, such as the sparkling and spacious reception with mirrored furniture. You are immediately taken by the No 6 restaurant which is packed with books and artwork — and where you can enjoy a chance to relax in a comfy armchair with a cocktail from the extensive menu. Rooms on offer include crash pads, classic rooms, executive rooms (our choice), four-poster rooms and even a penthouse. Walkways on each of the floors have a decadent feel and that extended to our room, which was sumptuous and even had an extra seating area, plus a very comfortable super kingsize bed. Cocktails at Revolucion De Cuba Once checked in it was off into the city to sample some of the lunch delights offered by the deli Delilah. The original Delilah opened in 2005 on Middle Pavement with a dream to provide a venue for artisan foods. But since then it has grown and now has a huge home on Victoria Street. On the ground floor is a feast for the senses and tastebuds with everything from cheeses and olives to fine wines on sale. There is also a coffee bar area where you can grab a relaxed mocha and a light lunch. Upstairs, in what was a former HSBC bank, is the restaurant


We present a Differential Emission Measure (DEM) analysis of the quiet solar corona on disk using data obtained by the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) on {\it Hinode}. We show that the expected quiet Sun DEM distribution can be recovered from judiciously selected lines, and that their average intensities can be reproduced to within 30%. We present a subset of these selected lines spanning the temperature range $\log$ T = 5.6 to 6.4 K that can be used to derive the DEM distribution reliably. The subset can be used without the need for extensive measurements and the observed intensities can be reproduced to within the estimated uncertainty in the pre-launch calibration of EIS. Furthermore, using this subset, we also demonstrate that the quiet coronal DEM distribution can be recovered on size scales down to the spatial resolution of the instrument (1$"$ pixels). The subset will therefore be useful for studies of small-scale spatial inhomogeneities in the coronal temperature structure, for example, in addition to studies requiring multiple DEM derivations in space or time. We apply the subset to 45 quiet Sun datasets taken in the period 2007 January to April, and show that although the absolute magnitude of the coronal DEM may scale with the amount of released energy, the shape of the distribution is very similar up to at least $\log$ T $\sim$ 6.2 K in all cases. This result is consistent with the view that the {\it shape} of the quiet Sun DEM is mainly a function of the radiating and conducting properties of the plasma and is fairly insensitive to the location and rate of energy deposition. This {\it universal} DEM may be sensitive to other factors such as loop geometry, flows, and the heating mechanism, but.


Specifying the method for determining a significant increase in the price of kerosene under section 7(b)(10)(A)(iv)(II) of the Small Business Act, as added by this Act. SEC. 7. REPORTS. (a) Small Business Administration.--Not later than 12 months after the date on which the Administrator issues guidelines under section 6, and annually thereafter until the date that is 12 months after the end of the effective period of section 7(b)(10) of the Small Business Act, as added by this Act, the Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business of the House of Representatives, a report on the effectiveness of the assistance made available under section 7(b)(10) of the Small Business Act, as added by this Act, including-- (1) the number of small business concerns that applied for a loan under such section and the number of those that received such loans; (2) the dollar value of those loans; (3) the States in which the small business concerns that received such loans are located; (4) the type of heating fuel or energy that caused the significant increase in the cost for the participating small business concerns; and (5) recommendations for ways to improve the assistance provided under such section 7(b)(10), if any. (b) Department of Agriculture.--Not later than 12 months after the date on which the Secretary of Agriculture issues guidelines under section 6, and annually thereafter until the date that is 12 months after the end of the effective period of the amendments made to section 321(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(a)) by this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives, a report that-- (1) describes the effectiveness of the assistance made available under section 321(a) of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1961(a)); and (2) contains recommendations for ways to improve the assistance provided under such section 321(a).


We show that we can obtain a good fit to the present day stellar mass functions (MFs) of a large sample of young and old Galactic clusters in the range 0.1 - 10 Msolar with a tapered power law distribution function with an exponential truncation of the form dN/dm \propto m^alpha [1 - exp-(m/m_c)^beta]. The average value of the power-law index alpha is -2, that of beta is 2.5, whereas the characteristic mass m_c is in the range 0.1 - 0.8 Msolar and does not seem to vary in any systematic way with the present cluster parameters such as metal abundance, total cluster mass or central concentration. However, m_c shows a remarkable correlation with the dynamical age of the cluster, namely m_c/Msolar ~ 0.15 + 0.5 tau_dyn^0.75, where tau_dyn is the dynamical age taken as the ratio of cluster age and dissolution time. The small scatter seen around this correlation is consistent with the uncertainties on the estimated value of tau_dyn. We attribute the observed trend to the onset of mass segregation via two-body relaxation in a tidal environment, causing the preferential loss of low-mass stars from the cluster and hence a drift of the characteristic mass m_c towards higher values. If dynamical evolution is indeed at the origin of the observed trend, it would seem plausible that high-concentration globular clusters, now with median m_c ~ 0.33 Msolar, were born with a stellar MF very similar to that measured today in the youngest Galactic clusters and with a value of m_c ~ 0.15 Msolar. This hypothesis is consistent with the absence of a turn-over in the MF of the Galactic bulge down to the observational limit at ~0.2 Msolar and.


And ``(2) the testimony, or the record, document, or other object obstructed, tampered, or retaliated against by the defendant need not be admissible in evidence or free of a claim of privilege. ``(g) Intent.--In a prosecution for an offense under this section, the state of mind need not be proved with respect to-- ``(1) a State official proceeding before a judge, court, magistrate judge, or grand jury being before a judge or court of a State or political subdivision thereof; ``(2) a judge being a judge of a State or political subdivision thereof; or ``(3) a law enforcement officer being an officer or employee of the State or political subdivision thereof. ``(h) Venue.--A prosecution brought under this section may be brought-- ``(1) in the district in which the State official proceeding (whether or not pending or about to be instituted) was intended to be affected; or ``(2) in the district which the conduct constituting the alleged offense occurred.''. (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents for chapter 73 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ``1522. State and local witness tampering and retaliation.''. SEC. 3. SENTENCING GUIDELINES ENHANCEMENT. Pursuant to its authority under section 994 of title 28, United States Code, and in accordance with this section, the United States Sentencing Commission shall amend the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to increase the guideline range for Obstruction of Justice, Sec. 2J1.2, as follows-- (1) by 2 levels if the defendant threatened or harmed 1 or more individuals on more than 1 occasion; (2) by 2 levels if the defendant accepted or paid a bribe or payoff as part of a scheme to obstruct justice; (3) by 2 levels if the defendant destroyed or caused the destruction of documents on a computer; and (4) by 6 levels.


The Latest on the announcement that Prime Minister Theresa will make a surprise statement (all times local): 10:45 a.m. The British pound has fallen amid mounting speculation that Prime Minister Theresa May is planning to call an early general election. In the wake of an announcement that May will make an unexpected statement in Downing Street at 11:15 a.m. (1015GMT), the pound was down 0.3 percent at $1.2525. May’s office says she will speak after the weekly meeting of her Cabinet. FXTM Vice President of Market Research, Jameel Ahmad says that “truth be told, nobody is really that aware of what is going on but this uncertainty has caused a reaction.” ___ 10:30 a.m. British Prime Minister Theresa May is due to make an unexpected statement in Downing Street, triggering speculation that she plans to call an early election. May’s office says she will speak at 11:15 a.m. (1015GMT) Tuesday, after the weekly meeting of her Cabinet. Such statements are generally reserved for major news, such as resignations and election calls. May, who took office in July after predecessor David Cameron stepped down, could be tempted to go to the polls to secure her own mandate as she negotiates Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. But she has previously said she will stay in office until the next scheduled national election, in 2020. Under Britain’s Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, the prime minister can call an election.


We have carried out calculations of the triple-differential cross section for one-photon double ionization of molecular hydrogen for a central photon energy of $75$~eV, using a fully {\it ab initio}, nonperturbative approach to solve the time-dependent \Schro equation in prolate spheroidal coordinates. The spatial coordinates $\xi$ and $\eta$ are discretized in a finite-element discrete-variable representation. The wave packet of the laser-driven two-electron system is propagated in time through an effective short iterative Lanczos method to simulate the double ionization of the hydrogen molecule. For both symmetric and asymmetric energy sharing, the present results agree to a satisfactory level with most earlier predictions for the absolute magnitude and the shape of the angular distributions. A notable exception, however, concerns the predictions of the recent time-independent calculations based on the exterior complex scaling method in prolate spheroidal coordinates [Phys.~Rev.~A~{\bf 82}, 023423 (2010)]. Extensive tests of the numerical implementation were performed, including the effect of truncating the Neumann expansion for the dielectronic interaction on the description of the initial bound state and the predicted cross sections. We observe that the dominant escape mode of the two photoelectrons dramatically depends upon the energy sharing. In the parallel geometry, when the ejected electrons are collected along the direction of the laser polarization axis, back-to-back escape is the dominant channel for strongly asymmetric energy sharing, while it is completely forbidden.