If there was any lingering doubt that veganism is going mainstream, the existence of the McVegan should clear it up. According to Food & Wine, McDonald’s is trialling its first meatless burger. The soy-based patty is served with a schmear of vegan McFeast sauce, tomato, lettuce, onions and pickles. But there’s a catch – it’s exclusively available in Tampere, a city in southern Finland. The test-run started on October 4 and Tampere residents have until November 21 to sample the McVegan for themselves. A representative for the fast food giant told TODAY that the meatless burger “is limited to McDonald’s Finland and there are no current plans for that to change.” According to the blog Veggie Athletic, marketing director Christoffer Rönnblad confirmed that McDonald’s fries are vegan as well: “They are made here in Finland from potatoes and (fried) in vegetable oil. The fries are completely vegan.” Meatless burger options have expanded beyond the typical soy and grain-based patties recently. Products such as the Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger are redefining what a vegan burger can be. In the U.K. alone, the number of vegans has risen by 360 per cent in the past 10 years. The fact that McDonald’s is finally entering the fray with the McVegan suggests that the meatless trend is here to stay. But it may have to do better than run-of-the-mill soy to compete with innovative vegan patties that look and cook like meat.


We present the third and final part of a census of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in Local Group dwarf irregular galaxies. Papers I and II presented the results for WLM and IC 1613. Included here are Phoenix, LGS 3, DDO 210, Leo A, Pegasus dIrr, and Sextans A. Spitzer photometry at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8 are presented, along with a more thorough treatment of background galaxy contamination than was presented in papers I and II. We find that at least a small population of completely optically obscured AGB stars exists in each galaxy, regardless of the galaxy's metallicity, but that higher-metallicity galaxies tend to harbor more stars with slight IR excesses. The optical incompleteness increases for the redder AGB stars, in line with the expectation that some AGB stars are not detected in the optical due to large amounts of extinction associated with in situ dust production. Overall, there is an underrepresentation of 30% - 40% in the optical AGB within the 1 sigma errors for all of the galaxies in our sample. This undetected population is large enough to affect star formation histories derived from optical color-magnitude diagrams. As measured from the [3.6] - [4.5] color excesses, we find average stellar mass-loss rates ranging from 3.1E-7 - 6.6E-6 solar masses per year, and integrated galaxy mass-loss rates ranging from 4.4E-5 - 1.4E-3 solar masses per year. The integrated mass-loss rate is sufficient to sustain the current star formation rate in only LGS 3 and DDO 210, requiring either significant non-dusty mass loss or gas accretion in Phoenix, Leo A, Pegasus dIrr, Sextans A, WLM, and IC 1613 if they are to maintain their status as gas-rich galaxies.


We present Kepler satellite photometry of KIC 10661783, a short-period binary star system which shows total eclipses and multi-periodic delta Scuti pulsations. A frequency analysis of the eclipse-subtracted light curve reveals at least 68 frequencies of which 55 or more can be attributed to pulsation modes. The main limitation on this analysis is the frequency resolution within the 27-day short-cadence light curve. Most of the variability signal lies in the frequency range 18 to 31 c/d, with amplitudes between 0.1 and 4 mmag. One harmonic term (2.f) and a few combination frequencies (f_i+f_j) have been detected. From a plot of the residuals versus orbital phase we assign the pulsations to the primary star in the system. The pulsations were removed from the short-cadence data and the light curve was modelled using the Wilson-Devinney code. We are unable to get a perfect fit due to the residual effects of pulsations and also to the treatment of reflection and reprocessing in the light curve model. A model where the secondary star fills its Roche lobe is favoured, which means that KIC 10661783 can be classified as an oEA system. Further photometric and spectroscopic observations will allow the masses and radii of the two stars to be measured to high precision and hundreds of delta Scuti pulsation frequencies to be resolved. This could lead to unique constraints on theoretical models of delta Scuti stars, if the evolutionary history of KIC 10661783 can be accounted for.


If left-right gauge theory occurs as an intermediate symmetry in a GUT then, apart from other advantages, it is possible to obtain the see-saw scale necessary to understand small neutrino masses with Majorana coupling of order unity. Barring threshold or non-renormalizable gravitational effects, or assumed presence of additional light scalar particles of unprescribed origin, all other attempts to achieve manifest one-loop gauge coupling unification in SUSY SO(10) with left-right intermediate symmetry have not been successful so far. Attributing this failure to lack of flavor symmetry in the GUT, we show how the spontaneous symmetry breaking of $SO(10)\times S_4$ leads to such intermediate scale extending over a wide range, $M_R \simeq 5\times 10^{9}$ GeV to $10^{15}$ GeV. All the charged fermion masses are fitted at the see-saw scale, $M_N\simeq M_R \simeq 4 \times 10^{13}$ GeV which is obtained with Majorana coupling $f_0 \simeq 1$. Using a constrained parametrization in which CP-violation originates only from quark sector, besides other predictions made in the neutrino sector, the reactor mixing angle is found to be $\theta_{13} \simeq 3^{\circ} - 5^{\circ}$ which is in the range accessible to ongoing and planned experiments. The leptonic Dirac phase turns out to be $\delta \sim 2.9- 3.1$ radians with Jarlskog invariant $J \sim 2.95 \times 10^{-5} - 10^{-3}$.


) and the dollar amount in subsection (c)(4) shall be increased by an amount equal to-- ``(1) such dollar amount, multiplied by ``(2) the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which the taxable year begins, determined by substituting `calendar year 2011' for `calendar year 1992' in subparagraph (B) thereof. Any increase determined under the preceding sentence shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $10.''. (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 32 the following new item: ``Sec. 32A. Income disparity credit.''. (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2011. SEC. 3. ACCELERATION OF EGTRRA SUNSET. (a) In General.--Section 901 of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 is amended by striking ``December 31, 2012'' and inserting ``December 31, 2011''. (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. SEC. 4. ACCELERATION OF JGTRRA SUNSET. (a) In General.--Section 303 of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 is amended by striking ``December 31, 2012'' and inserting ``December 31, 2011''. (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.


House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana is in critical condition after he was was shot Wednesday morning at a congressional baseball practice, according to the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. RELATED: GOP baseball shooting: Rep. Scalise among victims in 'critical' condition The hospital released an update on Scalise's condition around 8:15 p.m. The statement reads: Congressman Steve Scalise sustained a single rifle shot to the left hip. The bullet traveled across his pelvis, fracturing bones, injuring internal organs, and causing severe bleeding. He was transported in shock to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, a Level I Trauma Center. He underwent immediate surgery, and an additional procedure to stop bleeding. He has received multiple units of blood transfusion. His condition is critical, and he will require additional operations. We will provide periodic updates. According to a statement released by Scalise's office, the congressman was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center and underwent surgery. The statement added he was in good spirits and spoke to his wife by phone prior to surgery. CBS News reported shortly before 10 a.m. that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Scalise was out of surgery. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said several other people also were hit, including two law enforcement officers. The shooter is identified as James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Illinois. Videos claiming to be recorded during the shooting have started to appear online. WARNING: CONTENT MAY BE DISTURBING TO VIEWERS AND IT HAS NOT BEEN EDITED FOR LANGUAGE. Scalise represents the state's 1st Congressional District, which includes Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Terrebonne parishes. Gov. John Bel Edwards joined members of the Louisiana Legislature and the public in a prayer for Congressman Scalise in the Louisiana State Capitol Rotunda. The governor also spoke during the gathering. RELATED: Statements from government officials regarding congressional baseball practice shooting The Alexandria Police Department reported five people were taken to the hospital for treatment. Officials said the investigation is ongoing, but the city is safe. Police Chief Michael Brown said the shooting happened just after 7 a.m. He added the FBI will be taking over the investigation. A spokesman with the FBI said it is too early in the investigation to say if this was an act of terrorism or whether members of Congress were being directly targeted in the shooting.


The phase of Super-Soft-Source (SSS) emission of the sixth recorded outburst of the recurrent nova RS Oph was observed twice with Chandra and once with XMM-Newton. The observations were taken on days 39.7, 54.0, and 66.9 after outburst. We confirm a 35-sec period on day 54.0 and found that it originates from the SSS emission and not from the shock. We discus the bound-free absorption by neutral elements in the line of sight, resonance absorption lines plus self-absorbed emission line components, collisionally excited emission lines from the shock, He-like intersystem lines, and spectral changes during an episode of high-amplitude variability. We find a decrease of the oxygen K-shell absorption edge that can be explained by photoionization of oxygen. The absorption component has average velocities of -1286+-267 km/s on day 39.7 and of -771+-65 km/s on day 66.9. The wavelengths of the emission line components are consistent with their rest wavelengths as confirmed by measurements of non-self absorbed He-like intersystem lines. We have evidence that these lines originate from the shock rather than the outer layers of the outflow and may be photoexcited in addition to collisional excitations. We found collisionally excited emission lines that are fading at wavelengths shorter than 15A that originate from the radiatively cooling shock. On day 39.5 we find a systematic blue shift of -526+-114 km/s from these lines. We found anomalous He-like f/i ratios which indicates either high densities or significant UV radiation near the plasma where the emission lines are formed. During the phase of strong variability the spectral hardness light curve overlies the total light curve when shifted by 1000sec. This can be explained by photoionization of neutral oxygen in the line of sight if the densities of order 10^{10}-10^{11} cm^{-3}.


If you thought Apple’s Face ID spelled the end of the fingerprint sensor, think again. Synaptics Inc., a company that creates touchpads and fingerprint sensors, has unveiled the next-generation Synaptics Clear ID, a fingerprint sensor that sits just under the glass of a smartphone. As smartphone manufacturers shrink the bezels around a screen, there’s less space for a fingerprint sensor on the front of the phone. Fingerprint sensors are used to unlock smartphones, and even access sensitive content like a banking app. Many Android manufacturers place these sensors on the back of the phone, so it doesn’t affect the bezel-less trend. Some — like OnePlus, LG, and Samsung — offer facial unlocking technology via the selfie camera. The sensor is two times faster than 3D facial recognition. With the iPhone X, Apple went all in on Face ID, going so far as to remove its fingerprint technology, Touch ID. The move has led analysts to believe more Android manufacturers will invest in facial-recognition 3D cameras next year. Synaptics thinks both rear fingerprint sensors and facial unlocking technology are not ideal. If your phone is sitting on a table, you have to pick it up to access the rear fingerprint sensor — the same is true to have it recognize your face. Apple’s Face ID also caused the iPhone X to have an “irregular-shaped display,” also known as the “notch,” to cram the tech in. Synaptics’ Clear ID FS9500 is a mass-production-ready sensor the company will sell to smartphone manufacturers. It works under OLED displays, which most flagship smartphones use, and it’s quite different from a traditional sensor. The fingerprint sensor on your phone now is capacitive, using electric current to capture your imprint. Clear ID is an ultra-thin optical sensor that captures your print with light emitting from the OLED panel on the smartphone. The full process works like this: The sensor detects the finger, the OLED display lights up the finger, the sensor scans the fingerprint, and the “matcher” verifies the image and confirms the imprint is yours, granting you access. The sensor can be placed anywhere on the screen the manufacturer wants, though Synaptics offers some general guidelines. The Clear ID sensor can work on rigid or flexible displays, and the company told Digital Trends it should work even if the phone has a screen protector, or if the screen is wet. Synaptics said the sensor is two times faster than 3D facial recognition, unlocking


corporation shall keep, at its principal office, a record of the names of all members having the right to vote in any proceeding of the corporation. (c) Right To Inspect Books and Records.--All books and records of the corporation may be inspected by any member having the right to vote, or by any agent or attorney of such member, for any proper purpose, at any reasonable time. (d) Application of State Law.--No provision of this section may be construed to contravene any applicable State law. SEC. 11. AUDIT OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS. The first section of the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for audit of accounts of private corporations established under the Federal law'', approved August 30, 1964 (36 U.S.C. 1101), is amended by adding at the end of the following: ``Ukrainian American Veterans, Incorporated.''. SEC. 12. ANNUAL REPORT. The corporation shall annually submit to the Congress a report concerning the activities of the corporation during the preceding fiscal year. The annual report shall be submitted at the same time as is the report of the audit required by section 11. The report shall not be printed as a public document. SEC. 13. RESERVATION OF RIGHT TO AMEND OR REPEAL CHAPTER. The right to amend or repeal this Act is expressly reserved to the Congress. SEC. 14. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Act-- (1) the term ``corporation'' means the Ukrainian American Veterans, Incorporated; and (2) the term ``State'' means any of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, or any other territory or possessions of the United States. SEC. 15. TAX EXEMPT STATUS. The corporation shall maintain its status as an organization exempt from taxation as provided in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. SEC. 16. TERMINATION. The charter granted in this Act shall expire if the corporation fails to comply with any provisions of this Act.


Compact binary mergers are prime sources of gravitational waves, targeted by current and next generation detectors. The question "what is the observable electromagnetic (EM) signature of a compact binary merger?" is an intriguing one with crucial consequences to the quest for gravitational waves. We present a large set of numerical simulations that focus on the electromagnetic signals that emerge from the dynamically ejected sub-relativistic material. These outflows produce on a time scale of a day macronovae - short-lived IR to UV signals powered by radioactive decay. The interaction of this outflow with the surrounding matter inevitably leads to a long-lasting remnant. The expected radio signals of these remnants last longer than a year, when the sub-relativistic ejecta dominate the emission. We discuss their detectability in 1.4 GHz and 150 MHz and compare it with the detectability of short GRBs' orphan afterglows (which are produced by a different component of this outflow). Mergers with characteristics similar to those of the Galactic neutron star binary population (similar masses and typical circum-merger Galactic disk density of ~1cm^-3) taking place at the detection horizon of advanced GW detectors (300 Mpc) yield 1.4 GHz [150 MHz] signals of ~50 [300] microJy. The signal on time scales of weeks, is dominated by the mildly and/or ultra-relativistic outflow, which is not accounted for by our simulations, and is expected to be even brighter. Upcoming all sky surveys are expected to detect a few dozen, and possibly more, merger remnants at any given time thereby providing robust lower limits to the mergers rate even before the advanced GW detectorsbecome operational. Macronovae from the same distance peak in the IR to UV range at an observed magnitude that may be as bright as 22-23 about 10 hours after the merger but dimmer, redder and longer if the opacity is larger.


can change things, that bit of jealousy seeing your rivals raising trophies aloft. In the early 90s, Down (twice), Donegal and Derry won All-Ireland titles. Every other county in the north was supporting them. It's something unique to the northern counties and it’s something you don’t get in the other three provinces. Through the tough times of the troubles, our identity was even more important. To those looking on from over the border, we were often viewed as outcasts. My own club is on the border with Armagh, but when Derry won the All-Ireland in '93 the village was packed out for the Derry team on their way home. Tyrone looked on hoping some day it would be them. That day, thankfully did come. I mentioned earlier life skills and it’s well documented the many advantages that you can take from the various battles on the field of play. There are huge benefits for people as individuals in terms of what they can learn from playing team sports. The attributes that make you a good footballer or hurler - hard work and discipline - are things that stand to you in your work life. I would like to think that football has taught me a fair bit in how to deal with situations. You play games of football and you are faced with a lot of adversity at times. You have to learn to overcome such adversity. I know players at inter-county level have put their careers on hold because of their dedication to the game. I would counterbalance that by saying that performing at a unique level teaches you a lot about the work-related environment. Teams will sit down and set goals for the year and that's something people at work will do on a regular basis. It's not surprising that businesses bring in sports people to provide insights into how you build a successful team. So much of what they have to say is about maintaining discipline and the commitment to excel in whatever you do. After winning my All-Irelands, I was on cloud nine. Life was great. Confidence was oozing out of every pore and dealing with the likes of the media was no problem. My aim was always to try and reach my potential. You think you will never get to your potential, but you will always try to get as close as you can. My motto was to aim for perfection and if I end up a wee bit short, well it’s not so far behind to leave you disappointed.


Spitzer spectroscopy has revealed that ~80% of submm galaxies (SMGs) are starburst (SB) dominated in the mid-infrared. Here we focus on the remaining ~20% that show signs of harboring powerful active galactic nuclei (AGN). We have obtained Spitzer-IRS spectroscopy of a sample of eight SMGs which are candidates for harboring powerful AGN on the basis of IRAC color-selection (S8/S4.5>2; i.e. likely power-law mid-infrared SEDs). SMGs with an AGN dominating (>50%) their mid-infrared emission could represent `missing link' sources in an evolutionary sequence involving a major merger. First of all, we detect PAH features in all of the SMGs, indicating redshifts from 2.5-3.4, demonstrating the power of the mid-infrared to determine redshifts for these optically faint dusty galaxies. Secondly, we see signs of both star-formation (from the PAH features) and AGN activity (from continuum emission) in our sample: 62% of the sample are AGN-dominated in the mid-infrared with a median AGN content of 56%, compared with <30% on average for typical SMGs, revealing that our IRAC color selection has successfully singled out sources with proportionately more AGN emission than typical SB-dominated SMGs. However, we find that only about 10% of these AGN dominate the bolometric emission of the SMG when the results are extrapolated to longer infrared wavelengths, implying that AGN are not a significant power source to the SMG population overall, even when there is evidence in the mid-infrared for substantial AGN activity. When existing samples of mid-infrared AGN-dominated SMGs are considered, we find that S8/S4.5>1.65 works well at selecting mid-infrared energetically dominant AGN in SMGs, implying a duty cycle of ~15% if all SMGs go through a subsequent mid-infrared AGN-dominated phase in the proposed evolutionary sequence.


We use the Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (MRAMS) to simulate lake storms on Mars, finding that intense localized precipitation will occur for lake size >=10^3 km^2. Mars has a low-density atmosphere, so deep convection can be triggered by small amounts of latent heat release. In our reference simulation, the buoyant plume lifts vapor above condensation level, forming a 20km-high optically-thick cloud. Ice grains grow to 200 microns radius and fall near (or in) the lake at mean rates up to 1.5 mm/hr water equivalent (maximum rates up to 6 mm/hr water equivalent). Because atmospheric temperatures outside the surface layer are always well below 273K, supersaturation and condensation begin at low altitudes above lakes on Mars. In contrast to Earth lake-effect storms, lake storms on Mars involve continuous precipitation, and their vertical velocities and plume heights exceed those of tropical thunderstorms on Earth. Convection does not reach above the planetary boundary layer for lakes <<10^3 km^2 or for atmospheric pressure >O(10^2) mbar. Instead, vapor is advected downwind with little cloud formation. Precipitation occurs as snow, and the daytime radiative forcing at the land surface due to plume vapor and storm clouds is too small to melt snow directly (<+10 W/m^2). However, if orbital conditions are favorable, then the snow may be seasonally unstable to melting and produce runoff to form channels. We calculate the probability of melting by running thermal models over all possible orbital conditions and weighting their outcomes by probabilities given by Laskar et al., 2004. We determine that for an equatorial vapor source, sunlight 15% fainter than at present, and snowpack with albedo 0.28 (0.35), melting may occur with 4%(0.1%) probability. This rises to 56%(12%) if the ancient greenhouse effect was modestly (6K) greater than today.


. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen placed a temporary restraining order on the state's ability to use the second drug in its lethal injection protocol — vecuronium bromide. Pharmaceutical company McKesson Medical-Surgical claimed the Department of Corrections essentially duped them in acquiring the drug, stating that they sold the vecuronium bromide under the pretense that it would be used for health reasons — not an execution. The state's director of the department of corrections, Wendy Kelly, disputed the charge in testimony on Thursday. But it was the judge in the pharmaceutical company's case who developed intrigue Friday evening. Soon after Griffen scheduled a hearing for Tuesday morning, he joined a protest of the executions outside the governor's mansion. To depict the inmate's experience on the Arkansas death house gurney, he strapped himself to a cot on the sidewalk outside Hutchinson's home. Judge Wendell Griffen portrays a prisoner on a gurney during a protest against executions in front of the governor's mansion in Little Rock, Ark. on April 14, 2017. Mitchell McCoy / KARK The state attorney general's office is now seeking to have him removed from the case and Republican lawmakers want him to leave the bench altogether, stating that he did not act impartially. "As a public opponent of capital punishment, Judge Griffen should have recused himself from this case," said the state attorney general's spokesman, Judd Deere. Man on cot is judge who just blocked execution of seven brutal murderers. Who thinks he's impartial & fair in death-penalty cases? https://t.co/VrUOSvCcdz — Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 15, 2017 But for now, that case floats in a new state of legal limbo. McKesson, the pharmaceutical company, is seeking to drop its lawsuit and vacate the temporary restraining order against its drug after Baker's temporary injunction, but it plans to bring its lawsuit up again if the 8th Circuit dismissed the stay.


os, undefeated? YM; Towards the end. We care about the game, like I said we wanted to win the game, but it was not about what the results showed, it was about what we did for our people in Puerto Rico. We were down (in the championship game) by seven, eight runs and you see the people in the stands chanting, screaming, dancing and having fun. That’s the point, when you play for your country and you see the people enjoying the game, being Puerto Rican that is the reason. LS: Yadier, you have been lucky playing in the biggest of games in baseball (World Series) and you have been in the World Classic games. What is the difference? YM: I have not been lucky, I have been blessed. I work hard for that and both are amazing. I play for St. Louis, but when you play in the World Classic your playing for your parents, for your cousins, for your uncles. It’s about your grandma; it’s about your grandpa, its different. Obviously you care about wining, but the classic is about your country. LS: All of you guys did so much more than many even politicians, or other leaders were able to do by bringing an entire country and people together. Congratulations. Also what do you think of Latino Sports having an award for the Latino players? YM: That’s the goal no matter where you are at to represent your country. You can be Dominican, Mexican from Venezuela wherever you come from your going to put your best and when you see the support that our people bring to us every night here in the states that is amazing. It makes you work harder, it makes you want to do the best that you can do for them. It’s an amazing feeling. LS: So hopefully, before this season ends we in Latino Sports want to make sure that you have something to take with you that your grandchildren will remember, a museum piece (both laugh. A LatinoMVP award painting by famed artist, James Fiorentino). YM: Thank you, thank you. It’s a great honor for me to be able to receive that. Hopefully, I can be there for that day, I’m going to do by best to be there, but if not, it is a great honor and I want you to know that.


In a further development of a deterministic planet-formation model (Ida & Lin 2004), we consider the effect of type-I migration of protoplanetary embryos due to their tidal interaction with their nascent disks. During the early embedded phase of protostellar disks, although embryos rapidly emerge in regions interior to the ice line, uninhibited type-I migration leads to their efficient self-clearing. But, embryos continue to form from residual planetesimals at increasingly large radii, repeatedly migrate inward, and provide a main channel of heavy element accretion onto their host stars. During the advanced stages of disk evolution (a few Myr), the gas surface density declines to values comparable to or smaller than that of the minimum mass nebula model and type-I migration is no longer an effective disruption mechanism for mars-mass embryos. Over wide ranges of initial disk surface densities and type-I migration efficiency, the surviving population of embryos interior to the ice line has a total mass several times that of the Earth. With this reservoir, there is an adequate inventory of residual embryos to subsequently assemble into rocky planets similar to those around the Sun. But, the onset of efficient gas accretion requires the emergence and retention of cores, more massive than a few M_earth, prior to the severe depletion of the disk gas. The formation probability of gas giant planets and hence the predicted mass and semimajor axis distributions of extrasolar gas giants are sensitively determined by the strength of type-I migration. We suggest that the observed fraction of solar-type stars with gas giant planets can be reproduced only if the actual type-I migration time scale is an order of magnitude longer than that deduced from linear theories.


A wind energy development company is ‘disappointed’ at a decision by planners to reject its scheme for a 10-turbine wind farm on Fulbeck Airfield. South Kesteven District Council officers have refused the application for the 110m-high wind turbines under delegated powers. Should the applicant, Energiekontor, want to appeal the decision to the Planning Inspectorate it has six months to do so. Michael Briggs from Energiekontor UK, said: “We are obviously very disappointed with the council’s decision to refuse the planning application, as will be the hundreds of people who have written in to express their support for the project. “The wind farm would have delivered many benefits to the local and wider area which are now in doubt, particularly in relation to the economy, as numerous local construction companies were hoping the project would come forward. “At the same time, we fully understand the reasons why many have expressed their objections to the project and have always tried to do our best to address those concerns. “But the council was of the view that concerns in relation to landscape and cultural heritage issues were not outweighed by the benefits from the wind farm. We will need to look at the council’s reasons closely with our team before deciding what next for Fulbeck Airfield.” Planning officers said they refused the wind farm on the former wartime airfield on a number of grounds, including its potentially adverse visual and physical impact on the landscape and on the settings of numerous ‘high grade’ heritage assets. Concerns were also raised over an adverse impact on air safety through interference with aircraft radar and conflict with government policy. They further pointed to a Written Ministerial Statement from June 18, 2015, in which it states wind energy development should be in areas specified in local plans as being suitable for such development, and that wind farms should have the backing of local people. Local campaigning residents are delighted and relieved having seen a smaller project two miles away at Temple Hill rejected two years ago. Paul Miley of local anti-wind farm group reVOLT/VETO said: “Now the community asks that the developer respects local democracy and does not seek to appeal this decision.” He said: “An appeal would be an expensive and time consuming process both for the council and the community.” However, he did say ‘local people are ready to continue the fight if needed’.


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Given a group G, the model \mathcal{G}(G,p) denotes the probability space of all Cayley graphs of G where each element of the generating set is chosen independently at random with probability p. Given a family of groups (G_k) and a c \in \mathbb{R}_+ we say that c is the threshold for diameter 2 for (G_k) if for any \varepsilon > 0 with high probability \Gamma \in \mathcal{G}(G_k,p) has diameter greater than 2 if p \leqslant \sqrt{(c - \eps)\frac{\log{n}}{n}} and diameter at most 2 if p \geqslant \sqrt{(c + \eps)\frac{\log{n}}{n}}. In [5] we proved that if c is a threshold for diameter 2 for a family of groups (G_k) then c \in [1/4,2] and provided two families of groups with thresholds 1/4 and 2 respectively. In this paper we study the question of whether every c \in [1/4,2] is the threshold for diameter 2 for some family of groups. Rather surprisingly it turns out that the answer to this question is negative. We show that every c \in [1/4,4/3] is a threshold but a c \in (4/3,2] is a threshold if and only if it is of the form 4n/(3n-1) for some positive integer n.


The impact of a random disorder potential on the dynamical properties of Bose Einstein condensates is a very wide research field. In microcavities, these studies are even more crucial than in the condensates of cold atoms, since random disorder is naturally present in the semiconductor structures. In this chapter, we consider a stable condensate, defined by a chemical potential, propagating in a random disorder potential, like a liquid flowing through a capillary. We analyze the interplay between the kinetic energy, the localization energy, and the interaction between particles in 1D and 2D polariton condensates. The finite life time of polaritons is taken into account as well. In the first part, we remind the results of [G. Malpuech et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206402 (2007).] where we considered the case of a static condensate. In that case, the condensate forms either a glassy insulating phase at low polariton density (strong localization), or a superfluid phase above the percolation threshold. We also show the calculation of the first order spatial coherence of the condensate versus the condensate density. In the second part, we consider the case of a propagating non-interacting condensate which is always localized because of Anderson localization. The localization length is calculated in the Born approximation. The impact of the finite polariton life time is taken into account as well. In the last section we consider the case of a propagating interacting condensate where the three regimes of strong localization, Anderson localization, and superfluid behavior are accessible. The localization length is calculated versus the system parameters. The localization length is strongly modified with respect to the non-interacting case. It is infinite in the superfluid regime whereas it is strongly reduced if the fluid flows with a supersonic velocity.


Assuming that the well-confirmed non-classical rotational inertia (NCRI) effect in solid $^4$He, suggested by Leggett, indicates supersolid behavior, we make a number of remarks about both theory and experiment. (1) The long-wavelength, low-frequency ("hydrodynamic") part of the theory of Andreev and Lifshitz has nine variables, and thus must have nine modes. We find a new mode associated with lattice point diffusion (and thus vacancy diffusion); it may explain the absence of supersolid behavior in low-frequency pressure-driven flow. (2) The observed upper limit for the NCRI fraction (NCRIf) of about 20%, in disordered samples, is more-or-less the same as the already predicted upper limit for the superfluid fraction of a well-ordered crystal; we argue that this may not be a coincidence. (3) The negative experimental evidence for a second propagating hydrodynamic mode (expected to be fourth sound-like) may be due to the long relaxation times $\tau$ at low temperature $T$; only for frequencies satisfying $\omega\tau\ll1$ does the hydrodynamic theory apply. (4) The fundamental principles of quantum mechanics imply that Bose-Einstein condensation is not necessary to define a quantum-mechanical phase; therefore the absence of a finite condensate fraction $f_{0}$ does not necessarily imply the absence of superfluidity. (5) Just as vortices should avoid occupied lattice sites to provide a vortex-lattice interaction, the lattice should interact with the vortices to provide a lattice-vortex interaction; thus dislocations should interact with vortices, whose motion is affected by rotation. We discuss some experimental implications for the vortex liquid model, shear response, hysteresis, and relaxation.


By using a string-inspired modular invariant supergravity, which was proved well to explain WMAP observations appropriately, a mechanism of supersymmetry breaking (SSB) and Gravitino Production just after the end of inflation are investigated. Supersymmetry is broken mainly by F-term of the inflaton superfield and the Goldstino is identified to be inflatino in this model, which fact is shown numerically. By using the canonically normalized and diagonalized scalars, the decay rates of these fields are calculated, for both the $T$ and $Y$ into gravitinos. Non-thermal production of gravitinos is not generated from the inflaton (dilaton), since the inflaton mass is lighter than gravitino, but they are produced by the decay of modular field $T$ and scalar field $Y$. Because the reheating temperature $T_R$ is about order $\sim O(10^{10})$ GeV and the mass of gravitino is $3.16 \times 10^{12}$ GeV, it is not reproduced after the reheating of the universe. The gravitinos are produced almost instantly just after the end of inflation through $Y$ and $T$, not from inflaton. Because the decay time appears very rapid, gravitinos disappear before the BBN stage of the universe. The effects of the lightest supersymmetric particles (LSP) produced by gravitinos may be important to investigate more carefully, if the LSP's are the candidate of dark matter.


We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in a system of two parallel quasi-one-dimensional traps, equipped with optical lattices (OLs) and filled with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The cores are linearly coupled by tunneling. Analysis of the corresponding system of linearly coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) reveals that spectral bandgaps of the single GPE split into subgaps. Symmetry breaking in two-component BEC solitons is studied in cases of the attractive (AA) and repulsive (RR) nonlinearity in both traps; the mixed situation, with repulsion in one trap and attraction in the other (RA), is considered too. In all the cases, stable asymmetric solitons are found, bifurcating from symmetric or antisymmetric ones (and destabilizing them), in the AA and RR systems, respectively. In either case, bi-stability is predicted, with a nonbifurcating stable branch, either antisymmetric or symmetric, coexisting with asymmetric ones. Solitons destabilized by the bifurcation tend to rearrange themselves into their stable asymmetric counterparts. The impact of a phase mismatch, between the OLs in the two cores is also studied. Also considered is a related model, for a binary BEC in a single-core trap with the OL, assuming that the two species (representing different spin states of the same atom) are coupled by linear interconversion. In that case, the symmetry-breaking bifurcations in the AA and RR models switch their character, if the inter-species nonlinear interaction becomes stronger than the intra-species nonlinearity.


one of those bald cap masks with the Bozo hair and glasses and nose and then she walked me around the back lot. Related: Critic's Notebook: Carrie Fisher, Child of Hollywood and Droll Observer of Celebrity The lengths I would go to hear her laugh - there were no limits. I loved her and loved making her laugh. She would do these crazy things and make me do these crazy things, but I really don't think they were crazy after all. In a way, it was a defense mechanism for her. She was so off the wall, she could use it as protection. Part of what was so poignant about her was that she was vulnerable, that there was this glimmer of a little girl that was so appealing and it roused the protective nature in my personality. I'm grateful that we stayed friends and got to have this second act with the new movies. I think it was reassuring to her that I was there, the same person, that she could trust me, as critical as we could sometimes be with each other. We ran the gamut over the years, where we were in love with each other, where we hated each other's guts. "I'm not speaking to you, you're such a judgmental, royal brat!" We went through it all. It's like we were a family. When you were in her good graces, you couldn't have more fun with any person on the planet. She was able to make you feel like you were the most important thing in her life. I think that's a really rare quality. And then you could go 180 degrees opposite, where you were furious with one another and wouldn't speak for weeks and weeks. But that's all part of what makes a relationship complete. It's not all one sided. Like I say, she was a handful. She was high maintenance. But my life would have been so much drabber and less interesting if she hadn't been the friend that she was.


Assuming the dark matter is made entirely from neutralinos, we re-visit the role of their annihilation on the temperature of diffuse gas in the high redshift universe. We consider neutralinos of particle mass 36 GeV and 100 GeV, respectively. The former is able to produce ~7 electron/positron particles per annihilation through the fremionic channel, and the latter ~53 particles assuming a purely bosonic channel. High energy electron/positron particles up-scatter the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons into higher energies via the inverse-Compton scattering. The process produces a power-law electron/positron energy spectrum of index -1 in the energy range of interest, independent of the initial energy distribution. The corresponding energy spectrum of the up-scattered photons is a power-law of index -1/2, if absorption by the gas is not included. The scattered photons photo-heat the gas by releasing electrons which deposit a fraction (14%)of their energy as heat into the ambient medium. For uniformly distributed neutralinos the heating is insignificant. The effect is greatly enhanced by the clumping of neutralinos into dense haloes. We use a time-dependent clumping model which takes into account the damping of density fluctuations on mass scales smaller than ~10^{-6}M_sol. With this clumping model, the heating mechanism boosts the gas temperature above that of the CMB after a redshift of z 30. By z\approx 10 the gas temperature is nearly 100 times its temperature when no heating is invoked. Similar increase is obtained for the two neutralino masses considered.


The growth of the supermassive black holes (BHs) that reside at the centres of most galaxies is intertwined with the physical processes that drive the formation of the galaxies themselves. The evolution of the relations between the mass of the BH, m_BH, and the properties of its host therefore represent crucial aspects of the galaxy formation process. We use a cosmological simulation, as well as an analytical model, to investigate how and why the scaling relations for BHs evolve with cosmic time. We find that a simulation that reproduces the observed redshift zero relations between m_BH and the properties of its host galaxy, as well as the thermodynamic profiles of the intragroup medium, also reproduces the observed evolution in the ratio m_BH/m_s for massive galaxies, although the evolution of the m_BH/sigma relation is in apparent conflict with observations. The simulation predicts that the relations between m_BH and the binding energies of both the galaxy and its dark matter halo do not evolve, while the ratio m_BH/m_halo increases with redshift. The simple, analytic model of Booth & Schaye (2010), in which the mass of the BH is controlled by the gravitational binding energy of its host halo, quantitatively reproduces the latter two results. Finally, we can explain the evolution in the relations between m_BH and the mass and binding energy of the stellar component of its host galaxy for massive galaxies (m_s~10^11 M_sun) at low redshift (z<1) if these galaxies grow primarily through dry mergers.


Equivocation rate has been widely used as an information-theoretic measure of security after Shannon[10]. It simplifies problems by removing the effect of atypical behavior from the system. In [9], however, Merhav and Arikan considered the alternative of using guessing exponent to analyze the Shannon's cipher system. Because guessing exponent captures the atypical behavior, the strongest expressible notion of secrecy requires the more stringent condition that the size of the key, instead of its entropy rate, to be equal to the size of the message. The relationship between equivocation and guessing exponent are also investigated in [6][7] but it is unclear which is a better measure, and whether there is a unifying measure of security. Instead of using equivocation rate or guessing exponent, we study the wiretap channel in [2] using the success exponent, defined as the exponent of a wiretapper successfully learn the secret after making an exponential number of guesses to a sequential verifier that gives yes/no answer to each guess. By extending the coding scheme in [2][5] and the converse proof in [4] with the new Overlap Lemma 5.2, we obtain a tradeoff between secrecy and reliability expressed in terms of lower bounds on the error and success exponents of authorized and respectively unauthorized decoding of the transmitted messages. From this, we obtain an inner bound to the region of strongly achievable public, private and guessing rate triples for which the exponents are strictly positive. The closure of this region is equivalent to the closure of the region in Theorem 1 of [2] when we treat equivocation rate as the guessing rate. However, it is unclear if the inner bound is tight.


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We study the quantum phase transition from a super solid phase to a solid phase of rho = 1/2 for the extended Bose-Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice using first principles Monte Carlo calculations. The motivation of our study is to quantitatively understand the impact of theoretical input, in particular the dynamical critical exponent z, in calculating the critical exponent nu. Hence we have carried out four sets of simulations with beta = 2N^{1/2}, beta = 8N^{1/2}, beta = N/2, and beta = N/4, respectively. Here beta is the inverse temperature and N is the numbers of lattice sites used in the simulations. By applying data collapse to the observable superfluid density rho_{s2} in the second spatial direction, we confirm that the transition is indeed governed by the superfluid-insulator universality class. However we find it is subtle to determine the precise location of the critical point. For example, while the critical chemical potential (mu/V)_c occurs at (mu/V)_c = 2.3239(3) for the data obtained using beta = 2N^{1/2}, the (mu/V)_c determined from the data simulated with beta = N/2 is found to be (mu/V)_c = 2.3186(2). Further, while a good data collapse for rho_{s2}N can be obtained with the data determined using beta = N/4 in the simulations, a reasonable quality of data collapse for the same observable calculated from another set of simulations with beta = 8N^{1/2} can hardly be reached. Surprisingly, assuming z for this phase transition is determined to be 2 first in a Monte Carlo calculation, then a high quality data collapse for rho_{s2}N can be achieved for (mu/V)_c ~ 2.3184 and nu ~ 0.7 using the data obtained with beta = 8N^{1/2}. Our results imply that one might need to reconsider the established phase diagrams of some models if the accurate location of the critical point is crucial in obtaining a conclusion.


We have detected narrow HI 21cm and CI absorption at $z \sim 1.4 - 1.6$ towards Q0458$-$020 and Q2337$-$011, and use these lines to test for possible changes in the fine structure constant $\alpha$, the proton-electron mass ratio $\mu$, and the proton gyromagnetic ratio $g_p$. A comparison between the HI 21cm and CI line redshifts yields $\Delta X/X = [+6.8 \pm 1.0] \times 10^{-6}$ over $0 < <z> \le 1.46$, where $X = g_p \alpha^2/\mu$, and the errors are purely statistical, from the gaussian fits. The simple line profiles and the high sensitivity of the spectra imply that statistical errors in this comparison are an order of magnitude lower than in previous studies. Further, the CI lines arise in cold neutral gas that also gives rise to HI 21cm absorption, and both background quasars are core-dominated, reducing the likelihood of systematic errors due to local velocity offsets between the hyperfine and resonance lines. The dominant source of systematic error lies in the absolute wavelength calibration of the optical spectra, which appears uncertain to $\sim 2$ km/s, yielding a maximum error in $\Delta X/X$ of $\sim 6.7 \times 10^{-6}$. Including this, we obtain $\Delta X/X = [+6.8 \pm 1.0 (statistical) \pm 6.7 (max. systematic)] \times 10^{-6}$ over $0 < <z> \le 1.46$. Using literature constraints on $\Delta \mu/\mu$, this is inconsistent with claims of a smaller value of $\alpha$ from the many-multiplet method, unless fractional changes in $g_p$ are larger than those in $\alpha$ and $\mu$.


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Using Chebyshev polynomials combined with some mild combinatorics, we provide a new formula for the analytical planar limit of a random matrix model with a one-cut potential $V$. For potentials $V(x)=x^{2}/2-\sum_{n\ge1}a_{n}x^{n}/n$, as a power series in all $a_{n}$, the formal Taylor expansion of the analytic planar limit is exactly the formal planar limit. In the case $V$ is analytic in infinitely many variables $\{a_{n}\}_{n\ge1}$ (on the appropriate spaces), the planar limit is also an analytic function in infinitely many variables and we give quantitative versions of where this is defined. Particularly useful in enumerative combinatorics are the gradings of $V$, $V_{t}(x)=x^{2}/2-\sum_{n\ge1}a_{n}t^{n/2}x^{n}/n$ and $V_{t}(x)=x^{2}/2-\sum_{n\ge3}a_{n}t^{n/2 -1}x^{n}/n$. The associated planar limits $F(t)$ as functions of $t$ count planar diagram sorted by the number of edges respectively faces. We point out a method of computing the asymptotic of the coefficients of $F(t)$ using the combination of the \emph{wzb} method and the resolution of singularies. This is illustrated in several computations revolving around the important extreme potential $V_{t}(x)=x^{2}/2+\log(1-\sqrt{t}x)$ and its variants. This particular example gives a quantitive and sharp answer to a conjecture of t'Hoofts which states that if the potential is analytic, the planar limit is also analytic.


A new determination of the sound horizon scale in angular coordinates is presented. It makes use of ~ 0.6 x 10^6 Luminous Red Galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data, with photometric redshifts. The analysis covers a redshift interval that goes from z=0.5 to z=0.6. We find evidence of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) signal at the ~ 2.3 sigma confidence level, with a value of theta_{BAO} (z=0.55) = (3.90 \pm 0.38) degrees, including systematic errors. To our understanding, this is the first direct measurement of the angular BAO scale in the galaxy distribution, and it is in agreement with previous BAO measurements. We also show how radial determinations of the BAO scale can break the degeneracy in the measurement of cosmological parameters when they are combined with BAO angular measurements. The result is also in good agreement with the WMAP7 best-fit cosmology. We obtain a value of w_0 = -1.03 \pm 0.16 for the equation of state parameter of the dark energy, Omega_M = 0.26 \pm 0.04 for the matter density, when the other parameters are fixed. We have also tested the sensitivity of current BAO measurements to a time varying dark energy equation of state, finding w_a = 0.06 \pm 0.22 if we fix all the other parameters to the WMAP7 best-fit cosmology.


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With high resolution (0.46kpc/h), adaptive mesh-refinement Eulerian cosmological hydrodynamic simulations we compute properties of O VI and O VII absorbers from the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). Our new simulations are in broad agreement with previous simulations, with ~40% of the intergalactic medium being in the WHIM at z=0. It is found (1) The amount of gas in the WHIM at temperature below and above 10^6K is about equal within uncertainties. (1) Our simulations are in excellent agreement with observed properties of O VI absorbers, with respect to the line incidence rate and Doppler width-column density relation. (2) Velocity structures within absorbing regions are a significant, and for large Doppler width clouds, a dominant contributor to the Doppler widths of both O VI and O VII absorbers. A non-negligible fraction (in number and mass) of O VI and O VII clouds can arise from gas of temperature lower than 10^5, until the Doppler width is well in excess of 100km/s. (3) Strong O VI absorbers are predominantly collisionally ionized. About (61%, 57%, 39%) of O VI absorbers in the column density ranges of log N(OVI) cm^2=(12.5-13,13-14,>14) have temperature lower than 10^5K. (4) Quantitative prediction is made for the presence of broad and shallow O VI lines, which current observations may have largely missed. Upcoming observations by COS may be able to provide a test. (5) The reported 3 sigma upper limit on the mean column density of coincidental O VII lines at the location of detected O VI lines by Yao et al is above the predicted value by a factor of 2.5-4. (6) The claimed observational detection of O VII lines by Nicastro et al, if true, is 2 sigma above what our simulations predict.


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who've recently resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct. Humphreys has not responded to requests from The Associated Press for comment. ___ 12:15 p.m. The president of the University of Oklahoma is distancing himself from comments made by a Board of Regents member who compared gay people to pedophiles. University President David Boren said in a statement Monday that board member and former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys wasn't speaking on behalf of the university. Boren also says he doesn't share Humphreys' views and that the university is a diverse and inclusive family. Humphreys made the comments during a local TV public affairs show that aired over weekend on KFOR-TV. He also compared gay people to politicians who've recently resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct. A staffer at Humphreys' office says he was out of town Monday and unavailable to comment. Humphreys also didn't immediately reply to an email seeking comment from The Associated Press. ___ 10:55 a.m. A former Oklahoma City mayor and member of the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents is being criticized for comparing gay people to pedophiles. Kirk Humphreys made the comments over the weekend on KFOR-TV's public affairs show. He also compared gay people to politicians who've recently resigned after allegations of sexual misconduct. LGBTQ advocacy group Freedom Oklahoma has called for his removal from the board if he doesn't apologize. Executive Director Troy Stevenson says Humphreys' comments were disheartening and dangerous for LGBTQ youth who are already harassed and bullied. A staffer at Humphreys' office said he was out of town Monday and unavailable to comment. Stevenson said Monday his group will protest an Oklahoma City real estate project that belongs to Humphreys' family business if he doesn't apologize.


Angela Eagle and Imran Ahmed’s new book “The New Serfdom“, a 400-page hatchet job on the great liberal thinker Friedrich Hayek, is being lauded with praise in Labour circles, most effusively from Nick Cohen. Guido must come to Hayek’s defence in the face of their rewriting of history. The New Serfdom is a reminder that, even as the relatively moderate challenger to Corbyn, Eagle is still a liberty-hating socialist who opposes free markets and fundamentally values the state over the freedom of the individual. Even Ed Miliband’s office warned that Ahmed was “dangerously left-wing” when he became a Shadow Cabinet adviser. Their book condemns the “veneration of markets”, the “infiltration of marketisation” into the public sector, capitalism’s promotion of competition, the “toxic culture” of admiring those who succeed, and calls for a Labour government to create an “empowered state… pursuing a reinvigorated democratic socialism”. It wants to sweep back Thatcher’s trade union reforms, regulate the food and drink industry to the hilt and put taxes through the roof. It offers a depressing view of Britain today, talking the country down as “divided and resentful”, dismisses capitalist liberal democracy as a “con”, calls Hayek a “liar” with “extreme views” who inspired Thatcher and her “successor” Trump, and claims Brexit is evidence of “the extreme right on the march”. According to the respected academic Chris Hanretty, Eagle’s Wallasley seat voted 53% to Leave… The history of the last century comprehensively proved correct Hayek’s central assertion that socialism morphs into totalitarianism. He was proved right when the Keynesian post-war consensus collapsed and Thatcher used his ideas – “this is what we believe” – to turn the economy around. The New Serfdom is an unashamedly socialist critique of the last forty years of British political life, and so is as dangerous and wrong as you would expect. The key question for Eagle and Ahmed: if they truly believe in their socialist vision for Britain, why did they try to stop Corbyn becoming Prime Minister?


If the Commission determines that both of the remaining actions for election under paragraph (1) are in the public interest, then the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer shall elect to take one of those actions.''. (b) Hazardous Substances Amendment.--Section 15(b) of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (15 U.S.C. 1274(b)) is amended-- (1) by striking ``Refund.--If'' and inserting ``Refund.-- Except as provided in paragraph (3), if''; (2) by striking ``(1) If'' and inserting ``(A) Repair.-- If''; (3) by striking ``(2)'' and inserting ``(B) Replacment.-- ''; (4) by striking ``(3)'' and inserting ``(C) Refund.--''; (5) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (3) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively; (6) by striking ``An order'' the first place it appears and inserting ``(2) An order''; (7) by striking ``paragraph (3).'' and inserting ``paragraph (1)(C)''; and (8) by adding at the end thereof the following: ``(3) If the Commission determines, after affording opportunity for an informal hearing, that the action elected by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer under paragraph (1)(A), (B), or (C) is not in the public interest, the Commission shall order the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer to take any other action described in paragraph that the Commission determines to be in the public interest. If the Commission determines that both of the remaining actions for election under paragraph (1) are in the public interest, then the manufacturer, distributor, or retailer shall elect to take one of those actions.''. (c) Discretionary Remedial Action Under the FHSA.--Section 1274(c) of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (15 U.S.C. 1274(c) is amended-- (1) by striking ``(2) If'' and inserting ``(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), if''; and (2) adding at the end thereof the following: ``(3) If the Commission determines, after affording opportunity for an informal hearing, that the action elected by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer under paragraph (2)(A), (B), or (C) is not in


with a comprehensive understanding of gender, consent, and the critical issues at the center of the movement. Please read through their answers and jump into the comments with your thoughtful, balanced reactions. We think this is a discussion that is important and ongoing. Unsplash Lucia When I ask my guy friends, I haven’t found anyone who understands that they have a “gender.” They all think that the only thing that makes them a man is their junk, but I’m trying to understand the idea of gender outside of genitalia. Any chance you can help me with that — in straightforward terms? Dr. Casey Brienza, sociologist and author: Sex is determined by biology, whereas gender is determined by society and culture. Does a man have to show you his “junk” to assert his gender identity? Probably not. Other cues, such as dress, hairstyle, body language, speech patterns, etc. are usually sufficient, and the very fact that these may differ in different parts the world tells us that they are not inherent. Or, for that matter, immutable. Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals, sociologist and author: In sociology and social-psychology circles, this is often discussed as a (problematic, obvs) dimension of the “default person.” The default person is male, heterosexual, able-bodied, white, etc. As a society, we spent a lot of time using that default person/experience as the neutral guide for structuring society. So, to your question, we are talking “males don’t have a gender because they are conceptualized as the social default/generic”-type of thing. A gender is something that’s added in as an extra to move a human away from the “default” experience – and within this system and process, the penis has become a sort of symbolic embodiment of that default entity. It’s interesting to me too how this taps into interlocking systems of privileges and oppression. Like, a man may have none of those other “default” characteristics, but if he’s got that dick he’s somehow still plugged into the hierarchy in a socially advantageous way.


If magnetic activity in outer stellar atmospheres is due to an interplay between rotation and subsurface convection, as is generally presumed, then one would not expect to observe indicators of activity in stars with T_eff > 8300 K. Any X-ray or ultraviolet line emission from hotter stars must be due either to a different mechanism or to an unresolved, active, binary companion. Due to their poor spatial resolution, X-ray instruments have been especially susceptible to source confusion. At wavelengths longward of 1216 Angstroms, the near ultraviolet spectra of stars hotter than this putative dividing line are dominated by photospheric continuum. We have used FUSE to obtain spectra of the subcoronal O VI emission lines, which lie at a wavelength where the photospheric continuum of the mid- and early-A stars is relatively weak. We observed 14 stars spanning a range in T_eff from 7720 to 10,000 K. Eleven of the 14 stars showed O VI emission lines, including 6 of the 8 targets with T_eff > 8300 K. At face value, this suggests that activity does not fall off with increasing temperature. However, the emission lines are narrower than expected from the projected rotational velocities of these rapidly-rotating stars, suggesting that the emission could come from unresolved late-type companions. Furthermore, the strength of the O VI emission is consistent with that expected from an unseen active K or M dwarf binary companinon, and the high x-ray to far uv luminosity ratios observed indicate that this must be the case. Our results are therefore consistent with earlier studies that have shown a rapid drop-off in activity at the radiative/convective boundary expected at T_eff about 8300 K, in agreement with conventional stellar structure models.


Entire Community Of Muslims Are Rounded Up And Booted Out For Terrifying Reason Nearly 40,000 Pakastani workers were deported from Saudi Arabia since October 2016. The reasons? Visa violations and terror concerns. I’m sure that nobody will have a problem calling the Saudi Arabian government “Islamophobic” for this, right? Right? From Independent.co.uk: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has expelled almost 40,000 Pakistani migrant workers in the last four months, local media has reported. Over 39,000 people have been deported since October 2016 over visa violations and security concerns, the Saudi Gazette reported, citing unnamed interior ministry officials. As well as crimes including drug trafficking, forgery and theft, an unknown number of those removed from the country were suspected to have links to Isis and other extremist groups, the paper said. The alleged mass deportations come after a year of strikes and other unrest in the kingdom due to unpaid wages following the oil market’s decline and subsequent blow to the Saudi economy. Official Saudi statistics say that 243,000 Pakistanis were deported between 2012 – 2015. Mass deportations of migrant workers – which Human Rights Watch and other rights organisations say often involve illegal beatings and detainment in poor conditions – are fairly common. 2010 census figures show that 8.5 million of Saudi Arabia’s 27 million strong population, or around 30 per cent, are foreign nationals. According to a 2014 European University Institute report, there are approximately 900,000 people of Pakistani nationality currently employed in Saudi Arabia’s vast construction industry and other low-paid service jobs. I’m looking forward to hearing American liberals preach to Saudi Arabia about the need for “tolerance,” Maybe if you put another “Coexist” bumper sticker on your Prius, they’ll listen.


-time employees of the Federal Government created under such program. (2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.--In this subsection, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the following: (A) In the House of Representatives: (i) The Committee on Foreign Affairs. (ii) The Committee on Homeland Security. (iii) The Committee on the Judiciary. (iv) The Committee on Appropriations. (B) In the Senate: (i) The Committee on Foreign Relations. (ii) The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (iii) The Committee on the Judiciary. (iv) The Committee on Appropriations. SEC. 6. SERVICES UPON ARRIVAL. (a) In General.--Aliens provided special immigrant status and visas pursuant to section 4 shall be eligible for the same resettlement assistance, programs, and benefits as refugees admitted under section 207 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1157). The Secretary of of Health and Human Services, in cooperation with the Secretary of State, shall work with nongovernmental organizations to provide such assistance, programs, and benefits and ensure that such aliens are referred to refugee resettlement agencies. (b) Computer Literacy and Vocational Training.--The Secretary of State shall utilize existing programs of the Department of State and contracts between the Department and nongovernmental organizations to make available computer literacy programs and vocational training programs to aliens provided special immigrant status pursuant to section 4. (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the cooperation of nongovernmental organizations. SEC. 7. TRAINING AT THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall establish a program in the Department of State to provide instruction in English as a second language, vocational training, computer training, employment services, and certain counseling services for Iraqis admitted to the United States as special immigrants. SEC. 8. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that the United States should provide an orientation into life in the United States for Iraqi special immigrants under this Act who are newly admitted to the United States and should make all reasonable efforts to provide temporary safe haven for aliens described in section 4 who are applying for special immigrant status and visas if such aliens are in imminent danger in Iraq.


We have seen that if \phi: M_n(\C) \rightarrow M_n(\C) is a unital q-positive map and \nu is a type II Powers weight, then the boundary weight double (\phi, \nu) induces a unique (up to conjugacy) type II_0 E_0-semigroup. Let \phi: M_n(\C) \rightarrow M_n(\C) and \psi: M_{n'}(\C) \rightarrow M_{n'}(\C) be unital rank one q-positive maps, so for some states \rho \in M_n(\C)^* and \rho' \in M_{n'}(\C)^*, we have \phi(A)=\rho(A)I_n and \psi(D) = \rho'(D)I_{n'} for all A \in M_n(\C) and D \in M_{n'}(\C). We find that if \nu and \eta are arbitrary type II Powers weights, then (\phi, \nu) and (\psi, \eta) induce non-cocycle conjugate E_0-semigroups if \rho and \rho' have different eigenvalue lists. We then completely classify the q-corners and hyper maximal q-corners from \phi to \psi, obtaining the following result: If \nu is a type II Powers weight of the form \nu(\sqrt{I - \Lambda(1)} B \sqrt{I - \Lambda(1)})=(f,Bf), then the E_0-semigroups induced by (\phi,\nu) and (\psi, \nu) are cocycle conjugate if and only if n=n' and \phi and \psi are conjugate.


If you’ve ever dreamed of quitting your job and fleeing to an island in the Mediterranean, now’s your chance. There are about 200 stone houses for sale in an Italian village for just $1.50. Ollolai, located on the island of Sardinia, is partaking in a project called “Case a 1 euro,” which is aimed at preserving the history and charm of Italian villages at risk of depopulation. “My crusade is to rescue our unique traditions from falling into oblivion,” Efisio Arbau, the mayor of Ollolai, told CNN. “Pride in our past is our strength. We’ve always been tough people and won’t allow our town to die.” Though the deal is enticing — Sardinia has nearly 2,000 kilometres of coastline and picturesque beaches — it comes with conditions. The homes are in need of major renovation. Anyone that purchases a house in Ollolai will need to refurbish it within three years, and according to CNN, renovations are likely to cost around $25,000. In the past 50 years, the town’s population has shrunk from 2,250 to 1,300 people. The Municipality of Ollolai hopes that these sales will help draw in new homeowners and preserve the village’s history. “The internet has lit up from joyous dreamers who want to pack it in and live the la dolce vita,” Canadian Jennifer Avventura wrote on her blog, My Sardinian Life. But as dreamy as it sounds to move there, the realities of living on an Italian island shouldn’t be overlooked. “You will need to have a basic understanding of the Italian language to get by with day-to-day activities,” she wrote. “Remember – you’re re-building a home and will need to contact builders, plumbers, electricians, the local town hall, possibly a lawyer, a notary to notarize the billions of documents that will need to be signed, stamped and stamped again. Can you do this in Italian?” Arbau said in a statement that the town has received more requests than they have homes, and due to the overwhelming number of applications, the deadline for applications was moved up to Feb. 7 at 2 p.m. “If you can get over those small hurdles and prepare yourself for a beautiful, simple life, deep within the folds of Sardinia’s glorious mountains – then do


), the person engaged in, or seeking to engage in, an activity described in such subsection shall-- ``(1) inform the individual of all the purposes for which the number will be utilized and the persons to whom the number will be known; and ``(2) obtain affirmatively expressed consent in writing. ``(d) Exceptions.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any use of social security account numbers permitted or required under section 205(c)(2) of this Act, section 7(a)(2) of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a note; 88 Stat. 1909), or section 6109(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. ``(e) Civil Action in United States District Court; Damages; Attorneys Fees and Costs; Nonexclusive Nature of Remedy.-- ``(1) In general.--Any individual aggrieved by any act of any person in violation of this section may bring a civil action in a United States district court to recover-- ``(A) such preliminary and equitable relief as the court determines to be appropriate; and ``(B) the greater of-- ``(i) actual damages; and ``(ii) liquidated damages of $25,000 or, in the case of a violation that was willful and resulted in profit or monetary gain, $50,000. ``(2) Attorney's fees and costs.--In the case of a civil action brought under paragraph (1) in which the aggrieved individual has substantially prevailed, the court may assess against the respondent a reasonable attorney's fee and other litigation costs and expenses (including expert fees) reasonably incurred. ``(3) Statute of limitations.--No action may be commenced under this subsection more than 3 years after the date on which the violation was or should reasonably have been discovered by the aggrieved individual. ``(4) Nonexclusive remedy.--The remedy provided under this subsection shall be in addition to any other lawful remedy available to the individual. ``(f) Civil Money Penalties.-- ``(1) In general.--Any person who the Commissioner of Social Security determines has violated this section shall be subject, in addition to any other penalties that may be prescribed by law, to-- ``(A) a civil money penalty of not more than $25,000 for each such violation, and ``(B) a civil money penalty of not more than $500,000, if violations have occurred with such frequency as to constitute a general business practice.


Share This Video Facebook Twitter EMAIL Every day it gets harder and harder to tell if Kanye West has gone off the deep end, if he’s 100 percent sincere, or if he’s just elaborately trolling us all for attention with a ridiculous spate of GOOD Music albums supposedly on the way, but one thing is for sure: His weirdness is consistently and bizarrely captivating, entertaining, and surprising — you never know what he’ll do next. I love the way Candace Owens thinks — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018 Case in point, his latest stunt involved an unexpected response to Hot 97’s Ebro Darden after the gruff radio personality lambasted West yesterday during his show. After West tweeted in support of conservative commentator Candace Owens, Ebro and his cohosts delivered a rollicking , 16-minute explainer for his seemingly Trump-supporting tweets and why they hurt, confused, or angered many of Kanye’s longtime fans and supporters. While they weren’t exactly kind to Kanye, they weren’t totally disrespectful either, surmising that ultimately, Kanye likes Trump because Trump was nice to him at a low point in his life. Yes Kanye just called the show while we were in the middle of a break and just kept repeating "I love you" to Ebro…eventually he said lets meet in person off air and then talk on the air — RosenbergTelevision (@Rosenbergradio) April 24, 2018 Today, though, Kanye called into Hot 97 to speak his piece, except what actually happened is he simply kept repeating “I love you” in response to Ebro’s questions, to the confusion of the hosts. He seemed to be in good spirits, but refused to talk about the music or his tweets, offering to speak with Ebro in person before giving a radio interview. If it’s a troll, it’s one of the most masterful mind games anyone’s ever played with the rambunctious Ebro In The Morning crew, and if it was just “New” Kanye’s pacifistic way of blowing off steam, it certainly seems more productive than his old approach to radio host provocation. In either case, Kanye’s certainly built even more anticipation for his new music — if only so we can all finally get an explanation of just what he’s thinking lately.


Netflix Even if you’re still in the middle of Lost in Space from Netflix’s April additions, the month of May is nearly upon us and the streaming giant already has a whole of new shows and films in store for its subscribers. From the fourth season of the hugely popular Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to a seemingly endless array of new comedy specials from Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, and more, the sheer amount of new content Netflix is putting out next month is insurmountable. Then again, to make room for it all the streamer will have to sacrifice a few expired licenses, like the Martin Scorsese classic Goodfellas. ARRIVING The fourth season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (5/30) Share This Video Facebook Twitter EMAIL We haven’t heard much from Kimmy Schmidt (Ellie Kemper) since season three dropped in May of last year. That’s all about to change at the end of May, when the popular comedy series will return to Netflix for its fourth season. Slated for a split debut on Wednesday, May 30th, the first half of season four (six episodes) will be available to watch in full. As for the second half of the new season, they will be available to watch sometime “later in 2018.” No particular reason was given by Netflix back in February, though it probably has something to do with show creator Tina Fey’s busy schedule. DEPARTING Goodfellas says goodbye (5/1) Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas is an all-time cinematic classic, Tommy DeVito’s (Joe Pesci) crazed outbursts notwithstanding. The film was adapted from Nicholas Pileggi’s 1986 book Wiseguy, which chronicled the rise and fall of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a mobster who became an informant for the FBI. Anyone with a love of Scorsese films, Robert De Niro being Robert De Niro, or crime movies will love Goodfellas. Hence why, if you haven’t seen it already, now’s your chance before Netflix removes it on Tuesday, May 1st.


If the second Betti number b_2 of a Sasaki-Einstein manifold Y^7 does not vanish, then M-theory on AdS_4 x Y^7 possesses "topological" U(1)^{b_2} gauge symmetry. The corresponding Abelian gauge fields come from three-form fluctuations with one index in AdS_4 and the other two in Y^7. We find black membrane solutions carrying one of these U(1) charges. In the zero temperature limit, our solutions interpolate between AdS_4 x Y^7 in the UV and AdS_2 x R^2 x squashed Y^7 in the IR. In fact, the AdS_2 x R^2 x squashed Y^7 background is by itself a solution of the supergravity equations of motion. These solutions do not appear to preserve any supersymmetry. We search for their possible instabilities and do not find any. We also discuss the meaning of our charged membrane backgrounds in a dual quiver Chern-Simons gauge theory with a global U(1) charge density. Finally, we present a simple analytic solution which has the same IR but different UV behavior. We reduce this solution to type IIA string theory, and perform T-duality to type IIB. The type IIB metric turns out to be a product of the squashed Y^7 and the extremal BTZ black hole. We discuss an interpretation of this type IIB background in terms of the (1+1)-dimensional CFT on D3-branes partially wrapped over the squashed Y^7.


Assuming a spherical symmetry, the extreme UV emitted by a very hot source ionizes low pressure molecular hydrogen making a transparent bubble of H II (Protons and electrons). For an increase of radius, intensity of extreme UV and temperature decrease, so that the plasma contains more and more atoms. A spherical shell, mainly of neutral atoms (H I) appears. If this shell is optically thick at Lyman frequencies of H I, it is superradiant and a competition of modes selects modes tangent to a sphere for which many atoms are excited. Thus, a shell of plasma emits, into a given direction, tangential rays showing a ring in which selected modes are brighter. While at Lyman frequencies, absorption of rays emitted by the source excites the atoms able to amplify the superradiance, a more powerful amplification of superradiance results from an induced scattering of the radial beams, which extends to feet of lines and progressively to the whole spectrum. Thermodynamics says that the brightness of radial and tangential beams tends to be equal; if the solid angle of observation is much larger for the ring than for the source, almost the whole light emitted by the source is transferred to the rings, and the source becomes invisible. Paradoxically, a glow due to incoherent scattering and impurities around the source remains visible. As the scattering decreases with the decrease of the radial intensity, the brightness of the ring decreases with radius. These characteristics are found in supernova remnant 1987A.


BARNEGAT – If you see or smell smoke in Barnegat on Wednesday, it is most likely a prescribed burn performed by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. Prescribed burns are intentional fires set to clear out easily flammable brush before a wildfire does it. The area around Cloverdale Farms, by Cloverdale Road, will be the focus of the burn. It should take place between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. The New Jersey State Forest Fire Service conducts burns throughout the state at the end of winter every year. The burns destroy fallen trees, branches, leaves, pine needles and other debris on the forest floor. “By burning them away now, we can reduce the risk of these materials serving as tinder for wildfires later in the year,” said Bill Edwards, chief of the state fire service. “This practice also improves the overall ecological health of our forests and grasslands.” The fire service expects to burn between 10,000 and 20,000 acres of forests and grasslands this season, they said. Most burns are on state-owned property. Because of the make-up of vegetation, the Pinelands region is the focus of much of the prescribed burning activity. During burns, personnel use hand-held torches to burn away debris on the forest floor, taking into account wind, moisture and other conditions. Last year, the Forest Fire Service responded to 1,065 wildfires, but 75 percent of them were a quarter acre or smaller. The largest was a 464-acre fire in Bass River State Forest in Burlington County. Residents are advised that they might see large plumes of smoke and might smell smoke for miles around. The burns will continue through the end of March, depending on weather. For more information, go to facebook.com/newjerseyforests or call 609-292-2977. If you are unsure if it is a controlled burn or a real forest fire, call 911 or 877-WARN-DEP.


We investigate the effect of monopolar charge disorder on the classical fluctuation-induced interactions between randomly charged net-neutral dielectric slabs and discuss various generalizations of recent results (A. Naji et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 060601 (2010)) to highly inhomogeneous dielectric systems with and without statistical disorder correlations. We shall focus on the specific case of two generally dissimilar plane-parallel slabs, which interact across vacuum or an arbitrary intervening dielectric medium. Monopolar charge disorder is considered to be present on the bounding surfaces and/or in the bulk of the slabs, may be in general quenched or annealed and may possess a finite lateral correlation length reflecting possible `patchiness' of the random charge distribution. In the case of quenched disorder, the bulk disorder is shown to give rise to an additive long-range contribution to the total force, which decays as the inverse distance between the slabs and may be attractive or repulsive depending on the dielectric constants of the slabs. We show that in the case of two dissimilar slabs the net effect due to the interplay between the disorder-induced and the pure van der Waals interactions can lead to a variety of unusual non-monotonic interaction profiles between the dielectric slabs. In particular, when the intervening medium has a larger dielectric constant than the two slabs, we find that the net interaction can become repulsive and exhibit a potential barrier, while the underlying van der Waals force is attractive. On the contrary, when the intervening medium has a dielectric constant in between that of the two slabs, the net interaction can become attractive and exhibit a free energy minimum, while the pure van der Waals force is repulsive. Therefore, the charge disorder, if present, can drastically alter the effective interaction between net-neutral objects.


We present a test of different error estimators for 2-point clustering statistics, appropriate for present and future large galaxy redshift surveys. Using an ensemble of very large dark matter LambdaCDM N-body simulations, we compare internal error estimators (jackknife and bootstrap) to external ones (Monte-Carlo realizations). For 3-dimensional clustering statistics, we find that none of the internal error methods investigated are able to reproduce neither accurately nor robustly the errors of external estimators on 1 to 25 Mpc/h scales. The standard bootstrap overestimates the variance of xi(s) by ~40% on all scales probed, but recovers, in a robust fashion, the principal eigenvectors of the underlying covariance matrix. The jackknife returns the correct variance on large scales, but significantly overestimates it on smaller scales. This scale dependence in the jackknife affects the recovered eigenvectors, which tend to disagree on small scales with the external estimates. Our results have important implications for the use of galaxy clustering in placing constraints on cosmological parameters. For example, in a 2-parameter fit to the projected correlation function, we find that the standard bootstrap systematically overestimates the 95% confidence interval, while the jackknife method remains biased, but to a lesser extent. The scatter we find between realizations, for Gaussian statistics, implies that a 2-sigma confidence interval, as inferred from an internal estimator, could correspond in practice to anything from 1-sigma to 3-sigma. Finally, by an oversampling of sub-volumes, it is possible to obtain bootstrap variances and confidence intervals that agree with external error estimates, but it is not clear if this prescription will work for a general case.


(1) or (2)'' in paragraph (1)(C) (as so redesignated) and inserting ``subparagraph (A) or (B)''; and (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ``(2) Additional requirements with respect to grantor retained annuities.--For purposes of subsection (a), in the case of an interest described in paragraph (1)(A) (determined without regard to this paragraph) which is retained by the transferor, such interest shall be treated as described in such paragraph only if-- ``(A) the right to receive the fixed amounts referred to in such paragraph is for a term of not less than 10 years, ``(B) such fixed amounts, when determined on an annual basis, do not decrease relative to any prior year during the first 10 years of the term referred to in subparagraph (A), and ``(C) the remainder interest has a value greater than zero determined as of the time of the transfer.''. (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall apply to transfers made after December 31, 2010. TITLE IV--BUDGETARY EFFECTS SEC. 401. COMPLIANCE WITH PAYGO. The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest statement titled ``Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation'' for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote on passage.


The peculiar motion of the Earth causes a dipole anisotropy modulation in the distant galaxy distribution due to the aberration effect. However, the amplitude and angular direction of the effect is not necessarily the same as those of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) dipole anisotropy due to the growth of cosmic structures. In other words exploring the aberration effect may give us a clue to the horizon-scale physics perhaps related to the cosmic acceleration. In this paper we develop a method to explore the dipole angular modulation from the pixelized galaxy data on the sky properly taking into account the covariances due to the shot noise and the intrinsic galaxy clustering contamination as well as the partial sky coverage. We applied the method to the galaxy catalogs constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6 data. After constructing the four galaxy catalogs that are different in the ranges of magnitudes and photometric redshifts to study possible systematics, we found that the most robust sample against systematics indicates no dipole anisotropy in the galaxy distribution. This finding is consistent with the expectation from the concordance Lambda-dominated cold dark matter model. Finally we argue that an almost full-sky galaxy survey such as LSST may allow for a significant detection of the aberration effect of the CMB dipole having the precision of constraining the angular direction to ~ 20 degrees in radius. Assuming a hypothetical LSST galaxy survey, we find that this method can confirm or reject the result implied from a stacked analysis of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect of X-ray luminous clusters in Kashlinsky et al. (2008,2009) if the implied cosmic bulk flow is not extended out to the horizon.