If you like the hustle and bustle of a modern city in the run-up to Christmas, 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 if so they cannot vary significantly from quiet Sun region to region.


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), if any.


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, if correct, it would carry the implication that the characteristic mass is not set by the thermal Jeans mass of the cloud.


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 if the offense resulted in substantial interference with the administration of justice.


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 if two-thirds of lawmakers vote for it.


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 if the two electrons share the excess energy equally.