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I part own a house that I inherited. We've been letting it through an agent but I was wondering whether to just try and find a tenant myself - what do people think - anyone do it - more bother than it's worth or not too bad ?
It's only a cheap terrace - would probably sell it but prices seem to be going up now and I don't have anything else to spend the money on.
Not fortunate enough to be in that position myself, but family members are.
Generally, the opinion is that agents are worth it - unless you think you can get a very long term stable, pay-on-time-every-time set of tenants. Maybe you find your own, though family/friends' network, but renting to people you know has big potential drawbacks, alongside some big potential benefits. Care needed.
Agents take the hassle out of it all... stop you having to deal day-to-day with potentially stroppy people. Contracts are tight. You never need to chase payments... etc etc.
If tenants change every 12 months then, on average, you'll probably have more "empty", zero-rent months if you find people your own tenants. And one or two empty months can cost a fortune... costing as much as, or more than the agent's annual fee. And if you do need to find new tenants, then you'd have to pay to advertise, whereas agents might well fill it just because tenants go directly to agents.
Bottom line... if it was me, I'd feel resentful about paying out a chunk of my income to agents every month... but it's probably good value.
Some good points
Hi, I have a slightly different view, as I think managing it yourself is doable and don't see what the agents do for their 10% or whatever (I'm not trying to annoy any letting agents who may be lurking!).
I'd recommend getting the property onto Rightmove. You can't do this as an individual, and by far the cheapest way is to use a web company such as Visum (I have no connection with Visum at all, apart from I've used them myself). You'll need to sort out your own ASTs, gas certs etc and I suppose it depends on if you think this is worth the hassle or not, but I don't think the agents do a great deal for the money.
Relating to your not knowing what to do with the money, have you considered borrowing against the property and buying another one out right? Depends what you're in it for I know, but it's something to consider I think.
Big_G, thanks. On your last point I only own 25% of the property it's just as I'm the only one in the same city it falls to me to sort everything out. I may end up buying the others out though (seeing as every time I have to spend time doing stuff to the house I only get quarter of the benefit !) in which case I might do something like that.
popsider: if you end up doing it yourself, you might make a few quid more, but it sounds like it's not really worth the hassle. You'll split everything and only get 1/4 of the benefits whereas the others would be putting nothing extra in and getting all the benefits of your doing the work yourself....
Sounds way easier to just let an agent do it all, if they are a good agent that do take all the hassle out of it.
Get a decent agent, get them to find decent tenants, get them to manage the property and run spot checks every three months.
Accept you're feeding off some poor sods efforts and take less profit.
At least three people I know let out their property and all they did was ask an estate agent to find someone. That's all. Their properties were all trashed.
Yeah love would be optional, I didn't love the previous lot though I did buy a new washing machine for them and all I got was an iron shaped burn mark in the carpet !
Sounds like heaven. I sometimes say hello to my neighbour if he's outside when I leave the house, that's as far as it goes. I don't like to strike up a conversation in case he complains about my dogs barking.
Following up on Ric's point, if you do it yourself trust your instincts. What I mean is, if you feel uneasy about a prospective tenant for whatever reason when you're showing them around, let them go.
I don't think that getting an agent to vet the tenants is any guarantee that the tenant will be a good one, so personally I wouldn't use that as a reason to keep with an agent. booktrunk's point about doing all the work for only 25% of the return is a good one though....
For info, you can do your own tenant checks (I.E., TenantVerify do it and again I have no connection with this company. Why do I feel the need to say this on here? Not sure) and get references etc just as well as the agent can, but at the end of the day a tenant can still trash the place so going via an agent offers little protection from that, unfortunately. If anything, an agent may paint an overly rosy picture of a tenant so you go with them in order that they get their commission sooner.
we have 2 flats we rent out and manage ourselves. but they are fairly local to us so it's easy to manage them if our presence is needed. and as they are in good order, maintenance issues are easy to look after.
however, we do use a local estate agent (who offer a letting service) to find tenants (and also vet but we also do our own checks) and they will hold the rental deposit on our behalf (saves having to register to do so)
if you join the National Landlords Association - http://www.landlords.org.uk/ - you get access to a wealth of information, legal helpline, draft documents etc as part of the service. that helps a lot in managing matters yourself.
it's not difficult doing it yourself, you just need to make some time to keep on top of matters
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Just following up on this point, if you want to register the deposit yourself use the DPS (Deposit Protection Service). It's free and straight forward.
Do something good for humanity and rent it at lower than market levels. You'll feel good.
PC, managing them yourself enables what you're getting at, as if you're so inclined you can knock the Letting Agent's 10% (or whatever it is) off the rent. Also, a tenant generally has to pay a fee to agents whereas they don't if they go privately.
From a landlord's point of view it may be better having their properties full as opposed to getting top whack on the rent. Getting top whack is fine, but it potentially leads to people moving out regularly and having the place empty for a month or two whilst a new tenant is found.
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fat buddha wrote (see) however, we do use a local estate agent (who offer a letting service) to find tenants (and also vet but we also do our own checks) and they will hold the rental deposit on our behalf (saves having to register to do so) Just following up on this point, if you want to register the deposit yourself use the DPS (Deposit Protection Service). It's free and straight forward.
yes I know but the agent offered it as part of their service so it seemed easier than a DIY option. by the way - I should have mentioned that the agent charges 2 weeks rent for finding a tenant which is less than many others and saves me the hassle of advertising..
we've not charged top £ and as a result have one tenant who's been in one flat for 5+ years (she's a lady in her late 70's who has family locally to help and is likely to be in the flat until she dies. that's not meant to be callous but is a fact). in the other flat the tenant has just moved out after 3 years as they have now bought a place outside the town. we have had in the past a share of not so reliable tenants, one of whom we had to turf out due to non-payment of rent.
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Yes quite happy to rent it for a bit less, I'm really just hanging onto it for a bit while some other financial stuff is sorted out (inheritance from a distant relative I've never actually met). At that point I might sell it next time it is empty.
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that's what we are doing at the mo with the one that's just become vacant. it's a Victorian property that had been completely refurbed when we bought the flat in it, but due to it's age the maintenance is only going to become more burdensome as time goes by so we think now is the right time to sell.
I'd like to know how many people would have become landlords if they first had to own the 'rented out' property outright first, instead of playing with the 'but-to let' advantage.
Easy isn't it. Piss all your money up the wall and when you've messed up and have nothing to retire on, move the goal posts and screw someone else to pay for it.
bit extreme there Ric.
not every b2l landlord is in it to screw their tenants over. sure, there a number who are but I would suggest they are in the minority. many of us are in this for the long term as the investments are part of our pension plan - being self employed I don't get the luxury of an occupation pension like many get so have to look after myself. the properties are part of a diverse investment strategy so that if some go uptits hopefully others will balance it out. anything wrong with that??


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After falling 15 percent in 2012, solar photovoltaic wafer production is forecast to grow 19 percent in 2013, passing 30 GW and recovering to the 2011 level, according to the latest NPD Solarbuzz Polysilicon and Wafer Supply Chain Quarterly. However, industry utilization is expected to remain below 60 percent, and while prices have stopped falling, no significant increases are expected, so profitability for wafer makers will remain challenging.
Multicrystalline silicon (multi c-Si) technology is forecast to continue its dominance of the wafer market in the short to mid-term. However, the higher efficiency solar cells that can be produced using monocrystalline silicon (mono c-Si) wafers continue to be in demand for applications where space is restricted. The higher efficiencies enable pricing at a premium over standard multi c-Si modules. In particular, rapid growth in the Japanese market is creating demand for premium efficiency modules that use mono c-Si wafers.
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Following the recent cancellation of his contract, Aspen Valley Hospital's head surgeon is asking the community to lobby the health care facility's board to retain him.
Dr. Bill Rodman, who has managed the hospital's surgical services through an exclusive-provider contract since 1993, widely distributed an email last week that calls on friends and others to write new hospital CEO Dan Bonk and board chairman Dr. Barry Mink to allow him to remain as the hospital's second surgeon after his term concludes at the end of June.
The email also contains a narrative describing various events at the hospital, covering the start of his lengthy career and ending with the current situation in which the hospital board has decided to replace him by contracting with a Denver-based surgical firm. The firm, Surgical Services of Colorado, will supply Aspen Valley Hospital with two surgeons beginning July 1. Negotiations between Rodman and the firm in late 2013 for the purpose of retaining Rodman as one of the surgeons did not pan out.
"Up until now, I have remained silent, hoping to allow the process to proceed and to not tarnish in any way the hospital that I have nurtured over these years," his email, dated March 20, says. "It, unfortunately, is time for a PR campaign!"
Rodman asks that people petition the hospital to request that the Denver firm only provide one surgeon so that he can remain in the hospital's surgery rotation.
"I would remain as the other surgeon to serve you, my community, as I have for 21 years," he writes.
Phone messages left for Bonk and Mink were not returned on Sunday afternoon.
Rodman's lengthy narrative states that if Surgical Services fulfills its obligation to provide one full-time and one part-time surgeon for the hospital, Rodman still plans to provide surgical services locally. But it will be difficult, he writes, because the new surgeons will receive financial support from the hospital.
"While I plan to continue to practice here, it will be extremely challenging," Rodman says. "There will be three surgeons (myself and two surgeons from SSOC) to meet the needs of the upper Roaring Fork Valley, where at most 1.5 surgeons are needed to meet surgical demands. I will be competing with surgeons from Denver who will be subsidized by AVH in order to guarantee that their practice survives over mine. I believe for the first time in history, AVH is subsidizing one physician practice over another."
Rodman's plea for community support in his quest to remain at Aspen Valley Hospital is the latest chapter in a saga involving the hospital's surgical services over the past few years.
According to Rodman, in 2001 the hospital required that he bring in a second surgeon "to prevent my own burnout." A female surgeon was recruited and hired, but after a couple of years her contract was terminated. In 2004, he brought in Dr. John Schultz.
Their relationship began to deteriorate after a few years, Schultz told The Aspen Times after Rodman terminated his contract last summer and the board upheld the decision. Coinciding with their personal and professional differences was the fact that former hospital CEO David Ressler, in January 2010, began lobbying for a change with Rodman's relationship with the hospital, preferring that Rodman become a direct hospital employee in lieu of the exclusive-provider arrangement.
Schultz did not go away quietly and aired some of his differences with Rodman publicly. Also, at a packed public meeting at the hospital in early June, he was critical of the board's decision to agree to Rodman's termination of his contract. The board did not reverse its decision.
Following that brouhaha, Rodman states in the narrative, he found other candidates for the second surgeon position and also sought to obtain information from hospital officials about his new employment contract.
"I was not provided with any information, and we lost the opportunity" to hire another surgeon, he writes.
To fill the gap when Rodman had time off, the hospital began to make use of temporary surgeons from other areas of the country. They are known as "locums."
Rodman says he kept attempting to hire a second surgeon, but in August he was told that since he had failed to recruit a second surgeon, "I had to sign a revision to my existing contract to allow the hospital to recruit a second surgeon directly. This abrogated the exclusive-provider clause in my contract."
Then in September, hospital officials asked the board to allow them to look at surgical groups as an option. Rodman objected, expressing a concern that it could set up a model for rotating surgeons that had led to problems with the hospital's surgery practice in the early 1990s.
Rodman says he was told by a hospital official in October of plans to pursue a contract with Surgical Services.
"I was completely excluded from discussing with the administration what special skill set we should be looking for in a new surgeon, and what I felt, after two decades of practice, the surgical needs of both hospital and our remote mountain community are," he says in the narrative.
Rodman states that over the next couple of months, he spoke with other health care facilities, including the Mayo Clinic, about bringing surgeons to Aspen, but the hospital did not pursue the connections he lined up.
In December, Rodman began negotiating with Surgical Services, but found the details of his contract objectionable, he says. Following some changes, he received another contract in January, but there was still a clause in it he didn't like. His lawyers advised him not to sign it.
He writes that soon after, Surgical Services walked away from the negotiating table.


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JERUSALEM — Israel is often referred to as "Startup Nation," thanks to its long history of high-tech breakthroughs produced by scrappy little companies. But in one critical area, the speed of Internet connections, Israel has fallen behind other tech-savvy countries.
In the coming months, Israel's state-owned electric company hopes to change this by rolling out a nationwide, high-speed broadband network. Exploiting the small size of the densely populated country, the effort aims to put Israel at the forefront of the next generation of Internet technology.
Experts say the fiber-optic lines can provide connections of 10 to 100 times current speeds, transforming the way the Internet is used in such areas as entertainment, business and health care.
"All the developing countries that have a vision for 10 years ahead, or 20 years ahead, understand that the name of the game will be communications, broadband communications, very fast communications," said Tzvi Harpak, the electric company's senior vice president for logistics.
The technology is known as "fiber to the home," or FTTH. Using fiber optic lines, it can provide connection speeds of 100 megabits to a blazing 1 gigabit per second. Today, the typical broadband user in the developed world connects at five to 10 megabits using older cable and DSL connections.
Oliver Johnson, chief executive of British research firm Point Topic, said FTTH technology is the "gold standard" of the next generation of broadband service. Although cable and DSL lines can be upgraded to higher speeds, FTTH has smoother transmission of data and a much higher upside in terms of speed, he said.
"It's easier to go higher. It's future-proofed," he said.
The added bandwidth could transform the way the Internet is used. Massive video files will be downloaded instantly, opening the door for high-definition and 3D movies to be delivered more easily.
Since the system will have equally fast upload speeds, individuals or businesses will also be able to deliver pictures, videos and other large files. In South Korea, where FTTH lines are common, users rave of the lightning fast downloads and crystal clear Skype connections.
This could mean much-improved videoconferences in the workplace, easy sharing of information in complicated engineering tasks, doctors monitoring their patients or assisting in operations by long distance. It will also likely speed up the migration of information, photos and video from personal computers to the "cloud," making it easy for users to access their information from any Internet connection.
Around the world, decision-makers are reaching the conclusion that faster connections will be essential for economic growth. A number of countries are engaged in a gold rush of sorts as they build new networks with FTTH technology.
"Everyone feels that bandwidth will be this commodity down the road. If you don't have it, you'll be out of luck," said David St. John, spokesman for the FTTH Council, an industry trade group based in the U.S.
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Not surprisingly, South Korea leads the world in average broadband connection speed at 13.8 mbps, followed by Hong Kong and Japan, according to Akamai Technologies Inc.'s closely watched "State of the Internet" report. The U.S. is ranked 16th.
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Evolution XI in Brisbane had 7 bouts which were almost all main event calibre bouts. All full thai rules.
This included Soren Mongkongthon who destroyed his Thai opponent just days before he was to enter the contender house (said he didnt want to sustain any damage etc.).... He didn't, he knocked him out with body punches in the 2nd round. 17 y.o Michael Thompson narrowly lost to his useful Thai opponent on points, but looks to be one for the future. He has lightning hands and great clinch for someone that young. The highlight of the night was the return of K1 scandinavia HW champion Nathan 'Carnage' Corbett. He's down to LHW now and looked great against a very tough slovakian. He is an absolute beast, his elbows are scary. I believe Australia has the most talent per capita in the world right now. JWP, Macfie, Slowinski, Makinnon, Tramsek to name a few, can mix it up with just about anyone, especially with full thai rules. Bring on Contender Asia! |
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Putting Ray Allen's free throw struggles in perspective...and links - 0 Comments
After Ray Allen missed four free throws in last night's 93-79 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, Celtics coach Doc Rivers said that's something he doesn't think we'll ever see again. It may seem like hyperbole, but Rivers' comment is probably closer to reality.
The last time Allen missed four three throws in a game was on Dec. 26, 2006, while he was in Seattle. So assuming four missed free throws happens every 5-1/2 years for Allen, it's unlikely we'll see it again from the 36-year-old.


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- Hello, Roboto #
Lets live with you for a while and see how things go.
Monday, 20 April 2015
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I Heart Earth
Download a 3.8mb PNG suitable for printing in A4 size. Dedicated to the public domain.
- Original idea by Milton Glaser.
- Tiny Earth image (the blue pixel in the letter 'I') is PIA00452: Solar System Portrait - Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot' by NASA/JPL.
- PT Mono typeface by Alexandra Korolkova with participation from Isabella Chaeva.
- Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF)1 image (inside the heart) by NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team. The Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit for 25 years.
- Large Earth satellite view of the Americas on Earth Day 2014 by NASA and NOAA.
Earth day is every day.
Read about the iconic predecessor to this image, the Ultra Deep Field photograph, also made by the Hubble Space Telescope. ↩
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Friday, 17 April 2015
- Margaret Hamilton During the Apollo Program #
Taken by the Draper Lab photographer in 1969 (during Apollo 11). Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by the team she was in charge of, the LM and CM on-board flight software team
What a great photograph!
Thursday, 16 April 2015
- Deep Space Climate Observatory #
Falcon 9 carrying DSCOVR, 2nd stage with Earth in background. By SpaceX, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite launched just two months ago and will reach its designated orbital position approximately one million miles from Earth in June. I'm looking forward to seeing its pictures of our planet!
Via Neil Fraser.
Saturday, 11 April 2015
- Hover.css #
Thanks to encouragement from a friend I've been working on my site design and exploring CSS3 animation.
I apologize if I cause your computer's fans to speed up while experimenting here. Browsers seemingly still need to be optimized to run the effects efficiently, without burdening the processor, though it is most likely me causing issues :)
Much like developing a photograph from the negative or raw file, designing a good website involves subtle changes, not too much and not too little, but just right. As the great designer Milton Glaser put it, just enough is more (PDF 176kb).
Friday, 10 April 2015
- This Land is Mine #
Incredible work by Nina Paley, who Amber introduced to me through Sita Sings The Blues.
Sunday, 05 April 2015
- Avoid Gratuitous Negativity #
The key word here is 'gratuitous'.
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
- The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty #
'torrent-of-ions' in the HN discussion is right on:
It's not really about "giving back". There's no obligation to give anything back at all and neither should there be. Rather, the GPL is designed to globally maximise the freedom to use, modify and distribute a piece of software. The only freedom the GPL does not provide is the freedom to take these freedoms away from future users.
Tuesday, 24 February 2015
- GPG and Me #
As usual, a thoughtful essay by the awesome Moxie Marlinspike.
Thursday, 12 February 2015
- Realtime View of Earth from ISS #
We live in an amazing time and place. Here's a live view of our planet from the International Space Station from the High Definition Earth Viewing experiment:
While the HDEV collects beautiful images of the Earth from the ISS, the primary purpose of the experiment is an engineering one: monitoring the rate at which HD video camera image quality degrades when exposed to the space environment (mainly from cosmic ray damage) and verify the effectiveness of the design of the HDEV housing for thermal control.
See also a nice map showing the station's location updated in realtime at Satflare.
Tuesday, 03 February 2015
- U.S. Digital Services Playbook #
Good advice for building good software.
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
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International Symbol for an Observer
Tl;dr: I couldn't find an international symbol for an observer that was mentioned in an astronomy lecture, so I made one, dedicated it to the public domain and submitted it to the Unicode Consortium. This page details the rationale for my submission including files and usage examples.
UPDATE · Tuesday 3 February 2015: U+23FF Observer Eye Symbol o was accepted at UTC-142 — yay! ❣ ❦ ✧
While there are many symbols for astronomical bodies and atmospheric phenomena in the Unicode Standard, there is none for an observer of these. A symbol for an observer can be useful in illustrating scientific discussions.
An international symbol for an observer was mentioned and drawn (image above) by Charles Bailyn in ASTR-160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics Lecture 2 - Planetary Orbits. I went looking for it on Codepoints.net, a site dedicated to all the characters defined in the Unicode Standard, and in Unicode's own Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs chart (PDF, 830kb). My search has been unsuccessful as it seems there is currently no unicode symbol for an observer.
Existing Eye Symbol
While a symbol for an eye 👁, also known as sight, does exist (U+1F441 EYE — I do not have a font in my system that displays it), I believe it is still worthwhile to have a specific symbol for an observer because the existing eye depicted in a frontal view is more representative of the organ's anatomy rather than the act of observation, which is better represented by a profile view of an eye indicating a direction.
Examples of Existing Glyphs an Observer Symbol Would Complement
- White Sun With Rays ☼
- First Quarter Moon ☽
- Comet ☄
- Shooting star 🌠
- White Four Pointed Star ✧
- Milky Way 🌌
- Rainbow 🌈
- Rocket 🚀
Proposed Symbol & File Downloads
Below is a symbol for an observer I made, dedicated to the Public Domain. Files in AI, EPS, PDF, PNG, PSD, SVG and TrueType formats in a ZIP archive are available for download here. In the embedded font, the version looking right is typed using a lowercase 'o' and the version looking left using an uppercase 'O':
Usage Examples
Observing a star and a cat:
o - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ✧
Unicode Consortium Submissions
- international-observer-symbol-submission-simon-griffee.pdf
- observer-symbol-submission-simon-griffee-updated-20150129.pdf
- observer-symbol-submission-simon-griffee-updated-20150226.pdf
I will continue providing updates here should this little project progress further.
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Sunday, 25 January 2015
- How Accurate Is That Number? #
From the transcript of Charles Bailyn's ASTR 160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics Lecture 2: Planetary Orbits (emphasis mine):
Student: How accurate is that number?
Professor Charles Bailyn: How accurate is that number? It's accurate to about one digit, which is why I only wrote down one digit of accuracy out front. This is a pro—excellent question thank you very much. This is appropriate because remember I'm using 7 times 10 minus 11 for G, where it's actually 6.6. So, I'm already about 10% off from there. I did my little calculation to come up with one year equals 3 times 107 seconds. That's about accurate to one digit or so. And so the whole thing is done to one digit accuracy. If you're dealing with one digit accuracy, it is true that 7 divided by 4 is 2. It really is true, because if that wasn't true, then you would have to have more digits on your unit for G or something like that. In particular, let me make an official rule for this course. Three equals π, equals the square root of 10, all right. That will solve an enormous amount of arithmetic problems and it will not get you into any serious trouble. So, we don't have to worry about the .14159 and however many more digits you all memorized it to. And when you multiply it together you get ten. Yes?
Student: Are you expecting this kind of calculation for problem sets?
Professor Charles Bailyn: Yes. The question was, "Am I expecting this kind of calculation for problem sets?" The answer is "yes." Here's the rule about calculators. Let me put it this way: You can only use calculators if I can't tell that you've done it. So, that means you can check your work to make sure you've it right or something. But if you start coming up with numbers like 7.1516397, that's eight digits of accuracy and I'm pretty sure you haven't worked it out yourself. So important, no calculators on the tests, okay? So, get some practice doing this kind of thing. And this will—this I promise you will be useful to you in everyday life because this is how you catch the politicians doing screwy things with big numbers. You do it in your head in scientific notation and you figure out whether the answer is meaningful or not.
This whole business of significant digits, I think, is badly distorted; by the way, it's taught in high school. In high school you, and also I should say in laboratory courses sometimes at the college level, you often get situations where people say—give you a whole sheet of rules on how to figure out how many significant digits you have. This is nonsense. All you have to do is behave like a human being. We say to each other, I'll meet you in the dining hall in ten minutes. That doesn't mean—that means something different from I'll meet you in the dining hall in eleven minutes and twenty-six seconds. Even if the person happens to show up in the dining hall in exactly eleven minutes and twenty-six seconds. Ten minutes means I'll meet you there in ten minutes, we all know what that means. I'll meet you there in eleven minutes and twenty-six seconds means you're a character in a bad spy novel who's just synchronized his watch. So, this shows up in science fiction too.
I don't know how many of you are Star Trek fans, I certainly am [laughter]. And in all the different Star Trek movies [inaudible comment]—thank you. In all the different—a friend [referring to person who made comment]. In all the different Star Trek movies there's always a second in command who isn't a human being, right? A Vulcan or an android or some damn thing or another. And to emphasize the non-humanness of these characters, what they do is they make them use too many significant digits. And so that makes them inhuman and so the captain will say, "When are we landing on omicron M?" The second in command will say, "Well, we should assume standard orbit in 2.6395 minutes," emphasizing somehow superior brain power or something. But it's nonsense because it takes the guy ten seconds to say that sentence, so what is this time calculated to a 100th of a second? Does it start from when he begins the sentence? From when he ends the sentence? What's the other end of that time interval? Can you say you assume standard orbit to the 100th of a second? What does that even mean? When you start beaming down? When you end beaming down? Also, keep in mind it takes more than a 100th of second for the sound to travel from his lips to the captain's ears, so the whole thing is just nonsense. And so, you don't need any special rules, just behave like a human being; don't behave like an android. So, no androids. And that's the only rule I'm going to give you [laughter]. These two are the only rules I'm going to give you about significant digits, just do the right thing, okay.
Two rules:
- No androids!
- Our Solar System and the Pluto Problem #
From lecture 3 in professor Charles Bailyn's ASTR 160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics:
Bailyn first reminds us of the scientific method and that astronomy is an observational science. He then talks about classification and the six categories of objects in the Solar System:
- Sun (a star).
- Inner, sometimes called terrestial or rocky, planets.
- Asteroids.
- Outer, also known as Jovian, planets.
- Trans-Neptunian, or Kuiper Belt, objects.
- Comets in the outer region, or Oort cloud.
Chapter 5. Classification and Interpretation of Celestial Objects 00:35:13:
So, here are the six categories that I would claim exist in the Solar System. And here's my problem with the whole Pluto debate. The Pluto debate was basically about whether these guys are going to count as planets. But the thing is, "planets" is already a bad description, because it contains two quite different categories; namely, these inner terrestrial planets, and the outer Jovian planets. So, it seems to me that arguing whether category five should be part of some category that already contains two fundamentally different kinds of objects is kind of a strange argument to be having. Either we should split these two things off from each other, or, if we're going to join these two kinds of the categories, fine, bring in anything you like. I don't care, add the asteroids, too. And, in fact, in the original proposal, one of the asteroids qualified as well. And so, it doesn't seem to me that this controversy was really paying justice to an appropriate classification of the things in the Solar System.
We'll soon find out much more about Pluto when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passes by in July 2015!
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Digital Universe
A view of some stars nearby through the PartiView software which can be downloaded from the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium Digital Universe website.
The Digital Universe, developed by the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, incorporates data from dozens of organizations worldwide to create the most complete and accurate 3-D atlas of the Universe from the local solar neighborhood out to the edge of the observable Universe.
I'm looking forward to going to the Hayden Planetarium for the first time tomorrow! The Director is Neil DeGrasse Tyson, host of the current version of Cosmos.
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, curator of the current Dark Universe show at the planetarium reminds us that the museum is also a research institute:
Since 1998, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium have engaged in the three-dimensional mapping of the Universe. This cosmic cartography brings a new perspective to our place in the Universe and redefines our sense of home.
Happily a version of the PartiView software and data sets used in the planetarium is available for download to fly around the known universe in your own computer. I will use this as a scouting tool for my next destinations in Elite!
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Sunday, 18 January 2015
- 2015: International Year of Light #
On 20 December 2013, The United Nations (UN) General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015).
This International Year has been the initiative of a large consortium of scientific bodies together with UNESCO, and will bring together many different stakeholders including scientific societies and unions, educational institutions, technology platforms, non-profit organizations and private sector partners.
In proclaiming an International Year focusing on the topic of light science and its applications, the United Nations has recognized the importance of raising global awareness about how light-based technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to global challenges in energy, education, agriculture and health. Light plays a vital role in our daily lives and is an imperative cross-cutting discipline of science in the 21st century. It has revolutionized medicine, opened up international communication via the Internet, and continues to be central to linking cultural, economic and political aspects of the global society.
- Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach #
Free lectures followed by guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting) at Columbia University.
- Comedy Subverts the World of Hollow Power #
Max Cabanes:
It is our job to recognise the absurd, and to ridicule what is already absurd.
Subversion is subliminal, a state of mind, and for this reason the suppression of free speech is an expression of the way in which people are ground down economically, and the repression of humour is part of that economic repression.
There are people attacking us who have never seen it, or think it's only concerned with Islam. The fact is they don't know how to read cartoons. There are people who, even if they are illiterate, know how to view a cartoon. And there are clever people with an agenda who just don't have the culture to understand our laughter. And among the second group are these people like your prime minister and all the others calling themselves Charlie. It's completely ridiculous, first because in the end they don't want us, and they don't want to be Charlie – how could they be? They hate us! And second because they are pretentious, and all pretention is false. When the king employed a fool to laugh at him, the fool was the only one allowed. Now they want no one to laugh at them, but we are free and we do. And if you abolish humour, or kill the funny people, there is nothing left – nothing.
Zineb el-Rhazoui:
People say we should respect religion, but our attitude to religion is the same as it is to any other ideology.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
- Every Few Years People Remember Websites Should Be Simple and Simplicity is Hard #
UX Check is a Google Chrome browser extension that helps identify usability issues based on Jacob Nielsen's1 website usability principles:
- Visibility of system status: The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
- Match between system and the real world: The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.
- User control and freedom: Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked "emergency exit" to leave the unwanted state without having to go through an extended dialogue. Support undo and redo.
- Consistency and standards: Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform conventions.
- Error prevention: Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone conditions or check for them and present users with a confirmation option before they commit to the action.
- Recognition rather than recall: Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.
- Flexibility and efficiency of use: Accelerators — unseen by the novice user — may often speed up the interaction for the expert user such that the system can cater to both inexperienced and experienced users. Allow users to tailor frequent actions.
- Aesthetic and minimalist design: Dialogues should not contain information which is irrelevant or rarely needed. Every extra unit of information in a dialogue competes with the relevant units of information and diminishes their relative visibility.
- Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors: Error messages should be expressed in plain language (no codes), precisely indicate the problem, and constructively suggest a solution.
- Help and documentation: Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.
I remember reading that Nielsen consulted with Google for a day when they were starting out, and his recommendations helped define the simplicity of the site in the beginning: the logo, a search bar and a few footer links. ↩
Sunday, 11 January 2015
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Software for 2015
After seven years and a move to a new city it was time for a new computer and revisiting the software I use:
- OS X Yosemite to run everything (fix, please).
- Firefox, Chrome and HTTPS Everywhere to browse and develop.
- Gmail to email (since 2004).
- Lightroom to edit and develop photographs.
- Textmate to write and code.
- Terminal to deploy and tinker.
- nvAlt to note down.
- f.lux to keep eyes healthy and brain sane.
- Git to cooperate, coordinate, deploy, roll back and backup.
- rsync to deploy, coordinate and backup.
- wget to download.
- Python, Ruby and PHP to hack together.
- Homebrew to setup.
- Django, Jekyll and Wordpress to publish.
- PostgreSQL and MySQL to work with lots of data.
- Chrome to watch videos that still require Adobe Flash.
- Transmit to browse files remotely.
- InDesign for typesetting and layout.
- Photoshop to draw and edit.
- Sketch for drawing and design.
- Spectacle to keep the windows organized.
- Google Docs and Pages to read and edit word files.
- Google Sheets and Numbers to read and edit excel files.
- Google Calendar and Calendar to keep track.
- Facetime to talk to people remotely.
- Preview to read and annotate (one of the reasons I use Macs is that PDF is the operating system's native display format).
- Camera and Whatsapp to record and send messages.
- Elite: Dangerous to learn and play and wander (currently on a partition with Windows 7 until the Mac version comes out in a few months).
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Thursday, 04 December 2014
- Write the Docs #
Write the Docs is a place where the art and science of documentation can be practiced and appreciated. There are a lot of people out there who write docs, but there isn't a good place to go to find information, ask questions, and generally be a member of a community of documenters.
Friday, 21 November 2014
- Man's Ideas Upon Divinity #
Carl Sagan quoting Holbach in the preface to Cosmos's Chapter VII, The Backbone of Night, p.167:
If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word "gods" has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods… When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon… does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?
— Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Baron von Holbach, Système de la Nature, London, 1770
- The Group That Rules the Web #
Great piece on the W3C by Paul Ford.
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
- Great Day for Humankind #
After a ten year flight, a machine we made has landed on a comet! What wonderful photographs by the orbiter and the lander parting ways! I'm opening a bottle of champagne tonight with love for the Cosmos, then venturing out in Elite: Dangerous!
- Tor Project Partnering With Mozilla #
Great news.
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
- Jazz is the Music of Open Source #
Looking forward to going to Smalls!
Saturday, 08 November 2014
- Django Tip: Getting Information Into Your Template's Context #
Great tip from Reinout van Rees.
Wednesday, 05 November 2014
- Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B #
The B Ark is technically named "Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B". The Golgafrincham civilization hatched a plan to eliminate its society of its most useless workers, namely its service sector and its paper shufflers. The Golgafrinchans created a legend that their world was about to be destroyed and they needed to build three arks. In Ark A they would put all the high achievers, the scientists, thinkers, artists, and important leaders. In Ark C they would put all the blue-collar workers, the people that build and make things. In Ark B they would put everyone else: hairdressers, TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.
The B Ark was constructed, loaded up, and launched first. However, it was automatically set for a collision course with Earth's sun, to finally rid Golgafrincham of these twits. And naturally, no A or C ark was ever made.


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Some threads, such as POR/POFQ, which are well kept up, will list the movies for that particular resort. You have to check if the official resort thread has it or not. Not all of them do, but you can ask on that particular thread is anyone is recently back and has the list.
Some, but not all, of the official resort FAQ threads will have them on the first page of the thread. They don't come out until the 1st of each month. So around Feb 2nd you can google Disneyworld outdoor movie schedule and click on the link that mentions building a better mousetrap. It's usually the 1st or 2nd search result.


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The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks heard testimony from top Clinton and Bush administration officials yesterday.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was one of the first to testify. She came under questioning from commissioner Tim Roemer.
- Secretary of State Madeline Albright
Albright was followed by her Bush Administration counterpart Colin Powell, who described efforts to bring Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on board the U.S. campaign.
- Secretary of State Colin Powell
Secretary of State Colin Powell using the word "crusade" to describe anti-terror efforts. Two-and-a-half years ago President George W Bush used the same word and had to backtrack afterwards.
Others who testified in the public hearings included Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and former Defense Secretary William Cohen. To conclude the day, Defense Secretray Donald Rumsfeld along with his deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Richard Myers took the stand.
Rumsfeld came under questioning from former Senator Bob Kerrey.
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld being questioned by former Senator Bob Kerrey
Rumsfeld was later questioned by commissioner Tim Roemer:
- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld being questioned by Commissioner Tim Roemer
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was questioned about claims made by former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke. Clarke is widely viewed as a leading figure in national security circles. He has held top posts under every president since Reagan and served as both President Clinton and President Bush's top anti-terrorism official.
Clarke said in his new book that before Sept. 11 Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz claimed Iraq was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and posed at least as much as danger as Al Qaeda.
Commissioner Tim Roemer questioned Wolfowitz about the Clarke's claims. After initially avoiding the question, Wolfowitz responded.
- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz
We talk now with former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman
- Melvin Goodman, former CIA and State Department analyst. He is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and director of the Center's National Security Project. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book "Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk"
- Andrew Rice, chair of the 9-11 Commission Committee for September Eleventh Families For Peaceful Tomorrows. His brother, David, was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11


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S.Con.Res. 67 (93rd): Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that in accordance with section 617 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, all assistance provided under that Act is terminated on the date this concurrent resolution is agreed to.
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Last Action: Feb 13, 1974
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September 20, 2013 10:30 PMThe longest active winning streak in American high school football was snapped at 66 games Friday night in Clairton's 42-24 home loss to Monessen.
Clairton had not lost since Sept. 4, 2009. Its winning streak ended tied for the 10th-longest in American history.
The Clairton Bears have won the Pennsylvania Class A championship every year since 2009 but this year's team was hit hard by graduation.
Clairton's streak began with a 46-0 home win over Monessen on Sept. 11, 2009 and lasted 1,471 days before ending right where it started.
Monessen led 14-0 at halftime and improved to 3-1. Clairton trailed 28-0 before scoring its first touchdown with 10:43 to play.
Clairton hadn't given up 42 points since the 2003 WPIAL semifinals, in a 42-20 loss to Sto-Rox. Clairton's last home loss was Oct. 21, 2005 against Apollo-Ridge.
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Rob Ford: Mayor to speak at Remembrance Day event amid crack scandal
Mayor Rob Ford has a busy week, with an official appearance at the city's Remembrance Day ceremony and a council meeting on Wednesday.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who ignited a firestorm last week when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine, will try to go back to business-as-usual Monday, starting with a presentation at one of the city's Remembrance Day ceremonies.
The day marks the mayor's first speech at an official event since admitting he used illegal drugs while in office. He is scheduled to speak in front of Old City Hall Monday morning, his spokesman confirmed to the Star.
The event comes at the start of a week that will prove to be difficult for the chief magistrate, with city council set to debate a motion calling for, among other things, the mayor to take a leave of absence and to co-operate fully with police.
"There's no 'business as usual' with Rob Ford. In a way there hasn't been for awhile, but now it's at a point of extreme unusualness," said Nelson Wiseman, a University of Toronto politics professor.
Wiseman said the event will draw an unusual amount of media interest because of the controversy swirling around the mayor.
Jack Granatstein, a prominent Canadian military historian, said it's important for him to be there.
"I think it's appropriate for the mayor to give the address. I don't think the controversy is necessarily relevant. He's the mayor — whether he should be or not is another question," said Granatstein. "Until he's not the mayor, he's the man to give the address."
As the city's business proceeds throughout the week, two cases currently before the courts may yield yet more revelations.
Lawyers for Muhammad Khattak, one of the people swept up in Project Traveller, are vying for the chance to view a video that shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking what appears to be crack cocaine. The judge in the case held the matter until Tuesday, when the video will be available and he will decide whether Khattak and his lawyers can see it.
"Things have just been unfolding. Every day there's been new things happening even when there's nothing happening," said Wiseman. "Who could have predicted what happened in the last week?"
At the same time, a court case against Ford's close friend and occasional driver, Alexander "Sandro" Lisi may yield more startling revelations at any time. Justice Ian Nordheimer is considering arguments from lawyers for the Star and other media organizations to release blacked-out information in police documents related to the case.
Centrist councillor Josh Matlow would like to see a return to normalcy and focus on running the city during the meeting scheduled to begin Wednesday.
"There are going to be several items on council's agenda this week and I expect that, despite the tempest swirling around us, that the majority of councillors want to focus on the work at hand and to ensure that the city is run and run well," said Matlow.
At least two pieces of business at this week's city council directly concern the mayor's drug use. If the mayor makes either motion a "key matter" he can move them up on the agenda and will be subject to questions from members of council.
Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, a member of the mayor's hand-picked executive council, added a motion to the agenda last week calling for the mayor to take a leave. The former Ford ally said last week he plans to amend the motion to ask the province to remove the mayor.
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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Scientific Name: | Nerita articulata |
Species Authority: | Gould, 1847 |
Synonym(s): |
Nerita lineata Gmelin, 1791
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Date Assessed: | 2010-01-06 |
Assessor(s): | Madhyastha, A. |
Reviewer(s): | Daniel, B.A., Molur, S. & Allen, D.J. |
Justification: Nerita articulata is widely distributed across south and southeast Asia, is known to be present in Australia, and is almost certainly present in other countries between the known locations in suitable habitat. There are some threats for this in some of its range countries, primarily the loss of mangrove due to clearance for aquaculture etc., however it does not seem to affect the population trend of the species hence it has been assessed as Least Concern. |
Range Description: |
Nerita articulata has a wide distribution in southeast Asia. In India it has been recorded from West Bengal (South 24 Paraganas (Matla River, Sunderban, Port Canning, Sajnakhali, Namkhana, Arbesy block (Sunderban), Gosaba, Chhota), Bhitarkanika, Muriaganga, and the Andaman Islands). It is also recorded from southern Thailand (Phang-Nga Province), Viet Nam, Singapore, Australia and Malaysia (Subba Rao 1989). It is also known from New Guinea and Indonesia (K. Richter, pers. comm., 2010). It is likely to be present in Bangladesh, other east-coast Indian states, Myanmar, and other regional countries. |
Countries: | Native: Australia; India (West Bengal); Indonesia; Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia); Myanmar (Myanmar (mainland)); Papua New Guinea; Singapore; Thailand; Viet Nam |
FAO Marine Fishing Areas: | Native:
Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – western central
Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | There is no population estimates for this species in the eastern Himalayan region. In the other regions, there are quite crude reports on the population fluctuation attributed to natural factors (Tan and Clements 2008). |
Population Trend: | Unknown |
Habitat and Ecology: | It is seen on rocky shores especially those near mangroves. The study by Tan and Clements (2008) found this snail on mangrove tree trunks and roots, monsoon canal walls, muddy banks, and rocky areas in or near mangroves. It is also common in nipa-palm swamps. |
Systems: | Marine |
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The species is known to be eaten by Australian Aboriginal people, and is likely consumed locally elsewhere. |
Major Threat(s): | Tan and Clements (2008) reports that this species affected by human activities such as reclamation and pollution. |
Conservation Actions: | Surveys on distribution and research on the biology, population trends of this species are needed. |
Citation: | Madhyastha, A. 2010. Nerita articulata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 April 2015. |
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Three-card Monty comes to Eurogames in this memory game featuring cats, mice, cheese and chocolate. The tom cat player hides the goodies under one of the wooden hats, then performs the ol' switcheroo to try to keep the mice from finding the goods.
Description written by W. Eric Martin and used with permission of BoardgameNews.com
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Steffen Muhlhauser Manufacturer(s):
Steffen-Spiele Year: 2008
Players: 2 - 9
Ages: 4 and up
Weight: 700 grams (estimated)
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