Another useless Yankee posting for help! I'm looking for advice from a solicitor or equivalent on my plans to marry a Brit and continue living in the UK. However the law society of Scotland doesn't list any immigration specialists in the city. The only two immigration related businesses I can find are for Brits who want to move to NZ and AUS. Its a long shot, I know, but does anyone have any idea where I can go for immigration advice from a real, live person?

EDIT: Ok, so on a random page of a visa application form I found this link-> http://www.oisc.gov.uk/people_seeking_immigration_advice/list_of_immigration_advisers/

Which solved all my problems! Thanks for the help anyway Edinburgh! :D

We need to source some unusually sized labels (the peel off kind for envelopes etc), and one of us (probably me) is going to be sent off on foot round Edinburgh.

So, Edinburgers, where would you go to find a good stationers? I know of the Newington one, and I know there's Rymans (or whatever it's called) in the St James Centre. Are there any other places you'd recommend to find labels?

I thank you muchly. (And probably so do my feet!)

Go.

Read.

Now.

http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=16

http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/tableofdiscoveries/

Hello, I am just wondering if the shop "Forbidden Planet" is open tomorrow? (It's a Scottish Bank Holiday). If so does anyone know if it's the usual opening hours or different?

Thanks!

I've been looking at the Edinburgh Council website regarding Christmas tree uplifts and it says that they will pick them up on 6th, 7th and 8th January. Just to check though, does anyone know if this means that they will collect on all three days, or that they guarantee to reach you on just one of the three days (meaning that we'd have to get our tree out on the 6th)?

I'm hoping that the above is a really daft question and the council will collect on all three days, as the website implies. But, this is the council, so I'm not sure that logical thinking applies :-)

Thanks!

Edit: Forgot to mention, I'm in a tenement. I know there are different arrangements for those with brown bins.

A Bartitsu course is to be held in Edinburgh from January 21st until 25 March (10 weeks total), from 6.30-8.30 pm on Thursday evenings. 

The venue will be the Big Red Door in Lady Lawson Street, a local performance and arts space. Session price is £3.00 to cover venue hire and participants must be aged 18 and over due to insurance.

This is a trial term so the programme will be typical Bartitsu techniques, with each session consisting of some physical conditioning, punching and kicking, grappling and cane work in equal measure.

The course is aimed to be accessible to all, regardless of experience and ability but be prepared to be physical.

Enquiries to bartitsuedinburgh@googlemail.com

Can anyone recommend any places nearby to board small animals for a week or so?  We're going on holiday and would like to find someone to board our three rats rather than asking friends to come around every night for a week to see to them.

 

Thanks!

Is it correct to say that the homopolar generator is simply an application of the Hall effect?

Does anyone know if there are any charity shops open in Edinburgh tomorrow (3rd Jan)?

Last night's fireworks really only seemed to last about 2 minutes. I'm pretty sure they lasted longer other years, is this because RBS had no money to sponsor them?

Either way I avoided Calton Hill last night after seeing 2 people fall over on the ice outside our flat.

It's New Years Day, which means pretty much everywhere is closed. We've got a hankering for actually eating something, and were considering getting Chinese takeaway. Anyone know of places guaranteed to be open and amenable to delivery to the Lawnmarket?

(Originally we were going to head to ChopChop but they're closed until the 5th, and we eat Chinese so rarely that we don't have any menus to hand.)

Does anyone know if there any places actually open in the Morningside/Bruntsfield area before I venture out into the cold abyss? I have a boyfriend recovering from some mild alcohol poisoning and I need carpet cleaner and Irn Bru.

I may be being really dense, but is there any reason for the fireworks that appear to be going off?

Does anyone know when the streets will be blocked off for the Street Party? Some friends have (for their own mysterious reasons) chosen the Wash Bar for meeting up at, but I don't have a ticket so I'd need to get in early. The website just says 'stages live from 9pm.' Ta!

 So, how do you choose things to work on? As you could have guessed from my nickname :), I'd greatly appreciate the input from the kindred souls, i.e., theoretical and mathematical physicists, in the first place.

To be more specific, which personal* strategies for picking the research problems to work on proved to be the best** for you?

Many thanks in advance for your answers and happy New Year!


Notes:

*my question pertains solely to the research problems of your own choosing, i.e., those that were not suggested to you by someone like your thesis advisor, postdoctoral mentor, etc.

**i.e., you have managed to make significant progress in the problem you have chosen, and your results were well met by the experts in the field: the results were published in a really good peer-reviewed journal (say, PRL, JHEP and the like) and/or you were invited to give a talk about your results at some conference/seminar, etc.

I've won a bet with my Husband so he has to take me to see the film of my choice at the cinema. I want to see 'Nine' (if you must mock, do it in your heads please!) and ideally I'd like to see it in a 'gold class' or 'premier screen' or whatever else they might be called. I have searched the internet to try and find a cinema showing it in a fancy screen but I can't find one. Any fine Edinburgers know of any?

Today's XKCD was interesting.
http://xkcd.com/681/

It made me think of a question. The XKCD comic says;

"It takes the same amount of energy to launch something on an escape trajectory away from earth as it would to launch it 6,000 km upward under constant 9.81 m/s^2 earth gravity. Hence, Earth's well is 6,000 km deep."

Now in the absence of other moons, planets, stars etc., if the Earth were alone in the universe, I thought that Earth's gravity extended indefinitely, but just got weaker and weaker. So there would be no point at which you would be free of the Earth's gravity. For example when you leave Earth and travel to the Moon the Earth's gravity gets weaker and weaker, and the Moon's gets stronger and stronger, and there is a point between the Earth and the Moon when the Earth's and Moon's gravity exactly balance.

(Aside: a Lagrange point is when gravity and the orbital motion exactly balance, but I'm just asking a question about the Earth in isolation.)

So, why does it make sense to find a particular point when you are free of the Earth's grvity ... if you have a large rocket with lots of fuel perhaps you could get the rocket to 10 million light years away, but if ther Earth were the only object in the universe, the gravity would eventually pull it back?

Or it is a practical limit when for all intensive purposes the rocket will not fall back to Earth?

Merry christmas and all that malarky :)
Can anyone recommend a reliable taxi service? I need to get to work on boxing day at 7am and must must be there. I want to book a taxi today and know that it will show up..any experiences good or bad with booking?
Thanking you all kindly.

Merry Christmas eve eve Edinburgers!

I need some help. I am looking to buy some food related items for my dads gift. I would like things such as chutneys, nuts and things in jars (chilli's or things along those lines).

I know this isn't the most descriptive but if anyone has any suggestions for where I could pick up some nice little things then let me know!