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The airport is located 9km (6 miles) south of Sydney.
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Each terminal has its own sheltered taxi rank. A taxi rank is located outside the mid-point of the Arrivals hall in T1 International Terminal (journey time to city centre - 30 minutes). Companies include Taxis Combined Services (tel: 133 300), Silver Service Fleet (tel: 133 100), Legion Cabs (tel: 131 451), Premier Cabs (tel: 131 017) and St George Cabs (tel: 132 166).
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This context of this question is Rutten's Universal Coalgebra, used for modelling systems. I'm interested in finding a description of a functor between different types of coalgebras corresponding to finding a certain subcoalgebra.
An $F+1$-coalgebra $\langle S,\alpha:S\to F(S)+1\rangle$ can be thought of as a system whose transition shape is given by functor F plus the possibility of an error/termination, given by the +1. Assume that $F$ is a so-called Kripke polynomial functor: $F::=Id ~|~ B ~|~ F+F ~|~ F\times F ~|~ F^ A ~|~ \mathcal{P}_\omega F$, thus it preserves pullbacks.
A subcoalgebra of $\langle S,\alpha:S\to F(S)+1\rangle$ is coalgebra $\langle S',\alpha':S'\to F(S')+1\rangle$, where $S'\subseteq S$ and $\alpha'$ is $\alpha'$ restricted to $S'$, such that its range falls within $F(S')+1$.
I want to find the maximal subcoalgebra of this coalgebra which corresponds to an $F$-coalgebra. In terms of my application, this means I'm looking for the subset of states $S'\subseteq S$ that do not lead to the error state.
Clearly, I can take the pullback of the functions $\alpha:S\to F(S)+1$ and $inl:F(S)\to F(S)+1$ to get a set $S_0\subseteq S$ which do not lead to an error in the first step. Iterating this process for functors $F^i+1$ seems to lead to progressively smaller subsets $S_i$ of $S$ each avoiding the error state for $i$ steps. What I'm lacking is a coherent description of the process.
Is whether there is a more universal description of this construction in terms of limits or colimits, or at least, some known approaches to the problem?
I asked this question on the computer science theory overflow (here), but am re-asking it here as I received no feedback.

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I want to travel to Kashmir from Europe. I know that I can easily go to Russia, but what next? What will be the route from there? If I go to Pakistani-administered Kashmir, will I be able to cross the line of control to the Indian administered part, and vice versa?
The historic principality of Jammu and Kashmir is split between the Pakistani Azad Kashmir ('free Kashmir') and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. India and Pakistan have fought wars over the control of Kashmir and you can absolutely not cross the line of control which serves as the de facto border.
Not only that, but as a foreigner you are are not even allowed to enter Azad Kashmir although with a little luck you can still do so. Pakistani-controlled Kashmir also suffered from a devastating earthquake in 2005 and even if you do manage to enter, be aware that it will not have completely recovered.
Travel in Indian-controlled Kashmir is possible, if somewhat restricted due to violence between the Indian military and Kashmiris who do not wish to be part of India.
Getting to either Kashmir from Europe is fairly straightforward and there are two obvious routes, the northern and the southern. Note that the 'middle' Caucasus route is not viable due to war, closed borders and general instability in the north Caucasus.
North: if you are in Russia, then you must travel to China via Mongolia or, preferably, Kazakhstan. China's Xinjiang province borders Pakistan and the two are connected by the Karakorum highway. Parts of the Karakorum run parallel to the border of Azad Kashmir, so it is a convenient route if that is your destination. You can also follow the Karakorum to Islamabad and from there go to Lahore, which is next to the border crossing between Pakistan and India.
South: starting in Turkey, travel through Iran to Zahedan and cross the border to Quetta in Pakistan. From there you can make the long journey to Lahore (for India) or Islamabad (for Azad Kashmir).
Getting into Azad Kashmir is possible if you avoid detection by the authorities at the internal border. There are minibuses which travel from the towns Mansehra and Murree to Muzaffarabad (the capital of Azad Kashmir) and if no one sees you at the checkpoint, you are in. Even so, hotels will immediately report the arrival of a foreigner to the police, so you should make good use of your time before they come to kick you out!
Many tourists in India visit Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, so getting there is easy enough.
Your options are legion. It's more a matter of how challenging you want to make it to yourself and how much time you want to spend.
Assuming you refer to western Europe as your starting point, your easiest route would be:
Western Europe - south east Europe - Turkey - Iran - Pakistan (though southern Pakistan can be unsafe).
If you want to go through Russia:
Ukraine - Russia - Kazakhstan - China - Pakistan. Ukraine - Russia - Mongolia - China - Pakistan.
For any of the above routes, you could also detour through the Caucasus, pass through Belarus, go through central Asia and try Afghanistan.
I think that as an outsider you can cross the line of control. But I'll let someone else answer that.


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Somehow after upgrading to 12.04, my virtual machines always boot with an attempt to boot from the network first. See this:
while I don't have any PXE configuration set:
I've tried:
- to disable SPICE, by changing the
/usr/bin/kvm-spiceby editing the XML.
- Ctrl+B to configure the iPXE, but it doesn't let disable this as a boot option.
- setting another type of NIC - not an option, I need
virtiofor performance reasons. However,
e1000edoesn't work either.
- removing the NIC: works. However, I need network.
- Googling around. Hard. Lots of result is about failing configured PXE boots.
Not a big issue, but it increases boot times by 50-100% here (booting from SSD), so it's relatively long and annoys me.
How can I disable this and boot from virtual hard disk directly?


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I like to lick milkbubbles.
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A womans breasts. A pair of boobs.
Shit nephew, she got some nice milk bubbles.
by dobodob December 10, 2005
A womens breasts. Does not need to be currently producing milk, but is knowingly capable of producing breast milk.
Dude, Check out that chicks milk bubbles. They are so full figured. Slurp.
by Bean Irvine September 10, 2008
When you bust your nut in a girls ass, pull out, and create the same effect as a queef and watch her blow a white creamy bubble out of her butthole.
Hey, I was bangin Tina last night in her butt and when i nutted inside of her she blew a milk bubble out of her ass.
by jdogger420 January 07, 2009
placeing your lips on a lactating females breasts and blowing to make a fart noise...
<wife> What do you want to do tonight?
<husband> Lets stay home and make milk bubbles!
<husband> Lets stay home and make milk bubbles!
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The Insane True Stories Behind 6 Cursed Movies
They say nobody believes in curses until they wind up living under one. Just ask the cast and crew of the following movies that have gone down in Hollywood lore as "cursed" productions. Of course you can't ask some of them, since they're now dead. From the curse.
Or maybe it's all just bad luck. You be the judge.
#6. The Poltergeist Trilogy
The Curse:
Everyone who appeared in the poltergeist trilogy is now dead, says an extreme and entirely untrue version of the poltergeist curse. Indeed, Nancy Allen, (Robocop's sidekick), is very much still alive. It's just her career that's dead. What is true is that four of the trilogy's actors all died within 6 years of the first movie, giving rise to talk of The Poltergeist Curse.
Supposed deaths include child actor Heather O'Rourke, who appeared in all three films and died just before the third film was released. Suffering what was thought to be the flu, she was taken to hospital and later died on the operating table from complications. Then, Julian Beck, (who played the terrifying old man in Part 2), died of cancer...
... and Native American actor Will Sampson died during an operation (note that he was wanted at the time for the suffocation of a lobotomized Jack Nicholson and vandalism of state property).
Then we have Dominique Dunne (who played the oldest child in the first film) who was strangled to death by her boyfriend the same year the film was released. That's where the "curse" starts to get shaky, since that seems less like supernatural misfortune and more like having a shitty, murderous boyfriend.
So what did the film makers do to supposedly piss off the spirits? Well, they used real human remains as props in the first Poltergeist movie. You know, the movie about how desecrating the remains of the dead angers their spirits.
What sucks about that is that none of the supposed curse victims were actually involved in the decision to use real human remains on the set. Doesn't it ruin the whole point of a curse when you go inflicting it at random? That's just sloppy.
Most Tenuous Link to the Curse:
According to a noted expert on the film (Read: Wikipedia) JoBeth Williams, who played Diane Freeling, claims she returned home from the set each day to find pictures on her wall askew! She would then straighten them out, only to find them crooked again the next day!
"Aaaahhhh! Pictures!"
Supernatural or not, it's just shitty curse work when you have to use a laser level to even figure out it's going on.
#5. Superman
The Curse:
The Superman Curse has supposedly cast a number of misfortunes on people involved in the Superman franchise over the decades, from career ruin to death.
First there's George Reeves, who played Superman in the 1950's TV series Adventures of Superman. He was found dead in 1959 of a single gunshot wound to the head. The death was ruled suicide but his fingerprints were never found on the gun, so unless he shot himself with his feet (and that's some length to go to just to screw the insurance company) it was probably murder.
Then of course there's Christopher Reeve--eerily similar surname, eerily similar bad luck. After success in four Superman films he was thrown form his horse in 1995, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down and demonstrating vividly the reasons mankind has largely abandoned horses as a mode of transportation.
Slightly less severe misfortune landed on Richard Pryor who, if being in Superman III wasn't misfortune enough, was later diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Then you have Margot Kidder (Lois Lane) who suffered from bipolar disorder and Marlon Brando (Jor-El) who withdrew from society and dedicated himself to becoming the fattest man on earth.
On the outer edges of the Curse Zone we've got various actors who starred in Superman adaptations and had their careers die on them afterwards. Dean Cain, who played Superman in Lois & Clark, is one example. Those who don't believe in the curse often point out that Cain's co-star Teri Hatcher later went on to star in the long-running TV show Desperate Housewives. On the other hand, those who do believe in the curse often point out that Teri Hatcher later went on to star in the long running TV show Desperate Housewives.
So what caused this one? Did they disturb another ancient burial ground? Well, we like to think the curse was called down by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the two people who created Superman. Having created one of the country's most beloved superheroes while under contract to DC Comics, they were completely screwed out of the royalties.
In 1975 the couple finally were begrudgingly awarded a yearly pension from Warner, DC's parent company, who wanted to avoid bad publicity prior to release of the first film. Though, apparently, the 35 grand a year they paid out wasn't enough to offset the bad karma.
Siegel & Shuster ain't nothin' to fuck with.
That, or the "curse" is just a series of meaningless coincidences.
Most Tenuous Link to the Curse:
According to inside sources, (again, Wikipedia), "In 1963 John F. Kennedy's staff approved of a Superman story in which the hero touts the president's physical fitness initiatives, scheduled to be published with an April 1964 cover date. On November 22, Kennedy was shot and killed." To our knowledge, this is the first time Superman has been touted as the second gunman.
#4. Atuk (Unreleased)
The Curse:
Atuk is a "hilarious" fish out of water screenplay about an Eskimo who comes to New York. It was never filmed however because people in Hollywood just don't know a good thing when they see it. Oh and also, it killed John Belushi.
Belushi had read the script and was interested in the role when he died of a drug overdose in 1982. So what, right? But everything, as Einstein once said, is relative. And everything, as a Cracked editor once said, can be made to look like it's connected for the purposes of a comedy article.
No pictures from Atuk actually exist. This is just an Eskimo we found.
After Belushi's death the lead role went to comedian Sam Kinison. Numerous problems delayed production, Kinison demanded parts of the movie be re-written and production was halted. A few years passed, the script remained cursed and Kinison died in a car crash. The curse had apparently struck again.
The film's lead role was then passed to John Candy in 1994. Candy took the script completely unaware that it was cursed (Read: a fish out of water comedy about an Eskimo) and promptly died of a heart attack. The screenplay was buried in Hollywood somewhere and all chubby comedians swore to stay clear of the film for good.
Except for Chris Farley, who in 1997 was also in talks for the lead role when he died of a drug overdose.
Most Tenuous Link to the Curse:
In 1994, the same year John Candy was murdered (by a screenplay), Michael O'Donoghue died. Who's Michael O'Donoghue? Well, he was John Belushi's friend. Man, that's creepy.


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5 Insane Lost Verses That Change the Meaning of Famous Songs
Have you ever heard a band perform live and realized that they switched up some lyrics on you? It's not because the singer was too stoned to remember the right words, it's because songs frequently go through major changes, particularly when it comes time to lay the track down in the studio. Sometimes, for example, important verses get cut to be more audience-friendly, simply because they're about all-male orgies or hobo sex.
But damn, when you see these original lyrics, it puts the song in a whole new, unsettling light ...
#5. "Honky Tonk Woman" Cuts the Part About a Bisexual Orgy
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In "Honky Tonk Woman," the Rolling Stones sing of hopping from woman to woman, trying to get over one lover in particular. First the singer drowns his sorrows in Memphis until a barfly drags his (unconscious?) ass upstairs. Then the action shifts to New York, where the singer hooks up with a divorcee. He resists her advances at first, but she wins him over; she blows his nose and blows his mind, and so on. It's basically Mick Jagger singing about the sexual escapades of a man who still had way less sex than Jagger did in real life:
But in one version that the Stones would perform live, the adventure continues with a third verse (sometimes it replaces the second verse):
To start with, the verse goes:
Strollin' on the boulevards of Paris
Ah, there we go. Classic sequel escalation. The third installment goes international! Now we'll presumably get to hear about the Stones entering some cafe or whorehouse for further amorous escapades.
Naked as the day that I will die
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"AND be buried."
Uh ... OK. Didn't think the song was going to go with public nudity, but Europeans are more open-minded, or so we hear. And props for replacing the "as the day I was born" cliche with the image of an erect Keith Richards in the coffin. (An inaccurate image, of course; he will never die.) So, walking les rues de Paris, cock flapping in the wind, surely it's time for the singer to run into his next female love interest.
The sailors, they're so charming there in Paris
Again, unexpected. But let's not jump to conclusions. He's run into a crowd of sailors because ... maybe they're all going to hunt down some ladies together?
But they just don't seem to sail you off my mind
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"Would you care to make a donation ... to the dick bowl?"
Well, that settles it. This follows the same template as the previous verses ("Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind"; "She blew my nose and then she blew my mind"). Having exhausted America's supply of women, the singer next seeks satisfaction by flailing nude into a pack of very confused French sailors. And even as he's being (presumably) beaten and arrested, he still can't get the Honky Tonk Woman off his mind.
#4. "Who Are You" Was Originally Pete Townshend Complaining About the Music Biz
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People who had never heard of "Who Are You" (and had barely heard of the Who at all) got to know the song as the theme for the first CSI show. The opening wasn't quite as memetic as another CSI opening, but it did all right:
In the song, the singer wakes up in a London doorway to the sight of a policeman. He drags himself into the Tube and staggers home drunkenly to his nagging wife. The song sounds like it's about a poor bum, and it is, said Pete Townshend eight years after writing it. It's about poverty and the pain of living on the streets, and a man looking to the sky and demanding of God, "Who are you?"
I stretched back and I hiccuped
And looked back on my busy day
Eleven hours in the Tin Pan
God, there's got to be another way
But that wasn't how the song started out. The song had another verse, which was considered lost until a 1996 release:
I used to check my reflection, jumping with my cheap guitar
I must have lost my direction, cause I ended up a superstar
One-nighters in the boardroom petrify the human brain
You can learn from my mistakes, but you're posing in the glass again
Huh. After sympathizing with a schmuck who works long hours and sleeps in doorways, the song suddenly explores the pains of a rocker who's mad at producers. That's kind of a shift, isn't it? Nope. Because both verses are about a single night in Pete Townshend's life.
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Yeah, it's exactly what you think.
It was the middle of March in 1977. Townshend had spent months trying to hammer out royalties on the Who's American sales, and the negotiations culminated in a 14-hour meeting. The meeting succeeded, in a way: Record exec Allen Klein ended up handing over a check with a smile. But this last act set Townshend off -- he realized that he'd been arguing so hard over "a bloody check," so he blew up at the others and stormed out.
He grabbed a bottle from somewhere and then found his way to London's Speakeasy Club. Soon he was so drunk that he could barely recognize those around him, at which point he spotted two members of the Sex Pistols and approached them, on his knees. "We're FUCKING FINISHED!" he said. "It's a disaster! Rock has gone down the fucking tubes!"
He then took out his check and ripped it into pieces.
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That'll ... show ... them?
We can assume his agent sent him a new copy of it the next day, but that's just about where Townshend's memory goes dark. And when he woke up, he was in a Soho doorway, a policeman looking down at him. Just like the lyrics say.
It was an experience so powerful that he just had to put it into song ... but making sure in the process to emphasize the "rugged life on the streets" part and not so much the "rock star angry about royalties" part, presumably because it's a little harder for the music-buying everyman to sympathize with the latter.
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Long live the oppressed, downtrodden lifestyle of rock and roll.
#3. "White Christmas" Is About Being Stuck in California
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Since we're stuck hearing them over and over during the six-month holiday season, it's surprising how many Christmas songs we really don't know the words to. There are like half a dozen carols that use their first line as the title, and for most of them, we couldn't sing the second line for you (forget about the whole thing). Other songs, like "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," we'd swear we know, but then some smartass busts out seven extra verses and bridges.
Then there's "White Christmas." It's not just the best-selling Christmas song of all time -- it's the best-selling song of any kind. Bing Crosby's version first popped up in the 1942 movie Holiday Inn, where he sings it during an actual white Christmas. You've probably heard the song during some white Christmas of your own. Any time you see it on TV, the network usually helpfully provides a stock background of a white Christmas.
But if you think about it for more than a few seconds, that makes absolutely no sense. The song is about someone dreaming of a white Christmas. So it can play during a pre-Christmas scene when it's snowing. It can play at Christmas when it's not snowing. But you shouldn't associate it with an actual snowy Christmas scene, unless the singer is spectacularly bad at dreaming.
Well, as it turns out, composer Irving Berlin had a very different scene in mind when he wrote the song. Unsurprisingly, Holiday Inn was filmed in Los Angeles on the Paramount Studios backlot. Berlin was staying at a bungalow at a Beverly Hills hotel, and when the California heat hit him, he thought about how uninspiring an environment this was for trying to write a Christmas scene.
So, he wrote the following lyrics:
The sun is shining, the grass is green
The orange and palm trees sway
There's never been such a day
In Beverly Hills, LA
But it's December the 24th
And I am longing to be up North
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The original was called "This Town Can Lick My Asshole."
That became the opening verse of "White Christmas." The whole song, in which the singer fantasizes about snowy trees and sleigh bells, is actually a depressed complaint from someone stuck in La La Land for the holiday. The opening lines didn't make it into the Bing Crosby version, but various artists shriek them out in their covers:


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Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, the Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Hajj Supreme Committee, held a press conference in Mina, Saudi Arabia yesterday to welcome thousands of Hajj pilgrims.
Prince Nayef noted that more than 100,000 security personnel have been positioned in and around the Holy Places to see to the needs of the pilgrims. Several checkpoints have been put in place on the roads leading to Makkah as a safety precaution, he added.
Asked about accusations made by Hamas officials that pilgrims from Gaza have been discriminated against, Prince Nayef stated, "We view the Palestinian pilgrims as Muslims irrespective of their political trends, and we welcome the pilgrims and hope that no party will put obstacles before them . . . We deal with pilgrims and not with an organization or a country. If this country stands with or against the Kingdom, that matter does not concern us."


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Listening Game
Have your child close her eyes and guess the sounds you make. Use household objects, such as keys, coins, silverware, or a whistle. Tap on a pot with a spoon, snap your fingers, or click your tongue.
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Crews were called to the blaze at 1421 Main Street around five o'clock Tuesday morning after witnesses say 28-year old Jamie Kirkendale and her two-year old daughter Cheyenne ran to a nearby gas station for help. "Whenever the call came in from the Chevron station, we were told there had been a house fire on Main Street and a mother and daughter were badly burned."
Hart County Coroner Jeff Roten said the Kirkendales suffered second and third degree burns on their faces, arms and hands. Both were taken to Caverna Hospital and later transferred to Vanderbilt where they're listed in critical but stable condition.
Police say Jamie Kirkendale stayed inside the burning home trying to wake her fiance', 42-year old Steven Gordon and their 11-month old son Preston, but the two never responded. They were pronounced dead yesterday morning.
Police are continuing to investigate. Authorities say they still don't know what caused the fire.


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SAN ANTONIO (April 11, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage are proud to announce that Justin Vaive has been named the team's winner of the IOA/American Specialty AHL Man of the Year award for his outstanding contributions to the San Antonio community during the 2012-13 season.
In his second year with the Rampage, Vaive volunteered in numerous activities to better the San Antonio community. Vaive participated in two Team Up Challenge events as a part of Silver and Black Give Back to help local students apply what they are learning in the classroom to the real world. In these projects, Vaive assisted students at Brackenridge High School in establishing an afterschool fitness program and also helped students construct an outdoor classroom at the Crossroads Center.
Throughout the season, the Buffalo, N.Y., native created a strong bond with his Face-Off Against Kids Cancer buddy, Marcos Serrato. Through a number of social events, including a pizza and board game party and a night exploring an indoor playground, Vaive established a lasting friendship with Marcos and his family. The Face-Off Against Kids Cancer program pairs a Rampage player with a child from the Centers for Oncology and Blood Disorders at the Children's Hospital of San Antonio to increase awareness about childhood cancer in the community.
In addition, Vaive participated in the Stick with Reading Program and read to elementary school students at W.W. White Elementary School. To help promote the Rampage's sixth annual Pucks and Paws night, Vaive volunteered at the Animal Defense League, a local "no kill" shelter, by walking several dogs and assisting in the maintenance and cleaning of the facilities. On Pucks and Paws Night, more than 20 dogs were adopted during the Rampage game.
Vaive is now one of 30 finalists for the AHL's 2012-13 Yanick Dupre Memorial Award, honoring the overall IOA/American Specialty AHL Man of the Year. The league award is named after the former Hershey Bears forward and AHL All-Star who died in 1997 following a 16-month battle with leukemia. The winner of the Yanick Dupre Memorial Award will be announced by the American Hockey League on April 18.
The Rampage travel to Houston for a two-game series tonight (Thursday) and Saturday in the team's final two road games of the year. Puck drop for both contests against the Aeros is 7:05 p.m. The Silver and Black will return home on Sunday for a 3:30 p.m. tilt against the Texas Stars in the final Express-News Sunday Funday of the year.
Tickets for all remaining Rampage home games start at $10 and can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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Quick question. Name Europe's second largest country… Stumped? Here are a few hints - think Mediterranean-esque coastlines, soaring mountain ranges, architectural outposts aplenty and a capital city that's often referred to as the Mother of Slavic cities. Given up? That's okay – a warm welcome is on the cards for those who escape the glare of Ukraine's flashier European neighbours, and discover a nation that's quirky, cultured and full of life.
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Our Ukraine trips score an average of 4.88 out of 5 based on 16 reviews in the last year.
St Petersburg to Budapest , October 2015
James Bowater
It is a pity, Intrepid is stopping this trip. Personally, I don't think as a destination, Ukraine is being marketted fully. The jewel in Ukraine s tourism crown, is Chernobyl nuclear disaster ,and no effort is being made to visit this area. Realizing this myself, with Iras guidance, our whole group visited the disaster region, probably the first Intrepid group to do so. Last year, 6000 people visited the site, and 17000 so far in 2015. For me, it was the trip high light.
Review submitted 03 Dec 2015
St Petersburg to Budapest , October 2015
Marcia Bowater
Keep this trip and market it with Chernobyl
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About Ukraine
At a glance
|Capital city:
|Kyiv (population 2.6 million)
|45.9 million
|Time zone:
|(GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius
|Type C (European 2-pin) Type F (German 2-pin, side clip earth)
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Best time to visit Ukraine
Ukraine, like many of its Eastern European counterparts, boasts a temperate climate that delivers hot summers, mild autumns and icy winters. With the warm summer sending locals and tourists to the Crimea and the Black Sea coast, many theatres and attractions close down or become quite crowded. For those seeking to avoid the crowds, spring (or early autumn) can be an excellent time to visit Ukraine, as the weather is normally quite pleasant and the scenery at its most spectacular.
Winters can be bitterly cold, with temperatures reaching as low as -25C; however, ample snow provides excellent skiing in the Carpathian Mountains.
Geography and environment
As the second largest country in Europe, Ukraine boasts an incredible variety of landscapes, many of which change complexion dramatically with the seasons. To the west lie the Carpathian Mountains, which include the country's highest peak, Mt Hoverla (2,061 m). To the south is the Black Sea coast, the port town of Odessa and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. This popular holiday spot is renowned for its Mediterranean climate and unique landscapes that include limestone plateaux and volcanic rock formations.
Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, is located in the north on the banks of the Dnieper River. The country's north is renowned for its dense forests, while the central region consists of mainly open fields and plains.
Top Picks
Top 5 Ukrainian Pop Stars
1. Ruslana
Don't let the movie-star good looks fool you, Ruslana is one of Ukraine's most talented musicians. Proficient in vocals, piano, guitar, drums, keyboards and of course, the Ukrainian alpine horn, Ruslana channelled her Carpathian Mountain-dwelling roots and became the pride of the nation by winning the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest with her original composition 'Wild Energy'. Currently living in Hollywood and mixing it with the stars, Ruslana's latest projects include collaborations with T-Pain and Missy Elliot, as well as her new single 'Wow! (I'm so amazing)', which features a street dance hip hop battle between her two alter egos: Ruslana-boy and Ruslana-girl.
2. Sofia Rotaru
After honing her vocal skills by singing to her blind sister Zina, Sofia Rotaru rose to fame after winning a 'festival of popular talents' in Kyiv. At the age of 17 she performed a closed-door concert in the Kremlin; however, she had to flee to Yalta after her family was persecuted by the Soviets for celebrating Christmas. Her transgressions were eventually forgotten, as she was awarded the one-off 'Best Ukrainian Pop Singer of the Twentieth Century' award by the former USSR. Rotaru is a personal favourite of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and she is estimated to be Ukraine's richest pop star - earning a handy $4.76 million a year!
3. Iryna Bilyk
One of Ukraine's most celebrated stars, Iryna Bilyk has released 12 albums and continues to attract large crowds to her energetic live shows. At 25, Bilyk had the honour of performing for the President of the United States, Bill Clinton. More recently, she released 'I Love You', a duet with Jean-Claude-Van Dam, who is reportedly a huge fan of her music. In 2007, she married her dancing partner from the local TV show Dances with the Stars 2.
4. Taras Petrynenko
Beginning his musical career in 1969 with a televised dance performance with a group of school students, Petrynenko rose to become the undisputed leader of Ukrainian rock music. After serving a brief period in the army, Petrynenko was banned from performing his controversial 'Song about the Song', and fled to Russia with his new group, Magic Guitars. After returning to Ukraine and recording a new album, Petrynenko's newly formed band, Hrono, endured a forced break-up, mainly because the accompanying musicians refused to return from the band's international tour. Despite this, Petrynenko went on to be crowned a 'living legend' of Ukrainian music and played a big part in the Orange Revolution, performing his songs to a passionate crowd in Kyiv.
5. Oleksandr Ponomaryov
Born and bred a boxer, Ponomaryov was devastated when his deteriorating eyesight began to derail his chosen career path. Undeterred by a lack of musical knowledge or training, he decided to follow his other great passion, striking a deal with a prestigious music college which agreed to provide him with tutorage - on the condition that he complete the gruelling 7-year curriculum in the space of 12 months. Apparently he passed, and in 2003 he went on to be the first artist to represent Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest, impressing the judges with an act that combined contortionists with an Apollo spacecraft. He finished 14th.
FAQs on Ukraine
Australia: Yes - in advance
Belgium: No - Not required
Canada: No - Not required
Germany: No - Not required
Ireland: No - Not required
Netherlands: No - Not required
New Zealand: Yes - in advance
South Africa: Yes - in advance, Visa Support letter - Yes
Switzerland: No - Not required
United Kingdom: No - Not required
USA: No - Not required
Some nationalities are now visa free to Ukraine. Please check your own visa requirements carefully.
Some nationalities that require a visa may also need a Letter of Invitation (LOI), sometimes known as a Visa Support Letter, in order to apply for a Ukraine visa. As of 2013 travellers from Australia and New Zealand no longer need the LOI in order to apply. Should you require a LOI please notify us at the time of booking and ensure you send the following information no later than 30 days prior to departure:
* Clear, colour scanned copy of the personal details page of your passport
* Nominate which embassy you will apply for your visa
Please note that it can take up to 7 business days to receive the LOI from our Ukrainian partners. The LOI is included in the cost of the trip, however should your embassy require other support documents you may be charged an additional fee.
You require a Single Entry Tourist Visa for this trip.
Surname and first name of the inviting person(s) in Ukraine. If not applicable, name of hotel(s) or address of applicant's temporary accommodation(s) in Ukraine:
Vozdvishensky Hotel
60-a,b Vozdvyzhenska str.
Tel.: +38 044 531 99 00
Address of inviting person(s)/hotel(s)/temporary accommodation(s) in Ukraine:
As above.
Name and address of inviting company/organisation:
If LOI required please use the information on the document. If not required - N/A.
Surname, first name, address, telephone, telefax, and e-mail address of contact person in company/organization:
As above.
Beer in a bar or restaurant = 5-15 UAH
Basic, takeaway lunch = 40 UAH
Dinner in an inexpensive restaurant = 100 UAH
For more information on insurance, please go to: Travel Insurance
Jan 7 Orthodox Christmas Day
Mar 8 International Women's Day
May 1-2 Labour Days
May 5 Orthodox Easter Sunday
May 9 Victory Day
Jun 23 Orthodox Pentecost
Jun 28 Constitution Day
Aug 24 Ukrainian Independence Day
Please note these dates are for 2013. For a current list of public holidays go to: http://www.worldtravelguide.net/ukraine/public-holidays
Health and Safety
Intrepid takes the health and safety of its travellers seriously, and takes every measure to ensure that trips are safe, fun and enjoyable for everyone. We recommend that all travellers check with their government or national travel advisory organisation for the latest information before departure:
From Australia?
From New Zealand?
From Canada?
Go to: http://www.voyage.gc.ca/
From US?
Go to: http://travel.state.gov/
From UK?
Go to: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/
The World Health Organisation
also provides useful health information:
Go to: http://www.who.int/en/
Responsible Travel
Ukraine Travel Tips
Intrepid is committed to travelling in a way that is respectful of local people, their culture, local economies and the environment. It's important to remember that what may be acceptable behaviour, dress and language in your own country, may not be appropriate in another. Please keep this in mind while travelling.
Top responsible travel tips for Ukraine
1. Be considerate of Ukraine's customs, traditions, religion and culture.
2. For environmental reasons, try to avoid buying bottled water. Instead, fill a reusable water bottle or canteen with tap or filtered water.
3. Always dispose of litter thoughtfully, including cigarette butts.
4. Learn some local language and don't be afraid to use it - simple greetings will help break the ice.
5. Shop for locally made products. Supporting local artisans helps keep traditional crafts alive.
6. Refrain from supporting businesses that exploit or abuse endangered animals.
7. Please ask and receive permission before taking photos of people, including children.
Further reading
Recommended reading
|Everything is Illuminated
|Jonathan Safran Foer
|Sweet Darusia
|Maria Matios
|Voices from Chernobyl
|Svetlana Alexievich
|Wolves Eat Dogs
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What primer should be used before painting over nicotine stained walls?
I've also had good luck with Zinsser B-I-N, which is shellac based. This might be overkill for your situation, but I've used it with great success on hard to cover stains.
I would just use a good stain covering primer like Kilz. I have used both KILZ 2® Latex Primer and KILZ® Premium Primer, the Premium version is noticeable better than the Kilz 2.
But it looks like they have an even better version called KILZ MAX™ Primer. I have never used this one but it does mention covering nicotine:
Kilz does recommend cleaning the surface; see the "Surface Preparation" section for all of their recommendations. The most relevant section is this:
Agreed with all the "clean first" comments, but you might try tri-sodium phosphate (TSP) as your detergent, as it also etches the surface, providing a "nap" on the paint to make coats stick.
My favourite primer for difficult situations is white pigmented shellac, like the B-I-N product mentioned, but there are generic off-brand versions that are cheaper. It is generally titanium dioxide and shellac powder, in an alcohol base. It is suitable for both water- and oil-based paint, and is indeed ideal for covering an oil-based stain with water-based paint for that reason. Because it is alcohol-based, it dries quickly and cleans up easily.


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The character classes in Dungeon Raid seem like they should add variety to gameplay, but for me they mostly don't. I wonder whether that's because I'm not seeing the value of their bonuses, so I'm just playing the same strategy every time anyway.
In my experience, the thing to do is balance all your stats, and hold out for things in the same group of five or six skills (Skill Elixir, Boost Armour, Dazzle, Teleport, Treasure, Enchant). Always take Blunting, Quicken or Regen if offered; don't bother with Poison and Spikes.
This presumably isn't the very best strategy, but it's done okay for me, and the only character class that's benefitted from a different style is the Raider, who's easy to score much higher with but who I also don't see much way to customize beneficially.
Am I missing whole play patterns that Mage or Elf or Barbarian would enable, or am I overestimating how much variety the classes/species/new skills should add?


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What language(s) were considered the primary language for the Holy Roman Empire? Were there many different languages spoken due to the many different regions?
The Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nations) was a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual coalition from its (unofficial) founding by Charlemagne in the 9th century AD. The German Empire would be a better term in fact, as it was founded and typically ruled by Germanic peoples. (Charlemagne himself was a Frank.) As Voltaire once perceptively quipped, the Holy Roman Empire was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire". (Essai sur l'histoire générale et sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations, Chapter 70)
Given that the boundaries of the empire were constantly changing over its almost thousand-year history (and were rarely if ever officially defined), the cultures and languages subsumed were constantly in flux too. Undoubtedly, German (or the predominant dialect thereof) was the de-facto official language. Latin was also for official matters of state/ceremonies, especially during the Medieval period, given this modern empire's desire to ape the glory of Ancient Rome, not to mention the ubiquity of the Church in Medieval life.
A map of the Holy Roman territories cerca 1600 hints well at what languages were commonly spoken by the populace in various regions.
These would have included the following:
Undoubtedly I have missed out a few, but the above list should cover the predominant languages within the (stable) boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire, noting where appropiate the diversity of dialects of some languages that was extremely prevalent during the medieval and early modern periods of history.
Medieval Latin (an evolution of the Classical Latin of Ancient Rome) was indeed the official language of the Holy Roman Empire for most of its history. It was in fact only changed to Standard German during the reign of Joseph II (late 18th century.) What is interesting to note, especially in the High Medieval period where the Holy Roman Empire encompassed much land and many cultures, is that Medieval Latin was the only common language between the educated (especially ecclesiastical) folk in all of its member states. It was perhaps the second great period in which Latin was the "Lingua Franca" of its day, supplanted by Standard German (even in regions such as Slavic Bohemia) by the Early Modern period.
Please feel free to add/improve on references, especially secondary ones. Some of the information in this post is admittedly from old history lessons of mine/sources I have forgotten.
Mainly German, but a lot of literature wasn't vernacular (in your language) until after the printing press, so Latin was used to read books (if you were educated). Italian was also used in the southern part of the HRE.
(Pulled from A History of Western Society by John McKay)
In a decree called the Golden Bull of 1356, which set the election system of the Holy Roman Emperor, it was specified that the elector's sons should speak the three imperial languages - German, Italian and Czech.
Given the southward spread, Slovenian was likely spoken within the Empire as well. Also Romansch, the fourth language of Switzerland. Not sure how much Polish was spoken; though the Empire overlaps modern Poland, remember that Poland was forcibly moved 300 miles to the west by the Soviets. The northern overlap is Brandenburg/Prussia, which would have been mostly German speaking at the time; the southern overlap is Silesia, with probably did have Polish speakers. And, of course, speakers of Yiddish and Romany would have existed throughout the region.
I'm unable to find a reference to an official language of the empire, but according to Wikipedia, the languages that would have been spoken within its borders were numerous, and would include the following:
taken from here
As for which one would have been the language of business, I would say Latin during its inception and pre-Renaissance existence, the Germanic languages as the independent states of the era came into their own during the latter half of the empire time, and Italian as well during that time, but fading as Italian influence waned during the last two hundred or so years.
The HRE (Holy Roman Empire) was a multi-cultural and multi-lingual but German was the official language. Other languages that were spoken would be Latin, Italian, Czech, Polish, Dutch, French, Frisian, Slovene, Sorbian and others. Latin was used in books if you were educated and Italian also used in the southern part of the HRE.
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Could the X11 on Mac OSX be help?
Update 2:
I would like to use mouse on Gentoo server, via a terminal environment on Mac.
Does the
update 1:
Could the X11 on Mac OSX be help?
Update 2:
I would like to use mouse on Gentoo server, via a terminal environment on Mac.
Yes, I think X11 is the way to go here. Make sure that your Gentoo install will allow remote X sessions (or just go ahead and try it), open X11 on the Mac (from Utilities, or install it from the OS X CD or via http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki ). Then open a standard Terminal session (not the X11 session) and do "ssh -X username@gentooserver". Once you have logged in, you should be able to start X-Windows applications from the regular Terminal session and they will start in the OS X X-Windows server.
As I'm usually a SUSE user, I tend to use a lot of "yast2" this way.
Total shot in the dark, but perhaps piping synergy through an ssh tunnel will help. Know what I'm suggesting here? Need more details?
We need some clarification, Are you connecting to the OS X computer or from it? What is your goal? Do you just want to be able to use a mouse in a terminal environment or do you want to remotely control another computer?
You can enable VNC access (built-in to OSX) and then just use a VNC Client on the linux desktop.
All of the answers related to X11 forwarding, VNC, etc are all well and good when connecting to a remote system which has X and/or X programs installed. If you're connecting to a server with NO GUI components the real question of the OP still hasn't been answered.
It's the MAC terminal, not the ssh client, which messes with the mouse-passing to ssh sessions. By starting X11 (from utilities as stated by Johnnie) and xterm, running the native MAC SSH client from xterm instead of mac terminal, nano -m on the remote system can process the mouse clicks. There may be other terminals for MAC which will behave this way without having to start x11, and there may be a setting which I haven't been able to find which allows the MAC terminal to behave this way. This doesn't require X on the remote system, and works for AT LEAST vi(m) and nano.


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This morning there was loud cheering and shouting when the President was introduced. What a great feeling! The President started by telling the story of how a solider saved his friend at the battle of the Bulge in 1945. The saved soldier did not learn until a reunion many years later that he had been saved by a gay soldier. He then introduced the VIPs on the stage. Members of congress were there, Marine Sgt. Eric Alva, but it was Rep. Murphy (D-PA) who got a standing ovation for his effort to reintroduce repeal just last week. When he introduced Admiral Mullen, President Obama quoted the Admiral's comments last spring that "people in the military sacrifice a lot, but they should never have to sacrifice their integrity." The admiral also had earlier gotten a standing ovation when he was introduced by the VP.
Often I have felt that I did not do enough in the fight for repeal. I was there when someone, or an organization asked me to give an update on the repeal or explain how things were going, to represent PFLAG, or their chapter at an event. I spoke out, posted regularly on my Facebook page. But I was not involved 24/7 as so many others have been. It was not something if not repealed was going to have a great impact upon me as it was to so many others there today. But as I greeted people this morning and as I mentioned a name or saw someone I have met along the way, that recognized me and who introduced me to their friends, I realized that I had done something to help make this happen. I had a stake in the success of the repeal, however small. As the tears dropped from my cheek, I felt proud to be on the right side of the fight.
My active duty experience was before DADT. But early in my career, I remember being cautioned that if we were engaged in any homosexual activity we would be subject to dishonorable discharge. And if we were hiding the fact that we were homosexual we were subjecting ourselves to a position of being blackmailed for the classified information we were working with.
In closing, I will say that gays and lesbians were here yesterday, they are here today, and they will be tomorrow. Gays and Lesbians are serving now, they were serving yesterday and they will serve tomorrow. And after the repeal of DADT, some will serve openly, but none will serve in fear of losing their jobs and careers.
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Delbert H. Heather, 93, of Syracuse, died at St. Mary's Community Hospital in Nebraska City Feb. 14, 2013. He was born May 9, 1919 in rural Syracuse to Harry and Mollie (Walker) Heather. He married Marie Halvorsen Feb. 8, 1941 in Lincoln.
He is survived by daughters Lucy and husband Stuart Kitt, St. Louis, Mo., Jane Heather, Ft. Worth, Texas, Jody and husband Wally Pohlman, Nebraska City, and Sandy Heather and husband R.K. Piper, Omaha; son Wayne and wife Pat Heather, Waverly; eight grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
He was preceded by wife Marie, infant children James and Wesley, son Keith Heather, and sisters Edna Parker and Thelma Barnes.
He was a farmer by trade, cowboy at heart. He was an avid horseman.
Funeral services are Monday, Feb. 18 at 10 a.m. at United Methodist Church –Syracuse. Burial was at Park Hill Cemetery, Syracuse.
Memorials are suggested to the Otoe County 4-H Foundation (horse program).
Visitation is today, Sunday, Feb. 17, until 9 p.m. with family greeting friends from 6-8 p.m.
Fusselman-Allen-Harvey Funeral Home, Syracuse, is in charge of arrangements.
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Is it a law that every house/apartment has to have a carbon monoxide detector as well as a smoke detector? I live in an older apartment complex and am worried that I need to go get my own detector.
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Laws on this kind of thing differ not only from country to country but from state to state, so ask your local council.
That said, if you use gas for cooking or for heating, a carbon monoxide detector is a really good idea. It is cheap, the batteries typically last for five or ten years, and it can stop you and your family dying in your sleep!
Get one fitted because you should, not because you have to.


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My parents and I all have iPhones. My mother and I used to have them both authorized to the same account which was mine. Now they want to authorize their phones to there own accounts. They have done so with there new iPhone 5's but it is still asking for my Apple ID. What can I do to fix this?
When I changed my ID on my iphone, I didn't see an "edit" option either. So maybe my experience will help you, I hope. After going to Settings/iCloud, I was told to scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says DELETE ACCOUNT. After deleting my son's account from my phone, I was able to enter my own ID. It took a few tries and some time while it tried to validate the new ID and then it told me to go to my email on my computer to respond for verification. Good Luck!
That happened to me when my wife got her iPhone.
Any apps that you downloaded with your Apple ID will require that ID and password when they are updated.
The only (legitimate) way around this is to have them delete all of the apps that you downloaded with your Apple ID and re-buy or re-download them with theirs.


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I am new to mac and was following a video and typed export
PATH="$HOME/opt/git/bin:$PATH" I believe this messed up my path and I am not able to install MySQL now. When I tried to install homebrew I get
-bash: brew: command not found. I tried restarting the terminal and I am still getting this error.
I am new to mac and was following a video and typed export
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Restarting the terminal should have solved the problem since you didn't append what you have typed to a bash start-up file.
Also, even if what you have typed was directed to a bash start-up file it wouldn't affect where bash would find
Your problem lays in something else you've done that has changed the settings for your path in a bash start-up file or have deleted/altered the location of the executable.
Why aren't you able to install MySQL? What errors do you get? What form of package are you installing? Is it from the MySQL official site?
Recommended installation of
Unless you installed brew into
Did you instead install it at
brew is only for macs. oh!. i see you are using a mac. ok thn, open your terminal window. oh, its open. ok, then. i can help you no more. keep up the good work.


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There's been a lot of controversy over the future (and current) use of Flash and the adoption of Silverlight. Should I continue to use it if I am already or should I use something else, like HTML5?
Flash and Silverlight are both powerful platforms and it really depends on your circumstances. Currently, the user base for Flash is much larger due to its age and more people are likely to have it installed.
You can use Flash / Silverlight, but I feel you provide some alternative means to the content if at all possible.
Think of the embedded plug-ins as just another layer on your site. It should work as just plain text and GET/POST actions. Improve the look and feel with CSS. Improve the responsiveness with JavaScript. Finally add whizbang with Flash or Silverlight.
So long as your layers don't wreck the layers underneath them, add it all on and serve your users as best your budget allows.
I think this will boil down to personal opinion but I would say no.
No because your cutting out anything running Apple's iOS and while that may not be a massive problem there is no point starting at a disadvantage. I also find such plugins slightly annoying on a normal browser and have flash blocker and such installed and they are only enabled if I approve it.
I would say only use plug ins if you have a geniune need. Rather than for the sake of it.
HTML5 is not complete, but I see lots of promise. If it is a general facing site, Flash Player should at least be supported, Silverlight to a lesser extent because most viewers will have to install the plugin.
It all depends on your target audience. Will the people you are building your site for expect Flash or Silverlight? Will they be put off if it is there? I would suggest using customer focused decision making on questions like this rather than technical. Get to know your customers and plan accordingly.
If HTML5 allows you to do everything you need, then I would recommend using it. However, if you need GPU acceleration, or DRM, or some other feature or functionality that does not exist in browsers' current implementation of HTML 5 then look at Flash or Silverlight.
Personally, I have a Flash blocker installed because I don't much care for Flash or Silverlight. I'm also not a professional web developer but I feel that the safe answer is probably "it depends on who your target audience is". At this point it seems that HTML 5 has a bright future and the potential to reach a broader range of devices- but Flash does have a large installed base and can be used for lots of things right now without worrying about how modern the user's browser is.
That being said, I did notice an interesting use that exploits Silverlight's connection to the .NET framework. trypython.org uses Silverlight to deliver the IronPython into the client's browser which allows for all sorts of neat shenanigans.
So, Silverlight and Flash are important in that they provide an alternative to JavaScript for client-side programming. And alternatives are always good.
If the audience your website is targeted to doesn't use IE, then no, you should not use Flash or Silverlight.
If the audience your website is targeted to does use IE, and if you need to do something that only Flash or Silverlight can do (deliver video, let's say) then you don't have any alternatives that are as easy to deal with, or with as large a userbase.
If what you want to do with Flash or Silverlight is something that shouldn't be done with them in the first place (a navigation, let's say) then I have nothing left to say to you. Good day, sir.
The big controversy over Flash or Silverlight is about lack of smartphone(notably iPhone) support, instability/vulnerability of plugins and bad accessibility of plugin-based websites.
If you want to target the iPhone, then definitively don't use plugins at all.
Otherwise, think about which features you need:
However, remember that there is no single solution to the question "HTML5 or plugins?". Different websites have different needs.


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I am not a DNS expert, not a programmer. I have a decent basic understanding of DNS, and enough knowledge to understand how things like the kaminsky bug work. From what I understand, DNSCurve has stronger encryption, is far simpler to setup, and an altogether better solution.
DNSSEC is needlessly complicated and uses breakable encryption, however it provides end to end security, something DNSCurve does not. However, many of the articles I have read have seemed to indicate that end to end security is of little use or makes no difference.
So which is true? Which is the better solution, or what are the disadvantages/advantages of each?
I would appreciate if someone could explain what is gained by encrypting the message contents, when the goal is authentication rather than confidentiality.
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The last thing on most golfers' minds when they head out to play is tick safety and prevention.
Chip Krause says, "A lot of people when they see a golf course they see how beautifully manicured it is, so they think that would be a poor place to find a tick. Actually there are a lot of rough areas and out of bound areas where ticks do make their homes. So if you lose your ball, you could end up in these areas where ticks are going to be."
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I was thinking about generating passwords with combination of English, Arabic, Chinese charac. Is this pass secure enough against brute force attacks?
Selecting characters from a larger character set should increase security; if you use a rare character like ♥ or ಠ in your password that a brute force isn't trying to check then you may have dramatically increased security.
However, depending on the implementation of the application receiving your password, this can also vastly lower security. Passwords typed by users are untrusted user input and are a potential vector for attack (e.g., SQL injection and unicode encodings can be exploited for these types of attacks ). Also some hashing functions may expect simple ascii input.
Thus an applications may make user input go through a strict sanitization procedure before being compared/stored in the database; which may off the bat just remove non-ascii characters (or do a simple translation like
Also it may be significantly more difficult to use that password in different computer environments like mobile devices/changing OSes/different encodings (UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, etc).
In general, its better to use to increase the length of your password than it is to increase the size of your charsets. Let's say you choose characters at random from a 100 character set and choose 8 characters at random. The password space is 1008 = 1016. Let's say instead you frequently use two charsets (and the attacker knows this -- e.g., is aware you speak/type arabic frequently and likely will mix-in arabic unicode symbols in your password) and choose characters at random from this 200 character set. Now a random 8 character password from a 200-character set has a password space of 2008 = 2.56 x 1018 which is 2^8=256 times harder to brute force than the 8-character password from a 100 character set. Or in other terms a 10 character password from 100 charset is stronger than a 8 character password from a 200 character set; and since the unicode characters are often more difficult to type/remember it may be easier to just increase password length. (Granted if an attacker doesn't ever look at non-unicode characters they'll never be able to crack a password of just
EDIT: Some python hashing demonstrations with unicode:
If the length of the password is not reduced, then I'd say it will be harder to crack, though I wouldn't call it "super safe". Take for instance a 16 character ASCII password: there are
For that reason, just increasing the length of the password will offer the same protection against brute force attacks. With the advantage that the password will be easier to type, and won't cause problems if entered in systems with different default encodings and input methods.
I'd like to add, though, that for that math to hold the passwords must be truly random. There are other types of attacks (like dictionary attacks, rainbow tables etc) that take advantage of different probabilities in the distribution of characters in a password. Since, by your question, you seem to be generating those passwords, I think you can do fine without using different charsets.
While creating a longer password is generally the best solution, mixing characters from different languages is quite effective. Performing a brute-force attack just using upper and lower-case English letters, number, and punctuation symbols already introduces a large number of possibilities (assuming you have a password of a decent length) and introducing an entire new language will make the possible keyspace grow astronomically.
Having said that, if you are entering these characters using an English keyboard, you are probably going to have to hold down ALT and type a 3-4 number sequence. Mathematically, for the number of keystrokes you are entering you might as well just add 4-5 characters to the length of your password.
Furthermore, very few systems actually allow you to enter anything beyond standard letters and numbers. And if there are encoding mismatches in the process, you character may end up being normalized to a standard ASCII character anyway. This was the case for a long time with the Windows GINA login (although this created an interesting situation where you could programatically create a password for an account that could never be used to login via the console).
So the answer is yes it is a great technique, but for the number of keystrokes and to avoid compatibility issues, you might as well just make your password longer.
As a rule, brute-force attacks follow some sort of dictionary. If the password isn't in the dictionary they use, then it won't be guessed. If someone creates a dictionary that does include your password, then it will be guessed. That's pretty much all there is to it.
Targeted dynamic dictionaries & rainbow-tables.
Distributed GPU clusters cracking trillions of passwords a second(and that's just what you can casually buy from amazon or, build yourself)
Getting into super-computers, super-FPGA's, and Quantum Qubit computing its just gets scarier, and more bleek.
2-factor seems to be the only way to go if your really serious about your data assurance. (even then its still security theater) Who knows what "logically" broken, and what was broken from the start on purpose.


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