I am flying from Chennai to Toronto via Dubai, where a 21 hours layover is available in Dubai. In order to avail a transit visa, is it necessary to book a hotel? Since it's a connecting flight, what about the baggage? Due to the 21 hours layover will we get the baggage in Dubai or will we get it at the end?
Do I need a transit visa for a layover via airports in the UAE, such as Dubai International Airport or Abu Dhabi International Airport? If so, what are the requirements for such a visa? Can I get the transit visa on arrival?
Defaulting to the sign-up form? Recently I've noticed more and more sign-in / sign-up workflows defaulting to the sign-up option first and providing a minimal "Sign-In / Login" action somewhere else on the page. What's the reason behind this practice?  Examples where I've seen this recently: Bounded sequence which is not convergent, but differences of consecutive terms converge to zero I have a question that says "Show that there is a bounded sequence $x_n$ which is not convergent but has the property that $x_n - x_{n+1} \to 0$ as $n \to 0$.  What does this mean? Do I need to come up with an example or does the problem actually want me to prove such proposition?  By the way, I see that this sequence looks like Cauchy because of $x_n - x_{n+1} \to 0$ as $n \to 0$, but it is obviously not. Paucity of words for relationships Why is my total reputation less than my monthly reputation? When I went to the  to see my ranking in the reputation league, I saw this. Is this an error? My total reputation is less than my monthly reputation. I'm trying to install a Matlab R2011a launcher for Unity in Ubuntu 12.04. I've tried  (although I know it's for 11.10 and mentions that even 11.10 is an unsupported OS for Matlab R2011a) but without any satisfactory solution.  This is my launcher file, /usr/share/applications/matlab.desktop:  #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Icon=/usr/share/icons/matlab.png Name=MATLAB R2011a Comment=Start MATLAB - The Language of Technical Computing Exec=matlab -desktop Categories=Development;   I open the dash panel and search for "matlab". This launcher is found among applications. I click it, and Matlab's splash screen shows up, but when it disappears the program doesn't start. (I've verified with htop that no matlab-processes are running in the background either.)  If I add  Terminal=true   to the launcher file, the program starts OK, and opens a terminal as well as Matlab. However, both the terminal and Matlab itself show up in the Launcher area, with the Matlab icon, so it looks like I have two Matlab instances running when really it's only one. (Actually, they show up as two different programs, and not just two instances of the same - the icons are independent, not grouped together.)  This is definitely not optimal. I had hoped to create a launcher I can lock to the launcher area, and then that same icon will be the icon for the active Matlab instance when the program is running.  How do I create a launcher for Matlab that works as expected?  Update: I was apparently a bit unclear on my symptoms, I'll try to clarify a little. I've also tried some suggestions from the answers, and further investigated what happens. My current setup (a launcher file with Terminal=true and Exec=matlab -desktop -nosplash &amp;) renders the following behavior:   I open Dash by pressing the Windows key on my laptop, and search for "matlab". It finds the launcher named "MATLAB R2011a". I click it. A terminal window opens, using the icon I referred to in the launcher file. Almost immediately, MATLAB's splash screen also opens, using the same icon (and thus being grouped with the terminal window in the launcher). The splash screen disappears and, so does one of the icons in the launcher. The MATLAB desktop environment opens, using a different version of the icon which is displayed next to the icon for the terminal window (not grouped with it).   I can lock the terminal window's icon to the launcher and successfully start MATLAB by clicking it, but it doesn't feel optimal that I start the program with one icon, and switch to it with another. I've also tried the following:   Exec without the ampersand &amp; in the launcher command, but it didn't make a difference. Executing matlab -nosplash manually from a terminal still shows the splash screen. (What, then, does the nosplash option really do?) Which is correct: "on foot" or "by foot"? He went there on foot.   Or     He went there by foot.   Which one is correct, and on what basis? What is the solution to the Squirrel sequence of letters question? How do I create a public view from a private view It seems like I can't modify a private view to be public, or duplicate a private view to be public.  Am I restricted to copying by hand all the settings of my private view, then creating a fresh public view and selecting all the right columns in the same order with all the sort and filter options? HUD is not working after upgrade My HUD is not working after I upgraded from 11.04 (and or 11.10).  It prompts for command and it tries loading for 4 seconds then gives up. Starting scheduled task by detecting connection of USB device According to "Moving Around Other Creatures" (PH p. 191 / SRD p. 92):     You can move through a nonhostile creature’s space. [...] another creature’s space is difficult terrain for you.    Whether a creature is a friend or an enemy, you can’t willingly end your move in its space.   So it's possible for Alice to , the only penalty being that the ally's space counts as difficult terrain to enter.  If an enemy adjacent to the ally's space has readied a grapple against Alice and is successful, then Alice (unwillingly) ends her move in her ally's space.  Do allied characters in the same space suffer any negative effect?  Now the rest of Alice's allies do the same thing.   Is there a limit to the number of characters that can be stacked on a space?   What if Alice's ally was the one with the readied grapple?  Can you stack an ally on your space by readying a grapple to prevent them from leaving? Will moving blog posts from under an existing category to a new SUBcategory have a negative impact from an SEO POV? $\mathbb{Q}^{\times}$ is the group of rational number without $0$ under multiplication, and $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ is the free abelian group of rank $n$. Show that $\mathbb{Q}^{\times}$ not isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$. I tried to assume that there is an isomorphism and to get a contradiction.. didn't succeed Probability of success on third and fourth trials? I have a pretty basic probability question, but I'm just having difficulties remembering what distribution this is.  A coin is tossed until a head appears two times in a row. Given that we are using a fair coin, what is the probability that we toss the coin exactly 4 times such that the two consecutive heads are the 3rd and 4th trials?  I know that this would be fairly easy to solve by brute force and listing out the different probabilities, but I'm a little confused as to how to use a "shortcut" such as identifying this as a binomial distribution. I also don't know how to account for the probability that we are using 4 tosses.  Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Find the value of:$$\frac{\sqrt{45} + \sqrt{18}} {\sqrt{7+2\sqrt{10}}}$$      I need help solving this question. Every reply is appreciated.  Thanks! I'm using Python, and would like to insert a string into a text file without deleting or copying the file. How can I do that? I am looking for a YA book about a boy who learns to use powers from a mind-adept, in a seemingly abandoned house. The adept helps him open his mind by using a cube. One of his powers, I believe, is to go into dreams of people that  he knows. He helps his young female neighbor friend by doing this, opening a door in her mind. He tries to open the mind-door of a local older bully, but finds out the young man can't be helped because he has been abused mentally and physically. I don't believe the book I read is past 1995. It might have the word "adept" in it. I am trying to solve an integral in $k$-space where I want to calculate the ratio of the average energy of an arbitrary electronic band ($E(k)=k^n)$ to the square of average group velocity of electrons($v_g   = k^{n-1})$ approximately in the form of this expression given by $$L=\frac{\frac{\sum_{\mathbf{k}}k^{n}}{\sum_{\mathbf{k}}1}}{\left(\frac{\sum_{\mathbf{k}}k^{n-1}}{\sum_{\mathbf{k}}1}\right)^2}\;.$$  Now, I want to do this for $d$-dimensions, so I convert this sum to integral.  $$L=\frac{\dfrac{\int_{0}^{k_f}k^{n} d^d k}{\int_{0}^{k_f}1d^d k}}{\left(\dfrac{\int_{0}^{k_f}k^{n-1}d^d k}{\int_{0}^{k_f}1d^d k}\right)^2}$$ where $d^dk  = \dfrac{d \pi^{d/2}}{\Gamma(\frac{d}{2}+1)}k^{d-1}dk$ is the volume element in $d$-dimensional space.  I want to get a simple expression for $L$ and how it depends with $k_f,n$ and $d$. any physical insight into this integral could also be helpful. Storage order vs Result order Why do some devices have 200V on the case? I recently got a desktop LED lamp, and I feel a "strange" slight vibration when touching the metal case. I found that other devices also have high voltage on their case.  What is the reason/trade-off to design the PSU that way? Are "real" transformers inefficient? Even if it's harmless, why is the high voltage connected to the metal case, and not just through insulated wires?    When I turn the lamp on, the setup in the picture measures the power line (220V) 214Vpp (59Vrms). When I also touch the metal case, the voltage drops down to around 30V.  AC adaptor: