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My name is JQ Whitcomb, and I've been living in Shanghai since 2003. In the few years that I've been here I've watched the jazz scene grow exponentially, and even now there's no slowing in sight. It's been amazing to witness and be a part of, and I'm committed to helping the scene continue to expand and improve.
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AMI JOY is a Jupiter Point design by Nick Schade of Guillemot Kayaks of Connecticut. I modified the 13′-design to include a little spruce brightwork trim and built AMI JOY over the winter and launched her on Memorial Day, May 27, 2013, on the Long Island Sound in Stamford. The boat is built from 4mm and 6mm marine plywood. The design is quite stable even in a bit of chop.
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After last year's Go, Mutants! misstep—the B-movie parody might have made an entertaining film, but it didn't work on paper—the author of I Love You, Beth Cooper returns to form with a collection of humor pieces. Many of these works originally appeared in The New Yorker, where Doyle, a former Simpsons writer now living in Baltimore, contributes to the "Shouts & Murmurs" column. He often pokes fun at Hollywood and the media, while satirizing American privilege and entitlement. It's especially effective because he knows the terrain so well. In a hilarious piece lampooning the Hollywood writers' strike, for instance, Doyle claims solidarity with other labor movements, noting, "We slave over our screenplays, alone, staring into laptops, often blinded by pool glare. And we smoke real cigarettes." If Doyle's peers don't have their priorities straight, at least he does, and we can all be deliriously happy for that.
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Asked by Glamour if we can expect to see a line of clothing inspired by the show, Bryant replied: "I'm working on some things right now ... I hate to be so mysterious but I can't really say! It would have my name attached to it though."
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As the founder of leading instant messaging technology provider developed in Erlang, I want to had a few words on my perspective of this story.
I discovered Erlang in 1998 when it was release as Open Source and I was hooked. I was exploring the potential of the technology and how I could apply it to my internet project.
ICQ was a big thing at that time. Yahoo!, AOL, MSN were launching their own instant messaging service. Jeremy Miller started working in 1999 on an open and federated protocol for instant messaging called Jabber. I started getting interested in that protocol since the very beginning and got the chance with my company at that time to work on early commercial Jabber projects. At that time, the collision between Erlang and XMPP already happened as my company was working on an Erlang layer to turning Jabber first C server into a large scale cluster.
In 2002, I joined Alexey Shchepin that just started building an XMPP server fully in Erlang. We work together for all this years and when I felt the time had come, I founded ProcessOne in 2005. ProcessOne is an Erlang company selling technology and expertise to build large scale realtime messaging services.
We worked across the world with major brands to build messaging services in Erlang with ejabberd. We expanded during the passed years to all kind of messaging realtime application. We have a large scale Push notification service build in Erlang, that is sending billions of notifications. We have build the most used XMPP messaging server, the reference implementation that nearly everyone is using. And we are getting further, building even larger scale platforms for the Internet of Things.
During that time we have seen big companies and small companies embrace our vision. Facebook chat started from our vision: Why was Erlang chosen for use in Facebook chat?:
Facebook chat started out as a hackathon project in January 2007, by mid 2007 it became an official project with a dedicated team. Facebook engineers choose to use ejabberd since back in 2007 it was the only chat server which had clustering built in for free. As you can imagine at Facebook's traffic every service needs to scale horizontally and ejabberd was solving an important problem for them.
Funny thing is that a couple of year laters in june 2009, Whatsapp team is building its own platform sharing the same vision. Here is a post of Jan Koum on ejabberd mailing list: client access control:
hi there, i installed ejabberd today, got it work with adium/ichat and wanted to ask you all a couple of things: …
I remember the call that followed with Brian Acton and Jan Koum, talking about our technology and our vision.
And here is the most interesting piece: when Facebook acquires Whatsapp, they also buy a technology that they know fits well with their existing messaging platform.
Finally, this is just two of the success stories our vision, expertise and technology helped sparkled. I would not be surprised that more such success stories arise in the coming months and years.
It all started with ejabberd and we are proud of it !
For us, this is business as usual and just the beginning of a great story.
]]>It has several bugfixes over the previous 13.10 release, and a few new features:
As usual, the release is tagged in the Git source code repository on github
The source package and binary installers are available at ProcessOne
If you suspect you found a bug, search or fill a bug report in Jira
Please note this branch requires at least Erlang/OTP R15, and works correctly with R16B03.
]]>After installing ejabberd 13.10 from binary installer, which comes by default with Erlang terms based configuration, just create your YAML configuration this way:
cd /Application/ejabberd-13.10
bin/ejabberdctl start
bin/ejabberdctl convert_to_yaml $PWD/conf/ejabberd.cfg $PWD/conf/ejabberd.yml
You can check/edit your new configuration. Default configuration looks like this:
- "localhost"
admin: allow
blocked: deny
all: allow
admin: none
all: normal
admin: allow
local: allow
all: 10
all: allow
admin: allow
local: allow
local: allow
all: allow
all: fast
"admin": "localhost"
- []
auth_method: internal
language: "en"
port: 5222
module: ejabberd_c2s
max_stanza_size: 65536
shaper: c2s_shaper
access: c2s
starttls: true
certfile: "/Applications/ejabberd-13.10/conf/server.pem"
port: 5269
module: ejabberd_s2s_in
port: 5280
module: ejabberd_http
web_admin: true
http_poll: true
http_bind: true
captcha: true
loglevel: 3
mod_adhoc: []
access: announce
mod_caps: []
mod_configure: []
mod_disco: []
mod_http_bind: []
mod_last: []
access: muc
access_create: muc_create
access_persistent: muc_create
access_admin: muc_admin
mod_offline: []
mod_privacy: []
mod_private: []
access_createnode: pubsub_createnode
ignore_pep_from_offline: true
last_item_cache: false
- "flat"
- "hometree"
- "pep"
subject: "Welcome!"
body: "Welcome to this Jabber server."
access: register
mod_roster: []
mod_shared_roster: []
mod_time: []
mod_vcard: []
mod_version: []
normal: 1000
fast: 50000
How to let ejabberd use the YAML configuration file?
If you installed ejabberd from binary installer, you must edit ejabberdctl script to change configuration file extension on the EJABBERD_CONFIG_PATH environment variable, at line 95.
If you installed ejabberd from sources or any other packaging system, ejabberdctl should already be configured to use YAML file, with following environment definition
Then, just restart ejabberd.
Et voilà !
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The most noticeable changes since 13.03-beta and 13.06 are:
Changes since 2.1.13 are even more noticeable:
As usual, the release is tagged in the Git source code repository on github
The source package and binary installers are available at ProcessOne
If you suspect you found a bug, search or fill a bug report in Jira
Please note this branch requires at least Erlang/OTP R15, and works correctly with R16B02.
]]>One of the key components of our system is written in Erlang, where we use the well-know emysql library for accessing our DB. One of the problems we first hit, is that the performance of emysql is far from optimal when the result set contains a large number of rows. We found it to be really slow for these cases.
We create a simple table to use as base for our tests:
CREATE table bench_table (
id integer PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT ,
col_1 VARCHAR(255),
col_2 INTEGER,
col_3 TINYINT);
then insert 100k rows into it:
populate(N) ->
InsertQuery = <<"INSERT INTO bench_table(col_1,col_2,col_3) values ('this is just some random data for testing', 21312, 1)">>,
lists:foreach(fun(_I) ->
emysql:execute(?POOL, InsertQuery)
end, lists:seq(1,N)).
Good, we have the DB populated with enough rows to make performance differences quite clear, but not too many that will bore ourselves waiting for the benchmarks to finish.
So, how much it takes to emysql to retrieve them all?.
tc() ->
Query = <<"SELECT * FROM bench_table ">>,
#result_packet{rows = Rows} = emysql:execute(?POOL, Query, 10000),
timer:tc(fun bench:tc/0, []).
That's 2.12s for retrieving all the rows, given a rate of 47k rows/second.
For comparison, we test with the same data set with python using MySQL-Python
def select():
cur = db.cursor()
cur.execute("select * from bench_table")
rows = cur.fetchall()
return len(rows)
start = time.time()
rows = select()
elapsed_time = time.time() - start
The equivalent python script runs in 0.398 seconds, given a rate of 250k rows per second.
5x faster than emysql driver Erlang version!. As emysql is 100% Erlang, while MySQL-Python is a wrapper around the mysql c library, we could expect it to be somewhat slower, but not this much. Clearly there are rooms for improvements here.
A more complete test, comparing estimated throughput with different result set sizes is show below:
(note the log scale on X axis)
The slowdown on MySQL-Python for larger result set size is probably due to the garbage collection kicking in.
Before doing anything to emysql, a codebase that isn't familiar to us, we first need to find where it is spending time. For this, Erlang has a handy tool: fprof. fprof is part of the standard Erlang distribution, and its manual states:
This module is used to profile a program to find out how the execution time is used. Trace to file is used to minimize runtime performance impact.
For our purposes we don't need to know what tracing is in Erlang, just that it allows fprof to profile our code without requiring any source code modification on it.
Profiling adds a considerable overhead to the system being profiled, so in our case we limit the query to retrieve only the first 10k rows. It will be enough to show us where we are spending time.
Query = <<"SELECT * FROM bench_table LIMIT 10000">>
And run the profiling like this:
fprof:apply(fun bench:tc/0, [], [{procs, Erlang:processes()}]).
fprof:profile(). %% be patient here, this will take time.
The end result of the profiling will be a text file named fprof.analysis containing tabular data with the time spend on each part of our code. An extract of our result is:
{[{{emysql_tcp,send_and_recv_packet,3}, 1, 3743.315, 0.037},
{{emysql_tcp,response_list,2}, 1, 0.000, 0.002}],
{ {emysql_tcp,response_list,2}, 2, 3743.315, 0.039}, %
[{{emysql_tcp,response,2}, 1, 3742.086, 0.052},
{{emysql_tcp,recv_packet,1}, 1, 1.190, 0.042},
{{emysql_tcp,response_list,2}, 1, 0.000, 0.002}]}.
While not difficult to read (see the manual for an explanation of the syntax), it is much easier to parse this kind of information if it is graphical. Fortunately for us, there exists erlgrind a script that transform fprof' output to callgrind syntax. This way we can use kcachegrind to visualize it. Thanks to Isac Sacchi e Souza for it!.
Just invoke it with the fprof.analysis
$./erlgrind fprof.analysis
it produce another text file, fprof.cgrind that is readable by kcachegrind.
The call tree shows both the total cumulative time to execute a function, and the # of times that function was called. Here time is wall-clock time, so the time the function is blocked waiting for something (a message from another process, IO, etc) still counts as its own time.
There are several things that are clear after a quick review of this chart. All the relevant cost of the query is in receiving the response rows, that is expected (there are 10k of rows). It is basically divided in two:
, left branch on the tree) emysql_tcp:decode_row_data/3
, right part of the tree)Problem is that (1) is almost twice than (2), even with mysql running locally!. So it is a good start to dig into that, and see what can be improved.
If you look at the call tree, there are several things being done when receiving data. One of the easiest things to improve is the call to emysql_app:default_timeout/0
. It is being called 2x per received row!, one time from recv_packet_header
and the other from recv_packet_body
. It consumes around 10% of the total cost, and it is not really necessary to allow the change of a timeout value to be immediately seen while the query is being executed. So our first improvement is to query the default timeout only once, then reuse that value for the rest of the query.
Profiling again after the change is applied give us this new call tree:
Note how the % of time of emysql_tcp:recv_packet/1
has been reduced as expected.
But a bigger problem remains. In fact our previous improvement was mostly a symptom of this. See that there are still 2x calls to gen_tcp:recv/3
, again one from recv_packet_header/2
and other from recv_packet_body/4
. This is because emysql is asking the Erlang' tcp stack data piece by piece. It first ask for a fixed amount of bytes to receive the complete packet header (that has a known, fixed length defined in the mysql protocol). The packet header says, among other things, the length of the rest of the packet.
So emysql perform a second socket read to retrieve it (in fact it can perform more than 1 read for the packet body, if its size exceeds some value defined by emysql, but that is not relevant for our discussion).
While easy to understand and reason about (emysql receives exactly what it ask for, it doesn't have to worry about packets received by half, etc), this approach as poor performance. A better one is to ask the tcp stack for all data available, then parse it according to the mysql protocol frames.
This will make a much better use of tcp buffers, and reduce the number of times we need to call into prim_inet driver. We call this approach "buffered read".
Now that's a good improvement!. See how the # of calls to gen_tcp:recv/3
has been greatly reduced, to just 404 in our case (remember it was close to 20k before). As result of our changes, the "receive data from network" branch is almost gone, meaning it cost has little impact on the total cost. Now almost all our time is spend on parsing the receiving data.
Side note: OTP has no direct support for mysql protocol packets, as opposed to others like http or asn1. If that were the cause all this will not be necessary as the framing will be handled by the code on OTP itself.
Anthony Ramine mentioned in the comments:
As the packet machinery in the gen_tcp port doesn't do buffered read, even if Erlang/OTP knew about MySQL packets you would still have to recv the whole buffer and call decode_packet manually.
After only these two changes, we got:
timer:tc(fun bench:tc/0, []).
718 milliseconds, for a 3x speedup against our starting point!. Not bad, but we are still lagging compared with the MySql-Python version.
On a next post, we will continue our performance improvements, this time over the emysql_tcp:decode_row_data/3
Stay tuned!.
]]>We have been building a large scale, robust, and cost effective platform for sending iOS and Android push notifications since many years now. However, very few people are aware of the fact that we have in our hand one of the fastest (if not the fastest) push notification services in the world. And we think it compare favourably to competitors like Parse and Urban Airship.
However, until now, it was a very well kept secret. Boxcar relaunch announce is our way to take our opportunity to spread the word by making that platform available not only to large brands, but to all mobile developers.
The platform is a state-of-the-art push notification service that supports:
If you want to migrate from other push services, we are in the process of building import scripts for various platforms so that you can move your data to Boxcar Push Service easily.
Here are the scheduled phases for that Boxcar Push for Developer deployment:
We are currently still in phase 1 and preparing to move to phase 2.
We are glad to be able to put light on an internal development effort and to make our tool accessible to more developers.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you want to know more about this technology.
]]>From this perspective, Google's huge update on its Cloud Messaging service is the biggest announcement from this year Google I/O, as it mixes our two core strengths. We strongly believe this is a big deal for mobile developers and we will explain why.
In case you never heard about it, here is a quick overview.
Google Cloud Messaging have been announced last year as a replacement of Google Cloud to Device Messaging. This is a service that allows mobile developer to notify mobile devices (but also Chrome browser) about important changes on the server-side component of the application. It makes it possible for the device to stay up to date, without the need to use polling. Polling is about checking periodically for updates on your server and is bad for several reasons:
Push notifications avoid all those drawbacks, saving battery life, providing lower latency, reducing server load. As a permanently connected session to Google servers, it get the important notification messages as soon as they happen, in a battery efficient way.
Being a service that runs at device level, it can be optimized across applications running on the same device and perform further battery saving benefits.
So, this is a really critical feature to implement in application relying on data coming from the network (which actually covers a lot of applications).
GCM offers nice outstanding features like:
The new update is a brand new service deployment bringing a large set of new features for developers.
In short, it brings:
Google choose to use XMPP to allow developers to keep a persistent connection. It works as follow:
This alone brings you a huge performance increase, allowing your server to send up to 4000 messages per second on the persistent connection. Knowing you are allowed up to 10 connections, you can possibly send many notifications fast (up to 40k notifications per second).
A few things to note:
Upstream messaging allows your client to send data asynchronously to your server. Compared to HTTP posts, it offer several advantages:
As a developer, your server will receive the message through an XMPP connection. However, be very careful about your server efficiency: you have to be robust and read data fast as the GCM server will queue for you 100 messages before starting to overwrite them (and if you are offline for 24 hours it will discard your messages).
The goal of this feature is to makes your notifications state becomes up to date and consistent across a user devices, by propagating state change between the user application installations on your various devices.
This feature is designed to bring many added benefits in the way multiple devices are handled.
First, to know that your app is used by the same users, you can group your device Registration Ids under the same notification_key. Notification key is typically a hash of the username. You are allowed up to 10 devices linked to that notification_key.
Once you have done that, you can use that notification_key as a user id to send notifications to all devices of a given user. By doing so, you let GCM performs lots of optimizations under the hood. Notification will be send in priority to the active device or the last active device. Other devices will get the notification a bit later in a delay while idle type of delivery.
Once the notification has been processed and dismissed, other devices are notified and they can remove the notification as well. If they were not notified yet, notification is directly canceled from the notification queue.
As you see, update to Google Cloud Messaging is really a big update for developers, increasing the number of situation this platform is relevant.
We are already working on supporting those improvements on our push notification platform to help you all benefits of those improvements.
Stay tuned for more information on this support very soon.
Here is the video of Francesco Nerieri's talk on GCM:
]]>Despite impressive announcements, the most important thing that strikes me is not what has been released, but what has not been mentioned.
First, what are the main areas of focus this year ?
Either on Android, on Chrome or on the Cloud and server engine architecture Google is showing its consistency in pushing further existing services, adding new ones, and integrating all the pieces together. Here is the impressive list of highlights to their service stack:
Google Cloud Messaging is one our main area of interest. We are already working on the new features and we will have announcements to make soon under our mobile Boxcar brand. Stay tuned :)
There have also been announcements focusing on Google services improvements or addition for main users (as opposed to developers):
Note from an XMPP developer perspective: Does the new Hangouts mean Gtalk and XMPP will disappear, along with interoperability ? There was not word about it, but I think so.
Impressive, isn't it ?
Still, as a developer, that first day strangely leaves me with a feeling of unfullfilled expectations. Why ? I think to understand it, we need to list what Google did not talk about.
In previous Google I/O, the center stage is usually taken by:
On this side, nothing has been announced. No mention of Android for home or TV. No successor for the now dead Nexus Q. No update on Android Accessory Developement Kit. No glasses push. No new wearable computer.
Despite a few talks on Google glasses tomorrow, there have been little mention of the progress so far in the keynote.
This year, Google is focusing on services for several (valid) reasons:
But as Google focus on Services, the story they tell is increasingly about themselves.
For Android developer, on the most major highlight (outside of Google Services) was Android Studio, a development environment based on Jetbrains Intellij, release today in early preview (version 0.1!).
Google have even been heavily promoting Chrome on Desktop, but now also on Android and iOS, focusing on bringing the same experience from all the environment. Along with the fact that both Chrome and Android and under the unique direction of Sundar Pichai, this leave a strange confusing impression.
My conclusion is that for Google, devices do not matter. When Larry Page says that he wants the technology, the device to disappear, he actually means it in the proper sense. Google Glasses and conversational search are a steps in that direction. They are the most straightforward access to Google services. Ideally, they should not even be needed.
It does not matter if you use Chrome, Glasses, Android or iOS to access Google Services. What matter are the services themselves and the contextual data that can be gathered to improve relevance and personnalisation of the service.
Sundar Pichai said two days ago that Google I/O will not be centered on the devices. It is because devices are not an end but a mean for Google.
I feel at this Google I/O, the goal of Google has never been more clear (if you look through the confusion I mentioned earlier).
At this very moment, the path of Apple and Google may split there:
Google wants to improve people lifes with services, making the technology totally hidden. Apple wants to improve people life by focusing on how people interact with the technology (touch, voice, and more). This goes through devices improvements (lighter, faster, easier to use), not making the devices disappear.
Today, I feel that we are at a turning point, I am really looking forward WWDC to see what will be Apple move.
It means that you will get the opportunity to get funded by Google to work on Erlang open source projects during the summer. Among exciting projects to work on, you will find:
ProcessOne will be focusing on mentoring XMPP, ejabberd and Tsung projects. This will be a great opportunity to work with more than 10 years Erlang, XMPP and performance veterans (yes, all at the same time).
Students applications will be closing on the 22nd of April.
More details on Google Summer of Code website and on the Beam Community Github.
]]>We are announcing two major changes in ejabberd development today:
Both ejabberd editions are targeting different goals and audience:
ejabberd Community Server, released today in beta, provides huge improvements regarding performance and memory consumption. It will be an excellent basis to accelerate the community development effort. This release switches internal representation of data from list to binary to reduce memory consumption, all over ejabberd code.
For those interested in technical details, ejabberd started its existence using list to represent string, as it was the available approach at this time. It was causing increased memory consumption, but at that time there was also other limiting factors on less powerful servers (like CPU consumption use by the TCP/IP connections themselves).
Erlang now allows the use of binaries, which reduces the memory consumption, but ejabberd didn't adopt this solution yet because it involved many changes in the code. That major change was delayed for ejabberd 3.0.0-alpha attempt, which used the new exmpp library and binary representation. However, the switch to exmpp library involved not only a major representation change, but also an enormous major and unnecessary API rewrite; not only in ejabberd core, but also in all the modules and all the contributed modules. So, we stepped back to use a more adequate method and the usage of exmpp in ejabberd internals has been deprecated.
There is a new ejabberd master branch, which comes from taking the good 2.1.12 and converting it from using strings to binaries. No other major changes. Simple and concrete. This is just performance improvements and internal changes that makes it possible for the community to happily build the next features.
Along with this new release comes a new versioning scheme. Ten years ago, ejabberd 0.1-alpha was released. Three years later, ejabberd 1.0.0 appeared with full XMPP compliance. And two years later, ejabberd 2.0.0. And after two more years, ejabberd 2.1.0.
Those major releases included big and small features, improvements and bugfixes just like the periodic minor releases. They never introduced unstability or major API changes: they were numbered as major versions only because it was time to increase the version number. In practice, improvements and bugfixes are introduced as they are available, efficient and stable, without considering if it's a major or minor release.
The problem we had is that we had been referring internally to ejabberd3 as the commercial version. ejabberd community server was akwardly stuck in a 2.x version numbering.
To solve that problem, we decided to switch to an Ubuntu-like version numbering for ejabberd community server. The next releases will be numbered as "Year.Month-Revision", instead of "Major.Minor.Bugfix-Revision". It will reflect more precisely how we work. You can thus expect a change in our worfklow and more interim stable releases in the future.
In conclusion, three years after the last major ejabberd release, we are pleased to announce ejabberd 13.03-beta1 and we are sure you will all love the changes.
You can find it in usual places:
Please, do not hesitate to watch, star, clone the repository on Github.


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Kosovo formally declared independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008. Ireland fully recognises the Republic of Kosovo as an independent nation. For specific travel advice on Kosovo, please refer to Kosovo travel advice.
Those intending to travel to Serbia are strongly advised to register their travel details in advance with the Department of Foreign Affairs. Whilst in Serbia, travellers are advised to avoid public gatherings, protests and demonstrations. Intending travellers should also be aware that it is not possible to cross the border from Kosovo to Serbia, unless you originally began your journey in Serbia and are returning there directly. For further information, see section on Entry Requirements.
The Department of Foreign Affairs strongly recommends that you obtain comprehensive travel insurance which will cover all overseas medical costs, including medical evacuation, before travelling to Serbia. You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for the activities you want to undertake.
Irish Citizens should note that the Irish Government does not provide funds for emergency medical repatriation or for repatriation of remains.
Irish citizens do not require a visa to visit Serbia for a period of up to 90 days. For entry requirements for Serbia, please contact the nearest Serbian Embassy or Consulate.
You should only enter Serbia through recognised border crossings, where you will receive an entry stamp in your passport. You will face penalties if you try to leave Serbia without an entry stamp or exit-entry visa. The Serbian Government does not recognise entry points from Kosovo or those on Kosovo's external borders with Albania, Montenegro or Macedonia (for the list of recognised entry points please refer to the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website).
The Serbian authorities will not allow you to travel into Serbia, from Kosovo, unless you began your journey in Serbia and are returning there directly. In June 2008 the UNMIK exit/entry stamps were replaced by Republic of Kosovo stamps. In July 2008 the Serbian government took a decision not to recognise these stamps and to cancel the Republic of Kosovo stamps at the entry point into Serbia and replace them with a Serbian border stamp.
On arrival you are required to declare money in excess of €5,000 (or equivalent) and also items of value intended for personal use, you must also register with the local police within 24 hours of arrival. If you are staying in a hotel or official tourist accommodation, you will be registered automatically on check-in. Failure to register may lead to a fine, detention or a court appearance.
It is advisable to take a number of photocopies of your passport with you. During your stay you should carry a photocopy of your passport at all times.
Independence was declared by Kosovo in February 2008, the government of Serbia has stated that this declaration is illegal and this has led to increased tensions between ethnic groups. A number of demonstrations and political gatherings have been held in Belgrade since the declaration of independence. Demonstrations and protests have also occurred at customs and police posts along the border with Kosovo. In view of this it is strongly recommended that citizens avoid any demonstrations or public gatherings as there is a possibility that they may turn violent without warning. You should also avoid being drawn into discussion of the political situation with people you do not know well.
Irish citizens are advised to stay alert at all times, to monitor local media reports and follow directives of local authorities regarding safety or security risks.
Taking photographs of military and police installations and/or personnel or vehicles anywhere in Serbia may lead to difficulties with the authorities.
There are still residual mines and other unexploded ordnance in some areas of South Serbia. You should exercise caution when travelling in the Presevo and Bujanovac districts of South Serbia.
You should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks, which could be against civilian targets, including places frequented by foreigners.
You are advised to take normal, sensible precautions to avoid mugging, bag-snatching and pick-pocketing. Please be particularly careful on busy public transport, in train stations, markets and other places frequented by tourists. All incidents of crime should be reported to the local police and a report should be obtained.
You must have a valid international driver's licence to drive legally in Serbia.
If you are taking your car, you must have vehicle registration/ownership documents and a locally valid insurance policy. European green card vehicle insurance is now valid in Serbia. The Green card annotation for Serbia was recently changed to "SRB", the previous annotation (SCG) remains valid until July 2009. If you do not have a green card valid for Serbia you will be charged a border insurance fee.
You are advised to drive defensively and to avoid confrontation with other drivers. The general standard of roads in Serbia is fair to poor with conditions worsening in rural areas, especially in, and after, bad weather. One particularly poor road is the Ibarska Magistrala (linking Serbia to Montenegro), bad conditions and overcrowding can make it dangerous.
There are several tollbooths along motorways. Foreign registered vehicles are charged a higher toll than those registered locally. Toll charges depend on the size of your vehicle. You are advised to have at least €200 in cash in order to pay toll charges.
You should be aware that many Serbian car hire firms will not allow their vehicles to be driven in Kosovo due to concerns about the security situation. There have been some incidents where Serbian registered cars have been targeted in more isolated areas of Kosovo.
You should check local developments before starting your journey particularly if you plan to cross a land border with Kosovo.
You should seek medical advice before travelling and ensure that all required vaccinations are up to date. The level of medical care is not comparable that in Western Europe. Doctors and hospitals will often expect immediate payment, in cash, for health services.
An outbreak of hepatitis A was reported in the city of Nis in Southern Serbia in September 2007.
Cases of rabid foxes and dogs have been reported in Serbia, usually in parks and the outskirts of major cities, including in areas which had been rabies free for decades. You should be wary of, and try to avoid contact with, stray dogs. If bitten, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible.
There is also a risk of exposure to tick-borne encephalitis in forested areas. Take precautions to avoid tick bites.
Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)
The Serbian Ministry of Agriculture confirmed in March 2006, that the H5N1 form of Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) has been found in one dead swan in north eastern Serbia. The Serbian authorities have taken measures to prevent any spread, including isolating domestic poultry and disinfecting access roads and paths to the area. No human infections or deaths have been reported in Serbia.
The risk to humans from Avian Influenza is believed to be very low. As a precaution you should avoid visiting live animal markets, poultry farms and other places where you may come into close contact with domestic, caged or wild birds; and ensure poultry and egg dishes are thoroughly cooked.
For further advice and information, please see our section on Avian Influenza .
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Background and objectives: From the learning and findings of the successful Environmental Entrepreneurship Programme (GPI-EEP), an expanded programme to support urban youth social entrepreneurship has been collaboratively designed by UN-HABITAT Partners and Youth Section and Environmental Youth Alliance.A training and incubation program for youth-led businesses, this programme combines vocational and entrepreneurship training to a cross-section of urban youth groups, with a view to enhancing and strengthening their capacity to generate income and sustainable livelihoods through socially and environmentally sound business activities in their communities. As the implementing partner, Environmental Youth Alliance will focus most of the activities on engaging youth in entrepreneurship and livelihood activities that flow directly from 'the Shelter dividend' or economic opportunities that flow directly from urban upgrading, and its forwards and backwards linkages.The business incubation centre will be institutionalized as a youth led initiative within the Nairobi One Stop Youth Information and Resource Centre, in a manner that can be replicated in other urban locations with either One Stop or We are the Future Centres through similar Urban Entrepreneurship programming. Activities: The following is an overview of the Business Incubation process, which will take at least 10 months and, as the core component of the UEP, will run until June 2009:
Results:This programme commenced in June 2008. Reporting of results will be available in June 2009.


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Saint Jude is the patron saint of lost causes and desperate situations. Learn more: Saint Jude
Asking for prayers for my sister, who injured her head and neck yesterday. Thanks everyone.
Omnipotent and eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy injured servant, for whom we beg the aid of Thy pitying mercy, that, with her bodily health restored, she may give thanks to Thee in Thy church. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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My baby fell from the bed. Is there any problem?
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I had a problem with my ears growing up and mispronounced words sometimes. I could speak normal enough to where my parents didn't think anything of it for a while. They took me to have hearing tests and I passed them. I remember watching the tester and if they looked left and their left arm moved I knew to raise my left hand, same with the right side. Finally after a while they took me to a specialist and he had me face away from the tester, I failed almost instantly. They put tubes in my ears and now I have better hearing than most. You might want to get him checked. |
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When should I allow a child to swear?
You can do like Mitt Romney and strap them to the roof of the car! |
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Do babies *have* to be weaned from breast milk or infant formula on purpose?
My mom said that once the baby starts biting that is when she stops breastfeeding. |
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It isn't about repressing swearing. It isn't one of those base animal instincts to swear. Getting upset? yeah, but you don't need to swear to survive. Swearing to express your emotions shows little creativity. If you feel it is OK to swear, and you let your kids swear that in itself isn't any worse than screaming "THIS SUCKS!" but you will find that the parents of the "good" kids will not let them play with their kids and their influence will come more from the "bad" kids. It is hard to be "good" with "bad" friends, but possible, I did it. |
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I grew up in a pretty small community and because I swore and hung out with the skaters (I rode BMX) people assumed I was one of the druggies. A burglary happened near my house and I was a prime suspect, it wasn't until another cop took over who knew me that the focus shifted to the person that actually did it. There were chances where I should have been promoted to management but wasn't, and I didn't care at the time but it is effecting me income now since I am still an "Employee". I didn't start thinking about it until I was about 28 and decided I was going to stop (unless I am driving ;-) |
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Basically my answer. You have your morals for reasons other than your religion now. You were raised that way but now you keep those morals for other reasons. Make sure your kids know WHY you continue to keep those morals. Pros and cons of keeping them or going against them (Why you think they should wait for sex: might get pregnant, diseases, complicates relationships, other than just the religious reasons you grew up with) |
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Just tonight I mentioned to my cousin that I only ever heard "Binky" (Binkie) used in Utah, so I had to see where you were from... UTAH!! hahah!! ANYWAY: Neither of my kids liked pacifiers or fingers, but they did do really well with me patting their chest for a few minutes. |


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Situated in the Doon Valley, Dalmellington stands at 600 ft above sea level and is scattered over a hillside. The town developed around textiles, the railway, ironworks, coal mining and afforestation and this attractive settlement is dominated by the attractive Kirk of the Covenant, which is located at the top of the village.
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Chris's Favorite Books
Aubrey-Maturin Series, Talent is Overrated, The New Empire of Debt, Mere Christianity, Radical, The Magic of Thinking Big, His Excellency: George Washington,...