I'm an Indian student in the UK on Tier 4 visa, valid until March 2019. I don't get long breaks so I want to travel to various places in the Schengen area over short weekend trips (Friday night - Monday morning, etc), maybe once a month.  The places I would like to visit include: the Black Forest in Germany, Paris (I have a friend here - also an Indian national on a type D visa), the Swiss Alps in the winter, and maybe Norway if I can afford the trip.  Can I explain this in the application to the French embassy if I decide to make my first trip to Paris, and request a multiple-entry visa? Will I require itineraries for all the subsequent trips in my visa application?  If issued, can immigration officers of other countries deny entry on consequent trips because it's a French visa? (I've read here that there are very little border checks between Schengen countries - I'm asking about the case where I'm entering directly from the UK.)  EDIT: An additional constraint is that I'd like to reduce expenses: I would prefer to take cheaper routes into the Schengen area instead of flying to Paris/Munich/Zurich. For example, FlixBus from London to Paris is quite cheap but I will present my passport at Calais, or fly London - Strasbourg to visit the Black Forest because some budget airlines have great deals. This might mean I may not always enter the country/city I plan to visit for the weekend. Could this cause problems?
I'm planning to travel to France a few times in the next few months (tourist). Since I need a Schengen visa, I just don't know how to fill out the forms (which only have questions about travel dates of ONE single trip).  How do I report that I am traveling a few times, because if I don't they might only give me a single entry visa (or a visa not valid long enough for my next trips). I can only see that I'm requesting a multiple entry visa, nothing else about how long I need it to be valid.  Do I need to provide proof of hotel/flight reservations and travel insurance for all the trips or would the first one suffice?  How do I approach this issue so that I get a Schengen visa for at least 4.5 months? I am applying in the UK at their London application centre.
How can I convert characters from Pathfinder to D&D 5e? I recently joined a 5e campaign group, but prior I was gearing up for a Pathfinder group. I found myself really enjoying creating characters and have made various under the Pathfinder rules. The Pathfinder group ended up falling through and I don't want these characters to go to waste, and was thinking I could use them in upcoming campaigns with my new 5e group. I have tried doing some research for the same races and classes. Some seem to have their own versions but others seem to lack one.  The character I am hoping to translate most would be my Sylph swashbuckler, but was also rather interested in the pathfinder "Bloodrager".  I've tried searching the this site but have only found questions asking about converting only races or enemies from D&amp;D 3.5 to 5e, campaigns from 3.5 to Pathfinder, and only 1 question on translating a Pathfinder class (Bloodrager, coincidentally) but nothing on how to go about it.   I of course am aware a 1:1 parallel is unlikely. I am mostly looking for what the general conversion method is, as well as things I should keep note of when trying to translate characters. I have a  repository which contains a number of subdirectories. Now I have found that one of the subdirectories is unrelated to the other and should be detached to a separate repository.  How can I do this while keeping the history of the files within the subdirectory?  I guess I could make a clone and remove the unwanted parts of each clone, but I suppose this would give me the complete tree when checking out an older revision etc. This might be acceptable, but I would prefer to be able to pretend that the two repositories doesn't have a shared history.  Just to make it clear, I have the following structure:  XYZ/     .git/     XY1/     ABC/     XY2/   But I would like this instead:  XYZ/     .git/     XY1/     XY2/ ABC/     .git/     ABC/ How to calculate last four digits of $2^{2017}$? can u suggest me any short trick of solving these kind of problems. How to find last four digits of any number raised to some power ? I just got a short algorithm on my page, and it keeps getting aligned at the center of the page. But I want to have it aligned at the top, what do I have to do? Yes, I'm really sure I want to delete that post Attempting to delete questions on the mobile site on iOS causes two notification messages asking me to confirm the deletion, which it shouldn't do.  I haven't really looked into it, but it may just be that the handlers from full.js and mobile.js are both being triggered, as there seems to be the flash of the error dialog indicating something went wrong on the supposed second AJAX request when the response from the first triggers a page reload.  You can see this happening by following the method calls; the mobile view first calls   StackExchange.question.init() -&gt; StackExchange.question.fullInit()   -&gt; StackExchange.vote.init()     -&gt; u()    ...where u() sets a delegated click handler on  $("div.post-menu *[id^='delete-post-'], table.flagged-posts *[id^='delete-post-']")   ...that calls .preventDefault() on the event, but doesn't block other handlers from firing.  It then later calls StackExchange.mobile.init(), which in turn calls the method J() that sets up a similar handler directly on $(".delete-post").  Since both handlers get triggered, there's two confirmation dialogs, and two attempts to delete the post. The extra handler in mobile.js seems unnecessary, so just removing it would appear to be the easy fix to the problem. I'm using ubuntu 13.10 as htpc. To save some power, i have set it to suspend after 30minutes of inactivity. Before entering suspended state, a popup appears to warn me that computer is about to get put to sleep. This is a little annoyance since it appears when i resume the pc later.   How can i disable this notification for good? Why do eukaryotic organisms have introns in their DNA? We touched on introns and exons in my bio class, but unfortunately we didn't really talk about why Eukaryotes have introns. It would seem they would have to have some purpose since prokaryotes do not have them and they evolved first chronologically, but I could easily be wrong. Did the junk sections of DNA just evolve there by some sort of randomness or necessity as opposed to an actual evolutionary advantage? Why hasn't evolution stopped us from having introns since they seem to be a 'waste' of time and DNA? Why do prokaryotes not have introns? Does $\sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{n+1}}$ converge? Does the following series converge or diverge? $$ \sum\limits_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}+\sqrt{n+1}} $$ The methods I have at my disposal are geometric and harmonic series, comparison test, limit comparison test, and the ratio test. When speaking precisely or technically, one would say that "Homo erectus and homo sapiens are two species of hominid" rather than "Homo erectus and homo sapiens are two species of hominids." The hominid here should be singular because we are speaking about instances of a single class ("class" being used here in its broader sense, not in the sense of taxonomic grouping).  Now let's consider more common parallel constructions replacing the word species with other words.      Tide and Wisk are two brands of detergent.       Tide and Wisk are two brands of detergents.      Cats and dogs are two types of pet you can buy at Pets-R-Us.       Cats and dogs are two types of pets you can buy at Pets-R-Us.   I feel that using the singular noun to specify the class is more grammatically correct, but sounds stilted in conversation. Almost everyone I hear making these constructions uses the plural form. What are your thoughts about singular vs. plural here?  Edit  Here's a more extreme example that may help clarify the issue. Consider the following sentence:     It was my first attempt at calming an angry crowd, and I just        stood there while people were hurling all kinds of insults at me.   Here I think the singular insult sounds strange, if not downright wrong.  Further Edit  I just noticed in A Treasury for Word Lovers (Morton S. Freeman, 1983) a section entitled "Types of Errors." This is a book about (American) English usage by an English professor and editor, which purports to be a "practical guide for serious writers and readers." I wish I could say this discovery satisfies the question, but in fact I now feel somewhat farther from the truth, if there is any single "truth" in this matter. But at least I don't have to worry about being wrong when using the plural form of the class in these constructions. Dynamic SELECT TOP @var In SQL Server How can I have a dynamic variable setting the amount of rows to return in SQL Server? Below is not valid syntax in SQL Server 2005+:  DECLARE @count int SET @count = 20  SELECT TOP @count * FROM SomeTable I'm getting a NoSuchMethodError error when running my Java program.  What's wrong and how do I fix it? I have a question that is highly similar to this one:  However, I'm not sure how to do this when fractional powers are involved. I understand that the answer involving the binomial theorem shows this for fractions too, but I'm not sure how to go through the mechanics of it all. For example, when trying to differentiate $\sqrt{ax+b}$, I get to   $$ \lim_{h \rightarrow 0}  \frac{\sqrt{a(x+h)+b} - \sqrt{ax+b}}{h} $$  then can't get the $h$ to cancel out. I think this involves algebraic manipulation of some sort, but can't figure it out.  Thanks I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows 7 on my ASUS laptop and I'm new to all of this.   I'm using  the Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit ISO burned onto a CD.  The first time I tried to install it, Ubuntu said it did not detect any other OS, which meant I only had 4 options:   Erase disk and install Ubuntu (I don't want to do this) Encrypt new Ubuntu. Use LVM. Something else.   If I choose the Something else option, it brings me to the partition menu and says that I have 1 disk with free space of 750516Mb (750Gb), but that's not true because I have Windows 7.  I've already read through several questions and people have mentioned that you could only have 4 primary partitions. So I got hold of partition magic and removed my D: and E:, leaving me with primary C: partition and System reserved partition and a lot of unallocated space.  I restarted the laptop several times and booted the CD again and I got exactly the same as I did previously.  How do fix this problem and install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7?  EDIT 1  Here are my results for   sudo fdisk -l; echo; sudo parted -l; echo; mount; echo; df -h   WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.   Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x90050371     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2          206848   146368214    73080683+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT  Warning: /dev/sda contains GPT signatures, indicating that it has a GPT table. However, it does not have a valid fake msdos partition table, as it should. Perhaps it was corrupted -- possibly by a program that doesn't understand GPT partition tables.  Or perhaps you deleted the GPT table, and are now using an msdos partition table.  Is this a GPT partition table? Yes/No?     After selecting YES  Yes/No? yes                                                                Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used. OK/Cancel? For which real values of t does the following system of linear equations:  $$ \left\{  \begin{array}{c} tx_1 + x_2 + x_3 = 1 \\  x_1 + tx_2 + x_3 = 1 \\  x_1 + x_2 + tx_3 = 1 \end{array} \right.  $$  Have:  a) a unique solution?  b) infinitely many solutions?  c) no solutions?  I haven't done linear algebra in almost a year, so I'm really rusty and could use some pushes in the right direction. What is a "static" function in C? The question was about plain  functions, not  static methods, as clarified in comments.  I understand what a static variable is, but what is a static function?  And why is it that if I declare a function, let's say void print_matrix, in let's say a.c (WITHOUT a.h) and include "a.c" -  I get "print_matrix@@....) already defined in a.obj", BUT if I declare it as static void print_matrix then it compiles?  UPDATE Just to clear things up - I know that including .c is bad, as many of you pointed out. I just do it to temporarily clear space in main.c until I have a better idea of how to group all those functions into proper .h and .c files. Just a temporary, quick solution. Objects, shadows and reflections not rendering in EEVEE I started to work with EEVEE short time ago and I was amazed by the capabilities of this engine. However, I noticed something strange when I was rendering some tests. Some objects/reflections/shadows dissapear when they're off canvas. I imagine that maybe this is for save memory data, but it can be not suitable to some projects. To make my point graphical, I made a simple scene with simple objects. The main object is the sphere with a mirror-like shader. Out of focus there are different objects with different shaders. A yellow cone, a blue cylinder and a white cube light. But surprisingly, those objects dissapear when the composition is rendered. See the rendered animation below:  Notice that the blue cylinder is not even showing at all in the final render. And the blooming effect from the light cube also dies. I would like to improve this bahaviour and render the objects that are still out of canvas using EEVEE. Do I missing something like memory configuration or reflection/shadow tweaks? Is this caused by the EEVEE engine or by my GPU config (GTX1060)? Thank you in advance! Can I smoothly upgrade from one LTS to next LTS release? Question is about Ubuntu release process. Are migrations from n to n+1 releases expected?  Assuming we have server with installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Will it be smoothly upgradable to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via apt-get upgrade ?  Assumptions:   scope is software therefore we assume that given hardware is supported on both releases (upgrading from and to) that's why, always before upgrade you are asked to make backup to be able to revert in case of failure When you send a group text message in iOS, it appears as if you automatically opt in to receive any and all replies to that message. Is there a way to avoid being included in group replies? Is there a way to remove oneself from a group chat? What do you call something that is not first in a sequence? Is there a word to describe something that is not the first element in a sequence, but can be in any other position? A synonym of "not first", in fact.     This element is __ in this sequence. I'm asking about someone who's employed by a company and does different jobs (both a qualified and unqualified person). Who knows; maybe in English those two are two different words? What are they called in English?  All I know is a navvy but that usually means physical work.  Let me just try a few things here. These are just wild guesses, nothing more.    odd job man/worker   shiftman   (unskilled) labourer