Travel questions regarding my partner (a South African national residing in the U.K.).  We have two holidays planned in very short succession from each other. The first is to Country A from the 15th June until the 20th, 5 nights. From there we would travel back to the UK before flying to Country B on the 29th June, where we would remain until we fly to country C on the 6th of July before returning home on the 11th.  This makes 5 nights in country A. Return to country of residence then a second separate trip with 7 nights in country B and 5 nights in country C.  We initially thought that country B was the correct country to apply to, as this is where the longest stay would be in the period of the visa. Although they responded to our booking request, we were told that it was country A we need to apply through, as we would be returning to the country of residence between our trips. Upon receipt of this, and with time beginning to dwindle, we booked an appointment slot with country A and forwarded the query to double check. They today have said that they are not who should be dealing with it, and it is, in fact, country B.  Any ideas? At the moment it is looking like we can only apply through country A and hope they don't reject it, as country B has been refusing. We are considering just visiting country A and C so that the visa appointment we have will be successful, although we really don't want to have to do this.
I will go to France from 17/12/13 – 19/12/13, then I will come back to London. And again I will go back to Portugal and Spain from 26/12/13 to 03/01/14 which I will stay in Spain for the longest period. However, the Spanish consulate told me that I have to request for the visa from the French consulate.  The point is: Do I need to apply for a visa for a single trip two times (from French and Spanish consulate) or a single visa for multiple time (from French consulate).
If I play a spell with {X} in the mana cost, and I have a card out that reduces the casting cost by 2 generic mana, what happens to the X? Does it start at -2?  For example: I have  in play. If I play  for just 1 blue mana, do we draw 2 cards? This is a  about Apache's mod_rewrite.   Changing a request URL or redirecting users to a different URL than the one they originally requested is done using mod_rewrite. This includes such things as:   Changing HTTP to HTTPS (or the other way around) Changing a request to a page which no longer exist to a new replacement. Modifying a URL format (such as ?id=3433 to /id/3433 ) Presenting a different page based on the browser, based on the referrer, based on anything possible under the moon and sun. Anything you want to mess around with URL   Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Mod_Rewrite Rules but Were Afraid to Ask!  How can I become an expert at writing mod_rewrite rules?   What is the fundamental format and structure of mod_rewrite rules? What form/flavor of regular expressions do I need to have a solid grasp of? What are the most common mistakes/pitfalls when writing rewrite rules? What is a good method for testing and verifying mod_rewrite rules? Are there SEO or performance implications of mod_rewrite rules I should be aware of? Are there common situations where mod_rewrite might seem like the right tool for the job but isn't? What are some common examples?   A place to test your rules  The  web site is a great place to play around with your rules and test them. It even shows the debug output so you can see what matched and what did not. Relation between real roots of a polynomial and real roots of its derivative I have this question which popped in my mind while solving questions of maxima and minima. First Case:Let $f(x)$ be an $n$ degree polynomial which has $r$ real roots. Using this can we say anything about the number of real roots of $f'(x)$?  Second Case:Suppose, $f(x)$ has all  $n$ real roots. Then will all of its derivatives also have all real roots?  Also, if any of its derivatives do not have all real roots, then will $f(x)$ also have not all real roots? If the above is true then what about its converse?  Comment Case:For the third case:Suppose f'(x) is a 5 degree polynomial with 3 real roots.Then f(x) will be a 6 degree polynomial.(correct me if I am wrong).What are the possible no. of roots that f(x) can have(3,4,5 etc.?).Basically I am asking for an example.Also it would be great if you follow all cases with an example like in the 4th case. Enable HTTP DELETE requests on Apache server I need to configure my server to permit the http delete method.  currently, I get the following error when I attempt to make this call:    HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:56:23 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) PHP/5.3.5 Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE Content-Length: 233 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=98 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1     I have searched far and wide and have not been able to come up with an answer as to how I can configure the server to allow this request.  Someone please help as it has put a stop to my project. I stumbled across this relationship while I was messing around. What's the proof, and how do I understand it intuitively? It doesn't really make sense to me that the sum of odd numbers up to $2x + 1$ should equal $x^2$. What is the difference between 'tell' and 'say' I have a solid understanding of most OOP theory but the one thing that confuses me a lot is virtual destructors. I thought that the destructor always gets called no matter what and for every object in the chain. When are you meant to make them virtual and why? When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?  EDIT  It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site has fluid layout... says that the number of different monomials of degree $M$ in $N$ variables is $$\frac{(M+N-1)!}{M!(N-1)!}\; .$$ Can anyone explain why this is true? Which locations are traditionally Santa's home - i.e. where can you visit Santa Claus year-round? Obviously around this time of the year, Santa and his minions will be out and about, finding out who is naughty and nice, and delivering presents.  However, the rest of the year he's back at his home.  Where is that generally considered to be visitable?  Yes, in some traditions it's the 'North Pole', but I know at least one other country (Finland) has Rovaniemi as his home. What antivirus programs are available? What antivirus programs are available for Ubuntu?  We previously used Symantec Endpoint Protection but it does not work in Ubuntu. Getting coordinates by clicking on QGIS Canvas with PyQGIS? Attribution alignment and order should be consistent with the website As the title says: Is a 1st-level spell cast using a 4th-level slot a 1st-level spell, or a 4th-level spell? I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and I'm not keen on the desktop environment. I want the desktop env. I used to have in Ubuntu 14.04. How can I get it?  I've attempted to use , but when I try to install the Unity's 7.2.5 version using the command:  apt install unity=7.2.5   it gives me   E: Version '7.2.5' for 'unity' was not found   For sure I need to add a PPA for this, but which one!? $-1$ is a quadratic residue modulo $p$ if and only if $p\equiv 1\pmod{4}$ What is the logarithm of a kilometer? Is it a dimensionless number? In log-plots a quantity is plotted on a logarithmic scale. This got me thinking about what the logarithm of a unit actually is.  Suppose I have something with length $L = 1 \:\mathrm{km}$.  $\log L = \log \mathrm{km}$  It seems that the unit of $\log L$ is $\log \mathrm{km}$, but I can also say $L = 1000 \mathrm{\:m}$ and now:  $\log L = 3 + \log \mathrm{m}$  This doesn't appear to have any units at all.  This suggests that $\log \mathrm{km}$ and $\log \mathrm{m}$ are actually dimensionless numbers. But wait, I can do this with any unit! Does it actually make sense to talk about the logarithm of a unit, or some other function for that matter? Let $M$ be a positive, continuous martingale that converges a.s. to zero as $t$ tends to infinity. I now want to prove that for every $x&gt;0$ $$ P\left( \sup_{t \geq 0 } M_t &gt; x \mid \mathcal{F}_0 \right) = 1 \wedge \frac{M_0}{x}. $$ My approach: I thought that rewriting the conditional probability to an expectation would help so we obtain that we must prove: $$ \mathbb{E} \left[ 1_{\sup_{t \geq 0 } M_t &gt; x}  \mid \mathcal{F}_0 \right] = 1 \wedge \frac{M_0}{x}.$$ A hint to me was given that I should consider stopping the process when it gets above $x$. Thus a stopping time that would do this is $\tau = \inf\{t\geq 0 : M_t&gt;x\}$. But now I'm stuck as I want to apply optional sampling results but we have an indicator which complicates things. How could I proceed from this? Any help is appreciated! ... but still be required for applications that need admin privilegies?  In order to allow the following:  $ apache2ctl restart httpd not running, trying to start (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs  $ sudo !! sudo apache2ctl restart             #no password asked $                                   #works!   For reference I've seen this setup on amazon's e3 instances  Any idea? How do the Incredible Hulk's pants stay on but not his shirt? I guess I can live with the fact that the  changes size drastically when he transforms, but why does his shirt rip off and not his pants?  I think that we need a little better answer than "it keeps us tied to the fact that inside he's still human".