In which order are cards returned from the graveyard with :     Return any number of target Ally creature cards with total converted mana cost 8 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.   In particular, if one of the returned cards is :     Rally — Whenever Kalastria Healer or another Ally enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.   Can I return Kalastria first such that the additional allies entering the battlefield trigger the Rally ability?
I was playing modern with the owner of a shop.  He played a  which he used to bring in 7 lands: 5 basic mountains and 2  cards.  He then claimed that each  triggered 5 times (killing me).  I am doubting this now.    Here is my reason: The two  cards entered at the same time as the other 5 basic lands.  That means when they were on the battlefield and their ability was in effect, the other 5 basic lands were already there too.  That seems too late to trigger a "Enters the Battlefield" effect.  So here is my question.  Am I right or wrong?  If I am wrong, please show me how the enter the battlefield effect can trigger for something that enters the battlefield at the same time as itself.  If I am right, please show me the rules that prove it.  I now have two shop owners that are convinced that this is a legal play.  If it is not legal, I am going to need clear rules citations to convince them.    Side note:  If I am wrong and it is a legal play, then I have a follow up scenario.  Say I have 2  cards and 5 other human cards in my graveyard.  If I play a spell that lets me return all of them to the battlefield at the same time (say ), would the  cards get 6 +1/+1 counters on them?    To me, if the trick that was played on me with  is legal then my  cards should also get the +1/+1 counters.
"define:" oneboxing selects completely bogus data I found this weird word, "burke", and decided to check it out. It turned out it was an alternative spelling of "berk". This is what define: berk in chat expanded to:    So, according to that, "berk" as a noun can mean "a fool, prat, twit", or "berk", or "berk", or "berk". Wow, who would have thought "berk" might mean berk. Three times, just to be sure.  That got me really curious so I checked the wiktionary page directly. It shows three meanings for "berk": the same as meaning #1 that was oneboxed, plus two others that are not at all simply stated as "berk".  Further down from there we can find the other three "berks". Number three, for instance, is easy to trace since "indefinite plural berkë" seems quite greppable. And it turns out that it's Albanian. How to Deserialize XML document How to remove trailing whitespaces with sed? Employment office encounters an alien masquerading as a human I'm looking for a story where a guy who has done job interviews for years is approached by an applicant, and because of his experience talking to people (I remember he specifically mentions having done something like 250,000 interviews), he immediately is able to tell the applicant is actually an alien in human form.  He goes on to help the alien understand human emotions &amp; teaches him how to fit in. Slow BIOS bootup This is a new HP DV-7 laptop. When you turn it on SOMETIMES it will wait at 15 minutes on the press escape for menu and sometimes it will boot correctly.  IS this a hardware failure issue or is this a new for a BIOS update? Is there a single word for something that is simultaneously not interesting and not boring? I am looking for a word that would describe a concept or activity, such as playing a game X, that is1 neither boring nor interesting. In other words, it should mean ‘neutral’ wrt intrestingness (~ boringness) but still comparable on the scale of intrestingness to both ‘boring’ and ‘interesting’.  An example sentence would be  As far as I'm concerned, long-distance running is [insert word]; it is not boring but it's also not interesting.  Criteria2   Has to be unambiguous3, and may consist of two words at most. Has to be a single word. Should be formal in the sense that it is included in Cambridge Dictionary, or Merriam Webster, or both. Should not contain negating prefixes, such as ‘un-’.   Does such a word exist in the English language?  For readers' convenience, please state which criteria you believe your word suggestion has met. You may do so, e.g., by adding a disclaimer at the top or bottom of your answer. Simply writing (1., 2.) is sufficient.        1 Assume a ternary system of intrestingness.   2 If not all criteria can be met, you may relax  the requirements from bottom to top, in the following order: 4. -> 3.  -> 2. -> 1. Answers with the smallest number of relaxed criteria in this order will be preferred in accepting. For example, fulfilling  (1., 2., 3.) is better than achieving (1., 3., 4.). Situations where a  higher priority ordering fulfills fewer criteria than a lower priority  vector, such as (1.) vs (3.,  4.), will be assessed on a case-by-case  basis.   3 Words such as ‘unappealing’ thus even fail  criterium 1 because in a three-valued system ‘unappealing’ ~ ‘not  appealing’ ~ ‘not interesting’ can be taken to mean either ‘boring’ or  ‘neutral wrt intrestingness’. Asked again to review a paper, when the authors don't wish to modify it I have received a manuscript to review for a journal. The interesting thing is, I had already reviewed this article (exact same title, abstract and author list, almost exact same content) for another journal a few weeks ago where I recommended that it be published, but only after major revisions of both form and content. When I first reviewed it, I wrote a two-page review, listing some questions and several “actionable” comments, ranging from some concerns about exactness of the text (some conclusions didn't seem fully backed by the results) all the way down to trivial stuff (grammar, a few typos, graphic issues with the figures, etc.).  Now, the manuscript has come to me for review again, but it is almost unchanged from the first version. None of the serious stuff has been addressed, and even most of the trivial stuff was not fixed (there's at least one remaining typo, and the figures still aren't fully legible). However, I think this behavior from the authors is clearly a bad signal, which should be somehow conveyed to the editor: they're not willing to amend their work, and would rather do some journal-shopping.  What would you suggest me to do? Should I just re-send my earlier review? Add a note to the editor about my knowledge of the “history” of the paper? Or maybe even include it in my review, so the authors are aware that people know of their behavior, and maybe feel bad enough to change their ways?    PS: I wrote it in the present tense, but it's actually a story from my past. I'm not sure I did the right thing at the time, and I think it's better to actually formulate it as an open question… Prove that $f'(a)=\lim_{x\rightarrow a}f'(x)$. Let $f$ be a real-valued function continuous on $[a,b]$ and differentiable on $(a,b)$. Suppose that $\lim_{x\rightarrow a}f'(x)$ exists. Then, prove that $f$ is differentiable at $a$ and $f'(a)=\lim_{x\rightarrow a}f'(x)$.    It seems like an easy example, but a little bit tricky. I'm not sure which theorems should be used in here.    ==============================================================  Using @David Mitra's advice and @Pete L. Clark's notes I tried to solve this proof. I want to know my proof is correct or not.  By MVT, for $h&gt;0$ and $c_h \in (a,a+h)$ $$\frac{f(a+h)-f(a)}{h}=f'(c_h)$$ and $\lim_{h \rightarrow 0^+}c_h=a$.    Then $$\lim_{h \rightarrow 0^+}\frac{f(a+h)-f(a)}{h}=\lim_{h \rightarrow 0^+}f'(c_h)=\lim_{h \rightarrow 0^+}f'(a)$$   But that's enough? I think I should show something more, but don't know what it is. Probability mean is less than 5 given that poisson distribution states it is 6 I would like to convert a Mp4 file in HD into a Mp4 file of lower resolution. Is there any software that can be used for this? How do I get back some deleted records? I mistakenly deleted around 2,000,000 records from a remote SQL Server 2008 table.  The server is not granting me access to the backup files on the server side.   Is there any way to get back these records? How to get child process from parent process I'm new to ArcGIS 10 and am trying to do a really simple field calculator equation and it is not working. I'm just trying to find the percentage of a certain demographic trait by doing:  [asian]/[total]*100   It is populating about 10% of the column correctly and then I get an error:     There was a failure during processing, check the Geoprocessing Results   window for details   Obviously my syntax is not incorrect or else it wouldn't start populating the field correctly.   Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Prevent windows from going into sleep when my program is running? Literature with Biber generates strange citations: firstnames appear erratically I had been using bibtex and then biblatex for quite some time. For the newest edition of my book I moved to biber. I happened t notice that firstnames are sometimes generated and sometimes not. Has this been observed by others?   I have tried to make a minimal example but without success. Using the following code, which shows all the commands related to biblatex I have in my preamble I could not get the firstnames to be shown. Even with the stylefile I made for this book (second line) the error did not occur.  I have a dropbox with the latex files for the book available. I can give access to these.   What do you propose?  \documentclass[fontsize=10pt,twoside]{scrbook} \usepackage{hormonbuch} \usepackage[%   style=authoryear%   ,natbib=true%   ,sorting=nyt,backend=biber,doi=false,isbn=false,url=false]{biblatex} \addbibresource{../Literatur/EndokrinologieKundeNourl.bib}  \renewcommand*{\bibpagespunct}{\addcolon} \DeclareFieldFormat{pages}{#1}  \renewrobustcmd*{\enquote}{}  \renewbibmacro{in:}{%       Herbert Voss auf http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/10682/suppress-in-biblatex   \ifentrytype{article}{}{%   \printtext{\bibstring{in}\intitlepunct}}}  \renewbibmacro*{journal+issuetitle}{%   \usebibmacro{journal}%   \setunit*{\addspace}%   \iffieldundef{series}     {}     {\newunit      \printfield{series}%      \setunit{\addspace}}%   \usebibmacro{volume+number+eid}% %  \setunit{\addspace}%   \newunit}  \renewbibmacro*{volume+number+eid}{%   \printfield{volume}% %  \setunit{\addcolon\space}%   }% % \renewbibmacro*{note+pages}{%   \printfield{pages}%   \newunit} % \begin{document}  \citet{CRT+88,FDe+85} \citep{CRT+88,FDe+85} \cite{CRT+88,FDe+85}  \printbibliography  \end{document} Continuity $\Rightarrow$ Intermediate Value Property. Why is the opposite not true?    It seems to me like they are equal definitions in a way.    Can you give me a counter-example?    Thanks Is it possible to change the colors in the command prompt for the user@computer, as well as the the current directory and command parts of the prompt display?   I've already seen something like this done by OSX users, but I don't know how to do the same thing in gnome terminal (I can only change foreground and background colors).   It'd be very useful when, for example, trying to compile programs that have errors, since long, unformatted messages make it hard to distinguish which lines are commands and which are output. A  not only grants me a Sentinel Raven, but also the handy ability to see through its eyes.  Unlike the telepathic connection with a regular familiar, I don't have to use an action to do so.    If I am blinded, but my Sentinel Raven is not (and within telepathic range), can I use my raven's sight to cast spells that require me to see my target? Would this negate any disadvantage resulting from me being blinded? Or would I still suffer disadvantage, for example, because I have to cast from my raven's perspective and not my own point of view? wrong positioning of figure with tabular in xelatex I have few friends.   I have a few friends.      I thought "few" means just one, two or even none. "A few" typically means more than two. However it seems to me some people say "few" when they really mean "a few", am I right?