How to apply and get schengen visa after it has been rejected
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CPU Speed stuck at 0.78 GHz, How do I increase it to its base speed of 2.30 GHz? My 1yr old laptop, HP Pavilion 15 has it's CPU, Intel i5-8300H stuck at 0.78 GHz whenever it's plugged and charging, and the moment I remove the charger plug or switch it off, it increases suddenly and keep fluctuating freely, with good utilisation percentage more than 1-2GHz or more as I experience Thermal Throttling. I tried sneaking into the BIOS to see if I can do anything, but found nothing. I also downloaded Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) but couldn't control it. My question is how do I increase the speed to say atleast 2 GHz (fixed, not fluctuating) when it's charging, irrespective of getting thermal throttle, and also maybe even control the fan speed if it does get hot? File list command line (hidden and subfolders) I need to get a text list of all the files (hidden and visible) off a hard drive, subfolders included. Ideally the list would have the filename, path, size, and creation (or last modified) date if possible. Can someone please tell me what command I need? Also, is it possible to have this created as a .csv file or something similar for use in Excel?  I am not super proficient with Ubuntu so an explanation of each command item would also be greatly appreciated. Today I was informed by VFS that my tourist visa for UAE got approved. I'm travelling to UAE on 16th December 2014 and returning on 7th Jan 2015. But when I checked the "valid until" date on the visa it states 30 December 2014.    Does this date mean I should return before December 30th? Should I get it corrected from VFS? How to order the Ubuntu Phone? Yes, of course, I want that Ubuntu Phone.   Where is the order now button? How do I find this conditional expectation? Which function ($f$) is continuous nowhere but $|f(x)|$ is continuous everywhere?   I found this question , the question seems much interesting but for obvious reason it is closed there, I was wondering how to derive such a function? Discriminant analysis vs logistic regression Why would layout_width="wrap_content" take up the entire width of the screen? Comparing Arrays of Objects in JavaScript How can I check if a word is contained in another string using PHP? How do I compute the normalisation of $A=k[X,Y]/(Y^3 - X^5)$? I'm trying to solve exercise 4.7 in Reid's UCA:  "Find the normalisation of $A=k[X,Y]/(Y^3 - X^5)$."  I can easily show $A$ is not normal: let $x$ and $y$ denote the images of $X$ and $Y$ in $A$. Thus $y^3 = x^5$. So there exists $t=y/x\in\operatorname{Frac} (A)$ which is a root of the monic polynomial $T^3 - x^2 \in A[T]$. But since $t\notin A$, $A$ is not normal.  However, I don't know how to compute the normalisation of $A$; I have not seen dimension theory developed, so  to a similar question doesn't really help me. Similarly I cannot try and apply something like  to a related question, because in this case the map $k[X,Y]\rightarrow k[t]$ sending $X\mapsto t^3, Y\mapsto t^5$ is injective so the image isn't isomorphic to $A$  UCA never really gives a good explanation on how to actually compute normalisations, so I'd be grateful if anyone could walk me through it. "Needs cleaned" or "needs to be cleaned" Novel, group transported to a fantasy world, wild/chaos magic I was reading  and was strongly reminded of a series I remember reading in my teens.  This would have been a series of novels (possibly just one), published in English, and likely before 1980 - I read it in the 90s and it was fairly old, a used book.  I do not think it is the same as the linked question, which is why I'm asking this separately.  It was definitely a fantasy, not sci-fi.  Plot:  At least two girls (and possibly also some boys/other girls) are transported from modern Earth into a fantasy world.  I think they're a group of friends, possibly with some romantic pairings, and are in the 16-25 age range.  The first significant scene I remember is two of the girls ending up in a city, where they are taken in by an older female artist (might have been a different creative type, like a sculptor/actress).  She's lesbian/bisexual.  At some point she attempts to give one of the girls a love potion, but they reverse it on her, so instead the artist falls in love with the girl and accompanies her for the rest of the books.  Twist: It's later revealed that the artist's friends recognized the love potion and removed it.  She pretended to be in love and went along because she thought it would be interesting.  At some point at least one of the girls ends up basically being a magical sex slave/prostitute.  I remember her being tattooed or painted - I think in blue - and also possibly given some magical jewellery/piercings that ensure her obedience/love of her owner.  I do not remember much of the over-arching plot, just a few disjointed pieces:  The world has chaos/wild magic storms.  The books might have called them something else.  Anyone or anything caught by these storms is transformed into something else entirely, so different objects or species.  These show up throughout as minor plot encounters.  I think they can be defended against with a special material.  Near the very end, a large storm engulfs a major city, giving it entirely new architecture and transforming the inhabitants into green, hermaphrodites with a centaurish body structure.  I am not 100% sure this was the same novel, but I recall a secondary character with a secret - at night he turns into a woman (not just his body, but an entirely different person).  At some point it's revealed that the woman was his lover, and he saved her life by sharing his body with her - of course, now they can never meet/touch again. Product of two random variables that has exponential distribution This is a lake of approximately 13 ha with 81 sampled depth points in about 10 transect lines:    Previously in ARCgis with a 50 ha lake and about a 100 depth sampling points, I got decent output with the TopotoRaster tool. However, no such exact equivalent seems to exist with QGIS or open source software.  In QGIS, I got the interpolated raster below, using the TIN method in the Raster Interpolation plugin. However, this seemed to be a lucky outcome, when I tried to repeat, I got different results (unsatisfactory) in spite of not really varying any parameter.    These are more urban (constructed) tanks than lakes, therefore, they are fairly regular in their bed profile, hence the low point sampling density. Some articles seemed to suggest Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) as the most suitable technique, yet I seemed to get the worst results with that (possibly owing to low point density).  Are there any heuristics which can be employed here considering the size of the lake, its regular profile and the point sampling density to arrive at which interpolation method is apt? (between Kriging, IDW, Bilinear, Cubic convolution, TIN or spline)  Or is it always a bit of trial and error? I saw this in a  and am putting it here for posterity.  Problem: Let $A$ and $B$ by square matrices and set $C=AB-BA$. If $AC=CA$, prove $C$ is nilpotent. Show that $x^2+x+4$ is irreducible over $\mathbb Z_{11}$.    The problem can be solved by putting every element from $\mathbb{Z}_{11}$ and checking if there is any root.  $0^2 + 0 + 4 = 4 \\ 1^2 + 1 + 4 = 6 \\ 2^2 + 2 + 4 = 10 \\ 3^2 + 3 + 4 = 5 \\ 4^2 + 4 + 4 = 2 \\ 5^2 + 5 + 4 = 1 \\ 6^2 + 6 + 4 = 2 \\ 7^2 + 7 + 4 = 5 \\ 8^2 + 8 + 4 = 10 \\ 9^2 + 9 + 4 = 6 \\ 10^2 + 10 + 4 = 4 $   But this process is very long one. I am seeking a short method by which I can solve such problem.   Now suppose that it is reducible, then the factors should be linear. So how can we solve the problem based on this kind of observation? Any help will be great. Thanks. Efficiently select beginning and end of multiple contiguous ranges in Postgresql query I've got about a billion rows of data in a table with a name and an integer in the range 1-288.  For a given name, every int is unique, and not every possible integer in the range is present--so there are gaps.  This query generates an example case:  --what I have: SELECT * FROM ( VALUES ('foo', 2),               ('foo', 3),               ('foo', 4),               ('foo', 10),               ('foo', 11),               ('foo', 13),               ('bar', 1),               ('bar', 2),               ('bar', 3)      ) AS baz ("name", "int")   I'd like to generate a lookup table with a row for each name and sequence of contiguous integers.  Each such row would contain:  name   --  the value of the name column start  --  the first integer in the contiguous sequence end    --  the final value in the contiguous sequence span   --  end - start + 1  This query generates example output for the above example:  --what I need: SELECT *  FROM ( VALUES ('foo', 2, 4, 3),               ('foo', 10, 11, 2),               ('foo', 13, 13, 1),               ('bar', 1, 3, 3)      ) AS contiguous_ranges ("name", "start", "end", span)   Because I have so many rows, more efficient is better.  That said, I only have to run this query once, so it isn't an absolute requirement.  Thanks in advance!  Edit:  I should add that PL/pgSQL solutions are welcome (please explain any Fancy Tricks--I'm still new to PL/pgSQL). Mark or don't mark required fields if all are required? If all fields in a form are required should they be marked somehow (eg. with an asterisk)?  I see this done a lot and find it redundant?  There could be a difference in big forms and small forms, but in big ones I would add a note at the top that all fields are required, but I wouldn't necessarily do that on small ones.  What do you think is the right approach? Keyboard Glyphs How are people showing keyboard &quot;glyphs&quot; on Super User? I looked at the Markdown help page and it didn't show anything regarding this. Here is  (question has been deleted since this was asked, so an archive link is provided instead):