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User  answered the wonderful  question by mentioning the using keyword. Can you elaborate on that? What are the uses of using? How to use PostgreSQL/PostGIS with ArcGIS for Desktop? Subscribe to a particular question by email (not RSS) Israel visa stamp issue I am an Indian national living in London. I need to travel to Israel for work. I will need to apply for a visa but I have been told that it will be stamped in my passport. I have read that Israel knows of the problems travellers face in other Arab countries so they issue a paper visa but the embassy in London told me that it will be stamped in. I travel often in Middle East for work and I do not want any issues in the future. Please advise.  Thanks. How do I disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) AKA "rootless" on macOs [OS X] Unicode input retrieved via PrimeFaces input components become corrupted SQL Server 2012 and 2016 Standard:  If I put if-else logic in a stored procedure to execute one of two branches of code, depending on the value of a parameter, does the engine cache the latest version?  And if on the following execution, the value of the parameter changes, will it re-compile and re-cache the stored procedure, since a different branch of the code must be executed? (This query is quite expensive to compile.) The reason that I ask is because this is happening to LiDAR, and I am inclined to use lidar because it is easier to read. By taking courses, I have learned topic A. Through self-studying and discussion with others, I have explored topic B.    I also study topic A outside the classroom. What I want to emphasis is that topic B is not in my curriculum, but I study it on my own. Extracurricular activities can include both activities contributed to academic study although outside the normal curriculum, but also activities not contributed to academic study such as sports, volunteer work, etc. I want to emphasis the former activities. Do you say "outside classes", when mentioning study by yourself, i.e.      Outside classes, I have explored B.      If it were you, how would you rewrite the first quote for the same       meaning?    Thanks! Don't count non-printing characters, HTML comments or other content not displayed toward minimum character requirements Change style properties of several layers simultaneously? Why do you need to know who I know on Google? I just created a SE account using my Google account. It said that it needs to "Know who you are on Google" (I guess my connections). As far as I know, SE is not a social network. I can't even follow other people (seeing when they post questions and answers).  What is the reason you need to know my Google connections?  This was on code review. Actually I have an account there, but for some reason it asked me to reconnect. This is the same on MSO; one sees this explained as "This app is requesting permission to associate you with your public Google profile": sstatic.net SSL certificate is for an incorrect domain I'm looking for a fantasy book I read about 10 years ago. I don't remember a lot of it, but there are a few things I still know:   The setting was in medieval times. There was no traveling dimensions. I can't recall whether there was magic or not. It wasn't on Earth, but on some invented world. I believe it was a trilogy, with a focus on the son of some nobility. The goal for the characters was to collect a certain number of stones or gems (I believe there were 5 of them), all in certain colours. Every stone has a certain power attached to it. I believe it started out with one or two characters, but the group grew and every character had a certain colour stone at the end. What is important about the gems is that they are unique. It's not part of a bigger magic system, but they are artefacts from somewhere.   There are some minor incidents I can recall vividly:   They build up a fellowship with some stereotypical fantasy builds: an old school fighter, a minstrel, a female archer and probably more. At one point, they mention that if one of the guards in a country falls asleep on duty, he will be kept awake by his garrison/brothers in arms for seven days. At some point the minstrel falls asleep, and the old fighter teaches him how to stay awake. They travel through a forest full of leeches and other insects to reach one of the stones. Also, I seem to recall there was a member of an underground evil organisation among the nobility, who tried to poison someone and were able to do that because they built up an immunity to the poison.   Does anyone has a clue what this series might be?   Suggestions by kind people, but not what I'm looking for, are:   The Seventh Tower Deltora Quest Diadem Westria Sword of Heavens series Bounty not awarded automatically — bug? How to show $ \sin x \geq \frac{2x}{\pi}, x \in [0, \frac{\pi}{2}]$? I have tried the following: $$ f(x) = \sin x-\frac{2x}{\pi} \\ f'(x)= \cos x-\frac{2}{\pi} \\ f''(x) = -\sin x \leq 0 $$ But this doesn't seem to be heading in the right direction as it would appear $f'(x)$ is decreasing and has a zero within the domain, so I'm not sure how this might be used to prove the inequality. VirtualBox not starting after kernel upgrade Yesterday I received a kernel upgrade and after reboot, VirtualBox stopped working.  Here is my system info (after kernel upgrade):  matteo@workstation:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS" matteo@workstation:~$ uname -a Linux workstation 4.4.0-116-generic #140-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 12 21:23:04 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux   I installed VirtualBox long ago with  sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) sudo apt install virtualbox-dkms virtualbox virtualbox-qt   used on daily basis and never had problems with kernel updates. The error I receive now is   matteo@workstation:~$ sudo modprobe vboxdrv modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Exec format error matteo@workstation:~$ dmesg | tail -n 1 [ 1413.167311] vboxdrv: version magic '4.4.0-116-generic SMP mod_unload modversions ' should be '4.4.0-116-generic SMP mod_unload modversions retpoline '   I found a forum post with this error message  from three days ago, unfortunately without resolution. Therfore I tried to remove the VirtualBox packeges from the Ubuntu repo, and install the latest 5.2 using . However, even after rebooting the machine, the error remains.  What can I do in this case? 'innerText' works in IE, but not in Firefox How to clip an Openlayers OSM Background to a Vector Boundary? I'm new to QGIS. In my project i have two layers: one is my vector (city boundaries) and the other is the OSM (obtained with the plugin). How can I cut the OSM along the edges of the vector? I want to obtain only a region of the map, to save it as an image. phpmyadmin doesn't connection with true data