Let's say  enters the battlefield under my control. The card states that when it comes into play I must sacrifice a land. Can I in response to its ETB ability sacrifice a land using say ? When Glacial Chasm entered, a land was sacrificed. Is this allowed, and more to the point: is Glacial Chasm's ETB requirement met in this scenario?
Say I have a Zombie token, , and  on the battlefield. Can I sacrifice the Zombie token to activate both the Altar's and Seer's abilities?  Similarly, if I have one card in hand, and  and  on the battlefield can I discard the one card to both of their abilities?  If I have a  with 3 charge counters can I activate both of its abilities by tapping it to add a counter, and tapping it to remove 3 counters and destroy a permanent without untapping it in between?
Change Shapefile data source encoding? I tried to change the only the shapefile datasource encoding through properties and also  but it doesn't change it.   Without saving the QGIS project can't I directly change the shapefile datasource encoding?  I also tried this code, it shows change encoding but as I open the shapefile again it show the same old system encoding:  for layer in QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayers().values():     layer.setProviderEncoding(u'UTF-8')     layer.dataProvider().setEncoding(u'UTF-8')     print layer.name(), layer.dataProvider().encoding()     (I am not saving QGIS project, just accessing and saving shapefile directly. When I save the project and do this task then it work correctly) Why do we use "./" (dot slash) to execute a file in Linux/UNIX? Why do we use ./filename to execute a file in linux?  Why not just enter it like other commands gcc, ls etc... London Heathrow airport - do I need a transit visa? Robust method to extract "pure" part of a variable I am trying to perform a multi linear regression model:  $$y_i = β_0 + β_1x_{i1} + β_2x_{i2} +... + β_px_{ip} + ε_i$$  where $$x_{i1}, x_{i2}, ..., x_{ip}$$ are highly correlated with each other (VIFs can be as low as 5 and high as 30).  I am just wondering if there exists a procedure with the following properties:  1) extracts the pure part of each independent variable, where pure is defined as a part of the variable which is uncorrelated with other variables.  2) the pure part and the original variable should be similar to each other, whether similar is defined as moments such as mean and variance and correlation coefficient (ideally >0.90) I need to find node voltage at A. This seems like a trivial question, but when I set up the resistive voltage divider equations they are not equal to each other. Am I doing something wrong?  My equations are \$V_A = V_1(R3/(R3+R1)) = V_2(R3/(R3+R2))\$      I tried solving this problem with an LTSpice simulation and with the superposition method, but my answers did not match (although very close to each other). Is this because the simulator uses an approximation? Can someone compare results? What's is the difference between ">" and ">>" in shell command? Could someone explain to me the difference between &gt; and &gt;&gt; when using shell commands?  Example:  ps -aux &gt; log ps -aux &gt;&gt; log   It seems the result is the same either way. Using Illustrator CS6 to create shape out of multiple paths Calling a function from a string in C# What and where are the stack and heap? Programming language books explain that value types are created on the stack, and reference types are created on the heap, without explaining what these two things are. I haven't read a clear explanation of this.  I understand what a stack is. But,    Where and what are they (physically in a real computer's memory)? To what extent are they controlled by the OS or language run-time? What is their scope? What determines the size of each of them? What makes one faster? Mesh generation from PointCloud? The figure bleow is the pointcloud imported as .ply file into blender.   However, I would like to perform triangulation on it to produce the surface as seen in picture below(Accomplished using ballpivoting surface reconstruction and poisson disk sampling in MeshLab).   Is there a way to perform triangulation on belnder.  (PS: The purpose is to be able to select each faces/vertices individually to automate further.)  Edit: Question: Is it possible to select the vertex/faces programmatically post triangulation? if so, please explain how? Prove by mathematical induction that $n^3 - n$ is divisible by $3$ for all natural number $n$ Zooming / Focusing certain parts of a chart in latex I am using pgfplot to draw graphs in latex. Now this is the problem I am facing:  \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1] \begin{axis}[ybar,grid=major,bar width=2pt,width=8cm, height=8cm,xmin=1,xmax=540,ymin=1,ymax=240] \addplot [draw=black,fill=green]  table [x=size, y=cluster, col sep=comma] {sim-0.4-0.6.csv}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}   It generates the following graph:    Since, I have values mainly between 0-50 on x-axis, I want to zoom there. After that, values comes around 500. S0, there are no graph points between 50 - 450. How should I do that? I just received a PhD invitation letter from a German University which mentions that my remuneration will be 2/3 of full TV-L 13 position. I do not know what a TV-L 13 position is (Google is of no help here), and didn't want to be rude, so I am asking here first. Is this a common position or specific to Germany? If anyone knows, currently how much remuneration corresponds to a TV-L position? I have a command that I want to have run again automatically each time it terminates, so I ran something like this:  while [ 1 ]; do COMMAND; done;   but if I can't stop the loop with Ctrl-c as that just kills COMMAND and not the entire loop.  How would I achieve something similar but which I can stop without having to close the terminal? What punctuation should follow after a list introduced by a colon? The whole department: John, Jeff, Jean, and the accountant [?] were thrown into jail. Set the size of pgf picture? I have a pgf picture which I insert with:  \input{m1.pgf}   But the image is too big. Instead of regenerating a smaller image, I'd rather take advantage of vector graphics, and have XeLaTeX scale it. How do I set the width of pgf picture (keeping its aspect ratio)?  MWE  tex:  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{fontspec} % enagles loading of OpenType fonts \usepackage{polyglossia} % support for languages  % fonts: \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase,Mapping=tex-text} % without this XeLaTeX won't turn "--" into dashes \setmainfont{DejaVu Sans} \setsansfont{DejaVu Sans} \setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono}  % pgf: \usepackage{pgf}  \begin{document}  \input{m1.pgf}  \end{document}   Sample pgf:  (it's too big to cite it here, and I can't make much smaller). Best File Management Practices when you have thousands of Files We publish over 100+ textbooks and growing (1-color, 2-color, 4-color) maninly designed in CorelDraw &amp; Indesign with associated Image and Font Files. We also have merged multipage PDF &amp; EPS files that we send to our offset printers.Also, some Image files are exclusive to a project while some are shared across projects.   What are the best practices to follow when it comes to management of these files? We are always working on multiple versions of the same files and often with multiple DTP operators.  Right now it is all on a Shared Drive with Individual Folders but that always creates confusion in identifying the latest version of the file and some users save the file to some other folder. Security of the Data is another issue as we work with a lot of freelancers also.  How do big design studios and publishing houses handle versioning, collaboration and the associated files with a project neatly? Do they use a CMS / Document Management System? Today I've suddenly received spam calendar invitation for $19.99 Ray Ban sunglasses (never subscribed, checked, searched or visited any related site, so clearly spam) and it has other visible email accounts within the invitation. I'm wondering if I should be worried whether my accounts been compromised or a simple email from anywhere just plops this in my calendar without review. Questions to be answered:  What should I check/setup in order to make sure my iCloud account is safe? How can I delete this invitation without sending a notification to the sender, so as to prevent them from knowing my email address is live? How can I prevent these notifications in the future?  Here's an image: "How are" or "How is" the wife and kid? How are the wife and kid?   How is the wife and kid?      Which is more correct? How can I detect mouse events on sprites in a canvas? I'm making an HTML 5 game. I want mouse clicks on sprites drawn in a canvas element cause events that my code can react to. At the moment, I'm doing it by checking through all of my sprites in a for-loop on each click.  Is there a way to do that by adding an event listener to a sprite so it would respond just like that?  Are Javascript's custom events useful in this situation? I know it's possible with KinectJS, but I don't have any experience with it and really I'd like to learn how to do this myself without the help of a library.