If Hogwarts admits children from 11, who takes care of primary education?  I would imagine lots of anti-social, semi-literate people if parents are left to their devices in educating their children. But then the government does taxpayer-funded universal education with Hogwarts and depends on a society of educated people. So where are the primary schools?
Most of the wand-carriers that come from a non-Muggle family seem fairly uneducated when it comes to interacting with Muggles.  This implies that they don't go to any type of Muggle school before entering into their education at Hogwarts (or whichever Wizarding school they go to), or else they would at least understand some Muggle culture.  What do children from magical families do before going to Hogwarts if they don't go to a traditional school?  Is there any evidence that they're homeschooled?
Book about a town that is transported by an explosion into a freezing desert It starts with a town that was hit by a mysterious explosion which transports that town into a desert. The weather is cold and people burn coal but they soon run out and send out an expedition to look for signs of life - they navigate the desert for a couple of days and come across a glass dome covering a city. Apparently they have been transported far in the future.  And that's where I stopped reading and want to resume now. Don't remember the title or the author and it's at least 20 years old. What is it used for and why  doesn't it equal $\log{x^2}$? Is there any freely available pointcloud data?   I'm especially interested in dense clouds of small areas(5m to 100m radius) but anything else would be fine too.   I've found that these pages have very nice and easy to access point cloud data. Additive function $T: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that is not linear. A function $T:V \rightarrow W$ is additive if $T(x+y) = T(x) + T(y)$ for every $x, y \in V$. Prove that there exists an additive function $T: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ that is not linear.  My attempt: Let $T$ be the function $T: \mathbb{R}$ (over the field $\mathbb{Q}$) $\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ (over the field $\mathbb{R}$). The set $\{1, \sqrt{2}\} \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ is linearly independent for the vector space $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. Then, there must exist a linearly independent set $W \subseteq \mathbb{R}$ (over $\mathbb{Q}$) such that $\{1, \sqrt{2}\} \subseteq W \subseteq \text{span}(W) = \mathbb{R}$ (over $\mathbb{Q}$).  I have been told that the function defined as $T(1) = 1$ and $T(w) = 0$ for all $w \in \text{span}(W) \setminus \{1\}$ is additive but not linear, but I cannot see why this is? I can see why it is not linear, clearly $T(\sqrt{2} \cdot 1) = 0$ but $\sqrt{2} T(1) = \sqrt{2}$. But, why is $T$ additive? For example, $T(1+1) = T(2) =0$ but $T(1) + T(1) = 1+1 = 2$? Is there a mistake somewhere? A Lebesgue measure question Possible Duplicate:          Is there a measurable set $E \subset [0,1]$ such that for any $0 &lt; a &lt; b&lt;1$, the Lebesgue measure $$m(E \cap [a,b])= \frac{b-a}{2}?$$  I am stumped and have no idea. I'll preface this by saying I'm very new to Blender - I'm trying to put a bevel on an edge, looks something like this:    As you can see, the vertical side is much longer than the horizontal side.  When I apply to bevel to the edge there, the bevel stretches proportionally - so there's 'more' bevel on the longer side.  I want to bevel without any 'ratio' like that - just a 45-degree bevel, if that makes any sense.  Do I have to put in a loop cut to make the side lengths equal?  I tried using a sub-surf modifier, but it applies on a bunch of nearby edges, when I just want to round this one corner. Distribute objects optimaly So I've got a file with loads of simple objects. This will later be used to cut out these shapes out of plastic. So, using the material optimally is of outmost importance. I was wondering if there is any script or plugin that could automaticly arrange the objects within the artboard so they could fit best. Script to remove Yellow(or any color) from layers panel? Is it possible to see a list of the settlers in a given settlement and the jobs they are assigned to? It would make it easier to pick a settler for a new job. Similar to Lifepod 1993, but not it This film is very similar to Lifepod 1993, but it takes place in a large ship, not a pod.  I can remember three characters... a technical engineer, being the one sabotaging the ship. And also this military cut character (who looks a lot like Kane from Mortal Kombat) and another girl (I think it was long, wavy black hair).  The "plot" twist that sends this one apart, at least back in the 1990´s, is that the ending comes to the fact there is only enough food and oxygen for one survivor and no escape pods or cryotubes, only a device that "could" work as a cryotube. For some reason that I cant remember the "Kane" dude chooses to die instead, by taking poison (which had been previously used on other surviving members). But the girl "tricks" him and drugs him instead, then places him in the "cryotube" and she stays awake to await for the rescue team.  Of course, they get salvaged, and he is still okay, surprised that she tricked him and saved him. Rings a bell for anyone? Is definitely a B-movie. What does “a couple” mean to you, and what does “a few” mean to you? What does “a couple” mean to you, and what does “a few” mean to you?  Is there a proper way to use these words?  It was striking to hear that “a couple” meant two (2) to someone.  My reaction was, “how/why do you make a short word longer by adding an extra syllable to just say ‘two?’”  I think Few: 2-3, Couple 4-6, Several 7+.  What are your thoughts? Why don't electromagnetic waves require a medium? "pros and cons", "black and white", "ups and downs". Always in a fixed sequence, is there a word or phrase for these? Is there a word or phrase for two nouns or adjectives joined by a conjunction (usually "and") in a fixed sequence?        alive and well           fast and furious   hat and gloves   pen and pencil   law and order   wit and wisdom   salt and pepper   bacon and eggs   horse and carriage   Adam and Eve   ladies and gentlemen   loud and clear   heads or tails   yes or no   dead or alive How to Compact geodatabases in multiple directories using ArcPy? I am trying to write a script to walk through all folders in my workspace and find and compact all geodatabases in my workspace.  I feel like I'm on the right track but I am stuck.  import acrpy, os from arcpy import env  arcpy.env.workspace "C:"  for (path, dirs, files) in os.walk(arcpy.env.workspace)     for file in files         if ".gdb" in file:         workspaces = arcpy.ListWorkspaces("*", "FileGDB")             for workspace in workspaces:             arcpy.Compact_management(workspace)   I am using ArcGIS 10.2.2 for Desktop. Control Cycles/Eevee material nodes and material properties using python? When I right click anywhere I get an option to add a new file with a specified extension. I would like to add some custom files into this menu, so I can right click and create a new PHP file for instance.  How can I do this? CDF of absolute value of difference in random variables Manually Installed new Python to /usr/bin, how to get Repo version back? Yes, I'm a moron, and I tried to manually install a higher point release of python 2.7.16 to /usr/bin/  (i did ./configure --prefix=/usr) on my Ubuntu 16.04 machine. It seems to work fine EXCEPT for packages that depended on python, like apt-listchanges, which fails with messages like ImportError: No module named apt_pkg  there's no make uninstall available, I've tried manually removing files, and still when I try apt --reinstall install python, Nothing gets overwritten and the python executable still gives the new 2.7.16 version...   Any idea how to get the official repository version back?? The pronunciation of the word "a" Most times we hear that the letter A is pronounced as [ə], but sometimes I hear that it is pronounced as [eɪ] in American English. Such as the following sentence: From VOA Special English:  She says governments must make that goal of a continental free trade area a reality.  The first A is pronounced as [eɪ], the second A  is pronounced as [ə]. Why? Does it have some regularity in it? I use the following table:  \documentclass[a4paper,              12pt,                                        bibliography=totoc,              index=totoc,             abstracton,              headsepline,             ]{scrreprt}  \usepackage{booktabs}    \begin{document}   \begin{table}[H]\hspace*{-1cm} \centering \begin{tabular}{lcclll} \toprule  Company&amp; \multicolumn{2}{c}{exceedances (empirical)}&amp;exeedances (expected)&amp;no. of obs.\\ \cmidrule(r){2-3}\\ &amp;standard normal&amp;standardized Student's-t&amp;&amp;\\ \midrule Company1&amp;1&amp;5&amp;9&amp;13\\ Company2&amp;2&amp;6&amp;10&amp;14\\ Company3&amp;3&amp;11&amp;15\\ Company4&amp;4&amp;8&amp;12&amp;16\\ \bottomrule \multicolumn{4}{l}{\begin{footnotesize}an additional hint about a detail\end{footnotesize}} \end{tabular} \caption{Here is the caption.} \label{labelhere} \end{table}   \end{document}     Which gives    I have two problems:   The space after the \cmidrule(r){2-3} is too big, how can I change this? The table looks not that good, how can I improve it in general?