Why did Dumbledore send Harry to the Dursley's house instead of to his grandparents?
Didn't Harry have any other family he could have searched for?
How to fix the Brazilian daylight saving time (Summer Time) of 2018 in Olson database files? The Brazilian Government has just issued a law that shifts the beginning of the Brazilian DST (Daylight Saving Time) locally called as Summer Time.   This new DST date will come into force in the next month, to be more precise on 18th of November of 2018. So, we won't have enough time to wait for a new Olson update through the operation system updates, neither downloading a new Olson database package might be enough.  I have downloaded the file tzdb-2018e.tar.tz from . Inside that package I found the file southamerica and I have located the following entry:  ... # From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-18): # According to many media sources, next year's DST start in Brazil will move to # the first Sunday of November, and it will stay like that for the years after. # ... https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/brazil-delays-dst-2018.html # From Steffen Thorsen (2017-12-20): # http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2017/decreto/D9242.htm Rule    Brazil  2018    max -   Nov Sun&gt;=1  0:00    1:00    - Rule    Brazil  2023    only    -   Feb Sun&gt;=22 0:00    0   - ...   The comments preceding the entry rule for 2018 matches the old law from the end of 2017, but there's a new law that shifts it to the 3rd Sunday of November of 2018.  How to fix that Olson entry shifting it to the 3rd Sunday of November? I have tried Sun&gt;=3 yet, and it didn't work. How can one link / merge / combine / associate two accounts / users? (Anonymous / unregistered / cookie, or Google / Facebook / registered) Hi! I'm a beginner learner and I'd like to know how to snap these three objects. I'd like to snap the two cylinders with the different faces of the cube. The short one on the left and the highest cylinder on the top of the cube. I'd like to have the center of the cylinder aligned with the center of the cube (the base of the cylinder inscribed into the face of the cube)  I'm sorry for bad explanation I hope someone can help me  Thanks!   I add a screenshoot in which you can see what I have to do   Thanks again if someone can help me with this! I read in a book &quot;Physics - Resnik and Halliday&quot; the explanation of Type-I Superconductors {cold ones} that:  The Electrons that make up current at super-cool temperatures move in coordinated pairs. One of the electrons in a pair may electrically distort the molecular structure of the superconducting material as it moves through, creating  nearby short-lived regions of positive charge.the other electron in the the pair may be attracted to the positive spot. According to the theory the coordination would prevent them from colliding with the molecules of the material and thus would eliminate electrical resistance  Is this the only explanation or can somebody give me a more intuitive explanation that also takes into the problem of defect scattering as in the case of resistance and also explains the Type-II superconductors {hot ones} P.S. What are &quot;coordinated pairs&quot;? How to determine the optimal control law? Given the differential equation $$\dot x = -2x + u$$ determine the optimal control law $u = - kx$ that minimizes the performance index $$J = \int_0^{\infty} x^2 \, \mathrm d t$$  My approach was to find the state feedback $k$. But since the value of $R$ (positive semidefinite Hermitian) is not given, that means $R=0$. How do I determine the optimal control for this system where $R=0$? Ksplice is an amazing software (or whatever it is). It changes the way kernel updates work: Instead of rebooting after an update, it patches memory, so you don't need to do anything. Where does de Broglie wavelength $\lambda=h/p$ for massive particles come from? I'm curious where the  $p=\frac{h}{\lambda}$ comes from?   I know that for light (which has no rest mass), the following is true:  $E=pc$ and $E=hf$  so,  $$pc=hf \Rightarrow p=\frac{hf}{c}=\frac{h}{\lambda}$$  But how is the expression $p=\frac{h}{\lambda}$ obtained for a massive particle where $E\neq pc$? I've read some people claim that the expression can be derived, and others saying it's an experimentally verified relationship. Do natural weapons count for two weapon fighting? Do natural weapons such as those granted by being a Tabaxi or an Aarakocra count for the purposes of two weapon fighting? Would they have the light property to allow it and if not what about if you take the dual wielder feat that removes the restriction on them being light?  From a logical perspective I would think claws or talons would be light enough to count and with them being "natural weapons" this means they are definitely weapons so it would make sense for them to be considered light and one handed. Let $A$ be a commutative ring, $I$ an ideal of $A$ and $M$ an module over $A$. Is it true that $\operatorname{Ann}(M/IM) = \operatorname{Ann}(M) + I$?    One inclusion is certainly true, but I don't know about the other one. If the above statement does not hold in general, does it perhaps for finitely generated modules? How can I mute the YouTube app while playing music on another player? Do harmonic numbers have a “closed-form” expression? How to book this complex multi carrier roundtrip flight I found on ITA? I am trying to book a roundtrip ticket from Chicago O'hare (ORD) to Mumbai, India (BOM). Traveling on Aug 9th and returning on Aug 24th. Now, I've been looking for several days (almost 10days!) for ways to book this itinerary I found on ITA. All other websites like Expedia, Kayak, Travelocity, Momondo, RouteHappy, and even google flights are quoting around $1200 roundtrip cost, sometimes as low as $1150. But the ITA Matrix website shows me several options, the lowest is $916 roundtrip.      You can see there are several flights in the $900 range.     For the return trip there is only one option to get the low price.  Selecting the flights this is what I get:      I'm not sure how to use the fare codes the ITA website provides to purchase this itinerary.  These are some of the things I have tried to book the complex multi-carrier flight from ITA:  My first method was to try coding into HIPMUNK, using the multi-city option, my departure, connections, airlines flights number and dates. Following this method:     And the results page:    Here's what my code into HIPMUNK looks like:  ORD::LH9151 FRA LH756 for the first journey and   BOM::LX155 ZRH SN5104 BRU SN8803 for the return trip.  Don't think I'm making any mistakes in coding it, but there are two adjustments I also made which failed:   I used the dates of the first leg of the flight then tried using the other dates as well. So for example Aug 9th and Aug 10th. I used the codes for the operating carriers and when it didn't work, the marketing carrier leaving the flight number unchanged.   This always returned no results. Breaking up the itinerary to just the oneway from ORD to BOM worked but gave me a price of $624. For some reason the second return trip was creating problems. I tried breaking he return trip down into different segments but no luck. Anyone knows why the return trip is creating difficulties? Coding issues/ hipmunk doesn't have such a large database?   Then I tried method 2: Calling up the airlines  United was able to find all the segments, even price it correctly sometimes (sometimes not) and gave me a confirmation number. I was to call them in 12hrs to check if they were able to procure the seats but when I did call they were not able to get the seats for the SWISS flight from BOM to ZRH and/or from ZRH to BRU. I've tried this at least 5 times changing small things everytime, but the same result. It seems Lufthansa waits for SWISS to confirm the seats but SWISS doesn't respond in time and I'm not able to book.  I tried calling Lufthansa but they were not even able to find the segments and instead told me to look at booking online where I will be able to find it cheaper.  Any insights into the methods that failed or suggestions on how to book this itinerary at the $900 price will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. I've recently started playing Minecraft, and I only have a little experience with enemies (I've been playing with the peaceful setting so I can figure out what the heck I'm doing).  When I did play some survival mode, I happened to be at the top of a pretty large cliff when night hit, and this seemed to protect me - the baddies just piled up at the bottom of the cliff.  However, it seems like this probably only worked due to pathing flukes.  The terrain behind me was pretty easy going, so I suspect if enemies spawned in the right areas, they could still come up and visit.  That said, how can I set up a quick protective shelter for the first night or two?  The days don't seem to last very long, so I don't expect I would be able to generate a lot of high-end materials, tools, etc. to work with.  Also, the zombies caught fire nicely when the sun came up, but there were still some spiders and some other things (creepers? - they were explosive) that didn't go away at daybreak.  Do I need multiple exits for my shelter or some other way to avoid running into all the enemies outside the front door that have accumulated overnight? Scheduling a Batch job at a particular time I have a Apex batch class which I would like to schedule at a particular date time. The date time is stored in a variable and changes dynamically. ex Datatime scduleDateTime = datetime.now() ; I want to schedule the apex batch file to run at this datetime variable value.  How can I do that using system.scheduleBatch()  I started with this but could'nt see how I can specify a datetime variable in here:  datetime d = datetime.now(); sampleapexbatch b = new sampleapexbatch(d); System.scheduleBatch(b,'Sample Job',XXXXXXXX)   Any help is appreciated! Is it shell portable to run a command on the same line after variable assignment? Blender 2.8 - Transparent background What are a few examples of noncyclic finite groups? I just want to make sure that every group $\mathbb{Z}_n$ for any $n$ is cyclic. Further, every group of prime order is cyclic because it is isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_p$. I think I have a handle on that, but what other finite groups are there that aren't cyclic? In particular, I'm looking for examples that aren't direct products of groups, just simply groups like $\mathbb{Z}_n$, not $\mathbb{Z}_a \times \mathbb{Z}_b$, etc. How to upload a file to a WCF Service? I've build a WCF Service to accept a file and write it to disk. The front-end consists of a page with SWFUpload which is handling the upload on the client side. Apparently, SWFUpload posts the data with a Content Type of: multipart/form-data.  I would think this ok but on the Service side I get an error. The error is "ProtocolException" expecting text/xml. I've tried different message encodings in the bindings but nothing seems to work.  How can I get this file uploaded using multipart/form-data? What is the difference between the "jessie" and "jessie-updates" distributions in /etc/apt/sources.list? The  gives this example file:  deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main  deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main  deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main   What is the difference between the jessie and jessie-updates distribution entries? I've got a few macros that perform floating point lookups and calculations for me and I'm interesting in plotting their results. They're the kind of calculation which requires if/else, so they can't be easily written as a simple math formula for \addplot.  Thanks to a previous question (), I now know to use \pgfmathdeclarefunction, but after trying it I've found that addplot seems to prepend a "0Y" or "1Y" to values before passing them as function arguments. My external macros aren't prepared to handle this extra text, and I'm not sure why it's there.   In the course of testing things out, I've also found that calling a function defined with pgfmathdeclarefunction can also change the positioning of the graph...  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{xparse}  \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.10}  \begin{document}  % Example of a macro which does math outside of pgf     \ExplSyntaxOn     \DeclareExpandableDocumentCommand \doubleMacro { m }%      {%       \fp_eval:n { #1*2 }%Math performed by a package other than pgfplots      }%     \ExplSyntaxOff    %Demo: macro does work in regular text \doubleMacro{1.1}.  % Defining custom pgf functions for plotting      \pgfmathdeclarefunction{mathDoubleMacro}{1}{%         \pgfmathparse{\doubleMacro{#1}} %Calls macro which performs math done by another package     }      \pgfmathdeclarefunction{mathDoublePgf}{1}{%         \pgfmathparse{#1*2} %Uses pgf to do the same thing as an external macro could     }  %Generic plot with function given directly to \addplot \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}         \addplot[domain=0:1] {2*x};     \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{center}  %Plot using first macro: complains about 'Unknown fp word Y.' \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}         %\addplot[domain=0:1] {mathDoubleMacro(x)};%Commented out because it gives problems     \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{center}  %Plot using second macro: works, but graph is displaced to the right of the expected position \begin{center} \begin{tikzpicture}     \begin{axis}         \addplot[domain=0:1] {mathDoublePgf(x)};     \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{center}  \end{document}   If I define mathDoubleMacro as calling a non-existent macro, then the errors show which x-values which the addplot is trying to evaluate y at:    0Y0.0e0  1Y4.1666e-2 1Y8.3332e-2 ...  1Y9.9998401e-1   What are these nY's all about, and why does \addplot[domain=0:1] {mathDoublePgf(x)} give a graph with different positioning?