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The Tale of the Three Brothers is a fairy tale told to wizard children. Supposedly written by Beedle the Bard, it is published as part of a series of works that collectively are called The Tales of Beedle the Bard. While most wizards view this story as one that teaches children morals (e.g., humility, wisdom), some believe that the story refers to the Deathly Hallows, three highly powerful magical artefacts coveted by generations of wizards.
Many also believe that the three Peverell brothers were the inspiration for the story, and that they first obtained the artefacts known as the Hallows. 'The Tale of the Three Brothers' also has a different variation, referring to twilight as midnight to make it more suspenseful for the entertainment of children, but in Dumbledore's original copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard it refers to the journey taking place at twilight.
PlotThe story revolves around three wizard brothers who once conquered death for a short time by defeating a deadly obstacle with their magic. The personification of Death appeared out of anger because he felt that they had cheated him, but pretended to congratulate them by awarding them gifts of their choosing: The Elder Wand, The Resurrection Stone and the Invisibility Cloak. Two of the three brothers wished to conquer Death beyond what they had done already, and foolishly chose their gifts accordingly, leading to their early demise. The third brother was wiser, and hid under the Invisibility Cloak that allowed him to postpone death until he was ready; he lifted the veil that had helped him to evade the afterlife and was welcomed by Death.
The Deathly Hallows
- Harry: "Death had an Invisibility Cloak?"
- Ron: "Sometimes he gets tired of running at people flapping his arms and shrieking—sorry Hermione."
- — Death's Cloak of Invisibility[src]
The three objects mentioned during the tale are meant to be the Deathly Hallows, the most powerful magical objects in existence. The Elder Wand is the unbeatable wand of the oldest brother, the Resurrection Stone is the stone given to the second brother, and the Cloak of Invisibility is the cloak given to the third brother that could hide the wearer even from Death. It is believed that whoever succeeds in uniting all three of the Hallows would become the Master of Death. Xenophilius Lovegood, Gellert Grindelwald, and Albus Dumbledore were among those who believed in these items and their continued existence.
The Peverell Brothers
The story is believed to refer to three actual brothers. These three men are Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus Peverell. Antioch was the oldest brother and possessed the Elder Wand, which was not passed down in any true order. It became the property of whoever took from its previous master. It held a long and bloody history, until it came into the hands of Albus Dumbledore, who sought to change its infamous reputation and use it for the good of others. Cadmus was the middle brother and possessed the Resurrection Stone, which passed down until it came into the Gaunt family. Marvolo Gaunt was known to have possession of it, and then it changed hands to his son Morfin, and then to his grandson Tom Riddle. Ignotus was the youngest and possessed the Cloak of Invisibility. This Cloak was passed down through his family, and was eventually given to James Potter. Before James died, Albus Dumbledore had asked to see the Cloak, and still had possession of it until he passed it to Harry Potter on Christmas Day during Harry's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows animation
- "One of the things that got me excited about it in the early stages was the question of what it should look like. We knew it was going to be stylised, but not exactly how. The producers came along with the suggestion of creating something in the vein of Lotte Reiniger, an Austrian-born animator working in the 1930s and 50s doing silhouette style animations. What we got out of that was a certain simplicity and naivety. We knew it had to be told very graphically with bold silhouettes. But Ben and I were keen to make sure it wasn't only that, that there was something else we could add."
- —Dale Newton, supervisor of animated sequence[|[src]]
This three minute animated sequence has been created by Framestore, directed by Ben Hibon and supervised by Dale Newton.[1]
Behind the scenes
- In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 , the scene where Hermione Granger reads this story is replaced with an animated shadow-play sequence which Hermione narrates. It was the first and only time a fully animated scene was used in all 8 movies.
- In The 50 greatest Harry Potter moments documentary, Emma Watson said that she found the narration difficult to do, because her lines had to be right with the animation.
- The scene in the video game is the same as that in the movie, but the figures in the shadow play are interpreted differently - the characters have more flesh, and death is represented by a skeleton.
- The story itself also may had been based off the fairy tale, "Three Billy Goats Gruff", in which the characters were depicted as animals who managed to systematically outsmart the danger that lurked beneath the bridge, a troll, by exploiting its inherent stupidity. The only difference is, while the goats managed to avert the danger by cooperating as one, the Peverells took down their own path of life. It also takes some inspiration from the "Three Little Pigs", where it depicts what happened afterwards upon the siblings after what happened on the encounter over the bridge and how they fared after it.
- According to J. K. Rowling, The Tale of the Three Brothers is loosely based on Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale.[2]
- It is possible that this story's moral is that if you are greedy you will die early, as the power-hungry Antioch Peverell asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence and he was the first to die. Cadmus was also greedy but not as much as Antioch, he was the second brother to die. But the youngest brother who was a humble man asked for a thing that he could use to live a long and happy life. And thus because of this he attained a great age and passed The Cloak of Invisibility to his son.
- It is also possible that the moral is that one can not escape death, but only delay it, and that eventually one must accept death in old age and "depart as equals"
- In the book The Tales of Beedle the Bard that was released into the Muggle community, Dumbledore notes that the belief that possessing all three Hallows will give you power over death contradicts the story entirely.
- There have been some speculations that the three brothers correspond to Harry Potter, Severus Snape, and Lord Voldemort, with Harry corresponding to Ignotus (who lives to an old age), Severus corresponding to Cadmus (whose loved one dies), and Lord Voldemort corresponding to Antioch (Power hungry). This also corresponds with the order of the ages of the brothers. Although another possible interpretation may be that the role of Snape as Cadmus is replaced by Albus Dumbledore, whose death was caused by attempting to use the Stone, especially since ultimately it was his choice to end his life. It can also be argued that Dumbledore represents the figure that all three brothers meet on their respective journeys, with Harry and Dumbledore meeting on the afterlife, or "death" as equals at the King's Cross in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 features a playable section based off this story. It features the three brothers walking down a road to a village and using the powers of their respective Hallows to progress past obstacles. At the end of the section, Death flies in and literally takes the three brothers away, with Ignotus only barely having time to pass the Cloak off to his son.
- Quite a lot of fairy tales feature three brothers. The one commonly known as The Three Brothers concerns not about cheating death but which of three sons would inherit a house.
- A short film adaptation of The Tale of the Three Brothers is being produced by students of the New England School of Communications with permission from Warner Bros.
- The Tale of the Three Brothers will be featured as one of the tales from Beedle the Bard performed by the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts as live entertainment in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter- Diagon Alley. It will feature puppetry and props fabricated by Michael Curry (The Lion King on Broadway)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard (real)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- The Tale of the Three Brothers
Notes and references
- Entertainment and Interactive Experiences in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley Revealed


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Right, one tool at a time as in one model at a time. Not one single item. Example - ETS 150/5 recons available until sold out. Might be a hundred of them or however many.Seth
i think they just want out email addresses for future money making opportunities
they already have your email address.Unless it has change.
Being Canadian I'm not a happy camper. Why are we being left out. I thought North America included Canada. It does for your product launches and even the roadshow. JC
...seeing its their first chance to get one at a discount.
..seeing its their first chance to get one at a discount.
It rather seems to me to be a reincarnation of the Pro 5 debacle. A whole lot of hubris and a lack of substance.

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In simpler times, President Obama and new British Prime Minister David Cameron might have been placing a friendly bet over Saturday's US-England World Cup match when the two leaders talk by phone this weekend.
But before they can talk sports, the two top representatives of the US-UK "special relationship" have to address more pressing issues like Afghanistan. And then there's the mounting fallout from BP's handling of the BP oil spill and environmental disaster.
With the British press and even some officials increasingly seeing attacks on Britain itself in the president's and his administration's criticisms of BP, Mr. Cameron has sought to calm the waters. During a visit to Afghanistan Thursday, he said the oil spill would no doubt be part of what his office says is a "routine" phone conversation, but he ducked pointed questions about an anti-British side to criticisms of BP.
IN PICTURES: The Gulf oil spill's impact on nature
"I completely understand the US government's frustration because it's an environmental catastrophe," he said. "The most important thing is to mitigate the effects of the leak and get to the root of the problem."
That was a passionless response worthy of the erstwhile "cool Obama." But as Obama's rhetoric has ratcheted up over the course of the continuing oil leak – and as BP's stock price has continued to slide – more British voices have sounded alarms over what they consider to be growing anti-British sentiment in the White House.
In this environment, both leaders need to be politically agile, some transatlantic experts say.
Holding emotions in check
"This is a relationship with a plate of issues that's already running over, with everything from Afghanistan and plans for British defense cuts to financial regulation," says Heather Conley at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. "You don't want this disaster and its implications to become a distraction, but that can happen if some of the emotions aren't held in check."
"As the pictures and reports of the impact [of the leak] pour in, it's going to be all the more difficult for Obama to keep things on an even keel," she adds.
The most alarmist remarks emanated from London's city hall, where Mayor Boris Johnson cited as a "matter of national concern" the "anti-British rhetoric that seems to be permeating from America."
"When you consider the huge exposure of British pension funds to BP it starts to become a matter of national concern if a great British company is being continually beaten up," said Mr. Johnson, a member of Cameron's Conservative party
Financial experts estimate that BP dividends account for as much as 16 percent of all stock payouts that UK pensioners receive.
Another British Conservative, Norman Tebbit, summed up the US criticisms of BP as scapegoating for America's inability to solve its own problem: "The whole might of American wealth and technology is displayed as utterly unable to deal with the disastrous spill – so what more natural than a crude, bigoted, xenophobic display of partisan, political, presidential petulance against a multinational company?"
The British press, and not just the tabloids, took off and ran with those quotes, adding their own observation that the Obama administration has "made a point," as the Times of London said, of using BP's former name – "British Petroleum".
A search of the White House website, Obama's own comments over the last six weeks, and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs's copious discussions of the oil spill reveal no wholesale reference to "British Petroleum," although the outdated name is sprinkled in among repeated references to BP.
What appears to have set off the pique-on-the-Thames was Obama's observation earlier this week that he would have fired BP CEO Tony Hayward by now.
Obama says he'd fire BP's CEO
On NBC's Today show Tuesday, Obama said in reference to some of Mr. Hayward's public comments – complaints about how the spill has consumed his personal time, and his observation that "the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest" – that "he wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements."
Then on Capitol Hill, several members of Congress said they wanted to know if the US government could issue an injunction to stop BP from paying out dividends on its shares. Those inquiries reflected growing frustration among Gulf fishermen and other business people that BP's payouts to them have been slow and paltry.
Still, the comments from Obama and Congress prompted the head of the Confederation of British Industry to proclaim in a statement, "It's a matter of concern when politicians get heavily involved in this way."
CSIS's Ms. Conley says it's unrealistic to think politicians, and especially a country's leader, wouldn't become involved in a disaster of such magnitude. But she says it's important to remember that "BP is a company, it's not a country." She notes, for example, that 40 percent of BP's shares are held by Americans.
Says Conley, "What you are seeing on full display is interdependence 21st-century style."
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Dr. Conrad Murray filed court papers in Los Angeles Friday, suggesting an intention to appeal his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of pop star Michael Jackson. He may also seek to overturn the four-year prison sentence he was ordered to serve.
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A one-page typewritten "notice of appeal" filed by Murray requested all records and transcripts from his case.
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If Murray follows through with an appeal, it would be heard by the states appeals court in Los Angeles.
After a six-week trial, Murray was convicted Nov. 7 in the death of the King of Pop by overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol. During testimony, witnesses characterized Murray as a negligent doctor who was acting in his own interest instead of the interest of his patient.
Murray, 58, was sentenced to four years Tuesday, at which time Judge Michael Pastor said the doctor engaged in experimental medicine.
"It should be made very clear that experimental medicine is not going to be tolerated,'' Pastor said. "And Mr. Jackson was an experiment."
Due to a California law designed to reduce prison crowding, Murray will likely spend less than two years behind bars.
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Fujifilm FinePix J150w offers affordable wide-angle shooting
Fuji has updated its budget-minded J-series ultracompacts today with the announcement of the FinePix J150w.
Constructed from the same high-quality, high-style materials that have consistently characterized the J-series cameras, the J150w features brushed metal construction, a huge 3.0-inch LCD, and Fujinon optics. In the case of the J150w, the lens used covers an impressive 5x range, with 28mm wide-angle coverage at the wide end.
Although there's no optical/mechanical image stabilization, the 10.0 megapixel J150w allows high-sensitivity, full-resolution shooting at up to ISO 1600.
The use of a lithium-ion rechargeable power cell allows the J150w to be slimly constructed as well, measuring just under an inch thick at its widest.
Thirteen scene presets provide appropriate options for a wide range of shooting situations. Fuji's latest face detection technology is also included, providing recognition of up to six faces and automatic red-eye removal in flash shots.
It's hard not to be impressed by the entry-level J150w's specs sheet, especially in light of its $199.95 suggested retail price. Look for the new junior FinePix to make its way to stores in September.
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The best graduate schools in Texas
The University of Texas earns bragging rights over in-state rivals in several graduate programs
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The Texas Exes and other University of Texas alumnus have reason to celebrate.
The University of Texas was ranked the top graduate school in Texas by U.S. News & World Report in a number of major degree programs. UT satellite campuses in Arlington and Dallas also cracked the Top 100 in a number of degree fields.
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Cambodia ruling party criticizes opposition rally
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party criticized the opposition's plan to hold a massive protest against last month's election results, saying Thursday that a disruptive demonstration was not in the country's interest.
In a rare statement, the Cambodian People's Party stopped short of asking the opposition to cancel its rally planned for Sept. 7, but implied that protesters would be held responsible for any unrest.
Official results from the July 28 polls gave Hun Sen's party 68 seats in the National Assembly against 55 for the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says his party would have won 63 seats if the election had been fair.
Rainsy has called for next week's rally unless an independent committee is formed to investigate alleged irregularities in the election.
Rallies since the election have drawn thousands of people and raised fears of political violence, especially since the government has responded by deploying troops and armored vehicles in Phnom Penh, the capital.
Hun Sen, Cambodia's leader for 28 years, has a reputation of dealing harshly with his opponents.
Sam Rainsy said earlier Thursday that he plans to hold training sessions and rehearsals to show supporters how to hold peaceful protests, since the Cambodian people have little experience with opposition rallies. He said he would call in foreign experts to help with the training.
"We are in the learning process," Sam Rainsy told reporters. "We are receiving training and advice from people all over the world who want to help ensure that demonstrations in Cambodia will be peaceful. We will conduct rehearsals. We will assemble people and train them in how to resist violence."
He denied allegations by the Interior Ministry, which recently set a letter to all foreign embassies accusing the opposition of trying to topple the government.
"We have no plan to topple anyone," Sam Rainsy said. "We are protesting the election results and the election conduct and a lack of transparency. We want to bring justice to the voters."
In its statement, the ruling party did not address the opposition's demand for an impartial investigation into the election. But it urged the opposition to hold another round of talks to ease the standoff, rather than taking its discontent into the streets. The two sides have already held three meetings over the dispute.
The protest is planned for one day before the National Election Committee is expected to ratify the results.
"The announcement by the Cambodia National Rescue Party to hold a massive demonstration against the result of the election — before the final result is announced — will affect the livelihood of the people who are living peacefully," the ruling party said in its statement.
Hun Sen's party also denounced the planned protest as an effort to "intentionally destroy the election results" and a violation of Cambodia's spirit of national reconciliation. It repeated its claim that the election was free and fair.
The opposition's main complaint alleges that the voter registration process failed to properly list possibly more than 1 million people, who were therefore unable to vote. Several nonpartisan poll-watching groups support that claim.


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Birds are not obligated to show up at an airport one hour prior to flight, nor must they fasten seatbelts for takeoff and landing. Is it any wonder that, 102 years after the Wright Brothers brought us the first practical plane, our urge to soar like falcons is still alive and well? While few people indulge that fantasy except in dreams, Michael Abrams has discovered that the present-day heirs to Daedalus and Icarus, far from suicidal, are as diligent and methodical in their pioneering work as were Wilbur and Orville. "After some 3,000 years of failure," he writes with the solid reporting and polished storytelling of a veteran journalist, "we are living in a veritable renaissance of personal flight." For most of those 3,000 years, would-be fliers generally met their fate in costumes of feathers. In scientifically minded ancient Greece, however, criminals were sometimes tied to live birds and experimentally pushed off cliffs. Even Leonardo da Vinci supposedly tried to fly—using a protean glider—and might have succeeded: "Once you have tasted flight," he wrote, "you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return." Michigan native Clem Sohn was the first to make that round-trip on a regular basis, dropping from a plane at air shows beginning in the early '30s, and—although he was dead in less than a decade—his cloth wing-suit, fashioned on his mother's sewing machine, inspired the garb now used by hundreds of recreational birdmen worldwide. Gradual refinement of equipment and technique has made personal flight more commonplace, and less deadly than ever before. Still, commercial airlines need not worry: Soaring is good sport, but no amount of arm waving will get a birdman aloft in the first place. —JONATHON KEATS, ForbesLife
"A joyous, quirky, witty, totally inspiring book about falling through the air and dying. Abrams has captured the lunatic passion of these birdmen with so much insight and intelligence and infectious enthusiasm that risking your neck to fly through a cloud with your arms outstretched no longer seems unreasonable." —Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Spook


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Four Seasons Magazine has some great suggestions for things to do in Chicago with kids. They have allowed Chicago Splash Magazine to share this information with our readers.
Cupcakes, polar bears and ships—explore kid-friendly attractions in the Windy City. Parks, culture, history, sports and a culinary scene that runs the gamut from old-fashioned hot dog stands to haute Michelin-starred cuisine—Chicago has no shortage of activities. If you're looking for the kid-friendly variety, you'll find your fill at five of our favourite Windy City attractions.
With the fish
Shedd Aquarium, the most highly trafficked aquarium in the U.S., is nothing short of aquatically awesome. At Waters of the World, kids get up close to sea creatures, including the Shedd's oldest resident, an Australian lungfish that has called the aquarium home since 1933. Not to be missed? The dancing dolphins and belugas at the aquatic show. Round out your visit at the Caribbean Reef, Amazon Rising and Polar Play Zone exhibits.
In the sky
Want to feel like you're on top of the world? Ride the elevator to the 103rd floor of the tallest building in the U.S., Chicago's Willis Tower. Standing 1,353 feet (412 metres) above the ground on the tower's glassed-in Skydeck, you'll take in sweeping views of the city. On a clear day, you can even see four states: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan.
To the zoo
Big cats, polar bears, zebras, reptiles and a rare baby red kangaroo are just a few of the roughly 1,250 animals you'll find at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Highlights include the Endangered Species Carousel, a petting zoo and the Regenstein African Journey, an interior exhibit that mirrors the sights and sounds of a safari experience complete with dwarf crocodiles and pygmy hippos. Take a stroll down the Nature Boardwalk, where wooden pathways criss-cross over a pond thriving with turtles, frogs and migratory birds.
On the pier
Navy Pier is the city's playground, with 50 acres (20 hectares) of indoor and outdoor parks, gardens, shops and restaurants, culminating in an amusement park that projects into Lake Michigan. Stop at Chicago Children's Museum, where kids are invited to climb on ships, hide in treehouses and create all types of inventions in the state-of-the-art Tinkering Lab. At the dinosaur exhibit, they can tap into their inner archaeologists. In warmer weather, head for the outdoor Ferris wheel, carousel and 18-hole miniature golf course.
At the sweet shops
When it comes time for an afternoon indulgence, skip the candy and head for one of these out-of-the-box sweet shops. Glazed & Infused creates doughnuts in unusual flavours such as maple-bacon, crème brûlée and red velvet. The exotic creations you'll find at the gourmet cupcake bakery may sound more like haute cuisine that kid-friendly treats (Parmesan-encrusted lemon-artichoke has been on the menu), but young palates will be won over by flavours like s'more and cookies and cream. Need a chocolate fix? Chicago chocolatier Vosges Haut-Chocolat wows with a salty/sweet spin on truffles and bars.
Travel tip
With so much to see, a guided trolley ride is a smart option. Stopping at 14 of Chicago's most famous attractions (Millennium Park, the Art Institute, The Field Museum and Navy Pier, to name a few), Chicago's Hop On Hop Off trolley tours allow you to do just that at any point, and tickets are good for three days.


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12 Tasty Thanksgiving Side Dishes to Make With Your Kids
Are you looking for some tasty new dishes to serve at Thanksgiving?
Do you want to bring your kids into the kitchen for a small cooking adventure?
Now you can invite your kids to help prepare some tasty side dishes the whole family will love.
We scoured the Internet and asked top parenting and food bloggers for the best Thanksgiving recipes kids and adults can make (and eat!) together.
In this article, we'll share our top 12 Thanksgiving side dishes to make with your kids.
You'll also find a few tips for making it an enjoyable experience.
Why Cook WITH the Kids?
Do you kick your kids out of the kitchen, worried that they'll just slow you down and make a big mess? (Oh, the mess!)
Messes can be cleaned up, but kids only grow up once. So open a fresh roll of paper towels and make some meal-prep memories with them.


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I'm taking a break while the cornbread for the dressing is baking in the oven. I usually take a few minutes to make a list of the things that I am thankful for each Thanksgiving but for some reason this year I'm having trouble focusing.
I believe that the making of my traditional, annual Thanksgiving list is being overshadowed by my "stuff that I need to do" list.
My "to do" list is filled with entries such as:
- Try to fix the vacuum cleaner
- Get the cat a bigger litter box
- Check to see why the county didn't send us our tax bill yet
- Clean out the hatch of the car
- Peel potatoes for my signature sweet potato pie
If I tried really hard I'm sure I can add least 10 more things to my list. I'm sure that the participants of the first Thanksgiving had a few things on their "to do" list, but somehow I picture them as being much less stressed than people today.
Think about it: they grew the food, they cooked the food, and they ate the food. Most of their immediate concerns in the New World had to do with food. No running hither and yon to pick up dry cleaning or to take the cat to the vet. I certainly don't want to diminish the desperate circumstances is of that early time in our history that you have to admit in some ways they had it pretty darn good.


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Insert the key in the on-board computer and lock the car by holding your Greenwheels card in front of the card reader behind the windscreen or by using the app.
Greenwheels users share cars with each other. Therefore it is important to pay attention to the following rules.
- You don't have to pay a deposit or registration costs.
- The Greenwheels card is for free.
- Invoices can be viewed on My Greenwheels . If you wish to receive your invoices by post we charge an extra fee of 1,00 € per invoice.
- To purchase a subscription you need to be at least 18 years old.
- Subscriptions are subject to a notice period of 30 days.
- On a private subscription, it is possible to activate 1 driver per subscription.
- On a business subscription, you may register with as many users as you wish.
- Optional: Own risk package from €1.000 to €200 for €6 per month.
Fuelling up
If the fuel tank indicator is less than a quarter full (< 25 %), it is time to fill up the car. Whenever you fill up the car it is important to write down the mileage, because you need to enter the mileage when you pay. As soon as you turn off the engine, remove the tank card from the on-board computer. The PIN code for the fuel card will appear on the display. Fill up the car. You can find the instructions on how to fill up your car on the back of the lid. Remember to put the fuel card back into the on-board computer before you resume your journey.
Avoid additional charges.
No one wants to be charged extra, so make sure you take account of the following:
Always return your Greenwheels car on time.
You can extend your reservation via our Customer Service, website, app or the on-board computer. If someone has already booked your car, we will inform you when you need to return the vehicle. If the car is returned too late, causing a problem for the subsequent user, a fee of € 25 will be charged.
Do not violate any traffic rules.
Fines for traffic offences are for the account of the user. In addition, an amount of € 10 per fine will be charged for administrative expenses.
Always leave your car in its own booked parking bay.
Always return your car to its original location, so that the next user knows where to find it. If you are unable to do this, please call to let us know. Users who leave their cars in a different location without reporting back to Greenwheels will be charged € 25.
Make sure there is enough fuel in the tank.
Cars that are returned must have at least a quarter tank of fuel. If you leave your car with less fuel, you will be charged € 25. The fuel costs will be paid by us and then charged to you in accordance with the kilometres driven.
Report any damage in a timely manner.
Check your car for damage before you drive off. If you find new damage, please call us to report this, so that we know you are not responsible. The user's excess per damage claim is € 350 The liability can be reduced to € 75 per damage event by paying an additional fee of € 4 per reservation.
Return your car clean both outside and inside.
If a car is returned unclean, we will have to send out one of our employees to clean it, in which case you will be charged €25 for cleaning expenses. Please call us to report any cleanliness issues that you observe immediately (i.e. before you drive off), so that we know you are not responsible.
Do not smoke inside the car.
Everyone wants to drive a fresh-smelling car. If any evidence is found of smoking in a Greenwheels car, Greenwheels has the right to charge a fee of € 25.


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This lesson uses text sets, collections of multiple text genres with a single focus, to facilitate student inquiry inspired by a fiction book they have read. Students begin by brainstorming a list of symbols and themes in the book. They select a topic on which to focus and search the text for specific references to that topic. Next, they work in small groups to research subtopics within their main topic using text sets. After a brief exploration of the text sets, they generate a list of questions they want to answer about that topic. Finally, students use the text sets to answer the questions they generated, publish their results using an online tool, and present their work to the class.
This lesson uses Tuck Everlasting as an example, but can be adapted for use with any novel students have read or listened to during read aloud sessions.
Books about Water: This booklist includes a variety of nonfiction books about water.
Multigenre Mapper: Students can use this online tool to create original multigenre, multimodal works-one drawing and three written textsand to name the genres for each section, making the tool flexible for multiple writing activities.
Flip Book: This online tool allows users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long.
When students conduct research in the classroom, they typically use a traditional resource like an encyclopedia in addition to a few books and Websites. Why not broaden students experiences with research and introduce them to the idea of using many different genres and texts in their research? In her article, "Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning," Laura Robb states,"Using multiple texts in a single unit has another benefit: students are introduced to multiple perspectives on a topic rather than being limited to the single view presented in any one text" (31). Multiple texts also give students the opportunity to read "multiple interpretations of events, they provide diverse perspectives for the discussion of social, political, and economic issues" (31). While looking at all of the different information presented, students can make connections and form their own informed decisions. Together, this process will deepen students' knowledge and understanding.
Further Reading
Robb, Laura. "Multiple Texts: Multiple Opportunities for Teaching and Learning." Voices From the Middle 9.4 (May 2002): 28-32.


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Aeridian wrote:Mattias wrote:mencot wrote: The 3 civilized factions live right now in peace, Loreesi and Lenfald are allies. Loreesi and Garheim relationship is a bit colder but there is peace between the people also.
Ok, I was confused about that, thanks! But I could really go for an Orc war!
What did you have in mind? I've been looking for more uses for my orc/outlaw band/army. Want me to raid a village or attack some goodies? Sounds like some cool ideas, I'll see what I can do.
Sounds cool, we´ll see after the GC3 maybe we can take this further


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Jupiter seems to be sprouting lots of Red Spots these days. Of course the original gangsta, the multiple Earth-sized Great Red Spot has been around for just about four centuries. But back in 2006 Red Spot Jr. appeared and as this picture shows, researchers have just observed a third spot west of big daddy. What's causing the outbreak? Engineer Phil Marcus of the University of California, Berkeley thinks climate change is to blame.
According to Marcus, Jupiter's equatorial regions are getting warmer and the South Pole appears to be cooling. The difference in temperature between the two parts of the planet is causing increased cloud convection and turbulence — meaning more storms.
Red Spot III: Rise of the Clouds may be short-lived, though. Astronomers expect that it will meet up with the Great Red Spot by August, when it could be consumed by the much more massive, ancient raging storm.
Source: HubbleSite.org via Space Telescope Science Institute


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Iowa authorities ID man found dead in woods
Authorities have identified a man found dead in a wooded area in Harrison County on Saturday.
The person was found dead by a hunter in a rural, wooded area four miles southwest of Mondamin.
Authorities said fingerprints submitted to a FBI database were able to confirm the identity as Michael Gnirk, 52, of Hoskins, Neb.
Authorities said that at the time of discovery, he was wearing black Wrangler brand jeans, a blue T-shirt with a pocket, a blue button down dress shirt, a brown-plaid insulated flannel jacket and a blue hooded zipper sweatshirt with a Golden Harvest logo on the left breast area. He was also wearing Red Wing brand boots, size 12.
Investigators are still seeking the public's help in retracing that last few days and weeks of Mr. Gnirk's life.
Anyone with information or anyone who had contact with Gnirk over the past 3 to 6 months is urged to contact the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigation at 712-322-1585.


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TechEd 2008 Veteran Microsoft ISV partner Infragistics is taking an early lead on Silverlight 2, Microsoft's emerging cross-browser media plug-in.
The company expects to release an experimental set of components based on Silverlight 2 beta 2 for building the interfaces on rich internet applications at the same time Microsoft launches the second Silverlight 2 beta - expected Friday. The beta was promised by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates at TechEd Tuesday.
Microsoft has been pushing Silverlight pretty hard, as it tries to break into the market of media content creation.
Eighteen-year-old Infragistics, meanwhile, has a history of being an early adopter around Windows. The company, which specializes in re-usable software components for building application presentation layers, was quick to pick up .NET - Microsoft's big platform shift in the early 2000s.
Explaining the enthusiasm for something so new even the latest pre-release code hasn't even shipped, Windows group lead technical evangelist Anthony Lombardo told The Register Silverlight would let developers break through barriers posed by AJAX and JavaScript.
He expects it'll do this with the ability to easily combine data with media, like video and music. It'll also let Windows programmers, not just Flash developers, build really rich interfaces using existing language skills and tools.
The planned NetAdvantge for Silverlight Components CTP, due this Friday, will consist of a gauge component and control component for pulling live data feeds into graphics and charts without the need for line-by-line programming.
Missing, though, will be a grid component. Grids organize data into rows and columns in an application. A grid component could allow data to be entered into a table or viewed using graphics, and are something Infragistics has experience with in its other Windows components for .NET and COM.
Lombardo said a component for the Silverlight grid is under development, but there's no date for release. He did not say what the delay is, but Microsoft has spent the days since Gates' announcement nailing down exactly what the beta will include. It's not clear whether the grid will come with the core Silverlight package. It could come as a separate tools assembly in order to keep the size of the Silverlight download and runtime relatively small.
The second beta is important because it should indicate strongly what features - like the grid - they can expect to be included in the finished Silverlight 2 later this year. This will allow ISVs to start developing product.®


text: BACK TO BASICS The Basics of Parallel Circuits Components in parallel share current, but not necessarily equally By R. Fehr, P.E., Engineering Consultant L ast month's column covered the behavior of electrical components connected in series and demonstrated that when a voltage is applied across a series circuit, the current through each component is the same. However, you'll often come across components connected in parallel, a configuration that changes the behavior of the circuit and the currents that flow through each component. Paralleling components. When components are connected in parallel, the voltage across each element is equal. The current flowing through each element, however, isn't necessarily equal. Current divides through the elements based on their individual impedances, seeking the path of least resistance. Elements with high impedances carry less current than elements with low impedances. Sometimes two elements put in parallel need to share the current equally, as is usually the case with paralleled transformers. To achieve equal sharing of the current, it's necessary that the impedances of each element be equal. The resistance in the capacitive branch of practical tuning circuits is negligible, but the windings of the conductor can create considerable resistance in the inductive branch. Analyzing the units of measurement, one can see that current flowing through an inductor represents the energy stored by the inductor per coulomb of charge passing through the inductor. Similarly, the current flowing through a capacitor equals the time rate of change of the voltage across the capacitor multiplied by the capacitance (C) in farads (F), or of the inductor. For the circuit shown in the Figure, if the inductance is 10 mH, what size capacitor must be used to cause the circuit to be resonant at 20.6 kHz? To achieve resonance, the inductive and capacitive reactances must be equal, or Substituting values yields Inductance and capacitance. Just like with a series circuit, if a parallel circuit consists of elements other than resistances, the basic algebraic equations describing the current flowing in each branch of the circuit become differential equations. In the case of an inductance, the current (I) flowing through the inductor equals the voltage across the inductor integrated over time divided by the inductance (L) of the element in henrys, or 78 EC&M June 2003 Resonance. As with series circuits containing resistances, inductances, and capacitances, if the inductive reactance of a parallel circuit equals the capacitive reactance, the circuit is said to be resonant at that frequency. A common example of parallel resonance is a tuning circuit, as shown in the Figure above. In practical tuning circuits, the resistance in the capacitive branch is negligible, but the inductive branch has a considerable resistance due to the windings To finish, solve for C or The combination of the 10 mH inductor and the 6,000 pF capacitor is resonant at 20.6 kHz only. For any other frequency, the two reactances won't be equal, so resoEC&M nance won't occur.


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This is a quote from Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics:
"(...) if an atomic system has its equilibrium disturbed in any way and is then left alone, it will be set in oscillation and the oscillations will get impressed on the surrounding electromagnetic field, so that their frequencies may be observed with a spectroscope. Now whatever the laws of force governing the equilibrium, one would expect to be able to include the various frequencies in a scheme comprising certain fundamental frequencies and their harmonics. This is not observed to be the case. Instead, there is observed a new and unexpected connexion between the frequencies, called Ritz's Combination Law of Spectroscopy, according to which all the frequencies can be expressed as differences between certain terms, the number of terms being much less than the number of frequencies. This law is quite unitelligible from the classical standpoint."
I'm having trouble understanding this paragraph. Assuming that the atom is a system in equilibrium that emits e-m waves when perturbed and these e-m waves are product of the oscillations of the atom about its equilibrium configuration that result from the perturbation, does it follow that the Ritz's law is in contradiction with classical mechanics? Why? Thanks.


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The Mission to the Giant Colony was one of the first events during the Second Wizarding War. Occurring before the outbreak of open war, Albus Dumbledore ordered Professor Rubeus Hagrid and Madam Olympe Maxime to travel the Giant colony in Eastern Europe to bring the Giants over there to the side of the Order of the Phoenix.
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Being Half-Giant, Hagrid and Maxime had to travel non-magically to Minsk. To make sure they weren't being followed by Ministry officials or Death Eaters, the two half-giants pretended they were going to France on holiday. They managed to escape "the berk tailin' us" near Dijon and on the Polish border, they outran some Trolls. When they finally arrived in Minsk, they had a disagreement with a Vampire in a pub.
Finally, the two of them arrived in a Giant colony made up of approximately eighty Giants. Once the Giants awoke, Hagrid and Maxime approached the Gurg, Karkus, with gifts — Gubraithian Fire and a Goblin-made helmet. On the second day, Hagrid and Maxime extended the offer for Karkus to join Dumbledore. Karkus, having heard good things about Dumbledore, seemed to be receptive.
However, the next day, it was discovered that Karkus had been killed, and there was a new Gurg by the name of Golgomath. Golgomath, quite unlike Karkus, was interested in more what Lord Voldemort had to say. When Hagrid and Maxime attempted to continue negotiations, Golgomath's minions seized Hagrid. Fortunately, Maxime saved him by shooting the Giants in the eyes with Conjunctivitis Curses. Because of this, she and Hagrid had to flee.
The next day, Walden Macnair succeeded where Hagrid and Maxime failed.
AftermathDuring the mission, Hagrid met a Giant named Grawp, who he discovered was the son of his Giantess mother, Fridwulfa. Upon meeting Grawp, Hagrid was determined to bring his half-brother back to the Hogwarts grounds. Maxime, however, did not want anything to do with Grawp, and she and Hagrid parted ways.
For the next few months, Hagrid led Grawp back to Hogwarts. Grawp, not knowing his own strength, bruised Hagrid during the journey home. The two brothers didn't arrive home until late November.
As a result of this success to the Death Eaters, the Giants fought alongside them during the rest of the War, creating mass destruction in the southwest of England in the summer of 1996 (although this was credited to a hurricane to the Muggles, and any eye-witnesses had their memory modified), and battling in the Battle of Hogwarts in May, 1998.
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Roadblocks in Deploying Google Docs: CRUD and "ilities"
This is the second in a series of posts about roadblocks organizations face in deploying Google Apps for Education (GAFE). In the last post I went into depth about the FUD that circulates around Google Apps Deployments. In this post I will discuss CRUD, which are the reasonable Concerns, Reservations, Unknowns, and Decisions (along with some of the "ilities") that emerge when choosing to use Google Apps for Education.
As the person that feels the heat for anything that goes wrong with educational technology in our district, from PEBKAC errors to full network meltdowns, there is CRUD that goes along with any hardware, software, or cloud based deployment. A big part of my job is to be paranoid and critical about technology until I can be reasonably assured that it will work reliably, to the point of invisibility, to my schools. Although few products are actually invisible, to the level of a classroom chalkboard, my goal is that they all end up there. With that in mind I am always worried about many of the the "ilities" (accountability, sustainability, reliability, supportability, operability...) with any products we choose. There reaches a point with any potential technology solution where there is a reasonable level of CRUD that you will be able to live with before making a choice to adopt a product long-term.
As the person that led my district down the path to use and invest time, money, and resources into using GAFE I wanted to share what Concerns, Reservations, Unknowns, and Decisions we have faced along the way, and in some cases, the "ilities" we are managing.
The scariest "ility" is accountability which commonly starts and ends with fiscal responsibility. Obviously the low cost (free), and therefore associated risk of initial financial investment, makes GAFE easier to accept. The agreement that we signed with Google locked us into the core products being free for life (FAQ #4), with the understanding that other parts of the product may come at a cost later on down the road (as is the case with every software product we buy). Yes, there is a risk that GAFE will come at a cost later on and if that happens we will evaluate the cost and value of the product. We do this with every one of the technology solutions we use and have had to make similar decisions with operating systems, desktop publishing products, and enterprise software in the last 4 years.
In the role of the technology leader being responsible for our decisions goes far beyond the initial cost of a product. The total costs of ownership (TCO) includes investing time and energy in researching, choosing, negotiating, deploying, maintaining, and training; all of which are often more costly than the initial investment. When we considered this for GAFE the price point made some of the TCO concerns more palatable. However there were other worries, starting with the fact that nobody on our staff even knew how to use GAFE and at the time we chose GAFE, in 2007, there were not a lot of other schools using it which added to the risk. We offset this concern by leaveraging nearby Northwestern University as a resource and tapping into 3rd party support through SADA Systems. Now there are entire states "Going Google", millions of users, and excellent communities (like ours in Illinois) working to help each other deploy and use GAFE.
We are currently saving $35K/yr on student email and $55K/yr on staff email by using GAFE for email and message security over our previous products. We are choosing to pay Google 16K/yr for message archiving and discovery (to meet legal requirements) which results in a net saving of 74K/yr. At the end of our 4 year agreement we will have saved nearly $300K that has been reinvested mostly into network infrastructure that will have a long term positive impact on this district. One of the only associated costs of GAFE that is required is bandwidth. This savings from using GAFE along with the reinvestment in infrastructure has improved the sustainability of GAFE in our district.
Google also continues to grow and develop GAFE at no cost to us. Along with these changes comes the risk on not knowing what is coming. There are reasonable concerns that changes that come are things we do not llike, similar to the encrypted search change earlier this year. However Google has shown that they are responsive to their EDU users' needs. This is an area that we continue to monitor closely and provide constructive feedback to Google about EDU needs and requirements.
One of the steps my team and I always talk about before choosing a technology solution is the cost of leaving the product if it becomes a problem. Unlike many other software companies Google provides resources through its "Data Liberation Front" to help you take your data and leave if you want to go. Once you are gone they will delete all of your data (Privacy FAQ #1). However, a decision to leave Google becomes increasingly difficult as more students and staff use it and as we invest more time and effort in training people to use it effectively. I don't see a reason why we would leave Google, at this time, but at least I know that if we did we could take our data with us.
One of our major concerns when we chose Google was operability. Some of the more established enterprise products seem to work with everything and finding people that can integrate solutions is very easy. Google is relatively new to the enterprise setting, so we had concerns about getting help when we needed it and the ability to develop on Google's platforms. We also had initial concerns that there were not a lot of established training resources on the market and we would have to create a lot of training material from scratch.
Google now has a marketplace with many other applications that integrate with GAFE, has built on their platform, and has released many API's that allow us to build on the GAFE platform. Since going Google in 2007 we have had no problem getting help through the support tab in the GAFE control panel. For those that have not seen the GAFE control panel, here is a portion of it:
We are provided with the usual online forums and help center links, however we also are provided with a phone number to call and links to a help desk along with personalized identifiers that link back to our accounts. We have used these features several time over the past few years and always have received prompt quality support. Google's reliability has been incredible and blows away the level of service we could provide in-house (even David Spangler, our Network Manager will verify that statement) Sometimes it is just easier to find the information yourself or talk to someone else in a similar setting, which is why the state level agreements and user's groups have also helped in this area.
Google has also begun a certified trainer program which is now creating a listing of individuals and organizations that can help in deployment and training. We have tapped into these resources and are now part of the community of trainers which has unlocked a massive supply of training material to us. I wouldn't be surprised if Google continues to collect, collate, improve upon, and publish training materials going forward.
So is there CRUD with Google Apps EDU?
However, there are questions like this with every product and it is our responsibility to raise these questions and look for potential problems. There are other questions and concerns that come along with GAFE, that for the sake of time and space, I have not addressed here. Please add your GAFE CRUD to the comments and the readers and I will respond to them. All we can do is help manage these concerns. because reasonable questions will always be present as long as it is our job to discover and prepare for all of the possible "crudilities".


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If no regular decent runs in Champs League and FA Cup could end up bit like Leeds. Third run KO is not a decent run.
But isn't Liverpool a better candidate to be another Leeds? Relegated to Europa League, not challenging for EPL top 4 position, no $ for players. The problem is MU's debt: more than £700m, bigger than that of any other EPL club. And growing: it could amount to £1.1b by 2017 according to a Guardian piece (Warning: not an easy read if not into finance.). By contrast Liverpool's debt is only £350m (though like MU's rising).
It's all because of the $ owing to three hedge funds. By the time that debt is due for repayment, in August 2017, the accumulated capital will have risen from an initial £138m when the Glazers refinanced in August 2006, to £580m. Then there is another £524m of bank and other borrowings which United owed at June 2008.
MU analysed in this article (warning: another boring read if not into finance) by Robert Peston, BBC's financial editor. So that footie fans can focus on games, the impt bits of his analysis:
"One banker with a close knowledge of the club put it like this to me: Manchester Utd as a business is a delicately balanced financial machine, which works when the team is winning and revenues are pouring in, but where there is not much of a financial cushion to absorb the inevitable occasional flop.
'He said that the huge debt that was taken on when the Glazer family bought the club was predicated on the basis that Man Utd would have decent runs in the Champions League and FA Cup in most years – which of course is typically what has happened."


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Social anarchism and non-violent direct action
by Shaun Chamberlin on August 10th, 2008
I'm back from this year's Climate Camp, and was deeply impressed with what I found there, both in terms of the organisation of the site (carried out largely by social anarchists) and the attitude and behaviour of the protesters.
The Camp is still running as I write, and I know large numbers of people are remaining to clear the site of all traces of our presence (in line with the request of the landowner), but for me it has been the most enjoyable, inspiring and re-energising of weeks. Judging by the media response I wasn't alone in this. Read more »


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I have had the Tempflow™ bed now for over four years, and am still in love with it. The only problem I can see is that at the end of my work day, I want to take my laptop to work on my bed and I end up falling asleep because of how comfortable the bed is! Everyone that comes over and sits, or sleeps on my bed comments that my Tempflow™ is the most comfortable bed they have ever laid on.
I had a serious problem! My friend Amanda said she was not going hang out and watch TV with me anymore, unless I got a new bed. You see, Amanda has fibromyalgia which causes great nerve pain throughout her body, so a comfortable bed is a matter of health not just comfort. When sleeping on my 15 year old mattress, Amanda tosses and turns, wakes up often and feels stiff and in pain in the morning. She owns a Tempur-Pedic® mattress and sleeps soundly when she is home.
Before I made a decision on what bed to get, a decision that would likely last for the next 20 to 30 years, I figured I better learn all about mattresses. Being the expert internet researcher that I am, I went about learning all about what was currently offered and looking extensively for any Tempflow and Tempurpedic mattress reviews I could find. I knew from many sources that a Memory Foam mattress is the way to go. The question was: Is Tempur-Pedic® the best or are they just the best known? During my searching I found some great articles and reviews on Tempflow™. I found this side by side comparison and review between Tempflow™ and Tempur-Pedic® to be especially useful: http://www.spacedaily.com/tempurpedic-mattress-comparison.htm.
I learned that Tempflow™ offers many revolutionary improvements superior to the other Memory Foam mattresses available. The main advantage that I found, is that Tempflow mattresses offer a patented airflow system which eliminated the main complaint of Memory Foam mattresses, the fact that they are so hot to sleep on. Their trademarked phrase is The Memory Foam Mattress That Breathes™ After weeks of detailed research into the facts and features of both mattresses, here is what I discovered:
FACTS AND FEATURES OF THE TEMPFLOW™ and TEMPUR-PEDIC™
· Both Tempflow™ and Tempur-pedic™ mattresses are designed to offer the best Orthopedic support for the spine, as well as contour all of your body's bumps and curves to offer a better pressure disbursement across the whole of your body.
· Both Tempflow™ and Tempur-pedic™ only use the highest quality U.S. A. foam (or foam also made in Sweden, as in the case of Tempurpedic), so you won't have to worry about longevity issues, as well as the reduced support that comes with using overseas foam that flattens out with use and cracks under pressure.
· Tempflow™ offers patented Airflow Transfer System™ that allows the cooler air to flow in two directions, even when you are sleeping in the same position throughout the night. Cooler air will enter through the many small holes that go down through the surface of the memory foam and out through the convoluted channels on the firmer base foam. It also works in reverse, as air can enter through the sides and up through the surface holes. This unique system also allows a heat transfer as the warmer air radiates off the body and ventilates down through the holes and out the sides of the mattress. By contrast, Tempur-pedic™ mattresses offer an airflow system that only extends across the layer underneath the memory foam layers, with no air holes extending to through the memory foam to allow the air to circulate up to the mattress user.
· Tempflow™ and Tempur-pedic™ reviews show clearly the visco-elastic foam which is the only substance which can make a total imprint of your body, then slowly returns to shape after your body weight is lifted. This slow return rate is what allows a comfortable, yet supportive contouring of all the bumps and curves of the body that eliminate the rebound pressure that hard springs and rubberized foam has when you compress it with your body.
· The Tempflow™ Gaia™, Selene™, Copia™, and Eros™ mattresses use special Biogreen®-SD™ proprietary, pressure sensitive, viscoelastic memory foam material that is free of dangerous chemicals like PBDE, TDI, Boric Acid and Bromine. An independent laboratory even measured no V.O.C. (Volatile Organic Compounds) outgas ratings for a truly hypo-allergenic, environmentally friendly, and non-toxic experience.
Since memory foam in general is the culprit of that annoying and possibly reactive bad smell, the Biogreen® memory foam eliminates this problem and you can rest easy knowing that it is the closest thing to your body. Tempur-pedic™ uses their proprietary Tempur™ foam in the following models from firmest to softest: the OriginalBed, AdvantageBed, ClassicBed, DeluxedBed, BellaFinaBed, and CelebrityBed. The Tempur-HD™ foam, models combine with their original Tempur™ foam to produce the following models in order of softest to firmest: the RhapsodyBed, AlluraBed and GrandBed. Lastly, they have their softest surface beds that are "pillow-top like" in feel that use their Temur-ES™ material called the Tempur-Cloud™ and Tempur-Cloud™ Supreme.
· Tempflow™ uses a breathable and stretch forming, non-toxic, fire resistant sock over their foam and their proprietary luxurious and soft Kool-Flow™ Bamboo fabric cover has been specially designed to allow for total breathability for use with their patented airflow circulation technology. With the Selene™ and Eros™ models, the micro-suede side walls have a special airflow fabric in the location of the side channel openings. Tempur-pedic™ uses luxurious, soft, stretchable mattress covers that are made of either a rayon-velour, silk-bamboo, Tempur-Tex™, or (in the case of the expensive Grand-Bed) Cashmere fabric. Many of these models list that they use a breathable micro-suede side wall construction, though in my experience, microsuede shows that there is not much breathability (also confirmed by Tempflow's use of the airflow fabric sewn between the microsuede side walls where the Channels are located)
· Tempflow™offers Selene™ and Eros™ Mattresses a 30-Year Limited Warranty. The Gaia mattress has a 20 Year Limited Warranty. Learn more here: http://tempflow.com/warranty.html. Tempur-Pedic™, offers a 20-Year Limited Warranty. Learn more here: http://www.tempurpedic.com/customer_service/warranty_information/
· Tempflow™®offers a 120-Day Satisfaction Guarantee to ensure that you are totally satisfied with your Tempflow™®. For more information, call Relief-Mart, Inc. at 800-667-1969. You can see the actual Satisfaction guarantee here: http://www.Tempflow.com/guarantee.html. The Tempur-Pedic offers a 90 night tryout. You can see the actual satisfaction guarantee here: http://www.tempurpedic.com/mattresses/offers/574
· Both Companies have various awards from space and magazine publications and foundations and have been tested all over the world. I really appreciated seeing the Tempflow™ studies that were performed by the Sleep Disorders Center of Alabama. The following is a summary of those studies, but you can also view the results at this page: http://www.tempflow.com/tempflow_sleep_study.htm
o 73% test subjects reported a reduction in their need to shift and toss and turn on the Tempflow™.
o 100% of all test subjects reported that they felt well supported on the Tempflow™.
o 87% of test subjects gave the Tempflow™ an 8 or higher in total comfort.
· The Tempflow™ site lists actual customer feedback from real customers like the National Geographic ship which have been going to the equator for 6 months. The National Geographic people were concerned that the memory foam would be too warm. Tempflow™ mattresses got glorious reviews about how much the crew members loved the Tempflow™ and there were no complaints of hot mattresses.
· A standard spring mattress will give you improper support and have gaps throughout your body. This will give you a poor night's sleep. You toss and turn, which means your body is lacking the quality sleep needed for good health.
· Some of the mattresses made today using memory foam are designed for the heat of the body to reflect back to the foam to soften it, making for an uncomfortable night's sleep.
· Most standard mattresses only offer a ten year warranty and they can start to break down within six months after, especially those with the comfortable pillow tops. As mentioned Tempflow™ offers a 30 year warranty to Tempur-Pedic's® 20 years and you also get one less month to try out the Tempurpedic.
· Chemical odors are often present in other Memory Foam Mattresses.
· While many mattress companies claim to make their mattresses in the U.S.A., they are using foam purchased from much cheaper and poorer quality overseas sources.
After my research and thorough Tempflow and Tempurpedic reviews were completed, I was convinced that Tempflow™ was the mattress for us, so I took Amanda to test the beds at their factory showroom in Westlake Village. The moment she laid her head down, she smiled and said, "This is a wonderful bed—even better than mine."
I asked the Tempflow™ representative a question and when I looked back Amanda was so relaxed that I thought she had fallen asleep! When it was time to leave, she didn't want to get up. She said, "Please buy this bed." So, that's when I made my decision. The next step was to decide which bed.
Tempflow™ offers different levels of firmness and Amanda and I liked them all. Tempflow™ offers beds in all sizes. In fact, they produced an 8 foot round bed for the extreme makeover show to represent a basketball for a kid who loved basketball. We chose the Copia™, since we felt it was the best combination of support and plush comfort for both of us. It was just a bit firmer than the Eros model and I would compare the feel to the Tempurpedic-HD models like the RhapsodyBed or AlluraBed. The other models like the Gaia felt more like the Tempur-Cloud models and the Selene felt more like the Rhapsody, but with a more firming support underneath the softer memory foam.
We were even more excited when we found out that Tempflow™ offers adjustable beds in all sizes. I always loved the idea of being able to watch TV in bed in total comfort, but never knew that you could accomplish this in a King sized bed. Well, I leaned that we could get two single or split King adjustable bed frames that operate simultaneously with one remote control and can lift the whole, one piece, king-size mattress. This was my ultimate fantasy for a bed, but with Amanda in it. The beautifully designed & crafted adjustable bed frames have an incredible 20 year warranty. They have a zero gravity button to bring you to that perfect, weightless body angle (learn more by clicking here)
Sleep is an incredibly important part of everyone's life. I wanted the best for Amanda and me and Tempflow™ makes it possible for people to get better night's sleep which produce some interesting outcomes: When people are not tired they are less likely to get low blood sugar. They don't eat as much and are burning calories while sleeping. Studies show that people have lost weight while getting a good night's sleep. These factors are among those that result is good health.
Based on all that I learned and experienced, I ordered a king size bed with two single mechanical frames and can't wait to get them.
I like the fact that Tempflow™ is a proud division of Relief Mart, Inc., which is an industry leader in pain relief, comfort management, and memory foam products. Relief-Mart™, Inc. was created with the intention of helping people around the world through products which enable people to take charge of their health today. In these modern stressful times, the value of good health cannot be overstated.
Whether you are in pain, or just want to improve the quality of your rest, Tempflow™ offers you the highest quality mattress put together in California, using the highest quality memory foam made in the U.S.A. Relief-Mart, Inc. has been producing quality memory foam mattresses and other products for 10 years that bring further innovation and set the standards for the industry.
I am very happy with my decision and Amanda is ecstatic. Tempflow™ offers a 30 year warranty as well as a four month money back guarantee! With a company that has that much confidence in their product and stands behind it that strongly, I knew I had nothing to lose.
We are anxiously waiting for our King Size bed to be made in the Tempflow™ 100,000 sq ft plant and will add our experiences to this article.
The Verdict:
After three wonderful months of sleeping on my King Size adjustable Tempflow™ I am more satisfied than I could have anticipated. Amanda and I absolutely love it! It is amazing what an improvement it has made in our lives. The differences between my old Sealy Posterpedic bed and the Tempflow are extraordinary. I can feel the difference in the stability and support just by sitting on the bed. We wake up rested and ready to face the day requiring less time in bed than before. To me, these are sure signs of deeper more restful sleep.
I used to toss and turn during the night and wake Amanda up because when I moved in the old bed, it disturbed her. But no more, she sleeps soundly because my movements are not transferred to her side of the bed. Even when I work on my computer at night, which I do every night, she is not disturbed and sleeps like a baby.
The heat that Amanda felt on her old Tempur-Pedic® is not felt on the Tempflow™. The bed really does breath. I can actually see where the bottom sheet is pulled down onto the mattress showing how the bed is inhaling as part of its breathing preventing it from getting hot. We are both aware of how the Memory Foam contours to our individual bodies allowing for such comfortable supported sleep.
I get an even greater appreciation for my bed when I go out of town and sleep on other beds. In comparison, these beds give me a poor night's sleep and an aching back and neck when I get up the next morning.
Each and every night I look forward to getting into my bed no matter what I am doing. The adjustable function allows me to get in positions that are comfortable whether watching TV, reading, using my laptop or sleeping. Amanda loves to adjust the foot level to the highest point for inversion to help her relax. We absolutely recommend what we are sleeping on, the King Size Tempflow™ with the adjustable bed function. The folks at Tempflow™ were very nice and easy to deal with. They seem to only want a satisfied customer. The delivery fellows were very nice and efficient. I have only good things to say.
You can read some testimonials about Tempflow™ here: http://www.tempflow.com/testimonials.htm
Because of the amazing nights sleeps I have experienced with Tempflow, I recently was in need of bunk beds and obtained them from ReliefMart, the parent company of Tempflow and you can read about our great experience here Night and Day Cinnamon Twin Twin Bunk Review.
Here is contact information for the Temflow and Tempurpedic Mattress:
Tempflow™ Division
Westlake Village, CA 91361
800 667-1969
They Ship Worldwide!
Tempur-Pedic North America, Inc.
1713 Jaggie Fox Way
Lexington, KY 40511
*Please note that LA Splash is not associated with either of these companies and that their respective trademark's were used strictly for comparison and review purposes.


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Alright! Lets continue with the STGCC. Basically, the summary of the event itself has already been wrapped up. Today's post is bascially about what I bought there, so if you can't be bothered with what I bought, just skip to the final paragraph.
Anyway, money spent=$65, for me anyway. Thats quite alot concerning my pathtic budget. My bro spent some money, around $50-ish. Still, the goods that we got were pretty damn worth it, so most of these were kinda good purchases.
1st up, my miku phone strap. Well since it was already hooked onto my handphone, there was no way for me to take the picture well, so it turned out really big since I kinda fixated it in front of my phone camera. Miku is so damn cute, couldnt resist this, and it was only $3, so I just bouhgt it.
Next up are my posters. This here is my 250 gsm black rock sooter wallpepaper. Gotta say, loving this one, probably my favourite poster among the 3. The artwork for this is just fantastic, but kinda pricey IMO. This was $10.
My 2nd poster. This one came along with a clannad poster that I gave to my bro, both cost $10 altogether, it was quite a bargain. Plus, I really love vocaloid, so theres really nothing much for me to say here.
This here are my 3 posters lined up altogether, the black rock shooter and vocaloid ones were the ones that were bought from the STGCC, the leftmost one was my only souvenier from AFA. I must say, I wonder how my wall will look like next year when I line more posters up.
And next my most expensive item, the black rock shooter herself. Oh my bloody god this figurine cost me a whopping $45. Well I couldnt help it I was eyeing her since the AFA, good thing the figurine was still being sold here at the STGCC. Nothing much really, just a japan made figurine that had changable hair, faces, weapons, hands and whatnot, not really for playing, just for display purposes.
Seriously, altough it looked really simple it was hard as hell to get her pose right, and those hands are so damn hard to fit in -.-. She had a huge cannon too but I had too much problem fitting it in so I went with the sword after much deliberation. Also, the figurine itself included a DVD disc with 7 language subtitles of the black rock shooter original animation. Tough I watched it before I just put the disc in and watched again. The quality really deserved a 2 thumbs up, good thing it came with subtitles though.
The 2 figurines in my room. Pretty awesome I must say, this section will probably expand next year as well, so yeah.
Mio-chan!!!! This here is a K-on button I bought for a measly $4. I wanted ritsu originally, but since my bro's fren got it, I didnt want to copy him. And this was the last mio.....so I just basically wanted to troll the next guy who wanted a Mio button. Troll face!!
Next up is a key... Well, its just the oathkeeper keyblade in a minature form, its attached to my ring of keys now. This cost $3 too.....but there was a bigger one featuring cloud's sword, that was pure badass, but it was $15, so....meh....
Finally, the most troll item of them all, a pandora hearts exclusive pocket watch. Altough I never did watch the show, this pocket watch was super badass. I mean like whoever wields this will be fuck yeah-ing all the time when they check the time! This solid watch of gold cost $20, but its pretty farking worth it.


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It's no secret that bitcoin has hit a bit of a rough patch lately. The virtual currency has experienced a lawsuit, major theft, and a major exchange rate collapse, all within the last six months.
That's why it's all the more surprising that Draper Associates, the original wing of Silicon Valley venture capital giant Draper Fisher Jurvetson, has decided to invest $500,000 into a bitcoin-related startup: CoinLab.
The Seattle-based company said that it plans on using the money as a way to kickstart its business idea. CoinLab wants to use the bitcoin mining system as a means to generate revenue primarily for gaming companies.
Here's how CoinLab's model works: a gamer downloads a mining client for in-game currency (think Linden dollars, Wurm silver, WoW gold, FarmCash), similar to what any bitcoin user downloads as a way to gain virtual money. Then the software generates a certain number of bitcoins, which are changed into US dollars at current exchange rates. Next, CoinLab takes a cut of those real-world American dollars, as does the game company, which are then converted into the in-game currency.
"[We think] this will generate 50 times average revenue per user compared to advertisements," Peter Vessenes, CoinLab's CEO, told Ars on Wednesday.
Vessenes added that the plan is to make all the steps in between the mining software and receiving in-game currency as seamless as possible. Gamers won't need to know anything about Bitcoin; they'll just have to run the client and then eventually will get a little boost in their gaming accounts.
Vessenes added that for now, the company has Wurm Online and graFighters "ready to go" when the service launches next month.
Still, not everyone is convinced that this is a good investment.
"Frankly, it makes no sense to me. But that doesn't mean its wrong, just that it makes no sense to me." wrote Ronald J. Mann, a law professor at Columbia University and an expert in payment systems, in a Wednesday e-mail sent to Ars. "The idea that they're going to get a VC-like return in bitcoin-based projects [is ludicrous]."
UPDATE: Joel Yarmon, of Draper Associates, wrote Ars on Friday to say: "The in-game revenue is a stepping stone: continue to build the business, trust, partnerships, etc. The greater idea of bitcoin is what attracted us to the investment: a decentralized monetary system backed by trusted parties, not venal governments, who want a secure and guaranteed way to settle remittances. You've probably seen an uptick in the value of art auctioned at Sotheby's and Christy's, and Utah just passing a law legalizing the settling of remittances in gold and silver. Folks are searching for more guaranteed ways of holding and moving money. Bitcoin can do that."


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In order to encourage undergraduates to begin thinking about b-school and the GMAT (when they are better positioned to effectively prepare for it), the good folks at GMAC launched a marketing campaign called "Direct Your Destiny." The campaign includes a web-based video campaign and other approaches aimed at increasing the number of GMAT test-takers from the undergraduate or recent graduate pool. I checked out the videos the other day, and in all honesty a couple of them are pretty funny.
While the videos are entertaining, the rationale underpinning GMAC's pitch to undergrads has some significance. Based on the logic, many business majors or business-minded undergraduates should consider taking the GMAT, particularly if they're pretty sure an MBA is in their future.
Here are a couple things to consider:


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House of Chains: Book Four of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
Longtime fans may be surprised by the fourth book in Erikson's masterful fantasy epic that began with Gardens of the Moon (2004), because the long opening section follows a single character, the Teblor warrior Karsa Orlong, and his companions on a gory raid through enemy territory and into the human lowlands of Northern Genabackis. The time-hopping, perspective-shifting, looping story lines typical of this Canadian author return later, as Erikson ties Karsa's actions to the ultimate showdown between the forces of the Malazan Empire and Sha'ik's Army of the Apocalypse. Against a backdrop of brutal power struggles, the stubbornly determined Karsa is able to accomplish more than even he could have imagined. Unusual among fantasy writers, Erikson succeeds in making readers empathize equally with all sides involved in his world's vast, century-spanning conflict. Newcomers will eagerly seek out previous books in the series. (Aug.)
Release date: 08/01/2006
Genre: Fiction


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This blog [Di Persimpangan Kutub] exist since 5 December 2012 but this is about "birthday" for DPK concept [birthday about its existence at internet , not birthday for "the creation of DPK concept"]. DPK theory never born on that day. Birthday for DPK theory is 10 July 2014. Before 10 July 2014, DPK concept use 22 pencetus as the main sensor of the truth. So, it is not impossible if exist one or more source which DPK concept use it as its content which contain something false or not exact information. I hope this never happen. Why? Because DPK theory is the better tool for seek out any true information. This post did not display whole penanda for whole source which DPK concept use it for make DPK content. Why? Some of the reason is I did not use any penanda, only believe the source contain true information. So, cautious or use the condition for 51%.
I will not display whole source for DPK concept here. Some of the reason is I never know or never remember the name of the source. However, I may will not display whole the penanda or all those source I know their name [et cetera] here.
Let us look here, now:
1= The book of "IMAM MAHDI YANG DITUNGGU DAN MALAPETAKA AKHIR ZAMAN". This book about MAHDI, the last caliph who disappear since centuries ago:
Writer for this book : Abdul Latif Rafqi
Publisher: Jasmin Enterprise, P.O Box No. 12649, 50786 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
First publication/impression: 2003 Anno Domini/1424 Hejira
Penanda / Indicator:
1- This book got ISBN code , that is 983-2565-48-0. This is mean that the government of MALAYSIA approved this book for sale.
2- Although the writer wrote at page 237-238 , that is :
" Yang paling penting dalam meyakini Imam Mahdi ini adalah mengimani asal kewujudan (baca: telah lahir) dengan seluruh sifat-sifat lazimnya. Seperti, bahawa ia putera langsung (baca: bukan cucu) Imam Hasan al-'Askari (Imam ke 11) mempunyai seluruh ilmu al-Quran dan Hadis dengan pasti (ma'shum ilmu), ma'shum amal perbuatannya dan dipilih oleh Allah….. maka hal itu tidak membuatkan anda keluar dari aqidah Syi'ah…. Ingat! Ketika anda belum boleh dikatakan Syi'ah, bukan bererti anda tercela."
but this writer use "Various Opinion" from Sunni & Syi'ah ulema. What he said above is look he is Syi'ah follower. Whether he is Syiah or not, I believe and like to take a small part of the book content for be DPK concept because he use "VARIOUS OPINION COLLECTION" technique which also show various proof, logic, source. This technique help me for choose the best or better opinion which we can treat it as true information.
2= Book of "Wanita Wajib Berpurdah":
Penanda for this book is like these:
1- The writer for this book use Whole Opinion Collection technique. This technique succeed show the strongest opinion which bring strongest evidences which still win. So, any win proof or any win opinion become true information or become pure Islam teaching.
2– This book also get ISBN CODE. No proof show the writer & the publisher of this book are criminal or liar.
3= Book Of Mengenal Diri & Wali Allah:
The Writer of This book and his address:
Ustaz Mustapha Muhammad Al-Jiasi Al-Ahmadi [the author of "Ramuan Ilmu Tasauf"],
S/20-6416-A, Jalan Raja Dewa Hulu, 15150 Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia.
Publisher [also who print this book]:
Pustaka Aman Press Sdn. Bhd (26321-T),
4200-A, Simpang Tiga Telipot, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra,
Peti Surat 67, 15700 Kota Bharu, Kelantan,
Telephone number: 09-7481849, 7484058,
Fax: 09-7487064
Price of Book: RM8.00
This book was printed in many years:
First publication: 1976, second and third is 1977, fourth is 1978, fifth and next:
1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983-1991, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001
Sample of Indicator for This book:
1- The writer use 50% his knowledge which he got from his real teacher [teacher who he treat know about pure sufi in Islam] and 50% from old book. He list several name of those old books. I never investigate any content for these old books, let us read more:
2- This book did not get ISBN CODE. I believe that this book did not get ISBN code reason government of MALAYSIA fail to get someone who can value any content of this book but the government never forbid it [can publish and sell this book] because the book contain many of strong proof and logic.
3- The writer explain about something false and wrong about sufi in ISLAM or about tarekat in Islam or about tasauf in Islam with good explanation.
NOTE: He finish his writing at 11.35 pm on Thursday on 19 Safar, 1391 hejira = 14 April 1971.
Warning: This book contain subject-matter about tawassul [read on page 141-143]. This content [tawassul] IS ONE REASON WHY DPK founder cannot treat this book can get S1+ and also become reason why not whole content of this book can be DPK source. If we read about tawassul on this book, seem the writer believe that God's lover who die can help people who still alive [who request help from the soul [God's lover]. However, the writer never give any proof from any hadith or from al-Quran for show that Islam People can tawassul. So, suitable with DPK method or DPK Theory and The Mind Of Kill Root Problem, me, as the founder of Di Persimpangan Kutub DID NOT BELIEVE THAT WE CAN MAKE TAWASSUL OR WE PUT OUR OPINION BETWEEN BELIEVE OR NOT OR USE LAST PENCETUS [ PENCETUS KE 22].
Riddle Code 716 @ 176:
First Riddle:
The sound The Alarm
Before suck before itch
Wind cause it fly
You pursue it
When you get it
It go to other
You free it
because you get other
When the sun
When it die
When it touch