Starting on July 31 to August 6, “Pottermore will be placing a clue on the Pottermore homepage to help all you Harry Potter fans find The Magical Quill. If you find it, you’ll have the chance to gain early access to Pottermore.”
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Sunday, July 31, 2011
Three Steps To Using WhatsYourPrice.com | WhatsYourPrice.com First Date Etiquette | How WhatsYourPrice.com Works
Three Steps To Using WhatsYourPrice.com
Fill out your profile and upload a photo...
Your experience with WhatsYourPrice.com starts with filling out a profile about yourself, who you'd like to meet and what you expect on a first date. In order to use the website, you must have an approved profile, and at least one approve photo of yourself.
Make an offer or accept an offer...
Once you find the people you'd like to date, ask them out by making an offer. If you're a generous user, name the price you're willing to pay for the first date. And, if you're an attractive user, name the price you want to get paid for the first date. Our offer negotiating system will allow you to accept an offer, reject an offer, or counter with a different price.
Send a message to setup a date!
Once an offer is accepted, you're ready to plan the date. Simply write a message to schedule a time and place for your first date. It's simple and it's fun!
WhatsYourPrice.com First Date Etiquette
After you've accepted an offer for a first date, it's time to plan and schedule the first date. You may want to check out some of our first date ideas, but do try to be creative. The next thing you may be wondering is how does a generous user of the website go about paying an attractive user for the first date. Here are some general etiquette and rules regarding Do's and Don'ts.
* DO NOT pay or ask anyone for payment prior to meeting for a date
* If someone asks you to send money by Western Union, report them immediately
* Generous members are expected to pay for the date (there's no going dutch here)
* Our advice: Pay 50% of the date at the start of the date, and 50% at the end
* DO NOT accept personal checks or cashier's checks - there's just too much fraud
* CASH is king, and pay only when you meet your date in person
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Anti-Drug and Inhalant Abuse Badge Scheme (SANA) | Sana Badge Project: Syria News | SSA and SANA
THE SINGAPORE SCOUT ASSOCIATION1 Bishan St 12 Singapore 579808
Tel: 6259 2858 Fax: 6259 2118
Website: www.scout.org.sg
Email: hq@scout.org.sg
SANA: Anti-Drug and Inhalant Abuse Badge Scheme
The SANA Badge Course for 2011 is now open to Scouts (aged 13-15 years) for registration. All Schools/Units are to adhere to the registration procedures.
OBJECTIVES
The SANA Badge Course is a joint collaboration between SSA and SANA. It aims to immunise school students against the dangers of drug and inhalant abuse. It also has a multiplier-effect component that enables participating students to be transfer agents in order to pass on the anti-drug and inhalant abuse message and educate their peers on the dangers of drug abuse.
ELIGIBILITY
All registered Scouts who are students in the Secondary School (Sec. 1 – 3) can apply to attend this course.
COURSE DURATION & VENUE
This is a 1-day course at SANA Headquarters from 0900hrs - 1703hrs.
Address: Sengkang Community Hub
No. 2, Sengkang Square #05-01 (S545025)
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J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter site Pottermore announced Magical Quill challenge
The homepage of Pottermore has been updated to announce a Magical Quill challenge. As most Potter fans know, the Magical Quill at Hogwarts senses when a magical child is born and notes that child's name to become a future student at the wizarding school when they turn 11 years old.
The Magical Quill challenge will ask questions from each of the seven books over the course of seven days, starting tomorrow, July 31 – Harry Potter’s birthday. Those able to answer the question will add the answer to the end of the quill.pottermore.com URL, which will then lead them to a website. Once they find the Magical Quill on the website, it will take them back to Pottermore where they can register for early access to the Beta site. Those unable to register in time tomorrow will get another chance to answer another question the next day (and the next…) until the last question is posted on August 6, so don’t give up!
The Magical Quill challenge will ask questions from each of the seven books over the course of seven days, starting tomorrow, July 31 – Harry Potter’s birthday. Those able to answer the question will add the answer to the end of the quill.pottermore.com URL, which will then lead them to a website. Once they find the Magical Quill on the website, it will take them back to Pottermore where they can register for early access to the Beta site. Those unable to register in time tomorrow will get another chance to answer another question the next day (and the next…) until the last question is posted on August 6, so don’t give up!
The following was posted on Pottermore’s blog which gives more details about the Magical Quill challenge:
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted the hidden link in our You ask, we answer’ blog post from 19 July, which took you to an interview J.K. Rowling gave in 2000.
In the interview was some interesting information about a Magical Quill, located in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Magical Quill detects the birth of a magical child and writes their name down in a large book. Every year, Professor McGonagall checks the book and sends owls to the children who are turning eleven, to inform them that they have a place at Hogwarts.
Each day for seven days, from 31 July to 6 August, we will be placing a clue on the Pottermore homepage to help you locate The Magical Quill. If you find it, you’ll have the chance to gain early access to Pottermore.
There will be a new clue every day, and each clue will relate to a different book in the Harry Potter series. On Day 1 the clue will relate to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, on Day 2 the clue will relate to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and so forth. The clues will also vary in difficulty. On Days 1-3 the clues will be harder, and on Days 4-7 the clues will be easier.
To find The Magical Quill, you need to solve the clue and add the answer to the end of the web address quill.pottermore.com/ This will lead you to a website where The Magical Quill will be located while early access places are available. The Magical Quill’s location will change every day. Read More
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted the hidden link in our You ask, we answer’ blog post from 19 July, which took you to an interview J.K. Rowling gave in 2000.
In the interview was some interesting information about a Magical Quill, located in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Magical Quill detects the birth of a magical child and writes their name down in a large book. Every year, Professor McGonagall checks the book and sends owls to the children who are turning eleven, to inform them that they have a place at Hogwarts.
Each day for seven days, from 31 July to 6 August, we will be placing a clue on the Pottermore homepage to help you locate The Magical Quill. If you find it, you’ll have the chance to gain early access to Pottermore.
There will be a new clue every day, and each clue will relate to a different book in the Harry Potter series. On Day 1 the clue will relate to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, on Day 2 the clue will relate to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and so forth. The clues will also vary in difficulty. On Days 1-3 the clues will be harder, and on Days 4-7 the clues will be easier.
To find The Magical Quill, you need to solve the clue and add the answer to the end of the web address quill.pottermore.com/ This will lead you to a website where The Magical Quill will be located while early access places are available. The Magical Quill’s location will change every day. Read More
Dell Streak 10 Pro Introduced In China | Apple iPad 2 3G Teardown | The company is betting on China to make its mark in the increasingly crowded tablet market
Dell on Thursday said that its Dell Streak 10 Pro tablet is now available in China.
The 10-inch tablet runs version 3.1 of the Android operating system, known as Honeycomb. It features a dual-core nVidia Tegra 2 mobile processor running at 1 GHz, 16 GB of internal storage, and a SDHC card slot that can accommodate up to 32 GB. Its 1200 x 800 WGXA screen supports 10-point capacitive multitouch input and includes both front-facing (2 megapixel) and rear-facing cameras (5 megapixel).
The device can handle 1080p video and includes GPS, gyro, accelerometer, compass sensors, as well as dual stereo speakers and two microphones.The Streak 10 Pro is being offered at a special promotional price of RMB 2,999, which is about $461 in U.S. dollars. That promotion ends Friday, July 29, and thereafter the normal price will be RMB 3,699, or about $562.
"The fact that we're launching it in China first underscores the importance of China to Dell overall," said Michael Tatelman, VP of consumer sales and marketing for the company, in a blog post. "More people are online in China than anywhere else in the world, and IDC estimates that more than 900 million people are expected to come online in China alone in the next 10 years."
Some of the many people in China are bound to buy Dell's tablet, but it remains to be seen whether the company can attract enough customers to alter the balance of power in the tablet market.
Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney expressed some skepticism about Dell's move. "China looks favorable on Android and if it's made by a Chinese manufacturer, it could do well," he said in an email. "Also, they may prefer the smaller size devices such as the 10.1 inch screen. But with over 200 tablets coming, Dell will have many challenges. So my conclusion is that they are going to have a rough time with this. Frankly, I think Dell needs to decide whether it might be too late to be in this business except as a niche player."
The Apple iPad has plenty of competition nowadays. Research firm Strategy Analytics reported earlier this month that Apple's iOS-based iPad accounted for over 94% of the global tablet shipments in Q2 2010, but only 61.3% in Q2 2011. Global Android tablet shipments meanwhile have risen from 2.9% to 30.1% during the same period.
But shipping a tablet is only half the battle. People have to buy them and, to date, they're still mostly buying iPads. As an example, Motorola said it expects to sell between 1.3 million and 1.5 million Xoom tablets this year, based on Q2 sales of 440,000. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads during the same period, the company's fiscal Q3. Read More
Counterfeit to the Apple core | APPLE MacBook Air notebook computer | Apple's Mac OS X | Thomas and Apple
Counterfeit to the Apple core | APPLE MacBook Air notebook computer | Apple's Mac OS X | Thomas and Apple
AN APPLE MacBook Air notebook computer, offered on eBay by a seller in Perth for just $599 - $500 less than the list price - was the bargain of the year, thought Tony Thomas, Melbourne journalist and Mac enthusiast, as he hit the ''buy now'' button.
The computer, shown on the eBay site to have an illuminated Apple logo on its lid and Apple's MacBook Air livery on its packaging, was, in fact, a fake. It ran not Apple's Mac OS X operating system but Microsoft's Windows.
''I was in Perth on my way home from Africa when I saw the MacBook Air on eBay,'' Thomas says. ''I snapped it up straight away, sure I had a wonderful bargain. I even emailed the seller, identified as Jake Gill at 'oz-sh0p' in the Perth suburb of Balga, suggesting I cab out to his place with the cash so I could take the machine home next day. He replied that it wasn't convenient and insisted I pay through PayPal.
Nortel Patent Probe Picks Up | Thomas and Apple
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department is intensifying an investigation into whether tech giants including Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Research in Motion Ltd. could use a recently acquired trove of patents to unfairly hobble competing smartphones using Google Inc.'s Android software, according to people familiar with the matter.
A consortium of six companies last month paid $4.5 billion to acquire a portfolio of 6,000 patents auctioned by the bankrupt Canadian telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp., thwarting Google's interest. Read More
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