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Needing to help Stalin's ill-equipped army against Hitler, the Allies secretly delivered 8,000 aircraft to Russia from Great Falls Montana between 1942 and 1945. The sub-Arctic airline that linked Moscow with Fort Nelson and Fort St. John is the subject of Blake W. Smith's Warplanes to Alaska (Hancock 1999 $47.95). Based on interviews with Soviet, American and RCAF airmen, Smith's illustrated history reveals how and why the Aleutian solution' provided a 7,900-mile lifeline to Moscow via British Columbia.
"The veterans who lived this history are fast disappearing," says Smith, "and it gives me great satisfaction that I was able to hear their stories and collect their photographs and share them."
In 1940 President Roosevelt campaigned on a platform of not involving America in another European war. After FDR's re-election, he devised unpopular 'lend-lease' legislation to supply Britain with armaments instead of troops. FDR soft-pedalled his aid program, likening it to "loaning your neighbour a fire hose when his house is on fire."
In June of 1941, Hitler launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union, code-named Operation Barbarossa. Ten days later Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to extend their lend-lease program to help Stalin. The Soviets were at first reluctant to consider a trans-Siberian route for aircraft deliveries. But the success of German U-boats in the north Atlantic and the logistics of a route via Africa forced serious consideration of the ALSIB route. ALSIB, a contraction for Alaska and Siberia, was formally agreed to by American and Soviet officials on August 3, 1942. By this time Japan had attacked Pearl Harbour; America had declared war on Japan; and Hitler had declared war on America four days later. FDR no longer needed to soft-pedal American involvement.
Aerodromes were built at Fort Nelson, Watson Lake and Fort St. John in 1941. Eventually a 'string of beads' stretched from the American terminus in Montana --including Lethbridge, Calgary, Edmonton, Grand Prairie, Fort St. John, Beaton River, Smith River, Pine Lake, Teslin, Whitehorse, Snag, Northway, Tanacross, Big Delta, Fairbanks, Galena and Nome --across Siberia to Moscow.
Blake Smith, a recreational pilot in North Vancouver, first became intrigued by ALSIB when he stumbled upon the wreckage of a lend-lease P-39 Airacobra on a Yukon mountain top. He began to scour military archives and engage historians from Finland, Ukraine and Russia to unravel stories. "Russians who participated in lend-lease were expressly told to erase this period of cooperation from their memories on the threat of imprisonment," he says.
A Soviet pilot named Nikolai Sladkov, for instance, recalls that pilots who took part in the lend-lease program were later treated with suspicion by the KGB during the Cold War. While piloting an American-built C-47 transport against Japan, Sladkov made the mistake of recording the identity of his American-built plane in his personal flight log.
"I was called before the KGB and it was explained to me that America had never sent airplanes to the USSR which meant that I could never have piloted them. They advised me never to speak to anyone about the subject and took away my identification card verifying I was a war participant. It was finally returned to me in 1991."
Blake Smith followed Warplanes to Alaska with another book based on the same subject, Wings Over the Wildnerness. He explained to BC BookWorld, "The books differ in that my first book focussed heavily on the back-story of the circumstances that led to the need to extend Lend-Lease aid to our Soviet ally and delved more deeply into the need for creating a wilderness airway over the top of the world and the hardships faced. It seemed to me that it was essential in my first book to include the organizational and administrative history of both the airway and the Lend-Lease Program. These topics are described briefly in Wings Over the Wilderness but in this latest book my aim was to rely more heavily on the first hand accounts of those that were a part of this experience and expand into several previously unmentioned aspects of the Alaska-Siberia airway. Both American and Soviet pilots and ground personnel contributed many terrific stories and photographs and my personal challenge was to weave them together in an interesting and coherent framework. One area in which I expanded the topic was to include a substantial amount of content on the experiences of the search & rescue pilots. These men flew small bush planes into remote areas providing many essential duties beyond their search & rescue responsibilities and were part of many interesting adventures. With the publication of my first book ten years ago many veterans who read that book responded with stories of their own, added additional details to the stories I had mentioned, or suggested I write about a previously untold aspect of their private bush war on top of the world. This I did in Wings Over the Wilderness."
Warplanes to Alaska (Hancock 1999 $47.95). 0-88839-401-2
Wings Over the Wilderness: The Flew the Trail of '42 (Hancock 2007 $49.95) 978-0-88839-595-5
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MAKING EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2006--Resumed -
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I have an amendment at the desk, No. 3617. I ask for its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment is pending. It is now the regular order.
The Senator from Arizona is recognized.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, this amendment would strike the $6 million earmark for sugarcane growers in Hawaii, which was not included in the administration's emergency supplemental request.
I would again remind my colleagues of the Statement of Administration Policy which was issued on April 25, obviously on the legislation now being considered. Again, this has been repeated several times in the Chamber, but I think it is important to again quote from the administration's statement, saying:
The administration is seriously concerned with the overall funding level and the numerous unrequested items included in the Senate bill that are unrelated to the war or emergency hurricane relief needs. The final version of the legislation must remain focused on addressing urgent national priorities while maintaining fiscal discipline. Accordingly, if the President is ultimately presented a bill that provides more than $92.2 billion, exclusive of funding for the President's plan to address pandemic influenza, he will veto the bill.
The administration statement goes on to say:
The administration strongly opposes the committee's agricultural assistance proposal totaling nearly $4 billion. The 2002 farm bill was designed, when combined with crop insurance, to eliminate the need for ad hoc disaster assistance. In 2005, many crops had record or near record production and the U.S. farm sector cash receipts were the second highest ever. Furthermore, the proposed level of assistance is excessive and may overcompensate certain producers for their losses.
So the administration is pretty clear about this issue of these add-ons which have ballooned this bill from $92 billion to $105 billion or so.
I also point out for my colleagues' benefit that the American people are growing very weary of this earmarking process. Last Thursday, there was a poll published in the Wall Street Journal, which is an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, and it was interesting in that it says:
In particular, Americans who don't approve of Congress blame their sour mood on partisan contention and gridlock in Washington. Some 44 percent call themselves ``tired of Republicans and Democrats fighting each other.'' Thirty-six percent say nothing seems to get done on important issues. Further, 34 percent cite corruption among lawmakers. Among all Americans, a 39 percent plurality say the single most important thing for Congress to accomplish this year is curtailing budgetary earmarks benefiting only certain constituents.
If there is ever a bill that would emphasize the frustration Americans have felt, it is this legislation that is before us.
A worthy cause, although I intend, along with others, to stop this business of continuing to fund the war in Iraq, which has been going on now a number of years now, the ``emergency supplemental,'' it is long overdue and time to focus on the normal budgetary process because we know we will be spending money on Iraq, unfortunately, for a long period of time. But this vehicle in itself is a violation of the normal procedures of the Senate because it should be authorized and then appropriated. But this vehicle is then, of course, used to load up unnecessary, unwanted, unfortunate, and sometimes outrageous additional spending.
For example, in this bill, which is not subject to this amendment, we have $15 million to the USDA Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Program. This program already exists and is meant to assist with lamb breeding stock needs, not hurricane recovery; $400,000 goes to the Rio Grande Valley sugar growers for assistance with sugarcane storage and transportation costs to the port of Baton Rouge, LA. Among the many sugar growers nationwide, why are we providing an earmark to this particular group?
There is $120 million for sugarcane and sugar beet disaster assistance in Florida. Rather than using existing USDA disaster assistance programs, this legislation would establish a special program that caters directly and solely to Florida sugar. By the way, it is one of the most heavily subsidized industries in America today.
There is $6 million to compensate owners of flooded crop and grazing land in North Dakota. Hurricanes in North Dakota? North Dakota is one of the nation's top producers of, you guessed it, sugar.
Mr. President, the amendment I offer today would strike an earmark in the bill that provides $6 million to sugarcane growers in Hawaii. Obviously, the Hawaiian lands were not anywhere near the path of the 2005 hurricanes. Certainly it is appropriate that any farmer impacted by a natural disaster can seek Federal assistance which, as I already said, is why there are existing USDA disaster recovery programs authorized under the 2002 farm bill. But in this case the appropriators are establishing a special program that caters directly to Hawaiian sugar growers via a must-pass emergency appropriations bill.
I think it is important that we continue to go back, as we argue the merits or demerits of these earmarks, to the fact that this is the ``Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery.'' Hawaiian sugar growers do not fit in any of those categories.
According to this bill, according to the legislation before us, the Secretary shall use $6 million to ``assist sugarcane growers in Hawaii by making a payment in that amount to an agricultural transportation cooperative in Hawaii, the members of which are eligible to receive marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments.''
What does that mean? I can only assume this funding will be directed to the Hawaii Sugar and Transportation Cooperative, the only entity that received $7.2 million from a nearly identical provision in last year's, guess what, military construction appropriations. This same entity has already got $7.2 million out of a MilCon bill. I am informed the members are the Gay and Robinson Sugar Company, the island of Hawaii, and the Hawaiian Commercial Sugar Company, the island of Maui. These are producer-owned sugarcane mills that own the land.
Let me repeat. The same cooperative got a bailout a year ago. Are we now going to start providing these two companies with annual supplemental appropriations bailouts? I urge my colleagues to question what we are doing.
Let me quote from the administration's Statement of Administrative Policy again:
In 2005, many crops had record or near record production and U.S. farm sector cash receipts were the second highest ever. Furthermore, the proposed level of assistance is excessive and may overcompensate certain producers for their losses.
What are we trying to do with this bill? We are trying to tell our farmers, no matter where you are or what you farm, don't bother with crop insurance because come next year's supplemental, we will dole out far more than you need.
As Secretary Mike Johanns said:
I have spent the last week studying the bill to try to get an understanding of the mechanics of the bill, but taking it a step further, trying to get an understanding of what we have done for disaster relief in the last year. And what is the agricultural economy like that may lay the foundation for somebody to say we need disaster relief.
He said for the 2005 and 2006 crop years, despite pockets of weather problems, ``Every year you see them. For a country this big, it is unusual not to have some weather issues out there.''
But despite pockets of problems, production and yields set records or near records recently.
Johanns' conclusions, after getting answers to his questions: ``I got all that data and evidence, and that got me thinking, `What are they trying to do with that bill?' '' He is talking about the supplemental bill before us. ``So I studied the bill and I must admit, my forehead started wrinkling.''
Well, as noted in Saturday's Washington Post editorial, ``Should Farming Be the Nation's Only Risk-Free Enterprise?'' perhaps the intent in providing this $6 million to the Hawaiian sugar growers is to prop up a sugar industry which has fallen on hard times. With rising diabetes and child obesity rates which have more than doubled since 1977, maybe sugar isn't in demand as in previous years. Maybe the efforts by parents to have soft drink machines stripped from public schools is having a prolific effect on sugar production. If only that were the case. In reality, consumption of sweeteners in the U.S. has risen from 113 pounds per person per year in 1966 to around 142 pounds per person per year in 2004. At that rate Americans consume the equivalent of about 1 teaspoon of sugar per hour every 24 hours, 7 days a week.
The U.S. News & World Report compared our sugar fix to other, more nutritious agricultural commodities and found that Americans ate an abysmal 8.3 pounds of broccoli a year in 2003, something I can understand.
Again I question the need to spend more taxpayer dollars on sugarcane. Didn't we just vote last week not to fund a $15 million marketing program for seafood? Certainly less than a week later we are not going to turn around and vote to fund marketing to support this effort.
Mr. President, I ask for the yeas and nays on this amendment.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I will be brief.
I understand Hawaii experienced severe flooding this winter. It should be pointed out that the heavy tropical rains did not lead to a Presidential disaster declaration. Surely the flooding impacted a broad range of agricultural commodities in Hawaii, not just sugarcane growers, and the Secretary of Agriculture is providing assistance under existing USDA disaster recovery programs. These programs will help farmers with noninsured crops, debt management, emergency loans, infrastructure repair, and farmland rehabilitation. Do we really need an additional earmark of $6 million for Hawaiian sugarcane growers on top of the assistance already offered by the USDA?
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to print in the RECORD a USDA factsheet that contains the programs that are available: Emergency Conservation Program, Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program, Disaster Debt Set-Aside Program, and the Emergency Loan Program.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:
Ongoing Disaster Assistance Programs for Agricultural Producers
The Farm Service Agency (FSA) offers farmers and ranchers various types of disaster aid to facilitate recovery from losses caused by drought, flood, freeze, tornadoes, hurricane, and other natural events. Ongoing disaster assistance programs available to eligible producers are:
ECP provides funding for farmers and ranchers to rehabilitate farmland damaged by wind erosion, floods, hurricanes, or other natural disasters and for carrying out emergency water conservation measures during periods of severe drought. The natural disaster must create new conservation problems which, if not treated, would:
Impair or endanger the land;
Materially affect the productive capacity of the land;
Represent unusual damage which, except for wind erosion, is not the type likely to recur frequently in the same area; and
Be so costly to repair that federal assistance is, or will be required, to return the land to productive agricultural use.
NAP provides financial assistance to eligible producers affected by drought, flood, hurricane, or other natural disasters. NAP covers noninsurable crop losses and planting prevented by disasters.
Landowners, tenants, or sharecroppers who share in the risk of producing an eligible crop may qualify for this program. Before payments can be issued applications must first be received and approved, generally before the crop is planted, and the crop must have suffered a minimum of 50 percent loss in yield.
Eligible crops include commercial crops and other agricultural commodities produced for food, including livestock feed or fiber for which the catastrophic level of crop insurance is unavailable.
Also eligible for NAP coverage are controlled-environment crops (mushroom and floriculture), specialty crops (honey and maple sap), and value loss crops (aquaculture, Christmas trees, ginseng, ornamental nursery, and turfgrass sod).
DSA is available to producers in primary or contiguous counties declared presidential or secretarial disaster areas. When borrowers affected by natural disasters are unable to make their scheduled payments on any debt, FSA is authorized to consider set-aside of some payments to allow the farming operation to continue.
After disaster designation is made, FSA will notify borrowers of the availability of the DSA. Borrowers who are notified have eight months from the date of designation to apply. Also, to meet current operating and family living expenses, FSA borrowers may request a release of income proceeds to meet these essential needs or request special servicing provisions from their local FSA county offices to explore other options. A complete fact sheet about DSA can be found at http://www.fsa.usda.qov/pas/publications/facts/debtset05.pdf.
FSA provides emergency loans to help producers recover from production and physical losses due to drought, flooding, other natural disasters, or quarantine.
Emergency loans may be made to farmers and ranchers who own or operate land located in a county declared by the president as a disaster area or designated by the secretary of agriculture as a disaster area or quarantine area (for physical losses only, the FSA administrator may authorize emergency loan assistance). EM funds may be used to:
Restore or replace essential property;
Pay all or part of production costs associated with the disaster year;
Pay essential family living expenses;
Reorganize the farming operation; and
Refinance certain debts.
Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I also ask unanimous consent to print in the RECORD the editorial contained in the Washington Post on April 29 basically saying:
There are, no doubt, farmers who have suffered severe losses this year. Isn't that what crop insurance--government-subsidized crop insurance, to the tune of $4.2 billion this year--is supposed to be about?
The administration is right to oppose this provision;
They are talking about the provision of $4 billion in disaster payments to farmers as part of the emergency spending bill--
the Senate ought to show enough discipline to take it out.
There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:


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"Once I moved around like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all."
Geronimo's words of March, 1886, spoken in Mexico to General George Crook were intended to end approximately 26 years of savage warfare on the part of both white settlers and Apaches in the southwestern part of the US. Geronimo surrendered, but a warning from a whisky salesman that the warriors would be killed once they were back in US territory, prompted Geronimo to escape the same day along with a band of about 40 Apaches. A surrender followed by escape is only one of a series of controversial behaviors surrounding the life of Geronimo, one of the most well-known of Native American chiefs. Like many aspects of Geronimo's life, details of his birth are controversial. Geronimo states in his biography that he was born in Arizona in 1829. Experts on his life hold, however, that he was born near the middle fork of the Gila River in New Mexico about 1823.
The specific details of Geronimo's birth and early years are sparse due to the preliterate culture of Apaches. Yet, the customs and habits of Geronimo's people offer us an understanding of their strong ties to the land for which they were willing to battle to the death. No churches, temples, mosques, or synagogues graced Apache land; instead, the land, itself, was sacred. Believing the Great Spirit had purposely placed the tribes in the southwest, a mother would bury her afterbirth near a fruit-bearing bush or tree and pray that her child would live to see many harvests of fruit from the tree. The tribe respected the brotherhood of all things.
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Turning our attention to its camera interface, it manages to get a slight makeover – though, it combines some elements found with the ICS camera interface for smartphones and the previous Honeycomb one. Sporting a very clean looking interface with very little obscuring the viewfinder, most of the buttons are found on the right edge. We actually like it since our thumb has quick access to a variety of functions while it readies to snap photos – like setting the white balance, exposure, scene modes, and other options. It's not quite in-depth with its manual settings, but there's enough to entice most people. Lastly, it takes approximately 2 seconds to snap an image, which is indeed fast, but it's clearly not as swift as the Galaxy Nexus.
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Not surprisingly, there's no difference found with the stock ICS music player for tablets on the Asus Transformer Prime. In fact, it's the same exact one we're familiar with! Well, at least it's still an attractive looking one thanks to the 3D-carousel we're presented with when browsing through albums. Even though it packs a single speaker, it produces a good amount of intensity with its output – with no evidence of crackling during our usage. Additionally, there are various equalizer settings, even manual ones too, that fine-tunes the quality for each specific genre of music.
Do you need a traveling companion that's worthy enough to play that 2-hour movie on the road? Well, the Asus Transformer Prime is easily the number one candidate with its gorgeous looking display and indomitable quad-core processor. With our test video that's encoded in DivX 1920 x 1080 resolution, it's simply a joy to watch thanks to its smooth playback, realistic colors, and sharp details.
Sharing content is easily accomplished on the tablet due to the microHDMI port it tacks on, thus, enabling us to get a mirrored experience on a big screen TV. Once connected, not only can we kick back and surf the web on a high-def TV, but we can also relish in some 3D intensive games since its performance is top-notch.
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1. bloodline (Posts: 706; Member since: 01 Dec 2011)
fantastic review. Looking forward to seeing if the ipad 3 can match it
6. bobfreking55 (Posts: 866; Member since: 15 Jul 2011)
i'm not much of a biased person, but following the success of the ipad 2, people will buy the ipad 3 even if it has the same specs as this tablet and it will definetely run smoother on iOS.
Apple will surely advertise it's camera, quad core, display and design.
I'm not saying the Prime is fail though, I LOVE IT. It is just a signal that Android is just warming up and the Soldiers of the android army is ready to fight.
(Hoping for Nexus Tablet just to fight the iPad 3 off lol)
7. sorcio46 (Posts: 435; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
What is iPad 3 :D ?
10. SleepingOz (unregistered)
ipod touch 9" 3gen will never be able to match this!
16. pooked (Posts: 56; Member since: 27 Jan 2012)
Its the first gen quad core device out there, i just cant see Apple with its closed ecosystem lasting much longer in the world where customisation is such a huge deal.
Lets see how that Pad 3 looks like, maybe nicer rez screen as oppose to the previous s**tty ones.
23. ghost__uwi (Posts: 175; Member since: 28 Nov 2011)
I actually like apples ecosystem to android.
I also love this tablet
32. cheetah2k (Posts: 1746; Member since: 16 Jan 2011)
Why no 3G Asus?? Surely Phonearena, this has to be a con??
39. mikenco (Posts: 7; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
the 3g enabled tf202 was reported for sale in asia by members of one of the android t.prime forums. it was discussed during the ces show by asus but for some reason has taken them longer to release than the base wifi only unit.
2. sorcio46 (Posts: 435; Member since: 27 Jul 2011)
I've preordered it @ Amazon italy a week ago and honestly with my old transformer i did't used the GPS or navigation.
Can I ask why "So-so video recording & photo quality" !?! Is the BEST camera that a tablet can offer NOW !
3. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
THAT'S what I'm talking about.. :-)
Now waiting the 700 series with ICS.
That review will be epic!!
Google tablets are the next biggest thing, just wait and see
19. neptune.joel (Posts: 24; Member since: 12 Jan 2011)
im not sure but Windows 8 may be playing there too.
4. RORYREVOLUTION (Posts: 3117; Member since: 12 Jan 2010)
Finally a tablet worth your money.
5. henrickrw (Posts: 408; Member since: 16 Sep 2011)
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8. Maeve (Posts: 2; Member since: 27 Jan 2012)
I have one and I love it. Simply brilliant. I have used other pads before and this is just better all round. Everyone i've shown it to has been really impressed as well, and I've got some hard to please friends! For anyone who wants Android, this is the one.
11. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1121; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
Are you able to write documents like term papers.....and if you have the keyboard dock, are you able to print from the tablet to the printer??
17. John.V (Posts: 99; Member since: 27 May 2011)
It'll suffice for most things, but it's very cramped....like what you find on some 10-inch netbooks. It's tedious to say the least, but usable.
40. Birds (Posts: 1171; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
Hey, It thought this device was "0.31" inches thick?
33. brainsturridge (Posts: 2; Member since: 28 Jan 2012)
yeh have to say that i agree. I have had a motorolla xoom and a galaxy tab and ended up selling them on. the prime has been the first tablet device that i want to keep
9. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1121; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
Ive been waiting for a device to replace my 4yr old computer and its looking like the Prime is on the top of my list. I like the functionality and how smooth the tablet is. With the addition of the keyboard dock, not only can i use it as a laptop for school, i can also keep the amt of apps i currently have thru android and amazon
Unlike the HTC Jetstream and Motorola Xoom, the Transformer Prime is reasonably priced, even with the keyboard. im looking to buy both the tablet and keyboard dock in the near future!!
15. ryan5609 (Posts: 107; Member since: 01 Nov 2011)
I am going to be perfectly honest with you. I would not recommend the Prime for what you need it for. I just sold mine a few days ago. The Prime is great for what it is, an expensive novelty, but I cant see being that productive on it. Check out my full review and thoughts on Amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/review/R
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I had the original Transformer and the Prime, I just don't think that Android tablet are where I want them to be yet.
24. ghost__uwi (Posts: 175; Member since: 28 Nov 2011)
Well i need to see this in action before I pass judgement. I really think this is the equivalent of the Samsung Galaxy s2
25. Joshing4fun (Posts: 1237; Member since: 13 Aug 2010)
I agree with ryan and that's where i still can't seem to quite understand the buzz about tablets.
So this is where i hope W8 tablets will come in and give me a tablet that can actually work as a portable computer. I mean this has the power to do so but works no better than you're phone with a bigger screen.
43. mikenco (Posts: 7; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
at first i too didn't get the hype on tablets but w/the docking station and newer apps i literally can do virtually everything my laptop can do. the first batch that went out had bugs and an older os, even at that most owners had mostly praise for the tprime. now that the bugs are history and the number of apps is growing daily, if you had one you would understand why it now has such a devoted following and why you can't find them anywhere in stock. those who harp on the initial bugs forget apple too had issues with its initial releases, just part of the process. lastly with an app i downloaded yesterday i am now able to easily network and access files on both my pc's at home as well as the one at work.
12. bobfreking55 (Posts: 866; Member since: 15 Jul 2011)
oh and btw, PA, you used the picture of the eee slate in size comparison to the prime when it said eee pad.
13. Windsponge (Posts: 92; Member since: 01 Nov 2009)
I bought one and returned it. The wi-fi and gps do not work correctly. I thought the pictures were excellent and the tablet was good. Not many of my apps worked on it. Asus. Knows there are problems with this. I returned it and am waiting on some big more reliable to come out. If not for wi fi and gps issues this could have been a very good tablet. So I feel this review is more of a promo than the truth. Read people who bought one's reviews.
18. John.V (Posts: 99; Member since: 27 May 2011)
I didn't experience any Wi-Fi issues with my model, though, I clarify in the review that GPS signal strength is weak, but doesn't hamper using things like Google Maps.
42. mikenco (Posts: 7; Member since: 02 Feb 2012)
since the most recent update i have all bars and good reception is now great. i tested it yesterday after the last update, took it outside approx. 40' from my modem and still had a good enough connection to download and read my mail. i don't care about gps as i have it in my vehicles as well as a dedicated unit for hiking so i cannot tell you anything in regards to that.
14. ryan5609 (Posts: 107; Member since: 01 Nov 2011)
Good review. But I think you give the ICS browser too much praise. I thought it was better than the honeycomb version, but it was still buggy as hell. I found mine would load basic pages just fine, but anything complicated or demanding websites and it would start to piss me off. I had my Prime for about a month, but I had to sell it. I felt a new laptop would better accomplish what I wanted to do with the Prime.
27. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
..you tried third party browser?
36. ryan5609 (Posts: 107; Member since: 01 Nov 2011)
Yes. I used the Dolphin browser when the stock browser started messing up. It fixed the issues I was having with the stock browser, but I was still disappointed with the speed of internet browsing.
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The Student Center for Achievement (SCA) works collaboratively with students and staff while partnering with families to offer distinctive services that foster student growth. The SCA team is committed to student success throughout the CCS K-12 experience. The SCA team is passionate about helping all students achieve and develop to the fullest extent possible in God's timing.
The Student Center for Achievement offers individual instruction, intervention, and curriculum support across all grade levels and subject areas. We monitor student progress using a variety of assessment measures. From assessment data gathered, and with family and teacher feedback, our team develops individual service plans. These plans are continuously updated, as students grow and change during the school year. This is a result of incorporating researched-based methodology during the instructional time spent with students. The SCA also offers curriculum support in honors and AP courses, in addition to coursework from the standard track. Our highly qualified academic specialists assist in learning processes, overall student achievement, communication, organization, and standardized test preparation. Test accommodations are also available to qualifying students, and established school-wide through the SCA division.
Additionally, the Student Center for Achievement supports our international students, as they work to become fluent in the English language. We recognize that these students work diligently to participate and excel within the parameters of our rigorous High School curriculum.
Lastly, the Student Center for Achievement challenges qualifying students in our Advanced Seminars program. Advanced seminars are designed to enhance critical thinking and increase real life problem solving skills while incorporating biblical principles. Advanced Seminars are currently offered to students in grades 3-8.
In every aspect of this ministry, we are intentional and prayerful as we make decisions confidentially on behalf of the students. Services and programs offered by the Student Center for Achievement are flexible, and may be conducted individually, in small groups, or in a large group format dependent upon the needs of the students.
The Student Center for Achievement is blessed to be an extension of the Ministry of Carmel Christian School. Our prayerful mission aims to provide the highest quality educational support to CCS students, families,and staff members. For further information, please email our Director Kristi Scallin or our Assistant Director Kate McManus. You may also connect with us via phone at (704) 849-9723. We look forward to prayerfully walking alongside your family and helping your child grow!


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Detail-oriented, highly motivated Design Engineer with more than 3 years of successful experience in designing, developing, and implementing software solutions to support strategic business objectives. Complex product and industry knowledge, insight, creativity and experience relied upon when creating innovative designs and solutions. Well organised and reliable with ability to demonstrate effective problem solving, multi-tasking and communication skills. Good work ethics and ability to work in a team with diverse range of people, along with handling multiple responsibilities independently. Worked as a Software Developer intern with Australian SoftNet Services Pty Ltd, Sydney and did projects on responsive website design in VB.net. Completed a programme in Work Place Communication for Professionals with Navitas, Sydney. I did Masters Degree in Embedded Systems as subject topper from University of Greenwich, London and Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications Engineering. In pursuit of improving my programming skills, I completed Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) courses in ASP and C# with .Net framework, and PHP. My professional experience comprise working as a Junior Electronics Engineer in U.K and Telecomm Operations Manager in India. Career objective is to become a Digital Systems Engineer and interested in a long term career with potential to develop and grow with the technology.More
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The Millers had a bid of £125,000 turned down by The Stags earlier this month, but now Ronnie Moore has upped his offer by £25,000.
"We are not going to raise our offer any more now because I think he is worth £150,000 at the moment," said Moore.
"He is a big talent and he can go on to bigger things but if Mansfield are expecting £300,000 for him he is going to be there for a very long time."
Moore has confirmed he has an interest in Reading's transfer-listed forward Nathan Tyson and also revealed he has made enquires regarding The Royals' former Miller Kevin Watson.
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I'll describe myself first. My name is Jack and I'm in my last year of secondary school, and my 18th birthday was a few weeks ago. I have short blond hair and I stand about 5'9. I keep in shape, but I don't have much muscle on me because I prefer running. And one other thing - I'm gay (but I've never been with anybody) and I have a crush on Drew, another boy in my year.
Standing at about 6'4, Drew is built like a god. He has silky brown hair and dreamy brown eyes. His tanned face is chiselled like I-don't-know-what and the rest of his body is gorgeous too (I've seen him changing after rugby several times). Apart from the rugby, he goes to the gym all the time (I sometimes follow him to cop a look!), giving him ripped abs and bulging arms and legs.
One day after rugby practice, the coach called us two to stay behind to clear away the equipment. By the time we had finished, everyone had left the changing room, meaning we were alone. We got changed in order to take a shower, chatting amiably. As he whipped off his tight shorts, I couldn't help but sneak a look. He caught me.
"Oi Jack, you gay or something?" he said, jokingly.
I laughed awkwardly and muttered some denial before looking away. I hadn't dealt with the situation well, so I decided to get into the shower room quickly before he saw my stiffening cock and had further evidence.
Once I was in the shower, I tried to relax and think of other things, but my mind kept returning to images of Drew naked before me, proudly displaying that huge cock which I had just seen fore the very first time as he was changing. My mental struggle to stop my erection becoming any more blatant was interrupted as I felt a pair of huge arms lock around me from behind. Drew's soothingly deep voice whispered into my ear:
"I know you're gay. I've seen the way you always look at me."
I gasped as Drew spun me around, pressing my back against the tiles on the wall. He pressed his mouth against mine, and kissed me. I opened up, allowing his tongue to explore the reaches of my mouth, while he cradled my head with his two large hands. As he did so, I reached down, and realised that he was naked. I ran my hands down, across his bulging pecs and sharply-defined six pack, until I felt a thick bush of hair.
Below that was his cock: his incredible, glorious, mind-blowing 8 inch cock. There was nothing that I wanted to do more at that moment in time that to blow him. I slowly began to jerk it off, making Drew break off the kiss for a moment and gasp slightly.
He smiled some more, and said: "Go ahead - suck it if you want", as if answering my dream.
I fell to my knees wordlessly, opened my lips into a wide O shape, such was the girth of Drew's dick. The fact that he currently had a semi made it easier for me to let the head just slip in, while Drew clasped my ears and slowly pushed me further onto his cock. I was about halfway when the cock reached the back of my throat and I couldn't take it any further. I resisted Drew's pushing at that point and started to rock back and forth on the first half of his dick, using my hands to massage the rest of his huge member.
He groaned slightly, and started to talk to me. "Yeah, you like that cock, don't you? I've known you were gay for ages. We can do this as much as you want from now on. Oh my God, that feels so good."
Spurred on my this thought, I was encouraged to try deep-throating - after all, I'd seen pornstars doing it, so how hard could it me. Suppressing my gag reflex, I slowly pushed his cock down my throat, aided by Drew once again pulling my head towards his crotch. Finally I had taken the whole thing, and I revelled silently in my achievement. My nose was right in his thick pubes and my cock got even harder (if that was possible) as I smelt the sweat that had accumulated there during the rugby practice.
Slowly I pulled off his cock, to take a breath if nothing else, and then took it in my mouth again. At this point, Drew came into his own - gripping my head like a vice, he started to face-fuck me and I loved the violence that accompanied it. Freed from having to use my hands, I took my 6-inch erect dick in my right hand and jerked off, while I played with his balls with my left.
Grunting with the effort of using my throat like a pussy, Drew announced that he was getting close to cumming, only making me suck all the harder. He withdrew his cock until only the head remained in my mouth, and then it exploded. Spurt after spurt lashed the back of my mouth and I swallowed every time. I had never in my life came a similar volume to what was now spilling down my throat.
At the same time, I realised I was approaching the point of no return as well. I let go of my cock in order to hold onto Drew's firm ass as he came too, and as I did so, my dick gave one last spasm and erupted onto the floor. The almost electrical jolt of pleasure sent through my body only made the blowjob I was giving Drew more enjoyable as I gulped down one rope of cum after another.
Finally the flood subsided, and I lovingly washed his dick with my mouth to ensure that no jizz had escaped me. Then I felt Drew's massive arms lift me from my armpits back to my feet and he kissed me again.
Staring into my soul with those piercing brown eyes, he broke off the kiss and said: "We're going to be doing this a lot from now on".