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Prolog: In the aftermath of the Civil War, a brilliant and adventurous young foreigner finds a beautiful young woman on the war ravaged edges of Mississippi, whose current circumstances have changed her whole outlook on life. Against all that has been holy to her family and her past, she shakes the misery of her present to shape a new life with this dashing cavalier who promises to change her future forever. But to do so, she must forever sever the ties of family, tradition, and heritage………….
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News reached us today of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. While I am elated it is over, the devastation of our crops, the loss of our slaves, the joyless look in the eyes of Mama and Papa leaves me with little joy over the event. Our outlook is almost as bleak today as the day Vicksburg fell. We are left occupied by these Yankee dogs; hungry, vulnerable, without any real law. I am so weary of all this misery. I am weary of having no lovely clothes to wear, or parties to go to. But at least I have managed to save some of my clothes, unlike my friend Auphie Willet, whose family had their house ravaged by the troops staying at their plantation. I look in the mirror. Although my clothes hang some due to our meager diet, my skin is still fair; my dark auburn hair has managed to maintain it's luster with the use of a vinegar rinse- the Yankees weren't interested in vinegar! At least we have an early spring and the trees are bright green with new birth. It gives me hope. Papa calls. A stranger has ridden down our tree lined lane.
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LITTLE ROCK — A 68-year-old man driving a mule-drawn covered wagon from Michigan to Oklahoma to raise awareness about U.S. military veterans was recovering Thursday in a Fayetteville veterans hospital from injuries he sustained in a highway crash in Ozark that killed his animals.
Charles Peters suffered apparent rib injuries when a vehicle struck the mule team pulling his wagon and a trailer about 7 p.m. Wednesday on U.S. 64 in Ozark, city police Lt. Jonathan Little said Thursday.
Peters was taken to Mercy Hospital-Turner Memorial in Ozark and later transferred to the veterans hospital in Fayetteville, Little said.
One of the mules died at the scene and the other died overnight, the officer said.
Little said Peters was traveling westbound on the highway when a pickup driven by 18-year-old Brandy Summers struck the covered wagon from behind. Summers was not injured.
"The other vehicle was westbound … and the wagon was rear-ended, which kind of spun it sideways and the truck kept going forward and ended up coming to rest on top of the two mules," Little said. "She said that she looked down at something in her vehicle and when she looked back up the sun was glaring in her eyes, which that's right that time of day on that area, and she didn't even see the wagon."
No charges had been filed Thursday. Little said the accident was still under investigation.
Peters, from Owosso, Mich., was riding from his home to Oklahoma to raise awareness about U.S. military veterans and visit his father's grave outside Oklahoma City.
According to a May 30 article in the Greene County Daily World in Linton, Ind., Peters, a retired machinist for General Motors, departed his home May 1 and had hoped to arrive in Okemah, Okla., where his father is buried, in early August.
Peters told the newspaper that the trip was about 1,100 miles and that he was a U.S. Navy veteran who served in Vietnam. He said he got the idea for the trip about three years ago after a man thanked him for his military service in an antique store.
"I told him, 'You are the first person in 45 years to tell me that.' I felt so good about it, I told my wife I am going to do something for veterans, so this (trip) is what I came up with," he told the Indiana newspaper.
Peters built the wagon and trailer and purchased two mules for the trip.
His accident was the second in recent weeks involving participants in a cross-country trip.
Earlier this month, an 18-year-old woman died from injuries she sustained when a car struck her and six other bicyclists on Arkansas 17 near McCrory in Woodruff County.
The riders, with Overland Summer Camp based in Massachusetts, were traveling coast to coast.
The driver of the vehicle, 21-year-old Teagan Ross Martin of Newport, was not injured.
State police are still investigating the collision, a spokesman said Thursday.


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a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 22, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I live around the corner from this house and I'm not a big fan of modern architecture, but think it is terrific! I have been watching it since they broke ground and I'm really impressed by the quality of construction and the speed at which it has gone up... I even chatted with of the owners while walking past the construction site and he told me all about it. This is going to be a great place for them to raise their family and I am happy to learn that it is built with green materials and is super energy efficient. I actually think they are doing a lot to make a modern house fit into this neighborhood. Despite the fact that it is two stories house that has a flat roof, they are using lap siding and the house has a beautiful front porch that looks like the other homes on the street. I think that once it is painted and landscaped that this house will be a beautiful addition to the neighborhood. I know that it will significantly increase my property value and I can't wait to see it when it's finished. By the way, Mountain View Avenue is full of two story houses and a range of type and (mostly bad) condition, plus there has been a ton of new construction lately... so you can't really say that there is just one architectural style.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Feb 23, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I live in the beige house with the earth flag in the picture above. I don't think it's fair that you are using my house as an example of why the new house does not fit in with the neighborhood. I really like the modern design of the new house house and think it's neat that my house and the new house have matching porches out front. I think the house does fit with the neighborhood because there is a wide variety of homes on the block and most are two story (unlike mine).
Also, note that the craftsman design of my house is not original but rather a result of a remodel three years ago. Up until three years ago, my house was a ranch style house with almost no porch. So both the design of my house and the Dwell house are new...neither is "the original" look of the neighborhood.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Feb 24, 2008 at 1:15 am
I am okay with the new home, but what was the thinking of the MV planning Dept. They make me sick. What happen to the rules of building? Make sure that the homes being built stay in a similar style construction as the neighborhood. I am upset they allowed this. It should have been cought in planning dept. I have seen two new beautiful homes go up in the neighborhood in the last year and they are gorgeous. One seems very petite from the front and compliments the neighborhood, but it is huge. They, I would say, did their homework. These are the homes that need to be in the Voice.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 24, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I had the opportunity to have a guided tour of the Dwell house last weekend by the owner. He was very kind to take the time to show me around, pointing out the notable eco/energy saving features of the home. He's understandably very proud of his new house and very excited about moving in and becoming a long time resident of his new neighborhood and community. It is my hope that the neighbors will welcome the family "to the fold" irregardless of their personal architectual preferences.
To some, this particular case may seem like "nice house, wrong location", but until and unless the City has in place more specific and strict rules and guidlines regarding such matters, people can build whatever they find to be attractive.
a resident of another community
on Feb 26, 2008 at 3:00 am
Folks with an interest in this issue might want to look at the Dwell website which has information about the cost of their houses( roughly $500,000 to $700,000(seems steep to me.)
Note also that as we try to catch up with our neglect global warming we have to think about the cost to the environment of bigger and bigger houses, even eco-friendly ones. And where do all the tear-down materials go??
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 27, 2008 at 11:56 am
Once an old house is "scraped" it's gone forever. The unfortunate generification of America sadly happens in other communities, but it should not happen in ours. The reason I bought in Mountain View is to enjoy its historical charm. Had I known that our City was so passe about protecting this history, I would have located elsewhere.
Dwell's house unfortunately disrupts the charm that existed before on Mountain View Ave. How can anyone believe that the owners and designers who up to now have been so immune to the opinions of their surrounding neighbors would really be interested in welcoming the community? It's more like usurping the community.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Feb 27, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I know the owners and I think it is ridiculous to make claims that the owners built this house without a concern for global warming. A couple of facts that people may not be aware of:
- The owners tried as much as possible to save the previous house but due to years of neglect, it was not possible to save that building. The foundation and the rest of the structure was too badly damaged and it would have cost more than building a new home and potentially use just as many resources but result in a less energy efficient structure.
- The owner tried to work with a company that salvages old house materials by deconstructing the old house instead of demoing it. The companies they contacted that do this, refused to salvage the old house because it was in such a state of disrepair they were not interested in the parts. Even so, before they demolished the house, the owners went through and dismantled anything that could be salvaged on their own and either gave it away or are using it themselves.
- The new house is built using as much energy saving and green materials as possible. The owners are also planning to install solar so that it will not be using any energy from the grid. In fact, a prefab modern house uses less energy than custom homes to build because the materials are not all one-offs.
You may not like the design, but claiming that the owners have no regard to global warming issues is ridiculous. I would bet if you did a comparison that the new house will use a lot less energy than the old -- which was about to topple over.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Feb 28, 2008 at 9:09 am
I am planning on replacing my older home with a prefab home , although another type of prefab. I have been looking for a long time at what options are open to me, and remodeling an old outdated and not appealing (to me) design is not something that makes sense to me.
I have no need for a great amount of square footage or flair, so I have decided to build an LVL house from Architect Rocio Romero Web Link. Basic home "kits" start well under $50,000 but that does not include finish carpentry, electrical, plumbing or glass. Still once complete I will be WAY WAY under normal market cost for similar construction in this area.
One of the things that really interests me in the styles on most modern prefab home designs is that they seem to follow the basic design thoughts put forward starting in the 1930's by Frank Lloyd Wright and his venerable Usonian home style "designs for moderate cost - one family homes".
a resident of Whisman Station
on Feb 28, 2008 at 9:35 am
Times change. Mountain View is a high tech city. I expect a lot of more of this type of change to come to MV.....and its part of the reason I live here.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Feb 28, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Compared to all the oversized Mediterranean-style McMansions going up in the various neighborhoods, this design looks clean, simple, timeless and the streetside view really doesn't look all out of scale and style with the other houses.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Feb 28, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Most Mountain View housing is nondescript and often shabby, despite costing $1 million and up. The idea that its character needs to be "protected" from encroachment by other styles is laughable.
a resident of another community
on Mar 16, 2008 at 3:31 pm
As someone actively researching a pending move to Mountain View, I'm dismayed by many of the critics holding forth about the Dwell house. Have any of you looked at much of the new construction going up in your city??? Search your local real estate listings and you will see a plethora of appalling designs that look like they were made of whatever happened to be on sale at Lowe's that week. Perhaps if the owners will agree to retrofit their new home with beige vinyl siding and fake plastic shutters with matching round louvers the neighbors would feel less threatened. As for the neighbor looking to sell her house... PLEASE WAIT UNTIL MY FAMILY ARRIVES! I'll gladly rescue you from the abomination next door.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Mar 17, 2008 at 3:12 am
It is utterly amazing to me that anybody who has lived in the Bay Area would call the architecture of this house "modern" or out of place in this community... and I have to wonder if Daniel DeBolt, Laura Goff and/or Carol lewis have ever seen an [url=Web Link] ?!?
Here's a brief architecture lesson folks; Eichlers were built in California from the late 1940's through the early 70's (there are well over 4000 of them right here in the South Bay) and characterized by their flat roofs, indoor-outdoor spaces (atriums), post and beam construction, radiant heat, walls of glass, open floor plan, mahogany woodwork, and clerestory windows. Today, a 50 year old Eichler on a postage stamp sized lot will set you back a million bucks +.
Hmmm... what do you know? The Siminoff's Dwell Home has the exact same features as the "decades old" Eichlers do! Furthermore, this beautiful, dare I say- retro, house DOES have a front porch AND a bay window... Just like the "majority of the homes in the area" do. C'mon, this thing's not modern, it's a throw-back!
I guess the Dwell house does have some features that the old Eichlers and antique Craftsmans don't have; It's energy efficient, sustainably manufactured and one would assume is built to comply with Title 24 and current seismic standards also (oh, so maybe it IS modern?)!
I want one! I guess that makes me green too...
a resident of Shoreline West
on Apr 23, 2008 at 2:31 pm
This house is an ugly box that dominates the lot and is completely out of character with the other houses. SHAME on the owner and the city for putting this monstrosity in our midsts. Does the Siminoff's also have a permit for the business they run out of this house?? It's not enough that they destroyed an older home, but they have to put this crap in its place. And were the city staff paid off for allowing this or what?! This is an affront to my neighborhood and I hope everyone gets out and votes this staff OUT next election. If the owner thinks there's any way in god's green earth this box will "blend in" he is crazier than I suspected.
a resident of Shoreline West
on Apr 23, 2008 at 2:55 pm
So, they tear down a house and put in a ticky tacky box, forcing neighbors to move rather than endure this freak of nature. Why didn't these people build somewhere else? Why didn't the city ask US what we wanted next to us? Green With Envy's superior attitude is a great reflection of the owner's. Let me give YOU a history lesson about this wonderful neighborhood -- and it does not include the housing you mention. Here's a new flash: you CAN build Craftmans with energy efficiency built in. It just takes imagination. Something this couple fails to have.
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06 February 2011
DIY Publishing
A number of companies are providing online publishing for all manner of personal and "vanity" books, from wedding memories and travel journals to first novels or blog collections. You pay for the initial printing and receive the minimal amount of author's print copies (or more). Thereafter, interested parties can order directly from the company for a reasonable price. We are talking print copies, not a download-able digital book.
Some of the more familiar companies are Lulu, Blurb, and NoWaste (look 'em up). They have discovered the genealogy market. The only reason I am even posting this blog is because I am hopelessly low-tech and wanted the easiest way to get my assembled histories into print with the least amount of aggravation, anxiety, and desperation. After all, it took a lot of discipline to say to self: Stop careening around in endless research and do something tangible with it NOW!
I repeat, hopelessly low-tech, and this is not to be construed as a comparison of various offerings or quality. This is merely my kindergarten experience for enlightening any friends who happen to be equally low-tech.
So I chose UniBook. They offer a choice of finished sizes and the cost and pricing are reasonable. Most of all, the process was the easiest to follow. It's a good idea to print out the instructions and read them about 34 times. Then you won't make some of the mistakes I did. Like totally omitting the cover photograph for book number one (read the step by step instructions carefully). Weep. Maybe I can re-do it before the relatives twig.
Basically you prepare your manuscript as camera-ready copy in your choice of popular size. All text and headings should be done in a somewhat standard font (they tell you what works; read the instructions again) because some fancy ones will turn out awful-looking. The manuscript includes all the photographs you want to insert. Unlike me, you will probably not spend weeks agonizing over sizing, re-sizing, and placing them. You will know how to fix the blank gaps they sometimes cause on a page with copious footnotes (and I certainly hope you are footnoting or endnoting to make it all worthwhile). Consider thoughtfully how you want the first page to look, and where your page numbering will begin.
Then you PDF the whole works (luckily, I know how to do that). You can choose hard cover or from a variety of soft cover bindings. The fun part is designing your cover and creating a word-restricted summarized blurb and bio for the back cover, plus meta tags so someone out there somewhere, a perfect stranger, will stumble on your book on the Web and might even buy it.
I am very pleased with the appearance, the paper quality, the binding, and the photo reproduction. Can't think of any drawbacks except not reading the instructions often enough—they are quite visual and straightforward. At this point, my two family histories represent a fair amount of satisfying work. The next will be even more satisfying because surely I won't miss anything in the instructions (don't call me Shirley).
Family response is underwhelming but not unexpected. Then again, maybe I should think beyond Facebook as a way to tell the world. Being the PR person for your own book is a big responsibility, possibly another new learning curve. Wonder if anyone will notice the misplaced research blooper in the Dougall book. That reminds me, getting someone to review your manuscript is a seriously excellent move.
UniBook is not paying me in any way to flog their services. Apparently they are saner and more professional than that.
4 comments:
- Janet Iles said...
Thanks for sharing this Brenda. Thanks for the tips about reading the instructions carefully.
I am glad to hear that it can handle footnotes or endnotes. My soldiers' project has endnotes at the end of each chapter. Some chapters have as many notes as there is information.
I will have to start investigating different options for publishing this book.
- Sunday, 06 February, 2011
Thanks for sharing your experience with self publishing Brenda. It is something a lot of us will be looking at in the near future.
- Sunday, 06 February, 2011
- Olive Tree Genealogy said...
Great to read your experiences Brenda. I usually don't use online services for my book publishing but recently jumped into Lulu and
published a family photo book.
I was impressed but decided I want to try others too. I'd never heard of the one you used til you wrote your blog post so guess what's going on my TO DO list now!
- Tuesday, 08 February, 2011
- BDM said...
Thanks for your comments! Another little glitch I noticed .. I had put some fancy iconic symbols on my contents page (visual interest, you know :-) to mark chapters and sub-sections. They turned out strange looking. So I'm careful now to choose standard-looking "bullet" markers and use them sparingly.
- Thursday, 17 February, 2011


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So I created a close C# equivalent of the Haskell type and added it to the Sasa library, to be available in the upcoming v0.9.3 release:
public struct FsPath : IEnumerable<string>, IEnumerable
public FsPath(IEnumerable<string> parts);
public FsPath(string path);
public static FsPath operator /(FsPath path1, FsPath path2);
public static FsPath operator /(FsPath path, IEnumerable<string> parts);
public static FsPath operator /(FsPath path, string part);
public static FsPath operator /(FsPath path, string[] parts);
public static FsPath operator /(IEnumerable<string> parts, FsPath path);
public static FsPath operator /(string part, FsPath path);
public static FsPath operator /(string[] parts, FsPath path);
public static implicit operator FsPath(string path);
public FsPath Combine(FsPath file);
public IEnumerator<string> GetEnumerator();
public static FsPath Root(string root);
public override string ToString();
The above is just the interface, minus the comments which you can see at the above svn link. This struct tracks path components for you and C#'s operator overloading lets you specify paths declaratively without worrying about combining paths with proper separator characters, etc.:
FsPath root = "/foo/bar";
var baz = root / "blam" / "baz";
var etc = FsPath.Root("/etc/");
var passwd = etc / "passwd";
The library will generate path strings using the platform's directory separator.
One significant departure from the Haskell library is the lack of phantom types used to distinguish the various combinations of relative/absolute and file/directory paths. C# can express these same constraints, but I intentionally left them out for two reasons:
- The type safety provided by the file/directory phantom type is rather limited, since it's only an alleged file/directory path; you have to consult the file system to determine whether the alleged type is actually true. The only minor advantage to specifying this in a path type, is as a form of documentation to users of your library that you expect a file path in a particular method, and not a directory path. I could be convinced to add it for this reason.
- The relative/absolute phantom type seems a bit useless to me, though the reason may be less obvious to others. IMO, the set of file and directory info classes should not have GetParent() or support ".." directory navigation operations, nor should they support static privilege escalation operations like File.GetAbsolutePath() which ambiently converts a string into an authority on a file/directory, since this inhibits subsystem isolation; without GetParent() or privilege escalation functions, any subsystem you hand a directory object is automatically chroot jailed to operate only in that directory. This has long been known to the capability-security community, and is how they structure all of their IO libraries (see Joe-E and the E programming language). Thus, in a capability-secure file system library, all paths are relative paths interpreted relative to a given directory object. As a result, FsPath also strips all "." and resolve all ".." to within the provided path to supply this isolation.
It goes without saying that .NET does not currently handle files and directories this way, but I plan to handle this eventually as well. FsPath will play a significant role in ensuring that paths cannot escape the chroot jail.
As an interim step along that path, the FsPath interface is a good first step.
[Edit: the reddit thread for this post has some good discussion.]


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Some of my questions are exact replicas of those found in Exeter Math Book 2. I'll attach all the documents I used, and I know they are imperfect. But this is the basic progression:
Where is a point that is equidistant from all sides? Conjecture that there is such a point on Nspire.
Figure out how to construct it by pouring salt on triangles.
After doing some problems to review that there is such a thing as the Pythagorean Theorem...Where is a point that is equidistant from all vertices? Use coordinate geometry to see that there is such a locus of points on the coordinate grid.
After a detour into deriving the midpoint formula... Where is a point that is the center of gravity in a triangle? Use area and coordinate geometry to dissect a triangle into two equal areas.
Demonstrate center of gravity by demonstrating that the triangle will balance on that point.
Where is the intersection of the altitudes? This point is not interesting, so get through it as quickly as possible. But take the opportunity to teach what an altitude is.
Then there's an Nspire document with a summative review sheet so that they can keep straight the four different, confusing kinds of triangle centers.
Next we are going to do the famous locus scavenger hunt, after a day of basic locus notes, which will allow me to basically skip the whole pointless locus unit altogether.
And then I think I am going to have the children make their own locus-based scavenger hunt for the towns of Fayetteville and Manlius, for the fun, and for the backwards learning. Though I don't happen to have those documents prepared yet.


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Monday, August 13, 2012
70 comments:
Wow thanks for the very clear instructions :) Looks very yummy!!ReplyDelete
Today's Recipe - Coffee Cake -Guest Post By Padhu
You Too Can Cook Indian Food Recipes
Wow.....very neat presentation. The instructions you have given for bones, is really useful one. Lipsmacking good. Bookmarked!ReplyDelete
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Mouthwatering.Absolutely love chicken lollipop, you have explained it so well Jay.ReplyDelete
this is an excellent recipe with a great tutorial. I love these little pops for parties. Thank you for this beautiful recipe.ReplyDelete
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Delicious crispy fry thank u for sharingReplyDelete
you made chicken lollies look so easy with such an easy tutorial .....really nice workReplyDelete
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perfect clicks :)ReplyDelete
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Awesome pictorial and easy to follow..I believe even in Indian restaurant, we wont this crunchy lollipop..ReplyDelete
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And Nice clicks too..Will try soon
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I know it's old, but I have taken on the project of reviving it.
The issue is that after a logic board replacement, the computer no longer can correctly access external SATA drives. The boot drive is an ATA connected to the motherboard controller. The SATA drives are in an external Burly enclosure and I would like to make use of the space for a project with this computer.
Quicksilver 2002 dual 1GHz
Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA 8 (driver 2.2.4)
The external drives show up in System Profiler but not Disk Utility. No volume information is displayed for the view in System Profiler.
I have in order:
- Reset the PRAM
- Reset the NVRAM
- Reset the PMU
No change in behavior.
The computer was bought new with SCSI and the ATTO ExpressPCI UL3D host adapter (previously retired, but kept). I installed that card, and the behavior is a little different but I also can't successfully access the SCSI drives. With the SCSI controller, Disk Utility finds the drives, but they report as uninitialized. When I try to initialize the SCSI drives, I receive no error, but the drive remains uninitialized.
I then tried a different SATA controller, Seritek 1VE4. The behavior of this controller was the same as the SCSI controller.
I pulled a SATA drive and put in into a Newertech Voyager S3 drive dock attached to a different computer. The drive can be accessed and the volume can be mounted and read.
The replacement logic board is a model 820-1342-B, the same as the original board. The Boot ROM version is 4.3.3f2.
At this point, I'm at a loss. Note, the battery is new.


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When I've got questions, challenges, or thoughts about security, I'm lucky to be just a phone call away from Michael K. Brown, the VP of Security Product Management & Research at Research In Motion (RIM). Earlier this month, as we hopped around the globe hosting the BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour – Enterprise Edition events, a few questions came up about mobile applications for enterprise and concerns around security – so sure enough, I gave Mike a ring. Check out our chat below:
Hi Michael, thanks for joining me today! In your opinion, to what degree should security be a concern when developers work on creating business apps?
Security is key because it actually enables you to be confident in working with corporate data. When you know that you can rely upon the way data is sent to and from the mobile device and how the data is stored on it, you can let the application access more, process more, and be more powerful in its benefits for a business. So if you choose a platform that is taking care of many of the base security threats, then you're free to build an even more powerful application.
Will BlackBerry® continue to lead in the area of mobile data security with the upcoming BlackBerry® 10 platform?
From the very beginning, security has been a pillar of how we design and build our enterprise solution, from the handhelds, to the operating system, to the applications. Over the past decade, this has evolved – from our first Mobile Device Management (MDM) controls to let administrators manage the new thing called "mobile", to more advanced technologies like process separation, stack cookies, and ASLR. We're very excited to keep pushing the envelope with BlackBerry 10 and do even more! BlackBerry® Balance™ technology is a great example of that continued emphasis on security, and creating a great user experience along with it.
How is the BlackBerry platform unique in helping enterprise developers create secure business applications?
We approach security as key aspect of the entire platform. This end-to-end view makes creating secure business applications that much easier. With BlackBerry transport encryption and MDS-CS, we give the developer an efficient, always-on, encrypted connection to the application back end in the enterprise. With data at rest encryption and strong cryptographic APIs, we give the developer native methods to protect data stored locally on the device. With the upcoming BlackBerry® Enterprise Service 10 and BlackBerry App World™ for Work, developers know that the administrator can easily push an application to all appropriate users. In our developer documentation, we give developers tips on how to write secure code within the Native SDK. And with our emphasis on Security Certifications, the developer knows that they can focus on selling the virtues of their app to the customer, and not have to worry about convincing the customer on the security of the platform.
(As of February 2015, BlackBerry holds 70+ security certifications and approvals from governments.)
Do you see BYOD as a threat to the security of enterprise data? How can this be handled?
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) provides a great opportunity for an enterprise in that it helps push the benefits of mobility to its user base. The challenge is in enabling employee choice without compromising the security of corporate data and driving up support costs through complexity of administration. Through BlackBerry® Mobile Fusion and the upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, administrators can manage the complexity of the entire mobile deployment – BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets, iOS®, and Android™ – through a single console. And with BlackBerry Balance technology, they can provide BlackBerry device users with a best of both worlds in a BYOD solution – strong separation of personal and corporate data but a unified experience for the employee on a single device.
In your involvement with security research, can you highlight any interesting and relevant trends that you're seeing in terms of security and enterprise apps?
The joy of focusing on the field of security is that it is constantly changing and evolving. We have the merging of traditional desktop computer threats along with the new threats from the more uniquely mobile arena, such as location-based services and cellular radios. An interesting trend right now is around NFC usage. Most often NFC is considered as a credit or debit card replacement, but where it is also coming up is in Physical Access Control – for example, the work we have been doing with HID. Using my BlackBerry smartphone to open a door is hugely powerful, especially since that means you can remotely manage my access card!
Thanks again for the insights, Mike!
Do you have questions about security and business apps? Share in the comments below.


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Scientists are suggesting that two different meteors, not a single strike, may have wiped out dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. Interestingly, they struck Earth thousands of years apart.
The discovery of the second impact crater (located in Ukraine) actually was reported in 2002 but scientists were unsure of how the timing related to the original impact crater (located in the Gulf). In their current study, scientists are examining fossil plants that have filled the crater and more specifically, ferns.
Ferns have an amazing ability to bounce back after catastrophe. Layers full of fern spores - dubbed "fern spikes" - are considered to be a good "markers" of past impact events.
However, there was an unexpected discovery in store for the scientists. They located a second "fern spike" in a layer one meter above the first, suggesting another later impact event. Professor Simon Kelley of the Open University, who was co-author on the study, said: "We interpret this second layer as the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact."
This shows that the Boltysh and Chicxulub impacts did not happen at exactly the same time. They struck several thousand years apart, the length of time between the two "fern spikes".
So scientists are beginning to think that Earth possibly endured a meteor shower that spanned thousands of years, which is sort of insane and frightening to think about. It's fully possible that they'll discover more evidence of impact events in the future. [BBC]


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Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement
Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, explores contemporary architecture as a powerful means for improving social conditions, focusing on 11 noteworthy built or under- construction projects in underserved communities around the world.
Art Exhibition
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The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
New York,
United States.
From Sunday 03 October 2010 to Monday 03 January 2011
Published by MOMA on Tuesday 26 October 2010.
Contact the publisher.
The exhibition is on view from October 3, 2010, through January 3, 2011. Concentrating on a group of architects who confront inequality using the tools of design, Small Scale, Big Change examines the ways these architects engage with social, economic, and political circumstances to develop positive architectural interventions that begin with an understanding of and deference to a community. Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement is organized by Andres Lepik, Curator, and Margot Weller, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.
Without sacrificing aesthetics, the 11 projects—situated in the United States, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, France, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Bangladesh, and Lebanon—reveal a specificity of place, with architectural solutions emerging from sustained research into local conditions and close collaboration with communities. These radically pragmatic projects, which include schools, community centers, housing, and infrastructural interventions, signal a change in the longstanding dialogue between architecture and its environs, wherein the architect's roles, methods, and responsibilities are dramatically reconsidered. The exhibition presents a selection of materials on each project including models, drawings, videos, large-scale photographs, and sketchbooks. Additionally, three Internet-based networks—The 1%, Open Architecture Network, and urbaninform—extend the exhibition's scope beyond individual projects to include stakeholders in various areas of practice around the world. These networks act as forums in which community leaders, architects, and non-governmental organizations share information and experience.
Diébédo Francis Kéré: Primary School, Gando, Burkina Faso, 1999–2001
While studying architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin, Diébédo Francis Kéré learned that the small primary school in his hometown of Gando, Burkina Faso—a village of around 2,500 inhabitants—was in disrepair. Inspired to design and build a better school, Kéré hoped that by using what he had learned about ecological building techniques he might provide a model for future building in Burkina Faso. The high cost of industrialized materials such as concrete and steel, along with the remote access to Gando, led Kéré to revive the practice of traditional brick making from unbaked mud, while improving the process by introducing a manpowered machine to compress the bricks. Kéré also designed a large roof to protect the walls against rain and heat, leaving space between the ceiling and roof to increase air circulation and create a pleasant interior climate more broadly. The building became a training facility for the whole community, who worked together to finish it. Attendance at the school has been extremely high since it opened in 2001, with applications far outnumbering available spots. As a result of the broad international recognition for this remote school, Kéré has been able to expand the concept and build an annex for the school and houses for the teachers, with plans to erect a library and a women's center in the immediate future.
Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag: METI – Handmade School, Rudrapur, Bangladesh,
In 2002 architecture student Anna Heringer and several of her classmates at Kunstuniversität Linz conducted a comprehensive analysis of the civic and economic framework of the Bangladeshi village of Rudrapur. After identifying a lack of educational opportunities for villagers, Heringer designed the Handmade School, her master's thesis, in response. Following a year of planning and fundraising, ground was broken on the project in 2005, under the guidance of Heringer, with architect Eike Roswag as the construction manager. The structure is made primarily of earth, a traditional building material in the region, to which Heringer added local clay, sand, and straw for increased durability. A number of improvements upon local building traditions were introduced, such as a brick foundation to strengthen the structure and a plastic moisture barrier between the foundation and the walls. Resident unskilled laborers were trained in the building technique and performed almost all of the construction. In the completed school, thick, earthen walls enclose three ground-floor classrooms along with a system of caves in which students can play. The second story has an earthen floor and walls of light, airy bamboo latticework. With its innovative approach to traditional methods and materials, Handmade School sets new regional standards for acceptable architectural functionality and provides a model for ecologically and socially sustainable building.
Michael Maltzan Architecture: Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, California, 1993–2008
Inner-City Arts, located in an impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood, offers a creative refuge to at-risk and disadvantaged children who may not otherwise have access to the arts. After several years in small, temporary spaces, the organization teamed up with Michael Maltzan and his then newly formed firm in 1993 to retrofit and repurpose an abandoned garage in the city's dangerous Skid Row neighborhood. The finished aggregate one-acre campus, built in three phases, employs a restrained and unified architectural language of simple, abstracted geometries, in which student creativity takes center stage. Maltzan's design articulates flexible interior and exterior spaces that are intimate yet airy arenas for children. The main courtyard is a comfortable environment in which to gather, play, and explore, a haven in the midst of a neighborhood whose outdoor space is often unsafe. In painting the exterior stucco walls bright white—a color that immediately betrays neglect—the organization communicates its commitment to maintenance and upkeep. Through his decade-and-a-half commitment to the project, Maltzan demonstrates the potential of architecture to inspire creativity and realize promise.
Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton, and Jean Philippe Vassal: Transformation of Tour Bois-le-
Prêtre, Paris, France, 2006–11
The midcentury modernist housing development has long been the subject of criticism. In particular, low-income, high-rise apartment blocks, generally clustered closely together, have been accused of being anonymous, nonfunctional containers in which inhabitants are isolated from one another; and in an effort to ameliorate social problems among the residents, many have been torn down. Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton, and Jean Philippe Vassal are among the increasing number of architects who reject calls for the demolition of modernist housing projects, preferring instead to retrofit existing structures. In 2005 the architects won a competition sponsored by the City of Paris to remodel a public-housing high-rise along the ring road in Paris. Deciding to focus on expanding living spaces and increasing natural light in each apartment, the proposal calls for the addition of a floor slab, which would increase the footprint of each apartment by roughly 15%, along with a new exterior structure, a shell that would completely envelop the existing building and break up the monotony of the facade. For the interiors, the team developed a series of alternative and more individualized floor plans suited to contemporary living styles. Work on the project is being done in two parallel phases: as the prefabricated, modular facade structure takes shape, the interior floor plans are being modified and new openings are being created in the old exterior walls. By adapting existing structures to the present-day needs of its users, Druot, Lacaton, and Vassal are giving a new life to a problematic and oft-criticized low-income housing type, with wide-reaching implications to cities beyond Paris.
Hashim Sarkis A.L.U.D.: Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre, Tyre, Lebanon, 1998–2008
Tyre, an ancient coastal city south of Beirut, has long struggled to maintain a viable infrastructure amid seemingly constant chaos and combat. A weak economy and decades of tumult have debilitated the maritime city, and the area's fishermen—many of whom earn as little as $15 per day—have been particularly hard hit. In 1984 the city was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, a designation that brought with it strict regulations on new building along the coastline, where the fishermen traditionally lived. In response, the fishermen formed a housing cooperative, then convinced the Greek Orthodox Church to donate a parcel of land outside the city center. With the help of an NGO, they partnered with architect Hashim Sarkis, whose practice and teaching had long been focused on the Islamic world. In a decade-long collaboration, Sarkis developed a vibrant, modern housing system that would not only accommodate the fishermen's ambitious program and small budget, but also foster a rich sense of community, with balanced private and public space in keeping with their traditional lifestyle. A composite of nine residential blocks, the building turns inward on itself like a rectilinear nautilus, creating a protected interior courtyard. Fusing architecture, landscape, and urban planning, Sarkis's collaborative approach to design has resulted in a residential complex that exemplifies the power of architecture to offset and improve chaotic conditions.
Urban-Think Tank: Metro Cable, Caracas, Venezuela 2007–10
The mountains surrounding the city center of Caracas have long been the site of informal settlements or barrios, populated by the steady influx of poor, rural migrants. It is estimated that about 60% of the city's five million inhabitants live in such improvised communities, but due to their unrecognized status these areas have never been formally connected with public transit or other civic services. The result is a seemingly inexorable social divide between the two parts of the city. In 2003 architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, founding partners of Urban- Think Tank, proposed building a cable car system to link two barrios with the city's metro system. Urban-Think Tank's proposal was based on community workshops and fieldwork, and supported by a multi-layer system of interventions around the cable car stations and within the barrio itself. The idea was a radical departure from the official planning strategy, which sought to gradually link the barrios to the rest of the city by creating new surface streets. While the construction of roadways in the barrios would entail the loss of many dwellings, a cable car system intrudes minimally and selectively into the existing fabric. President Hugo Chávez embraced the concept and set up a joint venture in May 2006 with an Austrian gondola engineer to begin implementing cable car systems throughout the city. The first completed line was built for the barrio San Agustín, with five stations connecting the barrio to the city's public transportation. Regular service started in January 2010.
Noero Wolff Architects: Red Location Museum of Struggle, Port Elizabeth, South Africa,
Set up in 1902 and designated for occupation by black workers, Red Location is one of the oldest townships in South Africa. Beginning in 1948 Red Location developed into one of the centers of the antiapartheid movement and was the source of a number of historic protest actions. Following the abolition of apartheid in 1994, the city of Port Elizabeth—which incorporates Red Location— decided to locate a museum memorializing the apartheid era right in the township, where the site of resistance could be an integral part of the experience, and the museum could be a central element in a large urban redevelopment project. In 1998 Noero Wolff Architects won a national competition for a Red Location master plan, including the new museum. From the outset the main issue in the planning of the museum was the future acceptance of the institution in its immediate community, which has generally been skeptical of outside attempts to introduce structural change. As the museum was being built, a community-based committee assembled weekly to ensure that the needs of Red Location citizens were being met. Unskilled workers from the neighborhood were hired for construction, providing training and employment while integrating the community into the project. The museum building, which is constructed out of ordinary materials, mainly concrete and steel, has a functional, utilitarian appearance that engages harmoniously with its industrial surroundings. Inside the museum a series of multipurpose "memory boxes"—galleries constructed of the rusty corrugated iron that gave the township its name—house a rotating variety of small installations that visitors are encouraged to explore on their own. Noero Wolff's overall plan for Red Location, including housing, a library, city archive, and other communal spaces, reverses the segregation that so long characterized the site. The goal is that the township, formerly cut off from public amenities, will become a center for new urban development, infrastructure, and culture.
Jorge Mario Jáuregui/Metrópolis Porjectos Urbanos: Manguinhos Complex, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, 2005–10
Rio de Janeiro's Manguinhos district, a large urban area in the north of the city, is the site of around ten favelas (informal settlements) in which some 28,000 people live in close proximity to industrial factories. The inhabitants suffer from a very high crime rate along with a lack of public space and community facilities. Jorge Mario Jáuregui is a pioneer and advocate in the field of slum upgrading, and in 1993 he started working with the Favela-Bairro program in Rio, which has reached out to hundreds of thousands of favela dwellers through small interventions. In 2005 the city commissioned Jáuregui to undertake an urban study of Manguinhos. The result is a plan for the elevation of a major rail line adjacent to the district's main road to create a long public park beneath it. Raising the rail line will remove a physical and psychological barrier between Manguinhos and the rest of the city, and create a new public amenity equipped with scenic walkways, bicycle paths, and athletic fields. The architects have limited the number of people who will need to be relocated during construction and have incorporated replacement housing into the design. The project is currently underway.
Elemental: Quinta Monroy Housing, Iquique, Chile, 2003–05
In 2003 the Chilean government commissioned Elemental—a group of architects, engineers, social workers, and contractors led by architect Alejandro Aravena and supported by the oil company Copec and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile—to create housing for a community of nearly 100 low-income households on a 1.25-acre site in central Iquique, a desert city of 200,000 people in northern Chile. The budget included only $7,500 per unit for land, infrastructure, and building. Elemental developed a variation of the traditional row house, in which each unit consists of one built segment flanked by an empty area of equal size—a building type that can be inhabited immediately and also incorporate significant change over time. Over a period of nine months, 93 basic reinforced-concrete units were built. Each was stabilized for seismic durability and equipped with the barest of basics: plumbing but no fittings for kitchen and bathroom, an access stair, and openings for doorways. Once the modular outlines were completed, residents moved in and began finishing their spaces at their own expense and at a pace that their income allowed, adding color, texture, and vitality. Living space in completed Quinta Monroy Housing units is more than double—roughly 750 square feet—what the original tiny budget could fund. With Quinta Monroy as its starting point, Elemental has since erected well over 1,000 expandable units in Latin America and beyond and has an additional 1,000 units in development. The group hopes that this model, in which customization and appreciation is achieved through gradual investment and sweat equity, could be a lasting solution for social housing.
Estudio Teddy Cruz, Casa Familiar: Living Rooms at the Border and Senior Housing with
Childcare, San Ysidro, California, 2001–present
The back-and-forth movement of materials, people, and ideas across the national border between San Diego and Tijuana has long been an important focus of Teddy Cruz's practice. In 2001 Cruz began working with the community-based nongovernmental organization Casa Familiar to develop a pilot housing project for San Ysidro, an American city located just north of the border. According to Casa Familiar—which advocates for and assists the community in such areas as immigration services, education, and job placement—some two-thirds of San Ysidro's homes are multifamily; the median income for residents is 60% lower than it is in the rest of San Diego County. In addition to the initial goal of providing affordable housing, the team sought to stimulate the neighborhood overall through political, economic, and social transformation. Cruz observed a variety of ad hoc uses of land in this formerly homogenous suburban area, and with Casa Familiar sought to create a complex system of housing, with integrated shared space, that would acknowledge and exploit the dense, multiuse, and often illegal development that has been common in the area. This decade-long undertaking has resulted in the incorporation of alternative zoning categories in San Ysidro, appropriate to the city's density and its citizens' income levels, and the designs for two small-scale projects to be constructed on abandoned or underutilized lots beginning in 2011: Living Rooms at the Border and Senior Housing with Childcare. Connected by pedestrian promenades, the two projects will integrate affordable apartments with highly flexible multiuse indoor and outdoor space. Through a radically pragmatic approach to architecture, Cruz has sought to understand the fabric of the immigrant neighborhood and create a project that institutionalizes it.
Rural Studio, Auburn University: $20K House VIII (Dave's House), Newbern, Alabama, 2009
Rural Studio, founded in 1993, is a satellite school of Auburn University, Alabama, whose mission is to educate the "citizen architect"—to teach architecture students the ethical and social responsibilities of the profession along with design and building skills. To date, Rural Studio has completed about 120 private and public projects. Among these is the $20K House, a research project that aims to address the dearth of affordable housing in Hale County (in western Alabama) and represents a broadening of the school's scope and potential impact. Forty percent of the region's nearly 6,500 residents are eligible for federal housing loans, but few can manage loans over $20,000; many, often elderly or disabled, live in trailers, whose value and quality depreciate precipitously. In an attempt to ameliorate this situation, every year since 2005 a new group of Rural Studio students has designed a house that can be built for $20,000 and be used as a model for low-income rural housing. So far nine designs have been drafted (one per year, except in 2007–08, when four were developed in tandem) and built by the students and their instructors. Informed by their predecessors, the 2008–09 team has come closest to creating a viable prototype. After nearly a year of design development, client presentations, and critiques, the house was distilled to the most elemental details, while minimizing cost and accelerating construction time. Set on a pier foundation, the 600-square-foot house—built for Hale County resident David Thornton—is open inside except for a core that neatly encloses the bathroom and separates the bedroom from the rest of the space. Dave's House was the first $20K House built by a local contractor in real time, the first step toward formalizing a repeatable model and a new paradigm for low-income rural housing.
SPONSORSHIP: The exhibition is supported in part by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art. Research and travel support was provided by the Patricia Cisneros Travel Fund for Latin America.


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The eBay item is refurbished, so may have some minor scratches, which isn't that big a deal since the cables and free shipping are included (I already had HDMI USB adapters needed to hook up a Pi, so, I don't need no steenkin' cables), and there's a 14-day return guarantee (although return shipping would have to be paid). They've sold 195 of them with more than 10 still available, so, they must have bought out Motorola's refurbished inventory. I wonder how there wound up being over 200 refurbished units (and who knows how many more refurbished were sold elsewhere) - many thousands had to be sold at/near the original $399 list price.
That's pretty amazing, considering a decent laptop with a screen as large as 15 inches, more memory than in an Atrix 4G phone, a hard drive with much more hard disk storage than the phone's internal/external flash, and a faster processor could be bought new for that price. That doesn't include $800+ (assuming new) for an unlocked Atrix 4G or similar phone (or over $2,600 on a typical 24-month minimum smart-phone up-front subsidized purchase plan) needed to make the lapdock work. I suspect most lapdocks were purchased by business users who could care less what the price was, since their enterprise was paying for them and writing off the cost, and it was the toy to have.
I haven't personally seen an Atrix lapdock and I understand it has an embedded Linux that runs Firefox 3.6 in addition to displaying the phone's screen content via HDMI output (I have no idea what the internal hardware is supporting it). However, Firefox is reportedly only accessible when an Android phone is connected - i.e., the embedded Linux isn't able to (or is crippled from) operating the lapdock independently (e.g., running Firefox without a phone connected). Since the Pi obviously can access the USB ports, keyboard, and trackpad, it's curious (but, fortunate) that there isn't any interference between the Pi and the lapdock's Linux instance. I suppose I need to go look for technical teardown/hack pages to find out how the lapdock actually works and what, if anything, might be possible to do with the Linux instance vis-a-vis the Pi.
For now, yet-another waiting game ensues, but, for less than a week, thankfully, in this case!


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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime - Ultra Thin, Ultra Powerful (Updated!)
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Performance Benchmarks
** Updated on 3rd February 2012 **
Taste of Quad-Core Power
Being the first quad-core tablet in our labs, we were naturally very eager to test out the speed demon within the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The significant features of the NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor are covered extensively here, hence we shall waste no time to put the Transformer Prime against the top tablets today which include the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Apple iPad 2. Its predecessor, the Eee Pad Transformer is also compared to see if there are any meaningful performance gains.
The following benchmarks were used for raw performance evaluation:
- Quadrant evaluates the CPU, memory, I/O and 3D graphics performance. This is an Android OS based test.
- Smartbench 2011 is a multi-core friendly benchmark application that includes both the Productivity and Games indices for a more complete gauge of the overall performance of Android tablets.
- SunSpider Javascript benchmark measures the browsing performance of the tablet.
|ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime
|ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
|Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
|Apple iPad 2
|NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core 1.3GHz
|NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz
|NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core 1GHz
|Apple A5 dual-core 1GHz
|12-core GeForce
|ULP GeForce
|ULP GeForce
|PowerVR SGX 543MP2
|Google Android 3.2 / Google Android 4.0
|Google Android 3.0
|Google Android 3.1
|Apple iOS 4.3
Unfortunately, we ran into problems conducting both the Quadrant and Smartbench 2011 benchmarks on the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Both benchmarks reflected scores that were significantly lower than dual-core mobile devices (including smartphones), which we felt were not true representations of the performance of the Transformer Prime.
One possible reason we could think of is that the Android Honeycomb operating system is not optimized for use with Tegra 3 quad-core processor. This led to the rather dismal performance of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime in the Quadrant and Smartbench 2011 benchmarks. Nevertheless, we managed to run SunSpider benchmark on the Transformer Prime and the results are as shown below:
The performance boost is evident in the SunSpider Javascript benchmark where the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime garnered a convincing lead over the other tablets. As NVIDIA has claimed, the Tegra 3 quad-core processor is able to carry out parallel processing, allocate multiple Web scripts and deliver speedier execution of Javascript heavy pages through its four cores. Statistics aside, we found the web browsing experience on the Transformer Prime to be great during normal usage conditions. It loaded our website faster than the Transformer by a mere two to three seconds, which can be considered insignificant for mainstream consumers.
Despite the lack of the Quadrant and Smartbench 2011 benchmark figures to verify its performance, our observations should suffice. Generally, the user experience was fluid and smooth. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime could handle pretty much anything we threw at it from multitasking to loading of apps. However, we did encountered some slight setbacks occasionally such as the browser app crashing on us when loading YouTube videos. Another puzzling aspect is the length of time taken for the Transformer Prime to boot up. We reckon that the time taken is long enough for anyone to head off for a quick toilet break.
The Android 4.0 Update
** Updated on 3rd Feb 2012: This segment of the article has been added to consolidate the Android 4.0 OS based test results.
We have since updated the above test with a new set of results based on the Transformer Prime's performance with Android 4.0. Our results did match up to what Google offered in its Android Developer page, with our 1948.8ms score that's somewhat identical to Google's 1963ms. What did come as a surprise to us, is the lower Sunspider score we got out of the Android 3.2 Transformer Prime. Unfortunately, we aren't able to provide you with any concrete reasons for this outcome.
Fortunately, though the numbers for its Android 4.0 variant is slightly higher than the Honeycomb version, the Transformer Prime's Sunspider score is still lower than its competitors, namely the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Apple iPad 2. The browser experience during our time with the Android 4.0.3-powered Transformer Prime proved to be much better than its Android 3.2 variant. There were noticeable speed improvements and the overall user experience was evidently better.
The overall performance of ICS on the Transformer Prime is an improvement from the Honeycomb tablets we have reviewed in 2011, including the Android 3.2 version of the Transformer Prime. We also managed to get Quadrant and Smartbench working on the updated Android 4.0 Transformer Prime, with the following results shown:
As apparent and expected, the Quadrant and Smartbench scores are reflecting higher numbers on the quad-core Transformer Prime. Do remember that the benchmarks are not a definitive measure of the tablet's performance, but when it comes to the actual user experience, the general feel is that of an improved and faster interface. Almost everything is snappier such as the home screen transitions and animations. We encountered no lags or system crashes even when we had multiple apps running in the background. Swiping to quit apps and remove notifications felt effortless as well.
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How to Choose Your Perfect Pair
The impact a beautiful pair of bridal earrings can have on your aisle style should never be underestimated. Every close up wedding photo, as he lifts your veil - it's fair to say they are the one piece of jewellery that can truly add the perfect finishing touch. Regardless of whether you favour dainty studs, classic teardrop earrings or glamourous statement chandelier sparklers, the glimmer of shimmer that any style brings will complete your special day look.
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- Pearls are a firm favourite with brides who adore timeless vintage elegance. Take inspiration from the 1950s Starlets such as Grace Kelly or Audrey Hepburn and go for a classic pearl stud or delicate drop design.
- Many brides who are wearing their hair up or who have short hair, know their wedding earrings will take focus and often worry whether a bold pair will overshadow their look. Don't be afraid to try different styles as a beautiful pair of long, slimline drops can look effortlessly graceful even with a chic crop.
- If your wedding dress has a strapless or an off-the-shoulder Bardot style neckline, a glamourous chandelier pair can look sensational, especially when all other accessories are kept minimal.
- For modern or fashion conscious brides who adore making a statement, matching the hue of your sparklers to your wedding shoes can add fabulous splashes of chic colour.
- If you adore the beauty of byone eras, encapsulate the style of your favourite decade to really emphasise your vintage look. Opt for a pair of Art Deco sensations to complement a 1920s inspired gown. Or, unleash your inner 1940s Hollywood movie star with crystal or cubic zirconia dazzlers.
- Romantic blush wedding dresses look simply divine accessorised with rose gold for a feminine yet contemporary touch. This rosy metallic hue complements is especially flattering to all complexions.
- Create a striking bridal party style with your bride tribe wearing bridesmaid earrings that are a smaller version of yours.
- Stay true to you! Remember he's marrying you for you. If you're used to wearing dainty earrings, keep to a similar style if that's how you feel comfortable. It's your day after all.


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