~ After long consideration, I visited the Apple Store in Beijing's Wangfujing shopping street and purchased a 32 GB iPad Air with an Acme Skinny Book case…it's intended use is for on-the-go display of wildlife images while traveling…after setting it up, I went back to the store where the helpful Apple staff found a way to set up Mail retaining my .mac e-mail address…the self-portrait was received from the reflective iPad screen surface…the homepage wallpaper is a female Panthera pardus, leopard, photographed one month ago in Masai Mara Nature Reserve, Kenya