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You may have seen a lot of emergency vehicles near Penn High School earlier today. Don't worry, there wasn't a "Real" emergency. They were all there for an active shooter training. Local law enforcement, fire, EMS, and the school were preparing themselves for the worst.
Penn High School Student Patrick O'Malley participated in the training. "I was an arm shot victim I was on the bench, had to duck off and fall on the ground," said O'Malley. His sister also helped. "I was on the stairs and the shooter came in and he got me in the head," said Bailey O'Malley.
Luckily these stories and the blood on siblings Patrick and Bailey O'Malley are fake. But the training session still felt pretty real. There were the sounds of gunshots, screams, and fake blood. "We need to have this as real as it can possibly be," said Matt Blank with St. Joseph County Police.
Hundreds of people participated in the event that simulated a shooter coming into the high school.Including local police, fire and EMS. Blank said, "you can train you can practice but sometimes you actually have to put those things into action...that's what we're doing here today, we're testing ourselves. "
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Winner of ITV's Show Me The Funny, this half-Iranian, half-Middlesborough comic is a rising star on the comedy circuit. Full of an insatiable lust for life, his exuberant comedy greets the audience like a sex-starved spaniel would greet a trouser leg.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. - Thursday night was a night to honor the three Spartan seniors, but it was a sophomore who sparked the Michigan State women's basketball team to a 73-53 upset of No. 23 Nebraska. Klarissa Bell scored a game- and career-high 19 points, including MSU's first seven points, to help MSU open a 28-8 lead in the first nine minutes.
The Spartans, who have won six of their last seven games, improve to 18-10 overall and remain in a tie for third place at 10-5 in the Big Ten.
All three seniors were productive in their final Breslin Center game. Taylor Alton poured in 18 points, going 7-for-11 from the field, including 4-of-8 from behind the arc, while also adding five rebounds in two steals. Porsche Poole dished out a career high nine assists, while also adding 13 points. Lykendra Johnson had seven points, seven rebounds and two steals in only 19 minutes.
Nebraska got on the board first, but Bell scored the first seven MSU points, pushing the Spartans ahead 7-2 in the early minutes. The Huskers scored the next four points to pull within one, but the Spartans followed with a 19-2 run, including a stretch of 15 unanswered, to take the wind out of Nebraska and go ahead 28-8 with 11:18 on the clock. Michigan State maintained a comfortable margin, eventually going into halftime up 43-22.
The Spartans shot 62.1% in the first half, including a 7-of-12 effort from behind the arc.
Michigan State was sloppy early in the second half, but would grow its lead to as many as 23 on a couple occasions. A 15-2 Nebraska run cut the Spartan lead to 10 (52-42) with 11:46 left. MSU regrouped and posted a 15-3 run of their own over the next six minutes to put the game away.
With 1:55 left, head coach Suzy Merchant subbed out the three seniors together, allowing them to kiss the Spartan head at midcourt on their way off the court for the last time.
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Earnings scorecard: 4th quarter going the bull's way
Corporate earnings growth is strong and a market correction creates opportunity for bulls.
The bears may be in charge for now with a market that is undergoing a somewhat painful correction, but ultimately the bulls will win this war.
Three quarters of S&P 500 companies have reported results, and with 4th quarter earnings crushing Wall Street estimates, valuations will ultimately rise if the trend continues. Or will they?
In response to fantastic operating performance at the end of last year traders have sent the S&P 500 to a decline of almost 5% in 2010.
So what gives?
Stocks have enjoyed an incredible run since hitting rock bottom last March. The market being forward looking appears not to care that 73% of S&P 500 companies that have reported earnings have bested estimates. (Check out these 5 earnings stalwarts)
The market is more concerned about what happens in the future and at the moment that future is clouded by things like foreign countries in Europe, mainly Greece collapsing under huge amounts of debt.
In addition the U.S.'s largest creditor, China is tightening the screws by putting the brakes on its own economy while making vague threats about liquidating its U.S. paper. That potential excess supply could make future deficit spending more expensive.
There is much noise in the system and it is hard to make heads or tails out of the minutia. Focusing on earnings then is a respite from the insanity. At the end of the day earnings do matter.
With earnings growing at such a strong clip, stock price appreciation typically follows.
Investors at the moment are skeptical of fourth-quarter results. According to Thomson Reuters data, the blended earnings growth rate for the S&P 500 is 207.6%. Impressive indeed, but that growth rate comes due to very easy comparisons.
Where the bears find trouble is with respect to guidance.
More impressive than the earnings growth and the number of companies beating Wall Street estimates is the number of companies that are raising guidance. On that front, for every 6 companies that are increasing estimates only 1 is decreasing the number.
With the Federal Reserve accommodating growth there should be no surprise that guidance is on the rise.
Interestingly the number of beats is coming from a wide cross-section of firms. Eastman Kodak (EK) reported earnings of $1.08 in the fourth quarter as compared to an estimate of $.18.
PNC Financial (PNC), demonstrating the success of operating with a steep yield curve, posted $2.17 per share. The estimate was for $.77. On the technology side Micron Technology (MU) beat earnings by 229%.
On the losing side of the ledger the companies reporting the largest misses came mostly from the energy sector. EOG Resources (EOG) was expected to post a profit of $.98 but reported a loss of $.39.
Kicking off earnings season was materials company Alcoa (AA). It was not a good start as the aluminum company missed by $.05, but that weak start was followed by beat after beat.
Investors can ignore the results of the fourth quarter at their own peril. Stocks may be trading lower given the noise from the outside. Trust me the world is not ending.
Strong earnings can and should continue in the first quarter of 2010. We can be certain of this given strong guidance and the easy money policy of the Federal Reserve.
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3 posts since Sun, 13 Jan 13
I´ve been trying to use load data infile procedure to load data from a csv file to mysql, althougt I'ven been unable to due it because of a unknown variable error in the set statement.
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'D:\\Bets\\BD\\tables\\match.csv'
The date field to import is in format 2011-08-07 and MySQL server 5.1.
when running the query the error given is: SQL Error (1193): Unknown system variable 'matchDate'.
any help would be pappreciated... thanks!
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The LOAD command works but the second query fails, or? So, if you want to set a local session variable. Is the @date variable something you have set previously, or what is it?
Setting a local variable:
SET @date:='2011-11-11';
Written by pimentones
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3 posts since Sun, 13 Jan 13
This is the result when I run the query in phpmyadmin:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'D:\\Bets\\BD\\tables\\match.csv'
date variable is in the field list and is the field of the csv with the date I want to import. How do I need to use it so I can read the data from the different rows of the file?
thanks for your help :)
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412 posts since Sat, 17 Oct 09
if date is meant as a field of the table, omit the @ prefix; these are only used for user variables (see herehttp://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/set-statement.html).
"How do I need to use it so I can read the data from the different rows of the file?" you cannot read from the file (match.csv); you can only read from the table you just LOADed - eg via SELECT date FROM bets , or SELECT STR_TO_DATE(date, 'YYYY-MM-DD') FROM bets - this will get you a result set which contains the date fields from all rows of the table.
what to do after / instead of that depensds on what you want to do with the data - what do you want to do with the bets.date´s in your SQL ?
Written by pimentones
2 years ago
3 posts since Sun, 13 Jan 13
so for order I should:
- load first the table match with all the info from the csv;
- then perform a select to convert the data from column date;
To do the last step what do you recommend?!
I was thinking of create an aux column to import the date as varchar and then convert it to the appropriate format.
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412 posts since Sat, 17 Oct 09
any recommendations must depend on an answer to the questions:
a) what format is the date field in match.csv ?
b) what do you want to DO with the dates ? do you just want to normalize dates that are not in format YYYY-MM-DD so that they csn be put into a column of type DATE ?
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if b) is true, try
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To those readers who like to crap all over the diaspora.......
This shows that we care more about the children of Ukraine,,,,then does the corrupt govt of Yanuk and his mafia thieves........
Do not spit in our hand......but,,,,take it in friendship....so together, we can oust Yanuk, and return Ukraine to a respected , democratic and healthy nation........
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Thank you. So beautifully said. And a huge thank you to that group for raising so much to help these wonderful, hurting children.
I agree. The diaspora has kept its Ukrainian roots a lot better than some Ukrainians in Ukraine who speak Russian only and very bad Ukrainian once in a while. And to the person who wrote a day ago that the diaspora should mind their own business as they "had fled Ukraine" and matters in Ukraine should not concern them, well, many who fled had no choice as it was either flee or die. But they never stopped loving and yearning for Ukraine. Can you say the same for the oligarchs and the mafia now governing Ukraine? Slava Ukraini!
Thank you for your words. My grandparents, both were born in Ukraine. And they came to Canada, where they met and got married, had a farm, and raised 13 children. And those children had many grandchildren. And now there are well over 250 in my family. And we are all proud of our Ukrainian heritage.
And here, in the province of Saskatchewan, in Canada, we have many many people of Ukrainian heritage, and we have not forgotten our roots. And we did not really leave Ukraine. We brought Ukraine with us. :) Canada was also the first nation to recognize Independant Ukraine.
I was very proud to be the first of my family to come and visit Ukraine three years ago. I plan to return again.
None of the twits who post insults towards the diaspora have a drop of Ukrainian blood in their miserable carcasses... So if they get pissed off by the Diaspora's relentless efforts to improve Ukraine, its a great compliment and testament to the Diaspora's effectiveness.
I am Russian. My wife is Ukrainian. I totally support funding initiatives like this. I wish there were more. This really matters and makes a real difference!
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The Traditional Fleet contains several boats with similar comfort and facilities, such as air-conditioned cabins with private toilet, covered dining room with bar and library and a 360° view sundeck. Amazon riverboats with traditional lines are the "AMAZON CLIPPER", the "SELLY CLIPPER II" and the "AMAZON ANGLER". Programs are conducted on one of the three boats without previous confirmation - depending on the number of passengers for each departure. The difference between the boats is mainly number of cabins. They all have the same facilities and amenities.
Amazon Angler (Capacity: 10 Passenger)
Cabins: The Amazon Angler hosts all guests in 5 air-conditioned cabins, with bunk berths (6m² – 9,25m²) and private bathroom facilities with shower.
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Crew: 01 captain, 02 sailors, 01 cook, 01 english speaking field guide
Amazon Clipper (Capacity: 16 Passenger)
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Crew: 01 captain, 03 sailors, 01 cook, 01 english speaking field guide.
Both categories were designed exclusively for cruising on the Amazon River and its tributaries. Using years of experience on other tour boats we made several design innovations to make them as comfortable as possible and still offer a perfect interaction with nature.
The shallow draught allows us to visit locations inaccessible to many other boats and the outboard powered canoes that we carry are used for trips in lagoons, narrow channels, creeks and flooded forest.
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Although the climate is considered hot and damp all year round (80-85 Fahrenheit, 30-34 Celsius) it can be surprisingly cool at night in the jungle or on the river. Most of the time passengers will find themselves wearing light clothing such as t-shirts, shorts, bathing suits and sandals, but for the hikes in the forest they should also have a long-sleeved shirt and trousers, light jacket, good footwear (tennis or hiking boots), small flashlight, binoculars, and personal effects.
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The boats are also available for charter for your own customized Amazon adventure. The needs of families and groups can be accommodated on vessels ranging from basic, regional, hammock boats to beautiful, sophisticated yachts. Also custom-made excursions can be organized, depending on interests and timeframes, for activities such as: birdwatching, botanical tours, adventure expeditions, educational trips, jungle survival, and ornamental fish tours.
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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has always fascinated me as an investment. I love Amazon as a consumer. It's not unusual for me to place multiple orders in a week. I'm an Amazon Prime member. I own a Kindle. I am subscribed to Audible.com. LOVE IT. It seems to be the perfect company. Recently, Forbes has even published this article about Amazon becoming the biggest tech company in the world.
Despite my love for the company, I've believed for at least a year that the stock was simply too expensive. I can admit that I didn't look far beyond its ballooning price-to-earnings ratio when forming this opinion. But the stock just keeps growing, and since I think so highly of the company as a consumer I decided to take a step back to quantify, even at a crude level, what kind of growth might be left.
Predicting Amazon's Future
It's obvious that predicting the future is tough – just ask Morgan Housel and pundittracker.com. Amazon is especially challenging because I think there's a real chance that CEO Jeff Bezos can see into the future. Alright, he almost certainly can't, but not many people thought that an online book retailer would become the dominant force in cloud computing before cloud computing was even a well-known market. I think we can safely label Amazon as an 'extremely dynamic' corporation.
In 10 years Amazon may be the leader in flying cars or extra-terrestrial precious metal extraction. So rather than try to predict what Amazon will do as a company, I decided to work from the other direction. What will the world's biggest company look like in 10-20 years? And how much would Amazon need to grow in order to become the world's biggest company in this timeframe? Please keep in mind that this is purely an exercise to see how plausible the scenario is, and what kind of returns investors might expect if it actually happened.
Estimating the #1 Market Cap
I started with this New York Times graph of the largest market cap companies going back to 1925. I also mined the Thomson One database for largest year-end market cap companies, which went back to 1980, and converted everything into present day dollars to account for inflation. (The NYT graph already did that conversion for me.) You could write several dissertations on why companies continue to get bigger in real terms – global population is growing, consumption is growing, and various technologies allow individual companies to efficiently provide products and services to an ever-growing customer base. But for our purposes it's enough to roughly quantify the top market cap 10-20 years from now by extrapolating these data sets.
Amazon has done a great job not diluting its shares, so I assumed that they will have roughly 450 million shares outstanding going forward. Luckily there isn't a ton of difference between the predictions of each dataset. Here's the return you would expect, depending on if Amazon became #1 10 or 20 years from now.
So if Amazon becomes the biggest company in the world in 2022, the stock could grow by ~15-18% annually between now and 2022. If it takes them until 2032 to become the largest company in the world, the annual returns would be ~8-10% between now and 2032.
Those may sound like respectable, or even outstanding, returns, but most every Fool likes to believe that long-term growth is fueled by business fundamentals. What kind of top- and bottom-line growth would Amazon need to achieve to become this prototypical largest company in the world? I'm glad you asked…
Growth Rates and Margins
I perused the annual reports of the world's largest company for the last 33 years to grab revenue and net income data. Unfortunately some of these are easier to find than others, so ultimately I got the data for AT&T ('80-83), GE ('94-97, '00-01, '03-05), Wal-Mart ('98), Microsoft ('99, '02), Exxon ('06-11), and Apple ('12). I wasn't able to find those from '84-93, but I think the 23 years of data that I did collect is representative of most ranges of markets, from extremely cheap to irrationally exuberant.
This obviously is a little dicey because P/E (Price-to-Earnings) and P/S (Price-to-Sales) ratios can vary significantly by industry, among other factors. Let's look at the P/S ratio first because, frankly, that is easier when analyzing Amazon. I used the average market cap model and determined the required annual revenue growth that Amazon would need to achieve for the maximum, minimum, and median P/S ratios of these companies.
The 30.2 P/S ratio from '99 is clearly an 'internet bubble' phenomenon, and also a product of Microsoft '99 having the highest margins of any #1 company I collected data on since '80. More relevant is the entirely plausible top-line growth rates that Amazon would need to achieve to be a more typical #1 market cap stock with a P/S ratio of 1.7, or even the most extreme P/S ratio of 0.8. Currently analysts are predicting annual revenue growth of 32.6% for Amazon over the next 5 years, and its P/S ratio sits at 2.1.
I mentioned that Microsoft '99 had the highest net margin (39%) of any #1 company since '80. You probably won't be surprised to hear that Wal-Mart had the lowest in this group at just under 3% in '98. The median was 10%, which happens to be Exxon in '07. Over two-thirds of the companies I looked at for this project had net margins between 8% and 12%. Even within this group their P/E ratios ranged from 8 to 38. Expected growth rates, macro-economic conditions, and a wide variety of other factors make this completely unpredictable. Amazon's margins are often the crux of the bull versus bear case for its stock. Bulls say that it is 'building its moat', and margins will expand, especially as it adds more sales of electronic media. Bears say that Amazon is the leader in a cut-throat retail industry that requires razor-thin margins, and always seems to reinvest capital to enter new markets.
If I told you I could predict Amazon's margins 10-20 years from now, you should be extremely skeptical. If I told you I could predict their growth rate, along with some of the particulars of the global economy, you should laugh.
Foolish Bottom Line
As Amazon grows it will be subject to the same "law of large numbers" discussions that Apple has faced in the last year, because growing becomes more difficult as a company becomes larger. But the top-line growth required to become the biggest company in the world is well within reason, and investor returns will still be quite substantial over the next decade or longer, if they succeed. So I'm ending my AMZN underperform CAPS call, and adding it back to my watchlist.
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The fast-food giant suggests franchisees open for the holiday after seeing Thanksgiving sales jump.
Merry Christmas from McDonald's (MCD)! Now put on a smock, suggest some fries with that and help Ronald make his sales goal this quarter.
McDonald's, which once used the starving homeless child pictured in this clip from 1985's "Santa Claus: The Movie" to sell seasonal tie-in Happy Meals and story books, is getting its franchisees into the holiday spirit by not-so-subtly suggesting they stay open through the holidays. As AdAge reported, a Nov. 8 memo from McDonald's USA chief operating officer Jim Johannesen explains why it's imperative to keep the Golden Arches lit through the new year:
"Starting with Thanksgiving, ensure your restaurants are open throughout the holidays. Our largest holiday opportunity as a system is Christmas Day. Last year, [company-operated] restaurants that opened on Christmas averaged $5,500 in sales."
Gawker writer Hamilton Nolan so aptly and bluntly notes that McDonald's Dickensian stance just put a $5,500 price tag on a franchisee's Christmas Day and turned a holiday closure in deference to franchisee and employee families into an "opportunity." Asked whether employees would at least get a little more holiday cheer with their paycheck, a McDonald's spokesperson -- scarcely audible over the clattering of chains forged during a life of indifference and inhumanity -- replied that "when our company-owned restaurants are open on the holidays, the staff voluntarily sign up to work. There is no regular overtime pay." McDonald's didn't comment on their employees' potential holiday alternatives, including prisons and workhouses.
So how did Ronald McDonald go from holiday commercials of him teaching kids how to skate to pulling their parents out of the house on Christmas morning and shoving them in front of the fryers for no additional pay? Somebody messed with his cash flow.
Even after expanding hours and tinkering with its menu, McDonald's reported a 3.5% drop in revenue last quarter. Back in October, sales at U.S. stores dropped 2.2%. When the company recovered with a 2.5% sales increase last month, it declared open season on holidays by crediting Thanksgiving hours for the boost. Johanssen sent out another memo on Dec. 12 saying that not only did company-owned restaurants bring in $6,000 a pop on Thanksgiving Day, but that McDonald's opened 6,000 more stores that day than it did a year ago.
McDonald's doesn't see its franchisees, its employees, or even $5,500 to $6,000 when those stores stay open: It sees an extra $80 million or so to pad this quarter's figures. It also sees that it's not alone in seizing some holiday "opportunity," despite being among the few who don't pay extra to do so.
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Movie theater chains like Regal Entertainment (RGC) and Carmike (CKEC) are going to be open, too, as Quentin Tarantino's slavery revenge fantasy "Django Unchained," the Seth Rogen/Barbara Streisand mother-son comedy "Guilt Trip," Judd Apatow's coming-of-middle-age story "This Is 40" and the musical "Les Miserables" are all being released on or around Christmas Day.
Not only is McDonald's larger and more widespread than just about all of the aforementioned companies, but it's also making it quite clear that it's doing an about-face on its holiday policy simply to pad the stats. While some employees will work around it and may have a need for the extra cash that their colleagues at Denny's and Regal make each year, McDonald's memos prompting franchisees to turn the Arches on weren't penned with the employees in mind. McDonald's sales losses in October were its first in nine years. After learning on Thanksgiving that taking away a holiday is the easy answer, McDonald's isn't above pulling Christmas dinner off employees' plates and replacing it with a value meal if it means a few more presents under the company tree.
Consider it just a friendly way of telling employees and their families that Santa doesn't buy their gifts. Ronald does, and the clown's got to get paid.
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McDonalds' is not the only one. There are a lot of Businesses out there that care a lot more about the all mighty dollar than they do people! I wish we would go back to the time of BLUE LAWS. Everything was closed on SUNDAYS and people spent time with FAMILY!!. All places closed for Thanksgiving and CHRISTMAS, as it should be. WE need to put GOD and FAMILY first and than maybe a lot of this violence would stop.
$5500 in sales. Hmmm, let's do the math. #lictricity to run the store, fryers, parking lot lights etc. Paychecks for disgruntled employees who are missing Christmas with their families. Inventory costs of food, napkins, cups, wrappers, boxes, oil to fry food, cleansers to clean store and other incidentals. Seems to me a $5500 is going to see them barely break even for the day. If I were the franchise holder I would tell the clown to stuff it and stay closed. The goodwill of the employees should be worth more than the marginal profit to be made.
McDonalds is sliding downhill at a furious pace
Their counter people are bored and indifferent, you have to go by employee smokers when you go in the store, It's slow and innaccurate, and dirty
Burger king about the same.
Wendys a tad better
For some reason Chick filet always has happy and quick as well as accurate people (No I don't own one- wish I did)
They use the same pool to pick employees, apparently they found out what the others forgot- bad service means less customers
Wow, unlike some who never eat fast food, I look for opportunitiies to eat at McD's. However, last thing I want to do is knowingly conturibute to the profits of an evil corporation. Open on Christmas is bad enough, but no overtime pay? That's the worst. I don't understand how a huge corporation that courts family business can be so anti-family.
I know Wendys and BK will welcome me back, plus I'll probably not spend as much time in the gym. My kids prefer taco bell/kfc anyway. I used to drag them to McDs.
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Spreadsheets have never brought so much to the table. You start off with a blank canvas. Tap to choose a handsome template. Then add multiple tables, which are prebuilt with formulas. Or build stunning interactive charts with a touch. The power of numbers has never been so beautiful to behold.5 Learn more about Numbers
Wherever you go, the power to create a compelling presentation is right at your fingertips. Tap one of 30 elegant Apple-designed themes to start. Add photos, interactive charts, and cinematic transitions. And use AirPlay to wirelessly present on an HDTV right from your iPad.5 Learn more about Keynote
Manage your busy schedule with the Calendar app. You can view events by day, week, month, or year. And switch from portrait to landscape to get a broader view. Even your Facebook events are integrated into Calendar, so you can see what your friends are up to.
Build an iTunes library full of your favorite songs, artists, and albums. Create custom playlists. Tap Shuffle to mix things up, or let Siri choose the order. Stream music from DJ-curated or genre-focused radio stations with iTunes Radio.6
Check out the latest episode of your favorite TV show over breakfast. Or watch an HD movie on the bus. With the stunning Retina display, you can enjoy everything as it was meant to be — in full widescreen.
Just ask a question ("Who does San Francisco play on Sunday?") and Siri provides the answer. Just make a request ("Find me a table for two at Seven Hills tomorrow around 7 pm") and Siri makes it happen. Say it in any of eight languages and Siri understands.7 Learn more about Siri
iPad never forgets, so you won't, either. The Reminders app lets you set location- or time‑based alerts for all the things you need to get done — even recurring ones. And iCloud keeps Reminders in sync on all your devices, so you can make a list on your iPad and be alerted on your iPhone.
Use the Contacts app to store names, numbers, email addresses, Twitter handles, and more. The profile information of all your Facebook friends is integrated into Contacts, too, so whenever they make a change, you automatically stay up to date.
Make a face and it'll stay that way, courtesy of Photo Booth on iPad. Take some nutty pictures of yourself. Or of you and your friends. Pose for the camera, apply an effect, and share away.
Whether it's a weekly shopping list or your top ten favorite bands (for today, anyway), Notes keeps important information close at hand. There's a Dictation feature for when you're too busy to type. And Notes stays up to date on all your devices thanks to iCloud. You can even share notes using AirDrop — instead of on the refrigerator.
The world is your arcade with Game Center. Challenge your friends or take on an opponent six time zones away. When you're done schooling them, check the leaderboards for scores.
Check the current time in cities around the globe with the world clock. Set the alarm for five minutes before kickoff on Sunday. Time your morning yoga session with the stopwatch. Even use the timer to ensure perfectly baked cookies.
Setting up a Wi-Fi network is incredibly easy — you don't even need a computer. Just plug in an AirPort base station and connect it to your DSL or cable modem. The AirPort Utility setup assistant built into iOS will have you up and running with a few taps.
Let iPad be your teacher. And your classroom. Take complete courses from universities and other schools right on your iPad. And access the world's largest online catalog of free education content, from books and podcasts to video tutorials.
Discover, subscribe to, and play podcasts of all genres. Browse hundreds of thousands of free audio and video titles in the Podcasts Store. And create customized stations that add new episodes automatically.
Get exclusive sneak peeks of all the latest movies in 1080p HD on your iPad. Or find showtimes in your area. You can even purchase tickets right in the app.
If you lose your iPad, all is not lost. Now turning off Find My iPhone, erasing your device, and reactivating it all require your Apple ID and password. So even when your iPad is out of your hands, you can still protect its contents.8
Don't get up — use your iPad to wirelessly control iTunes music on your Mac, PC, or Apple TV.


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— Laura Simon, Spain
August 26th, 2009
10:49 pm
After you met Mélanie, you have to meet with Claude. By the way, there are good friends ! he has a 50ft sailboat and when he is not chartering it, he can offer a sailing day cruise on the lagoon. He knows all the good spots for snorkeling. If you like sailing,then you found the right one ! Don't miss this opportunity ! see all details about this sailing day on www.tahitisailingcharter.com
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December 17th, 2007
11:36 pm
After visiting the Marae in the village of Maeva, cross the bridge over to the Motu of Maeva and stop by the Galerie 'Umatatea, either before or after going for a swim at the coral garden and white sand beach at the end of the road. Melanie, an american artist living in Huahine since 1999, has built a local style house and studio in this lovely breezy spot just across the road from the Pension Delord/Camping Vanaa. Her oil paintings, water colours, pastels and pen&inks are filled with the sensuous beauty that inspires the artist's life in her tropical paradise. Limited Edition prints are also available, and her work can be found in galleries in Bora Bora, Raiatea, Tahaa, Moorea, and Tahiti. Always happy to have visitors, Melanie is delighted to share her knowledge of the local lore and insiders tips. If the papayas are ripe, you might get invited to share a refreshing smoothie!
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Whenever I meet a prospective student visiting our campus, I am inevitably asked the question, "How do you like Georgetown?" If I've learned anything about exchanging casual pleasantries with a stranger it's that it's much easier to just evade the question entirely. "Oh you know… Sun City is huge here…?"
But for those of us who have already committed to spending four years of our lives in quaint Georgetown, Texas, we are fully aware of what G-town has, or doesn't have, to offer the under 65. So, many students spend the weekends on fraternity row, possibly at a Cove series event or in our dorm rooms or apartments with friends. It can be hard to find things to do off campus that are interesting, within our budgets, (the economy's downturn certainly wasn't any kinder to the college student) and worth leaving our convenient Southwestern bubble.
Over the next three months, I will set out to prove that there is indeed more to the potential nightlife (and sometimes day life) of a Southwestern student than what the majority have discovered thus far. I'll tell you about upcoming events, books, art, movies, my favorite spots around the area (and believe me, I'm stretching "the area" to include Austin) and I'll be doing it on my very own college budget so that anyone looking for a more than typical SU night will be sure to find something.
For this, my first blog, I'll leave you with some suggestions for the upcoming weeks….
The FronteraFest, an annual Austin theatre festival, is going on until February 13th. The performances vary from night to night and are in several locations around Austin.
January 12th-February 13th (Typically starts at 8:00 pm)
Location: varies, check website
Info/Tickets: http://www.fronterafest.org/site/index.html
Price: $12
Alamo Drafthouse is a favorite of Austinites. Known for their unique restaurant and movie theater combination, Alamo always puts on a good pre-movie show (that often continues during and after the movie) for special events.
Alamo Drafthouse
The Departed
February 15th @ 7:30 pm
Location: at all Alamo Drafthouses
Info/Tickets: http://www.drafthouse.com/mason/shows.php?id=537
Price: $6-9 (Part of Macho Mondays, guys get in for $6. )
A personal favorite event, the Austin Swing Syndicate hosts swing dancing classes and a live band event every Thursday night at the Fed in Austin. The class gives an hour-long introduction into the basic swing dancing steps. Everyone dances with everyone so there's no need to bring a partner and the dress is casual. Afterward, you go to an adjoining ballroom where the band plays and you get the chance to see just how coordinated you are (or aren't, in my case).
Swing Dancing Nights with the Austin Swing Syndicate
Every Thursday 8:00 pm-Midnight
The Fed
2312 San Gabriel St
Austin, TX 78705
Price: Free for lesson, $5 for live band
Check back next week for my blog on the Georgetown square… I'm going to check out the local biz and tell you what's worth your pirate bucs.
Until then my fellow night owls…