Apple iphone 5: Fired up, ready to buy?

Is everyone fired up, ready to go?  Change that to ready to buy.  APPLE’s long awaited  event will be tomorrow, September 12.  Perfectly choreographed, the powers-that-be at Apple will entice the faithful and hold them on tenterhooks while they introduce  new products, to… just one more thing…Steve Job’s signature expression.

Apple aficionados expect the iphone 5 to be unveiled.  There is a slight chance that the mini ipad will be introduced.  Or…Tim Cook could fool us all.

Size still counts.  Important questions will be about screen size, battery life and what you can watch on it.   Perhaps there will be new features we haven’t thought of.  Jobs defined what we want.  He made us want things we did not know existed.

The event begins at 10 am Pacific time.  Meanwhile, investors were jittery and the stock closed around $2 less, down to $660 a share.  that is not untypical for APPLE stock.

Are you planning on buying the new iphone 5 regardless of what it has?  I think I might have to take the plunge but not right away.

I think if I were a betting woman, I would bet on one more thing….a new companion ipad.

 

 

VA unique with religious exemptions

Washingtonpost.com:

Nearly 7,000 Virginia children whose families have opted to keep them out of public school for religious reasons are not required to get an education, the only children in the country who do not have to prove they are being home-schooled or otherwise educated, according to a study.

Virginia is the only state that allows families to avoid government intrusion once they are given permission to opt out of public school, according to a report from the University of Virginia’s School of Law. It’s a law that is defended for promoting religious freedom and criticized for leaving open the possibility that some children will not be educated.

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