How to choose what to learn?

Let me explain the project I want to complete and hopefully you can tell me what I need to learn.
I am a teacher and I want to have my students create a walking history tour of our town App for iOS and Android. It will be a few windows: a map, a list of locations, and an info window that displays pictures and text about the location. I am trialing the Creative Cloud in the hopes that this will suit my needs. It looks like it is possible to do this in Flash pro or Flash Builder or even InDesign, but thats just it. I can't figure out where to start. Our students use Photoshop, Indesign, and Flash at our school. All CS3. My hope is that a project like this will convice the school to buy Creative Cloud for Teams, but I need to be sure I can produce a finished project. I have used Photoshop and Lightroom a lot, but hardly anyflash. My coding skills are limited to HTML, CSS, and basic javaScript. I am not afraid to dig into some tutorials or books, but I need to know which ones will help me, and which ones are a waste of time. There is so much out there! Do I start with just basic flash tutorials? Even then am I using Flash Pro or Builder? Can I have the students design things in InDesign or Photoshop and send them to me to put into flash builder? I tried researching this, but I thought the forums might give me better advice. Thanks.

Yeah you got the jist of of it. I wanted to ask the photography class to take photos of the locations, and be able to put them in the app. That I think will be no problem. I was also hoping that designing the layout of the app could be done in InDesign like Terry White does here: http://terrywhite.com/techblog/how-to-create-ipad-apps-with-indesign-cs6/ . Though it looks like that is more of just a portfolio project for the iPad, and if I want more features I will have to use Flash. But the thing I guess I am really asking is where to start? Flash builder tutorials or Flash Pro? What will I need to keep in mind since most tutorials are made for Flash Player and not mobile?

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Data Marts
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- BEA Web Logic for future SAS® SPM Platform
- Xythos Web File System (WFS)
3. Client u2013Tier Server
- SAS® Enterprise Guide
- SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office
REPORTING
We have created a number of parameterized stored processes using SAS® Enterprise Guide, which our stakeholders will access as both static (HTML as well as PDF documents) and interactive reports (drill-down) through SAS® Web Report Studio and the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office. All canned reports along with SAS® Web Report Studio will be accessed through the SAS® Information Delivery Portal.
NEXT STEPS
Next steps of the project include development of a financial data mart along with appropriate data quality standards, monthly frozen snapshots and implementation of university-wide financial reporting standards. This will facilitate electronic access to integrated financial information necessary for the development and maintenance of an integrated, multi-year financial planning framework. Canned reports to include monthly web-based financial statements, with drill-down capability along with budget templates automatically populated with data values and saved in different workbooks for different subgroups (for example by Department). The later will be accomplished using Microsoft Direct Data Exchange (DDE).
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As well, we will begin the implementation of SAS® Strategic Performance Management Software to support the performance measurement and monitoring initiative that is a fundamental component of McMasteru2019s strategic plan. This tool will assist in critically assessing and identifying meaningful and statistically relevant measures and indicators. This software can perform causal analyses among various measures within and across areas providing useful information on inter-relationships between factors and measures. As well as demonstrating how decisions in one area affect other areas, these cause-and-effect analyses can reveal both good performance drivers and also possible detractors and enable u2018evidenced-basedu2019 decision-making. Finally, the tool provides a balanced scorecard reporting format, designed to identify statistically significant trends and results that can be tailored to the specific goals, objectives and measures of the various operational areas of the University.
LESSONS LEARNED
Lessons learned include the importance of taking a consultative approach not only in assessing information needs, but also in building data hierarchies, understanding subject matter, and in prioritizing tasks to best support decision making and inform senior management. We found that a combination of training and mentoring (knowledge transfer) helped us accelerate learning the new tools. It was very important to ensure that time and resources were committed to complete the necessary planning and data quality initiatives prior to initiating the first project. When developing a project plan, it is important to

I found My iPhone contacts on my friends Iphone we both have 4s! But we use the same apple ID and ICloud ID! How can undo what happened? all my private stuff is now on his phone!!! help me plz!!?

I found My iPhone contacts on my friends Iphone we both have 4s! But we use the same apple ID and ICloud ID! How can undo what happened? all my private stuff is now on his phone!!! help me plz!!?

Of course if you are both connected to the same iCloud account you have the same contacts - what did you expect?. The contacts live on the server and are read from there by the devices; so as you've both managed to sync your contacts up to iCloud they are now inextricably mixed. You can only delete your contacts by deleting individual ones, and doing that will delete them from your phone as well.
You can only unravel this by
1. In the iCloud contacts page at http://icloud.com, select all the contacts, click on the cogwheel icon at bottom left and choose 'Export vCard'.
2. Sign out of System Preferences>iCloud
3. Create a new Apple ID and open a new iCloud account with it for your own use.
4. Import the vCard back into the iCloud contacts page.
5. Go to http://icloud.com and sign in with the original ID. This is now his ID. Work through the contacts individually deleting the ones you don't want him to have. When done sign out and advise him to change his password.
6. Go to the new iCloud account and delete his contacts individually.
Of course if you have also been syncing calendars and using the same email address there are problems with doing this.

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