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That depends on the tires you are driving on. there needs to be at least an inch of ice on the roadway before you really need chains. Today the All-Season tire can handle a little ice. Just remember the rules of driving on ice.Only go as fast as you are comfortable. Keep to the right if possible and let the bozo driving 50 around you. If you hold up traffic a little don’t worry about it.Chains may not be allowed on the road as they definatly tear up the road. If driving from San Francisco to Tahoe for example. You will be pulled over and told to remove the chains before you reach the Golden Gate. Toss them in the trunk and put them on IF needed. Practice where it is warmer so if you have to it is a quick and simple task. They usually take 15 minutes/tire to apply. there are traction straps you can get also for fron wheel drive and just clip on real fast.
If you have a front wheel drive you really don’t need chains as the car is pulled rather than pushed and the chains would go on the front wheels and that can interfere with the fender and cause serious body damage.
The way I read it, 600 miles with chains, Don’t do it, it will tear up the cord in the radial tires. If you are serious about extra traction on that long a trip get snow tires. Most of the time in winter months they are allowed on highways and the ride while noisy you will have the extra traction you need in the ice.

Education is definitely a community effort. When I say community, I mean it takes equal committment from the school, from the student and from the parent. We all have our roles. If one slips, the other two are there to pick them back up again. It is very simliar to the “Checks and Balances” system of our own government.But do all view it this way? Unfortunately not. Because our roles as teachers, parents and students are abstractly defined, there are no “guidelines” for checking and balancing. It must come from within, and unfortunately not everyone is programmed to do so.

I have taught school for over 20 years. In that amount of time I have seen trends come and go. I have seen students that were highly motivated and I have taught students who barely understood what education was about. I have seen students such as this also blossom right before your very eyes. And that happens when the 3 way “community” of school, parents and students all work in harmony.

So what can parents do to help their children reach their full potential in school?

A) They must make sure their child feels loved.

Sounds simple right? Easy one!! (you would think) But often times the brightest of children will not work up to their potential because they feel they don’t matter to anyone. Each and every child was brought into this world by two parents that not only have the responsibility but the OPPORTUNITY to love a being in a way that will make that child feel as though they are important. When they feel important and worthy…….they succeed in order to keep feeling their worth. Always love your child!

B) Establish boundaries from day one of your child’s life.

I’ve often said, if you can hang in there and be the major “law enforcer” for the first 4 years of your child’s life, you will seriously feel you are on auto pilot as they cruise through the school years. Ok sure you’ve heard over and over again that kids need and crave boundaries. Yes. But that does not mean they are going to ask for them. Are they stupid?? So they expect us as parents to create them………but not too late. You have to do this early to set the moral standards and values you hope will guide your child as they make to aduthood. When your child enters kindergarten and hears their teacher saying the same things that you’ve been teaching them during the first years of their life, imagine the connection they make!! “My Mommy and Daddy are right!” You win credibility with them. They trust and rely that what you say is right. When they see that their teacher feels the say way……….He or she also wins credibility. “She is just like my mommy!” This is when community works. Student trusts teacher / teacher substantiates parents / parent relies and trust in teacher. This leads us to the third item on our list………

C) Keep the lines of communication open with your child and with your child’s teacher.

When your student hears the teacher confirm what you have already taught him, he comes home and tells you. And that keeps lines of communication open with your child. Establish “talking time” each night at the dinner table, at bed time, or after homework. Whatever is best for you. But to “deprogram” after the school day is an important step for your child. It keeps you informed and it lets your child know you are interested in him. It also sends a message out to the child that this is something important………worthy…..necessary….. But your parental communication shouldn’t just stop with the child. Teachers MUST show responsibility by communicating isses with the parents and parents with the teachers. This is why parent / teacher conferences are so imperative. Explain to the teacher how your child operates. Help her/him to get to know your child. And listen to what your teacher tells you about your child’s behavior in the classroom. Be open to the fact that children behave differently at school than at home. Don’t be close minded and never say “My child would never!” Parent/teacher/student conferences are now becoming very popular. There is not “Middle man” delivering information. The child knows that what his parents know his teacher will also know and vice versa. Students have a chance to explain things before everyone as do parents and teachers without misinterpretation from the “middle man” of heresay. Parents…..be open to this idea. It will do so much for your child!

D) Hold your child accountable.

In truth……everyone should be held accountable. Teachers have the role of providing knowledge and various means by which to grasp this information. They must provide methods and purpose and motivational means which will help students learn. Students must accept the responsibilites and be held accountable for completing assignments and tasks expected of them. Parents must provide their children with means in order to do this. Parents can not over program their children and then expect them to still have the time and energy to be a ’student.’The main point is that our parents, teachers and students must work as a team. Parents must stay involved. This holds teacher and students accountable. Teachers must keep everyone informed. This enables parents to know when to confront their children with praise or motivation. Students must put forth full effort enabling parents and teachers to see that they can indeed reach their full potential once they feel loved and worthy.Parents are the key. Afterall……..without you…….where are the children?

Memory sticks (USB drives) water proof? Not exactly water proof, but you can DRY it out. There are no moving parts, and the storage media is deep within the silicone chip, so it will resist damage. The new USB memory sticks are nearly an ideal media; but they do have a limited life, so you would not expect them to last 50 years. As a transport media, they are perfect.

you can find plants, Peace Lily (Spathephyllum), there are varieties that can be up to 36″ tall. You should also consider Snake Plant (Sansevaria), it can also become tall. If money is no object… look at Rhaphis Palm. Super expensive… but worth it. It can get up to 8 feet or taller in time.

If plants in the 24-36″ height are plenty, look also at Chinese Evergreen (Aglonema) and Cast Iron Plant (Aspidistra) and of course a wide array of Philodendron and Pothos.

The answer will be part “consumer” based and the other part will be realistic:
Looking out for the consumer answer:
1st thing to consider is the technical support/warranty that the distributor and/or dealer will provide to you. Since laptops on the whole are proprietary and need to be sent back to the manufacturer for hardware fixes, make sure that the build-in warranty offers a good exchange program or repair program - or at least offers/is reputed to have good phone support or what they call “dial-in”/remote access support. I know Dell and Toshiba are good at things like that.
2nd thing to consider is target usage. I’m assuming primarily for school on this first 1/2 of the answer. When you buy laptops, they usually come with either Microsoft Works Suite (a dummed-down version of MS Office that is usually looked down upon by the rest of the computing community when compared to Microsoft Office) or a TRIAL version of MS Office, usually the “Standard” edition. If you do not want to pay another $200 for the full MS Office version, then you may want to look for a laptop that comes bundled with this software.
3rd thing is Memory/Storage space. Most laptops now come with enough memory (amount of RAM) and storage space (hard disk/HDD space) to run programs like MSOffice and a type of internet browser, as well as have enough storage space to hold all of the SCHOOL WORK enough for 4 years (notice i didn’t say more than 4 years because when you graduate, you should get a new laptop if not before - your laptop will be old by then and you don’t want to enter college, for example, with the laptop your mommy and daddy bought you your freshman year…lol.).
4th thing to consider is if it has your WiFi/Wireless Internet connectivity built in. Not many people use dial-up anymore thank goodness, and most laptops have an Ethernet (wired) port already built in. So the two wireless technologies that you should look for are 1. Wi-Fi and 2. Bluetooth. The first being more important on the whole than the 2nd. Bluetooth in a laptop is cool for sure, but the ability to go to your friends’ house (ahem, or library) and just hop on their wireless network is key.
5th, and smallest factor but something new that you may be interested in is that laptops can now be Lo-Jack’d, meaning if some other student steals your computer, you can activate the targeting system and get it BACK. Something that I wish I had when I was in high school… Nothing says “Gimme my stuff back you thieving SOB” than having it recovered by the police and getting whomever took it suspended or expelled.
Realistic answer, though the above is very realistic:
1st: I was serious about the warranty policy.
2nd: A student/teenager nowadays will not care if Microsoft Office is pre-installed on the laptop because honestly they will get a CD or download it from LimeWire anyway. So software… not a concern when purchasing a new laptop.
3rd: Dead serious about the memory/storage, but I’m going to add something else: Assuming costs are not TOO big of a constraint 1) Get one that has at least 512 MB to a full 1 GB of memory/RAM if not more. The more the merrier, especially since your teenager friend will probably be spending more time playing video games than doing schoolwork on it. (Uh uh, I did say I was going to be realistic.) As far as built-in storage space/the size of the hard drive, get it as big as possible while minimizing cost - find your happy medium. Mp3’s, videos, video games, pictures, software - you name it - will take up space. Get a lot of HDD space!
4th: I was serious about the Wi-Fi. It’s a good thing to have.
5th: Lo-Jacking your laptop is not only smart, it’ll save some money later on if you thing it might get stolen. FAIR WARNING: Do not tell your friends or anyone your laptop is wired to be traced. Although these things are designed to go off if tampered with, I do not and will not underestimate the power of the young mind combined with things you can read off of the internet. You get ONE kid that wants your stuff bad enough - it’s gone. It’s better to have the stupid punk kid steal your laptop and get caught than the quiet computer-club geek you pissed off in grade school take it and make sure you never see it again.
6th: Sturdy notebooks are good… go to C|NET and look up their durability ratings. You WILL end up dropping it once or thrice, so the fewer times you need to send it back (see item 1) the better.
7th: Get one if possible with dedicated video memory and a fairly good Hardware Video Accellerator… i.e. a good graphics card. 128 megs of dedicated video memory with an nVidia or ATI Radeon Mobility card will do nicely.So to sum it all up, get a laptop with a good service warranty (buy the extended one if you can - or have Mummy and Daddy do it)… make sure it has ample RAM and HDD space for all the stuff on it… software packages are not TOO big of a consideration (sorry SPA..) .. Wi-Fi is a must… “Lo-Jack” is good (it is probably called soemthing else, FYI)… sturdier=better for you… a good video card will take your experience a long way if you’re a gamer. (Plus their friends will probably compare who’s video memory is bigger anyway….:)

For wiping all data and make sure nothing can be retrieved, you will have to format the drive several times - I believe its seven times if you want to be absolutely certain that its wiped clean, and that no one can retrieve any data from the drive. Have a look for hard drive erasers on download.com or tucows.com.

If you wish to just reformat and reinstall, lets assume its Windows XP that you are reinstalling since you didn’t say:

A-first,Put Windows XP into your CD-ROM, reboot your machine.

If your machine doesn’t boot from the CD-ROM drive, you need to change some settings in BIOS. Reset the machine again, tap DELETE or F1 to get into your BIOS setup. Change your boot priority to include your CD-ROM drive before the hard disk. Save and reboot machine into Windows XP CD-ROM.

B-Then,When the installation disk finishes booting, follow the instructions from there to reformat your hard disk and reinstall windows.

OR
you can Either boot up on diskette and use FDisk (which will clean off your entire drive and leave it completely blank with no drives at all.
OR
Use the Windows install disk which has an easy-to-walk-through wizard to delete and recreate a partition.
OR
if you are using a restore CD from the computer maker’s company it will do it for you. (you MAY have to tell it to start from scratch.

if someone bored you, what would you do? just tell him he’s annoying. He deserves honesty about how his ridiculous behavior is annoying everbody. After all, If no one is letting him know he’s ridiculous, he may think everyone likes him. Tell him he sucks at singing if he does, but if he’s a good singer, tell him he’s a good singer but that doesn’t give him the right to touch everyone. It’s very couragous to be honest to people. It is so much easier to follow the herd and gossip. This guy has a family somewhere you know, so treat him like you would want your dad or husband or son to be treated at their work. this will WORK!…