On this date in 1976 the Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

Write the daily schedule on the board in the morning before the children arrive. It will reduce the number of off task questions and serve as a guide if you are subbing.

Can't boot from your Macintosh Hard Drive? Try booting up while holding down the command-option- shift-delete keys. With a system CD in the CD ROM drive this will cause the system to boot from the CD.

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