Ginny, You may be interested in the website below. Unfortunately the present the problem and lots of statistics but don't seem to offer much in the way of solutions. Accord to Kids and Cars, 50 kids receive hospital treatment every week for an accidental back-over and 2 are killed. That's 2,496 per year injured and 104 killed. The website doesn't say specifically what age group are included but we'll assume the vast majority are under age 5. The Census Bureau has the 5 and under population at 20.2 million. Take makes 0.012% of that age group being injured by backing vehicles and 0.00051% being killed. The CDC puts pedestrian motor vehicle deaths at 112 for the 1-4 age group, so that seems to correlate a bit. Drownings for the same age group is roughly 4 times higher at 450. Motor vehicle traffic accidents are 362, homicide 291, fire/burning 169, suffocation 125, and falls 46. Here is a link that might be useful: Kids and Cars

bus driver, "Gas water heating is much cheaper than electricity." Generally yes, however the advent of the residential electric hot water HEAT PUMP has leveled the playing field. Last year I replaced an older A/C unit with a Heat Pump. I also replaced my oil furnace with a new oil furnace. I also replaced my electric hot water heater with a GE Heat Pump hot water heater. For the first ten months of 2009 I paid $2700 for electricity. In the first ten months of this year, since the new equipments, I have paid $2000. Additionally, I kept my home three degrees cooler this year during the cooling season and three degrees warmer during the heating season just beginning. Also, for the first time in my 22 years in this house the entire house was properly cooled and comfortable during the cooling season. Because of my ignorance, I did not use the heat pump "properly" during the past heating season - I used oil to heat almost exclusively - just as I had in 2009. At the end of the year I will post 12 months worth of data. However, replacing the old electric resistance heat hot water heater with the heat pump with resistance backup is saving nearly $50 in electric usage every month of the year. I believe this would compare quite favorably with gas - except it would cost me MANY thousands of dollars to bring gas in ...

Mine, which I installed, has the sensor in a small conduit buried in the floor. The other end of the conduit is in the wall box with the thermostat. Replacing the sensor is just matter of pulling out the old one and pushing in the new. It has not yet been necessary to do that. Mine is the Elektra brand and the mats were about 1/3 the cost of the well-known brands. Not quite as easy to install but have functioned perfectly.

I was here pk. I guess I should have let you know that the backup was specifically asking for the apple id password. I only brought up email because I found no contacts (but I also pointed out that I hadn't tried to link emails in any way). I also now see that there is an off setting on a 'settings' button for email. I am not sure how she sees her mail. Probably directly via Safari but I do see an email app right on her first page trey below the regular apps. Probably way more info than needed since this was not really an email question. Looking back, I now see that I wasn't clear about what password was wanted; sorry. My general question was about the whole purpose of this kind of backup. It appeared (and still does) that she may not have had anything to backup because she didn't really use itunes for paid music (and yesterday I saw something that implied it didn't do that either, I suppose because apple really only has pointers to the music and always remembers your apple id with those pointers). I was more concerned that perhaps each system update might wipe all apps and perhaps other stuff. As far as I can tell, it certainly didn't wipe all apps out (she still has some), and I see no reason it would clear specific ones. I was waiting for another response and to see if I got a backup. I can't really tell because it doesn't say so. It was not asking to be backed up yesterday (or today) and I can't find where it is indicated. The new update changed stuff on icloud and wanted new legal acceptance (i gave it) but that was after I attempted the backup. BTW I actually read a little of the legal stuff and it included that icloud could wipe your backup if you didn't backup for 120 days!!! Anyway, I still don't really understand the purpose of this backup system. While attempting to follow various directions, I got messages that suggest if there are problems (I don't think there actually were) that I should Reset the ipad. I am suspecting that perhaps that is exactly when the backup would be needed because the Reset Would wipe everything back to a new pad. Not sure of that either.