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got ot make their money some how why not suck it dry from the poor patient |
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Help with finding a watch with Does anyone know of a watch
that has a loud alarm and / or
several loud alarms? I would
like to skip the medical
watches and see something in a
nice looking watch.
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I've been looking for the same thing and what I've found is the Timex expedition. It has 3 alarms and the price is about 40 dollars. Good Luck! |
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Why is the snooze on an alarm Every alarm clock I have ever
owned has a snooze button,
that's pretty standard so
nothing unusual there but why
on earth when I hit the snooze
button (which I do far too
much by the way) does it last
for 9 minutes? All of them
done this, without fail...even
the snooze on my phone alarm
does it. Is there a reason for
this? It is a medical reason?
Technical reason? or did
someone just decide it for a
joke and is still laughing at
the world to this day.
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The simple answer is - force of habit. It's the way it's always been done. The long, rambling answer, as taken from Unca Cecil: What a relief to quit dealing with the federal government and get back to the truly gut questions of our time. Although I gotta tell you, dealing with the feds was a piece of cake compared to this one. We consulted with numerous clock manufacturers, clock engineers, and clock buffs and amassed the following theories: (1) Focus groups found that people preferred a snooze delay of eight to twelve minutes. OK, but then why not a ten-minute interval? (2) Engineers believe their bosses come to check on them every ten minutes. Ho ho! (3) Physiologists have found that a sleeper who doesn't want to get up will fall back into a deep sleep if left for longer than nine minutes. Yeah, right. (4) Five minutes seems too short and ten minutes seems too long. Nine minutes may seem better than ten while not being significantly different. My reaction: Bah. Nine minutes does not seem better; it seems stupid. (5) On LED (the old red display) clocks, the snooze function will work for only 60 minutes, so you want to fit the greatest possible number of snooze periods into that time. Nine minutes gives you six snooze periods with a minute's leeway each time for pressing the snooze bar. "Nonsense," one engineer commented. No argument here. (6) "I figured it was actually 512 seconds (2^9)," one informant speculated. "Or maybe, since the clock is counting (typically) the power cycles from the wall socket, it's because nine minutes is 32,400 cycles, very close to 2^15 (32,768)." Engineer's comment: Nice try, bub, but clocks don't count that way. (7) General Instruments, one of the first designers of the chip used in LED clocks in the late 60s, set the chip logic to allow a nine-minute delay. Others continue to use this chip or copied the idea without changing the interval (e.g., National Semiconductor's type MM5370 digital alarm-clock chip--I tell ya, do we research this stuff or what?). Fine, but why nine? (8) On a digital clock, nine is the greatest interval obtainable by advancing some sort of "snooze counter" on the ones column. But why mess with the ones column? Why not put the snooze counter on the tens column and advance that by one? (9) In the days of dial clocks, the snooze interval was originally intended to be ten minutes max, but precision was unimportant and engineers were content if they could make the interval nine minutes and change. When the industry switched to digital, clock designers figured the standard snooze interval was nine minutes; "and change" went out the window. Now we're getting somewhere. Partial confirmation of this view comes from Jay "Pappy" Kennan, a clock collector who took apart an old GE electromechanical clock with one of the earliest snooze buttons. (Pappy helpfully posted photos of the clock's innards on his Web site; see the links at the bottom of www.ma.ultranet.com/~jayman.) The clock's snooze-gear mechanism was not precise; the snooze interval could be anywhere from nine to nine and a half minutes. Pappy's opinion, seconded by a clock engineer, was that the original, none-too-ambitious designers wanted a clock with a snooze interval in the nine-to-ten-minute range. So what may have happened was, some early chip designer inspected an old mechanical clock with a snooze button, figured that a nine-minute snooze interval had been ordained by the clock gods, and built it into his chip--and we've been stuck with it ever since. That's my theory, and I'm sticking to it. |
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how the body alarm works? it |
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ur body alarm is actually ur PINEAL GLAND this gland regulates the timings of ur body and is refered to as the biological clock. it gets activated in the dark and deactivated during the day thats y u feel sleepy at night and wake up during day time. this also serves as the alarm of our body |
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My kidney alarm points are I cant find any good
information online, I know
that they have to do with the
kidneys but am unaware of how
severe or unsevere it could
be. I have been nauseous for
11 days w random severe
abdominal pain, throwing up,
cloudy urine, and headaches. I
have no medical insurance and
wanted to be be sure something
was wrong before I went in.
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You have symptoms of a kidney infection. To truly diagnose this, you must have blood and urine tests. Kidney infection is serious and it can lead to complications if not treated. Alternative medicine is NOT a choice for these kinds of problems. You will have to go to a free clinic (general hospital, etc) to get these tests done. Good luck and stay healthy. |
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