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KITCH

its my understanding you will not have an issue with these clocks...as they receive radio signals from the government atomic clocks.

...but i could be wrong...

Time Keeps on Slipping Slipping Slipping

Into the future

I wanna fly like an eagle, to the sea

Fly like an eagle

Let my spirit carry me

I wanna fly

Fly right into the future

I wanna feed the babies

Who can't get enough to eat

I wanna shoe the children

New shoes on their feet

I wanna house the people

Living in the street
Fri, 03/09/2007 - 8:31 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Thanks!
Sat, 03/10/2007 - 7:01 AM Permalink
KITCH

2 be honest...I'm just going off the top of my head......i should research it for you...but figured we will find out 2nite anyways :wink:
Sat, 03/10/2007 - 8:08 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

thats cool. I wasn't planning on running out and getting a new one if you said it wouldn't work anyways.
Sat, 03/10/2007 - 12:47 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Dear Ask Kitch,

I am trying to help a friend (OK, my wife) research the roles that infants play within a family. I am having a hard time wording my Google entries to get anything worth using. Could you lend a helping hand?

----- Helpless in Rosemount
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 3:47 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Dear Ask Kitch, Why didn't my automaticlly setting clock change with the DLST? Will it screw me up and jump ahead an hour on the old date of change? Should I buy a new clock?
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 4:20 PM Permalink
Terry

Is she trying to tell you something, Zephy?
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 4:49 PM Permalink
zephyrus

No.... :smile:

She came upstairs and said she couldn't get anywhere with it. So I wanted to surprise her with some stuff that she could use, but I am havu=ing a pretty hard time with it... I am still searching... :frown:
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 4:52 PM Permalink
Terry

Does that have to do with placement in a family - like oldest, middle child, youngest? Or is it about an infant particularly?
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 4:59 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Infant particularly... as in the infant does this/adds this/is this to the family, I think. Like a role of the mother would be caregiver. (would that make the infant the caretaker?) :wink:

She needs like 6 different roles that the child plays in the family.
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 5:02 PM Permalink
Terry

I've done some searching and can't find anything.

I have a background in child development and honestly have never seen anything related to roles an infant plays in a family. It's more around the way the family dynamics change with a new addition.
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 5:24 PM Permalink
KITCH

seee...what do I know....I shoulda googled...
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 6:44 PM Permalink
OT

Here's the deal.

First role: The infant becomes its older siblings doll.

Second role: The infant gets lots of attention from parents so its a good chance for older siblings to act out.

Third role: The infant gets cuddled a lot so the older siblings can get some of that cuddling if they revert and start talking baby talk or make the parents feel guilty by saying they love the infant more than they love them. Fair is fair.

Fourth role: The infant gets special food. Now is a good time for the older siblings to ask for lots of treats to make things fair.

Fifth role: The infant doesn't have to share a bed with another sibling. Now is a good time for the older siblings to ask for their own bedroom. It's only fair.

Sixth role: The infant, if the last child, is ALWAYS "the baby". Even when said infant is 50 years old it will still be referred to as "my baby" by the parents. Get used to it. Even if it isn't fair.

This is all hypothetical of course and hasn't been thoroughly researched.

 :sillygrin:
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 7:37 PM Permalink
zephyrus

Makes sense to me :smile: Thanks OT!

Oh, Terry and Leelabell your DVD's are in the mail
Sun, 03/11/2007 - 7:39 PM Permalink
KITCH

http://www.lacrossetechnology.com/support/dst.php

The auto-adjust for Daylight Saving Time function may take up to three to five days to update depending on factors that include your location and current atmospheric conditions.

How Will the DST Change Affect La Crosse Technology Atomic Instruments?

On September 8, 2005, a bill was signed into law that will extend Daylight Saving Time by nearly a month. Starting in 2007, Daylight Saving Time will begin the 2nd Sunday of March and end the 1st Sunday in November. This change in dates has created some concerns about products that automatically adjust for DST.

Every day, La Crosse Technology radio-controlled devices synchronize their time and date information automatically with the National Institute of Standards and Technology's atomic clock in Colorado. This means that if you own a La Crosse Technology radio-controlled device, you will not have to worry about the new DST changes beginning in 2007.

Many other companies, however, have products that only claim to automatically adjust for Daylight Saving Time. If the product is not radio-controlled, it will not correctly adjust for the DST changes in 2007.

hmm...sounds like either it will work..or it won't depends on your brand...
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 11:47 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

and may take up to five days to update depending on factors that include your location and current atmospheric conditions.

Not sure if mines radio controled or if it has a really good backup battery to keep the time. I know it sets its self, but maybe its from an internal memory. Maybe I should have left it alone for 3 to 5 days and see if it changed on it's own?

Thanks Kitch!
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 12:18 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

Kitch, Do you think you could help me find some people that hit my truck?
Tue, 03/13/2007 - 9:51 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

cooler! Nice to have a freind with power!
Tue, 03/13/2007 - 12:12 PM Permalink
diggin4it

Ask Kitch anything:

interesting thought that needs foresight/thought/advice...hmmmm...

please PM or call me for discussion... :confused:
Tue, 03/20/2007 - 8:52 PM Permalink
CerealKiller

Dear Ask Kitch,

heres one to try and stump ya!!!!!

Why is it guys love to much but its never enugh to the other sex and I JUST saw a study that said women dont love as much as men? how dose that work?????????

singed,

anomise
Tue, 03/27/2007 - 2:21 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

ok now on a serios note dear ask kitch,!!! what is the rate of erosone on Niagara Falls!!!!
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 6:42 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

is kitch still around? I haven't seen him much latley. Everything ok?
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 7:34 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

ya I just saw a deal on tv about the falls and wanted to know about if he could come up with a answer to my lame azz question!!! Your right I havent seen him in a feww days!!!! ??? Kitch helllooooooo is there any one out therreeeee?????? :ooh: :sillygrin:
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 7:38 AM Permalink
OT

Isn't this the time of the year when his family goes to the Gulf?
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 7:53 AM Permalink
CerealKiller

I dont know I normly dont post after the hunt!!
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 7:58 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

I dunno. Last post I remember was that he had trouble sleeping.
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 8:02 AM Permalink
Clue Master

He was living it up in the Dells last I heard.
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 8:44 AM Permalink
OT

The island they went to got hit pretty hard by a hurricane last year. Might not be built back up yet.
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 8:57 AM Permalink
KITCH

I was in the dells.....

..going to try to get some sleep now...
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 10:30 PM Permalink
me2

can a cop pull you over and/or give you a ticket if you flash your lights at them while driving?
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 11:08 AM Permalink
Posen

I think they can if you "flash your high beams" at them...

:worried:
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 11:16 AM Permalink
mrmnmikey

If you flash your regular lights on and off they may get you for driving without lights?

Did you flash your "high beams" at them? I woulda liked to see that. :ooh:
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 12:08 PM Permalink
Clue Master

I would assume that they would pull you over just to see if you're OK and it wasn't a distress signal. But if you got a ticket because you were flashing him because he had his high beams on, I'd fight it.
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 12:17 PM Permalink
mrmnmikey

If you were flashing him, maybe he just wanted your adress? :wink:

j/k

Cm's right. Highbeams are not supposed to be used in the city, even by the cops.
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 12:20 PM Permalink
Clue Master

Wondering if I need to dress up as a cop in order for me2 to flash me :pbpt:
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 12:27 PM Permalink
Posen

Hey, we got some leftover cop uniforms from the Central Park hunt...

(grabbing Mardi Gras beads and heading out...)
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 12:54 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

it takes more than beads to see these <----

I actually have a shirt that says that.
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 1:07 PM Permalink
Clue Master

and on the back it says "you were right, now gimmie my beads" :wink:
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 1:57 PM Permalink
KITCH

I'm 90% sure if you flick your highbeams you could be ticketed for this..

its illegal in a lot of other states.

i'm checking.

for motorcyles....-A headlight modulator is a device that “pulses” the headlight (high-low-high-low) during daylight hours only at a rate which draws added attention to an approaching motorcycle. These devices are legal in the eyes of the U.S. Department of Transportation as an exception to the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 571.108. In a nutshell, that law states that no vehicle except emergency vehicles can use flashing lights. The reason that the modulator is legal is because it doesn’t flash (on-off-on-off), but as described above, pulses.

interesting...didn't know what did that on motorcycles....cool.
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 1:58 PM Permalink
KC0GRN

I always assumed it was the small alternators on a motorcycle that caused that flashing (which btw is really annoying). I guess I thought that because I've seen cars with bad alternators behave like that.

Still, how else are you supposed to signal a car that either isn't running with headlights on or has their high beams on? Honk at them?
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 2:24 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

turn lights off on. i think..
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 2:29 PM Permalink
KC0GRN

Hmm.. trouble is a lot of newer cars operate headlights in daytime running as well, so they're tougher to turn off than just flashing your high beams.

I'm just assuming the odds of getting a ticket for it are slim. I'd almost think claiming ignorance would be the best way outta it.
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 2:41 PM Permalink
Love4Vino

or flashing the cop...
Tue, 04/10/2007 - 4:12 PM Permalink
me2

not flashing high beams JUST the lights themselves off and then on again.

A friends son was having trouble with his alternator ( I think) and his car turnd off and then back on again or something like that. WHEN a cop drove past him. The head lights went off and then back on - the cop pulled him over and said he smelt acholhol - they wern't drinking and over 21. The cops made them do a sobriety test and searched their car. Then gave them a ticket for flashing the lights at the cops.

Just wondered is all - thanks -

I got pulled over by the police when I was a teenager. My girlfriend and I went cruisin in my 76 Big black Bonneville on dirt roads near White Bear Lake and Stillwater. One of those nights that we were aimlessly out with nothing to do and if we got lost we got lost and would find our way home by sunrise. Which was probably not the best thing to do since I always had flat tires with that car and got about 6 miles to the gallon.

It was pitch dark and I had just gotten out of work late- we filled up the car with black garbage bags of left over popcorn from Roseville 4 (when I worked there we got anything we wanted). ..... I flashed my highbeams at a car on a dirt road with hills! the guy turned around and pulled us over. We didn't get a ticket and he just scolded us.

:goofy:

this in black
Wed, 04/11/2007 - 9:54 AM Permalink
me2

ok - so when all these banks say they don't charge closing costs "We offer no closing costs" than why is it they want some sort of flood plain checking cost and recording something or another costs - = to about $58 roughly ???

can I fight these costs?

I'm 100% positive that Im not on a flood plain!!!
Thu, 04/12/2007 - 11:35 AM Permalink
OT

I'm in the same situation, me2. I live on the hill, high above the river, but they don't take that into account. They figure it to be x feet from the river bed.
Thu, 04/12/2007 - 11:58 AM Permalink
KITCH

not really...you could not close.

and walk...but i'd guess you alrdy paid for a few other fees like an getting an new apprzl.
Thu, 04/12/2007 - 12:05 PM Permalink
OT

If any of you are in a building trades union, their credit union is offering home equity loans and lines of credit with no appraisal fees or closing costs. The offer is good until May 31.

I'm tempted. I'd go for the line of credit I think. I have a few things I'd like to get done here and up north.
Thu, 04/12/2007 - 12:14 PM Permalink