How many of you have suffered – literally suffered – from standing in long checkout lines at Shaw’s or other supermarkets. Your children are cranky, your back hurts, your patience is at its breaking point – yet you wait and wait and wait. Your stress level is causing your face to redden and develop a …
Over 60 generation loving self checkout! Who knew? Read More »
Technology has finally concentrated on the elderly – Thank God! As a caregiver to both parents for over 20 years – manually checking blood pressure, lungs, heart rate, respiration, and blood sugars was exhausting for my parents and myself. Congestive Heart Failure is a monitoring nightmare for the caregiver. Observing changes in walking and balance …
Technology for the elderly and caregivers. Who Knew? Read More »
Both have a positive association on cognitive abilities such as executive function, short term memory, reasoning, global cognitive function, processing speed and recall. In older adults these skills can stimulate several cognitive abilities, brain plasticity and possibly reduce MCI (mild cognitive impairment). Knitting can lower heart rate and blood pressure and reduce harmful blood levels …
Who Knew? What do Knitting and Computers/Digital Technology have in Common? Read More »
Product release to the customer often requires a FMECA (Failure Modes Effects and Criticality) along with the Reliability Prediction to complete the delivery package; in addition, revisions are common along with the pressure to update the Risk Analysis package quickly and accurately. Excel provides data import, lookup, merge and formatting to automate this process and …
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You’re probably reading this on the weekend. The workweek is over. You get your break. We often look forward to the weekend for a much-needed rest. To get away from our hectic work. It becomes easy to see work as a necessary but undesirable evil. But if we peek under the hood at work, we …
Just in time for the holiday season – Texting manners from Emily Post. Growing up we were taught manners in how to greet people, introduce people – remember: Steve this is Pat; Pat this is Steve – dining manners – napkins on your lap, and where to place your napkin if you were leaving or …
More and more experts are telling us that interruptions and distractions have eroded our ability to concentrate. Can you imagine a world without smartphones and other devices that make us accessible and distracted and interrupted every second of the day. This fragmentation of our time and lack of concentration has become the new normal. When …
We are living in very interesting times of a new approach to work. More of us than ever own and control our own ability to work and make income. Uber, We Work, telecommuting, AirBnB, technology, and a very strong desire to be in control of our daily lives is painting the new landscape. I meet …
There are a few reasons why people who stutter don’t do so when they sing. One is called easy onset of speech, or easy voice, or smooth speech. This describes the way you sing. Think about it – you generally use a smoother and easier voice when you’re singing versus when you’re speaking. Speech therapists …
There is some recent news in Mass about the RMV and offering more “gender identity choices”. And we’ve all filled-out employment applications lately where they ask you about how you “identify”. Pause. We need think about just how ridiculous this. First, WHY would anyone, any hiring company, any road official really need to know what …
Gender choices: Why even bother with gender today? Read More »
