YSK Older relatives, who you haven’t seen since last holiday season, who make cooking blunders may be showing signs of dementia

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Forgetting to turn on the oven for the Christmas turkey could be a sign of early dementia in a loved one, says the NHS’s top dementia expert. Prof Alistair Burns said becoming confused in a strange house and forgetting relatives’ names may also be early signs of the disease.

He said it was important to look for changes in normal behaviour in older family members. There is usually a rise in calls to the Alzheimer’s Society in January.

Possible warning signs of dementia in older relatives:

  • disorientation or confusion when in a new place or new environment
  • forgetting the names of loved ones to the extent that it causes embarrassment
  • forgetting to buy someone’s present
  • forgetting to cook things for a big Christmas dinner, forgetting to switch the oven on or cooking things in the wrong order

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42456853

The power of Music in dementia patients

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YSK: You can charge USB devices even when your laptop is in sleep mode

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Open Device Manager (right-click My Computer, select Properties, and Click Device Manager on the left). Expand the Universal Serial Bus Controller section. You will see a few devices called ‘USB Root Hub’. Click on each one and go to its properties. In the Properties window for each USB Root Hub, go to the Power Management tab and uncheck the ‘Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power’ option.

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Paper USB

Here is an album of how it works:

http://imgur.com/a/YCt8V

YSK that the iPhone has medical information accessible by holding the lock button (or lock+volume down for iPhone X) which contains the identity of the phone owner, medications they take, known conditions, allergies, and organ donor information

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I thought it might be a good idea to post this info after reading a thread about a trauma surgeon who found a lost iPhone and didn’t know about this feature.

Also for those of you who have an iPhone and haven’t set up your Medical ID, you can do so in the Apple Health app.

The quality of the iPhone camera spanning all 6 models


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YSK that prior to 1582 Christmas was celebrated today… the day of the winter solstice.

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Originally, under the Julian calendar, December 25 was the day of the winter solstice and the day Christmas was celebrated. In 1582 the Gregorian calendar was implemented and as such December 25 came a few days later than the solstice event.

*Winter solstice for North America.. summer for the south.

The UK’s National Physics Laboratory made the world’s smallest Christmas card, using platinum-coated silicon nitride. It measures just 15 microns wide. You can fit 200 million of these on a postage stamp.


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