Emerson and Asher Labovich play with “Alexa,” an Amazon Echo voice assistant, while their mom, Laura Labovich, looks on. As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to settle dinner table disputes, answer homework questions and entertain friends at sleepover parties.
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Perfect fifth: Amboy students given freedom to choose, tackle projects
Abby Jones works on her 20 Percent project Monday in Stacey Dinges’ sixth-grade class at Amboy Junior High School. More and more schools are trying out the 20 Percent concept, a model that’s worked well for big companies such as 3M and Hewlett-Packard, by letting employees – students, in schools’ cases – spend one-fifth of their time working on projects of their choice.
Times Gone By: Genius of madcap a magiciana
Keeping the home fires burning in the cold winter of 1970 were members of Link, a charity for elderly people led by… Stafford’s Pageant Day in 1971 saw Merlin Maddock take up the challenge to fly for 50 metres without the assistance of a… MOURNERS gathered around the graveside in a South Welsh village cemetery were not unduly surprised to hear the minister utter the prayer… In the name of the Father, the Son and into the hole he goes. After all, they were saying farewell to a joker, an eccentric, a man who had lived in Stafford for the best part of 25 years before departing for the village of his birth where he lost none of the qualities of an oddball.
Art in MTR Exhibition Displays Students’ Innovative Design on Hostels for People with Dementia
Jan. 11, 2017 – PRLog — Retreat hostel models for elderly people with dementia and their families are showcased in the latest “Art in MTR” exhibition which runs from today at MTR Sheung Wan Station and Sai Wan Ho Station until 5 April 2017. Organised by the World Green Organisation, the “Social Innovation Inventor – Elderly Retreat Hostel Design Competition Exhibition” features 20 winning hostel designs.
Japan Is Putting Stickers On The Elderly In Order To Track Them
The Japanese city of Iruma is testing a free service intended to help find dementia patients who wander off. A local company there developed a one-inch waterproof QR code sticker that is affixed to a person’s fingernails or toenails.