When It’s Your Turn to Speak UpSenior citizens have lots of wonderful ideas. After all, they have a lifetime of experience and the time to ponder over the meaning of just about everything. Unfortunately, too many senior citizens keep their good ideas to themselves. To stand before a group of other seniors and share their thoughts may seem torturous to some and just too much effort for others. Believe it or not there are plenty of seniors who really would like to hear your thoughts, opinions, experience and suggestions. If you have some good ideas and a format to present them, then all you may need is a few senior tips for public speaking to help you along. 1, Be prepared. In any speaking engagement, by or for people of any age, the key element is always solid preparation. This includes a thorough exploration of your subject, the organization of your material into sequential chunks of information and the physical preparation of an outline to guide you along. As a senior citizen making a presentation you will want to prepare in just that way. Only you will also want to prepare your own small collection of personal aids like a bottle of water for that tickle that you know you will get after 10 minutes or a few tissues for that inopportunely running nose of yours. You’ll stand up more confidently as a senior citizen in front of any group if you know you have come equipped to stand and deliver. That’s why good senior tips for public speaking always begins with being prepared. 2 Know your group. As your rise to speak you will feel much more relaxed if you have already made a quick study of the group you face. If you are speaking to a group of seniors then you need to assume that some will have hearing issues, some will be visually impaired , there may be some who will need to sit towards the back so they can sneak out to the lavatory.
Take Your Work Anywhere with Wireless Broadband
Wireless Broadband Speeds Are Up to Par with Standard At-home DSL SpeedsAfter a long debate, I eventually decided that I wanted to try out Verizon’s wireless broadband for myself. I had heard reports of great speeds and reports of slow speeds, but never personally heard from someone who used the service. I also knew that Sprint and Cingular offered similar
services, but I found it impossible to get any sort of information about their coverage areas. Once I heard about Verizon’s 15 day money back guarantee, I knew I had to find out for myself what the service would be worth.At home I utilize a Qwest DSL connection, wirelessly, quoted as 7.0Mbps, much faster, and cheaper, than any cable service offered in my area. I expected Verizon’s wireless service to get maybe a fraction the typical speeds I receive on my DSL connection, but I was still pleasantly surprised. On average, when downloading updates to my Linux computer I average speeds of 120-200Kbps, not bad for service I could use nearly anywhere. It was probable that I could have even faster signal if I lived in a town of more than 22,000 people; my signal probably came from a cell phone tower nearly 10 miles away.In order to get a better idea of the service quality, I had traveled from point to point in town with my laptop patiently downloading several update files in the passenger seat, to get an estimated range of where I could find the best signal. Surprisingly, the service stayed constantly connected, and I received a pretty consistent connection speed. To further test my luck, I decided I would go out of town, at least a little ways, to see exactly how much signal speed I would get. I went about two miles out of town, about as far as I would ever go, and found the speeds were still excellent. Overall, the signal quality varied as any cell phone would, but I never completely lost signal, and speeds hardly dipped below 50Kbps.
Google Offers Free Wireless Broadband Service
Google announced on Sunday, April 1, 2007, that it will soon begin the new BETA of its Toilet Internet Service Provider (or TiSP for short), which the Mountain View, California company describes as “a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’
Google Offers Free Wireless Broadband Service plumbing systems.”According to Google’s press release (available here), the program is available to anyone with a WiFi capable computer and a toilet that is connected to a municipal sewage system. “We’ve got that whole organizing-the-world’s-information thing more or less under control,” said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page. “What’s interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you – not to mention from you.”According to Google, TiSP will help solve what is referred to as the “last hundred yards” problem, which is what faces Internet providers trying to get the service from their hub to your home.After receiving your in-home installation kit, which Google swears is water-proof, it is “a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node’s crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.”Melissa Mayer, the Vice President of Google’s Search Products and User Experience division, says she “couldn’t be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product. I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom.”According to Google, in their in-house testing (which they swear was quite sanitary!), the flow rate of the TiSP service was up to 10x the speed of standard DSL service.