Hello List, I am using Outlook 2016 on a Windows 10 desk top computer with Jaws 2019 to read my messages.  From time to time, a subject in which I have no interest comes up and I would like to not have to wade through it again and again.

One of the options on this list is:

“Mute This Topic”, but neither pressing Enter or Space bar nor Tab, have stopped this topic from popping up again and again.

Does anyone here know how to make this work?

I would really appreciate help on this, since it would definitely cut down on the time it takes to go through messages!

Sincerely, Vicky V

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From: Gerald Levy via Groups.Io

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:39 AM

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

Where did you receive your medical training?  Wrapping a blood pressure cuff around your upper arm has nothing whatsoever to do with being blind or sighted or "common sense".  It is a matter of proper technique.  Medical students spend countless hours in medical school and residency learning the proper way to take a patient's blood pressure.  They are never taught to fasten the cuff first and then slide it over the patient's hand and then slide it up in place around the upper arm.  They are taught to have the patient rest his elbow on a flat surface and then wrap the cuff snugly around the upper arm.  This is the only proper technique for obtaining consistently accurate readings.  Doing it your way is considered unacceptable.  I know what I'm talking about because I was pre-med in college and kept up with some of my classmates who went on to medical school and became doctors.  But if your technique works for you, then keep doing it this way.  But don't sit there and accuse doctors of not knowing anything about blindness, because wrapping a blood pressure cuff properly to get accurate results has nothing to do withbeing blind or sighted.

Gerald

On 10/15/2019 7:30 AM, Gene wrote:

As far as doctors telling blind people what they can and can't do, their advice is no more accurate than anyone else's.  They are doctors.  That doesn't mean they know anything about blindness and I evaluate their advice on the basis that if it makes sense, fine, if it doesn't, well, that's just one more sighted person who thinks he knows about blindness who, as is so often the case, doesn't. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Gerald Levy via Groups.Io

Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:20 AM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

Really?  Once you slide the cuff in place around your upper arm, if you unfasten the velcro fasteners to make the cuff tighter with your free hand , it is liable to fall off or slide out of place unless you have somebody else on hand to help you adjust it.  My doctor has advised me never to attach the cuff this way because it could result in inaccurate readings.  He suggested that if I didn't have another person on hand to wrap the cuff properly around my upper arm, then I should consider a wrist monitor instead.   

Gerald

On 10/14/2019 11:57 PM, Gene wrote:

You could easily tighten it and experiment. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: jan howells via Groups.Io

Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 10:44 PM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

That would be my problem, Gerald.  I would make it too loose.

Jan

Could someone recommend an audio player for Windows 10 in which I can speed up an audiobook by rate and not increase the pitch, kind of the way that the Victor Stream does it? 

To prove that your method works as accurately and reliably  as you claim, have you ever taken your talking upper-arm blood pressure monitor to your doctor's office, taken your blood bressure yourself under his supervision using your technique of sliding the fastened cuff over your hand and then pushing it up into position around your upper arm  and then having the doctor take your pressure again his way with a professional-grade monitor or even your own monitor and comparing the results?

Gerald

If it has nothing to do with being blind or sighted, then a blind person can do it as well as a sighted person can.  And despite what you say, there is no logical reason why my system won't work well.  Maybe they are taught to do it your way because different people have different size arms and they want to start fresh with different people.  You completely neglect to take that into consideration.  Using the cuff on the same person with the same size arm removes the need to use the method you describe. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Gerald Levy via Groups.Io

Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:39 AM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

Where did you receive your medical training?  Wrapping a blood pressure cuff around your upper arm has nothing whatsoever to do with being blind or sighted or "common sense".  It is a matter of proper technique.  Medical students spend countless hours in medical school and residency learning the proper way to take a patient's blood pressure.  They are never taught to fasten the cuff first and then slide it over the patient's hand and then slide it up in place around the upper arm.  They are taught to have the patient rest his elbow on a flat surface and then wrap the cuff snugly around the upper arm.  This is the only proper technique for obtaining consistently accurate readings.  Doing it your way is considered unacceptable.  I know what I'm talking about because I was pre-med in college and kept up with some of my classmates who went on to medical school and became doctors.  But if your technique works for you, then keep doing it this way.  But don't sit there and accuse doctors of not knowing anything about blindness, because wrapping a blood pressure cuff properly to get accurate results has nothing to do withbeing blind or sighted.

Gerald

On 10/15/2019 7:30 AM, Gene wrote:

As far as doctors telling blind people what they can and can't do, their advice is no more accurate than anyone else's.  They are doctors.  That doesn't mean they know anything about blindness and I evaluate their advice on the basis that if it makes sense, fine, if it doesn't, well, that's just one more sighted person who thinks he knows about blindness who, as is so often the case, doesn't. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Gerald Levy via Groups.Io

Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:20 AM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

Really?  Once you slide the cuff in place around your upper arm, if you unfasten the velcro fasteners to make the cuff tighter with your free hand , it is liable to fall off or slide out of place unless you have somebody else on hand to help you adjust it.  My doctor has advised me never to attach the cuff this way because it could result in inaccurate readings.  He suggested that if I didn't have another person on hand to wrap the cuff properly around my upper arm, then I should consider a wrist monitor instead.   

Gerald

On 10/14/2019 11:57 PM, Gene wrote:

You could easily tighten it and experiment. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: jan howells via Groups.Io

Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 10:44 PM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

That would be my problem, Gerald.  I would make it too loose.

Jan

Plug phone in
Now do the following

You need to do the first two steps fast then hold the third sted.

Tapval up and tap val down button then hold in the power on off button to
your phone restarts

-----Original Message-----
From: main@TechTalk.groups.io <main@TechTalk.groups.io> On Behalf Of George
Zaynoun
Sent: October 15, 2019 6:41
To: main@techtalk.groups.io
Subject: [TechTalk] iPhone XS Max Urgent Help.

Hi!
To begin with and before I get the question I am on the last update on iOS.
I was editing an email and was using SmartBeetle Braille display.
Suddenly speech stopped completely and the cursor on the Braille display
began dancing but I couldn't navigate any more.
Tried to restart my Braille display as I do in such situations for no avail.
Exited and restarted VoiceOver with both Siri and the side button and Siri
is confirming as usual but the Braille is remembering even when VoiceOver
the last state it was displaying i.e the last words I wrote.
I am enabling Voice Control to try open settings-general-shut down but no
voice feedback.
Tried connecting it to iTunes but it is saying I must continue on the iPhone
to allow Sync.
Finally I chased a sighted woman and she confirmed my worries, the slider to
shut down does not work and not when I connect it to iTunes either to allow
sync with pc.
Now I want to force it shut down but how for heavens sake?
I am getting notifications from the apps on it and it rings, any help
thanks.

--
Georges Zeinoun
Timmerv. 6A ITR LGH1102, 54163 SKÖVDE SWEDEN
Tel: +46 (500) 48 29 29 Mobile: +46 (70) 366 63 29

If it has nothing to do with being blind or sighted, then a blind person can do it as well as a sighted person can.  And despite what you say, there is no logical reason why my system won't work well.  Maybe they are taught to do it your way because different people have different size arms and they want to start fresh with different people.  You completely neglect to take that into consideration.  Using the cuff on the same person with the same size arm removes the need to use the method you describe. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Gerald Levy via Groups.Io

Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:39 AM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

Where did you receive your medical training?  Wrapping a blood pressure cuff around your upper arm has nothing whatsoever to do with being blind or sighted or "common sense".  It is a matter of proper technique.  Medical students spend countless hours in medical school and residency learning the proper way to take a patient's blood pressure.  They are never taught to fasten the cuff first and then slide it over the patient's hand and then slide it up in place around the upper arm.  They are taught to have the patient rest his elbow on a flat surface and then wrap the cuff snugly around the upper arm.  This is the only proper technique for obtaining consistently accurate readings.  Doing it your way is considered unacceptable.  I know what I'm talking about because I was pre-med in college and kept up with some of my classmates who went on to medical school and became doctors.  But if your technique works for you, then keep doing it this way.  But don't sit there and accuse doctors of not knowing anything about blindness, because wrapping a blood pressure cuff properly to get accurate results has nothing to do withbeing blind or sighted.

Gerald

On 10/15/2019 7:30 AM, Gene wrote:

As far as doctors telling blind people what they can and can't do, their advice is no more accurate than anyone else's.  They are doctors.  That doesn't mean they know anything about blindness and I evaluate their advice on the basis that if it makes sense, fine, if it doesn't, well, that's just one more sighted person who thinks he knows about blindness who, as is so often the case, doesn't. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: Gerald Levy via Groups.Io

Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 6:20 AM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

Really?  Once you slide the cuff in place around your upper arm, if you unfasten the velcro fasteners to make the cuff tighter with your free hand , it is liable to fall off or slide out of place unless you have somebody else on hand to help you adjust it.  My doctor has advised me never to attach the cuff this way because it could result in inaccurate readings.  He suggested that if I didn't have another person on hand to wrap the cuff properly around my upper arm, then I should consider a wrist monitor instead.   

Gerald

On 10/14/2019 11:57 PM, Gene wrote:

You could easily tighten it and experiment. 

 

Gene

----- Original Message -----

From: jan howells via Groups.Io

Sent: Monday, October 14, 2019 10:44 PM

To: main@TechTalk.groups.io

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] blood pressure moniter

That would be my problem, Gerald.  I would make it too loose.

Jan