Scales For You

We hear a lot about keeping our bodies healthy, but with Alzheimer’s all around us, we need to work on keeping our brains healthy, too.  Dr. Tedd Mitchell gives three strategies to help with this goal:

1.  Protect your head.  There is a definite connection between the development of Alzheimer’s and previous head trauma.  Wear a helmet when riding bikes, motorcycles, etc.; use a seat belt; and avoid falls.

2.  Protect your heart.  Anything that is good for your heart’s arteries is also good for the arteries in your head.

3.  Protect your youth.  Avoid smoking, limit alcohol, exercise regularly, socialize and use your brain.  All of these things will help insure that you will age in a healthy manner.

Hobbies often help us use our brain power.  If a hobby calls for counting many small items such as beads, a counting scale can save time and effort, as well as prevent errors.  You will find the best counting scales at the lowest prices ever at www.holladaypartners.com  

Have you ever thought about how many games, puzzles, card sets, and various other activities are available to help children learn to count.  Lots of money is spent by parents, teachers, and schools on this endeavor.  Counting is a lot of fun when you’re four, five, or six years old; but when you get older, it becomes boring and tedious.  It’s hard to keep alert enough not to make errors when you’re counting large numbers of small items.

Digital counting scales can solve this problem.  If your work or hobby consists of counting many small items, these scales can make your life a lot easier.  The Tare feature will subtract the weight of your container, then you can weigh one of your items that needs counting.  Next, place a container full of the items on the scales and they can tell you how many you have.  If you just want a certain number of items, keep placing items in the container a few at a time until you reach the wanted number.  What could be easier?  Technology to the rescue! 

When kids go to school, they learn to count (if they don’t already know how).  They may count in Spanish, French, or English, but counting is definitely an important part of early childhood education.  It is exciting to kids when they learn to count, and we as parents and grandparents join in their excitement as we listen.  However, as we grow older, counting becomes boring and monotonous.  Many people have to inventory or count small parts as part of their job routine.  Others count items when working on their favorite hobby.

If you are in a position that requires a lot of your time counting small objects, you need a digital counting scale.  By using the Tare feature to subtract the weight of a container, you can determine the weight of one item, then weigh bunches at one time, and the scales can tell you how many items you have.  What a time saver!  It also is more accurate, because counting is boring and leads to error. 

There are many different ways to count.  We can count verbally, speaking every number out loud to keep track of progress.  We can use tally marks, making a mark for each number, then counting the marks.  We may count using our fingers, which is not very useful if the numbers are large.  Counting has occurred since the beginning of time and led to the development of mathematical notation and numeral systems.   

Counting also led to the invention of tally counters and abacuses.  When I first started playing golf,  I had a small pocket counter to count my many strokes on each hole.  Counting can become boring and tedious if we have many small items to count during our workday or while working on our hobbies.  It is easy to make mistakes as we count out hundreds of these small items.  If the items are identical in size, a counting scale can solve our problem.  By using the Tare feature, we can subtract the weight of a container.  Then our counting can be accomplished in a lot less time with a much higher degree of accuracy.  What more could we want! 

One of the first things we learned to do in school was count.  I remember my daughter coming home on her first day of school crying because she couldn’t count to 100 and if she could, she would get a coloring book.  We went to work learning to count by tens to 100, then filling in the numbers between.  In a little while, she could count to 100, went to school the next day and got her coloring book.  One first grade teacher I knew had the students writing their numbers (she called it scrolling) in order as far as they could.  Each day they would add to their scroll.  Some had scrolled into the thousands by the end of the year. 

It’s fun when we’re learning to count, and it’s exciting to see our children and grandchildren counting to ten when they first start talking.  However, in a work situation, or even in some hobbies, counting can be very monotonous.  Also, it’s too easy to make mistakes when counting large numbers of items continuously.  A situation like this calls for a digital counting scale.  With the Tare feature, the weight of a container can be subtracted.  If the items being counted are uniform in weight, the scale can count them and save a lot of time, trouble and the possibility for error.

Every professional lab probably has a professional lab scale.  However, the type of scale needed in each lab depends on the kind of lab activities performed in that lab.  Also, sometimes a professional lab scale is needed in a business that does not actually have a lab, but needs to perform certain activities that require a professional lab scale.

Holladay Partners offers a variety of scales suited to every need.  Some of these scales weigh in ounces, grams, troy ounces, pennyweights and grains.  Some measure liquid and volume.  Some are large capacity scales.  Most of the scales have the Tare feature that will subtract the weight of a container.  Also, many have the hold feature that allows the display to be read after the item or person has been removed from the scale.  If your home or business is in need of a professional lab scale or any variety of other scales, check out these scales and select the ones that have the features that meet your needs.

I recently found a children’s science experiment that used a large bowl full of water sitting in a baking pan as a scale to measure the volume of different objects.  You gently lower an  apple, rock, or another item into the water in the bowl and the water will overflow into the baking pan to make room for the object.  Then remove the bowl from the pan and pour the water from the pan into a clear measuring cup.  Where the water level lines up with the scale on the measuring cup determines the volume of the object.  By refilling the bowl with water, you can then measure another object. 

I’m sure elementary students in a science class would love experimenting with this measuring device.  However, when I’m ready to measure or weigh an item, I want an up-to-date digital, electronic scale with an easy-to-read display.  Technology has improved so much over the last few years, and I want to take advantage of it when I purchase a scale for my home and/or business.  I’m sure you do, too!

Americans are on the go constantly, and we like to take our toys and conveniences with us.  When I was young, we went camping in a tent with air mattresses and cooked over an open fire in an iron skillet or pot.  Now camping means an RV with electrical hook-ups, full kitchen facilities, built in bath with shower, and television.  Everything has to be portable so we can take it with us wherever we go.

Holladay Partners has portable scales that are battery operated.  If I need a kitchen scale, I can get a battery-operated digital scale, or I can choose a spring scale.  Bathroom scales also use batteries and can be transported along with me and my other conveniences.  If I choose to take my craft and hobby materials, I can take a counting scale along to save time when counting out my beads, etc.  I can even take a set of handheld portable scales along to the restaurants to measure my food portions and continue my healthy eating habits while away from home.  “Home away from home” is a true saying now.      

Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Saving Time in 1784, but it was not until World War I, in 1916, when it was adopted by several counties in Europe that initially rejected the idea.  It is a way of getting more light out of the day by advancing clocks by one hour during the summer.  Hence, the sun appears to rise one hour later in the morning, when people are usually asleep anyway, and set one hour later in the evening, seeming to make the day longer.  This saves energy due to less artifical light needed during the evening, but it does not save time and it causes me to have to readjust my body clock twice each year. 

If you have a hobby or business that includes counting many small objects daily, you can save time by purchasing a counting scale.  Holladay Partners offers high quality digital counting scales that are equipped with a rechargeable battery for portability.  They can measure in pounds, ounces, and grams.  The Tare feature subtracts the container’s weight to obtain the weight of its contents.  For saving time, this is a better plan than Daylight Saving Time.

The word digital comes from the Latin word for finger, “digitus”, since fingers are used for discrete counting.   Discrete means discontinuous, therefore, a digital system uses discrete or discontinuous values to represent information.  

Even though we probably associate ”digital” with electronic digital systems used in modern electronics and computing, digital systems are actually ancient and may not necessarily be binary nor electronic.  Smoke signals are one of the oldest examples of a digital signal (puffs) that conveys information.  An abacus was created between 1,000 BC and 500 BC and became a form of calculation frequency using beads.  A beacon is a very simple non-electronic digital signal, with just two states (on and off).   Morse code uses six digital states and the Braille system uses a six-bit code rendered as dot patterns.

Many scales in the home and/or workplace have been updated from analog to digital.  A digital scale, whether suitable for the bathroom, kitchen, lab or post office, gives precise information in an easy-to-read format.  Most of us now have a digital watch that tells the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds.  Why not invest in a digital scale that meets our weighing needs?