Smart homes are now a reality with the Amazon Echo and Google home. Appliances, heat, air conditioning, power, lights, security cameras — everything can link to your smartphone. Turn on your pool heat from 50 miles away. Turn up your AC at the same time. Smart homes take advantage of automation technology and modern building techniques to give homeowners a new level of control, according to the website SFGate.
Archives for August 2016
An old prevention might still work
Many hospitals are turning to the one disinfectant that reliably fights antibiotic-resistant superbugs. You might have heard of the miracle cleaner: bleach. Plain old bleach. Bleach is one of just a few chemicals that kill spores of Clostridium difficile, a virulent bug that causes severe diarrhea and nausea. [Read more…]
In Season Now: Peas
In season now: Peas
Green peas, also known as English or garden peas, are out of the garden and ready for dinner this month.
Not only are they delicious, but they contain some surprising health benefits. [Read more…]
Jewish Grandparent University
Jewish Grandparent University is a wonderful class for soon-to-be or recent grandparents. It’s an open discussion format that provides a great way for grandparents to talk about “best practices”for supporting their children in becoming parents.
A Significant Connection
By Marcy Boyle
Have you ever awakened feeling irritable, annoyed, anxious or panicked? Do you know of anyone who is overweight, has mood swings, is always tired, can’t sleep, has a lot of “down days,” is implusive, very distractable, forgets a lot, or has a “short fuse?” These symptoms are all linked to neuronutrient and neurotransmitter deficiencies and patterns. Thankfully, we can “modify these symptoms through dietary improvements…” according to Jack Challem, author of The Food-Mood Solution.
Prepare for Health Care Costs in Retirement
In preparing for retirement, many of us overlook health care costs, possibly because we think Medicare will pay for everything. But that’s not the case. In fact, you could eventually face major health care-related expenses. How can you cope with these costs? [Read more…]
Kubo now in theaters
Clever, kindhearted Kubo ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town including Hosato, Hashi and Kamekichi. But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past which storms down from the heavens to enforce an age-old vendetta.
My Grandfather emigrates to the U.S.
Listen to Howard Wedgle on Lifeographies, a radio show narrated by owner, Mark Margulies. Howard was his first guest and talked about his grandfather, Louis Tucker, z’l. A year into his marriage to Rose Kanterchi and already having a one-year son at home, Louis Tucker felt it was unsafe for his family to remain in Russia. However, money was tight for all of them to travel and where would they go? Read part one and listen to his story.
My Grandfather Louis Tucker makes his way to the US-part 1
By Howard M. Wedgle
Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia, at a time in the early part of the 20th century of great upheaval, both in Europe and across the Asian continent. This was not lost on the Jews who lived under his rule. Jews had a difficult time under the reign of the Czar, who, while not openly hostile to Russian Jews, also bore no good will towards them. Cossacks routinely stormed villages all through Mother Russia, while in the larger cities, other methods were used to keep the Jews ‘in their place’. It was in this environment that my maternal grandfather and grandmother lived in a small town known as Tiraspol.
My Father, the rebel
By Mark Margulies
My father was a rebel. And we knew it.
Born in 1906, he grew up in Williamsburg Brooklyn, then a working class neighborhood where many immigrant families, making their first ‘step up’ in America, came to resettle. [Read more…]