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15 Awesome Things You Can Do With Google Home

Virtual assistants like Amazon’s Alexa are becoming more and more integrated into our daily lives. Recently, Google released their competitor to Amazon’s product. Aptly named, Google Home, the Google Home Assistant can help you in surprising ways you might not have realized at first. Here are 15 features that might surprise you.

1. Use It as a Speaker

It’s common knowledge that it comes equipped with a Bluetooth speaker. However, it’s not limited to just connecting to your phone and playing playlists. It can connect to many music streaming services, like Spotify and Pandora. Not only that but with an integrated chrome browser on any computer, you can easily connect your computer to it and use it as a desktop speaker.

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Why Non Organic Food is Bad For Your Health

I’ve been writing about the benefits of eating organic food for months. I’ve focused on why this food is so essential to healthy living and how it makes us sparkle inside and out. One thing I haven’t focused on is why your everyday non-organic food is so BAD for our health. I decided to go online and check out the ingredients that can be found in the food that many people consume on a daily basis. It is more important than you think to read the ingredients that are in your food. Chances are if you can’t read the label, you probably shouldn’t eat it. Here some are examples of popular foods and products along with their surprising ingredients. This is sure to make even the biggest skeptics think more about switching to pure organic food. Remember, you can feel comfortable that the food you are eating is safe when you switch to organic and you don’t need a chemistry course to translate the ingredients!

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Making City a Healthcare Network

Chiang Mai is mapping out a future as a smarter city by using advanced technologies to help transform its tourism and agriculture industries and create other new drivers of creative economic growth.

Linking patient databases and healthcare asset information could help create a hub.

The use of technology to build a strong medical tourism sector and improve food production is part of the Smart City programme supported by IBM.

IBM defines a Smart City in terms of the improvements in quality of life and economic well-being that can be achieved by applying information technologies to planning, designing, building, and operating urban infrastructure. Continue reading “Making City a Healthcare Network”

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Food Donation Camps for the Needy

Food security is a concern all over the world and India is no exception. Given that 60% of the country’s population still lives below the poverty line. We can safely presume, there is a major chunk that cannot afford complete three square meals. The government since independence has been working towards hunger eradication. Programs like Food for Work and Antyodaya Yojna have done a lot good in this regard.

In this era of extensive private sector development and corporate presence, the government has made it compulsory for the corporate companies to dedicate a percentage of profits towards the development of society. This rose, the corporate world’s humanitarian step called the Corporate Social Responsibility.

There are multiple companies based in Delhi-NCR, joining hands with government in order to build a better society where people at least can access things to cater to their basic needs. One such CSR attempt is to attain food security amongst the economic development of poor families within the ambit of Uttar Pradesh. Continue reading “Food Donation Camps for the Needy”

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Goldshield Elite Business – What’s The Truth About Goldshield Elite?

Goldshield Elite – The Essential Facts

Goldshield Elite is a network marketing company based in West Palm Beach, Florida, and operating across North America, Europe and the United Kingdom. It sells quality nutritional products for bone and joint support, cardio support, digestive support, immune support and weight-management, as well as doing a side-line in speciality food products.

Network marketing means that the products aren’t available to buy in the shops or from a dedicated website, they are exclusively available from independent distributors. These distributors sell the products and the business opportunity to others, and earn commissions and bonuses for doing so. Unfortunately though, most people who enter network marketing end up failing, and Goldshield Elite is no exception to this rule.

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French Bread – Understanding Your Baguette From Your Batard

In the UK we like our bread, but unfortunately we’ve become terribly accepting of mediocre, bland choices. The French have a completely different attitude to bread, and it’s well worth visiting France just for the experience of freshly baked bread. Whilst over here the variety of bread on offer has grown quite significantly of late, it’s still a far cry from what you can find in even an average little town in rural France.

Visit a supermarket in the UK and your choices often range wildly between sliced brown bread and sliced white bread. You can find sliced white bread that doesn’t have any crust, and brown bread without a crust, then of course there’s the thick slices, thin slices and medium slices, not to mention the tall loaves and the square loaves. But ultimately it all boils down to blandness, and frankly even the ducks are getting sick of it.

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Salt That Heals and Salt That Kills

Many people are confused about salt and rightfully so-your doctor and health professionals tell you to decrease your salt intake to decrease your risk of hypertension, heart disease, stroke and renal disease. On the other side of the fence, many gourmet chefs and holistic specialists claim that salt is good for you and essential for life.

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) claim that Americans are consuming ever higher amounts of sodium, up to 6,000 milligrams a day, instead of the recommended daily allowance of 500 to 2,000 milligrams per day. These high amounts, in a form that is unfriendly to the human body and with no ancillary mineral benefits, are what lead to serious health problems. The sodium that the AMA and the CSPI are referring to is the sodium found in table salt.

There are several distinct differences between table salt and holistic salt. Continue reading “Salt That Heals and Salt That Kills”

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TV Shows Inform Us of Many Things

There are so many ways that our favorite TV Shows can keep us informed of things that we need or want to know. There is a whole lot that is going on in the world around us that we all think/feel that we need to know about. Are you thinking about trying to find out what all has gone on in your local area while you were asleep or working? Are you looking for the latest information about medical matters? There are so many different things that need to be looked at and taken into account.

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Thomas Jefferson: The Original Foodie

At the time of the American Revolution (around 1775) colonists were still eating a primarily British diet, consisting of meats, stews, puddings, breads and sweets, with limited vegetables. Beer, ale and cider were frequent beverages. For the more affluent, there was port wine and some liqueurs. After the death of Martha Jefferson in 1782, widower Thomas was given the appointment of “minister plenipotentiary” (your basic diplomat) by the newly formed U.S. Congress and dispatched to France. Thus began the life of a major foodie, wine connoisseur and kitchen gadget aficionado (we’re talking France, here, the country known for haute cuisine). There he discovered fine dining, olive oils, tasty mustards, succulent cheeses and pastries, all unique foods that were virtually unknown back in the Colonies. And he was hooked. Continue reading “Thomas Jefferson: The Original Foodie”

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Can You Freeze Tiramisu?

The question often comes up as to whether or not you can freeze tiramisu cake dessert or save it in the refrigerator. Of course tiramisu tastes best when fresh but the good news is yes, you can freeze tiramisu. In fact, I personally prefer when it is made 1 to 2 days ahead and stored in the refrigerator where the flavors are allowed to mix together a bit and to mature. Not to worry, it will keep for up to 4 days in total. Leftovers (if there are any) should be refrigerated immediately though.

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