Archive for January 2010

Delightful South County supper

Jan 25th, 2010 | By | Category: Reports
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On Tues­day, Jan­u­ary 19, 2010, our South County House held a Pot Luck Sup­per and their Annual Meet­ing at 6:00 PM at the Beech­wood Com­mu­nity Cen­ter off Beach Street in Wickford.

It was a blus­tery night and we were delighted…



A better health search

Jan 18th, 2010 | By | Category: News
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Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, recently released a new and improved health search. By sum­ma­riz­ing the search results, adding highly rel­e­vant con­tent from part­ners and high­light­ing key infor­ma­tion, Bing hopes to pro­vide a bet­ter search for…



Lumosity

Jan 15th, 2010 | By | Category: News
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For those of you con­cerned with brain health, here is another site to check out. Lumosity.com offers some free and paid resources for peo­ple who want to keep their brain in good shape. In either case, the first week of pre­mium mem­ber­ship is free, and does not require any credit card infor­ma­tion or the likes, so…



Fight Alzheimer’s with phone calls

Jan 15th, 2010 | By | Category: News
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It sounds incred­i­ble, but accord­ing to the Sci­ence blog Popsci.com, sci­en­tists have dis­cov­ered evi­dence that  cell phone radi­a­tion may actu­ally reverse Alzheimer’s, as well as boost memory!

The study, con­ducted at…



Yes, I’m a senior citizen

Jan 2nd, 2010 | By | Category: News

We got this lit­tle piece in our e-​​​​mail inbox the other day, and thought it was just a lit­tle funny, a lit­tle cute and a lit­tle true – at least the points we agree with. (There’s more after the “read more” link at the bottom.)

Senior cit­i­zens are con­stantly being crit­i­cized for every con­ceiv­able defi­ciency of the mod­ern world, real or imag­i­nary. We know we take respon­si­bil­ity for all…