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April Showers/April Flowers (Part 4)
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Back to the hiking pictures. There were 28 stream crossings on this trail. (14 going out and 14 coming back) I got my shoes wet on the first crossing so I didn't have to try to be careful anymore. I just walked through the water. I hate balancing on rocks anyway. I don't trust my legs. The water seemed good for my feet, too. They didn't get sore.
Dachshund/Chow...... OK NO jokes coming from here..... lol!
Kelli the Mockingbirds here are very territorial and wouldn't suffer any others w/in about 100 yards.
They do get loud occasionally but there are far noisier birds.
Our 20 pound cat I had when growing up got attacked by them and Blue Jays every summer.
This was a Warrior Cat.... and he ran in fear.
I used a tennis racket!
Once I started raising pigeons though the killer birds disappeared.
Which is odd as Pigeons are dumber than rocks and easy prey to about anything but earthworms.
Storm rumbled through left little water and no damage...
A disappointing 0,11" in the rain gauge this morning--about half what had been forecast. This is probably not enough to end the burn ban. It is also a bit cooler this morning (46 instead of 49 degrees yesterday) but feels chillier since it is damp. Our maximum of 83 yesterday is probably the highest it will go for a few days and there may be scattered frosts the next couple of mornings. Next week is the date of the average last killing frost, so we are about on target despite highs in the upper 80s recently.
Flowers are still gorgeous.
37� and colder. We aren't going to get very warm today.
Mau, laughing over Kiska's 40� ''heat wave!'' I usually do make the cakes. The box mix was just for convienience. A rose in April! It's just beautiful!
Celia, your forsythia is pretty! They don't do well in Iowa. If the frost doesn't get them, the sparrows eat the buds, or they have spotty blooms. My neighbor is going to take her's out this year. I have a few artificial wands of it that my Mom had for Spring decor.
Cindylove, Thanks! It went on for a couple of days so you didn't miss it by much, LOL! Ranting is allowed :o) I hear you on fields disappearing. All the trees disappeared down our old railroad tracks. I used to walk down them after I got married. I'd wade thru the white clover after it grew over (when the train quit running,) Then they got the bright idea to make a nature trail connecting the towns. First they tore out all the elms that arched ofer and made almost a tunnel, then, the beginning actually started 3/10 of a mile out of town. Well, now there are 5 cottonwoods left out there and NO ONE uses it except us, occasionally. They ruined it. That's why I love Dyson's picture.
Kiska, that's actually a breath of fresh air to knock my rant out of me :o) I love your picture! Look at all the traffic!
Sunfarm, I wondered what she was. How beautiful! I love lilacs and butterflies!
Dyson, I could eat fried green tomatoes every day and watch the movie almost as often! We are always quoting, ''we are older and have more insurance'' :o)
Pepper, I love the delicately colored daffs!
Marsue, the picture is still adorable!!
Kelli, I really can't identify any other bird in a mockingbird's song. I thought maybe they were migratory songs. It's the difference between them and the brown thrasher who also sings. Beautiful wild rose! I finally tore my state flower out last fall. It wasn't looking nice for a few years and got a rust on it that looked like a Cheeto. It only blooms for a little more than a couple of weeks too. Now it will take a few years to completely kill it before I can replant. Neat landslide! I love the Clarkia! What a beautiful picture. I love streams!
Ric, the tennis racket got me to laughing! The pigeon is an odd coincidence.
We take the boys home today and I wait for it to warm up again. No rain at all for us. It was windy AGAIN yesterday! We played outside, ''Hide and Seek.'' I haven't laid on the ground so much since I was a lot younger :o)
Apple Tree, Famouse, or Snow Apple, as we called it when I was growing up. Makes the best white applesauce and good juice.
I have a Forsythia that bloomed like crazy. I got it along with a whole bunch of shrubs at a garden center bankruptcy auction.
It is in one of my erosion control rows. Out in the sun & wind & doing great.
Work abounds. We got the porch sheet rocked & first coat of mud on yesterday. I was talking to the people & they decided to do their dining room that they have been thinking about for years. It will involve completely gutting bit, putting in a nice bay window & updating electric. Nice job!
Started planting onions yesterday. The case of Bermudas is in the ground. Then started on Candy Apple Reds.
I am going to work on greenhouse or new pond or plant some Iris. Maybe all!
34*F~above freezing at 6am; that's twice this week and will really put an end to winter. The deep snow is thinning out on the sloping part of the yard and now with the driveway plowed for the last time, it's snow-free for the first time since October.
Yesterday's high was 39*- today's high is supposed to be in mid-40's.
Last night at 10pm, if I'd wanted to go outdoors, it was light enough that a flashlight was not needed.
CG~you do have quite a list of projects-the pond sure sounds great.
bp~I love the photo and looks so inviting and serene.
sunfarm~what a beauty-
ric~wonderful descriptive post:))
Oh Dyson! hahaha.. yes I have tried fried green tomatoes & they weren't bad!
Kelli.. I have only seen a few m-birds here, which is unusual.. but it could still be early. I'll know it's summer when I see a scissor tailed fly catcher... they are only here for the summer & that's too bad as they are beautiful birds. I only hope with the new roads that it hasn't taken away all it's "habitat" as we only get ONE flycatcher!!!!! (probably two, it's mate!). lol
Sunfarm, I LOVE the lilac & especially the butterfly. I was supposed to go on a butterfly field trip today but it got cancelled as we are getting rain.. off & on.. throughout the day.. figures! We are actually in a flood watch as it's going to rain all weekend.. but so far I haven't had too much. I was able to get out to do some gardening, just dead heading.. & there was nothing! Just the humidity! hahahaha Temps are in the 60's for now & tomorrow it's only going to be in the high 50's!!
Marsue.. I love your dog Friday!! I don't care for "Peke's" as they are the "snobs" of the dog world! hahahahaha Friday is so cute! I am posting a picture of my two girls, Sally & Lucy.
Adinamiti, I have been concerned for you since hearing of the volcano erupting in Iceland... stay indoors as much as you can, I hear that volcano dust is dangerous even the tiny particles!
Hi everyone! Finally got a break, TGFW!!
Love the pics everyone!
I love mockingbirds! When I lived in Modesto, CA I had all 3 types of birds, plus sparrows. My grandfather planted a Golden Delicious Apple Tree in the back yard and every year the blue jays would peck holes in the apples, so he bought a big blow up snake to put in the tree to scare the birds off, well the birds pecked holes in the snake too!
Our weather here is about to change. We've been having highs of 85* all week long, today a cold front is coming down from the north and tomorrow's high is 62*! YIKES!!
HEY Crissyr!!! Welcome back!! it's so good to hear from you!! I have to laugh at your story! That would be so funny to see!! We have a few Blue Jays here & I used to dislike them back home in Canada..but here they are quite pleasant to see as they are pretty.. as I've always thought.. I only disliked them because they were "attack" birds! As Mockingbirds can be.
I also don't care too much for Canada Geese..dirty birds! But.. I don't like them for another reason...one day I saw a "family" of them coming out of a pond, which I thought was adorable..but then.. there was a commotion when another CG came over the rise honking.. the "family" that had just left started honking back.. then all of a sudden one of the adults pecked one of the "babies"..to death!!!! OH I was so upset.. I know it was nature but I didn't know why... until later.. I guessed that the baby goose had been a part of the other "family" & got caught up with this other family, thinking it was it's family, & when the adult realized it wasn't "his" then he killed it! How cruel huh?? ( I hope I've made sense!).
At least it thinned the blasted things out.
20 years ago they were rare. Then the brilliant DNR thought we needed more. Now the beaches on lakes can not be used. DNR is paying crop damage to farmers. Special hunting seasons to try & thin them out. That don't work.
Planted some of my trees this morning,oh my aching back!
Iris bed awaiting bloom.
This was Iris from a Bleek co-op in fall of 2008. I bought 2 of every one offered. Also a bunch from plant swap at Southern MN Round Up 2008. I posted a picture somewhere last fall when they were dried up & someone thought they had a disease. Look pretty healthy to me! Bare part is where I took out an old rose bush. I will put more Iris there after Iowa Round Up. (Hope to get some nice ones!)
Back to planting trees.
Bernie, you sound busy. Can you show us the Forsythia?
Sally, what a beautiful apple tree! I can almost see you on the ground, hiding!LOL
Kelli, thanks for starting a new thread. Your pics are beautiful as always. Love that stream!
Ric, that was funny!LOL Poor cat!
Marylyn your roses are gorgeous!
Mau, what an elegant fur cut for Friday! Beautiful rose! The ash cloud doesn't seem to bad here. I haven't heard anything about it on the news, just that the volcano is stil erupting and more clouds are coming towards us.
Pepper, your tulps are so beautiful!
Sun, lovely lilac and great photo of your DD's dog! What's his name?
Celia, love your Forsythia! The sunset is so beautiful!
Jackie, another snow? I hope Spring comes soon at your place. I'm always afraid of the Spring snows...we got one even in May one year!
It's been a lovely day, sunny, but windy. Foggy in the morning.
It's done blooming.
Bernie, great blooms! That's too bad, they are so pretty and cheerful!
Cindy, thanks for caring! It seems the cloud will cross over the northern part of our country and I'm in the south. Still, I've also heard the volcano dust is dangerous. Cute doggies!
Crissy, LOL!
Jackie, what a beautiful view!
I've seen a butterfly too!
Bernie, you put me to shame. Here I sit, and look at you! All this work ahead planned.
Kiska, you can join in on the spring pictures soon!! I love how the sky echoes the river peeking thru.
Cindylove, I hope you don't lose your birds either. Beautiful dogs and nice names too :o) We've had the 60's yesterday and today, with wind. Just enough to be annoying.
Crissy, ROTFL over the snake!!
Cindylove, that is a sad story. You are probably right about him being in the wrong family.
Bernie, I'm partial to the deep purple tulip. My aunt Bess gave me bulbs many many years ago. They've never been big multipliers and I try to baby them along. I'd hate to lose them. I love your island beds! Just beautiful! I can't wait to see the iris bloom! Take care of your back!!!
Adina, LOL! I made sure there was enough of me sticking out for a 5 year old to see! I'm glad the ash isn't a problem for you. I've barely been able to keep up with my own life, but DH hollers out the news to me, so I get some of it. Wow, foggy sunrise! Oohhh, how nice that he picked a pretty white bloom!
Well, we took them home and the only noise is the dishwasher :o)
It's almost impossible to get a good picture of them. DH took three, and this was the best one, LOL! Their headbands are what goes around the foam pads they sleep on.
Here in Belgium wer'e also affected by the volcanic eruption. Yesterday evening and this morning the whole garden and house was smelling like sulfur. I never thought that I would ever see something like that happening in my country. Also a sky without airplanes is weird, because we live near a very busy air traffic hub with allways more than 15 planes at the same moment in the sky.
The sky colored completely white by ash clouds yesterday, but sometimes it looks nice too like this one:
Bernie.... you are funny! don't get me wrong, I am not laughing at your sore back.. no way.. I have chronic back problems so I can really relate. I am not a tulip lover really.. I guess it's because they don't last long. I love iris' but don't get me started!!!! I only have two in my garden.. I won't go on... argh!! ( hee hee)
Ania.. glad to hear that you are safe..but Cumulous... whoah.. that is scary alright. We too live near an airport (Dallas) & I would be able to relate to all quietness.
Thank you for the complimets on our dogs.. they are our babies of course, as we don't have children. Of course they have us wrapped around their paws!!!! hahahaha
Billy... cute kids... I do work our church daycare ( when I return from sick leave that is)..so there are all ages to look after & it has it's moments... good & bad of course.. but it is always nice to have them go home too! hahahahaha
Trees are planted. I put 6 Chokecherry in a row that I planted 2 years ago. That finished that row.
I have a knob hill on the end of the garden that don't grow things very well. I used the trees to finish off a wildlife planting.
19 Chokecherry & 25 Honeysuckle in three rows. It's also very rocky up there, so I picked up lots of loose stones at the same time. I had a good load by the time I finished. The smaller ones will be in the bottom of my stream.
I really have a very good back. It was just a little sore above my hip from the digging. All better now.
Going to dig up a few plants that are in the way for the pond.
Adina, the dog in the plum petals is Loretta. It was TieDye napping in the violets. I shall eventually have pictures of Libbie Jean, Sweetie, Pup and Candy, as we have plenty of dogs here since my DD is a vet and is always having animals dropped at her clinic and owners who really don't want them.
Nice pic Kelli.. I planted some cinnamon fern in containers & hope they will grow.. I wanted something for shade & read that ferns love shade.... actually it's dappled shade, under the tree.
Sunfarm... I/we love dogs.. wish we could have more but it's not convienent.
my hiking days are LONG gone! hahahahahahahaha
Cindy, that sounds like a good place for ferns. We have some ferns that came with the house and I was surprised that they would survive in a hot, dry inland place like this. I have to water them, of course, but no more than anything else.
Video of a main street near where I live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tFDUldB2Jk It's kind of long, so you might want to skip to time 4:30 to see the blooming locust trees, which I think are the highlight. It's mostly residential, so there are colorful flowers 'n' stuff.
I will have to look at that video Kelli.. my mom used to have ferns when I was growing up..they too came with the house & spread all over across the back of the yard.. they were neglected of course but they were pretty.. just plain is all I can say as I don't know my ferns! hahahaha
Frost warnings tonight... errrrrr! But expected this time of year.
Bernie the flowers look GREAT!
Kelli we grow Eastern Bracken Fern,
Tough buggers and smaller than yours but there's no such thing as a bad looking fern! lol!
Robyn collects them and we probably have 2 dozen varieties.
6 different Japanese Painted Ferns.
For those of you w/ a bit of shade try Dixie Wood Fern - dryopteris x australis.
A tall fern that will put you in mind of the Ostrich Fern..... but doesn't burn out in the late Summer.
Evergreen here.
We have a few Japanese painted ferns... I love them and want to get more! I just finished taking a shower after planting 5 HUGE Japanese holly ferns that I got from another DGer. They look great in front of our house - and I'm so excited to finally find something that will fill that bed and look nice! Yayy! We also have some Boston ferns that another friend gave me a few years ago. Those things are stinkers here... Anyone want some? I don't think they would be a problem in a place that freezes, or they would make great houseplants! - but they spread VERY quickly here when they are in the ground! I bring multiple clumps to every RU in the hopes of spreading the proble- I mean the special-ness. (ahem) At the end of this past RU I had to bring my Boston ferns home again! Can you imagine? I think someone must have warned everyone away. ("Uh-oh... here come Marylyn. Do you see those ferns? STAY away from them!! Really... they'll eat your yard. Take the monkey grass or the ruellia, but STAY AWAY FROM THE FERNS!") (I didn't actually bring any ruellia. LOL)
Cindy, I love cinnamon ferns, too. :-)
It was a beautiful day today! Partly cloudy, breezy, and in the mid 70s. There's a 70% chance of rain tomorrow - I hope it really does! We need it.
Observation for Houston, TX (KSGR) as of 8:53pm CDT (31 min ago)
Temperature 67 �F 19 �C
Dew Point 61 �F 16 �C
Humidity 81%
Pressure 29.94 in 1013.9 mb
Wind Speed 7 MPH 6 kts
Wind Dir SSE 150�
Ceiling Unlimited Unlimited
Visibility - -
Current Conditions Clear
6 hour min temperature ending 6:53pm CDT : 72.0�F / 22.2�C
Tonight Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.
I'm going to have to stop spending so much time in my flowerbeds--I get waaaayyy behind here when I don't check in every day. I have read all the posts but I won't comment on everything--just a comment here and there about what I remember without scrolling back up to read them again.
Bernie: lovely flowers and does that piece of farm land across the road belong to you? congrats on the dining room job!
Kelli: love the clarkia and the photo of you in the stream--your feet look cool! LOL The locust trees in the video are pretty in bloom.
Cindy: Sally and Lucy are precious with their grinning faces!
Sally: The DGS's are sooooo cute! It does get quiet when the "grands" go home, doesn't it?
Adina: the butterfly must have been getting a drink from the raindrops because it was on the wrong side of the flower to find nectar! LOL I'm glad the ash isn't all that bad where you live.
Marylyn: I just got a Japanese Painted Fern from Charlotte. I really like the looks of it. Becky is supposed to bring me a cinnamon fern in May at the RU in LA.
It was a lovely day for working in the flowerbeds yesterday. I spent all day outside and now my body is telling me that I am getting too old for this! LOL The weeds have been terrible this season, in spite of the colder winter we had. I've got to come up with another solution other than pulling them by hand. There is about 6 inches of mulch in the front flower beds but the weed seeds float in on the air and take root in the mulch. The house next door was empty for a year until last July and the realtor didn't take care of the yard. The weeds took over and now they have spread to my yard and to my flowerbeds. :o(( Okay, time for me to stop complaining!
We haven't had any rain here but maybe it will rain today--sure hope so--we need it. Y'all have a good day!
42� -
Planted four new lily plants for the wife yesterday (got them at home depot) Have two raspberry bushes and some onions to go in today - and five more lilies (just bulbs that I have no experience with).
Details for Sunday, April 18
Mostly sunny. High near 65F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Evening: Mostly clear. Low 39F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph.
Let me pour a cup of coffee and get started (the raspberries will not take long nor the bulbs which I will just bury and hope, but the onions will take awhile),
Care to all.
37� and no frost!
Cumulus, wow, I can't even imagine what it would be like to live anywhere near a volcano. It must be pretty scary at times. The sky without planes is nice. We live between two small airports, but the sky is always full of jet trails. Only once has it been totally empty, except for the president and his two accompanying planes. I love the mares tails!
Thanks Cindylove, kids can be trying and I get used to the quiet around here. The three year old has picked up the annoying ''why?'' I get to where I just repeat the answer because it's the right answer and there are no more answers! LOL!
Celia, gorgeous unopened blooms. You have an eye for photos and your camera is a very good one. I love your close-ups! I'm glad spring is really coming!
Bernie, what exactly is a knob hill? I've heard the word. The birds will sure appreciate the area. It's going to be beautiful when all blooms. Isn't it great to have natural resources! I have little stones and they get set aside to just ring little plantings. I'm glad you have a good back.
Sunfarm, how wonderful to be able to give the dogs a home and yayyy for your vet daughter!! Can't wait to see the rest of the ''family!"
Kelli, love Fiesta Flower! It's a beautiful color! I grew up with the mediocre midsized ferns. I also have them, but I like them. I absolutely love that picture and I would end up covered in poison oak before I knew it!
Oh Kelli ~ ~ ~ ~ back!! I love it!!! Wet shoes and all! LOL! I've got a big smile now! With my new speed, I can finally watch you- tube. I loved the video! Your area is beautiful and the trees are eyecatching gorgeous!
Pepper, there's a tense excitement in that picture!
Ric, I hope you woke up to no frost. We had an advisory and now that it's light, I don't see anything droopy out there. I'd love to see the Japanese varieties! I have yet to get the tallest fern. Not a good place for them yet.
Marylyn, pictures! They sound wonderful! Giggling over the special ferns :o) ROTFL now!! I hope rain is coming your way. We look dry for another while.
Marsue, laughing, see answer to Cindylove above! Well, that's how I end up with all the dandelions, plus the country weeds I can't identify. Each year it's something new. Your work has paid off, it's a lovely bed and the color so far is nice!
Dyson, you must be feeling pretty good. I'm glad you can get out and play in the dirt! I hope some of the lilys bloom this summer. Now that you found the camera you can take pictures!
It should be a pretty nice day. The wind usually dies down and Sunday just seem to be a whole 'nother day of the week.
There is a hump in the birdbath for smaller birds. A little finch was just splashing away!
Knob hill: Right where we are is rolling hills because of a creek going through. The glaciers formed it years ago. On top of these small hills, the top soil is basically sand/gravel. Also heavy clay subsoil, very close to the surface. Not much for growing crops. Farmers fields have poor crops on tops of the hills. The hilltops dry out fast.
Our little hill was a stop over for Indians many moons ago. We find rocks that are made for grinding or like shovels. Very interesting!
Not our field. That farmer has 480 acres of this rolling hill land. The farm site we bought is off of a 160 farm. Same kind of land. The people the farm this farm, look for about 70% of a crop compared to the best farmland in this area. Still means big yields.
Dug out some plants last evening, so got to go get them in pots this morning. Some Iris I am going to plant in the Iris bed.
Later we are off to pick up siding for DD house & get trim for the job we are working on.
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It's our foodbank's first winter. We started collecting food and giving it to people who haven't got any in August. Since then we have had to open two more distribution centres in our corner of Norfolk, and we have two more planned for the near future. When we started, we were the 194th UK foodbank to be founded under our parent charity, the Trussell Trust. Since then, 80 more have been set up. Between us, we have given three days' worth of food to 100,000 hungry people in the last six months. Ours is a success story. But what sort of society needs that sort of success?
The vast majority of the food that we distribute is given by individuals, much of it at supermarket collections, when we invite shoppers to buy an extra item and give it to us as they leave. I was manning the collection boxes outside Morrisons one day when an ancient couple shuffled out, pushing a trolley stacked high with trays of cat food. They looked as if they would have fallen over if they hadn't had something to hang on to, but as they approached the exit, the old man disengaged himself, unhooked a plastic bag that I hadn't seen hanging on the back of the trolley, hobbled across, smiled, and gave it to me. I thanked him, and he hobbled back to his cat food and his wife. After three or four steps, they stopped, and the man made his unsteady way back to me. This time, his expression was anxious. 'Those people you are looking after —' he said, 'they will be all right, won't they?'
It was my turn to answer the phone, and the man at the Citizens Advice Bureau asked if we could do something for a mother and her 13-year-old asthmatic daughter, and do it pronto. She lived out in the sticks, and couldn't get into town to collect a food parcel. Could we deliver one? Of course. When I got there, the house was cold, damp and dark. Mum explained that she had been passed from benefit pillar to benefit post for six weeks since she had had to give up her job because of illness, and she had no money for electricity, gas or food. When I brought in her parcel and explained that it was what nutritionists had calculated to be three days' worth, she told me it contained more than she had long been used to buying in a week. Then she wept.
Five per cent of people helped by foodbanks are homeless, and that presents a particular challenge, as the food that we collect and distribute needs to be cooked. The first homeless person to come to us was a big man who had been living for months in a small car, and we gave him a picnic stove and a couple of pans so he could use his three-day food parcel. But people living on the streets have nowhere to store food or the kit needed to cook it on — what can we do for them? The local branch of the St Vincent de Paul charity came up with an answer: a rough sleepers' kit, containing a boil-in-the-bag meal with a single-use chemical heating pack, a cup of coffee in a self-warming can, a bar of chocolate, a bottle of water, a carton of fruit juice, a foil survival blanket and some toiletries. It won't solve the problem of homelessness, but in the bleak mid-winter, it might very well save a life.
Ours is a radically ecumenical Christian undertaking, and before we open a distribution session we say a prayer. Last week, it fell to me to lead it: we said the 'Our Father'. Afterwards, one of our volunteers pointed out that between us, we had said three different versions of it. I hadn't noticed.
A smart 4X4 drew up outside what we grandly call our 'warehouse' — a church hall lined with shelves of donated food. The driver, a well-dressed woman in her sixties, got out and flung open the boot. It was stacked high with goodies: cakes, fancy biscuits, mince pies, multi-packs of crisps, and nets filled with gold-wrapped chocolate coins. None of those things appear on the list of basics we invite donors to contribute. We deal in survival fare: packets of pasta and cereals, tins of vegetables and meat, cartons of UHT milk and juice. Yes, we get a trickle of luxuries given by people who want our clients not just to survive, but to survive joyfully, but we had never taken a delivery of luxuries and luxuries alone. 'Marvellous!' I said. 'Thank you! Where's it all from?', thinking that it had been collected by a local church or school. 'It's from me,' she replied. 'The government's just given me my winter fuel payment. But I can afford to keep warm, and there are people who can't afford to buy food.'
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I am taking my son to DC in mid Jan to see the Georgetown/PITT basketball game. We will be staying at the Quincy (1823 L Street). We are flying from RDU to BWI. Looks like we have several options to get from BWI to downtown DC. Driving isn't an option. Looking for option that will get us closest to our hotel but won't take a lot of time. We arrive on a Tuesday, early afternoon, and the game isn't until Wed night. Any suggestions on things not to miss and any great places to eat (thinking secret gems that the locals love and the tourists wouldn't know about). I know the obvious places to visit, but with limited time, not sure which are must see? My son is 16 1/2 and is interested in history, sports, and takes a certain interest in big city life and the socioeconomic differences that go along with it.
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I am taking my son to DC in mid Jan to see the Georgetown/PITT basketball game. We will be staying at the Quincy (1823 L Street). We are flying from RDU to BWI. Looks like we have several options to get from BWI to downtown DC. Driving isn't an option. Looking for option that will get us closest to our hotel but won't take a lot of time. We arrive on a Tuesday, early afternoon, and the game isn't until Wed night. Any suggestions on things not to miss and any great places to eat (thinking secret gems that the locals love and the tourists wouldn't know about). I know the obvious places to visit, but with limited time, not sure which are must see? My son is 16 1/2 and is interested in history, sports, and takes a certain interest in big city life and the socioeconomic differences that go along with it.
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Given the limited amount of time, I would just concentrate on the monuments - depending on weather. You could spend all day just going thru the monuments. Alternatively, you could do a night tour of the monuments on Tuesday night when you get there and then pick a Smithsonian to do on Wed. This might even be your better option as you stay with a bus so if its cold, you will have some shelter between monuments.
I would look at the Smithsonian website but my favorite was the Air & Space or the Portrait Gallery.
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If you want to see the monuments, there is a great tour group that operates on tips only--it meets near the smithsonian and is called dcbyfoot. They have a website for exact meeting location and they give a two hour walking tour of the monuments. It was a lot fun.
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"Looking for option that will get us closest to our hotel but won't take a lot of time"
Car service or taxi
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I can't decide what way to get you from plane to hotel. It's up to you. A $60 taxi is quickest and easiest. The B30 bus and then transferring to a Metro (and then transferring from the Green line to either the Red or Blue/Orange) to your hotel is cheaper but takes more time and you have to schlep your luggage around a lot.
The Quincy is conveniently located close to two different Metro lines: 1)Red Line (Farragut North stop - L st. exit) and 2) Blue/Orange line (Farragut West stop - 18th st. exit). See the this map - arrows in black box is Farrragut West escalator entrance and arrow in gray box is Farragut North escalator entrance. The Quincy Hotel shows as a red box on L st. between 17th & 19th.
Take the RED line (Farragut North) to get to and from the basketball game from your hotel.
It's hard to recommend places to eat without knowing what neighborhoods you'll be in at various mealtimes, but here's some ideas.
Close to your hotel and inexpensive:
http://www.cffolksrestaurant.com/ (m-f lunch only, note hours)
http://www.javagreen.net/ (on 19th st. - don't let the word vegan scare you, I am a huge meat fan, but still LOVE this place)
http://www.famousluigis.com/ (get the pizza, though the whole menu is OK.
Vapiano 1800 M Street N.W. (European chain of Italian casual and inexpensive. Everything is good, save room for dessert. Wines are a particularly good value - http://www.vapiano.com/
The Corner Bakery directly across L st. from your hotel has a very good breakfast that will satisfy the hungriest teen (or a simple croissant, fresh squeezed OJ, and espresso for Mom).
Close to Verizon Center (GTOWN/PITT game):
There are a gazillion restaurants by the stadium, the highest concentration of them being on 7th St. between D st. and I st.
http://www.jaleo.com/ (reserve if possible, otherwise wait - this place is also close to the National Mall. Go, go, GO!)
http://www.matchboxdc.com/ (no reservations - go early and wait for your table, worth the wait)
http://www.zaytinya.com/ (reserve if possible, otherwise it's worth the wait for a table)
http://www.oyamel.com/ (Simply the BEST Mexican food around - not cheap, but not too expensive. Reserve.)
Let me know what your plans are for your free time (Capitol? Zoo? Nat'l Gallery? Air & Space?) and I can help with good places close to other places where you will be.
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Meant to include this - http://www.wmata.com/bus/b30_brochure.cfm
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great info from bardo1. he's off on the taxi fare. It will cost upwards of $60
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Yikes! Upwards of $60. We shouldn't have to much luggage to carry around since it is a short trip. Maybe the B30 bus and then a taxi to hotel? What about the MARC? It says on BWI that it connects BWI to Union Station in DC? Amtrak?
Bardo...THANK YOU so much for all the great restauant suggestions! Also like the idea of taking a bus tour of monuments as I'm sure weather will be cold. Any other non-monument ideas welcome. Georgetown?
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Taking the B30 bus to Greenbelt station and then a taxi to the hotel wouldn't make much sense. You could take Metrorail into DC and then a taxi.
It it is a weekday, you could take MARC to Union Station and then a taxi to the hotel. Anyday you can take Amtrak to Union Station and a taxi to the hotel.
You have to take a shuttle from BWI to the BWI train station for MARC or Amtrak.
You can probably find the prices on the ground transportation page of BWI's website.
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The reason the B30 is there is to connect BWI to the Metrorail system. To use it, you would take the B30 bus from BWI to the Greenbelt Metro station and then take Metro from Greenbelt to the Farragut North (or Farragut West) Metro station. From either of the two Farragut stations it's just a few blocks walk to your hotel.
If you prefer MARC, here's the schedule:
The MARC trains are $6 per person one-way from BWI to Union Station. Get your ticket at the BWI MARC train station (or on board for an extra $3). After arriving at Union Station, transfer to the Metro (get your Metro tickets inside the Union Station Metro Station) and take the Red line to Farragut North and then walk the two blocks to your hotel.
You'll probably use Metro more than you think. I would load up your Metro cards with at least $10 each so you are not constantly having to refill it.
It's tough to recommend things to do without knowing your interests, but here are some of my favorites.
1) National Gallery of Art, both East and West wings. One of the top 5 in the world, IMO.
2) Holocaust Memorial Museum - top notch, very well done.
3) National Zoo, I am not typical but I love it in colder weather, especially between 8 and 10 am when all the animals are out and active.
4) Smithsonian American History Museum
Have you looked at Fodor's?
Georgetown's main attraction for tourists is that it has a lot of high-end shopping. If that appeals, you can take a DC Circulator bus. Near your hotel, you would catch it at 19th & K and exit at Wisc. Ave. & M st. in Georgetown. Fare is $1 per ride.
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I would agree with vjb about the B30 bus -- it makes more sense to take either Amtrak or the Marc train to Union station in DC and either use the Redline metro from Union Station to your hotel or take a taxi to your hotel.
Agree that Georgetown has a bunch of stores and many/most are chains the same as in any town. Some restaurants and lots of college students hanging out in the evenings.
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You said you were arriving on a Tuesday so I'd take the MARC option and the metro to your hotel. If you do load a metro card, it bears reminding that exposure to a cell phone will fry the card. That is a concept my teenage daughter continues not to grasp.
What ever mode of transportation you take to get into DC, you're going to be at the tail end of the museum day even if you just toss your luggage into the hotel room. Nighttime monument tours are a good choice. Art wasn't on your list but the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museums stay open until 7 pm. The NPG has a few exhibits of contemporary sports, political and entertainment figures that might be of interest to your son. These two places are in Penn Quarter which is where you'll be going to the basketball game on Wed evening.
But given his interests in history and sports I'd add the Newseum (across the street from the National Gallery) to your list of possible places to visit on Wednesday. Newseum charges an admission fee, well worth it IMO, though for no admission fee you can easily spend the day on the National Mall with the museums and galleries there.
If you eat near the Verizon Ctr on Wed, choose a place that takes bookings. Bardo's suggestions are great but they are popular restaurants that will be very busy before the game.
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A strong second to the Newseum idea, but plan on 3 hours or so there to get your money's worth (unlike all the other suggestions above, it's not free ($20 for you plus $13 for your son). Highly recommended, but with all the free Smithsonian options, just make sure it's what you want.
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bardo's suggestions are excellent. Take his advice.
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While I normally suggest folks see the free Smithsonian musuems before they go to any of the "pay" museums (International Spy Museum, Newseum, etc.), based on your son's interests, I think that he might really enjoy the Newseum more than some of the Smithsonians. I've been there twice and I think it's one of the best museums around. There is an exhibit now of the photographs of Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss, Jr. that are fantastic (and I'm not even a sports fan). There are lots of great exhibits and films. (Don't miss "Press Box: the History of Sports Reporting", but you might want to give a pass to "I-Witness", the 3-D movie. I found it a bit juvenile.)
If you are here on a Saturday or Sunday, there's a "2-for-1" Early Bird special if you buy your tickets before 11 am. Also, all tickets are good for 2 consecutive days, which comes in handy because I think you'll want to spend a lot of time there. (I spent 8 hours over 2 days on my first visit and around 4 hours on my second visit.)
But, as bardo recommends, check out the websites for the Smithsonians and the Newseum first to make sure that it's what you want before you spend that money on admission.
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You can also take the Super Shuttle from the airport to your hotel. For two people it should be about $45.
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Part of what I love so much about Blue Underground is how wildly unpredictable their release slate can be. It seems like for every genre classic they issue on Blu-ray -- say, Fulci's Zombie, Argento's
You might not know it by skimming the plot summary on the flipside of the case, but Baba Yaga is very much one of those wildcard releases that Blue Underground pulls out every few months. Stripped down to bare metal, its premise certainly sounds like something aimed squarely at the usual horror crowd: a cadaverous witch named Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker) uses her dark powers to bring a pretty young photographer (Isabelle De Funès) under her thrall. Baba Yaga doesn't allow itself to be defined by those genre elements, though, with little blood, no gore, and nothing resembling a scare along the way. This is a methodically paced film with achingly beautiful photography and the surreal, psychedelic imagery of a fever dream. At the same time, there's also a staggering amount of nudity and more than its fair share of S&M. A head-on collision of '70s arthouse and Cinemax After Dark sleaze, Baba Yaga is a fascinatingly difficult movie to pin down. I don't even know how to put together any sort of coherent plot summary. I mean, there's a camera that's hexed into an unpredictably destructive force, a cursed totem of a
By far the best thing about Baba Yaga is its visual flair. Its compositions are exceptionally artful, and there are so many moments when I felt as if I could pause the movie, wrap a frame around it, and hang it on the wall. The film is adapted from Guido Crepax' erotic comic "Valentina", and Baba Yaga takes care to evoke the look and feel of a comic strip at times. I've seen a bit of fumetti in print, but I've never seen that format translated to film like this before. Baba Yaga's most surreal stretches easily rank as my favorite, especially the way the film toys with what's real and what's a waking dream, with the distinction between the two becoming increasingly blurred as the film marches on.
I just wish there were more of that. The story in Baba Yaga is so threadbare and borderline-incoherent that there's not much of a narrative hook to draw me in. Rather than deftly weaving in its political commentary, the movie seems content to just explictly yap about it at length. As entrancing a creature as Isabelle De Funès is, Valentina comes across more as someone that things happen to rather than a character of any real dimension. The overbearing love interest played by George Eastman is mostly dead air and seems to be more of a distraction than anything else. Carroll Baker makes little of an impression, and though the premise deliberately keeps Yaga at a distance much of the time, she still feels too far removed from everything that's going on. As entranced as I am by its visuals, little else about Baba Yaga leaves that same sort of an impact. I can't honestly say that I like Baba Yaga, and yet there's something so distinctive and different about it that I'm still glad I took the time to watch it. Not easily recommended but still worth a look if you're feeling adventurous. Rent It.
If you're reading a review of a movie as obscure as Baba Yaga, then chances are you already know about the way Blue Underground's releases of Italian films tend to look on Blu-ray. The same as ever, there's a thin
Definition and detail are both reasonably strong throughout Baba Yaga, standing out as particularly dazzling whenever the camera's closed in tightly. The photography somewhat frequently can get soft and diffused, and although that's a deliberate visual choice, it does mean that there's a ceiling as to how crisp a movie like this is going to look in high definition. Its palette is impressively robust, and black levels remain consistently deep and inky. There really isn't anything in the way of wear or damage to speak of either. I don't have Blue Underground's DVD handy to do a direct comparison, but the excerpts in the extras are bogged down by very heavy edge enhancement, and that's not even a little bit of a concern on this Blu-ray disc. I'm sure your reaction will vary depending on how sensitive you are to the appearance of the films that LVR has handled for Blue Underground, but for whatever my vote's worth, I didn't find those issues particularly distracting this time around. I think there's still room for improvement, but overall, I'm happy enough with the way Baba Yaga looks on Blu-ray.
Somewhat strangely, Baba Yaya is windowboxed -- meaning there are black bars on all four sides of the screen -- despite its very conventional aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The bitrate of its AVC encode is fairly modest, although Baba Yaga doesn't seem to suffer for it. The film and its extras all fit comfortably onto a single-layer Blu-ray disc.
Baba Yaga features a pair of two-channel mono soundtracks, both presented in DTS-HD Master Audio. The English and Italian tracks are very comparable in quality, with the mild hiss just a bit more pronounced in the Italian version. Personally, I find the line readings in English to be clunkier than the Italian version, but seeing as how Baba Yaga was shot wild and both languages were ultimately recorded in post-production, neither track is any more valid than the other. The fidelity is passable. Frequency response is very limited, and the recording overall is thin and flat. Even throughout those few moments where things are supposed to be intense, such as Valentina darting out into the road to save a dog from Yaga's speeding car, the audio remains limp and lifeless. The dialogue in both English and Italian comes across as sibilant and dated. It's completely listenable, though, and very likely just the best that could be done with the elements available.
There are two English subtitle streams as well: one captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing and the other translating the Italian track. It's appreciated that it looks to be a proper translation rather than limiting viewers to dubtitles. Also included are subtitles in French and Spanish.
All of the official extras from Blue Underground's DVD release from 2003 have found their way onto this Blu-ray disc. An Easter Egg on that DVD didn't get carried over as far as I can tell, though, so completists may still want to hold onto that earlier release.
The Final Word
Well, I'll give it this: Baba Yaga doesn't play like a movie I've seen a couple hundred times before. It's strange and beautiful, like some sort of waking dream. On the other hand, Baba Yaga plods along at a somewhat sluggish pace, there's no real narrative hook, and I couldn't have cared any less about anything that was going on if I'd clenched my fists and tried really, really hard. Baba Yaga is ultimately a failure, but at least it's an interesting, unique, and visually artful failure. Rent It.


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Baghdad, Aug 11 (IANS) The Iraqi parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved wide-ranging measures, including administrative reforms to wipe out corruption and easing of sectarian tensions.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi issued a decree on August 9 abolishing the posts of vice president and deputy prime minister in the government, in response to one of the demands voiced in countrywide anti-government demonstrations over poor living conditions, including electricity cuts and water quality.
As a result of the reforms, senior political appointments will no longer be based on sectarian or party quotas, and the posts of vice-president and deputy prime minister will be abolished, BBC reported.
Abadi's plan also includes a requirement for a number of government positions to be filled with political independents – a move aimed at cracking down on corruption.
The changes come after weeks of protests by angry civilians over the way the country is governed and at the lack of investment in infrastructure.
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A camera crew for the Food Network sailed into Superior's Anchor Bar and Grill today for a day of shooting.
Lights and cameras pointed at the grill, capturing the creation of specialty burgers ranging from the cashew burger and olive burger to the hearty Anchor burger.
Patrons weren't surprised the network scented filming gold at the Anchor, 413 Tower Ave.
"This is the best hamburger and french fry deal in the entire United States that I'm aware of," said Alan Gonia as he bit into a mushroom and swiss burger.
"I come here all the time because I love the burgers," said Cindy Parsons of Duluth. "It's a great deal."
Where else, they asked, could you get a meal for two -- burgers, fries and drinks -- for under $10?
"I was surprised before when they were doing Gordy's Hi-Hat and the Duluth Grill and they hadn't included this place," Parsons said. Like the other shoots, today's taping was for a segment of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" with Guy Fieri. The star was not at the Anchor this morning, and Food Network communications staff would not comment on when or if he would be in the area.
The Anchor Bar is famous not only for its burgers but also its unique décor, which includes an eclectic mix ranging from diving suits and other nautical gear to barber chairs and books.
"The atmosphere's so unique," Parsons said. "It's fun to come in here and look around."
The Superior mainstay's burgers have won numerous local awards for best burger in the Twin Ports. They have been featured in Gourmet Magazine and the book "500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late." Public radio and local news stations have also touched on the Anchor's cuisine.
"We get people from all over the world here," said Shayla Williams, who works at the Anchor. "We're really popular." She estimated that in a single Saturday shift, they serve up 300 burgers.
Tom Trolson, who also works at the business, said he wore his Anchor Bar T-shirt in Florida once, and was approached by eight different people who told him they were the best burgers in the world.
What makes these burgers so good? They're fresh. About 280 pounds of fresh beef is delivered to the Anchor's doorstep each day. Add fresh buns from Twig Bakery and fresh potatoes to cut into fries, and you have culinary gold.
"They're really good," said Inga Parsons, 9, as she sampled a burger Thursday.
"Try it," said Trolson. "That's all I can say."
Representatives from the Food Network declined to comment on the closed shoot or when the segment would air. But patrons enjoyed the hustle, bustle and noise. Some joked that the bright camera lights illuminated items on the walls and ceiling they hadn't seen before.
For more information on the Anchor Bar and Grill, which has been in downtown Superior for more than 30 years, visit anchorbar.freeservers.com.


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Jerusalem - Around 100 000 ultra-Orthodox Jews on Thursday rallied in Jerusalem, police said, in a show of mass defiance over a school integration ruling by Israel's highest court.
The streets were flooded with men in trademark black, wide-brimmed hats and lined with police as the rally stretched several blocks and paralysed traffic in and around the heart of the Holy City.
A similar protest in Bnei Brak near the seaside city of Tel Aviv earlier drew about 20 000 people, according to police.
Thousands of police were put on high alert on Thursday ahead of the ultra-Orthodox protests over a supreme court ruling to jail a group of parents of European origin, or Ashkenazis, for refusing to send their daughters to a school with Jewish girls of Middle Eastern descent, known as Sephardis.
Although the ruling effectively pits the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazis against the Sephardis, the two communities came together for a mass protest against what they see as the intolerable intervention of the secular state in their religious affairs.
In Jerusalem, protesters massed in a celebratory atmosphere near the western entrance to the city, the vast majority of men wearing the traditional black suits and hats of the ultra-Orthodox.
As the defiant parents arrived to address the throng, the fathers, dressed in their holiday finery, were swept up onto the shoulders of supporters as the crowd broke into spontaneous dancing.
Some held banners proclaiming "The Torah Rules!" referring to the supremacy of biblical law over the secular justice system.
Others carried placards reading "The Prisoners of Immanuel are representatives of Israel," in reference to the defiant parents, all of whom come from the Jewish settlement of Immanuel in the occupied West Bank.
The parents and ultra-Orthodox leaders addressed the crowd from a makeshift stage made out of two lorries straddling a road.
The parents, who represent more than 40 families, were on Thursday to begin a two-week jail sentence for contempt of court after their detention was delayed from midday (09:00 GMT) until 14:00 to allow the protests to play out peacefully.
Jerusalem police chief Ilan Franco said the parents were under police escort but had thus far been unable to reach the police station, where the protesters had converged.
The incident began when the supreme court intervened in a dispute at an ultra-Orthodox school in the Immanuel settlement, where parents from the strictly observant Slonim Hassidic sect of Ashkenazi Jewry refused to let their girls go to school with girls of Sephardi descent.
The court had given the parents until Wednesday to send their children back to school or face jail for contempt of court. The parents refused.
Dramatic clash
The dispute was described by the liberal Haaretz daily as "the most dramatic state-religion clash to break out here," and the protests were the largest ultra-Orthodox demonstration seen in the city in a decade.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appealed for calm, and President Shimon Peres earlier met deputy education minister Meir Porush, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi party United Torah Judaism (UTJ), in an unsuccessful bid to reach a compromise.
The Slonim parents say their objections are not racist but are based on differences in religious observance between the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions.
There are about 1 300 Slonim families in Israel, most living in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, as well as several dozen families in Immanuel and Kiryat Gat southwest of Jerusalem.
The sect was established in 1858 in a town of the same name in what is now Belarus.
In Israel, the Slonim subdivide into two groups which both follow different rabbis - the Slanim, or "blacks", who revere a rabbi with a black beard, and the Slonim, or "whites," after their white-bearded rabbi.


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Osteoporosis is a bone disease. Its name comes from the Latin for "porous bones." The inside of a healthy bone has small spaces, like a honeycomb. Osteoporosis increases the size of these spaces, such that the bone loses strength and density. At the same time, the outside of the bone grows weaker and thinner.
People with osteoporosis are at a high risk of experiencing fractures while engaged in routine activities like standing or walking. About 53 million people either have osteoporosis or are at high risk of developing it. The most commonly affected bones are the wrists, hips, spine, and ribs.
What are the symptoms of osteoporosis?
There are no symptoms or warning signs of the early stages of osteoporosis. In most cases, people with osteoporosis are unaware that they have the condition until they experience a fracture.
Some spinal fractures may occur without initial pain. In these cases, the chief symptoms that a fracture has occurred may be loss of height or a bent spine.
What causes osteoporosis?
The biggest risk factor for osteoporosis is age. As people grow older, the body goes through the process of breaking down old bone and growing new bone in its place. Around the age of 30, however, the body starts losing bone faster than it's able to replace it.
Menopause can cause a woman's body to lose bone even more quickly. Men continue to lose bone during this time, but at a slower rate. Between the ages of 65 and 70, women and men are usually losing bone at the same rate.
Other risk factors include:
- being female
- being an older adult
- being Caucasian or Asian
- family history/genetics
- poor nutrition
- physical inactivity
- smoking
- taking certain medications
- low body weight
- small-boned frame
How is osteoporosis diagnosed?
Osteoporosis is diagnosed with a painless bone density scan called a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). It's used to measure the density of the wrist, hips, and spine. These are the three areas most likely to experience osteoporosis.
A doctor may choose to run a DXA on people who are at high risk for developing osteoporosis. The doctor may also order a DXA to see if a fracture was caused by osteoporosis.
How is osteoporosis treated?
The most common drugs used to treat osteoporosis are called bisphosphonates. They include alendronate (Fosamax), Ibandronate (Boniva), and zoledronic acid (Reclast). Bisphosphonates are used to prevent the loss of bone mass. They may be taken orally or by injection.
The following treatments are also available:
In men, testosterone therapy may help increase bone density. For women, estrogen used during and after menopause can help stop bone density loss. Unfortunately, estrogen therapy has also been associated with increased risk of blood clots, heart disease, and certain types of cancer.
One alternative medication, raloxifene (Evista), has been found to provide the benefits of estrogen without many of the risks, although there is still an increased risk of blood clots.
Other medications sometimes used in the treatment of osteoporosis include:
- denosumab (Xgeva or Prolia), which is taken by injection and may prove even more promising than bisphosphonates at reducing bone loss
- teriparatide (Forteo), which is also taken by injection and stimulates bone growth
- calcitonin salmon, which is taken as a nasal spray and reduces bone reabsorption, but needs to be used with caution because of its relationship to cancer
What are the complications of osteoporosis?
The chief complications of osteoporosis are fractures and the pain and disability that accompany them. Medication and lifestyle changes, such as fall prevention measures, can help you avoid fractures. Pain management and an appropriate plan for rehabilitation can ease the impact of fractures.
How is osteoporosis prevented?
There are many risk factors for osteoporosis that you cannot control. These include sex, being older, and having a family history of osteoporosis. There are some factors, however, that do fall within your control.
Some of the best ways to prevent osteoporosis include:
- getting plenty of calcium and vitamin D
- engaging in weight-bearing exercises, such as walking or lifting weights
- stopping cigarette use
- for women, weighing the pros and cons of hormone therapy
Written by: Debra Stang
Published on Jul 19, 2017
Medically reviewed on Sep 12, 2017 by Gregory Minnis, DPT


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Tim Cook visiting China for the 2nd time in 10 months, purpose of trip unclear
For the second time since becoming Apple's CEO, Tim Cook is visiting China. Last time out he publicly toured Foxconn's manufacturing plants to ascertain how bad the working conditions were on the assembly lines dedicated to making his company's products. This time out, the purpose of his visit is unclear.Except for discussing the development of China's communications industry with the country's head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, it's not clear why he's there.
WSJ speculates that there are many plausible reasons for his visit. He could be further scrutinizing the manufacturing process, or to thrash out a deal with China Mobile (the world's most popular carrier). What is known is that China is fast becoming of increasing importance to Apple. It's already Apple's #2 market for sales, despite only having 8 stores in the nation. It's expected that during Apple's earnings call later this month will reveal just how important the world's biggest nation has become.
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Offer No. 5 is in for Washington (D.C.) H.D. Woodson cornerback Adeboye Aromire. The 6-foot-0, 192-pounder pulled the scholarship late last week from the Big Ten.
"I got an offer on Friday from Illinois," he said. "I'm really excited about it. I don't know too much about their program, but I've heard it's a good place.
"I know some H.D. Woodson players are there including Joelil Thrash, Tavon Wilson and Evan Henderson. They have a good program and I've heard a lot about Eddie McGee, the quarterback from here. I do stay in touch with Joelil. He told me I'd like the people and place. He also mentioned positions are opening in the backfield."
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While the visit impressed Aromire, he's continuing to keep things wide open.
"All of these offers weigh the same to me now," he stated. "At this point, I'm not looking to make a decision soon. With more coming in I am more open and just waiting, stacking them up until they all come. I'm trying to consider everyone that is going to offer me."
The Rivals250 to watch prospect hasn't taken visits this spring to date, but is intending to in the near future.
"I should be down at North Carolina on April 10th," he said. "I'm still looking for a date with Virginia Tech. I might make it to Tech for their spring game, but I don't know.
"I want to visit these schools to just try to see if any of the visits impress me."
Aromire posted 71 tackles, three sacks, two interceptions and seven breakups as a junior this past season.


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29 comments:
- Branson @ Reflection of Something said...
Yes please! My facebook page for the blog is brand new and unloved! LOL! ;-)
- February 9, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- Jo's Health Corner said...
This is a great idea! I added my page..
- February 9, 2011 at 4:51 PM
- Bloggin in PA said...
cool! i hope my link worked!
- February 9, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- 1ne Proud Mama said...
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
- February 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM
- Alex said...
This is awesome!!!!! Thanks girls
- February 9, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- my best friend jules said...
Very nice of you ladies! Thanks for all the work you do for us bloggers :)
xxx mervi
- February 10, 2011 at 4:08 AM
- Tanya (a Taste of T) said...
I love this link up! It's super easy to LIKE all of you and if your FB is above mine on the list, I do :).
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- February 10, 2011 at 4:18 AM
- Crystal said...
Yay!! "Like" me!! They really "like" me!!! Actually not many "like" me...help me out!
- February 10, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- Kassi @ Truly Lovely said...
Yay for facebook pages!!!
- February 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Bobbi said...
I don't have one, but I love the link on the sidebar, it is so adorable! Just thought I would tell you that!
- February 10, 2011 at 3:01 PM
- Kirstin Marie said...
Thank you so much for this! Awesome idea :) I'm going to get started on this list! :)
- February 10, 2011 at 4:29 PM
- Mommy's Paradise said...
This is a great idea. My brand new facebook-page would really need some love and liking. Of course I like you all back, just leave a note on my wall. Thanks. And yes, I'm gonna grab a good cup of coffee and will start on the list.
- February 11, 2011 at 2:27 AM
- Courtney K. said...
For whatever reason, I can't get the link to work. :-( But here's my page if anyone is interested. LOL
- February 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- elizabethrosasjewelry said...
I added mine, (not showing yet,must be lag time). Checking links now :-)
- February 14, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Becky W said...
I liked everyone on the list and visited the ones I was already a liker of ..lol...phew last one on the list was #66 I will check back to make sure if any are added. :) Thank you for the hop.
- February 15, 2011 at 7:49 PM
- Dacia said...
Thanks for this linky! I'm now a follower of this blog. I'm so excited to get liking and connecting with other blogs/FB pages :)
- February 17, 2011 at 1:40 PM
- Maggie said...
Just went through the list and "liked" everyone!! Hope everyone takes the time to do the same. I would love to have more likes on my page.
- February 19, 2011 at 7:54 AM
- Debbie said...
Accidently posted twice, the first link # 86 can be deleted put the wrong link. Sorry
- March 6, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- Jacqui' said...
My page is extra lonesome.haha. Gonna be spreading the word. aka buying adverstisement.lol
- March 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM
- Lily Boxing said...
My link-up didn't seem to work. :(
If interested please "like" me :)
Lily Boxing
- April 9, 2011 at 5:03 PM
- ChariT said...
Wow! What a wonderful blog!
Thanks so much!
~Be blessed!
- April 15, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- An Irish Italian Blessing said...
Just when I thought FTLOB couldn't get ANY cooler, a Facebook linky? You guys rock, my FB is saaaad, lol.
- May 6, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Jen said...
great page! added my facebook link! still need help adding a button to my blog though - soon hopefully!
- May 26, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- Jenn said...
I just created my page an need a few LIKES...thank you...I'm going through and liking many of the links here :)
- June 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- Jamie said...
I created a page, but need some likes before I can link! (: I'll be liking blogs until then (:
- June 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM
- Jamie said...
I added my page. (: I hope to get some "likes", it's a brand new page! "the spoken heart" haha my blog feels so official now :P
- June 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Nora said...
here's mine, anyone add me- I'm super friendly :] I love new friends, just let me know how you found me, aka from blogs and i will mark as so.
- August 6, 2011 at 10:51 PM
- Jen said...
Thank you sooo much for hosting this, what a great idea!
- October 24, 2011 at 5:39 AM
- Kristen @ Confessions of a GDS said...
Great idea! I still haven't hopped on the Twitter train so this is my only other social networking site! :)
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Stephen Rauch was waiting for the start of the recent Harvest Fair run in Santa Rosa when a boy standing behind him asked the obvious: "Where are your shoes?"
"It's a long story," the barefoot Rauch replied, in what has become a familiar refrain for the 45-year-old software engineer.
The married father of two is accustomed to getting stared at or even teased when he runs shoeless or in glove-like booties that seem a better fit for frogs.
But funny thing is, the idea is catching on.
Spurred by a bestselling book, more striders on the North Coast and across the nation are hitting the streets and trails without their shoes, and in the process, turning a lot of heads.
These minimalists are kicking decades of running orthodoxy to the curb by arguing that shoes interfere with a person's natural gait and increase the risk of injury, primarily by encouraging runners to strike the ground heel-first.
Lose the shoes, they say, and runners land more softly on the middle or front of their feet, as nature intended it to be.
Needless to say, there are those who consider these arguments heresy, leading to raging debates in running clubs, online chat forums and in the pages of running magazines.
Rauch defended his choice in a lengthy essay in the October newsletter for the Empire Runners Club under the title, "What's up with the Shoes?"
But club president Bob Finlay said Rauch probably won't get many converts, saying club members, who number more than 500, have seen "fads come and go."
Amby Burfoot, winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon and an editor for Runner's World, was even more pointed in his appraisal of what he called a "passing fancy."
"I wish we lived in the same pristine environment that existed two million years ago, but we don't. Most people are going to want protection under their feet when they run," he said.
Perhaps, but interest in barefoot running appears at an all-time high, thanks in large part to "Born to Run," Christopher McDougall's best-selling book about the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, who are known for epic 100-mile runs with nothing on their feet but strips of rubber.
Popular training methods like ChiRunning and the Pose Method also promote running with a more "natural" gait.
Stores are selling out of Vibram FiveFingers, the thin-soled rubber booties that Rauch favors for most of his runs. Officials at the Italian company that makes the booties figured they would appeal to boaters, kayakers and yogis. But runners have been snapping them up, at a cost of between $75 and $85 a pair.
"We can't keep them on the shelves. It's ridiculous," said Joe Kurtzweil, a sales associate at Sonoma Outfitters, where wait lists have been created because of the demand.
But watching Rauch pounding the pavement in his booties during a lunchtime run from the Tellabs facility in Petaluma brought to mind a single word: "Ouch."
Can running on asphalt in nothing more than a thin layer of rubber really be good for the body?
Rauch is convinced that it is, after having studied the issue with an engineer's attention to detail. Besides inspiring a few of his running buddies to give it a try, he also bought Vibrams for his kids, Nicholas, 12, and Katherine, 9.


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As the sun beats down on my room in the late afternoon, I wanted to crank the a/c up and set the temperature lower than the hotel normally allows it to go.
So I pulled up this four year old post where I passed along a tip for how to override your hotel's thermostat.
- Holding down the "display" button
- While holding that button, press "off"
- Release off, continue to hold down display, and Press the "up" arrow button
- Release all buttons
And I did just that. The thermostat read "VIP" and I was able to adjust it all the way down to 60.
But since it's almost 2014 now, someone else did me one better. They created a YouTube video of themselves pushing the buttons, which may make the tip even clearer.
This also shuts off the thermostat's motion sensors, too — I hate those because sometimes my room will be baking by the time I return from dinner, or if I sleep too motionless it shuts off, the room warms up, and wakes me.
The things we do to try to get comfortable, eh?!
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Fighting leg cramps through the extra periods, Lundqvist was attempting to cover up a loose puck when it was poked away by teammate Marian Gaborik, leaving him helpless as Jason Chimera slid it into the empty net for the winner at 12:36 of the second overtime period.
"Right now it is painful," said Lundqvist. "It's just unfortunate to have that in overtime. A lot of times, that's what happens -- a quick play. Then, before you realize it, it's over."


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So we all know that a new Storm game's coming out in 2014, but don't you just wonder how the story will play out now that Storm 3 already covered half of the war arc. Anyone remember Ultimate Ninja 2, 3, & 4?
In UN 2, the creators added a non-canon arc in between the Tsunade arc and the Sasuke Retrieval arc that had something to do with Orochimaru using a kinjutsu to hinder people in Konoha and use Edo Tensei to f*ck with everyone or something.
In UN 3, they added (What I believe was) an OVA as part of the story
I'm UN 4, they added a weird non-canon arc about Naruto killing some demon or something for a random village during his training with Jiraya
So if you read above, then you know where I'm going with this. I assume the creators of the UN games did this to add more playtime, since UN 2 only went to the Tsunade arc(canonically)and UN 4 anticlimactically ended after Naruto's mission to save gaara started, with a fight between Kakashi and Chiyo I believe.
So the main point of this is that UNS Revolution will probably go that route and add some random non-canon arc or 2. Anyone else agree?


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Stelmet has reached one of the top 3 places in the Polish Basketball League for the last three years. Currently, they are silver medal holders and are fighting to take back the Championship. They are taking part in the Euroleague. This is a team which we were pleased to work with before and look forward to supporting in the years to come. Currently, we are rooting for them to reclaim the Polish Championship title - said Kamil Sahaj, Cinkciarz.pl's Marketing Manager.
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is there a possibility, to get the lightbox effect of the post-thumbnail-images of the theme for all images, that I add inside a post's text?
For example:
The red image at the beginning of the post has the NEWSCAST lightbox effect, it is the post-thumbnail-image.
The onion image at the bottom of the post has no effect for a lightbox popup, it is just a normal image adding inside the text.
Is this possible, to get for this images the NEWSCAST lightbox effect, too?
By the way:
I've tried for this the "Lightbox2"-plugin, but this causes an error:
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For this it would be great, if I can use for my images in posts' texts the integrated lightbox effect of NEWSCAST theme.
Just add rel="prettyPhoto" to your a href tags. Example:

For more examples please visit: http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/
Please also have a look at the documentation i.e. lightbox usage is described there.
The Dude
You made my day, thank you very much! Have thought, this belongs only to the post thumbnail image. Works fine now for all other text images, too.
Thanks a lot, Dude.
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ARLINGTON, VA — Businesses and hospitality workers were recognized for their exceptional service by the Arlington Chamber of Commerce at the 2010 Arlington Hospitality Awards, according to the Sun Gazette.
According to the story, the dozens of winners received breakfast, certificates and lapel pins designating them as Arlington Hospitality Superstars and eight people received Legendary Service Awards, sponsored by
Greg Raines, general manager of the Holiday Inn Rosslyn and chairman of the Arlington Chamber Hotel General Managers Committee, said: "Thank you to each and every one of you for all that you do to make
Those receiving Legendary Service Awards included Marie Baptiste, Philip Chao, Ching Chao, Lewis Christian, Cheryl Freshly, Fekadu Kitila, Sajawal Khan and Nona Davis, the story stated.
Over fifty employees from area hotels were also awarded, the story added.