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Kate in Arabia

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  1. Podcasts are shows (some audio only, some audio & video) that you can subscribe to that have multiple, ongoing episodes. Podcasts are about the only thing I use my iPod for. I'm overseas (obviously) and I get a little homesick now and then, lol, so I subscribe to a lot of the NPR podcasts which I listen to while I do dishes and the like. For example, I love to listen to Talk of the Nation, that's a free podcast you can download the day's show and listen whenever. I also download World Story of the Day, Fresh Air, sometimes Car Talk, etc. etc. There are a couple of other podcasts I subscribe to, I say it's for the kids but I like to watch them as well, lol -- Beautiful Places, Discovery Channel, National Geographic shorts. These are all short (like, 5-10 min) videos of different nature or cultural-type stuff, I like to watch them if I'm sitting in the car waiting for a few min, or my kids watch if they're waiting in the drs office. I also get Sesame Street Podcast for that purpose. Another quirky podcast I get is "Learn Hindi from Bollywood Movies", which makess me and my Indian dh laugh, lol, and maybe I do learn a vocab word or two. There's also a podcast for Arabic, and you can get podcasts for news in different languages, etc. I'm all into the freebies, I don't know if dh would agree to spending money on programs for my iPod, so all the podcasts I subscribe to are free. :cool:
  2. My mom had a complete hyst when she was abt my age (I'm 38) and started Premarin. She had nightmare periods before then as well, clots, blow-outs (not pretty), etc. it was very very bad. I don't know about the dosage level of her Premarin, but she has been taking it now for almost 30 yrs (she's 66) without mishap. Around when the controversy first broke about the replacement drugs her dr tried to take her off the Premarin, and she was miserable. The dr refused to prescribe it, so she switched drs to one who would. And other than, I believe, slightly more frequent mammograms, there has been no long-term fallout from that, so far. I have been thinking about these issues a lot recently, because she started a lot of the drug therapy she takes at my age, not just because of the surgery, but because her own mother had very very bad osteoporosis (think disintegrating vertebrae) and she credits her comparatively better health to early intervention.
  3. I agree with the other posters who are doing two histories at once, if you can work it in time-wise. We are doing parallel World History and Islamic History, which at this point (Middle Ages) is pretty much World History and Middle East History. I considered separating them out and doing them different years, for example, but I felt that the points where the "western world" and the "islamic world" intersected were too critical history-wise to put off one or the other, so we are moving along mostly independently until there's a crossover between the two. I think the same might be true if you were studying American history instead.. I mean, events in world history impacted eents in American history, so it all kind of overlaps at times, right? But this assumes the timing will work out.. it can be draining working in all that history (draining for me, history is my kids' favorite subject, lol). hth Kate
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