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Truly Auspicious Wedding Dates Are Not “Does One Date Fit All”

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Auspicious dates, determined by the aspects of planets that rule love, idealism, men, women, abundance etc are few and far between. It gets even harder to determine a lucky day when you bring in the factor of the two people that are planning a marriage charts.

A lucky wedding date needs to be analyzed from the couple’s natal chart AND the proposed date of marriage.

“I know of only one way in which to select a propitious time for courtship and marriage. That is by consulting the progressed aspects made in the chart of birth. While there must be a progressed aspect to the ruler of the seventh house (marriage) or marriage will not take place, the dominant harmony or discords of the progressed aspects at the time largely determine how successful the particular marriage will be.

In the analysis of 100 charts of people divorced, as set forth in the book WHEN AND WHAT EVENTS WILL HAPPEN, it was found that at the time of their marriage 79% had discordant progressed aspects predominant, 52% had only discordant progressed aspects to the ruler of the seventh, 44% had only discordant progressed aspects to the ruler of the opposite sex, and 28% had only discordant progressed aspects to Venus, the planet of affection. All of these and 115 other charts analyzed in the same book at the time of marriage, had a progressed aspect to the ruler of the seventh house.

The analysis of the progressed aspects in the birth carts of these 215 people at the time of marriage emphasized the unwisdom of marrying at a time when the progressed aspects are dominantly discordant.

While of the 100 marriages resulting in divorce 79 had discordant progressed aspects dominant, only 3 of them had harmonious progressed aspects dominant, and the remaining 18 had harmonious and discordant progressed aspects at the time rather evenly balanced. Thus unless the progressed aspects at the time of marriage are dominantly harmonious the marriage starts under a tremendous handicap.

Next in importance to the dominant progressed influence at the time of marriage is the harmony or discord ot the progressed aspects to the ruler of the seventh. In 52 of the marriages resulting in divorce the only progressed aspects to the ruler of the seventh were discordant, in 17 they were harmonious only, and in the balance they were about evenly balanced. Thus marriage at a time when there are no harmonious aspects to the ruler of the seventh is rather hazardous.

The significant factor however is this: “Quite a percentage of these people who divorced, later remarried when their progressed aspects were harmonious, and made a success of the later marriage.”
CC Zain, “Occultism Applied” Brotherhood of Light.

If your looking for a date that will significantly increase marital success you are lucky. 2007 and 2008 and 2009 all have two very special aspects forming once only each year. The Moon/Venus and Neptune will be forming Grand Trines. The moon rules the mentality, Venus rules love and the desire to feel something, and Neptune rules Utopian ideals. A Powerful combination for marriage. T

The magic dates are 1/5/07 - 13/6/08 and 28/7/09

You will need to consult an astrologer to draw a chart for the place where you plan to wed, and have him or her give you a time on that day when Venus is in the house of marriage. It will depend on where you live and what time zone you live in.

Good luck in your endeavors.

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Kathy is an IT Professional with database expertise, who is trained in Hermetic Astrology and is committed to promoting this progressive philosophy for the benefit of others. You can find Kathy’s site at http://www.astrotimes.net.au

American Idol 2007: Predictions For Season Six

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Okay, so the top 24 are in and we are now all wondering who just might be our next American Idol for 2007. Last year, when Taylor Hicks took the 2006 Idol crown, he had the planet of great luck, Jupiter, transiting his Venus which increased his popularity among the masses.

If the stars do have anything to say about who wins American Idol (and I think they do) I can’t wait to take a peek at the birth stars for this years contestants and make my prediction for the winner. However, I don’t start that stargazing process until the top 12 are in—and as their dates of birth become available. So for now I’ll just have to use another divining technique—one that can be had from the playful use of Anagrams; and will see what they predict to say about those in the running so far.

But first, let us begin with the anagrams that I found from the word phrase AMERICAN IDOL. What I found is unerringly connected to the shows whole premise; To make dreams come true for those who want to reach for Stardom. The following are the anagrams that I found to be amusing, enlightening, and appropriate to my own mental musing about the show American Idol and its contestants.

The first anagram I want to address is IDOL IN CAMERA. Aren’t the judges always commenting to the contenders about how they appear on camera, or their appeal to America? Yes, they are. Now about this anagram, CLAIMED ON AIR this surely reflects American Idols’ high TV ratings and their marketing strategies that get us to watch the show week after week with Cowel’s unrestrained crass, and Paul’s emotional teeterings.

And how about COIL IN A DREAM! Isn’t that exactly what each and every one of the contenders are doing? Which sort of gives compliment to the next anagram I found, I’M IDEAL, OR CAN . Isn’t that what America’s votes do to one of them each week as the show progresses through to its 14 weeks of eliminations. Yes, it certainly is.

Now the disturbing anagrams, A DEMONIC LIAR and MALICE IN ROAD that I found surely suggests that there could be some backstabbing and untrusting behavior going on behind the scenes of American Idol. Makes me sort of wonder if all of America’s votes are being properly managed. I know that I would like to see a bit more accountability in how the votes are handled; And it certainly explains how the band, comprised of professional musicians, sounds fantastic for one contestant performance, then all of sudden the sounds they bring up the rear seem a bit off kilter–making for what the judges tell a contestant is a lousy performance. I don’t know about you but I noticed the band as much as I noticed the contestants–and sometimes they just ain’t bringing it.

We have already seen how the show has launched careers for those who lost the competition, as can be read in the anagram, RADIAL INCOME. Justin, Clay, Jennifer Hudson, McPhee and others are making videos, recordings, movies and are appearing on more and more television shows. So it seems that even losers can benefit financially from being a contestant on Idol.

The anagram MELODIC ARIAN seems to be suggestive of an Aries person winning the competition. Carrie Underwood, born 3-10-1983 is a Pisces by Sun Sign, but of all the winning Idol’s Carrier is the only one who has a strength of Aries in her natal birth chart; as Mars and Venus are deposited in the sign of Aries and very powerfully near a conjunct aspect. Fantansia a Cancer, Rueben a Virgo, and Kelly a Taurian; while Hicks was a Libra by Sun Sign, but it is possible that he could have a strong Arian Moon if he was born on the 7th of October and not the 6th in 1976 —there are too many sources that are citing Taylor’s birthday differently–so the anagram could be referring to him too. But for now, I’ll have to give that MELODIC ARIAN anagram belonging to American Idol to Carrie.

Now lets get started on the name anagrams for the American Idol contestants for 2007 and see who they think will make it to the top 12.

The GALS

  • ALAINA ALEXANDER = LAX LEAD IN AN AREA = Out
  • ANTONELLA BARBA = A TALL BANANNA BORE = Out
  • GINA GLOCKSEN = EGOS CLANKING = In
  • HALEY SCARNATO = AHA! ONLY REACTS = Out
  • JORDIN SPARKS = DROPS INK JARS = Out
  • LAKISHA JONES = AHA! JINKS LOSE = Out
  • LESLIE HUNT = I’LL ENTHUSE= In
  • MELINDA DOOLITTLE= ALL-TIME NOTED IDOL = In
  • SABRINA SLOAN = A SNARL IN A SOB= Out
  • STEPHANIE EDWARDS = DESPERATE AND WISH= In
  • AMY KREBS = S! MY BREAK = In
  • NICOLE TRANQUILLO = QUELL CROON, NAIL IT= In 6

The GUYS

  • ANTONIO TABALDO = TAN AN IDOL TABOO= In Now Out Later
  • BLAKE LEWIS = A WEEKS BILL = In
  • BRANDON ROGERS = R RARE SONG BOND= In
  • CHRIS RICHARDSON = DARN! IRISH SCORCH= Out
  • CHRIS SLIGH = CH! HIS GIRLS = In
  • JARED COTTER = O! DRAT! REJECT= Out
  • JASON HEAD = OH! SAD JEAN= Out
  • NICHOLAS PEDRO = DISHONOR PLACE= Out
  • PAUL KIM = A LIMP KU= Out
  • PHIL STACEY = THY SPECIAL = In
  • RUDY CARDENAS = RANDY CRUSADE= In
  • SANJAYA MALAKAR = YA! ALAS! A JAM RANK = In - Is Brought Back

Now understand that I wish all the Idols well —and I try to use anagrams that wouldn’t be offensive if any of the idol contestants themselves (or their families) eyes graced this page. However, I can’t help but to note the energies present in their names and discern which of them have a more positive influence in being a top running contestant that goes the distance in this competition.

Our names are very powerful entities in and of themselves. Some names tell a story quickly and point blank. Others, have a bit more mystery surrounding them. All I do is note the energies. I get the feeling from one of the male names above and also from the chart I did on the first show when the voting process starts, that one of the top 12 will be disqualified, and one asked to come back and that is due to Mercury’s Retrograde motion during the top 24 eliminations, and a very telling anagram from one of the male contestants names. I don’t want to disclose it now.

I’m sure I will be surprised when I few of my predictions are wrong, but it is just so much fun playing along with the excitement of another Idol season. I am ready to be entertained and look forward to seeing what happens.

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Psychic Readings – Do We Really Require Them?

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Psychic readings have numerous shortcomings. They instill superstition, are led by a group of phonies and are far from perfect. Despite such failures, do we still require them? Considering the kind of money psychic readings businesses make, it can be stated that we require them. After all, if it had not been for the confidence in such services, why would anybody pay such huge amounts in seeking advice from the psychic readers? However, the next time when you are tempted by a psychic reader’s commercial or the paid television shows, do consider the below-mentioned facts of the psychic readings business.

The Limitations Of Psychic Readings

The psychic readings, an art or a science, whatever they may be referred to as, have various shortcomings. To begin with, because there are no evidences to prove the authenticity of the findings, there are various phonies operating in the field. The aim is to earn money by showing gloomy or vivid pictures, which are in no proximity to the reality. The amateurs go a step further and claim to provide the solutions to the various problems, that they are sure wait ahead in future. The solutions obviously imply more money. And, not to mention, the unseen problems that never existed, tend to resolve overtime, all thanks to the expensive psychic readings.

Psychic readings instill superstition and de-moralize. Knowing things or as they say unleashing the mysteries of past, present and future by psychic readings, cannot really help change things. Whatever is bound to happen stands true, irrespective of the fact that you are aware or unaware of it. Knowing the negative possibilities however, further discourages the right effort in any direction, thus keeping away from the desired success.

The so-called real concept, psychic readings, does not have even one single mode of proving the authenticity. The self-proclaimed psychics are not willing to make even one single specific statement, based upon their hard-core experience and the acquired skill. All the findings are circumstantial and lack the required component of certainty. There is nobody coming up in the field to give a test in controlled settings.

The loyalists to the concept of psychic readings would however, find an argument to negate the above mentioned. To them not being able to prove does not means the end of the story. Their world begins beyond logic and scientific facts. However, the mentioned and many more clarifications, not catered to by the psychic readings gurus, certainly are an indicator of the inherent fakeness of the concept.

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Jim Carrey: His Movies Have a Glory All Their Own in the Stars

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Jim Carrey was born on the 17th of January in 1962 in Ontario, Canada it makes him a Capricorn by Sun Sign. Which astrologically means that no matter how much joking he does or what you see on the screen or in an interview his underlying motivations come with very serious intentions—to succeed at and be the best at everything he undertakes.

Also at Carrey’s birth, Jupiter, the planet that helps us insist that we go overboard, was holding nearly the same position as Mercury, the planet of jibber jabbering. Together these two planets gives Carrey his talent for making elaborate fun with a dialog of words. Now because these two planets are in the mental air sign of Aquarius, those dialog of words are brilliantly delivered. But this same aspect also inherits him with his box office popularity because Mercury is the planet that rules one’s name–and Jupiter, well anything it touches, it expands two fold, and three fold, and four fold, and so on.

However, if Jim Carrey wasn’t endowed astrologically at birth with the Moon in Gemini, the sign of the twins, he wouldn’t have the mutable personality necessary to take on such straining character roles such as The Mask and Dr. Suess’ Grinch; and then surprising us with his more serious acting roles in The Majestic–for which he was fantastic, and now the The Number 23, which I can wait to see.

Now speaking of THE GRINCH it is no wonder that Jim Carrey, who has done exceptionally well at the box office, was chosen to star as the Dr. Suess’ character that stole Christmas cause even the character’s name itself holds something mysteriously correct about Jim Carrey. THE GRINCH anagrams into RICH GHENT.

If I go a bit further and take a cockeyed peek at the letters inside of JIM CARREY’s name. You can see that there are the letters that can be lexed into making the words that say, A MERRY ICY CRIME RIME. Now wait a minute. ..

Dr. Theodore Suess Giesel was born on March 2nd, otherwise written as 3/02, in 1904. The planet Saturn measured 1 degree and 38 minutes of Aquarius when Carrey was born, which when rounded off becomes 02 degrees of Aquarius–which when measure in total degrees of celetestial longtitude become 302 degrees. Wow! the same numeric digits appearing in Dr. Suess’ birthday are exactly appearing in Carrey’s Saturn placement at birth. And if you know your science, you know it takes Saturn over 32 years to make one orbit of the Sun, so there is no way this could be a coincidence. Because if Carrey or Dr. Suess were born etiher one day before or one day after the dates as they were…these numbers would all be different. So you see, there was no one but Jim Carrey divinely destined by both the stars and his name to one day be Dr. Suess’ Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

But now I’m taking a look at his next role in the film The Number 23 and well I’m just floored. You see, when Jim was born in 1962 on the 17th of January the planet Neptune, which rules the film industry–because of it affinity with illusion, was 13 degree of Scorpio, which when measured in its full degrees of celestial longitude along the ecliptic is 223 degrees. Isn’t this movie about his obession with the number 23 always repeating, or adding, or doubling up 2 itself.

What is even more funny is that right now the planet of strange happenings, Uranus, is forming a 120 angle to Carrey’s natal Neptune (film). So making this movie of strange happenings re-occuring with the number 23 seems to be both auspiciously and celestially timed.

Wellallrightythen–Now that you know Jim Carrey is a reflection of his name and his stars at birth, what are you waiting for, ass me a question.

Renee Francis is a professional Astrologer located in Southern Colorado. Miss Francis offers a wide range of astrological services from natal chart erection to astrological report services. She also schedules private phone consult and designs specialized workshops around a groups own interests.

Miss Francis’ real unrelenting passion for the stars however lies in her own independent study into the matter of missing children and the use of using the stars and planets as a tool in location and profiling possible suspects.

When Miss Francis’ isn’t charting the stars for others, or playing around with the words that can be born of people names, she waits to hear from you.

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Acquiring the Art of Psychic Readings

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Psychic readings are a term to describe the abilities, to tune into higher energies and deploy the acquired extraordinary powers to see beyond the normal vision. Psychic readings impart an objective view by which, an unbiased observer is able to connect mind and spirit to notice the irregular. By psychic readings, a connection is established, that helps solve the mysteries of past, present and future. It is believed that every individual can be a psychic reader. It is just a matter of patience and the dedicated effort towards this end. Sounds impossible, is it? If yes, then read on, because psychic readings is an interesting idea and you never know, you might just posses the right skill set to master it.

A Line of Caution

The right beginning to master the talent of psychic readings is marked by setting the right mind set towards the endeavor. A dedicated approach can help achieve any task and this, that is the focused move, is quite vital in case of psychic readings. Before setting on the path of exploring the secrets of psychic readings, be prepared to give in, tremendous effort and loads of patience. It is not a skill that will come easy. Loads of practice is certain to accompany, the task of psychic readings and still there are no certainties towards success.

How to Proceed?

Meditation is the next vital step of psychic readings. Concentration is crucial for precise analysis, as required in the art of psychic readings, and this comes easy by way of practiced meditation. The whole idea is to shift focus from inner self to the other person’s mind and thoughts. Once the right information has been gathered by feeling, hearing and knowing the person to be interpreted; the reader moves on to the next part of psychic readings i.e. interpretation. Every action, explanation or the information provided by the source proves out to be vital in this regards and even slightest parts should not be ignored.

Psychic readings are an interesting concept and have received their due share of attention in past. There are various people who have mastered the art of psychic readings in one variant or another i.e. from reading the lines to tarot card interpretations. As mentioned earlier, anyone based on hard-core dedication and learning can enter into the dynamic zone of psychic readings. To facilitate this objective and further help with a specific approach, there are various seminars and learning centers opened across. If you too are interested, just hop in because there always is a vacancy in this field.

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SearchInform 3.0

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

A solution to the problem of fuzziness of information content (using only one relevant document instead of a dozen of its duplicates or similar documents from other sources).

An information system may contain documents containing varying information from different sources. For instance: a database contains two or three similar documents that are practically identical in content, but with different headings and modifications in the text itself. A situation when one employee comments on one document and another comments on another document and so on and so forth. First of all, it’s double work (why comment twice or thrice on the same document?), second of all, when next used (if, say, the comments differ) part of the information may be uncalled for.

SearchInform full text search engine based on SoftInform Search Technology successfully solves the problem of information retrieval thanks to its ability to conduct similar search and search identical text at the information indexing stage.

Main features of SearchInform 3.0:

- Phrase search with due consideration to stemming and thesaurus
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- High indexing speed (from 15 to 30 Gb/hour),
- Index size of 15-25% from the actual size of the text data
- Query caching system
- Support of over 60 most popular text formats, Outlook & TheBat electronic messages, mp3 & avi tags, and logs of MSN and ICQ instant messaging programs
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Italian Bersaglieri: From Charity Concert to History Lesson

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Not long ago, I attended a charity concert in the theatre in Cittá di Castello, Italy, a small charming city situated in the Valley of the Tiber; the river that the Italians quaintly call il Tevere; which starts in the hills a few kilometers north of Castello, and flows to Rome and the sea. The city was first built by the Umbri, the tribe from which the province takes its name, it was used by the Etruscans, some four hundred years before Rome invented itself, it was taken and reinforced by the Romans, then eventually destroyed by the invaders from the north, the Goths, the Visigoths and the Longobards, the long beards, whose name is retained in the Province of Lombardy. Castello retains its medieval street layout and most of the city walls, and in the cellars of many private houses there are the remains of Roman tesselated floors. The city has fine shops, excellent restaurants, and good hotels and is a convenient center for explorations of the local countryside. Some ten other medieval cities are within a half hour drive and Ryanair flights to Perugia (about 35 minutes away) are convenient, quick and cheap.

The theatre I visited is modelled in the standard “drum” style of almost all Italian theatres, just like La Scalla in Milan, but is on a smaller and more human scale. The principle attraction at the concert, which we attended, was the brass section, the “Fanfare”, of Italy’s most famous Regiment, the Bersaglieri, those chaps who go everywhere at double speed and wear huge plumes of cock’s feathers in their hats. Perhaps you may even have seen them at the Royal Tournament in London, when there was one, or maybe at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. All the guests were greeted with a smile and a “bienvenuto”, a welcome, the ladies all received a long stemmed red rose, and the gentlemen a packet of postcards showing the evolution of the Bersaglieri uniforms.

The performance started with the National Hymn, il Inno Nationale, followed by two hours of music and marches, augmented by dances by the maidens of the local ballet school. The highlight of the concert was the finale, the band playing at full blast, the old comrades on the stage, and all the girls from the local dance school, the supporting act, patriotically waving large green white and red Italian flags while a similarly colored cascade of balloons fell from the rafters onto the applauding audience below. There really wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Wonderful stuff.

The next day, started with several fanfares in the streets of Castello, the band doubling from place to place, blowing their hearts out for five minutes, and then charging off to another small open area, and finally an open air concert celebrated in Cittá di Castello’s main piazza, where the local antiques market had been in full swing. People were wandering about taking a coffee, an aperitif, and possibly a patriotic pizza, a Margarita, designed for, and named after, the then Queen of Italy, in the national colors, white being the pasta, red represented by tomato sauce and, in those days, the green was represented by fresh oregano leaves.

Some of the bandsmen, friends, and representatives of the local Old Comrades Association paid homage to the memory of General La Marmora, who founded the Regiment, the Bersaglieri, in the afternoon at a private gathering. I spent most of the afternoon listening to their stories of wars, battles and friendships. I learned that La Marmora, went to the Crimean War as an observer, and was very impressed by the speed, discipline and firing accuracy of the British Rifle Brigade. La Marmora returned to Italy and badgered the new Italian Government into letting him recruit a regiment of athletic young men, all of whom were sharpshooters; which is what the regimental name means; a bersaglio is a target; the government agreed, General La Marmora formed the Bersaglieri, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The bewhiskered General’s statue adorns the beautiful gardens of a recently restored 12th century monastery at Calzolaro, Italy, called La Preghiera, the Prayer. The property is owned by an English couple, who can occasionally be persuaded to take in paying guests, and is situated some fifteen km south of Cittá di Castello, and 10 km north of Umbertide, in the heart of Umbria’s wonderful countryside. The players, friends and guests honored the General and then went inside the main house where on the ground floor there were refreshments offered in the Collection room of La Preghiera, where are displayed some 30,000 lead soldiers and includes several small metal representations of the Bersaglieri, and also prints and many early postcards of this famous Regiment.

My day ended with a visit to the oratorio of the monastery, the former monk’s private chapel, in which is a Boer War Memorial rescued from the bomb damaged church of St Mary, Whitechapel, in east London just near the bell foundry, and brought to Italy by the current incumbents, but perhaps that’s a story for another day.

Sara Lucci lives in Umbria with her husband and two teenage sons. She writes about the rural culture and her living experiences in the Upper Tiber Valley of Umbria, Italy. Special thanks to John Tunstill, La Preghiera Country House Estates and The Bersaglieri. For more information on La Preghiera visit their website at: http://www.lapreghiera.com or for antique postcards featuring the Bersaglieri visit: http://www.cartolinetunstill.com Anyone interested in Soldiers and Battles could visit: http://www.soldierssoldiers.com Questions relating specifically to this article can be forwarded to: saralucci@yahoo.com

188 Stage Hero’s Journey (Monomyth): Warning of the First Threshold

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

The Hero’s Journey (Monomyth) is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the hundreds of Hollywood movies we have deconstructed (see URL below) are based on this 188+ stage template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters. This is the template you must master if you are to succeed in the craft.

[The terminology is most often metaphoric and applies to all successful stories and screenplays, from The Godfather (1972) to Brokeback Mountain (2006) to Annie Hall (1977) to Lord of the Rings (2003) to Drugstore Cowboy (1989) to Thelma and Louise (1991) to Apocaplyse Now (1979)].

THERE IS ONLY ONE STORY

THE HERO’S JOURNEY:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Gives you a tangible process for building and releasing dissonance (establishing and achieving catharses, of which there are usually four).

d) Gives you a universal structural template upon which you can superimpose your situational story. This is why stories such as Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000), Midnight Cowboy (1969), American Beauty (1999), The Graduate (1967) and many others (all deconstructed at the URL below) appear to be different but are all constructed, almost sequence by sequence, in the same way.

and more…

ABRIDGED TIP(S):

*****Analysis of the Ordinary Self*****

This is another word for context. In Bonnie and Clyde (1967), photos of 20’s and text explain when Bonnie and Clyde were born and that they were vicious criminals.

*****Warning of the First Threshold*****

Warnings of the First Threshold are expressed in a number of ways. Often it is the Hero that is warned, but this is not necessarily set in stone. In Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Bonnie (the Hero) helps the nervous Clyde (Mentor and Romantic Challenge): “..don’t you worry about nothing, your mama can take this bank.”

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The Definitive Baby Boy Name List: Choosing The Right Name For Your Baby

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Oh yes, choosing the baby name. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. I’ve spent countless hours going over list upon list upon list. For a while, it seemed like no name was good enough!

Well you, my fortunate reader, are about to benefit from my experience. In choosing a baby name I suggest that you:

1) First brainstorm possible names that you like, heck even ones you don’t. Don’t be afraid to ask those around you too.

2) Get one of those books that would have a baby boy list in it. Go through it at your leisure (this is not the kind of thing you want to be forcing yourself to do, enjoy it!) and write down names you like.

3) Take a look at your list, and cross off the ones you don’t like, until you are down to five or so names.

4) Try addressing “pretending” to talk to your baby using the names you have picked out. Try each one out for a day, see what feels right. It may feel silly doing this, but it really does help.

5) You have to go with your gut. Try not to harp on “this is the name he/she will have forever, etc.” Because I’ll let you in on a little secret, you can’t mess this up!

No matter what name you choose, your baby is going to be the most special individual in the whole wide world! Trust me, I know!

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Weight Loss for Children

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Overweight and obesity in children are creating headlines and the stories make frightening reading. Weight loss in children is a sensitive subject, but one of great importance, as the majority of overweight children will grow into overweight or obese adults, with greater risk of life-limiting and threatening diseases and an overall reduction in life expectancy.

First of all it is important to stress that weight loss in children should be handled with extreme care – kids are still growing and it is vital that they receive the correct balance of nutrients they need to ensure that they grow up healthy. Therefore, any weight loss diet should be discussed with a physician or dietician. There is no point in avoiding one set of illnesses if, at the same time, we set up conditions which will encourage a different set of illnesses, in this case those based on nutritional deficiency.

While parents can’t control everything their children eat, especially as the children become older and start developing individual social lives, they can do a great deal to help their children develop healthy eating habits, by teaching them about nutrition and providing interesting, tasty and healthy meals at home. These should include some treats, so that children don’t feel they are being deprived of foods their friends eat every day.

Combining a sensible, healthy diet with regular exercise is the best way forward and the sooner this can be introduced into a child’s life, the better. If parents eat properly and exercise every day or at least three times a week, kids will consider this to be normal behaviour and so shouldn’t find it difficult to do the same.

Your doctor or dietician can tell you how many calories a growing child needs and can also recommend the amount of exercise he needs to lose weight. Parents should find forms of exercise that the whole family can do together, making it fun rather than a chore.

Being over-strict with either diet or exercise routines can have a detrimental effect and so parents should be careful. So, introduce new ideas gradually and get the kids involved in the planning and decision making. Older children can search online, in the library and in bookshops for information about the nutrients they need and the foods which contain them. By making this into an enjoyable family project, creating a scrapbook or even a website with the results, this can become an enjoyable experience. Kids can also learn how to cook simple but healthy meals and create their own recipes. Even the little ones can join in, as long as they are supervised in the kitchen. A project like this can also enable children to learn other skills such as digital photography and web design, thus taking the emphasis away from weight loss.

© Waller Jamison 2007

Waller Jamison is a qualified acupuncturist and reflexologist whose main focus is writing.
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