Buying Games for Kids

Our list of the best kid games of 2011 includes games for kids ranging in age from 4 to 12, spanning all video game platforms. For the first time, we have a preschool game on Kinect (Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster). Educational games that are equally as fun are popping up on the Nintendo DS (The Magic School Bus: Oceansand Team Umizoomi). Revered and iconic characters are returning in new games (Kirby Mass Attack,Super Mario 3D Land, Skylanders Spyro's Adventure andProfessor Layton and the Last Specter). Two Lego games provide hilarious re-enactments of classic movies (Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean). The list even has a kid-friendly MMO (massively multiplayer online game) that is full of zany platforming puzzles (Monkey Quest).

Here's this year's best: See Video games for kids

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Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster

By using Kinect, kids get to play games with the Sesame Street Muppets without having to use a controller. This magical gaming experience has kids jumping, wiggling and running in front of the TV to interact with a variety of friendly monsters. In the process, preschoolers will learn about friendship, working together, facing fears and how to solve problems.

Team Umizoomi

From 2K Play, best for ages 4-6, $29.99, for Nintendo DS. Rated EC.

Based on a Nick Jr. TV show of the same name, this cute math game lets kids join the two pint-sized heroes and their robot friend on an adventure to find missing parts to a rocket ship. Using early math concepts, kids will explore over 25 learning games, which adjust to the kid's ability as he or she plays. This is a great pick for your youngest gamer

How to stop snoring for good

S noring isn’t a brand spanking new issue and people have always been seeking ways to
silence loud partners for years and years and likely even centuries . For many years, the preferred systems for reducing or completely removing snoring involved preventing individuals from sleeping on their backs.

You can sew a tennis ball to the the back of your pajamas. This trick is somewhat archaic and can negative implications on the back.  Folk remedies also have a place in snoring history. Most cultures  have used different herbal remedies and drugs to reduce snoring. It wasn't until recently that modern empiricism and science has brought snoring cures to a whole new level. 

Read this on Snoring Remedy

One could argue that this age-old approach underlies many of today’s over-the-counter snoring solutions that rely upon herbal blends.

Unusual Ways to Die

• As found by Wikipedia.com...

• 401 BC: Mithridates, a soldier condemned for the murder of Cyrus the Younger, was executed by scaphism, surviving the insect torture for 17 days.^[3]

• 272 BC: According to Plutarch, Pyrrhus of Epirus, conqueror and the source of the term pyrrhic victory, died while fighting an urban battle in Argos when an old woman threw a roof tile at him, stunning him and allowing an Argive soldier to kill him.^[4]

• 270 BC: Philitas of Cos, Greek intellectual, is said by Athenaeus to have studied arguments and erroneous word usage so intensely that he wasted away and starved to death.^[5] Alan Cameronspeculates that Philitas died from a wasting disease which his contemporaries joked was caused by his pedantry.^[6]

• 207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after giving his donkey wine then seeing it attempt to eat figs.^[7]

• 162 BC: Eleazar Maccabeus was crushed to death at the Battle of Beth-zechariah by a war elephant that he believed to be carrying Seleucid King Antiochus V. Charging into battle, Eleazar rushed underneath the elephant and thrust a spear into its belly, whereupon it fell dead on top of him.^[8]

• 4 BC: Herod the Great reportedly suffered from fever, intense rashes, colon pains, foot drop, inflammation of the abdomen, a putrefaction of his genitals that produced worms, convulsions, and difficulty breathing before he finally expired.^[9] However, gruesome deaths have often been attributed by various authors who disliked rulers, including several Roman emperors (for example, Galerius).

• 64 – 67: Saint Peter was executed by the Romans. According to tradition, he asked not to be crucified in the normal way, but was instead executed on an inverted cross.^[10] According to Origen ofAlexandria, he said he was not worthy to be crucified in the same way as Jesus.^[11]

• c. 98: Saint Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum, was roasted to death in a brazen bull during the persecutions of Emperor Domitian. Saint Eustace, his wife and children supposedly suffered a similar fate under Hadrian.^[12]

• c. 1st or 2nd century: Rabbi Akiva, a Tanna, a founder of Rabbinic Judaism, and a supporter of Bar Kokhba, was put to death by the Romans by having his skin flayed with iron combs.^[13][14][15]

• 212: Lucius Fabius Cilo, a Roman senator of the 2nd century, "...choked...by a single hair in a draught of milk".^[16]

• 258: According to tradition, Saint Lawrence of Rome was roasted alive on a giant grill.^{[citation needed]}

• 336: Arius, presbyter of Alexandria, is said to have died of sudden diarrhea followed by copious hemorrhaging and anal expulsion of the intestines. He may have been poisoned.^[17]

• 415: Hypatia of Alexandria, Greek mathematician, philosopher, and last librarian of the Library of Alexandria, was murdered by a Christian mob that ripped her skin off with sharp sea-shells. Various types of shells have been named: clams, oysters, abalones, etc. Other sources claim tiles or pottery-shards were used.^[18]

See all the ways you can die at What Can you die from?

Prepping Your Soil

To determine the type of soil of your garden area, a soil test is recommended. The test will aid in determining the plants most suitable for your garden as well as indicate the lacking nutrients that desired plants require. The test will indicate the pH level in the soil (alkaline or acidic pH) as well as levels of nutrients and minerals. There are basically two ways to have the garden soil tested: 1) a home test kit, or 2) Send a soil sample to your local County Extension office or a private lab. The home test kits are simple to use, however, the lab test may be more reliable. The County Extension office or private lab can give you the necessary details on collecting a soil sample, but the technique is generally done in this manner:

• Dig several holes, 6-8 inches deep, within your garden area.
• From each hole, take a thin slice of soil from the inside wall and place in a clean bucket.
• Mix all the soil together well.
• For accurate results, a dry soil sample is important. If the soil is wet, allow it to dry.
• Place some of the collected soil into a clean

To help plants grow faster, become stronger and healthier, and become quickly established, it is important to improve the soil. The best way to improve the soil condition is to add organic material such as straw, grass clippings and leaves. It may be necessary to add a fertilizer with more nitrogen, as these non-composted materials will take nitrogen from the soil as they break down. Ideally, already composted material should be added to the soil for improvement. In the spring or fall, these organic materials should be tilled into the soil. For proper root development, approximately 16 inches of the soil should be loosened and all large clumps should be broken up.read more on Garden Plants Online. 

Acid Reflux and Kombucha

I started taking bottled Kombucha tea (not the teabag stuff) as an alternative to drinking Apple Cider Vinegar for acid reflux. The Kombucha brewing process is very similar (in fact, you can brew vinegar from it) and it has a similar concentration of acetic acids and probiotic organisms. I have found that, since I started drinking it regularly, my acid reflux has all but disappeared!

I find that I must drink at least 8 oz (1 cup) of Kombucha, twice a week, preferable on an mostly empty stomach. Depending on the severity of acid reflux, results may be noticeable immediately or within a few days.Read more on Kombucha and Acid Reflux

Power and Prosperity

Power and prosperity become the byproduct of living a good life. When we feel good, others feel good around us and vice versa.  Tha life of the good life becomes a reflection of Gods life, a life of love, abundance and peace that easily flows through all life and provides context and purpose that helps us deal with and actually transcend our suffering.

When we transcend this suffering we expand our reality to the greater good that is this life, this moment, this presence expressing itself through God.  God is a life force that moves through us as us.  It is peace. It is light, always light and this light is good, it brings us peace and purpose and allows us to reflect on what we already know.  Creativity flows freely through us as us. Passion and power flows freely.

So what am I doing in my life? I sell real real estate as my primary occupation and on the side I build websites and write on such topics like Lexapro and Weight Loss and other completely random things like Gerd treatments that help people

I hope you all enjoy my blog posts. There so much good and creativity coming through right now I can feel it. Can you?  Happy living everyone.

Less is More

I recently started a new website for yoga pants and gear.  Al jl of the links are affiliate links on Amazon.com but I think it's great because there aren't really any places that specialize in just yoga pants. So I don't know if it will gain any traction or not.  Time will tell right?  In the meantime, I'm just going to continue writing, meditating, working out and doing everything I can to feel good.  Thanks everyone who finds this page.  There will be a lot more I'm going to write about; primarily on spirituality and god as God is the essence of life and creator of all things.  So stay tuned.