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If you have a little time watch Tracks Across Africa on Outdoor Channel at 4:30 PM Central time on Sunday the 16th. Ivan Carter drops a wounded elephant at his feet at the very end. Ivan is the man.
He handles that double rifle extremely well.
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,,,Tracks across Africa is my favorite show only ahead of Dangerous Game! These are 2 shows that keep me going between Safari's & there is always something to learn! Craig Boddington puts out a great program, one that I hope doesn't end for many years!!!
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Would if I could but I do not get that channel. Oh well..........Skyline Adventures
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You can buy DVD's of the full seasons at Craig Boddington .com. I have bought quite a few of his books and dvd's, and have enjoyed them all.
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That would be better than suffering through a bunch of the crap that is on the outdoor channel and paying for it. At least you would be paying for what you want to watch.
I have watched a couple of Craigs videos and they were good. There is the obligatory product references that one must do with sponsors, but over all they are better than most. Have a few of his books as well.
Sadly though I find that the hunting videos in general are not much better than day to day tv.........many are terrible junk and tasteless, but there are a few good people turning out some quality videos that are worth watching and help convey hunting in the right light.Skyline Adventures
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Mike70560, Great episode! A close shave for sure. That's the most emotional I've seen Mr.Carter in any of the videos I have seen him. I guess that's what 13,000 pounds of angry pachyderm up close and personal will do to a man. Thanks big time to Craig Boddington for sharing his experiences on video in places that most of us would otherwise never be able to visit, let alone hunt.
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While I love the show and often TiVo it if I'm out at the time it airs, I don't like the emphasis they put the Big 5. Most hunters that go to Africa can't afford a $15,000 leopard, a $30,000 male lion, or a $50,000 elephant. I would like to see them mix in more plains game for us "average folks."
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I don't get many good african hunting shows here in the NorthEast. Looks like it's time to visit Boddington's website and order some!
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Ivan...how do we access the programs in zim? Anything aired on DSTV that I've missed....of course you'll come under all sorts of local crit!! But the jackals always howl when the Lions feed!
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pete and ole bally , not sure what the plans with outdoor chamnel are regarding and affiliation with dstv - i will suer ask and will let you know ....regarding local flack - dont worry i doubt it will increase in volume we are asctually talking aboit putting together a best of tracks dvd for sale in africa but its hard to quantify how many people would actually buy it and its not a cheap think to produce - in the next few months we will be doing a poll on places like this , facebook etc and based on the numbers of people who say that they would be interested in such , we may produce one ..
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I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
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On his last weekday in Prague Castle as the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel taped a brief farewell address to the nation and then took a telephone call from George Bush. Havel, who came to office thirteen years ago wearing borrowed trousers that flapped high around his ankles, now wore an exquisitely tailored navy-blue three-piece suit, a white shirt, and a tie that had undoubtedly done its duty at summit meetings and memorial services. A clutch of efficient aides scurried around his office door. A steward with a napkin folded over his arm delivered a glass of white wine. Sunlight streamed through tall windows, and chandeliers lent a glow to the flowers and the Oriental carpets.
The American President might have been surprised to learn that Havel's castle makes the White House seem inelegant, but Bush probably remembered the place well. Just a few months earlier, he had been to the Castle for a NATO summit—the first ever in a former Warsaw Pact capital. Bush, his Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and dozens of generals and other politicians were treated not merely to the usual working meetings but also to theatrical performances organized by Havel himself. The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing. They listened to booming renditions of the "Ode to Joy," a souped-up "Marseillaise," and John Lennon's "Power to the People."
"I didn't understand anything," Rumsfeld remarked as he headed toward dinner. "I'm from Chicago."
When I got a chance recently to ask Havel about his NATO productions, he smiled and said, "I didn't want it to look like just another meeting of politicians and generals, so I shaped those arrangements, to a great extent. The ballet was set in Central Europe and featured Mozart's music, and it also included elements of the American grotesque, to underline the Euro-Atlantic character of the gathering. It may have been on the verge of what Mr. Rumsfeld and certain others could tolerate."
Awkward and shy, Havel is a curiously natural director. Forty-odd years ago, he started out as a stagehand and a playwright. He was an acolyte of Beckett and Ionesco—the theatre of the absurd. The sense of the absurd extends to his own life. There is surely no modern biography that is more improbable yet dramatically coherent. Havel's is the rare life, Milan Kundera has written, that resembles a work of art and gives "the impression of a perfect compositional unity." Consider: A bourgeois boy becomes a bohemian playwright; he then becomes a dissident, who, for the crime of writing subversive essays and helping to organize a subversive movement called Charter 77, is encouraged by the regime to master the art of welding in a reeking Czech prison; finally, in late November, 1989, everything implodes and he is leading demonstrations in Wenceslas Square, and hundreds of thousands of people are shouting "Havel na hrad!" ("Havel to the Castle!"); within days, he is the head of state, working in the same hilltop redoubt that served as a seat of power for dynasts of the Bohemian kingdom and the Hapsburg monarchy, for the emissaries of Berlin and the satraps of the Kremlin.
During the uprising, which quickly became known as the Velvet Revolution, and for a while afterward, there were graffiti around town proclaiming, "Havel je král"—"Havel Is King." The King tried to demystify his Castle. He ordered the costume designer for the movie "Amadeus" to create red-white-and-blue uniforms for the palace guards. (Communist-era guards wore khaki.) He himself at first refused the suits that his friend Prince Karel Schwarzenberg brought him. "I can't wear any of these!" Havel said. "I'd look like a gigolo." In jeans and sweater, he rode a scooter through the Castle halls. He threw a "festival of democracy" in the courtyards, with jugglers and mimes performing while he wandered around drinking Pilsner and greeting everyone. Later on, when he discovered that the chandeliers in the gilded Spanish Hall were outmoded, a couple of typical visitors, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, paid for new fixtures. For weeks, he drove his staff crazy as he monkeyed around with the remote control, dimming the lights, then brightening them again.
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Candidly speaking, since I started working on indices I haven't seen nor come accros a problem that could produce different bases as your own. As you made 9^(n+2) *3^(n+2) out of 27^(n+2)
All that is correct.
Because it was easier to cancel.
Now I have learnt that! Thanks much Bobbym!
All of that is correct but I have to interpret every bit of it.
It is properly written 27^(n+3) this means
Notice they are both very different.
27^n+2=27^n * 27^2
You should learn to latex or to use parentheses better.
In fact I have not seen an indicial problem being split to get different numbers as the base. like what is in #269.
I am sorry, I can not follow that. Please bracket it off.
I suppose the base must always be the same in each case. So I percieved it to be,
You can say a = (n+2), same principle.
It's 27^n+2, and not 27^a.
27^a = 9^a * 3^a
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From the shutdown caucus, it's described as "the Republican party's quixotic stand on principle."
Some Washington pundits label it an attempt to nullify not only the Affordable Care Act but the entire Obama presidency.
It wasn't a conflict of ideologies at all, but a conflict of strategies, some tell us.
Still others point to the whole sorry mess as an example of how a minority can force its will on the majority — both sides use that one.
Then there's what we might call the South Will Rise Again theory. These theorists point to the role Southern representatives played in the fiasco. It's concrete evidence, we're told, of how the States' Rights Democrats of old have risen to power as Republicans.
Popular among the pundits who predicted the outcome will be that the whole thing was an exercise in futility and that the conclusion was inevitable from the start.
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What is not getting much attention, and should be, is that if history teaches us nothing else, it should remind us that what has taken place is nothing new. Conflicts between ideologies and interests have been part of the American political scene as long as there has been an American political scene. Government shutdowns alone have been the stage on which 17 previous disagreements have been acted out.
This is because the system was designed to work this way. Our famous "checks and balances" were created by James Madison on the conviction, expressed in Federalist 51, that in order to preserve our republican form of government "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
That is surely what played out in Washington over the past weeks.
The ambitions of the parties, of their factions and the politicians who sought to gain from the shutdown and debt-ceiling fight came in conflict, counteracted each other, and though one side gained much more than the other, the only clear winner when the dust settled were the American people.
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HIV/AIDS and gender based violence (GBV) are global emergencies with a devastating impact on women's health. Today, more than half of the 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS are women. The feminization of the epidemic is caused not only by women's physiological vulnerability, but also by gender inequality and social factors such as discrimination and low socio-economic status that limit women's access to information, education, health care and treatment.
Infection rates are growing faster in the context of marriage and among young women. In Trinidad and Tobago, for example, young women are six times more likely to be HIV positive then men of the same age. In Honduras, AIDS is the primary cause of mortality among young women. In Sub Saharan Africa 59% of adults living with HIV/AIDS are women, with young women facing the highest risk of transmission. Increasingly, the face of HIV/AIDS is a woman's face. The Political Declaration adopted by the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2006 expressed deep concern by "the overall expansion and feminization of the pandemic and … recognize[d] that gender inequalities and all forms of violence against women and girls increase their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS."
GBV is also a pervasive and shocking problem with grave consequences to women's health all over the world. Globally, "one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime; between 30% and 60% of ever-partnered women have experienced physical or sexual violence, or both, by an intimate partner; and between 7% and 48% of girls and young women aged 10-24 years report their first sexual encounter as coerced." The proportion of women who have suffered intimate partner violence has been recorded at 11% in Colombia, 10% in Nicaragua, 17% in Haiti, and 23% in Mexico and Peru.
HIV/AIDS and GBV are linked in multiple ways. Coerced sex increases women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS by heavily reducing or eliminating the possibility of using condoms and also by causing injuries to the vaginal wall. Fear of violence from an intimate partner prevents many women from choosing if and when to have sex, as well as reduces their ability to negotiate safe sexual behaviors, such as the use of condoms. Moreover, women who are HIV positive face considerable risk of violence and discrimination from their partners, their family and society as a whole. This fear of violence can prevent women from seeking voluntary counseling and testing for HIV, disclosing their serostatus, and receiving adequate treatment. One study of women in four African countries found that a quarter of all HIV positive women got infected through non-consensual sex, that is, rape. Although it has been clear for some time now that HIV/AIDS and GBV are intertwined, international efforts to fight HIV/AIDS have often failed to address power disparities between men and women. GBV, one of the main risk factors for contracting HIV/AIDS, has repeatedly been ignored, severely limiting the impact of global prevention efforts.
Health care providers are in an ideal position to identify women at risk of both GBV and HIV, as well as to provide or link them to much-needed services and support. Response to these issues not only improves overall quality of health care, but also promotes a change in societal attitudes. A number of IPPF/WHR's Member Associations have pioneered efforts to integrate GBV and HIV into their sexual and reproductive health services and provide models for ground-level actions. Profamilia, the Member Association in the Dominican Republic, offers comprehensive treatment and care for persons living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to training around HIV care, Profamilia staff participated in sensitization around GBV, with providers receiving training on counseling victims of GBV and use of local referral networks. Evaluation of Profamilia's HIV program revealed that counselors provide frequent emotional support in particular to the HIV-positive women, who express fear about notifying a husband or partner about their status. Staff strategizes with clients about how to disclose to partners, as well as steps to ensure their safety and well-being.
Another model is that of INPPARES, our Member Association in Peru, which has begun a project to better involve men in the efforts to reduce gender disparity. Headquartered at a male-only clinic, INPPARES staff will recruit men from the community and provide them access to comprehensive sexual health services, as well as educate them on issues of gender and sexual and reproductive health issues, including HIV. These men will then become educators of their peers; facilitating improved access to services and encouraging men to be more involved in their own sexual and reproductive health, as well as that of their family members.
The facts are well known to this audience. All of us are aware that HIV/AIDS and GBV constitute dramatic health and human rights crises, yet both can be prevented. What can we do to use this knowledge to promote the social changes that are needed?
I would like to suggest that we start right here. We start by fostering the political commitment to empower women inside this noble institution. I firmly believe that we need a new and strong entity inside the United Nations; one that is capable of promoting and furthering women's empowerment across the globe. Such an entity "would not replace the women-targeted programs being carried out by UN agencies. Instead it would encourage more of such programs, and would help all UN departments and agencies to bring a gender perspective to all of their work … It would have the capacity to develop policy; to provide technical advise and assistance on women's empowerment in every specialized field; to support and monitor the gender-related work of other UN agencies; and to work closely with government partners to plan and oversee programs at the national level." I am convinced that this entity will make international efforts more efficient by putting women back into the development equation.
- UN Millennium Project 2005a.
- Information available at: http://www.un.org/ga/aids/coverage/index.html
- Rothschild C, Reilly MA & Nordstrom S, 2006. Strengthening Resistance, Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS. Center for Women's Global Leadership. Fact Sheet on Gender
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I have started BFL several times and have had to change my start date, because I haven't followed through! I am a married woman with 3 very active children... Anyone out there that has ever had this hard of a time getting started!!! I just need accountability... My husband is tired of hearing me say I need to change... He always replies with stop talking and do it!! What helped to motivate you?? Please help--- all suggestions are welcome!!!
Good morning, A.
I wanted to respond to your "hard time getting started" question: I first heard about Body for Life before the birth of my third child. I knew it was the answer to all of my questions - started it with a friend - and quit six weeks into it. (Too many people told me I looked great, it was aggravating me - insert Dr. Phil commentary here.) Since then, I have "started" no less than ten times- never making it past three weeks - I have so many "Before" pictures it's not even funny. My third child is turning twelve in less than a month. I'm heavier now (much) than when I first started - and I just spent a week in the hospital because of my blood pressure and heart issues.
So yes, I've started and stopped a few times - started again Monday the 11th. I can't really afford to stop again - a week in the cardiac unit at 44, is pretty scary and motivating. WE can finish it - look at how many people do - including my friend who has done at least two challenges and looks great, and another friend, that is male and weighs way less than I do - and none of the people that do finish know any magic tricks we don't. They just do it - every day until it's done. They don't do all twelve weeks in one day. They do today, today. Eat well, today. Workout one time, for less than an hour today. Worry about tomorrow when you're ready to for it.
My husband has never once complained about my weight, BUT he has said: if you're going to gripe about it, do something about it, otherwise be quiet. And it was never you look like crap, it was, you'll feel better if you're healthier. After visiting me in the hospital for a week, he's in more of a hurry for me to do something about it, as am I, so we both are.
Things that motivate me: aforementioned hospital stay, two daughters at home that think they can't leave the house without heading to a drive-thru and are so obviously picking up on my habits, and a husband, who despite all our problems, will work out with me because he doesn't want me to die.
If I could have back any 12-week period from the last 12 years, I would take it - but I can't so I'll just take the next 12 awesome years and the ones after that, and the ones after that.
Good luck. I hope you finish - I know you can. (I've seen it.)
ok Ladies... I am in. I fit in perfectly with the both of you! My name is Kim and I have started and stopped so many times. 6 or 7 years ago my doctor told me about this diet and I always knew in my gut it was the right one for me but never followed through. Now I have just gained 10 pounds in the last 2 months from frustration and emotional eating :( I will be 50 in July and I want to loose 30 pounds b4 that day 7/26. I am more than ready and need a good support system.
Good morning!!
Thank you both so much for the reply! I would like for us to form a support group on here... Holding each one of us accountable... Would you both be interested?? Just to check n to see how we are doing, give recipe ideas, and motivation! I don't want to stop... My husband is the same way... When I complain, he replies with stop complaining and do something about it... He is not trying to hurt me... Just has faith in me that I can do it... Bit on the flip side he does not hold me accountable like I need! So what do you all say... I can start on Monday and just join you all... I know we will be on a different schedule, but we can still check in??
Good Morning Ladies!!!! I knew it was karma when I looked and saw the posts were from "Amy" my sisters name and "Kim" mine...well actually I am Kimmie but all the same it meant I was doing the right thing. I am 50 (but much younger in heart and soul) and work for a start-up in SF( until recently the oldest in the company) remotely from my home in Sun Valley Idaho. I started this challenge 10 years ago after I gained 30 lbs from a divorce. It was amazing!!! I felt so good but then blew out my knee, had surgery and started this job where I sit in my home, managing a remote crew on the computer. I am now 40 lbs over weight. I was in SF last week with the crew that I started with (we are all managers now) and was so ashamed and embarrassed about my weight I could barely go to the office. I didn't go to the last day party because I was so depressed about where I was physically and mentally.
FORGET THAT! So I got home on Sat and started planning my 12 weeks. I began Monday. I too had started a few more challenges over the years but I am never feeling that way again so I am committed.
SORE SORE SORE!!!! But I know it will NOT go away LOL.. however it will hurt differently soon. Years ago I was a trainer and actually finished the "Escape from Alcatraz" triathlon so I have the experience and spirit!
I have two daughters, 17 + 21, and they are behind me 100% because they know how I suffer staying home and being alone. I have to do this for them to get back the mommy they can be proud of and not worry about.
I would love to be a part of your support group!
""How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."........ Anne Frank"
I am in! I really personally don't want a huge group though. I don't have time to read 50 peoples posts a day and so on...I've done that b4 and it gets way too time consuming. If we can keep it small and help each other I am in. My hubby doesn't like to workout, hates it I think. Always has excuses not to so I don't have a support system here at all. He tries to be but... you get the picture! My 11 yr. old daughter has been very sick with migraines since September so she cannot work out with me other than slow walks. I can wait and start on Monday with you Amy. I'll change my date till then. Would you 2 be up for a mini conference call where we can see how we plan to workout, what foods we are planning, etc?
Hi Kimmie, so glad you are ready to start too. Seems like the 4 of us have the same weight goals basically and all are in pretty much the same boat. I also work from home and the only time I get out is school functions (very rare), doctor appointments, and the gym (which I have stayed away from for 5 weeks now) started with sickness and then eating myself fat and my low self esteem. I really need you guys to do this with me :) How is your knee now?
Greetings ABrown, Writing down you goals will help, a BFL Success Journal may also help. Planning, determination and resolve to change will definately guide you down the path to success. We are all sure YOU can DO this.. Put a before photo on your fridge or panty door, maybe start a calender with intermediate smaller more realistic goals and that will give incentive to Keep Moving FOrward!! Keep us posted on how you're doing and be sure to ask for guidance and support along the way from this forum.
This sounds amazing!! I am all in for the small group!! I too, used to be a personal trainer- almost embarrassed to say it... As I have completely fallen out since I had children! I stay at home with my children- so during the mornings are usually better for me to communicate. A conference call would be nice to get us started! I am ready to start whenever- just thought maybe starting on a Monday world be easier! Where are you all located? Can we also share our first week of meals to see that we are on the right track??
Hello Ladies!
I'd love to take this journey with you as well. Your stories are my stories. I am 43, used to be a marathon runner and triathlete before blowing my knee out, I now work from home, I gave up on myself after blowing out my knee and now I have 40lbs that need to be removed, I shy away from social events especially with people who knew me back when, I've started many, many times but haven't finished, and my husband doesn't complain about having "more of me to love" but I know he is sick of hearing me complain. Time for less talk and more action :-) This is no way to live my life.
I do have the BFL Success Journal, the Eating for Life Cookbook, and I just reread the original Bill Phillips Body for Life Book. I have my shopping list ready to go, my pantry purged, plan on shopping on Saturday and cooking meals for the week on Sunday. I know you are looking to keep this group small but do you have room for one more????
Absolutely... One more wouldn't hurt! I think the main thing of keeping the group small is that you lose that close contact- having too many opinions can throw off the initial goal! I believe that as long as we stick with each other we will succeed. What do you say ladies!!??
How did you all upload your before photos
Sorry I keep writing so much... I also need advice on how to make meals to feed my picky eaters that are acceptable
Ha!! Shut down those finicky eaters now!!!! Basic is easiest, let them help make it.. didn't really work for me but it might work for you. I'm lucky, my kids ate everything, but then again, I served what I served. I do a lot of wraps, grilled chix & broccoli w/ small potatoes.. easy stuff!
I think it's funny how we all work from home!
Kim, my family, myself included suffers from migraines but its her 14 year old that has been hurt the worst over the years. She couldn't go to school, do extracurricular activities or anything! It really took it's toll on my sister and especially her son who is 3 years younger. She has spent thousands going to doctors. I will pass on information that she has accrued over the years. She used to be a producer for 20/20 and really knows how to fish it out. I feel your pain and know how hers can translate to exhaustion and defeat for you. That is where we will come in. One day at a time. We're moms, we can actually do anything, we just forget that sometimes.
Looking forward to our 12 week adventure! I'm too scared to post my pics but I will if you will.. yee gads!!!!
Wow, this is very bizarre!!! What are the chances that all of us have such similiar stories, goals, ages??? And Lynn, of course there is room for you (did you notice the other Lynne) with the same age as you and almost the same screen name? I am a Christian and God knows how bad I have been struggling for years now so my belief is that he brought y'all into my life to help me out :)
I think an initial conference call to get to know eachother and get our ideas out there quickly and not tons of writing is a great idea if we can all swing it. Mornings are fine with me, I'll just plan it! Then we can help eachother on line here or I know when I was on Transformation.com years ago, they did a weekly conference call but there were tons of people in that group. I'm open to what ever as long as we all make this work once and for all and together is a great way to make this happen :)
Do we all want to start on Monday? I know the other Lynne already started and hasn't been on her but that is ok, she'll be a week ahead of us. The good thing about us all starting together is we can compare numbers (wt. loss) and see what is working and what is not type thing...
I haven't been this excited in a very long time ladies :) Oh, I am in NC
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I have a somewhat general question (with ulterior motives) for you and the lovely commenters. It's clear to me that certain combinations of initials are best avoided, but when we discuss this issue we most often talk about names that result in three initials. What about names that have four initials (or, presumably, more)? If three of the initials spell something that we would avoid if there were only three initials, can the fourth initial fix the problem? Does it depend on the choice of the fourth initial or do we always see the three letters that we're trying to avoid?
A mild example:
SAG seems best avoided. But what about JSAG or RSAG?
If you think the fourth initial solves the problem, would it also apply to a set of letters that spelled something more extreme?
I'm asking, of course, because my husband and I have been leaning toward a middle name that would give our child (due in a little over two weeks) the last three initials of FKR and I'm wondering if there's any way to salvage the choice or if it's a lost cause. The placement of letters is fixed, that is, it can't be KFR instead. Clearly the first name couldn't start with an M. But is there a letter that would work?
Thank you for your help!
I see it as a spectrum thing. At one end of the spectrum are the initials that don't spell anything particularly bad (ER, MD, DOC, INK), where we might prefer to avoid them but if we really love a name it's not worth giving it up just to avoid the initials. At the other end of the spectrum are the initials that are bad enough that we have to sacrifice names we love because it's just too awful. (Different people will have different ideas of what's intolerable, but some of my own would be the initials from names such as Abigail Sarah Smith, Gideon Andrew Young, Sarah Isabelle North, Kiley Katherine Kingston, Finn Alexander Greenfield, Felicity Anne Taylor.)
In between the two ends of the spectrum, it's a matter of trading and balancing: of thinking "Would _I_ mind having these initials?" and "Is it worth it, or is this just one of many situations where a name we love is out of the running for reasons that are unlucky and unfair but it's nothing A Feeling Of Injustice can change?"
Sometimes there's an easy fix, like using a C spelling instead of a K spelling, or using one of the two names for one child and the other name for a future child, or your example of switching the names. The 4-initial idea is another such possibility, and I'd say it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't: it depends on the severity of the Bad Initials, and also on which name is the fourth name. My children and I have four names, and I've found that the first of the two middle names is the default initial for one-initial situations unless I specify otherwise. So if the name were, for example, Abigail Sarah Harrison Smith, I would still hesitate to use it---though if I were determined to use Abigail Sarah no matter what, it's a big improvement.
In your specific example (FKR), I'm not sure. I would want to avoid those letters, but I'm not POSITIVE I would have noticed them as I'm positive I would with, say, FUK or FCK. I do think this is a situation where a fourth initial would improve things, but I'm not sure if it improves things ENOUGH. I was going to have us examine a few possibilities, but of course it's in our minds now so I'm seeing problems EVERYWHERE! Like, if you'd told me her initials were going to be AFKR, I don't think I would have been able to see what the problem was---but I'm not SURE, because now that I'm thinking of it I'm seeing it as "a fkr".
I DO THINK that if I wasn't in the mindset, I wouldn't be seeing a problem. EFKR. KFKR. RFKR. I think these work. I THINK.
But it is a matter of the trading and balancing mentioned earlier: it IS a little risky, and what if I'm wrong that adding that fourth initial makes the problem significantly less? So it comes down to how important it is to you to use the names. (And could the K name be spelled with a C? I think FCR is a little better than FKR.)
I think we need a poll here, but I suspect many of you will run into the problem I ran into: once the idea is planted, the letters stand out too much for a detached evaluation. I did a quick poll on Twitter, but unfortunately I used BFKR as the random example---and of course I was asking if there was a problem, which tips things. To me, the BF at the beginning had my mind going in the BFF direction. The overwhelming response on Twitter was, um, a different direction. Someone had a good point that a lot of us are getting used to textspeak, which leads us to be quicker to see words in partial-word letter combinations.
In any case, about 1 out of every 4 responses were that they didn't see any problem with the initials, and about 3 out of 4 were VEHEMENT amused/horrified responses that they DID INDEED see a problem, with further jokes suggested. But several people mentioned that if they hadn't been LOOKING, they wouldn't have seen anything, or that they knew people with similarly problematic initials who reported never having the predicted problem (TheGoriWife knows a FRT who was aware of the potential problem but said it had never come up).
I asked if anyone could think of a first initial that would remove the problem, and most of the responses were again negative: people said no, it was the FKR they noticed immediately, and anything else either changed nothing or made it much worse. But Dashoff suggested: "A 'J' or 'R' in front would draw me to noticing JFK or RFK instead of the FKR standing out at the end."
After that quick and informal poll, I find my opinion is going toward "It would have to be REALLY IMPORTANT to use those particular names." I think I feel the way Lynnette does: she said "I think that one would be a stretch to come to a real conclusion, though I will not use my favorite boy name because : FKD."
Let's put a poll over to the right. [Poll closed; see results below.] The question is: GIVEN THAT the parents would prefer not to spell something bad with the initials (that is, we are not voting on whether initials-spelling-things matters, because it DOES matter to the parents), do you think the initials FKR are salvageable with a 4th initial? And if so, please put in the comments section which ones you think would work.
Name update! Cara writes:
Thanks so much for the feedback! Reading your response and all the comments really helped me clarify my thoughts. I realized that I probably wouldn't be able to forget that when I see the initials _FKR, I see a word, even if other people don't. We decided that when the baby was born we'd decide on the first name and then deal with the middle name (expecting that we would probably have to scrap the F name and pick something else). But ultimately the whole thing was a nonissue---I was absolutely convinced that we were having a girl (I thought the same with my first and was right), but we had a boy! The F middle name we were in love with (Freya) was off the table. But you can be sure that I wrote out my son's four initials before we did the paperwork just to make sure I wasn't missing anything! Thanks again!


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