Oprah Book Club Selection: A New Earth
January 30, 2008
TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey has chosen A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle as her latest book club selection.
In a first time worldwide interactive event, Oprah will join Tolle live to lead an online classroom to explore and discuss A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Beginning March 3rd, and each Monday evening through May 5th, you can log in to attend.
"Being able to share this material with you is a gift and a part of the fulfillment of my life’s purpose. It was an awakening for me that I want for you," Oprah Winfrey stated when she announced the book selection of A New Earth.
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Mayan Calendar: Doomsday December 21 2012 End Days
January 21, 2008
According to the History Channel Decoding the Past Doomsday 2012: The End of Days,
“The Maya were legendary astronomers and timekeepers — their calendar is more accurate than our own. By tracking the stars and planets they assigned great meaning to astronomical phenomena and made extraordinary predictions based on them — many of which have come true.”
Coupons: Where to find money saving coupons and coupon codes online
January 20, 2008
Looking for ways to save money? Might consider using coupons and coupon codes for additional discounts as a way to save money. In our connected world, finding coupons and coupon codes online are an easy way to save money.
Aside from the traditional coupons found in the advertising inserts of the weekend newspaper, finding printable coupons and coupon codes online saves time as well as money.
For everything from groceries to hotel reservations and air travel, some of the places to find coupons and coupon codes online are:
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The Good Witch: Potter charmed by Bell, Book and Candle shop owner
January 19, 2008
The Good Witch, a Hallmark movie starring Chris Potter and Catherine Bell, is a movie about a small town and a mysterious newcomer who takes up residence in a house believed to be haunted. Potter, who plays Police Chief Jake Russell becomes enchanted with Bell, who plays Cassandra Cassie Nightingale. Nightingale opens the Bell, Book and Candle shop.
Is Nightingale a witch as some of the townspeople believe? The Good Witch premieres on the Hallmark Channel January 19th, and will show again on January 25th and January 31st.
Oreo Cookies: Share your Oreo story
January 14, 2008
Over the last one hundred years, two of the most memorable cookies of childhood were introduced by the same company. In 1902, the National Biscuit Company created Barnum’s animal circus cookies and ten years later in 1912, the Oreo cookie. Today, both the animal cookies and the cookie made with two chocolate cookies and creme filling are still favorite cookies. Oreo cookies has the distinction of being the best selling cookie of the 20th century.
There are many ways to eat and Oreo, and almost everyone has developed a personal style for eating Oreos. Nabisco believes every person has an Oreo story, and invite Oreo cookie lovers to visit the company website to submit a video answering the following questions:
Room-A-Day Giveaway: Win $25,000 room makeover
January 13, 2008
Enter to win one of 16 $25,000 dollar room makeovers from Kimberly-Clark and The View Room-A-Day Giveaway sweepstakes.
You can enter online at the Room-A-Day Giveaway sweepstakes website, or by sending a 3-by-5 inch card hand printed with name, address, date of birth and phone number to an address provided at the Room-A-Day Giveaway sweepstakes website. The contest allows one entry per day. Winners will be chosen at random each day.
According to The View and Kimberly-Clark, winners will be announced on The View, as well as the Kimberly-Clark Room-A-Day Giveaway sweepstakes website. Sweepstakes begins January 12th and ends March 7, 2008. No purchase is necessary. To learn more about the Room-A-Day Giveaway and register to win, visit the Room-A-Day Giveaway sweepstakes website. Good luck!
Led Zeppelin has new herb habit
January 13, 2008
Party all night, work all day. Until you reach your 40s, this lifestyle can be pulled off with relative ease. Somewhere past 40, the recovery time from a night of drinking or drugging elevates the high to an activity not worth the cause and effect.
If you are past 40, I know I am preaching to the choir here, but I found it amusing when a reporter found it noteworthy in Whole lotta herb tea of Led Zeppelin’s stairlift to heaven that on the band’s reunion tour Led Zeppelin passed on the alcohol for herbal teas.
According to the article, Led Zeppelin has traded the coke lady for the cup of tea lady. Led Zeppelin requested the band’s backstage dressing room be stocked with caffeine-free herbal tea and sparkling water. Respectfully, Robert Plant is 59, John Paul Jones is 61, and Jimmy Page is 63. At some point, most of us grow up into sensible recreations. Living your life like its a mental train wreck or waking up in the morning feeling chewed up and thrown away has been replaced by healthy organic living habits. It’s the new buzz.
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The Ultimate Tea Diet: Speed metabolism, decrease appetite, lose weight
January 13, 2008
Drinking tea is good for calming the mind, good for improving health, and according to The Ultimate Tea Diet, an excellent way to lose weight and trim your waistline. As owner of Dr Tea’s Tea Garden & Herbal Emporium and The Ultimate Tea Diet author Mark Dr Tea Ukra points out, research has proven antioxidant-rich tea:
• Strengthens immune system
• Prevents tooth decay
• Slows the aging process
• Lowers blood sugar
• Lowers cholesterol
• Decreases high blood pressure
• Lessens arthritis
• Sharpens mental focus and ability to concentrate
The health benefits of tea are more than sufficient reason to drink tea. Of course, tea is not a magic elixir on its own, but as part of an overall healthier lifestyle, tea is a healthy choice in beverage.
For weight loss, The Ultimate Tea Diet offers recipes for making a pot of tea and cooking with tea. Included are recipes for each meal of the day, as well as snacks and sweet treats.
How does tea help a tea drinker lose weight?
“Tea’s ability to encourage weight loss comes from the synergy of its three main ingredients: caffeine to stimulate, L-theanine to neutralize the harmful side effects of caffeine and act as an appetite suppressant, and EGCG, which causes you to burn fat faster and more efficiently. In other words, tea reduces your appetite and stimulates your metabolism.” — The Ultimate Tea Diet
Happiness: Where the happiest people live
January 13, 2008
What makes people happy? Good health, financial security and education — in that order. Where do the happiest people in the world live? Denmark.
Surprised Denmark ranks as the happiest place on earth?
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Flat Belly Diet: MUFA foods trim waist without exercise
January 11, 2008
According to Flat Belly Diet authors Prevention editor in chief Liz Vaccariello and nutrition director Cynthia Sass, eating foods high in monounsaturated fat (MUFA) will melt away inches from your waistline without the need to break out in a sweat from exercise.
For followers of the Flat Belly Diet, claims include:
- You can lose up to 15 pounds in one month.
- You can eat and never feel hungry.
- Tackle and overcome emotional eating.
- Never do stomach crunchs for flat abs.
And, eating MUFA foods will trim your waist and flatten your belly, once and for all.
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