[ReprintArticles-Paradise] Today's Diets -- What's Hot!
Title: Today's Diets -- What's Hot! Authors: Debbie Overstreet and Susan Daniel Word count: 332; 65 characters per line Contact e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Category: Health & Fitness Autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Article URL: http://reprintarticles.com/diets.php Author URL: http://reprintarticles.com/Debbie_and_Susan.php Terms for reprint: 1. You must publish the article AS IS. Do not modify, alter or edit it. 2. The author's resource box must accompany the article at all times. 3. The link/s must be active or clickable. 4. Notifying the author is not required, but doing so is appreciated. This article is distributed as part of the ReprintArticles.com Featured Author service at http://reprintarticles.com/featuredauthor.php - Today's Diets -- What's Hot! by Debbie Overstreet and Susan Daniel For the person who wants to shed a few pounds (or even a lot of pounds), there are many choices of diet programs. To pick the best one for your tastes and lifestyle, you need to look at the attributes of each diet plan. A listing of just a few is below. L. A. Weight Loss L. A. Weight Loss is based on a unique combination of regular foods that you purchase at your local grocery store or in a restaurant. Each diet plan is personalized and includes one-on-one counseling. Weight Watchers Weight Watchers includes eating regular foods that you purchase at your local grocery store or in a restaurant. However, there is no pre-set combination of food for each day. Foods are assigned "points". As long as you do not exceed your points each day, you can eat whatever you want. You will of course want to vary your food to include all of the food groups in your daily diet. Group meetings or internet tracking is available. Jenny Craig Jenny Craig includes food that is already prepared and pre-packaged for you. This saves you time and makes choosing what to eat very easy. They also recommend physical activity as a way to accelerate your weight loss. You meet with a personal counselor each week to discuss successes and challenges. Nutrisystem Nutrisystem food that is already prepared and pre-packaged for you. This saves you time and makes choosing what to eat very easy. You can order your foods on-line, and they are delivered right to your door. Most of the food includes low Glycemic Index carbohydrates which make losing weight easier. You have the option of calling or emailing your counselor so that you do not have to attend any meetings. Finding the right diet program can be easy if you do your research. The important thing is to get on a program and stick to it. Diet, exercise, and counseling seem to provide the proper ingredients for lasting weight loss. Copyright © 2005 Susan Daniel and Debbie Overstreet About Susan and Debbie: Susan and Debbie are internet marketers. You can review more articles and Web sites on diets and weight loss by visiting http://www.thedietstartstomorrow.com. ---END--- List of articles by Debbie and Susan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[ReprintArticles-Paradise] How the Hopi Create Their World
Title: How the Hopi Create Their World Author: Keith Varnum Word count: 1,882; 65 characters per line Contact e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Categories: Essays, Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help & How-To's, Society & Culture Autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Article URL: http://reprintarticles.com/how_the_hopi_create_their_world.php Author URL: http://reprintarticles.com/Keith_Varnum.php Terms for reprint: 1. You must publish the article AS IS. Do not modify, alter or edit it. 2. The author's resource box must accompany the article at all times. 3. The link/s must be active or clickable. 4. Notifying the author is not required, but doing so is appreciated. This article is distributed as part of the ReprintArticles.com Featured Author service at http://reprintarticles.com/featuredauthor.php - How the Hopi Create Their World by Keith Varnum "Do you hear that?" I whispered to my friend Tobias. "No, what?" he answered under his breath. "Drumming. The sound of soft, distant drumming." "No, but I see a faint glow over there by the cliff. Like a small fire. A vague, flickering light cast against the rock face." My friend Tobias and I love to explore old Indian ruins in Arizona's desert canyons and mesas. Our favorite ones are the secluded, out-of-the-way remains not normally visited by other people. These remnants of a bygone civilization are quiet, dreamy and somewhat desolate. Many of the aged, abandoned fortresses and homes are over a thousand years old. These timeworn vestiges of ancestral life are extremely serene -- and mystical. When Tobias and I sit and meditate within their eroded walls, we often see a dim, blurry campfire, or hear subtle, muffled, elusive drumming, chanting or the sound of children playing. Experiencing visual and auditory glimpses of the distant past is enthralling to us and serves to heighten our interest in learning more about the ancient ones who lived in the American Southwest so long ago. One day, while exploring a windy, arid, remote mesa in the high northern desert of Arizona, Tobias and I happened upon an Anazazi Indian ruin with several partial dwellings still standing. The crumbling abodes were awash in relics of antiquity. Delighted to find a site that obviously hadn't received many visitors over the years, we dropped to our hands and knees, and sifted through the dirt for artifacts to help us understand the long-departed residents. Our efforts were rewarded with arrowheads, pottery shards and corncobs preserved by the extreme dryness. In the center of this native village is a large oval pit about sixty feet wide. Surrounded by a wall of very carefully fitted slate stones, the pit sinks approximately five feet into the ground. This submerged ring of stones is called a kiva by Native Americans. The structure served as a ceremonial circle for Indian rituals. Spellbound by the aura and electricity we sensed within the ceremonial pit, Tobias and I speculated about its history. As we sat on the sun-warmed stones in the kiva, we longed to know the specific nature and focus of the ancient rituals conducted by the Anazazi Indians so long ago. The absolute quiet and serenity of the kiva reminded me of a psychology experiment I read about in college. The research project revealed a fascinating quality inherent in a vacuum. Relaxing in the ominous silence of the kiva, I related the experiment to my fellow explorer. Scientists set up a near vacuum in a completely empty room. Installed in this vacuum-sealed room were a speaker and a listening device. From outside the room, one of the researchers spoke distinctly one secret word, known only to him, through the speaker into the room. The chamber was then locked and sealed for five years. At the end of the five years, the scientists returned. >From outside the room, they turned on the highly sophisticated sound sensing equipment to listen to whatever they could hear from inside the room. The device picked up the secret word spoken into the vacuum five years earlier! The sound vibration of the word was still alive and detectable within that environment after five years. The kiva was almost as still and empty as I imagined a vacuum to be. It was the kind of quiet that absorbs every sound. Even the intermittent whistling of the wind was consumed by the all-prevailing silence. Sitting in this timeless place, we allowed the tranquility to envelop us. I sensed the space around us had been this serene for the last thousand years. That's when the notion came to me. Was it possible that whatever happened in the kiva a millennium ago still exists on some subtle, vibrational level, just like the sound of the spoken word in the scientists' vacuum? And, like the word, is that vibration accessible and perceivable now? What an exciting concept! I turned to Tobias to share my proposal, "Maybe we could contact whatever occurred in this kiva long ago. Perhaps even
[ReprintArticles-Paradise] Frugal Wall Art for Gifts or your Home
Dear Publishers, Please feel free to publish the following article (in its entirety) in your publications as long as the bio at the end of the article is included and links are made active if possible. A courtesy copy of the publication this article is included in would be appreciated; my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frugal Wall Art for Gifts or your Home By Monica Resinger There are some lovely pictures available in retail stores, but they can be very expensive. Iâd like to suggest some less expensive ways to make your own decorative wall art that will be more charming and beautiful in your home than any picture that can be purchased. To get started, youâll need frames. Frames are also expensive when purchased retail, so I suggest buying them used. You can find good picture frames at yard sales and thrift stores for a fraction of the retail price. If there are minor problems with the frame, such as chipped paint or nicks and scratches, donâ t worry, you can cover that part up with the decorative ideas that follow. What to Put in the Frame Family pictures are a great, personal way to warm your home. Looking at them brings back memories for the owner or brings up conversations with guests. These also make great gifts for family members. If youâre planning on designing family pictures to give as gifts, itâs a good idea to start getting double prints developed from your films. Pretty pictures cut from magazines, calendars or holiday cards are other items that make great wall art. You can choose pictures that have to do with the theme or colors in your home or in someone elseâs home if youâre planning to give the picture as a gift. Pressed flowers and leaves are beautiful framed. Outdoors, try to find flowers or leaves that are naturally flat and will lie between paper well, then press them between pages in a book. After a week or more, check to see if theyâre dry and crisp to the touch. Frame crocheted doilies on a contrasting background for a beautiful picture. Hankies are another item thatâs easily framed. These are really special if the item belonged to a family member. Save memorabilia from vacations such as ticket stubs, menus, napkins, pictures or other flat surface items and frame these for a unique picture that brings memories and conversation. For a garden look, a pretty seed packet could be framed with a complimentary background. Hot glue small pinecones or other natural material to the frame to finish it off. If you donât have a pretty seed packet, you could cut a pretty garden picture from a magazine or birthday card. Frame a recipe. What I like to do is copy and paste a recipe into a card/calendar or art program on my computer and change the colors and fonts of the text then add clip art, pretty backgrounds and/or a border. Print it out and you have a nice item that can be framed and used in the kitchen. You can also photocopy your own recipes to be framed and take a picture of the finished recipe to include with it. Decorating the Frames Decorate a picture frame by covering the entire frame with shells, buttons, pebbles, bottle-caps or other small items. Hot-glue would work best for attaching items. If youâd like, you could finish it off with a complimentary ribbon bow. You could also use these items or silk or dried flowers as accents and attach a few to a corner with a ribbon bow. Paint it. Choose a color included in the picture youâre framing and paint the frame that color with acrylic paint. You may need to apply 2-3 coats to cover the frame completely; be sure to let each coat dry before applying another. When the frame is completely covered and dry, you can then sponge paint a darker or lighter shade over that for a very pretty look. To sponge paint, simply dip a small area of a sponge in paint, blot on newspaper a few times to get excess paint off, then blot the sponge onto the frame. Another idea is to paint polka dots, squiggly lines or another small design in a contrasting color. When decorating a frame to be given to a family member or friend, think of their favorite color, the color of the room they will most likely display the picture in, their hobbies, or what they enjoy. You could design a garden picture for your gardening friend, a family picture for a family member or a doily picture for your grandmother or mother. Have fun with it and unleash your creativity, the possibilities are endless! Get Monica's FREE e-zine for homemakers 3 times per week; just send a blank e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get FREE home and garden e-books at Monica's website, 'Homemaker's Journal E-publications'; Click here: http://homemakersjournal.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their ent
