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elcome to our January 14/05 Issue Online Newsletter Hello everyone! TOAST TO BRING IN THE NEW YEAR! submitted by Susan from Ontario, Canada. May your home always be too small To hold all of your friends. May you live as long as you want And never want as long as you live. May the good Lord take a liking to you, But not too soon. May you have warm words on a cold evening, A full moon on a dark night, And the road downhill all the way to your door. May your neighbors respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, and heaven accept you. Dance as if no one were watching, Sing as if no one were listening And live every day as if it were your last. Isn't that ever so lovely, thank you Susan, and now on to business, looks like 2005 is going to be a very busy year for the World Wide Web Circle of Friends! Challenges, setbacks and curveballs give our lives flavour and texture. They show us what we're made of, show us what we can do and show us a side of life we might never see in a perfect world. Lets share our challenges, setbacks and curveballs with each other. Becky has joined the Planet Kryzys" Team and has started a Recycle Message Board on our MSN Community. Do be sure to check it out! As discussed in last week's newsletter, raising awareness is always the first step to action. Have you visited our new website, Planet Kryzys" (Crisis). If not do be sure to do so and come forward with things about your own area. We start off with awareness, and follow up with what we can do about it. For more information on this site please email Daphne from Argentina. oh, and by the way..... with regards to our New Year's Challenge -- Trees Around The World Did you plant your tree yet? Remember trees are a good symbol of dedication to a better quality of life for all. Show some incentive, plant a tree, and remember enthusiasm about a project or goal is contagious. Together we WILL make a difference. Hope your tree is planted so you can put that challenge behind you as The Planet Kryzys Team is on to yet another new Circle Challenge, find or design a suitable banner for the Planet Kryzys" (Crisis)site, which then gets voted on, and the winning design could win a prize (one of the Circle's CD books) Entries are to be sent to Daphne from Argentina and will be included in the newsletter, and on the site. Deadline for submissions is February 28th, 2005. Good Luck! To the Top Mystery Member Time for a new mystery member!!! This week's mystery member is from Florida and she collects water globes. Remember, at any time you think you know who the mystery member is please email me! The clues can be found throughout the Circle of Friends Members site and elsewhere on the many online sites. If you think it might be you..........you never know it could be!! Good Luck and......... Have Fun! If you have not completed your WWWCOF Survey yet please take a visit over to the Survey Page where you can easily complete and submit it online. To the Top Member of the Month Nominations Nominations are coming in for our January, 2005 Member of the Month so be sure to cast your ballot here today! To the Top FEATURED SITES Celebrate Family Literacy Day, January 27. Set aside family time to read with your cildren. Help them becme good readers and good learners! Do you have a favourite site that you would like to share with the members. Please let me know and I will be happy to put it in the newsletter. To the Top Swaps Hello every one I am hoping all of you had a wonderful Holiday season. Mine was very special in many ways and may all of yours been the same. Also would like to wish every one in this wonderful circle a very Happy New Year may 2005 be a great year for all. Also would like to say thanks to every one who joined our swaps in 2004 for a most successful year. Now on to more important things such as our first swap of the year I thought a Valentine Swap would be a great one as this way we would all receive it before Valentine and be able to put up the items we receive to enjoy during this time. This swap is going to be some what like the Christmas swap but I am going to make it easier for all who join this swap. I want you to take the word VALENTINE and it will be up to you to fine something that go with each letter of word Valentine and it can be any thing that go with the theme of Valentine. So you all have a free hand in what you chose. If you can't find anything that go with a letter then just send something else as long as it stick with the theme of Valentine. Let's all have fun with this one. It will be a neat swap as we won't have a clue what we are getting till we get it. So here are the dates. January 8, 2005 will start the sign-up The sign-up date will ended on January 18, 2005. Mail out date will be no later then February 5, 2005. All sign up for this swap can be send to me the Swap Queen Ruth from Michigan. Just copy and paste the form below to me. Swap you are signing up for: Name: Address: City: State/Province: Zip/Postal Code: E-mail Address: So let's get busy and have a great time with this swap. Questions? Need additional information? Please feel free to email me, your Swap Queen, Ruth. I always love hearing from all of you. Love Ruth. To the Top Crafts Craft of the Month January 2005 - Valentines' Cards Crafty Jayne from Kansas, USA and Loretta, aka Angel Patch from Texas, USA have put their heads together as to what to start the New Year with for the new "Craft of the Month" and have decided that since Valentines is approaching why not make Valentines Cards to give to our sweetheart, best friends, or our children. It doesn't matter if you have ever been a paper crafter or not. It is so much fun to learn so join us in doing it together and see what we can do with paper, stamps, buttons, lace, etc. There are so many items we can use with paper. Be sure to check out all the wonderful craft ideas in the WWWCOF Craft Site and add your own favourites or email Crafty Jayne from Kansas, USA, who will be happy to add them to our ever growing collection. To the Top Reunion 2006 To the Top Bigsis Pat from Ontario, Canada has undertaken the position of Reunion 2006 Coordinator and she will need help so please watch this space for updates. Next week we will start talking about the who? what? where? when? and why?

In this issue... Messages from members News and Announcements Lets Do Lunch The Argentinean Chapter Ruby's Journal Post Card Club Tips & Recommendations Fun Tests, Quizzes & Games Swaps Recipes Crafts Reunion 2006 Members Questions & Answers Fun Featured Sites Health Watch Mystery Member Member of the Month Department of Vital Statistics To the Top Messages from Members WISHING YOU AND YOURS A NEW YEAR FILLED WITH MUCH LAUGHTER, LOVE AND GOOD HEALTH! LOVINGLY, ARLENE & LARRY from the USA January 7/05 - I hope you had a wonderful Holiday Season,it was awsome for us,it was like God answered my prayers, Bob was really good over Christmas, and we both enjoyed Christmas with the children. Bob is going down hill again, but we have a wonderful Doctor who is coming to the house and she has gave him medication for the pain in his arm and shoulder, which is comming from the tension in his brain. It dosn't let up and he says it goes right to the bone. Bob's older sister went home to God on the 15 of Dec. and we got through that pretty good. I am so grateful that if this was to be our last Christmas than it was great for us all. I really do appricate the time we have left and I have finally come to terms with what is to happen; it is very hard watching some one you love go down hill, and I appricate what Charla shared with me it is a great gift to be able to be with that person till they leave you, I think you get a wake up call, enjoy today and and hope they next days ahead are just as good. I also appreciate all my friends they have been there for me all the way. My Sister Anne has been a great strength,I think she has been my angel on earth. Talk to you soon,and thanks for everything. Dorothy from Ontario, Canada. Please enjoy a look at this site January 9/05 - I am not quite with it as I am on the hospital trail. Had to take my husband, Alan, up to Emergency as his heart beat went out of rhythm, and tightness in the chest. He is now in the cardiac ward and looks too healthy to be in there!! He is all wired up to the monitor and his pulse rate is still jumping all over the place. He has had two needles in the stomach and due a third. Hope they do the trick and get the beat back into normal rhythm quickly. It happened 3 years go come Easter, so was not quite so traumatic this time, we knew what to expect. The heart specialist will be doing his rounds tomorrow morning so the sister said (he was supposed to be in today as it is his weekend on call - still waiting). Daisy from New South Wales, Australia To the Top Just for Fun The teacher was very curious about how each of her students celebrated Christmas Eve. "Tell me, Patrick, what do you do on Christmas Eve?" she asked. Patrick addressed the class: "Well, Miss, me and my brothers and sisters go to church at midnight and we sing hymns, then we come home very late and we put mince pies by the back door and hang up our stockings. We go to bed and wait for Santa Claus to come with all our toys." "Very nice, Patrick. Now, Jimmy Brown, what do you do?" "Well, Miss, me and my sister go to church with Mom and Dad and we sing carols and we get home ever so late. We put cookies and milk by the chimney and we hang up our stockings. We hardly sleep waiting for Santa Claus to bring our presents." Remembering there was a Jewish boy in the class and not wanting to leave him out of the discussion, she asked, "Now, Isaac Cohen, what do you do on Christmas Eve?" "Well, Miss, it's the same old thing every year. Dad comes home from the office. We all pile into the Rolls and drive to his toy factory. When we get inside we look at all the empty shelves and sing, 'What a friend we have in Jesus'. Then we go to the Bahamas." David from the United Kingdom who invites you to visit his website, Kingsmere Crafts DISCLAIMER: Humour often subtly draws attention to just how "crazy" this world has become!> Be sure to visit our Computer Humour site! Email Daphne from Argentina with any computer jokes you have and she will happily add them to this collection. To the Top News & Announcements Since I'm now in a leg brace due to muscle damage in my leg from stroke last year; I'm making quilts. So if anyone wants to add to my quilts like I did years ago, I sure would appreciate it. Just send a 12 by 12 piece of fabric, they fit in a envelope nicely. Now if anyone wants to see my old friendship quilt they can go to my site and see how it turned out. Bea from Florida who would like us to have a look at a Friends Around the World quilt challenge site. CONTEST Remember Charla from Florida's site - You Are Not Alone? Well this site comes with its very own adorable mascott -- the red striped zebra you see in the picture above. This little fella is an orphan and does not have a name. Please help us name him. Complete the entry form which follows but please do so before the end of the month as the contest closes on January 31st, 2005 and the winner will be announced in the newsletter's first February issue. My Name My Email What would you like the You Are Not Alone site mascott's name to be and why? To the Top Tips & Recommendations Vanquishing Viruses Computer viruses can slip into anyone's computer. Don Foreman, president of Foretronix Computer Consulting in Toronto, offers tips to help you protect yours. Viruses often come through attachments, so don't open any you aren't expecting. If a friend is forwarding an attached joke, it's probably better not to open it. Their computer could be infected, and they could transfer the virus to yours unknowingly. Ask people to cut and paste information right into the body of the e-mail. If you have a PC, once a week, go to your Windows Update feature on the Start menu and follow instructions to protect your operating system for emerging viruses identified by Microsoft. Don't click Yes or No to pop-ups; just close them by clicking the X in the upper right-hand corner. Purchase an antivirus program, such as Symantec Norton Antivirus or Mcafee Virus-Scan, and keep it running at all times. The new Windows XP with Service Pack 2 has a firewall that's always on built right into the operating system. Back up your data on a separate disk; if you get a virus, you won't lose files. Wondering if you have spyware lurking about on your computer. Go to search or find from your start menu and type in *ndn*.* and you will find out. If the search finds sypware just highlight it and delete it from your system! Be sure to visit our Geek's Corner - This is the page where Circle members can help each other solve problems with their computers, web pages, design and related articles. Questions? or do you need additional information? Email Daphne from Argentina and she will be more than happy to help you out. Do you have any tips or recommendations that you would like to pass along to the other members. Email me and I will get it published. DISCLAIMER: Tips reflect member suggestions and are not verified by the WWWCOF. To the Top

Questions & Answers Do you know what the word FAMILY means? (F)ather (A)nd (M)other (I) (L)ove (Y)ou Are you aware that if we died tomorrow, we could easily be replaced at work? But the family we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. So, why do we pour ourselves more into work than into our own families? My much older brother, Wayne and his lovely wife, Jenny from Edmonton, Alberta remind us to invest our time wisely. To the Top Health Watch HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many people as possible about this. It could save their lives!! Please forward this on - thank you. Jeanette from the Land Down Under who would like you to have a look at this beautiful site To the Top The Argentinean Chapter You can read about Argentina, the country I adopted here Love from Daphne To the Top Recipes I went to the site and emailed a request for my free copy of the Food Finder. Not sure if it is available only in Canada or not, so why not just go ahead and email them and see what happens! Ruth from Michigan's Pizza Dip 1 8-oz package of cream cheese soften 1 cup of pizza sauce 2 cups of pizza cheese Italian Seasoning In flat dish spread the soften cream cheese then top with pizza sauce, then the cheese sprinkle the amount of Italian Seasoning you would like on it and Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. It works great dipping crackers, chips, and bread sticks. Do you have a recipe for us to enjoy? We would love for you to add it to all the wonderful recipes being collected in the WWWCOF Cookbook or email The Recipe Lady aka Claudia who will be happy to add them for you. To the Top Travelling Mascott Ruby's site has been updated! Read all about our globe trotting mascot in her journal by clicking on the picture of her logo! Email Ruby and don't be surprised when you see your message in her online journal! I know she would love to hear from you. Ruby's next port of call will be decided at the end of January so if you want to get your name on the list for Ruby to visit you, just drop a line to Daphne from Argentina and she will add you. Who knows, yours just might be the name little Agos picks out.... as she is the one in charge of the draws. To the Top NOTICE!!! You will see some changes with the Celebrations calendar. At the bottom of the page are Next and Back buttons, that you can use to navigate through the months. The calendar has gotten so big, that when I was doing work on it, it would take forever to load in. So broke it down into smaller "pieces" so that each month is on a separate page. Hopefully this will make it easier for you as well. Thanks Bigsis Pat's from Ontario, Canada Be sure to visit Bigsis Pat's January Trivia Pages Birthdays and Anniversaries for January include: Jan 16: Taylor Duncan (Bea's granddaughter, Nancy Williams daughter) adtsdds4@aol.com will be 13. Jan 17: Jasmina Novakovic (Maxine's granddaughter, Michelle's daughter) crazy67@hotmail.com will be 10. Jan 18: Leo Lunda’s birthday as well as Leo & Daphne’s anniversary daphne@speedy.com.ar Jan 22: Our own Peachy Marie celebrates her birthday on this day marie682@webtv.net Jan 25: Ruben Lunda (Daphne's son) lundaruben@hotmail.com Jan 27: Sean Carr (Melinda's son) melinda_carr32@hotmail.com will be 5. Jan 31: Alan DeFraia (Pami's hubby) pdefraia@hvc.rr.com Jan 31: Woody Wood (Loretta's hubby) galowood@earthlink.net Please take a moment to send your best wishes to these folks. And when you get a chance visit the Department of Vital Statistics where you find links for the Trivia Page, The Celebration Gallery, and the calendar Page (with a slightly new look). Also, you will find instructions there to view the Circle of Friends Photo Albums. To the Top More Photo Albums for your enjoyment! Member Albums To the Top Fun Tests & Quizzes & Games Five questions to test your power of perception. Have fun! To the Top Let's Do Lunch What for exciting news about the next member lunch! To the Top I hope you have enjoyed this issue of 2005 which I would like to close with my thoughts on friendship. Friendship is voluntary and that is what makes it so valuable. The WWWCOF proudly boasts of intergenerational bonding of its members which results in many new perspectives and insigths. Take joy in living each day to the fullest and try to make 2005 the year to take the time to make a new friends from within our circle. Friends are so specially rewarding; they change our lives. They can change our views of the world, our relationsips and ourselves. Over the years I have come to realize that the bonding experienced by many of the members of the WWWCOF imparts a sense of the unusual in our often ordinary lives! Here is yet another challenge for each of you -- impress someone with your honesty, your wit and your lack of pretense. Make someone laugh as it is contagious and always be compassionate and open minded. Open your minds to the possibilities and if there is to be a key word in this message I suppose it would be optimism. All that being said please remember that Valentine's Day is not far off so no time like the present to practice letting your inner romantic spirit run free. Valentine's isn't just a day, IT'S AN ATTITUDE and the four basic food groups in celebration of Valentine's Day, of course are: milk chocolate; dark chocolate; white chocolate and chocolate truffles!! HAVE A GREAT WEEK