A new Nature Photo contest has started and as fitting with our Planet awareness site, it is of course nature based, and the theme this time is Nature's SKY. You have plenty of time to watch out for those sunsets, cloud formations, rainbows, storms, night skies etc etc
Photos sent in just have to be members' own or members 'family and friends. Look forward to seeing what you all come up with.
The Circle's Computer help site has had some new articles added recently sent in by Pat.
There are an incredible number of useful articles there to help you get the best from your computer or put things right that aren't working too well. Perhaps you also know of some trick we could all use, so send it in and get it added.
Recipe Corner
Members Favourites
All that will be left is a smile!
Our Recipe book has close on 2,000, not counting the many others in various links World Recipes There are several "cookbooks" in there, General, Regional/seasonal, Mexican, Oriental, and within those, recipes set out in many categories. If your recipe isn't in there I"ll be happy to add it for you. It has its very own search engine, so you can find things according to ingredient, origin, category etc.
WWWCOF Seasonal Regional Favourites "This colorful breakfast is a great way to entertain out of town guests without waking up at the crack of dawn. This can also be made the day before, or take it to go by placing squares between the halves of toasted English muffins."
1 Lb Sausage
2 Slice bread, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
3/4 Cup diced green and red peppers
1 Cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
6 eggs
2 Cup milk
1/2 Tsp SALT
1/2 Tsp dry mustard
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Crumble and cook sausage in medium skillet over medium heat until browned.
Drain off any drippings.
Spread bread cubes in greased 11 x 7 inch baking dish; top with sausage, peppers and cheese. Whisk eggs, milk, salt and mustard until well blended; pour over cheese.
Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until set. Let stand 5 minutes before cutting into squares; serve hot.
Refrigerate leftovers.
Tip: You can make this tasty meal ahead and refrigerate overnight before baking.
Serving suggestion: Serve squares between toasted English Muffins.
Recipe yield: 6 servings.
Does anyone have a recipe of something produced from their corner of the globe?? We would love to add it to our unique cookbook!
The extensive kitchen help section has also grown! And there are tips and hints on just about everything from Alcohols in cooking to �Why didn�t I think of that� type tips:
Cookery Tips Again if you have anything you would like added, or if you want info on anything that isn�t there, just let us know.
The Humble PARSLEY
� Arthitis: three of four cups of Parsley tea a day is the most advisable.
� Shiny Hair: Boil a handful of parsley in a little water. Leave to cool, and use as a rinse after shampooing. You�ll get a beautiful shine.
� An Appetite Stimulator: drink a cup of parsley tea before supper.
� Acne and other skin infections: Apply a parsey compress directly to the affected part and then cover with gauze. Keep the gauze damp with hot water.
� Indigestion: Chew on a couple of fresh parsley stalks. Or drink a � cup of dried parsley in water. Or make an infusion of concentrated parsley, putting two cupfuls of parsely in a litre of water.
� Bad breath: Parsley is the only known way of removing the smell of garlic from your breath. It also neutralizes the smell of onions, tabacco and almost all other causes of bad breath.
� Insect bites and stings: chop up and crushin a glass or porcelain container, ( do not use metal as this produces an undesirable chemical reaction) Apply the paste directly to the bite or sting.
� Urinary Problems: drink several cups of parsley tea a day until the symptoms disappear. Parsley acts as a laxative helping eliminate excess liquids, and form an excellent kidney tonic.
� Cough: Drink a litre of parsley tea a day. The high vitamin �C� content also helps cure colds.
Taken from Daphne�s Little Black book
Does anyone have a recipe of something produced from their corner of the globe?? We would love to add it to our unique cookbook!
The extensive kitchen help section has also grown! And there are tips and hints on just about everything from Alcohols in cooking to "Why didn't I think of that" type tips:
Cookery Tips Again if you have anything you would like added, or if you want info on anything that isn't there, just let us know.
If you read this page write to me anyway.
Daphne
Feature Story of the Week
ADDICTION A REAL DISEASE!
I spent the day with my daughter Jonna yesterday Friday July 11,2008 and I learned so much. We talked very openly and she held nothing back and did not
ask for me to feel sorry for her because she doesn't feel that is an answer to anything. During our day I was quite shocked that the things we see on TV are REAL! I always knew it was, although it was so easy to dismiss it as "BEING ON TV," and let it go.
I learned addiction is in fact a real disease. It is treated as though the person
can JUST STOP anytime they want. This is true to a point although they do need help and they do have to truly want to stop. They will be drug addicted all their lives however they can control it with the support they seek.
My Daughter being an Addict:
She took me by a place in a park on the inlet in Daytona where they have
picnic tables and gazebos. A very pretty place. Jonna, (my daughter), told me
looks are deceiving, and for me to stay close to her. As we got closer to the Pavilion with
the picnic tables, I began to hear loud talking. There were 7 African American men and one Caucasian woman just hanging out. The woman was drunk very drunk. She was
homeless you could tell by the back pack she had on and the words she was saying about cleaning up in the restroom there. She started arguing with one of the men. Jonna started
to say something and I stopped her. I wanted to see how this part of our human race lives.
The woman and man began to shout and the woman got in the mans face. Another man got between them to stop it and said it wasn't worth arguing. The woman continued to try to get
in the mans face with her fists clenched. She continued to be mad and cussing and wanting to fight. She kept saying what's wrong you don't want to hit a homeless WHITE woman? The language was worse, as they say, than a truck driver.
Jonna finally told them "HEY MAN! MY MOMMA IS SITTING HERE PLEASE
WATCH YOUR MOUTH.!" I felt NO FEAR! I just sat there and and they kept saying hey
I'm sorry. Tell you Momma I'm sorry. Another guy walked over to the woman and put his
arm around her & gave her a kiss on the cheek & said come on go for a walk. She kept
saying everyone thinks I'm drunk. They walked on down the street him holding her as she
could barely stand.
Jonna asked if I would allow her to show me her world. I said yes I would very much like
to see what it is about. She warned me what I was about to see was indeed REAL and
not a pretty sight. I said I want to see. She drove me to a neighborhood and down a street
where children were riding bicycles. These children were around 5-8 years of age. It was
right through the ghetto of Daytona where the drugs are being dealt in front of you. I
felt as though I was watching a movie on TV. It was like a flea market where men were
standing everywhere selling whatever your choice of drug was. Some of these guys were
very young teens and some very old men. I actually witnessed making drug
deals. What I thought was some kind of brotherhood hug I have seen many times
between guys on the street and in parking lots were actually the passing of the drugs and
money. These people don't appear to be a bit scared when you Drive down the street nor
do they seem to care. Some are wearing their pants down to their knees and wearing
gold everywhere and some need a good bath and fed. NO certain race. There were white,
black and tan! Just so much to take in! Cars would stop and get their drugs and Drive
off and another come along. Some would merely walk up make the deal and keep walking.
Then Jonna said now let me show you what this leads to. She drove me to another area
close by where Prostitutes are actually selling themselves! I saw how they were dressed
and how they looked so sad and high and just pitiful. It broke my heart. They would yell
out at the cars going by, advertising they were for sell. They would yell what their specialty
was!
One car with a scraggly man stopped and one of the girls got in and off they went. There
were teenage girls dressed with almost everything showing standing on corners and looking
like they were so high. Some appeared to be in their 20's and then I saw a couple very skinny
and very pitiful in their 40's. I remember a young woman had dark circles under her eyes and
she just looked as if she was pleading for help. Her hair matted somewhat and she just looked so
tired. Jonna said she was probably coming down and was "jones-ing" meaning starting to withdrawl. This is when they feel so useless and such. They are panicking to find another fix.
She kept driving in the same neighborhood down other streets. As we kept going Jonna told
me to look and watch.
There were so many men & women and a few children and she said all of them are HOMELESS! Sitting on the ground, the sidewalks, just standing, some collecting cigarette butts from the street. A pregnant young woman sitting leaned against a tree. Then a couple children just
sitting and actually looking like the TV showing the children in other countries. Their little
eyes so without feeling. I was speechless with a huge lump in my throat. She said the
beginning of this is the first place I took you and then to the drug street to make
your deal. Then you have to do whatever to get your next fix and you become homeless.
The only thing on your mind is where is your next drug coming from. She said it's like
you are over powered by something you can't control no matter how much you want to
stop or how much you know you are hurting your loved ones. After a while you just want to
die because that is the only way you feel you can get rid of it.
She said come, go to a meeting with me and meet the real people with my disease.
She was referring to all these people I had seen thus far. I said ok. We went and
there were many men & women of all ages and walks of life. Some very poor possibly
homeless, there were some dressed like an executive or secretary. Then there were the
Mother's and Father's, in their late 20's and early 30's. A couple men in their 60's or
so. I sat and observed and listened. I could not control my tears for these people. It was
as if I was in a group of people who have cancer and only we can know how we feel.
NO one can know unless they have it. Only these people all have the disease of addiction.
It is a real disease in the Neuro part of the brain known as the "pleasure pathway".
Each and every one of these people was an addict at birth just as if they were born with
diabetes or something. They are very open in this room about themselves always
beginning by saying their name followed by "and I'm an addict." In having respect for
them I won't go into detail, but I can say I see them now in a whole different light. Please
do not get me wrong. In NO WAY do I condone any addiction however I do now understand
how it can happen.
Thank you to Our LORD JESUS for allowing my daughter to give me this day.
Information on Understanding addiction you can find it here:
Understanding Addiction
Addiction Recovery
Charla
I want to add to the above. To those of you who do not know me and my daughter very well. She is an addict, she has been for years just as my two sons. She overdosed two weeks ago and I almost lost her. Through the Grace of God she lived and is now in a place where she can get the help she now is asking for. I live in a room surrounded by cement walls with no windows to these 3 children of mine. I don't let this wall down because It always falls in on me so I stay on guard. Although as a Mother I want to believe this is the time she will change and make it. I have put her and my sons in God's Hands and His Will be done. Without Him I couldn't even begin to handle this.
In Jesus Name
Charla , from Florida, USA
Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness!
Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go!
One of the World Wide Web Circle of Friends' best kept secrets is Jeanette's Garden Room . Jeanette from the Land Down Under has set up this site for all of those who love gardening - like she does, and loves to be creative in making garden junk. Do take some time to visit and join her site and share ideas, seeds, photos of your garden and plants, laughter and great sites to visit.
Common Expressions
Fight fire with fire
Meaning
Respond to an attack by using a similar method as one's attacker.
Origin
When we 'fight fire with fire' we are likely to employ more extreme methods than we would normally do. That was also the case with the actual fire-fighting that was the source of this phrase. US settlers in the 19th century, who originated the phrase, attempted to guard against grass or forest fires by deliberately raising small controllable fires, which they called 'back-fires', to remove any flammable material in advance of a larger fire and so deprive it of fuel. This literal 'fighting fire with fire' was often successful, although the settlers' lack of effective fire control equipment meant that their own fires occasionally got out of control and made matters worse rather than better. One such failure was recorded in Caroline Kirkland's novel, based on her experiences of frontier Michigan in the 1840s, A New Home - Who'll Follow? Or, Glimpses of Western Life (written under the pseudonym of Mrs. Mary Clavers):
The more experienced of the neighbours declared there was nothing now but to make a "back-fire!" So home-ward all ran, and set about kindling an opposing serpent which should "swallow up the rest;" but it proved too late. The flames only reached our stable and haystacks the sooner,
The method has continued to be used however and foresters now routinely create roads or unplanted areas to act as fire-breaks in woodland that is at risk of fire.
The term 'backfire' is now more often applied to plans that fail in a way that weren't intended. It wasn't used in that negative sense until the early 20th century and probably derives from the popping explosions that used to be commonly heard from the exhausts of faulty motor vehicles, not from forest 'back-fires' which ran out of control.
The earliest usage of 'fight fire with fire' that I've found in print is in the US author Henry Tappan's 1852 reminiscence A Step from the New World to the Old, and Back Again:
Smoking was universal among the men; generally cigars, not fine Havanas, but made of Dutch tobacco, and to me not very agreeable. I had some Havanas with me, and so I lighted one to make an atmosphere for myself: as the trappers on the prairies fight fire with fire, so I fought tobacco with tobacco.
Chrissie
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Lightning
There is nothing more beautiful or more ominous than a thunderstorm. The power it unleashes is awesome and the lightning
contained within the storm has often been thought to be from supernatural origins. Lightning is responsible for hundreds of
of deaths per year, as well as millions of dollars of damage be it to buildings, communication systems, and livestock, to say nothing
of the many forest fires sparked by lightning hits.
So why, you may ask is lightning necessary in the first place?
Well, to begin with, it not only tells us about the electrical aspects of the atmosphere, it also tells us about a storm's life cycle but
even more importantly, the absence of lightning would result in a very speedy and complete destruction of life on this planet. It would
take less than an hour for the earth to lose all of its negative electrical charge that enables it to convert atmospheric nitrogen into earth
useful nitrogen that almost all plants require. Without plants, there would be no animal life.
Perhaps what is most remarkable is the repetitive amount of lightning required to do this work. Lightning strikes the earth one hundred
times per SECOND, more than eight and a half million times per year. It heats nearby air to about 18,000 degrees F and it's this heating
that creates the shock wave that we call thunder.
Thunder
Merrie
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Earthweek
The best gift
you can give Anyone is Prayer
Ruth wwwcof: Please comtinue to pray for God to heal Ruth and for her to be back on her road to a healthy path. Bless you Ruth.
Helen Bradley: Is still very sick please keep Helen in prayer for God's healing touch. Helen also has Pulmonary Fibrosis.
Bea Barnett wwwcof: Bea is finally getting better from this, it has been almost 2 years healing from hip surgery. The wound is closing from the inside, although now Bea's migraines are getting worse. Please continue to keep Bea in prayer. She has had a rough way to go.
Pat Broatch wwwcof: Please keep Pat in prayer for God to give her strength and heal her from this illness she has.
Maxine wwwcof: Please keep Mary Jo, Maxine's daughter in prayer for healing, strength, and faith. Maxine is not in the best of health herself. Please keep this family in your prayers daily.
Wanda wwwcof: Please keep Wanda in prayer for relief from her Fibromyalgia pain.
Marie Linder wwwcof: Please keep Mom in prayer for relief from her Fibromyalgia pain.
Sue Romans: (Char's Cousin) Please pray for Sue She is in constant pain. We found out she also has fibromyalgia. Please pray for God's Mercy to be upon Sue and lift this from her.
Muire : ( 28 year old Mommy with Brain Cancer) Muire has been allowed to start her chemo back up. She should go back to Duke in
a few more weeks for another MRI to make sure that the cancer hasn't
re-grown. Hopefully it will be good news. Her chemo treatments should
be over around October, as long as there is no re-growth. We must keep
Muire in constant prayer as well as her daughter and husband.
Kathleen: Please keep Kathleen and her husband Jodie in prayer for SALVATION as Kathleen battles Cancer through out her body.
Cindy Hogan: (32 yrs old) Cervical Cancer
Pami Defraia wwwcof: (Breast Cancer) Please continue to keep Pami in prayer for complete healing of all Cancer.
Lonnie England: ( Char's Cousin) Lonnie will be having surgery soon. Praise God her other breast is fine. Please continue to keep Lonnie in your prayers.
Irene wwwcof: Irene has Chronic Lymphocyte Leukemia (CLL) She was diagnosed in 2002 and is in stage 1. She has to have a knee replacement soon. Please keep Irene in prayer for healing of her knee and for God to send a cure for CLL.
Susan: (Haley's Nana) Please continue to keep Susan in prayer for God to make a way for healing her Parkinson's.
John (Charla's Husband) Please keep John in prayer for continued attendance in church. John still has bronchitis. Please pray for his healing.
Jim Jones: Please keep him in Prayer for relief of pain.
Billie wwwcof: Wanted to give you all and update.
Mother's still hurting some
and staying in bed an awful lot.
The nurse came by other day and said
everything was OK with her heart and
her lungs. She did have a low grade
fever, but it's been normal since.
This has been something hard for
and 85 year old to get over.
We go back to the doctor next
Monday. Hopefully he can tell us
why she's not feeling any better.
Thanks for all your prayers and
please keep them up.
Please keep her in Prayer.
Reanna: My father-in-law Jan was diagnosed with colon cancer.
He had an MRI and yesterday learned that the cancer is actually
Grade 3, rather than Grade 4 and is curable. It also has not spread
since his surgery. They are going to treat him according to Yale
protocol. They are the leaders for treating this kind of cancer.
Please continue to pray for Jan, as God is hearing our prayers.
Edith Matovu wwwcof: . Please keep Edith in prayer as God knows her needs as well as her country Uganda.
Emma wwwcof: Please keep Emma's son in prayer for guidance.
Daphne wwwcof: Please continue to keep Daphne and the wwwcof reunion in your prayers. May this be a good turn out and many meet for the first time.
May God provide that many shall go.
UNSPOKEN prayer requests. You don't have to do anything but give the name and through prayer God will do the rest. Please send any you may have to me and we will certainly pray for you. Joyce, Steve, Scott, Carl, Dawn, Derek, Alan, Kirk, Kevin, Anthony, Charla Karen, Tim, Jonna, Andrew
Let's Remember to pray for our Government Leaders and Global Warming. Also all that have lost homes and family in the tragedies of earthquakes, volcanoes, flood's, and whatever comes their way.
Please keep "ALL MILITARY EVERYWHERE" in prayer for safety and, an End to this War.
Gunner Edgar Stannard
We want to say, "THANK YOU IN MEMORY" of Gunner Edgar Stannard, for his devotion, as well as memory to all who have and are serving their country. May God Bless their Families.
Please take a moment after you read this and say a prayer for all military and their families everywhere.
This is a photo of Sharon's (Greene) Stannard's Father. So many times when we hear about our Military and what they are doing to keep us free, we tend to forget the enlisted ones before them. Even though those wars have been fought and won we would not have won without these kind and giving men and women. They gave their lives to the devotion of freedom for their people.
Jamie Landon:
( FlMaries Grand Daughter) Home from Iraq Still in service.
Robert Fleming:
(Peachy & Garnett's Grandson.) In Africa
Robin Smith: (Christine Mills requests) In Iraq
Nick Bradley Iraq
Erick Landry Iraq combat engineer.
ALLOW GOD TO BE YOUR PILOT
REMEMBER HE FORGIVES ALL
We have many prayer requests that go beyond our circle. Although, as we pray and we add these, our
"Circle of Prayer" becomes larger.
Do you know someone who doesn't know JESUS?
How about introducing them?
Please visit Charla's Prayer Request Page to Pray for Others.
Please email Charla , from Florida, USA with any Praises, Requests and/or UPDATES Thank you.
Pray for Others
The best gift anyone can give to another is to pray for him or her. We live in a sinful world where bad things happen to people and people are tempted to sin. Praying for another person not only helps that person find God in the midst of trouble, but also helps us recognize the blessings that God gives us daily!
1 Timothy 2:1,2
How often do we think to pray for others, whether or not they request our prayers? Bible prayers are filled with requests and thanksgiving for people other than the one offering the prayer.
God answers knee mail
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