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SpotLighters There are so many people I would like to thank for helping to get me started on the right foot. I asked a lot of questions and did a lot lurking in different Newsgroups, trying to get as much information as I could. In fact, I still am. On this part of my site, I want to thank those who were there for me. Here you will find a Website, A Peom, A Link, A Ouote, or whatever I feel will show my appreciation to them.
Thank You My Husband For all the nights and days I have sat at my desk typing and typing. You are my heart and the love of my
life.
Love like Life,
Being Life never dies,
Consciously Love pierces
our Souls,
Without wounding,
I will Love you
Online
This is a cause that I have been supporting
every since I've been on the internet. This
article was in this month Family Circle and I
would like to share it with you.
FEED THE HUNGRY Everytime a visitor clicks on it, a
donation is made to an aid organization by one of the site's corporate sponors. John Breen, an Indianapolis, Indiana, computer
programmer, launched this site in June of
1999. "I started with an interest in
education in developing countries," says
Breen, the father of two sons, ages 6 and 8.
But I quickly learned that while the schools
need supplies, the students need food," he
says. "Many kids in developing countries
come to class hungry and malnourished."
So Breen contacted the World Food Program
with the idea for thehungrysite.com. He
then lined up corporate sponors willing to pay a half cent for every click of the donate
button in return for advertising their
company on the site. The more sponors the
more food can be donated. Breen's wife a
professor of Sociology at Indians University,
supports the family so that Breen can donate
himself full time to mantaining the site.
Some day the Web page gets as many as 300,000
hits, says Breen proudly. As of January 7,
2000, visits to thehungrysite.com resulted in
3,219 metric tons (that's 7,094,951 pounds)
of food donated. Some you see there are
some good thing going on over the Internet.
And I'm proud to be a part of it.
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A special Tribute
As a mother of two grown son, I know how it makes us feel when we are remembered on this Special Day. It does our heart good to know how much we appreciated by our love ones. And in case, for various reasons, no one has said how much they appreciate you for being a Mother, I would like to take this time to say it to You. To Mother's every where I wish you a Special Show Her You Care! Tried And True Ideas To Pamper Mom On Mother's Day (Mom, if you're reading this, tape it to your bedroom door!)Let her sleep late. She does so much for everyone else, she deserves some extra sleep today. Breakfast in bed. Dad and the kids can make her favorite breakfast, which is probably something as simple as coffee, toast and quiet.Give her the day off. After cooking endless meals, running countless errands and providing daily limousine service to school and activities, Mom needs one whole day off. Divide the chores among the rest of the family! Let her read the Sunday paper. She's usually so busy taking care of everyone else that she doesn't get a chance to do one of her favorite things -- relax with the Sunday paper. Take her out to her favorite restaurant. After cooking so many meals, she's ready for a treat. Please, if you haven't signed my guestbook already, now is the time to let me know you were here Thank you!
Word Origins HELLO! This greeting is much newer than most people think. The use of hello as a greeting is only as old as the telephone. The first recorded use is from 1883. It does, however, have earlier origins in other senses. It is a variant of hallo, which dates to 1840 and is a cry of surprise. That in turn is related to halloo, a cry to urge on hunting dogs. Halloo dates to about 1700, but a variant, aloo, appears in Shakespeare's King Lear a century earlier than that. And there is an even earlier variant, hollo, which dates to at least 1588 when Shakespeare used it in Titus Andronicus. There are also cognates in other Germanic languages. Hello was not a shoo-in for the telephone greeting either. It competed with several other options, including Alexander Graham Bell's suggestion of Ahoy, but pulled into an early lead and by the end of the 1880s was firmly ensconced
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And Bless You All.
