Joe asked me to pass this on to the list. Dear Louise, Just a short note to reply to your kind card and to express my undying gratitude and appreciation for the establishment of the Prayer Circle in November of 1999. I owe you and all who signed it more than you will ever know. I can honestly tell you that within two weeks of the establishment of the Circle that those prayers were answered and my skin disease took a very positive turn for the better. It has been slowly improving ever since and to see me today you would never know I had the disease by looking at my skin. I've still got a ways to go but at least it's on the mend. Hopefully, by the grace of God sooner or later it will all be gone and a thing of the past. I've also gotten past the aortic aneurism I had and that problem is also behind me thanks to modern technology and excellent medicine. We live in a wonderful time and I'm sure the future will be even better. As for computer technology I'm afraid all mine this past year has been bad. I've gone from one problem to another thanks to Bill Gates and am still behind the eight ball. This computer still has problems and I'm looking for a new one right now. The sad part is that a computer tech who was supposed to fix it fixed me instead; crashing my hard drive and obliterating my entire Coates database. Thankfully I had some backup data which has given me about half of what I had on the crashed hard drive. It will take me many months to reconstruct that data base, if ever. Fortunately I had printed off a hard copy of all my Coates data before this happened but it has many errors etc. in it which must be corrected. In addition I'm having to eliminate about 12 names and associated info about people who literally threatened to sue me if their name so much as appeared in my books. So, all printed copies had to be recalled and I'm now trying to get these corrections made so the books can finally get released. I have many people waiting for the books but it's a slow go for me at times. This old horse ain't what he used to be? that's for sure. Some day though all will be done. Please pass on to all who signed the Prayer Circle my appreciation and gratitude. I'm not on line at present so have no way of contacting them or appraising them of the situation. Maybe before too long I will be back and operating again. I miss all the wonderful people I've met on the web. Keep in touch. Joe R. Coates