Hola dear reader, thank you for visiting once more.
Here it is again already, the mother of all months is back! We are hoping for a September that is free of ghastly surprises. At least we are now much better prepared to prevent cowardly acts of evil against innocent people.

Well it's finally happened to me, after spending nearly two years working on the Internet, 7 days a week and between 10 and 16 hours a day on average, I have to admit that I have not been as successful as I'd planned.

I started out just before the end of the dot-com boom with great expectations of becoming mildy wealthy.  I've worked really hard and given it my best shot. I've enjoyed the whole experience, although a successful return on my investment would have been a welcome bonus.

Returning to the real world, I'm busy building a new dental practice where I can start to pay off the loans and credit that I obtained to finance my sojourn on the  Internet, after first paying off the loan to build the new dental practice!

It doesn't mean I'll be giving up working on the web, or giving up creating this newsletter, it just means spending a lot less time with the keyboard and mouse than before.

There are evidently many ways to make lots of money on the Internet with scams and sleaze, however I chose not to go down that path. I want to earn money honestly, if it's at all possible.

I don't want to discourage any of you out there. The web is evolving daily and who knows what dreams may come?
As for me, my dream remains elusive  and out of reach.

However, I have made some excellent friends on the web whose email messages are always a welcome site in my mail box.  Their friendship has been a valuable reward for my time spent on the internet.

Identity theft
If you've received any email from my email address (other than the monthly reminder about this newsletter) then it's not from me at all, but from some unscrupulous spammer who is using my identity. I have informed my ISP in case anti-spammers make a complaint. If anyone can help me with this problem, please let me know what to do.

The wonderful music of Mexico!  
Listen to the MIDI numbers I've chosen, close your eyes and you'll be swept away to romantic Mexico. Memories of Cancun nights, on holiday with the love of your life ..
Reminds me of a story I once wrote ..
Wishing you happiness.
Adiós until next month.

Dr John K. Flynn B.D.Sc.
The Xerostar Times Editor 
Caring for Creative People
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Do you enjoy word puzzles or playing with words?
Are you a Scrabble®  fan?
This fascinating program will help you solve the
most difficult word puzzles. The manipulation of English words is taken to a new level. 

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Mexico is a traveler's paradise, crammed with a multitude of opposing identities: desert landscapes, snow-capped volcanoes, ancient ruins, teeming industrialised cities, time-warped colonial towns, glitzy resorts, lonely beaches and a world-beating collection of flora and fauna. The bursting megalopolis of Mexico City is a one-hour flight from the tropical rainforests and Mayan villages of Chiapas. Up along the northern border, Mexico's tumult of heritages merge with the air-conditioned cultures of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Mexico's profusion of people and landscapes reflects the country's extraordinary history - part Amerindian, part Spanish. One look at this country is enough to remind visitors that there is nothing new about the so-called New World. Despite the considerable colonial legacy and rampant modernization, almost 60 distinct indigenous peoples survive, largely thanks to their rural isolation. This mix of modern and traditional, the clichéd and the surreal, is the key to Mexico's immense popularity as a travel destination, whether your passion is throwing back margaritas, listening to howler monkeys, surfing the Mexican Pipeline, scrambling over Mayan ruins or expanding your Day of the Dead collection of posable skeletons.

Full country name: Estados Unidos Méxicanos
Population: 100,350,000 (growth rate 1.53%)
Area: 1,958,200 sq km (758,866 sq mi)
Capital city: Mexico City (22 million people)
People: Approximately 60% mestizo (mixed European and Amerindian descent) and 30% Amerindian (indígena - including Nahua, Maya, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Totonacs, and Tarascos or Purépecha)
Language: Spanish and 59 indigenous languages
Religion: 90% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant
Government: Federal republic 
Head of state: Vincente Fox Quesada

GDP: US$915 billion
GDP per head: US$9100
Annual growth: 7%
Inflation: 9%
Major industries: Food and beverages, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, petroleum, mining, textiles, clothing, motor vehicles, consumer durables, tourism
Major trading partners: USA, Canada, Japan, Germany

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Don't miss the surprising, exciting, fascinating conclusions in Part 2  - Vladimir exposes the wondrous results he has obtained from years of research.  His discovery is of great significance to scientists and historians alike.
Vladimir Pakhomov is a professional mathematician, artist and writer. Over many years he has undertaken an exhaustive study of the Calendar in all its forms. 
He reveals in this book how he discovered important messages left by ancient civilizations, encrypted in the Calendar. This eBook is a masterpiece!

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We want you to write an essay entitled: 
"Proof of other intelligent life-forms in our Universe"
This is a serious competition, however all entries, 
imaginative or funny, will be gratefully received.
The prize will be a copy of The Xerotron Idea Generator software or two eBooks of your choice.
Get your entries in ASAP. Entries of merit will be published with full acknowledgment to the author.

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"For kids who just want to have fun, a collection of seven games that provide hours of enjoyment and creativity. Includes a matching game with silly 3D animation, a "build your own rocket" game, an Animated Piano with 19 animated "singers" each with their own instruments ranging from a grand piano to a banjo. Animated Darts with 8 dartboards using animated colors. Two coloring books with 25 dinosaurs (that roar) and 26 animals (one for each letter of the alphabet, with sound). There is also a maze game where the child can play mazes of varying complexity (which are rewarded with an animation when solved), or make and save their own mazes for their friends to try and solve. You can even choose to have the computer solve the maze - watching it find it's way out can be fascinating."

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A web site where you will find a huge choice of ezines covering every interest.

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A fascinating view of the earth during night time hours shown as a map of city lights.

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Why have a crippled OS, if you can have Windows XP running on your Color Handheld. OQO announces the smallest high performance Windows XP computer. The device should be available in stores in the second half of 2002. 

Specifications: 
Powered by Crusoe 0.13 micron TM5800 processor at up to 1GHz, 10GB hard drive, 256MB Ram
4", high-res VGA Color LCD Touchscreen
Built in 802.11 and Bluetooth wireless networking
4.1" x 2.9" x 0.9" / 105mm x 74mm x 22mm; less than 9 oz. / 250 grams

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This site is packed with information without any frills.
If you need to convert measurements or just about anything to anything else, then this site will save you heaps of time in arriving at your answer.
Over 5,000 units, and 30,000 conversions are covered. 

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Time to patch those browsers – Microsoft has issued a patch fixing six serious flaws present in all currently supported versions of Internet Explorer. 
The flaws open systems to various hacker exploits, ranging from reading information on the user’s computer to actually running code on it. 

Read the full article at VnuNet    Click Here

You can download the patch here.  Click Here
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Here's another book about the days of the gold rush in Australia. Deanna has written her father's biography and in so doing she relates the stories of adventure and incredible hardships endured by the early settlers of Western Australia.
Note: This is a real book - not an eBook.
You can order it direct from our web page - at a very reasonable price too.
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This is a group of left-handed people providing products and information to make life a bit easier for left-handers around the world and they campaign to promote awareness, acceptance and empathy for left-handers.

Anything Left-Handed was the first specialist left-handed business in the world and has run a left-handed shop in central London since 1968. 
Their mail-order operation in Belmont, Surrey, UK, supplies a wide range of products to individuals and businesses around the world and their products have been available on the Internet since 1999.

They also run the Left-Handers Club, a free association of left-handers worldwide. They publish newsletters for members and act as a forum for their views and a focus for taking action where needed.

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The colors of the flag and their meaning.
Green: The Independence Movement, Hope
White: The purity of the Catholic faith, Purity 
Red: The Spaniards that joined in the quest for Independence. The blood of the National Heroes
Union 
The emblem-shield  symbolizes the Aztec heritage. According to a beautiful legend, the gods had advised the Aztecs that the place where they should establish their city was to be identified when they saw an eagle, perched on a prickly pear tree, devouring a serpent.  They saw this mythical eagle on a marshy lake that is now the zócalo or main plaza in Mexico City. 
This flag was created in 1821, when the Independence movement had ended victoriously.

El Día de la Bandera or the Fiesta of the Mexican Flag is celebrated every 24 th of February. 

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Food is probably the most important element of Mexican culture. Much of the daily routine and tradition in Mexico revolves around the ritual of the preparation and eating of food. In days gone past, the afternoon "siesta" started at around 1 p.m. and lasted through till about 4 in the afternoon. During that time, families gathered for their main meal of the day and after they had eaten, they had a little "siesta" - rest. Back then, the streets of Vallarta were alive by six o'clock in the morning, as women made their way to the local markets to fill their baskets with fresh fruit, vegetables and fish straight from the sea. Once they collected their daily provisions, the women would return home to begin grinding the corn and flour to make fresh tortillas for the afternoon meal, and bake fresh loaves of bread, sweet breads and cookies. 

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WATCHING lots of violence on television and playing violent video games not only makes kids more physically aggressive - it also makes them meaner and more distrustful, according to a study.

The findings add to research linking violence in the media with violent behaviour in children and adults, said David Walsh, co-author of the US-based study and head of the National Institute on Media and the Family. 

The report found a correlation between exposure to high levels of TV or video game violence and "relational aggression" - behaviour including name-calling, threats and rumour-mongering. 

In addition these same children were more likely to view others with the most suspicion, the study said. 

"Long before kids throw a punch or pick up a weapon, they're probably treating kids in a relationally aggressive way," Mr Walsh said. 

"This is the kind of thing that becomes the breeding ground for more overtly violent behaviour as these kids get older." 

The youngsters filled out surveys of their TV viewing and video game habits, and were evaluated by their own teachers and peers in terms of how well they got along with others. 

They also took a test to rate their levels of trust and suspicion. Children rated the most ill-behaved reported more exposure to media violence. 
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Hola -Who Can You Talk To? 
There are 352,000,000 people all over the world who speak Spanish, with the most speakers in Spain, the Canary Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Gibraltar, France, Morocco, Trinidad, Tobago, Australia, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Canada, Panama, Uruguay, El Salvador, Peru, Bolivia, Belize, Equador, the United States of America and Puerto Rico. Now you can say hello to 352,000,000 people! 
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The Creative Voice is infinitely more powerful than  the Critical Voice. This statement is often hard for  artists and other creatives to absorb, especially if  their Critic has been in the lead, either consciously  or unconsciously.  

But our intuitive center is always urging us toward  positive change and healthy new risk, like a  lighthouse beacon, calling us forward to new  challenges and rewards.  

On the creative path, anxieties will coexist with the  joys, to be sure. But when we are called, we best  surrender, or experience far worse anxieties in the  refusal. 

Many of us must listen more clearly to our Creative Voice, truly listen. Then we must trust it enough to act upon it.  If we do act, our journeys will  begin to unfold organically, and we will get closer to who we are, who we are meant to be. I attribute this unfolding to the notion that the Creative Voice is the true voice. 

Moreover, I  designate the Critical Voice as a false voice. Fighting with it won't help. Trying to get rid of it won't  help. That's because at its core, it contains  something essential that we must recover. 
That is, it contains the power to assess, to review, to  re-arrange, to improve.  

It was designed to be in  support of the Creative Voice, before it "went wrong,"  In other words, the Critical Voice is the "Helpful  Editor" in disguise.  Contrary to the impulse to push  it away, we need to embrace it, hear it, get  underneath its bullying jabs. 

When we do, we  recover its positive attributes and re-position it as a servant to the Creative Voice, its true role.  

This discovery is a joyful experience. Time and again,  clients are amazed by the power of their Creative  Voice, and delighted to discover it even plays a  leading role in this transformation. 

Barbara Bowen is a professional writer/photographer. She is also the founder of GATEWAYS, a coaching service for Arts Professionals.
www.GatewaysToCreativity.com
Bownarro@erols.com   718-596-8339.
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