Sa-wat-dee dear readers. 
Lateness - the shame of it, until you're pardoned by explanations about the things that prevented your punctuality. 
Well, let's see, there was car trouble (that's a good one), the weather (naturally), and illness (good, but hard to fake), computer trouble (now everyone can accept that one!), and the list goes on .. but you see there is no excuse for lateness . Late is late and I'll leave it there, you won't believe the things that happened to me this month already ..

Have seen my signature line above? I've found without exception that people who are actively creative are the nicest and most interesting of all.

We naturally admire people who create beautiful objects, invent useful things and do good deeds in this world. We know it's good for us - we all benefit from the work of creative people doing good things.

When you consider the activities of destructive types of people, or your every-day non contributor, you begin to understand my thinking. 

Of course it's not always somebody's fault that they aren't creative.  Some people are lucky enough to be born with a large measure of creative talent and they have the best chance to fully express their creative flair in an environment of freedom and affluence. 

Conversely, environments with regimental control by government and/or the clergy with a backdrop of poverty rarely allow original thought and true creativity to fully develop in the general population. 

Take Nigerian spammers for instance - I wonder if anyone has told them that using all capitals in their email is a dead give-away?  
"I HAVE JUST INHERITED $100 MILLION DOLLARS AND I WILL GIVE YOU A BIG SHARE BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE AN OVERSEAS BANK ACCOUNT .."  - pull the other one please ..
Sounds pretty fishy to me, but hey it must be working because I get so many emails like that ..It just proves there's a sucker born every minute.

Have you noticed lately how the porn industry are using all sorts of sneaky (creative) ways to get you to open their spam email?
"Hey John - article for your consideration! .." sounds innocent enough ..but I don't think my readers would appreciate that kind of article!

And BTW didn't you know? "Somebody attractive wants to meet you! - but we won't tell you who ..that would spoil the fun!" 

"You have $860 waiting for collection!" Wow I bet that won't last long at their Casino ..

And if someone offers me another credit card, I'll need a wheelbarrow to carry them all around with me ..a new way of saying - "heavily in debt"

Wonderful Thailand is our country of the month!
We have an interesting article about the sense of smell, and where better to test our noses than on the mouthwatering aromas of Thai food.

Like my editorial, lar-korn until next month!

Dr John K. Flynn B.D.Sc.
The Xerostar Times Editor 
Caring for Creative People
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Thailand is an easy country to travel in, with efficient transport, cheap accommodation and a delicious national cuisine. The Thais are renowned for their friendliness and hospitality to strangers. Although they're often depicted as fun-loving, happy-go-lucky folk (which they often are), they are also very strong-minded and have struggled for centuries to preserve their spirit of independence. For pure holiday-making magic, Thailand's islands and beaches are working definitions of heaven. 

Full country name: Kingdom of Thailand
Area: 517,000sq km
Population: 62 million 
Capital city: Bangkok (pop 6 million)
People: 75% Thai, 11% Chinese, 3.5% Malay, also Mon, Khmer, Phuan and Karen minorities
Language: Thai
Religion: 95% Buddhism, 4% Muslim
Government: Democratic constitutional monarchy
Prime Minister: Thaksin Shinawatra
Head of state: King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX)

GDP: US$166 billion
GDP per head: US$2168
Annual growth: 3.5%
Inflation: 2%
Major products: Computers, garments, integrated circuits, gems, jewellery
Major trading partners: ASEAN, USA, European Union
(courtesy of Lonely Planet.com)
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The five horizontal stripes of three colors red, white, and blue have very significant meanings. Red signifies the life-blood of Thai people; the white stripe symbolizes the purity of Buddhism, the national religion; and the dominant blue stripe, the monarchy and the important part it plays in the daily life of the Thai people.

The present national flag , the "Trai-rong" or three colors , was designed by King Rama VI and was first used on September 28, 1917.

The flag is raised daily at 8.00 am and lowered at 6.00 pm at all official buildings, public places, large private enterprises, and schools, usually to the accompaniment of the Thai National Anthem. The flag is also flown nationwide on national holidays. 

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How do perfume and flowers work their magic? Author Chandler Burr explains: 

From what we know about evolution and molecular biology, smell does the impossible. Look at two other systems inside your body, and you'll understand. 

First, digestion. Human beings have evolved over millennia while eating certain molecules -- lipids and carbohydrates and proteins in the roots and berries and various unlucky animals we've gotten our hands on. The tiny carbs and proteins are made of tinier atoms and molecules, and for your body to burn them as various fuels, evolution has engineered a digestive system for you. The system's first task is to recognize which raw fuel it's dealing with, so it can send out the right enzymes to break that fuel down, process it for us. But in every case the enzyme 'recognizes' its molecule by that molecule's particular shape. Fat, thin, lumpy, rounded, oblong, rectangular. The enzyme feels some cleft in some molecule, fits its special fingers into it like a key fits into a lock. And if the shape of the lock and the shape of the key conform, bingo: Recognition! By shape. 

In fact, molecular recognition is arguably the fundamental mechanism of all life, and it is based on this single, universal principle: Shape. 

For contrast, take the immune system. Antibodies are designed (they have to be) to bind to things that weren't around our ancestors, unknown bacteria and foreign parasites and each year's new, nastier, mutated viruses we've never seen before. When it encounters a new virus, the immune system starts rapidly rearranging genes at random, spewing out antibodies until it hits on one that fits the invader's shape, binds to it, and destroys it. So that's why you're at home for a few days with the flu. Your immune system needs time to break the invader's shape code and produce the shape weapon to fight it. Where the digestive system is limited but instant, the immune system is unlimited -- it "takes all comers"; but it also takes time. 

But here is the problem. Someone hands you a molecule called a borane. You lift it to your nose. And without fail, you smell it. There's just one catch: boranes were created by inorganic chemists at the beginning of the twentieth century and never existed in the ancestral environment of any human being. Yet we smell them. This is impossible. 

The fact is that we have never found any molecule in the smellable size range that we could not smell instantly. This is the mystery of smell. You smell boranes instantly, not in a few days or weeks, even though you cannot have an evolutionarily selected receptor molecule for their unique shape. Smell is unlimited, like the immune system, and yet it is instant, like the digestive system. And everything we know about shape and molecular recognition says this should be impossible." 

"The Emperor of Scent, A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses" 

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Thai cuisine is considered among the world's most delicious, with a unique blend of particular tastes: hot (spicy), sour (piquant), sweet, and always highlighted with citrus (lemongrass and lime).

There is Hardly a major city in the world now that does not boast at least one Thai restaurant.

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