Dr John K. Flynn
The Xerostar Times Editor
Caring for creative people
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Evidently this unique new way of telling a story is
receiving a lot of interest from lovers of MIDI music.

We have had quite a few inquiries from would -be authors who would like to publish their e-Books on our web site. You can earn a whopping 75% of the sales of your books from our web site. That beats any hard cover publishers hands down! 

If you would like to know more about writing MIDI e-books then you can download the free e-book from our web site.

Membership to the MIDI-eBooks club is also free

If you would like to find out more click here
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You will appreciate the WordWeb Pro.  It's a
Dictionary - Thesaurus that you can download
and install. It has a 160,000 word database.

The main advantage for me is that it allows instant lookup and there are heaps of synonyms or antonyms at my finger tips. It can also find words in a variety of ways that I never thought possible.

I can highly recommend this program to anyone who is serious about writing. 
It's well worth the tiny price tag of $14.65.

To read more about this useful tool click here
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This program is not just a screen saver. Any of its beautiful patterns can be captured and used in a  variety of ways in art and for craft hobbies.

The user can control the shapes and colors that are produced from simple to complex designs.

To read more about this charming and useful program click here

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They recently require that commercial sites pay a $200 fee. Not for a guaranteed listing, but only for an appraisal. There are no refunds - ever.
If you do get listed there is no guarantee that you will get a high position in your category.

I went to a lot of trouble to make my site "Yahoo compatible." 

They made me jump through hoops before taking my money. You have to check off a long list of legal points - twice!  If you go back to check something, your whole submission is deleted and you have to start again from scratch.

The US $200 fee is no paltry sum to me.
To an Aussie like me that's the same as $400 to an American. Just imagine how much that is to some would-be entrepreneur in say Indonesia - that could be a months wages!

They rejected my web site because they "could not reach it."  Even I,  with a 56k modem and a copper phone line can always connect reliably to my site, hosted in Canada, in under 5 seconds.

Daily, hoards of hopeful souls like myself are drifting down the road of sacrifice to pay monetary homage to this Demi-God. I believe at around 30,000 per day! Do the math!

They force the consumer to basically forego all rights of dispute and any chance of a refund on the pretence that they might give you a listing.

$200  for some desk jockey to look at your site for 1 minute, (or not look at it - in my case) and reject it out of hand.  A fair practice would be to ask a $25 fee on application and the balance if OK to be listed.

The consumer is led to believe that they have a chance of being listed in the Yahoo directory when in fact the chances of getting a listing that will be of any benefit, are quite small.

I can't understand why Yahoo is so popular anyway.
The search results are slow and lousy to say the least.

I see it as a violation of consumer rights.
I find the business practices of Yahoo to be unethical and immoral.
I'm sure they must be violating some American Business Law.

I will go somewhere else to spend my advertising dollars. 
All Internet entrepreneurs should be made aware of this scam.
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It will touch your emotions as the characters will remind you of your own life in your quest for love and fulfillment and the lives of your parents and their parents in their struggle for survival in the face of adversity. 

For further information click here
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See you all in the next Millennium !

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