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(This is a good read - don't let disappear without reading. It's coming home to all of us soon. - promoted by Xanthe)
Content is an unlimited resource. People can now make perfect copies of digital content for free. That's why they expect content to be free - because it is in fact free. That is GOOD.
Think of "content" - culture - as water. Where water flows, life flourishes.
Containers - objects like books, DVDs, hard drives, apparel, action figures, and prints - are not free. They are a limited resource. No one expects these objects to be free, and people voluntarily pay good money for them.
Think of "containers" - books, discs, hard drives - as jugs and vessels. These containers add utility to and increase the value of the water. If you can get water for free in the public river, great - that doesn't reduce the value of vessels. Quite the contrary: when rivers flow, the utility and value of water vessels increases.
Okay, here's what's for dinner for the next few nights:
Farfalle in cream sauce. Or tomato cream sauce.*
1 lb. farfalle
1 head cauliflower
1 lb. frozen peas
half & half (Sav-a-Lot didn't have cream)
crushed red pepper
butter
two tomatoes
shredded parmesan (again, Sav-a-Lot didn't have it; I got the Italian mix instead)
I am in the process of making this now; will describe more below the fold:
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*Not my photo & no cream but it's farfalle & it has peas, lol.
Nigerian president says government will engage in "dialogue" if the group identifies itself and lays down clear demands.
Last Modified: 27 Jan 2012
The Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has challenged Boko Haram to identify itself and state clearly its demands as a basis for talks.
The radical Islamist group killed more than 500 people last year and another 250 in the first weeks of 2012 in gun and bomb attacks in the West African country, according to Human Rights Watch.
"If they clearly identify themselves now and say this is the reason why we are resisting, this is the reason why we are confronting government or this is the reason why we destroy some innocent people and their properties ... then there will be a basis for dialogue," Jonathan said in an interview to Reuters at the presidential villa in the capital, Abuja,on Thursday.
SEPARATED at BIRTH - former presidential candidate Rick Perry ....
...... and Chris Coleman - new manager of the national soccer team of Wales.
It won't help to lower the shutters ... but it might if you stop in for a look at news items outside the headlines, in the arts and sciences; foreign news that generates little notice in the US media and ....well, just plain whimsy.....
I read this story at the big Orange, about Trust Women Week and the 1 in 3 Campaign. And though I just posted earlier today that I had nothing to write about, the synchronicity was too much for me to ignore.
Hi, my name is puzzled and I had an abortion.
I had never typed those words, with or without my real name, until last night. By now you all know I'm on a journey toward openness (though not so open I'm ready to give up the relative anonymity of my nom de blog). :-)
I have shared many parts of my life with the friend I've referenced before, but had told him I needed to hold back a few parts of myself. This is one of those things I thought I'd never be able to tell him. (insert wry laughter here)
I am finding that in direct contrast to the closed-off person I've always been, by opening up and trusting I am happier, calmer and less fearful. It makes no logical sense-giving someone information which could later be used to hurt me should make me feel less safe, not more, but life is complicated, and the journey, as well as my evolution, continues.
So I made up my mind to tell him this story on January 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I was afraid-my heart was pounding as I blurted out (can one actually blurt while typing?) a short version of what I am about to tell you. Though he has never been anything but kind and non-judgmental, I worried that he would not understand. His politics are much more conservative than mine in some ways, he is a churchgoer, and he is adopted. All reasons I should just have STFU and kept my secret buried where it has been since I was fifteen. But I seem compelled to share, so I did.
