The 'angry mob' has been at it again. Lily Allen has declared that she's not planning to make another record and erased her anti-piracy blog due to abuse from the web community. It's a shame that artists who take a stand are subject to name calling and an onslaught of liable damage on the internet just for forming an opinion.READ MORE

How To Get Rid of the Oppression & Promote Free Culture

      For as long as you have severe extremes in society, you end up with an equal and progressively apathetic majority. When this is the general prognosis, no progress is made. If the spark of the society is only in it’s extremes, mediocrity sets in and only extreme provocation can arouse that spirit of indifference. Apathy and comfort can kill the kindle altogether.  This is what I see happening in the P2p movement. They are stagnant using the ‘industry’ as an excuse for the martyrdom rather than using their strength in numbers to produce real change.

The Pirate Party versus Musicians:

        Anyway, let’s see here, there are at least three sides to the plot.  (Well, maybe a few more, but, for the sake of the length of this blog, let’s look at three various perspectives in the argument, shall we?) READ MORE

Well, apparently there has been another blog about Kerchoonz and 'Indiana Gregg' by the Torrent Freak.  They must be terribly annoyed by the recent news that the IFPI and the government have formed an 'internet police' and that my wee blog was actually telling the truth about the future of the internet:  http://www.kerchoonz.com/dignews/display_article/id_198/  (this is only a couple of recent agreements between ISPs and the IFPI in conjunction with government support as a deterrent to unauthorised file-sharing out of many since last july when we asked 350 unauthorised sites to delete links from torrent servers.)

  The funny thing is, suddenly I've gotten a load more 'hate mail' as if I have anything to do with the rather OBVIOUS chain of reactions that has led to this result.  One guy who calls himself "Alex" wrote me a message saying that I should just 'stop posting things on the internet and shut-up'???  So, now the file-sharers are trying to control freedom of speech on my own blog?  He followed by saying that I've pissed off all of the "influential downloaders" on the internet and that I will never have a career.  (Please, if you decide to write to me, try to at least sound like you've got some sense.)

I'm interested in helping musicians.  I will always take the side of the musician/artist/band and the public!  However, I will not tolerate tyrannical thieves who have decided that blatant stealing and flagrant lying is 'ok'.  It's not ok and we won't 'shut up'. 

As for the torrent freak article and the harrassing messengers:  kerchoonz.com is in beta. It's a completely new site that isn't even fully launched yet.  It's a site designed to help musicians and also provide free access to music for the public.  It's your choice to either use it or not once it's launched.  If you like using torrents, well, continue using torrents.  If you'd rather use something that benefits the musicians, there are sites that are beginning to offer legal alternatives. So, what's all the fuss about? 

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Bands can earn money at Kerchoonz.com when people listen or download their music for free. This is an article from Total Guitar magazine.

It's funny how some people will read a few lines of a news article (rather than reading the whole thing) and then post rants on the internet which are full of 'assumptions'; however, that's exactly what goes on more often than not these days. There have already been rants on the internet following the BBC article yesterday where people have taken the report and made false claims rather than simply reading the article and understanding what we are doing with Kerchoonz!!

Yesterday, the BBC ran an article about a new social networking service that we have been developing for the past couple of years called Kerchoonz. Kerchoonz allows musicians, film makers, comedians and the like to upload their content and whenever the public listen or download their stuff, the artists get paid. The public get the goods for free and the artistic people get compensated. That's how it works. There is absolutely no DRM, no adverts attached to the files and the files come directly from the source: the copyright holders. The site will operate via an ad-funded model, but, the ads are non-invasive for the users. It's a social networking platform that is jam-packed with loads of fun features for the users and even lets you incorporate your myspace, youtube, and other social networking pages; so, you can keep in touch with everybody while using the service.

Basically, the BBC headline was: "Musician bids to beat net pirates". It's a good headline and considering what I've been through over this past summer, it makes sense that the BBC decided to use it as a headline. Piracy is a current issue and a lot of musician's (especially new independent musicians) are much worse off because of it. Not because more people are accessing or listening to their music, but because less and less people are willing to take the risk to invest in new music these days. But, to be honest, Kerchoonz isn't on any anti-piracy agenda, we just want to help artistic people earn their living while giving the public what they want for free.

So, I just want to tell you straight from the source, Kerchoonz was not designed to 'beat' anyone. Kerchoonz was designed to provide free and legal access to music and art and help compensate the creators at the same time. It is not in competition with myspace or youtube, pirates, or anyone else; in fact, the site encourages users to post links to myspace and youtube and any other social networking site. If a musician doesn't want to give their music away for free, but still wants to be paid for streams, they can do that too and post links to shops who sell their music. But, if they decide to give their music away as a free download, they will get paid anyway. We will be providing value to the users by giving them the content that they want, supporting art financially, giving people tools to help promote their art, and supplying users with a clean and interactive atmosphere. And, we've taken all the steps to ensure that it's legal by working with the music societies over the past year. We just want to help make the playing field 'fair'. So, if you're a fan, you can get the goods for free and you'll be really supporting the artist at the same time. That's how it works.

BBC radio scotland ran a piece about it in newdrive which you can access by going to the BBC iplayer, (newsdrive for Friday, August 28th, 2008) and I think that a piece will be on BBC 1 Reporting Scotland some time next week. So, you can either tune in or keep an eye on my blog and I'll post a link here when it runs.

In the meanwhile, I wish you all a great weekend.

xx
indy

(From Daily Express Saturday July 19,2008 pg. 15 by Gavin Docherty)


A TOP singer-songwriter has been the target of an internet hate campaign over illegal downloads of her new album.

Glasgow-based Indiana Gregg, whose husband and manager is the former Wet Wet Wet supremo, Ian Morrow, has been deluged by malicious mail in a wave of "cyber-bullying" by operators of The Pirate Bay and thousands of their supporters, who have been file-sharing her music for free.

And it all started because Indiana, pictured, politely asked that they remove a link to a download of her impressive debut album Woman at Work.

She and Ian were forced to act after they discovered that more than 250,000 illegal downloaders had leeched copies of the full album which was released to strong critical acclaim last year.

By writing to sites demanding that links be removed on the grounds of copyright, they had begun to stem the haemorrhage which has threatened to bankrupt their independent record label Gr8pop.

Nearly every site around the world they wrote to either blocked the link to the album or took it down, but The Pirate Bay torrent site reacted aggressively. Not only by refusing the request but also by publishing Indiana's e-mail address all over the web. This resulted in a stream of insults too offensive to be repeated in a family newspaper.


Verbal abuse is something this straight-talking vocalist from the American mid-west can handle. But the grave financial injury caused by the illegal downloading of her album is a different matter.

"I see my livelihood being sucked away every day through fild-sharing, which is allowing copyright material to flow in and out," she said. "All they have to do is claim it's the 'user's' responsibility to make sure the content being shared is not copyright-protected material. "I'm the artist who put my heart and soul, time and sweat into an album and raised money to market that album and who hasn't received a dime... not one cent from illegal downloads totalling at least a quarter of a million."

Husband Ian, who has sat on cross-parliamentary commitees in Scotland, resolved to regenerating music and culture, has referred much of the correspondence to First Minister Alex Salmond.

But he knows full well the issue of resolving illegal music downloads is a global one, requiring policing of the web and the introduction of internet 'passports'.

He added: "Pirate sites are destroying the music industry, taking away any chance a developing artist has of fulfilling any aspirations whatsoever.

Recently, I've received several hundred emails from a lot of angry people concerning a blog that I wrote that a site called "Torrent Freak" requested permission to republish. The messages I've received mostly go somewhat like this:

"Dear Money Grabbing Blond bitch whore with sand in your vagina,

Stupid blond, you have no idea how the internet works.
The internet police will never be able to regulate something as popular as file-sharing. Do you really think that the government cares about a college student downloading files illegally when they have more important things to do like catching criminals?…I hate you and hope bad things happen to you because I don't like your opinion"

Love,
Anonymous person"


Well, my answer is "yes", I believe government is very interested. Basically, this whole file-sharing thing doesn't have anything to do with Big Labels or artists wielding hefty lawsuits at their fans (which is crazy) because this whole p2p story has already shifted to government. That's why I mentioned 'fines' rather than lawsuits in my original blog. To be honest, I didn't threaten to sue the Pirate Bay (they just felt like putting the emails in their legal threats section and then wrote a big article about it in an effort to 'humiliate' as they try to do to anyone who doesn't agree with them.)

You see, this is certainly not about me or my music at all. The reason why I've written to all the torrent sites is because I think that government is planning to fine people for file-sharing and if it's not government, you can bet it will be the ISPs who will start to enforce monitoring downloads from unauthorised sites.   My reasons have to do with ethics and how I feel about my fans and how I feel about fair play for musicians in gentera.. In fact, it never had anything to do with me at all. But most of it does have everything to do with 'YOU', the file-sharer. The reality is that it's now been placed in the hands of the governments. The G8 met last week. A lot of things have been happening. In fact, the governments have been watching and waiting. I'll explain.

First of all, let me just say that I think that the idea of music being 'free' is fantastic. I'm also not against file-sharing at all (the concept of it is great, but, again, the creators of the content being shared need to be compensated). I've never sued anybody in my life and I'm not about to start suing people now, especially not my fans! This is simply an open debate and the Pirate Bay chose to start a debate with me. So, I answered them in my personal blog. I don't need any legal advice for this. We all know that debate brings us together and usually brings about some solutions. Anyway, here's my theory spelled out in terms of "history, government, and simple economics".

YOUR QUESTIONS:

So, how can something as popular as file-sharing be interesting for governments to get involved in? and Where will they get the 'resources' to regulate it?… The answer is, they will get the resources from "YOU". Here's what I believe they are planning.

Does anybody remember the Model-T Ford and the assembly line Ford created? Since then, how popular has the automobile become? How many government jobs did it create? And where did the 'resources' come from? Well, let's think about it. Here's a short list:

Fuel exports and imports
Taxes on Fuel
The rising cost of commodities due to a tax on fuel
Parking tickets
Speeding tickets
Drunk driving fines
Licenses, license plates, etc. (this list could go on forever)

How much money have governments been able to generate by that little assembly line that popularised the automobile? And where did they (government) get the money?

(hint: the government got the money/resources from YOU and I. That's right. The tax payers and the 'fine' payers.)

So, how many government jobs do you think they could they create with the internet? Be honest with yourself. How many cars are there in the world and how many computers are in the world? Well, you tell me. Are there more cars than computers?

The problem p2p is facing has to do with history, government and economics. Since we've all heard how history repeats itself, why don't we now take a look at the internet as an example.

In the timeframe between the moment Torrent Freak asked me if they could re-post my blog and the present, there have been several other news releases. Not just the G8 summit and their plans to crack down on piracy, but, also the result of the Viacom/ Youtube lawsuit, letters from Virgin and the BPI to their users, the "3 strikes and your out " debate in France and Canada (and the list goes on). What do I know about the future? Well, the following prophecy I'm about to make seems as clear as day.

I've been watching this internet debate unravel for many years now and let's face it, from an outsider's point of view (mine), I can see how it would be pretty easy for government to step in and regulate. Remember, the 'internet' started out as a bunch of servers on US military bases and University campuses. In fact, regulating the internet is almost as easy as reducing art and music to "0's" and "1's" and duplicating files. In fact, the government doesn't even need to invest or find resources for this one. Why? Because they have "YOU". The government plans to fine you in the same way they did with parking fines and the automobile… only now, it will cost them less money because the internet is, (simply put), made up of a bunch of numbers. In this case, your IP address is making it a cake-walk for them. (Sure, there is encryption... but, how efficient will that be? And yes, an IP address can be stolen. How do you think hackers break into security systems on the net? But, that's another kettle of fish, so, for now, let's talk about one person: you.)

Basically, how can government regulate file-sharing? The answer is simple: They will be able to do it the same way they've done it throughout history. As the economy continues to shift towards telecommunications and internet-based business, don't you think government is likely to move there too? You may argue "they simply don't have the resources"… You see, this isn't about artists and labels suing their fans. (That's just silly.) Nobody is going to sue you. Rather, the government plans to 'warn' you about something that you are doing that is presently illegal (ie: copyright infringement via file-sharing) and then, they plan to slap a little fine on every file-sharer and force the ISP's to turn over your IP address when you break the law. (IP address: well, it's kind of the new Internet Passport… yes, stupid blond here does know that IP stands for Internet Protocol in this instance). Ok, they've already begun with the "three strikes rule" (which is ridiculous.) It's like giving somebody a life sentence for committing a few traffic violations. Nonsensical. I don't see how that one will work in the long-run either. However, what I do see is government easily using you, the file-sharer, as a resource and meanwhile creating a whole new crew of internet police.

Listen, I'm just the messenger here. I've just given you some insight into where I see this heading and why. Do I think it's fair? Well, of course not. I said that at the beginning. Do I think music should be free? Sure I do, I think it's a great idea. However, I think that creators should be able to at least make enough money to reinvest into their art. I also think that it's unfair for a website or torrent search engine to fool their users by making statements about how their site is 'legal' in in their country (but, not necessarily telling you that file-sharing of copyright material is still 'illegal' even in Sweden and in most of the world). I think they must know what the government is planning. We'd all be blind not to see this probability/possibility?

Will they pity you once government kicks in with their plan? Probably not, that's why I'm asking these sites to take links to my music down. I don't want my fans (or potential ones) to be fined for sharing my music. So, by asking the torrents to take down a link, I'm hoping that my fans will find my music for free on sites that are legal and free. You see, I like my fans a lot and I don't want them to be fined. Every single one of my fans are important to me.

Am I telling you the truth? Well, this is just a theory at the moment. So, what if I'm wrong? Well, I could very well be wrong about this…. But, what if I'm right?

(just as an aside... this blog is directed at The Pirate Bay who recently pulled a cyberbullying stunt just because I asked for them to remove a link. So, they decided they would go after an indie artist like me and publish my email address all over the net, etc .... I am fully aware that this blog is a "what if" scenario. Just because I'm asking you, the reader, questions like "what if" does not mean that I personally think policing the internet is a great idea. However, with the events this past week in the courts... one would wonder if it's not headed in that direction already.

I had no idea that one of my routine emails to the torrent sites asking them to take down my links would turn into some snotty Pirate Bay response. Nearly every other site in the world I wrote to either blocked the link or took it down. But, The Pirate Bay are trying to bully musicians by saying "we can do this in our country.. so we will" we don't care about music. They decided to post the emails all over the internet and write their own blog about it. I didn't ask them to do that. So, I write a blog in response, below, and Torrent Freak decides they want to publish it. They contacted me and I said sure, why not. Those Pirate Bay idiots just thought they could bully an independent musician and that I wouldn't have something to say about it?? Wrong. They're busy right now trying to skirt around the issues by talking about IT and my theoretical "internet passport" question. Hilarious. The very next day after my blog was published, another headline "BitTorrent Tracker Hosting Illegal Says Dutch Court"... and the same day the result of the Viacom/Youtube suit... and letters from the BPI and Virgin go out. Anyway they cut it, it's not fair for musicians to be treated in such a way. And for the Pirate Bay to be so arrogant... They are even trying to make this out to be a 'publicity stunt' that I somehow personally designed... yeah, right, as if I knew that the Pirate Bay were going to publish my little Indie label email in their legal threats section... or how did I know that Torrent Freak would decide to write about it?

 Ridiculous. I guess I must have special psychic abilities then. It must have been my psychic abilities that made Torrent Freak contact me because they read my blog?? No guys, I'm not a psychic. How dare they dream of saying I planned this somehow! They planned it themselves and now they are annoyed because their bullly tactics don't work on me!! Anyway, here's the legendary blog I wrote as an open letter to the Pirate Bay)

My Response to the sinking Pirates: Torrents...

The wild-west of the internet seems to be getting seriously out of hand and I've been wondering if and when the Internet Police will come and sort it all out. I mean… this is the new wild west…

We've all heard and read every form of complaint about the internet. From cyber-bullying, to child pornography sites, to the copyright theft in the form of 'file-sharing'.


Imagine….What if the internet had 'frontiers'. Why can we go all over the world on the internet without a Passport? Why are cybernauts allowed to steal goods from the store 'shelves' and 'shop windows' and justify it as 'sharing'? Since the birth of the internet, people have been hacking software,stealing music, books, films, television shows, credit card numbers, ebay accounts, IP addresses... you name it, if it's out there and can be downloaded, it's being virtually stolen from under your nose.

So, why is this wild west so hard to monitor? Why are people up in arms and waiving their guns wildly… … Are these new pirate ships sharing other people's goods for gold? Of course they are… yes, I'm speaking about the torrent sites… and all the other sites who are making money on other people's back…

Is the internet really that much 'bigger' than the 'real' world? I think not. I believe that in the near future, we will all be using our internet passports. If the government can do it in the real world, what's stopping them from monitoring this new 'wild west' phenomenon of the internet in every town, city, state and country. I mean… Don't we have just as much right as citizens to be protected on the internet as we would be anywhere else. And really, the only people who would disagree with this idea are people who either are engaging in illegal activity or people who claim 'civil liberty and freedom of speech' on the internet (but remember guys, those freedoms are only good until you begin to harm other people. You don't have freedom to shout at the rooftops at 3am outside your neighbor's house.... and it's certainly not your civil right to steal from your local baker and share his cream puffs outside his shop window…either, is it?) Allow me to explain.

Let's take one of the major forces on the internet for example. Let's look at all of the big Music content sites (such as Myspace, Yahoo Music, etc)who seem to be huge driving swarms of traffic on the internet. When you see the amount of advertisements per page and click, you know can almost hear the 'kerching'. These sites are like interstate junctions at rush hour (24 hours a day) so to speak. Torrents are no different…. Kerching kerching… They are giving away things like films, music, tv programs, software…. If it can be downloaded, it can be found… for free…

Thousands upon thousands of websites, sharing sites, and torrent sites exist. These websites are making a constant steady flow of income by using other people's goods...they are pointing people to the goods (music) for free and selling masses of advertisement because people come to 'leech' the goods...these sites are basically allowing people to steal and destroy the regeneration of music and art... (which is in fact like shooting themselves in their own foot… ). The sites themselves claim to be 'legal'. It is the user's responsibility not to share copyrighted files. So, you'd be silly to think that the internet police are not planning on coming. How easy would it be to simply find all these people who are illegally 'sharing' and slap a lawsuit on them. They can do that with a virtual push of a button… how hard do you think it will be for the ISP's to hand over your Internet Passport over to the new frontier police. They can see how much you've 'shared' and potentially fine every single torrent user. I bet the torrent sites wouldn't like that very much. Suddenly all their users disappear.

Last year, in an article on Sky News, I read that a woman was fined a massive fine for file sharing on the Kazaa network. I thought, great! The police are coming.Then my husband sent me a link to another article titled "Should You Pay For Music?". I instantly thought....eh? Has the world gone mad? It's like saying "Should you pay for petrol?"or "Should you pay for bread?"..... hey, maybe I was being too 'traditional'? I guess you could compare it to you, yourself working all week long. You go to the bank and cash your check, and the banker takes your money without putting it into your account.

But, it's much deeper than this. Whether or not the public is offered music for free or at a cost is not the real issue. The real problem lies in the fact that 'share' sites are making money by pointing to 'other people's copyrighted content'... The end user gets it for free… the torrents make money…. And the musicians and artists?? Well, they get to live off of 'fresh air'. Put simply, musicians will not be able to exist financially in order to create music if income streams are cut off (whether or not a record label comes to play).

And this is exactly what is happening.

As a musician and an independent record-label, I see my livelihood being sucked away everyday through file-sharing and torrent sites which are allowing copyright material flow in and out of their sites. All they have to do is claim that it's the 'user's' responsibility to make sure the content they are sharing is not copyright protected material. Last year, in a period of two weeks, we tracked and found over 100,000 leechers of my album alone. ...since then, we've found about 150,000 more (of which, the artist, who put my heart and soul, time and sweat into an album and raising money to market that album... hasn't received a dime...not one red cent.) ..Full torrent files of a complete album! Since it's so easy to 'share' the music....

In the real world, if everyone walked into HMV and took as many albums as they like... and said they were 'sharing'...errr... shoplifting? I really don't see how people think they can give music or any other form of media for 'free' without it hurting the livelihoods of the musician's. Sharing of copyright protected material is 100% illegal. However, since it's not being regulated, it's as if all of us musician's have just left the shop door open so that anybody can lift our guitars and gear out on the street and drive off with it. (Because, isn't that what's happening? If you can't make a dime from that album you just spent all your money, time and effort on because everyone is 'sharing' it... then, how are you going to buy your guitar strings, pay your landlord, or eat...you'll be selling your gear soon and asking the boss for overtime...right?.....

Torrent sites are claiming that they are creating 'free promotion' for musicians.... that's right.. they claim that by giving all these people the opportunity to "share" the music, they are doing all of us musicians a big huge favour. In fact, they think that musician's, songwriters, sound engineers, mastering companies, etc... should all live on 'pure fresh air'. They blatantly state that they think it should be enough for a musician to make music out of their 'passion' for music… and well, since it's 'art' it shouldn't have a price..... er, ok….. maybe we should go and see if Fender will start giving away free guitars? Free gear for everybody!!! yipppeee.... Free strings, free amplifiers, free microphones and drum kits......awww… how novel.

Here's another funny one…the torrent site's answer to how musician's are supposed to earn a living is: .. well, musician's will just need to go out and gig some more in order to make a living. Maybe the band can sell a few more T-shirts, etc. etc. They rationalize stealing by stating that they go to gigs and buy tickets…(or that they plan to do so if ever their favourite band can finally afford to come and do a tour in their country). They claim that by allowing sharing, they are 'leveling the playing field.'

Well, torrent sites are absolutely NOT leveling the playing field. They are just moving the field and reaping the benefits due to a temporary loophole in the law. I'll bet that when all their users get slapped a fine for 'sharing' in their respective countries.. the torrent sites won't be there to support them. I doubt that they are planning to send all their users a bunch of 'gold' off of their pirate ship…( So far, there have only been a few 'examples' made with users being slapped heavy fines… I have a hunch that this will CHANGE)…

Aww, now there's a word "CHANGE".

Well, let's talk about CHANGE for a moment. The torrent people even go as far as to quote Charles Darwin in an effort to justify theft…

"In nature, it's not the strongest nor the most intelligent who survives. It's the most adaptable to change" ( a quote from a torrent fanatic referring to Darwins theory).

Hmmm………..well, I assume that the torrent sites are planning
to be adaptable pretty soon then considering the number of pending lawsuits from pretty strong and intelligent companies who have not only proven their adaptability to change, but have changed the world as we know it (companies like Microsoft, for example).

Please.. spare us this kind of rhetoric guys. With the likes of Microsoft, Prince, and the IFPI going after you, any outsider might begin to wonder when YOU plan to adapt to 'change'. It's becoming evident that your business model is a sinking ship. Pretty soon, your users will be slapped with fines and more big companies will be slapping on lawsuits. Why not just sink your ship yourselves..eh? That's really what you're doing.. Your resistence to 'change' is in complete conflict with your very survival… Oh the irony. "Let's have all our users quote Darwin".


"Sharing is 'caring", so they say. Torrent sites are promoting the idea that if people are taking the time to 'share' other peoples copyright material… it means they care. So, what's stopping the torrent pirates from 'sharing' the revenue from the advertising on their sites? (Funny how it's ok for musicians to live off of 'fresh air'. But, these pirates are meanwhile filling their boat with loot on the backs of other people's hard work.) let's see how adaptable to 'change' they decide to become… and put their Darwin theory where their mouth is….



Free promotion? Basically, torrents are promoting music that has 'already been promoted', so it's not 'free promotion'. There will be a small percentage of people who go through the millions of songs that are being seeded and perhaps discover something new because they searched for something they had already heard about. So, torrents are not only 'moving' the playing field.. they are, in reality, making the playing field so un-even that bands are going to be the new "Sysiphus's" trying to roll a ball uphill for eternity if this continues... (although they would like to fool us all into believing otherwise.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ELPs4ynN8

Sometimes I'm amazed at how little people actually use the power of their mind. It surprises me how little people understand that everything that goes on in your mind produces a result.... hopefully this album will help put some of those thoughts in your mind.....

well guys, here is the TV advert for the album :) what d'ya tink?

x
ind:)

It's really been an amazing year so far!!....but, it's going by so quickly:)

I thought I'd leave you these favourite quotes:

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literaly astound ourselves"- Thomas A. Edison

"I think, therefore I am"- Rene Descartes

"We are what we repeatedly do" - Aristotle

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you"-  Henry Ward Beecher

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them"-- Jesus (Matt. 7:1-2)

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."- Ghandi

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.  Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path.  You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb" -  Sir Winston Churchill

:)  hope you're having a great week :)

x
indiana

http://infosjeunes.com/Interview-de-Indiana-Gregg_a76766.html

and:

http://www.wazzup.fr/dossiers/culture/voir/221206/Indiana-Gregg-le-phenomene

Interview de Indiana Gregg

Par Damien MERCEREAU

wow.... today I just reached over 1 million profile views on my page!
Thanks to all of you for your love and support and for sharing your
stories and things with me! ;)

Ok, so, the word of the day today is: ELECTRICITY..

(thought this would be interesting... since, without Electricity...we wouldn't
have all these modern forms of communication like myspace...etc...)

Electricity: In Greek, the word for the pale light of dawn is 'elektron', a term that came to be applied to the color of gold mixed with silver and of the honey color of amber. When charge with static electricity, amber has a weak magnetic pull, a phenomenon that the English physician William Gilbert recorded while researching his book "On Magnets" (1600)! Gilbert gave the name to the charge itself, thus completing a long chain of transfers.


electricity:
1.a. The physical phenomena arising from the behavior of electrons and protons that is caused by the attraction of particles with opposite charges and the repulsion of particles with the same charge.
b. The physical science of such phenomena.
2. Electric current used or regarded as a source of power.
3. Intense, contagious emotional excitement.