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Wikimedia project license change Questions and Answers
May 2009
This is a modified document based on the more exhaustive Licensing update committee Q&A.
- What was the nature of the proposal to shift from the GFDL License to this new dual license?
- Unlike most content on the web, text published in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects is not published under the normal copyright terms granted to any creative work. Instead, the Wikimedia community is committed to principles of free information similar to the principles that have been articulated for software by the free software and open source movements, allowing anyone to re-use the information for any purpose. This is accomplished through licenses which grant freedoms that people would not have under traditional copyright.
- The license that was initially chosen for Wikipedia is the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) developed and maintained by the Free Software Foundation. Underscoring the deep connection between Wikipedia and the free software community, this license was originally developed for freely licensed software documentation. However, as Wikipedia and the other projects have grown and continued to expand rapidly, it has become increasingly apparent that Wikimedia is no longer as suited to this license as it may once have been. Therefore, to make Wikipedia content easier to use and legally compatible with existing free content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed to the Wikimedia community to make all content currently distributed by the Wikimedia Foundation under the GFDL available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, where CC-BY-SA will exclude GFDL whenever third party content only licensed under the CC-BY-SA license is imported.
- The GFDL has been recently updated in a fashion to make this re-licensing possible without direct petitioning of each copyright holder who contributed to a collaborative work (see below). The decision on whether to update the licensing terms was nevertheless democratically made through a global, community-wide vote, where a simple majority of qualified users will constitute sufficient support to make this change. The vote launched in early April, and ended on May 3rd.
- How did this decision come about?
- An original proposal was drafted by the Wikimedia Foundation after considerable discussions with the Free Software Foundation and Creative Commons. After an open discussion period, the proposal was then delivered to a volunteer license committee which oversaw the development of a timeline and the execution of a voting process for the proprosal. The license update committee worked with the independent, third party Software in the Public Interest group to establish an off-wiki voting process for the proposal. Voting was open to any Wikimedia volunteer who has made at least 25 edits on a Wikimedia Foundation wiki. Voting took place through April and May, with a final decision being delivered by the licensing committee to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on May 15. The Board was required to further endorse the decision. With their resolution in place, the Wikimedia Foundation staff was instructed to begin carrying out the license change.
- What is the GFDL license?
- You can read more about the GFDL on Wikipedia:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL
- What is the CC-BY-SA license?
- You can read more about CC-BY-SA and other Creative Commons licenses on Wikipedia:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC-BY-SA
- How many people voted? What was the result?
- Over 17,000 Wikimedia volunteers voted in the election. The result can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Result
- Is the Wikimedia Foundation pleased with this result?
- Absolutely. The Wikimedia Foundation put forward the original proposal with the intent of further increasing the freedom of the content on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, and to simplify the process for anyone to reuse Wikimedia project content.
- How will the Wikimedia Foundation technically carry out the license switch, and when?
- All relevant terms will be updated through June. A timeline can be found at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Timeline
- Why did it take so long for this license change to take place?
- Firstly, the licensing change depended on finding an appropriate agreement with the Free Software Foundation to update the GNU Free Documentation License, making it legally possible to revise Wikimedia's licensing terms. This agreement was concluded in November 2008 with the release of the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3. Since then, the Wikimedia Foundation has led a broad, consultative process with its global community of contributors to support the decision-making process. After all, Wikimedia's volunteers are the one who made the licensing decision in the first place: their commitment and support to any new licensing scheme was absolutely critical.
- Why was the Wikimedia Foundation interested in moving from the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) to the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license (CC-BY-SA)?
- To begin with a quote by Jimmy Wales:
- "When I started Wikipedia, Creative Commons did not exist. The Free Documentation License was the first license that demonstrated well how the principles of the free software movement could be applied to other kinds of works. However, it is designed for a specific category of works: software documentation. The CC-BY-SA license is a more generic license that meets the needs of Wikipedia today, and I'm very grateful that the FSF has allowed this change to happen. Switching to CC-BY-SA will also allow content from our projects to be freely mixed with CC-BY-SA content. It's a critically necessary change for the future of Wikimedia."
- The GFDL was originally formulated to address a specific set of problems, including the possibility that some companies might use non-free documentation as a way of encumbering otherwise free software. The design decisions that went into development of a documentation license don't always address the problems that come up with massive multi-user collaboration projects like Wikipedia, and they may in fact create new problems that make free content less easy to use.
- This is a large part of the reason why Creative Commons has designed a specific generic copyleft license for works which are not software, the CC-BY-SA license. The Creative Commons licenses have seen rapid adoption on the web, with more than 130 million works estimated to be licensed under one of them (see Creative Commons Metrics for statistics). Unfortunately, works under CC-BY-SA and GFDL cannot directly be combined, creating an unnecessary but highly problematic compatibility barrier within the free culture movement.
- The Free Software Foundation (which maintains the GFDL), Creative Commons (which maintains the CC-BY-SA license), and the Wikimedia Foundation (which operates Wikipedia among other free-culture projects) have worked together to develop a pathway to "migrate" or "re-license" Wikipedia content (and the content of similar wikis) to the CC-BY-SA license that combines the free-culture values of the GFDL with greater practical usability in the context of collaborative works.
- What was wrong with the original GFDL license?
- Wikipedia Community member David Gerard has provided a nice summary of the issues for us, so in the spirit of reusing useful content, we're adapting his summary:
- "The GFDL was written as a license for software manuals on paper with one or a few authors. It's not at all suited to wiki content with possibly hundreds of editors. Wikipedia's predecessor, Nupedia, eventually adopted it at the time because the CC-BY-SA license didn't exist yet.
- "The GFDL is very difficult to follow in practice, at least in contexts like massive multiuser collaborative projects like Wikipedia.
- "Trying to obey can be onerous. Per the letter of the license, every significant (greater than fair use) quotation from a GFDL work needs a copy of the license (three or so pages of print) attached. GFDL content is almost impossible to reuse in audio or video content for this reason.
- "Although easy to follow on the web (link to a local copy of the GFDL) or in a book (reproduce the three-page license), it's almost impossible to reuse in shorter pieces.
- "The 'how to comply' pages on various Wikipedias are more what individual editors think is a good idea, not necessarily what the letter of the license says – as has been complained of by reusers accused of violation for not following this month's interpretation.
- "Even cutting and pasting text between two Wikipedia articles is technically a violation unless the full author list for that piece of text is attached. This is not workable on a wiki.
- "CC-BY-SA is becoming the usual license for free content intended to stay free ('copyleft'). That's a whole world of text, images, movies and so on that Wikimedia stuff can't be mixed with. (A software analogy is using a copyleft license that's not GPL-compatible – it makes your work an isolated island for no particular gain.)"
- It is also worth pointing out that a literal interpretation of the attribution requirement of the GFDL requires complete duplication of the "history" section of the article with every derivative work (not just the author names – the entire section). For an article with thousands of revisions, this is obviously highly onerous, but even with just a smaller number of revisions, it is a significant amount of text.
- Are you basically replacing the GFDL on Wikipedia with CC-BY-SA?
- No, we proposed that all content currently available under GFDL will also be made available under the CC-BY-SA license, and that all future revisions must be dual licensed, with the exception of CC-BY-SA-only additions from external sources.
- What is dual-licensing? How are you going to administer it?
- It simply means that content will be available under both the GFDL and CC-BY-SA licenses simultaneously, unless some CC-BY-SA-only materials are imported and incorporated into that piece of content. In other words, reusers will be able to choose whether to reuse Wikipedia content under the GFDL license or the CC-BY-SA license (with a few exceptions). We have worked with Free Software Foundation and others to try to implement dual-licensing in a way that requires relatively little administrative overhead (or editor or user overhead). The outline of this arrangement were spelled out in e-mail by Richard Stallman, who was mindful of the need to make the problems of dual-licensing manageable:
- ALL contributors agree to the following:
- Wikipedia can release their newly written text under both GFDL and CC-BY-SA in parallel. However, if they imported any external material that's available under CC-BY-SA and not under GFDL, Wikipedia is bound by that.
- All old revisions are released under GFDL and CC-BY-SA.
- All new revisions are released with this license statement:
- This page is released under CC-BY-SA. Depending on its editing history, it MAY also be available under the GFDL; see [link] for how to determine that.
- How will re-users determine whether or not an article is available under GFDL?
- The CC-BY-SA license requires attribution, so when third party content is imported under "CC-BY-SA-only", it will have to be noted who the author is and that it was released under CC-BY-SA, as part of the normal, existing procedures through which projects make note of such histories (we recommend the article footer or the version history). Re-users will have to consult this information to determine whether CC-BY-SA-only content has been imported. Our licensing guidelines will make that clear.
- If the GFDL is so difficult for editors and users, why was it adopted for Wikipedia in the first place?
- At the time Wikipedia began, there had already been some experimentation with other attempts at free licenses (at Nupedia and elsewhere), but none of them had the successful track record of the GFDL. At the same time, the Creative Commons free licenses had not been developed (or at least not in their current form). So GFDL at the time was the best option available. Now that GFDL has evolved, and CC-BY-SA is available, we have a better option available, and one that will provide more compatibility among free-culture projects.
- Will the average Wikipedia or Wikimedia project user or editor notice any difference?
- Our experience has been that relatively few editors and users are engaged enough with the licensing issues we're discussing here to be affected in any significant way by the update. However, we believe the difference will be highly significant for other communities and individuals developing or using Wikimedia content, as it makes Wikimedia's licensing easier to understand and ensures legal compatibility with other projects.
- Does this license change affect all Wikimedia projects?
- All Wikimedia projects (with the exception of Wikinews, which is already using a CC-BY license) will now use the dual license system.
- Does this license change affect both text and images, or only text?
- It will affect both text and images, except for images which are licensed under "GFDL 1.2 only". Those will not be dual-licensed.


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The TMCC Foundation announced a $2 million gift from the Nell J. Redfield Foundation kicking-off the capital campaign for a new TMCC Health Science Center representing a significant investment in Nevada's health care industry.
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vegetarian cooking for carnivore
Living with my fiance, and while he likes most of what I cook, he often says "it's missing the meat". I've been veg for about 14 years, and have never cooked an animal (once, for his birthday actually, fellow chowhounds helped me prepare some chicken breasts, which i handled only with tongs and plastic bags).
Is there any way that I can add some meat to his meals without handling it - good packaged, precut, precleaned, heat and eat kind of meat (mainly chicken)? The thought of cooking with it bothers me as much as the thought of eating it. Any tips?
I'm in the same boat as you. Just buy pre-cooked chicken, shrimp or ham from the grocery store - either frozen or from the deli counter. Takes the guesswork out of it.
I think that a delicatessen or deli section of a supermarket could provide several different meat items, already cooked. Or maybe trade with a neighbor, your nice vegetable dish/salad for a plate of spicy meatballs?
I've been a vegetarian for 13 years. My husband is a devout omnivore.
I do not cook or handle meat. My husband is free to buy, cook and eat any meat he so desires. Whatever I cook becomes his "side-dish".
After a few nasty bouts of me getting ill, we have separate utensils, cutting boards, etc. (anything that can not go into the dishwasher) for meat.
This system works very well for us and keeps us both happy.
re: librarian
Does he prepare meat for himself daily? This fascinates me, I wonder how many couples live this kind of "separated suppers" life for years and years.
re: blue room
He prepares meat for himself several times a week and its certainly not a "separate supper". He'll ask me what I'm cooking for dinner, if he wants meat, he chooses something appropriate. Cooking for us is a very social function and we entertain quite frequently. The only time he's not eating what I cook for dinner is when he's the "chef" and cooking something specific for guests (duck, turkey, game, etc.) We vie for time in the kitchen and find it more fun to cook together in the kitchen than for each of us to take a turn on our own.
re: librarian
I see, it's not like you are put off by the smell of the meat cooking,etc.
re: jbyoga
As an omnivore who has cooked for vegetarians, I suggest the chances of that being successful for someone who wants meat are slim. I love certain types of tofu, but tempeh/seitan and mock meat products simply do not respond to the desire for flesh.
I didn't think there was a simple solution! I do use some mock meats to add substance (made a creole stew tonight using morning star sausage links, the he didn't mind at all), but mostly he doesn't like them. To complicate matters, I grew up kosher, so I am super aware of not letting a spoon or cutting board be used for my stuff and for his. He's definetely free to cook meat, but on nights that he has class I get home way before he does. (also, he's still learning to cook - his version of meatballs is chopped meat rolled into a ball and pan fried, leaving it burnt on the outside on raw on the inside).
I keep thinking that if I'm really a good cook, and use the right spices and seasonings that even a meat eater won't think there's something missing. Guess that's not going to happen!
Morningstar makes a "chik'n strip" product that you can use with stir-fry or even cold in salads or anywhere else that you would use the real thing. i'm not big into the "mock meats" but i hear this one is good as is the Morningstar sausage crumbles for a ground pork sausage substitute for pasta sauces or pizza topping. There is a brand called Tofurky that makes soy Brats, Kielbasa and Italian sausages that are very popular and Kosher, i believe. i do like the Boca crumbles in chilli or tacos.
Maybe you can try these to ween him off meat gradually?
You can use beans to make soups and stews heartier and even make a wonderful meatless loaf with lentils.
Good luck!
Have you tried precooked sausage? We get Bruce Aidell's sausage. It is all precooked and really good. All you would have to do is brown and heat it through. You wouldn't have to touch the stuff, tongs and perhaps scissors to separate the links, are all you need.
This is a quick and satisfying way to add meat to your meal without having to actually deal too directly with the stuff yourself.
Perhaps the next time he prepares meat he can make extra & put in ziploc bags w/ labels to freeze. Then you can enhance his portion before plating by nuking and adding on top or on side or mixed in. Or let him do that quick part if the touching is an issue:Example- his meatballs- they can give him some "meat" in a pasta dish. Have you ever tried South Indian vegetarian food? The flavors are magically complex and satisfiying. Often the spice stores have prepared food to eat or take out and it is a great way to try out something different.
Quite a conundrum but a fascinating accommodation you have made. I am a meat eater but have found the recipes in either the Greens cookbook or the green River Cafe cookbook extremely satisfying; as if these folks had discovered that, yes, even vegetables can be bad for you, and they mean that in the best possible way.
Have you tried either Veat or Quorn products? I think they are both great faux meat products...
My BIL is an omnivore with some limitations - acid reflex, lactose intolerance. His wife is a militant vegetarian. He buys cooked meat to bring home when he wants it, otherwise he eats the food she cooks. Whenever they eat out, either in a restaurant or someone's home, he dives into the meat dish with both hands. We keep wondering how long this situation can last. They've been married for 3 years.
re: Jacquilynne
I always buy the rotisserie chicken from Costco- it's great for eating plain or cutting up & using in other dishes. And depending on what time of day you pick it up, you won't even have to re-heat it!
re: pamd
I actually don't like their rotisserie chicken very much. It's not virtually inedible (like the stuff I've tried from Loblaws stores), but it's not nearly as good as the ones I can buy at Dominion. I like the concept - grocery store rotisserie chickens can be really handy and make great leftovers, I just don't like the seasoning they use at Costco.
re: Jacquilynne
Are you in the western US? There seems to be more praise for Costco rotissirie chix in the East than the West.
re: Karl S
I'm in the Northern US ... I mean ... uh ... Canada. ;) Maybe we get the bad recipe up here, though!
re: Jacquilynne
that could be it- I'm in the East. there is actually not much seasoning on them to dislike here. The dept at my local one ran out so much that they built an entire expanded rotisserie section!
I'm not vegetarian, but some raw meat grosses me out! Beef is OK, but poultry? Eew. And it is flesh and sometimes bloody. So I can understand not wanting to handle it.
well if he's criticizing your cooking, he should probably learn to cook his own meat then, & freeze as per other posters' suggestions, or buy it precooked.
but if you are really trying to be kind: does "chicken by george" still exist? frozen chx breasts in different sauce/spice mixes, in the freezer at grocery store: prick plastic & nuke until done, slit plastic & slide onto plate along with formerly vegetarian meal as "side"-- handling meat is minimal or nonexistant, might be an option if something like that still exists & it's not quite a teevee dinner. Sausage is another good suggestion. good luck
we're the opposite, I eat meat and my partner is vegetarian. if I left him to his own divices he would eat kraft dinner every or perogies every night. i tend to make meals and add the meat after. so, for example, if i make pasta then i just top it with chicken for me and tofu for him.
the problem is that although you can buy pre-cooked meats, you usually still have to handle them. costco has a great roast pork and a great roast chicken, but you'd still have to cut them up, and in the chicken case it's still got all the bones, so it's a little trickier to cut.
here (in Ontario) Costco carries pre-cooked sliced chicken breast that is great, I really like it and the freedom it affords.
my suggestion is get the roasts, get him to cut them up and individually portion them then freeze or refridgerate that, then it's just a matter of pulling it out when he needs it, and he can do the prep when he has time, instead of when he's just gotten home from class and is hungry.


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Wow, chills up and down my spine hearing Vin's voice.
Wow, chills up and down my spine hearing Vin's voice.
Furcal singles.
Hudson singles.
Manny flies out.
Ethier flies out.
Furcal and Hudson pull off the double steal.
Martin walks.
Loney singles Furcal and Hudson in, but is thrown out trying to take second.
2-0 Dodgers.
2 on Peavy in the first inning. Don't see that often.
You freaks driving down from LA to Petco caused a 5 minute slow-down on my commute, bastards!!!
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Furcal and Hudson gettin bi-zay on the basepaths already. Hope its like that all season long!
Keep stickin' it to Peavy, boys!!!
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****, that's such a deep part of the park. Good that Gonzalez hit it to death valley there.
RBI single for Ethier.
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Hook and Charming standing next to their true loves. Seriously, this scene alone confirms it in my eyes. Hook has become a part of the Charming family, because his place is where Emma is
(and because Charming has a major mancrush on him). He's a part of their little "I will always find you"-club. We don't get scenes like that with Neal.
Also, what does he do in this scene? Hook comforts Emma and tries to assure her that Neal will turn up again. And he does that despite his love for her and the fact that he thinks he has to give Neal and Emma their fair shot at happiness
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Rod Laver Arena
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|The Tennis Centre
|Former names
|National Tennis Centre (1988–92)
Centre Court (1993–99)[1]
|Batman Ave
Melbourne VIC 3000
|37°49′18″S 144°58′42″E / 37.82167°S 144.97833°ECoordinates: 37°49′18″S 144°58′42″E / 37.82167°S 144.97833°E
|City of Melbourne
|Melbourne & Olympic Parks
|Broke ground
|11 January 1988[4]
|Construction cost
|$94 million
$23 million (1996 renovations)
|Peddle Thorp Learmonth
|Australian Open (Tennis) (1988–present)
Melbourne Tigers (NBL) (1992–2000)
South East Melbourne Magic (NBL) (1992–1998)
Victoria Titans (NBL) (1998–2000)
|Venue Website
Rod Laver Arena is a stadium that is part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and has been the main venue for the Australian Open in tennis since 1988, replacing the aging Kooyong Stadium. Originally called National Tennis Centre or Centre Court, the arena's name officially changed in January 2000 to honour Rod Laver, a three-time winner of the Australian Open and one of world's greatest tennis players. The arena was finished in 1988 with a seating capacity of 15,000. The venue currently attracts over 1.5 million visitors per year.
The Arena features a retractable roof allowing competitors to continue play during rain or extreme heat. It is the centrepiece of Melbourne Park's Tennis Centre, and besides tennis, the arena hosts motorbike super-crosses, music concerts, conferences, World Wrestling Entertainment events (since 2003), and ballets.
Rod Laver Arena was the centrepiece of the 12th FINA World Aquatics Championships, which were held from 17 March-1 April 2007. A temporary swimming pool, named the Susie O'Neill Pool after Australian swimming champion Susie O'Neill, was built to allow this to happen.
It hosted a World Championship Wrestling event in October 2000. The Rod Laver Arena played host to the gymnastics competition in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Rod Laver Arena is equipped with the Hawk-Eye electronic system which allows tennis players to challenge the umpire's decision on calls made throughout championships.
On 3 April 1992, the arena became the home of Melbourne basketball when the Melbourne Tigers defeated the Canberra Cannons 112-104. The arena was also home to the South East Melbourne Magic (later renamed the Victoria Titans in 1998 after merging with the North Melbourne Giants) with both teams attracting some of the largest crowds in the history of the NBL. Rod Laver Arena was also the site of the first ever "outdoor" pro basketball game in Australia when the Magic hosted the Adelaide 36ers on 31 December 1997 with the roof open.
The largest basketball crowd at Rod Laver Arena was set in 1996 when 15,366 attended a local derby game between the Magic and Tigers while the 1996 NBL Grand Final series, also between the Magic and Tigers, saw the NBL's largest ever single game Grand Final crowd when 15,064 watched the Magic defeat the Tigers 88-84 in game two of the three game series.[5]
1992 saw the first time two teams from the one city had reached the NBL Grand Final series when the Magic faced fellow Melbourne Park tenants the Tigers. With all games being played at the leagues largest venue a record aggregate of 43,605 (average 14,535) fans saw the Magic win their first championship two games to one, coming back to win games two and three 115-93 and 95-88 after losing game one 98-116.
In all, Rod Laver Arena hosted 287 NBL games including NBL Championship deciders in 1992, 1996, 1997 and 1999, and played host to its last game in April 2000 before Hisense Arena opened in 2000 and became the new home of Melbourne Basketball due to the continuing rising cost of staging games at the venue.[citation needed]
In 2009, the arena polled 9th out of 50 worldwide top arenas for first-quarter ticket sales, making it the second highest ticket selling venue in Australia, second to Sydney's Acer Arena, which placed third. In 2012, the arena became Australia's highest selling venue and 4th in the world, based on 2011 ticket sales.[6]
From 1988 until 2007, the surface of the court in the arena was Rebound Ace, which was coloured green and known to favour serve and volley players. The surface was also blamed for many injuries in the Australian Open, with many players claiming that the surface became sticky in hot weather, making it difficult to play on.
In 2008, the surface was changed to Plexicushion, which is coloured blue. The surface is similar in properties to DecoTurf, the surface used in the US Open. This has more cushioning and more "give" than Rebound Ace. The change of surfaces gained a mostly positive reaction from players, as the surface is said to be easier to play on than Rebound Ace.
It has also had a temporary grass court in use, during the 1993 Davis Cup quarterfinals, 2001 Davis Cup final and the 2003 Davis Cup final.
Other uses[edit]
The arena is frequently used as a venue for music concerts.
American singer P!nk performed a record breaking 18 concerts at the venue in the summer of 2013 with her Truth About Love Tour, beating her own record of 17 shows from the Funhouse Tour in 2009.[7] She is currently the artist who hold the record for most shows at the venue. Pop superstar Katy Perry is set to perform 8 shows at the arena as part of her Prismatic World Tour.
Lady Gaga has also performed at this venue multiple times. She performed as the opening act for the Doll Domination Tour on March 26 & 27 in 2009. She performed here in 2010 on March 23, 24 & April April 9 as part of her The Monster Ball Tour and in 2012 on June 27, 28, 30 & July 1,3 as part of her Born This Way Ball and is set to bring her ArtRave: The Artpop Ball to the venue on August 23, 2014. Another date was added on the May 22, for August 24, 2014 due to high demand. Legendary rock band Queen featuring Adam Lambert are also set to perform 2 spectacular shows at the venue on August 29th and August 30th for their "Once in a lifetime tour". It's believed to be their first tour down under in 29 years.
In 18 March, 2015, Australian singer Kylie Minogue will perform as part of her Kiss Me Once Tour.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Centre court named after Laver". New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). 22 December 1999. p. 43. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1561375/pinks-australian-arena-tour-grows-to-45-shows
- ^ "Tennis". Melbourne & Olympic Parks. Retrieved 2013-06-28.
- ^ Colebatch, Tim (12 January 1988). "Melbourne's state-of-the-art tennis centre is a knockout". The Age (Melbourne, Australia). Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "World's busiest arenas". PlaceNorthWest. 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2013-08-22.
- ^ Brandle, Lars (2013-05-27). "Pink's Australia Tour Breaks Melbourne Venue Record". Billboard. Retrieved 2013-06-28.
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Media related to Rod Laver Arena at Wikimedia Commons
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Protesters, Police Clash in Kiev, 10 Deaths Confirmed
Topic: Pro-EU Protests Erupt in Ukraine
Protesters, Police Clash in Ukraine in March on Parliament© REUTERS/ Konstantin Chernichkin
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Protesters, Police Clash in Ukraine in March on Parliament© REUTERS/ Konstantin Chernichkin
Protesters, Police Clash in Ukraine in March on Parliament© REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich
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KIEV, February 18 (RIA Novosti) – Anti-government protesters and police engaged in violent street battles that left hundreds injured and at least ten dead, including three police officers, in Ukraine's capital on Tuesday.
The capital's police department said in a statement that three police officers died and 184 were injured, 35 of them critically. By late Tuesday, 159 officers have been admitted to city hospitals.
A Kiev police spokesman said that seven civilians also died as a result of the clashes. Two of them died of heart failure, one was killed in a car accident, one in fire and three were shot dead.
Fighting escalated in Kiev as a standoff played out inside parliament, where deputies faced off over changes to the constitution that the opposition has said could be a way out of the political paralysis gripping the country.
Thousands of radical demonstrators moving toward the parliament building around midday – many of them wielding shields and sticks, and wearing masks – were confronted by police who deployed rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas. Pictures from the front lines showed rioters ripping up cobblestones to hurl at police.
Riot police pushed the crowd back to barricades surrounding the central Independence Square. The area was cordoned off on Tuesday evening and police attempted to disperse the crowd using stun grenades and smoke pellets. At least one water cannon was also used.
Protesters responded by throwing Molotov cocktails and firecrackers at officers. Fires erupted in several areas.
A lawmaker with the ruling Party of Regions, Oleh Tsaryov, vowed shortly after that the Independence Square rally will be dispersed "in an hour."
"We will restore order in Kiev and then will restore it around the country," he said.
The crowd also seized the capital's city hall, which served as the headquarters of the major anti-government protest in Ukraine for nearly two months. The building was unblocked on Sunday after authorities freed all demonstrators who had been detained since the unrest erupted.
Kiev police said a group of young people, armed with truncheons, also attacked the Canadian Embassy where they "smashed property and attempted to hurt employees of the diplomatic mission."
Police also said a truck, apparently hijacked by protesters, rammed a group of people, injuring three. The vehicle was later set on fire.
Lesya Orobets, a deputy with the opposition Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party, said on her Facebook page that at least three protesters had been killed. Radio Free Europe cited opposition medic Olga Bogomolets as also saying from a first aid center near parliament that three people had been killed and seven were in a serious condition.
The Interior Ministry confirmed reports of six dead early Tuesday evening and said police were investigating the matter.
Police earlier said one person was killed at the headquarters of the ruling Party of Regions, which was stormed by demonstrators Tuesday.
Ukrainian officials said early Tuesday evening that if rioting did not die down within two hours – by 6 p.m. local time – authorities would be obliged to restore order by means provided for by law.
Operation of the Kiev metro was suspended amid the clashes, and passengers were told to disembark as the trains came to a halt across the city.
A Defense Ministry spokesperson said the seizure of a military building in the city earlier in the day by protestors would provoke an appropriate response by the military, according to the Russian state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
Opposition deputies in parliament blocked the speaker's rostrum Tuesday in protest against pro-government deputies' refusal to register a bill introducing reform to the constitution.
The bill was eventually registered, the opposition Svoboda party said later Tuesday on Twitter.
Opposition forces are seeking the restoration of the 2004 constitution, which they say would ensure a way out of the political crisis by transferring more powers to parliament from the president.
A spokesperson for the country's legislature said that none of the draft resolutions to restore the 2004 constitution submitted Tuesday for consideration by the body had met a requirement of 150 signatures to bring them to the floor.
The Party of Regions has said it is willing to review the law but has refused to automatically return to a previous version.
Moscow reiterated Tuesday that the worsening situation in downtown Kiev is a result of Western interference in the country's politics, according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Large-scale street protests erupted in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities in November after President Viktor Yanukovych backed away from deals to deepen political and economic cooperation with the European Union and instead opted for closer ties with Russia.
The protests have sporadically descended into violence on both sides.
Yanukovych has said he is ready to appoint a coalition government that includes members of the opposition, the speaker of parliament said last week.
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- mythoslightThe Ukrainian government...14:51, 18/02/2014....legitimate and supported by an overwhelming majority, should henceforth address not these "Stormtruppen" of thugs and Nazis forming the western mob, but the US and Nuland directly, who effectively are the ones waging war against Ukraine.
Second, it should clear the streets already since western war-mongering media have tried their best to paint them as "peaceful" girlscouts out in the field, but failed miserably. Just like their wahhabi freaks in Syria, these Nazis will come back and bite their arses too.
Should these measures fail and Nuland/Kagan/McCain instead decide´s to go for civil war (and risk their eagerly awaited southern part & Black Sea coastline prize) Ukraine would be well advised to require help from it´s allies, Russia, most notably.
- R.Deus-von HomeyerRE:The destiny of Ukraine19:18, 19/02/2014Last night I listened to the interview on CNN with McCAIN(the all American-Vietnam hero.
He said,that Ukraine should be allowed to enter the EU and become a stabile,fully democratical and economically progressive country".
The PROBLEM is,that McCaincompletelly forgot to ask US,Germans,French, British,Soaniard a.s.o. IF WE want to give membership to Ukraine?
We,Germans are FED UP(completelly) of bankrupt countries as Greece,Cyprus,Portugal,Ireland,Spain.We are fed up of bailing them out and if the German Govermnet makes a REFERENDUMthe majorityof the Germans will say:"NO!" to Ukraine.
The Ukraininas want to enter the EU,sothat they can come to Germany or UK or France and work here as the salaries are higher than in Ukraine.
Do they think theywillfind work? There are 8 millions Germans and foreigner sliving permanently in Germany without work.
- R.Deus-von HomeyerRE:American dreams19:26, 19/02/2014What the USA wants is ,that Ukraine enters European Union.
One of the condition will be(as it happened in Bulgaria and Romania),that UKRAINA joins the NATO.
Once Ukraine is amember of the NATO,our BELOVED American friends(that is hoe our Government in Berlin addresses USA) will position their US Trooops on the Ukrainian/Russian border,so that they can greet their Russian "broders" for breakfast.HaHaHaaaaaaaaaa...
- R.Deus-von HomeyerRE:UKRAINE's DESTINY18:39, 21/02/2014As I heard on CNN,BBC,German TV and other WESTERN TV Channels,the predominately JOUNG Ukrainians want that their Government signes the ASSOSIATION Agreement with the EU.
The interwieved Ukrainians were about 25 year old and did NOT know ANYTHING aboout the way markets are functioning.
The Assosiation TRADE Agreement will benefit the GERMAN;the BRITISH,the FRENCH or Austrian economy as UKRAINA will be a NEW ,huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge market with 50 000 000 consumers ,to whom they can sell their products,MANUFACTURED in GERMANY,so that the GERMAN workers have jobs...NOT the Ukrainians!
The same happened with Romania and my native country,BULGARIA.
German companies build hotels on the Black Sea;German companies as BEYERSDORF;Siemens;VW,BMW are selling their products to the Bulgarians and because the Bulgarian companies are NOT competitive to the LURE of Western products(which have better packaging),many of them closed...went bankrupt.
IT WILL BE A ONE-WAY STREET for Ukraina...the goods will flow from WEST to the EAST and the Ukrainians will be forced to tae the so called"bail -outs" to pay their DEBTS to the biggest EU countries.
- xama226Yugoslavia second edition19:32, 18/02/2014This is another attempt to stage a coup in the manner of the Yugo coup.
These people are rioters and they should be dealt as such.
The government should clear the streets once and for all. The more it procrastinates the the more brazen they will get.
- R.Deus-von HomeyerRIOTS IN BERLIN or HAMBURG19:59, 19/02/2014Recently there were simmilar riots in HamburgJUST because the Senat of Hamburg designated areas in the city,where those radical rioters are NOT allowed.
The Internationalpress did not report it,because Germany is aEU member and "Bussenfreund" with the USA.Only the German TV reported it.
Every year such riots happen in Berlin on the 1th of May...the LABOR DAY in Europe.
Most of these rioters are ravers...theydo not work;they are drifting fromone town to anotherand living on Social welfare.
- xama226semantics19:43, 18/02/2014Why are you calling violent riots protests?
- Mikhail1228Thank McCain and Nuland!19:05, 19/02/2014McCain and Nuland stood in Kiev calling for the protestors to keep fighting against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. We stand behind you they said. They feel emboldened like former Georgian president Shaakashvili did when he attacked South Ossetia.
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The main event of the third day of the 11th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi was the closing session with President Vladimir Putin. The atmosphere was calm and open, despite the current political tensions and the Russia-West confrontation. The Russian president said that it corresponded to the spirit of the Valdai Club.


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well i have used ./configure --enable-prelude && make && make install
still it is not recognition the alert_prelude
do i need to also specify --with-libprelude-prefix=PFX
Validate that you have libprelude installed and that it is in your library path
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Also if you had already by2 compiled, before running make and make install,
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Description: For the past eight years, Cibolo Nature Center has provided a rare opportunity for thousands of school children to have an enriching educational experience in a natural setting. The Outdoor Classroom program offers more than 4,700 school children a life-enhancing experience -- the opportunity to complete science and math requirements while enjoying themselves in a natural setting.
Outdoor Classroom is an environmental education program with Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)-aligned curriculum for kindergarten through eighth-grade school children from public, private and home-school groups. During the 2008-2009 school year, 4,714 children from Boerne, San Antonio and the surrounding area attended Outdoor Classroom. The program is so popular with children and teachers that classes are booked solid.
Children participating in the Outdoor Classroom learn about the environment while enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of nature in a 100-acre natural preserve with four accessible ecosystems: cypress-lined creek, tall grass prairie, spring-fed marsh and evergreen savannah. The experience of hands-on study of real life along the creek enhances what has been learned in the classroom.
Population Served: More than 4,700 school children from grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Boerne, San Antonio, and surrounding towns in the Hill Country. At least 50% of the students are from Title I schools in disadvantaged areas of San Antonio, and their fees and bus transportation are paid by grants from the community.
The Cibolo Nature Center strives to be a leader in conservation in the Texas Hill Country, as well as a model for nature center development nationwide. Its mission is to promote conservation of natural resources through education and stewardship.
More than 20 years after its founding, the Cibolo Nature Center has grown to 162 acres of natural land, now including the Herff Farm land and homestead. The greatest challenge of the Cibolo Nature Center is to ensure a natural area in the midst of the growing city of Boerne for years – and generations – to come. Working with conservation partners, the Cibolo Nature Center protects four miles along the fragile watershed of the Upper Cibolo Creek.
As founder Carolyn Chipman Evans says, "What's coming to light is the value of the Cibolo as a recharge for the Edwards and Trinity aquifers. We are trying to collaborate on projects that benefit everybody. "
A system of trails that would connect Boerne's existing Old No. 9 walking trail south to the Nature Center's Cibolo Canyon area, is one of the goals.
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text: On Television June 23, 2014 Issue Snowbound The Minnesota noir of "Fargo." By Emily Nussbaum Table of Contents "Fargo," on FX, replaces the film's meditation on the stupidity of violence with a fascination with the intelligence of evil people. Credit Illustration by Marc Aspinall. Maybe the week of the U.C. Santa Barbara shootings was not the ideal time to catch up on a tragicomedy about emasculation avenged. Maybe I'm burned out on bloodbaths. But "Fargo," FX's adaptation of the great film by the Coen brothers, created and written by Noah Hawley, left me feeling a thousand miles away, despite its strong cast and shrewd beauty. It also raised a question that's become a cable-drama default: How good does a violent drama need to be to make the pain of watching worth it? "Breaking Bad," thumbs up; the brilliantly nightmarish "Hannibal," too. Other shows—"The Walking Dead," say—have seemed like a bad bet. As the critic James Poniewozik tweeted recently, "TV's not a chili-pepper-eating contest." "Fargo" is nowhere near as graphic as these shows, and yet it has a streak of sadism that's a serious departure from the movie, which was a snowbound noir about a decent cop chasing incompetent crooks. In it, William H. Macy played Jerry Lundegaard, a watery-eyed lummox who wears a mask of Minnesota nice. Lundegaard hires two goons to kidnap his wife, hoping to squeeze a ransom from his rich father-in-law, only to have his half-baked plot collapse out of sheer amateurishness; by the end, we're watching one desperate fool shove another's corpse into a wood chipper. Aesthetically, the FX show does an effective job mimicking the Coen look, with woozy shots of tiny figures in an indifferent white landscape. (For superfans, it also throws in references to other Coen films, like Easter eggs.) Yet it upends its source material's sly and subtly humane moral vision, which spins around a brief speech by the movie's heroine, Police Chief Marge Gunderson, played by Frances McDormand. "And for what?" she asks. "For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that?" In the film, violent crime is portrayed as comic and lurid but also, finally, as pathetic: the grandest plans end with a suitcase of cash buried deep beneath the snow, never to be found again. In the television series, that suitcase gets dug up. It's nineteen years after the original events, and, while the story isn't identical, it has the same motifs, as if these crimes were a recurring dream: a nebbish (Martin Freeman, as Lester Nygaard) lashes out against his wife; a good-hearted female deputy (the wonderful Allison Tolman, as Molly Solverson) struggles to uncover the facts; and a team of oddball hit men (Adam Goldberg and Russell Harvard) get tangled up in the crime. But these plots have all been extended, to suit the needs of a serialized drama, like a dining-room table with leaves slapped in to accommodate extra guests. Everything has been amped up and doubled: there are now two sweet and decent policemen (Colin Hanks plays the other one), as well as two sets of bantering partners (the hit men, plus some F.B.I. agents, played by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele). The movie's offscreen, near-accidental wife murder becomes a closeup bludgeoning; the original small-time blackmail scam evolves into a cavalcade of glamorous massacres involving a Mob syndicate. Most striking, while the movie was a meditation on the stupidity of violence, the TV show offers up something far more familiar: a set of good-clever people who pursue a set of evil-clever people, complete with the requisite bulletin board full of pins and red strings. This fascination with intelligent evil is most apparent in a new main character, who has no analogue in the original: a sharkish sociopath, a genius of the long con and the longer monologue. This is Lorne Malvo, played with a Mephistophelian smirk and evil hair by Billy Bob Thornton. In the first episode, Malvo runs into Lester—a meek, henpecked insurance broker—in a hospital waiting room, and he impulsively offers to murder Lester's longtime bully. Their unspoken bargain triggers something in Lester, and, by the time the pilot ends, he's hammered his wife to death. Unlike Macy's spellbinding hollow man, with his big empty eyes and inability to remember his own son's existence, Lester is a more recognizable cultural figure, a picked-on nice guy, a passive nerd who, having been insulted one too many times, activates the alpha within. Once Lester begins to kick sand back in the world's face, we can see that he's gone bad, but also that he's become smarter and tougher and more strategic, through the visual shorthand of action movies: the smile that creeps across his blank face when he pulls off his first scam. It's possible that this switch in emphasis is intended to "raise the stakes," as the classic network note puts it. It certainly juices the story, by giving "Fargo" 's antihero, Lester, a motive and a history, and amplifying the evil he embraces, dramatizing it in the human (or possibly superhuman) form of Malvo. But, as a result, Malvo's Devil figure drags "Fargo" into his orbit, which in turn places Solverson—a younger, single-gal take on the Gunderson figure—in a more familiar role, as a smart cop whose boss just won't listen, pursuing a super-criminal. As she builds her case, Malvo toys with a religious supermarket magnate (Oliver Platt) he's been blackmailing in hyperbolic fashion—while playing God, quite literally, he drops locusts into the supermarket and arranges for blood to pour from the man's shower head. He dodges hit men and winds up the winner in a pair of briskly choreographed gunfights; in a sneaky-funny scene, he convinces the cops that he's a small-town preacher. But, if his villainy does indeed raise the stakes, it also ties the show to a set of cable-TV conventions, making Malvo the sort of philosophical assassin who spools out speeches about predators and apes and women raped by Rottweilers. "There are no saints in the animal kingdom," he tells the supermarket magnate. "Only breakfast and dinner." The Devil is supposed to be the most interesting character in any story; here, he's just the chattiest. Other characters have also been cranked to eleven, including Lester's doomed wife, who is portrayed in the pilot as a ball-busting shrew so awful that she deserved to be hammered in the face and go ungrieved—a radical switch from the original story, in which the wife was the pleasant, if dim, casualty of her husband's greed. On almost every front, the creators have removed potential sources of ambiguity or pathos: the Nygaards have no child, and nearly all the victims of the two men's cons are contemptible figures, often in sexualized ways. Lester's bully's widow is a money-grubbing slattern (played with admittedly hilarious gusto by Kate Walsh, who grabs the role with greasy palms); his sister-in-law is a bimbo who complains, "You don't cheat on Miss Hubbard County"; and Malvo's Barbie-like fiancée offers him her thumb up his butt as kinky payment for her diamond ring. Some of these scenes have a nifty, sicko humor, but it gets exhausting to watch a torturer roll his eyes at so many morons, suckers, and sluts, even when these roles are cast with actors as good as Glenn Howerton, who plays a personal trainer, a fake-tanned dummy who gets duct-taped to a shotgun as bait for the cops. I've written before about "bad fan" dynamics, in which a subset of viewers perceive antiheroes simply as heroes, and at times "Fargo" throws red meat to this crowd, offering naughty fantasies in the guise of subversiveness. When Lester screws his bully's widow, he does so doggy style, while staring at a picture of her and her dead husband, achieving the world's purest revenge orgasm as she complains, "You're hurting me." Her being hurt is part of the fantasy, since she's the worst. When she later confronts him at work, Lester staples her idiot sons in the face, and his female colleague coos, "You're amazing." Malvo's crimes, too, are presented as at once grotesquely horrible and utterly delicious, because they're acts of high-flown cinema, as much Scorsese as Coen. The best of these sequences are dazzling, especially a gunfight in a snowstorm, and another in which Malvo massacres his mobster enemies. As he breaks into their office building, the cameras glide over shimmering windows, which reflect the snowy streets. Deprived of blood, we get only the devastating audio: "Freeze, shitbird!" "What's the code for the elevator?" We hear gunshots and terrified screams—until, finally, a body bursts through a window. There are similar arresting sequences throughout "Fargo," and, had I enjoyed the first nine episodes more (I haven't seen the finale), this column would likely be nothing but a list of such cool stuff: Lester's spinning washing machine as it becomes his sister-in-law's coffee cup; the camera sliding down a bedspread into a theatre curtain; a daring one-year leap in chronology; and strong performances, including from Tolman, who elevates every scene, and Keith Carradine, as her supportive father. It would be nice to focus on only the best (and most Coen-like) sequences, such as the one in which a rabbi delivers a bloody parable on philanthropy, about a rich man who decides to donate all his organs. "Only a fool thinks he can solve the world's problems," the rabbi concludes. Only a fool would deny "Fargo" 's polish and verve, its stylized razzle-dazzle. But, for me at least, after a year of gulping down chili peppers, it takes more to make a meal. ♦ Emily Nussbaum is the television critic for The New Yorker. Bio All work & You Might Like Jigsaw Puzzle Strongbox Submissions Goings On App About Us Caption Contest The New Yorker Festival ✕ The New Yorker Strongbox Strongbox is a new way for you to share information, messages, and files with our writers and editors and is designed to provide you with a greater degree of anonymity and security than afforded by conventional e-mail. To help protect your anonymity, Strongbox is only accessible using the Tor network (https://www.torproject.org). When using Strongbox, The New Yorker will not record your I.P. address or information about your browser, computer, or operating system, nor will we embed third-party content or deliver cookies to your browser. You can read our full privacy promise here. The New Yorker Strongbox is powered by SecureDrop. 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Writing Comic - Writer's Block – Everywhere
Some days you feel like you can't write another word. You feel as flat and useless as road kill. Your writing is as dull as toothache and just as painful to endure. No amount of coffee and staring out the window is helping to summon the muse. You consider becoming a religious recluse or marrying for money. This is not a good state of mind, especially if you have a looming deadline.
Now I'm not going to go all self-help/Dr Phil in this blog, because you'd probably want to bludgeon me to death. I'm just going to say what has worked for me in the past. Sometimes, it is a cure to those mean writing blues. Sometimes, the muse will show up, even if she is wearing her tracksuit and hasn't combed her hair.
Writing is not adding up numbers or hanging curtains or programming your PVR. There is a certain mystery to the creative process. We can sometimes find a way to short hand the process or trick ourselves into writing—but we must also not be too hard on ourselves if it doesn't work. Just trust that it will come back to you.
by Anthony Ehlers for Writers Write
I don't believe in Writer's Block. I believe writers simply get stuck when they're writing. There are many reasons why this happens. At Writers Write, we always encourage writers to plot their book before they start writing. You need to know where you're going before you begin.
I have also interviewed more than 100 authors. Most of these writers have a plan, they have a writing routing, they are open to learning, and they know how their book is going to end. They don't believe in waiting for the muse. They believe in hard work.
These are the most common reasons why writers stop writing.
10 things writers struggle with when writing a book
Once we identify these problems, I am able to help my students.
Here are 10 simple ways to solve these problems
by Amanda Patterson
How to beat those mid-novel blues
The other day, I spoke to a former student on the phone. "My Writers Write box stares at me from the shelf," she said. "I haven't touched it in weeks." She has deadlines at work, a daughter writing her final Matric exams. Another friend, who writes ebullient, fun romances, emailed me this week. "I have not written a word in nine months," she confessed despondently. "I need to see you." A friend, who lives in London, Skyped me. He is busy with exams and hasn't touched his fantasy novel in ages—and since his last one was rejected, well, the motivation just isn't there. What can he do?
I'll be honest. I don't always know what to say when others writers admit to being stuck, demotivated, frustrated, overwhelmed. My advice sounds trite, forced—placebos for people who need Prozac. I can understand their dilemma. Every writer goes through these down patches, where we can't write, won't write or whatever we write turns out dry, fragmented, and uninteresting.
Trust yourself
For me, the comfort comes from knowing that I've been in those dark valleys before, sat dry-mouthed in front a blank page, taken a nap when I should've been finishing a chapter and that it passes. Rosemont Lehmann, inA Sea-Grape Tree, writes: "Trust your unhappiness like you trust your happiness." This is true. You will learn from both. When I read this novel, I was going through a bad summer, a lonely time. I was looking after a film producer's house while she was away in Europe, and I took her words to heart. I sat at the pool every morning and wrote one story after another. At night, her words would come back to me. I realised that when we let go of our shame about our unhappiness, guilt, laziness, past—we don't stay trapped. We forgive ourselves. We move on.
Look for lifelines
The good news is that the dead period will pass. It takes some positive effort, to be sure. A trip to a second hand book store, a new notebook, a reading hour before bed: these are little Writing Prozac pills for the weary and depressed writer. Look for the lifeline—a ten-minute free writing session, asking a friend for help, going back to writing group—and hold on to it.A while ago, I read a book that said you can come to writing at any stage of life and you don't have to feel guilty for it. You may be starting a new business, raising a family, having an affair or travelling. When you come back to writing, you will still possess the talent you always had. The writing gods don't punish you.
Good news
This week, a friend published her second romance novel with a major publisher. I met with a writer who has just completed the manuscript of his first novel at the age of 60. A delegate from a recent Short Cuts short story workshop emailed me his story to read. These writers broke through the ennui and were having fun as writers again. The best way to find yourself as a writer again is simple: start writing.
Trust yourself. It's your story. No one else is going to tell it for you.
By Anthony Ehlers for Writers Write
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Writer's Block and the Fine Art of Procrastination
In Carlos Ruiz Zafon's novel, The Angel's Game, his character, David, a writer by trade with a new assistant, Isabella, said the following:
'One of the first expedients of the professional writer that Isabella had learned from me was the art of procrastination. Every veteran in the trade knows that any activity, from sharpening a pencil to cataloguing daydreams had precedence over sitting down at one's desk and squeezing one's brain.'
Of all my writing skills I think Procrastination is by far the most developed. I truly excel at the art.
This week I did the following:1) I re-arranged my study. Again.2) Scrubbed the stove, with a toothbrush.3) Meticulously blow-waved my hair before picking the kids up from school. 4) Sorted and repacked their puzzles. 5) Googled. You can call this research.6) Made tea. This trick is two-fold. It guarantees a bathroom break.7) Stared at my character boards.8) Dusted my keyboard. With an ear bud.9) Paged through old magazines. This can also pass for research.10) Observed rabbits. I have several in my garden. This could also be research. Not that I am planning a rabbit book, but who knows.
Or of course, you can write an article about procrastination and that seems to be working because at least I am writing again. No more bunnies. No more Google. (I unplug my Wi-Fi if it gets very bad.) No more tea.
Stephen King says never stop writing, not even for a bathroom break. I have never tried this one in particular. Nora Roberts says find someone to kill (a character, she means a character) and Ray Bradbury says you only fail if you stop.
So I guess we'll keep writing then, but feel free to leave your favourite procrastination tip in the comment section below. I am always looking for new ideas.
by Mia Botha. Mia facilitates for Writers Write. She is also a novelist, a ghost writer, and the winner of the Mills & Boon Voice of Africa Competition. When she isn't procrastinating about writing, she is a mother of two children and the wife of a very lucky man. Follow Mia on Pinterest and Facebook and Tumblr and Twitter
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