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Pope to create 19 new cardinals, many from outside Europe By Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere
Posted By: johnsonon: February 22, 2014 In: Religion SectionNo Comments
Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis will create his first batch of cardinals on Saturday, with nine of the 19 coming from South America, Africa and Asia.
The new "princes of the Church" will be presented with scarlet-red birettas and gold rings at a grandiose ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica that Vatican observers say should help correct a perceived bias towards European cardinals.
Sixteen of the 19 cardinals are under the age of 80 and can therefore take part in the secretive conclave that elects new popes from among their ranks.
In an indication of the importance of the developing world for the Argentine pope — a fierce critic of economic inequality — half are non-Europeans, including five cardinals from South America, two Africans and two Asians.
"Becoming a cardinal is not a promotion, nor an honour or a decoration; it is simply a service which requires a broadening of the gaze and a widening of the heart," Francis said in a letter to each new cardinal-to-be, according to La Stampa daily.
Francis is keen to nourish faith in developing countries, to combat the decline of practicing believers in Europe, the Church's traditional power base.
The first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years will bestow the honour of the red cap on the archbishops of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Santiago in Chile, Managua in Nicaragua and Les Cayes in Haiti.
Aurelio Poli, 66, took over the post of Buenos Aires archbishop from Francis, who was a regular visitor to the city's slums before he became pope almost a year ago.
Chibly Langlois, 55, will be the Church's first cardinal from Haiti, one of the poorest countries of the world.
According to Vatican watcher John Allen, Francis is taking the idea of privileging the periphery even further, by choosing Haiti over the region's three Catholic powerhouses — Cuba, Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic.
For Africa, the new electors will be the archbishops of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and Abidjan in Ivory Coast, while Asia will be represented by the archbishops of Cotabato in the Philippines and Seoul in South Korea.
The pope's choices echo his desire to emphasis the pastoral side of the Church — choosing for the most part leaders engaged with the problems affecting their local communities rather than favouring administrative heads.
Only four are members of the Curia — the Vatican's government — including Italian Pietro Parolin, 58, the new secretary of state, as well as German Gerhard Mueller, 66, who heads the Vatican's doctrinal congregation.
Among the most prominent in the group is Britain's Vincent Nichols, the 68-year-old Archbishop of Westminster, who has been likened to Francis for his determination to speak out for the marginalised.
Just a week before the Vatican ceremony, he waded into British politics to condemn welfare cuts and is best known for winding up the Church's conservative arm in 2010 by defending London masses for gay and transgender Catholics.
Nichols will be joined by Gerald Lacroix, the lord archbishop of Quebec in Canada and one of the youngest electors to be chosen at the age of 56.
The oldest "new prince" will be Loris Francesco Capovilla, the 98-year-old former secretary to pope John XXIII, who will not be attending because of his reduced mobility but is likely to receive his red cap at home.
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Idris Elba gave an update on how he's feeling on Tuesday after he announced earlier this week that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The actor credited Tom Hanks for inspiring him to speak publicly about his diagnosis.
"I'm really proud of Tom Hanks, who is also someone in the public eye, who came out and said they have it and been public about it," Elba said in a live-stream Q&A on Twitter. "I was definitely motivated by Tom's move there."
Hanks announced in a statement on Twitter last week that he and his wife, actor Rita Wilson, both tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
The "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" star noted in the statement that the couple would be "isolated for as long as public health and safety requires."
Elba, who on Monday shared his diagnosis in a video alongside his wife, Sabrina Dhowre Elba, said in his live-stream on Tuesday that he didn't have any of the "commonly known" symptoms that have been reported to be associated with the virus.
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When asked by a Twitter user whether he was worried about it, Elba responded, "Yes, of course I'm worried."
"I'm worried about having the virus, I'm worried about having asthma and how that could make things really complicated for me very quickly," he said. "I'm really worried about what's going on in the world, if I'm honest, I'm really worried about how we're dealing with it."
Elba later noted the importance of "transparency," saying he's "worried people aren't talking to each other about it."
"I'm worried that people are going to stigmatize other people, I'm worried that we're going to panic and send the whole world into a spin," he added.
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Elsewhere in his live-stream, Elba noted that he's been working on making music during his self-quarantine, following the CDC's guidelines on social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The actor, who is also a DJ and music producer, said he's been learning to play the guitar and is writing songs.


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We thoroughly enjoyed our two week stay at the Indian Summer House. The garden was spacious for our dog and we would love to return in the future.
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Women's final match in the Sector 21 campus
The 2017 and 2018 editions of the Candor Badminton Championship received an overwhelming response from participants. We take you to the venues where the tournaments reached their smashing conclusion as the players competed for the titles in good spirit.
The championship winners from the Sector 48 campus
From the standpoint of sheer joy, interest, and challenge, badminton has no equal. The game also brings you closer to health, fitness and fun. Unfortunately, in today's hectic life, playing badminton or rather, any other sport in general has taken a back seat. With the objective to help correct this situation at least among the occupants of its campuses, Candor TechSpace organised the first two editions of the 'Candor Badminton Championship' in two of its campuses, namely in Sectors 21 and 48 in Gurugram. These tournaments were all about giving the participants a respite from their work, and the opportunity to engage with their colleagues in a competitive yet fun environment.
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The Candor TechSpace team with the championship winners
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The trophies to be won at the Candor Badminton Championship
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Lempereur, Brett, Madjid Merabti and Qi Shi. "Pypette: A Platform for the Evaluation of Live Digital Forensics." Emerging Digital Forensics Applications for Crime Detection, Prevention, and Security. IGI Global, 2013. 123-137. Web. 20 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4006-1.ch009
Lempereur, B., Merabti, M., & Shi, Q. (2013). Pypette: A Platform for the Evaluation of Live Digital Forensics. In C. Li (Ed.), Emerging Digital Forensics Applications for Crime Detection, Prevention, and Security (pp. 123-137). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4006-1.ch009
Lempereur, Brett, Madjid Merabti and Qi Shi. "Pypette: A Platform for the Evaluation of Live Digital Forensics." In Emerging Digital Forensics Applications for Crime Detection, Prevention, and Security, ed. Chang-Tsun Li, 123-137 (2013), accessed January 20, 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4006-1.ch009
InfoSci-Security and Forensics
Pypette: A Platform for the Evaluation of Live Digital Forensics
Brett Lempereur (School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK), Madjid Merabti (School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK) and Qi Shi (School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK)
Source Title: Emerging Digital Forensics Applications for Crime Detection, Prevention, and Security
Live digital forensics presents unique challenges with respect to maintaining forensic soundness, but also offers the ability to examine information that is unavailable to quiescent analysis. Any perturbation of a live operating system by a forensic examiner will have far-reaching effects on the state of the system being analysed. Numerous approaches to live digital forensic evidence acquisition have been proposed in the literature, but relatively little attention has been paid to the problem of identifying how the effects of these approaches, and their improvements over other techniques, can be evaluated and quantified. In this paper, the authors present Pypette, a novel platform enabling the automated, repeatable analysis of live digital forensic acquisition techniques.
Traditional approaches to digital forensic investigation are quiescent, in that they require the examiner to power-off the subject machine and make a bit-for-bit copy of non-volatile storage media before proceeding with any examination. As the nature and scale of computing systems continues to change this approach is, in some cases, impractical; examiners must often rely on an in-situ investigation of the live computing environment (Adelstein, 2006; Hay, Nance, & Bishop, 2009).
Live digital forensics presents unique challenges with respect to maintaining forensic soundness, but also offers the ability to examine information that is unavailable to quiescent analysis, namely the operational state of the system. The evidence gained from this approach, however, lacks credibility (Wang, Zhang, & Zhang, 2009). This problem is exacerbated by the possibility of malicious software altering the output from live digital forensic software (Rutkowska, 2007). Despite this, there has been no systematic attempt to examine the side effects and accuracy of live digital forensic approaches to evidence acquisition.
Scale is a pervasive problem in Digital Forensics. In 1999, McKemmish (McKemmish, 1999) published a report for the Australian Institute of Criminology in which he identified the volume of data and prevalence of digital devices as future research issues. More than ten years later, this is still the case (Distefano & Me, 2008; Haggerty & Taylor, 2007; Richard & Roussev, 2006). The growth in static storage has been "tremendous," and the number of embedded devices that could feasibly be used to participate in crime, often equipped with their own proprietary operating systems, is increasing (Mohay, 2005).
Figure 1 illustrates the scale of the problem through a visualisation of the interactions that occur between processes and files in a typical Microsoft Windows machine during a 25-minute period. Vertices in the diagram represent the files and processes on the system, with edges indicating process creation and operations performed on files. There is a high-degree of interdependence, and any perturbation of a live operating system by a forensic examiner will have far-reaching effects on the state of the system being analysed.
Visualisation of inter-process communication and file handle interaction
We believe that live digital forensic evidence, which describes how a computer was actually used, is a useful addition to inferences drawn from artefacts in documents and files, and that if employed correctly it can be a significant aid to an investigation. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to evaluating the effects and accuracy of live digital forensic acquisition techniques. Where existing approaches have focused on evaluation based on a percentage of memory change before and after acquiring live forensic evidence, we consider the accuracy and effects of methods in terms of the artefacts forensic examiners actually need to extract from systems, and the mechanisms they use for achieving this. The result of this work is Pypette, a platform for performing automated, repeatable experiments on live digital forensic acquisition techniques.
The rest of this paper is organised as follows. We begin with a discussion of general concepts in live digital forensics and initial work towards evaluating live digital forensics techniques. In the next section, we present the design of our live forensic experimentation platform, and then explain the results from our implementation and feasibility assessment. We conclude the paper with a summary of our approach and directions for further work.
When a system cannot be powered off, because of legal, technical, or other reasons, analysts must perform a live forensic analysis. Regardless of whether the examiner is taking a quiescent or live approach, acquiring and analysing evidence in a forensically sound manner is paramount to the success of an investigation and the acceptance of evidence in court. To be considered forensically sound, processes must meet the following criteria (McKemmish, 2008):


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Joseph, Chargers looking ahead to challenges against Broncos
COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP)Linval Joseph and the Los Angeles Chargers have tried to put last week's 41-29 loss at Houston behind them as quickly as possible. With their postseason hopes on the line and facing Denver on Sunday, they have no other choice.
That's because the Broncos beat the Bolts 28-13 on Nov. 28 in the same manner that Houston did – a steady running attack and converting on third down. Denver rushed for 147 yards, averaging 4.5 yards per carry, and was 8 of 11 on third downs.
Denver's Melvin Gordon, who played five seasons for the Chargers before heading to the Broncos in 2020, had 83 yards and rookie Javonte Williams had 111 scrimmage yards (54 rushing, 57 receiving).
The Chargers have the league's fourth-worst run defense, allowing 140.3 yards per game. Houston rushed for 189 yards last week, marking the fifth time this season Los Angeles has allowed at least 180.
"Last week wasn't our best week. I'm just glad that we have the opportunity to go out there and do it against Denver because they beat us the last time around," Joseph said. "The only way to get this taste out of your mouth is to go out there, do your job and do it well. We have to go out there and stop the run."
While the Chargers were short-handed on defense last week, they could be getting most of their players out of COVID-19 protocols in time for Sunday. Linebacker Joey Bosa was activated on Wednesday and defensive end Justin Jones came off the list on Tuesday. Cornerbacks Chris Harris Jr. and Michael Davis as well as safety Nasir Adderley are the other defensive starters who remain in protocols.
Safety Derwin James, who has missed two of the last three games due to a hamstring injury, participated in team drills on Wednesday for the first time in three weeks.
"It's been a fight for us on defense. Some games, we've performed better than others," coach Brandon Staley said. "I still think that our best is out there, as a team. I'm hoping that we can get as many of our guys to joined up as possible because I know what it looks like when we have a group out there that's healthy."
The Chargers (8-7) went from the sixth seed and a wild-card spot to ninth and on the outside looking in after the loss to the Texans. However, Miami, which holds the final playoff spot, faces Tennessee and No. 8 seed Baltimore hosts the Los Angeles Rams this week.
Joseph has first-hand experience though being on teams that catch fire at the end of the season and ride that momentum through the playoffs. He was on the New York Giants in 2011 when they were 7-7 before winning six straight games, including the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots.
"I just think it's a good opportunity for everybody, to be honest with you. We do have a young team, so to take a loss like that last week, we have to respond," he said. "Now, it's now or never. You don't want to put it in everybody else's hands; you want it to be in your hands. We have to go out there and do what we have to do. We have to go out there and get it done this Sunday."


Multifamily residential complex planned near Venice and Lincoln Boulevards.
A multifamily residential complex is coming to Venice, per a filing today with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.
The project, slated for a .30-acre site at 1015 E. Venice Boulevard, would replace three small dwellings with a larger apartment complex. Applicants Venman, LLC and Venlin, LLC have submitted plans to construct a 56-unit building which would include six units of extremely low-income household - priced for those making 30 percent of the area median income.
The proposed development would require Tier III incentives under the Transit Oriented Communities Guidelines, which would allow for reductions to normally required rear and side yards, as well as on-site open space.


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twofour54 cements reputation as 'Studio of the Year'
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ABU DHABI, 24th March, 2018 (WAM) — Media and entertainment hub twofour54 picked up the prestigious 'Studio of the Year' award for the second year in a row, cementing its position as one of the world's leading film and TV production locations.
Sameer Al Jaberi Production Manager and Hameeda Al Rahbi, Production Coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of twofour54 at the 14th Digital Studio Awards, organised by ITP Media Group. The Awards recognise individuals and organisations that contribute to the thriving broadcast and production industry in the Middle East.
This success means twofour54 has now won 'Studio of the Year' four times, having picked up the accolade last year as well as in 2014 and 2010. The latest award capped an incredible year for twofour54, with highlights including two major productions building sets on the backlot at Khalifa Industrial Zone, KIZAD, and more than 50 episodes of popular children's show 'Iftah Ya Simsim' being shot at twofour54.
The award comes just weeks after plans were announced to boost film and TV production facilities in Abu Dhabi even further with the development of the 300,000 sqm twofour54's Studio City at Mina Zayed complex. It will feature an outdoor film set, a permanent backlot and studios for productions of all sizes, from small local projects to Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters.
Maryam Eid AlMheiri, CEO of Media Zone Authority – Abu Dhabi and twofour54, said, "We are delighted that our world-class facilities and talent have yet again been recognised at the Digital Studio Awards. Last year was a remarkable 12 months for twofour54, during which we saw our longest production to date with box office smash 'Tiger Zinda Hai', as well as many other international and regional studios and production companies choosing Abu Dhabi for their projects."
She went on to say that twofour54 is becoming one of the hottest locations in the world for filmmakers. "We expect its popularity to rise even further when our incredible new Studio City at Mina Zayed complex is completed. It is our goal to be the capital of content creation, and this award proves that we are realising that vision," AlMheiri added.
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My feet are dirty from the dust. It's dry, way too dry actually. The people in the village are waiting for rain to come. Normally the rains have already started, but over the past years it's become more and more unreliable. As we are driving through the rural areas of Agago district in Acholi, I let my mind wonder. It goes back to classes in university, about climate change, refugees and the rationale behind people on the move. However, it is not just theory. I am driving to places where struggles to find an income and keeping youth away from alcohol are a day to day reality.
It's my first day in the field with ZOA Uganda. I've been here now a week, but it feels much longer already. It's really nice to get the opportunity straight away to go into the field and actually meet the local staff and most of all, the people we are all doing this for. Acholi is a region in recovery after many people got displaced in the times of the Lord's Resistance Army led by Kony. A conflict most of us in the West have forgotten about. But here teenage mothers and former child soldiers are still suffering from the consequences of those times. The ZOA programs here are very practical. Land rights. Food security. Vocational training. Yet behind it are strong social ideas about giving people their dignity back and letting them grow in their own capacities.
Watch strikes me is the determination in her eyes. Later on she poses for a picture with her goat. Both proud and a little shy. Just a young woman like me. We are about the same age. However, I can type this story, but she doesn't know how to even spell her own name. Yet. Because these people are the reason that ZOA exists. They are the reason that I came out to live and work here in Uganda. And sure you can ask all sorts of questions about why I need to be here and why local people can't do it themselves. I assure you they do. But a little bit of extra support from outside and just showing up is highly appreciated as I saw today.
I still have a lot to learn. About the people and mainly from the people. About how it is to live and work here in the north of Uganda. My key lesson of today. As a farmer's daughter I have always been taught to appreciate rain. But many of us Dutchies will think of it as a curse. Especially if you have to catch a train and your only means of transport is a bike. But here rain is a blessing. Because rain means food. And food means life.
Day 185 – You were lost!


India is a vast country offering such wide range of experiences that it can leave the itinerant feeling confused and dazed. India is a kaleidoscope of colours, customs, costumes and cuisines. You can scale the mighty Himalayas, journey across the Thar Desert, get a tan on the sunny beaches, sight the majestic tiger and will still need an entire lifetime to explore the unique plurality of this land.
For the wanderlust, India offers extensive opportunities for outdoor adventure - in the Himalayan highlands, in the untamed waters of the rivers meandering down from their creators - snow capped mountains. Indian beaches dotting the Indian coastline, the various national parks and wild life sanctuaries abounding a wide range of flora and fauna are also the great sites for indulging in outdoor adventures. In fact, outdoor adventure never ceases to exist in this land of stupefaction.
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Photograph of James A. Reed and Nell Donnelly Reed's sunroom in their home at 5236 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The caption reads, "#4 Sunroom. Photograph made thru east window from outside. Camera pointing west. By Rich S. Welch, Operator."
Photograph of James A. Reed and Nell Donnelly Reed's sunroom in their home at 5236 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The caption reads, "#3 Sunroom from doorway to living room. Camera pointing south and west. By Rich S. Welch, Operator."
Donnelly Garment Company vs. International Ladies Garment Workers Union, et al.: Exhibit "A-43", James A. Reed's Living Room
Photograph of James A. Reed and Nell Donnelly Reed's living room in their home at 5236 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The caption reads, "#2 Living room showing entrance to sunroom left and breakfast room right. By Rich S. Welch, Operator."
Donnelly Garment Company vs. International Ladies Garment Workers Union, et al.: Exhibit "A-44", James A. Reed's Home
Photograph of James A. Reed and Nell Donnelly Reed's home at 5236 Cherry Street, Kansas City, Missouri. The caption reads, "#1 Southside of Senator Reed's home. Camera pointing north. By Rich S. Welch, Operator."
Rock quarry at 55th and Locust Street
The rock quarry at 55th and Locust Street during the construction of Crestwood Drive.
Rock quarry and steam shovel
Three men working at a rock quarry with steam shovel at Crestwood Drive and Locust Street.
Happy Woods Park
The statue of a small boy and a pool were features of the Crestwood interior park named Happy Woods Park, once located between 54th Street, 55th Street, Locust Street, and Cherry Street. This vantage point faces southeast towards the intersection of Locust Street, 55th Street, and Oak Street in the far right background.
Columns in Crestwood
Six white columns stand erect in a park at Locust Street and Cherry Street, the structure patterned after the columns on the campus at the University of Missouri. This vantage point faces southeast at the intersection of Locust and Cherry, one block north of 54th Street.
Home of Edwin W. Shields at 5110 Cherry Street
Entrance to 5110 Cherry Street, located in Southwood Park. The home belonged to Edwin W. Shields and construction was completed shortly after World War I. This vantage point faces west on Cherry Street between 51st Street and 52nd Street. This building is now part of the University of Missouri - Kansas City.
Crestwood Entrance
Stone archways were built at each of the entrances into the Crestwood area. This vantage point faces northeast at the intersection of Locust Street, 55th Street, and Oak Street.
Home of Edwin W. Shields at 5110 Cherry Street, completed shortly after World War I. This vantage point faces south-southeast towards the main entrance of the home. This building is now part of the University of Missouri - Kansas City.


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Story writing technique
A plot device or plot mechanism[1] is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward.[2] A clichéd plot device may annoy the reader and a contrived or arbitrary device may confuse the reader, causing a loss of the suspension of disbelief. However, a well-crafted plot device, or one that emerges naturally from the setting or characters of the story, may be entirely accepted, or may even be unnoticed by the audience.
Stories using plot devices
Many stories, especially in the fantasy genre, feature an object or objects with some great magical power, such as a crown, sword, or jewel. Often what drives the plot is the hero's need to find the object and use it for good, before the villain can use it for evil, or if the object has been broken by the villains, to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it, or, if the object itself is evil, to destroy it. In some cases destroying the object will lead to the destruction of the villain.
In the Indiana Jones film series, each film portrays Jones on the hunt for a mystical artifact. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, he is trying to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant; in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jones is on a search for the Holy Grail. This plot device is also used in the Arabian Nights tale of "The City of Brass," in which a group of travelers on an archaeological expedition journeys across the Sahara to find a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn.[3][4]
Several books in the Harry Potter series orient around a search for a special object. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry believes there is a magical stone in Hogwarts with special powers. Lord Voldemort needs this stone to bring back his body, and Harry looks for the stone first to prevent Voldemort's return.
The One Ring from J. R. R. Tolkien's novel, The Lord of the Rings has been labeled a plot device, since the quest to destroy it drives the entire plot of the novel. However, as British Classical scholar Nick Lowe puts it: "Tolkien, on the whole, gets away with the trick by minimizing the arbitrariness of the ring's plot-power and putting more stress than his imitators on the way the ring's power moulds the character of its wielder and vice-versa."[5]
Main article: Deus ex machina
The term deus ex machina is used to refer to a narrative ending in which an improbable event is used to resolve all problematic situations and bring the story to a (generally happy) conclusion.[6]
The Latin phrase "deus ex machina" has its origins in the conventions of Greek tragedy, and refers to situations in which a mechane (crane) was used to lower actors playing a god or gods onto the stage at the end of a play.
The Greek tragedian Euripides is notorious for using this plot device as a means to resolve a hopeless situation. For example, in Euripides' play Alcestis, the eponymous heroine agrees to give up her own life to Death in exchange for sparing the life of her husband, Admetus. In doing so, however, Admetus grows to regret his choice, realizing the grief of her passing would never leave him. Admetus is seized by guilt and sadness, wishing to keep her or die alongside her, but held by his obligations to raise their children. In the end, though, Heracles shows up and seizes Alcestis from Death, restoring her to life and freeing Admetus from the grief that consumed him.[7] Another example of a deus ex machina is Gandalf in The Hobbit.[8] With the help of seemingly limitless magical capabilities, he rescues the other main characters from all sorts of troubles. Likewise, the eagles in both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings perform unexpected rescues, serving both as the eucatastrophic emissary and the agent of redemption.[9] The first person known to have criticized the device was Aristotle in his Poetics, where he argued that the resolution of a plot must arise internally, following from previous action of the play.[10]
A frequently used plot mechanism in romances and dramas is the love triangle, a conflict where two characters compete for the affection of a third character.[11]
MacGuffin
Main article: MacGuffin
A MacGuffin is a term, popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock, referring to a plot device wherein a character pursues an object, though the object's actual nature is not important to the story. Another object would work just as well if the characters treated it with the same importance.[12] Regarding the MacGuffin, Alfred Hitchcock stated, "In crook stories it is almost always the necklace and in spy stories it is almost always the papers."[13] This contrasts with, for example, the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings, whose very nature is essential to the entire story. Not all film directors or scholars agree with Hitchcock's understanding of a MacGuffin. According to George Lucas, "The audience should care about it [the MacGuffin] almost as much as the dueling heroes and villains on-screen".[14] Thus MacGuffins, according to Lucas, are important to the characters and plot.
MacGuffins are sometimes referred to as plot coupons (especially if multiple ones are required) as the protagonist only needs to "collect enough plot coupons and trade them in for a dénouement".[15] The term was coined by Nick Lowe.[5]
Plot voucher
See also: Chekhov's gun
A plot voucher, as defined by Nick Lowe,[5] is an object given to a character (especially to the protagonist) before they encounter an obstacle that requires the use of the object. An example of a plot voucher is a gift received by a character, which later impedes a deadly bullet.
Quibble
Main article: Quibble (plot device)
A quibble is based on an argument that an agreement's intended meaning holds no legal value and that only the exact, literal words agreed on apply. For example, William Shakespeare used a quibble in The Merchant of Venice: Portia saves Antonio in a court of law by pointing out that the agreement called for a pound of flesh, but no blood, so Shylock can collect only if he sheds no blood.
Main article: Red herring
The function of a red herring is to divert the audience's attention away from something significant. Red herrings are very common plot devices in mystery, horror, and crime stories. The typical example is in whodunits, in which facts are presented so that the audience is tricked into thinking that a given character is the murderer, when it is actually another character.
Shoulder angel
Main article: Shoulder angel
A shoulder angel is a plot device[16] used for either dramatic or humorous effect in animation and comic strips (and occasionally in live-action television). The angel represents conscience and is often accompanied by a shoulder devil representing temptation. They are handy for easily showing inner conflict of a character. Usually, the angel is depicted on (or hovering near) the right shoulder and the devil or demon on the left, as the left side traditionally represents dishonesty or impurity (see Negative associations of left-handedness in language).
The idea of a shoulder angel and devil consulting the person in the center of the dispute is a tripartite view of the divided soul, that contributes to a rich tradition involving Plato's Chariot Allegory as well as id, ego and super-ego from Freudian Psychoanalysis. The difference with other views is that the shoulder angel and devil emphasize the universal ideas of good and bad.[17]
This device was humorously used in The Emperor's New Groove and its sequel, Kronk's New Groove. The character Kronk consults his shoulder angel and devil in order to determine whether to follow Yzma's orders or not.
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"For instance, a frequently used plot mechanism is a love triangle, where two men try to get the same woman." from Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher; Robert Torry (2007). Film and Religion: An Introduction. Abingdon Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-687-33489-6.
"Janine functions largely as a plot mechanism: as a foil for the two lovers, as a voyeur, and finally as an unwitting trigger of disaster when she leads in the Gestapo." from Thomas Waugh (4 April 2000). The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema. Duke University Press. p. 107. ISBN 0-8223-2468-7.
^ Fred Pfeil (1990). Another Tale to Tell: Politics and Narrative in Postmodern Culture. Verso. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-86091-992-6. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
^ Pinault, David (1992). Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights. Brill Publishers. pp. 148–9 & 217–9. ISBN 90-04-09530-6.
^ Hamori, Andras (1971). "An Allegory from the Arabian Nights: The City of Brass". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Cambridge University Press. 34 (1): 9–19 [9]. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00141540. S2CID 161610007.
^ a b c Nick Lowe. "The Well-tempered Plot Device". In normal usage, when people talk of a plot device they mean something in the story that's just a little bit too obviously functional to be taken seriously.
^ "deus ex machina". Merriam Webster Online. Retrieved 2013-09-22.
^ Smith W (1960). "The Ironic Structure in "Alcestis"". Phoenix. 14 (3): 127–45. doi:10.2307/1086298. JSTOR 1086298.
^ Chance, Jane (2001-10-26). Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England. ISBN 0813138094. [page needed]
^ Hartley, Gregory (Autumn 2012). "A Wind from the West:The Role of the Holy Spirit in Tolkien's Middle-Earth" (PDF). Christianity and Literature. 62: 95–120. doi:10.1177/014833311206200106. [dead link]
^ "Aristotle's Poetics, adapted from the translation by S.H. Butcher". Retrieved 2007-10-13.
^ from Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher; Robert Torry (2007). Film and Religion: An Introduction. Abingdon Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-687-33489-6.
^ McDevitt, Jim; Juan, Eric San (2009-04-01). A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense. ISBN 9780810863897.
^ "The Alfred Hitchcock Wiki". Retrieved 2018-06-10.
^ "Keys to the Kingdom". Vanity Fair. February 2008. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
^ Davies, Mark (2007). Designing character-based console games (illustrated ed.). p. 69. ISBN 978-1584505211.
^ Hatch, Laurence C. (2007-11-01). "Hatch's Plotbank". ((cite journal)): Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Black, Robert E. G. (Fall 2014). "From Charioteer Myth to Shoulder Angel: A Rhetorical Look at Our Divided Soul" (PDF). Colloquy. 10: 36–49.
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Into the Gray
A hotshot fighter pilot is grounded after she becomes pregnant. After several years, she is ready to be "in the blue" again, but finds herself still on the ground as she will now pilot a drone. Her relegation to the "Chair" Force and finally witnessing the real horrors of war cause her to slowly lose her sense of identity and her mind won't be far behind if the spiral can't be stopped. This is Grounded by George Brant and currently playing at the Omaha Community Playhouse.
Brant's script displays a minute understanding of what being in the military means to somebody completely dedicated to the military. Brant's unnamed pilot exudes that unbreakable sense of brotherhood with the constant camaraderie which includes not only hanging out together, but the blue language one often finds in the barracks. But Brant's pilot also shows the danger of one's identity being wrapped up in what he or she does as opposed to who she or he is as the changes to warfare and inability to fly slowly rob the pilot of her sense of self. Brant's play title actually holds a number of meanings within the context of the show. The pilot is grounded in the sense that she is not permitted to fly. In her own mind, she is grounded in the sense of punishment when she is forced to pilot a drone. As she loses herself, she loses the things that kept her grounded.
Kimberly Faith-Hickman keeps all of these ideas and a great deal more in mind with her direction of this play. The staging is absolutely impeccable as she uses a plexiglass cell designed by Jim Othuse which serves the double purpose of keeping the actor socially distant from the audience, but also represents the cell that slowly builds around the Pilot over the course of the show. Her managing of the play's numerous beats is precisely on point and the changes always ring true. Faith-Hickman's guidance of her sole performer is a work of art as she lets the story build slowly and organically before reaching its tense climax and crushing resolution.
Leanne Hill-Carlson's rendition of the Pilot is splendid and nearly flawless. Her Pilot is definitely a tomboy as she curses at a PhD level, enjoys a beer and burger with her brothers-in-arms, and has a real sense of swagger and machismo. The Pilot has a confidence that often bleeds over into arrogance with her enjoyment of being the lone wolf and her constant referencing to herself as a god.
But this is no 2D character. The Pilot is a multifaceted character with a constantly evolving emotional arc that Hill-Carlson rides the same way a champion jockey rides a prime thoroughbred. One actually feels Hill-Carlson's disappointment with being grounded, her anger and frustration at not getting to fly a proper jet when reactivated to combat duty, her arrogant sense of superiority when hunting the enemy, her shock at seeing dead bodies for the first time, and her slowly eroding sense of identity when the ease and more personal nature of modern warfare conflict with the way things were.
Not only does Hill-Carlson masterfully play the Pilot, but she presents it beautifully as well. She's always aware of her positioning and plays to all sides of the theatre and punctuates her monologues with just the right reactions and gestures.
Jim Othuse's lights bolster the story as he gives us a desert sun and shades of gray as the Pilot loses her sense of emotional color and the ability to see anything as black or white. Lindsay Pape has Hill-Carlson properly attired in an Air Force jumpsuit. John Gibilisco provides always appropriate sounds especially in a small running gag of radio static always changing into AC/DC songs. Jay Hanson has also composed an original score that well supports this story's emotional trek.
In the end, this is a tragic tale of someone who enjoyed being in the clouds in more ways than one being brought to earth in a most decisive fashion and makes for a gripping night of storytelling.
Grounded plays at the Omaha Community Playhouse through October 18. Showtimes are Thurs-Sat at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets start at $36 and may be purchased at www.omahaplayhouse.com or by calling the Box Office at 402-553-0800. Due to strong language, this show is not suitable for children. The Omaha Community Playhouse is located at 6915 Cass St in Omaha, NE.
This entry was posted in theatre reviews and tagged Air Force, Chair Force, drama, drone, fighter pilot, George Brant, Grounded, Las Vegas, Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha Community Playhouse.


Now you can locate old, parked or museum-piece locomotives in the historic places map if they have been tagged and mapped appropriately in OSM.
User baditaflorin created a cheat sheet with the most important shortcuts for JOSM that would make editing with JOSM more efficient.
Felix Delattre wants to map the 42 bus routes in Managua and Ciudad Sandino (Nicaragua) in OSM and asks for help.
Marc Zoutendijk points out that there are numeours examples of meaningless values in the "source" tag on OSM. In his series on seldom used tag values he provides some amusing examples but concludes that the errors are mainly harmless as they are a minority and seldom used.
Matthijs Melissen proposes the tag aquatics_centre. He also proposes to discourage the use of amenity=swimming_pool tag instead use leisure=swimming_pool.
She has re-tagged the picnic sites with leisure=picnic_site and amenity=picnic_site tags to tourism=picnic_site tag, the changesets related to this can be found in this diary entry.
Discussion about Nominatim and its surprising search results continues.
OSM user nesim shared the names of the most active contributors who have contributed to the data for Turkey (katpatuka, nesim, ayhanozates, penom and Ghybu) in the Community's Facebook Group.
Richard Cantwell states that OSM is going great in Ireland. His PDF article in Geoconnexion suggests that OSM "has become a shining example of how crowdsourcing can work".
The board of the OSMF on request from the Data Working Group have indefinitely banned a user who threatened another mapper. Appeals against this decisions will only be considered after police and legal investigations are completed.
Tom Taylor (active HOTtie) passed away on December 24th.
BushmanK in his dairy asks what comes first, Map or Database? His post also asks should we tell newbies the truth?, but the principles he discusses extend beyond "newbies" to how OSM in general is explained.
Drishtie Patel looks back at the success stories of the Missing Maps project in 2015.
Muindialis have described how they created a multi-scale topographic map of the world with an OSM main features overlay. A demonstration of the client application can be viewed here.
Markus Mayr answers the question: Why tree imports? To produce beautiful maps.
An Interview, with Raphael Reimann one of the creators of "Roads to Rome".
 Nils Westergard has combined parts of the city of Stadt Amsterdam along with the skeleton of a leaf. He spent about 100 hours on this artwork. Other works of Nils Westergard.
In Austria, OSM based maps with the current traffic situation are online. The Austrian public radio station ORF reported. (automatic translation).
Summary of all GraphHopper related activities for the year 2015.
The new OpenRouteService is now with new features like live traffic data, improved route profiles, new Leaflet client and more!
… the place where you can find all minutes of OSMF and OSMF workgroups?
… the world's Largest Cylindrical Map of the World? See a video as well.
Arzu Coltekin recalled that the first website, which went online was already adorned with a map.
Calling all couch-mappers at the end of the year: Please click once, sit back and enjoy the world that you have mapped just over and over again with the finest details.
Tools for getting data out of OpenStreetMap and into Desktop GIS.
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Dzanga Sangha Special Reserve in Central African Republic (CAR) is our area of interest for safari tours within the Congo Basin Tri-National Park.
Gorillas, chimpanzees and forest elephants are just some of the wildlife found in the second largest rainforest on Earth. Central Africa is the location of the Congo Basin and the second largest rainforest on the planet.
This is an area of outstanding biodiversity, with habitats that range from savannah to pristine forest, which huge variety in-between. Perfect for adventurers, explorers and experienced African safari travellers, with opportunities for bird-watchers, photographers and thrill-seekers.
The Central African Republic is the most northern location of interest, with access to part of the Sangha Trinational Park. The Dzanga-Ndoki National Park gives visitors access to the learning and traditions of the B'Aka pygmy tribe, gorilla trekking and pristine rainforest.
A little explored and truly rugged wilderness, the Central African Republic is the ideal place for explorers, adventurers and experienced visitors to Africa to find something different. Located just to the north of the Republic of Congo, two-thirds of the country is covered by the rainforest that the Congo Basin is known for. Visitors to the CAR will enter the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, part of the Sangha Trinational and a UNESCO world heritage site. Wildlife here is unusual and unique to the climate and environment, including western lowland gorillas, forest elephants and a huge variety of monkeys.
An unforgettable education programme with the local B'Aka tribe includes tracking, hunting and learning about plants and their medicinal uses - just one of the highlights in the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park. The B'Aka pygmy tribes live in the forest in this area, and are happy to interact with tourists and educate them on traditional techniques of hunting and tracking. Expeditions can be done with the B'Aka people as guides and elements of their culture can be experienced with traditional dances and music.
Gorilla trekking with a family of habituated gorillas is a must! Experience a close encounter of the unforgettable kind. With habituated gorillas and saline pans this is a regular hotspot for a variety of wildlife and the rainforest is ideal for explorers seeking a thrill.
In the Republic of Congo, visitors will stay in camps in the tree canopy, while trekking to see chimpanzees and gorillas, as well as areas of savannah where the elusive forest elephants may be observed. Opportunities to explore the capital city, Brazzaville, are not to be missed. On coastal Gabon, head for the primate conservation projects and the prime rainforest, go whale-watching for abundant humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins. Include a visit to Libreville too, one of the most developed cities in this region of Africa, and the stunning architecture gives new insight into the area.
The wet season runs between June and September in the north, and May to October in the south. The far north of the country has been subject to desertification, while the southern regions have a more equatorial climate. During the wet season, the rainforest can be difficult to travel through as roads are affected by flooding. However, trips taken in the CAR are set departure, and adventurers will be given these dates upon enquiry.
Visits to the country are accommodated by flights to Douala in Cameroon on Air France or South African Airway. Charter flights will then take you to where you need to be. Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airways offer limited choices for flights to Bangui.
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Macaulay Culkin takes dig at 'The Big Bang Theory', reveals why he turned the show down 3 times
By Jessica Chandra| 1 year ago
'I'd be bashing my head against the wall'
The Big Bang Theory could have been very different.
The popular sitcom created by Chuck Lorre seems perfect as it is for its many fans, and has turned its stars including Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki into household names -- but there was one big-time actor the show tried to get, and failed.
While speaking to Joe Rogan for his podcast Joe Rogan Experience, Macaulay Culkin, 37, revealed that he was approached three times to star in The Big Bang Theory before it premiered in 2007.
The cast of 'The Big Bang Theory'. (CBS)
"I couldn't see myself doing a sitcom or a television show kind of thing," the former Home Alone and Richie Rich star said. "A good one, I'd do. Like, NewsRadio is a fantastic show," he added -- NewsRadio is the '90s sitcom Rogan starred in.
"They pursued me for The Big Bang Theory," Culkin continued. "And I said, like, 'No'… 'cause it was kinda, like the way the pitch was, was kinda just like, 'Alright, these two like, astrophysicist nerds and then a pretty girl lives with them -- yoinks!'
"That was the pitch… I said, 'Yeah, no, I'm cool, thanks.' And then they came back at me again, and I said, 'No, no, no. Again, flattered, but like, no.' Then they came back at me again, and even my manager was like twisting my arm."
Referencing the popularity of the show and how much its stars get paid -- Parsons, Cuoco, Galecki, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar all landed in Forbes' top 10 highest paid TV actors in 2017, and have been making US$1 million per episode since Season 8 -- Culkin said, "Listen, I'd have hundreds of millions of dollars now if I did that gig."
But he admitted he had no regrets about passing it on: "At the same time, I'd be bashing my head against the wall."
Macaulay Culkin speaking on Joe Rogan's podcast. (YouTube)
Even though he's no longer making much money from acting roles -- Culkin doesn't actively pursue acting -- he said mostly lives off his savings, which has afforded him an apartment in Paris where he spends much of his time with his girlfriend, Brenda Song. He touched on his relationship with Song, 30, and called her "a good one," adding, "I am probably going to put some babies in her like in a little bit."
Recently, Culkin's ex-girlfriend Mila Kunis opened up about their eight-year relationship and how it ended.
Macaulay Culkin and Mila Kunis in 2005. (Getty)
Speaking to Dax Shepard for his podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Kunis said, "I had a horrible, horrible breakup.
"I f---ed up. I was an a--hole in my 20s and I'll be the first to admit it. And that's something that took me a long time to come out and be like, 'Yeah, you know what, I was a d---,' and accept it and I own it."
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Charlottesville, Va., March 17, 2017 – On March 22, St. Anne's-Belfield School Librarian Sarah FitzHenry will moderate a discussion between noted children's author Kwame Alexander and illustrator Ekua Holmes as an invitation-only event for Charlottesville area fourth and fifth grade students as part of the 2017 Virginia Festival of the Book.
Alexander and Holmes will discuss their new collaborative book Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets.
"We are thrilled to have Kwame Alexander return to the Virginia Festival of the Book as our youth headlining author for 2017," said Sarah Lawson, assistant director of the Virginia Center for the Book.
"Now, more than ever, we need voices like his to help share the importance of literature and poetry to our shared humanity, both for young people and the rest of us. That he's joined by the fantastic illustrator Ekua Holmes only makes these Festival programs that much sweeter."
Coverage of this event is encouraged. Please coordinate with Beth Stefanik, contact details above, by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21.


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U prošlosti Zemlje dolazilo je čak do izmjene polova tj. sjeverni magnetski pol bio "otišao" južni zemljopisni pol i obrnuto. Jasno,to je dovodilo do katastrofalnih posljedica. Ptice nisu znale kojim smjerom krenuti, pa su zimi otišle na sjever umjesto na jug i umrle zbog velikih hladnoća na sjeveru tijekom zime. Osim izumiranja ptica dolazilo je do dezorijentacije brojnih vrsta riba i morskih sisavaca.

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About ENBIS >
Past Webmasters of ENBIS
As ENBIS is a webbased society, the position of the webmaster is a rather important, as he has the liability to keep everything up and running. Also the possibilities and the services that can be provided are determined by the website. So it was never an easy job and the job has only reluctantly been handed from one to the next person. So ENBIS has been lucky to have had always highly dedicated persons in this position.
Founding webmaster: Jeroen de Mast
Jeroen de Mast has fulfilled the position of the webmaster for the first six years of ENBIS. He did so with great enthousiasm and supported all activities of ENBIS in this role. He supervised the built of the very first site, which he then administrated for the remainder of his period as webmaster. This site had all the basic features ENBIS needed in the first years:
a password protected members area which gave the members the privacy to network among each other without greater danger of being spammed,
forums for on-line discussions within the Special Interest Groups,
forms to allow online registration and collection of abstracts for the conference,
a creditcard payment facility.
Besides this he edited the news published on the site, collected the paper submissions, approved new membership requests, and fulfilled many other tasks, especially around the conferences. Therefore, ENBIS owes him a great deal of the successes achieved in these first six years. Thank you Jeroen!
Founding co-webmaster: Alessandro Di Bucchianico
Alessandro Di Bucchianico supported Jeroen at the very beginning to set up the first pages and gave ideas for the potential web-services.
Winfried Theis, ENBIS Webmaster (2005-2010)
In 2005 Winfried Theis succeeded Jeroen de Mast as ENBIS webmaster. To serve the evolving needs of ENBIS, he had to change the website into a content management system as well as adding a database backbone . Since ENBIS is a web‐based society, its web site should become its administrative centre and the new ENBIS house style must be incorporated. With never-ending energy, Winfried almost single‐handed devoted himself to these tasks.
Through Winfried's efforts, ENBIS now has a website with extensive facilities including, for example, the management of the membership database, mass mailing, automatic news items, full conference management (registration, abstract submission, conference CD production, payment) and treasurer backbone systems (such as invoice generation).
As well as building and testing these facilities together with our professional provider, Winfried has edited the content of the ENBIS website. He has been an indispensable supporter of ENBIS annual conference organizers. He was an active volunteer at the ENBIS 2007 in Dortmund and was chair of programme committee for ENBIS 2008 in Athens. Winfried answered thousands of emails around the ENBIS conferences of 2005 to 2010. As a result of all the time Winfried spent on the ENBIS website, he greatly reduced the time that other ENBIS officials have to spend on their tasks. Therefore, ENBIS owes him a great deal of the successes achieved in these five years. Thank you Winfried!


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Why are so many characters in kids' books white and middle-class?
By Kerrie O'Brien
When Australian-Lebanese author Huda Hayek was growing up in Perth, no children's stories reflected her reality. The second youngest of seven children, her name was different to everyone around her, as was her religion and her food.
"There was nothing that represented us," she says.
Author Huda Hayek says we need more diverse characters in children's literature. Credit:Justin McManus
Hayek wrote Huda and Me for all Australian kids but particularly for those like her: who eat falafels for lunch, whose parents have Middle Eastern accents. Published in March, it's a rollicking adventure story about two siblings who steal a credit card and head to Beirut to track down their parents.
When she submitted the manuscript she half expected to be asked to "cut some of that Muslim stuff" and lose the Arabic words, she says.
"I'm super lucky it landed on the right desk. [The publisher] said write this book for the Muslim child, the Lebanese child."
Huda and Me, by Huda Hayek
Growing up in country Victoria, Julianne Negri didn't see much of her reality in the books she read either. She wishes there'd been something like Huda and Me for her as a young reader – seeing a big family on the pages of a book was rare.
The Narnia books were a well-thumbed favourite but depicted a completely different world to hers. "I never thought my stories were important because I didn't go to boarding school, I didn't have a posh accent and play hockey," she says. "Seeing your stories on the page makes you realise yours are book worthy, that's what empowers you as a writer."
In most books she read, the characters were wealthy. "That's why in my book I had the mum who is stressed about the rent, the daughter is scared of losing her school jumper because she knows her mum can't afford to buy another one. These are pressures that kids have."
Set in Brunswick, Negri's book The Secret Library of Hummingbird House, is a time-travelling tale of a young girl trying to make sense of the world after her parents split up. It features a Lebanese character. "How could you represent Brunswick without Lebanese culture? It's also how kids explore their space, their setting; kids are grazing, always picking things up, they're looking over there, smelling that cake, they're really open to the world. We got to represent the beautiful, diverse world for them."
Diversity in children's literature is the subject of a panel at the Emerging Writers' Festival on Wednesday with Hayek, Negri and Denise Chapman.
An African-American born and raised in Virginia, now a writer, poet and lecturer in literacy at Monash University, Chapman says she wasn't a strong reader as a child but she vividly remembers the time she found a book with a character on the cover who looked like her. "That book was in the library and I took it home and didn't take it back. I honestly felt that no one would take care of that book as well as I did."
Dr Denise Chapman says diversity in characters in kids books is critical. Credit:Wayne Taylor
She says having a range of imagined possibilities is important for all children. "As a parent, teacher and a lover of children's literature, when you see child engaging with you, whether it's oral stories or poetry, through a picture book or a novel… you see those eyes perk up when they see themselves mirrored in the stories."
Having been told wonderful, empowering stories by her parents and grandparents throughout her childhood, she remembers going to school and "drowning in stories that almost always centred our teachers' experiences as middle-class, non-disabled, white women from the US South. I felt distant from the stories presented in school and this made learning to read hard. The lives of Dick and Jane and their dog Spot made me feel alone and separated from my peers, whose lives were like our teachers."
For Chapman, as well as being able to see yourself, readers need to see others as the main characters. "It's important for us to be able to see there can be many protagonists, many different points of view."
She tells the story of her daughter wanting to go for the role of Annie in the school production. "The first story that she saw of Annie was Will Smith's production, where the little girl looked like her. I grew up in the 70s where Annie was always the little girl with red hair," she says.
To her mind, it's critical that everyone see themselves taking centre stage. "Our children deserve to see true mirrors of our society, mirrors that are representative, inclusive, and equitable."
Negri says it's significant that the Emerging Writers' festival acknowledges the importance of children's literature. She argues that as a society, even though we are obsessed with getting our kids to read, we undervalue the people creating the work that makes that happen.
Working in a public library, Negri recommends letting children choose whatever they want to read. A graphic novel or a comic book or a picture book is fine, whatever their age. "Let them find, let them explore. We're always trying to box kids in. You don't want to be boxed in, you want to be free to explore. You have enough rules in your life," she says. "We forget that kids love stories. You don't have to make it this big important thing, 'You must read'. You just have to tell good stories."
The Emerging Writers' Festival runs until June 26. emergingwritersfestival.org.au
Kerrie O'Brien is a senior writer, culture, at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via Twitter, Facebook or email.


Granny squares are satisfying and relaxing. They are great for learning how to perfect your tension and to practice working on a project. We can do smaller squares that you will then sew/seam together at a later date, or make one large square. For this class you'll learn the magic circle cast on, double crochet stitch, and turning corners in a square.


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Israeli police arrest 3 for allegedly using social media to lure minors
By ELIYAHU KAMISHER
Updated: MAY 11, 2017 10:13
Israel Police arrested three men on Thursday on suspicion of soliciting minors over social media.
The three suspects, from Tel Aviv, Modiin and Taibe, were arrested in separate incidents after they allegedly had correspondence of a sexual nature with an undercover police women posing as a 13-year-old girl.
"The suspects also operated beyond the virtual space and worked to hold a real meeting in order to have sexual contact with the policewoman," the Lachish District police said in a statement
According to police, the suspects also suggested payment for sexually explicit photos and offered sex.
The suspects will be brought to the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on Thursday where police are seeking to extend their remands.
"It is important to reiterate to the youth and children that we should avoid talking to strangers on the Internet and sending personal materials throughout the Internet," police said.
Tonga government confirms 3 deaths and destruction on outlying islands