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Gender + Sexuality
'Death Threat': How Eerie and Frightening Emails Inspired a Graphic Novel
Vivek Shraya to launch the work with a presentation in Vancouver Sunday.
By Dorothy Woodend 26 Apr 2019 | TheTyee.ca
Dorothy Woodend is The Tyee's culture editor. Reach her here.
Illustrator Ness Lee and author Vivek Shraya turned transphobic threats against Shraya into a graphic novel. Photo by Tanya-Tiziana.
The Internet is a strange place.
Close your eyes and picture it — a teeming jungle of extremity, filled with rank pools of misogyny and transphobia and other scaly predators. In among the slithering vines of unfounded opinion, there are sloughs of violence and anger that, like quicksand, will fill your eyes, nose and mouth and suffocate you with granular horror.
And there are death threats.
When writer-singer-polymath Vivek Shraya began receiving a series of strange email messages, her first reaction wasn't fear but confusion, even bemusement. (She first wondered of the sender: "Were you complimenting me? I love compliments!")
The fact that the author included their full name and address made it stranger still.
"It was kind of an audacious move that indicated a weird level of confidence," Shraya said. The vivid and specific cultural language, including Sanskrit words like "Napumsaka," meaning eunuch, used in the emails made her almost curious about who was sending them.
But it soon moved from being an odd experience into something genuinely frightening, and eventually formed the basis of Shraya's new graphic novel, Death Threat.
"It was the nature of the letters," Shraya said. The fact they weren't the usual transphobic rants, but stranger, more surreal, was scary enough. References to Shraya being hunted through the forest or locked in a mud hut, as well as the letter's author insisting he was only trying to be helpful, added another creepy layer.
Illustration by Ness Lee.
But the writer also seemed to know a great deal about Shraya's work, and her family. Some of the messages she received made veiled references to her album Part-Time Woman.
Shraya has never hidden who she is, and this kind of visibility attracts attention. In addition to being nominated for a Polaris Prize, her writing has captured both critical acclaim and popular success. She teaches at the University of Calgary and has forged a career in multiple disciplines — music, writing, performance, film, theatre and visual art — and even made the Globe and Mail's Best Dressed list.
Any person comfortable and happy in their own skin is a bit of lightning rod for the Internet jungle, but Shraya said the messages she received were different than the usual online trolling she'd experienced, and more unsettling.
When we spoke on the phone, prior to the book's release, my most immediate question was why a graphic novel?
"No other medium best served the story," Shraya said. "It was a hyper-meta story about hate mail, and the medium is so open."
The nature of the narrative, as well as the form itself, requires a close and very collaborative relationship between author and illustrator.
Shraya and illustrator Ness Lee had worked together previously on the cover of Part-Time Woman, Shraya and the Queer Songbook Orchestra's Polaris-nominated album. What was it like working with Lee this time?
"As a pan-disciplinary artist, I'm used to collaborating. But Part-Time Woman was just a single image; this was a bigger project, 70 pages. It was a new experience, and a very different process working with a Type A personality, long distance."
Shraya had just moved to Calgary when she started the project, and the complexities of working with an illustrator in another part of the country required additional levels of creativity. "We used a Google doc to share artwork," she explained.
"Working with someone affects your relationship," she added. "Respect is crucial, love and respect, and responsibility."
With a subject as fraught as being threatened with bodily harm, even greater sensitivity was needed. As the images and story in Death Threat indicate, the process occasionally proved almost overwhelming.
In one panel, illustrator Lee bluntly states: "This is really fucking hard. I don't know if we can make it Vivek!!"
Bonding through the process of confronting shared deadlines, the pair, along with colourists Emmett Phan and Hieng Tang, slogged it out, and the book captures not only the nature of their relationships but also the larger project of transforming something angry and ugly into something positive.
In this reclaiming of the narrative, word and image fuse intimately, with Shraya's words and Lee's drawings moving together in a synchronous flow.
A shared sense of humour and an appreciation for the ridiculous also helped matters. In Lee's clear and colourful images, Internet trolls become troll dolls, round-eyed and chubby, with insane thatches of hair.
"Me and Ness was a pure and true collaboration," Shraya said.
Where did the real story and the more surreal moments begin to blend? The images tell one story, but the reality was a little different.
"It couldn't work as a straight up document, it required an element of surrealism," Shraya explained. "The letters were so real and poetically vivid that they were hard not to imagine."
The surreal qualities of Death Threat link back to Shraya's previous work, that played easily with family, memory and identity. In Trisha, Shraya recreated photos of her mother, right down to the details of dress and deportment. In Death Threat, Shraya's mother also puts in a guest appearance, supporting her child with warmth and strength.
What was the resolution?
A Mother's Load of Depression, in Graphic Detail
After she received hundreds of messages, it was Shraya publicly posting about her plans to write a comic book that brought on a cease and desist letter from the author of the threats claiming copyright and intellectual property infringement, she said. The twisted perversity of this merited only one response from Shraya: delete. "They tweeted at me a couple of times after that," Shraya said.
She's philosophical about the experience, choosing to take the most useful lessons and apply them directly. "It's about being able to redirect that energy, and art as a way to cope."
Death Threat achieves an almost alchemical transmutation, creating something beneficial and beautiful in the midst of dismantling hate and pain. It's a remarkable thing.
Vivek Shraya will be presenting Death Threat at the York Theatre, 639 Commercial Dr., on Sunday at 8 p.m. as part of the Verses Festival of Words.
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Omar is from Cairo, Egypt, and has a younger brother. It has not yet been revealed as to what kind of vision alerted Rowan to his presence.


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A record 3,700 students applied out of high school this year but the college can take just 300 freshmen. Students also can apply later through the Gateway program.
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The middle sea a history.., p.1
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean, p.1
I Beginnings
II Ancient Greece
III Rome: The Republic
IV Rome: The Early Empire
V Islam
VI Medieval Italy
VII The Christian Counter-Attack
VIII The Two Diasporas
IX Stupor Mundi
X The End of Outremer
XI The Close of the Middle Ages
XII The Fall of Constantinople
XIII The Catholic Kings and the Italian Adventure
XIV The King, the Emperor and the Sultan
XV Barbary and the Barbarossas
XVI Malta and Cyprus
XVII Lepanto and the Spanish Conspiracy
XVIII Crete and the Peloponnese
XIX The Wars of Succession
XX The Siege of Gibraltar
XXI The Young Napoleon
XXII Neapolitan Interlude
XXIII Egypt After Napoleon
XXIV The Settlement of Europe
XXV Freedom for Greece
XXVI Mohammed Ali and North Africa
XXVII The Quarantotto
XXVIII Risorgimento
XXIX The Queens and the Carlists
XXX Egypt and the Canal
XXXI The Balkan Wars
XXXII The Great War
XXXIII The Peace
The Eastern Mediterranean
The Western Mediterranean
The Reconquest of Spain to the thirteenth century
Southern Italy and Sicily
Maps by Reginald Piggott
1. Sophia Schliemann wearing gold jewellery from the treasure found at Troy, photograph c. 1882 (AKG-images)
2. Phoenician silver coin with the depiction of a Phoenician ship and a hippocamp (National Archaeological Museum, Beirut/AKG/Erich Lessing)
3. The goddess of the serpents, c. BC 1500, from the Palace of Knossos (Archaeological Museum of Haraklion, Crete/Bridgeman Art Library)
4. Odysseus and the Sirens, Athenian red-figure stamnos vase by the Siren Painter, c. BC 490 (British Museum, London/Bridgeman)
5. Carved ivory plaque of a lion, Assyrian, c. BC 800 (British Museum/Bridgeman)
6. Battle scene from the Alexander Sarcophagus, Hellenistic, c. BC 320 (Archaeological Museum, Istanbul/Bridgeman)
7. Greek bronze sculpture of a warrior with helmet, found in the ocean near Riace, southern Italy, c. BC 430 (Museo Nazionale, Reggio di Calabria, AKG/Nimatallah)
8. Portrait bust of Pericles, Roman marble copy after a Greek original by Kresilas, c. BC 440 (Pergamon Museum, Berlin/AKG/Erich Lessing)
9. Portrait bust of Julius Caesar, Roman marble, c. BC 50 (Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples/Bridgeman)
10. Funerary portrait of a woman (Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York/Bridgeman) and funerary portrait of a young man (Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts/Bridgeman). Egyptian, Roman period c. 100 AD
11. Sardonyx cameo commemorating the naval victory of Octavian over Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium, BC 31 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna/Bridgeman)
12. Colossal stone head of Emperor Constantine I, c. 320 (Pinacoteca Capitolina, Palazzo Conservatori, Rome/Bridgeman)
13. The Mausoleum of Theodoric, Ravenna, c. 530 (Bridgeman)
14. Detail from the mosaic of the battle of the gladiators against the wildcats, Roman, c. 320 (Galleria Borghese, Rome/Bridgeman)
15. Capital of a column from Haghia Sophia, Istanbul, Byzantine School, 6th century (Bridgeman)
16. Moorish capital from the Generalife, Palace of the Moorish kings built above the Alhambra, Granada, c. 785 (AKG)
17. Interior of the Great Mosque, showing bays of two-tiered horseshoe arches, Cordoba, c. 785 (Bridgeman)
18. Interior of the dome over the mihrab in the Great Mosque, Cordoba, c. 965 (Bridgeman)
19. Minaret of Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo, 9th century (Ben Turner/Art Directors and Trip)
20. Detail from the mosaic of Emperor Justinian I with his entourage, San Vitale, Ravenna, 547 (AKG/Nimatallah)
21. The Good Shepherd, mosaic from the Mausoleum of Empress Galla Placidia, Ravenna, mid-5th century (AKG/Erich Lessing)
22. The Three Magi, mosaic, S. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, 6th century (AKG/Erich Lessing)
23. St Michael the Archangel, Byzantine altar decoration in gold, enamel, precious and semi-precious stones from Constantinople, 12th century, now in San Marco, Venice (AKG/Erich Lessing)
24. Christ crowning King Roger II of Sicily, mosaic, 12th century, Church of the Martorana, Palermo (Bridgeman)
25. Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and his sons, from the Weingarten Chronicles manuscript, Ms D 11, 12th century (Landesbibliothek, Fulda/Bridgeman)
26. Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, from an illuminated manuscript (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome/Bridgeman)
27. Dome mosaics, including Christ Pantocrator and saints, in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, 12th century (Rachel Royse/Corbis)
28. Gold mosaics with saints and religious scenes from the walls and ceiling in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, 12th century (Rachel Royse/Corbis)
29. Mevlana Tekke, Seljuk architecture, Konya, Turkey, 13th century (Bridgeman)
30. Ince Minare Madrasa, Seljuk architecture, Konya, Turkey, 1260-65 (Terry Richardson/Art Directors)
31. Court of the Lions, the Alhambra, Granada, 8th century (Robin Smith/Art Directors)
32. Charles I of Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily, sailing to Rome and his investiture with the Kingdom of Sicily by the Pope in 1265. Illumination from Les Grandes Chroniques de France, 1335, Ms. Royal 16 G VI, fol.429v (British Library, London/AKG)
33. Siege of Damietta in 1249, during the crusade led by King Louis IX of France. Illumination from Les Grandes Chroniques de France, 14th century, Ms Français 2813, fol.281 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/AKG)
34. Frederick II from his manuscript De arte venandi cum avibus. Cod. Palatina 1071, 1232 (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana/AKG)
35. Siege of Acre, during the crusade of King Louis IX of France. Illumination from Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis, 1375-1400, Ms Royal 20 C VII, fol.24 (British Library/AKG/Erich Lessing)
36. Crusader assault on Jerusalem in 1099. Illumination from 14th century manuscript, Fr 22495 f.69v (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman)
37. Saladin's Army. Illumination from 14th century manuscript, MS Fr 22495 fol.229 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman)
38. Mosaic of Christ Pantocrator from the apse of the Cathedral of Cefalù, Sicily, 12th century (AKG/Rainer Hackenberg)
39. Sultan Mehmet II. Turkish school, 15th century (Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul/Bridgeman)
40. Dante and Virgil meet Count Ugolino, canto XXXIII, Inferno, part one of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1306-21. Manuscript illumination, c. 1350, Ms Palat. 313 fol.77r. (Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence/AKG)
41. Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templars, burnt at the stake in Paris in 1314. Illumination from Grandes Chroniques de France, late 14th century, Ms. Royal C VII, fol.48 (British Library/AKG)
42. The conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Sultan Mehmet II, manuscript illumination from Ms Fr 9087 f.207v (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/AKG)
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br /> 43. Rumeli Hisar fortress, built by Mehmet II in 1452 on the Bosphorus, Istanbul (Bridgeman)
44. Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1495, copy of a painting by Michiel Sittow (Kunsthisorisches Museum, Vienna/AKG/Erich Lessing)
45. Isabella I of Castile and Leon, 1500, after Juan de Flandes (Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid/AKG/Erich Lessing)
46. Francis I, King of France, c. 1535, by Jean Clouet (Musée du Louvre, Paris/AKG/Erich Lessing)
47. Emperor Charles V, 1533, by Titian (Museo del Prado, Madrid/AKG/Erich Lessing)
48. The Doge Francesco Morosini Pursues the Turkish Fleet, April 1659, Venetian school (Museo Civico Correr, Venice/AKG/Erich Lessing)
49. Turkish forces preparing for battle outside the walls of Rhodes in 1480, from an account written by Guillaume Caoursin and illustrated by the Master of Cardinal of Bourbon, 1483. Lat 6067 f55v. (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman)
50. Battle of Lepanto, 7th October 1571, contemporary Venetian painting (Museo Civico Correr, Venice/AKG/Erich Lessing)
51. Charles VIII, King of France, 15th century, attrib. to Jean Bourdichon (Musée Condé, Chantilly/Bridgeman)
52. Süleyman I, the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, c. 1530–40, by a Venetian painter from the circle of Titian (Collection Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck/AKG)
53. Philip II, King of Spain, c. 1570, by Alonso Sanchez Coello (Sterling Maxwell Collection, Pollok House, Glasgow/Bridgeman)
54. Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice, c. 1690, style of Bartolomeo Nazzari (Museo Civico Correr, Venice/AKG/Erich Lessing)
55. The Execution of Admiral Byng, 14th March 1757, 18th century, British School (National Maritime Museum, London)
56. Destruction of 'L'Orient' at the Battle of the Nile, 1st August 1798 by George Arnald (National Maritime Museum, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection)
57. Eruption of Vesuvius by Pietro Fabris, plate 3, published as a supplement in 1779 to Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies by Sir William Hamilton, published 1776 (Bridgeman)
58. Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples, after Elizabeth Vigée-Lebrun (Musée Condé, Chantilly/Bridgeman)
59. The arrival of Napoleon on the Island of Elba, 4 May 1814, hand-coloured print published by Artaria und Companie, Vienna, 1815 (Corbis)
60. Battle of the Pyramids, 21st July 1798, 1806, by Louis Lejeune (Château de Versailles/Bridgeman)
61. Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi, 1826, by Eugène Delacroix (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux/Bridgeman)
62. Theodore Kolokotronis, engraving by Alois Senefelder after Giovanni Boggi, 1826 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman)
63. George Gordon, Lord Byron, copy c. 1835 by Thomas Philips (National Portrait Gallery, London)
64. The Massacre of Chios, 1824, by Eugène Delacroix (Musée du Louvre, Paris/Bridgeman)
65. Isabella II, Queen of Spain, 1848, by José Guttierez de la Vega (Museo Romantico, Madrid/AKG/Erich Lessing)
66. Alfonso XII, King of Spain, 1876 by Salvador Martinez Cubells (Academia de San Fernando, Madrid/Bridgeman)
67. General Baldomero Espartero, 1842, by Antonio Maria Esquivel (Palacio del Senado, Madrid/Bridgeman)
68. Daniele Manin and Nicoló Tammaseo are Liberated from Imprisonment, 17th March 1848, by Napoleone Nani, 1874 (Pinacoteca Querini-Stampalia, Venice/AKG/Cameraphoto)
69. Garibaldi landing at Marsala (Museo del Risorgimento, Rome/Scala)
70. Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy from 1861, photograph c. 1870 (Coll. Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin/AKG)
71. The inauguration procession of the Suez Canal at El-Guisr, engraving by Jules Didier from Voyage Pittoresque à Travers l'Isthme de Suez by Marius Fontane (Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, Paris/Bridgeman)
72. Map of the Suez Canal accompanied by different views and portraits of Ferdinand de Lesseps and Ismail Pasha, 1869 (Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, Paris/Bridgeman)
73. Turkish soldiers on horseback march down the streets of Constantinople before leaving to defend Libya against the invading Italians in 1911 (Getty Images)
74. Troops landing on the beach at Gallipoli, Turkey, 15 October 1915 (Bettmann/Corbis)
75. Eleftherios Kyirakos Venizelos. Engraving from Le Petit Journal, Supplement Illustré, Paris, 1916 (Coll. Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin/AKG)
76. Sultan Abdul-Hamid II, c. 1890 (Coll. Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin/AKG)
77. Field-Marshal Edmund Allenby in Jerusalem, after its capture by British troops on 9 December 1917 (AKG)
78. Kemal Atatürk. c. 1925 (AKG)
79. Prince Faisal and delegation at the Versailles peace conference in 1919 (Bettmann/Corbis)
80. French Premier Georges Clemenceau, American President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George after signing the Treaty of Versailles, June 1919 (Getty Images)
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When, some five or six years ago, it was first suggested to me that I should write a history of the Mediterranean, my heart sank. The subject seemed so huge, the time span so vast; how could the whole thing possibly be compressed into a single volume? Where should it begin? Where should it end? And how–since it would obviously have to be mercilessly selective–would the selecting be done?
Somewhat to my surprise, these questions–together with many others that arose along the way–answered themselves. I had at one moment considered an introductory chapter that would deal with the formation of the Middle Sea, that majestic moment when the waters of the Atlantic crashed through the barriers at what are now the Straits of Gibraltar and flooded the immense basin which they have occupied ever since. It would have gone on to describe the seismic upheaval, almost equally dramatic, which split Europe from Asia in the northeastern corner, linking the Mediterranean with its neighbour–so close in physical terms, but so immeasurably distant in character–the Black Sea. But I am no geologist, and rather than launch my story some six million years ago I decided to begin, not with rocks and water, but with people.
And not the first people, either–simply because the first people were prehistoric, and I have always found prehistory a bore. (If an author tries to write about a subject that bores him, you can be perfectly certain that his readers will be bored too.) How much more sensible, I thought, to start with ancient Egypt, a culture which has fascinated the West ever since it was first effectively discovered by Napoleon's expedition in 1798–99. From there we have easy stepping stones leading via Crete, Mycenae and the Trojan War to ancient Greece and Rome–and then we are away.
The other vital question was where to stop. This was a problem that I had never had to face before. In the past I have written histories of a kingdom, a republic and an empire, each of which came eventually to its appointed end. Since, however, the Mediterranean can be confidently expected to continue for several million more years at least, it was clear that I should have to choose an arbitrary cut-off point; and after long hesitation, I chose the end of the First World War. One could argue forever over whether this changed the Western world more radically than did the Second; my own feeling is that it did, bringing down three mighty empires and, incidentally, making its successor inevitable. But there was another, more practical consideration too. Had I continued the story through the interwar years and on to 1945, this book would have had to be at least half as long again, and had I taken it even further–perhaps to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948–history would have started to merge into current affairs. In such an event what I hope will prove a smooth and happy voyage might well have ended in shipwreck.
Throughout the thirty-three chapters that follow, I have done my best to keep the centre of attention on the Mediterranean itself. Once again I have as far as possible avoided physical geography. Let
no one think that I underestimate the importance of tides, winds, currents and other oceanographical and meteorological phenomena; these things have shaped the whole art of navigation, they have dictated trade routes and they have decided the outcome of many a naval battle. But they have no place in these pages. All I have tried to do here is to trace the main political fortunes of the lands of the Middle Sea, insofar as their history was affected by their positions around it. This in turn means a number of perhaps surprising changes of emphasis. France, for example, is unquestionably a Mediterranean country, but its political centre is far away to the north; the French Revolution consequently receives only a passing mention, and you will find no references at all to Joan of Arc or the Massacre of St Bartholomew. The county of Provence, with the great city of Marseille and the magnificent port of Toulon, matters to us far more than does Paris.
Spain is something of a special case. Ferdinand and Isabella are of huge importance for a number of reasons: their destruction of the Kingdom of Granada, their wholesale expulsions of Muslims and Jews which profoundly affected the demography of western Europe, and not least their sponsorship of Columbus–the first step in the downgrading of the Mediterranean to the comparative backwater which it was to become in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Later Spanish dynastic problems are also all too relevant to our story, throwing as they did much of the continent into confusion. The Peninsular War, on the other hand, principally centred as it was on northwest Spain and Portugal, I deemed to be no concern of ours.
There was no doubt about Constantinople. The city itself may command only the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara, but the two successive empires of which it was the capital, the Byzantine and the Ottoman, occupied at various times well over half the shoreline of the Mediterranean. Each, therefore, constitutes an integral part of our story. And we have only to think of the great historic islands: Sicily, Cyprus, Malta and Crete. The first was part of the Byzantine Empire for several centuries (and, for one brief moment, its capital);1 the other three all suffered appalling sieges by the Ottoman Turks, two of which were successful. Only Malta survived unconquered until the time of Napoleon.
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Daniel Smith looks forward to the 2016 Yacht Racing Forum
The Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards will take centre stage this month in Barcelona as the highest achievements within the sport are recognised. Starting with Sir Peter Blake (NZL), Sir Robin Knox-Johnston (GBR) and Theresa Zabell (ESP) in 1994, the distinct marble and silver trophy has proudly been accumulating the names of those who have demonstrated sporting excellence.
Main picture: London 2012 silver medallist in the Men's 470, Luke Patience of Great Britain, racing in Rio with crew Chris 'Twiggy' Grube. The Patience/Grube pairing only came together eight months before the Games after Patience's original crew Elliot Willis was diagnosed with cancer. This new British team was in the hunt for a medal for most of the regatta but eventually finished in fifth
In the aftermath of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic sailing competitions, gold medallists boasting heroic and outstanding success stories are inevitably expected to fill the shortlists in both the male and female categories. Since Atlanta 1996, Olympic sailors have dominated the Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards in an Olympic year. Inspiring gold medallists such as Santiago Lange (ARG), Charline Picon (FRA), Dorian van Rijsselberghe (NED) and Martine Grael and Kahena Kunze (BRA), to name but a few, have all delivered recent performances worthy of any shortlist – and this month in Barcelona will be no exception.
The business of sport is going through big changes, with greater emphasis on digital media, the importance of fan engagement in a voraciously content-hungry world and the need to create commercial properties that excite sponsors in an increasingly crowded marketplace. International federations not only have to adapt to and seize these opportunities themselves, but they also need to provide the platforms that enable their worldwide stakeholders to be better equipped to meet these new challenges.
Starting this year, one immediate goal at World Sailing is to modernise our own annual conference, creating a professional, engaging and interactive event that can become the de facto annual gathering for the whole sport, in turn helping us to attract new host cities for regattas and new commercial supporters.
World Sailing also announced in May that it has partnered with the Yacht Racing Forum, the leading conference for the global yacht racing industry, with a common objective of organising a co-located conference for 2018 and beyond, with the Yacht Racing Forum opening up the seven-day World Sailing annual conference itself.
In the immediate term, World Sailing will be a major presence at the 2016 Yacht Racing Forum in Malta this month, with a delegation of senior representatives in attendance. There will be a keynote opening presentation at the forum from World Sailing CEO Andy Hunt, plus presentations on Rio 2016 and on World Sailing's future vision for the sport. World Sailing's own 2016 conference takes place in Barcelona just prior to this year's forum, allowing plenty of discussion before our 'forum team' travel on to Malta.
World Sailing's conference in Spain will welcome more than 600 delegates, including international class association representatives, Member National Authorities and leading sailors, event organisers and boat manufacturers, plus observers from the many interested sailing nations taking part.
This year's conference will embrace new topics under an overall theme of 'our sustainable future'; three individual conferences will in turn be headed Commercial Strategy for the Sport, Para World Sailing and Sustainability. The three forums will offer the opportunity to hear from leading experts on each topic, as well as take part in open discussions in which best-practice can be shared.
Confirmed speakers include Mark Turner, Volvo Ocean Race CEO, Jerry Newman, head of sport at Facebook, and British sailor and Paralympic sailing visionary Geoff Holt, who has been an ardent campaigner to reinstate Paralympic sailing for 2024. The three forums will be mixed in with World Sailing's usual comprehensive schedule of meetings of members held throughout the conference, the recommendations of these groups then going up for consideration by the World Sailing Council at the end of the week.
Concluding the annual conference on Sunday 13 November will be the General Assembly, a four-yearly meeting that will decide World Sailing's board of directors, including president and vice-presidents for the next four years.
Daniel Smith, Rio de Janeiro
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One killed in Ivory Coast as tensions rise ahead of vote
Monday, 19 October 2020 6:42 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 19 October 2020 6:42 PM ]
Riot police members stand next to a bus which was burned early in the morning by protesters against the Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara's decision to stand for a third term, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
One person has been killed and a dozen have been seriously injured during an opposition protest near Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, a local mayor says, two weeks ahead of the presidential election.
Most of the protesters were youths, who had set up roadblocks on the main road to neighboring Ghana from the town of Bounoua, a onetime stronghold of former first lady Simone Gbagbo.
Another two people died at the weekend during ethnic clashes linked to the election in Bongouanou, fiefdom of opposition candidate Pascal Affi N'Guessan, who said his home was burned down.
A small group of Ivory Coast's political opposition supporters protest against a third term of President Alassane Ouattara's in street of Anono village in Abidjan on October 15, 2020, ahead of the October 31, 2020 presidential elections. (Photo by AFP)
The tensions, which already saw around 15 people killed in August and September, have fueled fears of a conflict on a scale of the one that engulfed the West African state a decade ago.
Also in Abidjan, students responding to a call for protests from the opposition-aligned Fesci labor union set fire to at least one bus and two cars in the city's Rivera 2 district, an AFP journalist said on Monday.
Security forces clashed with students who had torched cars and barricaded several streets in the Cocody neighborhood where the Felix Houphouet-Boigny University is located.
Other incidents were reported in the towns of Dabou and Divo, and in the capital Yamoussoukro, according to witnesses and a security source.
The regional ECOWAS grouping, making a second diplomatic mission to the country in a week, urged the government and opposition to make "considerable efforts" to tamp down the tensions.
The 15-member Economic Community of West African States also urged two opposition parties on Monday to "seriously reconsider their decision to boycott the election, and their call on their supporters to engage in civil disobedience."
Term limit reset
President Alassane Ouattara is seeking a third term in the October 31 election, with critics saying the bid breaks with constitutional limits in Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer.
The president says a 2016 reform allows him to run again by resetting the limit on the number of terms.
Ouattara had announced in March that he would not seek a third term, but he changed his mind after his preferred successor, prime minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, died of a sudden heart attack in July.
Riot police vehicles patrol a street after a clash with protesters in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on October 19, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
The opposition has allowed doubts to swirl over whether it will boycott the vote, last Thursday urging supporters to boycott "electoral operations" and campaigning, while stopping short of withdrawing its three candidacies.
Dozens of would-be candidates were barred from running in the election, including former president Laurent Gbagbo and ex-rebel chief Guillaume Soro, both of whom played key roles in the 2010-11 crisis.
In addition to Ouattara and Affi N'Guessan, former president Henri Konan Bedie and former parliamentarian Kouadio Konan Bertin are in the running.
Listing the opposition's demands on Sunday to the visiting ECOWAS delegation -- notably for Ouattara to scrap his contentious third term bid, and for sidelined candidacies to be authorized -- Affi N'Guessan vowed "to fight until these demands are met."
Friday's clashes erupted after young backers of Affi N'Guessan set up roadblocks using tree trunks or oil barrels on two major arteries of Bongouanou, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) north of Abidjan.
Hundreds of residents could be seen fleeing the area on foot, wearing backpacks or carrying sacks of belongings on their heads.
(Source: AFP)
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Grandview teacher brings peace into classroom
by Mary Wilson, mwilson@jcadvocate.com
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has selected Grandview teacher Amy Cameron to serve in the 2017 Peace Teachers Program. The Peace Teachers Program is rooted in the conviction that educators can be pivotal in bringing peace themes into their classrooms, schools and communities. At a time when violent conflict regularly dominates headlines, USIP believes that teachers are the key to helping young people obtain the knowledge, skills and perspectives to envision a more peaceful world and their part in creating it.
The Peace Teachers Program selects four outstanding American middle and high school educators each year to receive training, resources and support to strengthen their teaching of peace. Over the course of a school year, these teachers develop their understanding of international conflict management and peacebuilding through online coursework and other USIP opportunities; discover new ways to teach about conflict and peace, and identify concrete actions for integrating these concepts and skills into their classrooms; build connections with like-minded educators and with USIP through monthly virtual meetings; and serve as ambassadors and models for global peacebuilding education in their schools and broader communities by sharing their experiences and strategies on USIP's website, at conferences of educators, and in a special closing program in Washington, D.C.
"We are thrilled to work with these four outstanding educators this coming year. They have each excelled at bringing a global perspective to their teaching, and they have exciting ideas for integrating issues of conflict and peace into their students' work," said Megan Chabalowski, who manages the program for USIP's Public Education department. "We know from working with previous groups of Peace Teachers that they are going to have a great impact on their students' growth as peacebuilders."
The program is part of USIP's public education work. Grounded in the Institute's original mandate from Congress, public education serves the American people, providing resources and initiatives for K-12 students and educators, as well as others interested in learning about and working for peace.
Cameron wrote curriculum for her high school British and World Literature students using the book What Is the What, written by Dave Eggers, which is based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese child refugee who immigrated to the United States under the Lost Boys of Sudan program. Last school year, after the students read the novel, Cameron invited a Lost Boy from Sudan to come and speak with her classes.
"The conversations we have while reading this book are great," said Cameron. "Our kids are global citizens now. When I'm teaching them, we study South Sudan and the conflict."
Throughout her research for the curriculum, Cameron came across an essay contest through USIP. Having been listed as the sponsoring teacher for student submissions over the years, Chabalowski reached out to Cameron to find out what was happening in her classroom.
"I told her that in our World Lit classes, we talk about conflict being everywhere and that we can't isolate ourselves from it," said Cameron. "In Grandview we can't be isolated. I want my students to feel like they are part of a bigger picture. The South Sudanese just lends itself to such a great study of conflict."
With many of the Lost Boys from Sudan ending up in the Kansas City area, Cameron's students are able to relate to their stories. Chabalowski, after hearing from Cameron about her curriculum, convinced her to apply for the Peace Teachers Program.
"If I had read the other teachers' (who were previously selected) submissions, I probably wouldn't have done it. But I did it and I was just humbled when I found out that USIP had selected me," said Cameron. "I couldn't believe it."
Cameron's essay focused on how she applies lessons of peace in her classroom in order to help her students feel more connected and to feel that something else is more important than them. Next semester, Cameron will include a project-based learning design in which students will study how to become peacebuilders in the world.
"I'm going to let them run with it. There are a thousand different avenues that they can explore," said Cameron. "It's all high-interest with the kids. The relevancy now, when there's so much conflict, a lot of our kids can relate to these things personally."
While doing an activity that coincided with the International Day of Peace this year, Cameron and her students discovered that 162 nations are currently in some sort of conflict. Each country in conflict will receive a colored tack on the map in Cameron's classroom, eventually filling most of the map.
"The idea is to show that they are all in conflict," said Cameron. "We'll focus on how to be a peacebuilder in the classroom and how that translates to the community and the world."
As part of the Peace Teachers Program, Cameron has received a number of resources to help her incorporate peace building into her everyday teaching. The other teachers selected for this year are from Montana, Florida and Oklahoma, and the four speak monthly to discuss what may or may not be working in their respective communities.
"Grandview is on the map for this," said Cameron. "I'm really psyched for it. The attention between Washington D.C. and Grandview that we'll receive, to me, is huge."
As one of the four high schools in the country being represented in the Peace Teachers Program, in December, USIP representatives will visit Grandview High School and speak with Cameron's students.
"This is so relevant right now. With our kids, a lot of times they are reflecting what is happening at home," said Cameron. "Their concerns should be our concerns. The kids have definite opinions, but they also feel hopeless. Hopefully there will be a time in our lives when we won't have 162 countries in conflict, but that won't happen until it happens everywhere, when people feel like they have a say; when we feel more secure in our own communities."
Cameron is excited to see what direction her students take with the peacebuilding lessons. Every day, as Cameron teaches World Literature, she explains to her students different perspectives and that the world is much bigger than the community they live in. Her classes will begin reading What Is the What in February.
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Finnish police break largest cocaine ring in the country
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish police said they have cracked a large cocaine ring in the Tampere region which imported 13 kilos of cocaine from the Netherlands to Finland in 2017-2018 and involved dozens of suspects.
"Overall, this is the largest ever importing and distribution case of cocaine in Finland," Jari Raty, the head of the investigation, said in the statement released on Thursday.
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Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Kirsten Donovan


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Ep. 59 – Students Coming Together to Say No to Drugs: Drug Free Clubs of America
Greg interviews community leaders, administrators and students at a recent rally for Drug Free Clubs of America (DFCA). Drug Free Clubs are high school and middle school clubs in which students agree to remain drug free and submit to random drug screenings throughout the year. In return, they receive perks like prizes and discount cards. The recent rally for 8 new drug free clubs in Chillicothe, Ohio included 8 schools and over 1500 students.
Greg starts by interviewing Wayne Campbell, Founder of Tyler's Light. You can listen to his recent podcast episode here. Wayne has been involved in the initiation of 18 drug free clubs. Wayne doesn't feel responsible for the clubs, but rather feels the school community does the work. He explains what happens to students' work ethic as a result of their DFCA membership. "These students have pledged to be drug free and want to prove it. Their attendance, grades, and test scores get better, while necessary disciplinary action declines," says Wayne.
Greg proceeds to interview two students, Sundi and Payton, who are both charter members of the DFCA. They share their experiences of what it's like to be an ambassador for DFCA and what it entails. Payton shares her positive feelings for the club and how it impacts students. "[DFCA] does so much for the students, especially those struggling with drug abuse. It reaches out to the students who are questioning drug use and students who are using drugs. It's about getting them back to where they need to be," says Payton. Meanwhile, Sundi shares a similarly positive experience. "The drug epidemic hits close to home. I just want to help make an impact on other people's lives and get them interested in becoming drug free," says Sundi.
Listen to the podcast to hear about the specific perks the students receive and the impact DFCA has made in these schools and on these students.
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By Mogens Johansen
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Star Wars fans who have imagined themselves travelling to a galaxy far, far away are finally able to do so, writes MOGENS JOHANSEN.
The first of two Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge theme parks opened last week at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The second at Florida's Walt Disney World Resort will open in August.
The giant 56,000sqm site took five years to build and reportedly cost $US1 billion ($1.45 billion).
Designers used real locations in Istanbul, Marrakesh and Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park as inspiration.
Fans can embed themselves into the world of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and Han Solo and mingle with mysterious and curious creatures and critters from across the galaxy.
A ride aboard the Millennium Falcon, the famous spacecraft piloted by Han Solo and his hairy sidekick Chewbacca, is sure to be one of the major attractions in the new theme park. Fans will be given roles such as pilot, engineer or gunner during an interactive smuggling mission on Millennium Falcon as it blasts off into hyperspace.
A second ride — Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance will open at the end of this year.
Fans can also build their own lightsabers at Savi's Workshop for $290 and visit the Droid Depot where they can design, assemble and activate their own R2-D2 for $145.
Hungry fans can head for Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo for a variety of dishes prepared with ingredients from across the galaxy.
And from June 24 fans of all ages will be able to quench their thirst with unique concoctions at Oga's Cantina while they plan their next smuggling run.
Prices to get into Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge start about $190for a regular ticket but at peak time (June 1 to September 30) it will set you back about $215. And, a ticket alone will not get you in.
Reservations are required until June 23.
Guests are assigned a four-hour timeslot for their visit and will be escorted out by Stormtroopers at the end of their allotted time.
May the Force and your wallet be with you.
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In praise of escapism
16 Nov 2020 John Borthwick
A long-time contributor to Travel's pages, writer JOHN BORTHWICK recently won the 2020 Pacific Area Travel Association's (PATA) Gold Award for Best Destination Story.
Here, he takes a light-hearted look at travel and writing, exploring Thailand and the greatly under-rated virtues of escapism.
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PHOENIX, Ariz. – A Phoenix mother has been arrested for child abuse after her 3-year-old daughter was found locked in a closet.
Adams was initially arrested on September 29 for allegedly shoplifting.
Adams is due back in court October 17.


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We have been working on realizing our goal of having performance-driven world language instruction in our district for many years. When shifts to our evaluation process came for world language teachers in 2011, it became urgent that we really own performance-driven teaching, learning, and assessment because jobs were on the line. Teachers could be dismissed after two consecutive years of low evaluation scores. In Shelby County language programs of six or more teachers, each language teacher is required to compile a portfolio that documents student performance growth across the modes as well as in their reflection over their learning process. This accountability enabled us to make enormous strides and offered me, as the district content advisor for world languages, the opportunity to create new resources and tools to support my teachers (one of my favorite things to do and even healthier than baking cupcakes!). In reflecting over the ACTFL Proficiency guidelines, I began thinking of ways I could represent the growth mindset that would be required of teachers and students in making this shift from memorization to proficiency.
Out of this process came the Path to Proficiency infographic. I am deeply grateful for the inspiration for this idea, and I worked on it almost obsessively until I was able to provide a visual representation to support the idea that language learning is a journey, not a destination. So often students (and parents, too) ask how long until they can expect to become fluent in the language, like there's some magical step or ceremony after they know a certain amount of words. For students to embrace the role of language learner, on the other hand, means they embrace the notion that learning does not stop after the required two years of language study because when they stop using their language or learning their language they become the people who tell others at parties "I took a language in school and all I can say is "Hi, how are you?" and "my name is…".
This is gut-wrenching for many language teachers, but to me it reinforces the idea of growing in our instruction as well as in our learning. We have more information today then ever before on the process of learning. We know on some level what happens in the brain. We have standards that level the playing field. We do NOT have to figure out WHAT to teach, but rather we have to learn the pace and process of performing toward proficiency therefore tracking performances that lead to our future proficiency targets become critical.
The Path to Proficiency demonstrates the learning progression for students who participate in performance-driven learning experiences. Many times we look at two options as mutually exclusive; we must choose one or the other. Embracing performance and proficiency, though, is NOT an either-or situation. It is NOT "You are a performance-driven teacher" or "You are a grammar-based teacher." It is not a fact of old school vs. new school teaching methods either. Just like the learners, teachers have to embrace the journey to performance-driven instructional methods. This means we may change how we teach things, the order in which we teach them, and, most importantly, pacing the introduction of new material. It does not mean that we abandon grammar or accuracy, but rather we align it to the proficiency guidelines. It is a departure from courses that are driven and paced by the textbook, and that can be scary. It doesn't mean we throw textbooks away because textbooks offer resources a performance-driven teacher will use. We cannot create everything from scratch instantly. We have to be discerning consumers using performance as the lens through which we evaluate what and how we teach, as well as which of the available learning tools we use along this path to proficiency. How do you explain or track your progress down the pat to proficiency with your students?
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Jia Youfu was born to a peasant family in Hebei Province in 1942 and graduated from the Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1965. He has specialized in landscape paintings since 1976 and is a scholar artist who incorporates his vast knowledge and understanding of Chinese philosophy into his paintings. The source of his inspiration is the Taihang mountain; he has traveled to the mountain more than thirty times to observe and study them, and to gain insights of his art.
Professor Jia currently heads the Chinese Landscape Painting Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.


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Emery Walker's house is an Arts and Crafts utopia
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Dining room of Emery Walker's House in 2017. Courtesy The Emery Walker Trust
Between the late 1870s and the early 1930s, the Thames waterfront between Hammersmith Bridge and Hammersmith Terrace was occupied and energetically traversed by two generations of the English Arts and Crafts Movement. It all began in 1878, when William Morris moved into George MacDonald's old house on Upper Mall and renamed it 'Kelmscott House', after his up-river home in the Cotswolds, Kelmscott Manor. Morris's arrival attracted kindred spirits, but he also found allies among existing residents. Travelling home one night from a socialist meeting he fell in with an amiable and like-minded neighbour. The son of a coach builder, Emery Walker had forged a successful career in printing, acquiring the reputation of a technical guru. From this initial encounter blossomed a friendship, and then a collaboration, as Walker assisted Morris in founding the Kelmscott Press (1891). In 1916, the same stretch of river witnessed the end of a less happy, but no less distinguished, collaboration. Under cover of darkness and in the course of around 170 journeys on foot, Walker's estranged partner in the Doves Press, Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, jettisoned the weight of Walker's claims on the business and, more literally, the lead type they had jointly developed, by dumping it in the river from the height of Hammersmith Bridge.
Hammersmith has not lacked a focal point for the telling of such stories. The William Morris Society occupies the basement of Kelmscott House, and curates displays devoted to the area's history. But the upper rooms, in which Morris's family lived, have long been privately occupied, leaving the domestic conditions of London's Arts and Crafts life more or less inaccessible. The situation changed in 2005, when the Emery Walker Trust began running guided tours of 7 Hammersmith Terrace, a sizeable terraced house lived in by Walker after he moved up the street from smaller quarters in 1903. Visitors could walk through a complete home, kept largely as its most famous resident had left it. After the award of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund the house closed in 2015, and its contents were removed while conservation and essential repairs took place. Now fully proofed against the weather, and at last properly heated, it has reopened to tours of the main rooms and riverside garden.
The sense of a stopped clock prevails at Emery Walker's House. In this it recalls Carlyle's House in Chelsea, an institution whose purchase by public subscription in 1895 initiated the modern fashion for indoor literary shrines. But the circumstances of preservation could not be more different. On Walker's death in 1933, the house was inherited by his daughter, Dorothy. She lived there for the rest of her life, and bequeathed it in turn to Elizabeth de Haas, a Dutch woman who arrived in 1948 as a helper and companion. De Haas stayed until her death in 1999, at which point the newly founded Emery Walker Trust assumed care of the property. Living as informal custodians rather than curators, the two women thrived in this environment because their memories were also the memories of the house, while their aspirations and values were reiterated, rather than inhibited, by the furnishings and fashionings that filled their home.
Dining room of Emery Walker's House in 2017. Courtesy The Emery Walker Trust
If 7 Hammersmith Terrace is a time warp, it is an unusually expansive one, having been occupied by three generations over a period of almost a hundred years. This sedimentary history has left its trace, as is clear from the first room into which visitors are ushered, a small kitchen (previously the telephone room) festooned with tea towels of a peasant art pattern. A sense of kitsch builds as one realises that the 'Delft' tiles on the walls are actually Fablon self-adhesive squares, applied by De Haas in honour of her Dutch childhood. Passing through a hallway into the dining room, the interior opens out into an atmospheric space infused by reflected river light. A collection of dishes testifies to Dorothy's journeys through the southern Europe and the Near East, while a shelf of books on T.E. Lawrence extends the theme of literary-colonial travel. The same shelf is surveyed from across the room by the image of a bust depicting Lawrence, a modern hero with roots in Pre-Raphaelite Oxford. The most affecting instance of these interpenetrating art movements is the ancient vine that passes through the wall of the adjoining conservatory, grown from a parent plant in William Hogarth's garden. Once inside, a play of leaf and shadow complements the vinicultural plaster reliefs by Norman Jewson on the opposite wall.
The variety of object and allusion is striking, but in no sense at odds with the version of Arts and Crafts culture represented here: unlike the purpose-built houses commissioned by wealthy patrons of the movement – Blackwell in the Lake District, for instance, or the Gamble House in Southern California – Walker's 'house beautiful' avoids the eerie coherence of an interior in which every detail has been designed by a single intelligence. Instead, 7 Hammersmith Terrace typifies the way that Arts and Crafts figures actually lived. As Pevsner observed, Hammersmith Terrace is 'architecturally plain' and 'entirely urban' – not far off what Morris called 'the utilitarian brick box with a slate lid'. But the effect of re-purposing this mid 18th-century structure, as at Kelmscott House, was to imply a capaciousness and hospitality. Tyrannical conceptions of taste – notably, those associated with Victorian Aestheticism – were avoided as new objects sat among heirlooms, and things beautiful blended with those merely useful.
17th-century chair given to Emery Walker by Jane Morris. Photo: Anna Kunst
Much else in the house evokes the particular milieu of Arts and Crafts London. The objects on display share aesthetic values, but express less an individual vision than the gift economy of an entire artistic community. The 17th-century library chair in the dining room came from Jane Morris, embellished with a dedication to Walker in thanks for nursing her husband in his last illness (their daughter, May, presented an embroidered cushion and a bedspread). Several other pieces reflect friendship with the craftsmen who settled near Daneway, Walker's summer retreat in the Cotswolds: Ernest Gimson made the fritillary sconce in the dining room (and another converted to electric light), and Ernest Barnsley presented the walnut secretaire in the drawing room. If these objects operate as bearers of memory, others set up relations between themselves. Visitors are shown a photograph of Walker in Toledo, brandishing a recently purchased jug: the same jug is discovered above a bookcase in the dining room.
A number of objects have been inherited. One of the treasures on display – an exquisite pencil drawing of May Morris by Edward Burne-Jones – is from next door, where May lived. Several other items come from the household of Morris's old friend, the architect Philip Webb. Webb left Walker a number of cabinets, and even a linen press. When Walker relinquished the lease on Daneway, items of rustic stone furniture made their way into his Thameside garden, further enriching the hoard of objects. The sense builds of 7 Hammersmith Terrace as a main current into which flowed the treasures of earlier Arts and Crafts households. Items of glass from Morris's Red House cast us back to the middle years of the 19th century; the future beckons, meanwhile, through the pared down typography of the Doves Press, and the emergent modernism of Edward Johnston, the designer of the original London Underground typeface who lived at No. 3, and whose disciple Eric Gill rented a letter-cutting workshop in the stable of No. 7.
These affiliations nevertheless give way to the house's principal and prevailing decorative concern with Morris. A collaborator and friend with whom Walker did not fall out, Morris owed to him not just technical advice and expertise, but also an innovative method of studying early Venetian type through photographic enlargement. The house's collection of original Morris & Co. work does not disappoint. In the dining room hangs an unusual version of Willow wallpaper, its familiar leaf pattern set against a background of bubbles absent from the standard version. The prize exhibit is in the bedroom: a blue Morris & Co. carpet bought by Dorothy from the country auction that cleared Kelmscott Manor. It is easy to forget that Walker didn't move in to No. 7 until seven years after Morris's death, and that he didn't put up any Morris & Co. wallpaper until he bought the house in the 1920s. There is, in other words, an element of retrospect about this homage, a belated quality that complicates the initial impression of a window on the 1890s. It follows that this is the house not of Morris, but of a Morrisian – one, indeed, who embraced the patterned interiors that Morris privately thought inferior to plain lime wash.
Illuminated manuscript of the first page of Robert Browning's 'Home Thoughts from Abroad'. Photo: Anna Kunst
The curatorial temptation in house museums is often to gather all things associated with the famous resident, including objects pre- or post-dating their years in residence. A more precise historicity, located in the possessions of a particular time, can in that way be lost. The situation here is different: not because there is no reproduction work, but because the reproduction wallpaper on the stairs, or the 1950s Morris-pattern curtains in the dining room, have a way of collaborating with the originals,and as such are part of what is being preserved. The curators wisely present the house 'as is', respecting its multi-layered life, rather than prioritising the time of Walker over that of his daughter or indeed De Haas. Elsewhere, this approach might preclude more interesting restorative possibilities; in a multi-generational household, however, it works well. Only occasionally do the curators transgress the permissive bounds of this position. The faded, but extremely rare, Morris & Co. lino in the hallway is a fascinating survival, and its digital reproduction is a valuable exercise; but the decision to lay it as a new surface in the kitchen confuses the proposition that it is De Haas's room. Other such experiments are wisely confined to an exhibition room, or clearly contextualised: in the bedroom, for instance, a patch of original wallpaper otherwise cleaned by conservators has been left showing the surface dirt of a century.
The act of preserving a house always requires change. The Hogarth vine has been pruned back to manageable proportions, the overlaid rugs that kept in precious heat have been sensibly rationalised, and the ceilings now have smoke detectors. But, for all the decanting and patching, this remains a place whose charm dwells in the sense that the Walkers have just stepped out. The guides do a good job of cultivating this impression, and one feels a sense of wonder at what has lain here in drawers: a lock of Morris's hair, a pair of his spectacles, a cache of insect bodies useful for making red dye. Only, these too were already in a manner curated, by Dorothy's labels and De Haas's foresight. Through their discreet handling of these matters, the curators avoid naïve preservationalism without diminishing the house's more uncalculated charm.
All museum collections imply a parallel history of stewardship, but Emery Walker House tells a particularly unusual and interesting story of personal and public care. That Walker's homage to Morris's memory – a man not of his class or his blood – was taken up by his daughter, and then handed over to an outsider, in De Haas, is significant: between them, they developed a private model of custodianship that went beyond the bounds of the family and yet sustained the idea of a household. Even the creation of the Emery Walker Trust evokes the best traditions of Arts and Crafts life: it was in the late 19th century that followers of John Ruskin founded the National Trust, and so expanded the very idea of trusteeship. The model of the trust practised here is similarly generous – spatially, as well as humanly and generationally. Under the title of 'Arts and Crafts Hammersmith', the Emery Walker Trust and the William Morris Society are coordinating local openings and events that promise to revive awareness of the area's buried artistic history. An impressive set of interactive panoramas on the project website are extending that work to new audiences.
These resources confirm an impression that forms more naturally in the environs of the museum. From the garden's river edge, one can look back at the world of the house, and imagine the interlinked life of the terrace as a whole. Even the terracotta tiles under foot are part of that history: installed by Cobden-Sanderson during an earlier tenancy, they were stepped over by guests at Walker's famous Boat Race parties. The spell cast by a visit survives even as you cross the threshold and take the riverside route back to Hammersmith Bridge. After you see and admire the given and inherited objects of a whole artistic community – whether derived from a few doors down, from Morris's house on the Upper Mall, or all the way up-river in the Cotswolds – the streetscape shifts. Instead of a moneyed testament to several decades of house-price inflation, a living museum of London's Victorian cultural life comes into view, or an Arts and Crafts utopia, stretched out along the Thames in serendipitous adjacency.
Emery Walker's House is at 7 Hammersmith Terrace, London.
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Thomas Dörflein, the zoo keeper in charge of rearing Berlin zoo's superstar polar bear Knut, has died, police said late on Monday.
There were no signs of any foul play and so far no indications the 44-year-old committed suicide although investigations were continuing, a police spokeswoman said.
Daily newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported on Tuesday that Dörflein was found dead in his flat in the Wilmersdorf area of Berlin.
Knut shot to fame as a cub in 2007, drawing huge crowds and even appearing on the cover of glossy US magazine Vanity Fair. Now an adult, Knut is now showing disturbed behaviour, animal welfare groups say.


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Badminton World C'ships 2018, Saina Nehwal vs Carolina Marin Highlights: Marin crushes Saina 21-6, 21-11
Updated Aug 07, 2018 | 15:52 IST | Times Now Digital
Saina Nehwal faced a 21-6, 21-11 defeat to the hands of Spain's Carolina Marin in the BWF World Championships 2018 Women's Singles Final.
Saina Nehwal vs Carolina Marin in women's singles quarter-finals at BWF World Championships 2018 | Photo Credit: AP
11:20 IST: It was a matter of time. Saina was nowhere near the Spaniard in the match. Saina is out from BWF Championships 2018. Carolina wins in straight sets 21-6, 21-11.
11:18 IST: Saina adds one more point but so much work to do. Carolina is relentless in her attacks. Carolina is thrashing Saina now. She races away to 17-9. Carolina Marin leads 19-10. Marin fails to reach the wide shot from Saina. And match point for Marin. 20-11
11:14 IST: Carolin commences the game with the first point. She is in the lead now 12-8. Three successive points for the Spaniard as she is in the lead 14-8. The first point after the break goes to Saina. 14-9.
11:11 IST: Carolina leads 11-8 at the mid-game break. Three unforced errors bring Saina closer to Marin's lead. Saina has been heavily outwitted in this match so far.
11:08 IST: Nehwal is being schooled here now. Completely outclassed by the Spaniard. Carolina Marin stowing away with the points and is leading 7-3. Yet another smash and Saina's return hit the net. This is a walk in the park for Carolina. Point for Saina after as the score reads 9-4.
11:05 IST: The second set is underway. And the score is level at 1-1. Marin's challenge turns out unsuccessful and Saina in the lead. Marin comes back to level the score. Marin means business. 3-2 Marin in lead. She extends her lead now with successive points 4-2.
11:00 IST: And Carolina extends her lead by a mammoth margin. Saina's hopes and strategy are sabotaged. She has to think of the second set now. 19-6. And that is the game point for Carolina. She is not giving any sort of space to Saina. And the Spaniard wins by a big margin. 21-6.
10:52 IST: Complete domination from the Spaniard. She is making Saina work hard. Another crosscourt flick and Saina misses it. The Spaniard's flexibility overshadowing Saina's pace. She is in the lead 8-2. Saina still to get a point.
10:50 IST: Saina grabs a point but Marin is in the lead. She has already bagged three points. Successive points for her. Saina's fault and she concedes yet another point. Carolina leading 5-2.
10:48 IST: The much-awaited women's quarter-final clash is underway. Saina starts off proceeding. And the first point goes to Marin. Brilliant right from the start. Makes Saina sway on both sides and finishes it with a cross-court smash. 1-0.
10:43 IST: Up next India's Saina Nehwal and Spain's Carolina Marin. Bingjiao He beats Tzu Ying Tai in women's singles event in three sets 21-18, 7-21, 21-13. Stay tuned for more updates. The pre-match formalities are done. Saina and Marin at the court engaged in a practice rally.
10:38 IST: Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong win the mixed doubles match against Rankireddy and Ponappa. The beat the Indian mixed doubles pair in straight sets of 21-17, 21-10. Saina Nehwal will be shortly in action.
10: 28 IST: Rankireddy and Ponappa have lost the first game but the significant difference in the rankings of the pairs isn't reflecting in the difference of points. Just a 21-17 loss but the Indian pair is looking to do better in the Game 2. Bingjiao He, meanwhile, is looking like the most likely winner in the women's singles clash.
10: 14 IST: The Game 1 of Mixed doubles clash at BWF World Championships is presently underway and the Indian pairing of Rankireddy and Ponappa is trailing by a few points. The women's singles match between Tzu Ying Tai and Bingjiao looks to be going into the third set which means there will be a further delay in the start of the Saina vs Marin match.
09: 57 IST: The mixed doubles pairing of Ashwini Ponappa and S Rankireddy has arrived on the court to take on a pair of Chinese shuttlers - Huang Ya Quing and Zheng Si Wei. There's a major difference in the rankings of the two sets of shuttlers. While the Chinse pair is ranked No. 2, the Indian is at No. 40.
09: 45 IST: The women's singles match between Tzu Ying Tai and Bingjiao He are the shuttlers presently in action and post the conclusion of their match, Saina Nehwal will come up against Spain's Carolina Marin. It's only the first set which is under action between Tai and He right now. Stay tuned for latest updates!
09: 30 IST: The mixed-doubles match of S Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponappa has witnessed some delay in the start because of the preceding matches. The situation is likely to affect the start time of the match between Saina Nehwal and Carolina Marin too. Stay tuned for live updates from the Day 5's action at BWF World Championships 2018.
09: 18 IST: If Saina Nehwal beats Carolina Marin today, she will face the winner of the match between Tai Tzu Ying and He Bingjiao. Though Saina is the only active player in this edition of the competition who has made it to the quarters at each of the previous eight World Championships, it's the higher-ranked Spaniard who will be the favourite.
Saina Nehwal continued her good form in major tournaments as she defeated Ratchanok Intanon 21-16, 21-19 in a game that lasted 47 minutes to enter the quarter-finals of the 2018 BWF World Championships. With the victory, Saina set up a mouth-watering clash with 2016 Rio Olympic champion Carolina Marin. The two shuttlers are closely matched in head-to-head encounters, but it's Saina who edges by a narrow 5-4 ratio. In terms of the two shuttlers' overall record this year, Saina has won 24 of her 32 matches while Marin has won 23 of her 29. It's the recent form where Marin seems to have an edge of Saina, as the Spanish shuttler has won 8 of her past 10 games while the Indian has only emerged victorious in 5 of them.
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Badminton World C'ships 2018, Saina Nehwal vs Carolina Marin Highlights: Marin crushes Saina 21-6, 21-11 Description: Saina Nehwal faced a 21-6, 21-11 defeat to the hands of Spain's Carolina Marin in the BWF World Championships 2018 Women's Singles Final. Times Now


Situated in a town house known as « Hôtel de Boisbilly », the ground floor of the Maison du Patrimoine was set up to receive the public in 2011. Repairs were made to the walls and an exhibition space was installed, along with Led lighting, a video projector and a Bluetooth PA. After an inaugural exhibition of photographs by Pascal Autret in 2011, other exhibitions have been organised, always centred on themes of Quimper and Breton cultural heritage, past and present.
Although at the outset only amateur artistic talents were showcased in the exhibitions, the space has since been opened to professional artists, both for traditional and modern art. The focus is on exhibitions which seek to surprise by showing heritage in a new light. The 2013 exhibition on Breton identity and design grouped together a graphic designer and two contemporary artists who questioned Breton identity through symbols such as the famous « bowl with ears ».
The Maison du patrimoineorganises one or two exhibitions per year, inviting amateur artists as well as professionals to show their work. The choice is always made on a whim, from a desire to promote a particular artist. The exhibitions are always free and are a good opportunity to discover the Heritage House programme!


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Dr. William Joseph Torres, 70, a native of Supreme and resident of Houma, died at 12:15 a.m. Saturday, June 18, 2011. Visitation at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Houma on Tuesday, June 21, from 9 a.m. until funeral Mass at 11 a.m. He is survived by his loving wife, Kathleen Zeringue Torres; three sons, William "Will" Torres and Christopher Torres, both of Houma, and Matthew Torres and wife Lizette, of Miami; mother, Mildred Troxclair Torres Blanchard; a sister, Myrna Torres Smith; seven grandchildren, Brittany Torres, Katelyn Torres, Kristen Torres, Dante Torres, Matthew Torres II, Mia Torres and Maxton Torres; brothers-in-law, Dr. Guy Zeringue Jr. and Dr. Gregory Zeringue; sister-in-law, Deborah Zeringue Toups; and numerous nieces and nephews. Dr. Torres was a 1958 graduate of Assumption High School, LSU in Baton Rouge, and LSU Medical School in New Orleans in 1966. From 1967 to 1968, he served his country in Vietnam as a U.S. Army medical officer and commander of a clearing company with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. Upon his release from the military, he completed his obstetric and gynecological residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He operated an OB/GYN practice in Houma from 1972 until his retirement. He was a passionate physician who loved his work, the patients he served, and his family. He was preceded in death by his father, Eldridge Torres; and granddaughter, Tess Torres. Arrangements by Chauvin Funeral Home, Houma, (985) 868-2536.
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