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Zoo is a Paris-based graphic design studio founded in 2013 by Baptiste de l'Espinay, Julie Galand and Valentine Thébaut. We specialize in print design (publishing, layout, identity, etc.), web design (website, interface, motion design, etc.) and signage (sign, museography, etc.). We believe in strength of plain ideas and in necessity of a clear language. Each project is an adventure with new issues, driven by the care of functionality and aesthetic. Feel free to contact us, it will be a pleasure to meet you.
Basquiat à la Fondation Louis Vuitton
éditions Gallimard / Fondation Louis Vuitton
24 x 32 cm, 324 pages
Reference catalog designed together with Gallimard publishers for the unique exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, covering the painter's whole career, based on 120 defining works. The catalog includes a survey of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work from 1980 to 1988.
Christophe Bidaud Architectes
Christophe Bidaud Architectes
Logotype, stationery, gtemplates, guidelines manual, portfolio, etc.
After 20 years of existence, CBA Architects asked us to think the global rebranding of the office. The identity system includes a revised name, portfolio and full range of internal communication tools included in an exhaustive guidelines manual.
Architecture in Massy
Paris Sud Aménagement/Ante Prima - AAM éditions
20 x 27 cm, 100 pages
In collaboration with Ante Prima publishers, we designed a book collection about the evolution of the architectural landscape in the city of Massy (near Paris). The first books are dedicated to La Place du Grand Ouest, Vilmorin and Atlantis districts.
Les architectes ouvrent les portes 18
Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes (CNOA)
Posters, leaflet, stickers, tote bag, tape, goodies, etc.
For the 2018 edition, we created a series of spontaneous and colorful illustrations evoking different themes of this festive event, run by the National Council of Architects and French Ministry of Culture, that takes place everywhere in France.
architectures CREE magazine
CREE éditions
24 x 31 cm, 210 pages
We have given pride of place to the images in the redesign of architectures CREE magazine, of which we assure the continuing art direction.
Millecamps, tapisseries années 60-70
Musées d'Angers
Posters, leaflets, programs, signage, catalog, etc.
This exhibition dedicated to the great tapestry artist Yves Millecamps relates his 60's and 70's masterpieces. We were asked by Les Musées d'Angers to conceive the communication campaign, catalog and exhibition design.
Choregraphy, We design experience
Logotype, papeterie, supports éditoriaux, illustrations, site web, etc.
We created a playful design system for Choregraphy's visual identity. Using a design method training, Choregraphy provides training workshops and consulting in experience-driven innovation.
Code and motion: Julian Garnier
logotype, stationery
Xperitis is a medical innovation consultant.
We designed its visual identity based on a custom typeface, including the stationary system.
Henri-Edmond Cross in Giverny
Musée des Impressionnismes de Giverny
Poster, signage
Exhibition campaign and signage design for the Musée des Impressionnismes in Giverny (fr). This special exhibition is devoted to the great French painter Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910).
Millecamps, tapisseries années 60-70
Musées d'Angers
Posters, leaflets, programs, signage, catalog, etc.
This exhibition dedicated to the great tapestry artist Yves Millecamps relates his 60's and 70's masterpieces. We were asked by Les Musées d'Angers to conceive the communication campaign, catalog and exhibition design.
Haute école des Arts du Rhin
Posters, signage, invitations, catalog, etc.
Chaque année, la HEAR ouvre ses portes au public pour y présenter les projets de diplômes des étudiants de dernière année. Nous avons créé l'ensemble des supports de communication de l'événement.
I love the Centre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou
15 x 21 cm, 100 pages
To celebrate the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary, we were commissioned to design a book dedicated to the different architectural facets of this «big urban toy», created by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.
CNOA Activity report 2013–2017
Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes (CNOA)
20,5 x 27 cm, 40 pages
Since 2014, we are collaborating closely with the French National Council of Architects on several events. In 2017 we were asked to design its 2014 to 2017 Activity report. The book is printed in 3 solid colors.
Jardin Monde au Centre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou
19 x 24 cm, 100 pages
Jardin Monde is a special exhibition devoted to Bernard Lassus' work, that took place on the south terrace of the Centre Pompidou. Zoo created the extensive catalog to accompany this exotic exhibition.
La Nuit des musées 2017
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Posters, metro map, bus covering, TV spot, etc.
La Nuit des Musées is an European event run by French Ministry of Cultural Affairs that takes place everywhere in French and European museums. We designed the campaign for its 13th edition, including a full range of items such as a TV spot, bus covering, Paris Metro Map and many more.
Anton Seder, Fantaisies & Ornements
Musées de Strasbourg
23 x 33 cm, 84 pages
On the occasion of «Laboratoire d'Europe, Strasbourg 1880–1930» Musées de Strasbourg publishers asked us to design the book Fantaisies et Ornements, dedicated to an incredible series of decorative sheet created by Jugendstil artist Anton Seder (1850-1916).
HEAR DIPLOMAS 2017 catalog
Haute école des Arts du Rhin
22,5 x 29,5 cm, 192 pages
Art direction, communication campaign and signage design for HEAR Diplômes 2017. We conceived a playful system just as this festive and dynamic as the event.
Michel Rémon & Associés
Michel Rémon & Associés
Logotype, stationery, leaflets, portfolio, etc.
Michel Rémon et Associés is an international office of architecture specialised in super large-scale projects. We designed the complete rebranding of the office, applied on a full range of medias.
CREE Architects' monographs
CREE éditions
24 x 28, 124 pages
CREE publisher asked us to develop a design concept for an architectural monograph series, devoted to various scale offices. Each publication shows a generous content (sketches, interviews, archives, construction details, wide photographs and many more).
K Architectures
K Architectures
24 x 18 cm, 76 pages
Portfolio designed for the parisian-based office K architectures. Hot foil printed dust jacket, japanese binding.
Michel Guthmann Architecture Urbanisme
Logotypes, stationery, portfolios, various templates, website, etc.
We designed the visual identity for MGAU, an office for architecture and urban design in Paris. The core of the identity is to generate rich and varied solutions through the use of simple and recurring tools. In the manner of the office's practice.
Les architectes ouvrent leurs portes 2017
Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes (CNOA)
Posters, leaflet, stickers, tote bag, tape, goodies, etc.
Les architectes ouvrent leurs portes is an annual event, run by the National Council of Architects and French Ministry of Culture, that takes place everywhere in France. For the 2017 edition we designed a series of posters, designed as a construction set playing with the off-screen.
RH+ portfolio
RH+ Architecture
19,5 x 26 cm, 56 pages
High-end portfolio designed for Paris based office RH+ Architecture. The close covered case-bound book presents a series of selected projects from 2013 to 2018.
Francis Soler Architectures
Francis Soler Architectures / Ante Prima consultants
18 x 25 cm, 64 pages
Projects booklet designed for parisian-based office Francis Soler Architectures.
Les Cahiers de l'Espace éthique
AP-HP / Espace éthique IDF
23 x 28,8 cm
Graphic design of the book collection Les cahiers de l'Espace éthique. Each Cahier is a written reproduction of workshops organized by Espace Ethique Ile-de-France, an institution devoted to ethical questions in the fields of health and medicine.
Les architectes ouvrent leurs portes 2016
Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes (CNOA)
Posters, leaflet, stickers, tote bag, tape, goodies, etc.
Les architectes ouvrent leurs portes is an annual event, run by the National Council of Architects and French Ministry of Culture, that takes place everywhere in France. The core of the identity is very simple graphic system including 5 typographic modules.
Le Roi est mort, Château de Versailles
Château de Versailles
Posters, leaflet, invitations, signage, print advertisements, goodies, etc.
We were commissioned by Le Château de Versailles to design the exhibition campaign of Le Roi est Mort (The King is Dead) about the death of Louis XIV.
We created an image based on an engraving from the 18th century, showing the deployed splendor of Louis XIV's funeral.
La Barquière, PietriArchitectes
21 x 27,5 cm, 96 pages
La Barquière is a housing building designed by Paris-based office PietriArchitects. We were asked to conceive a publication showing this mediterranean project built in front of Calanques National Park, near Marseille.
Michel Péna, Jouer/Jouir du paysage
AAM - Ante Prima éditions
138 x 210 mm, 444 pages
We designed a reflection book as generously illustrated as a handy guide. Michel Péna being one of the most important French landscape designer, this book relates his general reflection about landscape ever since the beginning of his activity.
BDVA Architectes
BDVA architectes
Stationery, portfolio, website, guidelines manual
BDVA is an international office of architecture and urban design in Paris. We designed the new visual identity and graphic system that includes logotypes, stationery tools, website, project booklets, portfolio and many more.
Les universités d'été de l'architecture
Conseil National de l'Ordre des Architectes (CNOA)
Website, posters, program, annual report, signage, goodies, etc.
From its founding in 2014, we served as art directors of Les Universités d'été de l'Architecture, a biennal event run by the National Council of Architects (CNOA) and French Ministry of Culture. Each edition takes place in a different city. The visual identity encompassed a full range of communication tools: website, book series, leaflets, programs, posters, annual report and many other.
Parisian Catacombes signage
Paris Musées
Together with Yoonseux architect office, we designed the signage system for the Parisian Catacombs.
Laboratoires de l'Art
Musée des Arts et Métiers / Le CNAM
Poster, leaflet, invitations, children's activity book, press release, print advertisement, goodies, etc.
Exhibition campaign for Laboratoires de l'art at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. This exhibition deals with what Art and Science have in common: experimentation and analogous means of expression, representation and shaping reality.
Éditions du patrimoine, 20th anniversary
Éditions du patrimoine
Logotype, animation
To celebrate the publisher Éditions du patrimoine's 20th anniversary, we designed a special logotype. To mark this event in a generous and sonorous way, we chose to convey the temporary elegance of a fireworks, a synonym of the publisher's dynamism.
BDVA Architectes (WEB)
BDVA architectes
As part of our new graphic identity we designed and developed the website of this international office of architecture and urban design based in Paris.
Saga of a world of images, CNC 70th anniversary
éditions Le Cherche Midi / Le CNC
205 x 270 mm, 128 pages
Saga of a world of images, The cnc — 70 years serving creation. For the CNC (National Cinema Center) 70th anniversary, we designed the book that accompanies the event.
Michel Rémon, 6 volumes monograph
Michel Rémon & Associés
188 x 240 mm, 314 pages
Reference monograph designed in 6 thematic volumes for Michel Rémon & Associés, an international office for architecture specialised in large-scale projects.
L'Officiel 1000 models design
Éditons Jalou
220 x 285 mm, 168 pages
Conception éditoriale du hors-série annuel l'Officiel 1000 modèles Design 2013 - 14. En collaboration avec Florent Dégé
Art & Pub
Palette éditions
240 x 265 mm, 80 pages
Art & Pub is a book that describes the complex relationship between advertising and art. The cover design recalls visual universes such as Nike's, Barbara Kruger's or Andy Warhol's.
Art et musique
Palette éditions
240 x 265 mm, 80 pages
Built in four chapters using four typographic set giving rhythm to the layout, Art et Musique depicts the many relationships between music and visual arts.
France Chine, un ciel partagé
Éditions Textuel, Cathay Capital, CCI Paris Île de France
114 x 240 mm, 128 pages
France - Chine (a shared sky) is a corporate book that relates 10 success stories devoted to the capital investment firm Cathay Capital. We did the art direction of the book, illustrated by Gianpaolo Pagni and Fanqiao Wang.


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Loud And Clear
This story appears in the February 2000 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Washington is full of high-powered lobbyists and well-connected interest groups. Washington Representatives (Columbia Books Inc.), the lobbyist's bible, lists almost 50 small-business lobby groups. They range from high-profile, big-budget powerbrokers to obscure nickel-and-dime operations. If you're ready go it alone and champion your issue to the nation's lawmakers, take heart: It can be done. Thanks to the growing recognition that small-business owners are big business, entrepreneurs can be heard--and, increasingly, they're being listened to.
Ellen Paris is Entrepreneur's "Management Smarts" columnist.
Going It Alone
Individual lobbying isn't as hard as you might think. Sure, it takes time, commitment and persistence, but the impact you can have on an issue may surprise you. Of course, there are tricks of the trade and inside tips you need to know, but don't think for a minute that only top lobbyists get results.
Your first step is finding out who your representatives are, if you don't already know, and learning as much as you can about them. "Make sure you're talking or communicating with someone who can do something for you," says Stephanie Vance, a former congressional aide and author of Government by the People: How to Communicate with Congress (AdVanced Consulting). In the House of Representatives, you need to know who represents your district; he or she will be your primary contact. On the Senate side, you can reach out to both your state's senators.
The next step in your lobbying campaign? Because the various House and Senate committees do the bulk of the real legislative work, you need to find out what committees your representative and senators sit on. Taking a quick look at their Web sites will yield that information. It's also crucial to find out where your member is on a committee's food chain. If your representative is low-ranking, you can ask that he or she lobby a more senior member.
"Knowing what committees your representative or senator is on can change what you ask him to do for you," Vance explains. If your representative doesn't sit on a committee that's relevant to the issue you're concerned about, he or she can still help you reach a member of the appropriate committee. If your issue is important enough to your congressperson, he or she may even do a little political horse-trading on your behalf.
Getting The Message Across
After you figure out who the key players are and whom to talk to, you need to develop your message. This step takes research and discipline. Find out what issues your representative feels passionate about, then try to present your concern in a way that will play to those interests. These days, educating yourself on the issues is easy. Most members of Congress have Web sites that tell you what they're working on and how they've voted on different pieces of legislation.
"You can really get a sense of the key issues they're addressing now or in the near future," observes Karen Kerrigan, chair of the Small Business Survival committee, a non-partisan small-business advocacy group with a membership of 50,000.
Here are some other guidelines to follow when developing a message to get the attention of your congressperson:
- Know whether your issue is a statute change, which requires laws to be rewritten, or an appropriation issue, in which funding is necessary.
- Figure out why your representative should care about a single issue from a single constituent. Then set out to convince him or her. For example, any issue that will cost jobs in a member's district will probably stir some interest.
- Don't just complain. You need to clearly explain why the issue is important to you, other business owners and the district or state your congressperson represents.
- Do your homework and know the facts. That's where looking up what bills have been introduced on your issue counts. Speaking from experience, Vance says, "Some people come in and ask members to co-sponsor things they have already [co-sponsored] or actually introduced themselves. You automatically lose your credibility because you haven't done your homework."
Along these lines, know the current status of your issue. "Nothing hurts you more than firing off a letter on an issue that has already been resolved," says Dave McClure of the Association of Online Professionals. McClure, who has successfully lobbied for his association, cautions, "Pick your battles carefully, don't be emotional, and separate your personal and ideological battles from business ones."
- Never exaggerate, be untruthful or omit important facts when coming up with your core message. And remember, anecdotal examples from your district are always good; they get people's attention and give your congressional representatives some ammunition if they decide to go to bat for you.
- Be focused and specific. The hard part is honing all this down so you can deliver your message in less than five minutes if you get the opportunity to meet with your congressperson, or on one or two pages if you write to him or her. Just remember, legislators are busy and they get requests from people like you every day. Give them a long, drawn-out, tedious explanation of your cause, and their eyes will glaze over with thoughts of their 2004 campaign long before you're finished.
- Demand action. Know what solution you want, and convey that. Your issue has to be one where definitive action needs to be taken. "Don't just walk in and say, `I've got a problem; what will you do for me?' " says Richard Barnes, a longtime Washington, DC, attorney and lobbyist. "You have to know your issue well enough that you can articulate what needs to be done."
Congressional offices receive an enormous amount of constituent mail. Surprisingly, most of it is answered. On average, representatives of small states receive about 10,000 letters annually; those from large states such as California and New York can get as many as 250,000 letters a year. To get the right kind of attention, you need the right kind of message.
Special Delivery
OK, so you've defined your message. Now you have to deliver it. This is where the congressional staffers come in. It's critical to establish good relationships with the staffers you need to work with. They are the gatekeepers, and they decide what's worth their congressperson's time and attention. Don't be deceived: Just because most staffers are young (typically under 30) doesn't mean they're just glorified clerical help. In fact, they can wield a lot of power.
"Don't ever, ever tick off a congressional staffer," cautions Janie Emerson, a national director of the Public Policy Council for the National Association of Women Business Owners. "Always treat them with respect. They can be a wonderful resource and an ally. Make them your friend." The simplest way to find the right staffer is to call your member's Washington office and ask which legislative assistant handles the issue you're interested in. If you think that only face-time with your congressperson will do, ask to speak with the scheduler.
Frances Nevarez, 41, founder and president of \PowerUp!, a 7-year-old San Jose, California, software and technical training company, has lobbied before the House of Representatives on an issue near and dear to her heart: SBA certification. Nevarez learned a lot from her experience. "I found the member's staff to be critical," she says. "When I go see them, I'm prepared with supporting documents, but I make my presentation very brief. I keep it short and to the point."
Once you know whom to contact, there are a few simple rules to follow:
1. Put your address on all correspondence. Members need to know where your business is. If you have more than one issue to discuss, send separate letters on each one. One issue per letter is the rule since different people in your congressperson's office follow different issues. Ask for a response acknowledging your request so you can track your progress. Forget postcard campaigns; staffers pay little attention to them. Congressional offices are small and space is limited, so piles of papers got tossed daily.
2. Start locally. The best place to launch your lobbying effort is the one most often overlooked: your member's district office. This home office is an underutilized asset staffed with trained people to help you. Unlike in Washington, the pace is slower and the atmosphere more relaxed. So don't make the mistake of thinking a trip to the nation's capital is absolutely necessary. "DC is so crazy; you can have a much more in-depth meeting on your issue with a staffer in the district office," says Vance.
When you contact the district office, ask for an appointment with the field representative or case worker who handles your issue. If possible, go armed with relevant clips from local newspapers. And always remember to offer a compelling reason why your representative should care about your issue.
House and Senate members travel back to their districts quite often. That means the chances of meeting them on their home turf are reasonable. Members are approachable at Rotary Club "rubber chicken circuit" lunches and Little League pancake breakfasts. Town-hall meetings sponsored by your representative are generally well-advertised and usually open to all.
In addition, members often have open hours in their district office a few times each month, specifically to see constituents. Take advantage of that time.
3. Make yourself visible. Howard Sherman, 30, co-founder of an Old Bridge, New Jersey, ISP, has lobbied the Federal Communications Commission and advises entrepreneurs to get their name out. "Whenever you attend a function, wear a badge with your name and your company's name on it," says Sherman. "You have to keep building a presence and then maintain it."
A little imagination can get you some face-to-face contact with your lawmaker. Michael Flanagan, who was a representative for Chicago in the mid-'90s, is now a consultant and Washington, DC, lobbyist. He says inviting your congresspeople to visit your business or take a company tour is an excellent way to get their ear. "If I were a small-business owner, I'd invite my congressperson to come see my business," says Flanagan. "Most members have a great interest in what goes on in their district." Vance suggests coming up with an award for a member, complete with a ceremony.
When it comes to pitching your message, be positive and try to leave politics at the door. That said, contributing to a member's campaign helps you get attention. Even a small contribution gets you on the donor list. Says Emerson, "This lays the groundwork for you. And forget your party affiliation. Contribute to all your representatives' campaigns; even after they win, they need the money to retire their campaign debt, and it gets you on the list."
Capitol Idea
If you do make a trip to Washington, here are some suggestions for making it a success:
- Make an appointment as far in advance as possible. And be organized--it doesn't matter whether you're seeing a staffer, a senator or your representative. Listen to the advice of Patricia Forbes, minority staff director and chief counsel for the Senate Committee on Small Business: "When people come in," she says, "they must understand that everybody is very busy. Be organized and figure out your top three to five points, make them, say thank you and leave. You should leave behind only one page of information but offer more if the person is interested. Most important, don't misrepresent your position or use incorrect data; it undercuts you completely."
- Find strength in numbers. The voice of one becomes much louder and better-heard when it's joined by others. Forbes explains: "It's hard to lobby for an issue if you're the only one who cares. Sixty letters make more of an impact than just one. You should mobilize if you can. Memberships in organizations such as trade or small-business groups are good for that purpose."
Jeanne Morin, a principal of Washington, DC, lobbying firm Jefferson Government Relations who has worked on the House Small Business Committee, agrees. "If your issue is common to others, that can help you deliver your message," she says. "I strongly recommend getting involved with an association."
It's imperative you know how many others are on your side of an issue. The easiest way to do that may well be through a trade association. In any kind of lobbying effort, you want to bring as much breadth and strength to it as you can. If you can mobilize other entrepreneurs, you have a better chance of getting somewhere. Associations are also helpful in keeping you updated on legislative actions and issues. They often provide regular updates by fax, e-mail and on the Internet.
Lobbying--make no mistake--is hard work. But it's possible to take an issue critical to your business all the way to Capitol Hill and get results. Listen to Kerrigan: "Don't forget, as a business owner, you're important to your lawmakers because you create jobs. You're seen as a leader. You're not grass roots; as we say in Washington, you're grass tops."
Dot.govs And The Like
The Web has added a new dimension to lobbying. "With the Internet, it doesn't have to cost a penny to make a difference," says Daniel Bennett, co-principal of e-advocates and co-author of The Net Effect: How Cyber Advocacy is Changing the Political Landscape (Capitol Advantage) with Pam Fielding. "The Internet can increase your political capabilities. And you'll find kindred people." Available services include online newsletters, chat rooms, bulletin boards and e-mail campaigns.
What Would A Lobbyist Do?
- Meet your representative and senators or their staffs.
- Meet with the federal agency that works on your issue (your representative's office can help with this).
- Meet with a senior member of the appropriate Senate or House committee or their staff members.
- Meet with the lobbyists or executive director of a trade or business association you belong to.
- Meet with an author of the bill, if you're following specific legislation.
- Meet with the media (trade newsletters, specialty publications and the Washington, DC, bureau of your hometown newspaper) if the issue lends itself to press coverage.
The Basics
Before you buy a plane ticket to Washington, DC, make sure you have all your basic information at hand. The Web is a good place to find answers to these and many more questions:
- Who are my representative and senators? If you don't know, find out at http://www.votesmart.com, http://www.house.gov or http://www.senate.gov. Or call for legislative information at (202) 225-1772.
- What bills have been introduced concerning my issues? Check http://thomas.loc.gov.
- What bills has my representative or senator introduced? You can also find this information at http://thomas.loc.gov.
- What government research reports are available on my issue? Search http://www.gao.gov to find out what the government has been up to.
- What interest groups work on my issue? That information is provided at http://www.policy.com.
- What should I know about lobbying online? It's explained at http://www.e-advocates.com.
Insider Tips
- Schedule your appointments with members before 10 a.m. on a voting day if possible.
- Congress' busiest months in terms of receiving visitors are February, March and April, so plan your schedule accordingly.
- Forget fancy reports. Leave behind one page of information in a manila folder with your name, address and phone number on it and a business card attached.
- When e-mailing, be sure to also include your snail mail address.
Contact Sources
AdVanced Consulting, (202) 338-6311, http://www.advancedco.net
Richard Barnes, (202) 895-1513, firstname.lastname@example.com
Michael Flanagan, (202) 662-3735, email@example.com
Jefferson Government Relations, email@example.com
National Association of Women Business Owners, P.O. Box 2252, Del Mar, CA 92014, fax: (858) 454-2126
Power Up!, fax: (408) 956-1776, email@example.com
Senate's Committee on Small Business, (202) 224-8496, email@example.com
Small Business Survival Committee, (202) 785-0238, email@example.com

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In the winter of 1933, in a thatched cottage in Sussex, England, a complicated woman named Pamela "P.L." Travers began to write "Mary Poppins," the first in a series of novels that would inspire the beloved 1964 Walt Disney movie and supply generations of children with a magical fantasy nanny.
The reality of Travers' own turbulent childhood — and her reluctance as an adult to relinquish control over her characters to Walt Disney — are the subject of the movie "Saving Mr. Banks," which has just gone into wide release. Directed by John Lee Hancock, "Saving Mr. Banks" follows Travers (Emma Thompson) as she travels to the Disney lot in Burbank for two weeks in 1961, tangling with and tormenting the studio chief (Tom Hanks). The L.A. visit inspires Travers to recall her childhood in Australia, in particular her father, a charismatic drunk played by Colin Farrell.
Some critics have complained that "Saving Mr. Banks," which Disney itself produced and distributed, is too hard on Travers and too easy on the company's founder. Travers is cold, critical and strange — arbitrarily objecting, for instance, to having the color red in the movie and dismissing Disney's "silly cartoons." "Uncle Walt," by contrast, is jovial and encouraging, with few flaws to speak of save for a bad smoker's cough.
Almost all of what appears in "Saving Mr. Banks" is true. Travers really did hector and frustrate the people at Disney, a fact substantiated by 39 hours of audio recordings of the author's sessions with "Mary Poppins" screenwriter Don DaGradi, who is played here by Bradley Whitford, and songwriter brothers Richard Sherman (Jason Schwartzman) and Robert Sherman (B.J. Novak).
But the makers of "Saving Mr. Banks" admit they took some liberties with Travers' often tragic life story — they say they actually added a spoonful of sugar.
"[Travers] was an incredibly difficult person and actually much more difficult than she's portrayed in the film," said Kelly Marcel, who shares screenplay credit on the movie with Sue Smith. "But the more I found out about her childhood, the more I felt for her. A lot of children's authors create these characters from places of tragedy and darkness. I felt it was a beautiful story even though she was an absolute pain."
Australian producer Ian Collie, who made a documentary about Travers in 2002, hatched the idea for a biopic about her, eventually involving independent producers in Britain, a path to the screen that was initially free of Disney input.
"This was a script completely developed outside of Disney," Hancock said. "It would have been difficult for this script to happen inside the studio walls."
Smith, an Australian writer, penned the first draft of the screenplay, which focused on Travers' strange single-motherhood tale; in real life, the creator of one of fiction's most beloved caregivers had promised to adopt twin boys, and at the last minute decided to raise only one, never telling him about his brother. (Travers' son, Camillus, died in 2011, having eventually met his twin brother as an adult in a bar.)
When Marcel came onto the project, she decided to leave out Camillus and split the script instead into a dual narrative, with one thread focused on Travers' childhood, the other on two weeks of her decades-long feud with Disney. She also introduced a fictional character, an optimistic driver played by Paul Giamatti, with whom Travers finally shares a human moment.
"I felt we didn't have a bridge to her feelings," Marcel said. "We need someone to like her."
Marcel's script earned a spot on the Black List, a list of hot, unproduced screenplays circulating in Hollywood, which attracted the attention of executives at Disney — in reality the only studio that could have made a movie so laden with Disney intellectual property.
"Once Disney bought the script, my big fear was, they're going to try and sanitize Walt," Marcel said. "There are going to be so many rules and stipulations, they're going to say he can't smoke, he can't drink. And then they didn't."
Instead Marcel got access to Disney's vast archive, including the 39 hours of tapes, which Travers had demanded be made, and to Richard Sherman, who consulted on the movie.
Sherman recalls Travers as frustrating and unkind. "The first thing [Travers] said to us was, 'This is not going to be a musical,' " Sherman said, remembering the weeks he spent with Travers in 1961. "["Saving Mr. Banks"] feels so real to me, it knots my stomach."
Marcel said one change the studio asked her to make to the movie, which is rated PG-13, was to remove a swear word. Disney is also not shown smoking but does stub out a cigarette in one scene.
Disney — the man and his creations — have been the subject of interest in multiple media lately, including a critical opera by Philip Glass called "The Perfect American" and a dark independent movie shot surreptitiously at Disney World, "Escape From Tomorrow."
According to Hanks, the fact that "Saving Mr. Banks" is really about Travers, and only spent a narrow time frame on Disney, absolved it of having to deal with some of the more unsavory parts of Disney's history, such as his role in Hollywood labor issues in the 1940s and his relationships with some well-known anti-Semites.
"It was very prescribed what the screenplay was going to be," Hanks said. "Everybody asks about the strike and the anti-Semitism. But by 1961 it was far enough in the past. He was at the studio and he was — I don't want to say that he was beloved, but Walt was beloved."
Reviews for the film have mainly been more positive than negative, and Thompson has earned Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her performance. But some critics have objected to what they consider a pro-Walt slant in a movie coming from the man's own studio. LA Weekly's Amy Nicholson wrote, "There's something sour in a movie that roots against a woman who asserted her artistic control."
Marcel said she's surprised by the critique. "I think I'm incredibly sympathetic toward [Travers] in this film," Marcel said. "I don't understand those reviews, but she's a tricky character."
Disney never invited Travers to the "Mary Poppins" premiere, but she came anyway, afterward telling Disney they had "lots of work to do" to ready the film for release (Disney dismissed her). Privately she told friends she found the film too saccharine.
"Kelly Marcel's script poses a great what if," Hancock said. "We know Travers didn't care for the ["Mary Poppins"] movie. We know she wasn't invited to the premiere. We know she didn't care for the animation. We do know she cried at the premiere and nobody knows why. Kelly took that as an opportunity for a what if: What if these two weeks were a cathartic experience?"
Travers spent her later years writing other novels, poetry and nonfiction (none as commercially successful as "Mary Poppins") and pursuing an interest in various spiritual ideas, including the teachings of the mystic George Gurdjieff and Zen mysticism, before dying in London in 1996.
Valerie Lawson, author of the Travers biography "Mary Poppins, She Wrote," who has seen "Saving Mr. Banks," defends its portrait of a difficult woman.
"Travers was prickly, but she had good reason to be unhappy as she went through many private struggles and, in many ways, was a woman who could rely only on herself," Lawson said. "She tried to keep her private life very private so it would have been very confronting for her to see, or even think of herself as a film character. Then again, if she was alive, I can't see how the film could have been made at all."


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Iranian-American Pleads Not Guilty in D.C. Assassination Plot
(NEW YORK) -- Manssor Arbabsiar, a Texas man accused of conspiring to kill the Saudi ambassador in a plot that U.S. authorities say was "conceived, sponsored and directed" in Iran, pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court Monday morning.
U.S. authorities say that Arbabsiar, 56, of Corpus Christi, Texas, plotted with members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards to kill Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir with a bomb attack at a D.C. restaurant. Arbabsiar, an Iranian-American, attempted to hire hitmen from Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, say officials, but was actually speaking to a DEA informant.
Arbabsiar pleaded not guilty to five counts, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to murder a foreign official.
Gholam Shakuri, whom U.S. officials describe as a member of the Quds force, part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, is also charged in the alleged plot, but remains at large. He is believed to be in Iran. Arbabsiar was arrested in New York on Sept. 29.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder claimed on Oct. 11 that the DEA and FBI had disrupted a plot "conceived, sponsored and...directed from Iran" to murder al-Jubeir, which potentially would have been followed up by bombings of the Saudi Arabian and Israeli embassies.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against five Iranians allegedly tied to the plot and additional sanctions against an airline company allegedly linked to the Quds force.
A lawyer for Arbabsiar did not return requests for comment, but the defendant's wife, Martha Guerrero, said he was wrongly accused.
"I may not be living with him being separated, but I cannot for the life of me think that he would be capable of doing that," she told ABC News' Austin affiliate KVUE, noting the two had been separated some time. "He was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I'm sure of that."
Iranian officials have strongly rejected the U.S. accusations, calling them a "fabrication." The head of the Iranian mission to the United Nations penned a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressing "outrage" at the allegations.
"The U.S. allegation is, obviously, a politically-motivated move and a showcase of its long-standing animosity towards the Iranian nation," the letter says.
The case, called Operation Red Coalition, began in May when Arbabsiar allegedly approached a DEA informant seeking the help of a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the Saudi ambassador, according to counter-terrorism officials.
Arbabsiar reportedly claimed he was being "directed by high-ranking members of the Iranian government," including a cousin who was "a member of the Iranian army but did not wear a uniform," according to a person briefed on the details of the case.
Arbabsiar, a naturalized U.S. citizen, expressed "utter disregard for collateral damage" in the planned bomb attacks in Washington, according to officials.
The complaint describes a conversation in which Arbabsiar was allegedly directing the informant to kill the Saudi ambassador and said the assassination could take place at a restaurant. When the informant feigned concern about Americans who also eat at the restaurant, Arbabsiar said he preferred if bystanders weren't killed but, "Sometimes, you know, you have no choice, is that right?"
U.S. officials said Arbabsiar met twice in July with the DEA informant in the northern Mexico city of Reynosa, across the border from McAllen, Texas, and negotiated a $1.5 million payment for the assassination of the Saudi ambassador. As a down payment, officials said Arbabsiar wired two payments of $49,960 on Aug. 1 and Aug. 9 to an FBI undercover bank account after he had returned to Iran.
Officials said Arbabsiar flew from Iran through Frankfurt, Germany, to Mexico City Sept. 29 for a final planning session, but was refused entry to Mexico and later put on a plane to New York, where he was arrested.
Officials said Arbabsiar is now cooperating with prosecutors and federal agents in New York.
"Though it reads like the pages of a Hollywood script, the impact would've been very real and many lives would've been lost," FBI Director Robert Mueller said of the foiled plot.
Copyright 2011 ABC News Radio


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Ancient Chinese Jades
Little was known about these exceptional jades when museum founder Charles Lang Freer acquired them in the early twentieth century. On a technical level he appreciated their craftsmanship and the challenges of working with jade, and as a connoisseur he was attracted to the subtle beauty of the stone, its tactile qualities, and the visual appeal of the shapes. Freer assembled an outstanding collection of ancient Chinese jades long before most other Western collectors and museums took an active interest in them. Since then, controlled archaeological excavations and scholarly research have proven the jades now in the Freer Gallery of Art date to the earliest ages of Chinese civilization.
Poetically described two thousand years ago in China as the "fairest of stones," jade actually refers to two different minerals, nephrite and jadeite. All of the true jades found at ancient Chinese sites are made of fine-grained nephrite. In its purest state nephrite lacks color; impurities create the variations of yellow, green, brown, and black. Most of the jades recovered from Liangzhu tombs are dark green to brown, while the finest jewelry is lighter green, suggesting this rarer material was reserved for more ornamental use. Later Neolithic cultures farther north favored almost pure black nephrite, likely because it was available locally. Smaller works, especially jewelry, created during the later Bronze Age feature beige jade possibly imported from Central Asia.
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With a host of options like UC San Diego, San Diego State University, University of San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU), many musicians find their way here, performing after their studies. Such is the case with singer-songwriter Kris McCoy.
Originally based in Arizona, McCoy relocated here in 2011 to pursue a bachelor's degree at PLNU. On Saturday,
Aug. 23, McCoy, will host a special afternoon CD-release show for his new CD, "Toes in the Sand," at Raglan Public House from 2 to 5 p.m. The event will feature live acoustic music, drink specials and food, with part of the proceeds going to the San Diego Junior Lifeguard Foundation.
A veteran of the Arizona music scene, McCoy has previously released three albums with two different bands, Shallow Water's 2002 debut album, "Two Dollar Sailboat," and its 2006 follow-up album, "What's Her Name?," as well as The Half Smile's 2010 album, "Similar Distant View." He has also landed prime opening spots there, including gigs with such acts as Bare Naked Ladies, Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, Live and The Flys.
"We'd vacationed here for years," McCoy said. "I ended up staying when I went for my second bachelor's degree in music ministry up at PNLU."
While McCoy didn't perform during his first few years here, he was accumulating new material.
"I really enjoy the creative process, being able to take a thought or idea and turn it into a song," he said. His delay in releasing new music since his arrival is down to timing. "Part of it was finishing school, but I have been writing music over that time. I finally got to the point that I had a couple of tracks I wanted to take the time to get in the studio with. Getting those back from duplication, it's time now."
With the exception of the drums, McCoy plays everything on the album. "I'm very proud to be in a position to be a multi-instrumentalist," he said.
For McCoy music has been a lifelong obsession.
"I've been playing one instrument or another for as long as I can remember," he said. "I remember being a little kid and I got my first ukulele. Not that I really knew how to play it, but I ran around with that," McCoy laughed. "From there I started playing trumpet in third grade, transitioning to guitar in junior high."
While today he cites Jack Johnson and Jason Mraz as prime inspiration, in his younger days, McCoy's inspiration was much more basic. "I loved listening to the radio, all genres, all types of music. I had such a passionate love for music, if it was on I would sing and listen to it."
McCoy has found the local community welcoming, but does note one big difference between San Diego and Arizona.
"One of the big things is that Arizona is so spread out," he said. "You can't really focus on one community because there might only be one place to play there. San Diego is much closer together, especially Ocean Beach, which is a wonderful, tight-knit community. It just has a small-town feel, without necessarily being a small town."
Though still new to the San Diego music scene, McCoy is a seasoned veteran with more than a decade of hard work behind him as he starts his next phase in his new hometown. Does he still like music as much as when first started out?
"I get more joy now," he said. "With my experience in music theory, I'm at a level now that I can actually really understand the ins and outs of music in a way that I didn't even know was possible 15 or 20 years ago. It's made music that much more enjoyable for me. I wouldn't change a thing."
• KRIS McCOY: Saturday, Aug. 23, RAGLAN PUBLIC HOUSE, 1851 Bacon St. 2 p.m. www.reverbnation.com/krismc-coy.


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Sumien v. CareFlite, 2012 WL 2579525 (Tex.App. July 5, 2012)
Plaintiff, an emergency medical technician, got fired after he commented on his coworker's Facebook status update. The coworker had complained in her post about belligerent patients and the use of restraints. Here is plaintiff's comment:
Yeah like a boot to the head…. Seriously yeah restraints and actual HELP from [the police] instead of the norm.
After getting fired, plaintiff sued his former employer for, among other things, "intrusion upon seclusion" under Texas law. That tort requires a plaintiff to show (1) an intentional intrusion, physical or otherwise, upon another's solitude, seclusion or private affairs that (2) would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.
The trial court threw out the case on summary judgment. Plaintiff sought review with the Court of Appeals of Texas. On appeal, the court affirmed the summary judgment award.
The court found plaintiff failed to provide any evidence his former employer "intruded" when it encountered the offending comment. Plaintiff had presented evidence that he misunderstood his co-worker's Facebook settings, did not know who had access to his co-worker's Facebook Wall, and did not know how his employer was able to view the comment. But none of these misunderstandings of the plaintiff transformed the former employer's viewing of the comment into an intentional tort.
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During Dr. Harrison's tenure at Columbus State, he has focused the college on the goals of student success and attainment, workforce innovation, and civic engagement. In 2012 Columbus State was named an Achieving the Dream college, a national initiative to help more students earn college credentials with an emphasis on first generation students, students of color, and low-income students.
He has facilitated important partnerships with local school districts, colleges and universities, and employers throughout central Ohio. He initiated the Preferred Pathway®program, which guarantees admission to Ohio State for Columbus State graduates, facilitated the development of a partnership campus with OSU in Delaware County, and deepened partnerships with other central Ohio institutions to earn degrees. He was a primary architect of the Central Ohio Compact, a regional strategy among K-12 and higher education leaders to help more students succeed in college and in the workplace.
Dr. Harrison came to Columbus State with extensive experience building successful community partnerships. As Vice Provost for Regional Campuses at the University of Central Florida, he worked with community colleges to create the Central Florida Higher Education Consortium and the nationally-recognized DirectConnect to UCF program, which guarantees the opportunity for a bachelor's degree for graduates of partner community colleges. Under his leadership, the program significantly increased the number of transfer students earning bachelor's degrees from UCF. He also developed partnerships with employers and community leaders to address workforce needs in information technology, architecture, healthcare, and other fields.
Prior to joining UCF, Dr. Harrison served in leadership roles at Seminole State College in Florida and at Sinclair Community College in Ohio, and was a consulting manager with Accenture in Pittsburgh. He holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton.


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TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Republicans jumped on President Obama's policies Tuesday as their convention in Tampa, Fla., began, saying his promise of hope and change never materialized.
The Republican National Convention reconvened Tuesday at the Tampa Bay Times Forum after it was gaveled in and immediately adjourned Monday amid concerns about then-Tropical Storm Isaac's projected path through the Gulf of Mexico. Isaac intensified to a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday.
"Over the past four years, we in Virginia have kept the American Dream alive by observing the president's policies -- and doing the opposite," state Del. Barbara Comstock, a deputy permanent co-chairwoman of the convention, said during the afternoon session.
If Obama is re-elected, he would "double-down on his job-destroying policies," because he has promised to raise taxes, "mocks" right-to-work laws, and has waged a "war on success [that] undermines individual initiative and innovation," Comstock said.
Republican candidates in congressional races from across the country also spoke Tuesday afternoon, speaking against Obama's energy, economic and healthcare policies, calling for the easement of regulations and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which all speakers called "Obamacare."
Lisa Stickan, chairwoman of the Young Republicans, said labor force participation "is at its lowest level in 30 years. Twenty-three million Americans are unemployed, underemployed, or have stopped looking for work."
"Quite simply, the jobs just aren't there," she said.
Romney, she said, has a plan "to get this country back on track and the Young Republicans are excited. We're ready for the government to get out of the way so job creators can actually create jobs."
A survey of more than 8,500 Republican women indicated "they want more from their government," said Rae Lynne Chornenky, president of the National Federation of Republican Women.
"Number 1: They want less interference ... and fewer regulations," Chornenky said. "Number 2: They want the kind of strong, fiscal conservative leadership that only Mitt Romney and [running mate U.S. Rep.] Paul Ryan [of Wisconsin] can deliver."
As chairman off the College Republican National Committee, Alex Schriver said he has "one of the best jobs in the country."
"I get to push back against the bastions of liberalism -- America's colleges and universities," he said. "Every day, I'm thankful to be employed. Yet, unfortunately, many of my peers are not as lucky."
Young people are focused and driven, he said: "And we need to be out making our mark on the world. Instead, our generation is having a mark made on us. ... And we're tired of a president and his cronies in Congress being all-too-willing to kick the nation's fiscal crisis down to our road."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon and U.S. Navy on Friday grounded the Marine Corps version of Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jet after an incident that occurred during a training flight at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida on Wednesday.
The Pentagon's F-35 program office said the grounding affected all 25 F-35B model jets, while flights of the Air Force's A-model and the Navy's C-model were unaffected. Ground operations of the B-model planes continued, it said.
The program office it ordered the temporary suspension of flight operations after a propulsion line associated with the B-model's exhaust system failed prior to takeoff. The pilot aborted the takeoff without incident and cleared the runway, the program office said in a statement. There were no injuries to the pilot or ground crew.
The incident came just days after the Pentagon's director of testing and evaluation released an 18-page report detailing an array of problems which he said underscored the "lack of maturity" of the $396 billion fighter program.
The report and Friday's grounding of the B-model highlighted the continued growing pains of the ambitious Lockheed fighter program, which began in 2001 and has been restructured three times in recent years.
The grounding affected F-35B models, which can take off from short runways and land vertically like a helicopter, at a Maryland naval air station, the Florida air base, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona, and Lockheed's F-35 production facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
"Implementing a precautionary suspension of flight operations is a prudent response until F-35B engineering, technical and system safety teams fully understand the cause of the failure," said Joe DellaVedova, spokesman for the Pentagon's F-35 program office. "Safety of pilots and ground crew is the top priority of the program."
The fuel line in question enables actuator movement for the exhaust system associated with the B-model's engine. Instead of traditional hydraulic fluid, it instead uses fuel as the operating fluid to reduce weight.
Matthew Bates, spokesman for Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, which builds the engines for the singe-engine, single-seat fighter jet, said an initial inspection discovered a detached propulsion line in the rear part of the engine compartment.
The affected fuel line is not used in the A- or C-models, which are still permitted to fly.
"A team of Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce engineers is investigating the cause of the incident and working closely with Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office to resolve the matter," Bates said in a statement provided to Reuters.
He said there had been no previous issues with the component that triggered the grounding. Rolls-Royce Holdings builds the lift fan used in the B-model engines.
DellaVedova said teams of government and contractor experts were reviewing data from the incident to determine what caused the line to fail and decide on any potential mitigating actions.
Once the issue was understood, the program would determine when to resume flights, he said, adding that the impact on the developmental flight tests and training was being assessed.
The Pentagon report sent to Congress last week said F-35 flight tests were ahead of schedule in 2012, but lagged in some areas due to unresolved problems and newly discovered issues. About 34 percent of the test program has been completed.
The Marine Corps version of the plane flew more than planned but lagged its target for test points by 49 percent. Durability testing of the B-model had to be halted in December after multiple cracks were found on the underside of the plane's fuselage, the report said.
Lockheed is building three different models of the F-35 fighter jet for the U.S. military and eight countries that helped pay for its development: Britain, Canada, Italy, Turkey, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia and Norway.
The Pentagon plans to buy 2,443 of the warplanes in coming decades, although many analysts believe U.S. budget constraints and deficits will eventually reduce that overall number.
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The DRUSSA.net site remains live as a publicly accessible resource. There is a wealth of programme-derived knowledge, tools, and resources that university leaders, research staff and research uptake managers should continue to be able to access and use as they strengthen their university management systems for getting research into use.
There is another, new public access location for the DRUSSA Learning Resource . The Association of Commonwealth Universities has developed the Learning Resource to serve as the long-term home research uptake resources and other literature and tools for research uptake you may find useful.
The Learning Resource is housed on the ACU website and it re-curates a selection of 160 documents from DRUSSA.net that can be utilised as training aids, tools and resources in strengthening research uptake systems going forward, and will also be supplemented with new resources under development – such as online research uptake guides and new literature in the field.
DRUSSA.net has been the digital hub for twenty two developmentally oriented universities in twelve countries in sub-Saharan Africa. All but one of the programme's collaborating partners are located in sub-Saharan Africa too. CREST [live link] at the University of Stellenbosch will continue to offer the Research Uptake and Impact specialism in it M. Phil in Science and Technology Studies. OSD [live link] has taken the Communication and Engagement role and has been both a learning resource and a learner in this role. The ACU, in addition to co-ordinating the organizational change initiatives chosen by each university and the demand-side pilot in Uganda and Ghana that has linked users of research evidence with producers of research evidence, has been the accountable grantholder and liaison with the funder, UKAID in the UK. The programme is featured in the UK government's DevTracker [live link] devtracker.dfid.gov.uk/projects/GB-1-202004/
The series of three structured and mentored Research Uptake Communications (RUC) training activities run by DRUSSA partner Organisation Systems Design over a five-year period for the DRUSSA programme culminated with a sense of a positive onward journey. A fitting place to begin a retrospective look at the RUC Campaigns is the 6 April 2016, the day fifty-three RUC course participants gathered in one room in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the face-to-face element of the RUC2016 activity. It was a rare opportunity for this RUC community, who have networked digitally and only met at one previous event, to be in the same physical location.
How research is undertaken, made available, accessed, applied and used is at the heart of Research Uptake. In order to address a range of developmental challenges research needs to be disseminated outside the academic domain to meet policy- and decision-makers needs for reliable evidence from science, technology and social science research. The DRUSSA programme piloted an approach to support capacity building for government staff to access and use research evidence. The purpose is to have university researchers and ministry advisors better understand and appreciate how and when research evidence can inform policy decision-making.
Case studies have been produced from the DRUSSA- sponsored MPhil graduates' dissertations and from research undertaken by the DRUSSA programme team. All of the case studies provide current insights into different aspects of Research Uptake in sub-Saharan Africa.


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Strong title perhaps…but thats the kind of over the top messaging I have been practicing now that I am technically on a marketing team. Today is the big day – all the hard work of a great many people that spent the last several years dreaming, designing and then building what appears to me as the most advanced, eco-friendly data center as yet conceived…(there I go again). Lots to promote here so bear with me – first and foremost – be sure and tune in today as they stream the grand opening event featuring our own Rebecca Jacoby and John Manville – you can catch it live on the uStream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/ciscotv from 2:30 to 3:15 Central Time. (cause its in Texas!). Jimmy Ray recently penned a nice run down of our own recent visit to this high impact low profile data center in his blog – I thought I would share a couple of my favorite things.
Right off the bat, I think its important to remember that although there are a great many innovative things to discuss, none of them are ground-breaking in and of themselves. Its the fact that Cisco combined them all in such a unique manner. At the top of the list – mainly because I don't want you to miss it.. this is actually a facility you can visit.
1. Go See For Yourself – its probably obvious why Cisco would make the additional investment it takes to make a facility presentable for tours – we built this thing to run Cisco operations using Cisco technology. Now you can't just walk in (you could try….but I had trouble getting past security and I was scheduled…) but you can chat up your Cisco account manager and see what is needed. Four hundred UCS Servers to get started, its still a fraction of the 230,000 square feet, but its an incredible production level example of full scale virtualization and unified fabric in one location. This facility, known as DC2 is in an active/active status with Cisco's other facility in North Texas, DC1. Close enough for the sub millisecond latency requirements but far enough to get the desired geographic separation. There are some really good short videos and other goodies at the Data Center Texas 2011 site. (TechWiseTV did get some very nice behind the scenes access just last week and we will rollout some of our findings over time…the first one is our recap of the facility found in our next episode April 28 – watch the techwisetv.com site for that shortly or make sure you register in our virtual environment.
2. The Power – so assuming my facts are correct, this is a 5.25 MW, tier 3 data center with the redundant feeds coming in 10 MW each, one underground and one from above – neither of which are designed to pull more than around 45% of their capability so that failover would not be an issue. But once you get inside the building, and put on your hearing protection , you can witness the flywheel generators, (each flywheel is about 90 db). This is all done without batteries of course which means that you get a longer life-span and take less of a hit with battery disposal and other challenges.
This whole notion of a rotary UPS fascinates me. A rotary UPS uses the inertia of a high-mass spinning flywheel to provide short-term ride-through in the event of power loss. The flywheel also acts as a buffer against power spikes and sags, since such short-term power events are not able to appreciably affect the rotational speed of the high-mass flywheel. It is also one of the oldest designs, predating vacuum tubes and integrated circuits and here it is within a state of the art data center. Beyond the smoothing effect produced by the stored kinetic energy, the system has a big honkin diesel engine attached. The flywheel has incredible inertia (takes over 2 hours to stop on its own) to do what it does but if power is missing for over 10 to 12 milliseconds, that Diesel starts running and the data center keeps on humming. (More information from the manufacturer)
3. The Cooling – There were a number of things that jumped out at us upon going inside data hall 1 for the first time. Its was warm. I had not personally witnessed the environmental differences of a DC following the now relaxed ASHRAE standards that allow data centers to operate not at 65 but now at 78 degrees. To be honest…thats starting to get a bit warm for me – and I thought networking equipment was picky. That one change alone has made HUGE gain for the environment as data centers everywhere simply changed the thermostat. But it also allows designers building a new facility like this one to do things that would not have made sense in the past.
The first big thing sounded ludicrous to me as a Texas resident – a data center located in Texas designed to use free outside air for cooling…what? Well, it turns out that North Texas has good air to use about 65% of a normal year…astounding. I complain about being sweaty at least 80% of the year…but I trust their data. This facility can choose to be a closed or open loop system depending on the weather and subsequently save millions of dollars. We got to stand in one of the (12 plus?) air handlers here and saw how huge louvres can slowly open to grab outside air and pump it through the system.
*Update! – I threw together a quick little video from my tour with Jim Cribari – forgive the lower than normal quality…I shot this on the fly with my own camera and on-board sound.
Although they still call it raised floor – there were none in this facility. Everything was hard tile floors, brilliant white throughout (maximize the LED lights so that less of them need to be used!) followed by open ceilings with beautiful cabling and bus systems for the power dropping 30 amp connectors into each rack. (415 at the rack instead of 208 allows for more room without transformers, the energy tax they impose and all the circuit breakers you have to use normally). Every rack has a chimney that terminates just above the cool air line. Cold air falls naturally in the cold aisles, equipment fans pull the cold air through the vented rack doors and vent the heated air out the back as it rises naturally in that chimney and into the open plenum about 30 feet up. Depending on the weather that day, the heated air will take one of two routes – right out the building or back through the system to be used again. All about as natural as you can get it. Very nice.
There are so many cool things to talk about – but its like trying to tell my wife how hard we worked in London recently but how cool it was to see Abbey Road…she did not experience…did not care. I doubt she will ask for a tour of the Allen Data Center but you sure should. If you read this far…you need to call your account manager. Its worth the trip.
Watch the grand opening today – http://www.ustream.tv/ciscotv from 2:30 to 3:15 Central Time and/or at least check out the interactive and educational website they have set up: Data Center Texas 2011.
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Sept 19 (Reuters) - The "London Whale" trading scandal, once dismissed as a "tempest in a teapot" by JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon, is costing the largest U.S. bank $920 million in penalties and a rare public admission of wrongdoing.
Settlements with four U.S. and British regulators, made public on Thursday, resolve the biggest civil probes of the bank's $6.2 billion of Whale derivatives trading losses last year. Criminal investigations are still under way.
The bank called the settlements, "a major step in the firm's ongoing efforts to put these issues behind it." It was cited for poor risk controls and failure to inform regulators about deficiencies in risk management that it knew about.
But the deals, hard fought in the case of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which narrowly approved its settlement with a split vote, do not clear up the legal problems some individuals at the bank might face as the SEC continues its investigation. They also leave unresolved other issues that have helped drive the bank's legal costs to $5 billion a year and undermined Dimon's hold on his job, as well as his influence on the banking industry and its regulation.
Reaction to the settlements in Washington appeared mixed, with lawmakers responsible for financial oversight expressing a range views about whether enough had been done to hold JPMorgan accountable for the Whale scandal.
JPMorgan's board recently changed its rules to give more power to directors other than Dimon after some shareholders cited the risk-control problems to argue that Dimon should not be both board chairman and chief executive.
The company continues to face a criminal probe by U.S. prosecutors into the derivatives debacle, despite Dimon's public insistence that no bank executives intentionally misled investors.
But a person familiar with the matter said the SEC is still investigating individuals and they are not considered lower-level people.
"The whole issue of misinforming investors and the public is conspicuously absent from the SEC findings and settlement," said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who chairs the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI).
"Our PSI investigation showed that senior bank executives made a series of inaccurate statements that misinformed investors and the public as the London Whale disaster unfolded. Other civil and criminal proceedings apart from this settlement are continuing, so there is still time to determine any accountability on that matter."
But Representative Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, praised the settlements, saying they sent a "powerful message to Wall Street."
Even as JPMorgan was hailing the settlements, it said it had received a legal notice that the staff of another regulator, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, intends to recommend an enforcement action against the bank for its derivatives trading.
The state of Massachusetts is also investigating, the bank said.
"This certainly isn't a closure on the Whale," said analyst Charles Peabody of Portales Partners.
(For a BREAKINGVIEWS column, "JPMorgan's management failings beggar belief," click on )
Bruno Iksil, the trader whose big bets earned him the nickname London Whale, has signed a cooperation agreement with prosecutors and has not been charged with any wrongdoing. Two other traders who worked with Iksil in London, Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout, have been criminally charged by U.S. prosecutors over their role in the scandal, accused of trying to hide the mounting losses.
The penalties announced Thursday include $300 million to be paid to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, $200 million to the Federal Reserve, $200 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and 137.6 million pounds ($219.74 million) to the UK's Financial Conduct Authority.
The total penalty is one of the highest ever paid by a bank, but is well short of the $1.92 billion that London-based HSBC Holdings Plc agreed to pay last year to settle money laundering charges.
Penalties are determined by laws governing the amount each agency can charge in penalties for each violation of a rule, then are fine-tuned through negotiations between the regulators and the bank.
Dimon said in a statement issued by the company: "We have accepted responsibility and acknowledged our mistakes from the start, and we have learned from them and worked to fix them."
George Canellos, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division, said in statement: "At its core, today's case is about transparency and accountability, and JPMorgan's admissions are a key component in that message."
Canellos said the bank admitted that it "broke the law - because JPMorgan's egregious breakdowns in controls and governance put its millions of shareholders at risk and resulted in inaccurate public filings."
Michael Piwowar, the newest Republican member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, voted against approving the JP Morgan settlement in a split 2-1 vote, according to people familiar the matter.
In the closed-door meeting last week, Piwowar said he was concerned that the SEC was fining the company, which could hurt shareholders, rather than taking action against top executives at the bank, one of those people said.
Mary Jo White, who currently chairs the SEC, and Republican Commissioner Daniel Gallagher, whose prior employers did legal work for the bank, were recused from voting on JPMorgan.
While the SEC has said it is continuing its Whale investigation, a JPMorgan spokesman said SEC staff told the bank it did not anticipate bringing any action against Dimon.
JPMorgan also faces other investigations that include possible bribery in hiring practices in China and potentially fraudulent sales of mortgage securities.
"You are seeing the regulators ratchet up the heat on the banks," said Portales Partners' Peabody. "If you are too big to manage, they are going to make you pay."
JPMorgan shares closed down 1.2 percent at $52.75 on the New York Stock Exchange.
The bank has been under intense scrutiny from the U.S. government since May 2012, when Dimon disclosed the firm was losing billions of dollars on derivatives deals that had been questioned a month earlier in news reports.
Dimon initially criticized those reports as a "tempest in a teapot." He has repeatedly apologized for that remark and said the bank was "stupid" in handling the trades from a London desk of the bank's Chief Investment Office.
While Dimon is not cited by name in the SEC's administrative order, the regulatory filing notes he is included in its references to "senior management." It does not, however, point blame at any single top executive.
The criminal investigations are focusing on whether people inside the bank had more detailed knowledge about the potential losses than the bank acknowledged in its early public statements, sources familiar with the probe have told Reuters.
Thursday's civil penalties follow orders in January from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve directing JPMorgan to improve its risk control systems.
In April, Dimon said in a letter to shareholders that fixing risk controls was the bank's top priority, and that some projects aimed at building the company's business would have to be put aside.
The settlement announcements reveal some new details about the scandal, which has been the subject of congressional hearings.
For example, the Chief Investment Office's own assessment of the value of its credit derivatives made other bank officials so uncomfortable that one unnamed senior investment banking executive consulted an outside lawyer before signing documents that would go in the company's public financial reports, according to the SEC's order.
But many of the settlement details came out previously in a congressional report on the trading scandal or in the criminal indictments against Martin-Artajo and Grout.
Also on Thursday, bank regulators ordered JPMorgan to improve its consumer debt-collection practices. The order, from the Comptroller of the Currency, does not include financial penalties. Some of the issues go back to allegations made public more than two years ago.
Despite the OCC order, JPMorgan still faces an investigation from a group of 13 states over its debt-collection practices.


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Looking for Naliss Family
I am releated to the Naliss name - but I know very little of its origins.
My Great Grandfather James Dixon was born 16 Dec 1867 Helmsley, Yorkshire to a Sarah Dixon his father is recorded on the birth certificate as William Naliss - but James spent his life being called James Dixon.
But on his death (24 Jul 1934 Ecclesall North, Sheffield) he was buried under the name of Naliss - his death certificate gives his name as: "James Naliss - formerly Dixon)".
If anyone has any information on the NALISS surname and its origins - I think Ireland has been mentioned in the past - I would be very grateful.
Clarke Ancestry
William Clarke - 1834 to 1886
William Clarke, born 04 Apr 1834 in Lissington, Lincolnshire, to John Clarke abt 1810 and Ann Sewell abt 1814.
In 1851, aged 17 William was living at the Spital Arms House, Hemswell, Lincolnshire, his occupation was a servant.
On the 18 Aug 1856 he married Charlotte Ward (born in Harspwell abt 1838) at the Parish Church of Hemswell, Lincolnshire.
In 1859 they had a son Frederick and in 1860 a daughter Martha.
By 1861 he was living in Chapel Yard, Little Corringham, Lincolnshire, occupation Agricultural Labourer.
In between 1861 and 1871 they had a further seven children:
George William abt 1862
Mary Clarke abt 1862
Sarah Ann Clarke abt 1864
Mura Clarke abt 1868
John Clarke abt 1869
Ann Elizabeth abt 1870
By 1871 William and Charlotte, and their ever increasing family where still living in Corringham, Lincolnshire.
In 1871 they had another daughter Ada, in 1873 another son Percy Sewell, in 1875 another daughter Clara Elizabeth and finally in 1877 another son Herbert, bring the number of children to 13, was this an unlucky number?
After 1881 William has become a ?Thrashing Machine Owner?, and his son Frederick a ?Portable Engine Driver?. This must have been a very lucrative business for William and his family, as owing to the sheer size of threshing machinery few farmers could afford to purchase their own gear. Such a situation gave rise to the professional contractor - essentially businessmen who acquired and then hired out threshing tackle to farms. These threshing contractors ranged from small scale outfits such as an engine driver with one man running a single set of tackle, up to large contractors who owned an array of machinery for hire.
It was usual for the contractor to provide the steam engine (with driver) and threshing machine (with drum feeder). For his side of the bargain, the farmer would provide the coal and water to drive the engine, perhaps even stretching to food for the workers throughout the day. Equipment such as elevators, self-feeders and balers were charged as extra.
William?s death, on 1st January 1886 was recorded as ?Committing Suicide by Hanging Himself? location, ?Lunatic Hospital Lincoln.? An inquest was held on the 2nd of January 1886 by Sept. Lowe, Coroner for Lincoln. Williams occupation was recorded as ?formerly a Thrashing Machine Owner (Corringham).
There is a record of a William Clarke being, ?removed to Bracebridge lunatic asylum on 4th August 1866?, was there a history of metal illness or was there something else?
In 1891 his widow Charlotte has taken over the ownership of the Thrashing Machine, and by 1901 her son John has joined Frederick (Thrashing Machine Driver), as a Thrashing Machine Feeder.
Charlotte passed away in 1905. What happen to the Thrashing Machine business will need further investigation.
There follows a little on the history of Bracebridge Asylum:
Bracbridge Asylum was also called "Bracebridge Heath Asylum," but its formal name was the long and cumbersome: "Lindsey and Holland Counties and Lincoln and Grimsby District Lunatic Asylum."
The Asylum has also operated under the name: "Lincolnshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum."
The Asylum was built in 1852 on a slight rise in Bracebridge parish, on the high road to Sleaford. Originally built to house 250 inmates, it was enlarged in 1859, 1866, 1881 and 1902. The asylum grounds covered 120 acres, and were cultivated by the inmates to provide vegetables.
The Asylum's sewage was disposed of by irrigation over 10 acres of land about a half mile from the asylum.
The Asylum had a cemetery of one and half acres on the grounds, with its own mortuary chapel.
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Hi I have been researching my family tree for over a year know and have found some very interesting bits of information about my ancestors. For example my 2xgreat grandfather, William Clarke committed Suicide by Hanging Himself at Lincoln Lunatic Hospital, England in Jan 1886. His son Percy Sewell Clarke died after being run over my the dray he was driving to deliver coal in Linconshire in 1908.
I have created my own website:
To record my Clarkes from Lincolnshire.
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WorkSafeBC says wood dust from pine-beetle killed timber is being investigated as a factor in a fatal sawmill explosion in Burns Lake, but stressed it's just one of several fuel sources being examined.
Also on the list are natural gas and propane.
Roberta Ellis, a WorkSafeBC senior vice-president, said the agency took the unusual step of providing information in the midst of their investigation because of the serious nature of two recent fatal sawmill explosions in northern B.C.
"We've had two catastrophic explosions approximately three months apart. There's a high level of anxiety and fear in the industry," Ellis told reporters on a conference call after delivering information on the investigation first to industry leaders.
The investigation into the first explosion at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake is expected to take two to three months to complete.
The explosion on Jan. 20 killed two workers and injured 19 others, some with severe burns.
It was followed by an explosion and fire on April 23 at the Lakeland Mills sawmill in Prince George that killed two workers and injured 22, some with severe burns.
Ellis acknowledged sawdust from dry, beetle-killed pine had been fingered for some time as a production problem for the forest industry.
But she said the dust from beetle-killed trees — described as drier and finer than from other timber — had not been identified as a special or increased explosive threat before the Babine Forest Products explosion.
WorkSafeBC has commissioned a U.S. lab to examine numerous sawdust samples from the mill for particle size and its explosive capacity.
WorkSafeBC officials would not reveal the name of the lab.
Natural gas pipe and valves and two propane tanks have also been seized from the mill site.
The investigation has ruled out some fuel sources such as hot oil, hydraulic oil and acetylene.
A 50-by-50-foot area has been determined to be the ignition source, but Ellis would not say where the area is located in the mill.
Ignition sources under investigation include hot surfaces and friction from motors, and electric arcs from motors and switches.
WorkSafeBC says possible ignition sources also include open flames from welding equipment or tiger torches.
Also on the ignition list are metal halide lights that burn at 900 C and static electric discharges.
Following the investigation update, Labour Minister Margaret MacDiarmid said while she realizes everyone would like to know quickly the cause of the explosion at Burns Lake, it's important to get the investigation right. "You don't want to cut any corners," said MacDiarmid.


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Good morning everyone! I hope that all you who will be enjoying temperatures of 70 degrees or less today will pause for a moment to savor your good fortune. I, on the other hand, will be preparing to hermit myself away inside my house as much as possible for the next many days. Not only will today's temp reach 90 but tomorrow & the day after we will be cursed with temps in the 100s! No sign of temps getting below 90 for the next 10 days. No real sign of rain either : (
On a happier note I have some, well, happiness to share with you : ) First is this RAK I received from Kaye at Kitten Stitching. She posted a stitching project not long ago that she had stitched using some variegated thread I had not heard of before. They are Cottage Garden Threads. The effect was lovely & I told her how pretty I thought the thread was. Well, Kaye decided to send me some! Aren't the colors absolutely gorgeous? I can't wait to stitch with them! Thank you again Kaye : )
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
An RAK, A Recent Purchase, & The Shawl Has Begun
Good morning everyone! I hope that all you who will be enjoying temperatures of 70 degrees or less today will pause for a moment to savor your good fortune. I, on the other hand, will be preparing to hermit myself away inside my house as much as possible for the next many days. Not only will today's temp reach 90 but tomorrow & the day after we will be cursed with temps in the 100s! No sign of temps getting below 90 for the next 10 days. No real sign of rain either : (
Posted by Shirlee at 10:48 AM
20 comments:
- Vickie said...
Oh Shirlee! I wasn't expecting the elephant! You crack me up. Really. I like the yarn choice. What an awesome bird. Good for you! :)
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:10:00 AM
- Vera said...
Hi Shirlee, love your yarn choice for the shawl. I downloaded that pattern (and too many others)but haven't started it yet...just finished knitting a skirt for my grand-niece who will be 2 in September and am starting another one for another petite girl. Loved your comment about the model and the elephant is just too, too funny!! Vera
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:18:00 AM
- ♥ Nia said...
Gorgeous gift!! Beautiful threads :)
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:26:00 AM
- Simple Thyme Prims said...
Hi Shirlee...beautiful threads,,,I tried to learn to knit a couple of years ago, I had done ok, never finished anything,,I'm sure by now I'll just have to start over. I love to crochet, especially doilies and also tat..one of these days I'll have time to return to the knitting needles..
Thank you so much for sharing your bird, I so enjoyed making it for you...and the hunt for the oil can was a thrill!..
LOL on the elephant,,,too funny.
Have a great day,,~Ronda
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:30:00 AM
- butterfly said...
Well done Shirlee on your knitting I use to knit for a job and after many years of knitting I just cant pick my needles up , I am so into my cross stitch now.
Lovely bird and wow your RAK of threads are just wonderful and I am so happy they came to you, you are such a kind person.
I like Elephants so you would look beautiful, hugs.
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:13:00 PM
- Carol said...
I just love reading your posts, Shirlee, because you never cease to make me smile :) (And I think the elephant looks much more lovable than that model!). Your shawl colors are lovely with all the blues, teals, and purples--can't wait to see more!
It's a beautiful 79 here--no humidity--just perfect. Sure you don't want to move back to "The Burgh?"
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:07:00 PM
- Janet P said...
L:ove the threads, Shirlee, and your comments about the model!! Such attitude, it just makes you laugh, as you can tell I love your humour!
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:11:00 PM
- Dawn said...
Those threads are really beautiful. Love the crow to!
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:22:00 PM
- Mouse said...
hahahahahah ... where did you get that photo of me from ...lol
that was taken on monday night after my first full day of work for three years !!!
love those colours on those threads too :)lucky you and nice start on the shawl and your wee bird is gorgeous :)
love mouse xxxx
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:31:00 PM
- geeky Heather said...
ROTFLOL at the elephant!! You're hilarious!
Gracious, those threads are amazing. Gumboot's my favorite...those colors!!
Love the punchneedle bird...great purchase. =)
It's hot hot hot here, too...I feel your pain. Good time to stay inside and stitch. =)
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 2:27:00 PM
- Kaisievic said...
I think that you will have attitude when you where your shawl - love the elephant pic, though, too.
So glad that you like the threads,
hugs, kaye
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:41:00 PM
- TheCrankyCrow said...
What did I tell you about those snort warnings??? Oh my HECK!!! You're a hoot. (And, yikes - the colors on that elephant shawl are eerily similar to what you're doing yours in....) And, I agree....definitely an Eduardo..... A lifeline in knitting??? Hmmm....you're making this sound like an interesting craft. I like the idea very much for some reason. Stay cool my friend - we're warming up here too - today was supposed to be around 88 and the same tomorrow - but, there's a breeze, and the humidity doesn't seem too bad at this point. Can't be too bad - the Snow Dog is laying outside in the sun.....Smiles & Hugs ~ Robin
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:26:00 PM
- Prims By The Water said...
Seeing that elephant wearing that shawl was a hoot! Lovin that bird and those threads. Stay cool. I will be inside as well with temps being the same as yours. Take care, janice
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:14:00 PM
- Peggy Lee said...
I'm about ready to send Masterchief out to the back 40 to do his rain dance. We need rain SO BADLY!!
I don't knit...or crochet. I did however teach myself how to knit those neat dishcloths. That's all.
Every once in a while I'll break out the old knitting needles and make a few more to replace the ones that jumped to the rag bag.
Do you know an effective rain dance?
- Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:55:00 PM
- Девушка с пяльцами said...
Hello Shirlee! The threads you got are absolutely gorgeous! I love their rainbow colours. Happy stitching! I'm a bit envious to you as I can't knit at all. The shawl will be a real masterpiece, I suppose. Show the final result to us soon!
Best wishes,
- Thursday, June 28, 2012 3:14:00 AM
- Chris said...
We are headed up to over 100 after Thursday. I hate it too. Like you I will be hermiting inside and hopefully stitching.
That floss looks lovely. I can't wait to see what you stitch with it.
Great start on your shawl :)
Keep cool!!
- Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:06:00 AM
- prims by olde lady morgan said...
Shirlee, I am in awe of you and all you are always creating!!! OLM
- Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:16:00 PM
- Sally said...
I am so pleased we don't get that sort of temps over here. It's too hot for me today as it is!
Your shawl looks beautiful. Love the yarn. I have that shawl saved in my library on Ravelry.
Lovely RAKs.
- Friday, June 29, 2012 7:37:00 AM
- Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...
Love your RAK threads, Kaye is just the best blogging friend!
Where did you find the elephant pic? It's so funny.
ps the model may be hip and cool but she's knock-kneed and her arms are too long for her shirt heeheehee.
- Friday, June 29, 2012 7:48:00 PM
- butterfly said...
Great RAK what lovely threads
- Saturday, June 30, 2012 11:32:00 AM