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I was planning to write a post updating everyone on our search engine optimization experience today but the real world injected itself with a sick kid at home. High fever and rescheduling meetings doesn't leave much time for writing long, heavy posts. Plus I had to sneak in a nap in the afternoon while our daughter napped since we didn't get much sleep the night before. 🙂
So instead, while my husband takes care of the kids this evening, I thought I'd write a post on the example of an unanticipated, viral marketing story with a mom twist. So here it goes…
Once upon a time I met a friend on the Internet. I found her blog and commented away. After some time, we realized we had similar visions and she invited me do a guest post on her blog called Entrepreneurship: A Blessing or a Curse. We kept in touch, spoke on the phone a few times about ways to work together, became twitter pals, and finally met in person at SXSW here in Austin back in March and clicked even more.
While at SXSW she got further proof of what she already knew which was that the name of her blog, then called eMoms at Home, was not really reflective of the demographics of her readers and would-be readers so she had a mini-meltdown, picked herself up and came up with a cool new name called Sparkplugging! Since she was and still is an advocate of entrepreneurs and especially those who work from home, her cool, new name opens the door wide open to many of us who are moms or not but like to spark up ideas and play with them until something happens.
So after SXSW, she went home and saw a post about dads on twitter and decided to do one for moms. Within hours she got tons of replies and created a post called The Ultimate List of Moms on Twitter that started with 250 moms. I commented and subscribed to comments on that post and every day new moms would leave a comment with their twitter name until May 1, 2008 that is. Twitter sent out an email to everyone yesterday, May 1, and in it they included:
Mother's Day: On The Way
We've noticed a trend of parents twittering the moments of their baby's birth so we know there are some new moms on Twitter. Are you a mom on Twitter? Is your own mom on Twitter? Maybe you even made "The Ultimate List of Moms on Twitter"? Mother's Day is just around the corner so don't forget to @reply the moms you know with a thoughtful phrase–but keep it under 140 characters, moms are busy people.
List of Moms on Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/6cxgp5
And today I had 150+ comments in my inbox and they are still coming. Now she has close to 400 comments on that one post! Did she do anything extraordinary to make it happen? Not really. Did she tell people on twitter about it? Yes, of course. Did she know others would tell and re-tell more people about the list? Possibly. Did she know twitter would pick it up in their mass email to everyone? Doubtful (but I don't know what went on behind the scenes). So in hindsight what played in her favor to have a post she wrote on April 8 (before her name change) take on a life of its own? Here's what I think:
- She took the initiative to do something that ended up being quite time consuming, but she saw from the responses it resonated with hundreds of moms on twitter that it was a worthwhile endeavor.
- She told her friends about it who re-tweeted and blogged about it.
- The tweeters kept the link going within twitter and in the blogosphere.
- Mother's Day was around the corner and the guys (I think they are all men) at twitter saw the activity and might have said to themselves "Hmmm. How can we mention a major holiday, get brownie points with our wives/mothers, and promote twitter at the same time" and voila a mention was born!
UPDATE: I sent a link to @Biz to this post and he informed me there are several women who work at twitter! So of course I followed them. Here is his tweet:
biz @aruni awesome! I included the moms list because it was noteworthy – also, women who work at Twitter: @crystal @krissy @alissa @lane @sara
In case you haven't guessed who this friend is, it's Wendy Piersall. I guess only Wendy can tell us if she planned all of this, but to me it's another example of viral marketing that in hindsight makes sense but when started, the current result would have been highly unpredictable.
To me, this is why it is so hard to orchestrate a viral campaign. You can plan everything down to the "t" and still not have it work out the way you wanted. It's hard to predict when there are so many variables. You can also just do something you enjoy doing that helps others and see a "spark" turn into a flame! Way to go Wendy! 😀
Oh and by the way, I am @aruni and Wendy is @eMom on twitter…Author: Aruni | Filed under: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, mom, mother, mother's day, networking, social networks, success, working mom, working mother | Tags: entrepreneurship, moms on twitter, mother's day, sparkplugging, sxsw, twitter, viral marketing, viral marketing campaign, wendy piersall | 9 Comments »

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SDI Christmas Greetings & Looking Forward to the New Year !
2012-12-29: Now that the hustle and bustle of Christmas Day has passed … it is time to relax and chill out during this quiet period … the week between Christmas Day and New Year's Day … to think of loved ones and friends, at home and abroad … to extend warm Christmas Greetings to our many collaborators, clients and suppliers … and to look forward to the New Year of 2013 … a time, hopefully, for Transformation and Creative Re-Organization !
At first, this Japanese Print reminds me very much of the Cherry Blossom Walk in Osaka, and each year looking forward to Spring … but it also tells a story about people …
… and then how, in a built environment which is becoming more and more complex, a diverse and healthy flora and fauna is an essential component of 'person-centred' design … and how, despite the wonder of electricity, it is important to remain intimately connected with the pattern of nature's seasons, and the rhythm of day and night.
Merry Christmas – Auguri per un Luminoso 2013 – Çok Teşekkür Ediriz !
'Sustainable Fire Engineering for All' – SDI's Professional Service
2012-12-14 & 2012-12-30: Further to this distressing incident … which exposed a profound lack of awareness, care and competence within the general fire safety industrial sector …
Recent Fatal Fire at a Disabled Workshop in SW Germany
… this is how we would like to help you … whether you are an individual, or an organization … whether you are located in Ireland, Italy or Turkey … some other part of Europe, the Arab Gulf Region, India, Japan, China … or wherever !
And … we can, if requested or necessary, work in collaboration with local partners in those different geographical regions.
– FireOx International is the Fire Engineering Division of Sustainable Design International Ltd. (SDI) –
Fundamentally, the 9-11 World Trade Center Incident in New York (2001) was an Extreme 'Real' Fire Event. It presented the International Fire Engineering Community with a catastrophic failure in conventional practices and procedures related to:
- Fire Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Architectural Design ;
- Human Building Management Systems ;
- Emergency Response by Firefighters, Rescue Teams, and Medical Personnel ;
- National and Local Organizations Having Authority or Jurisdiction (AHJ's) ;
… and with the serious problem of entirely inadequate Fire Safety Objectives in the building legislation, model codes and design standards of the most economically advanced countries in the world.
Those people who understand the building design process, and have experience as construction practitioners, have long realised that the lessons from 9-11 must be applied across the full spectrum of building types … not just to tall buildings. Right up to the present day, unfortunately, many people in the International Fire Engineering Community are either unwilling, or unable, to do this.
Furthermore … Fire Engineering, Architectural Design and Structural Engineering must, of urgent necessity, be seamlessly conjoined … with the aim of removing misunderstandings and the wide gaps in client service delivery between the different disciplines.
In 2002, a series of Long-Term 9-11 Survivor Health Studies commenced in the USA … and in 2005 and 2008, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a series of Post 9-11 Critical Recommendations concerning the design, construction, management and operation of buildings.
At FireOx International … we have fully integrated this essential design guidance into our frontline fire engineering and architectural practice … we have developed unique and practical solutions for worldwide application, some of which appear in International Standard ISO 21542: 'Building Construction – Accessibility & Usability of the Built Environment', published in December 2011.
FireOx International's Commitment to You
As a necessary response to the New 21st Century Paradigm of Real Extreme Event in a Built Environment which is becoming more and more complex … is subject to climate change and severe weather events … and is vulnerable to malign and malevolent disruption –
WE are committed to … the implementation of a Sustainable Human Environment which is Fire Safe and Secure for All, meaning that an 'appropriate project-specific fire safety level' is our fire engineering objective, with 'human health protection' targeted as a priority … through the use of innovative, reliability-based and person-centred sustainable design practices and procedures.
What is an 'Appropriate Fire Safety Level' in Your Building or Facility ?
It is rarely, if ever, explained to clients/client organizations that the Minimal Fire Safety Objectives in building legislation are focused solely on protecting the 'interests' of society, not those of the individual … are, quite often, inadequate and/or flawed … and are, always, revised only after the latest tragedy !
To properly protect Your Interests as a client/client organization … we strongly advise that the Appropriate Level of Fire Safety in Your Building or Facility should exceed the minimal level of safety required by building legislation. We would also caution that, in many jurisdictions (e.g. India), compliance with national building legislation is voluntary.
Which raises the issues of whether or not you will actually get what you pay for, and whether or not the Fire Protection Measures in Your Building or Facility are reliable (in other words, will they perform as intended at the time of a 'real' fire, which may occur at any time in a building's long life cycle) !?! Competent Technical Control of Design and Construction, independent of the design and construction organization(s), is essential.
You should carefully consider the following spectrum of issues which may be directly relevant to Your Project. Following a process of consultation with you, we then develop Project-Specific Fire Engineering Design Objectives … bearing in mind that you must also comply with safety at work, anti-discrimination, and environmental legislation, etc … maintain business continuity, etc … be energy efficient, etc … and be socially responsible, etc …
– Protection of the Health of All Building Users … including People with Activity Limitations (2001 WHO ICF), Visitors to the building or facility who may be unfamiliar with its layout, and Contractors or Product/Service Suppliers temporarily engaged in work or business transactions on site ;
– Protection of Property from Loss or Damage … including the Building or Facility, its Contents, and Adjoining or Adjacent Properties ;
– Safety of Firefighters, Rescue Teams and Other Emergency Response Personnel ;
– Ease and Reasonable Cost of 'Effective' Reconstruction, Refurbishment or Repair Works after a Fire ;
– Sustainability of the Human Environment (social – built – virtual – economic) … including Fitness for Intended Use and Life Cycle Costing of fire engineering related products and systems, etc … fixed, installed or otherwise incorporated in the building or facility ;
– Protection of the Natural Environment from Harm, i.e. Adverse or Damaging Impacts.
FireOx International – Our Fire Engineering Services
WE will advise you on Fire Safety Policy, Fire Safety Strategy Development, Fire Safety Implementation … and, whether you are within or from outside the European Union, on CE Marking of Fire Protection Related Construction Products ;
WE understand the process of Design, particularly the new language of Sustainable Design … and we will produce Creative Fire Engineering Solutions for Your Project ;
WE are thoroughly familiar with the intricacies of Building Sites … and we will verify and/or validate Design Compliance during construction, and at project completion … and, if requested or necessary, as a completely Independent Technical Controller ;
WE communicate easily and effectively with other Professional Design Disciplines, including architects and structural engineers … and we will act as fully participating members of Your Project Design & Construction Team … and, if requested or necessary, as the Design Professional in Responsible Charge ** ;
WE practice in accordance with a comprehensive Professional Code of Ethics.
Sustainable Fire Engineering Solutions ?
- Are adapted to Local Geography, Climate/Climate Change, Social Need, Culture, Economy … and Severe Events (e.g. earthquakes, flooding) ;
- Are 'Reliability-Based', i.e. that design process based on practical experience, competence and an examination of real extreme events, e.g. 2001 WTC 9-11 & 2008 Mumbai Attacks, and 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Incident … rather than theory alone ;
- Are 'Person-Centred', i.e. that design process which places 'real' people at the centre of creative endeavours and gives due consideration to their responsible needs, and their health, safety, welfare and security in the Human Environment.
FireOx International's Contact Information
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International Phone: +353 1 8386078 / National Phone: (01) 8386078
Important Note: This Post should be read in conjunction with an earlier Post …
Sustainable Design International Ltd. – Our Practice Philosophy
It is there, not here, that we define Sustainable Human & Social Development … and describe how our Practice is responding to this open, intricate, dynamic, and still evolving concept. The resulting transformation in how frontline services are provided to our Clients/Client Organizations ensures a much more comfortable 'fit' to their needs … and a greater level of protection, safety and security for society !
[ ** 2005 NIST(USA) Final Report on 9-11 World Trade Center 1 & 2 Tower Collapses
– Footnote 49 –
… the Design Professional in Responsible Charge – usually the lead architect – ensures that the (Design) Team Members use consistent design data and assumptions, co-ordinates overlapping specifications, and serves as the liaison with enforcement and review officials, and with the client or client organization. ]
Master Architect Oscar Niemeyer Dies – 5 December 2012
2012-12-06 …
A Great Man of Brazil … was born on 15 December 1907 and, yesterday, died on 5 December 2012 … Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho.
A Master Architect of the World !
Oscar's WebSite: http://www.niemeyer.org.br/
I think … and feel … that there is no better tribute to him than a small presentation of his creative work in Brasilia … from an unusual perspective …
Postscript: 2013-01-01 …
By accident (almost, but not quite !) … while surfing the world wide web … I came upon this interesting 1960 photograph of construction work in Brasilia … taken by the Swiss Photographer, René Burri …
It would be well worth your effort to check out more photographs by René Burri ! Visit the Magnum Photos WebSite here … http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL5350UE
Health & Safety at a Construction Site in Osaka, Japan
2012-12-04: How two Health and Safety Issues are handled at this Construction Site in Osaka, Japan … which, I regret to say, will be of small interest within Europe, where construction-related fatalities and injuries are far too high !
1. Control of vehicular access to, and egress from, the Site. Note the hosing down of the truck's tyres before leaving, and entering back onto the public street. On this particular day, the volume of site traffic was high.
2. High visibility identification, and insulated protection of, overhead electric wires/cables.
Even before entering the Site … these are Very Good Indicators with regard to how Health and Safety at Work, generally, is managed …
Japan Industrial Safety & Health Association – Industrial Accidents (2010)
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Hasn't blown coat yet...how to help with heat?
What a messed up year this has been weather wise, it was snowing up here two weeks ago and now it is so hot and humid.
Now Zoe (elkhound/chow mix) hasn't had her normal seasonal blowning of the coat and she is so so hot. She is absolutely miserable and really doesn't want to do much. Even on our daily walks she wants to come home early and try and find a cool place to lay. This is the first year she hasn't had a "spring blow", normally by now she has her nice summer coat and I would still be combating the lingering hair bunnies, but she is still a big puff ball of hair....and oh so cranky.
She is still eating and drinking.....but she paces all night looking for cool spots to lay and during the day she is a blob(and a miserable one at that). I try to keep her outside at night as long as I can........have to keep an eagle eye out for the skunks....but I can't stay up all night and there is no way I am leaving her outside unattended all night long.
She is not a water dog......I have a kiddie pool but she only puts her feet in for a few seconds and then she is done. Is there anything else I can be doing until her body finally figures out that it is time to shed the winter coat?
My personal take on cat purring:
1 cat Mono
2 cats Stereo
3+ cats......Surround sound
You could try using a rake to get out as much of her undercoat as you can. Other than that, all you can do is let her keep as still and quiet as she wants and let her have lots of water.
Get a fan and put it on the floor where she usually hangs out. My oldest dog is double-coated, and it's fairly long, but the fan makes a huge difference in his comfort level. I ended up putting a few around the house and on hot days he hangs out in front of one a lot of the time. A cool bed would also help if she would use it.
My 4 year old American Eskimo has never blown his coat in the true sense of the word (I have researched this on the specific Eskie board and have seen the bags of Eskie fur and the nearly naked dogs after a blow). Sure we have the normal tumbleweeds and all of my black clothes look like tweed, but other than that - zip. As a result of this, I do have to get him groomed more than I normally would (I am not someone good with dog grooming tools - heck I can't even use a hair dryer on myself properly) - and with the claws of death - and being a white dog who loves mud, in he goes. The groomer always has to get out a lot of mats - actually mats that I can't even see or feel. I do my best around his ears and he does love to be combed by me (my husband brushes too hard), but even then the "underneath" mats sure build up. I would just keep his exposure to heat to a minimum - my guy loves tile floors - and while he LOVES water, he isn't getting a little pool because I would have one constantly wet dog. I hate walking by someone with a hose as he wants to be "hosed".
Thanks for the replies.
Now to try and show her that the fan is a good thing. I went an bought a floor fan....my entire house is filled with ceiling fans but they really do diddly squat for keeping anything cool. She is hiding from the new fan and giving it the intruder eyeballs.......I have got it sort of pointing in a corner so the air circulates around the floor.
I have been running the comb through her but nothing....not one hair is letting go. Hubby and I are arguing over giving her baths, he seems to think that it will keep her cool and possibly start her to shed, and I seem to think we would just be making her more miserable (seeing she doesn't like being wet, plus all the licking she would do to dry herself off). Would multiple baths give her dry skin under all that fur??
Also I had one friend tell me to try the furminator. I have heard not to use it on double coated dogs because it ruins the undercoat because it cuts.....then I have heard that it doesn' cut the hair just pulls it out
Last night I swear you could see the heatwaves coming off the top of her head. I took an ice pack and rubbed her feet, belly, ears and snout with it. She just laid there and panted and grumbled....poor miserable girl.
My personal take on cat purring:
1 cat Mono
2 cats Stereo
3+ cats......Surround sound
Do you have a wire crate with one of those bottom pans?
Back in the day when my dad was showing dogs (outside in the summer) he would put ice at the bottom of the crate, then take the bottom pan and turn it upside down, then put a thicker towel down and the dogs (Old English Sheepdogs) would love it. Just make sure the towel or what even you use doesn't move around. You don't want your puppy laying right on the cold metal.
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~Ben Williams
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
ohhh thanks for the awesome idea Elizabeth Ann.....I do have a wire crate....don't know if she would use it but it is worth a try. When she was small I was trying to crate train her but the cats terrorized her in the crate..one cat on each side smacking puppy so I ditched the crate. I could always use the metal pan and make ice and then just put a towel over it.....now to see how much ice I can jamb in my freezer.
i was watching the weather channel and hope is on the way......I see the thunder clouds building up and it is suppost to go down to 9 degress celcius this evening. Hopefully her system will kick into summer gear and get that darn hair out. I will keep watching for that used sheep skin blanket look she gets just before the blow starts and then start combing like mad.
This is the first summer in four years that she hasn't had a spring/summer blow.......so awful watching her pant and pace. Hopefully she will get a good restful sleep tonight when it cools down.
My personal take on cat purring:
1 cat Mono
2 cats Stereo
3+ cats......Surround sound
we just had our AC die... outside its been 38.9, inside no lower than 27.8. while Mister IS blowing his coat now and he DOES like water, to meet a middle ground (instead of raising the humidity in the house any mor ethan we have to) we started misting his groin area. we have also been freezing 2 liter bottles and wrapping them in bath towels to help him cool down. i stick them in his kennel and put him in there for about a half hour at a time. by then he comes out so i can make sure he gets enough water through out the day.
good luck with it!!
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If she isn't shedding yet don't give her a bath as the inner coat will mat and you'll have a hell of a time getting the knots out. The density of her coat will hold the water and soap (like a sheep's wool), she'll be wet for days and that will irritate her skin. Have seen lots of cuts and bald spots with the furminator and some dog's hair hasn't grown back.
Even after my dogs blow their coats you can see heatwaves coming off them. I don't think multiple baths is the answer either, cold water in a pool if she likes to wade around, but no shampoo, it will dry out her skin if you use shampoo that often.
Ours don't like to swim, that heavy coat makes it hard for them I guess, but Bentley loves to wade around in shallow water, so I got one of those shallow storage containers, the kind that you can roll under a bed, it's only 4 or 5 inches deep. Fill it about 3/4 full of cold water every day and Bentley splashes around in it.
Poor thing, she may never really blow her coat. Some of our dogs have every year. Some only every 2 years. We use the rake on them every week winter or summer though to help remove loose bits of that thick undercoat.
It's cooled off here finally, the boys are out with hubby right now enjoying the fresher air. They won't be truly happy until the temps get back down in the single digits again though.
I wouldn't use a furminator either. I agree with rake although I do have a metal comb with 2 ends - one having much wider teeth that I bought from groomer. A few people on Eskie board use this comb as well, but the Eskie fur isn't as dense as your pups - or as Cindy's Keeshonds. The Keeshond is also a Spitz but while their colouring is something I so envy, my Eskie's Persian cat fur is easier to care for - but does mat up something awful in the undercoat - especially when he gets wet. Any chance there is a good groomer in your area that could clean up your pup and help him "blow"? This is how I ended up having to do it, since my guy wasn't losing anything except of course on my black clothes. Fortunately, my Eskie's groomer is very good and knows how to groom a double-coated dog so that double coat is still with him. I have seen some very sad things in the open grooming area of a certain large pet store - dogs having by that neck rope while being shaved to the skin - including under the armpits. Not about to happen to my guy. I know they make belly ropes to hold the dogs which would make me feel better because Eskies are jumpers. El's groomer doesn't use the "nooses" to groom.
Nell, our collie has a really thick winter undercoat.I used a long rake to take out some coat and get out any tangles,then used a blower on dry coat to get out more after that washed her using a a rubber curry comb to work in shampoo and loosen more coat after that blower again to dry.Most of the dead coat was out and a week of regular grooming with rake and pin brush solved problem.
Thanks again for the replies.
It got really really cool last night.....so cool my heat kicked on and the themostat is set at 57. She slept like a log....actually she is still sleeping right now. She ate like a little piggy last night too.
Right now I use a rake and a static brush on her, but in between blows she doesn't shed a hair. I have never seen her hair mat up, but like I said she isn't a water dog and she only gets bathed once maybe twice a year if something stinky is involved....I would absolutely not want to deal with mats. The first year she only blew coat once in the spring.....surprised the heck out of me when she started blowing coat the next year at the beginning of winter. I got so worried she would freeze because when it snows you cannot get her to come inside. Since then it has been a twice a year thing until now......guess her body is a bit behind. Even her winter blow was late, it started in mid January and we had such a cold spring.
I just worry, I know how miserable I get when it is that hot. I really could not imagine having a thick winter fur coat on when it is so hot and humid....just watching her made me uncomfortable.
As for groomers, I use to work at a groomers.....I quit a few years ago because the groomer I was employed with was a nasty man. He use to tighten those neck harnesses so tight on some difficult dogs that their front feet wouldn't even touch the table, then pull so hard on the matted fur the poor dog's would scream. Totally disgusting.....he is no longer in business.
Didn't really see any double coated dogs come into there. Lots of the dogs that need regular grooming and hair cuts like poodles and terriers, many many shih tzus and maltese. The biggest dog I ever worked on was a Standard Poodle.....oh my didn't know they made them that big. This is really my first hands on experience with a double coated dog.
My personal take on cat purring:
1 cat Mono
2 cats Stereo
3+ cats......Surround sound
Our first kees had a bare belly, not typical of the breed, but he had thyroid issues. It helped to keep him cooler. He would lie on top of the cold tile floor or on top of the air conditioning vent and be quite happy. The last 3 kees however are and Yogi was super wooly all over including their bellies. We have air conditioning so they do sleep on top of the vents, but the vet did suggest to us when we had Baxter and Bentley in last week for their heartworm tests, that shaving their bellies for the summer would help them to keep cooler. We opted not to do that, but it might be something for you to consider as well.
Excuse my ignorance about double coats. But why not just take her to the groomer and have her shaved? Or go buy a $12 trimmer at Walmart and do it yourself.
My friend has his longhaired Lab shaved every spring. True the dog does look pretty strange with almost no hair. But for a few weeks afterwards that is one Happy dog
Hasn't blown
The worst thing you can do to a double-coated breed is shave it. Without the outer coat the dog would over-heat, get sun burn and the coat would grown in twice as thick with a very coarse texture. Labs are not double coated so although cosmetically unappealing shaving is often favoured especially if dog isn't brushed regularly enough.
The double coats on all northern breeds protect & insulate them from not only the cold but also from the heat. The coat won't grow back in properly if shaved, and will cause them to shed more the next fall when they blow their coat.
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It seems to depend which breed standard you read as to whether Labs are double coated. The CKC says nothing about it. The AKC says they have an undercoat and the UKC says they are double coated. http://www.canadasguidetodogs.com/la...abarticle6.htm
My Lab's breeder is enthusiastic about the furminator but I'm reading this thread in hopes of learning more about them before I shell out big bucks. The idea of cutting does scare me off.
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France recall veteran Nallet
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France have called-up Lionel Nallet as a replacement for injured lock Romain Millo-Chlusky for their Six Nations training squad.
The 35-year-old, who has won 70 caps for France, was the only player from the XV that started the World Cup Final not to be included in Philippe Saint-Andre's first squad since replacing Marc Lievremont.
However, Millo-Chlusky dislocated his right shoulder in Toulouse's Top 14 victory over Lyon on Saturday and could be sidelined for the entire Six Nations. The French squad will meet at the Marcoussis training centre from January 23 to 25 when Saint-Andre will name his 23-man squad for their opening game against Italy on February 4.
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I hold three degrees, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Dakota, a Master of Arts from OU and a Master of Science in Education from Texas A&M International University. I was valedictorian of my high school graduating class, maintained a summa cum laude average in college work and am a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After teaching for seven years on the college level in Iowa, we served for 17 years as Evangelical missionaries in Latin America, that is, Colombia and Mexico City. I have now taught 26 years in public schools in Texas and Oklahoma. We returned to Oklahoma City in 1997. The Oklahoma State Department of Education has certified me as "Highly Qualified" in five areas.
Language and literature, as well as history, have always been my favorite subjects. I am fluent in Spanish and have taught French and Biblical Greek. My favorite writer is Jane Austen, followed closely by C.S. Lewis. I enjoy early American and European history and have given presentations on King Philip's War, textiles in colonial America, how to locate the service records of your Revolutionary War ancestor, the importance of rivers in America's past, and the history of the Mayflower. My longtime hobby is genealogy; I have researched many of my own and my husband's ancestors and currently help others prepare necessary documents to prove direct descent from one of the passengers in the Mayflower in 1620 or from a patriot of the American Revolution.
I am the proud mother of three and grandmother of twelve, three in Oklahoma City, two in Texas, five in California, and two in college in Arizona. Two have graduated from college, and number twelve came to her family from an orphanage in China in August 2016. I am a member of the Oklahoma Society of Descendants of the Mayflower, the Daughters of American Revolution, the Associated Daughters of Early American Witches, the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge, the First Families of the Twin Territories, and the '89ers Society. I was recently accepted into the National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots, and Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
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California Department of Transportation
Date: May 3, 2013
District: 3
Contact: Dennis Keaton
Phone: 530-741-5474
Marysville – Caltrans has awarded $301 million to improve public transit across California. Seventy-two projects will upgrade transit service, purchase eco-friendly buses, modernize transit stations, and create jobs throughout the state.
"These projects give Californians a viable alternative to using their cars," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "Public transit reduces traffic congestion and protects the environment by lowering greenhouse gas emissions."
The funding comes from Proposition 1B, the 2006 voter-approved transportation bond, which is providing $3.6 billion over a 10-year period to improve public transit in California. To date, Proposition 1B has provided more than $2 billion in funding to approximately 750 transit projects statewide, with 340 completed.
Some of the notable projects awarded Proposition 1B funding include:
- $15.2 million from Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) for the South Sacramento Light Rail stations, which will construct a parking garage for transit patrons.
- $9 million from Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) for operational costs to acquire additional track, signage and power equipment.
- $275,000 from El Dorado County Transit Authority to El Dorado County for a maintenance bus-lift system.
- $175,000 from El Dorado County Transit Authority to El Dorado County to upgrade and install video surveillance equipment.
The projects were chosen because they are already underway, and the new round of funding will ensure they stay on schedule.
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Cloud.com bear hugs VMware vSphere
Next up: Smooches for Oracle, Microsoft
Cloud.com – the outfit that offers a platform for transforming your existing data center setup into a so-called infrastructure cloud – has introduced support for VMware's vSphere 4.1 hypervisor and its accompanying vCenter management console. The CloudStack platform already dovetails with other hypervisors, including open source mainstays Xen and KVM.
"You'll be able to go into a multi-hypervisor host environment, where you can choose from among Xen, KVM, or vSphere," Cloud.com director of marketing Peder Ulander tells The Reg.
CloudStack is designed to create not only Amazon EC2-like "public clouds" that serve up scalable, on-demand processing power to world+dog, but also "private clouds" that offer such infrastructure for use behind the firewall, within a particular enterprise. And according to the company, it's designed to work without major changes to your underlying data center setup. "We were founded with the goal of creating a software platform that would enable anyone with a data center to turn their environment into a cloud," Ulander explains.
The company bills itself as an open source outfit, but it should be noted that it uses the sort of "open core" model adopted by the likes of private-cloud outfit Eucalyptus and Hadoop shop Cloudera. The heart of the platform is open source, but the company also offers an enterprise version that includes proprietary code.
For instance, a plug-in for connecting to a billing system is not open source. "The fundamental theory is that if you're going to make money off of this, we're going to make money off of this," Ulander says. He also says that other pieces are closed because they involve hooks into proprietary extensions and APIs from the likes of NetApp and Cisco.
With the addition of vSphere and vCenter support, the company aims to serve outfits that have already deployed VMware. "Within an existing VMware vSphere environment, companies can deploy a full-blown cloud platform using Cloud.com and deliver that experience to their end users," Ulander says. "We build on top of VMware."
In essence, Cloud.com puts an agent onto all physical machines running VMware and pools these resources into a service that allows end-users to provision machines on the fly – as they're needed.
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DOCOMOMO US is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dorothy Miner on October 21, 2008.
Dorothy served as the counsel for the Landmarks Preservation Commission for two decades and played a critical role in the 1978 Penn Central case. After retiring from the Commission in 1994 she taught at Columbia 's Historic Preservation program, Pace University School of Law, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where her dedication to her students was inspiring.
She will be fondly remembered and greatly missed.
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Should Police Have Ticketed This Man for Warning Drivers About a DUI Checkpoint?
Police in Parma, Ohio, ticketed Doug Odolecki on Friday, June 13, because Odolecki was holding up a sign to warn drivers of an upcoming DUI checkpoint. The sign read, "CHECKPOINT AHEAD! TURN NOW!"
Odolecki is part of a group called Greater Cleveland Copblock, which according to Odolecki holds police accountable for their actions. Odolecki does not think that police should be setting up DUI checkpoints, though he's careful to point out that he isn't actually pro-drunk-driving.
"It's a Nazi-esque-style checkpoint," he told Fox 8 in Cleveland. "It is a 'papers, please'-type checkpoint. These guys are not out there for your safety or anything like that, so if you think that, think again."
The locations of DUI checkpoints are available to the public beforehand, but apparently the police took exception to the "TURN NOW" part of Odolecki's sign, not the sign itself.
Odolecki filmed his encounter with police and posted it in full to YouTube. As you can see, police explained to Odolecki that "our sobriety checkpoint is all about educating the public, and we need them to come through the checkpoint to educate them."
The Ohio man maintains that it is his right to warn drivers about the checkpoint. The police insist that the "TURN NOW' part of the sign is an obstruction of official business, which is what they cited him for. Odolecki plans to fight the ticket in court.


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Blue Elliot's Eclectic Gender-Neutral Space
Name: Blue Elliot (2 months)
Location: Portland, Oregon
This is our first baby. Despite our small 1200 square foot, two bedroom condo, we love the close proximity to downtown Portland. So we made our guest bedroom a nursery while leaving space for guests as well.
We didn't find out if our baby was going to be a boy or a girl ahead of time, so a gender neutral palette was a necessity. The space had to work both as a fully functional nursery and a guest bedroom. We went with "Tupelo Tree" from Sherwin Williams which paired nicely with turquoise, gold and other splashes of color. The rocking chair was something my family bought in 1975, and we had it reupholstered. The crib is a convertible, so it turns into a toddler bed and then into the head/food boards for a full size bed. We found the changing table on Craigslist and repainted it and changed out the knobs. I found whimsical bugs at a fabric store made out of recycled items. They were originally for outdoor lawn ornaments so they are suspended on springs. I hung them from the ceiling so they give our baby something to look at in the summer when the window is open and the bugs "jump around."
When we have guests in town, they sleep in the our master bedroom and we sleep in the full bed in the nursery. The full size bed was put directly on the floor to be more accessible to kids - created as a reading place for our kiddo and his ample library. When you enter the room, the changing table is directly ahead, dividing the "guest bed" from the doorway allowing it some privacy.
Thanks, Kristina! Readers, you can visit Kristina at her website, Kristina Wright.
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My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
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52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History - Radio & Television
At sixteen though I was finally able to watch TV. Part of my morning routine before leaving for school was to sit with my parents and watch "Little House on the Prairie." They just don't make shows like that any more. It's still one of my favorite shows. I had read all of the books. Since they were based on a true story I was allowed to read them. I was not allowed to read fiction growing up, so I read a lot of real life stories. I guess that's where my passion for history sprang from. Then to top it all off, when I first attempted to be a stay-at-home-mom I found I got board very easy. So one day when I was watching........ Oh come on, it can't be that big of a stretch of the imagination........"Little House on the Prairie" I was sitting at my computer and thought........"I wonder what has been put online about the real Ingalls family?" So I started searching, and a search into her history soon lead to a curiosity and search into my family. From this moment sprouted the roots of what is now "Untangled Family Roots." So I guess you can say that my favorite TV show lead me to be a genealogist. Wow I never quit thought of it that way myself.
I also use to love such shows and Bonanza, Gun Smoke, Renegade, and Knight Rider. Yeah I liked the old stuff even when most kids my age would have thought that was strange as a teenager in the early 90's to like Bonanza, Gun Smoke and Little House on the Prairie. But I was still trying to catch up on what I had missed out on when I was younger.
I never really got into watching cartoons though. Probably because I was already a teenager when I started watching TV, but I do remember one cartoon my brother and I would watch every weekend...... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I loved all the movies and the cartoon.
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- Amy Coffin, MLIS said...
I loved this show, too. still watch it in reruns to this day.
For those on Twitter, this is one of my favorite *fake* accounts:
Thanks for sharing you favorite show and participating in this week's topic.
- A rootdigger said...
It's funny how we can pick up on ages by what they watched when. Had you watched it in the evening, you may be a little older....
I realized my husband to be did not know some tv shows I watched. Of course it was only one channel, but still, he should have heard of some of them. He just was five years younger.!They shape us,right?
- A rootdigger said...
I am curious how far you went with the Ingells/ Wilder. I started once a ways back cause I had wilder in mn. I should look again. My Wilders were around Wells with reaches towards western around Tracy or Tyler mn. Below Sleepy Eye. It was a Recent scraping too, and then I moved in another direction. [ as usual]


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Everywhere you turn, you see and hear about the computer, Internet, information age, etc. During the last several decades, the computer has become undoubtedly the most important invention of humankind. Today, virtually all of the world's knowledge is only a few taps away, which is truly mind-blowing. What is the reason for this explosive development—social needs, economic incentives or the dream of humans to create a thinking machine? Who made it possible? When and where did this most important invention actually happened? Who are the pioneers of the computers, networks, and software?
This site will try to answer to some of these questions, providing a huge amount of vital information about the history of computing and computers. The information is divided into several sections:
According to the great Leonardo da Vinci, there are three types of people: those who see; those who see, when they are shown; those who do not see. Let's try to fall among at least in the middle category. Have a nice read, and never forget the age-old quote: "Life is too short to be taken seriously."


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ADDISON COUNTY — In early October, 12 Vermont teenagers from 4-H clubs across the state will be heading to the 57th Annual National 4-H Dairy Conference in Madison, Wis. Five of those teens are from Addison County: Andrew Levesque and Katy Tracey of the New Haven Dairy 4-H Club, Chelsea Plouffe and Sara Ingwersen from Mountain View 4-H Club, and Kristyn Jerome of the Mt. Independence 4-H Club.
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After Joe Wilson confused a public occasion with a movie theater and decided to make comments at the screen, the nation wondered what he would do next. Apologize? Ha! Fuck that shit - he will not be muzzled!
See, Joe Wilson wants Americans to know that he really cares about the evils of providing health care to marginalized populations and invoke the country's current boogeyman stand in, "illegal" immigrants.
After single-handedly raising $750,000 for his Democratic opponent, Rob Miller, Wilson appears to have decided his stance is no surrender.
Now, readers, I'm not really a big fan of decorum and such but that shit was just ignorant. In the words of Mos Def, there's certain shit you just don't do.
As Keith Olbermann noted in his special comment:
The 43rd president of the United States lied the nation into the war, lied 4,343 of his fellow citizens to death in that war, lied about upholding the constitution, and lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction.
He lied about how he reacted to Al-Qaeda before 9/11 and he lied about how he reacted to Al-Qaeda after 9/11.
He lied about getting Bin Laden, and he lied about not getting Bin Laden.
He lied about nation-building in Iraq, lied about the appearance of new buildings **in** the nation **of** Iraq, and lied about embassy buildings in nations like Iraq.
He lied about trailers with mobile weapons labs in them, and he lied about trailers with Cuban prostitutes in them.
He and his administration lied-by the counting of one non-profit group-532 times about links between Al-Qaeda and Iraq. Only 28 of those were by that President, but he made up for that by lying 231 times about W-M-D.
And yet not once did an elected Democratic official shout out during one of George W. Bush's speeches and call him a "liar."
And yet, this is somehow cool. Wilson's constituents appear to be pitchfork wielding townsfolk because they seem proud of this belligerence, masquerading as bravery:
"Yeah, it was rude, but somebody needed to say it," said Susan Wahl, 41, a homemaker in this town of 800 outside Columbia. "Ordinary people can't just get up and tell Obama he lied. He said something we all wanted to say."
In a state famous for both its gentility and its rebelliousness, Mr. Wilson earned praise from voters who admired his message, if not his delivery.
"I kind of want to defend Representative Wilson," said Mendel Lindler, 63, an insurance salesman in Lexington, a Columbia suburb. "The president has been trying to shove something down our throats, and Representative Wilson said, 'Hold on here.' "
Wilson was so emboldened by the lack of response from the GOP Party Leadership and President Obama (though some Dems are pushing for censure) that he dropped a video repeating the same lies he's been pushing for so long he believes they are true.
He blatantly lies in this video, but still feels fine accusing Obama of falsehoods on things that are fact-checkable. And for some reason, he keeps scapegoating undocumented people. Why does he keep trying to nail a point home that has very little to do with the health care reform bill? Richard Benjamin says it's a clear show of racism/xenophobia:
Besides the show of disrespect, and the fact that he was wrong, the legislator's comments expose a virulent racism and paranoia against undocumented workers. As we enter Hispanic Heritage Month, America would do well to examine the legislator's political paranoia instead of rehashing his churlish, attention-seeking outburst. The legislator's behavior is uncommon, but his attitude is not. [...]
Once upon a time in Wilson's native South Carolina, the 1950s through the 1970s, whites fled public spaces en masse — pools, parks, schools, cafeterias — rather than share those public resources with blacks. This is déjà vu all over again: Latino immigrants are the new blacks. A truculent white minority wants to re-segregate their communities; more, it bashes the publish sphere and aims to sabotage public spending on the common good, including the president's healthcare plans.
Put bluntly, it is not a coincidence that America's love affair with all-things private — gated communities, private roads, private parks, private schools, private playgrounds, private hospitals — heated up during the 1950s as the federal government sought to integrate the nation. [...]
Tea baggers rail against social programs that are allegedly squandered on "illegal aliens." The Birther movement rails against a supposedly Muslim president. Healthcare reform town halls combust over "government dependence." Republicans like Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., push a boycott of the 2010 Census, fretting that immigrants and minorities will be overcounted.
While Obama's speech was considered to be a success, Wilson's outburst should serve as a reminder that we are all fighting for different things. Some of us are fighting over the future of health care.
Others are fighting to preserve the America of the 1950s.
Joe Wilson: 'I will not be muzzled' [Politics]
Rep. Wilson apologizes, but says won't be muzzled [AP]
Keith Olbermann KOs Joe 'YOU LIE' Wilson in Special Comment [Pandagon]
Heckler's District Mostly Supports the Outburst [NY Times]
Dem leaders push for Wilson censure [Politico]
Inside the mind of Joe Wilson [Salon]
Speech Bump [Time]


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Foster Lomas is among five practices shortlisted in the high-profile RIBA competition for a £2 million visitor centre in Cambridgeshire
The other practices to make the final in the popular contest are Shiro Studio, Birds Portchmouth Russum, Boyarsky Murphy and Feilden + Mawson.
Described by RIBA as its biggest competition in the last year, the contest received more than 200 entries from across Europe and the UK.
The judging panel extended the shortlist to include five teams instead of four, as originally planned, 'because of the range of site approaches and building typologies proposed'. Each shortlisted team will receive a £3,000 honorarium.
The building will be the centrepiece of Cambridgeshire's Great Fen nature reserve. The programme aims to transform 3,000 hectares of arable land into lakes, fen, bog, woodland and scrub over the next 50 to 100 years.
Shortlisted teams will now refine their stage one proposals ahead of presentations to the judging panel in April.
Panellist and Great Fen project manager Kate Carver said the project partners were now looking for a scheme that would 'embody and progress' their vision for the natural landscape.
RIBA adviser to the competition, Cindy Walters of Walters and Cohen Architects, praised the organisers for choosing an 'open and anonymous first stage' for the contest.
She said: 'In an industry where procurement is often biased towards track record, it is refreshing to find clients who are still prepared to run competitions that give practices of all sizes and experience the chance of being selected for an ambitious and exciting project such as this.
The RIBA is managing the contest on behalf of the Great Fen partnership. The partnerhsip comprises the Environment Agency, Huntingdonshire District Council, Middle Level Commissioners, Natural England and The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
She added: 'Short-listing was a challenge due to the unusually high number and calibre of submissions received - we were all fascinated to subsequently learn the names of the practices behind the preliminary proposals.'
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Athletes to wash cars in Wayland's continued effort to help hurricane victims
PLAINVIEW – Athletes at Wayland Baptist University will be getting a different sort of workout Saturday as they scrub up dirty cars to help those in need. Members of Wayland's athletic teams will be holding a car wash from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. behind Wilder Field on Xenia Street in Plainview, with donations benefiting the relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina victims.
"This idea came up from Coaches Network, an organization run by Seth Greenberg at Virginia Tech. Right now, a lot of coaches are involved with doing different things to raise money. Although we can't do something on a huge level, we know every little bit helps," said Pioneer basketball head coach Todd Thurman. "We want to be out there and be a part of this, to collect as much as we can and help those folks out."
The university began collecting for hurricane relief two weeks ago, with an impromptu offering taken at Wayland's Wednesday chapel service on Sept. 7, netting around $1,300 from the student audience. Another $350 has come in since then, and another $1,100 was raised at a benefit concert held in Harral Auditorium on Sept. 15, where several of Wayland's musical groups performed and a special prayer time was held to conclude the program, led by Wayland president Dr. Paul Armes.
Wayland has also been a collection site for items needed by hurricane survivors, namely toiletry items, socks and underwear, diapers and baby food and supplies, back packs and soft luggage. Donations of those items may be brought to the car wash or to the Student Activities office, located on the second floor of the McClung University Center, at any time during the business day. The items will be given to the Salvation Army to help Katrina evacuees in Lubbock and the South Plains.
A fund for monetary donations has also been set up at the university, and money can be taken to Wayland's business office for that purpose.


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The start of December brings with it many reasons to celebrate, one being the start of another season of Monticello High School Buckaroo Wrestling.
This season the team has proclaimed that the "Buckaroos are Back" and are setting their sights on a repeat of the 2009 State Wrestling Championship.
This weekend the team took on their first test by attending the Carbon Tournament in Price, UT. Due in large part to weight loss regulations imposed by the state, the Bucks were open this week at five weights, giving up 30 points in each dual they wrestled.
Despite the huge deficit they faced, the Bucks defeated American Leadership Academy 54-24, Park City 48-21, Carbon B 32-18, Wasatch JV 54-24, and Grand 47-28.
The Buckaroos also defeated the only other 1A team to attend the tournament, the Duchesne Eagles, 39-33. The Bucks lost in only one head to head match up against the Eagles, in a very close 2-0 match. In the end, Monticello tied the team from Orem at 42, but Orem won the dual based on tie breaker criteria. The team came up short and were defeated by Tooele and Carbon.
All nine of the Buckaroos who wrestled at the tournament came home with winning records.
Leading the way for Monticello is Tazz Robinson, who racked up a perfect 8-0 record, winning all of his matches by fall.
David Boyle was also undefeated on the weekend. Boyle wrestled five matches in the JV tournament before taking over the varsity spot for his final three wins for his 8-0 finish.
Coltan Musselman was 6-0 before having to forfeit his last match due to injury. Musselman was leading the match 9-5 at the time.
CJ Cordasco and Adam Martinez were both 7-1 on the weekend, dominating their opponents, each with six of their wins by fall.
Ricky Wilcox finished at 7-2, with a heartbreaking 2-0 loss in a tough battle against Duchesne.
Skyler Hall and MJ Wagstaff were strong for the Buckaroos, each finishing with 6-2 records and earning all of their wins by fall.
Rounding things out for the squad were Brian Robinson and Tyrel Shupe. Robinson finished 6-3 and Shupe at 5-3.
In their first week the Bucks tallied 62 wins and only 13 losses. The Buckaroo team was dominant in their wins, getting 52 by pin and two by technical fall. The fastest pins on the weekend were earned by Adam Martinez: 16 seconds, Tazz Robinson: 21 seconds and Skyler Hall: 23 seconds.
Overall, seven Buckaroos won by fall in under a minute in 15 matches. Martinez had three, Robinson and Hall each had two. Other Bucks with quick pins were Ricky Wilcox, Tyrel Shupe, and MJ Wagstaff each with two and CJ Cordasco.
The Bucks squad looks promising this year with good leadership coming from the returning state placers, several promising new recruits, and the younger wrestlers showing great potential.
Once they get team members into their proper weight classes, the Bucks should have only one open weight this season, and have at least two wrestlers at nearly every weight.
This weekend, the Bucks travel to the Juab Tournament in Nephi. They will wrestle in their first non-tournament dual next Wednesday, December 16, at Grand County High School in Moab.


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The parrot wasn't talking.
"I'm teaching her to say, 'I miss Mace,''' said Mace Neufeld, who at 85 reckons the bird, whose name is Margie, will outlast him.
With no words of affection forthcoming, Neufeld, a New Yorker who landed in Beverly Hills back when you could grab a sandwich at the Ontra Cafeteria and rent a house with a pool for $300 a month, headed toward the sitting room. He once wrote music for Dorothy Loudon, managed Dusty Springfield, produced "The Omen." But Neufeld moves with the fervor of a man less concerned with his legacy than the spread sheet of his latest film.
"Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" stars Chris Pine, the young star with the earnest air who personifies a new era for the $800-million franchise. Neufeld has seen scrapbooks full of heartthrobs and lived through plenty of eras, from the death of the studio system to the rise of conglomerates and armies of marketers. He reached for a cookie as Margie chirped from the library.
"The big, big stars of the old line are gone," he said. "I remember watching 'Titanic' at a friend's house. Kirk Douglas was there, Greg Peck and Jack Lemmon and … Walter Matthau. I looked around the room and thought to myself, 'You know, when these guys are gone that's the last of the studio-made stars.' But, of course, Kirk is still around, remarkably."
A man's past is often tacked on his walls — paintings, art and unexpected moments that crystallize in memory. Tucked in a corner is the picture Neufeld snapped in 1944 of a soldier on crutches returning from World War II to the embrace of his mother. He was a teenager photographing clothes in a department store when he spotted the veteran and ran across 15th Street in Manhattan. The picture has retained its power, a black-and-white image from a time of presumed innocence, when America had prevailed and Hollywood was capitalizing on romance and postwar redemption.
The days of "It's a Wonderful Life" and "An American in Paris" vanished long ago, sobered by the realism of the 1960s and a new wave of filmmakers who would re-invent how movies were shot and financed. Hollywood is making fewer films, but the unpredictable alchemy of profits and losses hasn't changed even as budgets are scrutinized down to the last credit and producers start from scratch on every script.
"I thought the old system was great," said Neufeld, who has brought four Tom Clancy novels with Jack Ryan as protagonist to the screen, including "The Hunt for Red October." "I came in when the major studios were falling apart. I would have loved to have been here when everybody was under contract … and you went from one picture to another."
He sipped coffee in his Mediterranean-style home. Trimly dressed in shades of a midnight sky, his loafers buffed, Neufeld has a trainer and swims three days a week. A housekeeper peeked in and vanished; a pool shone beyond patio doors. Silver-black hair so neat that one had the inclination to muss it, he noted that he admired how Clint Eastwood, who directed the Neufeld-produced "Invictus," did only one or two takes of a scene. Saves time and money.
A phone rang.
"Is that me?" He reached into his pocket and clicked the silence button.
"It's not easy to get a major film these days," said Neufeld, who was called in to get the script in shape and oversee set locations on "Sahara," starring Matthew McConaughey, which had been plagued by pre-production cost overruns before its 2005 release. "The marketing cost is so high. ... Marketing is locked in with production right from the get-go." He added that marketers critique scripts, suggest budgets and are "always looking for trailer moments. ... We used to call Ryan movies 'thinking man's thrillers.' Now, it's a thinking man's action thriller."
Neufeld can sound like a cattle rancher in an old western, his dreams tempered with pragmatism. He has three children. His wife of 41 years died in 1995. He remarried nine years ago. When you lay it all out — life and art and the moments in-between — it comes down to "just survival, I think. You go out and find good material and you stick with it and don't give up on it. ... I'm still looking for an Academy Award. If I stay around long enough it might happen."
"Mace is an old-style gentleman producer," said Kenneth Branagh, who directed and also plays the Russian villain in "Jack Ryan." "I've no doubt Mace has gotten into scraps. You don't get to where Mace has been without being tough. He was on our set every single day. As a producer he's careful with the dough. He has an almost puckish kind of delight, a gleeful pleasure in making movies."
Yale classmates
The son of a stockbroker, Neufeld grew up in New York City and studied 17th century metaphysical poetry at Yale. Future President George H.W. Bush and future director Alan Pakula were in his senior class. Neufeld was speaker at his 65th reunion last year. "Bush was too fragile to come down," he said, "so they asked me, the only guy in show business."
After graduating, Neufeld and a partner composed music in the early 1950s: "We'd write every night and then go down to the Brill Building in the morning to try and sell our songs," he said, adding that he didn't have a big hit, but Sammy Davis Jr. recorded his "Blues to End the Blues," and Dorothy Loudon hired him as a manager.
His management business — he represented musicians and actors, including Don Knotts, Chaka Khan and Jim Croce — brought him to Los Angeles.
"June 10, 1962, at 1:30 in the afternoon I landed here with two little boys and my wife with not a lot of money but an office. I never looked back," he said. His first Hollywood premiere was "Lawrence of Arabia."
He switched from management to film and TV in the 1970s, producing "The Omen," which starred Gregory Peck and redefined the notion of creepy little boys, and the television miniseries "East of Eden." In 1990, he turned Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October," a tale about a Soviet submarine captain seeking to defect with the help of CIA analyst Jack Ryan, into a hit. That led to a succession of Jack Ryan films, including "Patriot Games," starring Harrison Ford, and "The Sum of All Fears," starring Ben Affleck.
Ryan — virtuous, indefatigable, quick of mind — has protected America from its evolving fears: the Cold War, drug cartels, nuclear trafficking and, in the franchise's latest incarnation, which was distributed by Paramount, a terrorist attack and a Russian plot to crash financial markets. The film did not receive rave reviews and was overshadowed at the box office by "Ride Along," "Lone Survivor" and "The Nut Job."
Ryan has become a kind of fictional son — or perhaps alter ego — to the producer. Branagh said Neufeld was adamant that budget constraints would not force cutting a costly helicopter crash scene that was integral to Ryan's backstory. "He definitely stood up about that," the director said. "He does use his sage maturity. He said, 'The helicopter must stay in.'"
Next up for Neufeld is "The Equalizer," starring Denzel Washington and based on the TV series about a retired intelligence officer. Another man of intrigue in the lens but Neufeld, who before filming "The Hunt for Red October" was invited by the U.S. Navy on a six-day submarine trip, has produced a diverse list of more than 40 films and television shows.
"I guess," he said. "I never counted."
He did recall, though, when he almost signed John Wayne. He was producing "The Frisco Kid" starring Gene Wilder in the late 1970s. He wanted Wayne to play the outlaw. The actor, who by then epitomized the creaky gunslinger, agreed but later refused to defer his $750,000 fee and backed out, Neufeld said.
"He got insulted," he said. "It was a great disappointment. He would have been great."
That brought to mind Neufeld's consuming, if unrequited, passion, better known as "The Outrider." It's a tale set in the late 1800s about a hanging judge and a deputy tracking a notorious bad guy in the Oklahoma Territories. Neufeld, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, has shopped the script for 15 years.
"It's almost impossible to get a western made. They don't play well internationally," he said. "But I keep trying. ... I figure I'll continue doing movies as long as I can tie my own shoelaces."
He sat amid African wood carvings. A portrait of Frida Kahlo looked out to the pool. Margie chirped but uttered nothing. Gardeners swept grass clippings in the neighborhood where he has lived for half a century. All was neat; palms rose in tall, perfect lines. He looked around the room. It had been many years since he hurried through New York with the scrap of a song in his hand.
The house fell quiet. Even on such a street, a man over time distills certain realities into wisdom: "It's not that you're only as good as your last film. It doesn't matter what your last film was."


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Today we are going to have some fun learning how to create depth in our quilts. I specifically chose this Half Wonky Shoo Fly block because of its nice elements and ease in doing, especially when it's done in a fun wonky style! I just call it 'Half Wonky' because only the 4 corners of it are wonky. The middle column (horizontally and vertically) stay the same size. I like the consistency of that while showing the 4 corners in abstract positions. That's another design element of the block that I like. Not only can you showcase colors in this block, but the shapes play an important part as well! The shapes can also bring out the colors best!
The full wonky style of this block is done in a 'stack 'em and whack 'em' type technique of slicing your stacks of fabrics twice horizontally and twice vertically, and rotating the parts one turn or not rotating at all, and then sewing all parts together.
Yet another technique would be to just slice and dice your blocks individually so each portion would not be exactly like another block as in the 'stack 'em and whack 'em' style.
So today's sample is the easiest of all -- making only the corners wonky!