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South Korean director Lee Su-Jin's feature debut is the story of small town girl who is sent to a different school in a remote city after being involved in a horrific incident.
"This film wasn't based on a particular incident. Rather, there were many reasons for making this film, and many incidents," the director reflects.
"I was haunted by many cases of gang rapes, teenage suicides, school bullying, etc for a long time."
Making the film was, Lee say, his gesture of support to girls like Han Gong-Ju.
Casting the right girl was crucial to the success of the film. While preparing the project, the director watched audition clips for another film. Chun Woohee's was among them and he was immediately struck by the girl's sensitivity and intelligence. He therefore asked her to read for the role.
"I remember that she had tried very much to express herself as the actual character from beginning of the audition until the end. I also liked the fact that none of her previous roles were similar to this one. And one of main reasons (for casting her) was that she has a face that makes her look familiar."
A capella singing helps the young girl as she tries to rebuild her life after her traumatic experiences.
"I wanted to show how Gong-ju adapts herself into a new environment and people in which the music becomes a connecting point," Lee explains.
"I also wanted to show how she opens up her closed mind gradually as they see each other's faces and harmonize their songs together."
And, yes, he is a big fan of a capella singing himself. "Ciao, Bella, Ciao had been my favorite song for a long time and the song's lyrics and sensibility went strangely well with Gong-ju's story, so I decided to use it for this film," he says.
In advance of its IFFR screenings, Han Gong-Ju was a prize winner in Marrakech late last year. There, the film attracted some illustrious admirers, Martin Scorsese among them.
"I was certainly surprised when I heard the announcement," the director recalls of winning Marrakech's Golden Star.
"As memorable as the moment of winning the prize was when the nine jury members sat in at the premiere screening of my film. It was such a strange feeling to have my favorite directors and actors watch my film.
"I think I watched the back of their heads for the entire two hours of the film.
"At the party that was held after the award ceremony, the jury members congratulated me. And I especially had a long conversation with Martin Scorsese, which was a great pleasure."


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This is the one that has taken me a while to get done. I am not sure if you can see the border stitching or not. It is a running feather and since I am not good at this type of thing free moiton, I used the paper pattern. The draw back is on this where so many stitches are done over each other and some paper stays in the stitches. I plan to wash this as soon as if get the binding on and hope the little pieces disapear.
These blocks were from a Friendship swap in my online group. Am glad to get it finished.
More so about this next quilt. Bonnie's Mystery. It was a bear. W0nder if Bonnie counted how many pieces are in it. Roll Roll Cotton Boil.
Bonnie calls the pieces for the border Parallograms. 3 squares with triangles on each end. Then set so they are sewn with am straight edge. There are 39 of those on the side , a few less for the top and bottom. But the way she has you do the corner is perfect. Maybe you can see it better by clicking on the picture.
Now maybe I can get back to some of the Kid's quilts whose kits I have. Also been Helping my neighbor. She has a foot and leg in a cast and He needed to get to his job. He is a contractor and had men out working. Also was tired of his new job of taking care of her. So I have gone over for a couple hours at a time to relief him. Well today He told the men to stay home. It's a good thing. He did finally get out and cleaned his driveway and then mine but now they and the road are covered again.
So the best thing to do is stay in and sew. and play on the laptop. Thanks for visiting.

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* 24 June 2015: 7 days uptime with wifi working perfectly. Did reboot it last night because my work computer lost contact with the router somehow (connects via reverse tunnel). The issue with the Randomly Rebooting Router can be considered solved. Obviously, it's solved by crippling the router by turning off the 5 GHz band and tkip (the latter may not be related though).
* Submitted a bug report: http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=334&bugerator_nav=display&bug_project=1&issue=1833
* 16 June 2015 12:42 AEST. The router has been up for two days and four hours (and counting) in spite of heavy use of our phones. Seems like turning off 5 GHz and/or switching from AES to TKIP has worked. A fair criticism is that I don't have much of a baseline to compare with when it comes to reboots, but subjectively there's a lot less swearing over crappy wifi the past two days.
* 14 June 2015 08:05 AEST. After two days of uptime when radio-silence was enforced, we turned our phones back on. The router rebooted later that night. Same thing happened the next night. After briefly putting dd-wrt on the router, I put tomatousb back on it, turned off 5 GHz and changed from AES to TKIP. The router has been up since 9.30 pm last night (10 h and counting)
Found this bug report: http://tomato.groov.pl/?page_id=334&bugerator_nav=display&bug_project=1&issue=1813
Also read this with interest: http://movingpackets.net/2013/11/18/linksys-e2500-deserves-no-airplay/
I've seen posts that find that dd-wrt doesn't have the randomly rebooting issue. dd-wrt doesn't support dual band, at least on e2500. I was surprised that v1 of the cisco linksys firmware had the same exact issue (random reboots when 5 GHz is on). It's all pointing in a specific direction.
Not sure why using the 5 GHz channel with my laptop doesn't trigger the reboots, but maybe they did -- but happened less frequently due to the lower number of 5 GHz capable devices prior to us getting the phones.
* 10 June 2015 16:24 AEST. Since turning off wifi on the Samsung Galaxy S4 phones (but using the two laptops and the tablet listed below) the router has stayed up for 24 hours 8 hours and 11 minutes, and counting. The night between Monday and Tuesday, when we were using our phones, the router rebooted at least twice.
This is another one of those posts that don't offer a solution, but rather states a problem. I'm doing this in the hope that others who are making similar observations as I am will see this and...well, feel slightly less alone at the very least. In the best case, someone will have a solution and offer it as a comment.
So, here's the issue:
* I have a Linksys E2500-AU v1.0 that is running TomatoUSB (howto)
Tomato v1.28.0000 MIPSR2-128 K26 USB Max ======================================================== Welcome to the Linksys E2500 v1.0 [TomatoUSB] Uptime: 08:14:26 up 1 min Load average: 0.52, 0.18, 0.06 Mem usage: 28.4% (used 17.06 of 59.96 MB) WAN : 192.168.1.100/24 @ 58:6D:8F:D3:XX:XX LAN : 192.168.2.1/24 @ DHCP: 192.168.2.2 - 192.168.2.202 WL0 : volatile @ channel: AU13 @ 58:6D:8F:D3:XX:XX WL1 : volatile50 @ channel: AU153 @ 00:01:36:1F:XX:XX ========================================================* It has a "Broadcom BCM5357 chip rev 2 pkg 8"
* For a long time it, and its predecessor (a WRT-54GL), were running just fine. The predecessor got replaced due to a fried power supply.
* Over the past six-seven months there have been issues with the wireless signal dropping. It isn't just the wireless transmission being stopped and restarted, but the router actually reboots (according to uptime).
* We used to have the following wireless devices: Fujitsu lifebook (v100?), Thinkpad SL410, Google Nexus One and a HTC Legend. At some point we also got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. This configuration was running for a few years.
* Coinciding roughly with the perceived start of the rebooting issue was me purchasing a Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505).
* The issue got a lot worse recently.
* Recently my partner also got a Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9505).
* I have an almost identical router (v2) at work, and the current uptime is 140 days. I do connect very occasionally via wireless to it using my Samsung Galaxy S4. However, this router has a "Broadcom BCM5357 chip rev 1 pkg 8".
What seems to be happening:
The Samsung Galaxy S4 phones seem to be destabilising the router and causing reboots. No, wait, hear me out. It shouldn't happen, and the adage about 'correlation vs causation' may well be true in this case too, but there are precendents (apparently) when it comes to Intel wireless devices:
On http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/tomatousb-keeps-resetting-the-router.33208/ from 2010
Hrm...routers used to spontaneously reboot when the wireless driver failed on Tomato as a result of an Intel (mobile) wireless driver bug on Windows. Maybe similar?On http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/random-reboots.21020/ from 2007
Currently using DD-wrt V24, it's been up for 25 days I can confirm it has something to do with the broadcom wireless drivers.
What kind of wireless device does your laptop have? Is it Intel 2100/2200 by any chance?And in the end the thread concludes that it was due to users with Intel 2100/2200 cards.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064AB, with is a system-on-a-chip. The Nexus One and HTC Legend also had snapdragons, but obviously much older models. The Galaxy Tab 2 seems to have a Texas Instrument chip (TI OMAP 4430).
Could it be that the phones are causing the issues?
Luckily it's something that's reasonably easy to test, so I'm looking forward to reporting back in a couple of days (of enforced radio silence).
A different test will be to swap routers (but not power supplies) between work and home and see if the behaviour is location dependent. That will take a lot more effort though due to the very specific set-ups.
As the logs get erased on reboot I'm tracking the uptime from now on using autossh and logging from a work computer that's always on.
Some more:
Below is a post regarding iphones, and rebooting routers.
While that post is not related to 5GHz causing issues, it's got me thinking that as neither the Fujitsu, Galaxy Tab, Nexus One or HTC legend support 5 GHz but the Samsung Galaxy S4 phones do, the issue may be possibly related to that. There is obviously quite a lot of things to test.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: in the mean time we have been checking and elimination as well. We have been trying to connect certain wireless devices to the network through the DAP and something odd has come up. We have been trying mobile phones (smartphones) at first. My own telephone (Samsung Galaxy S3) seems to cause no troubles. With that phone connected for a whole day, internet connection does not fail once (the router does not reboot). I have been trying both 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz. bands, both worked okay. One colleague also wanted to connect his Apple Iphone 3G (S?) to the network. I told him he could but this phone could not find the 5Ghz network, so I have switched back to 2.4Ghz again. The iPhone connected and within 5 minutes the connection interrupted. I have set the network back to 5Ghz (so the iPhone could no longer connect) and changed the network settings again. This morning I switched back to 2.4 with only my phone connected. Not a problem. This afternoon I let my colleague connect his phone again and disconnected my Samsung. Within 5 minutes the router started to reboot! After I had the iPhone disconnected again and let another colleague connect his phone, a Samsung Galaxy S(1). So far no problems.
Tomato Anon
Somehow the Spontaneously Rebooting Router doesn't show up here, while the stable one does: http://anon.groov.pl/index.php?country=Australia
Either way, the anon database is a great way of quickly finding out what Tomato version you can put on your router.


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If Vancouver's Diane and Dr. Doug Clement are the epitome of healthy, active seniors, it's because they have a secret weapon.
"I've got a doctor and a coach and he's got a chef!" quips Diane, referring to her training as a cook and Doug's career in sports medicine.
The Clements' key to vitality, as espoused in their recent book, Start Fresh! Your Complete Guide to Midlifestyle Food and Fitness, comes down to a commitment to active living: Minutes before our interview they had just finished a two-hour power walk.
Health and fitness have long been their focus.
Diane, 75, ran in the 1956 Olympics and won a bronze medal at the 1958 Commonwealth Games. She's the author of eight cookbooks, was president of Athletics Canada and was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame.
Doug, 78, ran in the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and 1954 and 1958 Commonwealth Games, and won a silver medal in 1954. He practised sports medicine for 20 years and co-founded the University of B.C.'s Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre. He's a Member of the Order of Canada and was inducted into the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.
Together, they founded Richmond's track and field club, the Kajaks (Clement Track at Minoru Park is named for them), helped establish the Vancouver Sun Run and were inducted into Athletics Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
Despite their laurels, their message is simple: Good health in your golden years doesn't have to be unobtainable.
"Aging is real. Your body does change," Doug said. "But your body and mind are equal to what you do to maintain it."
Their health regimen includes hitting the gym two to three times a week and power walking, hiking or cycling other days, thus exercising on average five to six days a week. They eat sparingly — calorie needs plunge in older adults. They eat lightly in the morning, split a sandwich and soup for lunch and often have salad and fish for dinner. They haven't used butter in 30 years. They splurge with Sunday dessert, shared with their two children and three grandchildren.
"You can't eat Christmas dinner every day," Diane said.
Despite their lifestyle, they've faced setbacks. Doug was diagnosed with heart disease at 45 and in 1998 suffered a stroke that required he relearn how to walk. But he recovered, doing a five-kilometre run just five weeks later, and today they're 15 years younger than their chronological age.
"Every day is a bonus," Diane said. "We'll just keep doing this as long as we can because there are no guarantees."


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The Valca home is and has been an Amazon Kindle only zone for some time now; thank you very much.
So last year Lavie decided that the E Ink keyboard one (of two) that we had was a bit uncomfortable for her (and not back-lit). She decided to move over to a B&N NOOK Color model. This was in the pre Kindle Fire days so I guess we could tolerate its presence.
The Nook Color served her well enough but when the Kindle Fire came out she had to swing back. It finally arrived last week as a back-ordered Christmas present.
Fortunately, she hadn't purchased very many books for the Nook so we didn't deal with trying to see if there were any options for porting her books over to the Kindle. It was an opportunity for a fresh start.
So, she passed her Nook on to her parents a few weeks ago and they loved lot. A lot.
They are on a DSL broadband service, and have a wired XP desktop system. One cable to rule all Internet service. No WiFi except when we stop in for an extended visit and I bring my D-Link DAP-1350 Wireless N pocket router and take over their single network connection for the weekend. Nice but not a permanent WiFi solution.
I suppose we could have just taught them to connect the Nook Color to their desktop via USB and manage it directly but it seemed time to add a WiFi router to their humble network and just do it right.
So that was this Saturday's "honey-do" and this post is the process we had to go through to upgrade their DSL network and get the hand-me-down Nook color fully transferred over and set up for them.
First Part of the Equation: DSL<-->WiFi
First I picked up a WiFi router. I went with what has become my perennial favorite: DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router from D-Link
I've had this unit personally for a number of years and is rock solid, has both the "N" and older wireless standards, has a rockin-long range, and is super-easy for configuration. The power was important in this case as the location of their DSL modem is on a second floor above-garage room pretty far away from their usual living areas. The signal will carry all the way downstairs and up. Check. And since it is the model I also own and maintain, I know and am comfortable mucking around in the settings. Makes providing extended support much simpler when a problem arises.
Typically I've been able to get away with just unbox, connect, run-wizard from CD config, then go and make some manual setting tweaks afterwards. However, this 2-wire DSL modem was a real headache. I could set up the internal network and WiFi perfectly. Just couldn't get to the Internet through the DSL modem. Plugged the DSL modem Ethernet back to the PC and it was working, reconnect to the DIR-655 and it wouldn't'.
Long story short, I eventually figured out that for their particular hardware and provider, I had to do a few more custom tricks.
I had to set the Internet Connection Type to PPPoE and enter their DSL username/password. (I got that from their email client settings.) D-Link has a nice Emulator for this router to play around with: D-Link DIR-655 RevB Emulator
Then I had to go into the Network Settings and change the router IP Address to use 192.168.1.1 from the default IP address of 192.168.0.1 Turns out that the default IP address was conflicting with the internal Ethernet-facing IP address provided by the DSL router. This was the real trick.
Once I got the network stabilized, I tested the configuration survivability by powering off both the DSL modem and the D-Link (to simulate a power-failure), then powered them back and and made sure the PC could get to the Internet. Check.
This one was actually a DIR-655 RevB model so I then saved my configuration file, downloaded the latest firmware and ran an upgrade. Success. Naturally it lost all of my settings, so I had to upload my saved config file and it was back to normal. Yea me!
More helpful notes I had to find to work out that issue:
- DIR-655 & ATT DSL - D-Link Forum
- [Solved] Dir 655 problems - Setup-Configuration-Security - Wireless-Networking
- 3.15 D-Link Info AT&T Southeast Forum FAQ - DSLReports.com, ISP Information
So now I had taken care of the DSL<-->WiFi router part of the equation. Next the Nook.
Second Part of the Equation: Nook<-->In-Laws
This actually was almost harder than getting the router added.
Because the Nook was a hand-me-down, Lavie had it configured with our WiFi settings, her name, and the account information. She said she didn't mind if her parents just kept it that way and we just change the billing information on the account. However, she had followed bad password security and used the same information she has used on several other of her on-line accounts. I needed to break that clean.
The rub was that Lavie had already purchased some books for her dad under her Nook account and I didn't want to loose them. What I wanted to do was to figure out if/how I could transfer the B&N account she had set up over to them and remove Lavie's information and add-in theirs.
Here's what I had to figure out doing to keep the original Nook account (and purchased items) but swing it fully over to the in-laws "clean". Note this was a serious trial-n-error process that took almost two-hours longer than it should have (by my reasoning). This is the "clean" version and from what I later read on the web, seems to be the only way currently I know of to "transfer" a nook from one email/owner to another one while preserving the purchased items.
Note: Lavie didn't have any files or items on her Nook that were not already associated in her Nook account (like manually installed music/videos/pictures/stuff) so I didn't have to deal with the loss of those in this process. If you have those on your nook and want to preserve them, you probably want to off-load/copy them to your PC first before beginning this process. Again, this assumes everything you want to keep is safe and and associated in the B&N account you will be restoring from. YMMV. So you were cautioned, so you were warned.
- Take your Nook (the one you want to change the owner name/email account info on) and go into the settings and find the option to Unregister/Erase your Nook. Do this first. Really. BEFORE you do ANYTHING ELSE. It sounds serious and I guess it is, but that's how the Nook rolls.
- Once your Nook is reset, log into your B&N account from the BN.com page. If you can find the login link on the page. Seriously. I was using Chrome and it took me ten minutes to realize that tiny gray bar (which perfectly matches the address bar gradient and bookmark text in Chrome at the very top of the page) with the tiny text is the login location. Sheesh. Hey B&N. Can you make it a bit more obvious please?
- Now change your name in the account. I changed it over from Lavie's name to the in-law's.
- Change to your new email address in the account. Changed from Lavie's to the in-law's.
- Change the password if you desire…I did so desire and changed to a complex full 15-character (most allowed by B&N) password.
- Change the Shipping/Billing addresses as needed. Now set to the in-law's.
- Change your secret challenge question if needed. Selected and changed as picked by the in-law.
- Update the associated credit card information. Definitely the in-law's here!
- Etc.
- Once all the account information is updated to the way you want it and saved, make sure you can successfully log-in/out of the account. Good? Great.
- Next fire up the now reset Nook and go through the setup process from scratch.
- Accept the Terms of Service.
- Set the Time Zone.
- Connect to a WiFi network. It found the WiFi network I had earlier got working, I fed it the secure passphrase and it connected perfectly and strongly.
- Register the Nook. (I passed it the updated email address from above and the new password.)
- It Registered and identified perfectly as the in-law's nook now.
- Yea me!
- We went to the Library and told it to refresh and all the books previously associated with the account flowed back down and "installed" without any issue.
- I then went to the applications and downloaded the waiting previously purchased/associated apps. Perfect!
- The Nook was now fully theirs.
Equation Solved: DSL<-->WiFi<-->Nook<-->In-Laws
We spent another hour or so going though the list of free NOOK Books at Barnes & Noble. We found a good selection of mystery and history classics to keep them both occupied for the next couple of months. Pop also found a good old-west history book to purchase as well. It was good training process and confirmed the purchase/credit-card association with the account worked.
Mission accomplished, five hours (and one super-awesome BBQ baked-potato for lunch) later, the equation was solutioned.
Additional Notes:
- Daughter hovering over your shoulder on the back of the couch while you have your laptop and the Nook balanced on your lap troubleshooting. Like a vulture lurking. Not helpful.
- Daughter making organic microwave popcorn and snuggling up munching away while you have your laptop and the Nook balanced on your lap troubleshooting. Also not helpful.
- Daughter not asking once to borrow your laptop to check out the WiFi and Facebook while you are troubleshooting. Very helpful and appreciated.
- Sense of patience and humor from all participants; self, daughter, in-laws. Very helpful.
- Extended road-trip to in-laws up and back with daughter on beautifully clear and cool day through the east-Texas pines lined country roads. Priceless.
Final thoughts.
Lavie had successfully set up her Kindle Fire just fine by herself (thank-you-very-much) so I didn't get to participate in that except for applying a smokin-hot DecalGirl skin she had picked out for her Kindle (my hands are super-steady for such things). She had also picked up screen protector but turns out that it is a full edge-to-edge cover which would cause issues with the DecalGirl skin on the front (which frames the blacked-out display edge portion). I suggested trimming it down so it fits inside the DecalGirl border but she passed on that for now…so it remains uninstalled at the moment.
Alvis and I both have the WiFi-only version of the E Ink Kindle model and we love them. Light, super-durable, and the charge lasts a long time.
Last night Lavie did ask me to copy some songs from her iTunes playlist to the Kindle Color. You can do it a few ways, apparently most popular is to upload music from your PC/Laptop to the Amazon Cloud Player service. What I ended up doing was to connect Lavie's Kindle Fire directly to my PC (which holds our iTunes library) via USB, then opened iTunes, opened her play-list, sorted it by album, then I selected a song, hit the three key-combo "Ctrl-Shift-R" which opened up the location of the file itself on the library, selected any additional songs in her playlist from that album, copied, then pasted them in the Music folder on her Fire. Repeat as needed. It was a bit slower but got the job done. All of them appeared to be in the compatible .m4a format and I didn't find any .m4p that would not have been supported.
She was jammin…though I left her to work out creating a new playlist from those songs directly from within the Kindle itself.
Adding photos/videos would be the same process, locate on your PC, drag/drop into the correct folder on the Kindle when it is attached via USB and shows as an external storage device. Piece-o-cake.
Based on the (admittedly still limited) time I spent on both the Nook Color and the Kindle Fire, I found the Kindle Fire was more to my liking. I could navigate around the Nook Color and it was pretty intuitive (never did get around to reading any manuals on either one) but I did like the "hand-feel" of the Kindle Fire better. And the navigation just subjectively felt better to me on the Kindle Fire than the Nook.
Since I am (for now) a hard-core Kindle E Ink format lover, the extra bells-n-whistles of the Kindle Fire haven't captured my eye yet, so I cannot comment on app-support and performance of videos/games/applications between the Nook Color and Kindle Fire.
The other think I noticed while helping set up the in-law's Nook was the apparent lack of easily found free E Books directly within the B&N Nook store. Searching for E-books at B&N was a super-pain as well. In the end I had to do a Google Search to find this "all-in-one-place" location for Free NOOK Books.
When I first got my Kindle, right on the Amazon Kindle pages I found this Amazon.com: Free Book Collections: Kindle Store link. In no time flat I had downloaded almost twenty amazingly awesome classics from literature, philosophy, religion, and reference. All free. I've since moved on and expanded my collection to include many additional eBooks I've found scattered on the net including some great ones in PDF formats and I have made a number of eBook purchases for the Kindle as well. That smooth and awesome experience jumping into the Kindle right-out-of-the-box probably helped solidify my personal leanings towards the Kindle platform. I'm sure there are lots of additional Nook-compatible ebook formats and ways you can get them to your Nook, but for the in-laws, having in-store access to locate and select-to-download-direct to their Nook has a lot of appeal.
I've got a lot of great Kindle resource links saved and building for a GSD Kindle post…along with some cool technical and for/sec bits related to the device I have found as well. Hopefully that will come soon.
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Henry Ford
One of America's foremost industrialists, Henry Ford revolutionized assembly-line
modes of production for the automobile.
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Born on July 30, 1863, near Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford created the Ford Model T car in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the industry. As a result, Ford sold millions of cars and became a world-famous company head. The company lost its market dominance but had a lasting impact on other technological development and U.S. infrastructure.
Early Life
Famed automobile manufacturer Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on his family's farm in Wayne County, near Dearborn, Michigan. When Ford was 13 years old, his father gifted him a pocket watch, which the young boy promptly took apart and reassembled. Friends and neighbors were impressed, and requested that he fix their timepieces too.
Unsatistfied with farm work, Ford left home the following year, at the age of 16, to take an apprenticeship as a machinist in Detroit. In the years that followed, he would learn to skillfully operate and service steam engines, and would also study bookkeeping.
Early Career
In 1888, Ford married Clara Ala Bryant and briefly returned to farming to support his wife and son, Edsel. But three years later, he was hired as an engineer for the Edison Illuminating Company. In 1893, his natural talents earned him a promotion to chief engineer.
All the while, Ford developed his plans for a horseless carriage, and in 1896, he constructed his first model, the Ford Quadricycle. Within the same year, he attended a meeting with Edison executives and found himself presenting his automobile plans to Thomas Edison. The lighting genius encouraged Ford to build a second, better model.
Ford Motor Company
After a few trials building cars and companies, in 1903, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company. Ford introduced the Model T in October of 1908, and for several years, the company posted 100 percent gains.
However, more than for his profits, Ford became renowned for his revolutionary vision: the manufacture of an inexpensive automobile made by skilled workers who earn steady wages.
In 1914, he sponsored the development of the moving assembly line technique of mass production. Simultaneously, he introduced the $5-per-day wage ($110 in 2011) as a method of keeping the best workers loyal to his company. Simple to drive and cheap to repair, half of all cars in America in 1918 were Model T's.
Philosophy, Philanthropy
From a social perspective, Henry Ford's was marked by seemingly contradictory viewpoints. In business, Ford offered profit sharing to select employees who stayed with the company for six months and, most important, who conducted their lives in a respectable manner. Unfortunately Ford was also known for his public anti-semitic views which rightfully have tarnished his reputation.
The company's "Social Department" looked into an employee's drinking, gambling and otherwise uncouth activities to determine eligibility for participation. Ford was also an ardent pacifist and opposed World War I, even funding a peace ship to Europe. Later, in 1936, Ford and his family established the Ford Foundation to provide ongoing grants for research, education and development.
Henry Ford died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 7, 1947, at the age of 83, near his Dearborn estate, Fair Lane. Ford, considered one of America's leading businessmen, is credited today for helping to build America's economy during the nation's vulnerable early years. His legacy will live on for decades to come.
My Life & Work – An Autobiography of Henry Ford Paperback
This book is the original autobiographical work by Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. In this book, Ford details how he got into business, the strategies that he used to become a wealthy and successful businessman, and what others can do by learning from the examples he has outlined.
This book should be read by small business owners, business students and those interested in the history of the automobile. Henry Ford will take you through a journey of history, business and lessons to be learned from which he used to develop his financial empire.
Henry Ford Inventor of Automobile Assembly Line
History of the Model T Ford
Walter Chrysler
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Early life
Chrysler was born in Wamego, Kansas, the son of Anna Maria (née Breymann) and Henry Chrysler. He grew up in Ellis, Kansas. His father was born in Chatham, Ontario in 1850 and immigrated to the United States after 1858. A Freemason, Chrysler began his career as a machinist and railroad mechanic. He took correspondence courses from International Correspondence Schools in Scranton, Pennsylvania, earning a mechanical degree from the correspondence program.
Walter Chrysler's father, Henry (Hank) Chrysler, was a Canadian-American of German and Dutch ancestry. He was an American Civil War veteran who was a locomotive engineer for the Kansas Pacific Railway and its successor, the Union Pacific Railroad. Walter's mother was born in Rocheport, Missouri, and was also of German ancestry. Walter Chrysler was not especially interested in his remote ancestors; his collaborative author Boyden Sparkes says that one genealogical researcher reported "that he had a sea-going Dutchman among his forebears; one Captain Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen", but that "as to that, Walter Chrysler made it plain to me he was in accord with Jimmy Durante: 'Ancestors? I got millions of 'em!'." However, he thought enough of genealogy to include in his autobiography that his father, Hank Chrysler, "Canadian born, had been brought from Chatham, Ontario, to Kansas City when he was only five or six. His forebears had founded Chatham; the family stock was German; eight generations back of me there had come to America one who spelled his name Greisler, a German Palatine. He was one of a group of Protestants who had left their German homeland in the Rhine Valley, gone to the Netherlands, thence to England and embarked, finally, from Plymouth for New York."
Other researchers have since traced his ancestors in more detail. Karin Holl's monograph on the subject traces the family tree to a Johann Philipp Kreissler, born in 1672, who left Germany for America in 1709. Chrysler's ancestors came from the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Guntersblum.
Railroad career
Chrysler apprenticed in the railroad shops at Ellis as a machinist and railroad mechanic. He then spent a period of years roaming the west, working for various railroads as a roundhouse mechanic with a reputation of being good at valve-setting jobs. Some of his moves were due to restlessness and a too-quick temper, but his roaming was also a way to become more well-rounded in his railroad knowledge. He worked his way up through positions such as foreman, superintendent, division master mechanic, and general master mechanic.
From 1905-1906, Chrysler worked for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in Childress in West Texas. He later lived and worked in Oelwein, Iowa, at the main shops of the Chicago Great Western where there is a small park dedicated to him.
The pinnacle of his railroading career came at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he became works manager of the Allegheny locomotive erecting shops of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). While working in Pittsburgh, Chrysler lived in the town of Bellevue, the first town outside of Pittsburgh on the north side of the Ohio River.
Automotive career
Chrysler's automotive career began in 1911 when he received a summons to meet with James J. Storrow, a banker who was a director of ALCO and also an executive at General Motors. Storrow asked him if he had given any thought to automobile manufacture. Chrysler had been an auto enthusiast for over 5 years by then, and was very interested. Storrow arranged a meeting with Charles W. Nash, then president of the Buick Motor Company, who was looking for a smart production chief. Chrysler, who had resigned from many railroading jobs over the years, made his final resignation from railroading to become works manager (in charge of production) at Buick in Flint, Michigan.[10] He found many ways to reduce the costs of production, such as putting an end to finishing automobile undercarriages with the same luxurious quality of finish that the body warranted.
In 1916, William C. Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908, had retaken GM from bankers who had taken over the company. Chrysler, who was closely tied to the bankers, submitted his resignation to Durant, then based in New York City.
Durant took the first train to Flint to make an attempt to keep Chrysler at the helm of Buick. Durant made the then-unheard of salary offer of US$10,000 (US$165,000 in today's dollars) a month for 3 years, with a US$500,000 bonus at the end of each year, or US$500,000 in stock. Additionally, Chrysler would report directly to Durant, and would have full run of Buick without interference from anyone.
Apparently in shock, Chrysler asked Durant to repeat the offer, which he did. Chrysler immediately accepted.
Chrysler ran Buick successfully for several more years. Not long after his three year contract was up, he resigned from his job as president of Buick in 1919. He did not agree with Durant's vision for the future of General Motors. Durant paid Chrysler US$10 million for his GM stock. Chrysler had started at Buick in 1911 for US$6,000 a year, and left one of the richest men in America.
Chrysler was then hired to attempt a turnaround by bankers who foresaw the loss of their investment in Willys-Overland Motor Company in Toledo, Ohio. He demanded, and got, a salary of US$1 million a year for 2 years, an astonishing amount at that time. When Chrysler left Willys in 1921 after an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control from John Willys, he acquired a controlling interest in the ailing Maxwell Motor Company. Chrysler phased out Maxwell and absorbed it into his new firm, the Chrysler Corporation, in Detroit, Michigan, in 1925. In addition to his namesake car company, Plymouth and DeSoto marques were created, and in 1928 Chrysler purchased Dodge. The same year he financed the construction of the Chrysler Building in New York City, which was completed in 1930. Chrysler was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1928.
In 1923, Chrysler purchased a twelve-acre waterfront estate at Kings Point on Long Island, New York from Henri Willis Bendel and renamed it "Forker House." In December 1941, the property was sold to the U.S. government's War Shipping Department and became known as Wiley Hall as part of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.[13] He also built a country estate in Warrenton, Virginia, in what is referred to as the Virginia horse country and home to the Warrenton Hunt. In 1934, he purchased and undertook a major restoration of the famous Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Company resort and spa in Warrenton. Sold in 1953, the property was developed as a country club, which it remains today.
On the estate he inherited, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. established North Wales Stud for the purpose of breeding Thoroughbred horses. Chrysler, Jr. was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1940 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III. Bahram stood at stud at Vanderbilt's Sagamore Farm in Maryland then was brought to Chrysler's North Wales Stud.
Chrysler turned 61 in the spring of 1936 and decided to step down from an active role in the day-to-day business of the company. Two years later, Della died at the age of 58 and Walter, devastated at the loss of his childhood sweetheart, suffered a stroke. His previously robust health never recovered from this, and he succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage in August 1940 at Forker House. He was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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Chrysler: The Life and Times of an Automotive Genius (Automotive History and Personalities) Paperback
Walter P. Chrysler was a man who loved machines, an accomplished mechanic who also had highly developed managerial skills derived from half a lifetime on the railroads, and whose success came from his deep understanding of engineering and his total commitment to the quality of his vehicles.
Here, Vincent Curcio presents a richly detailed account of one of the most important men in American automotive history, based on full access to both Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler family historical records.
Curcio traces Chrysler's rise from a locomotive wiper in a Kansas roundhouse to his rescue of the Maxwell-Chalmers car company, which led to the successful development of the 1924 Chrysler–the world's first modern car–and the formation of Chrysler Corporation in 1925. Chrysler was quite different from the other auto giants–a colorful and expansive man deeply involved in the design of his cars, he established his headquarters in New York City and built the world's most famous art deco structure, the fabled Chrysler Building. Because of his emphasis on quality at popular prices, the company weathered the Great Depression with flying colors and remained profitable right up to Chrysler's death in 1940.
The definitive portrait, Chrysler is a must read for all car enthusiasts and for everyone interested in the story of a giant of industry.
Louis Chevrolet
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Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was a Swiss-born American race car driver of French descent, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the Frontenac Motor Corporation, which made racing parts for Ford's Model T.
The second child of Joseph-Félicien and Marie-Anne Angéline, née Mahon, Louis Chevrolet was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Canton of Neuchâtel, a center of watchmaking in northwestern Switzerland. In 1886, Chevrolet's family left Switzerland to live in Beaune, in the Côte-d'Or département of France. There, as a young man, Louis developed his mechanical skills and interest in bicycle racing.
Louis Chevrolet in a Buick he designed, circa 1900.
Chevrolet worked for the Roblin mechanics shop from 1895 to 1899. He then went to Paris, where he worked for a short time before emigrating to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1900 to work as a mechanic. The following year, he moved to New York City, where he worked briefly for a fellow Swiss immigrant's engineering company, then moved to the Brooklyn operations of the French car manufacturer de Dion-Bouton.
In 1905 he married Suzanne Treyvoux; the couple had two sons. In the same year, he was hired by FIAT as a racing car driver and a year later became employed by a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania company developing a revolutionary front-wheel-drive racing car. His racing career continued as he drove for Buick, becoming a friend and associate of Buick owner William C. Durant, founder of General Motors. He raced at the Giants Despair Hillclimb in 1909.
With little in the way of formal education, Chevrolet learned car design while working for Buick and started designing his own engine for a new car in 1909. He built an overhead valve six-cylinder engine in his own machine shop on Grand River Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan.
Chevrolet Car Company
On November 3, 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with Durant and investment partners William Little (maker of the Little automobile) and Dr. Edwin R. Campbell, son-in-law of Durant and friend of Samuel McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Car Company of Canada Ltd. The company was established in Detroit. One story tells the choosing of the company's logo as a modified Swiss cross, to honor Chevrolet's homeland. Another story tells of the Chevrolet logo as a design taken from the wallpaper of a Paris hotel room that Louis once stayed in.
Chevrolet had differences with Durant over the car's design, and in 1915 sold Durant his share in the company and started McLaughlin's Company in Canada building Chevrolets. By 1916 the trading of Chevrolet stock for GM Holding stock enabled Durant to repurchase a controlling stake in General Motors, and by 1917 the Chevrolet company that Louis had co-founded was merged as a company into General Motors after the outstanding Chevrolet stocks were purchased from McLaughlin in 1918. The McLaughlin Car Company then merged with his Chevrolet Motor Company of Canada Ltd. to become General Motors of Canada Ltd. in 1918, prior to the incorporation of the General Motors Corporation in the U.S. when General Motors Company of New Jersey dissolved.
Frontenac and American car companies
In 1916, Louis Chevrolet and his brothers founded the Frontenac Motor Corporation to make racing parts for Ford Model Ts.
Also in 1916, an American Motors Corporation (apparently unrelated to the more famous later corporation of the same name) was formed in Newark, New Jersey, with Louis Chevrolet as vice president and chief engineer. By 1918 it was producing cars in a plant at Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1923 it merged with the Bessemer Motor Truck Company of Pennsylvania into Bessemer-American Motors Corporation, which lasted less than a year before merging with the Winther and Northway companies into Amalgamated Motors. The latter company apparently ceased soon after.
Auto racing
By the mid-1910s, Louis Chevrolet had shifted into the racing car industry, partnering with Howard E. Blood of Allegan, Michigan, to create the Cornelian racing car, which he used to place 20th in the 1915 Indianapolis 500 automobile race. In 1916, he and younger brothers Gaston and Arthur Chevrolet started Frontenac Motor Corporation, designing and producing a line of racing cars. They became well known for, among other things, their Fronty-Ford racers.
Louis drove in the Indianapolis 500 four times, with a best finish of 7th in 1919. Arthur competed twice, and Gaston won the race in 1920 in one of their Frontenacs, going on to win the 1920 AAA National Championship.
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William C. Durant: GM's Genius [Kindle Edition]
Daniel Alef (Author)
Biographical profile of William Crapo Durant, legendary automobile pioneer who founded General Motors. GM's current financial crisis is nothing new for America's largest automobile company. It happened twice in its early years while GM was under Durant's leadership. Durant was one of the largest manufacturers of wagons and carriages when he decided to acquire a failing automobile manufacturer, the Buick Motor Company. A deft salesman with the Midas touch, Durant soon had Buick sales soaring. In 1908 he placed Buick,Oldsmobile, Oakland Car Company and Cadillac into his newly formed General Motors, but he amassed so much debt the company's bankers rebelled and forced him out.
Undaunted, Durant formed another car company, Chevrolet, and in a case of the minnow swallowing the whale, arranged for Chevrolet to acquire GM. Back at the helm Durant pressed for rapid growth and again found himself mired in too much debt. The story of this master salesman and automotive visionary involves triumphs and failures, but all accomplished with panache and verve. Award-winning author and syndicated columnist Daniel Alef, who has written more than 300 biographical profiles of America's greatest tycoons, brings out the story of Durant's remarkable life of ups, downs and achievements. [2,594-word Titans of Fortune article]
Charles Nash: From Buick to Rambler and Ambassador [Kindle Edition]
Biographical profile of Charles W. Nash, a dirt-poor farm boy who overcame abandonment by his parents, indentured servitude for a farmer and became one of America's most successful and accomplished automobile pioneers. Although he died in the tony city of Beverly Hills after amassing a fortune, he never ventured far from his roots, describing himself as "the most common cuss that lived," and noting that he was proud of belonging to the "common people." One thing is certain, Nash was not a common person; he ascended to the presidency of General Motors because of his unique vision, perseverance, creativity, courage and innate understanding of human nature. B.C. Forbes described Nash as "a very practical authority on what makes for success." Award-winning author Daniel Alef tells the Nash story and his rise to the pinnacle of the automobile industry. [2,904-word Titans of Fortune article]
Zora Arkus-Duntov -The Legend Behind Corvette (Chevrolet) [Hardcover]
Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Legend Behind Corvette
tells the story of how a gifted engineer brought up by Russian Revolutionary parents became the guiding force behind the legendary American sports car, and in the process attained the elite status of American legend himself. Author Jerry Burton, founding editor and current editorial director of Corvette Quarterly, has worked with many of Zora's friends and colleagues, as well as his widow Elfi, to write the first major biography of Zora Arkus-Duntov. Burton has illustrated his book with hundreds of unpublished photos, blueprints, and archival documents.This book puts Duntov in the perspective needed to understand his achievements as a Russian-Jewish immigrant fighting to make his mark at General Motors.


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No one in the Norden family of Stoneham, Mass., wants to focus on the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings.
Not Liz Norden, who got the call every parent dreads last April 15: "Ma, I'm hurt real bad."
And not her sons J.P. Norden and Paul Norden, the close-knit brothers who each lost a leg and suffered burns and other lingering injuries in the makeshift bomb blasts that killed three people and injured 264.
"As of right now, I don't think of it as the anniversary. I don't really think of it like that," J.P. Norden, 34, told NBC News. "I think of it as another day of getting myself better."
The months since the twin pressure-cooker bombs exploded on that April afternoon have been a whirlwind of devastating loss and unexpected triumph as the young men grappled with the severity of their injuries, said Liz Norden, 51.
"We're just regular people from a small town," she said. "This year has been like a roller coaster ride with ups, downs and everything in between. It's just that your life can change in the blink of an eye."
Both brothers lost their right legs. J.P.'s is gone below the knee, leaving behind a stump riddled with sensitive nerve endings that have made fitting a prosthetic limb difficult. He's endured several operations, including one that left him hospitalized for a month after doctors removed skin from his back to graft to the end of his leg. He lost 80 percent of the hearing in both ears from the force of the blasts.
"This year has been like a roller coaster ride with ups, downs and everything in between. It's just that your life can change in the blink of an eye."
Paul, 32, had to have his leg amputated above the knee, and he's gotten adept at using his high-tech prosthetic with its microprocessor joint. But his injuries put him in a coma and left him with life-threatening infections and a right hand that still doesn't work correctly. At the same time, the normally private, reserved man still hasn't gotten used to being stopped on the street as a local celebrity.
"It took some getting used to when I realized that people were looking at me because of the news," Paul said in their just-out book "Twice as Strong: 12 seconds, 2 Brothers and the Marathon that Changed Their Lives," written with David Smitherman. "It's humbling because that's not something that we really thought about before."
The brothers, who were out-of-work roofers before the attack, hope to return to their trade, perhaps as early as this summer, Liz Norden said. Though they won't be able to clamber on rooftops, J.P. Norden may handle the business side of the venture while Paul Norden fabricates metal.
In addition, both brothers have been kept busy with constant media requests and the publicity demands of telling — and re-telling — their story.
"I literally had probably last week three to five interviews a day," said J.P. Norden. "It keeps you real busy and it keeps your mind off of a lot of things."
Going through such a traumatic ordeal together was a mixed experience for the young men, they say. Although they had the common experience of limb loss, surgery and recovery, they had their individual trials as well, J.P. Norden said.
"We were hurt so differently," he said. "Watching Paul actually be hurt, that sucked. I didn't want to see that. Even though it was good for us to help each other out, it sucked to see that."
As they've worked hard to get well, the Norden brothers have refused to follow the investigation and criminal proceedings surrounding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect accused of planting the marathon bombs.
In contrast, Liz Norden attended a court hearing in July and said she plans to follow every detail of an upcoming trial.
"I want to know what happened to my boys that day," Liz Norden said. "Their lives are forever changed. As a mom or a parent, I just want to know."
Slowly, the Norden brothers are moving forward with their lives. Paul Norden proposed to his longtime girlfriend, Jacqui Webb, at Christmas, and the pair plan to wed sometime after next year. J.P. Norden said he and his girlfriend, Kelly Castine, are closer than ever.
"When you come that close to dying and being that hurt, it can only change your outlook. They're different. They appreciate things more."
"Me and her have always been pretty tight," he said.
But Liz Norden said her boys have been altered in ways that go beyond their injuries.
"They were both on death's door," she said. "When you come that close to dying and being that hurt, it can only change your outlook. They're different. They appreciate things more."
That's the biggest reason that the anniversary of the bombing is less important than what comes next, Liz Norden said.
"They've come such full circle, that I personally don't focus on the anniversary. I've been focusing on getting them back to where they want to be."


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Memory Eternal: SVOTS Alumni and Trustees 2010
December 2010 • Departed SVOTS Alumni & Trustees • Deborah (Malacky) Belonick
As we approach the New Year, our seminary community remembers our alumni/ae and trustees who have departed this life in 2010. Memory Eternal!
Most recently, Protojerej-Stavrofor Milan Savich, 90, fell asleep in the Lord on November 27, 2010 in Chicago. He was preceded in death by his devoted wife of 51 years, Protinica Constance (nee Vuckovich) in 2004. He was the loving father of Mileva (also a SVOTS alum), Jovan, Marya, Natalie, and George.
Father Milan was born in Arilje, Serbia to Slavko and Mileva (Ocokoljic) Savich. His mother Mileva was the sister of His Grace Bishop Firmilian (Ocokoljic) of Blessed Memory. Fr. Milan obtained his early education in Arilje, Belgrade, and Kraljevo.
He received his initial theological education at the Serbian Orthodox Seminary in Bitolj, where he was sent by his diocesan bishop, Bishop Nikolaj (Velimirovic), who later was canonized a saint. The Bitolj Seminary was a magnificent center of Orthodox learning at that time. In addition to St. Nikolaj and many other scholars, among the teachers there were then Archimandrite and now St. John (Maksimovic); then Archimandrite and now St. Justin (Popovic); then Hieromonk Vasilije (Kostic), later Bishop Vasilije of Zica; then lay theologian Jovan Velimirovic, later Bishop Jovan of Sabac and Valjevo.
In 1948, Fr. Milan won a scholarship to study at Dorchester College, near Oxford, England. In 1950, he came to the United States, where he completed his education at St. Vladimir's Seminary and Columbia University in New York.
Also departed to be with the Lord in 2010, were:
Resa Ellison, choir director at St. Mary Cathedral, Minneapolis, MN, +January 3, 2010.
Archpriest Milorad Milosevich, retired rector of St. Luke Church, McLean, VA, +June 22, 2010.
His Eminence Christopher [Kovacevich], metropolitan of the Midwestern American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States and Canada, +August 18, 2010
His Grace Tikhon (Stepanov), bishop of Archangelsk and Kholmogory, Russia, +October 19, 2010.
We also remember His Grace Boris (Geeza), bishop of Chicago and Midwest, on the tenth-year anniversary of his death, December 30, 2000.
A full listing of loved ones from our seminary community appears in our Diptychs of Departed Hierarchs, Deans, Faculty, and Alumni/ae. If you have corrections to the listing, please e-mail email@example.com.


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For the third successive month BIFHSGO had a record turnout for its monthly meeting, this time for Marian Press presenting on Social Networking and Genealogy.
Marian put emphasis on the general social network sites Flickr and Facebook. She was less enthusiastic about Twitter complaining that often it is used to routinely announce every genealogy blog posting. This does get tiresome, especially when several people retweet the same item.
Social network aspects of the broader genealogy sites Ancestry, Footnote and Genes Reunited were also stressed. She was less enthusiastic about the genealogy specific social network sites, although noting that some of them link to the general sites like Facebook.
A non-copyright infringing version of the slides used are on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/skottowe/bifhsgo
Sunday, 13 March 2011
Social networking and genealogy
For the third successive month BIFHSGO had a record turnout for its monthly meeting, this time for Marian Press presenting on Social Networking and Genealogy.
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When I tried to print the
"Bifhsgo - Presentation Transcript", (pages 2 and 3 of 4) page 3 was blank.
(I know I shouldn't use paper this way, but please don't berate me for this. At least I have it in case the electronic version disappears. I printed the page 3 information from a succession of print screen catures. )
- 13 March, 2011 11:01
- direcleit said...
I couldn't disagree more regarding the invaluable networking tool that is Twitter.
I, and many others, use it to exchange information and ideas, to assist and collaborate and, gosh, we do so with a bit of friendly 'banter' along the way!
PS We also notify folk of our blog posts on it, naughty us!
- 13 March, 2011 11:59
- ADB said...
Twitter is invaluable for sharing links, and that includes the tweeting of blogposts. Each social networking service has its own role to play in this field, Twitter as much as Facebook and others.
- 13 March, 2011 12:29
- GeniAus said...
Twitter is used to routinely announce every genealogy blog posting - why is this bad?
It is used too often for personal banter but the value of the information and links disemminated far outweighs these inconveniences.
The key is to follow people who use Twitter responsibly and to encourage good twitter etiquette.
- 13 March, 2011 18:03
- Astrid said...
Heeeyy... I just started using Twitter, and I like posting my blog through it. My blog posts are very interesting... really... go read one:).
- 13 March, 2011 21:27
- Amy Coffin, MLIS said...
Perhaps Marian is following the wrong people on Twitter. There are ways to filter out repetitive information on all social networking sites, including Twitter.
--Amy (@acoffin on Twitter)
- 14 March, 2011 11:01


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In politics, you never know from where the next gift will come.
For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and fiscal hawks, the present came with the postmark "Bell, Calif."
By now you have probably heard that Bell is a city of about 37,000, 10 miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles with a poor, mostly immigrant population. And thanks to the LA Times, we also know that the city of Bell has the highest paid administrators in the state, probably of any state. City Administrator Richard Rizzo receives close to $800,000 a year in salary. The Police Chief makes nearly half a million.
That of course isn't the gift. For that, you need to hear what Rizzo will get once he retires.
After crunching the numbers from his past contracts (with the city of Hesperia and Rancho Cucamonga) along with potential retirement incentives, the Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility in Sacramento figures the 55-year-old Rizzo will eventually leave the town's tiny city hall with an $880,000 annual pension. It will reach past $1 million shortly after his 63rd birthday.
If he lives into his mid 80s, the total payout will reach about $30 million.
And it won't be just the good people of Bell who will be paying Rizzo's Carnival cruises. According to FFR Director Marcia Fritz, Bell is part of a group of 140 small cities and special districts that pool their funding resources for the California Pension Retirement System. As a result, those other cities, from Napa to Barstow, will also be required to honor Mr. Rizzo's pension well into his golden years.
All of which makes Robert Rizzo the poster boy for what the governor has been harping about for several years now: The runaway train known as "pension obligation."
In April, Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research released a study suggesting the state is facing a $500 billion unfunded liability for California's three biggest pension funds. That is over five times the amount of the current state budget. We will soon be paying more for firefighters sitting on a park bench than those who actually fight fires. The pension money will need to be taken out of every other state service, from education to parks. It threatens the financial stability of the nation's largest state.
Pension reform advocates contend that, according to the state retirement system, more than 10,000 retired state workers already receive over $100,000 a year in retirement pay -- and the number is climbing. The governor says he won't sign a budget until the legislature figures out a way to out of the crisis. But pension reform is no easy task. Many lawmakers are afraid to take on public employee unions whose money and support is the key to survival in California politics.
But they may be hard pressed to ignore the case of Rob Rizzo. Attorney General Jerry Brown has caught on and is investigating (no doubt in hopes it will boost his credibility on the issue for the fall), along with the LA District Attorney's office. But it appears Rizzo apparently did nothing illegal. "He just worked the system," says Fritz.
Bell residents are the big losers in this episode. But in the process of letting city hall run wild with tax money, they may have provided a stark example of what may lie ahead for the rest of us.
Arnold Gets Help on Pension Reform From a Guy Named Robert Rizzo
In politics, you never know from where the next gift will come.


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When Steve and the boys let me know that they were up for a trip out west for the Leadville Trail 100 I was SO excited! They had never witnessed a 100 mile race of mine before. I have finished 9 of them and each one has been during the school year, when I haven't wanted to take the boys out, or during baseball tournaments, when they didn't want to miss out.
I began to make arrangements for Topaz and our other pets. I began to look for accommodations and plan our trip.
The boys hadn't seen The Badlands, Mt. Rushmore, The Black Hills, Custer State Park..any of that good stuff that Steve and I have seen numerous times so that was to be our first stop.
Our trip was wonderful. I wasn't sure how the boys would get along being in the back seat of my CR-V for so long, they were great! I packed a bunch of word finder books, crosswords, sudoku, they had their books to read, etc.
The trip to SD was uneventful. Lots of farms and rolling hills. No change of scenery until we arrived The Badlands. The boys were blown away. I had tried to describe to them what The Badlands looked like, but I guess I didn't do a very good job.
We went into the park and hiked for hours. We climbed the crazy odd rock formations, played hide and seek, found cactus, spied prairie dogs..we really had a great time. It felt so good to get out of the car and move around.
From The Badlands we arrived Rapid City. We stayed at a hotel with a water park. Perfect! We swam, slide and had a blast. By 10 PM we were all sleeping.
Day 2 we visited Custer State Park. We saw wild burros, buffalo, antelope, deer and all kinds of other wildlife. It was beautiful. We hiked Harney Peak, the boys and Steve hiked up to 7560 ft with no problem. We were later doused in a hail storm.
Day 3 was Mt. Rushmore Monument-they were luke warm about this. Liked to see the stonework, but there isn't much else to see. We went back to Custer Park for a picnic, more hiking, more wildlife viewing, drove Needles Highway to Lake Sylvan, more beautiful scenery. We ended the day with Reptile Gardens. Troy has two box turtles and was able to see many different varieties of turtles, we watched a bird of prey show, a snake show, good stuff.
Day 4 we headed to Colorado. We arrived to Leadville in the early evening and made our way to our B&B off of Twin Lakes. Gorgeous views of Twin Lakes, Mt. Elbert and Mt. Massive. Amazing.
Day 5 we hiked up Hope Pass. Well, I made it up to Hope Pass; Steve and the boys made it about 800 feet before they were gasping. They went back down to the trail head and hiked at 11000 ft while I went up and over. It was so beautiful. High snow covered peaks, beautiful blue skies, a light breeze, temps in the 70's, just perfect :) I fell in love with Colorado.
We hiked the Colorado Trail around Twin Lakes and had dinner in Leadville at an incredible little Italian restaurant that began with a Z.
The next few days we visited different sections of the Leadville Trail 100 Race Course. We did lots of hiking, visiting Leadville establishments, race check in and dinner, we really had a great vacation.
After the race I picked up my drop bags and we headed back to SD. We again stayed at the hotel with the water park. Swam, slide, dove and were again in bed by 1000. The next morning we left for home.
Our road trip vacation went better than I ever expected. Steve and I got along great, the boys didn't fight. Actually, the boys became even better friends. They had too, each other is all they had! There was no TV at the B&B and nobody even missed it. We were so busy enjoying Colorado, although I did wonder time to time what was going on in the Olympics and with our MN Twins.
If you are thinking about taking your family to see the sights of SD and on west, go for it. If I hadn't had the race, we would have kept putting this off. I'm so glad we went. It was a real treat.
Who knows..they might all come along with me next year!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
4 comments:
- keith said...
It's hard NOT to fall in love with Colorado. Looks like u and the fam had a very nice time!
- SteveQ said...
You didn't stay in the Badlands for a week to run the Lean Horse 100? What kind of a vacation is that?
- Ultrathoner said...
It looks like you got a chance to explore my neck of the woods, er... prairie and hills. The Badlands are fun to run in but watch out for snakes. August 23/24 was a beautiful weekend; I was sweating my way to a DNF at mile 64.5 at Lean Horse.
Wow…. A road trip, I think I should also plan one.
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Re: st: Controlling for atrittion in panel, or creating a panel without atrittion
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Thank you brendan!
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Brendan Halpin <email@example.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23 2012, Laurie Molina wrote:
>> 1. To take a random sample at the first period and then merge the
>> databases to have a panel. In this case my panel will have attrition.
>> In fact by the last period the attrition rate (comparing period 1
>> observations with period 10 observations will be of almost 50%). The
>> remaining sample size much smaller than the original sample size is
>> leading to representativeness issues.
> Yes, your sub-sample will have attrition bias, but in a way that
> reflects that of your main sample. That is, if your main sample is
> representative in wave 1 and then suffers from attrition, this is
> probably a good option, but if subjects can meaningfully enter the main
> sample after wave 1 perhaps not.
>> 2. To take a random sample of the observations that appear on the
>> database in all the periods. If attrition is not random, then i would
>> have a population that is different to the original population, and
>> hence my random sample may not be representative for the original
>> population, but only for the population defined by all the
>> observations that appear in the database in all periods.
> Depending on what analysis you do afterwards, you may end up imposing
> this restriction anyway.
>> Which option do you think i should take?
> A third option would be to take a random sample of IDs, and take all
> observations available for them. This will better replicate the pattern
> of missingness in the main sample.
> Which option is best depends on what analysis you want to do, and on how
> the main sample is collected (in particular, in what way and at what
> time it is representative),
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Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management Program
The Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Management Program (www.unbc.ca/ortm/) is within the College of Science and Management and has five faculty members.
Over the past four years, Pat Maher has established a diverse program of research on tourism in the polar regions. He recently worked with Parks Canada to study management issues associated with cruise ships in the national parks of Nunavut. The resulting technical report, Cruise Tourism in Auyuittuq, Sirmilik, and Quttinirpaaq National Parks, was published in 2008. Maher and colleagues from Vancouver Island University, Thompson Rivers University, and the College of the Rockies were recently funded by the Canadian Rural Secretariat to develop strategies that foster innovation in sustainable tourism in northern British Columbia.
Maher is also part of a three-year project called Climate Change and Tourism Change in Northern Communities: A Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and will involve fieldwork in Nunavut, Nunavik, and Nunatsiavut from 2009 to 2012.
Maher helped found two research networks focused on tourism. The University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Northern Tourism addresses knowledge gaps about northern tourism through comparative, circumpolar research that builds baseline data and profiles. The International Polar Tourism Research Network generates, shares, and disseminates knowledge, resources, and perspectives on polar tourism and supports the development of international collaboration and cooperative relationships between members.
Maher was recently involved in co-editing two books—Polar Tourism: Human, Environmental, and Governance Dimensions and Cruise Tourism in the Polar Regions: Promoting Environmental and Social Sustainability—both scheduled to be published in 2010.


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Back in the days before e-mail, Victor Li, the heir to Asia's largest family fortune, used to sleep with a fax machine by his bed, ready for his famously restless father, Li Ka-shing, to send through instructions at any time of night.
And on several occasions at meetings, before the elder Li walked into the room, young Victor asked - only half in jest - for the gathered executives to beg his dad to go easy on him, say sources who have worked with the Li family over many years.
The eldest son of Li Ka-shing, a rags-to-riches property tycoon known as "Superman" in his adoptive Hong Kong, has always had big shoes to fill - and some members of the city's business and political elite now wonder if they will ever really fit.
Li Ka-shing, 84, anointed Victor, 48, as his successor at a shareholder meeting in May. Then in July, the eldest son took up a two-thirds stake in the family trust, giving Victor control of a business empire valued by Forbes magazine at $25.5 billion.
The group's assets span property, ports, power, water, supermarkets, drug stores and telecoms, and it has such a pervasive presence in Hong Kong that most of the city's 7 million people do business with it virtually every day. The group, led by flagship property developer Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd (0001.HK), spans 52 nations and employs 270,000 people.
Though an octogenarian, the elder Li is an active man outside of work, known to still play golf several times a week. He is active inside the Cheung Kong office tower as well. He is still the name and face of the company and continues to make the key business decisions, according to sources familiar with the group's inner workings.
But the day will come when Victor Li will be in charge.
For some, Victor is a numbers-focused manager, a master of detail who has a track record of running assets well - and a man who has had to deal with some immense personal challenges, including being kidnapped for ransom in his early 30s.
For others, he is too focused on the bottom line, lacking some of the people skills of his more outgoing and charismatic father, raising doubts over whether the next leader of the Li empire will be as adept at the wheeling and dealing that characterized his father's reign.
And for a few, he is a more complex character altogether, someone who, according to people who have worked with him, struggles to trust those around him - a trait not surprising for a man whose status as heir has made him a target for envy and greed from a very early age.
"He is a chip off the block - his father has passed to him everything that he knows about the business," said Simon Murray, chairman of commodities trading powerhouse Glencore International Plc (GLEN.L), who has worked with the man he calls "K.S." as well as both sons over the years.
"However there is something else that his father has that Victor has to develop, the character of his father, which includes characteristics like humility, the ability to trust," adds Murray, who was formerly managing director of Li's ports-to-telecoms conglomerate, Hutchison Whampoa 0013.HK, and still sits on Cheung Kong's board.
Graphic on the Li empire: link.reuters.com/pyn33t
Li Ka-shing and Victor both declined interview requests for this article, which is based on conversations with more than 20 people who have dealt with them.
A reserved and devoted family man who enjoys wind surfing, Victor Li has taken his children on hiking trips in Bavaria, Germany and peppers his conversation with comments about their progress, according to sources who know him.
"Victor is a very intelligent man," said Aron Harilela, son of the founder of Hong Kong's best-known Indian-owned business, Hotel Holdings. "He delegates a lot more than his father would, and the depth of information is a lot greater."
Harilela and Victor Li know each other from the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, where Harilela recalls a discussion they once shared over landfills in Hong Kong. Victor Li rattled off data on trash disposal in the city. "He always has information that a lot of people don't have," Harilela said.
Victor, still in his early days as the family's controlling shareholder, was thrust into the spotlight on October 1 when a pleasure cruise for staff of one of the conglomerate's subsidiaries turned to disaster. It collided with a ferry and sank, killing 39 people, all from the company boat.
Li Ka-shing and Victor rushed to the hospital where victims were sent, both men immediately pledging money to support the families struck by the tragedy.
Within the worlds of Hong Kong business and politics, however, a different portrait of Victor Li emerges.
One senior government source echoed comments made by some business sources who said he was too focused on the details and not enough on nurturing relationships.
They draw a sharp contrast between father and son, who could hardly have been brought up in more different circumstances.
Li Ka-shing was born in Chiu Chow, China, and moved to Hong Kong when he was 12, quitting school when his family relocated. His father died three years later. Li Ka-shing went from a factory worker to launching a plastics business, the first step in his path to creating a business empire.
Victor grew up destined to be a billionaire, a Stanford University graduate groomed for decades as heir apparent. He is rarely seen in public without bodyguards, a legacy of his 1996 kidnapping by a notorious Chinese gangster, Cheung Tze-keung, also known as "Big Spender".
According to media reports, he was seized at gunpoint between his office and home, handcuffed, blindfolded, held overnight and then released upon payment of a ransom.
Li Ka-shing negotiated Victor's release face-to-face with Cheung, who wrapped himself in explosives as a threat to kill both of them, in case the billionaire had been followed by police, according to a March 2011 article in the South China Morning Post.
The wife of another of Cheung's kidnap victims, Hong Kong tycoon Walter Kwok, said she understood Li paid a ransom of HK$1 billion ($129 million) in cash, according to the Post. "Big Spender" was caught and executed in southern China in 1998.
Two decades later, Victor Li keeps his private life away from public view.
Victor's younger brother, Richard, 45, has a more relaxed demeanor than his elder sibling, preferring to wear open-neck shirts in contrast to the conservative suits and ties favored by his brother, who has spent 20 years in the family business.
In contrast to his brother, who guards his private life, the birth of Richard's first son in 2009 with actress Isabella Leong was splashed over local media pages.
Richard, chairman of phone, pay-television and Internet company PCCW Ltd (0008.HK), is a regular target of Hong Kong's famously aggressive press, which has cast him as a playboy and architect of some bad business deals.
But Richard wins praise from some executives in Asia for his entrepreneurial daring and desire to blaze his own trail. They say his willingness to take risks is a hallmark of his father, renowned as a deal-maker who can make snap decisions based on relationships and his instinct for businesses he likes.
In announcing Victor Li as his formal successor in May, Li Ka-shing also pledged to continue to back Richard's ventures - another sign for some that the younger son, who dropped out of Stanford University, has a special place in his father's heart.
Some sources, however, said Victor Li's quiet achievements were too easily overlooked by those outside the family business and that he had championed two of his father's most successful technology deals - large, early-stage investments in Facebook (FB.O) and Skype.
They said Victor Li also had more of a regional focus than his father, a perspective that should serve the group well as it extends beyond its Hong Kong-China stronghold and ventures deeper into property markets like Singapore.
"That is very much driven by Victor," said a source close to the family. "I think he is more strategic than his father. He is very risk conscious, about the need to manage risk, the need to mitigate risk."
Several sources say the real test for Victor Li will come when his "Superman" father is no longer around, especially in Hong Kong where Li Ka-shing's network of strong relationships may begin to suffer without him there to nurture them.
"You find that with K.S., he is very long on memory, particularly those who have helped him. In that sense he is a very, very true friend," said a retired bureaucrat who has worked with the family. "I can't say the same of Victor."
($1 = 7.7514 Hong Kong dollars)
Editing by Mark Bendeich and Michael Flaherty


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The blisters that form in PV are referred to as lesions, or suprabasal vesicles, because of where they are found within the layers of the epidermis (supra meaning above, so above the basal layer, see Figure 1a). Because they are found so deep within the tissue, the blisters formed and PV disease itself is considered more severe than pemphigus foliaceus, where the blisters appear within the granular layer. The lesions formed during PV and in other mucocutaneous autoimmune blistering diseases are formed when the rogue antibodies formed during disease recognize proteins found at junctions formed by keratinocyte cells interacting with one another. The loss of these junctions that generates the tear in the skin is called acantholysis. Acantholysis is more than a tearing of the skin.
There is also cell death (also called apoptosis) within the lesions. But it has been unclear when and where apoptosis occurs with relation to acantholysis and to recognition of the junctions by antibodies generated by the immune system of the patient. Besides the ordering of events, it has been unclear which of the various types of apoptosis are at play. In the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis, a cell essentially commits suicide because of an internal trigger, perhaps as part of a genetic program as occurs during cell or tissue development. In the extrinsic pathway, the trigger to commit suicide is external. Perhaps this is where the antibodies of PV patients play a role, then? At least two models, both with excellent experimental support, exist for the ordering of events.
The first suggests that apoptosis is a late event in pemphigus and that it is not required for acantholysis and blister formation, while the second suggests that apoptosis occurs early, before significant acantholysis. A related viewpoint to the second is that the two occur simultaneously, though independently, though evidence exists for apoptosis actually causing acantholysis. For instance, chemical inhibitors of apoptosis have been shown to prevent lesion formation and a time-course study has shown that apoptotic cells were present before blisters in pemphigus foliaceus. The current authors looked at tissue samples from 25 patients with oral lesions due to PV. They used immunohistochemistry, the same technique that is used to diagnose PV.
Looking closely for regions where normal lesion-free tissue was adjacent to lesions, so-called peri-lesional regions, they found that 100% of the cells within lesions had fragmented DNA, the hallmark of apoptosis. In the adjacent normal tissue (in the parabasal region) of most of the samples, 75% of the cells had the marker of apoptosis. Looking at the acantholytic cells within the lesion, the result was strikingly close to 75%, at 76% and at the roof of the vesicle, it was even higher, at 80%. Given the presence of apoptotic cells in the lesion-free patient tissue, the authors concluded that apoptosis is not a late event, but an early one that may cause acantholysis. Recognizing that the structural damage (acantholysis) and death (apoptosis) of keratinocytes are mediated by the same molecular players – the caspase enzymes.
Research led by Sergei Grando has proposed a novel theory of"apoptolysis", combining the two terms. The work of Deyhimi and Tavakoli supports this model and suggests that once a threshold level of apoptotic cells exist in the basal cell layer, somewhere north of 80%, then a lesion will form. According to the authors, conventional therapy of PV consisting of high-dose corticosteroids is based on the hypothesis that acantholysis leads to apoptosis, so it will be critical to unravel the current results and to determine if treatments might be tailored differently in the future. How apoptosis leads to formation of blisters and how antibodies to desmogleins may promote apoptosis is still under investigation, but one additional piece of information from the current work is that based on the absence of another cell death marker, Bax, the authors suspect the extrinsic cell death pathway.
The pieces to the pemphigus puzzle are beginning to be unraveled. Driven by the fact that the more we learn about the molecular events leading up to blisters, the more chances there will be to intervene before debilitating blisters can occur.


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