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Janus and the yoyo
Looking at past and future through the ups and downs of life
- last update 8/2025
- Looking at future and the past, surviving the ups and downs of life
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preface
- experiment
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book of the future
- freemind planned
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multithreaded
- chron as written
- "book" linked
- pick you own
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web linked
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multimedia
- publicly written
- tell my story to myself - read if you care
- YDRWIP - you don't have to read/watch it production
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scenes
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first scene (movie)
- option 1 MCM shows up, reconciles, wants to know
- option 2 grandchild wants to know
- option 3 meet anna at Roden Museum
- option 4 went to meet Marco
- option 5 the last scene is the first scene
- photo album analogy
- memories of an old man
- with time in my hands I started writing the story of all the characters
- 100 characters in search of an author
- what is the point
- what are the links
- what do the links mean?
- how do we go forward
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last scene
- end of the movie special showing
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Family Trees
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Messina Family
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Finazzi Family
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Bechis Family
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Neveux Family
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Alessandro m ?
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Fortune m Nonna Tresor
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Reynolds Family
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Mollen Family
- Flo m Charly Reynolds
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Les
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Bee m George Wild
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Marg m Dean Riley
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Muriel m Glen Fulton
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Michelle
- m ?
- m Terry Nield
- m Bryan
- p Mark
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Joan m Ray ?
- ?
- ?
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Holt Family
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Wiley m Vi in Winnipeg
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Char m Vern Reynolds ^
- Don m Marge
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Mae m Ian McDonald
- Carol
- Marylin
- Gordon
- Barbara
- Ian
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family portraits
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Messina / Finazzi
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Alfonso + ?
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to the US 1891
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Peppino 1884?-1965
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Assuntina ?-?
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grandpa Nino 1886-1965
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grandma Rosa
- ahead of her time
- Paris school
- Cutting system prize
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Teresa + Siso
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Gigi+Maria Concetta
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Fabio+Giulia
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Siro+Lisa
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Corinna
- Andrea - railroad man
- Giovanni
- Luigi - doctor and arts lover
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Al+Pia
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Andrea+Valerie
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Marco
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Susan
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Darlene
- Ryan
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Ali + Bill
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Sadie
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Mandie
- A sweet athlete tough as nails
- My skiing champ
- Summer vacation in Park City
- Brooklyn
- Bennett
- Ali & Bill Wedding
- This is Darlene
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My skiing buddy
- A hero's story
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Bechis / Neveux
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Carlo Bechis
- red beard, died young, bad temper
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married nonna Nina
- Phillips lightbulbs, Alpignano - leading edge of late 1800
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Nina - Delfina Durio
- sister Melia
- sister Carmela married Bocca
- raised her children and cousins too
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Renzo 1886 1954
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nonna Mec (Marie Neveux)
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F Fortune Neveux
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F Alessandro
- busto
- sindaco Sant Ambrogio
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Bosio factory
- largest unsupported roof in Europe
- invented machines to make pile textile
- sweat shirt metarial waving
- sant ambrogio factory
- came from Dijon
- Cavaliere della corona
- Kindergarten
- Fleece cloth machine
- M Lucia Chichizola
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M Henriette Grenot -nonna Tresor
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china painter
- Gina learned from lella muratore
- Got patterns from zia Marthe
- Inspired mother to paint
- went blind
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sisters
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Marthe - Angelo Ottone
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took care of her mother
- forte dei marmi
- across the lines to see Angelo
- Nini you pay me no attention
- Angelo partigiani review
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Lucette - Gino Ottone
- Blanche
- Lourdes + Loreto
- Cucina Malati Poveri
- class on class
- Her photo album
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Pia
- tough as nails - paints softly
- Olympic team skier
- Painting china
- Painting wild
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Tato + Fulvia
- wild spirit funny man
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Mauro+Natalie
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Gian+Chiara
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daredevil persona
- hockey player
- jet fighter pilot
- car racer
- entrepreneur technologist
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Carlotta+Ale
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Matteo + Alessandra
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Activities
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investment banker
- entrepreneur
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hotelier
- monkey and the eggs cart
- prefab Pensione Gimont (not for snow, disaster)
- hotel Claviere sold
- sick from high altitude in Claviere
- swiss boarding school - gstaad
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Attlio
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Elda+Franco
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Anna+Gilles
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Marina +?
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Luca + ? + Marina
- Adriana+Giorgio (Dassu)+Carlo
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Roberto +Rosanna
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Riccardo +Huguette
- Marco ('55)
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Marina ('56)
- Paola
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story
- called 1/144, Officer school Aosta (Renzo DAvanzo)
- 9/11/43 surrendered in Durovnick after Armistice
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offered Salo, refused faithful to king
- 10% returned then ran away
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deported in cattle car to Sieldce Poland
- cimneys in distance, extem camps knew that things were different than told
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dported to Fallingbostel GE when russians arrived
- Guareschi Diario Clandestino
- no red cross help because not enemy
- returned to Italy before war end because of wounded hand
- protected fascists from lynching
- back to U. helped Tato then gave up
- villa di zia Melia and Adriana
- picnic - Braida Pian dei Rus
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Ugo
- Toto (Giulio Adolfo)
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Mia (Maria)
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Mapi+Renato Frizzoni
- Mauro
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Anna +Dino Sagna
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cusins raised by nonna Nina
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Aldo
- the admiral
- venice
- family research
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naval cadet travels
- Steamship
- Japanese emperor
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nephew Toni
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Anna Marigonda last of the Doges
- last decendant doges
- elsa - toni's mother
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Pierino
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Pompeo
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Reynolds
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Char (Holt) ? - 2013
- tap dancing
- the movies
- the accident
- Sun City Follies
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Vern + Char
- left the farm
- steamships
- trains
- war trains
- diesel age
- Dale Carnegie persona
- Darlene
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Wayne+Lisa
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childhood
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torino
- nonno and sanateurs
- picture with the pencil
- driving the tractor - Mirandola
- renato rolando
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rivoli
- picking Till at Cascine Vica
- Club of Smorfia with Mauro
- lizards on the summer wall
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first american friend
- daniel cracked
- wearing jean clothes
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alla sacra
- walking in the tall grass
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varigotti
- big waves
- sketching floorplans when others were playing in the sand
- escorts to Gian e Fiammetta
- ice cream nights
- canotto a vela
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cousins
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other childhood friends/cusins
- mancini brothers
- skiing Valtournanche
- learning to ski at Claviere
- on skis behind the car on country roads
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teens
- first school troubles
- italian schools
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Lanzo boarding school
- salesiani
- sleeping in boarding school
- walks in the countryside
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Torino summer boarding school
- semi-boarding
- summer school
- pedrazzani and nightime confession
- fat one
- soccer in the courtyard
- fishing with Alonzo
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first poker games
- guido
- luciano
- Marco Trevisan
- alfredo
- gianni
- Beppe
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bycicling in a big city
- to school
- bus on rainy days
- bus stop at cremeria
- lunch at nonno nino
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motorbikes
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first loves
- summer at Sauze before colonia at Cesana
- Giovanna at Varigotti
- Ilaria
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playing hooky
- bowling
- bike riding with Cristiano
- daytime nightclub in collina
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baseball
- first vision obstacle
- no way to bat
- enzo di gesu
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navy 67-70
- how i got there
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how i got in
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when i got there
- haircut
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day of the cadet
- where in the top drawer had the toothbrush to be placed
- stairs two steps at a time
- civilian clothes mailed home
- haizing
- Giorgio Villanova
- time in
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68 - San Giorgio
- Livorno Napoli Palermo Malta Tromboli Livorno
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69 - Vespucci
- - Livorno, Elba, Corsica, Monaco, Cannes, Genova, LaSpezia
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69 Cruising with Toni
- Venice, Trieste, Porec, Splitz, Venice
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time out
- at Toni's
- La Fenice
- Gianna until MacPi
- the american girl
- the end
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best friends
- roberto - Monaco/Miami
- gianpaolo - dead
- chicco - dead
- marino - dead
- rudy - venice/Puglie
- guido - dead
- Francesco - Torino
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US & university 70-74
- new york
- washington
- bloomington
- ymca
- halloween
- thanksgiving
- esl school + calculus
- a&w
- little caesar
- IU Commons
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library
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hippy time
- david stalf
- by the lake
- farmer's daughter
- river snakes
- skinny dipping
- dangerous drives
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study psy and photo
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business
- MBA at IU
- accounting
- finance
- international
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financial simulation
- spreadsheet mode
- punch card
- fortran
- my first financial spreadsheet model
- computers a gifts to a lazy man
- pass on law
- pass on cpa
- canada
- fishing and hunting IN
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vacations
- FL
- NC
- WI
- MI
- KY
- Lake superior
- wedding
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Canada 74-76
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montreal
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gang of bankers
- Nigel Elias
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Doug Klassen the amazing canadian
- Vicky the wild one
- Alanna
- the better fiat 128
- x-c skiing at Ille des seures
- the Viet Nam vet - damaged goods
- the fixer of damaged goods
- the unimpressive Canadian
- arab oil
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sidetracked
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planning dept.
- mcgill timeshare
- first non-academic financial modeling
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learning applied financial simulation (John Phelps)
- my idiotic arrogance - VanUhnen
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president task force
- systems analysis
- systems are people
- saving a million
- no future, find a mission
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family issues
- 4 month to get it on
- susan and university
- pregnant
- miscarriage
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toronto
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in the provinces
- no systems certification
- no systems future path
- administrator denying funds
- capital budgeting on 360 TSS
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family issues
- finances
- non working wife
- pregnant again
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decide to return to US
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the green card
- application to consuate
- seafirst interview
- visit to Hammond
- stonewalled
- pulling strings
- approved
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Seattle 76-96
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NW life
- eye surgery
- marc arrives
- NW outdoors
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minding rich kids
- Silvia Romagnoli
- ? romagnoli
- Franco & Bianca Ramello
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Seafirst
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IB again
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International banking system
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FA transfer
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Harvey Gillis mafia I did not fit
- Rufus Lumry
- Mike Osborn
- Tom Oswold
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Peer Banks analysis project
- on the leading edge of financial modeling
- Linear Regression on an HP16
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Solomon Bros
- new equity
- capital debt
- cash to fund fast HC growth
- a IB project of my own
- commercial paper for Australia
- first try at consulting on the side (boat houses developer)
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working for Lee Carter
- free from FA
- div. planning
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M&A
- shopping for strategic acquisitions
- chasing locations fo HC expansion
- CC Processing in Denver
- Banks servicing in Colorado
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work as life
- simulation of bank processing services
- get out of it
- Jenkins' promise
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sfds
- old iron and destined to fail
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the old bank system
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Warren Wilkins
- travel the Paloose
- seafood in E WA
- B of Pullman Pres
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Bank of Spokane chairman
- Sizzler
- Chatting at the stockyard
- CS team
- losing to IBM minis
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searching a new strategy
- Greg Forsythe
- Searching for software
- the Plan
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Migration
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New Development team
- Dick Shell
- Mike - Fat boy
- The Arkansas boys
- SWR customization & Test
- the System34 data center
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implementation
- searching for software
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Larry's gang
- wild life of consultants on the road
- my ride on a mechanical bull
- Selling the plan to the bankers
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BM Behrends Bank
- the impssible service
- proving nay sayers wrong
- launch day becomes 4 days
- blowing steam on Mendenhall glacier
- growing the business
- the golden boys of future management
- pen square collapse
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shut out
- part of the politically losing team
- locked out on conversion weekend
- unassigned, accept lay off by the creator of the collapse
- in the headlights none of the deer cared about anything
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micros for business
- foreseeing industry change - the IBM PC
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my first PC preordered at Computerland
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Wordstar. Supercalc, DB2
- https://museum.syssrc.com/artifact/exhibits/807/
- email compuserve and aol
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corporate hubris
- banking deregulation and HCA
- preparing for nationwide banking
- capital for growth
- top of the second tier
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Politics of BOD
- CFO ego trip
- peer analysis project
- rigging the study
- Rufus wizard apprentice
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finding excellence
- Tom Peters excellent companies
- Tom's red book
- We are excellent the lapel pins prove it
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searching new career
- my Xerox CPM
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recession of 1982
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DP man or banker? 1982
- 300 resumes
- NY banks
- TX banks
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Mike Darland
- a fork in the road...Seattle (FIS) or NYC (Chemical Bank)
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FIS 1983
- accountants into micro PC consulting
- financial models on contract
- compaq dealership
- it was not a job
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rom labs
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one idea of many
- PC ROM
- Videogames distribution system
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funding
- Giulio? Lodigiani
- only videogames
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prototypes
- in the lab
- learn to solder
- learn to test
- shopping new tech chips
- basic electrronics
- babysitting Mike
- in the news
- Seattle U
- industry collapse
- shutting it down
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a LAN invention
- peer=to=peer design
- comparing to Novell
- meeting Tim Paterson
- Seattle U
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DP Enterpses
- Minis, PCs and Keypunch machines
- management changes
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family issues
- susan's long vacation
- a new friend
- breakup
- broke and homeless
- guilt & penance
- nearly arrested
- impossible visitation
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Legal software
- Sam and Mik - owners squabbles
- Mike cooking the books
- shutdown
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Fenix Cons
- Seattle U
- Building it up
- Julie
- Spohnholtz
- Glenda
- Olson's
- Industry changing
- G&M
- Darlene
- more olson
- dead olson & rip off
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Mike Kercheval JV
- Clipper programmer
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Customs clearing system
- Selling to Disney in Memphis
- be done
- MLM
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IT Head hunter
- investments with Nield
- repeated offers from Neild
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Scottsdale 96-10
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1996-1998 Nat Sci
- the courting
- the deal
- the move
- new crowd
- bar scene
- Gordon
- Michelle
- texans
- funding crisis
- Eden
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new direction
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2nd new direction
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personnel troubles
- shutdown
- lawsuits
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WTI
- Gordon
- Minneapolis hides processors
- Rendering plant
- Milk cow operation
- Pigs farm
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new hunt
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TTI
- BS of funding
- bootstrapping
- the flaw
- second patent
- edged out
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Platinum & CA
- great times to bad times
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Dir MIS Consulting for AZ to AL
- telecom companies
- banks
- data warehouses
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the sell out to CA
- march 99
- lost team
- rebuilding
- CA hell the rest of 99 and 2000 Jan Feb
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dot com investing
- PT acquisitions in MIS
- unexpected 300k stake from NSC
- online trading with Ameritrade and PT high speed
- etrade, scottrade
- Trading profits 3mm in 2 years
- delusion of being smart
- in a rising tide all ships float high
- diversification illlusion
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retirement
- skiing
- Europe
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plans
- spain and So italy next
- barefoot sailing Bahamas
- consulting to TTI
- the fraud
- investments go to hell in DOT Com
- 100k margin call for Xmas
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7 years to hell
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TTI
- no $
- no team
- Gordon
- Richard
- Bob
- jokers
- legal battle
- 2nd try
- public strategy
- the end
- legal battle again
- personal legal battle
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SafeTnet
- lemonade
- hunting for clients
- hunting for deals
- writing
- research
- a new perspective
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Cyber
- Scobby's intro and loan
- tech world again
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learning to smell scoundrels
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good guys
- challenges
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travels
- japan
- siberia
- japan
- south africe
- successor scam to ?
- followed by Bolivian gold mine
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eInsurance
- joe's warehouse
- no MIT man just a con
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Head Hunter again
- A friend in need
- Healthcare techs industry
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2007- 2009 SBDC
- share the experiences
- continue research
- Invest SW BOD
- Angel investing 101
- 2007 The Yoda Machine
- 2009 TWEB
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Nasco
- Mobile Med.
- Wireless
- Betting against LTE
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Gridco Net
- Indians
- electrical utilities
- renewable energy
- networks load monitoring and management
- Brepppies for cell phones
- 2010 House sale
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Heavystone
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Park City 10-
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Angel Investing
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Heavystone
- PCAN
- Snow Lizard
- TCO
- Shopping Nanny
- Nasco - Cioccolati
- FSBI
- HIPtec
- ISO
- Tute Genomics
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Penblade
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ski instructor
- DV ski instructor
- Canyons
- Vail
- RE License
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Flipping condos
- training by Bill
- rc 36 - remodel
- sp24 wholesaler
- condo with Roger
- market out of reach
- Hard Money Lending
- ACS app
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NCS app
- lauch day disaster
- a new profitable formula
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HTA app
- fronting development is a bet
- HTA business viability
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Sun City 16-
- V&C home
- Near sale
- Wayne buy out
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Living in two places
- winter summer in PC
- spring fall in SC
- 2017 The Yoda Machine published
- covid lockdown in PC
- escape to AZ 3/2020
- 8/2020 selling PC
- 7/2020 Flagstaff house
- 10/2020 Wheatridge house in SC
- 2022 dreaming of a lake house
- 2024 the lake house on Bolivar
- 2025 Lemonade published
- 2025 99 Characters in Search f an Author published
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gino's work
- 50-55 Dam at La Barca
- 55-59 prefab in Rivoli
- 59-68 Prefab in TO
- 68 Syracuse U
- 69 Boston
- 69-71 Indiana U
- 71-73 Recchi + Danes +Scotts - TO Italy, Libia
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73-74 Impregilo - Montreal
- 74-75 ? Vendrame - NYC
- 75 ? - Cumberland KY
- 78 Serapian - Seattle
- 79 Romagnoli Locascio - Iran
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80 Agudio
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little annie
- LITTLE ANNIE (BASIN) (Aspen), [planned], Adjacent to and south of "Aspen Mtn". Appears as "Annie Basin" on NFS maps. A new ski area was in the serious planning stages in 1979 by an independent developer but was never built due to lack of financing. Aspen Skiing Co. sometimes talks of expanding Aspen Mountain into the basin and they have run snowcat tours into the Little Annie terrain. A 1965 Ski Magazine ski area guide lists LITTLE ANNIE as a snowcat area. No recent development news.
- tar sands
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83 NYC - Arges
- WTC - Sindona's bank
- Pen Central railyard development
- sale to Trump