Norco Ranch founder Harry Eisen dies at 95

Harry Eisen, a Holocaust survivor born in Poland, founded Norco Ranch Inc., in western Riverside County in 1950 and built one of the largest egg producers in the state, processors and distributors, has died. He was 95 years.

Eisen died July 19 of complications from pulmonary disease at home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Frances Miller.

When Eisen and his wife, of Polish origin, Hilda, who moved to Los Angeles in 1948, had no money and spoke no English.

Eisen had directed a sausage factory and three points in Warsaw before the Second World War, but his lack of English could only get a job cleaning the barrel of meat in a hot-dog factory in Vernon .

However, after saving the money to buy his first 100 chickens, has launched an operation of the depot in Arcadia and eggs sold in their neighborhood.

The language was a barrier to launch your new business. As Eisen jokingly told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in 1993: "I spoke to my Jewish and hens laid their eggs."

The Norco Eisen increasingly moved its operation in 1950.

In 2000, when he sold Eisen Norco Ranch Inc., based in Missouri Moark, had a workforce of around 450 people and a list of major clients including the division of Kroger, Ralphs, Vons Division of Safeway, Albertson, Costco and Trader Joe jack-in-the-Box.

"It's the American dream," said former alderman of the city of Norco Steve Nathan, a family friend Eisen, the Associated Press-Enterprise, at the time of sale. "It started with a small group of chickens, worked hard and became a billionaire."

Eisen was born May 15, 1917, in Izbica Kujawski, a small town in Poland. He left home at 13 and got a job in a sausage factory in Warsaw.

Selected in the Polish cavalry before the Second World War, was captured during the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and finally ended in the concentration camp Auschwitz, where he was put to work in coal mines.

"I was just a number" tattooed Eisen, who still wore his number - 144492 - left arm, told the Associated Press-Enterprise in 1993.

After the Red Army approached Auschwitz began, and the prisoners were forced into a "death march" toward the other camp in January 1945, Eisen, Abe and his brother and another man escaped .

After the war, Eisen returned to his village where he had gone to school with Hilda.

With the exception of his brother Moses and his brother Abe, the entire family was murdered Eisen of the Chelmno extermination camp.

Hilda, who had joined the Jewish resistance after persuading a Nazi guard to open the door of his ghetto of Lublin in 1942, has lost her parents and her six brothers and sisters in Nazi death camps.

The Eisen, who were married in Monaco of Bavaria in 1945, spoke about their experiences of the Holocaust with their four children in recent years, but not go into details.

"I do not feel comfortable uploading their children with horror stories," said Miller.

But, he adds, "they were able to take your pain and become very beneficial for him and very Zionist and very giving back. He felt lucky to be in the giving of charity, more than the receiving end. "

Eisen was a member of several organizations of Holocaust survivors and served as president of the California Lodz, a philanthropic group that survived the Holocaust.

The Eisen contributed financially to the construction of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 and attended the inauguration with family members.

Eisen spoke of his years at Auschwitz, in an interview recorded for the permanent collection of oral history.

"We are witnesses .... We went through hell," he said in an interview in 1993.

In addition to his daughter Frances, Eisen is survived by his wife of 67 years, his other daughters, Ruth Eisen and Maria Cramer, his son, Howard, eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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Rodeo Star Broc Cresta dies at 25

Broc Cresta, a California address Roper and rising star of the rodeo circuit, which was ranked No 12 in the world as a heel in team climbing pulley, Saturday was found dead in motor home at the Border Days Rodeo in Cheyenne Wyoming. He was 25 years.

Ridge, the son of a fighter for the meat expert of Santa Rosa, California, had competed Friday in the case of prestigious Cheyenne, held annually since 1897.

His body was discovered by his girlfriend, barrel racing champion Brittany Pozzi, when he tried to wake up Saturday morning, said his father, Daniel.

"The world of the rodeo is in shock," said Kendra Santos, director of communications for the Association of Professional Rodeo Cowboys. "My phone has been ringing on the wall all day with calls from Hall of Fame there are no children.

Broc is a fourth generation cowboy in California, and everyone loves it. It's very difficult to lose a good cowboy when is 90, but lost a talented person and very good at 25 is almost impossible .... The hesitation of the whole family hurts right now. "

In 2007, the association called Cresta Heels Rodeo Novice of the Year. Appropriate, linked together, is considered the only true detour in pursuit team, consisting of two Ropers: a header, ropes the calf first, and a heel that is second string and management of hind legs.

The event is scheduled with the clock stopping only when it remains in play arrangements of lambs and horses facing each other.

The case is more complicated than it seems, with the participation not only of strength and agility, but the moment is exquisite.

In the 10th round of the national final in Las Vegas in December, Cresta and partner Spencer Mitchell, a childhood friend, tied a calf in 3.6 seconds, which tied the fastest time of the round. They finished 10 th overall, five of the 10 roping calves in 21.3 seconds.

Cresta has collaborated with the sample header Turtle Powell, in 2010, and end with Logan Olson to win the Cheyenne in 2009.

Born January 2, 1987, Ridge raised on a ranch of 500 acres in Santa Rosa, California, his father and uncle fighting in the professional circuit. His grandfather, William, raised horses for the sport horse and took a sample of wrestling meat.

When Ridge 9 years, began to throw a rope around a variety of animals - horses, donkeys, horses and goats  in the ring in the ranch rodeo family.

At the time he reached high school, missed school to compete in both the rodeo has come to an independent study program that requires them to attend formal classes.

He has a degree from Santa Rosa High School in 2005 and became a professional two years later.

Ridge traveled 60,000 kilometers a year to rival rodeos across the country. With Mitchell has won several rodeos in California this year in Redding, Livermore, Modesto, Bakersfield and Marysville, and in Eugene, Oregon, retired from a return to Oklahoma City three months ago when he hurt his ribs, but was in good health, said his father.

Besides his father and grandfather, he survived by his mother, Kelline Cresta, Santa Rosa, and a brother, Brent, of Cloverdale, California

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Engineer William Staub Dies at 96

Bans personal trainer and yoga paddle, before "Just Do It", Bill Staub read a book that changed his life. It was called "aerobic", published in 1968, and stated that a better life based on a better cardiovascular health.

"He said if you can run a mile in eight minutes, you will always be at the highest level of fitness," recalled Mr. Staub his son Thomas.

So Mr. Staub began to run - and soon gave way to the studio in Besco, the producer of his property in Clifton, New Jersey While employees on one side of the building made of engine injectors fuel from the aircraft and the wings of helicopters, was on the other hand, the construction of the first version of a device claimed that the book had the potential for many more Americans engaged and their so that the eight-minute mile.

The device is a treadmill, and the book's author, Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper never supposed to be available for home use.

Mr. Staub proven otherwise. His first models, built to mark PaceMaster, wooden rollers and had a simple on-off switch near the ground. They were more rudimentary than the doctors had started using in 1950, the stress tests, but were much cheaper, up to $ 399 in 1970.

"It was the pioneer for the use of the treadmill at home," said Dr. Staub Mr. Cooper. "He was away a lot of excuses people did not exercise. They do not have time to worry about security, or whatever. I do not know how long she worked for him, but I know he did not die soon . "

Mr. Staub died July 19 at home in Clifton. He was 96 years. His sons say he was walking in one of its mobile platforms not more than two months.

In the 1980 mid-year the company formed to manufacture, aerobics Inc., 2000 sold a treadmill in a nation increasingly willing to work in the recreation room. In the mid 90's, sales have reached 35 thousand a year. Innovation has become essential as more competition.

The new machines can be customized for different speeds, for heating and reuse, and reproduce the conditions mountainous or flat.

At first, the son of Mr. Gerald Staub designed an on-off switch could be mounted on the handlebars. His father was puzzled.

"My father told me: 'Well, why do I love you'," said Thomas Staub. "My brother said:" To make it easier for people. "And my father said: 'But it is an exercise device."

The aerobic brothers bought by his father in late 1990, then sold to a private equity firm, which moved production overseas.

The private equity firm filed for bankruptcy in 2010. With the help of an investor, the brothers tried to restart aerobics, but closed for good last fall.

Dr. Cooper, 81, and was one of the doctors responsible for monitoring the health of President George W. Bush said treadmill, in general, had a promising future.

He referred to a recent study suggests that older people who maintain a faster pace for longer life. "The next step is to use it to increase longevity," said Dr. Cooper treadmill. Cooper Aerobics racing, which has two fitness centers in Texas.

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Artist Walter Pichler Dies at 75

Walter Pichler, an architect who became a prominent artist in the postwar avant-garde movement in Austria, with time away from creating art to move to a farm and construction work above himself Please, died July 16 at home in Burgenland, Austria. He was 75.

The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Alois Hörtl.

Mr. Pichler was a sculptor and illustrator works include a white, torpedo-shaped hull with a TV inside ("Portable Living Room"), a rusty bed frame supporting a humanoid form, divided by irregular sheets of glass, and many fantastic designs of underground facilities, including the cities and floating palaces.

His architectural drawings were not only the plans, there were also works of art in itself. More pictures - pictures of "dream" as he said - were dark and psychologically loaded. His figures are often skeletal, or robotics.

"In the 1960's was a small group of Austrian architects who have taken a visionary approach and made images of architecture that completely defied the status quo," said Barry Bergdoll, chief curator architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, which owns 16 of the drawings of Mr. Pichler. The group also included the architects Hans Hollein and Raimund Abraham, who won international fame.

The group designs challenge the modernist architecture, which stressed the role and often produced crude buildings without ornaments and dominated by concrete and metal.

"They have begun to explore the emotional resonance of architecture," Bergdoll said. "A building can tell a story rather than a feature." Mr. Pichler liked the design of the buildings being built.

In an essay he wrote, "this is what you resume architectural functionalism that no longer works." He proclaimed. "What you ask is an architecture that fascinates"

Walter Pichler was born October 1, 1936, in New West, northern Italy. He studied art at the Hochschule für Architektur in Vienna and began working as an architect in 1950.

Mr. Pichler converted farm building to house the figure and then began altering the half-dozen other buildings, or for that property, the installation of one of his sculptures in each them.

One consists of two cylindrical containers of cement with a system of channels that collect water and wells. The sculptures and buildings that sheltered them has become his life's work.

The works were "very bright, dark, menacing, mechanical," said Gladstone, a comparison of a number of Darth Vader, the villain of Star Wars movies.

"He really built these statues to himself," said Mrs. Gladstone. "I did not want to jeopardize anything, and if he worked for himself, was not necessary."

Mr. Pichler is survived by his wife, Elves, and their daughter, Anna Tripamer.

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Writer Suzy Gershman Dies at 64

"My heart is repeatedly every time I go into the closet-size shop, I've never seen so many bags that could not live without", Suzy Gershman has written one of the hidden gems that are in your search for "Born Buy in Hong Kong. "" These grants are not copies, just to see something happen ", as the bags in fashion magazines. "

In another finding, revealed in "Born to Shop New York", wrote: "This is the kind of small boutique on Madison Avenue, you could go without knowing that the site is 'a' the ladies of the Upper East Side who love the look euro-asian-art-Boho-hippie ".

Ms. Gershman was the author of 16 "shopping" Born guidelines, published more than 26 years and compiled over hundreds of kilometers to roam around the world and, often, the meanders of the new street .

You have become the standards that have been reviewed every two years - in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, France and Italy. In total, over four million copies of "Born to Shop" books, first published by Bantam and later this week, have been sold.

Ms. Gershman has died of cancer last Wednesday in San Antonio for 64 years, Sarah Lahey said in the past eight years has helped Ms. Gershman researching and writing books.

Buyers guide attention to local markets, boutiques and specialty shops outside the tracks with goods from the artisans. We recommend hotels at affordable prices and offer shopping tips. Ms. Gershman between the Ten Commandments for international purchases:

¶ "Buy local groceries, gifts not only for low cost, but for the objects of local manufacture and bring home a taste of the destination, mustard, ie, France, Texas BBQ sauce ".

¶ "Do not buy products cheaper abroad, especially if it is something that can not go back."

¶ "Do not buy the mania of the moment, that is, the national flag of a country transformed into a headscarf. I mean, really ...."

"The basic idea of ??the book," Ms. Gershman once said, "is that you must read, as we were eating breakfast and I said to my shopping day."

In fact, only this type of event has inspired the series. "He lived in Beverly Hills, where he worked as editor of the West Coast style of People magazine," Ms Lahey said. "She was having lunch with friends, and decided to write a guide to shopping in Beverly Hills. It was what he did the deed."

Suzy Kalter was born April 13, 1948, in San Antonio. She was "not a guy who had a merit scholarship," said Lahey, "but when he traveled with his family would explore local markets and buy sweets -. He always uses the word" was one of three children Gloria and SS Kalter, known as Sy.

His father was a research scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the World Health Organization.

Ms. Kalter graduated from the University of Texas in 1969 with a degree in journalism, then moved to New York to work in advertising and public relations.

There he met Michael Gershman, who married in 1975. He died in 2000. Ms. Gershman survive him a son, Aaron, his brother, Steven, and a granddaughter.

The Gershmans moved to Los Angeles, where, while working for the people, Ms. Kalter (while continuing to be known) has become a regular guest on television programs. In 1986, when "Born to Shop" series began, he changed his name to Gershman.

For Ms. Gershman, much had something to share. In France, purchased by CIL Demasq case, around $ 5 per bottle. "It's a French eye makeup remover - CILS is French for eyelashes - called the product more beautiful than ever invented," said Ms. Lahey. "You are the uses and gave all his friends."

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Retired Adm. James D. Watkins dies at 85

Admiral James D. Watkins was considered an "unlikely hero" after he was named his retirement in 1987 to achieve what many considered impossible - to lead a Council divided and besieged the presidential AIDS.

A former chief of naval operations, Watkins was deeply religious Roman Catholic father of six who was once called to the military ban on gays "good policy". But he was also known as an independent thinker and analytical.

When asked by the Reagan administration to formulate a national strategy to address the AIDS epidemic, the UN Commission under the direction of the new Watkins, the release of a report of 1988, which was widely praised for his ambitious health initiatives and compassion.

"It was a time Jim Watkins," Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., then head of the Joint Chiefs, told the Times in 1988. "He learned everything he could about it, analyzed and then divided into manageable areas. It's just the sort of thing does so well."

Watkins, 85, who was energy secretary to President George HW Bush, died Thursday at home in Alexandria, Virginia had been in declining health in recent years, said his brother, John.

After taking charge of the Secretary of Energy in 1989, Watkins has launched the first program to clean up nuclear plants in the national energy legislation and led to the administration.

Bush acknowledged that the choice Watkins in part because of a background in the field of nuclear energy, which includes a command to Admiral Hyman Rickover of the, who led development of Navy propulsion nuclear in early 1970. The two grew close, and when he died in 1986 Rickover Watkins gave the eulogy.

"The Navy has changed," said Watkins Times in 1988. "Rickover had a strong interest in participating with the best and brightest, and went hard .... I do understand the importance of education and do everything possible to measure the potential that God has given."

In the Department of Energy, Watkins has also developed a 10-point plan to strengthen environmental protection and waste management activities at the agency, and instituted the policy to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. He left the place in 1993.

During his naval career of 37 years, stood up to go to a naval officer and was known for developing a maritime strategy to deal with the Soviet Union and to improve the lives of those who serve in the Navy and their families, according to Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations.

"Watkins was an innovative thinker," said Greenert, "which made our Navy forward."

The sixth of seven children, David James Watkins was born March 7, 1927, at home in Alhambra.

His grandfather, George Clinton, Ward was president of the Southern California Edison in 1930, and his father, Edward Francis Watkins, owned by Southern California Wine Co. and grew grapes in what is now San Marino. After losing his ranch during Prohibition, the father went to work for Edison.

James Watkins said that when his mother, Louise, was a woman of 30 years before his time. In 1938, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination to the Senate.

After receiving a bachelor's degree from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949, Watkins acted in submarines during the Korean and Vietnam wars. In 1958, he earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

In late 1970, Watkins was the commander of the 6th fleet in early 1980 and served as Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet.

At the Pentagon, was known as a free country, if conservative, the spirit that has been dubbed "Radio Free Watkins."

"He was strong. If you say something, you'd better have done his duty," said John, who is his last surviving brother and lives in Pasadena. "I heard, but it is better to know what were talking about."

In 2001, Watkins has started another presidential commission chaired, with the mandate to establish a comprehensive national ocean.

3 years later, the grim report of the U.S. policy on the Sea has nearly 200 recommendations to President George W. George W. Bush. Including asking the government to reduce pollution and control development in the coastal waters of nurses patients back to health.

"All agree that the oceans are in trouble," said Watkins Times in 2004, referring to the 16 panel members. "We know that if you do not move now, in 10 years may not recover."

In 1950 he married Sheila Jo McKinney, the daughter of an admiral. Her career, later said, to follow her husband around the world and raising six children, often only while moving 32 times during the year the Navy. He died of cancer 67 years in 1996.

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Army Spc. Vilmar Galarza Hernandez Dies at 21

In 2009, parents Vile Galarza suffered when he said he wanted to join the army after high school in Salinas.

They wanted to go to college, and had to hand the letters of acceptance. If you had to join the army, he was told he could not choose a job that provides some "security working as a truck driver, perhaps, or a mechanic?

Galarza said they not only give high, but he wanted to be a soldier - to experience the tradition boasted of having boots on the ground.

"We especially wanted the infantry," said his sister, Rubi Galarza. "This is exactly the kind of person he was. Could not talk about it."

On May 26, shortly after starting a nine-month deployment, the soldier. Vilmar Galarza Hernandez, known as "Vile," was on patrol and stepped on a bomb Zharay, Afghanistan, in Kandahar province. He never regained consciousness, according to his family, and died shortly afterwards on the way to a hospital. He was 21.

Galarza was assigned to the 4 th Battalion, 23 Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Second Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington was his second tour in Afghanistan, according his family, completed a six month tour in 2010.

Galarza was born in Yuma, Arizona, and moved at the age of 5 years in Salinas, where their parents work in agricultural fields in the region.

"Do not live in the best neighborhood," said Rubi Galarza. "I wanted to be able to move my family to this neighborhood."

Vile as Ruby and Galarza grew, they lost some of his friends to violence in prison and banda. Vile Galarza was determined to avoid this fate.

"I saw him move away from that, and I did the same," said Rubi Galarza, in a telephone interview from Peru, where he is studying for the summer. "I have always followed in his footsteps."

Due to the influence of his older brother, Rubi Galarza said, have received recognition from the University of Berkeley, which will enter its fourth year this fall, studying biology with the intention of going in medical school. Galarza was in Peru conducting research on medicinal plants.

"I was so proud of me," he said. "It's so sad that it will be my graduation."

Galarza is a graduate of Everett Alvarez High School Salinas in 2008. He was married two months before he was murdered.

He was buried with military honors at Garden of Memories in Salinas. In a panegyric at his funeral, the church, Brig. January Randal A. Dragon Galarza recalls as "a son, a husband, a brother, a soldier, a knight, a hero and a friend."

"It was a true American patriot and a man respected and wanted by all who were privileged to walk beside her," said the Dragon.

Captain Brandon Wohlschlegel, company commander of Galarza, called it "a model soldier."

"In some of the toughest conditions I've ever seen, the soldier. Galarza Hernandez was always doing the right thing," said Wohlschlegel. "It was a rock."

Galarza awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal Army Good Conduct Medal, National Service Medal Defense Medal Afghanistan Campaign with Campaign Star, Global War on Terrorism Medal, Army Service Ribbon and the Overseas Ribbon, the NATO medal and Jack Fight Credential.

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