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Age of the Dead
- Rise, Book 2
- Lu par : Jeff Woodman
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In Age of the Dead, Gareth Wood's sequel to Rise, narrated with plainspoken purpose and adventurous amusement by Jeff Woodman, it's been 18 months since the flesh-eating zombies have risen up and embarked on their rampage, devastating humans and their land with bloody violence.
Young hero Brian Williams and a crew of plucky survivors have managed to avoid the flesh-eating monsters at a safe haven in Western Canada. But food is dwindling and the courageous Brian and his assembled salvage team must go further from safety and closer to the zombies to find the crucial supplies that are the key to their further survival.
Age of the Dead is the sequel to Rise by Gareth Wood, a journey into the zombie-infested wasteland in search of that rarest of things after the apocalypse: hope. Coming soon from Permuted Press.
In the fall of 2005, after surviving the first year and a half of the end of the world, there is very little left for the remaining people of apocalyptic Canada. Salvage teams gather what supplies remain, survivors are brought in more and more rarely, and a cure is rumoured for the undead plague that has ravaged the world.
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- Mike Naka
- 23/01/2013
what happens after you survive the outbreak
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
most interesting: following salvage team 107 as they venture into different areas.
least interesting: nada
How did the narrator detract from the book?
monotone voice recounting much of the story
Do you think Age of the Dead needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
yes, the ending, while not a cliffhanger, definitely leaves the story open for a 3rd book
Any additional comments?
good follow-up to the 1st book. for those of you who may not have listened to the 1st book, the 1st book tells the story of brian, an investment banker, and his sister, sara, a pre-med student as they flee calgary as the dead come back to life. after rescuing some survivors, they eventually make it to coldlake air force base. once there, brian and some of the survivors he saved become one of the military's salvage teams, looking for survivors and supplies. age of the dead picks up about a year and a half after the outbreak.
the surviving canadian military forces have been able to clear the dead from some areas and make some safe areas. for instance, they were able to clear the dead out of the calgary terminal and air field, but the dead constantly threaten to break through their defenses. this adds a nice bit of tension to the time(s) brian and salvage team 107 spend there in both books.
this book is composed of a bunch of quests brian and his team are sent on. through these quests, we learn the state of different areas- the main safe zones, the farms and communities adjacent to them, and the areas in between. life is measured in simple pleasures- warm food, hot showers, and power.
i enjoyed this zombie tale b/c it's unlike most of the others i've listened to. most of the zombie novels i've read always center around the initial outbreak or the characters fleeing for their lives. so, this story was kind of refreshing.
my biggest problem was the monotone tone of the narrator. i guess it's not the narrator's fault, but more of the author's fault. this is a journal style story, and a lot of the story, except the action sequences, is read with a monotone voice. perhaps, the author was trying to provide an added sense of the bleakness of life afterwards via the words he penned.
if you're a zombie fan like me, you'd probably enjoy these books. while not the best, they're far from being the worst.
overall, i enjoyed the story and look forward to the 3rd book. worthwhile use of time and $.
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- David
- 22/10/2015
Buen libro
Buen libro. Le falta ritmo en algunos momentos pero divertido en general. Recomiendo a los fans de zombis.


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Club Creative Studio's Feature Friday blog post: Inspired by wood.
Welcome to Club Creative Studio's Feature Friday post. This week, I was inspired by wood. The Asbury Park, New Jersey Artist: Laura Petrovich-Cheney creates in mixed media and her work is part of a solo series at the Abington Art Center.
I can appreciate her love of texture and creations from found wood items. Gathering her art supplies from her daily walks and traveling adventures, Laura uses reclaimed wood pieces in a creative quilt-like way. Making small alterations to the wood she adds depth. You may find wood intentionally burned, impressed, sawed, pierced, or hacked not to mention processes such as casting or cleaving.
I immediately thought of the "crazy quilt" pattern when I first laid eyes on the irregular grid organized wood scraps. Her raised surfaces put dimension to that same material quality of a hand-made quilt. The recent tragic weather activity on the east coast has washed up interesting wood scrap treasures for Laura to consider in her art creations. So, if you are venturing out along the coastline for a walk, you may find this MFA holder in Studio Art, MS in Fashion Art, and BA in Fine Arts artist walking along side you. She will be the one gathering interesting scraps of found wood.
It seems upon looking closely to her art, she combines wood pieces from random finds and original objects. I was inspired to create future beads with similar random patterns and color combinations. Do you see the square with brown, sky blue and pumpkin orange colors in the first photo for example? I'd love to replicate that feeling in a few beads. Stay tuned as I attempt to incorporate the pattern or color choice into hand-rolled clay beads soon. You know that I will post pictures of my finished project here on the blog and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/clubcreativestudio. Thanks for stopping by and admiring this found art. Your comments are always welcome, especially if this technique strikes interest.


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The new issue of Lucky magazine, with the glowing and gorgeous Rosario Dawson on the cover, has a forward-looking fashion piece inside called "The Next Big Things '09." You'll find the "most wanted trends" for the new year: Oversize '80s earrings, cuban heels, cropped slouchy trousers. And, what the magazine calls "Shoe Obsession No. 1": Nude leather shoes. Yeah, nude. But for whom?
You already know the answer: For people with a certain skin color.
I remember, as a kid, when Crayola crayons had a color called "flesh." The company changed the name from "flesh" to "peach" in 1962, right when the Civil Rights Movement was in full-force, and I was coloring more than a decade later, but I remember "flesh" fairly vividly, and I'm not the only one. Maybe I had old crayons. (Or knock-offs?) In any case, I was distinctly aware that, as a black kid, my skin was a lot darker than what the crayon people were declaring was standard.
I also recall the first time I realized that Band-Aid bandages were supposedly "flesh" colored. The little strips that always showed up like a pop of bright beige on my skin totally blended in on the knee of my childhood buddy, who was, of course, Caucasian.
It's terrible to feel like your skin color makes you an undesirable client, an afterthought, not worthy of consideration. And it came rushing back when I saw Lucky suggesting I ought to try "nude" shoes. The idea is that the color of the shoe fades into your skin tone, extending the leg. But since I'm not white, they certainly won't make my legs look a mile long.
The dictionary lists one definition of "nude" as "the color of a white person's flesh," which means that the Lucky editors are using it correctly; I just wish they weren't using it at all.


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Making Books in 1947: A How-to Video
Boy, does this ever look labor intensive. All that type-setting, all those machines and fumes and people and copper and wax involved in the making of one book. But it sure is charming. And am I alone in missing the days when men used enough pomade in their hair to retain comb marks?


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I was feeling down after thinking about the prison and had my eyes cast down in deep thought. Then suddenly I saw a piece of rainbow on the street which fell from the sky. I looked up and saw the rainbow with the missing piece. My kupuna sure know how to cheer me up when I am feeling down. That is why I love them with all my being. If I could give you a piece of rainbow to cheer you up. I surely would. I just don't quite know how to do it yet...
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A bill that would let pharmacists refuse to stock certain drugs, including birth control pills, passed the Missouri Senate Thursday.
The measure now heads to the House.
While many people have prescriptions filled at chain pharmacies or discount stores, some people in small towns still rely on individual stores.
"Each individual pharmacist needs to make a decision whether they're going to fill that prescription or not," said Nick Smock, the CEO of PBA Health.
His group helps smaller stores compete with large chains.
Smock said the bill could give extra protection to pharmacists. While critics say the bill appears to be aimed at drugs like birth control or the morning-after pill, Smock said customers have options.
"If that patient wants that particular type of chemical, then they should be able to get it. Not necessarily from each individual pharmacy, but there's other avenues," Smock said.
Some pharmacists said they think the bill is just playing politics because they already have the right to refuse to fill prescriptions for any drug that they think would harm a patient.
Many pharmacists can already choose to not stock certain drugs. A pharmacy in Raytown said it hasn't stocked the morning-after pill in two years because no one asked for it.
The bill's sponsor, Sen. David Sater, is a Republican pharmacist from southwest Missouri. He said other states have required that pharmacies stock birth control or emergency contraception, and he thinks pharmacies should be free to sell whatever products its owner chooses.


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- Antiretroviral tolerability and efficacy after switch to saquinavir in PI-experienced patients : 48-week analysis of the German Rainbow Cohort (2008)
- Poster presentation: Purpose of the study The aim of the Rainbow Cohort is to assess the tolerability and efficacy of initiating treatment with, or switching treatment to the saquinavir (SQV) 500 mg film-coated tablet formulation. We present the final 48-week subgroup analysis of PI-experienced, but SQV-naïve patients. ...
- The Rainbow Cohort: saquinavir/r is effective and well tolerated in antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve patients – 48-week results from Germany (2008)
- Poster presentation: Purpose of the study The aim of the Rainbow Cohort is to assess the tolerability and efficacy of initiating treatment with, or switching treatment to saquinavir (SQV) 500 mg film-coated tablet formulation. We present the final 48-week subgroup analysis of antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve patients. ...
- Determination of HIV-1 co-receptor usage in German patients : comparison of genotypic methods with the TROFILE® phenotypic assay (2008)
- Poster presentation: Background Maraviroc is a new drug used to treat HIV infection from the new class of drugs called CCR5 entry inhibitors. As the active principle of these drugs is to block the CCR5-receptor on the surface of the target cells, it has to be known if the virus in the patient is using only CCR5 as co-receptor or if there are populations that can also use CXCR4. Therefore, an assay to determine the tropism has to be performed before starting a therapy. Besides phenotypic assays like the TROFILE® assay by Monogram, used in the approval studies, there exist several genotyping systems like geno2pheno-coreceptor, Wetcat (providing five different genotypic tropism schemes) and WebPSSM. ...
- Structural and functional analyses of PAS domain interactions of the clock proteins Drosophila PERIOD and mouse PERIOD2 (2009)
- PERIOD proteins are central components of the Drosophila and mammalian circadian clocks. The crystal structure of a Drosophila PERIOD (dPER) fragment comprising two PER-ARNT-SIM (PAS) domains (PAS-A and PAS-B) and two additional C-terminal alpha-helices (alphaE and alphaF) has revealed a homodimer mediated by intermolecular interactions of PAS-A with tryptophane 482 in PAS-B and helix alphaF. Here we present the crystal structure of a monomeric PAS domain fragment of dPER lacking the alphaF helix. Moreover, we have solved the crystal structure of a PAS domain fragment of the mouse PERIOD homologue mPER2. The mPER2 structure shows a different dimer interface than dPER, which is stabilized by interactions of the PAS-B beta-sheet surface including tryptophane 419 (equivalent to Trp482dPER). We have validated and quantitatively analysed the homodimer interactions of dPER and mPER2 by site-directed mutagenesis using analytical gel filtration, analytical ultracentrifugation, and co-immunoprecipitation experiments. Furthermore we show, by yeast-two-hybrid experiments, that the PAS-B beta-sheet surface of dPER mediates interactions with TIMELESS (dTIM). Our study reveals quantitative and qualitative differences between the homodimeric PAS domain interactions of dPER and its mammalian homologue mPER2. In addition, we identify the PAS-B beta-sheet surface as a versatile interaction site mediating mPER2 homodimerization in the mammalian system and dPER-dTIM heterodimer formation in the Drosophila system.
- The activation mechanism of Irga6, an interferon-inducible GTPase contributing to mouse resistance against Toxoplasma gondii (2011)
- Background: The interferon-inducible immunity-related GTPases (IRG proteins/p47 GTPases) are a distinctive family of GTPases that function as powerful cell-autonomous resistance factors. The IRG protein, Irga6 (IIGP1), participates in the disruption of the vacuolar membrane surrounding the intracellular parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, through which it communicates with its cellular hosts. Some aspects of the protein's behaviour have suggested a dynamin-like molecular mode of action, in that the energy released by GTP hydrolysis is transduced into mechanical work that results in deformation and ultimately rupture of the vacuolar membrane. Results: Irga6 forms GTP-dependent oligomers in vitro and thereby activates hydrolysis of the GTP substrate. In this study we define the catalytic G-domain interface by mutagenesis and present a structural model, of how GTP hydrolysis is activated in Irga6 complexes, based on the substrate-twinning reaction mechanism of the signal recognition particle (SRP) and its receptor (SRalpha). In conformity with this model, we show that the bound nucleotide is part of the catalytic interface and that the 3'hydroxyl of the GTP ribose bound to each subunit is essential for trans-activation of hydrolysis of the GTP bound to the other subunit. We show that both positive and negative regulatory interactions between IRG proteins occur via the catalytic interface. Furthermore, mutations that disrupt the catalytic interface also prevent Irga6 from accumulating on the parasitophorous vacuole membrane of T. gondii, showing that GTP-dependent Irga6 activation is an essential component of the resistance mechanism. Conclusions: The catalytic interface of Irga6 defined in the present experiments can probably be used as a paradigm for the nucleotide-dependent interactions of all members of the large family of IRG GTPases, both activating and regulatory. Understanding the activation mechanism of Irga6 will help to explain the mechanism by which IRG proteins exercise their resistance function. We find no support from sequence or G-domain structure for the idea that IRG proteins and the SRP GTPases have a common phylogenetic origin. It therefore seems probable, if surprising, that the substrate-assisted catalytic mechanism has been independently evolved in the two protein families.


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Close vote seen on background checks on gun buyers
WASHINGTON -- The sponsors of a Senate proposal to expand background checks for gun buyers says a vote is likely this week and it's too close to call.
There was a hopeful sign Sunday: Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who has a B+ rating from the National Rifle Association, says he's leaning toward supporting it.
The proposal is from Republican Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania and Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and they say it's shaping up as a close call.
The plan would require background checks for people buying guns at gun shows and online. Background checks currently apply only to transactions handled by the country's 55,000 licensed gun dealers.
Toomey says a vote could come as early as Wednesday.
They appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" and CBS' "Face the Nation." McCain was on CNN.


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Power Up Consumer Choice: Introducing New Line of USB Chargers Made with Post-consumer Plastics
(3BL Media) August 30, 2012 - AT&T* customers now have the option to purchase wall and car chargers with housings made from at least 30 percent post-consumer recycled plastic. AT&T continues to work with its suppliers to provide consumers sustainable products.
Over the last year, AT&T took major strides in the field of sustainability, from introducing accessory packaging made from up to 30 percent plant-based materials, to creating a consumer-focused sustainability website — EcoSpace — to launching a trade-in device recycling program to creating an eco-rating system for all new AT&T-branded postpaid handset devices.
The new wall chargers are made with at least 30 percent post-consumer recycled plastics and use minimal power when plugged in for optimal energy conservation. The chargers are Energy Star 5 rated and exceed California's Energy Commission 2013 efficiency standards with a focus on reducing "Vampire Draw" while not in use. If a customer were to leave the wall charger plugged in for a year without use, it would consume only the equivalent of a 100-watt light bulb left on for a day.
Understanding that most consumers want the best products with the least environmental impact, AT&T ensured that these chargers are more powerful than their predecessors. With increased amperage allowing for 10-watts per port, customers can rest assured that their device, whether a phone or tablet, will charge at full rate when it is plugged in to one of the USB ports. The wall charger is also capable of international use.
Wall Power Charger Key Facts:
- Single and dual USB models available
- Two USB ports for rapid charging smart phones, tablets, mp3 players, and other mobile devices
- Universal USB ports works with virtually any mobile device and cable
- Plastic housing made with at least 30 percent post-consumer recycled plastic
- Energy saving technology only consumes <0.3W when not in use
- Meets the latest efficiency requirements proposed by the California Energy Commission, to go into effect in 2013
- Elegant, soft-touch design looks great in any setting
- Single USB model is compact, travels well, and won't crowd outlets or power strips
Vehicle Power Charger Key Facts:
- More power with 5V 2amp
- Housing is made of approximately 30 percent post-consumer recycled plastic
Housing is made of durable and flame retardant materials
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The goal of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems is to investigate and understand the organizing principles of intelligent systems and the underlying perception-action-learning loop. The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems combines – within one center – theory, software, and hardware expertise in the research field of intelligent systems.
The Tübingen campus of the institute focuses on theory and algorithms as well as human-scale systems covering topics such as machine learning, computer vision, robotics, control, and the theory of intelligence. Research at the Stuttgart campus of the institute covers small-scale robotics, self-organization, haptic perception, bio-inspired systems, medical robotics, and physical intelligence; that is, the embodiment of intelligent behavior in physical, rather than computational, systems.
Every day, artificial intelligence is in the news. Cars are becoming more and more autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicles will deliver packages, robots will assist us in our homes, and surgery will be done by small robots in our bodies. With the digitization of industry and the presence of cyber-physical systems, Intelligent Systems are increasingly becoming a part of the real world. The ability to create systems for Autonomous Robotics and Intelligent Software is a future key technology in industry, mobility, and our society as a whole.
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This module defines a generic web application interface. It is a common protocol between web servers and web applications.
The overriding design principles here are performance and generality . To
address performance, this library is built on
Source for the request body and
Enumerator for the response bodies. The advantages of this approach over lazy
IO have been debated elsewhere.
Nonetheless, many people find these data structures difficult to work with. For that reason, this library includes the Network.Wai.Enumerator module to provide more familiar abstractions, including lazy IO.
Generality is achieved by removing many variables commonly found in similar
projects that are not universal to all servers. The goal is that the
object contains only data which is meaningful in all circumstances.
A final note: please remember when using this package that, while your application may compile without a hitch against many different servers, there are other considerations to be taken when moving to a new backend. For example, if you transfer from a CGI application to a FastCGI one, you might suddenly find you have a memory leak. Conversely, a FastCGI application would be well served to preload all templates from disk when first starting; this would kill the performance of a CGI application.
- type Method = ByteString
- type HttpVersion = ByteString
- http09 :: HttpVersion
- http10 :: HttpVersion
- http11 :: HttpVersion
- data CIByteString = CIByteString {
- mkCIByteString :: ByteString -> CIByteString
- type RequestHeader = CIByteString
- type ResponseHeader = CIByteString
- data Status = Status {
- status200 :: Status
- status301 :: Status
- status302 :: Status
- status303 :: Status
- status400 :: Status
- status401 :: Status
- status403 :: Status
- status404 :: Status
- status405 :: Status
- status500 :: Status
- data ResponseBody
- newtype Source = Source {
- runSource :: IO (Maybe (ByteString, Source))
- newtype Enumerator = Enumerator {
- runEnumerator :: forall a. (a -> ByteString -> IO (Either a a)) -> a -> IO (Either a a)
- data Request = Request {
- data Response = Response {
- type Application = Request -> IO Response
- type Middleware = Application -> Application
Data types
Request method
type Method = ByteStringSource
HTTP request method. Since the HTTP protocol allows arbitrary request
methods, we leave this open as a
ByteString. Please note the request
methods are case-sensitive.
HTTP protocol versions
type HttpVersion = ByteStringSource
Version of HTTP protocol used in current request. The value given here should be everything following the "HTTP/" line in a request. In other words, HTTP/1.1 -> "1.1", HTTP/1.0 -> "1.0".
Case-insensitive byte strings
data CIByteString Source
A case insensitive bytestring, where the
Eq and
Ord instances do
comparisons based on the lower-cased version of this string. For efficiency,
this datatype contains both the original and lower-case version of the
string; this means there is no need to lower-case the bytestring for every
Please note that this datatype has an
IsString instance, which can allow
for very concise code when using the OverloadedStrings language extension.
mkCIByteString :: ByteString -> CIByteStringSource
Convert a regular bytestring to a case-insensitive bytestring.
Request header names
type RequestHeader = CIByteStringSource
Headers sent from the client to the server. Note that this is a case-insensitive string, as the HTTP spec specifies.
Response header names
type ResponseHeader = CIByteStringSource
Headers sent from the server to the client. Note that this is a case-insensitive string, as the HTTP spec specifies.
Response status code
HTTP status code; a combination of the integral code and a status message. Equality is determined solely on the basis of the integral code.
Response body
data ResponseBody Source
The response body returned to the server from the application. We provide three separate constructors as optimizations:
ResponseEnumeratoris the most general type, allowing constant-memory production of a response, even in the presence of interleaved I/O actions.
ResponseFileserves a static file from the filesystem. Many servers use a sendfile system call to optimize this type of serving, making this a huge performance gain.
ResponseLBS. Often times, we wish to return a response that includes no interleaved I/O. In this case, we can use Haskell's natural laziness to our advantage, and represent the response as a lazy bytestring.
This is a source for
ByteStrings. It is a function (wrapped in a
newtype) that will return Nothing if the data has been completely consumed,
or return the next
ByteString from the source along with a new
to continue reading from.
Be certain not to reuse a
Source! It might work fine with some
implementations of
Source, while causing bugs with others.
This datatype is used by WAI to represent a request body. We choose this over an enumerator in that it gives the application power over control flow. This not only makes it easier to use in many situations, but also allows implementation of some features such as a backtracking parser which doesn't read the entire body into memory.
newtype Enumerator Source
An enumerator is a data producer. It takes two arguments: a function to enumerate over (the iteratee) and an accumulating parameter. As the enumerator produces output, it calls the iteratee, thereby avoiding the need to allocate large amounts of memory for storing the entire piece of data.
Normally in Haskell, we can achieve the same results with laziness. For example, an inifinite list does not require inifinite memory storage; we simply get away with thunks. However, when operating in the IO monad, we do not have this luxury. There are other approaches, such as lazy I/O. If you would like to program in this manner, please see Network.Wai.Enumerator, in particular toLBS.
That said, let's address the details of this particular enumerator
implementation. You'll notice that the iteratee is a function that takes two
arguments and returns an
Either value. The second argument is simply the
piece of data generated by the enumerator. The
Either value at the end is
a means to alert the enumerator whether to continue or not. If it returns
Left, then the enumeration should cease. If it returns
Right, it should
The accumulating parameter (a) has meaning only to the iteratee; the
enumerator simply passes it around. The enumerator itself also returns an
Either value; a
Right means the enumerator ran to completion, while a
Left indicates early termination was requested by the iteratee.
Enumerators are not required to be resumable. That is to say, the
Enumerator may only be called once. While this requirement puts a bit of a
strain on the caller in some situations, it saves a large amount of
complication- and thus performance- on the producer.
In WAI, an Enumerator is used to represent the response body. We have specifically chosen one of the simplest representations of an enumerator to avoid coding complication and performance overhead.
WAI interface
Information on the request sent by the client. This abstracts away the details of the underlying implementation.
type Application = Request -> IO ResponseSource
type Middleware = Application -> ApplicationSource
Middleware is a component that sits between the server and application. It can do such tasks as GZIP encoding or response caching. What follows is the general definition of middleware, though a middleware author should feel free to modify this.
As an example of an alternate type for middleware, suppose you write a function to load up session information. The session information is simply a string map [(String, String)]. A logical type signatures for this middleware might be:
loadSession :: ([(String, String)] -> Application) -> Application
Here, instead of taking a standard
Application as its first argument, the
middleware takes a function which consumes the session information as well.


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Rollout of Atlas V TDRS-K, Cape Canaveral AFS, Florida
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is rolled to the pad at Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., in preparation to launch NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-K (TDRS-K).
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first of NASA's three next-generation
Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched
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"TDRS-K bolsters our network of satellites that provides essential
communications to support space exploration," said Badri Younes,
deputy associate administrator for Space Communications and
Navigation at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "It will improve the
overall health and longevity of our system."
The TDRS system provides tracking, telemetry, command and
high-bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human
exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include the International
Space Station and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
"With this launch, NASA has begun the replenishment of our aging space
network," said Jeffrey Gramling, TDRS project manager. "This addition
to our current fleet of seven will provide even greater capabilities
to a network that has become key to enabling many of NASA's
scientific discoveries."
TDRS-K was lifted into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V
rocket from Space Launch Complex-41. After a three-month test phase,
NASA will accept the spacecraft for additional evaluation before
putting the satellite into service.
The TDRS-K spacecraft includes several modifications from older
satellites in the TDRS system, including redesigned
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panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet growing S-band
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ground-based processing of data, will allow the system to service
more customers with evolving communication requirements.
The next TDRS spacecraft, TDRS-L, is scheduled for launch in 2014.
TDRS-M's manufacturing process will be completed in 2015.
NASA's Space Communications and Navigation Program, part of the Human
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TDRS Project Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in
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Family of ex-Marine in Iran sees hope of freedom
DETROIT (AP) — The family of a former U.S. Marine imprisoned in Iran since his 2011 arrest on spying charges is hopeful that he could be released soon because of recent developments in his case, including his conviction for a lesser offense, a family spokesman said Sunday.
Iran arrested Amir Hekmati, now 31, in August 2011 while he was on a trip to visit his grandmothers in Tehran. He was born in the U.S. and holds dual Iranian and U.S. citizenship.
Iran's government labeled Hekmati a CIA spy, and a court sentenced him to death after finding him guilty of espionage. Iran's Supreme Court overturned the sentence in 2012, but Hekmati has remained behind bars.
His family and the U.S. government have repeatedly said that Hekmati was not a spy and that his visit was for personal reasons, because of the illness of one grandmother.
Last week, the family learned that Hekmati had been tried secretly in a Revolutionary Court, convicted of the less serious offense of "cooperating with hostile governments" and sentenced to 10 years in prison, said family spokesman Chris Hayes.
Hekmati's new defense lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, appears to be well connected with the Iranian government and optimistic that Hekmati could be released after completing one-third of his sentence, or about three years, family spokesman Chris Hayes said.
"It's a good change," Hayes told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "All of this is, with the new lawyer, all good."
Interviewed in Iran on Saturday, Tabatabaei told AP that he was seeking Hekmati's conditional release from Evin prison, north of the capital, Tehran.
"According to law, if someone serves one-third of his conviction period and within that time, shows an acceptable behavior in jail, he can be entitled to conditional freedom," Tabatabaei said. "One-third of his imprisonment will end around September and October."
A conditional release could allow Hekmati to leave the country, depending on what a court decides. That could allow Hekmati to visit his father, Ali Hekmati, who is a professor in Michigan. Family members say Ali Hekmati has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and recently suffered a stroke.
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I am not sure - we are still looking into it.
If the comments are causing you that much trouble, why don't you disable them?
Are you going to add IP addresses record for every topsite owners and admins to investigate their own control main menu page to find whose ip address from?
I love to hear about it because if you are going to add it someday and I will be for sure kicking off the spammers, threaters, others like insulting or posting smutty things in the comments. Even thru, I can report to their isp service and the isp service has to make their own decision to suspend the account or terminate the person's account.
I am not sure - we are still looking into it.
If the comments are causing you that much trouble, why don't you disable them?
For the comments, yes, I kept deleting them, but they kept coming back to post many smutty links and some threatenings against on some members in their own comments. I was really disappointed that 2 of my members asked me to remove their banners off of my own topsites, so I had to do for their sakes.
I mean disable the comments altogether - so that no one can post comments at all. Then you don't have to go through and delete them.
I think you're absolutely right to let me know about removing all comments, so no one can post again and again... I think I would inactive the comments anytime to prevent other people from coming back again to post multiply comments.
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Investigation ongoing, no charges filed yet
The Lancaster County District Attorney says the death of a 6-week-old infant was murder. The body was found in a home in Columbia.
Police just finished interviewing the boy's mom and dad and they are being called persons of interest in the case. Investigators say the case has been difficult for them to handle.
Born on Sept. 3, Andrew Junior, named after his dad and nicknamed AJ, died when he was just six weeks old. His grandmother thought it was sudden infant death syndrome, but police told her otherwise. Investigators say he died of multiple traumatic injuries.
"It's very troubling. He only weighed 6 pounds; quite a diminutive size, as any child would be at six weeks. While I've seen many of these in my career, it doesn't get easier. It's unsettling, and I'm still feeling the effects from it," said Randy Miller, the assistant district attorney for Lancaster.
Columbia Borough police went to the home of Andrew Moyer and his girlfriend, Brianna Michael, on the 100 block of Locust St. Thursday morning for a medical emergency. That's where police found the boy already dead.
"It certainly was upsetting for the officers to experience," said Columbia Police Chief Jack Brommer.
Police say they do not believe this was a random act of violence by anyone not associated with the child, and at this point, no charges have been filed.
"I'm going to describe the investigation as open. Certainly there are persons of interest, as in most investigations involving child homicide, so that's probably the way I'll leave it," said Miller.
"We will investigate it thoroughly, I assure you," said Brommer.
Columbia Borough police say they have not had any run-ins with this couple in the past. The landlord said the two had recently moved in and that Briana Michael was still pregnant at the time.


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When we think people are beginning to wake up to the various forms of violence that can destroy a child's life; when 'tougher choices' are being debated by politicians, we get a clear message from our courts - yet again - that the judiciary are asleep at the wheel.
Judge Mary Peters has given 20-year-old James Robert Hall a paltry year on home detention for his sadistic and cruel "care-giving" of his five-month-old daughter, which included breaking her legs in five places.
He admitted his guilt, and was 17 at the time of the offending, and for these two factors, got the pathetic starting point of three-years-three-months cut back to the point where the "punishment" has become virtually meaningless.
A man (or woman) who can, with obvious intent and possible pleasure, break a baby's legs, is not a normal human being. Most 17-year-olds would never do this to a baby. This man is disturbed. He's not allowed near his own partner and daughter for a year, but there is nothing to stop him fathering more children, even while on home detention. He's got many more years of fertility ahead. God help us.
It seems that if you are a sex offender there is no end to the hue and cry your movements cause, which is as it should be. But when will we - and our judiciary - take on board the fact that a violence is every bit as ruinous and indefensible? Where is the "child abusers" register? The public meetings? The shame?
Sometimes it is hard to understand where Garth McVicar and co are coming from, but they are certainly, slowly winning the PR fight to have some sunlight thrown on the workings of the judiciary - and it's judgements like this that underscore their points perfectly. If James Robert Hall comes before the courts again for child abuse - and who would bet on the fact he won't? - it would be nice to think that Judge Mary Peters might have to answer for this absolutely ridiculous decision - one that essentially says a young man's on-going ability to train as a decorator is far more important than the safety and sanctity of a helpless baby entrusted to his care.
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The Man Who Lit Up the World
On a chilly December afternoon in 1877, a group of men working in a small laboratory located in the isolated countryside of Menlo Park, New Jersey, gathered around a table where a young man, barely 30 years old, sat with a curious machine on the table in front of him. Never before having seen any machine like it, they asked what the device was for. "This machine," the young man replied, eyeing the crowd around him as he took a puff from his thick black cigar, "will talk."
The onlookers were aghast at the confident man's claim. They began to mumble among themselves of the impossibility. But they knew this man, and he already had many amazing inventions to his credit, although he was also the consummate practical joker. Undaunted, the young man challenged the crowd of doubters to a wager in the currency they always used: cigars.
With supreme confidence, the young inventor, a man named Thomas Alva Edison, wrapped a piece of tin foil around a drum with a crank handle attached and mounted so the drum could be rotated. He then moved into position in front of the drum a diaphragm with a small needle attached to it. Rotating the drum by hand, Edison spoke the words to the nursery rhyme, "Mary had a little lamb." As he spoke, the diaphragm vibrated, causing the attached needle to trace a slight indentation into the tin foil on the drum. When he was done speaking, he rotated the drum from the beginning and let the needle retrace the groove on the tin foil's surface, which made the diaphragm vibrate. To the shock of everyone assembled, including Edison, the machine repeated the words he had just recorded.
Years later Edison would say he was "always troubled by an invention that worked on the first try." But without realizing it, he had, with a simple machine, forever changed the world. Moreover, the feat of recording sound had been accomplished by a man who was almost totally deaf.
While the invention was a success, and Edison collected several cigars from the onlookers--they were his laboratory assistants--as his reward that day, the phonograph remained just a novelty for almost 10 years. Shortly after its invention, Edison gave numerous demonstrations of the machine before hundreds of people, including then President Rutherford B. Hayes. The machine was thought to be magical, even mystical, as observers reacted with amazement at hearing their voices and other sounds mimicked by the device. Edison was called a genius, and gained instant worldwide fame from the invention, with the newspapers dubbing him "The Wizard of Menlo Park." Yet, despite the stir created by the invention, his financial supporters at the time could imagine no conceivable use for the new machine.
Today we view technological change as a fact of everyday life. But in the last half of the nineteenth century, technology, and particularly the practical application of electricity, was at its dawning. The telegraph was the key, since it demonstrated the commercial possibilities of electricity. By the time Edison became a teenager, the telegraph was not yet in wide use, and the industry was struggling to grow. With the outbreak of the Civil War, the importance of the telegraph became apparent. Afterwards, the industry was hungry for new technological improvements, which gave Edison the opportunity to cultivate his inventive skills.
So important did Edison's inventions become in revolutionizing the telegraph that word of a new improvement by him could send the share prices tumbling of the telegraph companies that did not have the rights to use his new patents. The Wall Street money men competed aggressively to control the inventor and his patent rights because of the wealth they could create. By the time his inventive career was done, Edison would have nearly 1,100 patents to his name, of which the major ones included the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the storage battery and, his greatest triumph, the electric light.
He had three great passions in life: inventing, jokes and cigars. When convinced of a good inventive idea, he would stop at nothing to find the answer. His method of experimenting was to try hundreds of solutions, letting the results dictate the direction of the research. A voracious reader, he would begin his research by reviewing any previous work conducted by others on a particular invention. He believed it was important to understand why other attempts at an invention had failed, and he was not afraid of failing himself. Once when an assistant remarked at the number of failed attempts to invent the storage battery, Edison told the assistant not to be concerned, "because they now knew a thousand things that wouldn't work." Furthermore, he had a tremendous capacity for detail and was renowned among his assistants for being able to recall specifics about past experiments with great accuracy. If he had one weakness in his mental capacity, it was in mathematics, a subject for which he admitted having no acumen.
Edison's interest in inventing was so intense that in his late 20s, flush with cash from his telegraphic inventions, he organized and built the laboratory in Menlo Park for the sole purpose of working on inventions to sell. His confidence in his abilities as an inventor was boundless, although many scientists of the day viewed his "invention factory" idea to be insane and doomed to failure. Instead, Edison's laboratory became the forerunner of research and development facilities maintained by corporations today.
Thomas Alva Edison, or Al as he was called as a child, was born on Feb. 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. While Al was a young boy, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, where he was to grow up. An inquisitive child, he had, according to some romantic legends, a penchant for mischief, which frequently got him into trouble. No doubt some of the stories of his impishness are true and may have led to his being thrown out of school after only a few months. Fortunately for Edison, his mother was a former teacher, and she undertook his education, instilling in him a lifelong love of reading and learning. Years later he would remark, "My mother was the making of me."
By the time he was 12, he had a job on the Grand Trunk Railway selling newspapers to passengers as the train traveled between Port Huron and Detroit. Enterprising in nature, he began to get news stories from the telegraph offices at each station stop along the train route and started to publish his own newspaper in the baggage car of the train. The paper was known as The Weekly Herald, and he used the proceeds to purchase books on chemistry and chemicals for his experiments.
When he was 15, he began to experience his deafness. It commenced, according to Edison, when he was late for the train one morning and jumped from the station platform to get on the moving train. He caught the last step but was unable to pull himself up. A trainman came to the rescue and pulled him aboard by his ears. Edison claimed late in his life that he felt at the time something snap inside his head. "The deafness started then," he recalled, "and has progressed ever since. I haven't heard a bird sing," he added sadly, "since I was a young boy." The exact cause of his deafness was never determined. But more than likely, it was the result of a childhood disease, such as scarlet fever.
Rather than let deafness deter him, Edison realized that it afforded him the silence he needed to concentrate while others around him were busy talking. This enabled him to read his beloved books at any time. While unable to hear normal conversation without great effort, he could hear clearly the clicking of the telegraph, which he had become interested in learning. His opportunity came one day when he rescued the young son of a stationmaster from a runaway boxcar. As a reward, the stationmaster offered to teach Al how to operate the telegraph. He was a natural at the device and soon became proficient in its use.
It didn't take long for him to master the telegraph, and he began to take small jobs as an operator. Not long afterwards, the Civil War broke out, creating a huge demand for telegraphers. Soon he was traveling throughout the eastern United States as one of the many itinerant operators who were lured from city to city by the promise of higher pay. His fellow operators were a wild bunch, who made money fast and spent it just as quickly on women, booze and cigars. He made some lasting friendships during those years, although he never gained an affinity for alcohol, and his deafness made him shy around women. But he did develop a fondness for cigars and gained a reputation as a hustler and an expert telegrapher among his peers. While the others spent their free time gambling and drinking, he was studying the telegraphic equipment and the principles of electricity. Before long, he had ideas of his own on how to improve the telegraph.
By the end of the Civil War, the telegraph business was booming. Telegraph lines crisscrossed the country as the demand grew; they connected the East and West coasts eight years before the railroads. Edison spent most of his money on batteries and equipment to conduct his experiments, while living in rat-infested boarding houses, existing on coffee, apple turnovers and cigars.
He arrived in New York City in the spring of 1869. Broke and without a job, he looked up an old friend from his telegraph days who worked for a telegraph company on Wall Street known as the Gold & Stock Co. The company provided gold quotes from the trading taking place on the New York Stock Exchange floor to subscribers around the city. While he was visiting his friend, the central transmitting device broke down, causing pandemonium among the management of the company. In the confusion, Edison stepped in and fixed the machine. He was hired on the spot.
Using his extensive knowledge of electricity, he made improvements to the gold indicator and found that the telegraph companies were hungry for technological improvements. Edison saw his opportunity and developed his own indicator, which was quickly recognized as being superior to those already in use. His device regulated the indicators, which often could get out of sync and begin to print wild figures. The directors of Western Union saw a demonstration that Edison gave of his machine and authorized its purchase.
Inexperienced in negotiating with the barons of Wall Street, Edison had no idea what price to ask for his patent rights. He finally determined to seek $5,000 for the rights but lost his nerve to ask for such a fabulous sum. Frustrated, he suggested they make him an offer. Later, he recalled how he came "as near to fainting as I ever got" when they suggested compensation in the amount of $40,000!
With his newfound wealth and orders from Western Union to manufacture 1,200 stock tickers based on his design, Edison set up several manufacturing companies in Newark, New Jersey. In a letter to his parents, he happily described himself as "a bloated Eastern manufacturer." It was at this time that he began to assemble a group of trusted assistants, many of whom would share in his work for decades to come. He also fell in love and married Mary Stilwell, a young girl of 16 who was employed at one of his companies, on Christmas Day in 1871. The couple had three children: Marion, Thomas Jr. and William Leslie.
Edison's contributions to the development of stock tickers didn't go unnoticed. Western Union and other telegraph companies now pursued him constantly to test or to make improvements to the equipment. Consumed by his work, he often left his new wife alone as he worked at the laboratory, poring over a new invention. He was capable of long hours of experimentation, during which he'd often chew on a cigar, let it go out and then light it again. At one point he remarked he was smoking so many cigars that "holding a heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip; it has a sort of Havana curl."
The growth of the telegraph industry, meanwhile, was exploding. Edison had already developed several labor saving machines that were widely used, and Wall Street giants such as Jay Gould, a major competitor of Western Union, kept a close eye on Edison's experiments. To control Edison's patents on new telegraph equipment meant the difference between making and losing millions of dollars. Consequently, stock manipulators of the day were always hungry for news about his new inventions, and he had to be vigilant of competitors seeking to steal his latest ideas.
For the most part he was under contract to Western Union, but he also would sell his inventions to others if Western Union did not meet his terms. Just such an incident occurred over the rights to what was his greatest improvement to the telegraph. The invention earned millions of dollars for the telegraph industry during the next 25 years while a legal dispute was fought between Western Union and Jay Gould over who owned the rights to his work. Edison himself ultimately received very little compensation for the invention, and the dispute left him with a bad taste for dealing with the unscrupulous barons of Wall Street. Gould, for example, he found "had a peculiar eye" with "a stain of insanity somewhere in him." All of these men were only interested in money, Edison concluded, which meant nothing to him. Money was only necessary to continue his experiments, not to collect.
The invention was known as the quadruplex. With this device, Edison enabled the sending of four messages simultaneously over the same telegraph line. He instantly quadrupled the capacity of the industry without the need to construct additional, and costly, telegraph lines. But because of the dispute that followed, Edison decided to end his contractual arrangements with Western Union and to sell his manufacturing facilities.
Believing he could entice the money men to support him by buying his inventive skills, he embarked on a bold venture. With his family and a small group of his loyal assistants, he moved to a new laboratory he had built in the New Jersey countryside, about 25 miles southwest of New York City along the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks to Philadelphia. He was 29 years old when he moved to Menlo Park, to establish a laboratory "for the sole purpose of inventing." People thought he was crazy. But this cigar-smoking idealist never paid much attention to what the experts thought.
Initially, he worked on improvements to the telephone, which Alexander Graham Bell had just patented. These experiments on transmitters led him to his idea for the phonograph, which stunned the world and turned him into a legend. But he was struggling to keep his new laboratory in business and needed a big invention. He got his chance when some of his business associates encouraged him to review recent achievements by others on developing electric lighting. If he agreed to undertake the project, his associates assured him that the necessary investment capital would be raised.
As was his habit, Edison began an extensive review of the existing research on the electric light. Arc lights, which were being used at the time, produced illumination by causing a spark of electricity to jump a small gap between two carbon rods. The resulting light was bright and smoky, making it practical only for use outdoors. What was needed was a method of producing a light with the intensity of several candles, by passing electric current through an element that would become incandescent. It was a feat several others had tried without success.
Edison, however, recognized that the problem could be solved by applying the principles he had developed for the telegraph, particularly the quadruplex. He intended to subdivide the electric current so that he could light a string of incandescent lamps in a series. His solution was novel and controversial, leading most scientists of the day to reject it as impossible.
Most artificial lighting in the mid-1870s was provided by gas fixtures supplied by the gas companies. These companies were controlled by many of the same Wall Street money men who owned the telegraph companies. By now, Edison had learned how to entice these barons with the idea of greater riches by convincing them that he could produce a successful lamp. The barons were skeptical, but they knew the reputation of the 31-year-old inventor in the field of electricity and were afraid to bet against him. As a result, several of the biggest barons, such as J. P. Morgan and associates of William H. Vanderbilt, anted up a total of $300,000 to capitalize the Edison Electric Light Co. in the fall of 1878, financing his experiments in return for a share in any patents. Thus the age of venture capital began, since this was probably the first time in history that seed money was provided for an invention still on the drawing board.
For the next year, Edison worked to make his promise a reality. He became a master promoter during that time, organizing cigar-smoke-filled theatrical demonstrations of his experiments followed by lavish dinners to keep the interest of his investors in the project and encourage fresh infusions of capital. Rumors frequently circulated around Wall Street that he was close to success, and Edison helped to encourage them by feeding stories to the hungry press that continually haunted his Menlo Park lab. The shares of gas companies would rise or fall in the London and New York markets on word of Edison's progress.
But progress was slow during that year, as experiment after experiment failed to produce a successful lamp. Discouragement ran high among his assistants as the delicate task of fitting a small filament inside a glass bulb resulted in failure after failure; the filament would glow briefly only to burn up from the heat of the electric current. His financial supporters began to lose confidence, and the value of the Edison Electric Light shares began to decline. Edison, however, was irrepressible.
Then in October 1879, one of Edison's assistants, Charles Batchelor, took a piece of carbonized cotton thread and rolled it into a thin filament. After the filament was placed inside a vacuum-sealed glass bulb, which allowed the thread to gleam without burning, the current was applied and the lamp began to glow with a bright yellow hue. Expecting the filament to fail, Edison and his assistants watched with apprehension as the lamp continued to glow. It was early in the evening, and the watch over the glowing bulb continued throughout the night. The lamp continued to glow for 13 hours, until Edison turned up the juice and the filament burned out. The age of electric power had begun.
The success of the first lamp was just the beginning of a long journey to perfect the lamp and a lighting system. Edison had to develop all the related equipment, from fuses to insulation methods for the cable as well as the meters to measure the usage of electricity by the customer. In addition, a plan had to be devised to demonstrate that the system could be a commercial success.
An important turning point came in April 1881. Edison was granted permission by New York City to build a power station on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan. The idea was to light a section of the city that included the financial district--Edison undoubtedly understood the need to impress his financial supporters. The company formed to carry out this project became the forerunner of the Consolidated Edison Co., which still powers New York today.
It was a massive undertaking for the time, requiring the digging up of streets and the laying of more than 80,000 feet of cable. Edison moved his main operation from Menlo Park to a four-story brownstone at 65 Fifth Avenue in New York so that he could supervise most of the work himself. The project was continually plagued by small problems and required his constant attention, since only he and a few of his associates had any idea how to construct the system. It would take a year and a half, into the late summer of 1882, before the system was ready for testing.
The presence of the now famed inventor in New York City constantly attracted the attention of the press. There was a continuous flow of reporters coming in and out of 65 Fifth Avenue seeking news about the inventor or his project. Edison took great pains to entertain the reporters, since he understood the power of the press in helping him to keep investors interested in the development of electric power.
Then the eventful day arrived. At 3 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 4, 1882, Edison gave the order to his chief engineer to throw the switch. Lights began to glow along the streets of lower Manhattan; Edison himself turned the switch at the offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. at the corner of Broad and Wall streets, where 106 lamps had been installed. Edison remarked to a reporter standing nearby, "I have accomplished all that I promised." Still, with this success, the business of supplying electric power grew slowly. At first, the demand came from the installation of isolated power stations for manufacturing facilities.
Edison was spending almost all of his time in New York City when, on one summer day in 1884, he was summoned to return to Menlo Park. His wife, Mary, was ill. Mary had contracted typhoid fever, and had taken a turn for the worse. On the morning of Aug. 9, 1884, Edison awakened his daughter, Marion. "I found him shaking with grief," she recalled, "weeping and sobbing so he could hardly tell me that Mother had died in the night." Edison was devastated by the loss of Mary, who was not yet 30 years old. He rarely returned to Menlo Park after her death, and the facilities slowly fell into disrepair. Several of his associates believed it was the memory of Mary that kept him from returning to his beloved laboratory.
He moved his three children to the Fifth Avenue brownstone and buried himself in his work of developing his lighting system. In time, the Wall Street barons began to pour money into the budding industry, and one of Edison's original companies eventually became a part of General Electric.
Shortly after Mary's death, Edison met a young woman, Mina Miller. After a courtship of a year or so, he married the young woman of half his age. He had just turned 39 and his success with the electric light had made him a millionaire and cemented his worldwide fame. They were married in her hometown of Akron, Ohio, on Feb. 24, 1886. After the wedding, they left for a three-week vacation at Edison's home in Fort Myers, Florida, where he simply vanished with Mina, obviously enchanted by her, not communicating at all with his concerned associates in New York.
Returning home, Edison began to design a new laboratory. The site was West Orange, New Jersey, where he constructed several laboratory buildings, with a main building housing, among other things, a large library and office three stories high, filled with 10,000 volumes. Here he intended to invent to his heart's content in the best facilities that money could buy.
With his role in the development of the electric light business diminished by the controlling Wall Street investors, he turned to improving his phonograph, which he had shelved nearly 10 years before. He could see a future for the machine as a business recording device for dictation. Instead of tin foil, he developed cylinders of wax into which the needle could trace the sound grooves. After using the cylinder, another machine would shave a thin layer of wax, leaving a clean surface for reuse.
As a dictation device the phonograph became a success, and he constructed a complex of manufacturing buildings at West Orange to produce the machine. Use of the phonograph as a home entertainment piece also began to grow, leading Edison to enter the music recording business. He established recording studios in New York and West Orange, where master recordings were made of the great entertainers of the day. Wax cylinder (and later celluloid) copies were then mass-produced in West Orange and sold to the public. The operation produced millions of cylinder and disc records along with the production of phonographs over the years.
It was also at the West Orange laboratory, in 1889, that Edison invented the motion picture camera. His early motion picture cameras needed sunlight to record images on film, so in 1893, Edison built the first motion picture studio, in West Orange. The building, affectionately called the "The Black Maria" by the staff, was a wooden structure covered with black tar paper, with a steep roof that was hinged for opening. The entire building was mounted on a turntable set on a circular railroad track. During filming, the studio was rotated to stay in the sunlight, which was directed onto the stage through the open roof.
The movie industry began with the filming of the trivial: an organ grinder and his monkey; a sneeze by one of Edison's assistants, Fred Ott; dancing girls; and scenes of everyday life around West Orange. Each film lasted about 90 seconds and was viewed through a peep-hole box called a "Kinetoscope."
Edison's Wall Street backers would not finance the development of the Kinetoscope because they considered it vaudevillian. In time, however, speculators stepped forward and offered to license Edison's invention to open Kinetoscope parlors around New York City. The installed machines were coin operated and attracted long lines of patrons. Films of boxing matches were a favorite, and when a full-length match was shown in six successive machines, the police had to be called to control the crowds of customers.
For most of the next decade, films were limited to the Kinetoscope until a projector was devised. By this time, the idea of telling a story on film began to take hold, and in 1903, Edison's studio produced a silent movie known as The Great Train Robbery. The comparative epic, a Western that came complete with a posse chase and a shoot-out, was filmed in New Jersey's Watchung Mountains. The movie's success unleashed the potential of storytelling through movies, and within a few years, movie theaters began to pop up around the country. Edison, however, had failed to take his invention seriously. He did not file for patents on the motion picture camera in Europe, and competitors took advantage of his mistake by producing movies of their own. Inadvertently, he had let control of the movie industry and the fortune it would produce slip through his fingers.
Edison lived the rest of his life in West Orange, where he and Mina raised three children--Madeleine, Charles and Theodore. In 1914, the great manufacturing facilities he had established there caught fire and burned for 24 hours. The laboratories were spared, and he reinstalled the manufacturing complex interiors using reinforced cement. His laboratories and one of the factories still stand today.
Edison died in 1931 at the age of 84. While some may suggest that he was a fool for not becoming a titan of industry, such as Carnegie or Rockefeller, this is an observation that does not attempt to understand the man. Edison had little interest in being an industrialist. Instead, he was driven by what was the first desire of his heart: inventing.
A deaf man who recorded sound and a school dropout who unraveled the mysteries of electricity, Thomas Alva Edison was considered a genius. Shortly before his death, a reporter asked him what it was that made a person a genius. Edison hesitated for a moment and then replied with his now-famous maxim: "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas F. Gillen is an investment manager who is working on a novel about Thomas Edison.


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Assume you have a configuration with two pools that are named studio and backstage. The /etc/project file has the following contents:
user.paul:1024::::project.pool=studio user.george:1024::::project.pool=studio user.ringo:1024::::project.pool=backstage passes:1027::paul::project.pool=backstage
With this configuration, processes that are started by user paul are bound by default to the studio pool.
User paul can modify the pool binding for processes he starts. paul can use newtask to bind work to the backstage pool as well, by launching in the passes project.
Launch a process in the passes project.
$ newtask -l -p passes
Use the poolbind command with the -q option to verify the pool binding for the process. Also use a double dollar sign ($$) to pass the process number of the parent shell to the command.
$ poolbind -q $$ 6384 pool backstage
The system displays the process ID and the pool binding.