Leo (July 23 — Aug. 22)
Let your sense of humour be your guide and rest assured that a benign sky is preparing to deliver a lucky roll of the dice.
Sagittarius (Nov. 23 — Dec.21)Despite the turbulence all around, you will enjoy a sense of peace.
Pisces (Feb. 20 — March 20)
Your sense of perspective is strongly. If you can find the patience to stick it out, all will be revealed when the time is right.
Lucas Nikola Pennell Soon To Appear Nov 30, 2007, but he decided to stay a little longer...This was the Scope!
Sagittarius (Nov. 23 — Dec. 21)
Don't doubt a recent brave decision just because things are getting stormier than you originally foresaw. This case of cold feet is temporary. In time, you will see that you left behind a rut and entered a new world of true emotional fulfillment.
(Toronto Star)
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Grand-nephew promotes film, appreciation for inventor By Bob Karlovits William H. Terbo has added a personal form of high voltage to an upcoming film about George Westinghouse. "About Nikola Tesla, I can talk indefinitely," Terbo says with a laugh as he begins a discussion about the inventor whom he calls a "soulmate" of industrialist Westinghouse. Terbo, a grand-nephew and the closest living relative of the Serbian electrical genius who had 112 U.S. patents, talked about Tesla's work before ending a stay in O'Hara. He was there to do an interview about Tesla for "Westinghouse," a film to be released in 2008. The documentary by O'Hara's Inecom Entertainment Co. is set to be released on DVD in April in conjunction with the celebration of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. Terbo, 77, of Scotch Plains, N.J., is a founding director and chairman of the Tesla Memorial Society Inc., a nonprofit group that tries to advance knowledge of the inventor, who lived from 1856 to 1943. He shows great enthusiasm about Tesla, who for many years he thought of simply as "my father's uncle" and not as a technological genius who teamed with Westinghouse in the development of alternating current as the power scheme of the nation. His eyes gleam as he talks about how Tesla and Westinghouse (1846-1914) approached the challenge of developing electrical power, generators and turbines with the intent of doing work "that would do some good." He points to the statue in Niagara Falls, Ontario, honoring Tesla for his work in developing hydroelectric power at the site. A look at the list of Tesla's patents reveals an item that helped harness electricity into a taken-for-granted power. For instance, he talks about the Tesla coil, "which is in every automobile" and helps make high voltage practical. Tesla also had eight patents that led to the development of modern radio, seven more than Gugliemo Marconi (1874-1937), usually seen as the inventor of the medium. That is the story Terbo is trying to impart in the film about Westinghouse. Appreciation of Tesla wasn't always widespread, he says. Terbo worked in the missile and space industry in Los Angeles before coming east to work on satellite projects for Western Union. He discovered an ethnic and professional interest in Tesla that led to the formation of the society in 1979 and its incorporation in 1980. Since then, Terbo has given more than 150 interviews on Tesla, spoken to more than 100 symposiums and been in 20 video documentaries. Technological thinking must run in the family. His father, Nicholas J. Trbojevich, held 68 U.S. patents in gear design, a subject Terbo says he always found "boring, boring, boring." Since discovering the interest in Tesla, Terbo has developed a zest that seems fueled by one of his great-uncle's turbines. Terbo speaks of how Tesla developed an electrical system that allowed him and Westinghouse to put a "stranglehold on alternating current." Terbo says he met Tesla once in New York City with his mother, but cannot remember the year. While Tesla was one of the most well-known inventors in the world at the turn of the 20th century, Terbo says, his renown dropped after his death. Terbo believes that is because the United States was involved in World War II then and the recovery from it immediately thereafter. He believes the Tesla Memorial Society's work as well as films such as the 2001 PBS biography, "Tesla, Master of Lightning," has helped create a "resurgence" of interest. Terbo talks with pride about the work of the two industrial dynamos. "He and Westinghouse were gentlemen who saw social and ethical responsibility in what they did," he says.
Bob Karlovits can be reached at bkarlovits@tribweb.com or 412-320-7852.
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