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a life-size Mouse Trap game

Keith Johnson and his daughter Karydis in his muffin car

Mr. Johnson and attendees

Justin Gray and his fire robot

a giant sculpture on the grounds

and a physics show participant fighting arcs from a Tesla coil. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER DASILVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES) (pg.F1)

I MADE IT!: Tim O'Reilly, top, of O'Reilly Media rode a participant's electric vehicle at Maker Faire while Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make, walked alongside. Cris Benton, middle left, a kite photographer, explained his camera rig, and Adam Savage, middle right, of the TV show ''MythBusters,'' watched a demonstration. Justin Gray, above, started up his fire robot. (PHOTOGRAPHS BY PETER DASILVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES) (pg.F4)

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PETELKA--Michael A. On May 10, his beautiful heart suddenly stopped, ending a life of joy, creativity and adventure. His charm was legendary. Artist, gallery owner, entrepreneur. Deeply beloved husband of Anna. Daddy to cat Miki. Treasured brother of Ann and her husband Peter. Dobranoc moje seree. Reposing at The Riverdale Funeral Home, 5044 Broadway at 214th Street on Wednesday and Thursday from 2-4 and 6-9pm. Funeral Mass Friday 10am, Good Shepherd RC Church (Inwood). Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions gratefully received at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, Utah. For information call 435-644-2001 www.bestfriends.org
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Hangers Made To Recycle
BYLINE: By WENDY CARLSON
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DATELINE: NEWTON
LIKE many busy professionals, J. D. Schulman never gave much thought to the countless wire hangers he brought home from the dry cleaners with his clothes. They just accumulated, cluttering his closet until he threw them out.

Then, a mishap after a Thanksgiving dinner four years ago gave him an idea.

''I was helping to clean up after dinner and about to bring out garbage, when my mother asked me to take out some wire hangers,'' Mr. Schulman said. ''I was struggling, trying to fold and crunch them up so they would fit inside a plastic trash bag.''

But when he dragged the bag out to the garage, some of the hangers sprang open, piercing a hole in the bag and spilling a trail of gravy on his mother's white antique rug. What ensued was like a scene from the film, ''Mommy Dearest,'' the Joan Crawford biopic in which wire hangers played a supporting role.

When he returned inside, everyone was screaming at him. ''Once I peeled my mother off the ceiling and apologized I said, 'It's amazing that no one's coming up with anything better than these,' '' Mr. Schulman said, referring to the wire hangers.

And that is when Mr. Schulman -- an entrepreneur who had started several successful companies -- came up with the idea for a paper hanger.

Mr. Schulman, 42, who lives in Newtown with his wife, Rose, is the founder of Hanger Network, a privately held Connecticut company that is partner with a large laundry supply company to produce EcoHangers.

The biodegradable hangers are made in Kentucky from recycled paper and carry glossy advertising from national companies, including Dunkin' Donuts, Revlon, L'Oreal and Van Heusen. The supplier distributes the hangers free to dry cleaners in areas that advertisers want to target. Last year more than 10 million were given away to 10,000 dry cleaners.

That they are eco-friendly is a large part of their appeal, Mr. Schulman said. Consumers can either continue using them or toss them in the recycling bin. Even though many cleaners invite customers to return their wire hangers for reuse, about 3.5 billion wind up in landfills annually, according to the United State Department of Commerce.

Mr. Schulman is not the first one to try to market paper hangers; the first design was registered with the United States Patent Office in 1922. But until recently, they were too expensive to produce and often flimsy. Heightened concern for recycling is probably also helping Mr. Schulman's enterprise.

Sung Hong, general manager of Maple Cleaners in Westport, said he uses EcoHangers, but lets his customers choose between wire and paper.

''Some don't like the cardboard because they can't fit as many on their car hooks,'' Mr. Hong said. ''But when I explain it's an environmental matter, people like that.''

Dave Dwelle, co-owner of Simonetti Cleaners in Shelton, said he had never heard of paper hangers before.

''I don't think they'll be sturdy enough,'' he said. ''But if it would offset the increased cost of hangers, and if the garments hang well on them and they hold the weight, I'd take them.'' In July, Hanger Network will introduce another line of hangers with a thinner plastic hook made from recycled plastic bottle caps. And, the company just signed its first contract with a retail outlet.

''Look, we're never going to replace wire hangers,'' Mr. Schulman said. ''But if companies want to advertise their products, why not do it on something that gets their message across and that's good for the environment?''
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Istanbul's Beat Is International
BYLINE: By SUSANNE FOWLER
SECTION: Section TR; Column 0; Travel Desk; MUSIC ISSUE SURFACING; Pg. 4
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TO sample the youthful sounds of Istanbul, snake down a narrow street behind Tunel square until you find Badehane. For years, this one-room corner cafe (General Yazgan Sokak 1D; 90-212-249-0550) in the buzzing night life district of Beyoglu has been a favorite of the bohemian set, which comes on Wednesday nights to listen to the gypsy tunes of a local legend, Selim Sesler.

But come Thursdays, and the crowd becomes a little edgier, as artists and Web entrepreneur types dance to the Native Project, a cool newer band that blends the Turkish-roots music of Mr. Sesler with belly-shaking Latin percussion and guitar riffs.

The modern beats pulsing through this cosmopolitan city are as diverse as its cultural history. The award-winning director Fatih Akin, a German of Turkish descent, touched on this in a 2005 documentary, ''Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul,'' which has been described as a Turkish ''Buena Vista Social Club.''

The film features Mr. Sesler, the rapper Ceza, the Seattle-grunge-influenced rockers Duman, the electronic fusion of Mercan Dede and the Kurdish singer Aynur Dogan. Audiences were also introduced to the sounds of Orhan Gencebay, dubbed the Elvis of arabesque; the weepy ballads of a raki-swilling Muzeyyen Senar; and even a rendition of Madonna's ''Music,'' sung by the operatically trained Sertab Erener, who won the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.

David Byrne of Talking Heads fame has also been inspired by the new Turkish sound, which he calls on his Web site (www.davidbyrne.com/radio) a fusion of Asia and Europe that evokes ''a funky yet haunting mood that that is entirely unique.'' Among the influences he cites are the ''avant-sounding'' pop diva Sezen Aksu and the ''psychedelic Anatolian funk'' of Baris Manco.

Turkish music is ''a bridge of cultures,'' said Pelin Opcin, director of the Istanbul Jazz Festival (www.iksv.org/caz/english), held this year from July 2 to 16. ''The Ottoman Empire reigned for a long time and resulted in a huge cultural exchange among all these peoples.''

For more innovative performances, go to cutting-edge places like garajinstanbul (Kaymakam Resat Bey Sokak 11A; 90-212-244-4499; www.garajistanbul.com), an experimental stage that started in an underground garage. Or squeeze into Babylon (Sehbender Sokak 3; 90-212-292-7368; www.babylon-ist.com), a split-level club with an intimate stage that showcases everything from Afro-Cuban jazz to Turkish psychedelic folk.

After hours, Turkish and foreign D.J.s spin international house music from midnight to 4 a.m. at the Hall (Kucuk Bayram Sokak 7; 90-212-244-8736; www.thehallistanbul.com), an industrial-style space with a vaulted ceiling.

Istanbul is also home to numerous music festivals and concerts. Among the big-name stars performing in the city this summer are Bjork, Kylie Minogue and Lenny Kravitz. On the classical end, the International Istanbul Music Festival, (www.iksv.org; June 6 to 30) offers a chance to hear performers at historic sites, like the Topkapi Palace.

''You can't really say that there is a single, homogenic Turkish culture,'' said Ms. Opcin of the jazz festival. ''We are a mixture of everything.''

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Boys to Men
BYLINE: Reviews by LEONARD S. MARCUS.

Leonard S. Marcus is the author, most recently, of ''Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature.''

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GAME

By Walter Dean Myers.

218 pp. HarperTeen/HarperCollins Publishers. $16.99. (Ages 12 and up)

SUNRISE OVER FALLUJAH

By Walter Dean Myers.

290 pp. Scholastic Press. $17.99. (Ages 12 and up)

A college friend who was struggling in one of his classes went to talk things over with his professor. If he was counting on sympathy, he was in for a surprise: ''Get interested in Latin,'' the professor advised him. ''Latin won't get interested in you.''

Learning to reach beyond oneself, the very self that young people spend so much of their time fashioning, may well be childhood's hardest lesson. In Walter Dean Myers's ''Game,'' members of a Harlem high school varsity basketball team play out this classic struggle for perspective both on and off the court.

At the center of this lean first-person narrative is Drew, an athletically gifted African-American teenager with plummy visions of a college scholarship and N.B.A. superstardom. As he begins his monologue, Drew makes it clear he thinks the world of his game. Soon, however, cracks show in the young man's confidence, prompting the reader to wonder who else, besides the ball players he and his James Baldwin Academy teammates compete against, Drew sees as the enemy.

For starters, there's Baldwin's own coach, House, who comes down hard on Drew for showboating. Then there's the pair of new team members, both white, whom Drew suspects (not altogether unfairly) of receiving preferential treatment. His father, a benign but shadowy figure who plays the lottery and seems to have given up on life, makes him wonder: might it be that his own dream has no more traction than the fantasy of scoring a monster payoff from a magic string of numbers?

Meanwhile, living embodiments of other possible futures present themselves, as in a fever dream: old Mr. Cephus, who couldn't cut it as a baseball player but did all right for himself anyway; Tony, the once-promising older brother of Drew's best friend, who ''messed up'' on the street and dead-ended in jail.

The tautly choreographed game sequences that punctuate Drew's story bristle with the electricity of the sport while serving to track the hero's transformation from dicey wild card to on-point team player. Off court, the action is equally telling. In a more conventionally ''uplifting'' story, Drew and Tomas, the ambitious Czech emigre teammate who is easily Drew's athletic peer, might cross the racial divide to become best friends. The author opts for a more ragged conclusion, leaving the two teenagers respectful but wary of each other. Looking back, Drew decides: ''I didn't need to be close to everybody.'' Fair enough, Myers suggests. It's the distance from which Drew, or anyone, stands back from himself for the sake of achieving a larger perspective that really matters. As a slightly older, less angry Drew says about one of his team's last and finest efforts: ''We were on the court living out our lives. I was playing my heart out.''

By his own account, in the memoir ''Bad Boy'' (2001), the author of ''Game'' started out life as something of a hard case. Raised in a foster home in Harlem during the 1940s, the young Walter Dean Myers was prone, in uncomfortable social situations, to lead with his fists. He drifted in and out of school and latched on to reading and writing as a sort of life preserver long before the possibility of writing for a living had much reality for him. As he once said in an interview, even in his 30s, after he'd published his first book, he doubted his chances for a full-dress literary career. But eight years and a half-dozen books later, he did turn to writing full time, primarily for young audiences.

In the intervening 30-plus years, Myers has produced an extraordinary body of work, including picture books, blues-inflected lyric poetry, fantasy, biography and steely-edged realistic fiction. He is a two-time Newbery Honor recipient, for ''Scorpions'' (1988) and ''Somewhere in the Darkness'' (1992), and his 1999 novel ''Monster'' won the first Michael L. Printz Award, a prize established by the American Library Association to recognize excellence in young adult literature. Drugs, drive-by shootings, gang warfare, wasted lives -- Myers has written about all these subjects with nuanced understanding and a hard-won, qualified sense of hope.

This spring he has two new novels, set worlds apart -- ''Game'' and ''Sunrise Over Fallujah,'' which takes place largely in Iraq. ''Sunrise'' is a kind of sequel to Myers's groundbreaking 1988 novel, ''Fallen Angels,'' about the Vietnam War. (The author, who served for three years in the military in the 1950s, dedicated the novel to his younger brother, who died in Vietnam.) In ''Fallen Angels,'' Myers examined not just the rhythms and rituals of wartime Army life -- ''hours of boredom, seconds of terror,'' says the narrator, Pvt. Richie Perry -- but also the psychological and spiritual toll war takes on the ordinary young people who do so much of the killing.

In ''Sunrise Over Fallujah,'' the narrator is another Private Perry, Richie's nephew, Robin -- or Birdy to his comrades in arms. He has signed on for the Iraq war over the objections of his father, who would rather he had gone to college, and he has done so with the noblest of intentions: to help rid the world of a tyrant, spread democracy and end terrorism. Birdy belongs to a Civil Affairs unit whose assignment is to make friends for America among the liberated Iraqi people and to ease the transition to the post-Saddam happier days. He and his buddies go in expecting a cakewalk. As the story begins, there is still plenty of time for joking around, an opportunity Myers takes full advantage of. ''My personal mission in life,'' Captain Coles, a career Army man, declares as he winds up a briefing, ''is to grow old and grumpy and watch my kids flunk out of school. I need to get back home to get that done and I would appreciate your help.''

Soon enough, however, Birdy and his fellow soldiers find themselves in a perplexing hall of mirrors, and we as readers are embedded with them. A tub of flour conceals a cache of detonators. A Humvee erupts in a fireball. A humanitarian mission involving the return of kidnapped children turns into a deadly ambush. In a narrative in which dramatic tension remains a constant and scenes of graphic violence are only occasional, the author makes a point of describing in some detail what it might feel like to kill another person in wartime, and what it might be like to witness the killing of both a friend and an enemy. Amid the chaos, Birdy recalls a high school basketball game he played in and realizes he desperately misses having a scoreboard, or some way of knowing whether his team is winning.

This is an astonishing book. Like the war it chronicles, its main characters' stories have not yet come to a close; Birdy and the others are all up for reassignment after a harrowing mission that one of their crew does not survive. We leave them not knowing who will make it home. Birdy takes a moment to write his Uncle Richie in Harlem: ''I used to be mad with you when you wouldn't talk about Vietnam. I thought you were being selfish, in a way. Now I understand how light the words seem.''

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A Buyer's Guide to Inventions, in Plain English
BYLINE: By ANNE EISENBERG.

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INVENTORS and companies like to court each other. Inventors need companies to move their ideas forward, and companies need inventions to help their businesses grow. But suitors sometimes have trouble finding that perfect partner. Now a Web-based service under development, the USA National Innovation Marketplace, offers a new tool intended to help with the matchmaking.

The marketplace is an online registry that will have descriptions of inventions for browsing by prospective buyers. But it will have an unusual twist: before inventions are listed, the registry will provide in-person or online workshops to help inventors recast their often technical prose in jargon-free descriptions for the business and industrial customers that are expected to shop at the site.

The registry and its translation service are the brainchild of Doug Hall, chief executive of Eureka Ranch Technology, a consulting firm in Cincinnati. It has developed workshops over the last five years for transforming the language of patent abstracts and other arcana into simpler prose.

Mr. Hall said listings for the marketplace would have prose makeovers to ensure quick, easy perusal by the intended readership. ''Most people in business simply don't have the time and resources to translate the language of difficult-to-understand technologies into real products that consumers will buy,'' he said. ''It's one of the business buyer's biggest problems.''

The listings will have other improvements, too, he said. Company software will evaluate the invention's probable cost to the buyer before the first sale as well as other business angles, and add the information to the capsule description.

Inventors will pay a fee for the listing of no more than $2,000, Mr. Hall said. The registry, which will be at www.planeteureka.com, will not open officially until April 2009, but Mr. Hall says he has received many inquiries both from prospective buyers and sellers.

Lesa Mitchell, a vice president at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., says she thinks the registry has tremendous possibilities. ''Mr. Hall understands that there is a lot of innovation lying dormant that could be packaged so that the commercial marketplace could understand it,'' she said. ''Businesspeople don't have the time or patience to reformat and translate technical information. And we don't have enough translators in this space.''

Post-doctoral researchers at American universities might benefit from a service like Mr. Hall's, she said. ''We have an abundance of scientific expertise that is not necessarily attached to industry,'' she said. ''We need to support them in developing their translational skills to get the benefit from the research funding that we have in the U.S. economy.''

Many geographic regions, too, might be helped by simply worded listings of inventions.

''In larger hubs like Boston, entrepreneurs work closely with university scientists and local industries,'' she said. But far from large cities, it's a different story. ''There are many dormant innovations that haven't been harvested by entrepreneurs,'' she said.

Mr. Hall's partner in developing and refining content for the registry will be a nationwide group of organizations that participate in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a Commerce Department program aimed at helping manufacturers, including small and midsize businesses. For instance, M.E.P. centers in Utah, Washington, and Virginia will offer Mr. Hall's workshops this year. Small companies that have products they want larger companies to commercialize are particularly interested in attending, Mr. Hall said, as well as independent inventors and university researchers in need of industrial partners.

Inventors can sign up at the Planet Eureka Web site. ''When we are in their region, we will notify them so they have a chance to attend a translation workshop,'' he said. Eventually, he plans to provide online training at the Web site.

SMALL and midsize businesses connected to the project through local M.E.P. centers will get the first crack at inspecting inventions, for the initial 100 days. After that, the listings will be wide open. Mr. Hall is seeking buyers as well as sellers, with advice from his advisory panel, which includes Best Buy and Future Works, a division of Procter & Gamble.

Sandy Johnson, chief executive of the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center in Overland Park, Kan., which receives some M.E.P. funding, wants to use the registry's services to help small manufacturing concerns in Kansas.

''A business may have a brilliant idea,'' she said, ''but if they need a small piece of technology to make it work, it's virtually impossible to find right now,'' because of incomprehensible descriptions.

But there are times when clear writing is not the solution. To protect their ideas, Mr. Hall said, inventors planning a listing at the marketplace should first file a preliminary patent. If they don't, a bit of concealment is in order, he said.

''They should leave out key procedural details in the description,'' he said, ''and just tell the benefit.''