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From spamming to something called SPOOFING. Could your email be at risk? |
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Plus, we'll take a look at some of the spectacular views from space. And get some down to earth perspective on the news those pictures are making. And later. |
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Exeter author Robert Be-GEE-bing talks about his latest work in a triology of historic fiction based in 17th, 18th and 19th century New Hampshire. |
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Hello. I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. If you have e-mail, you're at risk for what's known as spoofing. Spammers, the people who flood the internet with ads ranging from mortage loans to enhancement pills -- steal your address and use it as theirs. When it happens, you can expect your in-box to become a very busy place. Those who've been spoofed often end up with thousands of rejected e-mails in a very short time. |
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From the cyber-world -- we venture forth into space -- where a robot Rover transmits striking shots of Mars and the Hubble Space Telescope brings the universe into sharp focus. The pictures from space keep getting better and better. But, what exactly are we seeing? Here to help us on that front are: John Gianforte, Amateur Astronomer at the Blue Sky Observatory in Durham--who also teaches astronomy at the College for Lifelong Learning --and, Professor Ebb-er-hard Moebius , a Professor of Physics at UNH. He also teaches astronomy and does research at the Space Science Center. |
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This is known as the Sombreor Galaxy -- we have an image and an animated video. This is one of thelargest Hubble mosaics ever assembled. This galaxy is one-fifth the diameter of the full Moon. |
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As we learn about the past from pictures from space, some down-to-earth research is shaping our view of New Hampshire history. Exeter author Robert Be-GEE-bing has spent more than a decade researching and writing a triology of historic fiction set in Portsmouth during the 17th, 18th and 19th centures. Producer Sue Hajdu sat down with him to learn about his work. |
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For people who haven't read Rebecca Wentworth's Distraction, can you describe the novel? What's it about? Begeibing "I'll give it a try. It's always hard to do that. It's set in the middle of the 18th century - 1741 to 1748 in Porstmouth, NH, mostly. It's about a young guy who comes to America - Daniel Sanborn, he's a very well trained and conventionally-schooled portrait painter who's been trained in the workshops and galleries of London. He comes to this country b/c he realizes there's not much patronage about for someone of his training with all the greats - the Highmores and Kents - who are there at the time. When he gets to this country he shows up in Boston and realizes John Smibert is already there ahead of him and is really taking most of the well paying jobs for painters. So he gets a commission through the help of Smibert, befriends Smibert, the painter. Smibert is a real character in a sense that he did live and was in Bosoton at the time, a real painter. Smibert gives him a connection to a family portrait painting job in Portsmouth. And that's where he meets Rebecca. 1-2:00ish As he meets her he realizes suddenly that she is an enormously talented, gifted prodigy herself. She's not only intellectually very bright and quick but she paints strange visionary paintings and what it's all about from there is she being sent away b/c no one knows quite what to do with her. Well that gets the story going b/c he then goes in pursuit of her and over a long 10-year period, he tries to help her, tries to find her. It turns out that as she ages he finds he is falling in love with her and he becomes unhinged by that as well. He's not quite sure what to make of her. And the story is essentially his story to kind of save her, if you will. Question: You've written a historical novel. How did you do the research for this? How long did it take? "This particular book in the trilogy. It took about 2 years of research and that included in the archives of Strawberry Bank, the special colllections at the University of New Hamsphire, American Antiquarian Society, Portsmouth Anatheum, and the writing and the research usually go on together when I do these things. And it turned out that this one was about two years - it was in fact the shortest of the three. The others took me longer. One took me about 5 years, the one set in the 19th century, the one set in the 17th century took me about 3 years or so. So it's a lot of historical research, a lot of old recordes, court records, family records, records of the the General Assembly in Portsmouth where the government was held at the time. It's almost endless what you can do for research but it's years." What do you like about writing historical novels? "I think the big thing is that I love learning a lot about history. You learn a lot about human nature, I mean one of the things that I think I learned about human nature is that it doesn't change much over the centuries. The form changes, the dress changes, things look a lot different but I think in the deepest selves people are essentially the same in all their glory and folly. But the other side of it, when you learn the specifics about what it was like to learn in a time and place, particularly New England history for some reason that I can't fully explain has always interested me and once I got going with the first novel I realized how much I was interested in it and I became even more so as time went on. And I ended up researching through all three centuries." Q: You use a lot of 18th century English terms in the book. Can you give me some examples and how did you go about validating them? "Sometimes, as I'm researching, I'm doing a whole bunch of reading in the period so I'll find words and phrases right out of the letters, the diaries, the journals, the court records. And I can just take those b/c I know they're right out of this period and transplant them direcly into a character's mouth or the conscienceness of the point of view character or whatever." "This is a letter dated January 4, 1746. It says, Dear Mr. Sanborn, I hope you will forgive me for the impertinence of this epistle after so long a silence between us, but I have no one else to whom I can unburden my thoughts and fears. My suitors are one Mr. Buckminster, a merchant of perhaps 42 or 43 who might stand for a model to Mr. Hogarth, and the impetuous Mr. Paine Wentworth, one of the scores of young cousins, who seems to believe the Lord's creation was laid before us for his personal self-indulgence and the aggrandizement of our multitudinous clan. He attended Harvard College but is a gentleman of superficial learning and flashy parts. Mr. Wentworth is inordinately handsome, and though my guardians do not favor him so much as they do Mr. Buckminster, they believe me deranged for not displaying a proper enthusiasm over the the blandishments of so charming a rival." What do you find is the most interesting thing about 18th century New England? "In New England, it's more interesting to me really than England at the time. New England, although it's very hierarchical, it's less hierarchical, it's less class straified, even though as you read this book you realize how incredibly stratified it was. But New England is kind of like the frontier, it's not, as you're going from here to let's say, from Portsmouth or Exeter to 15 miles west of here. It's not wilderness, it's already been encroached upon alot but it's still frontier, so it's much less setlled, things are much wilder, ppl and their actions were perhaps a little more extreme. It was kind of a very fertile bed to work in. You had this starnge mix of well-educated ppl and also ppl who were just out, as in the wild west just doing whatever they could to make a buck or to be free." Are there some key elements to good historical fiction? "I think so but that's just myself. Bad historical ficiton which I try to avoid, the reader has to judge, critics have to judge, can be bad costume drama. It's sort of like a bad masterpiece theatre with famous people on stage mouthing famous words and it's like cardboard cut-outs. I try to avoid that. One of the ways I do it is that if I have any famous or real people in the novels, particularly the better know they are the more minor they are in the novels, so that the ficitonal characters. So that's one thing I try for. I also try to be extremely accurate. I never put one of the real characters, the person who really lived who happends to be in the novel, I never put that person someplace where they weren't. For instance, in the whole last part of the final novel of the trilogy, set in Florence, Italy, there are a number of famous people that my character meets like my John Ruskin. I would never put John Ruskin in Florence, Italy, at that time, if he wasn't actually there at that time." "What's next for you?" I've been working on some short stories and putting them together in a collection, and I have a novel that I worked on starting in 1993 that's set in the 20th century. Sort of follows on the same themes and so on but I haven't been able to make it work. I'm sort of back looking at that again and I'm still not sure how that's working. So, I'm a little bit at the end of things and waiting for the next big project to sort of come along, how these things come along, but I've got this other stuff that I'm sort of fiddling with in the time being. It feels pretty good because I'm a little bit pooped out after 12 years writing this trilogy. Well thank you very much for taking the time to talk with us today. Well thank you. I'm very pleased to talk to you. Thank you very much |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - Protecting the rights of all prisoners, including those being detained in the war on terrorism. We'll talk to the Granite state man whose filed a "friend of the court brief" before the US Supreme Court. He wants to see some changes in how prisoners are being treated at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/29/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 06:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, From spamming to something called SPOOFING. Could your email be at risk? Plus, we'll take a look at some of the spectacular views from space. And get some down to earth perspective on the news those pictures are making. And later. Exeter author Robert Be-GEE-bing talks about his latest work in a triology of historic fiction based in 17th, 18th and 19th century New Hampshire. Hello. I'm Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. If you have e-mail, you're at risk for what's known as spoofing. Spammers, the people who flood the internet with ads ranging from mortage loans to enhancement pills -- steal your address and use it as theirs. When it happens, you can expect your in-box to become a very busy place. Those who've been spoofed often end up with thousands of rejected e-mails in a very short time. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Beth Carroll\NH Outlook, Rob Cinq-mars\"Spoofing" Victim, Brian McWilliams\Technology Journalist, Jonathon Gallo\NH Asst Attorney General |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/29/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 10:00 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, From spamming to something called SPOOFING. Could your email be at risk? Plus, we'll take a look at some of the spectacular views from space. And get some down to earth perspective on the news those pictures are making. And later. Exeter author Robert Be-GEE-bing talks about his latest work in a triology of historic fiction based in 17th, 18th and 19th century New Hampshire. From the cyber-world -- we venture forth into space -- where a robot Rover transmits striking shots of Mars and the Hubble Space Telescope brings the universe into sharp focus. The pictures from space keep getting better and better. But, what exactly are we seeing? Here to help us on that front are: John Gianforte, Amateur Astronomer at the Blue Sky Observatory in Durham--who also teaches astronomy at the College for Lifelong Learning --and, Professor Ebb-er-hard Moebius , a Professor of Physics at UNH. He also teaches astronomy and does research at the Space Science Center. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: John Gianforte\Amateur Astronomer, Eberhard Moebius\Professor of Physics, UNH |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 03/29/04 22:00 HOST: Beth Carroll Length: 07:30 minutes In this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, From spamming to something called SPOOFING. Could your email be at risk? Plus, we'll take a look at some of the spectacular views from space. And get some down to earth perspective on the news those pictures are making. And later. Exeter author Robert Be-GEE-bing talks about his latest work in a triology of historic fiction based in 17th, 18th and 19th century New Hampshire. As we learn about the past from pictures from space, some down-to-earth research is shaping our view of New Hampshire history. Exeter author Robert Be-GEE-bing has spent more than a decade researching and writing a triology of historic fiction set in Portsmouth during the 17th, 18th and 19th centures. Producer Sue Hajdu sat down with him to learn about his work. PRODUCER/REPORTER: NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Robert Begiebing\Author |
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