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Steve Moore's smartphone thriller for Fusebox comes to an end.
By Wayne Alan Brenner,
10:30AM, Wed. Oct. 22, 2014
I've been getting text messages from the FBI since April of this year.
Me and about a thousand other people across the United States, actually: Getting text messages from both a current FBI agent and an FBI agent who's gone rogue.
Bonus: We've also been getting messages from some sort of … creature. A creature that's pretty much nothing but sentient air.
Welcome to Computer Simulation of the Ocean, the most recent wonderment from Steve Moore and Physical Plant, begun as part of Fusebox Festival 2014 and drawing to its conclusion, six months and umpteen dozen text messages from three different numbers later, just last week.
Note: The sentient air's name was Harry. (Well, according to rogue agent Sarah Boyd, anyway.)
Welcome to a modern science-fiction thriller that played out textually inside the entire audience's smartphones in real time. It's the original creation of Austin playwright Steve Moore, who has (with Physical Plant or in conjunction with some other fortunate company) previously visited upon the world such odd and memorable astonishments as The Adam Sultan Project and The Kindermann Depiction and Not Clown and Nightswim and so on.
Note: The non-rogue agent was named Shanahan. (Except that, because he was such an obnoxious prick, my wife and I followed the lead of our fellow audiencer Lise' Creed and invariably referred to the guy as Agent Schmuckaluck.)
Those of us, the lucky ones who signed up for the, ah, narrative service during Fusebox and so were involved in the tale's unspooling since the start, we've been really involved in the tale's unspooling since the start. Because the story was compelling enough that it could've worked as a prose novelette. But, that it was taking place through a device that's always with us, the events understood via text messages that wound up displayed next to the usual non-fictional-texts-from-friends that are such a familiar part of our tiny screen's real estate …
It felt like a rather direct involvement, tell you what.
But never mind me telling-you-what about anything right now. Instead, let's ask that mastermind Moore a few questions about what we've vicariously lived through for the past half a year:
Wayne Alan Brenner: Steve, your "Ocean" text-play is riddled with conversations about FBI and plutonium and hazmat and A-bomb tech. And so, taken out of context … has anyone from the actual FBI, or some part of national security, ah, contacted you about any of this?
Steve Moore: I haven't been contacted by the FBI. Although – I don't know if they would ever see this page – I suppose, if they started looking around, they might – there's a page for Computer Simulation of the Ocean on the Physical Plant site that's like "Here's How to Get Started." And it gives a general sense of how often the texts are gonna come, how you can unsubscribe, that sort of thing. And one of the things in there is a note to law enforcement – FBI, NSA – "Please get in touch with us if you have any trouble with this, it's all totally made up." I don't know if they've ever seen it. I don't know how closely they monitor this kind of stuff. Do you think they monitor this kind of stuff and they're like, "Okay, it's all made up, we don't have to check into this at all," or do you think it's not even on their radar at all?
WAB: If they've seen that introductory page, then they might believe it's made up. But often in big organizations, one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing, y'know? And there's that ECHELON system, or whatever they're using now, and I'm sure it's monitoring everything that's going on in our phones and the rest of the Net. And maybe it won't register that intro page when it's looking for whatever keywords set it off, maybe it'll just throw up a flag for some human operator to take a closer look. I don't know how paranoid such a system must be, but I reckon it's programmed to be paranoid. My wife and I, when we read the texts about the FBI and the shipments of plutonium, we turned to each other and were like, "Shit, you think the FBI's gotten in touch with Steve about this yet?"
SM: Not yet, not yet. If that happens, I'll be thrilled. I don't know what their keywords are, but "plutonium" seems like it'd be good. Maybe I should try harder.
WAB: So all the texts came to us in real time, like the story was actually happening minute-to-minute. But could somebody subscribe in the middle of the story, and the texts would start from the beginning then? So people could still join up now – or even sometime later?
SM: No, but we're trying to figure out how to do that, because I would love to do more stories like this. Kirk Lynn and I are going to co-write one – it'll be much shorter, maybe two months – and it'd be nice, in the future, if somebody's like "Oh, I heard about this thing you guys did, can I get it?" – it'd be nice to say, "Sure, just sign up and you'll start getting it on Friday." But making that happen, not to get into the technological details, but it's a lot more complicated for each person to have their own schedule than it is for every message to broadcast at the same time.
WAB: Do you know of other text-plays like this?
SM: I did some research and I haven't been able to find any. People have done Twitter stories, but this feels unique – both in terms of it being just text messages, and that we had to build a whole apparatus to do it. We did a bunch of beta tests, where we tried to send the messages out to a group of people, and it kept failing. And what we realized, at a certain point, is that all the carriers – T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and so on – they have some kind of spam filter, they don't want you to send the same message to more than about fifteen people. So we had to devise this clever workaround to make it possible to send the same message to a thousand people.
WAB: So there's a thousand people hooked up with this story?
SM: Well, about eleven hundred – from all over the country. In Austin, there's about three hundred and seventy. And another two hundred and fifty in Texas. And around five hundred all across the country. And that's part of the reason I don't think people have done this before – because you have to create this … apparatus. So doing it over text messages feels unusual. And it took us a while to figure out that it could be sent from multiple numbers. I thought, at first, that I'd be limited to one phone number – which meant that I was gonna have to, basically, create a story that looked like a script. So you'd get messages from the different characters, but they'd be from the same phone number, so it'd look like Sarah, colon, and then whatever Sarah said. Which is really cumbersome, and doesn't feel true to the form. So when we realized that we could use different numbers, and could ask the audience to kind of catch up – because, you get something from a new character, and that character is talking about another person whose name you've already seen … you have to catch up with it on the fly. And I hope that's been fun for people, figuring out what's going on.
WAB: Dude. When we got that first text from Harry – out of the blue, as it were – but it figured, too, because of what the FBI agents were texting earlier … I mean, I read that message and I thought, "Oh shit, this is from the air." And then I felt the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.
SM: It's been really fun. And it can feel like you don't have a lot of channels to play with. It's storytelling without physicality – in a sense – and it's storytelling without tone of voice. Although, over time … like, you know that Shanahan's an asshole.
WAB: Oh yeah, that was pretty apparent early on.
SM: And that's a tone-of-voice issue. Sometimes he says things that are assholish, but also the way he says things is assholish. So it's not the same as hearing somebody say it, but it's as close as possible. And it's obviously very condensed, with each text 160 characters maximum. And I try to use as little as possible. If I can send a text that has only fifty characters, that's sweet. If I can do something in the story that only costs me ten or fifteen characters, that's the best. Because 160 characters feels like a lot. But what I like is that the messages can come at any time – although I try to keep them to reasonable hours, mostly evenings on the weekdays. It's across a bunch of time zones, so I can't send things too early or the people in California will get it at 6am or something like that. But it's fun to be able to, like, throw something across the bow at any moment. And it's also fun that it's coming over this medium that's fairly remote – it's just a piece of technology that has some words coming on it, but it feels more intimate than Twitter – for me, anyway – because it's coming right at you. When you get a text message, most people have their phone set to announce that. So, within the universe of technology, I think it feels really intimate.
WAB: It feels extremely intimate. If movies wanted to be this intimate, they'd have to be like Purple Rose of Cairo or whatever, there'd have to be characters talking directly to you, right out of the screen. Because each of us with a phone, we become that person, that dude who broke up with Sarah, that dude that Shanahan's a fellow agent of – who is that person, anyway? What's his name?
SM: I just call him "X."
WAB: And I'm X. And you're X. We are all X.
SM: We are all X.
WAB: And it's pretty goddam amazing.
SM: I think, if I had to do it again – and hopefully Kirk and I will find a way to do this – what I didn't figure out how to do this time? Was to make really clear what X's agency is. In this story, he's quite passive, he's just receiving. Sometimes you get a sense of his curiosity, when Shanahan or Harry writes back in a way that makes it clear that X has asked a question or made an assertion. You get some flavor of him. But I think it'd be really fun to create a recipient character, and you never see what texts he's sending, but you get a really clear sense of that character – and the character's a real high contrast to a normal person, you know what I mean?
WAB: Sure, but I don't think that would be necessarily better, even though it'd be different. Because I think the story works well with X being a more passive recipient. Like Scott McCloud's whole thing in Understanding Comics, where you fill in the vessel of a simple character with yourself –
SM: A simple character in a complicated environment.
WAB: Exactly. Which is not to say that I think a more complicated character would be bad – it's just a different thing. And … so, ah, the whole thing is set up in advance, you said?
SM: Yes – it goes out automatically. There's a big text file, and every message has a time stamp, and each one is designated to come from a specific character. That's not to say that I haven't been tweaking the shit out of it.
WAB: Ah! You have!
SM: Kind of in response to some of the feedback we've got. I can't see anything that the subscribers have texted back – I wish I could see those, and I think they go into a log file somewhere – but I see stuff, on Facebook or just in talking to people. And, like, maybe people are really sick of Sarah, and I have four more things from Sarah planned before this next action starts? So I'll decide, ah, let's just start the action, keep people engaged. But, yeah, the whole thing is already laid out. And it's an interesting writing process, because I basically wake up every day, and the text that's going to go out that day, a couple of texts, I have a draft of it that I like well enough. And I'll just sit there and work that language for an hour or so, just working the commas and spaces just right, getting it as short as possible, trying to make it evocative and push the story forward. I have this big picture, but I have this odd thing of, like, "Okay, I'm just gonna polish this one scale on the fish. And then tomorrow I'll polish another scale." And I don't get to go back and polish the last one again – because it's out there already.
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GRESHAM — The Lane men's track and field team scored 185 1/2 points to edge out Spokane at the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges championship meet Tuesday.
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Readers of Harlequin, one of the world's leading publishers of books for women, seek emotional attachment almost by definition. The company's brilliant My Rewards program offers dedicated readers free print books and eBooks, but it takes loyalty to the next level with opportunities to get autographed books and advance copies of upcoming releases, plus sweepstakes entries to win lunch with your favorite Harlequin author.
Craft beer authority Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom offers a terrific example of an experiential loyalty program with its unique and wildly popular World Beer Tour. Customers can sample up to 110 different beers over time, receive rewards, and get their name on a World Beer Tour plaque in their hometown restaurant.
Vans, the action sports lifestyle brand, has the Vans Family Loyalty Program in which members can obtain entry to exclusive contests, experiences, and sneak previews of upcoming product releases. They also have access to exclusive patterns to customize their footwear and accessories through the Vans Customs platform. Most importantly, the program is consistent with Vans' mission of promoting active lifestyles, youth culture, and creative self-expression.
Looking for another way to make your program stand out? Reward your customers for more than just purchases. Thirty-five percent of brands reward loyalty members for non-transactional engagement such as referrals, reviews, and linking social media accounts. Need more proof? Research found that department store brands that reward non-transactional engagement see a 48 percent spike in daily site visits, 13 percent longer site visits, and a five percent lower bounce rate.
When it comes to loyalty, if you're not standing out, you're just standing still. To get moving, check out the Modern Loyalty Report Card designed to help you evaluate your loyalty solution.
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Oudette Champon (paid for a lawyer to mount a defence, acquitted in 1629)
Pierrette Vichard (refused to confess under torture, acquitted in 1657)
Renoberte Simon (acquitted in 1660)
Information about these women and the circumstances of their interrogation, trial and punishment can be found in Rolf Schulte's contribution to my book on the cultural history of female werewolves, which will be published by Manchester University Press in 2015.
Reviews, articles and musings from a pop culture scholar. Female werewolves, speculative fiction, creative writing, medieval culture... and anywhere else my mind takes me.
Friday, 3 October 2014
Some Historical Female Werewolves
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Thanks Rosie. :-)Delete
Same here on the book. Thanks for link. I was looking for your bare all post. Where us it. I relate.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! Will post as soon as the book is out.Delete
As for the other post... I took it down. I did want to share my story and talk to other people who relate, but I immediately regretted being so open about such a sensitive issue. Maybe that's a bit cowardly, but having it up here made me feel a bit vulnerable. Feel free to email me though - there's a link at the bottom of this page. :-)
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When it comes to choosing a bedding, which one you should pick? Comforter or Duvet? Each option offers ample warmth with many benefits. But choosing the right one depends on your lifestyle and choice.
Here are a few things you have to consider. Let's check out this article and see the difference between a comforter and duvet. Then decide to purchase one that matches with your consideration. Let's see:
What is Duvet?
Duvet is a type of bedding that is filled with down, feathers or synthetic fibers. It looks like a flat bag or box. Have a removable cover as a protector. The cover of duvet comes in various colors and patterns. You can change the cover to make a new look to your bedding. People like this option for warmness and lightweight. It's originated in Europe and very popular in that area. Adding a duvet to bed means the whole work of making a bed become much easier.
What is Comforter?
A comforter is a fluffy blanket that is made from two layers of materials. Materials are stitched together and filled with synthetic fibers. However, comforters are less thick and fluffy than a duvet. Usually, comforters placed over the top sheet. However, it can be used on top of the blanket for extra coziness and warmth. Many people like this option because it doesn't require a cover. It can go flat more quickly than a duvet. Generally, comforters are larger than the duvets.
Duvet vs Comforter (A Comparison)
Duvets and comforters both are used to keep our body warm. Duvets can be referred with a high-quality comforter in the USA. However normal comforters are slightly different from duvets according to the filling and fabrics material.
Duvet has a cover as a protector. Just like a pillow with a pillowcase. Here are some important things to consider about duvets:
- Duvets paired with a protective cover.
- You can change the style of duvets by changing the duvet cover.
- Comes with solid white color.
- Made with various high-quality fabrics.
- Duvets aren't washable but you can wash the cover easily.
- The top sheet isn't necessary.
- Available in different sizes.
- Sold by bed size.
- Duvets are durable and can be last longer.
- Useful for redecorating your bedroom style.
On the other hand, comforter doesn't require any cover. Typically these are larger than the bed and hang down the sides of the bed. Here are some things to consider about comforters:
- Usually made of polyester.
- Doesn't require covers.
- The top sheet is necessary.
- Not easy to change style and expensive to redecorate your bedroom.
- Available in different sizes.
- Easy to wash
- Lager than the bed and hang down the sides
- Comes with different color and prints.
These are the main difference between a duvet and comforter. While purchasing your bedding, make sure your consideration and pick one that suits your lifestyle most. I'm wrapping for now. We will meet soon with some more tips and hacks. Till then, stay connected and share your valuable opinion with us.
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The candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr Alex Otti has been declared the winner of the Abia state governorship election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had returned Ikpeazu Okezie of the Peoples Democratic Party the winner after conducting elections.
Mr Alex Otti went to court to challenge the election results and the Appeal court ruled today that Otiti be sworn in as governor.


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Welcome to another Waiting on Wednesday event, hosted by Jill, at Breaking the Spine.
Every week, we gather around the blogosphere and search out the upcoming book releases, sharing our thoughts and blurbs. Today I am eagerly awaiting a book from an author I have loved over the years, but haven't read anything she has written in a while. Joy Fielding's She's Not There is a gripping novel of psychological suspense—a must-read for fans of Laura Lippman and Mary Higgins Clark. Release Date – 2/23/16.
A vanished child, a family in turmoil, and a fateful phone call that brings the torments of the past into the harrowing present . ..
"I think my real name is Samantha. I think I'm your daughter."
Carole Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears those words from the voice on the other end of the phone. Instantly, she's thrust fifteen years into the past, to a posh resort in Baja, Mexico—and the fateful night her world collapsed.
The trip is supposed to be a celebration. Carole's husband, Hunter, convinces her to leave their two young daughters, Michelle and Samantha, alone in their hotel suite while the couple enjoys an anniversary dinner in the restaurant downstairs. But returning afterward, Carole and Hunter make a horrifying discovery: Two-year-old Samantha has vanished without a trace.
What follows are days, weeks, and years of anguish for Carole. She's tormented by media attention that has branded her a cold, incompetent mother, while she struggles to save her marriage. Carole also has to deal with the demands of her needy elder daughter, Michelle, who is driven to cope in dangerous ways. Through it all, Carole desperately clings to the hope that Samantha will someday be found—only to be stung again and again by cruel reality.
Plunged back into the still-raw heartbreak of her daughter's disappearance, and the suspicions and inconsistencies surrounding a case long gone cold, Carole doesn't know whom or what to believe. The only thing she can be sure of is that someone is fiercely determined to hide the truth of what happened to Samantha.
Wow! This one sounds heartbreaking to me, and here I am wondering why the parents left such young children alone in the hotel room? But not wanting to judge too harshly, I am going to read and try to understand the choices they made.
What do you think?


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Hershey, Pennsylvania is like an actual place that resembles Willy Wonka's Hometown. There's a big house, a factory and a massive load of chocolate. I thought I saw Augustus Glup and his friends scrafing down a tone of chocolate on my way into town.
The Roomie wants to go back and hang out in the park for a bit so I think we will be road tripping in the spring.
I kind of look drunk in this picture.
I'm looking forward to my trip with Bean. The Roomie's jealous and I told her to suck it up dork. Of course she told me that I can just order my own dinner. Psst…like I don't know where the take out menus are and how to use the phone, lol.


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SciPop Talks series begins Feb. 7
Now that's some sweet science. The 2018 SciPop Talks series kicks off at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 with "The Story of Chocolate: Nutrition and Sensory Qualities."
Marilynn Schnepf, professor emerita of nutrition and health sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Rebecca Ankenbrand, founder of Lincoln-based Sweet Minou chocolate shop, will discuss the history of chocolate, potential health benefits and sensory attributes. Ankenbrand will describe how chocolate goes from bean to bar.
The SciPop Talks series, now in its fifth year, combines science and popular culture and builds on the science cafe model. It is organized and sponsored by University Libraries, the Department of Chemistry, the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Doane University and the Nebraska Local Section of the American Chemical Society. Speakers give interactive 30-minute talks and then take questions.
All talks are at 7 p.m. in the Adele Hall Learning Commons in Love Library North, 1300 R St., and are free and open to the public. Nebraska faculty will lead each presentation.
Other SciPop talks this semester include:
Feb. 21: "Drug Discovery in the Movies: Fact and Fiction," Mark Griep, associate professor of chemistry.
Feb. 28: "Comic Book Physics 101: The Flash, The Fastest Man Alive," Dan Claes, chair and professor of physics and astronomy.
March 7: "The Science of Self: How Gender Bias and Mindsets Influence the Inner Scientist" Patricia Wonch Hill, research assistant professor of sociology.
March 14: "Harry Potter x Science: A Review," Rebecca Lai, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of Chemistry.
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Samaira Mehta is a 10-year-old girl growing up in Silicon Valley who has quietly attracted an almost cult-like following because of her work as a programmer.
She's the founder and CEO of a company called CoderBunnyz that's earned national media recognition and landed her speaker roles at nearly a dozen Valley conferences (and counting).
- 10-year-old Samaira Mehta has become a kid-coder-to-watch in Silicon Valley.
- When she was just eight, she built a game called CoderBunnyz to help teach other kids how to code.
- The game earned her national recognition and she began holding workshops for kids, many of them at Google.
- Google was so impressed, it booked her as a keynote speaker for a local event, and told her she should consider working for them when she grows up.
It all started when she was just eight and created a game called CoderBunnyz to help teach other kids how to code. She'd been coding since she was six.
A real life Powerpuff Girl
After creating the board game, Mehta won the $2,500 second place prize from Think Tank Learning's Pitchfest in 2016.
This caught the notice of some marketeers for Cartoon Network who were looking to profile inspiring young girls as real life "Powerpuff Girls." After she was featured in one of those videos, things took off from there.
"We've sold 1,000 boxes, so over $35,000 and it's only been on the market for one year," the exuberant and adorable Mehta told Business Insider.
It wasn't just happenstance promotion. When she launched CoderBunnyz, she also came up with a killer marketing plan with the help of her proud father Rakesh Mehta (an Intel engineer and Sun Microsystems/Oracle alum).
Mehta uses the game to conduct coding workshops for school-aged kids, where everyone plays the game. And she thinks big.
She launched an initiative called Yes, 1 Billion Kids Can Code that allows interested people to donate boxes of the game to schools. She then set up workshops to help kids at those schools learn how to master the game.
At the start of this school year, 106 schools were using the game to teach kids to code, Mehta says.
"In the world there are over 1 billion kids," she said. "There are people who are willing to donate Coder Bunnyz boxes to schools, and to people in need all over the world, who want to learn coding."
Sales of the game have gone so well, that Mehta has just launched a sequel: a game for kids that teaches them how to code using artificial intelligence.
The new game is called CoderMindz and she's billing it as the first ever AI board game.
Like CoderBunnyz, kids will be learning basic AI principals – concepts like training an AI model, inference, and adaptive learning. Eventually, they can use those skills to build robots.
She developed it with the help of her little brother, Aadit, who is six, the age when her dad started teaching her to code.
A young Valley star is born
As the game took off, Mehta was booked with workshops. She's done over 60 of them in Silicon Valley, with over 2,000 kids so far, she says.
The workshops included a series held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. And that's where she met Stacy Sullivan, Google's Chief Culture Officer.
"After my back-to-back workshops at Google headquarters, we talked for an hour," Mehta said. "She told me I was doing great and once I get out of college, I can come work for Google."
The plucky young coder told Sullivan that she didn't know if she would want to work for Google. She likes being an entrepreneur.
Meanwhile, Sullivan and the folks at Google were so impressed with the kid coder that she was the keynote speaker at a Diversity in Tech conference held in August hosted at Google Launchpad, the company's startup accelerator in San Francisco. But she's done a bunch of other speaking gigs, too, including one at Microsoft and at the Girls' Festival sponsored by World Wide Women earlier this month.
Since the debut of CoderBunnyz she's also met a lot of other big names. One of her proudest moments was receiving an encouraging letter from former first lady Michelle Obama.
She also met Mark Zuckerberg on Halloween when she was trick-or-treating in his neighborhood, and took the opportunity to chat him up about her coding work.
She said there was "a super long line" at his house.
"I finally got to meet him," she remembers. "He was handing out chocolates. I told him I was a young coder and he told me to keep going, you're doing great."
She's now launched her own interview series on her CoderBunnyz website where she talks with people in the robotics, game, and education sectors.
While she's reinvesting all of the money from her young business into manufacturing more CoderBunnyz games, and creating the new AI game, she's already got a charity picked out for when she generates profits: PATH.
"It ends homelessness and helps people rebuild skills and I care about homeless," she says.
Until the day her company can make donations, she's putting her entrepreneurial know-how to work in other ways to raise money for it, including hosting a lemonade stand this summer that brought in $119.


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Behind the Podcast: a clip show from before Strangers and Aliens! – SA250
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We take a look at the podcast Ben and Steve did before Strangers and Aliens: The Fanboy Tollbooth!
Lost to the digital aether, here's some clips and a look back at this old podcast.


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'Soil is a living thing': Merrimack bee, garden expert featured at Science Cafe
A longtime familiarity with the hobbies recently won for her an invitation to sit on a panel of gardening experts invited to the stage at the Science Cafe New Hampshire, a casual gathering of experts on one subject or another presented monthly at the Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar, in Nashua. A similar program takes place in Concord. The Nashua evening was one of questions asked, answered, and elaborated upon among 80 people.
"Soil is a living thing," Burke said she told the crowd. "It needs to be nourished to give our plants the basics to thrive." She also described many honey bee challenges – pesticides, predators, diseases and more.
The Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar, 35 Railroad Square, morphs into the Science Cafe, presented from 6-8 p.m., on the second Wednesday of the month. The next session, after an August break, is Sept. 12. The free, public programs address topics of interest to the science minded, the curious and those who enjoy a stimulating evening highlighted with craft beers, cocktails and coffees, along with edibles that please the palate.
A newspaper column presented in advance by Science Cafe New Hampshire Co-founder Dan Marcek on the editorial page of The Telegraph alerts readers to the upcoming topic of the month.
Burke's credentials include membership in the Merrimack Valley Beekeepers Association, a regional group of more than 100 beekeeping novices, experts and enthusiasts. She nurtures two beehives, wooden structures filled with a total of around 60,000 honey bees.
She also is the treasurer of the Merrimack Garden Club, a group that offers horticultural education and camaraderie among its nearly 50 members, green-thumbers who annually host a massive plant sale in June alongside St. James United Methodist Church in Merrimack. Club volunteers also spend many hour maintaining town garden spots at parks, the post office and the library, among others.
Burke commended the other panelists on hand at the assembly, hosted Wednesday, July 11, for the depth of their knowledge and conviviality. Presenters appearing with her included Gene Harrington, of the Nashua Farmers' Exchange, Inc.; Cameron Bonsey, of Coast of Maine Organic Products, Inc.; Dave McConville, of Grow Nashua; Paul Shea, Executive Director Great American Downtown and Master Gardener for UNH Extension Service.
The Science Cafe event was one Burke deemed "invaluable" as a means of communicating some of the scientific information that will enable gardeners to make full use of their soil, seeds and sunshine.
"I was absorbing the information along with everyone else," Burke said. "There were some great solutions to lots of gardening problems."
If you go
Science Cafe New Hampshire.
Where: Riverwalk Cafe & Music Bar, 35 Railroad Square in Nashua.
When: Second Wednesday of the month from 6-8 p.m. (No August session; summer break. Next session: Sept. 12.)
Information: sciencecafenh.org. See Facebook for information on the Merrimack Garden Club and the Merrimack Valley Beekeepers Association.


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Letter to the Editor: 'Elites' have created a dangerous situation
Photo: Journal Register Co.
I am glad that Iran finally released the Americans held over a few years. What will happen in the future is anyone's guess but the Democrats (President Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry with much help from our Connecticut senators) have created a dangerous situation. Look at the recent kidnapping in Iraq? What will they be looking for? How much will our government shovel their way? What other rogue nations will now resort to false imprisonments of Americans to swap for what they desire? Dangerous world affairs ahead, helped along by our own elites.


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I often tell people the best time to photograph newborns is within the first 10 days – that's when they are the most sleepy and agreeable. This little sweety was 3 weeks old – so we had a tough time getting her to fall asleep – but when she did, she was OUT! And, it all worked out because even when she was awake she was really happy. Such a cutie pie!
Click HERE to see a few of her cousin – right about the same age…. see any resemblance???
I had to include this – so funny! We were talking about how our babies give us "the bird" sometimes. I really think they know……
And she's out…..
Must be a good dream……night-night miss "p". 🙂


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NetGalley- thanks to Random House UK/Transworld Publishers
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of the earth. Byron Hemming knew this because James Lowe had told him and James was the cleverest boy at school. But how could time change? The steady movement of hands around a clock was as certain as their golden futures.
Then Byron's mother, late for the school run, makes a devastating mistake. Byron's perfect world is shattered. Were those two extra seconds to blame? Can what follows ever be set right
I absolutely loved Rachel Joyce's debut novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, so I went into reading this book with very high expectations. I think it's a good read, but for me, I wasn't as gripped as I thought I might be. That said, it's incredibly easy to read, and it confirms my thoughts that Rachel Joyce is a brilliant writer.
I think what stands out the most about this book, is the very moving moments, much like Harold Fry. The young boy in this book, Byron, goes through a journey too, but this time the journey is growing up and making choices rather than going on an epic physical journey.
The book tells a story of different people. Byron and James who are two middle-class boys, growing up in the 1970s. Byron is very obsessive about two seconds that are going to be added to the year. His best friend James is his source of advice on several matters because James is incredibly intelligent. One day, Byron's mother has an accident as she's driving Byron and his sister to school. Byron blames the accident on the two added seconds and becomes completely obsessed with these two extra seconds. Byron and James investigate the accident and the consequences of the accident with 'Operation Perfect'. Without spoiling the book, things escalate and have an affect on the boys…Another story that runs through the book is Jim's story. Jim struggles with mental health issues and receives advice from his colleagues.
I enjoyed reading this book. Like Harold Fry, the matters in the book are dealt with incredibly sensitively, and there are some beautiful characters with fabulous relationships. I particularly liked the relationship between Byron and his mum. Whilst I didn't enjoy it as much as Harold Fry, I'm still encouraged by Rachel Joyce's writing and I'd definitely read more from her!
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He Saved My Daughters Life
We have been coming to see Dr. Bob since March 2006. My daughter was so sick and had been in Children's Hospital for asthma-again. We came to see Dr. Bob, and he has saved her life! She no longer suffers from asthma on a daily basis, and she is finally healthy!


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