News and interviews
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News and interviews
News and features
Do YouTube like I YouTube? Then you are truly a YouTube addict. Let me explain. I can spend hours on YouTube, but more on that later. Recently, I proposed a topic on YouTube use among some of my amateur radio friends. Most of them confessed, or are proudly admitted to using the service, for entertainment, do it yourself projects or guitar lessons. I’ve been using YouTube for guitar lessons for years. It’s not the video instructors’ fault that I’m not getting very good at it. But that’s free for me and anyone else who wants to dial in and watch some of the musical experts teach us for some thing About the techniques we need to learn. Hey, it’s better than watching wagon train or Gunsmoke episodes on the past although I dare say you can see those on YouTube as well. I even have my own YouTube channel, although the statistics show that I’m one of the only ones that watch it. One exception is the video I did of the haunted barn in Portsmouth years ago. The property owners decorated a barn and back of their home along with the landscape of scary creatures. It was free, donations, accepted, and was a real fun house looking barn. people really got into going there before Halloween every year. Unfortunately, the old owners moved away, and the new owners really only wanted to use it as a barn. But the magic of that barn and outside cemetery display live on so to speak in my haunted barn video. You can see it, also for free on YouTube. Anyway, I asked my friends on the radio what they use YouTube for if they use it at all. Most replied, in the end for any affirmative, but had various and sundry uses for the service. One said that he explored movies that he could watch for free. another confessed to viewing the videos to help him fix his radio equipment. Still another looked for those old black-and-white TV episodes. I, in addition to seeking out guitar tuition, would enjoy watching concert videos. Now I can go to a concert without going to a concert. And at my age, that’s a real relief as opposed to standing in a crowd with someone balancing a kid or a partner on their head, blocking my view, instead sitting there all by myself Enjoying the performance. Oh, the concert videos vary in quality. Some are obviously bootleg, from someone shooting from the crowd. I watch them to see if they capture anything that’s useful fun. Some are really professionally produced, with perfect video and audio. I have used it to solve things. Recently, my laptop screen display turned sideways. I pushed about every button I could, and it wouldn’t straighten out the picture. Finally, I went to YouTube, and somebody with experience told me the two buttons to push to straighten it out. I figure the cat with crossed to the keyboard. For instance, how to take apart part of a refrigerator and blow hot air on it to unfreeze a frozen line? YouTube video showed us exactly how, and we did it until the refrigerator became really unreliable and we got a new one. YouTube videos also showed us the best refrigerators to buy, and those to avoid, at least, in the opinion of the reviewers. Speaking of reviews, you can look at any YouTube video and it will show you some in their opinion of a particular piece of equipment or anything else that you were thinking about buying. I confess sometimes I use those reviews after I bought the product to justify my investment in it. But that’s just me. I have resisted the urge to invest in YouTube TV, a subscription service that costs money. But I know people who do, and they say they swear that they can watch just about anything that way. One day, maybe I’ll wise up and dump my expensive cable service for this streaming YouTube. Do you YouTube?
major airport project
There are major plans for the future at Pease International Airport. Two competing developers want to bring cargo aircraft flying into the facility, along with aircraft repair buildings. If finally approved by the Pease Development Authority, which operates under state control, land adjacent to the north end of the runway and apron would be the site used. One of the proposals is by the Kane companies, property developers. The other is from Eric Robinson who is partnering with a New York investor, Valorev Capital of Brooklyn, N.Y. In what they call the ACX Project. The Pease Development Authority will shortly have a new chairman. And In this exclusive interview, associate publisher and podcast producer Roger Wood talks with Stephen Duprey about his new role.
Why being a “geezer” ain’t so bad
How has the deadly Covid virus affected how we treat each other? And are there ways to help those who instigate sexual violence and domestic abuse? Dr. Scott Hampton, a psychologist based in Dover has offered expert testimony on such matters in criminal trial court. His organization, endingtheviolence.us helps those who have committed or threatened harm to others. For every victim, there is a perpetrator. Roger Wood talks to him about ending the violence in his latest podcast.
In this latest Roger Wood podcast, Dr. Sindiso Mnisi Weeks discusses HB 44, attached to the state budget bill. It would essentially prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in New Hampshire, where she resides. The University of Massachusetts assistant professor talks about a wide range of issues regarding race equality and the striving for harmony between persons of different skin tones in New Hampshire and elsewhere.
7 miles off New Hampshire‘s diminutive but welcoming and sparkling shoreline, Lie the isles of shoals, a small grouping of islands, really spits of land exist. Most are uninhabitable, but two of them, AppleDore and Star Island, Have been the homes of fishermen in the past, and now host visitors, Mainly scientists and college students at Appledore, and families and conference gatherings at Star. You can see the sparkling oceanic house from the shoreline, especially at night, as twinkling lights offshore. Those lights were dimmed last summer because of the pandemic. But in a short time, Joe Watts, chief executive officer of the star island corporation nonprofit, will reopen the sprawling structure to the public once again.
A River runs through it, Franklin New Hampshire that is. The Winnipesaukee river, which attracts many water sports fans, will become the first white water park in New England starting this summer. It’s called the Mill city park at Franklin Falls. It has been six years in the planning, and the man-made built concrete standing waves are expected to attract River surfers and their fans far beyond the Granite State. And that is just the beginning for the Central New Hampshire city which used to be the home of working mills. In this podcast, Roger Wood speaks to the people who have worked for six years to make this coming attraction possible.