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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, February 16, 2017

A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 26, NO. 7

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, february 16, 2017

COMPLIMENTARY

First Annual Fire & Ice Festival

An Age Old Sport That Can Be Played By All Ages by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

of the Winter Olympics iin 1998. Mike Spence of Wolfeboro was watching the 2014 Winter Olympics from Russia and became intrigued by the curling competition, eventually won by Canada. The next day Mike printed out some information on curling and gave it to

his friend Bud Booth. “I said to Bud ‘why can’t we do this here?’” said Spence. “And that’s where the idea first took root. Neither one of us had ever curled before.” A couple of weeks later, Spence’s daughter, who lives in Gilford, told him about a group that curled See curling on 20

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What if you started a curling league and no one came? Now in its fourth season, the founders of the Lakes Region Curling Association were asking themselves just that question when they de-

cided to start a league back in 2014. The sport of curling has a long history and can be traced back to medieval Scotland’ a Curling Stone was once found that was inscribed with the date of 1511. Still its increasing popularity only began in the United States after curling first became part

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In a Lakes Region Curling Association curling match between the Irish Stone Rovers & the Stone Agers at Pop Whalen Arena in Wolfeboro Skip Peter Goodwin (left) works his broom to sweep an stone from the house removing it from scoring. Irish Stone Rovers team members looking on are Wayne McBride (center) Bob Patterson (center right) & Susan Photo courtesy mike spence McBride (right).

WOLFEBORO - Celebrate winter at the second annual Fire & Ice Festival at the Wolfeboro Inn. The outdoor festival will be held Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18, from 5pm to 10pm Sponsored by Pinnacle Vodka, the event will have bars carved out of ice, fire dancing, music and great giveaways each night. Known for great food and comfortable lodging, the Wolfeboro Inn is excited to host an event that will showcase the beauty of Wolfeboro in winter. The cover charge is $5.00 per person, tokens for all items sold at the ice bars will be available for purchase at the event. Wolfe’s Tavern will be open for dinner from 4pm to 9pm For more information about this fun weekend festival, contact the Wolfeboro Inn at 603569 -3016. The Wolfeboro Inn is located at 90 N. Main Street.

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Wright Museum of WWII Exhibit of 1941-1946 Saturday Evening Post Covers

Free Family Movie “The Ron Clark Story”

Pease International Tradeport, Ground level gallery, One New Hampshire Avenue, Portsmouth. This exhibit showcases 35 original WWIIera “Post” covers created by some of the finest illustrators of the period. Many of the covers deal with subjects relating to the Home Front, reflecting how Americans reacted to World War II. The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular business hours. 569-1212

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Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 2 local favorites on stage with $2 drafts and 2-for-1 appetizers after 8pm. 2930841

Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Silent Film Series – “The Clinging Vine” The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Annual Italian Dinner Night

Belknap County Sportsmen’s Association, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. 6pm. Bob Cottrell will give a talk titled “Harnessing History: On the Trail of NH’s State Dog, the Chinook”. This program looks at how dog sledding developed in NH and how the Chinook played a major role in this story. Explaining how man and his relationship with dogs won out over machines on several famous polar expeditions, Bob Cottrell covers the history of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks. This will be both an educational and entertaining evening. All members of the community are welcomed. $10pp. BYO beverages.

“The Magic of MetamorphosisButterflies of New Hampshire”

The Loon Center, Lee’s Mill Road, Moultonborough. 7pm. The Lakes Region Chapter of the New Hampshire Audubon Society presents this program on New Hampshire butterflies by Dr. Rick Van de Poll. Come learn about the fascinating lives of butterflies, from egg to larva to pupa and adult. Discover how these incredible pollinators sequence through the seasons in search of their favorite nectaries. Find out which ones overwinter as adults, and which ones travel thousands of miles to avoid the cold winter. Warm up to the brilliance of our less-than-a-gram friends who provide a colorful backdrop to our floral world. Suitable for all ages. 4765666 Friday 17th

First Annual Fire & Ice Festival

Wolfeboro Inn, 90 N Main St. 5-10pm. Bars carved out of ice, fire dancing, music great giveaways. $5 per person. Call 603-569-3016.

Mountain View Church 322 Upper Bay Rd. Sanbornton. 6:30pm. Free popcorn and drinks. There will be a drawing for a $20 GC for Shiloh’s Restaurant.

Fri. 17th – March 20th “Recycle My Art” – Art Show Lakes Region Art Association Art Gallery, Tanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Suite 132, Tilton. This show is the result of 19 local artists who agreed to swap old and not so masterful works of art with each other. Artists were then challenged to recreate, reinvent, recycle or rejuvenate the swapped art into a new masterpiece! Come see the “before” and the new “after” works in this fun and creative show. The gallery is open Thursdays through Mondays, 10am-6pm. www.lraanh.org

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Feb. 18th, 25th and March 4th from 8am-noon. The cost is $75pp, which includes; instruction, course materials and model fees. Class size is limited to 15 people. Payment may be made at the door. Participants are asked to bring their cameras, lenses, flash units and instruction manuals. To register call 455-6595

Memories of Patsy Cline Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. rochesteroperahouse.com or 3351992

Sunday 19th Blackbird Duo First Congregational Church, Wolfeboro. 2pm. $20pp. www. wfriendsofmusic.org or 569-2151

Tuesday 21st Open Mic Night

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. Multitalented host Paul Luff and a great variety of talent! To get in the gig, email Paul at pluff1@myfairpoint.net 293-0841

Wednesday 22nd Ladies Night with Cody James

Books ‘n Puzzles Sale First Church Congregational, 63 South Main Street, Rochester. 7:30am11am. www.first-ucc.net 332-1121

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. Half-price drinks for ladies at the bar. 293-0841

Game Time Trivia

Peter Ferber Gallery Show of New Original Paintings

Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm. www.

The Art Place, 9 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. Unveiling at 9:30am. Artist reception to follow. Snow date is Sunday, February 19th at 11am. www. theartplace.biz or 569-6159

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Memories of Patsy Cline – Tribute Concert Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. $20pp. www.rochesteroperahouse.com or 335-1992

Winter Farmers’ Market Cole Gardens, 430 Loudon Road, Concord. 10am-1:30pm. Cole Gardens hosts an indoor farmers’ market with live music and more than 30 participating vendors every Saturday through April 22nd. Everything from meats and seafood to breads, fruits, and veggies; as well as baked goods, honey and coffee & tea. www.concordwintermarket.com or 229-0655

Pink Talking Fish The Flying Monkey, 39 South Main Street, Plymouth. www. flyingmonkeynh.com or 536-2551

Swing Dance with the Tall Granite Big Band Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. www. pitmansfreightroom.com or 5270043. Pitman’s is BYO venue.

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Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

Wed. 22nd – May 19th “Discover Space: A Cosmic Journey” – Traveling Exhibition Pease Public Library, 1 Russell Street, Plymouth. Mon. -Wed. 10am8pm, Thurs. and Fri. 10am-5pm, Sat. 10am-2pm. See this national traveling exhibition that explores the fascinating world of space and astronomy. Discover Space covers topics such as the formation of planetary systems, asteroids and comets, Mars exploration, and solar storms and their impacts on the Earth. Discover Space strives to make space and science fun with hands-on, multimedia activities where visitors can build their own solar systems on a 42” touch table, learn how telescopes work, play magneto-golf, learn about near real-time changes on the Sun, try to save Earth from an asteroid impact,

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“Remembering Annie” Fundraiser Friday, March 10th At Church Landing Some of you (maybe a lot of you) may have known,

talked on the phone with, been hugged by or met by chance Annie Forts over her lifetime in the Lakes Region. Her unassuming, unstoppable spirit, amazing charm and resounding joy for life is what set this little wonder apart from the rest of the world. Born in 1967 in NJ, she soon realized that she wasn’t going to let life tell her what she couldn’t achieve. She participated in as many activities as she could while growing up (swimming, skiing, horseback riding, etc) and began to make her mark in society. The Forts family moved to the Lakes Region in 1983 and Annie attended Moultonborough Academy as one of their first Down Syndrome students. She never thought of it as Downs, but UP… way UP! As a young adult, she captivated everyone she met. In 1991, the UP Fund was born and she began speaking about ‘UP’ Syndrome around the country. Young doctors were so taken by her amazing gift of reaching out in friendship and ability that they began to question why they were encouraging Downs to be aborted. She would speak to audiences in the hundreds as if she was talking to only one person. Never shy about introducing herself to someone she never met, Annie would use similar phrases like, “Hey hotshot, how’s your mom and dad?” or “I haven’t seen you in such a long time.” Most likely this would catch people off guard, but then she would just be their very best friend the next minute. When she wasn’t on her speaking circuit, she volunteered at both Moultonborough and Inter-Lakes schools, was hostess at 3 different restaurants. On her 40th birthday, the UP Fund sponsored a fundraising event celebrating her life achievements. Many friends and family roasted her but Annie always got them back… with a hug. Everyone there was just in awe at how Annie could work a room. Late last May, Annie passed due to a very aggressive Alzheimer disease. This March 10th, she would have been 50. So again, the UP Fund is organizing a fundraiser on this date to celebrate her life and hear from “Annie’s Army” of friends and family. Like her 40th, it will be held at Church Landing in Meredith from 7 to 10pm. DJ Pat Kelly will emcee the evening with a silent auction, 50/50 raffles, music, food, singing and more. This is your chance to be a part of something wonderful and worthwhile. Tickets are $25 and $45 for couples and are available at George’s Restaurant on Plymouth St, Overhead Door Option at 185 Waukewan St. in Meredith. You can also reserve them online with a PayPal purchase (no PP account needed). Find out much more about the event at anniefortsupfund.org/50th-fundraiser. Please consider joining us in celebrating the life of a wonderful and amazing person, Annie Forts!

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One of the new lake scenes by Peter Ferber to be displayed at his new show at The Art Place in Wolfeboro on Saturday, February 18th. hadn’t made it into the first painting. Later, going down to the shore for a closer look at the island’s trees and ledge, a boat set out for an evening cruise. The visual as it passed the island, and the sense of anticipation you feel heading out into the lake for a boat ride, launched another painting. A few years ago in looking See ferber on 29

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Ferber captures it when he paints--it’s put down on paper, and it’s beauty has been preserved. These snippets of images are a chance for me to step out of myself or what is going on in the world and breath in the beauty of a “Peter Ferber painting.” For the rest of you who may or may not have experienced Peter’s paintings in your imagination, his artwork can be seen for real in this upcoming show at The Art Place located at 9 North Main Street, Wolfeboro, NH.” In referencing the upcoming show, Peter states, “As I look over the paintings taking shape for this next show, the common thread I find is that most are offshoots of other work– largely photo reference collected for other paintings that turn out to have merit of their own as a basis for a painting. Last summer I did a large oil of the Robert’s Cove view. I took a number of pictures focused on Quarter Mile Island. The way I zoomed in on it from the hillside above created a wonderful composition. There was also a sailboat moored next to it that was perfectly positioned as a center of interest, that

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On Saturday, February 18, The Art Place in downtown Wolfeboro will hold its semi-annual Peter Ferber Gallery Show featuring new original paintings by local well-known artist Peter Ferber. The unveiling and artist’s reception will commence at 9:30am All are welcome to attend and meet the artist. A snow date, if necessary, has been set for Sunday, February 19th beginning at 11 a.m. Barbara Gibbs owner of The Art Place talks about Peter’s artwork: “This morning when I looked out the window at the freshly fallen snow, I saw what I call a “Peter Ferber painting.” It’s an experience that I have quite often since I’ve graced the walls at the Art Place with Peter’s artwork. In my mind’s eye, I can imagine Peter creating that scene in a painting. He has the ability to capture dappled light as it gleans through trees, make perfect cloud formations, and create a wake from a wooden boat to the point where you think you can hear the motor. These are all pictures that Peter is able to capture through his painting. Basically, it is the essence of n Ru s Cabistanding tic still. Whatytime z time, Peter o ever moment in s

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Right To Work To The Editor: Prosperous days are ahead for New Hampshire residents. The Republicans have made a clean sweep of elective offices. We have a youthful and charismatic Governor in Chris Sununu, a majority in the Senate, the House and on the Executive Council. New Hampshire is poised to lower taxes and attract new companies to provide more well paying jobs. A Right to Work bill will be up for a vote in this session. Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri have recently passed Right to Work bills in the past 4 years. In Indiana after passing Right to Work Subaru and Rolls Royce decided to build new factories there and the private employment in Indiana has increased by about 50,000 more good paying manufacturing jobs as in Indiana. The private sector imployment in Wisconsin has also increased by about 50,000 since they became a Right to Work state in 2015. If New Hampshire passes a Right to Work bill in this session, our state will become more attractive for investment for both American and foreign companies. The New Hampshire Republican platform is not anti union but is pro choice It states “Uphold the right to join or avoid labor unions without co-

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ercion or intimidation. It leaves the choice of paying Union Dues up to the individual, rather than having the dues automatically deducted from your monthly pay check. For those Republican state reps who enjoy the drama of participating in the New Hampshire legislature, and who would like to be elected for a another term, and are concerned that union members will vote against you if you vote RTW, be comforted by the voting statistics of the last election. In Dover Independents cast 38% of the votes, Democrats 32% and Republicans 30%. It is my opinion that a more Independent voters will vote for the state rep that recognizes that making New Hampshire the first right to work state in New England is in their best financial interest. Its passage will bring more companies, both domestic and foreign to invest in New Hampshire which will provide more good paying jobs locally. Many voters registered as independents will I believe vote their pocket book in 2018 and will elect those state reps who recognize the economic advantages to them of making New Hampshire the first Right To Work State in New England because it will allow them to avoid a costly and time wasting commute to Massachusetts. In New Hampshire at

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.

Question To The Editor: I have to agree with Michael Frandzel that do to partisan politics not much happened during the Obama administration. This may have contributed to the popularity of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump during this past election. I would have to also agree with Don Ewing that the KKK and Jim Crow type Laws can be associate with the Democratic party. However on July 2 1964 the Civil Right Act was signed into Law by President Lyndon B Johnson and it was on that day, that the Party of Lincoln changed. The question is can and will we return to a Nation where righting a wrong is what is important to us. Though I do not believe in violence in any form, I would like to ask Don how he label men such as John and Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, George Washington, and other Men and Women of the Revolution. John Brennick Rochester, NH

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Brendan is still outside shoveling snow, so we are reprinting this column from January 30, 2014. It also appears in his book “Best Of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire.” Whew!! It feels nice to be finally hunkered down and waiting for the snowstorm. It’s been a frantic twelve hours since the weatherman said we were about to get slammed with anywhere from four inches to a foot of snow. Before that tragic forecast had been made, my life was peaceful here close by the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. Once it was announced, life, as I usually know it, changed. Once those words spilled from the weatherman’s mouth I panicked and rose up from my armchair and went into the kitchen. I knew, as most other folks here in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire do, that four inches to a foot of snow meant that it could be a storm of a duration exceeding five or six hours and, once done, would be a few hours more until the roads were clear enough to travel on. This meant that it would be close to a full half of a day until I could safely venture on the roads once more. A full half a day until any of us would be able to get to the supermarket. The horror!! The horror!!

I ripped open the kitchen cabinet doors to see if we had enough supplies to sustain us through the aftermath of the storm. Even though my wife claimed that there was more than enough food on one shelf of the pantry alone to sustain us for a week, I wasn’t buying it. Man (and woman) cannot live on peanut butter and canned tuna alone. Actually we could, but I was looking for something more substantial. Were there enough CheezIts left in the box? How about pretzels? Would two loaves of bread be enough? What was the status of the Chocolate Chip Cookies? We were failing on all accounts. I threw on my sneakers, got in the car and headed towards the supermarket. When I arrived, I certainly wasn’t alone. The parking lot was threequarters full and more cars were arriving by the second. I had to park pretty far away but I was undaunted. I walked briskly, following the crowd but marching to my own drummer. I tried not to appear too anxious as I got closer, planning my strategy in my head the entire time. The crowd was buzzing, discussing the impending storm. “The guy on TV said a possible fourteen inches in some isolated areas.” That was the thing. You never knew if you’d be in the isolated area. It was something you had no control over and hoped never happened. It could add a few hours onto your separation from civilization so you needed to be prepared. I imagined that’s why they were called isolated areas. Inside the supermarket it was chaos. Bodies hurrying everywhere, some

aimlessly with no game plan. Friends simply nodded to each other, no time to chat. Shopping carts were at a premium and shopping baskets extinct. I immediately made my move. Bypassing the meats, fruits and vegetables, I headed right towards the cookie and cracker aisle. My favorite chocolate chips were already gone but there was still a package left of that pretty good brand. We’d have to sacrifice. I went for it at the same time as an older woman I had seen around town. Our eyes met. I could easily have won this battle but I let it be. There were still a few Pepperidge Farms left, no sense getting crazy yet. The Cheez-Its were gone as well. As I was about to leave the aisle, a frightened employee came out with a fresh case. We all hovered, jockeying for position, ready to grab at each, nutritionally limited, sodium packed box that went on the shelf. I got one with only a few bruises to my arm and made a bee-line to the bread aisle. It was practically bare. I grabbed a few loaves of whatever was left. There was no time now to be choosy. It was all about survival. I was fortunate to get to the pretzels before most of the crowd. The selection was excellent. Satisfied in my hunting, I made my way to the checkout. Having fourteen items or less, I thought I would be in great shape. I grabbed a giant box of Cheerios on the way by that were calling my name. The line was long; some folks trying their best to sneak through with sixteen or seventeen items. Was it worth the fight to See prepared on 24

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Hillary’s ‘Future Is Female’ Femme-A-Goguery All that was missing from Hillary Clinton’s video address to a leftwing women’s group this week was a pink pussyhat and a by Michelle Malkin “BOYS SUCK” Syndicated Columnist T-shirt. Feminists at the MAKERS conference in Southern California gushed over the twice-failed presidential candidate’s remarks, which exhorted her ideological sisters-in-arms to “be bold,” “step up and speak out,” and “set an example for every woman and girl out there who’s worried about what the future holds and wonders whether our rights, opportunities and values will endure.” (The alleged sexual assault victims of Bill Clinton who have stepped up and spoken boldly, however, did not get a shoutout.) On its face, Hillary’s statement seems like standard-issue, gender-centric cheerleading. But her declaration that “The Future is Female” is a dog whistle to the most extreme wing of the progressive feminist movement -- where an explicitly anti-male, grievance-wallowing, lady partsobsessed culture prevails. A “female future,” after all, necessitates that inherently bad boys take a political backseat and yield all their authority to Grrrrl Power. “The Future is Female” became a popular T-shirt motto in the 1970s, when a “queer feminist” bookstore owner in New York City snapped a photo of her girlfriend donning the slogan. Another feminist retailer, Otherwild, started

marketing the apparel recently in a “call for the end of patriarchal ideology, domination, oppression and violence.” A quarter of the proceeds from sales of Otherwild’s “Future is Female” wear goes to Planned Parenthood. Yes, the “Future is Female” propagandists are funding an abortion giant that has exterminated the futures of millions of unborn females in the U.S. and around the world. Among the new femme-agogues fortunate enough to have avoided Planned Parenthood’s fatal forceps is patriarchy-smasher Kiran Gandhi. The Georgetown University and Harvard University School of Business grad is a musician who wears the T-shirt and whose companion song, “The Future is Female,” is an ear-warping anthem for the fistclenchers. “Toxic masculinity has to end,” she sing-raps. Feminist Superfund to the rescue! “The system must make room for all that we do,” Gandhi demands. “We’ve been bleeding each month till we gave birth to you!” Egad. What is it with these women and their fixation on menstrual cycles? Gandhi found fame while running the London Marathon in 2015 as she let her period flow down her athletic pants for 26 miles. As she and her stained self crossed the finish line, feminists praised her “courage” and “resilience” for running without a tampon. Get her a Nobel Prize. Admirers at People magazine dubbed her the “Period Runner.” One feminist blog called her a “menstrual hero.” Gandhi later explained her role as an “ambassador” raising awareness

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Revenge Of The Nation State The start of the Trump administration has been a vindication of the American nation-state. Anyone who by Rich Lowry thought it was Contributing Writer a “borderless world,” a category that includes some significant portion of the country’s corporate and intellectual elite, has been disabused of the notion within about the first five days of the Trump years. The theme running throughout President Donald Trump’s inaugural address was the legitimacy of the nation-state as a community, a source of unity and the best means of advancing the interests of its citizens. The address was widely panned, but early polling indicates the public didn’t share the revulsion of the commentariat. The speech’s broadly nationalistic sentiments were bound to strike people as

common sense. “At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction: that a nation exists to serve its citizens.” Who else would it serve? “From this moment on, it’s going to be America first.” Why would anything else come first? Trump’s speech was less poetic, but in one sense more grounded than George W. Bush’s call for universal liberty in 2005 or Barack Obama’s vision of international cooperation leading to a new era of peace in 2009. Trump spoke of “the right of all nations to put their own interests first.” If Bush was a vindicator of universal freedom, and Obama, in his more soaring moments, a citizen of the world, Trump is a dogged citizen of the United States, concerned overwhelmingly with vindicating its interests. His executive order authorizing the building of the wall is an emphatic affirmation of one of

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Afghan Civilian Casualties Soar as Conflict Continues UNITED NATIONS

-Afghanistan’s seemingly endless conflict continues as civilian causalities in the protracted war are nearly douby John J. Metzler ble what they Syndicated Columnist were a decade ago. According to a UN report there were 11,418 conflict related causalities documented, which includes 3,500 killed. Over 900 children died and another 2,600 were injured in the same period in 2016. The figures, recorded by UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), are the highest since the UN began systematically documenting civilian casualty figures in 2009. “The killing and maiming of thousands of Afghan civilians is deeply harrowing and largely preventable,” said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan. “All parties to the conflict must take immediate concrete measures to protect the ordinary Afghan men, women and children whose lives are being shattered.” According to the survey, “AntiGovernment forces, mainly the Taliban, were responsible for almost two thirds of the casualties while pro-Government forces were responsible for almost one quarter.”

Significantly, besides the long term threat from Taliban fundamentalist militants, the UN survey relates disturbing new evidence including the “increase in attacks perpetrated by Daesh/ ISKP (Islamic State Khorasan Province), particularly targeting Shia Muslims.” The UN Mission documented 899 civilian casualties (209 deaths and 690 injured), a ten-fold increase from last year. The report states, “The majority of the casualties caused by Daesh/ ISKP occurred in three large-scale attacks on the Shia Muslim community.” In other words Afghanistan is facing both a traditional insurgency as well as a sectarian conflict between Muslim religious groups. The UN’s Yamamoto added, “Yet another record year of civilian suffering in Afghanistan… Unless all parties to the conflict make serious efforts to review and address the consequences of their operations, the levels of civilian casualties, displacement and other types of human suffering are likely to remain at appallingly high levels.” NATO’s Resolute Support Mission continues in the war ravished country, with the multinational force levels near 13,000. The United States is the largest troop contributor with 8,400, followed by Italy with 1,000, Germany 980 and the United Kingdom 450 among others. The Resolute Support Mission is primarily focused on training Afghan forces and pro-

viding the overall insurance policy of Western boots on the ground. During last year, Afghan military losses spiked too as the military has at long last assumed a larger share of the on the ground fighting. This war-weary land of 33 million is hardly stabilized despite the best efforts of the U.S. and NATO forces. A weak central government in Ka-

bul combined with an entrenched Islamic Taliban insurgency has sadly guaranteed years of future crisis. The Kabul government controls only about two-thirds of the mountainous country. Combine this with a brisk narcotics trade, entrenched corruption, a militant gaggle of warlords, and Afghanistan appears an impossible maze See Metzler on 26

Smearing Team Trump Oh, no! I did it again. It was a foolish mistake. But I slipped. I read The New York Times. This is bad for my health, because I get so mad at the by John Stossell smug socialist Syndicated Columnist spin, but how can I not read it? It’s my hometown paper. My wife wakes me up with indignant questions like, “How can you say government is too big? The Times says ...” Aargh! Nearly every day brings a new Times outrage. Saturday, a front-page story smeared Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder. The story begins, “Decades before President Trump nominated him ... Puzder went to battle with federal labor regulators ... “ Wait a second. “ Decades before”? They went back decades to criticize him? Actually, three decades — to 1983, when as a young lawyer, Puzder represented a client whom the Labor Department accused of squandering union money. The Times went on to say: “He has repeatedly argued that economic regulations stifle economic growth.” Puzder “argued” that? Regulations obviously stifle growth. That’s their purpose — to protect workers by putting limits on businesses’ pursuit of profit. Regulation is a big reason this post-recession recovery has been so weak. In just the last 10 years, the De-

partment added regulations that require another 70 million hours of paperwork. Monday: “Trump’s F.D.A. Pick Could Undo Decades of Drug Safeguards.” Oh, no! Trump will poison America with unsafe drugs! President Trump hasn’t actually made his FDA pick yet, but the Times worries “his push for deregulation might put consumers at risk.” The reporter cites thalidomide, which, 60 years ago, “caused severe birth defects in babies whose mothers had taken the drug in pregnancy. Since then, the F.D.A. has come to be viewed as the world’s leading watchdog for protecting the safety of food and drugs, a gold standard ... “ Fool’s gold. The FDA protected American babies from thalidomide not by being smart, but by being so slow. By the time thalidomide neared approval, its bad effects were visible in Europe. The Times eagerly reports damage done by drugs: “Drug safety watchdogs point to examples like the painkiller Vioxx, which was withdrawn from the market ...” But “invoking Vioxx as the icon for such looseness is itself ignorant looseness,” says my medical researcher brother, Tom. “FDA approvals are tradeoffs between benefits and risks. The FDA knew about Vioxx’s risks. It was the company, not the FDA, that withdrew the painkiller. Many doctors now say it was an ill-advised move that deprives patients of a good alternative. Vioxx’s risks are no greater than painkillers like Motrin sold over the counter. The Times avoids detailing just See stossell on 26

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Lethargy, The Forerunner Of Death To The Public Liberty Loyal listener from Athens, Ohio: “I hope Jeff Sessions offers J. Christian Adams his by Niel Young job back. Advocates Columnist He knows who the rotten apples are…” My wife Betty: “Don’t you think the Republicans (Senate/Congress) should be be rallying around Trump?” In capsule form: McCain, Graham, Collins, Ryan, McConnell, and other haven’t been much for leadership in the past 8 years. They would rather sit by and witness the demise of America. While the Democrat Socialists oversee what those who have given their lives in battle for; the Democrats are ready to destroy; FREEDOM! ******** “What’s right with America is a willingness to discuss what’s wrong with America.” Harry C. Bauer, Professor Emeritus of Librarianship, University of Washington, Seattle. (http://quotes. libertytree) ******** Those brilliant and patriotic gentlemen “back then”. Ask your children/ grandchildren, 12 years and older, who were the Founding Fathers, and what did they find? WE owe it to our young people! You and the young ones could read Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, together. In the mid-50’s Miss Braley – who became Mrs. Belser in one year – Batchelder Street School, in Laconia. What a gift she gave me – we, and the class - read this book, TOGETHER. ********

We have had our times of not holding heads high. But never was leaving this country, an option. This is our America. Do we think of the feelings of our politicians when they do something wrong in our opinion re:lie to us! I voted for President Trump. I defend him and look for more for national security, jobs being filled by Americans, reduction in welfare, and the President knows it was Joe and Jane America who worked for and voted for Donald J. Trump! Chris Meissen: “I used to be employed as a field engineer servicing [a major broadcast network’s] distribution equipment, specifically their affiliates’ satellite dishes. I’ve had many talks with TV newsmen. The most telling was one who confessed that he didn’t think he could continue his job and live with himself because he daily saw ‘the difference between what I am forced to report and what’s really happening.’ He told me that, at the first meeting with ‘corporate’s’ news director [from the corporate holding company that owned the station, not the network], the ND told them that ‘our job as reporters was to shape public opinion.’ When someone protested that their job was to discover and report the truth, the ND responded, ‘Whatever the public’s perception is, is the truth and it’s your job to make sure that they have the proper perceptions.’ That man’s statement is always in the back of my mind whenever I see or read anything in the ‘news,’ that the job of reporters today is not to report hard, verifiable facts but rather to shape public opinion using selected

facts presented in carefully arranged fashion.” ********* Thomas Jefferson: “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

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In my mind as a child there were two former United States of America Presidents who stood above all the others in their importance to the country. One could never tell a lie and the other was always honest. One was born on February 22nd and the other on February 12th. One was referred to as the father of our country and the other was considered to be the preserver of our country and sometimes called Father Abraham. Their pictures were placed on the wall of our school house classroom. Of course they were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and then as now stories we are told about them somehow give us a sense of connection to them. In 1909 The Manchester NH Union launched a campaign to collect the names of all New Hampshire residents living in the state in that year who had voted for Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election. Of the 65,953 votes cast for president in New Hampshire that year Lincoln received 37,519 of them. It had been one hundred years since Lincoln’s birth and anyone who voted for him in 1860 would have had to be over 69 years of age. A civil war veteran, Joseph Enos, who lived in Franklin, New Hampshire after the war ended,

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Abraham Lincoln made a trip to New Hampshire to visit his son Robert at Phillips Exeter Academy a couple of months before he was chosen as presidential candidate by the Republican Party. is said to have been at Ford’s theater on the night that President Lincoln was assassinated. Mr. Enos was serving in the government as part of the quartermaster’s department and was a boarder of a William Cowan, a Washington grocer. Mr. Cowan suggested that they attend Ford’s theater on the night of April 14, 1865, knowing that President Lincoln was scheduled to be in attendance. They are said to have stopped to watch

a firework’s display being put on to remember the anniversary of the fall of Fort Sumner on April 14, 1861. At the theater the men were seated on the opposite side from the President’s box where they had a good view of Lincoln entering with his wife and of the events that followed. They heard the shot that killed the President and saw John Wilkes Booth jump to the stage, catching his foot in the flag draping the presSee SMITH on 22

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species of wild birds each and every day, no matter what the season. How to attract each species depends on your natural environment, feeder and seed selections. For some birders, socalled nuisance birds can be a concern due to intense flocking and the monopolization of bird feeders created by mobbing activity. Starlings and grackles are the usual culprits of these observations. The blue jay has an interesting following. You either love them or can do without them. The middle ground doesn’t seem to exist when discussing this song bird. It is the most misunderstood backyard visitor. We would like to use today’s column to explain these unique birds. Consider the blue jay as you would an older sibling. An older brother or sister can be protectors or bullies, depending on the situation at hand. If someone is perceived to be a threat to you at sometime during your life, you would expect your older siblings to stand up for you as they offer protection. However, there may be times when these same protectors can push you around or bully you into an unwise activity due to your younger age or diminutive size. Blue jays are the older brother or sister to most birds in the wild. Whenever danger presents itself, the blue jays will be the first to sound the warning call. Have you ever observed a hawk flying around your area looking for prey, only to be mobbed by dozens of blue jays? These protectors of the sky will force birds of prey to change their feeding zones away from the blue jays’ desig-

nated territories. In this instance, these birds are accomplishing the same goal as an older sibling aiding a younger family member. In other instances, blue jays will literally bully their way into any backyard and monopolize bird feeders until they have had their fill. Blue jays love to announce their arrival with a raucous, causing all other birds to scatter. Hence, the bully characteristic that so many customers attribute to this species. Love or leave them, the blue jay has a unique place in the wild bird society that many humans may not understand. Without this bird in every backyard, many other species would probably fall prey to hawks, cats, and other threats to song bird survival. In many circumstances, you will hear chipmunks chipping and blue jays squawking in chorus whenever the same danger has entered the area. Together, these two very different species join forces as early warning detectors. Enjoy your birds! Wild Bird Depot is located on Rt 11 in Gilford, NH. Steve White is a contributing author in major publications, a guest lecturer at major conventions in Atlanta and St. Louis as well as the host of WEZS 1350AM radio show “Bird Calls” with Lakes Region Newsday @ 8:30AM. Wild Bird Depot has donated over $5,000 to local rehabilitators and local nature centers since 1996. Be sure to check out our blog “Bird Droppings” via our website www.wildbirddepot.com. Like us on Facebook for great contests and prizes.

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Mandolin Festival Concord Community Music School, 23 Wall St. 7:30pm. $20 adults $15 students and seniors. www.ccmusicschool. org or call 603-228-1196.

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Wednesday 8th Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

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Thursday 9th Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrĂŠe, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219 Friday 10th

Remembering Annie – Celebration of Life for Annie Forts Church Landing, DW Highway, Meredith. 7pm-10pm. Come join a night of celebrating her Birthday, her unstoppable spirit and her life achievements! Get tickets at $25 each or $45 per couple. www. AnnieFortsUPFund.org for more information.

Wednesday 15th Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

Game Time Trivia Shooters Tavern, Route 3, DW Highway, Belmont. 8pm-10pm.

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Ladies Night with Cody James Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. Half-price drinks for ladies at the bar. 293-0841

Thursday 16th Storytelling Dinner

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Wednesday 22nd Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

Ongoing Senior Ten Pin Bowling League

Funspot, Rt. 3 Weirs Beach. 10am every Monday morning. 50 years and older welcomed! Call Gail 569-1974 or Al 8552561

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Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road, Gilford. 9am-10am Every Wednesday. 524-6042

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Bleu Waves Gallery, Meredith. Tuesday through Saturday. 561-401-1487

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Meredith Senior Center, 1 Circle Drive, Meredith. Group meets every Tuesday 9:3011:30am. All are welcome. 279-4647

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Thursday 23rd Storytelling Dinner

The Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Center Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment every Thursday nights through the end of May. Cost is $21.95 per person (plus tax and gratuity) and includes salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219

Wednesday 29th Weekly Cribbage Tournament to Benefit the Children’s Auction

Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. Come have some fun and support a great cause! 998-1418

Sleeper-Minot Library, Bristol. 5-7pm. Twice a month (Tuesdays). Any and all chess players are welcome, even if you have never played, people will be willing to take time and

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Lakes Region Brain Injury Support Group

Lakes Region Community Services, 719 Main Street, Laconia. 6-7:30pm. 1st Thursday of every month. 2258400

Lakes Region Camera Club Meeting Trinity Episcopal Church, Route 25, Meredith. 7-9pm. First and third Thursday of the month. Persons of all experience levels are welcome to attend.

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Creative Women’s Gathering

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NAMI-NH Family Support Group

Downtown Portsmouth, the first Friday of every month. 5-8pm. View website for specific fees.

Pease Public Library, downstairs, Plymouth. 7pm. First and third Mondays of each month. Open to anyone who is dealing with a close friend or family member who has a mental illness. 254-5090 or 536-2699

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around the handle of the stone so you can simply walk forward until you reach the delivery line and you push the stone.” A curling team usually has four people but the LR Curling Association allows from four to six with any four playing at one time. The winter season is in full swing and no new players are being currently accepted. “We don’t have room at the moment for more than eight teams,” said Masse. “To add more we

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mum number of players in order to pay for ice time as well as the significant expense of the curling stones. Curling stones look like teapots (the Gilford players use actual teapots filled with concrete according to Spence). Official ones are made of granite and weigh forty pounds each. “We needed sixty-four stones since we had fortyeight players and four sheets (the lanes the players use to play) and sixteen stones are used for each game,” said Masse. They went through a curling stone broker in the Dakotas who buys and sells used stones. “At $250 each, the stones cost us $16,000 and they were purchased on a lease to buy thing,” said Masse. “There is also the cost of ice time, but with the amount of people who signed up we had enough to cover expenses.” (The stones were just recently paid off.) The first curling season was held at the Pop Whalen Arena in Wolfeboro in October of 2015. After it was over the group reassessed how things had gone and to see whether or not to continue. They ended up proposing a second season in the winter and just about everybody signed

back up. “We had about forty plus players for the Sunday winter league and that has been the constant ever since,” said Masse. “With this winter season we are now in our fourth season.” The age range in the league goes from people in their 20s up to retirement age and beyond. Curling with the Lakes Region Curling Association isn’t exactly as you might see it on TV during the Olympics and there are modifications to make it easy and accessible to everyone.

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cold rain a sizable crowd gathered to hear him. From Concord, Lincoln with his son and friends travelled to Manchester where he spoke at the Smyth Hall in the Smyth block on Elm Street. Governor Smyth reportedly introduced him as the next President of the United States. Lincoln afterwards is said to have told Smyth that it was the first time that he had been introduced that way and that it was impossible that it could happen. On March 2nd he toured textile Mills in Manchester. From Manchester Lincoln went on to Dover for a speaking engagement at City Hall where he spoke to an audience of 1500 people. After speaking for an hour he stopped and asked if he had talked long enough or should continue his speech; being asked to continue, he did so for another hour. While in Dover Mr. Lincoln stayed at the home of George Matthewson, the superintendent of the Cochecho Manufacturing Company. March 3rd involved a trip back to Exeter and a speech by Lincoln at the Exeter City Hall and time for him to spend further time with his son, Robert. On March 4, 1860 the soon to be President wrote the following to his wife from Exeter: “Dear Wife, When I wrote you before I was just starting on a little speech making tour, taking the boys with me. On Thursday they went with me to Concord where I spoke in daylight, and back to Manchester where I spoke at night. Friday we came down to Lawrence.â€? He went on to tell her that they returned to Exeter where the boys got off and he went to Dover to speak on Friday evening, returning to Exeter about noon the next day where he found â€œâ€Śthe boys all right, having caught up with their lessons.â€? He expressed concern about his sons, Willie and Taddy, because son Bob, as he called him, had received a letter saying they had been very sick,

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or the cement thinset used to attach the tile to the backer board. The gap is easily filled with the tile wall grout and it looks great once complete. It’s also important for the rough carpenter to get the wall framing perfect so all this works out. The wall studs can’t have horrible crowns or be out of plumb. A crown is a hump in a wall stud that creates a bulge in the wall. If the crown points the other way, it creates a depression in the wall. Both are bad when you’re installing large pieces of ceramic tile. Great remodelers and builders consider using galvanized steel studs in locations where there will be tile. The steel studs are perfectly straight. If installed plumb and square, the finished tile work looks amazing. The other advantage to using steel studs in these areas is they don’t warp or shrink. Modern lumber has been hybridized by the lumber companies so it grows faster in the forest. The downside to this is that the light-colored spring wood bands are huge and the lumber is much less stable than lumber from even 40 years ago. Here are a few options you have at this point. You can remove the tile and start over, but this is going to be very painful. I’m not at your home and don’t know if this is possible, but the contractor may be able to install an additional layer of drywall on the existing drywall to correct the error.

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to solve politically. Neighboring Pakistan remains part of the problem. Long a supporter of certain Taliban factions, offering them sanctuary and support, the supreme irony remains the deadly political blowback that the very same Taliban has sowed terror and destabilization in parts of Pakistan itself. Just last week the UN removed a notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, once known as the Butcher of Kabul, from its ISIL/Al-Qaida sanctions blacklist. The controversial move reflected conclusions

that the Hez- a- Islami leader would cooperate with President Ashraf Ghani’s central government. According to Zahid Hussain writing in the Pakistani Dawn newspaper, “A shrewd political operator” Hekmatyar shall strive to reestablish old alliances with other warlords from both the anti-Soviet insurgency and the subsequent civil war. He adds, “Everything is possible in the shifting sands of Afghan politics.” Russia too, who learned a bloody lesson in their Afghan misadventure a generation ago, now has

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opened discreet political contacts with the insurgents. Why? To offset the growing threat from Islamic State whose terrorist web is perilously entrenched in parts of the country. India is concerned over the growth of IS in Afghanistan and the knock on effect this poses to Pakistan. A recent bombing outside the Supreme Count in Kabul killing 20 civilians and the murder of 6 Red Cross workers have been traced to Islamic State terrorists, not the Taliban. IS stokes sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni Muslims inside the country. Barack Obama’s maladroit and misguided Afghan policies offer the new U.S. administration a stalemate in which to operate. The Trump team must prepare for a sudden surge in fighting while at the same time not investing significantly more American blood and treasure in Afghanistan’s complex geopolitical game. John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Korea, China.

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of “menstrual health and hygiene” so that “instead of seeing it as a taboo, we should seek ways to design systems that make it easier for women to be comfortable during our cycles.” Pushback against “period shaming” has become such a thing among privileged feminist elites that these gender justice warriors vandalized buildings during the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., by slapping sanitary napkins all over the walls. They donned tampon earrings and uterus costumes. They swooned while Ashley Judd shrieked on stage about being “nasty, like the blood stains on my bed sheets.” This is not self-empowerment. It’s just gross self-indulgence and exhibitionism. As the mother of a teenage daughter and teenage son, I don’t want Hillary’s female future for either of my kids. HillaryWorld is a bleak, identity politics cesspool hijacked by nutty man-haters running around with crocheted sexual organs on their heads and babbling about the human rights crime of their “flow.” Keep up with this bloody mess, Hillary and friends, and you’ll be paving a smooth path to Trump 2020. Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www. creators.com.

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how onerous today’s regulation is. The reporter says, “The agency sets a 10-month goal for approving standard drugs.” Gee, goals are nice, but does the agency honor them? The Times doesn’t say. It also doesn’t mention that the 10-month goal only applies to the final step of regulation — after all trials are done. The entire process takes an average 16 years and $2.6 billion. Americans want protection from bad drugs, but how many of us suffer needless pain, or die, while waiting those 16 years? How many die because a drug’s developers cannot raise $2.6 billion? One more smear: “President Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, has aggressively moved to roll back consumer protection regulations.” Consumer protection? No. Socialist idiocy. The Times says Pai “stopped nine companies from providing discounted high-speed internet service to low-income individuals.” No, he stopped a $9.25/ month government subsidy for high-speed internet. “He withdrew an effort to keep prison phone rates down,” says the Times. No, he stopped FCC lawyers from fighting about in-state phone calls because the FCC has no constitutional authority there. Utterly reasonable. But the Times quotes an advocacy group saying, “Chairman Pai is showing his true stripes ... (doing) favors for the powerful corporations.” Please. Someone. Tell The New York Times that socialism was tried. It doesn’t work. John Stossel is the author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.

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the constituent parts of a nation, namely borders. In general, immigration is an important focus for Trump’s nationalism because it involves the question of whether the American people have the sovereign authority to decide who gets to live here or not; of whether the interests of American or foreign workers should be paramount; of whether we assimilate the immigrants we already have into a common culture before welcoming even more. A proper American nationalism should express not just an affinity for this country’s people, as Trump did in his inaugural address, but for its creed, its institutions

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through an old photo album in connection with work for Castle in the Clouds, I found a marvelous period image of the Kona Mansion boathouse. Though it only included a portion of it, the detail was so wonderful I knew I needed to make use of it. I’ve had it in my archive since, and it’s finally taken shape in two pieces-–a watercolor and a cut paper assemblage. It’s interesting to see the same subject approached in such different ways–-one playing up the rich colors, the other focused solely on the textures, and the light and shadow. From work on a poster project where I was trying to evoke the feel of an Arts and Crafts wood block print, I stumbled on the Tonalist style of painting which was going on during that same period. The painterly style, rich, warm color schemes, and bold compositions have influenced my approach to several of the paintings in this show. It was interesting to find how this style

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everyday shows us more of its beauty. There are many lovely atmospheric lake landscapes in this collection. In addition to boathouses, there’s a porch,

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wear orange? So they can dress that way for football on Saturday, for hunting on Sunday, and to pick up trash on Monday!” Anonymous Sportsquiz Answer In 1920 the University of Texas football team ate the remains of its mascot “Bevo the Longhorn,” who was served up as the main course at the team banquet. Michael Moffett was a Professor of Sports Management for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He’s co-author of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A Warrior-Actor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and Back” (with the Marines)—which is available through Amazon.com. His e-mail address is

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