11/02/2022 Weirs Times

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by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer

The curiosity of ear ly white visitors to New Hampshire was ignited when they gazed upon the White Mountains and they had dreams about the untouched moun tain range sparkling with all sorts of jewels. The mountains were un touched, or avoided, be

cause the native Indian tribes imagined some thing different on those elevated piles of earth and rock. The legend, or perhaps only part legend, was that sometime in the past a huge deluge had fallen on the land and killed every living person except one Indian and his wife who found shelter from the rising waters on one of the mountains.

With the rest of the na tives wiped out these two were said to have “peo pled this mountain with beings of a superior rank, who were invisible to the human eye...”

If these invisible inhab itants of the mountains became angry, they were said to have launched tempests on the moun tains of a smaller, but frightening version of the

one that led to their exis tence. No wonder that the native Americans kept off the upper levels of those mountains that today are a year-round attraction to tourists. It is said that the Indian name for the White Mountains was Agiocochoock. One of the eastern tribes was said to have called these New Hampshire mountains

it reAlly Does mAtter!

Over the past twenty-two months we have seen this country take a rapid free fall from a robust economy and afford able prices for energy and necessary products for survival to near record in flation and, for some, having to choose between food or heat. All under the governance of a president who is clearly not up to the job.

His cohorts are a Democratic Sen ate and Congress who happily vote for whatever new spending bill they feel will satiate the masses to keep them voting Democrat while they blatantly strip away the value of our dollars as well as our freedoms under the disguise of equity.

President Biden and the Democrat majority have two more years to do whatever they can to keep us on their path to socialism; dependent on govern ment for everything while surrendering our own personal freedoms.

But, the margin is narrow and it will only take the change of a few seats in Washington to give this country the brakes it needs to put a stop to this frightening direction we are heading.

The eyes of the nation are on New Hampshire as we are one of the states that can play a significant role in possi bly changing that direction by voting for Don Bolduc, Karoline Leavitt and Robert Burns to replace three of the Biden rub ber stamps we have representing New Hampshire in Washington today.

Our state motto is “Live Free Or Die” and we may be getting closer to that choice then we ever thought possible.

Vote Republican on November 8th.

Profile Lake, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, NH.

Jeanne Tofts Wants Your Write-In Vote

To The Editor:

Are you tired of politicians who say one thing to get elected, only to ignore their promises as soon as they get into office? Are you tired of being asked to choose “the lesser of two evils”?

On November 8th, Meredith voters will choose two people to represent them in the NH House. The Democrats will un doubtedly push for the kinds of disastrous policies that have led to high inflation, out-of-control crime, and a “woke” agenda in our schools.

Unfortunately, one of the two Republican candidates on our ballot isn’t much better than the Democrats. She has been labeled a “Democrat in Repub lican clothing,” and I believe we can do better.

Cindy Creteau-Miller Claims to represent your values, but when you take a closer look, she’s not what she appears to be. She received a D on her NRA Survey and is for late-term abortion. Creteau-Miller has been endorsed by the Citizens for Belknap along with EVERY Democrat across Belknap Coun ty, except one.

Politicians should be honest about who they are and what they believe. I stand for quality education, accountable govern ment, and fiscal responsibility. I will defend our 2nd Amendment rights and push back on the abortion extremists. I support the Parental Bill of Rights, en suring that parents have a voice in what their children are learn

ing in school.

On 11/8, don’t settle for the lesser of two evils when there is a better choice. Write-in cam paigns are a challenge, but in Meredith, every vote matters. I fell 7 votes short in the Pri mary, and that was with many left-leaning independents tak ing a Republican ballot to skew the vote. Now I need your help again.

I’ve been falsely accused of being an “extremist”, but am not an incumbent, nor have I stated a position on Gunstock. I’m determined to keep fighting. If elected, I’ll bring that same determination to being YOUR representative.

Please write in “Jeanne Tofts” for State Rep on 11/8 and fill in the oval on the ballot. To learn more, visit jeannetofts.com.

Jeanne Tofts Meredith, NH.

Speaker Supports Terry

To The Editor: Representative Paul Terry is running for re-election in Belknap-District 7. He is a member of the House Commit tee on Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and served his constitu ents in the House of Representa tives well this term.

Along with fellow House Re publicans, Paul helped pass great legislation that established tax cuts for all New Hampshire residents. These cuts were a part of the conservative budget that was passed last term. Paul helped House Republicans de liver on our campaign promises

Our StOry

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 reestablished in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee. 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.

Locally owned for 30 years, this publication is devoted to printing the stories of the people

of cutting the Meals and Rooms Tax, fully phasing out the Inter est and Dividends tax and send ing over $300 million back to municipalities for roads, bridges and wastewater projects.

Paul is an honorably retired minister with nearly 40 years of service to four congregations. Deeply committed to his com munity, Paul will keep doing good work for the people of New Hampshire. I encourage you to vote for Representative Paul Terry on November 8th.

Sherman A. Packard Speaker of the House

Smart Wants Your Vote

To The Editor:

My name is Lisa Smart. I am running for NH State Rep for Meredith. I would like to take a minute to ask the voters of Meredith to vote Smart on No vember 8th.

This is a time in our country where we are facing tough politi cal decisions that will impact us all and possibly forever change our country. There are those who believe that receiving gov ernment subsidies in return for government decisions is the way to go. I am not one of those!

I believe that we are individu als with the knowledge to freely choose what is right for our selves. With freedom of choice comes accountability, being re sponsible for the outcome good or bad. I am opposed to rushing into solutions before all options are discussed and explored. I

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For The

BIRDS

by Chris Bosak Contributing Writer

I settled on the back porch of my brother’s house in western Penn sylvania and watched the blue jays hunt for acorns in an oak tree.

Before I get into that, I wanted to acknowl edge how exceptional the fall foliage has been this year. The conditions must have been just right. Oaks can some times go from green to burnt orange to brown quickly. This oak, and many others I’ve seen this fall, are a much brighter orange and the color is lingering longer before turning brown.

The blue jays would fly in from the surround ing areas and alight in this spectacular oak tree. The birds disap peared into the bright orange foliage and work at dislodging acorns. I couldn’t see the jays at work but the rustling of the leaves and branches let me know where they were.

Sometimes a stray acorn will break loose and fall to the ground. I was surprised that I did not see any of the jays go to the ground and re trieve them. Either they did that when I wasn’t watching any longer, or those nuts became fodder for red or gray squirrels.

The blue jay observa tions made me think of my visits to anoth er brother who lives in southern Florida. The

blue jays in his yard are noticeably smaller than the blue jays up north in Pennsylvania and New England. I noticed this years ago and every time I visit Florida, I am surprised by the dainty appearance of the blue jays in Florida.

When I visited the northern most part of Maine last month, I ob served that the blue jays there were a bit bulkier than the jays in south ern New England. They would dwarf the blue jays in Florida.

This difference in size is in step with Berg mann’s rule, which states that among similar species across a broad geographical range, individuals are larger in colder climates and smaller in warmer climates. Bergmann’s rule, named after a 19th century German biolo gist, has some excep tions -- like most rules

-- but it seems to hold true for blue jays.

Blue jays are one of the most reliable birds at my feeder. They pre fer whole peanuts in the shell, but will take sunflower seeds, meal worms, suet or just about anything else that is offered. Blue jays are known as bullies, but from my observations, typically yield at feeders to birds such as redbellied woodpeckers and grackles. There is also evidence that baby birds and eggs make up a tiny portion of the blue jay’s diet.

I wanted to highlight the blue jay in this col umn because it is the favorite bird of my fa ther, who passed away last week. We didn’t talk about birds regularly, but when topic did come up, the conversation usually turned to blue jays. Watching the blue jays in the oak tree as

my family gathered for the mournful occasion made me think of those conversations. While I’m sad there will not be any more of those talks, I’m thankful for the ones we did have.

New England’s Wild Birds & Their Habitats

A blue jay grabs a peanut from a homemade platform feeder in New England.

EVENTS & ACTIVITIES

Lakes Region Silver Bells Holiday Craft Fair

On Friday and Saturday, November 5th and 6th, The Lakes Region Silver Bells Holiday Craft Fair will take place at theTanger Outlets, 120 Laconia Road, Tilton.

Hours are Saturday 10am to 4pm & Sunday 10am to 3pm.

Don’t miss this fabulous arts & crafts fair with over 90 amazing artisans. Elise will demonstrate her chainsaw artistry at times during the fair both days. There will also be spinning wheel demos. Some of the exhib its will include handsome holiday wreaths, ornaments, beautiful Lakes Region photography, soy candles, goat milk soaps, gourmet honey, amazing chainsaw wood carv ings by Elise, unique macrame chairs & swings, soft sculp ture, many jewelry styles, NH maple syrup products, pottery/ ceramics, handpoured soaps/ personal care products, char cuterie boards, cribbage boards, pet products, clothing, books, unique beautiful lanterns, & lots more!.

Friendly, Leashed Dogs Wel come. Held Rain or Shine Under Canopies, Always Free Admis sion. Take Exit 20 off I-93 & bear left & only 1/4 mile from exit. More Info Call Joyce 603.387.1510 Online Preview: joycescraftshows.com

Beer for History Concludes With UNH Brewing Science Laboratory

Presented by Donahue Tucker & Ci andella, the American Independence Museum’s Beer for History series concludes with UNH Brewing Science Laboratory as featured brewer on Thursday, November 3, 6p.m. to 8p.m.

At this event, UNH BrewLab will pour Harvest Thyme (brown ale), Chocolate Bog (chocolate cranberry milk stout), and Wildcat Wheat (Belgian wheat ale).

In addition to unique brews, Beer for His tory features colonial-inspired games, music, and light snacks. Beer for History is family-friendly and also features the Foy Family Children’s Library within Fol som Tavern, a space with curated books for kids, comfortable seating, dress-up area with Revolutionary-era clothing, play kitchen, games, and more.

Beer for History with UNH Brewing Sci ence Laboratory takes place on Thursday, November 3 from 6pm. to 8pm. at the American Independence Museum’s Folsom Tavern, 164 Water St., Exeter, NH. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for non-members, while youth (under 21) are free. To purchase tickets, or learn more about Beer for History, visit independencemuseum.org.

Polarstern Arctic Science Adventure Program

At Loon Center

The Lakes Region Chapter of NH Audubon is pleased to pres ent a program with Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute senior scientist Carin Ashjian, who par ticipated in the MOSAiC Expedi tion aboard the icebreaker Po larstern in 2020, which was the largest Arctic science expedition ever attempted. The goal of the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drift ing Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition was to take the closest look ever at the Arctic as the epicenter of global warming and to gain fundamen tal insights that are key to better understand global climate change. Hundreds of researchers from 20 countries were involved in this exceptional endeavour. Following in the footsteps of Fridtjof Nansen’s ground-breaking expedition with his wooden sailing ship Fram in 1893-1896, the MOSAiC expedition brought a modern research icebreaker close to the North Pole for a full year including for the first time in polar winter. The data gathered will be used by scientists around the globe to take climate research to a completely new level.

The Polarstern was already frozen in the ice when Carin and the 60-plus members of the third team to travel to the ship left Tromso, Norway, in late January, 2020. After 24 days of icebreak ing aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn, they reached the Polarstern, planning to stay and do science in their various disciplines, including atmospheric, ecosystem, sea ice, and biogeochemistry, until the end of April, when they would be replaced by the team of Leg 4. Due to the outbreak of the pandemic, Carin’s team remained on the ship until the beginning of June, arriving back in Norway mid-June to a world of mask-wearing and quarantines. Carin was a part of Team Ecosystem, and her specialty is the study of copepods, tiny aquatic crustaceans that form the basis of the Arctic food chain.

Carin’s program will be presented at the Loon Center on Lee’s Mills Road in Moultonborough on Thursday, November 17 at 7 p.m. The program is free and open to the public, and the Loon Center is handicapped accessible. For more information, please call the Loon Center at 603-4765666.

John Stanley Shelley in Concert In Laconia

The Laconia Unitarian Universalist Society of Laconia is pleased to announce the return of their yearly seasonal concerts! The autumn concert will be held on Sunday, November 6, 4pm, at the UUSL church at 172 Pleasant St. in Laconia.

This concert features John Shelley, a local musician. Shel ley wrote The Man on the Hill, named after that song he wrote as a 19-year-old.

Man on the Hill is a fable-opus rock-opera: a musical work that tells a story through narration and song.

The main character is an old man sitting in his living room reflecting back on his life. As he shares his stories, each major event or turning point is punctuated with a song. For ever in a quest for love and living a simple life, he struggles with heartbreak, finds companionship with a dog, tries to find his place in a discordant society, meets his soul mate, and retires on a hillside near the ocean. Tickets are on sale now at www. ManOnTheHill.com. More details about John Shelley’s concert and videos of some songs are on the website where you can purchase your ticket. A limited number of tickets are available so make sure to go online to purchase your tickets before they sell out.

For further questions you may contact the church at (603)524-6488 or email uusl@myfair point.net

it’s All Pretty crAZy

There is a new activist group here in New Hampshire that is trying hard to keep some candidates, in cluding myself, from getting any votes in our respective campaigns. I am, of course, running for governor on The Flatlander Party Ticket.

CRAZIES have determined.

It seems to be a very special club.

I wasn’t aware of the influ ence of the CRAZIES until an acquaintance of mine told me the other day that he would not be able to write in my name this year.

“Why?” I asked.

Survivors Got Talent’ is starting this week and I won’t have time to do any research.”

He handed me the paper.

by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor

This group is counting on their influence to keep me from the big chair in Concord.

They call themselves “Citi zens Reacting Against Zany Interlopers Except Some” or C.R.A.Z.I.E.S. They are calling me and the others “Flatstaters.”

Their claim is that we have moved here from somewhere else and are not interested in uphold ing the New Hampshire Way (which I have come to find out is whatever the CRAZIES decide is the “Way”).

In my case, they claim I moved here in 1985 from Long Island, New York, with the intent of disrupting whatever the “Way” is and that over the past thirtyseven years I have been slowly devising my devious plan and am now only a few thousand votes away from ascending to the governorship along with my nefarious objectives including interfering with a person’s right to choose paper or plastic at the local supermarket checkout. (Which is totally ridiculous. Right now, each store can make its own decisions concerning bags.)

The objective of the CRAZIES is to get as many voters as they can, who were thinking of sup porting me and other so called “Flatstaters”, to change their minds and instead vote for the CRAZIES candidates, some who are originally from away as well, but aren’t designated “Flat staters” because they agree with whatever the “Way” is that the

“Because the CRAZIES told me it was a bad idea.”

“The CRAZIES? Who are they?” I asked.

“They are a group dedicated to making sure that only can didates who are reasonable and responsible get into office. They don’t want any nonsense.”

“Who exactly decides what is reasonable, responsible and nonsensical?”

“Why, the CRAZIES of course.”

“Are any of the CRAZIES pre ferred candidates Flatlanders as well? You know, people who lived in other states and have moved here?”

“Yes, but they are not ‘Flat staters’ and only want good changes.”

“What are good changes?”

“I’ve told you, whatever the CRAZIES think are good chang es. Plus, the ‘Flatstaters’ have their own ideas for changes that the CRAZIES don’t like.”

“Why are some Flatlander candidates called ‘Flatstaters’ and others, who aren’t New Hampshire natives, not called ‘Flatsaters’?”

“Not sure, you’d have to ask the CRAZIES, they make the decisions.”

“Have you done any research yourself on these so-called ‘Flat stater’ candidates and their platforms?”

“That’s the beauty of the CRA ZIES, they make it so easy that I don’t even have to think about anything when I go to vote.”

He then pulled out a piece of paper from his back pocket.

“I just bring this with me into the voting booth with their selec tions on it and I’m all set. Plus, a new season of ‘Masked Bachelor

“I see that they have a Thumbs Down symbol for me and other candidates, while the CRAZIES choices have Thumbs Up signs. Why do they even have our names on the paper at all? Why don’t they just list their picks and leave it at that?”

“That’s just to make a hundred percent sure we remember who the very bad candidates are and that we don’t vote for them by mistake. We can double check our ballots against the CRAZIES choices to make sure that we did it correctly and voted exactly as the CRAZIES tell us to.”

“Are any of the CRAZIES Flat landers themselves?” I asked.

“I think so, though I don’t re ally know who they are, it’s all kind of secret. But if they are Flatlanders, then they must be the good kind, not like the ‘Flat staters.”

“You’ve known me a long time. Do you think I’m a ‘Flatstater? Whatever that is.”

“I wouldn’t have thought so, but the CRAZIES said you are,” he said. “No offense, but I have to listen to the CRAZIES.”

“Why?”

“Because all my friends do as the CRAZIES say as well and I don’t want them to be mad at me.”

I could feel I was getting no where and went to shake my friend’s hand, but he pulled back.

“No offense, but I wouldn’t want any CRAZIES see me shak ing your hand, they might get the wrong idea about me. They are everywhere and I don’t want them telling other CRAZIES. It could affect my business,” he said and began to walk away.

Over the next couple of days, I found out that quite a few people have been influenced by the CRAZIES.

That’s pretty crazy. Will have to see what happens.

Free or Die.

‘-30-’: An enDing, but not the enD

Joe biDen, DylAn mulvAney AnD the collAPse of the West

When I first started writing newspa per editorials and columns for the Los Angeles Daily News in November 1992, I learned that “-30-” (pronounced “dash thirty dash”) was the journalist’s code for letting an editor know where your copy ended. Most media historians believe the typesetting mark originated when news was filed by telegraph. Western Union’s famous mid-19th-century 92 Code of numerical shorthand signals lists the meaning of “-30-” as:

by Michelle Malkin Syndicated Columnist

“No more -- the end.”

I prefer the definition in Webster’s Dictionary: “A sign of completion.”

From 1992-1999, I wrote an estimated 300 bylined newspaper columns and nearly 1,000 unsigned editori als combined for the Los Angeles Daily News and Seattle Times. Since Creators Syndicate started carrying my col umn nationally in 1999, I’ve penned nearly 2,000 weekly or bi-weekly columns over 1,177 weeks, for hundreds of print and website clients, totaling more than 1.1 million words. It has been a blessing to work in a career that I have loved, getting paid by the line to opine, as a proud “ink-stained wretch” whose first high-school job was as a press inserter for my hometown newspaper, the Atlantic City Press, back in the late 1980s.

The sentimental English major in me finds it altogether fitting to bring my column-writing to close after “dash thirty dash” years.

Why now? The professional and personal reasons are myriad. In this modern age of oversharing, I’m not going to get into every last one. Suffice to say, the American media landscape has changed dramatically since I entered this industry as a 22-year-old idealist who truly believed the “pen is mightier than the sword.” (Side note: Eagle-eyed readers who followed my blog writing in the early 2000s might recall that my original website logo was a pen/knife with the phrase “the pen became a clarion” from a Longfel low poem.)

It’s not just “fake news” that plagues us. It’s sold-out, skewed “news” that serves corporate and global special interests, not the truth. It’s lazy, soulless, dumbed-down opinion writing from hacks who care nothing about the craft. It’s shady influence operations masquerading as “journalism.” It’s informa

by Ben Shapiro Syndicated Columnist

This week, President Joe Biden held an in terview with a TikTok influencer named Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney is a man -- a former Broad way star in “The Book of Mormon” -- who less than a year ago decided that he was a woman. Ever since, he has made daily videos titled “Day X as a Girl.” These videos range from the stereotypical (on Day 1, Mulvaney announces, wearing drag, that he has cried three times) to the bizarrely cringe-inducing (on Day 120, Mulvaney analyzes his nipple size, which has increased from “cute little nipples” to “pepperoni nipples”). And they have earned Mulvaney in excess of 8.4 mil lion followers along with makeup deals from CeraVe, MAC, Neutrogena and Kate Spade.

Mulvaney’s cosplaying as a woman also earned him an interview with the most powerful person on the planet. In that interview, Mulvaney asked Biden, “Do you think states should have the right to ban gender-affirming health care?”

For those who are unaware of the medi cal euphemisms currently in practice, “gender-affirming health care” amounts to a slate of “treatments” including socially transitioning minor children, calling them by new names and pretending that they are members of the opposite sex; pumping minors full of cross-sex hormones and/ or puberty blockers, with unknown longterm effects; progressing toward surgeries ranging from phalloplasties (fake penises attached to females) and mastectomies (removal of breasts) to vaginoplasties (re moval of the penis and testes and creation of a fake vagina for males) to facial recon struction surgeries.

Biden answered, “I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right (to re

strict that). As a moral question and as a legal question, I just think it’s wrong.”

As a moral question, the president of the United States told a man dressed as a woman and engaging in the most idiotic stereotypical behavior that it would be a deep wrong to deny life-altering treat ments to confused minors.

How did we arrive at this point in Ameri can life? How did our country decline to the point that a geriatric dotard, repre senting the global hegemon, can declare it immoral to prevent genital mutilation of young people in the name of anti-scientific “gender theory”?

The answer is obvious: traditional values are losing.

They are losing because the best de fense of tradition is tradition itself. And that defense has now been obliterated by a society dedicated to the proposition that tabula rasa quasi-intellectualism is a better policymaker than tradition. To state that we ought to abide by effective and useful age-old traditions is no longer seen as enough; we must come up with some sort of argument that fulfills the demands of Left-wing secular humanists. The burden of proof has been shifted from radicals who wish to tear down durable institutions -- up to and including binary sex distinctions -- to those who advocate for those institutions. Radicals need not explain how tearing down these institu tions will create a better world. They need only criticize the existing arrangements as “intolerant” and “noninclusive.”

This is a recipe for societal collapse. Experience and wisdom are our teachers; destroying those teachers in the name of tabula rasa pseudo-rationalism is disas trously foolish. As FA Hayek observed, “Experience comes to man in many more forms than are commonly recognized by the professional experimenter or the seeker after explicit knowledge... The ap propriateness

Some pundits say that Demo crats will win the midterms.

betting on 2022

elected Democrats.

At the time those predictions were made, people who bet on elec tions believed Republicans had bet ter than a 70% chance of winning back the House.

forecasters give Democrats even better odds.

But I don’t believe them.

past, the bettors were right more often than anyone else.

Bettors don’t get everything right.

Whom should we trust?

I believe the people who bet. That’s the topic of my latest video.

by John Stossel Syndicated Columnist

MSNBC tells us, “Democrats are seeing momen tum headed into midterms.” Nan cy Pelosi claimed, “We will hold the House by winning more seats!” Really? Want to bet?

This fall, CNN’s Douglas Brinkley said, “There is a blue wave going on right now.”

Michael Moore agreed, “There is going to be such a landslide” of

We can listen to: No. 1: People who bet. No. 2: The media pundits. No. 3: Polls.

No. 4: Professional election fore casters.

Among forecasters, Nate Silver has the best track record. As I write, his FiveThirtyEight website gives Democrats a 55% chance to hold the Senate. The Economist’s

At the moment, the bettors think Republicans have a 60% chance to win the Senate and an 88% chance to win the House.

I take these numbers from Elec tionBettingOdds.com, a website I helped start. StosselTV producer Maxim Lott averages predictions from betting sites around the world and converts them to easy-to-un derstand percentages.

I trust those numbers more than other predictors because in the

In 2016, they, like most every one else, thought Hillary Clinton would become president. A week before Election Day, she was a 75% favorite.

But on Election Day, I saw how betting markets find the truth more quickly than others. Before the votes were counted, bettors were switching to Trump.

On election night, it was fun to watch the silly people on TV. Even after bettors were switching, pun dits still said that Hillary would

un PAnel slAms beiJing’s rights Abuses in XinJiAng

A high level UN panel has slammed Bei jing’s ongoing and egregious human rights abuses in the western Xinji ang regions of the People’s Repub lic. China’s human rights violations have been committed through the use of “severe and undue restric tions” that are “characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or in directly affect Uyghur and other pre dominantly Muslim communities.”

by John J. Metzler Syndicated Columnist

The presentation, “The situation of Uyghur and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang,” followed the report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, (OHCHR) which found credible evidence of patterns of torture, forced medical treatments, forced labor, incidents of sexual and gender-based violence, violations of reproductive rights, and the destruc tion of religious sites. This is in addi tion to the widespread use of massive detention and re-education camps for over a million local residents.

The high level event was sponsored by 23 countries including the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Turkey and the Baltic states among others.

Fernand de Varennes, UN Spe cial Rapporteur on Minority Issues, speaking in the context of the OHCHR report released in August, spoke of “crimes against humanity” and cited “sterilization, forced abortion” among crimes. He spoke of “collective target ing of an ethnic group” which raises “deeply dark connotations.”

in re-education camps through the huge region.

The “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,” situated in the northwest, is China’s only majority Muslim population area. China’s communist regime claims their actions are rooted in counter-terrorism and social “deradicalization efforts”.

In other words the Beijing regime is targeting specific ethnic and religious communities for discrimination and violence.

A statement by the panel cited, “In 2017, reports began to emerge of severe restrictions on the freedoms of religion or belief, movement, as sociation and expression in Xinjiang, China. Over the past few years, numerous open source reports cor roborated these accounts.”

Ms. Jewher Ilham, a noted Uyghur Rights Advocate passionately pre sented a litany of crimes in Xinjiang. Her own father, an Islamic scholar, has spent eight years in solitary con finement in a Chinese prison as part of a life sentence. She stressed that up to 1.8 million people are currently

Ms. Tirana Hassan from Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserted that a recent human rights resolution to debate the treatment of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities, “lost by a hair 19 to 17, with 11 absten tions.” Thus this American-led call for a debate and an inquiry on the report was rejected. She pressed for going forward with a new resolution saying “the original resolution did not go far enough.”

the right to vote & elections in the u.s. constitution

by Hal Shurtleff Director, Camp Constitution Alton, NH

The first place we find a reference to elections in the U.S. Constitution is Article 1, Section 2: “The House of Rep

resentatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several states, and the Electors in each state

of the most numer ous Branch of the State Legislature.”

1789, most states limited the voting fran chise to property owing,

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state to allow all men the right to vote regardless of race or property own ership. New Hampshire was the first state to remove property owner ship as a requirement to vote in 1792.

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American families struggle to afford necessities. Food bank use has skyrocketed. Retirement savings have plummeted. All because Democrat politicians care more about people living 80 years from now than present-day Americans.

Mexican Border was closed

enemies were stymied

US helps Arab - Israeli Peace

Mexican Border open, exacerbating our drug, housing, crime, healthcare, & school problems

Our enemies no longer respect us, Russia is decimating Ukraine and threatening nuclear war, China plans Taiwan invasion

US funds Palestinian suicide bomber families

politicians defund police, crime soars. Democrats free criminals to victimize again. Democrats want NH to copy the gun laws of places where people are slaughtered and law-abiding citizens are defenseless.

Rights” and “Codifying Roe” are code words for allowing the killing of full-term healthy babies as they are being born to healthy women. New Hampshire abortion laws are already consistent with Roe v. Wade.

Republicans won’t take away anyone’s Social Security. This threat has been repeated for 60 years, everyone should recognize this as another Democrat lie.

Biden is President. The 2020 election isn’t relevant now. What’s relevant is that Democrat politicians don’t think they need to change any policies. Are you happy with how things are going?

you want our elected representatives fighting to lower the prices of food, gasoline, and other necessities; to close the border to protect Americans; and to support the police to reduce crime and save lives; then you must

Vote Republican.

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for by Don Ewing, Meredith, NH

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 4: “When vacancies hap pen in the Representa tion from any State, the Executive Authority [gov ernor} thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.”

When a member of the House of Represen tatives resigns, is im peached, and removed from office or dies in of fice, the governor of the state which the Repre sentative is from issues a writ of election and a special election is held.

Article 1, Section 3, Clause 1:

“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Sena tors from each State cho sen by the Legislature, thereof …”

Prior to the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913, state legislators voted for members of the U.S. Senate.

Article 1, Section 3, Clause 2 granted power to a state’s governor to make “temporary ap pointments” to fill any vacancies until the “Meeting of the Legisla ture, which shall then fill such vacancies.”

The 17th Amendment changed this to giving powers to state legis latures to either allow the governor to appoint someone for the dura tion of vacated term or hold a special election.

Article 4, Section 1:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elec tions for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature there of; but Congress at any time by Law, make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Placing of chusing Senators.”

The original U.S. Con stitution did not inter fere with state elections.

Richard Mentor Johnson was the only VicePresident chosen by the Senate.

Letters From God

This series of Letters From God is an attempt to put the thoughts of God as revealed in the Scriptures as they re late to individuals and the nation of the USA.

QUESTION: What Does It Mean That The Lord Is My Shepherd?

Your question is in reference to a state ment made by King David when he wrote a song that is called Psalm 23 . He begins by stating “the Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” It’s a summary statement about the way I will meet anyone’s needs, during the course of their life and even walk them into eternal life if they will look to me as their shepherd. Be ing a sheep and hav ing a shepherd is not a common experience in your 21st centu ry experience. But it was routine for every one during the time when David penned this Psalm. In fact, at that time, virtually ev eryone raised sheep to meet their basic needs for life. As a result, they knew the general characteristics of sheep and how important a good shepherd was for their well-being. Let me share some of those characteristics.

Sheep are not wise. In fact, they are foolish. They follow to a fault, even to the point of losing their lives if the sheep they are follow ing, or a bad shepherd leads them to death. They are also very skit tish and do not thrive in environments that are stressful. They can

roll over and not be able to get up. They can be stubborn and even willful and can often walk away from a shepherd’s care and watchful eye. Many have had their leg bro ken by a good shep herd as an act of love, giving them temporary pain to prevent perma nent pain and proba ble death because they keep straying. Perhaps most significantly, they are virtually defense less, having no natural defense mechanisms. This leaves them vul nerable to other sheep who may attack them or to outside predators looking for a good meal.

particular benefits.

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When you consider all of these weaknesses you can see how impor tant it is that they are given good and faithful oversight. Without it they will not live long. King David knew this because as a boy he himself was a shepherd and on more than one occasion he had to risk his life to defend and protect the sheep under his care (1 Sam 17:3436). So, as a result of my inspiration to write Psalm 23 and in light of his vast experience and awareness of what it takes to be a good shepherd to sheep, he penned the words of this song sung as part of Israel’s hymnbook.

Let me walk you through it to show you the comparisons of sheep needing a good shepherd and you needing me. After giv ing a summary state ment of how those who trust me as God and their shepherd, will be satiated with life so that they have no needs, David lists some

Sheep need lush, nu tritious food for life. By stating they are rest ing in lush pastures he informs you that I will always lead you to lifegiving “food,” physi cally and spiritually, for healthy living. As sheep need quiet wa ters to drink without fear or anxiety of fastmoving water, so too will I provide the water of life, not just physi cally but spiritually, to refresh your soul as the next line says. The soul is the whole person. Life is punish ing and if you trust me as your shepherd, I will continually refresh your soul.

A good shepherd al ways guides sheep in the right paths, ones that bring life not death. I will never lead you astray. I see all the dangers ahead and can guide you away from every one. I do this not just for you but also to protect my name, so others will trust me as well.

Sheep are skittish and even in valleys with shadows they cower in fear. You will nev er have to fear when you realize I, almighty God, am with you, my power represented by my staff and rod to beat off predators as well as care for your needs is big enough to defeat any threat. Instead of fear you will have comfort. In fact, you can actually enjoy a fine meal I prepare for you while predators, in view, watch but are un able to attack you be cause of my presence.

When sheep and you go through life you get many bumps and

bruises. When you do, I will be here to anoint your wounds and heal you from all your suf fering and pain. And remember at death, I will heal everything and even give you a new body. No wonder David said, “My cup overflows.” I promised in the New Covenant, in the Gospel of John, that I came to give you “life in abundance.” (John 10:10). Your cup will overflow as well. How about the final blessings for all who trust me as your God and Savior? Goodness and mercy will be with you all your life and you will dwell with me in an environment free of death forever.

The Devil, a roaring lion, has deceived you into running from me. Unfortunately, he has led you into his lair of death. Recognize the lie and run to me the “Good Shepherd,” and I will satiate you with life.

I love you, God

These letters are writ ten by a New Hamp shire pastor.

by Mike Moffett Contributing Writer

“If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” is one of those pithy maxims that re flect much truth. His tory is replete with ex amples of people tak ing something that was working perfectly fine and then ruining it by trying to improve it.

Remember “New Coke?” In 1985 the Co ca-Cola company re formulated the recipe for the world’s most popular soft drink. Sales plunged. It was a disaster. So three months later the com pany returned to it’s old Coke formula and re christened it “Coca-Cola Classic.” Sales greatly improved.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

The NFL may be an exception to this rule, though. That league is constantly chang ing rules and the pro football continues to flourish.

Baseball, however, is a different story.

The first really major rule change for our na tional pastime occurred 50 years ago when the American League intro duced the designated hitter gimmick. The Na tional League kept the old approach, where pitchers had to bat.

New Coke, meet Clas sic Coke.

As a baseball tradi tionalist—a purist, if you will—I hated the DH. Yes, it kept peo ple like Big Papi in the game, but if a guy can’t

chAnge the bAsebAll rules?

play baseball, then why does he get to bat? The DH changed all kinds of strategy, which we won’t get into here, but I have a long list of issues with the gimmick.

(If the American League had the stupid DH back in 1914 when the pitcher Babe Ruth came up to play Major League Baseball then he’d have never hit one home run, much less 714!)

Now, sadly, the Na tional League has joined the American League in using the DH.

New Coke, meet New Coke.

Now we hear that MLB has approved rule changes for 2023 which include a strict pitch clock and a ban on de fensive shifts.

Really?

Yes. Two infielders will now be required on either side of second base.

So what if a shortstop is caught cheating and lines up directly be hind second base for a left-handed pull hitter? What will the penalty be?

We’ll see.

Maybe someday base ball’s “powers that be” will go back and re turn baseball to what it was and stop trying to turn the sport into something very differ ent. Maybe someday MLB will discontinue the DH for a year in both leagues and see how that works out. It was fun to watch pitch ers try to hit, as they did in the National League until a year ago.

Classic Coke, meet Classic Coke.

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”

Sports Quiz

What former Man chester (N.H.) Yankee was MLB’s first Desig nated Hitter on April 6, 1973, when his New York Yankees opened the 1973 American League season at Bos ton’s Fenway Park (An swer follows)

Born Today

That is to say, sports standouts born on No vember 2 include NBA forward and MLB pitch er Ron Reed (1942) and MLB shortstop Orlando See MOFFETT on 22

This Major League baseball player once lived in New Hampshire and is the answer to this week’s trivia question.

When life gives you lemons – PArt ii

by Tim Moore Contributing Writer

When

Gives You Lemons – Part

By Tim Moore

Part one of this story began with an invite from my good friend Nick to visit him in Connecticut and join him on his boat for a day of tautog fishing, an ocean rock dwelling fish that fights hard and tastes amazing. These fish move into shallow rocky areas from deep water twice a year, in the spring and in the fall. Howev er, our day began when Nick’s boat wouldn’t start, and electrical issues were more seri ous than a marine me chanic could diagnose and fix on the water. Luckily, Nick owns two boats and even though his smaller boat wouldn’t allow us to go everywhere and do everything he had hoped, we switched to the smaller second boat while Nick’s wife Stephanie made a cof fee run for us and de cided to go out and try to make some lemon ade from all those lem ons life had given us.

After stopping on our way to the tog spot to cast at stripers bust ing on the surface and landing a few aver age fish, we decided to proceed to tog fishing and revisit the striped bass when we were finished togging. While Nick’s mechanic Jona than was working on his boat at the marina,

When he

he mentioned an area that he had done well for tog the previous weekend. Being closer than our original spot and having the smaller boat, we decided to give it a shot and see what happened.

We arrived at spot number one and dropped anchor and started prepping bait. The rig of choice for blackfish (another name for tautog) is a tog jig heavy enough to hold bottom in the current baited with a piece of crab. We prepped enough crabs to keep us fishing for a few minutes. I baited up and dropped down and immediately got bit, but the fish stole my bait, so I rebaited and repeated the pro cess. That’s tog fishing in a nutshell. Bait, drop, and repeat. After a few hours of fishing

several small spots in that area the bite shut off. We were one fish shy of a two-person limit, so neither of us was complaining af ter the way the day started.

We rigged our plug rods with the biggest surface plugs I had ever fished and made our way back in. Nick had a few different areas he said big ger stripers had been hanging. We arrived at the first area and there was no life there. Not discouraged, Nick took us to another area, and we began cast ing into water that was only about eight feet deep. Eventually one of us noticed fish jumping in a nearby area. We could see from the size of the splashes the fish were making that these might be the ones we

Wolfeboro

Tickets are now available online for The Wolfeboro Fes tival of Trees Pre view Gala held at the Wright Museum in Wolfeboro on Thurs day, December 1, from 6-8 p.m.! This well-attended cocktail reception kicks off the holiday season with

wine, beer, and food samples from 25 local restaurants and cater ers. In addition, attend ees are free to enjoy the over 65 uniquely decorated holiday trees displayed throughout the Museum.

Gala tickets are $75 per person and must be purchased in ad vance. A limited num ber of tickets are be ing sold so please visit our new website www. wolfeboroholidayfesti valoftrees.com to pur chase your tickets via Eventbrite, our ticket purchasing site.

The Wolfeboro Fes tival of Trees, in its twenty-third year, is a multi-weekend charity event opening on Sat urday, December 3, at 10 a.m. Please visit our new website for the de tails about the festival including the schedule of continuous live en tertainment and new additions to the festival including a Craft Fair and a visit from Santa!

The Simple Feast

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The Simple Feast

by Eric N Gibson Contributing Writer

I ventured into the kitchen one day to make cornbread but, as usual, I made a turn some where along the way and like any good male of our species, did not stop to consult nor ask for directions. Sometimes good things happen by accident and this recipe is one of them.

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You can spend a life time searching for and perfecting a good recipe. Why? For the simple fact that there are so many kinds of cornbread; dry, moist, baked, fried, and even boiled! (Yes! Boiled!) It seems every one has their passions and just ask anyone who likes to cook and they will tell you they have their favorite corn bread recipe. In fact, cornbread, for some, is a form of art. It can speak to people through its texture, its flavor, its color. Even through the type of corn meal used.

True authentic recipes for cornbread passed from generation to gen eration actually have their own dialect, their own nuances, their own regional character. The truly discerning taste bud can actually pick out the region of origin. (I, for one, am envious of those taste buds!)

Contrary to what some

would have you believe, cornbread is not a dish unique to the south. It was (and still is) a popu lar side dish served with many types of meals throughout this great nation: north, south, east, and west. Many think of cornbread as something only to be served with BBQ but, long before cornbread became a staple of ev ery rib shack menu it was a mainstay in early homes, particu larly those with limited resources. Cornmeal was cheap and plentiful when compared to grain flour, say nothing of the refined white flour of today. In the early days nearly every agrarian homestead from Maine to the Ohio River grew a corn crop harvested for many uses. For bar ter, or as a cash crop, kernels were milled for meal. And the cobs and stalks had their uses too. Cornmeal was a sta

ple on the shelf of near ly every home, cabin, and trapper grub sack across the country. Ev erything from beans and fatback to the Sunday dinner ham was accom panied by cornbread in some fashion.

Cornbread recipes could be as simple as trail food; water, meal, and a pinch of salt stirred together into a paste or dough, then formed into a “cake” and put beside the fire on a hot flat rock and turned every so often to cook evenly. There are ac counts of Civil War sol diers making a simple gooey paste or “dough” from water and corn meal that would stick to a fork or a stick. Held next to a fire they would have a very simple, if not very bland, “Corn Dodger”of sorts. And, if a person was really lucky, there might be a skillet, a dash of salt, and a bit of pork fat to

fry their corn “cakes” in. Together with a bit of jerky, fat back, or what was gathered on the trail, this meal (no pun intended) was meant to stave off hunger for another night during the trappers trek, the wagon trains west, or while on the soldiers’ march.

Recipes from the mid 1800’s could be as complex as cornmeal, fat, eggs, buttermilk, a sweetener (molasses, honey, or maple syr up because brown and refined sugar was not widely available the fur ther west you went dur ing the great migration of the 1800’s) and flavor ing; Rose Water being popular at that time. This type of recipe is found in The Little House COOKBOOK, Frontier Foods from Laura In galls Wilder´s Classic Stories by Barbara M. Walker. (1979) In this cookbook Walker recre ates recipes for foods found in the books of the famed “Little House” author. Using passages in Wilder’s books as a starting point, Walker puts the research into

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“Never use a printed paper napkin to wipe off a spill. I once dabbed at a spot on a white tile, which left a stain from the ink.”

Use clothespins to reseal bread bags in stead of twist ties. I buy colorful plastic ones at the store or have the kids paint wood en ones. Keep them handy in a pretty bowl on the counter! -- J.B. in Rhode Island

* “Fold little dessert paper napkins into tri angles and insert into fork tines for place settings. Lemons and limes in a pretty bowl make a simple center piece. Fill a small kids pool with ice to keep drinks cold at parties. -- M.F. in Washington

* Before planting anything new in your yard, get in touch with your county agricul ture agent to find out about any restrictions. You can also get advice on when and where to plant. -- L.H. in Illinois

* When sending cards, attach a return address label to the back so they don’t have to search for the ad dress if they wish to respond. -- D.L. in Min nesota

* A great way to keep tennis shoes and other shoes together: When you take them off, tie the shoes togeth er by the shoestrings (loosely) or connect the two shoes with Velcro straps if they close that way. In doing this, it is much faster and easier to find BOTH shoes

when ready to go. Keep smiling! -- J.B. in Vir ginia

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Waumbekketmethna, meaning, White Moun tains.

The days when people were afraid to ascend these mountains are long past, and the state has just seen the yearly invaders flock to the area to view the fall foliage, though one can greatly enjoy and appre ciate

display of colors

step ping foot on, or even, near, the mountains.

One has to admit, however, that the lofty mountain heights, viewed from below or above, probably provide a vaster and unequaled Fall experience.

Those writers of olden times who tried to de scribe the colorful views admitted that words never seemed to be able to fully describe what they saw and how it affected them. So their advice to their readers was that they come and see for themselves.

The New England Gazetteer of the year 1839 said “These moun tains are the highest in New England; and, if we except the Rocky Mountains, whose height has not been

ascertained, they are the most lofty of any in the United States.” The Gazetteer mentions that the mountains did have visitors by the names of Neal, Jocelyn, and Field as early as 1632. They, we are told, called the mountains the “CRYS TAL HILLS.”

I have seldom visited the White Mountains during the Fall foliage season, but I have since day one spent many

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years in New Hampshire in all seasons, and I have enjoyed the chang ing scenery. Even if the foliage is thin, late Oc tober is still in early autumn and offers some great weather in which to take a walk in the woods.

So, let me tell you about some very recent history of my walk in the woods with my cam era. The day was sunny and reasonably warm, but the afternoon was half over before I started my trek in a place that

The Old Woman of the Forest.

Old Man of the Mountain. I remember who told me about the Old Man’s passing. And where.

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might be close to rep licating what a hiker would have experienced in the woods a few cen turies ago, minus the camera.

The air was still and the woods were ex tremely quiet. I listened for a sound that would tell me if anyone or anything was out there in the forest with me. There was no indication that any human was around, for I heard no sound of chain saw, or motorized vehicle of any kind. No animal cry or even the song of a bird was to be heard. Still, I wondered what was watching me, and felt assured, that during the short time I was out in the wild, that I wasn’t invisible, and that I was seen by what I didn’t see.

I knew that God was there with me all the way, and I didn’t fear what I didn’t see, but, as I enjoyed what col ored leaves remained, and everything else that my eyes beheld of cre ation, I wondered if I would even hear the song of a bird.

Silence is sometimes golden, and I like the si lence and silent places, but there are also cer

tain sounds I like. The slight trickle of a small stream of water assured me that I wasn’t com pletely deaf, and a little later I thought I heard a little tweet, and then saw a little bird in some small evergreen trees.

I fumbled for my camera, hoping a clear picture would help me identify the species. I got the picture, but not a clear one.

I was about to head for the road, for evening was fast approaching, when suddenly I saw it!

It first appeared, in the dimming light, as a round object on the side of a tree. I reached for my camera as I imag ined what it might be. It might just be a growth that was part of the tree, I thought, maybe a burl, or it looked to be the right size of a baby porcupine.

I had seen some of them in the days of my youth, and they looked so cute, but I durst not pick them up.

I soon realized that it wasn’t a porcupine, or hedgehog, as we used to call them. Then, looking at it through the lens of my camera, I suddenly realized that I had dis covered the Old Wom an of the Forest. I was

reminded of that ex plorer who first saw the Old Man of the Moun tains, and the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne about the Great Stone Face. Just like the Old Man, I had to look at the right angle to have the full benefit of the Old Woman’s face, but maybe I should consid er somehow transform ing this into a tourist attraction. Or maybe I should not let my imagi nation run wild. So, for now, the location of the great wood face is my secret.

The lure of the White Mountains overcame any hesitancy the first white explorers had about searching them out, and some of the first ones to climb the mountains did so with the expectancy of find ing gold and silver and other precious stones.

Those hopes were dashed and they came back empty handed. The explorers did find valuable products they could sell in the interior of New Hampshire in the form of animal pelts and wood, particularly,

tall trees with straight trunks that could be used as the masts for ships. Fish were also a trade product.

And, according to King’s Handbook of the United States , copy righted in 1891, min erals, though not the kind the explorers were hoping to find, were lo cated and mined in the Granite State.

Best known of these ventures is perhaps the Franconia Iron Works which began operations in 1811. Certain min erals, though mostly limited in quantity, are associated with particu lar towns. To quote the Handbook, “Gold has been mined at Lisbon, tin at Jackson, lead at Shelburne, zinc at Madison, copper at Ly man, iron at Bartlett and Tamworth, and graphite at Nelson....

The Grafton mica, Leb anon slate, Acworth feldspar, East Haver hill lime, and Frances town soapstone have been quarried for many years. ” And, of course, they found granite in the Granite State.

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Snapshot at Crawford Notch taken more than 50 years .ago on a trip there with Donna Morton. Now Donna Smith.

Article 2, Clause 2:

“Each State shall ap point, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Sena tors and Representative to which the State may be entitled in the Con gress but no Senator or Representative or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appoint ed an Elector.”

(Jefferson was the first president chosen by the House of Representa tives.)

Article 2, Section 3 concerns how Electors, known as the Elector al College, shall meet to cast their votes for president. Initially, the person who came in second was the VicePresident but under the 12th Amendment, elec tors had to cast sepa rate ballots for presi dent and vice-president. The 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804, also grants the House of Rep resentatives the power to choose the president, if none of the candidates receive a majority of the

electoral votes, and the Senate chooses the VicePresident if none of the candidates received the majority of votes.

The House has voted for the president in 1800 and 1824. The Sen ate voted for the VicePresident once in 1837.

There has been five times when the presi dential candidate won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote 1824, 1876, 1888. 2000, and 2016.

(Richard Mentor Johnson was the only Vice-President chosen by the Senate.)

The 14th Amendment:

The U.S. Constitution did not specifically list the right to vote until the ratification of the 14th Amendment passed in 1868. In Section 2 we read: “But when the right to vote in any election…”

It was also the first time that it had the power over state elections, and the first time it listed an age qualification-twen ty-one years of age.

The 15th Amendment:

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United

States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

This amendment granted former slaves the right to vote.

17th Amendment:

“The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Sen ators from each state. Elected by the people thereof…_”

This amendment, rati fied in 1913, was a ma jor power shift in the na tion. Congress passed it mainly because our na tion was close to holding an Article V Convention which may have proved to be a disaster. This is proof that 3/4ths of the states will indeed pass bad amendments.

19th Amendment:

“The right of the citi zens of the United States to vote shall not be de nied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.”

While a number of states granted the right to vote to women-Wy oming being the first, it was not until 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, that women had the right to vote in fed

eral and state elections

22nd Amendment:

“No person shall be elected to the office of President more than twice….”

This amendment, rati fied in 1951, limited the terms of the president to two four-year terms.

A Republican controlled Congress, passed this in 1946 after Franklin Roosevelt broke the twoterm precedent set by George Washington.

23rd Amendment:

The Twenty-Third Amendment, ratified in 1961, gave three elector al votes to the citizens of Washington, D.C. This number was based on the least number of elec toral votes a state may have. There are seven states that have three electoral votes.

24th Amendment:

The 24th Amendment, did away with the poll tax when voting for fed eral elected officials.

26th Amendment:

The 26th Amendment, passed in 1971 granted the right to vote to those eighteen years old. in federal and state elec

tions.

On Tuesday Novem ber 8, we will have the opportunity to exercise our right to vote. Ev ery member of the U.S. House of Representa tives and 1/3rd of the U.S. Senators are up for election including one senator in New Hamp shire. In, New Hamp shire, all members of the House and Senate and the governor are up for election. We also have county elections for sheriffs, commission ers, and several other of fices. While I will not en dorse candidates in this article, I advise voters to choose candidates that have pledged to uphold the U.S. Constitution and state and county officials to uphold both the U.S and state con stitutions.

Readers who would like a free pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, can E-mail me at camp constitution1@gmail.com and provide me with a mailing address. For a state constitution, I rec ommend that you contact one of your state reps to request a copy.

Cabrera (1974).

Sports Quote

“The designated hit ter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain’s free throws,” – MLB pitcher Rick Wise, who once hit two home runs in the same game that he pitched a no-hitter.

Sports Quiz Answer Ron Blomberg.

State Representa tive Mike Moffett was a Sports Management Professor for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He coauthored the awardwinning “FAHIM SPEAKS: A WarriorActor’s Odyssey from Afghanistan to Holly wood and Back” which is available on Amazon. com. His e-mail address is mimoffett@comcast. net.

the testing of differ ent recipes while keep ing to authenticity as much as possible. The cookbook is worth the read and a valuable tool in the kitchen of anyone interested in American cooking of the mid to late 1800’s. It illustrates the evolution of cooking;

methods, food staples, and the tools used by one of America’s most loved frontier family´s as they survived their westward migration. It takes the reader from subsistence cooking over an open fire to a diet that increases in both breadth and depth as they put down roots

and gain in means.

Today, we typical ly use a more refined cornmeal, refined white flour, white sugar, fla vor extracts, leveners such as baking soda or baking powder, and vegetable oil or butter. A far cry from the old fashioned cornbread of

150 years ago and ear lier. We no longer need to render lard from the slaughtered pig or the bear taken during the hunt. We no longer have to rely on Clabber for a leavening agent. Clab ber, by the way, is a type of soured milk with a consistency similar to yogurt, thickening toward a curd, and was used on the homestead before baking powder and soda were widely available. We no longer need to rely on honey, molasses, nor boiled saps for sweeteners. And vanilla extract has taken the place of Rose Water as our “go to” flavor.

CRUMBLE TOPPING

1 Cup Apple Crisp Topping or combine the following: 4-6 Tbsp. Soft butter ½ Cup Oats

1/3 Cup AP Flour ½ Cup Brown Sugar Dash of Cinnamon

- Combine the dry ingredients and then mix in the but ter. (Clean hands work best for this!) Should form clumps if squeezed together otherwise coarse crumbs.

LEMON DRIZZLE

1 Large Lemon (juice and

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head in.

I’ve always hated the saying, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I mean let’s face it, there isn’t always a “second boat” to make the lemonade with. However, I’m not one to just give up and our persis tence and malleabil ity paid off. We fin ished the day clean ing fish and having dinner at Nick’s Res taurant, TJ’s Res taurant and Pizza.

A huge thank you to Nick’s mechanic, Jonathan Weeks, for rushing in and trying

to get us up and run ning. It was a memo rable trip. What began with “uh oh” ended with high fives and hugs.

STOSSEL from 7largest ever to date. We snapped some photos and watched the beautiful fish swim away. We caught a few more fish before they eventually moved out and we decided to call it a good day and

Tim Moore is a fulltime licensed profes sional fishing guide in New Hampshire. He owns and operates Tim Moore Outdoors, LLC. He is a member of the New England Outdoors Writers Association, and the producer of TMO Fishing on You Tube and the Hooked with TMO Fishing Pod cast. Visit www.Tim MooreOutdoors.com for more information.

win. “Trump is more likely than not to lose,” proclaimed Dana Bash on CNN.

Only hours after the betting shifted did TV anchors finally adjust their predictions.

In 2020, bettors correctly predicted Biden’s win, and called nearly every state cor rectly.

Over time, betting has been a better pre dictor than polls, pun dits, statistical models and everything else. There’s something about “putting your money where your mouth is” that focuses the mind.

ElectionBettin gOdds.com tracked hundreds of races. It turns out that when bettors think a can didate has a 63% chance, those candi dates do win roughly 63% of the time.

One reason bettors predict more accurate ly is because bettors consider things polls and prediction models often miss.

In 2016, Clinton-fa voring polls overlooked people without col lege degrees. Polltak ers were also misled by Trump supporters who refused to talk to them.

Most betting mar kets, like FTX, Betfair, Smarkets and Poly market, only allow non-Americans to bet. That’s because up tight, narrow-minded American politicians banned gambling on elections.

Fortunately, they made an exception for PredictIt.org. There, Americans are allowed to bet up to $850.

Our foolish bureau crats promise to shut PredictIt down, but for now, we can take advantage of the “wis dom of the crowd” that Predictit provides.

Which party will win

the Pennsylvania sen ate race? Republican Mehmet Oz is favored, 54 cents to 49 cents.

Who will be Arizona’s next governor? Kari Lake leads 82 cents to 22 cents.

The first Cabinet member to quit? Ja net Yellen, at 32 cents (out of a dollar). Then Alejandro Mayorkas, at 21 cents.

If you think you know more than the bettors, you can try to make money by bet ting at Predictit.org. If you are not American, FTX, Betfair, Smarkets and Polymarket will take your bets. All this betting gives us valu able information about the likely future.

Since betting mar kets are clearly su perior predictors, I’m surprised that anyone still pays attention to pundits. I no longer watch the blabber mouths on television.

I check the odds at ElectionBettingOdds. com.

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

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tion-suppression dis guised as “misinfor mation” monitoring.

The homogenization of American journal ism on both sides of the ideological spec trum has led to its collective deteriora tion. My colleagues at the Daily News were an eclectic bunch -including a Korean War Navy vet in his 60s, a former college math professor in her 50s who had taught English in Shanghai, and a hotshot New England politico in his 30s who had worked in D.C. as a press sec retary.

Now the liberal me dia is dominated by endless supplies of smug, usually very pale-faced millennial J-school grads spout ing about “diversity” while parroting the same worn set of views on whites as evil, America as oppressor, nuclear families as abnormal, and liberal democracy as sacro sanct.

“Conservative” me dia is not much bet ter. It’s dominated by snot-nosed D.C. lib ertarian elites from overpriced univer sities who slavishly promote “free-market capitalism” and cast “big government” as our greatest enemy, while private Silicon Valley corporations and their nonprofit al lies crush nationalist dissent, handcuff free speech and deplatform free thinkers through censorship (hard and soft) and lawfare (sys tematic abuse of the courts to harm politi cal critics).

Because of my peacefully expressed reporting, opin ions and speeches, my family has been punished and stig matized, my reputa tion tarnished and my

voice squelched. It’s not “big government” that waged this war on my career. It’s a con stellation of vindictive wrongthink police in the private sector, from the Southern Poverty Law Center and AntiDefamation League, to foreign newspapers and moneyed interests that have no business influencing American politics, to “conserva tive” swamp creatures and profiteers such as Bill Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, Mona Cha ren and Ben Shapiro, and even to former colleagues at the Fox News Channel, which blacklisted me several years ago and told a friend of mine who was a guest on Tucker Carlson’s show not to say my name after antifa rioters had at tacked me and others on stage at a Back the Blue rally in Den ver a few years ago. (My friend ignored the warning. God bless him.)

I have no regrets. As Paul wrote in 2 Timo thy 4:7, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” I remain thankful to ev ery single reader over the last three decades, and I will be eternally inspired by all the pa triots I’ve profiled over the years -- especially the ordinary parents, whistleblowers, citizen journalists and activ ists who have sacri ficed far more than I for their truth-seeking and truth-telling.

I am indebted to my early writing mentors, the late Father Ed ward Lyons and Deb bie Collins at Holy Spirit High School in Absecon, New Jersey; my late Oberlin Col lege English profes sor Dewey Ganzel; my husband and co-con spirator in all things, Jesse; my first news

paper boss, Tom Gray; Creators Syndicate founder Rick New combe and his staff; and stalwart sup porters JewishWorl dReview.com founder Binyamin Jolkovsky, VDARE founder Pe ter Brimelow, Wendy McCaw of the Santa Barbara News-Press, WRKO radio host ex traordinaire Jeff Kuh ner, and the late KFAQ host Pat Campbell.

Most of all, I wish to thank my teacher Mom (who taught me to ex press myself with pas sion and flair) and my doctor Dad (who gave me a bedrock founda tion in science, logic and facts). From both of them, I inherited the zeal to speak up for what is right and true without fear -- but al ways with humility -which I will continue to do in new ways for myself, my family and my country.

This is an ending, but not the end. The next chapter awaits to be written.

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Many of those who voted “no” were Muslimmajority countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE and Qatar. Among the 11 countries that abstained were Argen tina, India, Malaysia, Mexico and Ukraine.

According to an HRW report on China last year, the Chinese gov ernment’s oppression of Turkic Muslims is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years has reached unprecedented levels. “As many as a million people have been arbitrarily detained in 300 to 400 facilities, which include “political education” camps, pretrial deten tion centers, and pris ons.”

Significantly, “The United States State De partment and the par liaments of Canada and the Netherlands have determined that China’s conduct also consti tutes genocide under international law.”

U.S. UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Green field stated, “The longawaited United Nations Office of the High Com missioner for Human Rights report on Xinji ang laid out the PRC’s human rights violations in horrifying detail… These and other find ings leave no room for doubt: The PRC has committed gross viola tions of human rights. Their actions are, with out question, crimes against humanity. The question before us is how will we respond?”

The Ambassador an swered forcefully, “Here is my response: The United States will con tinue to shine a light on the PRC’s genocide and crimes against human ity, against Uyghurs and members of other religious and ethnic mi nority groups in Xinji ang.”

Given that the Uy ghur people in Xinjiang

are ethnically Turkic, it was encouraging, and equally logical, to see the Turkish government supporting the human rights resolution. Yet Turkey was the only majority Muslim gov ernment to stand up for the religious and cultural rights of the Xinjiang Muslims.

Why? Political in timidation tactics from China. The cold po litical calculus remains that Foreign Ministries in much of the Arab and Islamic world are politi cally pressured to look politely the other way to the sustained and systematic persecution of the Muslim faithful inside China.

It’s incumbent on the 47 member Human Rights Council to re main seriously engaged in monitoring the geno cide in Xinjiang. Bei jing’s bullying seems to work, but for how long?

John J. Metzler is a United Nations corre spondent covering dip lomatic and defense is sues. He is the author of Divided Dynamism The Diplomacy of Separated Nations: Germany, Ko rea, China.

of our conduct is not necessarily dependent on our knowing why it is so.”

That’s not to say that there are no secular humanistic arguments against the insanity of gender theory -- there are, and they are con vincing, which is why even moderate liberals have turned against the most radical aspects of the Left-wing agenda. But the fact that so cial radicals have been able to push so far so fast is disturbing evi dence that our entire traditional framework of thinking and acting has been undermined. It must be restored. The burden of proof must be on those who wish to destroy, not on those who wish to main tain. This means that Americans must have confidence enough to say, “It’s worked before, and it works still. I will not surrender it simply because you demand that I do so.”

Ben Shapiro is a grad uate of UCLA and Har vard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show.”

am a firm believer in community coming to gether to realize, and solve, their dilemmas. No matter how insur mountable they seem, we know what is best for our community, our families, and we can work together to solve any issue. I think the term used to be “Yan kee Ingenuity.”

Let’s work together to “think outside the box” for our solutions. The time has come to remember who we are, and where our roots come from. If we work together as a commu nity we can preserve the best of who we are and what we wish to pass to future genera tions. Let’s stop, take a breath, talk to each other, to prioritize the issues, evaluate op tional solutions, rather than grabbing for in stant gratification with little forethought.

I want to prompt strong values, respon sible and reasonable solutions. This is who we were in the Live Free or Die State. I believe we can continue that tradition for the genera tions to come.

Lisa Smart Meredith, NH.

Alliegro Asks For Your Vote

To The Editor:

This Letter to the Edi tor will be brief and to the point — less than 400 words. In fact, I’ll use a bulleted format:

• I work hard in Con cord for my constitu ents. In my entire first two-year term in office, I missed just one vote. That absence was ex cused because I had another meeting sched uled.

• My votes are mea sured against the U.S. and state Constitutions.

I have constituents with different opinions on just about everything.

But to uphold my Oath of Office, I must weigh the Constitutionality of every vote. For that, the HRA has given me a 100% rating.

• On the Constitution, and specifically the 2nd Amendment: The NRA has given me an “A” rat ing. That’s the highest rating a candidate can receive.

• I know of no oth er State Rep in New Hampshire who pro vides more access for his or her constituents. I answer every phone call and every e-mail. I make myself avail able at Town Hall every Monday, from 3:304:30pm. I don’t think that has ever happened in the history of Camp ton. On most Mondays, I do not receive any visi tors. That doesn’t mat ter — I am there. If you want to ask a question, make a suggestion, or give me a piece of your mind, I am there.

• I have gained notice as an effective Repre sentative. It’s not com mon for a freshman Rep to be given duties as a subcommittee chair or to head a House del

egation in a Committee of Conference with the State Senate. I have.

It comes back to the first point: I work hard for Campton. It’s in my DNA, and you can see it in the way I cam paign. Voters should have an opportunity to meet their Representa tive, to ask questions, and to form a direct opinion (instead of re lying on second-hand information, which is often slanted). That’s why I visited the homes of over 1,300 Camp ton voters in 2020, and have already surpassed 1,500 in 2022. Have any other candidates, for any office, or from any party knocked on your door? I’ll wager the answer is “no”. This is not a small thing; it’s a sign of respect. I am asking for your vote on November 8th — It’s up to me to earn it.

Mark Alliegro State Representative, Campton, NH.

Democrats Can’t Tell The Truth

To The Editor:

Just two years ago at the end of the Trump Administration, we were not only totally energy sufficient, but the US was an energy exporter. While cam paigning, Biden prom ised to slowly phase out our use of fossil fuels. But then he im mediately cancelled the Keystone pipeline, fracking was cut back and new leases for oil

drilling on Federal land virtually disappeared. The result, gas prices doubled, NH electric rates (heavily depen dent on natural gas) doubled and costs for home heating oil have skyrocketed. Because most of our food is trucked in on diesel trucks, food costs have exploded too. Biden’s response has been to release the emergency oil stores to keep gas prices down. This is the country’s reserve and should only be used in an emergency such as war. What’s the emer gency? The Dems are about to get creamed in the election! So Biden puts politics over na tional security. And now the Saudi’s have disclosed that Biden pressured them not to cut oil production un til after the November election. So eager to get us all on electric (which we don’t have the grid to support), the Dems are responsible for the greatest inflation rate in over 40 years. Rush Limbaugh was right. The Dems have to lie in order to get elected. If they told you what they really wanted to do, no one would vote for them. Save America November 8th. Vote Republican!

David Strang Gilmanton, NH.

Rep. Terry’s Pledge

To The Editor: Every political cam paign during my life time has been billed as the most critical one ever. The back and forth has been char acterized all too often by varying types and degrees of bombastic rhetoric, the spreading of distortions of facts and the proclamation of promises that fade like each day’s sunlight.

Political campaigns

and public service are messy, but they are what we have in a democratic republic. The alternatives are far worse. Whatever our flaws—and they are many, look at how many people still want to come to America.

I ran for office two years ago to preserve the best, and to work to make our state and nation even better. Yes, it’s been somewhat messy, but I kept my promises so that this time the decision before you is do you agree, do you approve and do you want me to keep on keeping on?

My pledge to you con tinues to be the one so beautifully expressed in the concluding phrase of our Pledge of Alle giance. I will continue to affirm and strive to honor those sacred words, “…one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Jus tice for all.”

Rep. Paul Terry Alton, NH.

Supports Ploszaj

To The Editor: Re-elect Tom Ploszaj Republican State Rep NH Belknap District 1 New Hampton, Center Harbor.

Tom has been true to his word with his pledge, NO income or sales tax, Parental choice in education for our children, Promote business both small and large to take ad vantage of the NH ad vantage.

Tom is an ardent be liever in Frugal Govern ment and our second amendment which is an important part of NH Freedoms.

Tom is a Husband and Grandparent.

Tom has over 40 years of community service with organiza tions such as EMT, Fire and Dispatch.

We need Tom back in Concord to keep the Live Free Or Die state one of the greatest plac es to work, live and play.

Tom has kept his campaign above board and in line with local sensibilities, unfortu nately his Democratic opponent has seen fit to lower himself to mud slinging and lies.

That is just not how we do things in NH local politics, tell the truth is the NH way.

Re-elect Tom Ploszaj for NH State Rep.

Dave Marsh

New Hampton, NH.

Supports Larson

To The Editor: Folks in Farmington, Rochester, New Dur ham, Alton, Gilmanton, and Strafford, you have a chance to elect a State Senator who will work for the people: Ruth Larson.

Having resided in your senate district for decades, I have seen voters unwittingly elect candidates who con sistently bow to their corporate donors rather than work for strug gling New Hampshire families. State Sena tors Jim Forsythe and James Gray time af ter time voted in fa vor of legislation that increased the burden of property taxes, that sabotaged proposals that would lower energy costs, and that stymied our efforts to protect our water and help ad dress climate change.

Not only that, your current state senator, James “book-banner” Gray, is so out of touch with the will of the peo ple, that he was voted down 12-1 as Rochester City Councilman in an effort to ban LGBTQ+ books from the Roch ester City Library. You can only imagine what

he would like to see for laws regarding a wom an’s right to choose.

But on November 8th, you can finally elect a candidate who has always worked for the people and will contin ue to work for you--not for corporate donors--in the NH Senate: Ruth Larson.

That said, don’t just vote for Ruth on No vember 8th. Get ev eryone you know in the towns of Farmington, Rochester, New Dur ham, Alton, Gilman ton, and Strafford out to vote for Ruth so we can put an end to this extremist agenda and elect a state senator who is in step with the people.

I now reside in an other part of the state, but I have worked with Ruth over the years for candidates and issues that support families and a sustainable fu ture. I’ve witnessed her commitment and her insistence on listening to and working for the people.

In such a conserva tive district, we will flip this seat only if we rally our friends and neighbors--who would otherwise not vote in the midterm elections-to get out and vote for Ruth Larson for State Senate. It’s worth get ting out of our comfort zone to talk to people and follow up by mak ing sure they get out to vote. We can’t afford not to.

Diane St. Germain Bedford, NH

Actions Not Words

To The Editor:

“Acta non verba”

Those words are Latin for “Actions, not words.”

They also happen to serve as the motto of the US Merchant Ma rine Academy, an orga

nization whose gradu ates serve this country, with actions, not words.

It’s also a great motto to live by, and to use in our everyday lives.

Do our words car ry weight, can people count on us to do what we say we’re going to do?

Are we trustworthy, or do our words ring hollow?

Are we attracted to people who lie to us and deceive us?

I think not.

We trust people who back up their words with concrete and real actions.

Those kinds of people earn our trust and re spect, through their ACTIONS, not their WORDS.

So during this politi cal season, why would any of us vote for some one whose words never match their actions?

I’m sure you’ve no ticed that we are all be ing targeted with a lot of “noise” from millionaire politicians, and their billionaire donors.

Their television ads, postal flyers and junk emails are all chock full of deception and lies.

Do they really think we are that dumb? I believe their actions clearly show that they do.

Do they really think that they can buy our votes with inane ads?

I believe their actions clearly show that they do.

If we filter out this political noise, we’re able to compare each candidate, and com pare their talk, with their walk.

Obviously, incum bents have held office for a number of years.

Their ACTIONS dur ing those years provide us with a clear record of what they’ve actu ally DONE, vs what their WORDS told us they would do.

Our incumbent lead ers have given us ris ing inflation, rising gas prices, rising con sumer prices, rising interest rates, rising national debt, a ris ing crime and murder rate, lawlessness, an illegal border invasion, a deadly drug epidemic and a foreign policy that has brought us to the brink of nuclear war.

Leaders can delegate authority, but not re sponsibility, that rests with them alone. A true leader always accepts responsibility for their ACTIONS, and they never make excuses.

Our incumbent lead ers are responsible for where we are as a na tion today, period.

If you like what their ACTIONS have given us, I guess they’ve earned your vote.

On the other hand, despite the conjecture articulated by our in cumbents political ad creators, their oppo nents have not yet cast a single vote in Wash ington.

This fact of course discredits those ads, rendering them both deceptive and moot.

Their opponents have yet to take any AC TION, they have only told us, in their own WORDS, what they plan to do for Granite Staters.

A vote for them would give them the same opportunity our in cumbents were given, a chance to back up their Words with Ac tions.

So we need to ask ourselves some basic questions about these incumbents, and their opponents, who are both asking for our vote on November 8th.

Why are our incum bents refusing to de bate their opponents?

Is this what they call being transparent to the voters of New

Hampshire?

Why are the Words of our incumbents tell ing us what their op ponents Actions will bring us, instead of telling us what their ACTIONS have actually brought us?

Do they truly believe that these fear monger ing tactics will work on common sense Granite Staters? I believe their actions clearly show that they do.

Why aren’t they proudly pointing out what they’ve actually accomplished for the Granite Staters they represent?

I think anyone who is a free thinker, with a pulse and an active EEG, knows the an swer to that question.

I say, Live FREE or DIE New Hampshire!

It’s time for every Granite Stater to think for themselves, and to vote for themselves.

We don’t need the media, talking heads or political pundits to tell us who to vote for, we simply need to open our eyes, and look at what’s being done to our great country.

Silence the noise, look at the facts, with out the political spin, and you will see that we are all being used as political pawns.

It’s time to use the common sense, and the free will, that God gave us.

We all need to be In dependent voters this election.

The future of our

great country, and our beloved state, are both at stake.

Michael Petruzziello Major, USMC (Ret) Wolfeboro, NH.

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