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Celebrating The Holidays With Tastes Of NH by Jim MacMillan Contributing Writer

Beer aficionado and Weirs Times columnist Jim MacMillan provides a few ideas from New Hampshire Craft Beer brewers to help set your table with some local goodness. Jim’s regular column “The Wicked Brew Review” can be found on page 25 in this week’s issue. Holidays are meant to enjoy with close friends and family members. Thanksgiving has pretty much taken top prize for being a traditional time of

festivities. It is a moment in time when we can look back on the year, relish the times from spring and summer, and of course, be thankful for the life we live. It is a time of fun, food and spirited conversation around the table, along with sharing good wine and beer. We will concentrate on the beer side here, well, because it’s for the love of beer! We will stick with mostly New Hampshire produced beers currently offered along with a few worthy neighboring brewers so that we can help See macmillan on 24

New Biweekly Hunting & Fishing Column

Give your Thanksgiving feast a true touch of New Hampshire by putting out some great local craft beers. Wicked Brew Review columnist Jim MacMillan provides a few ideas.

This week we are pleased to introduce our newest contributor, Tim Moore, and his column “A Guide’s Life” on page 9, Tim is a full time licensed New Hampshire hunting and fishing guide, outdoor writer and promoter, seminar speaker, and the producer of Tim Moore Outdoors TV on YouTube. Tim holds multiple fishing records including two New Hampshire state records and one pending IGFA world

record. He is currently the only person in New Hampshire to hold two state records at the same time and the only person to have ever held a total of four NH state records at one time or another. Tim will be a column on an every other week basis and we feel he will be a great addition to our paper in adding another in an eclectic mix of subjects. We hope you enjoy Tim’s columns and we look forward to your feedback.

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Insurance Market Place Open Enrollment Fair

HealthFirst Family Care Center, 841 Central Street, Suite 101, Franklin. 9am-2pm. The fairs are intended to help citizens determine the policy and coverage that best suits their needs. 934-1464 ext 119

Annual Mae Hart Thanksgiving Dinner

Meredith Community Center, Circle Drive, Meredith. Doors open at 11:30am, meal served at Noon. Thanks to the generosity of Hart’s Turkey Farm, this special meal is a long-time tradition and is intended for those in Meredith and surrounding towns who are alone or simply wish to celebrate this meaningful day with new friends. For those housebound and unable to attend the meal, shuttle service will offer deliveries serving Meredith, Center Harbor and New Hampton. Anyone wishing to volunteer to deliver dinners or serve the meal at the Community Center, please call Kristen at 279-5568. Anyone wishing to attend the meal or receive a home delivery, please call Terri at 279-8197

Community Thanksgiving Dinner

Dalton Congregational Church, Route 135, Dalton. 12pm. Free community dinner. RSVP to Pastor Diane Raymond at 802-535-8559

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Warren Miller’s Chasing Shadows

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Horse Drawn Sleigh Rides

Clough Tavern Farm, 23 Clough Tavern Road, Canterbury. 11am-4pm.

Hobo Railroad, 64 Railroad Street, Lincoln. 1pm. All passengers aboard the train ride will receive a cup of hot chocolate and each family or group receives a box of holiday cookies to enjoy during the 1 hour and 20 minute excursion. Children are given letters to complete for Santa which he and his Elves pick up as they make their way through the train. Each child on the trip will be surprised with a special gift! $20 for Coach, $25 for First Class seating for ages 3 and up. Ages 2 and under ride for free. Advance reservations are strongly suggested. www.hoborr.com or 745-2135

Christmas at the Castle

Castle in the Clouds, 455 Old Mountain Road, Moultonborough. 10am-3:30pm (last ticket sold at 2pm) Enjoy the amazing vintage Christmas decorations, live music, costumed guides and period role-players, fun activities and crafts you can make and take home. $20/adults and seniors, $10/youth (5-17), $15/Friends of the Castle. www.castleintheclouds.org 476-5900

Emily Marsh Art Exhibit

The Art Place, 9 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 5-8pm. Local artist, Emily Marsh recently published a calendar with whimsical illustrations of New Hampshire scenes which will be on display in conjunction with Wolfeboro’s Art Walk. Passerby’s are welcome to stop in for a snack, enjoy the vibrant paintings and take a look at the printed calendars which will be available. 5696159

Professor Harp Blues feat. TJ Wheeler

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. 527-0043

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Hermit Woods Winery, 72 Main Street, Meredith. Guests who bring in a food offering for the Pantry will be offered 25% off the purchase of a case of wine. If you are not interested in wine, please help anyway! Hermit Woods will match any offer of food made over the weekend. 393-6971

Saturday 28th The Marshall Tucker Band

Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Strafford Wind Symphony

Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 7pm. 335-1992

Lakes Region Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair

Opechee Conference Center, 62 Doris Ray Court, Laconia. 10am-4pm. Handmade crafts, food and so much more! Live music of Tim Janis and free admission. 528-4014 or www. joycescraftshows.com

Wolfeboro Winter Farmers Market

First Congregational Church of Wolfeboro, 115 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 10am-2pm. 569-6342

Craft Fair

Mascoma High and Indian River Schools, West Canaan. 9am-3pm. Over 90 exhibitors! Free admission. 523-7712 or 523-4301

Holiday Fair Hosted by Newfound Regional High School’ French Students & Class of 2018

Newfound Regional High School, Bristol. 9am-4pm. Shopping, food, carolers, raffles, prizes and possibly even a visit from Santa! Free admission. 581-2226

Live Comedy feat. Bucky Lewis

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. 527-0043

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The Loon Center’s 23rd Annual Open House

The Loon Center, 183 Lee’s Mill Road, Moultonborough. 10am-2pm. Crafts for kids, hayrides, face painting, nature displays, refreshments, balloon sculptures and more! Free admission. 476-5666

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Weirs Times Columnists At Gilmanton Year Round Library On Saturday, December 5th at the Gilmanton Free Library, Weirs Times columnists Brendan Smith “A F.O.O.L. in New Hampshire” and Kimberly Smith “Art Girl” will be giving two presentations. At 1pm, Kimberly will be sharing her altered book creations and discussing her art process in creating them. Kimberly’s works are currently on display at the library through December for all to see before the presentation. At 2pm, Brendan will be telling a few tales from his book “The Flatlander Chronicles” about his adjustment to life in New Hampshire after having moved here from New York. He will also be reading a few stories from his new book “Best Of A F.O.O.L in New Hampshire” a compilation of his Weirs Times articles Both programs are free and open to the public, Bidding on the silent auction will be available. Over 100 items to bid on. Auction ends on Saturday, December 5th at 3pm.

Robert Randolph: One of the Most Intense Acts in All of Jamdom Robert Randolph has been named “The 100 Greatest Guitarists,” by Rolling Stone magazine, adding “(He’s) one of the most intense live acts in all of jamdom.” Expect a high energy night of Funk, Soul, and Blues-Rock at The Flying Monkey Performance Center on Friday, December 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $39. A virtuoso pedal steel guitarist, Robert Randolph and family celebrate African-American music through the lens of modern music. That music is hailed as American funk and soul at its finest when they deliver the message of hope through their uplifting beat and lyrics. Some have said that the Randolph family sound is reminiscent of the funk and soul of Earth, Wind & Fire and Sly & the Family Stone. For tickets and more information on concerts and the Flying Monkey Performance Center, visit www.flyingmonkeynh. com or call 603-536-2551.

Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair This Weekend at the Opechee Conference Center Don’t miss the Lakes Region Holiday Arts & Craft Fair on Sat. & Sun. November 28 & 29 (Sat 10-4; Sun 10-3) at the Opechee Conference Center, 62 Doris Ray Court, in Laconia. Over 75 fabulous crafters & huge NH Humane Society Raffle! Some of the arts & crafts will include: Holiday florals, Ben’s NH maple syrups, goat milk soaps, quilts by Nancyann, fashion wear hats, embellished ornaments, holiday candles both soy & beeswax, American girl doll clothing & accessories, oil paintings, watercolors, fine jewelry, fabulous pottery, scarves/ mittens/hats, tole painting, lighted bottle art, handsome rustic cedar furniture, metal art, home made toffee, gourmet salad dressings & vinegars, wooden crafts, & lots more! Music of Tim Janis - Free Admission - Food/Snacks - Directions: Exit 20 & Bear left onto Rt. 3 & follow signs for 10 miles - Located opposite Fratello’s Restaurant in Laconia - Info Joyce (603)528-4014 or www.joycescraftshows.com

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all stop tolerating illegal or excessive drug use. It is time to demonize drugs, drug users, drug sellers, and any glorification of drug use. Every user and person considering using drugs must know that they will be considered a pariah. Some people will say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t condemn the users, they are victims.â&#x20AC;? I sympathize with this, but unless everyone knows and condemns drug use, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll keep burying overdose victims. The billions of dollars we spend in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;war on drugsâ&#x20AC;? seem mostly for show. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;war on drugsâ&#x20AC;? effort cannot be considered serious as long as we leave open probably the biggest source of illegal drugs, our Southern border. The border must be sealed. But this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seriously deal with drug traffickers and dealers. Unfortunately, the sentencing guidelines for drug crimes were recently reduced, and consequently President Obama is giving early releases to drug criminals, even many with violent histories. These actions will encourage, not discourage, more drug dealing, more drug use, and the result will be more dead Americans, more anguished families, and higher costs to society. The way we are dealing with addicts, dealers, and convicted criminals seems more like a plot to destroy our country and hurt American citizens than a â&#x20AC;&#x153;war on drugsâ&#x20AC;?.

This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Weirs Times and Touristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 newspaperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paper which are taken from Calvertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic publication.

Compared to their constant efforts calling for gun control, the efforts of our politicians to deal with Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drug problem is paltry, even though drugs kill at least four to five times more people than gun-related homicides and accidents combined. Unfortunately illegal drugs are only part of the problem. Legal addictive and/or psychotropic drugs are far too often prescribed even for minor problems. A 2011 Medco Health Solutions report indicates that one in five adults take at least one psychiatric drug; similar drugs are used on many children. Many of these drugs increase the risk of suicide, violent behavior (many mass killers were on these drugs), and often lead to illegal drug use. It is time to demand that American leaders of all types (political, school, religious, pop culture, media, medical, athletes, etc.) start seriously fighting this epidemic. We all should frequently condemn drug use, making everyone feel it is disgusting and harmful, and the complete opposite of cool. Taking, promoting, glorifying, transporting, selling or any assistance to the sale or use of drugs should be condemned as loudly, frequently, and viciously as we condemn racism, sexism, murder, rape, or any other unacceptable act. Every media outlet should repeatedly condemn drug use and drug users and demand See mail boat on 30

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In the spirit of the holidays we have reprinted this column from Brendanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Flatlander Chronicles.â&#x20AC;? Nothing can have a greater impact on a newly transplanted Flatlander to New Hampshire than in dealing with the anticipation and stress of trying to fit in by having the perfect New England Christmas. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face it, many of us moved here for the idyllic Norman Rockwell type lifestyle that we were led to believe existed somewhere within our reach. Maybe you were reading â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yankee Magazineâ&#x20AC;? while waiting for a subway somewhere. You were concentrating on the words and trying to take in the quaintness of some Currier and Ives picture inside while the train announced its arrival with the sound of giant nails on blackboard. Maybe you were watching one of those Hallmark TV special tearjerkers portraying the perfect Northern New England family, opening presents by their freshly cut tree. You became entranced by the light, fluffy snow falling and carolers on the steps in perfect harmony as you turned up the volume to hear it better over the din of police sirens down the block. You have set your mind to what you always imagined Christmas in New Hampshire would be

like. Now you have arrived. You have worked hard to get here. Are you now up to the task? Fortunately for you, I am here to help. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve learned a few things and now I can pass this knowledge on to you to help you enjoy your dream and to not be intimidated by the natives. One of the grandest moments in proud Christmas tradition here in New Hampshire is the ceremonial cutting down of the tree. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a holiday delight that the whole family can share in. Mom, dad and kids bundled up against the frigid air while winding their way through the woods. Walking for miles through knee-deep snow, they sing Christmas carols while journaling their encounters with small creatures until they spot â&#x20AC;&#x153;theâ&#x20AC;? tree in all its resplendent glory. It beckons and calls. It is almost magical. Then dad unsheathes his axe and spends the next hour meticulously making that perfect cut. The family watches in amazement until the mighty tree is felled. All then pitch in to drag their prize home. They arrive home sometime after midnight, tired and hungry, but much better for their shared adventure. I have this story down pat now. It took a while to memorize. I tell it every year to my neighbors as I unload my perfect Christmas tree from the top of my car after spending twenty bucks down at the Lions Club tree sale. It works more than you might imagine. Still, you have to make sure it is a real tree. I did buy a plastic one once and sprayed it with pine scent, but I think they suspected. Especially when I insisted they

could not touch it as it was a weird old family tradition. To make yourself feel better, you can work up a good sweat just getting the tree from the top of the car into the house and in the tree stand. That way youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve accomplished something. Another great challenge in becoming a true New Englander during the holidays is cooking. Tradition dictates that all real holiday meals can only be created by an inherent skill of making everything from scratch. Natives have been known to do strange things with food that we Flatlanders find fascinating. They can take fruits, vegetables, meat, poultries, twigs and branches, add a dash of this and a sprinkle of that, put it in the oven and have something truly amazing appear within an hour. But how do we, as Flatlanders, come upon learning the same culinary skills that have been passed down for generations? How can we become like these welltaught natives and learn these skills in just a short time? How can you and your family sit down to Christmas dinner with freshly dressed turkeys and hams, real whipped potatoes and squash, jams and jellies canned months before as well as homemade apple and pumpkin pies with steam still rising from them? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy. Many savvy natives figured out a long time ago that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never be able to do it, so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve opened up stores where we can buy these things at exorbitant prices. After all, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas and money is no object. I use a few of these stores myself. Next time See smith on 32

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The Myth of H-1B Job Creation Every day brings new headlines, ignored by the Washington press corps, of U.S. workers losing their livelihoods to by Michelle Malkin cheap H1-B Syndicated Columnist visa replacements. Just this week, Computerworld reported: “Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India.” Yet, it remains an article of faith among Big Business flacks and Beltway hacks that H-1B not only protects American jobs, but also fuels miraculous job growth. The myths are recycled and regurgitated by the likes of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who claims that “foreign-born STEM workers complement the American workforce, they don’t take American jobs.” Bill Gates, citing the National Foundation for American Policy, which is run by one-man Beltway advocacy research shop operative Stuart Anderson, testified before Congress that “a recent study shows for every H-1B holder that technology companies hire, five additional jobs are created around that person.” Citing another NFAP study by economics professor Madeline Zavodny of Agnes Scott College, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asserted: “2.62 MORE JOBS are created for U.S.-born workers for each foreign-born worker in the U.S. with a U.S. STEM graduate degree.” But even the reliably pro-

immigration expansionist Wall Street Journal had to call out Bill Gates on his misleading testimony to Congress regarding oft-cited NFAP job-creation figures. First off, the data set was confined to S&P 500 technology companies, which “excludes the leading users” of H-1B visas -- offshore outsourcing companies from India such as Infosys, Wipro and Tata. Moreover, Carl Bialik, the newspaper’s “Numbers Guy,” reported that the study Gates cited to claim amazing H-1B job generation “shows nothing of the kind. Instead, it finds a positive correlation between these visas and job growth. These visas could be an indicator of broader hiring at the company, rather than the cause.” University of California, Davis professor Norm Matloff explained that Gates’ false conclusion is a common analytical error known as Simpson’s Paradox, “in which the relation between two variables is very misleading, due to their mutual relation to a third variable.” NFAP’s Zavodny study was published by the American Enterprise Institute, sponsored by open-borders billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Partnership for a New American Economy and touted by the open-borders U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the pro-H-1B FWD.us. Zavodny’s study initially examined data from the years 2000 to 2010. She hypothesized that states with more foreignborn workers would have higher rates of employment among native-born Americans. Initially, she was unable to find a significant effect of foreign-born workers on U.S. jobs.

The Gift Of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year. Whether it is about the company of family or friends, the preparation of food, or by Jane Cormier just relaxing in Hooksett, NH. your own space, Thanksgiving is a true gift. Perhaps it is because I am getting a bit older, but the wistfulness of Thanksgivings’ past lead me toward the expectation of yet another day or two to feast together and be grateful. As the youngest in a family of eight, (my mom was one of eight children and my dad one of fourteen children), I remember Thanksgiving Day being about laughter, sharing a LARGE feast as a family, and enjoying an overall feeling of gratefulness and well-being. True, there were multiple rounds of eating at the dinner table (Thanksgiving at home meant as See malkin on 30 many as 40 people!) and dishes

that had to be hand-washed (no dishwasher at the Cormier household) to ensure those rounds of eating. But, I cannot recall anything but happiness and joy. Today, we are living in turbulent times, no doubt about it, but reminiscing about those past Thanksgivings feeds my soul and allows me to push away negative and depressing thoughts, even if it is for just a day or two. Yes, when that fourth Thursday of November comes around, I am ready to go! Whether it is grocery shopping, cooking, sharing, or eating, I just love the social aspect that comes alongside the preparation and sharing of food during holidays. This year will find us eating both goose AND turkey – we have much to be grateful for and we intend to enjoy the gift that is Thanksgiving with a true FEAST! So, take time this Thanksgiving season to shut down all the craziness. Turn off the electronic devices. Talk and have meaningful See cormier on 32

THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, November 26, 2015

Where Have All The Adults Gone? Two very different quotes from two very different Republicans came to mind last week as the increasingly by Ken Gorrell Northfield, NH. ludicrous student demonstrators continued their foul-mouthed shrieking and university administrators continued their shameful acquiescence. It has not been a good semester for American higher education, but it has been entertaining. Accepting the Republican presidential nomination in July, 1964, Barry Goldwater said, “I would

remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” Those were heady times: a president had been assassinated, the civil rights movement was gaining momentum, and President Johnson was already under fire for his Viet Nam strategy. Goldwater identified communism as the “principal disturber of the peace in the world today.” The infamous student protests at UC Berkeley were just gaining momentum back in 1964. Targets of students’ ire included the same issues facing the nation at large: racial discrimination (the Civil Rights Act had just been signed), the growing war in Viet Nam, the exercise of basic rights

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the forces of terror and hate have attacked Paris. Again, and for the second time in a year, we stand by John J. Metzler in solidarity Syndicated Columnist and weep for the victims. And as the barbarity of the Grim Reaper of Jihadi terror swept across Paris on a Friday night, the polite Western world is jolted into action and awareness, facing these terrorists who are trying to turn the City of Light into the Casbah of darkness and fear. A stunningly brutal series of coordinated attacks from the national soccer stadium to bars, restaurants and a theatre killed 129 and injured hundreds of innocent civilians. France was stunned, shocked, and yet again reminded that it “can happen here.” French President Francois Hollande has declared War on the socalled Islamic State. In a rare joint session of the National Legislature, the socialist President who is often viewed as dithering and indecisive, transformed himself into tough and seemingly decisive leader.

that came to my mind. Vice President Dan Quayle addressed the United Negro College Fund with this word contortion: “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” Not quite as stirring as Goldwater’s full-throated defense of liberty, but more on-target for today’s campus protesters. Quayle was trying to repeat the UNCF’s tag See gorrell on 29

Random Thoughts

R a n d o m thoughts on the passing scene: Some financial institutions may be considered “too big to fail,” but contemporary Western sociby Thomas Sowell ety may be too Syndicated Columnist frivolous to Hollande proclaimed that “We survive. The Romans had bread are at War.” In a somber address and circuses to keep the masses Hollande said he would call on passive and unthinking. We have the UN Security Council to pass a electronic gadgets, drugs and resolution to “destroy Daech (ISIL), pornography. Like the Roman while describing Syria as the “big- Empire, we too may decline and gest terrorist factory the world has fall. What happened in Paris may be just the beginning. ever seen.” With the “global warming” zeal“France is at war. But we are not engaged in a war of civiliza- ots predicting catastrophic contions, because these assassins do sequences over the next century, not represent any. We are in a war I wonder if anyone has studied against jihadist terrorism which is how accurate five-day weather threatening the whole world,” he forecasts turn out to be. Cheap shots at the police by told a packed, somber chamber. He added, “ Our enemy in Syria politicians and the media are is Daesh (ISIL), it’s not about in fact very expensive, in terms containing but destroying this of the human lives that are lost organization.” Parliamentarians when the effectiveness of law gave Hollande a standing ovation enforcement is undermined. The before spontaneously singing the sharp increase in murders in “Marseillaise” national anthem, in places like Baltimore, New York and other places where the police an act of poignant defiance. Hollande called for a “wide and have been trashed, shows how single coalition” inducing the USA expensive. It is bad enough to hear someone and Russia to combat ISIL. In the meantime French fighter boasting about his past achievejets carried out punishing attacks ments. What is truly repulsive on Islamic State targets in Syria. is hearing someone boasting Russia’s current military inter- about the future achievements vention in Syria, while balked at he thinks he is going to have, as in Washington, has now seen the Donald Trump does repeatedly. Why have a national debt ceilrole of Vladimir Putin evolve from a pariah to a partner in light of the ing if it doesn’t really put a ceiling on the national debt? What recent attacks. See Metzler on 30 the national debt ceiling does is

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like free speech and assembly, how to deal with our Cold War adversary. Though Goldwater was an arch conservative, his belief in the importance of defending liberty and justice were shared by the campus radicals of the day. Ideologies were certainly different, but the issues they addressed were broadly the same and the passions similarly grounded. Fast forwarding 25 years, to 1989, brings us the other quote

allow Democrats to gain votes by spending the government’s money -- and then force Republicans to share responsibility for raising the national debt ceiling, under threat of being blamed for shutting down the government if they don’t. Since doctors have the same 24 hours a day as the rest of us, do believers in Obamacare understand that every hour a doctor spends filling out government forms is an hour that is not spent treating patients? With all the charges of “racism” against conservatives, has anyone noticed that Dr. Ben Carson’s strongest supporters are in the conservative wing of the Republican party? In what part of the world is the situation better for America than it was when Barack Obama became President and Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State? If you want an easier question, in what part of the world is the situation worse? How can anyone consider it to be either logical or moral to force other people to be defenseless because of a theory without any factual evidence? Yet that is what gun control laws amount to. Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences. People who argue that the hostility to Israel in the Middle East is due to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians should explain why hostility to Jews in the Middle East was so great back in the 1930s that Middle East leaders See Sowell on 29

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Prepare For Ice by Tim Moore Contributing Writer

With days getting shorter and nights getting cooler it won’t be long before lakes and ponds begin to freeze. If you’re like me, and you want to be able to

test ice thickness as you walk, and ice safety picks around my neck can get you out of the water in a hurry. My safety gear gets my full attention. I make sure chisels are sharp, ropes haven’t chafed or becoming brittle, and the cord connecting my safety pics hasn’t cracked or broken.

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Augers are one of the most-used pieces of ice fishing equipment. The blades need to be sharp. The sharper your blades, the less work your auger and you need to do. Drain any old gas, top it off with fresh gas, and change the spark plug before turning it over. If you own a battery powered auger, make sure the batteries are charged and operational. Check your tip-ups and jig rods to make sure they are in good working condition. Tie new leaders onto your tip-ups and re-spool the reels on your jigging rods. There is nothing worse than losing a big fish because of old and brittle line. Depending on where you store your gear,

very soon, but it will be here before you know it. By the time the lakes have enough ice to ice fish I’m usually more than ready to get out there and start drilling holes. Having all of my gear ready to go is he key to making that happen. Tim Moore is a nationally-recognized angler and a year-round professional 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 Tim Moore Outdoors TV. Visit www. TimMooreOutdoors.com for more information.

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chickadees can lose 10% of their body weight overnight. They must find food to survive each and every day during the winter months. Professor Brittingham decided to compare two very distinct groups of chickadees in the Wisconsin regions. She banded both groups with the help of volunteers and monitored their food intake. The first group of chickadees, about 35, had never seen bird feeders. We know that chickadees have a limited feeding range, approximately one mile. She chose an area of woods miles away from any human habitat. The second group of chickadees was located in the same region, but near human feeders that had been in existence for over 20 years. These potentially-dependent birds were about 49 in total. The color coded bands allowed researchers to monitor the number of visits to feeders filled with sunflower seeds that each bird used prior to the start of the study. Both groups were observed in their natural surroundings for two years. After that, she had the volunteers immediately remove all bird feeders from the second group before the next winter season approached. Both banded groups of chickadees would experience the same weather during the upcoming October-April study period. Average low temperatures were below freezing with many days during this time frame below zero. No attempts were made to offer any human foods sources. After generations of human feeding, would the second group of chickadees know how or where to search for natural foods

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Your nutrition, not age, determines your internal chemistry. This in turn affects the quality and strength of almost every organ, cell and function in the body. In spite of what the advertising may promise, the condition of your skin and the quality of your bones, brain and connective tissues are all affected by your diet. That old saying, “you are what you eat” has merit. With the Holidays ahead, this reminder may help you to consider revising some of your recipes. Roasted sweet potatoes are already sweet and very delicious, they really don’t need syrup, brown sugar or marshmallows do they? How gracefully you age depends largely on your diet and lifestyle. No one makes perfect food choices all the time, but when most of your choices are good, an occasional inferior choice won’t be as damaging as a steady diet of poor choices. If you have a weakness for convenience foods such as packaged cookies, crackers and potato chips and the like, you will probably find hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, or Trans fats listed in the ingredients. These oils take their toll on our bodies by promoting inflammation. Chronic inflammation has been described as a low grade systemic irritation

that smolders deep inside the body, like rust that spreads through a car. Keep in mind food labeling is not completely honest. According to a report by the consumer advocate Environmental Working Group it was noted that while Trans fat appears on only 2 percent of Nutrition fact labels, the fat is used in an estimated 37 percent of all supermarket foods. Another big offender is, you guessed it, sugar! Excess sugar in your diet loiters in the blood and causes trouble by glomming on to protein molecules. This process, called glycation, causes cellular aging in several ways. It slows the body’s repair mechanism gumming up the collagen in your skin making it less elastic for one. Natural sugars such as honey and or maple syrup are better choices but can be overdone as well. Be very wary of swapping your sugar for artificial sweeteners, they cause damage to your health in other ways. Eating too many refined carbohydrates are simply sugars in disguise. Starch turns into sugar the minute it hits your bloodstream and this sets the stage for insulin resistance. Your mind may see the bagel you’re about to eat as a healthier choice than the snickers bar in your pocket, but your body sees them both as sugar, with the snickers bar maybe a bit healthier because it doesn’t raise the glycemic index as high as the bagel. “Sticking to whole food carbs such as vegetables, legumes and whole kernel grains are better choices. These foods provide critical information for your body”, according to Kathie Swift, MS, RDN, LDN cofounder of the Integrative and Functional Nutrition

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Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Holidays! This is a great time of year, right? You feel good about it.... no stress, no worry, all joy, right? Okay, I get it. The holidays are a lot of fun: family, friends, food, gifts, parties, etc. The other side of the coin is that all those same things can lead to stress, too. The fact is the holidays tend to be a tight rope walk between happiness and being overwhelmed. With that in mind, I give you my...not holiday survival guide, but a holiday thrive guide. Follow these tips and you may find your holidays are less stress and more joy, after all. 1) A little goes a long way: as far as food goes, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deprive yourself. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re surrounded by treats that you want and you completely abstain, generally many people will eventually go nuts and eat more than they would have originally. Simply choose a treat that you want, have one and enjoy it, then be done. Along with this, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to abandon the â&#x20AC;&#x153;all or nothingâ&#x20AC;? attitude that people take with food during the holidays. Meaning, if you eat poorly at one meal, or too much at Thanksgiving, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to throw in the towel and go nuts till Christmas. One meal is one meal, one treat is one treat. If you make a poor choice, regroup and do

2) Say Y-E-S to N-O, aka the power of no: during the holidays you will be pulled in many directions and we all want to do as much as we can and we want to make everyone happy. This will not always work well for you though. As youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re baking 5 dozen cookies for the bakesale, sending out 100 cards, and running errands all over the world, you may breakdown mentally and physically. So many people I meet in our offices, are not even excited for the holidays, because they just see work and fatigue on the horizon. Seriously, add the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;noâ&#x20AC;? to your vocabulary. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always like to use this word, but plan to do what you can with each day and anything that exceeds thatâ&#x20AC;Ś.â&#x20AC;?noâ&#x20AC;?. Examples: can you host the holiday party tomorrow night, should we go over our gift budget to get the new, shiny toy, or should I have a fourth holiday cookieâ&#x20AC;Ś.no, no, and no. It actually feels empowering!

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force-feed your favorite brown ale or stout on people who might stay on the lighter side of brew tones, these Euro-style beers are complimentary. Other NH beers that fit into this category might be Moat Mountain’s Czech Pils, Smuttynose Farmhouse Ale (Saison style), Smuttynose Spank (if you can find it) which is another Saison style, White Birch’s Hooksett Belgian Ale, or Agner & Wolfe’s Altbeer. Even Tuckerman has a Headwall Alt which is a slightly stronger and hoppy German style ale. Individual meal parts can also be paired. Sweet potatoes go well with Belgian dubbels (Big Water Belgian Dubbel) and even tripels (Smuttynose Tripel) while regular mashed potatoes are better teamed up with wheat beers. Cranberry sauce aligns well with Berliner Weisse beers (White Birch Berliner Weisse). Some folks prepare green beans with bacon bits so a perfect match for this element is Rockingham’s Belly of the Beast Stout (brewed with bacon). About now, you are groaning from the amount of food and beer you have consumed... but wait, there is always room for dessert! Pumpkin pie begs to be paired with your favorite fall spice beer. And there are a ton of them. Pumpkin ales are quite a fall celebrity. Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale, 603‘s Toasted Pumpkin, Woodstock Inn Autumn Ale, as well as outside NH from Blue Moon Harvest, Harpoon Pumpkin, Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin, Sam Adam’s Winter, Uinta’s Punkin, and Traveler’s Jacko (which is really a shandy-style). Anyway, you can tell that dessert beer is really popular. But isn’t that what’s fun about pairing...? That is pretty much it for food pairing, although I’m sure you can come up with more. Share your thoughts with us via email at wickedbrews@ weirs.com ... and enjoy great NH beer!

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Kindred Spirit Farm, 103 Upper Road, Sandwich. 9:30am4pm. Donna and Ken will have baked goods, gourmet dog cookies, handcrafted herbal soaps, Wooly Washy felted soaps, scented soy candles in vintage canning jars and vintage pint dairy bottles, jams and much more! Come have some cookies and hot cocoa and enjoy the warmth of the cook stove while you relax in their log cabin and get ready for the Christmas season!

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Sanbornton Congregational Church-UCC, 21 Meetinghouse Hill Road, Sanbornton. 8:30am10am for the breakfast and the sale goes until noon. $5pp, no charge for children under 5.

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were pro-Hitler. This was long before there was a modern state of Israel or a Palestinian problem. If the 2016 election comes down to Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump, my advice to the younger generation would be to try to find some other country to live in. Australia or New Zealand might be a good place to start looking. Now that President Obama has sent a few dozen American troops into Syria, will they be wearing sneakers, so that he can claim that he has kept his promise not to put “boots on the ground”? Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by the people who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on election day. The way the Obama administration’s Department of Justice has been used politically to put local police under siege, and to shield the administration’s own law-breakers,

suggests that the Department of Justice should be taken out of the control of any future administration, and made an independent agency like the Government Accountability Office. Have we become a country whose leaders are charlatans, and whose people are sheep? Our situation today reminds me of what Winston Churchill said to his bodyguard, after the king appointed Churchill prime minister in the darkest days during World War II: “All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid it is. We can only do our best.” He had tears in his eyes. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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line, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” which could be the perfect counter-slogan for today’s outof-step kids. From Yale, to the University of Missouri, to Claremont McKenna, today’s outraged students seem intent on wasting their minds’ potential, along with the taxpayer subsidies most of them receive. It took less than a year for these students (adults by some measures, but too child-like in their actions to be taken seriously as grown-ups) to go from protesting the “epidemic” of sexual assaults on campus to the purported use of feces as instruments of oppression. At least the feces were real. The sexual assault “epidemic” turned out to be less real, more scripted reality show. In the most notorious case, the script-writer was outed eventually, but not before officials at the University of Virginia were made to look like fools and the men of a fraternity maligned. Despite its culpability, Rolling Stone rolls on, though

without a certain managing editor. In my lifetime we’ve gone from students protesting about the same existential and foundational issues the nation’s political and social leaders were grappling with, to matters either proven mostly false, misinterpreted, or simply silly. How did the ideological descendants of 1960s radicals become today’s tantrum-throwing, ignorant, intolerant brats? YouTube is filled with videos of students’ profanity-laced rants directed toward professors and university leaders over such weighty matters as Halloween costumes and so-called micro-aggressions. Twitter provides wonderful views into the dark minds of these selfabsorbed youth, wailing about the spotlight moving on from the racially-motivated “terrorism” suffered by a group of mostly-black scholarship athletes to the religiously-motivated death and dismemberment suffered by Parisians at the bloody hands of real Islamic terrorists. It would

be funny if it weren’t so sickening. Are there any adults left on university campuses able to articulate the value of free speech to kids screaming for campus speech codes, mandatory sensitivity training, and a right not to be offended? If there were, perhaps they could have nipped in the bud the feces incident at Vanderbilt. Someone found bag of dog feces on the steps of the Black Cultural Center. The racial grievance-mongers spun up in high dudgeon. Everyone from the University Police Department to the Dean of Students to the Director of the Office of Inclusion Initiatives and Cultural Competence were called to the scene. A hate crime? No. The bag had been left there by a blind Vanderbilt student who was cleaning up after her guide dog. Today’s rude and unruly campus protesters are proving Dan Quayle right: It is a waste to lose one’s mind, or not to have one at all.

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from U.S. universities. About 45 percent of H-1B visa holders do not have advanced degrees (as noted above), let alone advanced degrees from U.S. universities. According to public policy professor Ron Hira of Howard University, only 1 in 206 of H-1B workers at offshore outsourcing giant Infosys holds an advanced degree from a U.S. university. Even fewer of Tata Consultancy Services H-1B workers do -- just 1 in 222. So there is almost no overlap between the highly educated workers in Zavodnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;262 additional jobsâ&#x20AC;? analysis and the mostly entry-level workers who actually come to the U.S. on H-1B visas. While industry lobbyists have to employ dubious and convoluted means to show H-1B creates jobs, it is brutally simple to show that H-1B workers take American jobs. Just ask the folks who trained their H-1B replacements at Disney, Southern California Edison, Toys R Us, Fossil and countless other companies across the nation. This column is adapted from Malkin and Mianoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new book, How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best & Brightest Workers (Mercury Ink/Simon & Schuster). Michelle Malkin is author of the new book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs.â&#x20AC;? Her email address is malkinblog@ gmail.com.

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the wood substrate firmly. The face of the vertical granite pieces must be all in the same plane after they’re installed so the overlapping pieces of granite that slide under the lip of the sink are flush with the vertical face of the granite. While this sounds hard to do, it’s not. You just have to have a nice metal 2-foot level that you can use to place across the face of the vertical granite as soon as you install the pieces. If the wood substrate is smooth and you put on an even amount of thinset using a notched trowel, you’ll have no problems. The flat pieces of granite that slide under the sink will not be too hard to install. It’s important that you get these in the same plane as the pieces of the granite tiles that are still in place at either side of the sink. Once again, use your 2-foot level (or a 4-foot one) to help you establish a line that’s in the same plane. Be sure no thinset oozes out that will interfere with the grout that will fill the spaces between the pieces of granite. Once the tile has set for 36 hours, you can apply the grout. If you’ve never grouted before, use sanded grout and watch my four-part series on grouting ceramic tile at AsktheBuilder.com. (Use my search engine to lo-

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