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VOLUME 26, NO. 49
THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, december 7, 2017
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This Secret Recipe Fast Becoming A Well-Known Favorite by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
Frank Marino used to use his grandfather’s secret recipe to create a few Christmas gifts for family and friends. Today he is still using the recipe, but now we all get to share in the delights of this unique product. Morécello, the product created from Marino’s grandfather’s secret recipe which he brought with him when he came to the United States from
Sicily in the early 1900s, is the only offering of Black Cove Beverages, the company Frank started to bring his “What If?” to reality. “I always had the thought in the back of my head to produce Morécello commercially,” said Marino. “People told me I really should start bottling it and go into business.” Marino works fulltime as an Independent Patent Agent, a
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Lakes Region Singers Concert
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through Saturday, Dec. 23rd. Tickets are $22 for Coach Class seating and $28 for First Class seating (ages 3 and up), while ages 2 and under ride for free. Advance reservations are strongly suggested and can be made by visiting www.HoboRR.com or by calling (603) 745-2135 between 9:00am and 3:00pm Monday through Friday.
The Lakes Region Singers will offer two Christmas performances – one on Friday evening, Dec. 15, at 7:30 p.m., and another on Sunday afternoon Dec. 17, at 3:00 p.m.Both concerts will take place at the First United Methodist Church, on Route 11-A in Gilford, and the Youth Chorus as well as the Adult Chorus will perform. A suggested donation of $8 per person or $15 per family will be taken at the door to help cover expenses. There will be free homemade refreshments available for the public at each intermis-
sion. Several numbers will feature soloists on strings, flute, organ, brass, and percussion, plus a performance by the adult bell choir. For more information, call 524-0835 or 998-8545, or email her at soprano00134@gmail. com.
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CHRISTMAS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Your Guide to Holiday Gifts & Celebration!
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December Fri. 1st – Fri. 8th 31st Annual Mix Cash and Cans Mix 94.1fm’s Fred Caruso and morning co-host Amy Bates will broadcast live from over 20 locations in the Lakes Region to accept your cash and/ or cans donations! Last year raised over $39k in cash and over 30,000 non-perishable food items! All monies and food raised stays local, benefiting several area organizations. Donations can also be made by mail. Please make checks payable to Mix Cash and Cans and mail to Mix 94.1fm, PO Box 941, Franklin, NH 03235. www. mix941fm.com or contact Fred at
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Thurs. 7th – Sat. 23rd Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. Tickets range from $12-$24. Visit www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call 335-1992 for show times and tickets.
Friday 8th Heather Pierson Trio: Charlie Brown Christmas Concert Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043
Dueling Pianos: Jim Tyrrell vs Matt Langley Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. Bring your friends and join in the show as you pick the music! www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841
Fri. 8th – Sun. 10th International Nativity Display
Meredith Bay Colony Club, 21 Upper Mile Point Drive, Meredith. Friday 12pm-5pm, Saturday 9am-5pm and Sunday 12pm-3pm. Over 100 Creches from 40 nations on display, many handcrafted. Free and open to the public. Saturday 9th
LRSO Sparkling Holiday Concert Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. 7:30pm. This heartwarming concert is a memorable event every year and tickets sell out quickly! This year’s concert features vocalist Seraphim Afflick. $20/adults, $10/ children and students college-age and under with school ID. www.LRSO.org or 800-838-3006
Central NH VNA & Hospice’s Tree of Memories Celebration
The celebrations will take place at 11am in five different locations; Alton Town Hall, in the lobby of the Medical Arts Building at Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro, The Wakefield Town Hall, the Main Street Building in Ossipee and Moulton Farm in Meredith. A moving ceremony will be held at each location with music and moments remembrance, devotions, and a placing of inscribed doves on a lit tree. 1-800-244-8549
Clearlakes Chorale Handel’s Messiah
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St. Drexel Church, Hidden Springs Road, Alton. 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased for $20/adult, $10/student at Black’s Paper Store in Wolfeboro or online at www.clearlakeschorale.
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Breakfast with Santa
Union Masonic Lodge, 61 Pleasant Street, Bristol. 7am-10am. Enjoy a free holiday breakfast while children present their Christmas wishes to Santa. Every child will receive a gift from Santa, and a boy’s and a girl’s bicycle will also be given away to two lucky winners. Free and open to the public.
New England Orchestra
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Concord Public Library, Green Street, Concord. 1:30pm. Join for a delightful program of lively music, sure to get you in the holiday spirit. 225-8670
Maurice John Vaughn Blues Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043
TUBACHRISTMAS
All Saint’s Episcopal Church, 258 South Main Street, Wolfeboro. 2pm-3pm. The Wolfeboro TUBACHRISTMAS concert is a regional event that welcomes all tuba, sousaphone, helicon, baritone horn and euphonium players from community, university and high school bands as well as professional musicians, both working and retired. Monetary donations will be accepted and go directly to L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry. 569-3861
FREE Admission for NH Residents to Currier Museum of Art Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash Street, Manchester. 10am-noon. NH Residents receive free museum general admission before noon, courtesy of The Botnick Family Foundation and E&R Laundry and Dry Cleaners. Stop by to browse the galleries and enjoy creative studio. 669-6144 or www.currier.org
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Town of Wolfeboro. 1pm-4pm. Also enjoy Breakfast with Santa at the Wolfeboro Inn from 8am-11am. Local businesses will welcome you to this holiday tradition! Specials or discounts with your donation to L.I.F.E. Ministries Food Pantry. www. wolfeborochamber.com or 5692200
Tribute to Tom Petty with Tim Thieriault Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841
Sat. 9th – Sun. 17th Wolfeboro Festival of Trees Wright Museum, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro. Featuring 2 levels of more than 65 trees decorated by area organizations and individuals. Visitors will be treated to complimentary refreshments and live music. Festival help Dec. 9, 10, 13, 16 and 17. Admission is $5/adults, $2/children 8 and under or $12/family. For more info and full schedule visit www. wolfeborofestivaloftrees.com or 948-5504
Sunday 10th LRSO Sparkling Holiday Concert Inter-Lakes Community Auditorium, Meredith. 3pm. This heartwarming concert is a memorable event every year and tickets sell out quickly! This year’s concert features vocalist Seraphim Afflick. $20/adults, $10/ children and students college-age and under with school ID. www.LRSO.org or 800-838-3006
Stocking Stuffer Craft Fair On Saturday and Sunday, December 16-17, the Stocking Stuffer Craft Fair will be held at the North Conway Community Center, 78 Norcross Circle, North Conway, Rt. 16 Next to Scenic Railroad The hours for the Craft Fair are Saturday10am to 4pm & Sunday 10am to 3pm There will be American Made Arts & Crafts for Great Holiday Gifts. Free Admission & Parking For more info call Joyce at (603) 528-4014 or visit www. joycescraftshows.com
Meet Former Boston Bruins Great, Steve Leach Former Boston Bruins player, Steve Leach will be available to meet fans Friday, December 8, 6pm-8pm at the Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction being held at the Belknap Mall in the old Blockbuster location. He will be on site to meet fans and sign autographs by donation to the Children’s Auction. Leach played hockey as an undergraduate for University of New Hampshire and played for the Boston Bruins from 1991 through 1996. Throughout his career, he played for various teams in both the NHL and AHL before retiring in 2000.
New Horizons Band Traveling Holiday Concerts
Beeswax Crafts – From Lotions to Candles - Class
Art Works, 132 White Mountain Highway, Chocorua. 1pm-3:30pm. Instructor Athena Contus, from Wonalancet Honey Bee Co. will explain how to use beeswax for simple, healthful salves, lotions, polishers and candles. Bring an apron. Everyone goes home with one of the choices they make themselves! $35pp. Preregistration and payment required as space is limited. 323-8041
Northeastern Ballet Theatre Presents “The Nutcracker” Kingswood Arts Center, 21 McManus Road, Wolfeboro. 2pm. $20/adults, $17.50/children, students and seniors or $60/Family of 4. Group tickets available for purchase. Purchase on line at www.northeasternballet.org or 834-8834
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The New Horizons Band, under the co-directorship of Mary Divers and Debbi Gibson, have begun their tenth annual traveling holiday concert series, offering a variety of seasonal selections at no charge to the public. Ranging from Christmas to Hanukkah, the Grinch to the Nutcracker Ballet, from Bach to a trip on the Polar Express, and with a rousing caroling sing-along thrown in, the music has something for everyone. The concerts began with the Veterans’ Home in Tilton and the Belknap County Nursing Home in Laconia, and will continue as follows: 12/9-Sugar Hill Retirement Community in Wolfeboro at 2pm, 12/12-Woodside at the Taylor Home Retirement Community in Laconia at 7pm, 12/16-Gilford Community Church at 2pm, for which voluntary donations will help the Laconia Community Wellness Center, and 1/5-a Friends and Family Social at St Charles Catholic Church in Meredith at 6:30. All are welcome to enjoy a stress free hour of family fun with the band.
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Sexual Assault Is OK? To The Editor: The New York Times says it’s OK for US Senators to commit sexual assault as long as they’re liberals On Nov. 20, 2017, their columnist Michelle Goldberg wrote: Last Thursday, after a photograph emerged of Senator Al Franken either groping or pretending to grope a sleeping woman, Leeann Tweeden, with whom he’d been traveling on a 2006 U.S.O. tour, I wrote that he should resign. Almost as soon as it was published I started having second thoughts. I spent all weekend feeling guilty that I’d called for the sacrifice of an otherwise decent man to make a political point. Protecting women from sexual assault is a “political point?” Sen. Packwood (R) was forced to leave the Senate in 1998 for having assaulted numerous women, shortly before Bill Clinton (D) was impeached for lying about sex with Monica Lewinsky and for obstructing the investigation. Democrats let him stay in office in spite of his having assaulted about as many women as Sen. Packwood (R). When Harvey Weinstein, a huge Democratic donor, was taken down for sexual assault, I believed that Democrats had decided that sex assault wasn’t a Republican-only crime, but I was wrong. The Times wrote: It’s pos-
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sible that feminists, in trying to hold Democrats to standards that they wish were universal, risk unilateral disarmament. Kate Harding made this case in The Washington Post last Friday, arguing against Franken’s resignation. If Democrats “set this precedent in the interest of demonstrating our party’s solidarity with harassed and abused women, we’re only going to drain the swamp of people who, however flawed, still regularly vote to protect women’s rights and freedoms,” she wrote. And when the next Democratic member of Congress goes down, there might not be a Democratic governor to choose his replacement. The New York Times is saying that forcing Democrat sex abusers like Sen Franken to resign will leave only Republicans in power! It’s not a precedent, Republicans joined with Democrats to force Sen. Packwood (R) out of the Senate before the Democrats demonstrated that it was OK for Democrats to abuse women. The Washington Post says that if they force out abusers, they’ll drain the swamp of liberals. They must know more about women who’ve been abused by powerful Democrats than the rest of us do. What’s going to happen now that, after 20 years of sexual abuse encouraged by seeing Bill Clinton (D) get away with violent rape, Democrats
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have declared that sexual assault is still OK as long as Democrats support women’s rights? They’re showing once again that if it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. I’d like my mother, wife, daughters, and granddaughters to feel safe at work, even if they end up working for a Democrat! How many dirtbags are there in the House and Senate? We need to open up the secret slush fund they use to pay off abused women and throw the bums out regardless of party! Sexual assault isn’t a “political matter,” it’s a crime! Bill Taylor New Hampton, NH
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A Visit With Santa
by Brendan Smith Weirs Times Editor
He’s a very busy man and I am grateful to Santa Claus for sitting down with me for this once in a lifetime interview. The big man rarely gives anyone such an in-depth and personal look into what makes him tick. I hope you enjoy it. First Santa, I want to say thanks for sitting down with us for this interview. You are very welcome. Ho. Ho Ho and all that stuff. So, tell me where Santa Claus comes from. Were you born at the North Pole? No. A lot of people think that, but actually I was born on the Jersey Coast, my parents used to like to vacation there in the summer between Christmas seasons. They worked in the Christmas business as well? Sure. Dad was Santa before me and his father before him and so on. Wow, I thought you were the one and only Santa. I know. Most people do. It’s a big secret we’ve been keeping for generations. No one seems to notice the difference, that’s why the big beard and bushy eyebrows and the hat. It’s worked up till now. So, your son will take over after you? I don’t know, he’s the youngest. We have three older daughters and they keep bugging me that they
should be the next Santa. Even my wife, Mrs. Claus, keeps hounding me about it. And my son, he keeps talking about being a podiatrist and doesn’t show much interest in the Santa thing. So, I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’ll let them sort it out once I’m gone. Any big surprises on hand for this Christmas? Nah, Just the same old thing, Ride around, dump off presents, come home, sleep. Why fix it if it ain’t broke? What do you have to say to those people out there who claim you don’t exist? I tell them to come up here and say it to my face. Getting tired of having to prove who I am all the time. That’s what did in my old man. At the end, he was questioning his own existence, started drinking. It wasn’t pretty. How can you be at all those shopping malls at one time? Seriously? You haven’t figured that out yet? Most of those other Santas work for me. I call them elves, for lack of a better term. Actually, I’ve never appeared at a shopping mall myself. Security reasons. Wow, that’s a lot of employees. Sure, but you know, not all the shopping malls use my Santas. Some are rogue operations. I’ve had my lawyers help shut a few down, but it’s hard to keep track. Still, some of the smaller operations, like the downtown strip malls, are just a few locals trying to make a buck so we pretty much leave them alone. After all, I am Santa Claus, no sense in screwing up the PR by looking like a bad guy. So, how do you relax once the season is over?
I like to ride my Harley. I’ve been to Laconia Bike Week a few times. No one ever recognizes me. I fit right in. I like that. It’s nice to just be myself without a bunch of people coming up to me and telling me what they want all the time. I have to be careful at the wet T-shirt contests though. Be bad to have Santa outed on the Internet at one of those.
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So, what is this year’s hottest present? I have no idea. I just pick up the list and the load on Christmas Eve and head out. Whatever it is, I hope it’s light. Not getting any younger. What is the one thing you miss about Christmas once it’s over? Certainly not the cookies and milk. I get enough of those to choke a horse. I guess it’s flying over all the neighborhoods and seeing all the cool lights. That’s a pretty awesome part of the job. Okay, time for the lightning round. What’s your favorite color? Red obviously. Favorite rock group? Led Zeppelin I saw them live in ’73. Great show. I’m jealous What person living or dead throughout history would you most like to meet? Tough one. Have to say Ghandi. If you could be any animal, what would it be? Have to say a Kangaroo. The pouch thing and all. (Laughs heartily.) Well, thank you Santa. I know you are a busy man nowadays. By the way, in case no one has mentioned to you what I’d like for Christmas, I’d love a… Okay, this interview is over.
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Nancy Pelosi: Sham ‘Shero’ Finally, Nancy Pelosi’s faux feminist veneer has fully cracked. The Democratic “shero” is, and always has been, a sham. But by Michelle Malkin after Pelosi’s Syndicated Columnist incoherent babblefest on “Meet the Press” defending accused groper John Conyers and clown-cad Al Franken, the progressive left can no longer mask her partisan perv apologism. Pelosi milked her XX chromosomes for all their electoral worth. Her official biography brags about her role as “the most powerful woman in American politics” and her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Over three decades on Capitol Hill, she has scooped up Ms. Magazine’s Woman of the Year award, Glamour Magazine’s Woman of the Year designation, Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger award (named after the abortion godmother and notorious eugenics champion), and the Alice Award (named after suffragette Alice Paul). So, feminists were aghast when Pelosi hailed Conyers as an “icon” and downplayed news of his secret sexual harassment settlement with a former female staffer -- one of three former employees alleging sexual abuse. Blasting D.C. double standards, Long Island Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice fumed this week over Pelosi’s failure to call out Conyers and Franken. But this is far from the first time see-no-evil Nancy has looked the other way at Democrat dirtbags. I’ve been reporting on her creep-
enabling for years. Let me cure the left-wing political and media establishment’s amnesia: Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. Lost in the aftermath of Weiner’s mucky-yucky nude selfie and sexting scandals is the fact that Pelosi refused to condemn him until his interactions with an underage girl in Delaware were exposed by conservative bloggers and confirmed by police. Only then did champion-of-women Pelosi rush from behind to lead the demands for Weiner’s resignation. Former Democratic Rep. Eric Massa of New York. In 2010, the married Massa resigned amid a sordid sexual harassment scandal involving young, low-paid male staffers he allegedly lured to his Capitol Hill playhouse for “tickle fights.” Turned out that Pelosi’s office had been informed months before, by a staffer of former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, of Massa’s predatory and harassing behavior with multiple congressional employees. Massa’s former deputy chief of staff and legislative director also contacted leading Democrats on the House Ethics Committee. Former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer also knew of Massa’s misconduct. But Pelosi said and did nothing until allegations went public. A toothless House Ethics Committee investigation went nowhere. “I have a job to do and not to be the receiver of rumors,” she deflected icily. Former Democratic Re. David Wu of Oregon. The seventerm liberal congressman had a longstanding history of alcoholism and sexual skeeviness that broke into the public eye when his own staffers revolted against
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There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his conby Rich Lowry gressional ofContributing Writer fice an adjunct of his libido. The evidence suggests that Conyers believed that as a 27-term congressman, he was entitled to the Washington, D.C., equivalent of the Ottoman imperial harem. He routinely hit on his female staffers, and his office was a den of sexual intrigue -- allegedly featuring a jealous wife and a vindictive mistress -- that properly belongs in a Bravo reality show if the network ever extends its franchise to Capitol Hill. A political party is rarely provided an easier test case for its bona fides. Conyers is an 88-year-old man who finds it See malkin on 25 increasingly difficult to carry
out his duties. He holds an exceedingly safe seat that, should he resign, will be taken over by another reliably progressive Democrat. In this case, the political cost to the party of showing that it’s serious about “zero tolerance” for sexual harassment is almost nil. Yet House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, when asked about Conyers on “Meet the Press,” mumbled and looked at her shoes. The harshest thing she said is that “as John reviews his case -- which he knows, which I don’t -- I believe he will do the right thing.” Oh, really? Conyers did step down as the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee. Otherwise, his careful review of his own case has produced categorical denials that even Pelosi must find incredible. It is true that Conyers hasn’t had his day in front of the House Ethics Committee. But nei-
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As Global Migrant Crisis Continues, Hungary Pushes Back UNITED NATIONS
- The global surge of refugees and economic migrants continues unabated. Both the scourge of civil and ethnic by John J. Metzler conflicts, as Syndicated Columnist well as the pull of economic betterment, have seen millions of people on the move to both the USA and the European Union. As countries scramble for often stopgap solutions to the humanitarian crisis, Hungary’s government begs to differ with the standard “one size fits all” asylum policies. During the late Summer of 2015, Hungary became a key transit point for Syrian and Iraqi refugees heading from Turkey, through Greece and the Balkans and into Budapest, the Hungarian capital. But by entering sovereign Hungarian territory, the migrants were crossing the outer frontier of the European Union. Once inside, given the Schengen agreements, they would then profit from free movement anywhere throughout the continental EU bloc. “Hungary was a transit country for 400,000 people in 2015. Most later went to Germany,” stated Dr. Laszlo Trocsanyi, the Hungarian Justice Minister. He added: “But we must identify who enters Europe; Europe was unprepared in 2015. This is a responsibility of Europe and now there are the con-
sequences, ” the Minister added. During the course of one year, over 800,000 mostly economic migrants moved into Germany and Sweden. Though the European Union endeavors to spread the migrants throughout the 28 member states, the “Mandate of asylum seekers does not work, Hungary refuses to comply” with EU quotas stated Minister Trocsanyi adding, “Quota systems do not motivate peoples to return to their homeland.” In an exclusive interview with Minister Trocsanyi this writer asked, how do you view the EU’s demand that Hungary accept unrealistic migrant quotas? He said, “I think the decisions should be made by the sovereignty of each of the countries.” He added, “there is no international treaty on migration.” Trocsanyi was at the UN for discussions regarding migration. Hungary’s Euro-skeptic and populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated earlier, “The reason why Hungary had not agreed to taking in 1,200 migrants before was because it knew that this was a ‘Trojan Horse’ and “if we allowed someone else to determine who can live in Hungary once, we could not have taken back this right at a later point.” He added, “No country can be forced to take in new people if its citizens are opposed to it.” Control of one’s borders remains an essential element of state sovereignty. Looking back on the 2015 crisis, I asked the Minister whether
his government did the right thing in eventually sealing the southern frontier with a security fence? He surmised, “I think that the Hungarian government did well, the steps had to be taken. We are European; One of our most im-
portant duties is the protection of our Schengen borders. So when we were assaulted we built a fence on this border. I think Hungary is correct to say that anyone who wants to enter the European Union
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The Evil Rich As Republicans struggle to agree on a tax plan, Democrats and much of the media label each attempt at reform a “gift” to rich people. by John Stossel In one Syndicated Columnist sense, they are right. Any tax cut disproportionately favors rich people since the rich pay much more tax. But the media and Democrats (is there a difference?) are wrong because they routinely portray rich people as parasites who take from other people. Flying Dog Brewery owner Jim Caruso objects to that kind of thinking. He took over a bankrupt brewery and made it successful by inventing new craft beers. I won’t buy his beers — with varieties like blood orange ale — but enough people like them that Caruso has become relatively rich. He’s the kind of person Sen. Bernie Sanders rails about. “The top 1 percent,” complains Sanders, “earned 85 percent of all new income.” That sounds unfair. But Caruso doesn’t see it that way. “My goal in life is to be the best part of your day,” he told me. “You will have unequal outcomes (but) we all benefit from that.” He’s right. Caruso provided consumers new choices and created more than 100 jobs. But for my YouTube video this week, I pushed back: “The top fraction of earners has half the assets in this country. This ticks people off. They view it as evil.” “Think about it this way,” responded Caruso. “Apple was the first company to be worth $800 billion dollars. I was curious,
how much was (Apple founder) Steve Jobs worth in 2011 when he passed away? ... Ten billion dollars! I did some quick calculations...” His calculations revealed that because about 2 billion Apple devices were sold, Jobs collected about $5 for each device. Isn’t your cellphone worth much more to you than $5? Mine is. It must be, since I just paid $800 for a new one. I got a machine worth hundreds of dollars to me, but the inventor got only $5. “Steve might have been underpaid,” said Caruso. “The feeling tends to be that somebody like Steve Jobs took something away from everybody else ... (but) what did Jobs take? ... (H)e had this idea: Wouldn’t it be great to have a thousand songs in your pocket? (He created) one of the most massively important tools for productivity and communication in life!” Generally, Jobs got a pass when the media attacked rich people, maybe because reporters liked Apple’s products. But other rich Americans are routinely labeled “parasites.” Sanders suggests that if some people have billions, the rest of us must have billions less. But that’s not true, Caruso points out. “It’s that zero-sum game mentality: that somehow people who create stuff are taking it from other people. That’s simply inaccurate. It’s not a zero-sum game. They’re creating stuff that didn’t exist before.” He’s right. It’s not as if there’s one pie and when rich people take a big piece, less is left for the rest of us. Billionaires like Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, the Koch brothers, etc. got rich only by baking thousands of new pies. Entrepreneurs create things; See stossel on 29
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The 2016/17 ice fishing season began strong with 10� of ice on New Years eve. The same day only a year earlier offered nothing except open water. could be the difference between life and death. There are many variables when talking about safe ice thickness such as how quickly the ice formed and whether it snowed or thawed during formation. Quickly forming (clear ice) is the strongest, while ice that has partially thawed during formation or had snow temporarily inter-
thick and how strong the ice you want to fish on is to check it as you go with a chisel (spud bar) or auger. I have seen ice thickness change from four inches to two inches in just ten feet, so check often. Once you determine that the ice is safe you can use your spud bar like a walking stick and drive it into the ice as you walk. If the sound of the
spud bar hitting the ice changes, then so has the ice thickness, and it’s time to recheck. Spud bar isn’t the only item ice anglers should have to keep them safe. Good traction such as Kahtoola Microspikes are a must for me and my clients. Traction not only helps protect you from falling and injuring yourself, but it is essential should you need to help rescue another person. Companies such as Clam Outdoors offer safety throw ropes, floating safety picks, ice fishing suits that offer added buoyancy, and other valuable safety products specifically designed with the ice angler in mind. In today’s hi-tech world there is no need to take risks. There is a tool for every job and safety should come first. Ice safety gear isn’t always inexpensive, but it’s hopefully the least used piece of ice fishing gear you will purchase. Don’t get complacent this season when your lakes and ponds begin to freeze. Our friends and families are far more important than
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SPORTS WUNDERKIND An old adage states that “There is no substitute for experience.� While there is certainly some truth to that, remember that young people sometimes CAN succeed. After all, Alexander the Great conquered the world at age 30. And George Custer was brevetted to brigadier general at age 23, less than a week before the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. (But his great Civil War success didn’t save him from disaster as a more experienced leader in 1876 at the Little Big Horn.) Which brings us to the likes of Sean McVay. The coach of the Los Angeles Rams, McVay has his team in first place in the NFC West and is the NFL’s likely “Coach-of-the-Year.� At 31 years of age, McVay is the youngest coach in league history. Last week in this space we lauded Boston Celtic General Manager Danny Ainge for defying the conventional wisdom and committing long-term to 36year-old Brad Stevens to serve as his head coach. And consider John Madden, who became head coach of the Oakland Raiders at age 32 in 1969. He later coached his team to a
Sean McVay Super Bowl victory over the Minnesota Vikings. But if you think McVay, Stevens, or Madden were coaching phenoms, consider Dave DeBusschere. In 1964 DeBusschere (who’d earlier pitched for the Chicago White Sox) was named player-coach of the Detroit Pistons, at age 24. The Pistons finished next-to-last that year, and then finished last during DeBusschere’s next two years as coach. So sometimes experience DOES matter. But after enhancing his resume, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks where he helped lead the team to a couple NBA titles. Young Joe Cronin had a better experience with the Washington Senators in 1933, when the 26-yearold shortstop became player-manager. Washington posted a 99–53 record to win the pennant by seven games over the New York Yankees. “First in war, first in peace, and first in the American League!� Cronin batted .309 and finished second in the MVP
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Tuesday 12th Grown-Up Coloring
Concord Public Library, Green Street, Concord. 6pm. Color inside or outside the lines with the Library’s supplies and coloring pages. Relax and enjoy some creative stress relief! 225-8670
Annual Bethlehem Hanukkah Candle Lighting
Bethlehem Town Hall lawn, Bethlehem. 5pm. The story and song-filled ceremony ends with light refreshments and dreidel games. Free and open to the public.
Stand Up Newfound AntiDrug Coalition Meeting Tapply-Thompson Community Center, 30 North Main Street, Bristol. 4pm. Please join! All are welcome. All of us have
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Lakes Region Singers “Joy of Music� Concert
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Pop-Up Gallery Showing of Master Weaver Doug Masury League of NH Craftsmen, 279 DW Highway, Meredith. 11am4pm. Doug is back by popular demand with his impressive cotton scarves and shawls. Treat yourself to a luxurious experience! www.meredith. nhcrafts.org or 279-7920
Stocking Stuffer Craft Fair North Conway Community Center, 78 Norcross Circle, Rt. 16, North Conway. 10am-4pm. Perfect last minute shopping with FREE admission and live music from Tim Janis. www. joycescraftshows.com or 528-4014
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2nd Annual Solstice Lantern Festival Prescott Farm, 928 White Oaks Road, Laconia. 4pm7pm. Celebrate the upcoming Solstice with fun activities to welcome back the light! Events will include a lantern parade, bonfire, crafts, a candlelit story walk, food and drinks, and a cookie walk to raise money for Fledgling nature-based Preschool scholarship fund. $3pp, free for members. www. prescottfarm.org or 3665695
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First United Methodist Church, Route 11-A, Gilford. 3pm. The concert, directed by Karen Jordan, will feature new pieces as well as old favorites, for all ages. Suggested donation of $8pp, $15/family will be taken at the door to cover expenses. 524-0835 or 998-8545
Spinning Generosity – Spin Class for Charity! Spinnaker Point Recreation Center, 30 Spinnaker Way, Portsmouth. 9am. This 45minute spin class will benefit New Heights. LizFit owner, Liz Forkel will hold Spin Classes all week, beginning on December 11th for a different charity every day. www.lizfit.net
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Tuesday 19th Family Cookie Decorating
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the year and bring their donations to the event. Opening Ceremonies begin Thursday morning at 9am, followed by contests, games, challenges and 12 hours of live music. Activities continue throughout the night until Closing Ceremonies wrap up the event at 9am Friday. “The team captains are the backbone of this event” says Beetle. “They inspire others to participate in what we self-proclaim as the ‘world’s greatest barstool challenge’ to help kids and families here in the greater Lakes Region of NH. “Pub Mania, inspired by Laconia Athletic & Swim Club’s ‘Cycle Mania’, is by far the most fun and successful fundraiser we’ve ever hosted” continued Beetle. “The level of enthusiasm and excitement that everyone brings on behalf of this community is truly inspiring.” For more information, to watch the event live or to donate, go to www.patrickspub.com
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First stop was on the Federal level where he had to submit his recipe, business plan, quality control plan and more to the TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.) “I had to have a building before I even filled out that first application,” said Marino. “I was glad
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business that kept him more than busy, too busy to consider starting another business. “Things really started getting bad in the last eight years in the patent business. There was the economic downturn plus some decisions on the Federal Government level were making it hard,” said Marino. “I felt like I was involuntarily retired and thought it was a good time to try and take Morécello to the market as a business.” Not knowing where to begin, Marino met with a representative from New Hampshire. At first he thought that it might be something he could just produce at his home, but was told that wasn’t the way it worked. “He told me I needed a facility to get a license,” explained Marino. “He told me it would take a leap of
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cheese cake and ricotta pie. You can even put it on pancakes instead of syrup.” Morécello has only been in production for a little over a year but it has already been awarded a Bronze Medal in the 2017 Washington Spirits Cup National Competition. “It has far exceeded my expectations at this point,” said Marino who is also seeing an upswing in his patent business again having him running on all cylinders. Marino delivered his first 75 cases to Massachusetts about a month ago, but the cost of getting into Maine is a bit prohibitive for Marino at this point. Still, he’d like to expand and even go national if
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along with eleven under Songs for Christmas. Then as now “Jingle Bells” was a popular winter song for many occasions. Two songs that I rarely hear these days but sung at Christmas time in our country school were
A small Mickey Mouse record player which entertained us for many hours. or winter themes were an essential part of the Christmas program. The “Our Music In Story and Song” songbook included a combination of songs to appeal to different age groups but sung together by grades one through eight. Christmas carols exalting the birth of Jesus the Messiah were sung without any thought of conflict
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to make it all happen in one day. Make it a Group Effort There are plenty of responsibilities you can dole out to different members of the family to make decorating more fun for everyone involved. While certain tasks may not be for everybody, such as those that require getting on a ladder, kid-friendly tasks include creating googly-eyed reindeer ornaments for the tree and stringing garlands to the banister. Use New Tools New tools are available that can help simplify holiday decorating. For example, Treemote, a wireless, user-friendly Christmas-tree shaped remote, can control holiday lights up to 80 feet away -- so you can skip crawling under or behind your tree to turn lights on and off in the morning and at night. While this tool is ideal around the holidays, it can also be used year-round on hard-to-reach lights and appliances, making it a great stocking stuffer for your decorator-inresidence. To learn more, visit Treemote.com. Make it Fun Make decorating fun by creating a festive atmosphere. Create a playlist of all your favorite holiday tracks to enjoy as you decorate. Pop a tray of cookies into the oven. When the decorating is over, reward yourself by curling up and watching a favorite holiday movie. There’s no reason why decorating needs to feel like a chore. Simple strategies can make decking the halls not only easy, but fun.
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are folly; As for me, my little brain isn’t very bright; Choose for me, old Santa Claus, What you think is right.” Back in the days of my elementary school days and those before me we had no T.V. so there were no Charlie Brown or Rudolph or Frosty specials to watch on a screen. There might have been a radio presentation of “A Christmas Carol” or other Christmas story, but we relied upon the books and other publications for Christmas stories malkin from 6
their drunk-texting, Tigger costume-wearing boss and pressured him to seek psychiatric help. House Democrat leaders, desperate to keep one of their own in office, ignored the pleas. Only after The Oregonian newspaper published allegations by a teenage girl who had complained for months to apathetic Capitol Hill offices of an “unwanted sexual encounter” with Wu did Pelosi make a show of calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation -- which went, you guessed it, nowhere. Former Democratic mayor Bob Filner of San Diego. Last month, Pelosi climbed aboard the #MeToo bandwagon in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal. “Your courage is truly inspiring to us all,” she tweeted. But when multiple women accused her old friend, former Democrat congressman and San Diego mayor Bob Filner, of harassment and assault, Pelosi indig-
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and poems. So the school Christmas program was a big deal. In keeping with the custom of the Sugar Hill school our district oneroom schoolhouse was also used for church services on Sunday afternoons where we were taught the Biblical truths of why we celebrated. In our home we had an old Edison cylinder type phonograph which provided us with music and one Christmas we received a small Mickey Mouse record player which entertained us for many hours with a
variety of music including Christmas songs. I don’t mean to suggest that the city school programs were any less important and exciting than those in the more isolated country schools. It is my opinion, however, that those programs/parties afforded children of all grade levels the opportunity to perform with satisfaction before their relatives and friends with a sense of accomplishment and joy during a season with a message of love, hope, and peace.
nantly refused to call on him to resign. One staffer claimed Filner had ordered her to “work without her panties on.” Others alleged he forcibly kissed them. Another said she had contacted Democratic higherups in California about a half-dozen women, but nobody did nuttin’. “What goes on in San Diego is up to the people of San Diego. I’m not here to make any judgments,” Pelosi sniffed. The late Democratic Sen. Teddy Kennedy. Of the licentious Democratic lion of the Senate whose public boorishness culminated in the infamous
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should first be identified.â&#x20AC;? Indeed with 400,000 persons largely from the war torn Middle East unexpectedly flooding into a small country of ten million people, security concerns became paramount. Still Hungary is a member of both NATO and the European Union. I asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How does Hungary as a unique culture within European civilization define itself in an increasingly homogenized European Union? Minister Trocsanyi responded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Hungarians are a very proud people. The reason for this is that Hungarian history has been very stormy. The mere existence of Hungary is a miracle.â&#x20AC;? The Hungarian language remains a pillar of national identity. He stressed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the fact that Hungary preserved itself was based on the merits of St. Stephen and his philosophy of creating an autonomous Hungary under the Holy Crown. Living in Central Europe, The Hungarian people have suffered a lot but we always stood up at the end.â&#x20AC;? The Minister stressed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hungary nurtures its Christian roots based on a 1,000 year history which is part of our cultural heritage.â&#x20AC;? Trocsanyi added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Think about the 150 years of Turkish occupation, and then the Hapsburgs; we did
not Germanize. When we had the Turkish occupation we maintained our religion, we did not become Muslim. And the Soviet period, freedom for us always meant survival. We always speak our hearts, and we behave like this in Europe as well. â&#x20AC;? Hungaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spirit is best remembered from the epic events of the 1956 anticommunist Revolution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since the Hungarian people have always fought for its independence, we like to tell our opinion,â&#x20AC;? he advised, â&#x20AC;&#x153; we have a charismatic Prime Minister (Orban) he is aware of his opinion and he tells it. Europe is not accustomed to this, because in Europe right now, Political Correctness rules.â&#x20AC;? Addressing the migration issue, Trocsanyi advised, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think migration has many causes. Globalization obviously. And many people risk their lives for a better life in Europe. But I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it is the primary responsibility of Europe to gather all these people from all these countries. So we should not act as a homing beacon for everyone.â&#x20AC;? He added another disquieting reality, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Human trafficking has contributed to this phenomenon. Very well organized networks and routes exist. So Hun-
gary decided to reinforce its legislation on human trafficking. This is necessary because after drug trafficking, human trafficking is the second most profitable crime for such networks.â&#x20AC;? The Minister called for a system where â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is Legal certainty and a public trust in the Law.â&#x20AC;? Resolve in striving for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Europe
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