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Brittany Searing was a volunteer at Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester until her untimely passing on August 21 of 2012 at the age of 16. Her love of working with and helping suffering animals is being recognized with the opening of a new Quarantine and Rehabilitation Center on the farm bearing her name. Here is Brittany with Picasso, a rescued Macaw.

The first issue of each month we enjoy bringing to you our “Animal Crack-ers” section, dedicated to the pets that bring us all so much happiness. This month we wanted to share with you this story of a special young woman whose life inspired great things at “Live and Let Live Farm” run by our friends in Chichester.

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this paradox of life—how it can be so enduringly powerful, yet so fragile. Life can readily, and with authority, fight through the stacked deck which conspires against it. For example, the se-verely emaciated horse taken in just a month ago, Merlot, has since put on about 150 pounds, and is thriving. She’s socializing with other horses and her spirit is reemerging.

Her Passion For animals insPires

TribuTe To Her memoryby Scott PhilbrickLive and Let Live Farm

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The Masons of Horace Chase Lodge are pleased to be holding their 12th annual Dare Pancake Breakfast, on April 12, to benefit the Boscawen Elementary School Dare Program!

The D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Edu-cation) Program is a kin-dergarten through high school effort which seeks to educate kids, about the dangers of drug use, and making good deci-sions. It provides the students with factual information about drugs, gangs and violence, as well as the consequences of becoming involved with them. The program also teaches coping skills to

help students resist the pressure to use drugs, or to become involved in harmful activities.

Presentations are made in their school, in an ef-fort to foster a strong re-lationship with commu-nity-based police officer.

Horace Chase Lodge #72 F. & A. M., is located in Penacook.

For more information on the Lodge or mem-bership, p lease v is i t www.horacechase.org

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Theatrical Adaptation of Bauer Poems At Belknap Mill

A program premiering at the Belknap Mill in Laconia on Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5, based on “The Women at the Well” by Grace Bauer, turns poetry into the-atre. Sharon Rae Paquette has adapted Bauer’s poems for the stage and she will be directing the production that provides alternative versions of familiar Biblical stories.

“Wry humor is only one element of Bauer’s illuminating re-vision as she inhabits her women in their longing, sassi-ness, rebellion, compassion, wavering, and triumph,” writes Carole Simmons Oles, author of Night Watches: Inventions of the Life of Maria Mitchell.

Bauer’s poems are based on the stories the nuns taught her when she was a schoolgirl. She reinterprets the tales of those women as they go about their daily routines.

Paquette, an adjunct faculty member at Plymouth State University, has pulled together a company of actresses to stage the 90-minute production which will feature original music by Mary Edwards. The sets and props are designed by Liz Buckley.

The play will be performed over three nights with shows beginning at 7pm. Seating is limited, so patrons are encour-aged to order their tickets early by calling 603-524-8813. Proceeds will support the programs of the Belknap Mill Society.

Clint Black In PlymouthAt 7:30pm on Thursday,

April 3rd The Flying Monkey Performance Center in Plym-outh will present an intimate evening with Clint Black.

Clint is known as one of Country’s brightest stars, as well as one of its most dynamic live performers. Rising NH star Jandee-Lee Porter will open the show. Prolific singer-songwriter

Clint Black has long been heralded as one of Country mu-sic’s brightest stars. His many talents have taken him even further, as Black has transcended genres to become one of the most successful artists in all the music industry. To date, Black has written, recorded and released more than 100 songs, a benchmark in any artist’s career. An astounding one-third of these songs eligible for major single release also achieved hit song status at Country radio, while more than 20 million of his albums have been sold worldwide.

Tickets for the Clint Black concert are on sale now for $69, and $79 for premier seating. For tickets and more informa-tion on concerts and the Flying Monkey Performance Center, visit www.flyingmonkeynh.com or call 603-536-2551.

Dance Northeast at Rochester Opera House

Celebrate Dance! Delight in the joy and artistry of dance when Sole City Dance and the Rochester Opera House join together to showcase over seventy-five talented dancers from dance companies and dance education centers from around the region. The stage is ablaze with dazzling lights and diz-zying feet, capturing the diverse choreography of the finest dancers from Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Colorful costumes and innovative routines wow audiences of all ages. This spectacular dance celebration presents an afternoon performance on Saturday, April 5 at 2:00 PM that showcases junior companies and up-and-coming student choreographers. Senior and professional companies along with special guests perform on Saturday, April 5 at 7pm.

Tickets are $8/$10 and $14 and can be purchased online at RochesterOperaHouse.com or call/stop by the box office at (603) 335-1992 on M/W/F from 10-5 or two hours before the show.

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“Bee’s Eye View” – Art ExhibitThe Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts, 60 Wakefield Street, Rochester. M-F 9am-6pm, Sat. 9-6 and Sun. 10-5. 332-2227

Thursday 3rd Lakes Region Camera Club MeetingTrinity Episcopal Church, Meredith. 7pm. Creative slideshows by Ida Gould. Persons of any experience level are welcome. 340-2359

Clint BlackThe Flying Monkey, 39 Main Street, Plymouth. 536-2551

AARP Mature Driver Safety ProgramMeredith Community Center, Meredith. 9am-4pm. This class points out how to adjust your driving to age-related changes in vision, hearing and reaction time. Class has a 1 hour lunch break. $15/AARP Members, $20/others. 677-7187 or 279-5631 to register.

Getting Ready for the Green – Golf Related Strengthening WorkshopHillside Medical Center, Lot C, Gilford. 6-7pm. Introductory course on the importance of dynamic stretching and strengthening exercises designed specifically for the golfer. Free. 527-2852

The Zeke Martin Jazz QuartetPitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12pp. BYOB. 527-0043

Cooking Matters For Adults – 6 Week Series Whole Village Family Resource Center, 258 Highland Street, Plymouth. The lesson series features a local guest chef. Each week a grocery bag of food items will be provided so participants can prepare one of the recipes at home. Attendance at the full series is necessary. Free child care is provided. 536-3720 to register.

Free Sit n’ SewThe Quilted Frog, 51 Endicott Street, Weirs Beach. 2-5pm. 366-5600

Portsmouth Poet Laureate John PerraultGilford Public Library, Gilford. 6:30-7:30pm. With guitar in hand, John will sing and tell the romantic story of song and poetry, and how the relationship has evolved and changed over the years.

Friday 4Th The Logger – One-man Comedy Show Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall, 75 Court Street, Haverhill. $20pp. 989-5500

Brooks Young BandRochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 332-2211

“Death and Taxes”The Village Players, 50 Glendale Road, Wolfeboro. 8pm. This ensemble cast is chock-full of small town, colorful characters and hilarious dialogue. And, as an added bonus, there will be an element of audience participation. $12 at the door. 569-5696

“Something About Spring” – Art OpeningArtstream Studios, 10 Second Street, Dover. 5:30-7:30pm. Work in paints, prints and ceramics by Susan Schwake. 516-8500

Tacking OspreysMassabesic Audubon Center, 26 Audubon Way, Auburn. 7-8:30pm. Learn about Project Osprey Track with Iain MacLeod, a multi-year project using GPS trackers to follow Ospreys from their nests in NH to their wintering grounds in South America. $5

Delfeayo Marsalis – Jazz TrombonistSant Bani School, 19 Ashram Road, Sanbornton. 7pm. Marsalis will lead a quintet. $15pp, free to students 18 and under. 934-4240

Fri. 4Th – sun. 6Th “VynnArt in Bloom” – Art Exhibit and SaleVynnArt Gallery and Art Supplies, 30 Main Street, Meredith. Artist Reception Friday from 4-7pm, Art Show runs Friday and Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 10-4pm. Over 60 Floral paintings in all mediums, pastels, drawings and photography will be featured. Prints and artist’s greeting cards will also be for sale. Throughout the show you will have the opportunity to watch the artists paint their next creation. 279-0557

Made in NH ExpoThe Radisson Hotel/Center of NH, downtown Manchester. Fri. 1-8pm. Sat. 10-8 and Sun. 10-4pm. $9/adults, $3/children 12 and under. 626-6354

saTurday 5Th Spring Craft FairSomersworth High School, Somersworth. 9am-3pm. Featuring 100 of the best crafters in New England. 692-5869

Flea MarketMasonic Hall, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 8am-2pm. 524-0733

Genealogy Spring Meeting Holiday Inn, 172 N. Main Street, Concord. 10am. The NH Society of Genealogists and the Strafford County Genealogical Society Spring Meeting. $15/members, $20/non-members. Buffet lunch will be served. Pre-registration is required. 603-664-9080

Heifetz Institute Graduates PerformKingswood Arts Center, Wolfeboro. 7:30pm. $20pp at the door. www.wfriendofmusic.org

Ask a NutritionistConcord Food Co-op, 24 South Main Street, Concord. 12-2pm. Local dietician/nutritionist Traci Komorek will be on hand to answer your quick health and nutrition questions. Free. First come, first served. 410-3099

Dance NortheastRochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 2pm and 7pm. 335-1992 or www.rochesteroperahouse.com

Holy Trinity Spring AuctionSt. Andre Bessette Parish Hall, 31 Gilford Ave. Laconia. 5pm. $10 donation gets you an auction paddle and a delicious dinner. Ticket fees will be waived for those groups of 10 or more wishing to reserve a table in advance. 524-3156

Rosemary’s Baby BluesPitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $12pp. BYOB. 527-0043



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Full-Time PoliticiansTo The Editor:Our founding fathers

recognized the importance of having citizen politi-cians. Citizen politicians defined over 238 years ago as people who participate in the political process, and these people come from all walks of life, such as farmers, businesses, law practices, inn keep-ers, chimney sweepers and schoolteachers.

These citizen politicians participated in the peo-ple’s government result-ed in fresh new realist practical ideas from the communities they live in. These ideas coming from the community bringing reality and cultural inspi-ration based on real world experiences. These citizen politicians representing the people’s government and after their politicking is done they simply travel home to their private citi-zen lives once again.

What is deeply sadden-ing is the evolutionary process of the profession-al politician, who’s only goal in life is to stay in that elected seat full-time and forever. Resulting in stagnant ideas, with no possible sense of connec-tion to the real people that elected them. In addition, a lack of connection to any sense of reality at all, these professional politi-cians are more closely aligned to an elitist mind-set nowhere grounded to the community they are supposed to represent.

Our founding fathers never intended to make

citizens full-time politi-cians, or they would have written term-limits into the constitution for all elected officials from dog-catcher to the president, do you agree?

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Fire ShaheenTo The Editor:The votes of Senator

Jeanne Shaheen have been destructive to the health and wealth of New Hampshire citizens. The voters of New Hampshire should fire her in the No-vember election for the damage she has done to so many people here.

One wonders why she voted as Harry Reid in-structed and ignored the interests of New Hamp-shire residents. While on the Senate floor, Harry Reid said fellow citizens harmed by Obamacare were lying. Senator Sha-heen should have come to their defense. She re-mained mute.

How does Senator Sha-heen explain that 22,000 New Hampshire residents who previously had health insurance, have now lost their health insurance, after she promised you can keep your health in-surance and doctor?

What does she say to the thousands of people who were happy using Frisbie Hospital in Rochester, Portsmouth Hospital, and Concord Hospital, but no longer can due to Obama-

care? We all know Obamacare

is not going to result in lower health insurance premiums. And Senator Shaheen has no idea how much our health bills will increase next year.

Why should anyone vote for Senator Jeanne Sha-heen in November?

Dave Scott Dover, NH.

Obama & PutinTo The Editor:Who knows what Presi-

dent Obama really meant by his message to Putin, “After my election I have more flexibility”? But Pu-tin’s actions suggest what he heard.

Putin apparently heard that despite his blustering, President Obama won’t do anything to stand in the way of Putin’s efforts to re-establish the Russian / Soviet Empire. Putin believes that President Obama is a weak leader committed to weakening our country, economi-cally and militarily, to reduce our influence in the world.

After more than five years it is clear that Presi-dent Obama can’t or won’t pursue policies that pro-mote creating jobs for our unemployed or underem-ployed workers or put our nation’s finances back in order.

President Obama’s reck-less spending and enor-mous deficits (even worse than Bush’s), and his

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When I first moved to New Hampshire in 1985, the term “Flatlander” was spoken in hushed tones around me by the natives I had come to meet.

I pretended not to notice, but I knew what they were saying. But, instead of be-ing angry, I embraced this supposed slur, proudly at-tached myself to the moni-ker, started to write about it and today, so many years later, I believe I have less-ened its original mean-ing and helped those once scared to attach themselves to the designation and to now carry it proudly.

Though I’m sure in some circles it would be argued, but I like to take a lot of credit for the acceptance of Flatlanders over the years and their integration into New Hampshire society as a whole.

I am proud to say, though I don’t often agree with her, that if it wasn’t for me, people like Jeanne Shaheen, a true flatlander from Missouri, could never have risen to the place she is today; first governor and now senator.

Following closely in her footsteps is our present Governor, Maggie “Let It Ride” Hassan who is a Flat-lander from Boston.

The list of other Flat-landers who have reached success due to my efforts is long and too lengthy to mention all here.

I am proud of the work I have done.

All of these people know they have me to thank for their ascension through the

ranks. Before I moved here and made the term “Flat-lander” was a stigma; hav-ing this albatross draped around your neck made it virtually impossible to get anywhere, never mind reaching higher office.

Now, with my tireless quest in helping Flatland-ers everywhere get the re-spect we so rightly deserve, we can stand toe to toe with any native and reach heights that our Flatlander forefathers only dreamed about.

Still, as the years have rolled on by, many Flat-landers have forgotten the struggles we went through; the battles we fought on so many fronts to gain the respect we have today.

Nothing saddens me more than seeing the recent turn of events brought to the forefront by those Flatland-ers in power who are using the same shameful ideas that we have worked so hard to shake.

Senator Shaheen seems to have forgotten all the years we Flatlanders were held down, being called “that” name as a badge of shame.

Now, as she sees the pos-sibility of her opponent in the next election being a Flatlander like herself, she’s embraced another term to belittle him in the next election: “Carpetbag-ger.”

Even Governor Hassan has implied the same thing without actually uttering the words, The same with Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter, a New York Flatlander.

(Some claim that since this gentleman was born in Kittery, Maine, he is not ac-tually a Flatlander, but ac-cording to the New Hamp-shire definition of away, he still fits the description.)

At first, these new slurs of “Carpetbagger” sent a shudder through many in the Flatlander community who have given up so much in the struggle to be seen

as equals. We remembered those days, whether it was learning to rake the roof in the winter or summer days at the dump actually throwing things out, while behind our backs the na-tives had a good laugh at our expense.

“Flatlander…..” they’d mumble under their breath.

Often it hurt, other times it strengthened us and we rose above it, learning proper roof rake techniques and often shocking even the most grizzled native in our expertise in finding valu-able junk at the dump.

Now with our arrival and the term “Flatlander” being no longer harmful, let’s not become like those who first held us down.

So I am asking Senator Shaheen, Governor Hassan and other Flatlanders run-ning for higher office to sign my pledge. The pledge that they will refrain from put-ting names on those who are from away; to promise to remember their roots and a painful history that is still a clear memory.

Senator and Governor, join me and others in mak-ing the commitment and to follow the Flatlander’s 11th commandment: “Thou will not speak ill of another Flatlander.”

As I carry on my cam-paign for governor, run-ning proudly under the Flatlander Ticket, I have already signed the pledge but they haven’t.

Are they afraid of some-thing?

What are they hiding?Are these Flatlanders,

and others running for higher office, under the thumb of special interest groups funded by natives?

There are many ques-tions, but no answers.

If you are a Flatlander who is as disturbed by their actions as I am, call or write their office today and ask them to sign the pledge.

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P U E B L O WEST, Colo. -- It’s 9 a.m. on a week-day, and I’m at the Mari-s o l T h e r a -peutics pot shop. This is serious busi-ness. Secu-rity is tight. ID checks are

frequent. Merchandise is strictly regulated, labeled, wrapped and controlled. The store is clean, bright and safe. The staffers are courteous and professional. Customers of all ages are here.

There’s a middle-aged woman at the counter nearby who could be your school librarian. On the opposite end of the dispensary, a slender young soldier in a wheelchair with close-cropped hair, dressed in his fatigues, consults with a clerk. There’s a gregarious cowboy and an inquisitive pair of baby boom-ers looking at edibles. A dude in a hoodie walks in with his backpack.

And then there’s my husband and me.

The dispensary is split in two: “recreational” on one side, “medical” on the other. Medical customers must have state-is-sued cards and doctor’s approv-al. The inventory is not taxed, so prices are lower on that side. On the recreational side, where I’m peering at mysterious jars of prickly green goods, “Smoke on the Water” is thumping from stereo speakers. Yes, there’s a massive banner advertising a Tommy Chong appearance, and issues of “High Times” are on display. But the many impos-ing signs posted on the wall emphatically warn: No smoking,

no open drug consumption, and absolutely no entry allowed into the locked lab where the can-nabis plants sit under bright lights.

Before I tell you how and why my hubby and I ended up at Marisol Therapeutics, some background about my longtime support of medical marijuana: More than 15 years ago in Seat-tle, while working at The Seattle Times, I met an extraordinary man who changed my mind about the issue. Ralph Seeley was a Navy nuclear submarine officer, pilot, cellist and lawyer suffering from chordoma, a rare form of bone cancer that starts in the spine. He had undergone several surgeries, including re-moval of one lung and partial removal of the other, and was confined to a wheelchair.

Chronically nauseous from chemotherapy and radiation, weak from a suppressed appe-tite, and suffering excruciating pain, Seeley turned to marijua-na cigarettes for relief.

Contrary to cultural stereo-type, Seeley was far from “wast-ed.” While smoking the drug to reduce his pain, he finished law school -- something he couldn’t have done while on far more powerful “mainstream” narcot-ics, which left him zonked out and vomiting uncontrollably in his hospital bed after chemo. Seeley had the backing of his orthopedic doctor and Univer-sity of Washington School of Medicine oncologist Dr. Ernest Conrad. He took his plight to the Washington state supreme court, where he asserted a con-stitutionally protected liberty interest in having his doctor is-sue a medical pot prescription.

The court rejected Seeley’s

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From The State House HaPPenings aT

THe sTaTe House Here are a

few bills which recently have been debated at the State House in Con-cord...

S B 4 1 3 -FN-A relative to access to health insur-ance cover-age. This bill

expanded Medicaid in NH, relying on the promise of federal fund-ing to create a new entitlement program. There are many who believe this bill is fiscally irrespon-sible in the long term and could likely lead to a state income or broad based sales tax. The final vote was

202 Yea to Medicaid Expansion and 132 Nay. Time will tell...

HB 1508 terminating state participation in the Common Core educational standards.

While all agree we want high standards for our students in NH, the debate on Common Core is still raging in NH and beyond. 32 states currently have active state legislation being heard to termi-nate participation. 7 states have already terminated CC and only nine have adopted. The debate will continue as the Smarter Bal-ance mandated assessments will begin in 2015. The final vote was 201 to kill the bill and 138 in fa-vor of termination. The debate for Common Core is far from over!

HB 492-FN-L relative to the legalization and regulation of marijuana. The debate ran for almost two hours. Both sides of the discussion offered strong testimony but in the end HB 492 went down. 192 voted to kill this bill and 140 voted for legalization. You can count on this one com-ing back again, and again, and again...

HB 1411 FN A relative to re-

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rePubliCans and blaCKsRecently for-

mer Secretary of State Con-doleezza Rice a d d e d h e r voice to those who have long been urg ing the Republican Party to reach

out to black voters . Not only is that

long overdue, what is also long overdue is putting some time -- and, above all, some serious thought -- into how to go about doing it.

Too many Republicans seem to think that the way to “reach out” is to offer blacks and other minorities what the Democrats are offering them. Some have even suggested that the chan-nels to use are organizations like the NAACP and black “lead-ers” like Jesse Jackson -- that is, people tied irrevocably to the Democrats.

Voters who want what the Democrats offer can get it from the Democrats. Why should

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Yet there are issues where Republicans have a big advan-tage over Democrats -- if they will use that advantage. But an advantage that you don’t use might as well not exist.

The issue on which Democrats are most vulnerable, and have the least room to maneuver, is school choice. Democrats are heavily in hock to the teachers’ unions, who see public schools as places to guarantee jobs for teachers, regardless of what that means for the education of students.

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UNITED NA-TIONS—In a resounding re-buff to Russia, the UN Gen-eral Assembly has reaffirmed Ukraine’s ter-ritorial integ-rity and has called the re-cent referen-

dum which incorporated the Crimean peninsula into Russia as “invalid.” While President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty joining Crimea with Russia, the Kiev government has committed itself never to accept Crimea’s independence nor annexation.

Ukraine’s acting Foreign Min-ister Andrii Deshchytsia told assembled delegates “many still struggle to grasp the reality; it happened in Ukraine, in the very heart of Europe. It happened in the 21st century.” He added, “After two weeks of military occu-pation in integral part of Ukraine has been forcibly annexed by a state that had previously com-mitted itself to guarantee, the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of my coun-try.”

The resolution was passed by a powerful vote of 100 countries backing Ukraine including the USA, Canada, the European Union states, and many coun-tries throughout Asia and Latin America. Russia was backed by eleven countries among them Belarus, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Significantly 58 states ab-stained including Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Pakistan and South Africa. China posed the most curious abstention.

More than a score of countries in the 193 member Assembly did not participate at all including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel, Is-lamic Republic of Iran, Morocco and Serbia. Indeed many of these states face active or dor-mant territorial disputes.

Beijing who often supports Moscow has been particularly nervous during the tumultuous months of Ukraine’s political upheavals and subsequent dis-memberment by Russia. Dur-ing a number of earlier Security

un assembly rebuFFs russia on uKraineCouncil meetings and a draft resolution vote on Ukraine, the People’s Republic had abstained while Moscow predictably vetoed. Reading the political tea leaves it’s clear that China fears separatist strains and aspirations within its own territory from Tibet to Sinki-ang in the west to Taiwan in the east. Though democratic Taiwan is happily not under PRC rule despite being grandly claimed by Beijing, the risk remains that China has never renounced the use of force to bring the island back to the Motherland.

The non-binding Assembly resolution stresses that the ref-erendum held in Crimea has no validity and calls on states to “desist and refrain” from any actions aimed at the disruption of Ukraine’s national unity “in-cluding any attempts to modify Ukraine’s borders through the threat or use of force or other unlawful means.”

American UN Ambassador, Sa-mantha Power stated, “We have always said that Russia had legitimate interests in Ukraine; it has been disheartening in the extreme to see Russia carry on as if Ukrainians have no legitimate interest in Crimea when Crimea is a part of Ukraine.” She said that Ukraine is justified in “ask-ing us not to recognize the new status quo that the Russian Fed-eration has tried to create with its military.”

The Obama Administration, given its ambivalence towards Central Europe and Russia until the recent crisis, has now com-pensated with rhetorical barrag-es and threats of wider economic sanctions on Russia.

In some ways, the current showdown echoes the Georgia conflict in 2008. Georgia’s UN delegate Kaha Imnadze asserted “What happened in Ukraine reminds us of what we saw in Georgia in 2008, when Russia seized Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions. Six years after the war, 20% of my country remains under illegal Russian occupation.”

Since the Crimea crisis has begun to unfold, Vladimir Putin has pledged Moscow’s support to ethnic Russian communities throughout the former Soviet Union in places ranging from the Baltic states to Georgia and

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Moldova. The Kremlin’s later day irredentism recalls a bygone era in which seemingly “threatened” ethnic communities were cause for intervention by powerful neighbors.

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So … round-ball it is! Basketball was an im-portant part of my spring break trip as well—a trip which meant following the Virgin River from Utah through a corner of Arizona to Nevada and eventually Las Vegas. A sizeable contingent of Granite Staters had made another pilgrimage to the Silver State to try to WIN some silver by picking first-round win-ners in the annual NCAA Division I Men’s Basket-ball Tournament, aka “March Madness.”

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These stones are really just precast concrete, but they can fool the average person.

DEAR TIM: I was at a spring home show and saw a few displays that featured beautiful stone. When I asked about what type of stone it was, the man said it was colored

and textured concrete. I wasn’t prepared for that answer! Are these prod-ucts durable and DIY friendly? This stone would be a perfect material for a small low wall in a grotto area in my screened-in porch and outside in a corner of my patio. Tell the truth, do you really think a 65-year-old woman can do a job like this? --Con-nie S., Richmond, Va.

DEAR CONNIE: That ar-tificial stone you saw has been around for decades, and each year it gets more and more realistic. There are styles and brands

out there that can fool a trained geologist at a dis-tance. Upon close inspec-tion, a person intimately familiar with rock can tell the precast concrete is an imposter -- but very few of us have such training.

At the end of the day, all that’s important is that you love the look of the product and that it will stand the test of time. It sounds like you already

have satisfied the first re-quirement, and you may even be happier if you see all of the many colors and styles of this magical arti-ficial stone. As for durabil-ity, you’ve got nothing to worry about. The name-brand artificial stones are manufactured in nearly ideal conditions with top-grade materials.

I’m a truth teller. My kids will tell you it’s a flaw in my character. I often tell too much of the truth, if that’s possible. The good news is that just about anyone who has the physical strength to lift the small stones, mix up

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than half the cost of new and a lot less mess and disruption.

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should probably be made with concrete block as the backer wall.

The lumber should be dry. Use screws to fasten the small studs together and to fasten the plywood to the studs. Screws take a little more time to in-stall, but they hold so much better than nails.

The next step is to cover the plywood with regu-lar roofing felt paper and some wire mesh. You may be able to use standard chicken wire instead of the expanded wire lath. Wear work gloves working with these metal products to avoid cuts.

Once the wire mesh is securely fastened to the wood wall, you need to coat it with a thin layer of cement-based mortar. Your goal is to make this rough stucco base coat as flat as possible so there are few humps or dips. The rougher this surface is the better. You don’t want to rub it so it’s smooth like glass. A rougher surface will help the stones bond better.

You’ve now done the hardest part of the job in my opinion. If you can create this rough stucco surface, you’re 80 percent of the way to successful completion!

Typically, instructions will say it’s best to wait 24 hours before you try to apply the stones to this rough mortar surface. Be-fore you do this, take the stones and lay them out on the floor with the cor-rect spacing between them as you might want to view them on the wall. Now is the time to see if you have to trim any stones. It’s best to do as much of this fitting as possible before you mix up the mortar that will hold the stones to the cement stucco on the wall.

The task of putting the stones on the wall is sim-ple. You apply fresh mor-tar to the back of the stones like you might but-

ter a biscuit. If you want the stones to bond per-manently, make sure the back of the stone is free of all dust and wipe it with a damp sponge to make the surface just slightly wet. To really improve the bond between the stones and stucco, I’d apply a thin coat of cement paint to the back of the stone and the area of the stucco where you intend to put the stone.

Cement paint is just a mixture of pure Portland cement and water. Mix it to the consistency of regular paint. Brush on a thin layer on the back of the damp stone then im-mediately apply some of the mortar to the stone. Paint some cement on the stucco and press the stone onto the wall. It should stick quite well!

You may have to tool the mortar between stones to get the look you want. Before attempting to build the walls, visit the show-rooms where this artificial stone is sold and study the sample panels you see. Take photos if neces-sary to remind you of the look you like.

Understand that the mortar in between the stones looks quite differ-ent up close than it does when you stand back 10 feet. Small flaws in the mortar joints may not be visible when you stand back. Don’t forget you may have plants or some-thing else in front of the stone walls, so they don’t have to be perfect. Have a blast building your new stone walls!

Need an answer? All of Tim’s past columns are archived for FREE at his www.AsktheBuilder.com website. You can also watch hundreds of vid-eos, download Quick Start Guides and more, all for FREE.(c)2014 TIM CART-ER DISTRIBUTED BY TRI-BUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

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Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord. 225-1111 or www.ccanh.com


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Good Gardening WorkshopMoulton Farm, Quarry Road, Meredith. Farm owner, John Moulton will answer questions and make recommendations about varieties of seeds and plants that perform well in different conditions found in the Lakes Region. Free. 279-3915

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mail Boat from 4 economic weakness is a major National Security Problem.

President Obama claims success in Iraq and Af-ghanistan by withdrawing our forces, but both are more unstable than under President Bush and are likely to become bases for terrorists.

Our military might is declining, lost equipment isn’t replaced, key new programs are being can-celled or delayed, and the President announced plans to reduce the size of our military.

Weakness encourag-es aggression. Without American power stabiliz-ing the world, less be-nevolent nations are en-couraged. Is it a coinci-dence that Russia moved into the Crimea shortly after President Obama announced significant military cuts? The world’s weak response just en-courages Putin and other aggressors.

American Progressives have long praised the So-viet Union and Commu-nism anywhere it exists (no matter how many peo-

ple it murders or keeps in terror and poverty). So, it wouldn’t be too surpris-ing if President Obama intended to tell Putin that he would not interfere with Putin’s aggression.

Putin, and other nations know, that the US is weak economically and militar-ily, and has a weak leader. Putin’s aggression in the Crimea is probably just the beginning. China, North Korea, Iran, etc. are also making aggressive threats and claims.

The immediate threat is to the freedom and safety of others. But, treaties commit us to defending many countries against aggression.

President Obama’s per-sonal weaknesses and the economic and military weakness he is creating for our country could drag us into war. I doubt that is President Obama’s in-tent, but it is the likely re-sult of his weakness, bad policies, and naivety.

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HB 1501 -FN requiring licensing of outpatient abortion facilities. Al-though 38 states currently have licensing laws on the books, the NH House killed this bill to have no licens-ing of abortion clinics in NH by the vote of 211 to 86. Ideology over safety?

HB 1570-FN establish-ing a paint stewardship program. Basically, this bill enlarges the bureau-cracy within the Dept of Environmental Services

in overseeing the disposal of paint. This bill had so many problems including raising taxes/fees (which many believe will not even pay for the program), hurt-ing small NH businesses, free market issues, and most importantly HB 1570 never had a public hearing even though it raises taxes! Because this was against proper rules and process, many Republicans filed a protest of this vote. How-ever, HB 1570 passed the House on a vote of 161 - 142. Can you say unin-tended consequences?

HB 1213-FN prohibiting

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Sowell from 7dent Barack Obama.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent cutback on funding for charter schools, and creating other obstacles for them, showed a calloused dis-regard for black young-sters, for whom a decent education is their one shot at a better life.

But did you hear any Republican say anything about it?

Minimum wage laws are another government-created disaster for mi-nority young people.

Many people today would be surprised to learn that there were once years when the unemployment rate for black 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds was under 10 percent. But their un-

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to explain why the min-imum wage laws that Democrats support are counterproductive for blacks. Worse yet, dur-ing the 2012 election campaign Mitt Romney advocated indexing the minimum wage for infla-tion, which would not only guarantee its bad effects, but would put an end to discussing those bad effects.

Are issues like these going to switch the black vote as a whole over into the Republican column at the next election? Of course not. Nor will em-bracing the Democrats’ racial agenda.

But, if Republicans can reduce the 90 percent of the black vote that goes to Democrats to 80 per-cent, that can be enough to swing a couple of close Congressional elections -- as a start.

Even to achieve that, however, will require tar-geting those particular segments of the black population that are not irrevocably committed to the Democrats. Parents who want their children to get a decent education are one obvious example.

But if Republicans aim a one-size-fits-all message at all blacks they will fail to connect with the par-ticular people they have some chance of reach-ing.

First of all, Republi-cans will need to know what they are talking about. There are books like “Race and Econom-ics” by Walter Williams, which show that many well-meaning govern-ment programs have been counterproductive for minorities. And there are people like Shelby Steele and the Thernstroms with valuable insights.

But first Republicans have got to want to learn, and to be willing to do some thinking, in or-der to get their message across.

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employment rates have not been under 20 per-cent in more than half a century. In some years, their unemployment rate has been over 40 per-cent.

Why such great differ-ences between earlier and later times? In the late 1940s, inflation had rendered meaningless the minimum wage set in 1938. Without that en-cumbrance, black teen-agers found it a lot easier to get jobs than after the series of minimum wage escalations that began in the 1950s.

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malkin from 6case for physician-pre-scribed marijuana, argu-ing that the government’s interest in preserving an “interlocking trellis” of costly and ineffective War on Drug laws trumped his right to individual autonomy and physi-cian treatment. After a decade-long battle with cancer, Seeley died in 1998. But his spirit per-severed. Seeley bravely paved the way for medi-cal marijuana laws in nearly two dozen states, including Washington’s Initiative 692, approved by voters 10 months after he died, and Colorado’s Amendment 20, passed by popular referendum in 2000.

Support for these bal-lot measures and similar efforts (like the newly enacted Charlee’s Law in Utah legalizing medical cannabis oil) transcends political lines. Why? Be-cause cancer, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and other chronic and ter-minal diseases have no partisan affiliations.

This brings us back to Pueblo. For the past three months, my mother-in-law, Carole, whom I love

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A month ago, with en-couragement from all of her doctors here in Colorado, she applied for a state-issued medical marijuana card. It still hasn’t come through. As a clerk at Marisol Thera-peutics told us, there’s a huge backlog. But thanks to Amendment 64, the marijuana drug legal-ization act approved by voters in 2012, we were able to legally and safely circumvent the bureau-cratic holdup. “A lot of people are in your same situation,” the pot shop staffer told us. “We see it all the time, and we’re glad we can help.”

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Do I worry about the negative costs, abus-es and cultural conse-quences of unbridled recreational pot use? Of course I do. But when you get past all the “Rocky Mountain High” jokes and look past all the cable-news caricatures, the legalized marijuana entrepreneurs here in my adopted home state are just like any other entre-preneurs: securing capi-tal, paying taxes, com-plying with a thicket of regulations, taking risks and providing goods and services that ordinary people want and need. Including our grateful family.

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Loudon’s career is highlighted by 22 album releases, a 2010 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for “High Wide & Hand-some: The Charlie Poole Project,” and two previous Grammy nomi-nations for “I’m Alright”, 1985 and “More Love Songs”, 1986. His most recent recording, “Older Than My Old Man Now” was

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Earl Scruggs, Kate & Anna Mc-Garrigle, Rufus Wainwright, and Mose Allison, among others. He has collaborated with songwriter/producer Joe Henry on the mu-sic for Judd Apatow’s hit movie “Knocked Up,” written music for the British theatrical adaptation of the Carl Hiaasen novel “Lucky You,” composed topical songs for NPR’s “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered” and ABC’s “Nightline,” and recorded several songs for the soundtrack of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire.” As an actor, Wainwright has appeared in films directed by Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and Judd Apatow.

Stephen Holden of the New York Times says, “…Mr. Wainwright wrings more human truth out of his contradiction than any other songwriter of his generation.”

Tickets for the Loudon Wain-wright III concert are on sale now for $29, and $35 for premier seat-ing. For tickets and more informa-tion on concerts and the Flying Monkey Performance Center, visit www.flyingmonkeynh.com or call 603-536-2551.

named one of NPR’s Top 10 Al-bums of 2012. Wainwright is per-haps best known for the novelty song “Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)” (which he claims to have written in 15 minutes)

and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the “singing surgeon”) on the American television show, M*A*S*H.

His songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash,

Accalimed singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright II will be at the Flying Monkey in Plymouth on Friday, April 11th at 7:30pm.

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