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Weekend program featuresmaple cooking demos with localchefs, interactive museum, relayrace

The New Hampshire Maple Ex-perience returns to The RocksEstate this spring, showcasingthe sweet tradition of maple sug-aring with hands-on learning andtasty treats.

The Rocks, which is the Societyfor the Protection of New Hamp-shire Forests North CountryConservation & Education Cen-ter, collaborates each year withother local businesses to cele-

brate maple sugaring season.The Maple Experience includesan interactive step-by-stepdemonstration of crafting maplesyrup, complete with a visit to

the onsite sugar house.Parents looking for kid-friendlyevents often bring their childrento the Maple Experience, and in-evitably the whole family endsup learning a lot about maplesugaring and everyone has agreat time, said Nigel Manley,longtime Rocks Estate manager.We keep the Maple Experiencefresh by adding new featureseach season.

The New Hampshire Maple Ex-perience is scheduled for March16, 23-24, 30- 31, and April 6,with tours throughout the day.Reservations are highly recom-mended, but walk-ins are wel-come on a space available basis.

A horse-drawn wagon ridethrough the historic 1,400-acre

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Enjoy a day of family fun withhands-on activities related to theshooting sports, hunting andtrapping at an Open House atOwl Brook Hunter EducationCenter in Holderness on Satur-day, June 1, 2013, from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. Admission is free. Thecenter is located at 387 PerchPond Road in Holderness, N.H.

Open House visitors will have achance to try archery, a video-

based interactive shooting simu-lator. Test your marksmanshipon the center's environmentallyfriendly rifle and shotgun ranges.

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Visitors to the Owl Brook Open Housecan try shotguns and muzzleloaders.

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estate and a syrup tasting com-plete with the requisite sourpickle to offset the sweet syrup make the Maple Tour a delight ofthe senses.

During the Maple Experience,visitors will learn how to identify

sugar maple trees, discover thehistory of maple sugaring, andsee part of the process demon-strated by fourth-generationsugar maker Brad Presby.

The Maple Experience includesa visit to the interactive maplemuseum and education center,which features maple sugaringartifacts from the extensive col-lection of legendary Sugar Hillsugar maker Charlie Stewart.The museum and sugar houseare in one of the many historicRocks Estate buildings restoredfor modern use.

Returning this season is theTaste of New HampshireMaple, featuring local chefs

giving cooking demonstrationsat The Rocks at noon each day ofthe Maple Experience. Each chefwill prepare a recipe that incor-

porates maple syrup. Onlookerswill be invited to sample the fin-ished product, and each recipewill be printed and available forvisitors to take home.

New to the New HampshireMaple Experience this year is arelay race to demonstrate howmuch sap (40 gallons) it takes tocreate one gallon of pure maplesyrup. Groups will be timed in agood-natured competition to seehow long it takes to fill a 10-gal-lon container, the amount re-

quired to make one quart ofsyrup.

The Rocks staff will be sellingpancake mixes from famousPollys Pancake Parlor in SugarHill. Maple Experience visitorswill receive coupons to Pollys,which will open early this year,on March 16. Pollys will be

open weekends through May 12,when it begins daily operationthrough the fall.

Kingdom Kettle Korn will bepopping and selling its deliciousmaple kettle corn at The Rocksduring Maple Experience tours.Local business Lahouts CountryClothing & Ski Shop helps spon-sor the Maple Experience.

For those looking to turn theMaple Experience into a week-end-long North Country stay,The Rocks is again partneringwith local inns to offer weekendvacation packages. Visitwww.therocks.org/vacations.phpto find participating lodging es-tablishments.

For more information, pleasevisit www.therocks.org. Forreservations and other inquiriese-mail [email protected] or call603-444-6228.

The Rocks is the North CountryConservation and EducationCenter of the Society for the Pro-tection of New HampshireForests (www.forestsociety.org).The Forest Society is non-profitmembership organizationfounded in 1901 to protect thestates most important land-scapes and promote wise use ofits natural resources.

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There will also be a BB gunrange for kids. Bring your ownequipment to try out the center's3-D woodland archery course.During the day, a tree stand

safety seminar will be offered,and the New Hampshire Trap-

pers Association will demon-strate trapping techniques.

To top off the fun, enjoy a freeraffle and ice cream donated byGranite State Dairy Promotion.

Owl Brook Hunter EducationCenter is located on 500 forestedacres in Holderness. Facilitiesinclude an office/classroom

building, a four-target practicearchery area, a 25-yard coveredfiring range for small-bore and

muzzleloader training, a shotguntraining area, a hunter skills trail,an orienteering course and a 14-target wooded field archerycourse. While you're checkingout the trails, stop by the recre-ated old-time trapper's cabin. Besure to stroll through the class-room building, which featureshistorical exhibits exploring the

principles of hunter education.

Workshops, group programs andspecial events at Owl Brook help

people start the lifelong journey

of becoming safe and responsi-ble hunters and trappers. Thecenter offers classes and groupactivities for youth and adults re-lated to the shooting sports,hunter education and orienteer-ing. Activities and facilities atOwl Brook are made possible bythe federal Wildlife RestorationProgram and private donations.Learn more athttp://www.huntnh.com/Hunt-ing/hunter_ed_center.htm.

Directions to Owl Brook: Take I-93 to Exit 24 (Ashland). Turn

right onto Route 3/Route 25. InAshland, bear left at the Y, con-tinuing south on 3/25. Turn leftonto Route 175 and go 1.7 miles.Turn right onto Hardhack Road.Go about 75 yards and take aright onto Perch Pond Road. Go1.8 miles; the entrance to thecenter is on the left


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Bermans Bitsby Dave Berman

Northcountry News Picture Of The Week

What you looking at? Weasels, by their very nature, keep them-selves scarce. Most of them are either most active after dark, or,as in the case of the otter, are active at first light of morning.While the term "ermine" is often used to describe either the

short-tailed or the long-tailed weasel in their winter-white furphase, it is the short-tailed that is actually called an ermine year-round. - This photo came from one of our readers and taken in

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Incessantly scouring the uni-verse for the weird, the wacky,and the stupid so you dont haveto.

Greetings, and thanks for join-ing me for another week. First,only three days after being toldtheir hamburgers may in fact bedonkey or water buffalo, SouthAfrican meat lovers learned that

biltong, the fabled dried-meatsnack, may not be as wild asmany packets suggest. Acting ona hunch - and four years beforeEuropes horse meat scandal

broke - researchers at the Uni-versity of the Western Capetested 146 biltong samplesacross South Africa. All packetslabeled beef were found to becorrect but 90 percent of biltongsticks supposedly made of kudu

- a large, curly-horned antelope -were actually horse, pork, beef,giraffe or even kangaroo. Itstarted with curiosity and suspi-cion because one piece of driedmeat looks like another, re-searcher Maria Eugenia DAm-ato from the universitys DNAForensics Lab told Reuters.Zebra biltong was found to con-tain meat from the mountainzebra, a species threatened withextinction. Biltong, air-driedstrips of meat made from wildgame or animals reared on thecountrys 10,000-plus wildlifefarms, is staple fare for SouthAfricans, who regard it as ahealthy, low-fat snack. Researchreleased this week found thatdonkey, water buffalo and otherunconventional ingredients had

been found in almost two-thirds

of hamburgers and sausagestested in Africas largest econ-omy. So, how long before some-thing similar is found here???

Next, police say an unhappyhome health aide fired by a Con-necticut family got even by leav-ing feces in their elderlyrelatives oven and refrigerator.Forty-year-old Fiona Clarke ofFairfield is facing criminal mis-chief and breach of peacecharges. Police say she deniesleaving feces at the Norwalkwomans home. Authorities sayClarke took care of the woman

but was laid off by the familylast month after declining towork extra hours. Police say oneof the womans relatives turnedon the stove and noticed a foulsmell, then opened the stove andfound feces wrapped in a papertowel. Feces also was found inthe refrigerator. [www.azcen-tral.com]

Finally, fast food is more harm-ful than you may think! A fewexamples: (1) Diane Durre waskilled when an enormous TacoBell sign fell over onto a truck inwhich she and her husband weresitting. The 75-foot-tall sign wastorn apart at a welded joint aboutfifteen feet above the ground byan especially strong gust ofwind, and the entire structurethen crashed down on the truck.(2) When a Pennsylvania mandied at eighty-eight this yearafter eating Burger King his en-tire life, he requested that his fu-neral be presided over by aspecial guest: Burger King. Thecompany made forty WhopperJuniors for the procession, in-cluding one that was actuallylowered into the grave with hiscoffin. The local Burger Kingsmanager commented that Itsnice to know he was a loyal cus-tomer up until the endthe veryend. (3) An eighty-year-oldwoman in Georgia was founddead in a McDonalds bathroom,

after suffocating on carbon diox-ide. The cause? A leaky carbon-

ation hose leading to one of thesoda machines. The leak causeda week-long build-up of thegaswhich ended up beingfatal. (fromListverse)

Just in case you wondered,singer Seals full name is SealHenry Olusegun Olumide Ade-ola Samuel (and in case youwondered further, the scars onhis face are the result of discoidlupus erythematosus, a type ofLupus that affects the skin).

Some great words of advice

from the old farmer: (1) Keepskunks and bankers at a distance.

(2) Words that soak into yourears are whispered... not yelled.(3) Meanness dont jes happenovernight. (4) When you wallowwith pigs, expect to get dirty. (5)Live a good, honorable life...Then when you get older andthink back, youll enjoy it a sec-ond time.

Finally,just walkin the dog....An Oregon man hit in the headwith a bolt-cutting tool by astranger who yelled anti-gaycomments says the attacker ap-

peared to be enraged by the sightof the victims pink poodle.David Beltier told The Oregon-ian he was walking with his

boyfriend and their poodle whena stranger drove by, yellingthats not right for that dog to bethat color. When the manflipped a U-turn and braked to astop, Beltier dialed 911. Court

papers allege the man hit Beltieronce in the shoulder, thengrabbed the heavy tool and hithim behind his left ear. A witnesswrote down a license plate num-

ber. Hillsboro police later ar-rested 22-year-old George AllenMason Jr. for investigation ofsecond-degree intimidation, sec-ond-degree assault, unlawful useof a weapon and reckless driv-ing. Intimidation is Oregons

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Atticus on Peaked Mountain as a storm rolls in.

Saturday started out pleasantlywarm for the beginning ofMarch, that is with a resplen-dent blue sky standing watchover all the mountains. Butsince it was Saturday we decidedto wait out the crowded hours onthe trails and didnt start out untilmid-afternoon. By that timenearly everyone was off themountain and on our way intothe woods we only ran into ahandful of stragglers.

And those blue skies from earlierin the day started to fade to be-come a flat overcast of gray. Notto matter, though, for it was wellworth trading the blue for the

solitude of the late hour. Theoriginal plan was to head upBlack Cap from the valley, an8.8 mile round trip but by thetime we were just under twomiles into the hike the storm pre-dicted to come in that eveningwas already making those skiesall the more foreboding. A chill

wind picked up and flecks ofsnow were driven at us by thewind.

I made the decision to return theway we came and take a detour.Instead of heading up Black Cap,we headed for the Peaked Moun-tain Middle Mountain loop, afavorite of ours. Usually, how-ever, when we do this hike, itsunder pleasant conditions andwe linger on either of the sum-mits and have even been knownto take a languid nap on the qui-eter of the peaks. But with astorm rolling across the sky there

would be no napping. Instead,this simplest of hikes had a dif-ferent feel to it than it ever did

before. There was an urgency,an electricity derived from thedropping temps, the sidewayssnow, the way the clouds rolledacross the valley and swallowedwhole the higher peaks, leavingus looking through the trees intoa ghostly abyss.

Now let me tell you, being on amountain during a storm can feellike a lonely place. Its isolatingand it can play tricks on yourmind. We were only two milesfrom our car but it may as wellhave been ten. Thats how dif-ferent the atmosphere was. Andyet we pushed on, continuing to

climb to the top of PeakedMountain. It was not a full-fledge storm yet and down in thevalley the predictions were foronly one to three inches, but thishad the feeling of a mountaintopstorm. Wind. Snow. Cold.

The winter before we first startedhiking Atticus and I were inStowe, Vermont and on the way

back to our home in Newbury-port, we cut down Route 93 andmade a stop in Franconia Notchduring a snowstorm. It was wildand wicked and frightening andI knew then I would never wantto be in the mountains in winter.But that was before the moun-tains had cast their spell on us. Itwas before we couldnt get

enough of them. Now, thesenine years later, we think nothingof hiking in the winter. But

were smart about it. We dontgo out in storms and we watchthe forecast closely.

But on Peaked Mountain thatday that same longing for com-

pany and hope descended uponus with the first line of the stormand it reminded me of that day

long ago in Franconia Notch.But here we were, fully gearedup, ready for the worst, and withall of our experience what I feltinside was not fear, but a bub-

bling excitement. Being aloneon a mountain is always a thrill.Being alone on a mountain witha storm approaching ramps upthe adrenaline all the more. Itsexciting, but its also comfortingfor we know we wont get stuckand we understand well behome safe and sound before thereal storm hits.

But on a mountain, far awayfrom anyone else, and watchingthose ominous clouds roll in likean army, theres something spe-cial about it. Its a make pretend

fear and it caused me to smile.We didnt stay long on the sum-

mit of Peaked for there was littleto look at and the wind and snowwas coming at us. So we de-scended a bit, took the side trailover to Middle Mountain and bythat time the sky was evendarker, the wind sharper, thesnowflakes a bit bigger. Nightwas approaching.

Its not very often I get cold on amountain but a chill ran up myspine and I stopped to put on an-other layer. As I did so the windhissed and I could feel little ici-cles forming in my hair. On thesummit of Middle there was noview, just a milky cloud to lookout into, and it was gettingcolder by the minute is seemedso we didnt stick around. I gaveAtticus a few treats, we bothtook a sip of water, and westarted down the trail with nightalmost there. We were headedfor the car, headed for a warmdinner and dry clothes and home.

There is little that is more com-forting than such a day in the

mountains. Theres the joy inclimbing them, the threat of astorm, the thrill of standing at thehighest part, the rush of being

swallowed by the coming night,and the comfort of returninghome. And thats why we climbit. Its not just one thing, its allof those things put together.Climb a good mountain, have agreat experience, and you canfeed off it for days or months oryears to come.

Even days later I feel us up thereon those little peaks, watchingmountain after mountain disap-

pear in the fog as it approachedus and feeling that great warmcall of home whispering to us.


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Hello folks and welcome to thisweeks edition of Nature Tracks.

CALLING ALL TURKEYWATCHERS -- MORE SIGHT-

INGS ENCOURAGED

The New Hampshire Fish andGame Department is remindingturkey watchers to report sight-ings of winter wild turkey flocks

at the Department's online sur-vey athttp://www.wildnh.com/turkey-survey. Turkeys often gather inlarge, highly visible flocks dur-ing the winter. Report anyturkeys observed through March31, 2013. Please do not reportmultiple sightings of the sameflock.

The winter flock survey bolstersFish and Games understanding

of the abundance and distribu-tion of turkeys during NewHampshires challenging wintermonths. It helps fill in the gapsin Fish and Games existing win-ter flock data collection efforts.Knowledge of the status of win-tering turkeys is particularly im-

portant in New Hampshire,because severe winter weatherand limited natural food suppliescan present serious challengesfor wild turkeys.

"This reporting system allows

the public to contribute impor-tant information to our under-standing of winter turkey statusin an inexpensive and enjoyableway," said Ted Walski, TurkeyProject Leader at Fish andGame. "We would especiallylike to get more reports fromtowns in the North Country."

Last winter, people respondingto the survey reported 1,180flocks, totaling 20,295 turkeys.

New Hampshire has an esti-mated 45,000 wild turkeys. Their

presence here is a true wildliferestoration success story. Wildturkeys had disappeared from

New Hampshire by the mid-1800s because of unregulatedharvest and habitat loss from ex-tensive land clearing. Their re-covery in the state began withthe successful reintroduction of25 turkeys by N.H. Fish andGame in 1975.

Turkey research in New Hamp-shire is funded by the federalWildlife Restoration Program,supported by an excise tax on the

purchase of sporting firearms,fishing supplies and motorboatfuel.

N.H. Fish and Game works inpartnership with the public toconserve and manage the statesfish, wildlife and marine re-sources and their habitats. Visit

http://www.wildnh.com."If you talk to the animals, they

will talk with you and you willknow each other. If you do not talkto them you will not know them,and what you do not know, youwill fear. What one fears, one de-

stroys..."..............Chief Dan George

Thank you for joining us thisweek. Until the next time, as al-ways, please take time to enjoy thenatural world around you. Ques-tions, comments and suggestionscan be sent to PO Box 10, Warren,

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SKIING THE

SKY-WAYby sky king...

The Flow

Be like water flowing down themountain seeking the path ofleast resistance This was adviceI was given way back in myrookie year sometime in the lateeighties (Remember the eight-ies?) And at the time it was ad-vice that made no real sense tome. But now decades later (DidI just say decades? Plural?

UGH!) it makes absolute perfectsense in every aspect of skiing.The key word is flow.

Like many I have spent a greatdeal of time trying to ever im-

prove the actual turn, trying toget to that spot of the highest dy-namic balance where my outsideleg is extended to the fullest andand I am feeling the maximumamount of pressure built up inthe ski. It is a great sensation!But getting to this point requiresthat we have entered this turn

properly and on time. Often I

find with many students is thatthere is a Space between theturns that is stagnant, a zone ofno activity going on. This breakin the action is often the cause ofnot being able to get to the sweetspot at the apex of our turn. Tooften we are spending that timetrying to catch up to our skis orslow down our speed. In otherwords there is no flow.

My most used analogy to folks isthat of descending a stair case.As soon as of foot hits we are al-ready in motion to the next stair.Another great comparison is

pedaling a bicycle, the motion isconstant and flowing. These tocommon activities require us to

both extend and flex our anklesand knees in conjunction witheach other, as we pedal or stepdown one leg is flexed while theother is extended. This is the keyto establishing good flow be-tween your turns.

A simple exercise that can getyou started is to find a spot onthe hill with a pitch that you feel

comfortable on. Stand with yourskis across the slope with abouta foot or so of space in betweenyour skis. You will notice thedownhill leg is Long and theuphill leg is Short, or extendedand flexed. Now from that posi-tion look down the hill andimagine you are pedaling a bike.And make one turn making thelong leg short and the short leglong. Now try to put two or threeturns together then five, sevenand on and on u

ntil you feel a rhythm develop.You should start to feel the con-nection between the turns and aflow begin, and perhaps you willfeel your ankles start to become

active as your legs begin to flexand extend just like they wouldwhen stepping down the stairs or

pedaling that bicycle.

As with any new change in ourskiing, start off on terrain that iswell within your comfort zone,

but as you start to Feel it stepup to a little more challengingtrails and see if your comfortzone does not begin to expand.Get into the FLOW!


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Hope everyone had a great cou-ple weeks. Here we are already,two weeks have gone by!

You know, I said throughout mostof my life that Iwould never, ever

sound like my parents, but....

Well, Icant take all the creditfor this column, as a friend wasactually the one who stirred the

pot for this one, after one of theiremployees called in recently and

stated they wouldnt be in be-cause it was supposed to

snow!!!

Now, the joke has always been, -well, we used to have to walk to

school in a snowstorm, over 5miles and it was all uphill -and Ithink they even made my parentswalk backwards with flip flopson or something with the windblowing over 50 mph.

Now, mind you, Idont go as far

as stating that, because I onlyhad to walk or ride my bike to

school in about 3 miles and al-though a bit of it was uphill, Icant claim that all of it was!

But it really is quite annoyingtoday, to listen to the media hypeup a huge storm, which now-a-days is about 6, in my day amajor storm was a foot or more!See, there Igo, sounding like my

parents again, however, Iwillsay this...

...School was never canceled theday before the storm, just be-cause it might snow, and the Post

Offices certainly never shutdown, and Iwill go as far as say-ing that it was unheard of tohave a church close on a Sundayunless there was volcanic ash

falling from the sky, and eventhen... it would have been ques-

tionable.

I do not want to hear about howits all about safety and this andthat. We did it, our parents did itand we lived though it, thank youvery much.

Oh yes, we had a few snow dayshere and there, but usually therewas already enough snow on the

ground to have to make that call.But nothing else seemingly neverclosed down!

So, these days, we close schools,we close churches, we closedown the Postal Service and tell

people to stay home from work...yet, the ski slopes, the box stores

and restaurants stay open sothat everyone can travel to thatdestination instead! Makes sense

Iguess!

By the way, just a side note here- why is it that keeping our chil-dren safe is the most importantthing in the world, yet the schoolbusses we send them to schooland field trips on are pretty muchthe only vehicles in the countrythat dont have seatbelts? Damn,even planes have seatbelts, notquite sure why that is, but hey..

just saying! Food for thought!

So yes, Imay be sounding a bit

like my parents, however, the sto-ries have changed just a littleover time.

But Istill say, we have become asociety of wimps over the years,and Ihate to say it, but Ihave a

feeling it all comes down to thefact that everyone is sue-happy these days. So if some-thing happens on someone elseswatch, especially if our childrenare involved, we can just call thelawyers and itll all be better!

However, Id like to ask this!What stories are our kids goingto be able to tell their children inthe future? Something like,what?, we never had to go to

school when it snowed, we wentskiing or to Walmart instead!

Just my own opinion of course!

Nobody Asked,

Just My Opinion... ~BEF

Health Care: When Krugman isRight ...

In "Mooching Off Medicaid,"(New York Times, March 3),

Nobel economist and "liberal"columnist Paul Krugman ex-

poses the real Republican"health care" agenda. They'renot for free markets, they're for

faux "privatization."

"Why," asks Krugman, "wouldyou insist on privatizing a healthprogram that is already public,and that does a much better jobthan the private sector of con-trolling costs? The answer is

pretty obvious: the flip side ofhigher taxpayer costs is highermedical-industry profits. ... Aslong as the spending ends up lin-ing the right pockets, and the un-deserving beneficiaries of publiclargess are politically connectedcorporations, conservatives withactual power seem to like

Big Government just fine."

At issue: In the ramp-up to"ObamaCare," several Republi-

can governors announced theywould reject attendant expan-

sions of Medicaid, a govern-ment-run health plan for the

poor, in their states. Now someof them -- in particular, Gover-nor Rick Scott of Florida -- are

changing their tune, so long asthe program is administeredthrough the offices of "private"insurance companies.

Krugman has it exactly right:The point of "privatizing" Medi-caid isn't to cut costs, it's to fun-nel money from taxpayers'

pockets into the bank accounts ofpowerful, privileged, politicallyconnected companies.

Where Krugman goes off therails is in conflating the politi-cally defined American "private

sector" with free markets. Mod-ern American capitalism, espe-cially in the area of health care,is largely an exercise in half-baked socialism. The half that'sbaked is the risks, which are so-cialized. The profits, well, not somuch.

While most industries benefitfrom state privilege to one de-gree or another, health carecompanies in particular are theequivalent of mafia "made men."They're untouchable. They getanything they want from the gov-ernment, from licensing racketsand medical school quotas to de-

press the supply of doctors, tostate-granted monopolies notjust on the production of partic-ular medicines but on the defini-tions of medicine itself (can it be

grown on your window sill? --not medicine, and if we see it

you're going to jail) to protectionfrom lawsuits by customers who

don't get what they pay for (Re-publican PresidentRichard M. Nixon and Demo-cratic Senator Edward M.

Kennedy set that little gem in thering of the Health MaintenanceOrganization Act of 1973).

"Privatization" is one of thoseHumpty Dumpty words thatmeans just what the politicalclass chooses it to mean, neithermore nor less. And what theychoose it to mean -- whetherwe're talking about "privatelyoperated" prisons or "privatelyadministered" Medicaid or anyof the other schemes sold underthe label -- is that the state's pri-mary function is to corner, cap-ture and cage customers for its

corporate cronies (and, usingregulation, to crush prospectivecompetitors).

Real privatization would requiregovernment to actually get en-tirely out of the enterprises inquestion so that buyers and sell-ers approach each other on anequal, rather than politically

gamed, footing. It's been morethan a century since anything re-

sembling such a situation hasprevailed in American healthcare.

Thomas L. KnappSenior News Analyst at theCenter for a StatelessSociety (c4ss.org).

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Antique Appraisal Fair Slated At Oxbow High School___________

The Annual District 1 Snowmobile Tour was coordinated by the NH Bureau of Trails and ridersrepresented Governor Hassans Office, US Senator Kelly Ayotte, WMNF, Society for Protectionof NH Forests, NH Snowmobile Association, NH Fish & Game Department, Department of Safety

E911, NH State Parks and local snowmobile club volunteers from the Central NH SMC, Asquam-chumakee SMC, Bruhawachet SMC and Baker River Valley SMC. District 1 Executive Coun-cilor, Ray Burton was unable to ride this year, but did join the group for lunch at the Baker RiverClubhouse. According to Trails Bureau Chief Chris Gamache The Ride is an annual event tohighlight the fabulous work of local snowmobile clubs and demonstrates the valuable partner-

ships between State, Federal and local agencies as well as volunteer clubs and landowners inNH. Here, the riders stopped in Warren, on Corrider #5. For more information on the Asquam-chmaukee Snowmobile Club based in Warren, NH, you may call Terry Sylvester, Trail Adminis-trator at 603-960-1972.

Northcountry NewsDID YOU KNOW?

In just about every species of mammal, the fe-male lives longer than the male!

Whoopi Goldbergs real name isCaryn Elaine Johnson!

Nearly 50% of the worlds scientists areassigned to military projects!

Dandelion root can be roasted andground as a coffee substitute!

Bananas contain a natural chemical which canmake a person happy. This same chemical is

also found in Prozac!

Most alcoholic beverages contain all 13minerals necessary to sustain human life!

The fifteenth-annual AntiqueAppraisal Fair will be held onSunday, March 17th from 1-4

p.m. at Oxbow High School, Rt.5, Bradford, Vermont. Loosely

patterned after the popular An-tiques Roadshow, appraisers

Chuck Eaton, John Hooker,Wendy Hynes, and Uriah Wal-lace will have stations to exam-ine, evaluate and provide a rangeof value of each item, for $4.00each.

Areas of expertise include:Shaker items, collectibles, glass& china, antique jewelry, books,stamps & ephemera, EarlyAmerican furniture and acces-sories, clothing, textiles & rugs,ironware, pottery, American In-dian items, furniture and acces-sories, art and folk art.

This popular fundraiser for theOxbow Community Scholarshipfor Excellence is a great way tosee what that family hand-me-down is worth, while supportingstudents going on to post-sec-ondary education.

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1. Name the 1979 song by KCand the Sunshine Band that wascovered by KWS, Basshunterand Timmy T.

2. What were The Platters' mul-tiple lawsuits about during thepast 40 years?3. Who released "My ForbiddenLover" and "My Feet KeepDancing," and when?4. Which 1966 album included"Leaves That Are Green,""Kathy's Song," "Anji" and"April Come She Will"?5. Name the song that containedthis lyric: "Why should you sac-rifice, If you're not satisfied, He's

just a canine runnin' 'round inheat"

Answers1. "Please Don't Go." The songwas written as a love ballad andin several incarnations was atechno dance number.

2. In short: trademark rights andinfringement. Over the years,The Platters have had hundredsof personnel changes. As mem-

bers left, they would spin offtheir own "Platters" pretendergroup.3. Chic, in 1979. Their "LeFreak" was originally written asa message to the doormen who

barred them at Studio 54, a clubin New York City, except theword wasn't "freak."4. "Sounds of Silence," bySimon and Garfunkel. Thealbum title was altered slightly

but named after their song "TheSound of Silence."5. "Girlfriend," by Pebbles in1987. The song was originallywritten for Vanessa Williams.

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Dear EarthTalk: I understandthat there are many kinds of au-tomatic features that can be in-corporated into a homeevensome that can be operated re-motelythat can save energyand provide other environmental

benefits. Can you enlighten?

-- Robert Goodman, Taos, NM

Home automation may indeed bethe next big trend in what con-sumers can do today to stand upfor the environment. By settingup a wired (or even wireless)system, homeowners can opti-mize lighting level efficiency,cut heating and cooling energycosts and deactivate energy-con-suming devices and applianceseven when no one is home.

An automated home brings to-gether security, fire, lighting,temperature control, audio,video, pool, spa, drapery control,sprinklers, and anything else thatyou want so that these systems

can talk to each other and worktogether, reports Jay McLellanof Home Automation Inc., aleading manufacturer of inte-grated automation and securitysystems for residential and com-mercial use. In an automatedhome these devices work to-gether to make the home moreenergy efficient, comfortable,more convenient and safer.

One easy way to dip a toe in thewater of home automation is to

swap out regular light switchesfor occupancy sensors, whichcan tell if a room is occupied andwill turn lights on and off ac-cordingly.

Upgrading to a programmablethermostat that will regulateheating and cooling according toa set schedule is another way toreduce energy consumption andsave money. Some newer mod-els, such as Nest from Califor-nia-based Nest Labs, can

program themselves based onoccupants routines and alsooffer the option to adjust heatingand cooling settings remotely viathe Internet. A built-in occu-

pancy sensor signals to the Nestwhether and when people arearound, and the unit then adjusts

heating or cooling accordingly.The newest version, Nest 2, cantell within a half hour when oc-cupants have vacated and willset the indoor temperature tomore energy efficient level on itsown.

Shelling out $249 for Nests so-called learning thermostat mayseem a little extreme, but the fea-ture may save enough moneyand electricity to pay for itself inas little as a year. Nest Labshelps consumers track their en-ergy usage and savings withmonthly energy reports thatdetail why home heating andcooling costs have gone up ordown (based on usage and timeaway, as well as other factors,

such as weather). These reportsalso contain tips on how to opti-mize Nest as well as other tips toincrease energy savings accord-ingly. Nest thermostats can re-

place most existing thermostatsand do not require upgrading toa newer furnace or air condition-ing systemalthough newerheating and cooling systems, es-

pecially those that meet the U.S.governments EnergyStar criteriafor efficiency, do tend to savemuch more energy than olderones. Some 56 percent of the en-ergy used in a typical Americanhome goes to heating and cool-ing, so automation can make a

big difference for the environ-ment and the pocketbook.

Beyond lighting and thermostats,whole-house automation sys-tems connect home electronics(including appliances and secu-rity systems) into an integratedwireless network that allows oc-cupants to control from off-site,including via the Internet or amobile phone app. A Sylvania Z-Wave Starter Kit fromSmartHomeUSA.com is one af-fordable way to get started withwhole-house automation; youcan start small and gradually addelectronics to the system.

CONTACTS: Home AutomationInc., www.homeauto.com; NestLabs, www.nest.com;S m a r t H o m e U S A ,http://www.smarthomeusa.com/ShopByManufacturer/Sylvania/Item/SH50102.

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Keeping Each Other Wellby Elizabeth Terp

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Cholesterol Revisited

In response to my column oncholesterol, a reader was kindenough to recommend that I up-date my references with two im-

portant books. Both books werethe result of over 40 years of re-search, neither of which wasfunded by food and drug compa-nies. They were funded by UStaxpayers and results are openlyavailable to us.

The first is The China Study byT. Colin Campbell, Cornell Uni-versity nutritionist, and co-au-thored by his physician son,Thomas M. Campbell II. Camp-

bell includes 750 peer reviewedstudies to back up his findingthat cholesterol levels in fact docause heart disease and other ill-nesses. This was true even if thecholesterol levels were high inHDL (High Density Lipopro-

teins), the so- called good cho-lesterol.

The reason China was an impor-tant country to study is that their

plant-based, dairy-free diet keptthe incidence of heart diseaseand breast cancer at bay inChina. Also, when Chinese peo-

ple emigrated to the US andadopted our diet, they also devel-oped heart disease, breast cancer,and auto-immune diseases.Campbell established that diet,not genes, is the most significantstimulant of conditions.

The second book is by CaldwellB. Esselstyn Jr., Prevent and Re-verse Heart Disease. Esselstyn is

a surgeon who wanted to find away to prevent women fromneeding disfiguring breast sur-gery, and heart disease patientsfrom undergoing such invasiveand life threatening procedures.He found that when he was ableto convince patients to adopt a

plant-based, dairy-free, fat andoil free diet, they usually did notneed surgery: hence, the title ofhis book.

He asked doctors to refer to himtheir heart patients who had ex-hausted their by-pass and stint

procedures and had been essen-tially told, we can do no morefor you. When they came intohis program, all who acceptedthe diet plan improved and/or re-versed the damage to their coro-nary arteries.

Heres what they had to sayabout cholesterol that jolted my

education. First, total body cho-lesterol IS an important marker,even if HDL, the good choles-terol, is high. For optimumhealth the total level needs to be150mg/dL or less (not 300,which the USDA recommendsor 200, which the AmericanHeart Association recommends.)

We do need cholesterol but ex-cessive amounts of it end up

blocking our arteries. Theamounts the USDA recommendsappear to be causing more harmand expensive treatments.

There is so much money to bemade by radical surgery andtreatment for breast and other

cancers and heart disease thatthere is little incentive for doc-tors to focus on preventing thediseases. Esselstyn had a longuphill struggle to get referralsfrom cardiologists but once theword got out that people whowent through his program re-gained their health, people beganlooking him up.

Significantly, both Campbell andEsselstyn walk their talk. Essel-

styns family made the transitionwhen their children were young.They all enjoy robust health.Campbell grew up on a dairyfarm. Esselstyn grew up on a cat-tle farm, but their search forwhat makes people well super-seded preconceived notionsabout diet.

President Clinton attributes bothhis weight loss and improvedhealth to this diet which he con-tinues to maintain.

The good news is that there is agrowing number of physicianswho are committed to keeping

people well. That goal super-sedes making a lot of moneywith preventable surgeries. Both

books are available at your locallibrary or through Inter-Library-Loan.

Campbells book covers researchon a broad spectrum of diet-caused conditions. Esselstynsdeals mainly with heart and

breast cancer and has a long sec-tion on the diet itself and recipesto transition for those interested.YouTube has an informative talk

by T. Colin Campbell, Lessonsfrom the China Project.

Bottom line is, we cant lowercholesterol with the Americandiet, which relies heavily on

meat and fat. And, equally im-portant, changes need to be madegradually to be sustainable.

Elizabeth Terp draws on her ex-periences as a School Nurse-Teacher, Psychiatric NursePractitioner, Yoga Instructor andHome Health Nurse. She wel-comes your comments at POBox 547, Campton, NH 03223,e - m a i l :[email protected], orher Keeping Each Other WellBlog: http://elizabethterp. com.

Tick - Tock

Within our little cabin we havetwo clocks. One, on the northside of the house, sits atop mychildhood bookcase, alongsideour kitchen table. Made of pot-tery, it takes the shape of astuffed armchair. When a younggirl, I painted and fired it as anarts and crafts adventure. The

upright portion of the chair ishollowed out just enough to holda clock face. It keeps reliabletime, silently marking the pass-ing of each minute. The secondclock is by our south window,

perched on the shelf atop ourdesk. It is a wind-up clock, onethat Ryan has had for years, goldcolored, and with a penchant forracing ahead of itself.

The first clock is noticeable forits shape. The second is memo-rable for its tick.

Indeed, I well remember my firstattempts at sleeping alongsidethis audible timepiecefor, yes,it once sat beside our bed. I tried

burying my head in my pillow,

stuffing the covers into my ears,piling my clothes on top of theclock: while somehow melodicduring the day, the tick-tock wascertainly more pronounced bynight. Though I rather liked theclocks presence for perceptiblemarking of time, I undeniablyhad a hard time accustomingmyself to sleeping alongsidesuch a tick-tocking roommate.

It is a luxury that the floor and ahalf of our cabin now separatethe clock and I with just enoughwood and space that sleep comeseasy. Well rested, my fondnessfor this teller of time continues

to deepen.

It is interesting how the clocks

ticking smoothly fades into thebackground as one would ex-pect - as conversation, dishes, orthe stacking of wood dominatemy thoughts. Even in the courseof silent acts such as reading,writing, or watching the fire, thetick-tock seems to ebb and flowof its own accord. At times, it isa metronome, the statement of asecond: loud, overbearing, unde-niable. Yet just as my compre-hension of a passing momentseems to peak with over-aware-ness, the clocks steady rhythmeasily fades, allowing otherthoughts and observations to

pass through my mind.

Surely this could be a fascinatingstudy of human perception andsensory experience. Yet for us,through our daily acts in whichmoments become hours becomedays - this dear wind-up clock

persists as a reminder of timeand its fleeting nature. It is not,mind you, a dire warning, nor avocal reprimand. Rather it is a

pleasant call to be present, a callto regain momentary cog-nizance. It is so easy for time tocome and go so much can pass

by without our care nor inten-tion! What are these momentsworth, and how best to spendthem?

Well, each day we must wind theclock. Each day we must recali-

brate its overeager hands, slow itdown to the present time. Andeach day, we prize this subtle, at

times sub-conscious, reminder ofthe moments we are fortunate tohave.


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