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In the nearly two decades the Cumberland County Sheriff’s tactical team has been in existence, it’s relied on natural barriers such as trees and rocks to take cover from potential gun fire.

Sheriff Kevin Joyce has for years been lobbying for his department to purchase an armored vehicle that could act as a ballistic shield for his offi cers. The only problem has been that a brand new armored vehicle costs about $250,000.

A tough sell with taxpayer dollars, he admits.

After years of lobbying, applying for federal grants and searching, the department’s tactical team has found a vehicle that can offer them additional protection — and it’s only cost the department $6, so far.

Early last month the depart-

ment added the “Peacekeeper” to its vehicle arsenal. The 1982 truck was used by the military until about 1992, when it was acquired by police in Piscataquis County for a short time before being used, up until recently, by the New Hampshire State Police.

“We’ve got a little bit of protection now,” Joyce said.

Like many others in law enforcement, Joyce knows how important such a vehicle can be in the line of duty, and how it can easily save a life.

In the 1990s, he acted as a negotiator when a man pulled a fi rearm on deputies as they attempted to serve him with court paperwork. One officer was pinned down behind his vehicle as Joyce negotiated with the man and suffi cient time elapsed for additional offi cers to arrive The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Offi ce recently acquired a much-needed tactical vehicle, police said. The 19 82 armored vehicle will serve as a ballistic shield for at the scene. see PEACEKEEPER page 6

deputies. “You take it hoping you won’t need it,” Sheriff Kevin Joyce said. “It’s not something you use all the time, but boy, if you can save a life with it, it pays for itself” (MATTHEW ARCO PHOTO).

Chamber PAC picks Rathband for mayor

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BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Facade repairs are ongoing at the U.S. Custom House, which is the current home for several federal agencies. The building, located on Fore Street in the Old Port, combines Renaissance Revival and Second Empire architecture styles. It opened in 1872 after the previous Custom House burned in the fire of 1866 (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO).

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Chamber PAC spokesman Chris O’Neil said in a press conference at Tommy’s Park that Rathband would bring “fresh perspectives” to City Hall.

“What we are looking for in the next mayor is really what Jed embodies,” O’Neil said, adding that Rathband represents a demographic that “makes Portland such a special

place.”

The chamber has been advocating for an elected mayor for almost three years.

In a statement, Chamber PAC officials noted Rathband’s support for ending Housing Replacement Ordinance (which levies a $55,000 fee for housing units that are lost during development), and his vision “of a school system which would attract young, innovative people to the city where they can not only live but start a business.”

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GOLDEN, Colo. (NY Times) — A heavy, early season winter storm slammed into Colorado and across a wide area of the West on Wednesday, delivering in one roundhouse punch more snow than the Denver area typically gets in all of October. The piling on was expected to continue through the day with upward of 12 to 14 inches total expected in some places, especially here in the foothills communities like Golden, just west of Denver, and even more in the higher peaks and passes of the Rockies.

Many schools and some highways were closed, with scattered power outages and traffi c accidents reported as many residents awoke to 10 inches or more of wet snow on the ground for the morning rush. The wider, noisier tale was told in leaves.

With many trees still in brilliant fall foliage, the leaves acted like millions of tiny scoops, or perhaps snow shovels, holding the snow and snapping branches that a month from now could probably have held firm and skeletal against the season’s worst hits. The falling branches took down power lines and clogged local streets, and woke some people in the night with arboreal groans, pops and crashes. Xcel Energy, the region’s biggest power provider, reported more than 600 local electricity outages affecting nearly 67,000 customers.

Sections of interstate highways in Wyoming and Colorado were closed, and residents faced mazelike driving conditions in many urban neighborhoods clogged with tree-limbs and snow. Denver International Airport, though, reported only minimal delays for morning fl ights, with planes needing deicing before takeoff, but runways and other services were open.

Although the Denver area averages only about four inches of snow in October, according to the National Weather Service, the month can offer extremes of earlybird winter weather or leftover summer heat.

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Germans back bailout as rifts persist in Euro talks BRUSSELS (NY TIMES) — European leaders struggled into the night Wednesday to reassure the world that they were determined to fi nd a comprehensive solution to the two-year-old euro zone debt crisis, hours after German lawmakers approved a proposal to more than double an emergency bailout fund.

The vote to expand the bailout fund passed by a strong margin in Germany’s lower house. It followed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plea to lawmakers to overcome their aversion to risk and put the might of Germany, Europe’s strongest economy, fi rmly behind efforts to combat the crisis, which has unnerved fi nancial markets far beyond Europe’s borders.

“The world is looking at Germany, whether we are strong enough to accept responsibility for the biggest crisis since World War II,” Mrs. Merkel said in an address to the Parliament in Berlin. “It would be irresponsible not to assume the risk.”

The German lawmakers authorized Mrs. Merkel to negotiate an expansion of the lending capacity of the fund to roughly

$1.4 trillion, more than double its current size of about $610 billion. The details of how the enlarged fund would be fi nanced were still to be worked out, but the vote itself was meant to convey a clear message that there was a German consensus to try to get the crisis under control.

The administration of President Nicholas Sarkozy of France, who has also sought to project his intention for a signifi cant result at the summit in Brussels, said there was no other choice but a strong decisive outcome. “France is totally mobilized and engaged in the success of today’s summit,” Mr. Sarkozy’s budget minister, Valérie Pécresse, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg News in Cannes, France, where she was preparing for a Group of 20 summit there next month.

Nonetheless, fissures and significant disagreements among the Europeans were still unresolved ahead of the summit, particularly concerning Italy, the euro zone’s third-largest economy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won only provisional support for economic changes demanded by his European partners.

The overall euro deal under discussion is complicated, including a deep restructuring of Greek debt, an injection of new capital into European banks made vulnerable by exposure to sovereign debt and an expansion of the bailout fund so that it can ward off a fi nancial panic in Italy as well as in the relatively small economies of Greece and Portugal.

On several previous occasions, European leaders have promised systemic changes to resolve the euro’s troubles, only to come up with a patchwork that fails to mollify the markets and just delays the day of reckoning. The fear going in to the Wednesday summit was that it would result in a another agreement on a general plan but without many specifics, and possibly without the massive “wall of money” to protect vulnerable Italy and Spain that the markets have demanded.

In addition, a meeting of European Union finance ministers, set for Wednesday before the summit meeting, was abruptly canceled on Tuesday, largely because of continuing negotiations with banks over a reduction in the face value of Greek debt.

Amendments are new tack in abortion fight (NY TIMES) — A constitutional amendment facing voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8, and similar initiatives brewing in half a dozen other states including Florida and Ohio, would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some forms of birth control as murder.

With this far-reaching anti-abortion strategy, the proponents of what they call personhood amendments hope to reshape the national debate.

“I view it as transformative,” said Brad Prewitt, a lawyer and executive director of the Yes on 26 campaign, which is named for the Mississippi proposition.

“Personhood is bigger than just shutting abortion clinics; it’s an opportunity for people to say that we’re made in the image of God.” Many doctors and women’s health advocates say the proposals would cause a dangerous intrusion of criminal law into medical care, jeopardizing women’s rights and even their lives.

The amendment in Mississippi would ban virtually all abortions, including those resulting from rape or incest. It would bar some birth control methods, including IUDs and “morning-after pills” that prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. It

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would also outlaw the destruction of embryos created in laboratories.

The amendment has been endorsed by candidates for governor from both major parties, and it appears likely to pass, said W. Martin Wiseman, director of the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University. Legal challenges would surely follow, but even if the amendment is ultimately declared unconstitutional, it could disrupt vital care, critics say, and force years of costly court battles.

“This is the most extreme in a field of extreme antiabortion measures that have been before the states this year,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, a legal advocacy group.

Opponents, who were handing out brochures on Saturday to tailgate partiers before the University of Southern Mississippi football game in Hattiesburg, said they hoped to dispel the impression that the amendment simply bars abortions — a popular idea in Mississippi — by warning that it would also limit contraceptives, make doctors afraid to save women with life-threatening pregnancies and possibly hamper in vitro fertility treatments.

Ex-director of Goldman charged with insider trading (NY TIMES) — Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director who surrendered to the FBI Wednesday morning, was charged with insider trading.

Mr. Gupta, 62, is accused of leaking corporate secrets on Goldman Sachs.

He is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and five counts of securities fraud, all related to tips on Goldman Sachs in 2008.

He was set to be release on a $10 million bond on Wednesady.

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Despite declaration, Libya leader wants NATO presence through 2011

BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK AND RICK GLADSTONE THE NEW YORK TIMES

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s interim leader said Wednesday that he had asked NATO to prolong its air patrols through December and add military advisers on the ground, despite his offi cial declaration of the country’s liberation after the killing of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

“We have asked NATO to stay until the end of the year, and it certainly has the international legitimacy to remain in Libya to protect the civilians from Qaddafi loyalists,” the interim leader, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council, said in an interview with the pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera.

“Qaddafi still has supporters in neighboring countries and we fear those loyalists could be launching attacks against us and infiltrating our borders,” he said. “We need technical support and training for our troops on the ground, we also need communications equipment and we need aerial intelligence to monitor our borders.”

Mr. Abdel-Jalil was interviewed while attending a Libya aid conference in Doha, Qatar. He spoke as NATO was preparing within days to formally end its operations in Libya

and as the country enters a treacherous new phase in its post-Qaddafi transformation.

NATO’s airstrikes enabled a disparate alliance of loosely organized and undisciplined revolutionary militias to defeat Colonel Qaddafi’s forces in a bloody, eight month civil war. But the former rebels’ civilian leaders have not yet unifi ed their disparate militias under a single command, and Mr. Abdel-Jalil’s call for military advisers on the ground was meant to address that challenge.

The credibility of the Transitional National Council has suffered from its implausible explanations for the apparent assassination of Colonel Qaddafi after his capture last week.

And the geographic and ideological factions among the revolutionaries have yet to agree on a new interim leadership team even as Mr. AbdelJalil and his prime minister, Mahmoud Jibril, prepare to step aside within a month.

“I must say it will be diffi cult for all Libyans to agree on one person for a prime minister,” Mr. AbdelJalil acknowledged in the interview, though he added that the transitional council had “a number of options” and “I hope we can come up with a name that will have the backing of most Libyans.”

NATO ministers last week tentatively set Oct. 31 as the end of their military operations in Libya, which were conducted under the auspices of a Security Council resolution to protect Libyan civilians from reprisals

by Colonel Qaddafi ’s military in the conflict.

The NATO ministers had been scheduled to meet on Wednesday in Brussels to fi nalize the termination date but abruptly postponed that meeting to Friday, presumably to weigh Mr. Abdel-Jalil’s request for an extension.

Qatar, one of the fi rst Arab countries to recognize the coalition of antiQaddafi rebels that toppled Colonel Qaddafi ’s regime, also disclosed for the fi rst time on Wednesday that it had deployed hundreds of soldiers on the ground in Libya to help them.

In an interview at the Doha meeting, Qatar’s military chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Ali Al-Atiya, told Agence France-Presse that the Qataris had been “running the training and communication operations” of the anti-Qaddafi forces in Libya.

Previously, Qatar had only said it was providing some air support, water, weapons and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of other aid to the rebels who had battled Colonel Qaddafi’s military. In any case, Qatar’s

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Crews add a new layer of pavement at the intersection of Pine and Bracket streets yesterday, in an effort to take care of neede d work before paving season is suspended during winter months. (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO)

willingness to play an aggressive role in the internal Libyan confl ict wasan unusual departure in Qatari foreign policy.

But many rebels have shown a special gratitude to Qatar, even fl ying Qatari fl ags along with their rebel fl ag in some towns in the western Nafusa Mountains. Some Libyan liberals, however, have been suspicious, suggesting that conservatives in the Qatari government may have steered their training and resources toward Islamists among the rebels, such as Abdelhakim Belhaj, aQatari-trained fighter who emerged as head of Tripoli’s military council.

The interim Libyan government, meanwhile, continued to hunt Seif alIslam el-Qaddafi , one of the colonel’s sons and onetime heir apparent who is now the last member of the former ruling family still on the loose. Among Colonel Qaddafi ’s other children, Mohamed, Saadi and Aisha have fl ed to neighboring African countries. Two sons who led militias, Khamis and Mutassim, were killed.

There was an unconfi rmed report Wednesday that an offi cial of Libya’s interim government had said Seif al-Islam was preparing to turn himself over the International Criminal Court, where he is accused of war crimes.

Press Herald ends free distribution of ‘Go’ section MaineToday Media, the parent company of Portland Press Herald, is no longer distributing free editions of “Go,” the weekly arts and lifestyle publication.

The section will still be inserted into the Thursday edition of the Press Herald, but readers will have to buy the paper to see it in print.

Last week’s edition of Go was the last to be delivered free. Company employees and contractors who delivered the paper have already begun picking up the paper’s distinctive light blue newspaper boxes.

The company’s decision to end distribution was part of its recent round of more than 60 layoffs, which affected almost every department including newsroom, and sales. Some distribution contractors were given severance packages based on their length of service with the company, according to a former delivery person who was let go.

Richard Connor, editor and publisher of the Press Herald, did not return an email seeking comment.

Prior to this week, Go was available at hundreds of bars, restaurants and stores across Southern Maine. The company began distributing Go nearly two years ago after eliminating its weekly publication called “Switch,” which was intended to compete with the Portland Phoenix.

Go came out on Thursdays.

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To improve Monument Square: how about some classical music?

Editor: Regarding your front page article “A monument of malcontent?” (Saturday, Oct. 22), stating people’s concern over the changing appearance of Portland’s Monument Square area and not feeling safe when passing through. This brought to mind the problem New York City had with its Port Authority building where the same thing was happening many, many years ago. I think it was during the 1960s, but it could also have been another decade. Anyway, its benches were more than often occupied by homeless or otherwise disadvantaged persons, taking naps or sleeping the night. There were also hordes of more or less troubled young people with nothing else to do but hang out or hang around, as well as countless beggars of all ages. In those days I often took the bus to NYC from next door New Jersey and upon arrival couldn’t wait to get out of the building.

Well, the powers at be were able to put a stop to the problem and, after all these years, the Port Authority is still a very pleasant place to breeze through..

And what did they do? Throughout the building they simply began airing classical music! There is apparently something about Bach, Beethoven and Brahms that sends a whole lot of young and old people up and away. Beats me what it is, but it works.

(Wagner’s Operas seem to have the same impact on certain people who otherwise love classical music !)

‘Wouldn’t it be loverly’ to hear a bit Strauss or a few strains from Waltz No. 2 by Shostakovitch while walking by the Monument? I wouldn’t be surprised to see a smile on the face of our statue. Might even take a few dance steps while doing a lot of smiling myself!

Gunnel Larsdotter Portland

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It’s consumer spending, stupid

BY JAMES LIVINGSTON THE NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed Contributor

This is, to put it mildly, a controversial claim. Economists will tell you that private business investment causes growth because it pays for the new plant or equipment that creates jobs, improves labor productivity and increases workers’ incomes. As a result, you’ll hear politicians insisting that more incentives for private investors — lower taxes on corporate profits — will lead to faster and better-balanced growth.

The general public seems to agree. According to a New York Times/CBS News poll in May, a majority of Americans believe that increased corporate taxes “would discourage American companies from creating jobs.”

But history shows that this is wrong.

Between 1900 and 2000, real gross domestic product per capita (the output of goods and services per person) grew more than 600 percent. Meanwhile, net business investment declined 70 percent as a share of G.D.P. What’s more, in 1900 almost all investment came from the private sector — from companies, not from government — whereas in 2000, most investment was either from government spending (out of tax revenues) or “residential investment,” which means consumer spending on housing, rather than business expenditure on plants, equipment and labor.

In other words, over the course of the last century, net business investment atrophied while G.D.P. per capita increased spectacularly. And the source of that growth?

Increased consumer spending, coupled with and amplifi ed by government outlays.

The architects of the Reagan revolution tried to reverse these trends as a cure for the stagfl ation of the 1970s, but couldn’t. In fact, private or business investment kept declining in the ’80s and after. Peter G. Peterson, a former commerce secretary, complained that real growth after 1982 — after President Ronald Reagan cut corporate tax rates — coincided with “by far the weakest net investment effort in our postwar history.”

President George W. Bush’s tax cuts had similar effects between 2001 and 2007: real growth in the absence of new investment. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, retained corporate earnings that remain uninvested are now close to 8 percent of G.D.P., a staggering sum in view of the unemployment crisis we face.

So corporate profi ts do not drive economic growth — they’re just restless sums of surplus capital, ready to fl ood speculative markets at home and abroad. In the 1920s, they infl ated the stock market bubble, and then caused the Great Crash. Since the Reagan revolution, these superfl uous profi ts have fed corporate mergers and takeovers, driven the dot-com craze, fi nanced the “shadow banking” system of hedge funds and securitized investment vehicles, fueled monetary meltdowns in every hemisphere and infl ated the housing bubble.

Why, then, do so many Americans support cutting taxes on corporate profi ts while insisting that thrift is the cure for

what ails the rest of us, as individuals and a nation? Why have the 99 percent looked to the 1 percent for leadership when it comes to our economic future?

A big part of the problem is that we doubt the moral worth of consumer culture. Like the abstemious ant who scolds the feckless grasshopper as winter approaches, we think that saving is the right thing to do.

Even as we shop with abandon, we feel that if only we could contain our unruly desires, we’d be committing ourselves to a better future. But we’re wrong.

Consumer spending is not only the key to economic recovery in the short term; it’s also necessary for balanced growth in the long term. If our goal is to repair our damaged economy, we should bank on consumer culture — and that entails a redistribution of income away from profi ts toward wages, enabled by tax policy and enforced by government spending. (The increased trade deficit that might result should not deter us, since a large portion of manufactured imports come from American-owned multinational corporations that operate overseas.)

We don’t need the traders and the C.E.O.’s and the analysts — the 1 percent — to collect and manage our savings.

Instead, we consumers need to save less and spend more in the name of a better future. We don’t need to silence the ant, but we’d better start listening to the grasshopper.

James Livingston, a professor of history at Rutgers, is the author of “Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture Is Good for the Economy, the Environment and Your Soul.”

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The limits of magical thinking Steve Jobs, the mad perfectionist, even perfected his stare.

He wanted it to be hypnotic. He wanted the other person to blink fi rst.

He wanted it to be, like Dracula’s saturnine gaze, a force that could bend your will to his and subsume your reality in his.

There’s an arresting picture of Jobs staring out, challenging us to blink, on the cover of Walter Isaacson’s new biography, “Steve Jobs.” The writer begins the book by comparing the moody lord of Silicon Valley to Shakespeare’s Henry V — a “callous but sentimental, inspiring but flawed king.”

Certainly, Jobs created what Shakespeare called “the brightest heaven of invention.” But his life sounded like the darkest hell of volatility.

An Apple C.E.O. who jousted with Jobs wondered if he had a mild bipolarity.

“Sometimes he would be ecstatic, at other times he was depressed,” Isaacson writes. There were Rasputin-like seductions followed by raging tirades.

Everyone was either a hero or bozo.

As Jobs’s famous ad campaign for Apple said, “Here’s to the crazy ones. ...

They push the human race forward.”

The monstre sacré fancied himself an “enlightened being,” but he was capable of frightening coldness, even with his oldest collaborators and family. Yet he often sobbed uncontrollably.

Isaacson told me that Jobs yearned

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The New York Times to be a saint; but one of the colleagues he ousted from Apple mordantly noted that the petulant and aesthetic Jobs would have made an excellent King of France.

His extremes left everyone around him with vertigo.

He embraced Zen minimalism and anti-materialism. First, he lived in an unfurnished mansion, then a house so modest that Bill Gates, on a visit, was astonished that the whole Jobs family could fit in it. And Jobs scorned security, often leaving his back door unlocked.

Yet his genius was designing alluring products that would create a country of technology addicts. He demanded laserlike focus from employees to create an A.D.D. world.

He was abandoned by parents who conceived him out of wedlock at 23, and he then abandoned a daughter for many years that he conceived out of wedlock at 23.

Chrisann Brennan, the mother of Jobs’s oldest child, Lisa, told Isaacson that being put up for adoption left Jobs “full of broken glass.” He very belatedly acknowledged Lisa and their relation-

ship was built, Isaacson says, on “layers of resentment.”

He could be hard on women. Two exes scrawled mean messages on his walls. As soon as he learned that his beautiful, willowy, blonde girlfriend, Laurene Powell, was pregnant in 1991, he began musing that he might still be in love with the previous beautiful, willowy, blonde girlfriend, Tina Redse.

“He surprised a wide swath of friends and even acquaintances by asking them what he should do,” Isaacson writes. “ ‘Who was prettier,’ he would ask, ‘Tina or Laurene?’ ” And “who should he marry?”

Isaacson notes that Jobs could be distant at times with the two daughters he had with Laurene (though not the son).

When one daughter dreamed of going to the Oscars with him, he blew her off.

Andy Hertzfeld, a friend and former Apple engineer, lent Lisa $20,000 when she thought her father was not going to pay her Harvard tuition. Jobs paid it back to his friend, but Lisa did not invite him to her Harvard graduation.

“The key question about Steve is why he can’t control himself at times from being so refl exively cruel and harmful to some people,” Hertzfeld said. “That goes back to being abandoned at birth.”

He almost always wore black turtlenecks and jeans. (Early on, he scorned deodorant and went barefoot and had a disturbing habit of soaking his feet in the office toilet.)

Yet he sometimes tried to ply his exquisite taste to remake the women in his life.

When he was dating the much older Joan Baez — enthralled by her relationship with his idol, Bob Dylan — he drove her to a Ralph Lauren store in the Stanford mall to show her a red dress that would be “perfect” for her. But one of the world’s richest men merely showed her the dress, even after she told him she “couldn’t really afford it,” while he bought shirts.

When he met his sister, Mona Simpson, a struggling novelist, as an adult, he berated her for not wearing clothes that were “fetching enough” and then sent her a box of Issey Miyake pantsuits “in flattering colors,” she said.

He was a control freak, yet when he learned he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer that would respond to surgery, he ignored his wife, doctors and friends and put the surgery off for nine months, trying to heal himself with wacky fruit diets, hydrotherapy, a psychic and expressing his negative feelings. (As though he had to be encouraged.)

Addicted to fasting because he felt it produced euphoria and ecstasy, he refused to eat when he needed protein to fight his cancer.a The Da Vinci of Apple could be selfaware. “I know that living with me,” he told Isaacson as he was dying, “was not a bowl of cherries.”

Serving up Medicare’s alphabet soup These days I fi nd myself singing the Jackson 5’s lyrics: A-B-C, it’s as easy as 1-2-3. The lyrics inspire a desired future state where Medicare is better understood. But we’re not there yet. A recent study showed that only a small percentage of the senior population understood how Medicare works.

Acronyms and letters are synonymous with Medicare. So let’s tackle the alphabet soup of Medicare. I hope readers will better understand the A-B-C’s of Medicare, and, who knows, maybe it will become easy as 1-2-3. So, let’s get started!

What is Medicare? Medicare is health insurance for people age 65 or older, and for younger people with certain disabilities. It was introduced in 1965 to provide Americans more affordable access to health care in their retirement. It is funded by Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes that have been deducted from our paychecks throughout your working lives.

If you or your spouse have worked for at least ten years for an employer who paid Medicare taxes, are age 65, and are a US citizen or permanent resident, you qualify to receive this benefit.

Medicare has two parts — Part A and Part B — known as “Original Medicare.” Benefi ts are provided by the government. Medicare pays the fee for your care directly to hospital and doctors you visit. This is called “fee for service.” Part A is the hospital benefit. Most people don’t have to pay a monthly premium for this benefi t. It does, however have a deductible, and a co-pay. Part B has a monthly premium which is adjusted annually. This premium is deducted from your social security check.

Karen Vachon –––––

Daily Sun Columnist Generally speaking, Part A helps with hospital costs. Part B helps with doctor visits and outpatient care. But there are gaps – hence we add more letters to the soup!

Costs that Medicare doesn’t cover include most outpatient prescription drugs, deductible, coinsurance, and co-pays, health care while traveling out of the US, dental, vision, hearing, custodial care, non-skilled nursing home care, acupuncture and cosmetic surgery. Because these medical costs can add up quickly, eligible recipients purchase a Part D prescription drug plan, and often choose a Medigap (supplement) policy or a Part C Medicare Advantage Plan. All of these plans are sold by private insurance companies that have been approved by Medicare.

Part D needs to be understood. This is prescription drug coverage. Even if you don’t take prescription medications, not purchasing a Part D comes with a fine for each month that you don’t have coverage after you become eligible for Medicare. So, moving through alphabet soup, we’ve addressed A, B, and D. Stirring the pot, the recipe can get confusing. Let’s consider two pots; two recipes.

In one pot, we have Original Medicare Part A, Part B, Part D, and Medigap. In another pot, we have Part D, and/or Medicare Advantage Part

C. You choose which recipe suits your taste. Let’s look at both.

The Medigap pot: “Medigap policies,” also known as supplements, come with many letters! Identifi ed as Plan A,B,C,D, F,G,K,L,M N – you choose which plan works best for you. Each plan helps pay for health care costs not covered by Original Medicare – hence, fill the gaps. Please note that a Plan letter is entirely different from a Part A or B. The best time to purchase a Medigap policy is when you fi rst become eligible (within 6 months starting in the month you turn 65). During this period no medical questions can be asked, and you cannot be denied coverage (though some restrictions apply if you haven’t had prior health insurance coverage). Once your open enrollment period ends, you are subject to medical questions, and can be denied.

Medigap policies can be purchased anytime during the year, and are not restricted to the Annual Enrollment Period. Think of the Medigap policy as the full course meal that you pay for up front. Once you have it, you can keep it, regardless of changes in your health, for as long as you pay your monthly premium.

The Medicare Advantage Pot: Also known as Part C combines Part A and Part B, and usually, but not always, Part D. It is similar to an HMO or PPO plan. Recipients enroll each year during a limited enrollment period.

The advantage of a Part C is that it has everything that Original Medicare Part A and Part B has, and more. These plans often have a $0 premium, and always have out-of-pocket maximums.

Medicare pays a fixed fee to the Part C private provider who in turn adminis-

ters benefits.

Medicare Advantage Plans can only be purchased during the annual enrollment plan, which runs from October 15th – December 7th. For recipients aging into Medicare outside of the open enrollment period, they may purchase a Medicare Advantage Plan for the fi rst time, during their 7 month enrollment period. This is called your Initial Enrollment Period (IEP). Think of the Medicare Advantage Plans like a cafeteria: Little to no cost to get in, and then you pay as you go, until you max out. Recipients review their plan each year, and choose the best plan for them in the Annual Enrollment Period.

The best plan to have depends on your health and lifestyle. Consumers should shop carefully for the plan that best suits your needs. Now that we’ve covered the basics of A-B-C (and the bonus, D), let’s see if we can make this as easy as 1 - 2 - 3 1. Become informed! During open enrollment, education and sales events are offered throughout your community. Attend an event, visit Southern Maine Agency on Aging, www.medicare.gov, or call 1-800-Medicare (1-800633-4227) 2. Find an agent that you’d like to help you. No agent will call you unless you ask to be called. Thisb is for your protection.

3. Choose the plan that best suits your needs.

Medicare Alphabet Soup made easy (I hope). Welcome to the Annual Election Period (AEP). Soup’s on!

Karen Vachon is a resident of Scarborough, a community volunteer, and a licensed independent insurance agent.

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Madoff wife says she and Bernie tried suicide The wife of the fi nancial swindler Bernard Madoff says in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday that the couple attempted suicide by taking pills on Christmas Eve 2008 after his estimated $65 billion Ponzi scheme was exposed.

Mr. Madoff, 73, is serving a 150year prison sentence after confessing to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars, considered the biggest fi nancial fraud in history.

He was arrested on Dec. 11, 2008.

“I don’t know whose idea it was, but we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening,” Ruth Madoff told the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”

The couple’s elder son, Mark, 46, hanged himself in his New York apartment last Dec. 11, the second anniversary of his father’s arrest.

Mark and Andrew Madoff turned in their father to authorities a day after he confessed to them.

Ruth Madoff said she and her husband took Ambien sleeping pills and

possibly some Klonopin anti-anxiety pills in their suicide attempt.

“We had terrible phone calls. Hate mail, just beyond anything and I said ... ‘I just can’t go on anymore,’ ” she said. Christmas “added to the whole depression.”

“We took pills and woke up the next day,” she said. “It was very impulsive and I am glad we woke up.”

Excerpts from the interview were released on Wednesday.

Before the suicide attempt the couple sent a package of sentimental items, including jewelry, to their younger son, Andrew, breaching a court order. Three years later Andrew Madoff asked his mother why she had sent the package.

“And she told me that she and my father had planned to kill themselves,” Andrew Madoff told “60 Minutes” “They put that package together beforehand and sent it out.”

Defrauded Madoff investors have viewed his sons, wife and other family members suspiciously, arguing it is impossible that they did not

know about his lies. No family members have been criminally charged, and they reject accusations that they were aware of the fraud. Bernard Madoff has said he acted alone.

Since he pleaded guilty in March 2009, seven other people have been arrested in the case, including several of his longtime employees and an outside accountant.

For decades, investors big and small flocked to the New York-based money manager, hoping to gain entree onto his seemingly exclusive client list as he promised steady returns that defied the broader markets. In reality, Mr. Madoff always was seeking new investors to keep his scheme running.

A court-appointed trustee is trying to recover money for investors defrauded in the Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which early investors are paid with money from new ones. The schemes often collapse when suffi cient investors can’t be lined up or when a number of investors want to cash out.

— The New York Times

BP gets OK to drill new wells in Gulf The Obama administration on Wednesday gave BP its fi rst drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April 2010.

The decision was expected after the administration approved the company’s drilling plan for four exploratory wells last week, but it still was an important achievement for the company, which is counting on gulf wells to expand its oil and gas reserves.

The approval is for one well off the Louisiana coast in the Kaskida field, at a depth of about 6,000 feet.

“BP has met all of the enhanced safety requirements that we have implemented and applied consistently over the past year,” said Michael R. Bromwich, the director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, in a statement. “In addition, BP has adhered to voluntary standards that go beyond the agency’s regulatory requirements.”

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“It’s better than what I have, and it was free,” he said. “It worked out great.”

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While that incident resolved itself without any shots being fi red or serious injuries to the offi cer or suspect, Joyce says it serves as an important reminder for how such a vehicle can be crucially important.

“You take it hoping you won’t need it,” Joyce said. “It’s not something you use all the time, but boy, if you can save a life with it, it pays for itself.”

Before it can be registered and put into use, Joyce estimates that about $20,000 worth of repairs and upgrades will need to be made to the Peacekeeper. So far, the $6 they’ve spent on it has been for duplicating

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so, there may be an additional contribution.”

All told, Hall said the Chamber PAC would probably spend no more than $2,000 on the mayor’s race.

Several groups in Portland have issued endorsements of late, including the Maine League of Young Voters, the group Portland Tomorrow, the city’s teachers union, among others. But few if any organizations can match the chamber for its clout at City Hall or in sheer numbers. More than 600 businesses with a combined 35,000 employees are part of the local chamber.

O’Neil said the endorsement was not intended to tell people how to vote. But, he said, it would be passed along to chamber members.

Ted O’Meara, a consultant with the Portland fi rm Garrand who ran Eliot Culter’s 2009 gubernatorial campaign, said endorsements like the one handed down yesterday can impact elections.

“Endorsements by themselves

cannot elect a candidate, but they can give a candidate more credibility, broader name recognition, momentum, and, in some cases — if fi nancial support, mailings and volunteers are included — greater resources,” he said.

“In a race like this, with such a large fi eld, endorsements can be very important because they help to differentiate the candidates. Say, for example, a local businessperson is trying to decide who to vote for and has narrowed it done to a few candidates. An endorsement from a respected business group like the Chamber could make the difference for that voter,” O’Meara continued.

Hall, the chamber vice president, said he’s been pleased with the mayor’s race so far, in part because many of the candidates are focusing so heavily on the economy, jobs and development.

“There has been a substantial emphasis on growth issues — how to get city back on track and how make it grow faster,” he said.

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The new elected mayor position is full time, has a four-year term and comes with a $66,000 salary, compared with $7,200 now for the part-time job that comes with a one-year term.

Although the Chamber Pac endorsed just one candidate, its 10-person steering committee also recognized David Marshall, Nick Mavodones and Ethan Strimling as “candidates worthy of mention.”

Rathband said he thought the endorsement of Portland’s largest business group would give him more credibility when he talks to voters about jobs, property taxes and the economy.

Standing in front of about 20 sign-waving supporters, Rathband told reporters that getting the economy going would not happen by drawing one company that creates 10,000 jobs, but by attracting “1,000 individuals who create 10 jobs apiece.”

The Chamber Pac arrived at its endorsement based upon candidate questionnaires and by watching the candidates during Tuesday’s chambersponsored forum, said Chris Hall, the chamber’s senior vice president of government relations.

The Chamber PAC, the chamber’s separate political arm, is expected to donate to Rathband’s campaign. Under state law, the maximum a person or business can donate to a candidate in a municipal race is $350.

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Storywalk exhibit unveiled in Payson Park Dozens of Portland kids including Ocean Avenue Elementary School students participated in the city’s very fi rst StoryWalk in Payson Park Wednesday.

Children moved along the 14 permanent signs that displayed “The Bugliest Bug” by Carol Diggory Shields. The StoryWalk Project aims to keep children moving as they read through books on the go and, at times, act out some aspect of the story.

“The Payson Park StoryWalk combines fun activities with a love of reading,” said Mayor Nick Mavodones. “It’s important that we create a community that encourages kids of all ages to get active, explore and enjoy our public spaces.”

Another exhibit is planned for Riverton Trolley Park in the coming weeks.

The book’s illustrator, local artist Scott Nash, joined the mayor and members of the Portland Public Library in unveiling the pages of the StoryWalk.

Copies of “The Bugliest Bug” were distributed to children who attended the unveiling.

Local StoryWalk projects are funded by a $1.8 million grant to combat obesity. The city received the grant in 2010. Other initiatives include working with the Portland Farmers’ Market Association to accept SNAP benefi ts, increasing the number of community gardens within the city, working with local restaurants to add calorie information to their menus, developing a citywide plan to increase safety and access to streets and trails for pedestrians and cyclists, and the installation of salad bars at Portland Public Schools.

— Staff Report

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THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Thursday, October 27, 2011— Page 9

The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)

The University of Southern Maine School of Music, under the Broadway-like direction of Maine Favorite, Edward Reichert, brings hysterical parody to Corthell Concert Hall in The Musical of Musicals (The Musical). Structured into five short one acts, each musical parody pays homage to musical theatre composers, all dealing with the same classic melodrama plot: “I can’t pay the rent!”

With a cast of 17 multi-talented students, Reichert stages a fastpaced, clean, and clever 90 minutes of fun. Musical Directors, Justin Adams, Jonathan Marro, and Kellie Moody excel under the musical supervision of Reichert. The collective sound of the cast fills Corthell Concert Hall with strong vocals from the opening number to the funny finale. With such a wordy and diverse score of styles, I would have liked a bit more accent on the final consonants to support their tricky-tongue diction. Reichert, Michaele Black and Catilin O’Reilly created clever choreography, nicely executed and, at times, very impressive.

Costume Designer, Joseph D. Sibley, created a simple black base costume with colorful and parodyappropriate additions. Sibley has a good eye for dressing his cast, complimenting their character choices and body types. A simple set of assorted pieces worked beautifully.

The scene changes were choreographed well and quickly done. The limited lighting was fine, although it was hard to see the cast’s faces the further downstage they performed. Stage Manager, Megan E. Jackson, did an excellent job stage managing the show on and off stage.

Corn! is set in the style of the musicals of Rodgers & Hammerstein, featuring parodies of and references to Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, South Pacific and other R&H favorites. In Kansas in August, Jitter threatens that

June will have to marry him if she can’t pay the rent; Big Willy is torn between his desire ––––– to marry her himTheatre Talk self and his desire for the freedom of his carnivalbarker lifestyle, and Mother Abby advises her to “follow her dream”, leading to a dream ballet and a happy ending.

Jericah Potvin (June) has a beautiful voice. Jimmy McDonald was a scene stealer, his face full of funny expressions. Chris Ellis (Big Willy) is a triple threat star of this show, with his Gordon Macrea-like vocals and strong command of the stage.

A Little Complex is based upon the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his shows Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Company, et al. In a New York apartment complex full of neurotics, Jitter is a mad artist/ landlord who plots to murder his tenants, including bird-obsessed, indecisive June, deep-thinking composer Billy and pessimistic alcoholic Abby, for throwing his artwork out with the trash. After many overly-complex lyrics and dissonant music, he does. Danie Lane (Abby) has a confident belt to her voice. Matt West (Billy) sounds great with his strong bass vocals.

Kelly Mosher (Jeune) gives the best female vocal of the night. Caleb Lacy (Jitter) had a solid start that vocally dissipated as this parody continued.

Dear Abby parodies the work of Jerry Herman, especially Mame and Hello Dolly! Aunt Abby is an unconventional Manhattan socialite, adored by her neighbors, and her advice solves everyone’s problems. In between costume changes, Abby manages to matchmaker her nephew William and her geeky friend Juney-Fae and convince the stuffy Landlord Mr. Jitters to embrace his true self and become a drag queen. Mel Bills (Auntie Abby) has a strong, beautiful voice. Jimmy McDonald (William) is adorable and very funny. A reddressed Josh Witham (Mr. Jitters) proves “he is what he is”, well sup-

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The cast of The Musical of Musicals, shown above, concludes the show by singing and dancing “Done,” a parody of the song One from the musical “A Chorus Line.” The show is running for just one weekend (COURTESY PHOTO).

ported by the fun and fey, Chris Ellis (Narrator).

Aspects of Junita plays upon the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber, including Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera and other rock opera classics. Junita hopes that becoming a superstar, despite her lack of talent, will allow her to get out of paying her rent from the mysterious Sir Phantom Jitter. As her boyfriend Bill bemoans the lack of communication in their relationship, and fading diva Abigail von Starr advises her to go over the top, Junita falls under Phantom Jitter’s spell, only for an errant Chandelier to bring things literally crashing down to a spectacular climax. Josh Witham (Bill) gives one of the best male vocals of the evening, his rich voice full of power and color. Kelly Mosher (Junita) gave an excellent performance, well supported by the just-right Caitlin O’Reilly (Abigail) and hilarious Chris Ellis (Phantom).

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The Fosse-like choreography was a highlight!

The cast concludes the show by singing and dancing “Done”, a hysterical parody of the song “One” from the musical, A Chorus Line.

This one-weekend-only show is a “must see” for anyone who loves musicals!

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You may have clashed with someone when fi rst you met. You’ll benefi t from giving this person another chance. Your natures are not so different, but your habits are.

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TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 27).

There will be a healing in your personal life this year. The chapter is complete, and you’ll turn a fresh page. In December, professional changes liven things up. You’ll toy with groovy new ways of doing things, and your playful approach wins applause. You’ll wander a bit in May and June and collect new friends.

Capricorn and Taurus people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 32, 40, 17 and 45.

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HOROSCOPE ARIES (March 21-April 19 ). You appreciate how wonderful it is to be alive at a time when so many new ideas are developing around you. You are feeling connected to all who share this moment in history with you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Hop on board a trend, and have fun with it. This probably has to do with technology. It may not solve your problem or turn into any kind of long-term benefit at all. Still, you won’t be sorry you gave it a whirl.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). Think about the times in the past when you accidentally landed in the right place at the perfect time and said the magic words. Be convinced of your own good fortune, and you’ll attract more of it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Not all who hear voices in their heads are schizophrenic. You know this is true, because you are a person of very sound mind and yet there is a guide in your mind who speaks in crystal-clear tones.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). As you think about the task before you, you may get nervous. Your emotional response is normal. It shows how much you care. It doesn’t make you weak; it makes you human.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re still on the fence about whether to throw yourself into a new venture. You can always take the more cautious route of tiptoeing into it. Do go forward either way. The only people who really fail are those who never try.

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sailboat 41 Beer 42 Climbed 44 In a just way 45 Observe 46 Money, slangily 47 Doctor’s viewing device 50 Rawls & Gehrig 51 Actor __ Allen 54 “__ No. 9”; hit 1960s song 57 Bedtime on a school night, perhaps 58 Prayer closing 59 Prize 60 Has __ in one’s pants; is jittery 61 Spoils 62 Taxi riders 63 Personalities DOWN 1 Uptight 2 Acting part

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Thursday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2011. There are 65 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 27, 1811, inventor Isaac Merritt Singer, founder of the sewing machine company that bears his name, was born in Pittstown, N.Y. On this date: In 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, a series of essays calling for ratification of the United States Constitution, was published.

In 1858, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was born in New York City.

In 1880, Theodore Roosevelt married his first wife, Alice Lee. In 1886 (New Style date), the musical fantasy “A Night on Bald Mountain,” written

by Modest Mussorgsky and revised after his death by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, was performed in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 1922, the fi rst annual celebration of Navy Day took place.

In 1938, Du Pont announced a name for its new synthetic yarn: “nylon.”

In 1947, “You Bet Your Life,” starring Groucho Marx, premiered on ABC Radio. (It later became a television show on NBC.) In 1971, the Democratic Republic of Congo was renamed the Republic of Zaire (but it went back to its previous name in 1997).

In 1995, a sniper killed one soldier and wounded 18 others at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Paratrooper William J. Kreutzer was convicted in the shootings, and condemned to death; however, the sentence was later commuted to life in prison.)

One year ago: Dozens of Jewish extremists hoisting Israeli flags defi antly marched through the Arab-Israeli town of Umm elFahm, chanting “death to terrorists” and touching off clashes between rock-hurling residents and police.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Nanette Fabray is 91. Baseball Hall-of-Famer and sportscaster Ralph Kiner is 89. Actress Ruby Dee is 87. Actor-comedian John Cleese is 72. Author Maxine Hong Kingston is 71. Country singer Lee Greenwood is 69.

Producer-director Ivan Reitman is 65. Country singer-musician Jack Daniels is 62. Rock musician Garry Tallent (Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band) is 62. Author Fran Lebowitz is 61. Rock musician K.K. Downing is 60. TV personality Jayne Kennedy is 60.

Actor-director Roberto Benigni is 59. Actor Peter Firth is 58. Actor Robert Picardo is 58.

World Golf Hall of Famer Patty Sheehan is 55. Singer Simon Le Bon is 53. Musician J.D. McFadden is 47. Rock musician Jason Finn (Presidents of the United States of America) is 44. Rock singer Scott Weiland is 44. Actor Sean Holland is 43. Actress Sheeri Rappaport is 34. Violinist Vanessa-Mae is 33. Actress-singer Kelly Osbourne is 27.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX

Dear Annie: My husband, “Harry,” and I have been married for 32 years. Recently, he lost his job because of disability.

I work two jobs to support the family.

Six months ago, Harry suggested we sell our house and move to his old hometown two hours away. I refused because of my jobs and our children, who live near us. Harry says he spends too much time alone while I work. He also doesn’t like that I have the grandchildren over, saying I care more for them (and my job) than I do for him.

I know he feels bad because he cannot work, and I have tried to find him hobbies. He has been visiting his hometown twice a week. At fi rst, I thought he had someone else on the side, but he says he just likes to be there. It’s comfortable.

Now he says he is going to move to his hometown without me. He told me he still wants to “date” and stay in our home once a week so he can see the grandchildren and work on our marriage.

I am confused. It seems Harry isn’t sure he’s still in love with me. Now I will have to fi nd a third job just to make the house payment. I am so hurt and angry. What should I do?

-- Nervous Nellie Dear Nellie: We think Harry is depressed and adrift. His hometown provides a soothing cocoon and a reminder of better times. Right now, you need to consider your own welfare. We recommend you talk to an attorney to make sure you are protected. You may need to sell the house and move into a smaller, more affordable place. Decide whether you wish to “date” Harry, relocate to his hometown or divorce him. Some short-term counseling could help with these decisions, and although it would be useful for Harry to go with you, if he refuses, please go without him.

Dear Annie: I share a job with “Joan,” my co-worker. We each know what tasks have to be done, and together, we are

responsible for making sure everything gets done. Frequently, when Joan is off doing one thing, I will start on another. I am not the type to sit around doing nothing until she is free to start the next task.

When she returns, she invariably says, “I can help with that,” in a tone that conveys the message that I shouldn’t have started without her. I never know how to respond. I’ve said, “Sure,” but what I really want to say is, “You don’t need an invitation.” However, I don’t think that would go over well.

Today, a phone call needed to be made. Joan sent me a note asking about it, and I took care of it. She then confronted me, saying she would have done it herself but I “took over.” She has been doing this job longer than I have, so why does she seem so insecure? What can I do when this happens again?

-- Diana in Detroit Dear Diana: Some people need constant reassurance that they are valued. You don’t have to cater to Joan’s insecurity, but it helps to get along with co-workers. Tell her you aren’t trying to “take over” and that you simply want to get the job done and divide the work so neither of you is overextended.

Inform her before making a phone call to ensure you aren’t repeating something she has already done. Periodically ask her opinion. Reassure her that the office would collapse without her. It requires little effort for you to give her the impression that she is important. Ignore the rest.

Dear Annie: I chuckled while reading the letter from “Stressed Out by Picky Eaters,” whose family members drive her crazy with their food preferences. It brought back memories of an old friend who had a sign in her kitchen: “You have two choices for dinner: Take it or leave it!” -- That Works in My House, Too

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to: anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

Prickly City

by Scott Stantis

Obama rallying college students, ‘we can’t wait’ DENVER (NY TIMES) — President Obama on Wednesday ended a three-day Western trip that was heavier on politics than policy here in the city where he was nominated in 2008, rallying thousands of college students whose enthusiasm belied the struggle he will have to win this state again in 2012.

Continuing his “we can’t wait” theme against Republicans’ opposition to his legislative agenda, Mr. Obama promoted the latest in what will be a series of executive actions not requiring Congress’s approval — new rules to expedite and ease repayment terms for graduates burdened with federal student loans.

At the University of Colorado’s snow-covered downtown Denver campus, the president was introduced by a senior, Mahala Greer, who described herself as a member of “Generation Debt,” owing $30,000 as she looks to a career as a relatively low-paid elementary school teacher. He then topped her, telling the crowd that he and his wife owed a combined $120,000 when they married after law school.

Mr. Obama said executive actions like that on student loans did not negate the need for Congress to pass his proposed $447 billion jobs package of tax cuts and spending. “I need you guys involved, I need you active,” he said, to press lawmakers to act. “Tell them, ‘Do your job,’ ” he said amid applause. “Too many people out there are hurting for us to just sit around and do nothing.”

It was Mr. Obama’s last stop in his latest swing through California, Nevada and Colorado that included six fund-raisers in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver, an appearance on NBC’s “Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and two policy announcements, including Wednesday’s on college costs.

While California is a fund-raising mecca for Democrats, Nevada and Colorado are battleground states that Mr. Obama won three years ago but where he is on the defensive now given the weak economy. The campaign strategy is to offset Mr. Obama’s lack of support among older white voters in the two states by mobilizing their growing Hispanic electorate and young college-educated voters like those he addressed at UC Denver.

Ford posts more profits DEARBORN, Mich. (NY TIMES) — The Ford Motor Company on Wednesday said third-quarter profit fell 2 percent in the third quarter, to $1.65 billion.

It was the tenth consecutive profi table quarter for Ford, which last week secured a new labor contract with the United Automobile Workers union and said it was close to restoring a dividend to shareholders.

Nearly all of the profit — $1.6 billion, the same as a year ago — came from North America, while losses in Europe increased 56 percent, to $306 million.

“We delivered solid results for the third quarter despite an uncertain business environment by continuing to serve our customers around the world with best-in-class vehicles,” Ford’s chief executive, Alan R. Mulally, said in a statement.

The overall profi t is equal to 41 cents a share and brings the carmaker’s total earnings for 2011 to $6.6 billion, 4 percent more than the fi rst nine months of 2010. Ford earned $1.69 billion, or 43 cents a share, in the third quarter of 2010. Revenue increased 14 percent to $33.1 billion.

The company earned a third-quarter pretax operating profit of $1.94 billion, or 46 cents a share, $111 million less than a year ago. That fi gure, which excludes special items related to job cuts, the end of the Mercury brand and dealer-related actions, is slightly above the consensus analyst forecast of 44 cents a share.

Operating profit was reduced by a $350 million noncash charge related to commodity hedges after prices declined signifi cantly at the end of September, Ford said. It projected that structural and commodity costs for all of 2011 would be $3.8 billion higher than 2010, less than its initial forecast of $4 billion.

Ford said it reduced its automotive debt by $1.3 billion in the quarter to $12.7 billion. It reported positive automotive cash flow of $400 million, but automotive gross cash declined by $1.2 billion to $20.8 billion.

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Thursday, Oct. 27 Red Cross Blood Drive at Scarborough Bull Moose

‘Phantom of the Opera’

7:30 p.m. “The Friends of the Kotzschmar organ present the 1925 silent horror fi lm, ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ for their annual Halloween show.

Critically acclaimed and sought after as theatre organist and silent fi lm accompanist, Scott Foppaino, returns to the Ktozschmar bench to accompany this silent classic. The Portland Ballet will perform Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens prior to the fi lm.” The Kotzshmar Organ Halloween Silent Film, Scott Foppiano organist. Merrill Auditorium. Kids under 12 are free but must have ticket. Call 842-0800 for details. https://tickets.porttix.com/public/ show.asp

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vampires aren’t the only ones out for blood this month. The Red Cross will hold a blood drive at Bull Moose, 456 Payne Road, Scarborough. For more information, call 885-9553. All donors will receive a $5 Panera gift certificate and be entered to win a gift basket including a $50 Bull Moose gift card and a USB record player.

CTN 25th anniversary

5:30 p.m. CTN 25th anniversary gala event at Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St. RSVP, call 775-2900, ext. 200. Celebration of 25 years of programming by Community Television Network.

Planet Dog’s seventh annual Halloween Party

Saturday, Oct. 29

6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Planet Dog’s seventh annual Halloween Party will feature free spooky brew and lots of slimy drool along with a Best Home-Made Costume Contest. First prize winner will receive a Bowser Bed worth $100, second and third prize winners will receive a cauldron of free Planet Dog “treats.” The store will be packed with scary, howling, happy dogs and humans. Free beer, other refreshments and free treats for two and four legged trick or treaters will be given out. Kids welcome. Judging starts at 6:30 p.m. sharp. The Planet Dog Company Store located at 211 Marginal Way in Portland. This is a free event for dog lovers and their animal companions. However, donations are always encouraged and accepted for the Planet Dog Foundation to help them support organizations that enable dogs to give back to humans in need. 347-8606

Drug Take-Back program

Mayoral Candidates meeting

7 p.m. The India Street Neighborhood Association is hosting a Mayoral Candidates meeting on at St. Peter’s Church on Federal Street, starting promptly at 7 p.m. All candidates will be invited.

Those who attend will be asked a series of questions relating to their ideas for the offi ce and to the India Street Neighborhood. Each candidate will have a chance to address each question.

Answers should be brief and will be kept to a uniform time. The meeting is open to all interested On Oct. 29, the public is invited to the Mayo Street Arts Haunted House Costume Ball, “Scicitizens. If there are any questions or comments, Fi Experiments Gone Wrong” Haunted House, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Costume Ball with The please respond to: info@indiastreet.org.

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Poets Theater of Maine Halloween production

7:30 p.m. Poets Theater of Maine announced its Halloween production, “The Raven, Ghouls, and Renewal: Pagan Poems and Stories for Halloween,” directed by Assunta Kent, at Mayo Street Arts in Portland. Doors open 7 p.m.

Admission $7, $4 students and seniors. The show weaves together traditional Halloween stories recounted by storyteller Deena Weinstein, dramatic performances of eerie poetic classics by Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Adams, and Christina Rossetti, and a ritual poem by Poets Theater of Maine co-founder Annie Finch. Halloween, called Samhain in pagan tradition, is thought to be the time when the door between the dead and living is open. “The Raven, Ghouls, and Renewal” reconnects the scary, fun elements of the holiday with its ancient meaning of rebirth. Admission is $7 for the general public, and $4 for students and seniors. Recommended for ages 12 and up.

Mayo Street Arts is located at 10 Mayo St. (off Cumberland Avenue on Munjoy Hill).

‘The Spirits of Vaudeville’

8 p.m. Dark Follies presents “The Spirits of Vaudeville.”

Oct. 27 to Oct. 29 at 8 p.m., matinee at 2 p.m., Oct. 29.

Portland’s favorite vaudevillians take to the stage to present you with a Halloween inspired variety show full of tricks and treats. With dancing witches, juggling spooks and sneaky black cats you giggle and you’ll scream (with delight)! An evening full of performances by Kait-ma, The Lovely Janice, Maxwell, Cait Capaldi, Moira, Lady Selcouth, the Mighty Scavenger, the Dark Follies Rhythm Orchestra and more! Lucid State, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. $10 (advance/student/senior), $12 at door. www.darkfollies.com or www.lucidstage.com.

Friday, Oct. 28 Gorham Art Fair

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A Celebration of Community and the Arts with Friends and Family. Also Saturday, Oct. 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. “We are super excited to be having a Friday viewing and special events.”

Southern Maine Home Show

4 p.m. Oct. 28-30, Southern Maine Home Show at the Portland Expo, Portland. “The state’s largest fall show.” http:// homeshownet.com/109080.html

Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) at USM

8 p.m. Sometimes one musical just isn’t enough. You’ll get fi ve hilarious and charming musicals in one — all with the same plot but told through five different and distinct musical styles — when you come see The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) at the University of Southern Maine School of Music. Directed by USM School of Music faculty member Ed Reichert, Musical! will be performed Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 30 at 2 p.m., in the USM School of Music’s Corthell Concert Hall, Campus Drive, USM Gorham. Tickets cost $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 students/children. For reservations, call the USM Music Box Office at 780-5555. Sponsored by Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution. Find out more about the USM School of Music’s fall season and program offerings at www.usm. maine.edu/music.

‘Mozart’s Sister’

6:30 p.m. “Mozart’s Sister,” Friday, Oct. 28, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 29, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Oct. 30, 2 p.m. Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets: $7 and available on the day of the show. For a complete list of movies, visit moviesatthemuseum.org.

Damnationland 2011

7 p.m. “Damnationland 2011 will premiere at The Nickelodeon with a 9:15 show to follow, because the 7 p.m. show will defi nitely sell out. ... This year, six fi lmmakers from Maine strut their stuff, hoping to make you quiver, shiver, and shake!” Also, there will be a screening in the following theaters following the premiere in Portland.

Waterville — Railroad Square Cinema; Belfast — The Colonial; Brunswick — The Frontier; Bridgton — The Magic Lantern, Friday, Oct. 28 and Saturday, Oct. 29 .

Rockland — The Strand, Saturday, Oct. 29, 10 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 30, 3 p.m.; Auburn — Flagship Cinemas,

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ecomaine will again be a host site for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s free Drug Take-Back program from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29. DEA’s Maine Resident Agent in Charge Michael Wardrop said the program is offered, “so that everyone can rid their medicine cabinets and care facilities of those potentially harmful medications which impact our public safety, personal well being and clean environment.” “Troop G of the Maine State Police will be at ecomaine as individuals drive up to drop off any quantity of unwanted drugs. No questions. No forms to fi ll out. The ecomaine site is in Portland at 64 Blueberry Road, off outer Congress Street, just on the other side of the Maine Turnpike from UNUM.”

Harvestfest 2011

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29 is the big day for Harvestfest 2011, featuring games, carnival attractions, prizes, food, and “the Great Race across Portland.” All at Faith Temple, 1914 Congress St. In Portland, just east of the Jetport.

Everyone is welcome! For more information, please call 773-6334 or log onto www.Apostolicfaithtemple.com.

Time Lapse: Photographing over Time at the Portland Museum of Art

11 a.m. to noon. Portland Museum of Art. ‘Three photographers share how photographing the same theme over time affects both photographer and subject.

Jon Edwards documents traditional and vanishing ways of life, Lesley MacVane talks about her relationship with the people of Cliff Island, and Melonie Bennett shows her work taken of her family over the years. Artists’ presentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion with Susan Danly, curator of the Madeleine de Sinéty: Photographs exhibition.” Free with museum admission.

Little Theatre of the Deaf to perform in Maine

11 a.m. “Deaf and hard of hearing children will have a unique opportunity to experience live theatre in their own language this October as the Little Theatre of the Deaf performs at the University of Southern Maine and at the Baxter School for the Deaf. The Little Theatre of the Deaf is a small ensemble composed of Deaf and hearing actors from the acclaimed National Theatre of the Deaf, based in Hartford, Conn. It performs children’s theatre for Deaf and hearing audiences and their families, bringing both worlds together on one stage. The performances and workshops are sponsored by the Davis Family Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Friends of Baxter School.” Tickets for the performance at USM are available at $8 and can be purchased through the American Sign Language (ASL) Lab at USM, 49 Exeter St., Portland. 780-59 57 (voice), 780-4069 (TTY), or 766-709 7 (videophone). The children’s workshops are free and limited to 25 participants on a fi rst comefi rst-served basis. Children wishing to participate should also contact the American Sign Language Lab at USM. ASL student interpreters may purchase a package that includes both the interpreter’s workshop and the performance at $30. Both workshops are at the Wishcamper building, 34 Bedford St., Portland, at Room 211. The performance is at the Talbot Auditorium, Luther Bonney building, 90 Bedford St., Portland. Details of the performances and workshops can be found at http://www.ntd. org/wordpress/?page_id=3. see next page

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Kids’ Halloween Bash at children’s museum

Banned Book Film Festival, ‘Carrie’

1:30 p.m. “Trick-orTreat at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine is quickly becoming a tradition.

Last year hundreds of costumed children and families arrived to collect candy and prizes, march in an indoor costume parade throughout the exhibits, and boogie at the Monster Mash dance party.

Mask Making (1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.); Trick-or-Treat (2:30 Handel and Haydn Society p.m. to 3:30 p.m.): 3 p.m. Portland Ovations brings Come in costume, and the Handel and Haydn Society bring a bucket; Slime to Hannaford Hall at USM PortMaking (3 p.m. to land for an afternoon concert .

3:30 p.m.): Volunteers Approaching its bicentennial in from USM’s Chemis2015, the Handel and Haydn try Club will lead visiSociety is the oldest continutors through the ooey, ously performing arts orgagooey science of slime nization in the United States. making; Halloween Founded in Boston in 1815, Parade (3:30 p.m.) and the Handel and Haydn Society Monster Mash (3:30 is internationally recognized for p.m. to 4:30 p.m.): its revelatory style of using the Pirates, princesses, instruments and techniques of superheroes, kitty cats the composer’s time. The mis– all are welcome in the sion of the Society is to perform The Gallery at Harmon’s & Barton’s is located on the second floor at the Halloween Parade. All Baroque and Classical music at 584 Congress St. shop. Maine’s Blue Butterfi eld makes both woodcuts activities take place at the highest levels and share that and sculpted tile. See her website at http://bluebutterfi eld.com/BlueK- the Children’s Museum music with a large and diverse arnofskyButterfield.html. & Theatre of Maine, audience. With an esteemed 142 Free St. in Porttradition of innovation and land. Halloween Bash excellence, which began in the activities are free with admission ($9/person, under 18 months 19th century with the American premieres of Handel’s Mesfree).

The Museum & Theatre is open from noon to 5 p.m. on siah (1818), the Handel and Haydn Society over the last Sundays.

For more information, visit www.kitetails.org or call 20 years have given important historical performances of 828-1234. core repertoire and introduced innovative programs to great acclaim. They also won a Grammy award in 2002 for their Discovery Concert: Symphony Spooktacular recording of Sir John Tavener’s Lamentations and Praises, 2:30 p.m. “ Discover a Halloween experience fi lled with co-commissioned with Chanticleer. symphonic thrills and chills for the whole family! Maestro Robert Moody leads the ghouls and goblins of the PSO in Calamity Janes vs. Rock Coast Rollers some of the greatest ‘spooktacular’ music ever written for 5:30 p.m. See some Maine-on-Maine action as Maine orchestra, including the ‘Funeral March of a Marionette’ by Roller Derby’s Calamity Janes and RIP Tides take on the Gounod, music from Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie Fantastique,’ Rock Coast Rollers. “MRD’s newest members, the R.I.P. and ‘The Chill of the Orchestra’ by American composer Tides, are a group of fi erce fresh meat who will make their Russell Peck. Dancers from Portland Ballet will join in ‘Beldebut at Happy Wheels alongside the Janes in this mixed la’s Lullaby’ from ‘Twilight’ and lead the entire audience in bout. MRD welcomes RCR, a new league from Rockland, the zombie dance stylings of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.’” as these two teams battle for the fi rst time!” Doors at 5 Merrill Auditorium. p.m. Happy Wheels, 331 Warren Ave., Portland. Tickets: Purchase advance tickets online or at the door. General Bluestocking Films — Films by Women Admission: $5 4 p.m. “BFS was conceived by fi lmmaker Kate Kaminski and is a collaboration between Gitgo Productions and the Sid Tripp’s 16th annual Halloween Bash St. Lawrence. Because women fi lmmakers are underrep9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sid Tripp of local marketing fi rm Proacresented in the fi lmmaking industry and largely misrepretive Resources Design and business networking group The sented in forms of media worldwide we are thrilled to create DownEast Pride Alliance will hold his 16th annual Hallowa series within Maine that supports women filmmakers and een Bash at Mariner’s Church on 386 Fore St. in Portland provides them with a state of the art venue to showcase with exciting live band Under The Covers to perform. Tripp their craft.” The USM Women and Gender Studies Program, is expecting a similar attendance of over 400 people at this the Maine Film Offi ce and the Maine Film and Video Assoyear’s event, and doors will open at 9 p.m. and the party ciation are co-sponsoring the event. For more information will continue until 1 a.m. This year’s theme is zombies, so on the Bluestocking Film Series contact Whitney McDorr bring your best ghoulish costume and makeup. $20 cover at whitney.mcdorr@stlawrencearts.org or by telephone at (check, cash or cards accepted); ages 21 and up. Costume 347-3075 or Kate Kaminski at gitgo_productions@yahoo. required, cash bars. com. www.stlawrencearts.org 1:30 p.m. Portland Public Library, Meeting Room 5, 5 Monument Square, Portland.

“Since the inception of Banned Books Week in 19 82, libraries and bookstores throughout the country have staged events and local readings as part of their activities. Please join Portland Public Library for this series of fi lms that was conceived from well-known banned books. A discussion will follow after each screening for those who wish to stay and participate.” Stephen King’s “Carrie.”

Sunday, Oct. 30 Portland String Quartet 2011-2012 season opening concert with Maine State Historian

1 p.m. Pre-concert lecture. Concert at 2 p.m. Concert Lecture with Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodfords St., Portland.

“The PSQ and special guest Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth will present the World Premiere of a string quartet by Portland native John Knowles Paine, composed in Portland c.1855. Also on the program is Walter Piston’s String Quartet No. 1, and Charles Ives’ String Quartet No. 1, ‘A Revival Service.’ A reception will follow the concert.”

Cost: $22 general admission, $20 seniors, free for 21 and younger. Subsidized or free tickets available upon request.

LARK Society for Chamber Music, 761-1522, lark@larkso-

Monday, Oct. 31 Violin Masterclass at USM

4 p.m. The University of Southern Maine School of Music will host Charles Dimmick, concertmaster of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, for a violin masterclass, at 4 p.m. in Corthell Concert Hall, USM Gorham. In addition to the PSO, Dimmick performs with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Rhode Island Philharmonic, as well as the Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston and Chamber Orchestra of Boston. He is a former USM School of Music assistant professor of violin. Tickets to the masterclass cost $6, and can be purchased at the door. The class is free for USM music students, faculty, and staff, as well as USM Youth Ensemble members. For more information on the USM School of Music’s fall concert season and pro-

grams of study, visit www.usm.maine.edu/music. Sign up for e-notices, or fi nd us on Facebook as USM School of Music, www.facebook.com/Music.USM.

Tuesday, Nov. 1 ‘I Can’t Remember. I Can’t Forget’

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hospice of Southern Maine will host a daylong conference in Scarborough, titled “I Can’t Remember.

I Can’t Forget: Spiritual Journeys of Alzheimer’s Patients and Combat Veterans at End of Life.” The national speaker, The Rev. Dr. Kathleen Rusnak PhD, author of the book, “Because You’ve Never Died Before,” will speak in the morning session on the topic of recognizing and maximizing the spiritual possibilities of the Alzheimer’s patients, and in the afternoon on the inner spiritual battles combat soldiers wage at end of life. The event takes place at The Landing at Pine Point in Scarborough and costs $40 per person. Snacks and Lunch will be provided. Register online at www.hospiceofsouthernmaine.org. For more information, call 289-3678 or e-mail pastoralcare@hospiceofsouthernmaine.org

Wednesday, Nov. 2 Legislative forum with a panel of elected officials

7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. The Falmouth Cumberland Community chamber will host legislators from Augusta. Mary Nelson, Dick Woodbury, Mark Dion and Meredith Burgess will present a panel focused on issues affecting businesses in the community. The event will be held in the Falmouth Memorial Library.

Michelle Malkin in South Portland

11:15 a.m. Conservative columnist and author at the Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks, South Portland. Sponsor Reception with Michelle Malkin, followed at noon by Luncheon and Remarks. “Michelle Malkin began her career in newspaper journalism a decade ago as an editorial writer and columnist for The Los Angeles Daily News, moving on to The Seattle Times in 1996. Her column, now syndicated, appears in 100 papers nationwide, including The New York Post, Miami Herald, Washington Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Modesto Bee and The Detroit News. Malkin launched her Web site, MichelleMalkin.com,

Thursday, Nov. 3 The History Of Maine Skiing

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association at 519 Congress St., Portland. www.mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com. Scott Andrews presenting The History Of Maine Skiing. Refreshments. FMI call 773-8396 or visit www.skimuseumofmaine.org.

Poet and author Gray Jacobik

5 p.m. Poet and author Gray Jacobik reading from her work, on the seventh fl oor Events Room, Glickman Library, Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. Free.

Call 892-9831.

Good vs. Evil: Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert

7:30 p.m. “Culinary arts take center stage in this evening of storytelling that serves up frank and provocative insight into what really goes on behind the kitchen doors. Anthony Bourdain, chef, author of Medium Raw and Kitchen Confidential and host of The Travel Channel’s ‘No Reservations’and Eric Ripert, renowned chef of Le Bernardin, author and regular guest on Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’ share tales and muse on the place of food in our personal, community and global life.

VIP tickets include premiere seating, invitation to an exclusive meet-and-greet reception with Bourdain and Ripert at Grace Restaurant, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, a VIP tour laminate and a limited edition poster. No discounts, no exchanges; a non-subscription event. Contains strong language.” Merrill Auditorium. http://portlandovations.org

Friday, Nov. 4 Annual Key4Women Forum

11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. KeyBank will host the Annual Key4Women Forum, “Creating a Culture of Courage: The New Leadership Challenge.” Leadership and customer service expert Cindy Solomon will discuss: four types of courage and when and how to invoke each for success in business, why fi nding the courage to move forward is the key to success in today’s new business economy, and how to inspire courage personally and professsionally. Women in business: business owners, leaders, decision makers and nonprofi t directors. Marriott Sable Oaks, 200 Sable Oaks Drive, South Portland. $30, payable to McAuley Residence.

Contact Sherry Brown, KeyBank, 207-874-7230, or register online at www.key.com/womensforum. (Advance registra see next page

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Poet and author Brigit Pegeen Kelly

2 p.m. Poet and author Brigit Pegeen Kelly: informal talk at 2 p.m.; 4 p.m. reading from her work; in seventh floor Events Room, Glickman Library, Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine. Free. Call 780-4291.

Back Cove Artists at MCMA

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Art Walk, Back Cove Artists showing their watercolors. Eight artists formed this group of watercolorists in 1987. Among the artists are Joan Bennert, Joan Connick, Bernie & Barbara Wall. The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association at 519 Congress St., Portland. www. mainecharitablemechanicassociation.com.

First Friday Art Walk: Gideon Bok and Xander Marro

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. SPACE Gallery. With the support of the Artist’s Resouce Trust, Gideon Bok will work through the month of November and into December, using the gallery as the subject for a charcoal life drawing on one of the gallery walls. Gideon’s interior paintings and drawings highlight the passage of time, usually utilizing the space where the work is made. They feature the changing cast of characters who have stopped by, records strewn about, and other artifacts such as musical instruments, empty bottles, and semi-complete paintings. Accompanying this wall drawing will be a collection of perspective paintings Gideon has painted, reproducing more than 200 LP record covers unified by loose conceptual threads. In the annex, a last look at Xander Marro’s Cursed New England. www.space538.org/ events.php

The Beauty of Darfur; The Tragedy of Genocide at First Friday Art Walk

5 p.m. to 9 p.m. As part of First Friday Art Walk, the Via Agency will open its doors at the Baxter building, 619 Congress St., Portland to host a very special event to bring awareness to and help efforts to end the genocide in Darfur.

Come view inspiring and breath taking works of art created

by Falmouth and Yarmouth High School student artists that feature contrasting work representing Darfur’s beauty, and the tragic genocide. Tom Andrews, President and CEO of United to End Genocide* and former Maine Congressman will be on hand for conversation and will lead a dialog with Maine’s Sudanese Community. The Pihcintu Multicultural Chorus, directed by Con Fullam, award-winning producer, musician, and songwriter, will be lending their voices to this occasion and will be performing a selection of songs. Viewing the artwork, mingling with the artists, survivors, and Tom will take place between 5:00-7:30 PM. Student musicians will perform light background music. At 7:30 PM there will be a performance by Pihcintu, an international immigrants children’s choir. At 7:45 there will be remarks by Tom Andrews and a dialog with Maine’s Sudanese Community members. El- Fadel Arbab, a survivor of the genocide in Darfur, an Educator, and Secretary of the Fur Cultural Revival met with students at Yarmouth and Falmouth to educated them about the genocide. It was from those meetings and further research on the students’ part that the art is being inspired and created. This event is in collaboration with VIA Agency, Falmouth High School, Yarmouth High School, USM Offi ce of Multi-Cultural Student Affairs, Fur Cultural Revival, Pihcintu, and NAACP Portland Branch.

Claddagh Award Ceremony

6 p.m. The Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland, welcomes the public to the fourth annual Claddagh Award Ceremony to honor William J. Ryan and to raise funds for the MIHC. William J. Ryan is retired as Chairman of the Board of TD Bank, N.A. http://www.maineirish.com

Maine Brewers Festival

6:30 p.m. The 18th annual Maine Brewers Festival will be held on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, as New Englanders come together to celebrate the local Maine craft beer community. The Evening with the Brewers VIP Session will kick off the festival weekend on Friday night, and

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‘Paul Goodman Changed My Life’

6:30 p.m. “Paul Goodman Changed My Life,” Friday, Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 5, 2 p.m.; Sunday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m.

Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets: $7 and available on the day of the show. For a complete list of movies, visit moviesatthemuseum.org.

Saturday, Nov. 5 Kids Open Studios: Record Art!

12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery. “Our current gallery artist Gideon Bok’s still life paintings of record covers set the stage for this installment of Kids Open Studios.

From Neil Young to The Stooges to The Dandy Warhols and Funkadelic, we are using music as our inspiration. Come get groovy and choose from our stock of vintage records to paint on, collage over or alter to create a unique piece of art! Suggested age is 3 and up. This open studios is geared for kids, but all ages are welcome to come and create!” $5 studio fee/free for SPACE members, all ages. www. space538.org/events.php

Portland Boxing Club N.E. Championships

6 p.m. For the fourth consecutive year, the Portland Boxing Club has won the bid to host the 2011-2012 USA Boxing New England Championships. This tournament dates back 125 years with such notable World Champions from New England as John L Sullivan, Jack Sharkey, Rocky Marciano, Marvin Hagler, Tony Demarco — and this year’s special guest, “Irish” Micky Ward who will make an appearance at the Championship Finals. Ward was recently the subject of an Academy Award-nominated movie “The Fighter.” The Championships will be held on Saturday, Nov. 5, and Saturday, Nov. 12 at the Portland Boxing Club, 33 Allen Ave., Portland and the Championship Finals will be held on Saturday, Nov. 26 at the Stevens Ave Armory, 772 Stevens Ave., Portland. Doors opening at 6 p.m., bouts starting at 8 p.m.

For more info call 761-09 75 or visit www.portlandboxingclub.org.

Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine annual meeting in Portland

8:45 a.m. to 9 :45 a.m. Lisa Carlson, co-author of “Final Rights,” and past president of the Funeral Consumers Alliance is the featured speaker at the Annual Meeting of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine, at Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Avenue, Portland.

The business meeting will be from 8:45 a.m. to 9 :45 a.m.

Refreshments will be from 9:45 to 10:15 a.m., and the featured speaker at 10:15 will be followed by a panel discussion with members of Last Things, Chuck Lakin, Klara Tammany, and Eva Thompson. Members are $5, non-members $10.

Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death drew back the curtain on the funeral industry’s excesses. Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson’s Final Rights investigates the $15 billion funeral and burial industry in 2011, exposing consumer abuse, fi nancial exploitation of the bereaved and how government regulators can’t be counted on to protect the grieving. The public is invited to attend.

Home Grown Maine in Augusta

9 a.m. On Nov. 5 and 6, the Marijuana Caregivers of Maine association is hosting an event at the Augusta Civic Center, the fi rst ever Home Grown Maine, “with a focus on Maine talent, Maine vendors and supporting the Maine Medical Marijuana Community!” Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine is a trade association whose purpose is to represent the interests of medical marijuana caregivers (growers and providers) here in the state of Maine. Located at the Augusta

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Pink Tulip Project Bulb Planting

10 a.m. to noon. “Save the date for the fall bulb planting in the Friends of the Eastern Promenade Pink Tulip Project Garden. We’ll be planting bulbs beginning at 10 a.m. Nov. 5 in front of the Cousins Memorial at the top of Cutter Street.

You can donate now to the Friends of the Eastern Promenade Pink Tulip Project Garden in honor of someone in your life who has been affected by cancer. All proceeds benefi t the Women’s Cancer Fund at the Maine Cancer Foundation.”

Family and artist event with artist Karen Gelardi

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Portland Museum of Art. Free with museum admission. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Portland-based artist Karen Gelardi will bring the art of the Shakers and the ideas of the current Gather Up the Fragments exhibition to life for families. Join us as she transforms the Great Hall of the Museum into a fun-fi lled art workshop. Families and children of all ages will have the chance to experiment with a variety of art materials, to draw, cut, stitch, and tape things together and create a unique fabric patch to take home as well as help the artist create a very large work of art! You’ll be inspired, as the artist is, by nature and geometry in the Shaker objects and delight in the beauty of simple design.

Wild & Scenic Film Festival

4 p.m. Hosted by Friends of Casco Bay, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival will come to University of Southern Maine, Hannaford Hall, Portland. A reception to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Casco Baykeeper Joe Payne. Doors open at 4 p.m., popcorn and cash bar 4-5 p.m., fi lms 5-7 p.m., celebration following. Tickets: $15 (plus service fee), $20 at the door . FMI: www.cascobay.org.

Maine College of Art 37th annual Auction

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. A benefi t to support the exhibiting artists and to provide scholarships for MECA students. Public Previews: Nov. 1-4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. First Friday Artwalk and Special Sale. Specifi c works available for purchase at fair market value, Nov. 4, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Auction tickets are $40 in advance by 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, or $50 at the door.

Admission includes an array of food, beer and wine. Call 775.5098 for more information.

Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights dance event

7 p.m. “ ALHAN Middle Eastern Music Ensemble and Jamileh present a Benefi t Arabic Dance Party featuring the dabke folk dance and classical Egyptian Belly Dancing. (Plus, a chance to accomplish your holiday gift-buying, choosing from beautiful Palestinian pottery, scarves, soaps, bracelets and more) for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, Woodford’s Club 179 Woodford Street, Portland (Across the street from Woodford’s Congregational Church. Free parking). Adults, $15; seniors and students, $8; under 12, free.

Discounts available to families. For further info, contact Bob Schaible: 239 -8060; rmschaible@gmail.com. Help support the Maia Project to bring clean water to the children of Palestine. MECA is a nonprofi t humanitarian aid organization based in Berkeley, Calif. They support children and families in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon through direct aid, including food, medical supplies, educational resources, fi nancial support and professional assistance to community organizations.”

Monday, Nov. 7 Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean

7:30 p.m. Travel lecture held at McAuley Auditorium, “Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean” produced and presented

by Sid & Mary Lee Nolan. Free to The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association members; $2 for non-members. 7738396.

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Pujols unlikely to find unconditional love elsewhere

BY GEORGE VECSEY THE NEW YORK TIMES

ST. LIOUS (NY TIMES) — How much is enough?

This is something Albert Pujols is going to have to fi gure out before he decides whether he wants to remain a Cardinal or move on to a richer and, dare I say it, more demanding market.

Pujols was facing possibly the last game of his contract and of his Cardinals career as this grand old baseball city awaited Game 6 of the World Series on Wednesday.

Any way the Series ends, Pujols is sure to fi nish this week, this season, with the roaring adoration of the fans in the only town he has known. He will be ending his 11th season as a superstar who has hit three home runs in one World Series game (Saturday) and been walked intentionally three times and given the liberty to put on a doomed hit-and-run play (Monday).

Sometime in the next weeks and months, Pujols is going to have to choose where he wants to play for the rest of his career. He has turned down a contract said to be for nine years and about $200 million.

He is a logical man who has to know this one central fact: no town will ever love him more as a great player and, by all appearances, a steadfast charitable and religious family man.

It will never be easier for Pujols to be the person he is — which includes private, taciturn, perhaps even distant — than in this city, which adores its heroes. St. Louis never made demands that Stan Musial ever be

anything more than the gracious hey-hey-whattaya-say superstar next door.

The legion of elders who saw Musial play from 1941 to 1963 maintain that he would have higher recognition today as a career .331 hitter if he had played in a coastal city like New York, Boston or Los Angeles. What is overlooked is that the East Coast media hectored Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams in ways large and small — in a kinder and gentler time before the 24-hour gnawing of the carpenter ants of blog land and Twitter land.

Pujols may not be prepared to be the $300 million savior of a rich franchise. Who is? After a bad second game here, he vanished into the night, to the team bus or wherever, without dropping a few words to sate the news media. Later he said that he did not know anybody would want to talk to him, which just does not calibrate.

Derek Jeter gives nothing away — nothing — but he shows up, says his controlled piece, and moves on.

The crumbling Alex Rodriguez, serving out the last six years of the worst contract in baseball history — as much as $300 million over 10 years — often makes things worse for himself in ways Pujols never would. After taxes, Pujols would still be able to do wonderful things for children with Down syndrome and all his admirable causes.

Pujols is a civic hero in St. Louis.

Undoubtedly, Harry Weber, the sculptor who made the 10 vital statues that bristle with life in the outdoor corner of Eighth and Clark, has made mental

sketches of how he would portray Pujols. The poses vary — Cool Papa Bell, the St. Louisan who never got to the majors because of segregation, is rounding a base; good old Red Schoendienst is airborne, making the pivot at second base. Pujols surely would be depicted with bat in hand.

I visited the sculpture area on Tuesday, when the temperature was still 80 degrees. (It was expected to drop by half by Wednesday evening.)

James Rooks from Myrtle Beach, S.C., who had a ticket for the sixth game, was asked where the eventual Pujols statue would be placed. “Maybe in the bathroom,” he said. “Depends on whether he signs with them.”

Rooks said he understood a great player would want to make as much as he could, “but he’ll make more in one year than most of us make in a lifetime.” Asked about the free agency that ballplayers gained after the Curt Flood suit (Flood is not included in the sculpture garden, oddly enough), Rooks said, “If I told my boss I was testing free agency, he’d say, ‘Fine, don’t come back.’ “ Should Pujols move on? “He should go to the Astros,” said a woman who was inspecting the statues. Turned out, she was from Texas, still smarting over the moon shot Pujols hit off Brad Lidge in 2005.

The Cardinals management is playing the game its own way. On Monday General Manager John Mozeliak said about Pujols: “There’s no doubt he’s been the identity of this organization for the past decade, and trying to push just one button or try to say you’re not

going to feel that loss would be very difficult to say, especially in this environment.”

Cardinals fans have been imploring Pujols with standing ovations and chants and banners and probably even prayers. On Wednesday he was down to a game or two. It was on everybody’s mind.

Tony La Russa, explaining on Tuesday why Pujols had the freedom to call the backfi red hit-and-run in Game 5, volunteered, “I think I’ve said over and over again that for the 11 years that we’ve been together, Albert has proven every year, virtually every day of the season and postseason, he is a great player, not just a great producer, he’s a very smart baseball player.”

Asked if it was on his mind that this could be the last game for Pujols as a Cardinal, La Russa, himself unsigned, said: “Well, yeah, you have a lot of time to think about your team. And over the course of the rush at the end of the season into the postseason, I have thought about Albert’s situation because he’s a teammate, and I care a lot about him personally and professionally.”

Pujols, true to his code, addressed his free agency when spring training opened, and has not revisited it since.

Asked about his status the other day, Pujols said: “Let’s talk about something else. Let’s talk about baseball.”

Fair enough. But in weeks to come, Pujols needs to remind himself — if his agents and advisers do not — that money is not everything.

Big 12 may invite Louisville, not West Virginia, as previously thought (NY TIMES) — After being informed by Big 12 offi cials that it would be admitted to the conference, West Virginia now fi nds itself in a holding pattern.

A Big 12 conference call Tuesday night was expected to be a formality on West Virginia’s road to admit-

tance. Instead, objections were raised.

A late push by Louisville has put political pressure on the Big 12 and opened the possibility of Louisville’s being the university that is admitted instead of West Virginia. Two people with direct knowledge of

the situation said that lobbying by the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, including to David Boren, the president of the University of Oklahoma and a former senator, helped slow West Virginia’s admittance to the Big 12.

West Virginia offi cials, who called the deal “solid” late Tuesday afternoon, declined comment Wednesday.

“I think it’s 50-50 right now between West Virginia and Louisville,” one of the people with direct knowledge said. The other added that it was “too close to call.”