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Mayoral money race getting clearer

BY CASEY CONLEY PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Campaign finance reports aren’t due to City Hall until this afternoon, but early fi lings suggest that, when all is said and done, some mayoral candidates will spend $50,000 or more on the election.

Financial reports filed ahead of today’s deadline showed Michael Brennan raised $41,075, not including a $5,000

Brennan raises $41K but spends most of it; PAC spends $11K on Rathband radio spots loan he made to his campaign on Oct. 26.

Charles Bragdon raised $1,135, Richard Dodge raised $1,985, according to their respective filings.

Meanwhile, a political action committee called The Portland Committee for

Economic Development has launched in recent weeks to help elect Jed Rathband.

According to its filing with the city, the group has already spent $11,200 in support of Rathband’s campaign, including about $10,000 in radio ads.

The PAC’s officers are former school board candidate Frank Gallagher, developer Drew Swenson and artist Daniel Pepice, the filing indicates. see MONEY page 6

Lawmakers want better gas pump data

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Milestone Foundation, pictured at center, is one of two local shelters affected by changes to federal reimbursement claim rules (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO).

Shelters in ‘crisis’ amid rule change

BY MATTHEW ARCO PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland’s social service providers are scrambling to meet new federal guidelines due to be take effect Monday, saying an already serious situation with homeless shelters in the city is about to get worse.

Beginning Nov. 1, changes to federal reimbursement claims for certain facilities that provide refuge for the city’s homeless will

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force two local shelters to turn away dozens of people. The new rules will impact the Milestone Foundation and Serenity House, offi cials said.

The federal mandate — which forces the two shelters to remove a combined 60 beds — means adding additional people to other shelters already “bursting at the seams,” says John Shoos, a chairman of the Portland’s Emergency Shelter Assessment Committee. see SHELTERS page 9

AUGUSTA – Members of the legislature’s Agriculture, Forestry and Conservation Committee yesterday got some answers to questions about accuracy of gas pumps in the state Thursday, but were told the outdated database used by the Bureau of Weights and Measures could not answer all their questions.

“I just got the error rate information this morning, “Hal Prince, Director of the Bureau said in an interview following the meeting. “I am going to ask if they can tell me how much of that is over delivering and how much is under delivering, but I don’t know when or if I will get answer.”

He told the panel that after news accounts indicated several stations in different parts of the state had been overcharging and undercharging consumers; the Offi ce of Information Technology was asked to determine an error rate from the Weights and Measure’s inspection records. They provided a report that indicated that in 2010 the agency tested 8,214 gas nozzles and 432 were malfunctioning for an error rate of 5.26 percent.

Rep. Jeffrey Timberlake, R-Turner, asked Prince how much of the error rate was attributed to pumps over-delivering see GAS PUMPS page 9

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Cities begin crackdown on ‘Occupy’ protests OAKLAND, Calif. (NY Times) — After weeks of cautiously accepting the teeming round-the-clock protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street, several cities have come to the end of their patience and others appear to be not far behind.

In Oakland, in a scene reminiscent of the antiwar protests of the 1960s, the police filled downtown streets with tear gas late Tuesday to stop throngs of protesters from re-entering a City Hall plaza that had been cleared of their encampment earlier in the day.

Those protests, which resulted in more than 100 arrests and at least one life-threatening injury, had appeared ready to ignite again on Wednesday night as supporters of the Occupy movement promised to retake the square, where the encampment site was fenced off.

After about an hour of speeches, the crowd removed the fences around the site. The number of protesters swelled to about 3,000 people, but the demonstration remained peaceful.

Leaders led a series of calland-response chants. “Now the whole world is watching Oakland,” was one phrase that was repeated as passing cars honked in approval.

The police had gone, compared with a heavy presence the night before.

The offi cial protest broke up around 10 p.m. local time, peacefully, with protesters dancing, carrying American fl ags and generally celebrating what seemed to be a wellattended demonstration.

Shortly after the end of that protest, however, hundreds of demonstrators began to wander down Broadway, Oakland’s central thoroughfare, in an unplanned march. The Oakland police, who had been noticeably absent during the protests at City Hall, began donning protective riot gear as demonstrators chanted and tried to board Bay Area Rapid Transit trains. Several entrances to the BART system were closed, agitating protesters and adding to an increasingly tense atmosphere in Oakland, which had exploded in violence a mere 24 hours earlier.

The impromptu march continued west toward Oakland’s waterfront as it became more apparent that there was little central organizing structure.

About 10:25 p.m., a crowd of a thousand protesters arrived at Oakland’s police headquarters and began milling about. Some tried to put garbage cans in the street, while others beseeched the crowd to remain peaceful.

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Global markets jump on Europe’s Greek debt deal (NY TIMES) — Stocks rallied around the world on Thursday, pushing the broader market in the United States back onto positive ground for the year, after European leaders reached a deal to spread the pain of restructuring Greece’s debt and try to bring the crisis in the euro zone under control.

While the deal helped to restore confi dence to the fi nancial markets, analysts noted that questions remained about how it would be implemented. They also worried that fully fixing the problems of excessive debt and weak growth could take years.

Still, after days of anticipation, the markets put whatever uncertainties remained behind them, at least for now. Financial stocks in particular were up more than 6 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average soared 339.51 points to close up 2.86 percent at 12,208.55, while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index was up even more, 3.43 percent, at 1,284.56 and the Nasdaq composite index rose 3.32 percent to 2,738.63.

The S.&P. moved into positive territory for the year on Thursday, up about 2.1 percent. The Dow was up more than 5 percent and the Nasdaq more than 3 percent for the year.

Stocks closed up as much as 6 percent in Europe, after a strong showing in Asia.

It was a marked turn-around from just a few weeks ago, when anxiety over the European debt crisis helped push Wall Street to the brink of a bear market. On Oct. 3, the S.&P. 500 was down 19.4 percent from its high on April 29.

The latest news from Europe came early Thursday, when offi cials from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund reached a deal with bankers to write down the face value of their Greek debt by 50 percent, hoping to reduce the ratio of the country’s debt to gross domestic product to 120 percent by 2020. Economists believe that is essential if Greece is not to default on its loans.

Offi cials also agreed that European banks would need to raise more capital and said they would increase the euro zone bailout fund to $1.4 trillion, a move that they hope will provide the capacity necessary to keep Italy and Spain from following Greece’s painful path.

“The most important outcome is it seems to remove from the table fears of an imminent bank crisis,” said David Joy, chief market strategist for Ameriprise Financial. “What this does is it buys Europe time to do the hard work of initiating structural reforms.”

But like others, he injected a note of caution: “It addresses the symptoms, but not the disease. They need to follow through,

there is no question.”

Economists noted that the deal Thursday was but the latest in a series of such agreements addressing the debt crisis, which are usually followed by gains, then losses in the financial markets.

After the last deal was struck in July, for example, stocks and bonds in Europe and the United States gave it a positive reception. But the sentiment soon turned and markets failed to sustain their gains. The S.&P. in the United States fell below 1,300 after about a week. and eventually sank to its lowest level for the year.

“Overall, then, while the plans represent a step forward, we suspect that they will soon be viewed in the same way as every other policy response during this crisis — as too little, too late,” Jonathan Loynes, an economist with Capital Economics, wrote in a research note.

He said he still expected a “prolonged recession in the euro zone,” further market turbulence, and continued to have doubts about the future of the euro itself “in its current form.”

The Euro Stoxx 50 index, a barometer of euro zone blue chips, closed up 6.1 percent, while the FTSE 100 index in London gained 2.9 percent. In Paris, the main index was up 6.3 percent, while Frankfurt’s was 5.35 percent higher.

Financial shares led European indexes.

Banks reassured by deal; Italy remains a worry Economic FRANKFURT (NY TIMES) — European banks may win back a measure of confi dence from a plan that would compel them to arm themselves for a plunge in the value of Greek debt.

The mandatory recapitalization was one of the main achievements of European leaders’ summit meeting that ran into the early hours Thursday in Brussels. But it will not be enough to erase doubts about banks’ creditworthiness and restore their access to international money markets, analysts said.

The big problem is that Italy, with its dysfunctional politics and nearly 2 trillion, or around $2.8 trillion, in outstanding debt, has supplanted Greece as the biggest threat to European banks and the biggest source of investor anxiety.

If Italy were to have trouble servicing its debt, no amount of fresh capital could protect the European banking system.

“Everything depends on Italy,” said Lüder Gerken, director of the Center for European Policy in Freiburg, Germany. “If Italy goes under, a recapitalization won’t do anything.”

“Italy has to make fundamental reforms,” he added. If not, “then the euro is history.”

Like most of what emerged from Brussels, the plan to strengthen banks was seen as good, but not quite good enough.

The measures start to address the fragility of the European banking system, one of the core elements of the debt crisis. Continental banks generally have lower reserves than their U.S. counterparts, making

them less able to absorb losses from their holdings of government bonds or other troubled assets.

As a result, many European banks have been cut off by U.S. money market funds and other wholesale lenders, and have become dependent on emergency funds provided by the European Central Bank.

The recapitalization plan would compel 70 European banks to raise an estimated 106 billion by mid2012, according to the European Banking Authority, which will oversee the drive.

They will be required to hold reserves equal to 9 percent of the money they have at risk. And they will be required to recognize market losses in their holdings of government bonds.

Banks would also get government guarantees to help them issue bonds for longer periods, though details remain to be worked out.

Analysts said the guarantees were one of the most positive aspects of the plan because they would help provide banks with a steadier source of funds.

Banks can increase their reserves by hanging on to profi ts rather than distributing them to shareholders, or by selling assets to reduce overall risk.

As a last resort, they can turn to their governments or the euro zone rescue fund. But most will do anything to avoid the government involvement and the accompanying restrictions on executive pay that would result.

“One thing goes without saying: We do not intend to make use of public funds,” Eric Strutz, the chief financial officer of Commerzbank in Frankfurt, said in a statement.

growth speeds up

(NY TIMES) — Economic growth in the United States picked up in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, in an encouraging sign that the recovery, while still painfully slow, has not stalled.

Total output grew at an estimated annual rate of 2.5 percent from July to September, still modest but almost double the 1.3 percent rate in the second quarter, the department reported.

The pace, however, was not brisk enough to recover the ground lost in the economic bust, lower unemployment or even substantially dispel fears of a second recession.

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GLBT group endorses Strimling for mayor

The DownEast Pride Alliance, a gay and gay friendly business-networking group in Southern Maine, has endorsed Ethan Strimling for mayor of Portland.

In its latest newsletter, the alliance said it was “proud to stand behind Ethan Strimling for Mayor.”

“His commitment and support of the gay community is without precedent.

With the best chance for winning, Ethan Strimling has our back on GLBT issues,” the group said in a statement.

The group noted that Strimling ran Dale McCormick’s campaign for Congress in 1996 when she came within 2,000 votes of being the fi rst out lesbian in Congress. In 1998, he joined the Executive Committee of Maine Won’t Discriminate, as it tried to beat back the People’s Veto of Maine’s ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act). In 2008, he joined the board of Equality Maine and chaired the legislative committee as it passed Equal Marriage through the Maine Legislature. He continues his service on the Board as they try to fi nish the job in gaining marriage rights for all people.

“As Mayor of Portland, equality will always be front and center for Ethan as he looks for ways to ensure that all Portland people are treated equally,” the alliance’s founders wrote.

“I am honored to have the confidence and support of the (Downeast Pride Alliance) as we enter the fi nal weeks of my campaign,” Strimling said in a statement. The group “stands for equality, civil rights and fairness, issues that affect everyone in this city and this state. They will continue to be important as we work to bring more jobs and more economic equality to Portland.”

Gift card start-up gets $12M investment Porltand-based gift card start-up CashStar announced this week that it has secured $12 million in new funding. The company said in a statement that the funding would support its continued expansion into the digital gifting business, a rapidly growing segment of the $90 billion plus gift card market.

The investment was led by FTV Capital and included existing investors Steven Boal, president and CEO of Coupons.com, and Passport Capital.

The funding will be used to help drive continued adoption of digital gifting and grow CashStar’s retail brand network, which includes Starbucks, Gap, Best Buy, Williams-Sonoma, The Home Depot, Staples and nearly 200 other companies.

“We know from the recent RSR Research report and other data that consumers and businesses crave more personal and convenient ways to send digital gifts. CashStar’s digital platform makes this possible for the fi rst time,” said David Stone, CEO of CashStar.

Sea Dogs founder and media executive dies Daniel Burke, who had successful career as a media executive before buying the Portland Sea Dogs, passed away this week. He was 82.

The cause was complications of Type 1 diabetes, according to a statement by the family, which has been powerful in American business and mass communications.

Mr. Burke is survived by Harriet “Bunny” Burke, his wife of 54 years, four children; Steve Burke of Philadelphia, PA, Frank Burke of Chattanooga, TN, Sally McNamara of Wellesley, MA and Bill Burke of Cape Elizabeth, ME, and fourteen grandchildren.

A visitation service will be held at the Graham Funeral Home, 1036 Post Road in Rye, New York on Sunday, October 30 from 3:00pm to 7:00pm.

The funeral service will take place at St. Martha Church, 30 Portland Road, Kennebunk, Maine on Tuesday, November 1 at 11:00am.

In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations be made to Maine Medical Center, The Partnership for a Drug Free America, and the Naomie Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center.

The New York Times contributed to this article.

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NYPD officers face ticket-fixing charges (NY TIMES) — Prosecutors on Thursday began notifying more than a dozen New York City police offi cers that they must surrender by midnight to face charges in a long-running investigation into the widespread practice of fi xing tickets for colleagues, family members and friends, several people with knowledge of the matter said.

Most of the 16 offi cers who are expected to face charges are offi cials in the union that represents offi cers, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, the people said. Also among those facing charges are two sergeants and a lieutenant, the people said.

The accusations against the men, one of the people said, were included in several indictments containing a total of as many as 1,000 counts. Ten of the offi cers were expected to be charged with multiple counts of fi xing tickets, while six were expected to be charged with unrelated corruption counts, the people said.

The ticket charges will involve more than 300 traffi c summonses that were fi xed, one of the people said, noting that about 800 instances of ticketfi xing arose during the three-year inquiry.

The alleged crimes unrelated to ticket-fi xing include narcotics corruption, covering up an assault and, in the case of a lieutenant who had been assigned to the Internal Affairs Bureau and worked on the case in its early stages, leaking information about it to union offi cials, the people have said. The lieutenant is expected to be charged with a misdemeanor.

Five civilians were also expected to be charged in the case, including two drug dealers, one of the people said.

The investigation began in December 2008 with an anonymous complaint that an offi cer in the 40th Precinct, in the Bronx, was providing protection for a drug dealer, several of the people have said. After investigators developed enough information to obtain a court-ordered wiretap on the offi cer, they began hearing conversations about fi xing tickets, the people said.

A grand jury in the case heard from about 80 witnesses over about six months, the people said. They voted over a period of several weeks, with the ticket-fi xing charges including grand larceny, tampering with public records, conspiracy and official misconduct, the people said.

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Hastening slowly through fall

BY VERLYN KLINKENBORG THE NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL Op-Ed Contributor

Caterpillars have begun to appear outside my mudroom door. They look barely animate and thickly pelted, like moss creeping up the door frame in individual inches. I wonder about the feel of caterpillar fur, but some natural caution keeps me from touching them. They are a great improvement over the slugs and the millipedes that crept up the door all summer long. The slugs looked like thick, muddy drops of gelatinous rain. There is no analogy for the millipedes.

I pretend not to know they are there.

After months of rain, there is a bright sky overhead.

The chickens lie in blobs of sun. The milkweed has blown, and the sun now sets in the southwest corner of the pasture. Among the humans, there is a sudden yearning for wood-stove gaskets and log-splitters. We hold off on lighting that fi rst fi re, because once it’s burning the smell of wood smoke will lead us by the nose into winter.

There is so much to be done, and yet the temptation is to just sit in the sun and listen to the hickory nuts falling. A flight of sugar maple samaras — their winged seeds — has already landed. Chipmunks, which always seem to be rushing somewhere, pause and eat a maple seed.

Every evening at dusk, fi ve turkeys come down from the woods. They begin as substantial beings — still enough light for that — but soon become shadows, ghosting across the clover and rye, bringing a wildness with them. I always wish that when they catch sight of me, they will stand and perhaps nod in my direction. But no. They lift their skirts and hasten through the gate until they fi nd the right distance to resume their minute inspection of the pasture. They keep me at the edge of some turkey-horizon. I watch in hopes of being watched back. Perhaps I already am.

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Dictators get the deaths they deserve

BY SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE THE NEW YORK TIMES Op-Ed Contributor

“ALL political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure,” wrote Enoch Powell, the controversial but often perspicacious British politician, “because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.” But the political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power. If a tyrant dies peacefully in bed in the full resplendence of his rule, his death is a theater of that power; if a tyrant is executed while crying for mercy in the dust, then that, too, is a refl ection of the nature of a fallen regime and the reaction of an oppressed people.

This was never truer than in the death, last week, of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The only difference between his death and those of so many other tyrants across history was that it was fi lmed with mobile phones, a facility unavailable to contemporaries of, say, the Roman emperor Caligula.

Despite brandished phones and pistols, there was something Biblical in the wild scene, as elemental as the deaths of King Ahab (“the dogs licked up his blood”) and Queen Jezebel (thrown off a palace balcony).

It was certainly not as terrible as the death of the Byzantine emperor Andronicus I, who was beaten and dismembered, his hair and teeth pulled out by the mob, his handsome face burned with boiling water. In modern times, it was more frenzied than the semi-formal execution, in 1989, of the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, but not as terrible as the ghastly lynching, in 1958, of the innocent King Faisal II of Iraq (age 23) and his hated uncle, who were supposedly impaled and dismembered, their heads used as soccer balls. In 1996, the pro-Soviet former president of Afghanistan,

Najibullah, was castrated, dragged through the streets and hanged.

Western leaders and intellectuals find Colonel Qaddafi’s lynching distasteful — Bernard-Henri Lévy worried it would “pollute the essential morality of an insurrection” — yet there are sound political reasons for the public culling of the selfproclaimed king of kings.

Colonel Qaddafi’s tyranny was absolutist, monarchical and personal.

The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes. As Churchill put it, “dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount.”

Only death can end both the spell to bewitch and the prerogative to dominate — and sometimes, not even death can snuff out power. “The terror inspired

by Caligula’s reign,” wrote Suetonius, “could be judged by the sequel.” Romans were so terrifi ed of the emperor that it was not enough to assassinate him.

They wanted to see him dead: fearing it was a trick and lacking cellphone footage, they had to be convinced. The mile-long line of Libyans who were keen to see Colonel Qaddafi ’s cadaver in its shop-refrigerator-tomb would understand this perfectly.

When Catherine the Great overthrew her husband, Peter III, in 1762, she knew that if anything happened to him, she would be blamed. Yet her entourage, led by her lover, Grigory Orlov, realized that as long as

he lived, he remained the legitimate autocrat: they strangled him. His body was displayed to prove that he was dead, but nonetheless, Peter III impostors tormented Catherine for the rest of her life. Henry IV experienced similar troubles after the death of Richard II; a host of pretenders haunted the usurper.

But such comebacks may be history: the cellphone videos, which show Colonel Qaddafi being beaten, and later, the bullet holes in his dead body, rob his last followers of the mystique necessary to lead an insurgency in his name, charged with all the excitement of a (Saddam Hussein-style) heroic leader on the run. His preposterously exuberant cult of personality was surely shattered by the spectacle of his pathetic demolition.

Sometimes the killing of tyrants is specially designed to echo the leader’s vices. Shajar al-Durr, an Egyptian sultan’s widow who became (uniquely in see next page

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Muslim history) a sultan in her own right, was notorious for her extravagance. When she murdered her new husband in 1257, his concubines beat her to death with her own clogs — both a sign of Arab contempt and the medieval equivalent of death by stiletto. It was said that Edward II, notorious for homosexual relationships with his favorites, was killed with a red-hot poker. The upside-down suspension of the dead Mussolini with his mistress in a town square signaled the end of his pretensions to Caesarian heroism and Casanovan machismo.

For someone who so thrived in the age of television, an impresario of many a circus of public violence, Colonel Qaddafi faced an entirely fi tting end. When he asked his frenzied killers, who had known no other ruler in their lives, “Do you not know the difference between right and wrong?” he had already taught them the answer. We may call this auto-tyrannicide. The manically terrifying but ruthlessly brilliant Mamluk sultan Baibars I, was more literally a victim: according to some accounts, he regularly poisoned his guests until, in 1277, he absentmindedly downed a glass of poisoned fermented camel’s milk himself. During the Crusades, the Atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo (in today’s Iraq and part of Syria), Zangi, who liked to castrate the children of enemies, and possibly his boy lovers as well, was supposedly stabbed in his bed by one of those humiliated eunuchs. When Stalin suffered a stroke in 1953, he had recently arrested dozens of doctors for treason. He lay in his own urine for more than 12 hours before his henchmen dared to call a doctor. He was not murdered — like Colonel Qaddafi, he was the author of his own destruction.

There is no greater achievement for the tyrant — short of immortality — than to die in his own bed.

He must control the time, place and consequence of death. This is possible with a gradual illness.

“Now Herod’s sickness greatly increased upon him ... God’s judgment upon him for his sins,” wrote Josephus about the king of Judea. “His entrails had ulcers ... an aqueous and transparent liquor had settled itself around his feet and the bottom of his belly. His genitals were rotting and gave birth to worms.” Yet the suppurating Herod managed to kill one rebellious son and arrange the succession of three more before succumbing.

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible. Hence inhumane struggles by indefatigable doctors to keep ailing dictators — Chairman Mao, Leonid I. Brezhnev, Marshal Tito, General Franco — alive. Only the ingenious North Koreans have solved this problem by declaring Kim Il-sung immortal, perpetual president.

The courtiers of modern tyrants have sought to avoid the inconvenience of death by creating new hereditary monarchies. Outside the Arab world, the Kims of North Korea, Kadyrovs of Chechnya, Kabilas of Congo and Aliyevs of Azerbaijan all achieved this dictator’s dream. Few in the Arab world have done the same. Hafez al-Assad of Syria, who ruled from 1970, died in his bed in 2000, passing the presidency to his son Bashar. Colonel Qaddafi , Mr. Mubarak and Mr. Hussein all dreamed of it. But the spoiled heirs of such hereditary tyrannies usually lack the talent of their fathers.

ALL tyrannies are virtuoso displays over many years of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control. Tyrants are the greatest of all actor-managers — omnipotent impresarios. They will last only as long as prestige, prosperity and a vestige of justice are maintained.

Uninhibited bloodletting can also work — as Bashar al-Assad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have demonstrated — until luck eventually runs out in the shape of treason, outside interference or a tsunami of rebellion like the Arab Spring. It is hard to imagine that there would be anything but giblets left if those two now fell into the hands of their people.

If a tyrant cannot die in his own bed, the best he can do is try to stage manage his downfall, because such characters find it unthinkable to exist without ruling. Colonel Qaddafi , like many others, was so narcissistic that he first denied the fact of the revolution before embracing his own reckless, heroic role, the drama of the last stand: “I have set my life upon a cast,” says Shakespeare’s Richard III, “and I will stand the hazard of the die.” Colonel Qaddafi could have saved his family and thousands of lives by retiring to a villa and later facing the International Criminal Court. Yet the narcissist envisages his downfall only as a mise-en-scène featuring his followers, family and country, consumed in his bonfi re of egomaniacal nihilism. Colonel Qaddafi must have planned to die in battle like Richard III and Macbeth, or to kill himself. Yet this monstrous

poseur totally bungled his own death.

The master class in the death of tyrants was given

by Hitler who, even as Russian legions fought their way into Berlin, kept control long enough to plan and execute his testament, marriage and suicide: control to the end in a kerosene-fueled garden Götterdämmerung. But not even he achieved the brilliant dignity of the death of Charles I, denounced as a “man of blood” by his Puritan tormentors, whose grace before execution set a standard that Colonel Qaddafi could only dream of: “I am a martyr of the people,” he said before facing the ax. “I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world.”

Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of “Jerusalem: The Biography.”

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Fundraising totals shed light on a candidate’s overall appeal week by the Portland Community Chamber’s PAC, has not filed a campaign finance report with City Hall.

These fi nance reports list fundraising activities from the date candidates began their campaigns until Oct. 25 and expenses. Candidates won’t have to fi le another campaign finance report until Dec. 20.

Campaign finance reports are closely watched in any campaign by political observers and the media, who use them to guage a candidate’s overall viability.

Fundraising and donations speak to a candidate’s overall level of support, Ted O’Meara, who ran Eliot Cutler’s 2009 gubernatorial campaign, said recently.

For much the same reason, candidates keep close tabs on how much their opponents have raised, and how much money they have to use between now and Election Day, which is Nov. 8.

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Pepice said in an interview that much of the money the group raised came from the “business community in Portland and from a range of individuals and upstart businesses who feel same way we do.”

He did not say how much money the group has raised to date.

“We intend to spend every dollar we have to spread our message,” he said, adding, “For this race, I am feeling like we are going to put every cent we have behind our winning candidate, Jed Rathband.”

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Dodge’s report shows $1,140 in cash donations from seven people, a $350 in-kind donation from Samuel’s Bar and Grill and $50 he gave himself.

He also raised $645 in cash Bragdon donations under $50.

Dodge has spent $1,460, including $30.60 to TD Bank for campaign checks and $35.00 to TD Bank for an overdraft charge and has $524.90 cash on hand.

Brennan’s report shows $37,125 in donations of more than $50 and another $3,950 in donations of $50 or less.

Brennan As of Oct. 25, he had spent $26,722 and had $14,352 on hand.

But According to a supplemental 24-hour report he filed with the city on Oct. 27, Brennan has loaned his campaign $5,000, which was not listed on the campaign filing.

This 24-hour report also shows a $18,920 expense to Dodge CG Direct, of Portland, for “mail house services.”

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In a press release, Ralph Carmona said he raised $12,500 for his campaign, although he has not yet filed a report with City Hall.

Other candidates either did not return a phone call seeking comment on fundraising or declined to discuss fundraising.

“We’re going to wait to release our numbers tomorrow when we officially report,” said Strimling, who added, “we feel very confident about our relative financial position going into the final two weeks.”

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Slapping at Syria, Turkey shelters anti-Assad fighters

BY LIAM STACK THE NEW YORK TIMES

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Once one of Syria’s closest allies, Turkey is hosting an armed opposition group waging an insurgency against the government of President Bashar alAssad, providing shelter to the commander and dozens of members of the group, the Free Syrian Army, and allowing them to orchestrate attacks across the border from inside a camp guarded by the Turkish military.

The support for the insurgents comes amid a broader Turkish campaign to undermine Mr. Assad’s government. Turkey is expected to impose sanctions soon on Syria, and it has deepened its support for an umbrella political opposition group known as the Syrian National Council, which announced its formation in Istanbul. But its harboring of leaders in the Free Syrian Army, a militia composed of defectors from the Syrian armed forces, may be its most striking challenge so far to Damascus.

On Wednesday, the group, living in a heavily guarded refugee camp in Turkey, claimed responsibility for killing nine Syrian soldiers, including one uniformed officer, in an attack in restive central Syria.

Turkish offi cials describe their relationship with the group’s commander, Col. Riad al-As’aad, and the 60 to 70 members living in the “offi cers’ camp” as purely humanitarian.

Turkey’s primary concern, the offi cials said, is for the physical safety of defectors. When asked specifi cally about allowing the group to organize military operations while under the protection of Turkey, a Foreign Ministry official said that their only concern was humanitarian protection

and that they could not stop them from expressing their views.

“At the time all of these people escaped from Syria, we did not know who was who, it was not written on their heads ‘I am a soldier’ or ‘I am an opposition member,’ ” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on the condition of anonymity in keeping with diplomatic protocol. “We are providing these people with temporary residence on humanitarian grounds, and that will continue.”

At the moment, the group is too small to pose any real challenge to Mr. Assad’s government. But its Turkish support underlines how combustible, and resilient, Syria’s uprising has proven. The country sits at the intersection of infl uences in the region — with Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Israel — and Turkey’s involvement will be closely watched by Syria’s friends and foes.

“We will fi ght the regime until it falls and build a new period of stability and safety in Syria,” Colonel As’aad said in an interview arranged by the Turkish Foreign Ministry and conducted in the presence of a Foreign Ministry offi cial. “We are the leaders of the Syrian people and we stand with the Syrian people.”

The interview was held in the office of a local government offi cial, and Colonel As’aad arrived protected by a contingent of 10 heavily armed Turkish soldiers, including one sniper.

The colonel wore a business suit that an official with the Turkish Foreign Ministry said he purchased for him that morning. At the end of the meeting, citing security concerns, the colonel and a ministry offi cial advised that all further contact with his group be channeled through the

Col. Riad al-As’aad, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, thanked Turkey for its protection and made it clear that he was seeking better weapons. (NY TIMES/ ED OU PHOTO)

ministry.

Turkey once viewed its warm ties with Syria as its greatest foreign policy accomplishment, but relations have collapsed over the eight months of antigovernment protests there and a brutal crackdown that the United Nations says has killed more than 3,000 people.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey was personally offended by Mr. Assad’s repeated failure to abide by his assurances that he would undertake sweeping reform. Turkish offi cials predict that the Assad government may collapse within the next two years.

“This pushes Turkish policy further towards active intervention in Syria,” said Hugh Pope, an analyst with the International Crisis Group. He called

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“It is clear Turkey feels under threat from what is happening in the Middle East, particularly Syria,” said Mr. Pope, who noted that in past speeches Mr. Erdogan “has spoken of what happens in Syria as an internal affair of Turkey.”

Turkish officials say that their government has not provided weapons or military support to the insurgent group, and that the group has not directly requested such assistance.

Still, Colonel As’aad, who thanked Turkey for its protection, made it clear that he was seeking better weapons, saying that his group could inflict damage on a Syrian leadership that has proven remarkably cohesive.

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State looks to boost accuracy at the gas pumps GAS PUMPS from page one

and how much was attributed to pumps under-delivering gasoline to consumers. Prince said he could not answer that question.

“I wish I had better information, but unfortunately I don’t,” Prince said.

He told lawmakers he gets limited data from the existing program. He said he would like to use the data the inspectors gather to aid in the scheduling of inspections or in analyzing if there are any trends that should be investigated.

“I will try to get that information from OIT,” or Office of Information Technology, Prince said.

He got a quick comment from Rep. Dean Cray, R-Palmyra, on that statement.

“Good luck with that,” he said.

Cray is sponsor of a bill to abolish OIT and have each agency handle their technology needs. He claims to have heard numerous complaints about OIT. “After listening to what was said today there is no way to say if there is any out right fraud so to speak, “ said Sen. Roger Sherman, R-Houlton, co-chairman of the committee. “I think just to make every one’s mind a little

easier they probably should continue to push the IT people to get a system that works better than this.”

He said committee members read the published comments of Agriculture Commissioner Walter Whitcomb that the Department was working to fi x the problem and they are taking him at his word.

“We know it is a problem and we are working to fi x it,” Whitcomb said two weeks ago, “Believe me, it is a high priority.”

Prince gave the panel an overview of the inspection process that is carried out by both state inspectors and local sealers hired by municipalities. He also showed the panel a $500 specially made fi ve-gallon stainless steel container used to measure accuracy of gas pumps. He also said he has been given approval to replace a broken device used to measure octane content in fuel.

“We have been only testing when we have had a consumer complaint,” he said, “and that is expensive, about $150 a test.

This will allow us to do spot checks on octane content again, and not just spot checks of nozzle accuracy,”

Prince said replacing the old system, which is used to track all of the inspections done by his staff, is not as simple as it sounds.

He said he is working with OIT to fi nd a software program that not only will replace the old system he uses but can be used by other inspectors within the Department of Agriculture.

“We are talking with several vendors, “he said, “We are also looking at a system that appears to be universally accepted throughout the state and that may be the solution.”

Prince said any new system will have a cost to buy and implement and that will be a budget issue for Commissioner Whitcomb and the legislature.

“We need to be able to move all the data we have in the existing database to any new system, “he said. “It is very important to have all of that history to use in a new system.”

Rep. Peter Edgecomb, R-Caribou, the co-chairman of the panel, said it will be up to the committee to make sure the existing system is fixed or replaced. He also shared the concerns raised about OIT and its operations.

“We are going to have to ride herd on this, “he said.

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The plan means opening the Oxford Street shelter during the day and then ushering people to Preble Street’s day shelter later on in the day, said Jon Bradley, associate director at Preble Street.

“This is an emergency plan,” he said. “We’ve been using overfl ow pretty much every night for most of this year, … (but) it’s the only option that we’ve come up with, so far.”

Bradley explained that, if necessary, Preble Street may use its dining hall as a sleeping area if overfl ow goes beyond maximum capacity.

“It’s going to be challenging,” he said. “We’ve been working on this and we will continue. We see this Band-Aid as very short term.”

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“That’s just an incredible, incredible bump,” he said, referring to the additional space that will be needed.

The directive comes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS, and passed through by the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.

The change means CMS will no longer reimburse the roughly $2 of every $3 dollars for certain services that it has in the past.

“If those (beds are not) available then it puts pressure on other shelters where they’re already full,” Shoos said.

The Emergency Shelter Assessment Committee helps tracks shelter occupancy in the city.

Shoos says an average of 350 people a night were sleeping at a Portland shelter in June.

The already high number has increased to about 384 people per night in September.

“We’ve been in overfl ow now for quite some time,” he said, referring to term used for hous-

ing additional people when the regular sleeping areas hit max capacity.

“We are using the facilities that should only really be used temporarily,” Shoos said. “In the last six months it’s just been incredibly difficult.”

Nearly 34 percent of people entering Portland shelters are homeless for the first time, according to committee reports.

A conglomerate of social service providers have been scrambling for a solution and say a temporary Band-Aid fi x would likely involve moving the homeless to the Preble Street shelter.

“This is a crisis on top of a situation where we’ve been seeing increasing numbers of individuals experiencing homelessness,” said Doug Gardner, director of Portland’s Health and Human Services Department.

“It’s on top of the situation where we’re already into overfl ow and we’re already over capacity for emergency sheltering,” he said.

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There’s a reason why most organizations appoint one person to be the leader and not an entire group of people. Committees can be more trouble than they are worth. You’ll see an illustration of this today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You realize that you don’t have to own things in order to get good use out of them. You’ll do everything you need to do using what is borrowed, rented or available to the public. How convenient!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19 ).

You have a knack for turning a necessity into an object of loveliness. The total satisfaction of seeing the manifestation of your idea will be well worth the effort you put forth in its development.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

Justice never sleeps. It will be crucial to your own sleeping patterns that you sort out an unjust situation in your waking hours. Do what it takes to keep your own conscience clear, and encourage others to do the right thing, too.

PISCES (Feb. 19 -March 20). You will inspire and empower the people around you. The best part is that you don’t have to be in charge of things for this dynamic to happen. You simply contribute in a way that others admire.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 28). This year you solve small problems, and big ones solve themselves. With your own brand of practical magic, you’ll turn a dysfunctional scene into a highly profitable scenario. A key introduction happens in November, and it’s amazing how one person can expand your horizons. Invest in yourself and your talent in May. Aries and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 19, 3, 22, 48 and 20.

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HOROSCOPE ARIES (March 21-April 19 ). You wouldn’t mind hearing about how brilliant you are, and yet, strangely, those around you are not mentioning it today.

Here’s your astrologer, picking up the slack: You are brilliant!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Choose your teachers carefully. Kindness and intelligence go hand in hand. Furthermore, anyone who is supposedly wise but doesn’t know how to love is a fraud.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). As you expand emotionally and physically, note that the very nature of stretching is that it goes beyond the usual range of motion. That said, it doesn’t have to actually hurt to do you some good.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ve been known to keep lists of important things, and yet lately you’ve fallen out of the habit. It’s true that you can remember quite a lot; however, you’ll feel much freer if you commit the items to paper instead.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The outside world is cacophony. You have to close the doors to get some peace. Also, some people in your life are quite noisy, though you may not notice this until they leave. You’ll experience fi rst-hand why silence is golden.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You get the impression that the authority figures don’t know what’s going on, at least not completely. You have a better view of the day-to-day realities at the ground level, and there is opportunity in this position.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The solution to today’s problems will be a synthesis of information from various people. Instead of asking “who” is right, you ask “what” is right. And you realize that there is not one person who holds all of the correct answers.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Friday, Oct. 28, the 301st day of 2011. There are 64 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.

On this date: In 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts passed a legislative act establishing Harvard College.

In 1776, the Battle of White Plains was fought during the Revolutionary War, resulting in a limited British victory.

In 1858, Rowland Hussey Macy opened his first New York store at Sixth Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.

In 1919, Congress enacted the Volstead Act, which provided for enforcement of Prohibition, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto.

In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicated the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

In 1940, Italy invaded Greece during World War II. In 1958, the Roman Catholic patriarch of Venice, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was elected pope; he took the name John XXIII. In 1962, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the United States that he had ordered the dismantling of missile bases in Cuba.

In 1991, what became known as “The Perfect Storm” began forming hundreds of miles east of Nova Scotia; lost at sea during the storm were the six crew members of the Andrea Gail, a sword-fi shing boat from Gloucester, Mass.

One year ago: Investigators with the president’s oil spill commission said tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico should have raised doubts about the cement used to seal the well, but that the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway.

Today’s Birthdays: Jazz singer Cleo Laine is 84. Actress Joan Plowright is 82.

Musician-songwriter Charlie Daniels is 75.

Actress Jane Alexander is 72. Singer Curtis Lee is 70. Actor Dennis Franz is 67. Actress Telma Hopkins is 63. Olympic track and field gold medalist Bruce Jenner is 62. Actress Annie Potts is 59. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is 56. Rock musician Stephen Morris (New Order) is 54. Rock singer-musician William Reid is 53. Actor Mark Derwin is 51. Actress Daphne Zuniga is 49. Actress Lauren Holly is 48. Actress Jami Gertz is 46. Actor Chris Bauer is 45. Actor-comedian Andy Richter is 45. Actress Julia Roberts is 44. Country singer-musician Caitlin Cary is 43. Actor Jeremy Davies is 42. Singer Ben Harper is 42. Country singer Brad Paisley is 39. Actor Joaquin Phoenix is 37. Singer Justin Guarini is 33. Pop singer Brett Dennen is 32. Rock musician Dave Tirio (Plain White T’s) is 32. Actress Troian Bellisario is 26.

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Dear Annie: I have been seeing my boyfriend for more than a year. “Keith” was divorced three years ago, but he and his ex-wife live in the same town and have four kids together, one of whom still lives with her.

I am bothered by their relationship, which goes beyond normal concerns for the children. They talk and text or see each other nearly every day, and it’s not always about the kids. She was a controlling wife who regularly emasculated Keith. She has money, so she pays him child support, and I’m guessing it’s a substantial amount. He doesn’t work and survives on her money.

They have keys to each other’s houses, and she will walk into his home and use his dishes and pool as if they were still hers. This bothers him, but he doesn’t do anything about it.

Her mail still comes to his house, so he has to deliver it to her. She “hires” him to do jobs like moving her furniture.

The only disagreements we have had are about her and her intrusive and controlling nature. I believe this relationship is unhealthy, and I refuse to have her in my life. I’ve told Keith that I will not share him. I fear he would return to her in a heartbeat if she asked, mostly because of the money.

I realize they must be in touch for the kids’ sake, and I’m OK with that. But he is unwilling to limit the relationship with his ex, so I’ve put ours on hold. Do you think that relationship is normal? -- Unwilling To Share Dear Unwilling: We think Keith is still dependent, fi nancially and emotionally, on his ex. If he refuses to limit their contact and you are concerned that he would go back to her “in a heartbeat,” we’d say your relationship is doomed. It’s time to move on. Keith is essentially unavailable.

Dear Annie: I was in charge of a recent event that was a huge success. Our committee planned it for a long time and raised a good amount of money.

My boss was also on the committee. Our business donated money, which we used to purchase snacks. Another business donated cases of water. After the event, my boss gathered all of the leftover snacks and water and took them with her.

The next day, she told a co-worker that another committee member said it was OK to donate the items to another event she was involved in.

She also left the labels on the items, saying they were compliments of our business when they are actually the property of the event. What bothers me most is that she never mentioned it to me. It seems sneaky. Do you think this was a tacky thing to do? -- Team Captain Dear Captain: If you were in charge of the event, the boss should have asked whether it was OK if she took the leftovers and donated them elsewhere. However, we suspect she thought no one would mind if one donation benefi ted two good causes. She could have handled it more ethically, but it serves no purpose to hold a grudge.

Dear Annie: I’d like to tell “Sad Wife” that parental favoritism is not unusual. My fi rst husband had three siblings.

His parents doted on all of them, but not on my husband.

My current husband also has three siblings and a similar situation.

One thing I noticed in both cases is that parents give their attention to the children they think need it most. To the leftout child, it feels like favoritism, but I truly believe the parents consider that child to be the most loved and think they need to dote on the others. I fi nally told my husband’s parents how he felt, and they were mortified.

Please tell “Sad Wife” not to feel bad for her husband. Feel bad for the siblings. -- Making My Husband Feel Special Every Day

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.

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Wal-Mart employees file new bias case (NY TIMES) — After the Supreme Court in June tossed out a massive class-action lawsuit fi led by women who claimed they were discriminated against

by Wal-Mart Stores, the lawyers for the plaintiffs vowed to pursue the case using new tactics.

On Thursday, the plaintiffs did just that, filing an amended lawsuit that narrows the class from all of the women who work or have worked at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores, estimated at 1.5 million, to those in the retailer’s California regions, estimated to be at least 45,000 current employees and 45,000 former employees.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs said the lawsuit was the first of many that will be filed against the world’s largest retailer alleging discrimination against women in pay and advancement.

In its June ruling in Dukes v. Wal-Mart, the Supreme Court did not determine whether the women were discriminated against it. Rather, in its 5-4 decision, it concluded that the plaintiffs had not met requirements that the class have a question of law or fact in common.

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said the case involved “literally millions of employment decisions.” The plaintiffs, he added, were required to point to “some glue holding the alleged reasons for all those decisions together.”

The origins of the lawsuit date to 1999 when Stephanie Odle was fi red after complaining that she was discriminated against because of her sex.

She said he had discovered that a male employee with the same job and less experience was making $10,000 a year more than her.

Her boss explained that the man had a family to support.

G.O.P. pushes military custody for terror suspects WASHINGTON (NY TIMES) — Congressional Republicans increasingly reject any use of the civilian criminal justice system for handling cases involving Al Qaeda, hardening their stance in a dispute with the Obama administration over whether such suspects should be held and prosecuted exclusively by the military.

Republican senators are pushing to include a provision in a 2012 military authorization bill that would require Qaeda suspects accused of plotting attacks and who are not American citizens to be held in military custody — even people arrested in the United States. The White House opposes such a blanket rule.

Amid negotiations over the bill, Republicans — who see their position as a potent election issue in 2012 — delivered an overwhelming show of unity in support of such ideas late last week, as 45 of the party’s 47 senators voted for a similar proposal to ban civilian trials for such “enemy combatants.”

The endorsement highlighted a dramatic shift to the right in the politics of counterterrorism since President Obama succeeded George W. Bush.

Mr. Bush used the criminal justice system for some cases and the military system for others, as has Mr. Obama. In recent years, the once-fi erce criticism from liberals about the legitimacy of any use of military detention and tribunals has become muted. Meanwhile, Republicans, who accepted the hybrid approach under Mr. Bush, increasingly reject any use of the civilian system.

“The goal posts are moving,” said Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. “In the Bush years, there was little complaint from the right about keeping both civilian and military options — least of all for persons captured in the U.S. But now the Congressional Republican consensus is moving toward a monolithic military approach, to the point where things Bush did would today be denounced as weak.”

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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 five 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 Offi ce 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.

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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.

‘Phantom of the Opera’

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– 2011 SHOW SCHEDULE – 20th Annual Holiday Craft Show McAuley High School 631 Stevens Ave., Portland Nov. 5th 9-4; Nov. 6th 10-3 18th Annual Made in Maine Christmas Craft Show Mt. Ararat High School 73 Eagle’s Way, Topsham Nov. 19th 9-4; Nov. 20th 10-3 Home for the Holidays Craft Show Scarborough High School 11 Municipal Drive, Scarborough Friday, November 25th 10-4 Saturday, November 26th 9-4 www.societyofsouthernmainecraftsmen.org FREE PARKING

7:30 p.m. “The Friends of the Kotzschmar organ present the 19 25 silent horror fi lm, ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ for their annual Halloween show. Critically acc laimed and sought after as theatre organist and silent film accompanist, Scott Foppaino, returns to the Ktozschmar bench to accompany this silent classic. The Portland Ballet will perform Danse Macabre by Camille SaintSaens 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

Saturday, Oct. 29 Drug Take-Back program

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 766-7097 (videophone). The children’s workshops are free and limited to 25 participants on a first come-fi 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, 9 0 Bedford St., Portland. Details of the performances and workshops can be found at http://www. ntd.org/wordpress/?page_id=3.

Banned Book Film Festival, ‘Carrie’

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 films 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.”

Handel and Haydn Society

3 p.m. Portland Ovations brings the Handel and Haydn Society to Hannaford Hall at USM Portland for an afternoon concert .

Approaching its bicentennial in 2015, the Handel and Haydn Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is internationally recognized for its revelatory style of using the instruments and techniques of the composer’s time. The mission of the Society is to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels and share that music with a large and diverse see next page

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Calamity Janes vs. Rock Coast Rollers

5:30 p.m. See some Maine-on-Maine action as Maine Roller Derby’s Calamity Janes and RIP Tides take on the Rock Coast Rollers. “MRD’s newest members, the R.I.P. Tides, are a group of fi erce fresh meat who will make their debut at Happy Wheels alongside the Janes in this mixed bout.

MRD welcomes RCR, a new league from Rockland, as these two teams battle for the fi rst time!” Doors at 5 p.m. Happy Wheels, 331 Warren Ave., Portland. Tickets: Purchase advance tickets online or at the door. General Admission: $5

Sid Tripp’s 16th annual Halloween Bash

9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sid Tripp of local marketing fi rm Proactive Resources Design and business networking group The DownEast Pride Alliance will hold his 16th annual Halloween Bash at Mariner’s Church on 386 Fore St. in Portland with exciting live band Under The Covers to perform. Tripp is expecting a similar attendance of over 400 people at this year’s event, and doors will open at 9 p.m. and the party will continue until 1 a.m. This year’s theme is zombies, so bring your best ghoulish costume and makeup. $20 cover (check, cash or cards accepted); ages 21 and up. Costume required, cash bars.

Sunday, Oct. 30 Portland String Quartet 20112012 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, 7611522, lark@larksociety.org.

Kids’ Halloween Bash at children’s museum

1:30 p.m. “Trick-or-Treat 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 exhib-

its, and boogie at the Monster Mash dance party. Mask Making (1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.); Trick-or-Treat (2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.): Come in costume, and bring a bucket; Slime Making (3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.): Volunteers from USM’s Chemistry Club will lead visitors through the ooey, gooey science of slime making; Halloween Parade (3:30 p.m.) and Monster Mash (3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.): Pirates, princesses, superheroes, kitty cats – all are welcome in the Halloween Parade.

All activities take place at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St. in Portland. Halloween Bash activities are free with admission ($9/person, under 18 months free). The Museum & Theatre is open from noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, visit www.kitetails.org or call 828-1234.

Discovery Concert: Symphony Spooktacular

2:30 p.m. “ Discover a Halloween experience filled with symphonic thrills and chills for the whole family! Maestro Robert Moody leads the ghouls and goblins of the PSO in some of the greatest ‘spooktacular’ music ever written for orchestra, including the ‘Funeral March of a Marionette’ by Gounod, music from Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie Fantastique,’ and ‘The Chill of the Orchestra’ by American composer Russell Peck. Dancers from Portland Ballet will join in ‘Bella’s Lullaby’ from ‘Twilight’ and lead the entire audience in the zombie dance stylings of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.’” Merrill Auditorium.

Bluestocking Films — Films by Women

4 p.m. “BFS was conceived by fi lmmaker Kate Kaminski and is a collaboration between Gitgo Productions and the St. Lawrence. Because women fi lmmakers are underrepresented in the fi lmmaking industry and largely misrepresented in forms of media worldwide we are thrilled to create a series within Maine that supports women fi lmmakers and provides them with a state of the art venue to showcase their craft.” The USM Women and Gender Studies Program, the Maine Film Offi ce and the Maine Film and Video Association are co-sponsoring the event. For more information on the Bluestocking Film Series contact Whitney McDorr at whitney.mcdorr@stlawrencearts. org or by telephone at 347-3075 or Kate Kaminski at gitgo_productions@ yahoo.com. www.stlawrencearts.org

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 programs of study, visit www.usm.maine.edu/music.

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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 day-long 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.

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 day-long 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, see next page

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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 773-839 6 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 Confi dential 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 meetand-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 finding 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 registration is required.)

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 fl oor 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 subj ect 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 unifi ed 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 MultiCultural 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 the highly anticipated festival will begin on Saturday afternoon with two high-energy sessions. Festival attendees will receive a complimentary logoed tasting glass (real glass!) with tick ets to enjoy 12, 4-oz pours of Maine craft beer. Saturday Happy Hour Session: 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; doors open at 1 p.m. Food and store sales start at 1 p.m.

Taps open at 1:30 p.m. Evening Session: 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.; doors open at 6 p.m.

Food and store sales start at 6 p.m. Taps open at 6:30 p.m.

Portland Expo. http://learnyourbeer.com