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Graffiti defaces a wall of a building near the Ocean Gateway Terminal in this file image.

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For Portlanders the writing is on the wall: Graffiti must be cleaned

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

It was during the winter when Bill Doukas says he noticed the large image of a chicken spray-painted on the exterior of the building he owns on Congress Street.

The addition to the outside walls wasn't visible from the front, but it had to go nonetheless, he said. It took some time to clean up and about five coats of paint, but by May, his building's walls were chicken-free.

"I thought I was good to go," he said, recalling how it was months later when he received a letter from the city of Portland, advising him that he's been tagged and "allowing the graffiti to remain on the building creates a blight within the neighborhood," the letter read.

The notice cited a new city ordinance that requires property owners

A runner stretches his legs on the Fore River Parkway in the waning days of summer. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Quincy sniffs out trouble at Jetport

BY MARGE NIBLOCK

SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Quincy, a yellow Lab who turned two last June, has an important job at Portland’s Jetport. He’s an explosives detection dog whose well-trained nose is capable of distinguishing numerous explosive substances. His handler is Officer Henry Small of the Portland Police Department.

Small and his canine partner appear to be a good match. “He’s a great dog, really!” says Small. An incredible bond is created between the two because they not only work together, they also

live together. training at Lackland Air Force Base in San AntoSmall has been an officer for 21 years and nio. was already a bomb Quincy is part of technician who worked TSA’s Puppy Program, which is the common for over two years with the department’s robot reference used for the before leaving for San Transportation Security Antonio to train for his Administration’s Canine new job.

Breeding and Development Center, located at Small was chosen for his position at the Jet- Quincy, the yellow Lab, protects and the San Antonio base. port the spring before serves in Portland.

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It’s still the 9/11 era

Some gay soldiers mull re-enlistment

Newest Patriots toeing the company line

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As police clash with families, Mubarak returns to court

BY DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES

CAIRO — As crowds and police officers clashed outside a makeshift courtroom in a police academy here, prosecutors trying former President Hosni Mubarak began Monday to lay out their case against him on charges of complicity in the killing of demonstrators during the protests that ended his rule. He is also accused of corruption.

Mr. Mubarak, 83 and claiming poor health, was once again delivered by helicopter and wheeled into court on a gurney.

Cameras had been allowed in the first two sessions of the trial last month, but then were barred by court order.

That left the Egyptian public — which has clamored to bring Mr. Mubarak to justice — deprived of a third chance of seeing their formerly untouchable dictator laid out on a bed in the cage that serves as a docket in Egyptian criminal courts.

As its first witnesses, the prosecution called four senior police officials who were expected to testify about Mr. Mubarak’s role in ordering the crackdown on peaceful protesters. More than 800 died in the 18 days of demonstrations, and Mr. Mubarak’s former interior minister, Habib el Adly, is also on trial in connection with their killing.

Mr. Mubarak’s trial has captivated the region. He is the first autocratic leader to go before a court in this year’s Arab Spring revolts. (Tunisia’s former president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after his ouster in January, was convicted in absentia of a range of crimes, including embezzlement and smuggling drugs, guns and archaeological artifacts.)

Mr. Mubarak’s hearing on Monday was the first since Col. Muammar elQaddafi was forced to flee his fortress in Tripoli, and the new provisional gov-

Anti-Mubarak protestors confronted Egyptian riot police outside the courtroom where the former president is on trial Khaled Desouki/Agence FrancePresse — Getty Images/The New York Times).

ernment set up by the rebels there is promising to apprehend him and bring him to trial as well.

Reflecting the regional attention to the trial, a team of lawyers from Kuwait arrived in Cairo to join the Mubarak defense, reportedly sent by the Kuwait monarchy in gratitude for Mr. Mubarak’s support for the American-led war to drive Iraq from Kuwait in 1991. The Egyptian authorities, however, did not allow them in court on Monday.

Emotions around the trial remained intense. During a recess, lawyers representing demonstrators killed during the protests scuffled briefly with lawyers for the defense after one of them held up a picture of Mr. Mubarak. Soon, people in the courtroom began chanting, “The

people want to execute the murderer,” a human rights lawyer, Gamal Eid, said in a Twitter message. Military police entered the chamber for the first time, though they left shortly after.

As with the first two sessions of the trial, crowds throwing stones outside clashed with Egyptian riot police beforehand. On Monday, family members of those killed during the demonstrations initially tried to push their way into the makeshift courtroom.

During the proceedings, defense lawyers sought testimony from a police official about the number of officers and weaponry of Egypt’s central security police during the period of protests.

The defense also signaled a potential attempt to blame the killings or the uprising on the Palestinian militant

group Hamas. The defense sought information about members of Hamas entering Egypt during the period, Egyptian state television reported.

The judge’s decision barring cameras from the courtroom, delivered on the trial’s second day, has not been fully explained. Lawyers said the ruling appeared intended to limit witnesses’ knowledge of each other’s testimony.

But many Egyptians have also speculated about whether the decision is intended to shield other powerful figures from the cameras. Some wonder whether the trial — which centers on deliberations at the highest levels of the Mubarak government — might also touch on the roles or testimony of the top Egyptian military officials now running the country’s government.

a day after his first appearance at a Tea Party rally, where a smattering of protesters accused him of courting the party out of political expediency.

Mr. Romney’s critics in the Tea Party say that his record as governor of Massachusetts – notably his passage of a universal health care law that has been likened to the federal legislation passed by President Obama – does not jibe with Tea Party principles.

Mr. Romney did not address that criticism directly on Sunday, and he was surrounded by many supporters as he came and went, all but assuring that there would be no clash with the few protesters in attendance.

In recent days Mr. Romney has made increasingly strong appeals to supporters of the Tea Party movement. After Monday’s pancake breakfast, he was headed to a candidate forum in Columbia, S.C., an event he had planned to skip. The forum’s host, Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, is popular with social conservatives and Tea Party groups.

On Monday, Mr. Romney seemed to take a veiled jab at the small number of detractors in attendance, saying, “What you want is, ‘Mr. Romney came to speak at this group, and there were two pro-

testers that yelled at him.’ ” Democrats are to blame for the perception that there is a divide between the Tea Party and traditional Republicans, Mr. Romney said.

“They’re going to try and tear us down, make it look like we’re at each other’s throats,” he said.

That will not work, Mr. Romney said.

“All of us are convinced that govern- Mitt Romney told supporters in New Hampshire that the gap between ment is out of control,” the Tea Party and traditional Republicans was not as wide as some he said, “that it needs seem to believe (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/The New York Times) restructuring of our economy, getting to get out of the way of our tax rates competitive globally,” the private sector, that more freedom he said. “We’ll talk about bringing for enterprise and for individuals will our regulations in line with other put more Americans to work than a nations and much lower than it’s federal government jobs program ever been over these last two and a half can. And those principles, combined years. I’ll talk about opening trade, with lowering taxes for the American opening opportunities for us to sell people, those things will unite us.” goods other places and cracking down Mr. Romney also gave a preview of a on the cheaters. China’s No. 1 on that jobs speech he is scheduled to give in list. I’ll talk about energy indepenNevada on Tuesday. dence and energy security.”

“It talks about a fundamental

On friendly turf, Romney plays down G.O.P.-Tea Party strife

BY JOHN ELIGON THE NEW YORK TIMES

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, tried to bridge the gap between himself and the Tea Party on Monday morning, telling a gathering of supporters that the differences between the Tea Party and traditional Republicans were not as wide as many people seem to believe.

Speaking at a country club here after serving pancakes to hundreds of supporters, Mr. Romney said the public’s desire for tales of political conflict had led people to misconstrue the relationship between the Tea Party and socalled mainstream Republicans.

“There’s great interest to say, ‘Oh, the Tea Party, oh, and the mainstream Republicans, oh they’re fighting and they’re different,’ ” Mr. Romney said in response to a question from a supporter. “The Tea Party has at its center core a belief that government is too big. Sound familiar? That’s what we’ve been saying for years and years as a Republican Party, and they’re saying it well and loud. The Tea Party is a powerful movement, saying government’s too big, and I couldn’t agree more.”

Mr. Romney’s comments came just

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are bred, raised and prepared for their lives as future explosives detection dogs within the National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program.

The dogs who graduate are assigned to mass transit authorities, airports and law enforcement departments around the country.

All of the dogs in Quincy’s litter have names starting with the letter Q, to signify the Q litter. So his official name is QQuincy.

The dogs in the program are named after people who were killed in the 9/11 attacks or those who died in service to this country, as in the case of the Jetport dog. He was named after Quincy J. Green, 26, a soldier who was killed in Tikrit, Iraq, in 2008.

The Center in Texas was modeled after the Australian Customs Service National Breeding and Development Centre (NBDC).

NBDC provides working dogs to agencies in Australia, New South Wales, and others world-

wide. NBDC has also assisted in developing breeding programs in this country as well as in other nations.

After Sept. 11, 2001, it became urgent to produce explosives detection canines and the program went into high gear in January 2002, officials explained.

The 500th puppy was born this past April. This dog’s name is Dolan; he was named after Capt.

Robert E. Dolan Jr., who was killed in the attack on the Pentagon.

Volunteer families in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, raise puppies from the age of 10 weeks until the dogs are a year old, at which time they can enter training for explosives detection.

Quincy has been used for several special details since his certification: He’s gone to Sanford for the Bushes and he was used when former President Bill Clinton came to Maine for lunch recently.

“We’re accessible now,” says Small, “so why not have a bomb dog search a car or a plane?” He likes the fact that they’re being

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used. “It’s good for the dog,” he says.

Quincy seems to be extremely relaxed but Small said that he’d really given him a heavy workout a little earlier. “He’s high-drive.

He is all puppy.”

Small says, “I direct the dog.

The dog does all the work.”

He finds it very interesting to observe Quincy when he’s working with odors. The dogs are trained to go to the source. When tracking an odor, at the strongest point, he’ll sit.

Since not all dogs coming out of the TSA Puppy Program are selected to become working dogs, the ones not chosen are given out for adoption at no charge. However, adopters must pay transportation costs from Texas. Most of the dogs are Labrador retrievers under a year old, and as one might imagine, there’s a very long waiting list.

Anyone wishing to add one’s name to the list may do so by contacting the Program Specialist, Diana Thomas, at Diana.

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Officer Henry Small is shown with Quincy, a bomb-detection dog based at the Portland Jetport. (MARGE NIBLOCK PHOTO)

McAllister: For property owners it’s about ‘making the effort’ GRAFFITI from page one

to remove graffiti or submit a clean-up plan within 10 days. It warns that no action will result in the city cleaning the vandalism at the owner's expense, plus an additional 10 percent administrative fee.

Doukas sent images of the chicken and the freshly painted wall to the city, explaining he already took care of the problem. However, he soon discovered he failed to catch it all.

"It turned out to be 12-inches by 12-inches of a few stripes of paint on the backside of the building," he said. "I didn't even notice it ... but boy, they have a pretty keen eye to spot that."

Doukas is one of just a handful of property owners the city has mailed the notices to following Portland's new graffiti ordinance. The new rules went into effect in July, said Trish McAllister, the city's neighborhood prosecutor.

With each report of graffiti, McAllister travels to confirm the vandalism and then either drops a letter in the mail or, if the tagging is done to public property, she refers the matter to the city's Public Services Department.

"I just ask them to get in touch with me and let me know the status of the graffiti," she said, referring to pri-

vate property owners. "I have access to clean-up tips, prevention tips and some donated graffiti removal kits that I'm certainly willing to give to them to help."

As of the end of last week, she had sent out 23 letters since the ordinance went into effect and received 43 reports of graffiti.

As was the case with Doukas, no graffiti is considered too small. If a complaint or notice of graffiti is filed with the police department — either by submitting a tip online, texting or by calling — McAllister follows up and sends out a notice. Then the clock starts ticking.

McAllister explained that for property owners it's about "making the effort," and that residents can use a local nonprofit's free service to clean graffiti.

"When we get a referral, we just go out and, obviously with the owner's permission, work on whatever the graffiti is on," said Donna Mrowka, director of community-based youth services at Learning Works.

Learning Works contracts with the city for between $20,000 and $30,000, Mrowka said, not knowing the exact amount. They work from April to October and averaged 30,000 square feet of graffiti clean-up each year they've contacted with Portland.

But whether residents contact Learning Works, get donated graffiti removal kits or purchase the products themselves, McAllister says once reported, the graffiti must go.

McAllister has not received any backlash from the letter she's sent, though a handful of owners haven't responded yet, she added.

In that group is Doukas, who reasoned that he understands "the point and the necessity, but I think the scale and the priority is off the mark."

"We might want to pay attention to the scale of things rather than shoot from the hip," he said, though adding that he planned to "probably just remove it."

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The fatal distraction Friday brought two numbers that should have everyone in Washington saying, “My God, what have we done?”

One of these numbers was zero — the number of jobs created in August. The other was two — the interest rate on 10-year U.S. bonds, almost as low as this rate has ever gone. Taken together, these numbers almost scream that the inside-the-Beltway crowd has been worrying about the wrong things, and inflicting grievous harm as a result.

Ever since the acute phase of the financial crisis ended, policy discussion in Washington has been dominated not by unemployment, but by the alleged dangers posed by budget deficits. Pundits and media organizations insisted that the biggest risk facing America was the threat that ––––– investors would pull the plug The New York on U.S. debt. For example, in Times May 2009 The Wall Street Journal declared that the “bond vigilantes” were “returning with a vengeance,” telling readers that the Obama administration’s “epic spending spree” would send interest rates soaring.

The interest rate when that editorial was published was 3.7 percent. As of Friday, as I’ve already mentioned, it was only 2 percent.

I don’t mean to dismiss concerns about the longrun U.S. budget picture. If you look at fiscal pros-

Paul Krugman

see KRUGMAN page 5

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It’s still the 9/11 era Osama bin Laden is dead. So is Saddam Hussein, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and too many Qaeda No. 3’s to count. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is awaiting his military tribunal. George W. Bush is home on the ranch, Dick Cheney is on book tour, and even Gen. David Petraeus is a general no more, having traded in his stars for a civilian position atop the Central Intelligence Agency.

But 10 years to the week after the twin towers fell, we are still living in the 9/11 era. The names and faces are different, the White House has changed hands, and the country has turned its gaze from our distant wars to the economic crisis on the home front.

But American foreign policy is still defined by the choices our leaders made while ground zero smoldered, and the objectives they set. Our approach to the world was fundamentally altered by 9/11, and nothing that’s happened since has undone that transformation.

Part of this transformation was tactical: a shift from a criminal justice approach to counterterrorism that emphasized investigations, arrests and successful prosecutions, to a wartime approach that emphasized detention, interrogation and assassination. The other part was

Ross Douthat –––––

The New York Times strategic: a decision that America’s national security required promoting democracy across the Muslim world — by force of arms, if necessary — rather than accepting the kind of stability that various dictators had promised to supply.

Taken together, these two shifts gave us the Bush administration’s most controversial policies, from Guantánamo Bay and “extraordinary rendition” to the invasion of Iraq and the nationbuilding effort that followed.

Some of those policies were walked back in the second Bush term. (The waterboard vanished from our interrogation repertoire, and there were no further wars of choice.) But the overall transformation endured.

It has endured under Barack Obama as well, his campaign promises notwithstanding. We are still fighting a war on terrorist groups, complete with the indefinite detention, drone attacks and

covert warfare that infuriated civil libertarians during the Bush presidency. Meanwhile, Obama’s first term has featured an expanded nation-building effort in Afghanistan, a regime-change operation in Libya, a possibly permanent military footprint in Iraq — and the gradual adoption, amid the ferment of the Arab Spring, of Bush’s freedom agenda rhetoric as well.

The question is whether this continuity is evidence of success or an example of the stay-the-course bias to which all governments are prone. Here it’s worth asking a version of Ronald Reagan’s famous question: Are we better off than we were 10 years ago?

The case for answering yes is strongest on the counterterrorism front, where our shadow war has clearly diminished our enemies’ capacity to do us harm in ways that our pre-9/11 efforts never did.

There are significant moral costs to a policy that depends on routinized assassination and detention without trial. But 10 years without a major attack, the death of Osama bin Laden and the steady degradation of Al Qaeda and its affiliates are not achievements to be taken lightly.

The United States will always see DOUTHAT page 5

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China’s challenge at sea

BY AAROL L. FRIEDBERG Op-Ed Contributor THE NEW YORK TIMES

AMERICA’S fiscal woes are placing the country on a path of growing strategic risk in Asia.

With Democrats eager to protect social spending and Republicans anxious to avoid tax hikes, and both saying the national debt must be brought under control, we can expect sustained efforts to slash the defense budget. Over the next 10 years, cuts in planned spending could total half a trillion dollars.

Even as the Pentagon saves money by pulling back from Afghanistan and Iraq, there will be fewer dollars with which to buy weapons or develop new ones.

Unfortunately, those constraints are being imposed just as America faces a growing strategic challenge. Fueled by economic growth of nearly 10 percent a year, China has been engaged for nearly two decades in a rapid and wide-ranging military buildup. China is secretive about its intentions, and American strategists have had to focus on other concerns since 9/11. Still, the dimensions, direction and likely implications of China’s buildup have become increasingly clear.

When the cold war ended, the Pacific Ocean became, in effect, an American lake. With its air and naval forces operating through bases in friendly countries like Japan and South Korea, the United States could defend and reassure its allies, deter potential aggressors and insure safe passage for commercial shipping throughout the Western Pacific and into the Indian Ocean. Its forces could operate everywhere with impunity.

But that has begun to change. In the mid-1990s, China started to put into place the pieces of what Pentagon planners refer to as an “anti-access capability.” In other words, rather than trying to match American power plane for plane and ship for ship,

Beijing has sought more cost-effective ways to neutralize it. It has been building large numbers of relatively inexpensive but highly accurate non-nuclear ballistic missiles, as well as sea- and air-launched cruise missiles. Those weapons could destroy or disable the handful of ports and airfields from which American air and naval forces operate in the Western Pacific and sink warships whose weapons could reach the area from hundreds of miles out to sea, including American aircraft carriers.

The Chinese military has also been testing techniques for disabling American satellites and cybernetworks, and it is adding to its small arsenal of long-range nuclear missiles that can reach the United States.

Although a direct confrontation seems unlikely, China appears to seek the option of dealing a knockout blow to America’s forward forces, leaving Washington with difficult choices about how to respond.

Those preparations do not mean that China wants war with the United States. To the contrary, they seem intended mostly to overawe its neighbors while dissuading Washington from coming to their aid if there is ever a clash. Uncertain of whether they can rely on American support, and unable to match China’s power on their own, other countries may decide they must accommodate China’s wishes.

In the words of the ancient military theorist Sun Tzu, China is acquiring the means to “win without fighting” — to establish itself as Asia’s dominant power by eroding the credibility of America’s security guarantees, hollowing out its alliances and eventually easing it out of the region.

If the United States and its Asian friends look to their own defenses and coordinate their efforts, there is no reason they cannot maintain a favorable balance of power, even as China’s strength grows.

But if they fail to respond to China’s buildup, there

Aaron L. Friedberg, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton, is the author of “A Contest for Supremacy: China, America and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia.”

to be managed rather than resisted. But our post9/11 attempts to transform the Muslim world have cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, and won us — well, what? A liberated Iraq that’s more in Iran’s sphere of influence than ours, an Afghan war in which American casualties keep rising, an Arab Spring that threatens to encircle Israel with enemies, a Middle East where our list of reliable allies grows thin ...

This list doesn’t account for various counterfactuals (how much worse off we might be with Saddam Hussein in power, for instance). Nor does it account

for democracy promotion’s long-term benefits.

But after 10 years of conflict, we aren’t exactly in short-term territory anymore. And pointing out that things could have been worse doesn’t change the fact that our post-9/11 grand strategy has been associated with a steady erosion of America’s position in the world.

In this context, the fact that President Obama has kept the United States enmeshed in occupations and interventions across the Muslim world isn’t evidence that our strategy is working. It’s a sign that he doesn’t know how to get us out.

to these layoffs by rejoicing at the sight of a shrinking government and embarking on a hiring spree.

O.K., I know what the usual suspects will say — namely, that fears of regulation and higher taxes are holding businesses back. But this is just a rightwing fantasy. Multiple surveys have shown that lack of demand — a lack that is being exacerbated by government cutbacks — is the overwhelming problem businesses face, with regulation and taxes barely even in the picture.

For example, when McClatchy Newspapers recently canvassed a random selection of smallbusiness owners to find out what was hurting them, not a single one complained about regulation of his or her industry, and few complained much about taxes. And did I mention that profits after taxes, as a share of national income, are at record levels?

So short-run deficits aren’t a problem; lack of demand is, and spending cuts are making things much worse. Maybe it’s time to change course?

Which brings me to President Obama’s planned speech on the economy.

I find it useful to think in terms of three questions: What should we be doing to create jobs?

What will Republicans in Congress agree to? And given that political reality, what should the presi-

dent propose?

The answer to the first question is that we should have a lot of job-creating spending on the part of the federal government, largely in the form of muchneeded spending to repair and upgrade the nation’s infrastructure. Oh, and we need more aid to state and local governments, so that they can stop laying off schoolteachers.

But what will Republicans agree to? That’s easy: nothing. They will oppose anything Mr. Obama proposes, even if it would clearly help the economy — or maybe I should say, especially if it would help the economy, since high unemployment helps them politically.

This reality makes the third question — what the president should propose — hard to answer, since nothing he proposes will actually happen anytime soon. So I’m personally prepared to cut Mr. Obama a lot of slack on the specifics of his proposal, as long as it’s big and bold. For what he mostly needs to do now is to change the conversation — to get Washington talking again about jobs and how the government can help create them.

For the sake of the nation, and especially for millions of unemployed Americans who see little prospect of finding another job, I hope he pulls it off.

is a danger that Beijing could miscalculate, throw its weight around and increase the risk of confrontation and even armed conflict. Indeed, China’s recent behavior in disputes over resources and maritime boundaries with Japan and the smaller states that ring the South China Sea suggest that this already may be starting to happen.

This is a problem that cannot simply be smoothed away by dialogue. China’s military policies are not the product of a misunderstanding; they are part of a deliberate strategy that other nations must now find ways to meet. Strength deters aggression; weakness tempts it. Beijing will denounce such moves as provocative, but it is China’s actions that currently threaten to upset the stability of Asia.

Many of China’s neighbors are more willing than they were in the past to ignore Beijing’s complaints, increase their own defense spending and work more closely with one another and the United States.

They are unlikely, however, to do those things unless they are convinced that America remains committed. Washington does not have to shoulder the entire burden of preserving the Asian power balance, but it must lead.

The Pentagon needs to put a top priority on finding ways to counter China’s burgeoning anti-access capabilities, thereby reducing the likelihood that they will ever be used. This will cost money. To justify the necessary spending in an era of austerity, our leaders will have to be clearer in explaining the nation’s interests and commitments in Asia and blunter in describing the challenge posed by China’s relentless military buildup.

The U.S. is still vulnerable to terrorism, but less so today than 10 years ago DOUTHAT from page 4

be vulnerable to terrorists, but in the decade since we were blindsided by Mohammed Atta’s team of hijackers, our spies and SEALs and interrogators have dramatically improved our odds.

On the strategic front, though, it is extremely difficult to argue that America’s geopolitical position is stronger today than it was 10 years ago.

Some of this weakening was inevitable: Our extraordinary post-cold-war dominance couldn’t last forever, and the rise of rival powers is a phenomenon

Mass unemployment, not the deficit, is America’s biggest problem today KRUGMAN from page 4

pects over, say, the next 20 years, they are indeed deeply worrying, largely because of rising healthcare costs. But the experience of the past two years has overwhelmingly confirmed what some of us tried to argue from the beginning: The deficits we’re running right now — deficits we should be running, because deficit spending helps support a depressed economy — are no threat at all.

And by obsessing over a nonexistent threat, Washington has been making the real problem — mass unemployment, which is eating away at the foundations of our nation — much worse.

Although you’d never know it listening to the ranters, the past year has actually been a pretty good test of the theory that slashing government spending actually creates jobs. The deficit obsession has blocked a much-needed second round of federal stimulus, and with stimulus spending, such as it was, fading out, we’re experiencing de facto fiscal austerity. State and local governments, in particular, faced with the loss of federal aid, have been sharply cutting many programs and have been laying off a lot of workers, mostly schoolteachers.

And somehow the private sector hasn’t responded

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Discharged for being gay, some veterans seek to re-enlist

BY JAMES DAO THE NEW YORK TIMES

They lived shadow lives in the military, afraid that disclosure of their sexuality would ruin carefully plotted careers. Many were deeply humiliated by drawn-out investigations and unceremonious discharges.

Yet despite their bitter partings with the armed forces, many gay men and lesbians who were discharged under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy say they want to rejoin the service, drawn by a life they miss or stable pay and benefits they could not find in civilian life.

By some estimates, hundreds of gay men and lesbians among the more than 13,000 who were discharged under the policy have contacted recruiters or advocacy groups saying they want to re-enlist after the policy is repealed on Sept. 20.

Bleu Copas is one. He had been in the Army for just three years when someone sent an anonymous e-mail to his commanders telling them he was gay. After he was discharged in 2006 under “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the military’s ban on openly gay troops, “It took away all my value as a person,” he recalled.

Michael Almy is another. When the Air Force began its investigation into whether he was gay, it suspended his security clearance and relieved him of his command. On his final day in service in 2006, police officers escorted him to the gate. “It left kind of a bitter taste,” he said.

Though the Pentagon says it will welcome their applications, former service members discharged for homosexuality will not be granted special treatment. They will have to pass physical fitness

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Even if they pass those hurdles, there is no guarantee that they will go back to their former jobs or ranks. And because the armed services are beginning to shrink, some will be rejected because there are no available Bleu Copas was discharged from the Army under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 2006. Now 35, he is slots. thinking of learning yet another language but fears that he is too old to return to service (Shawn Poynter People discharged for the New York Times) under “don’t ask, He was open about his sexual orientation while don’t tell” who wish to return to service “will be evaldeployed to Kuwait for a year, he says. But a prouated according to the same criteria and requirefile of him in Stars and Stripes led to a new invesments applicable to all others seeking re-entry tigation, and he was discharged a second time upon into the military,” said Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon coming home in 2007. spokeswoman. “The services will continue to base Now 29, Mr. Daniels says that in the years since, accessions of prior-service members on the needs of “I’ve had no direction in my life.” He wants to become the service and the skills and qualifications of the an officer and learn Arabic, saying he is confident he applicants.” will be accepted because he has already served as an To be eligible for re-enlistment, former service openly gay man. members cannot have been discharged under “other “No one cared that I was gay,” he said of his year in than honorable conditions,” Ms. Lainez said. The Kuwait. “What mattered was I did a good job.” majority of people released under the policy since The issue of rank could discourage many from 1993 — a significant number of them highly trained rejoining. Because there are fixed numbers of intelligence analysts and linguists — received honjobs or ratings in each of the armed services, orable discharges. some people might have to accept lower ranks to As with all people who join the military, the re-enlist. And those allowed to keep their former reasons for wanting to rejoin vary widely. Some ranks will still find themselves lagging their say they want to finish what they started, but on onetime peers. their own terms. Others point to the steady pay, “I’ve been out six years, so my peers are way ahead good health care and retirement benefits. Still of me in the promotion structure,” said Jarrod Chlothers talk idealistically about a desire to serve apowski, 29, a Korean linguist who left the Army and be part of an enterprise larger than themvoluntarily in 2005 as a specialist because he hated selves. keeping his sexual orientation a secret. He is now “It’s a hunger,” said Mr. Copas, who now works thinking about rejoining. with homeless veterans in Knoxville, Tenn. “It “It’s going to be a different Army than the one I doesn’t necessarily make sense. It’s the idea of faith, left,” he said. “And that’s a little intimidating.” like an obligation to family.”

Mr. Almy, 41, Mr. Daniels and another former Jase Daniels was actually discharged twice. service member have filed a lawsuit asserting Because of a clerical error, the Navy failed to note on that they were unconstitutionally discharged his records that the reason for his first discharge in and should be reinstated, presumably at their 2005 was homosexuality. So the following year, when former ranks. A former major, Mr. Almy, who his services as a linguist were needed, the Pentagon was deployed at least four times to the Middle recalled him.

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Vermonters turn out as local dairies take stock and dig out

BY MICHAEL COOPER THE NEW YORK TIMES

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. — As soon as the news of the disaster at the Perley Farm began to spread — how the fast-rising waters of the White River had washed away nearly 200 bales of hay, flooded the farmhouse and then swept some of the cows down the river to their deaths — neighbors and strangers alike began arriving at the muddy barn here to offer help.

Agriculture students from Vermont Technical College showed up with shovels and began digging. A couple from Hartland, Vt., brought a wheelbarrow and mucked out the barn, and then returned a few days later with a homemade lasagna. A couple from New Hampshire brought grain to feed the surviving cows and wood shavings to line the barn.

“My husband and I, we’re people that give, you know — we’ve never had to be on the receiving end,” said Penny Severance, who runs the farm with her husband, Larry, for its owner, Harland Perley, 81, whose family has had it for a century. “So it’s really hard. We’re so grateful.”

“We had people that came down with shovels because there was no way out here,” she said, fighting back tears. “The road was totally cut off. And people walked in with shovels and were like, ‘We’re here, what can we do?’ Then we had the calf barn, the back where the heifers are, our silo room, our grain room was just full of muck. And they just cleaned it out for us.”

The flooding unleashed a week ago Sunday by the remnants of Hurricane Irene played havoc with farms across Vermont. Rushing waters left fields of siltcaked cornstalks matted down on their sides. Farmers are still checking to see what vegetables and flowers can be saved.

But for livestock farmers — especially the dairy farmers who are a symbol of Vermont — the toll has been more gut-wrenching, and the crisis has lasted longer, as they have struggled to take care of their animals.

With power out in many places, some dairy farmers could not operate the machines they use to milk their cows. Smaller farms relied on volunteers to milk them the old-fashioned way. Others got their hands on generators to run their machines. The cows needed to be milked, but with dairy pickups halted in many parts of the state because the roads were inaccessible, some farmers were forced to dump thousands of dollars worth of milk.

Then there was the emotional toll of losing animals.

Buddy Severance, 17, recalled how his father took him across their rapidly submerging field on a tractor, depositing him safely at the farmhouse before turning back and getting marooned on it by swirling waters.

They were both stranded, helpless as the rising waters rushed across the pastures and poured into the barn.

They were eventually saved by a rescue boat, reluctantly leaving behind cows and calves hitched in the barn and in the field.

All but two of the cows in the barn survived, somehow.

“That one right there on the end, he had a twin,” Buddy said, pointing to a brown-and-white calf. “I was going to raise them for oxen. They were standing right side by side, and his twin ended up drowning.”

It was while the rescue boat was ferrying the Severances to safety that they saw some of the cows from the pasture floating down the White River.

Some made it alive a few miles down the river, Buddy said.

“People were calling — they said they heard cows in the river bawling, just going down through,” he said.

“We know that they made it at least that far alive. I would have rather seen them, at least the ones that did go down the river, I would have rather watched them drown than have them go that far and suffer.”

Of the farm’s 65 cows, about two dozen are still missing.

Mr. Perley had only come back to the farm the night before with his nieces after a long trip to New Jersey, where he had visited relatives and had a pacemaker installed. “We didn’t expect that we’d be coming out in a boat, but we did,” he said in a telephone interview from New Jersey, where he returned after the flood.

The outpouring of help has moved Mr. Perley and the Severance family. Some heard about them through word of mouth. Others read about their plight in The Valley News. Others offered assistance after the farm asked for help on Vermont Public Radio and on a Web site called #VTResponse, which was created after the storm as a sort of Twitter-age version of the venerable Swopper’s Column in Yankee Magazine, connecting volunteers and supplies with the flood victims who needed them.

“We are in desperate need of 16% pellets for cows whose food will run out tonight,” read one post on the Web site. The next day, people arrived with feed for the cows.

As the Severances continued the cleanup on Friday, Tamara Burke, a sheep farmer from Mansfield, Vt., pulled up in her pickup truck (license plate: EWEHAUL) with wood shavings, new wire fencing and a gate.

“I know that there’s a tremendous amount of need,” said Ms. Burke, who had visited several farms.

“Because people hadn’t brought their second-cut hay in, even if your barn escaped, your hay was on the ground. So we don’t have a whole lot of hay, and unfortunately we need hay.”

The days have been long for the Severances. “We’ve been working until about midnight every night here trying to do stuff and go home, and we’re up by 5 o’clock in the morning — and that’s late for us, because my husband, sometimes he’s down here at 3 o’clock in the morning on a normal day — and we start all over again,” Ms. Severance said.

“It’s been amazing, the support from the community we’ve gotten,” she said. “It really is. People are like, ‘What are you going to do?’ And I say, ‘What are we supposed to do, just throw our hands up and say the heck with it?’ This is our life. Of course we’ve got to keep farming.”

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Wednesday, Sept. 7 Secret Chiefs 3 at SPACE

Sunday, Sept. 18

9 p.m. Secret Chiefs 3 return to SPACE Gallery for a another visionary evening of music. Led by composer and producer Trey Spruance, former guitarist of Mr. Bungle and Faith No More, the group is touring in support of their long-awaited new album, Book of Souls, out this fall. French drum & synth duo FAT32 bring their breakcorefreejazz-polka madness to open the night. www. space538.org/events.php

Laura Darrell CD Release

8 p.m. Laura Darrell at One Longfellow Square.

Laura Darrell began singing professionally at age 9 in the classical genre before she transitioned into musical theatre and pop in her adolescence.

She sang with the Portland Symphony Orchestra when she was 13 and was discovered by Producer Con Fullam who produced her Christmas Album which earned her a N.E. Emmy nomination after her concert debuted on PBS. www.onelongfellowsquare.com

Friday, Sept. 9 Artist Talk: What Cheer? Brigade

7 p.m. SPACE Gallery. “Since their early days in Providence circa 2005, What Cheer? Brigade has played with Dan Deacon, Man Man, Japanther, Dengue Fever, Okkervil River, Lightning Bolt, Ninjasonik, Mika Miko, Wolf Parade, Matt and Kim, Slavic Soul Party, Javelin, Sage Francis, and Chain and the Gang. They’ve appeared at Lollapalooza, Sziget (Hungary), and Guca (Serbia).

They’ve played in just about every crazy place you can imagine. How do they make it all work and hold down day-jobs to boot? What’s it like making travel arrangements for 20-plus people? What’s the whole DIY marching band thing about? Come meet the musicians, hang out, hear funny stories and gain some insight into how these guys have sustained their artistic pursuits. Co-presented with Portland Music Foundation. Made possible in part through a grant from New England Foundation for the Arts.”

Friday, Sept. 23 Dirty White Hats

9 p.m. Portland hip hop act Dirty White Hats at Port City Music Hall. “We’re brewing up new songs for our next show; Dirty White Hats and Whitcomb @ PCMH,” the group reports.

Thursday, Sept. 29 Chris Botti at Merrill

Ramblin’ Red at Mayo Street

8 p.m. Ramblin’ Red at Mayo Street Arts. :”Inspired by the crashing of the ocean, the creak of the back porch, the crunch of homemade tacos, and the wonders of wine, Portland Maine based quartet Ramblin’ Red takes you down original folk roads with old-time twists and bluegrass turns, in funky dance-off shoes. And they always bring you home Paranoid Social Club plays Port City Music Hall on Friday. (COURTESY PHOTO) satisfied. They’re fun-loving gals with serious soul and unrivaled harmonies.” Doors open 30 minutes JJ Grey and Mofro at Port City prior to the show. Tickets $8 in advance/$10 door.

8 p.m. Port City Music Hall presents Adam Ezra Group and

Paranoid Social Club

8 p.m. Paranoid Social Club at Port City Music Hall. “Paranoid Social Club is the bastard brainchild of Dave Gutter and Jon Roods of the Rustic Overtones. Hailing from Portland, the band has received international accolades for its high energy style. Equally inspired by punk, soul, psychedelic rock, and the human psyche; PSC is a musical movement like no other. Picture Jimi Hendrix smashing a keyboard or The Clash backing Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival.” www.portcitymusichall.com/events

Lauren Rioux CD Release

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square. Lauren Rioux fiddles from the heart with soul and joy. This, in combination with her warm tone, elegant and expressive phrasing, and playful style, leads her to create music that artfully explores themes of both heartache and hope. With her debut album, All the Brighter, Rioux presents a beautiful collection of melodies that embrace and celebrate the richness of life. www. onelongfellowsquare.com

Tuesday, Sept. 13 The Moody Blues

8 p.m. Steve Litman Presents, The Moody Blues in concert.

Tickets $109.50, $77, $67 (includes service fee). “The Moody Blues are an English Rock band that have sold 70 million albums worldwide and have been awarded 14 platinum and gold discs. With hits such as ‘Nights in White Satin,’ ‘Just a Singer in a Rock n Roll Band,’ ‘Ride My See-Saw,’ and ‘Question of Balance,’ Moody Blues have been around since 1964!” Merrill Auditorium. https://tickets.porttix.com/public/show.asp

Thursday, Sept. 15 Gabriel Kahane at One Longfellow

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Gabriel Kahane.

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times earlier this year for “an all around dazzling performance,” Gabriel Kahane is not part of a scene. He writes string quartets and musicals and pop songs, and his heart is fully in all of those endeavors. But what unites all of his musical efforts is the desire to communicate honestly and without pretense.

JJ Grey and Mofro. Adam Ezra Group is a dynamic acoustic roots/rock band rising to the top of the Boston music scene. A mixture of old school rhythm & blues and downhome roots rock ‘n’ roll, has carried JJ Grey & Mofro from the backwoods of Florida to hundreds of concert stages across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. www.portcitymusichall.com/events

Friday, Sept. 16 The Edith Jones Project

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents the Edith Jones Project. Maine’s All Women Big Band (86 percent less testosterone ... 200 percent of the swing) plays modern big band jazz made famous by Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, the Count Basie Orchestra and others. Members of the band include some of the most talented performing and teaching musicians in Maine. Band members include faculty from Bates College, USM, UNH, and high schools, middle schools and elementary schools throughout southern Maine.

USM Spotlight Concert Series

8 p.m. Broadway performer Mark Jacoby joins a collection of USM faculty and visiting guest artists gathered by School of Music faculty member Betty Rines to perform two extraordinary instrumental/narrative works, Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat and Walton’s Façade, in the first in the University of Southern Maine School of Music’s Fall 2011 Spotlight Concert Series. Join Betty Rines and Friends in Hannaford Hall, Abromson Community Education Center (Bedford Street), USM Portland. Spotlight Concert tickets cost $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 students/children. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

For additional information, contact the USM Music Box Office at 780-5555. Sponsored by the School of Music Advisory Board.

Saturday, Sept. 17 Catie Curtis at One Longfellow

8 p.m. One Longfellow Square presents Catie Curtis. Curtis has recorded 10 critically acclaimed solo albums and has had songs featured in numerous TV shows including “Daw-

7:30 p.m. Merrill Auditorium, Portland. “Since the release of his 2004 critically acclaimed CD ‘When I Fall In Love,’ Chris Botti (pronounced boat-tee) has become the largest selling American instrumental artist. His success has crossed over to audiences usually reserved for pop music and his ongoing association with PBS has led to four No. 1 Jazz Albums, as well as multiple Gold, Platinum & Grammy Awards. Over the past three decades, he has recorded and performed with the best in music; including Frank Sinatra, Sting, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, John Mayer, Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell and Aerosmith’s own Steven Tyler.” http://portlandovations.org

Wednesday, Sept. 28 Keb’ Mo’ at the State

7:30 p.m. WCLZ Presents Grammy Award winner Keb’ Mo’ at the State Theatre. American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter from Nashville. www.statetheatreportland.com

Thursday, Sept. 29 Rubblebucket at Port City

7 p.m. Rubblebucket’s second studio album, Omega La La produced by Eric Broucek (LCD Soundsystem, !!!, Holy Ghost) @ DFA Studios & mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Herbie Hancock) was released on June 21. Port City Music Hall.

Sunday, Oct. 2 Season Opening Celebration for PSO

2:30 p.m. Portland Symphony Orchestra with Robert Moody, conductor, and Awadagin Pratt, piano. Also Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Merrill Auditorium. https://tickets.porttix. com/public/show.asp

An Evening with Primus

8:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. State Theatre presents Primus.

Primus’ major label debut was the album Sailing the Seas of Cheese. The album was supported by the singles “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver” and “Tommy the Cat,” both of which appeared on MTV. Fans of “South Park” will recognize their work in the theme song. www.statetheatreportland.com

Wednesday, Oct. 5 Jackson Browne Solo

7:30 p.m. “Playing guitar and piano, Jackson Browne will perform songs from his entire body of work, with varying set lists. He has released two albums of acoustic music, Jackson Browne — Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1 & 2. In Rolling Stone’s four star review of Volume 2, Anthony DeCurtis wrote, ‘Between songs, Browne speaks about his life and music with moving candor. This is Browne at his best, engaging his audience, his own experiences and the world around him, all in songs that will not lose their resonance anytime soon.’”

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Patriots’ off-season acquisitions toeing the company line

BY JUDY BATTISTA THE NEW YORK TIMES

It was, surprisingly, easy to miss him as he strolled through the New England Patriots’ locker room.

There went Albert Haynesworth one day last week, smiling and looking svelte in his practice jersey, nothing like the scourge of effort-loving coaches and fans he had morphed into in Washington. With his on-again, offagain practice schedule, Haynesworth has been the curiosity of the Patriots’ preseason. That is saying something considering the Patriots’ other low-risk, potential-reward acquisition this year, receiver Chad Ochocinco, who gently placed a pair of shimmering gold cleats in his locker before he met with reporters only moments after Haynesworth walked by.

The league finally got a look at Haynesworth in the final preseason game against the Giants and, predictably, he gave a sneak peek of why coaches put up with him. On his first snap, Haynesworth rushed so powerfully inside that he pushed the guard into the backup quarterback David Carr. Afterward, Haynesworth called New England a “career-saving” place, and mused that he wished he had joined the Patriots two years ago — when the Redskins were happily handing him a guaranteed $41 million.

“We were talking, just about how different it is and how we really like this place,” Haynesworth said of a conversation with another former Redskins lineman, Andre Carter, who is also with the Patriots.

When the Patriots traded low-round draft picks for Haynesworth and Ochocinco within hours of each other, the rest of the league was surprised — except for the Philadelphia Eagles’ free-agency spree, no team’s moves provided more intrigue.

But for Coach Bill Belichick, this is merely the latest personnel iteration that allows the team to succeed despite occasional disasters — like the 2007 draft class that, with the release Saturday of safety Brandon Meriweather, no longer has a representative on the

Patriots roster. (They also traded two picks that year to acquire Wes Welker and one to get Randy Moss.) That kind of miscalculation on youth would torpedo other franchises for years. But the Patriots have hit often enough on defensive draft picks — Jerod Mayo and Devin McCourty, in particular — that the sprinkling in of inexpensive veterans was suddenly necessary.

With Haynesworth, Carter and the former Jets defensive end Shaun Ellis joining Vince Wilfork and Gerard Warren, the Patriots will be able to rotate waves of linemen, which could make Haynesworth’s infamously shaky conditioning a nonfactor. The depth should improve a pass rush and an inside run defense that was a weakness for a team that went 14-2 last season but lost at home in its first playoff game.

If Haynesworth has truly embraced the Patriots ethos — if he is the motivated player who mauled offensive linemen preblockbuster contract in Tennessee instead of the one immortalized on YouTube lying on the ground for the Redskins while Michael Vick scrambled just a few feet away — he can reward the Patriots for saving his career by helping to save their defense.

For as much mixing as Belichick does — last season the Patriots worked out of both the 3-4 and the 4-3 — he has loaded up on linemen this year. That could be because, with the lockout wiping out off-season programs, Belichick anticipated there would be limited time to teach his defensive players the myriad looks he prefers. Instead he chose to lean more heavily on the 4-3.

It has been a long time since the Patriots won with defense first. Even after Tom Brady emerged in 2001, the team still leaned heavily on defense for its titles after the 2003 and 2004 seasons.

That, of course, changed with Moss and the record-setting 2007 season.

They might consider tilting back toward the old formula. Brady and the offensive line have been manhandled in recent years — the Giants in the Super Bowl the most famous practitioners, the Jets in the 2010 playoffs the most recent — and Detroit brutalized

the Patriots this preseason. Not surprisingly, the Patriots signed the former Chiefs guard Brian Waters on Sunday, a Pro Bowl player who could start immediately on the right side, and also looked at the former Dallas center Andre Gurode as recently as last weekend.

The Patriots are not built to look good in the summer, though. They are designed to build toward December and beyond, which is why Haynesworth’s now-you-seehim, now-you-don’t training camp and Ochocinco’s practice drops do not worry the Patriots right now. They have been with the Patriots for Albert Haynesworth, left, and Chad Ochocinco were two big name veteran a month and Belich- additions to the Patriots this off-season. ick, ever tight-lipped little time he has spent with the team, about the state of but not good enough to be communihis team, said it was not caught up to cating with Brady only with a quick where it would have been if there had glance, Ochocinco’s goal. been a normal off-season.

His marriage to the Patriots might “No, but wherever we are, we are,” he seem forced, considering he is so comsaid. fortable in the spotlight that shortly For Ochocinco, that has produced a after his arrival he asked Boston-area muted public soul-searching at odds reporters for a group hug. But he has with the image of a player who once toned down his act in recent weeks, a sent Pepto-Bismol to opposing defendconcession, perhaps, to his acclimation ers to remind them of how sick they anxiety as much as the Patriots’ image. would feel when they tried to cover “I’m just different,” Ochocinco said. him. He has also told a reporter he “I’m somewhat against the grain, just considered himself an entertainer, not a bit odd. Opposites attract. It’s reality. a football player. That attitude would It’s the way it’s always been. Therefore, usually make Belichick shake in his I’ll mesh well here.” cut-off sweats.

A few minutes later, when the camBut Ochocinco is also known as a dilieras had turned away, though, Ochogent worker, which has endeared him cinco gave a glimpse of what he expects. to Belichick over the years. He admit“It’s going to get fun,” he said. “Trust ted last week that if he were rating his me. I’m settling in. You’ll hear me.” comfort level with the Patriots’ offense, Probably because the Patriots will he is nearly a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. make noise this season, too.

That is pretty good considering how

Amid a large American city, a noisy racing village takes shape BALTIMORE — For the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix, a three-day event featuring major IndyCar and Le Mans-style street races, downtown Baltimore was transformed into a festive street fair, with just a dash of disaster-movie quarantine zone.

A large patch of downtown became a fan village encircled by a 2.1-mile street circuit racetrack. Miles of temporary barriers and chain-link fences kept spectators a safe distance from the track and separated the fan village, which included Camden Yards, from the rest of the city, including the Inner Harbor.

Four narrow security gates allowed paying spectators passage between the two realms. Deafening engine roars echoed through the streets. Fans outside the barriers watched the races from tavern patios, interstate overpasses and high-rise rooftops. Specta-

tors inside took mazelike paths along temporary stairways from grandstands to paddocks and autograph booths.

The three-day slate of races culminated with a 75-lap entry in the IndyCar open-wheel racing series. Will Power of Team Penske won the main event, pulling 5 points behind the series leader, Dario Franchitti of Target Chip Ganassi, who finished fourth.

Other events included qualifying and practice on Friday, and Saturday’s American LeMans 100, in which several vehicle classifications with twoperson crews raced simultaneously.

Baltimore spent an estimated $6.5 million constructing the temporary downtown circuit, grinding and repaving several streets to make them suitable for racing. Baltimore will host see RACING page 13

An unofficial estimate calculated that 75,000 spectators attended the first-ever Baltimore Grand Prix, capping three days of racing events. The city spent about $6.5 million preparing for the race. (Robert LaBerge/Getty Images/The New York Times)

DAILY CROSSWORD TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES

by Lynn Johnston

By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You want to project a more glamorous image. Gearing up to do this will put you in touch with what exactly it is you have to offer and why you do it like no one else could.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You are genuinely curious about your leaders. Because of your interest, you will become aligned in some powerful way. You’ll make an impression and a difference.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

Your passion for music and art will bring you together with fellow enthusiasts.

You’ll share information and gain more than knowledge -- you’ll have a sense of belonging.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).

You’ll be dealing with an ever-evolving set of rules and regulations. It’s not the bureaucracy that makes things complicated; it’s the way you think about it. A funny friend will be your lifeline.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The body can’t help but give in to the passage of time. But the mind can be eternally young. You’ll revel in your youth without regard to the number of years you’ve been on the earth.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 6).

People relate easily to you, and there are many who feel that you are one of their own. You’ll thrive this month as you provide well for others. In October, you’ll win a kind of competition.

Commitments and deals will be inked in December. In the new year, you’ll cultivate talents such as cooking, photography or sports. Capricorn and Libra people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 15, 50, 41, 37 and 45.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Though some have said you have nerves of steel, when you are tired, you can get spooked easily. For instance, tonight you’ll get a glimpse of a red flag and run the other way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Someone is talking an interesting talk to you, and you wonder whether this person can put action behind these words.

Test the waters in some small way before jumping in.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When someone has a problem, you feel a responsibility to help. That’s why you won’t deal with it when it’s convenient for you -- you’ll handle it in the moment of need. Your ethics are firmly in place.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll take pride in a job well done, even though you didn’t technically do the work yourself. Cultivating a winning team is a commendable talent, though.

You certainly deserve some of the credit.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The most dramatic change will also be the simplest one. Instead of trying to get yourself to change in a million ways at once, pick one small, easy-to-follow rule. For instance, don’t go online while you’re supposed to be working!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You won’t let go of an idea. You’ll work through it, examining it from every angle to figure out what it’s really about and, more importantly, how useful it really is to you now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Stress will act as your friend. It will be an alarm clock, letting you know that it’s time to rise to the occasion and be your best self. Stress is making you strong.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2011. There are 116 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (McKinley died eight days later; he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Czolgosz was executed in October 1901.)

On this date: In 1861, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant occupied Paducah, Ky., during the Civil War. In 1916, the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tenn., by Clarence Saunders.

In 1939, the Union of South Africa declared war on Germany.

In 1948, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands was inaugurated as queen, two days after the abdication of her mother, Queen Wilhelmina.

In 1949, Howard Unruh, a resident of Camden, N.J., shot and killed 13 of his neighbors. (Found to have paranoid schizophrenia, Unruh was confined for the rest of his life; he died in a Trenton Nursing Home in 2009 at age 88.)

In 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three U.S.-bound jetliners. (Two were later blown up on the ground in Jordan, along with a London-bound plane hijacked on Sept. 9; the fourth plane was destroyed on the ground in Egypt. No hostages were harmed.)

In 1985, all 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field.

One year ago: President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault accusing Republicans of causing Americans’ hard economic times.

Today’s Birthdays: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 74. Country singer David Allan Coe is 72. Rock singer-musician Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 68. Actress Swoosie Kurtz is 67. Comedian-actress Jane Curtin is 64. Country singer-songwriter Buddy Miller is 59. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 53. Actor-comedian Michael Winslow is 53. Actor Steven Eckholdt is 50. Pop musician Pal Waaktaar (a-ha) is 50. ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Vargas is 49.

Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 48. Actress Betsy Russell is 48. Actress Rosie Perez is 47. Rhythm and blues singer Macy Gray is 44. Actress Daniele Gaither is 41. Rock singer Dolores O’Riordan is 40. Actor Dylan Bruno is 39. Actress Anika Noni Rose is 39.

Rock singer Nina Persson is 37. Actor Justin Whalin is 37. Actress Naomie Harris is 35.

Actress Natalia Cigliuti is 33.

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Dear Annie: My husband has had several chronic illnesses during the past 20 years. He takes 15 different prescription medications a day and has frequent doctor visits and testing.

Our medical bills are through the roof. When credit card interest rates went up, we were unable to meet our monthly bills.

We have cut out all extras, but we are still having major difficulties. Both of us have full-time jobs, and I work as much overtime as possible, but we are sinking. Bankruptcy is not an option because it won’t leave us enough money to buy my husband’s medicines, and we earn too much to qualify for government assistance. Last Christmas, we were unable to buy our teenage son a gift, but still made sure to get something for my husband’s nieces and nephews because he refuses to tell his family of our problems. His parents are well off, and I have suggested to my husband that he ask them for some help, but he won’t hear of it. I even recommended he borrow the money and pay them back with interest, but he doesn’t want them involved. My parents are deceased, and my siblings have similar money problems. I know his parents read your column. Maybe they will see this and offer some help without questions because my husband is too prideful to ask. I am at my wits’ end. -- Sinking Fast Dear Sinking: Most parents would feel terrible if they were kept in the dark about a problem they could alleviate. In the meantime, your husband should check with his doctor’s office to see if they can offer assistance, and you can call the Information and Referral Service at 2-1-1 and explain the problem. It is also often possible to find free or reduced rates for medication directly through the drug manufacturers. Check their websites. Here are a few other suggestions: Needy Meds (needymeds.com); Partnership for Prescription Assistance (pparx.org); RxAssist and Rx Outreach Patient Assistance Programs (rxassist.org); Rx Hope (rxhope.com); and Together

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Dear Annie: Our family has been invited to a reception celebrating the civil union of one of our cousins and her samesex partner. My mother showed me the wedding card that she purchased for the occasion, which pictured the hands of a man and a woman. I questioned her about the card, and she said that the clerk in the store where she bought it told her it was appropriate. The clerk said that where two women formed a partnership, one of them would take on the role of “the man.” I am sure that our cousin’s partner is not a transsexual, and both would be offended if we called one of them a man. Am I wrong, or should my mother find another wedding card? -- Straight in Canada Dear Canada: Many gay couples might find this card insensitive. Since you believe your cousin and her partner would be unhappy with it, please suggest that Mom save this one for a different wedding and find another card that is specifically for gay couples or is gender neutral. It shouldn’t be difficult.

Dear Annie: This is in response to “Theresa in Florida,” whose husband is apprehensive about receiving a lung transplant. I received a lifesaving liver transplant 11 years ago and have been in excellent health since. Her husband can contact LifeLink Foundation for Western Florida in Tampa and Transplant Foundation of Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. I have volunteered for both. They offer meetings for pre-transplant patients and will help answer any questions her husband has. He can also meet others who have already undergone this transplant. I have met lung transplant recipients, and I am sure they would tell him to have the surgery without hesitation. -- Craig in Sarasota Dear Craig: Our thanks to you and all who wrote with words of encouragement. We hope Theresa and her husband will look into your recommendations.

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IndyCar events for at least the next five years.

The Versus television network estimated Sunday’s attendance at 75,000, though official attendance figures were unavailable. “Race officials were blown away by the numbers,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore said.

“The numbers they saw on Friday were what they expected to see on a Sunday.”

Grandstands and sidewalks in the fan village overflowed during the major races, and competitors marveled at the crowd sizes.

“The fan support was absolutely staggering,” said Rob Dyson, the owner of the first- and second-place P.C.-class cars in the Le Mans race.

Given the ceaseless din of the engines, the circling helicopters and the bunkerlike expanses of concrete barriers, the fan village was noisy, disorienting and claustrophobic at times. Lightning warnings on Saturday morning forced the temporary closing of grandstands and caused television monitors to display “Severe Weather Alert: Take Shelter” warnings.

But for most of the weekend, the weather was clear and crowds were diverse: hard-core race fans, curiosity seekers, college-age revelers and families with infants.

Baltimore still has some issues to resolve on and off the track. Road repairs continued into Thursday night, just hours before the first round of warm-ups and qualifiers. Racers struggled with the course’s idiosyncrasies.

“Pratt Street is really rough,” said Graham Rahal, who finished 10th in the IndyCar race.

“It’s as bumpy as can be.”

Racers had the most difficulty with Turn 1, a 120-degree curve at the end of the Pratt Street straightaway. Several IndyCar racers bounced off walls during Friday warm-ups, and early crashes affected the outcomes of Saturday’s race.

The IndyCar main event went rather smoothly, however, with just three yellow flags, one caused when Ryan Briscoe struck the rear of Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car, causing a spinout on the hairpin Turn 3.

But there were logistical issues at the entrance gates. As the main event approached on Sunday afternoon, lines to enter the fan village stretched for more than a block at some gates. Most spectators were well behaved, though there were a handful of fights on crowded pedestrian walkways.

Many major downtown arteries closed starting on Wednesday in preparation for the races, causing severe traffic congestion during the work week. By the weekend, however, delays were minor, and traffic on the interstates and downtown ran relatively smoothly.

“There are some things we are going to learn from in terms of fan entrance and egress,” said Ian Brennan, the press secretary for the mayor.

“But we are starting from a really good point.”

Baltimore joins Toronto and Long Beach, Calif., as the only cities in North America to host IndyCar racing on city streets. Roger Penske, the owner of Team Penske, says success in Baltimore can increase his sport’s visibility and viability at a time when Nascar has become far more popular.

“We want to build this as a great North American sport,” he said.

Rawlings-Blake says she wants to keep the IndyCar relationship with Baltimore going indefinitely. “This was magnificent for our city,” she said.

Simona de Silvestro, who finished sixth in the IndyCar race, put the event’s potential in global perspective. “This could be our Monaco,” she said.

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8:55 a.m. Classes will begin on Sept. 6 for students in first through 12th grade in the Portland Public Schools. Kindergartners will start school on Sept. 8. The normal daily schedule is: Elementary schools: 8:55 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.; middle schools: 8:25 a.m. to 2:35 p.m.; high schools: 8 a.m. to 2:10 p.m.; West School: 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Portland Arts and Technology High School (PATHS): Morning session — 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; afternoon session — 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Students are released one hour early on Wednesdays from October through May. The PATHS schedule on early release days is 8 to 10 a.m. (morning session) and 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. (afternoon session). The Portland Public Schools has added five more instructional days for students this year, giving the district one of the longest school years in Maine. The additional days, spread throughout the year, were made possible by a new, three-year contract agreement between the district and the Portland Education Association (PEA). Teachers gave up one professional development day and two days of personal professional time. They also agreed to work two additional days at no cost to the district in order to have more time in the classroom with students. www2.portlandschools.org

York County Jobs Alliance meeting

9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The York County Jobs Alliance (YCJA) will host its first meeting of the fall season. University College – Saco Island. David Lee, founder of Human Nature at Work, will deliver a presentation, “How to Stay Positive, Upbeat and Energized During your Job Search and Upon Returning to Employment.” The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP by calling Ryan Anderson at 571-3301 or email ryan.anderson@goodwillnne.org. Light refreshments will be served. More information can be found at www.goodwillnne.org.

Presidential candidate Gary Johnson

noon to 2 p.m. Rally featuring presidential candidate Gary Johnson at Fort Allen Park, Eastern Promenade. Tea Party Express kicked off its fifth national bus tour on Aug. 27, starting in Napa, Calif. www.teapartyexpress.org/tourschedule

Rape Aggression Defense Training

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. This September, the Portland Police Department will offer its Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) Training class. “R.A.D. provides women with the tools they need to both avoid dangerous situations and escape them.

The course is specifically designed to help women survive situations in which their lives are in jeopardy. This class is open to all women, ages 13 and older, in the Greater Portland area who would like to develop real life defensive tools and tactics.” The Basic Self-Defense Course consists of a series of four classes and one scenario day. The class is scheduled for Sept. 6, 8, 13, and 15, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Sept. 17 from 8 a.m. to noon (registration deadline August 31). All classes must be attended to complete the course. The classes will be held at the Portland Police Department, 109 Middle St. A donation of $25 for the course is suggested. All donations support the Amy St. Laurent Fund, which sponsors the R.A.D. training. Due to attendance issues, all donations must be paid prior to the first class (send checks to ASLF/PPD RAD Program, Portland Police Department, 109 Middle Street, Portland ME 04101). To sign up for the class or receive more information about Portland R.A.D., e-mail ppdrad@portlandmaine.gov or call 874-8643.

Portland mayoral election gathering

7 p.m. The Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland. (Just down from the Longfellow statue on the right, before Mercy Hospital.)The event will begin in our grand ballroom with a photo op featuring all 20 candidates; following that each candidate will be given two minutes to state why people should vote for them for mayor; following that the candidates will adjourn to individual tables with their names on them to host the public and the media for as long as they wish to; following that the candidates will be free to circulate throughout the mansion to interact with the public and the media.” No admission charge. Free parking at the rear of the building.

Wednesday, Sept. 7 Mayoral Mixer and Fundraiser at Bayside Bowl

5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Bayside Bowl 58 Alder St., Portland is hosting a mayoral mixer and fundraiser benefiting Preble Street Resource Center. Twelve of Portland’s mayoral candidates will be on hand, along with their bowling teams, to compete in the first Mayoral Mixer Bowling Tournament.

Supporters of the candidates are encouraged to show their team spirit by making a donation to Preble Street. Additionally, Bayside Bowl has pledged 5 percent of all food and

Ringing Out Justice at Auburn UU: Last week, after the church bells were tolled for “A Call to Remember, A Call to Action,” Safe Voices’ Victoria Williams and Kelley Glidden (front, from left) join First Universalist Church of Auburn’s Toby Haber-Giasson, Rev. Jodi Hayashida, Anne Kinney and Karen Lane (back) to reflect on the two groups’ partnership for both raising awareness through the Social Justice committee’s educational events, and fundraising around domestic violence through V-Day aUbUrn’s theatrical events. The Auburn UU Church will host a Social Justice Meeting Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (COURTESY PHOTO) dining sales to Preble Street.

Southern Maine Children’s Chorus auditions

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Southern Maine Children’s Chorus is auditioning new members for its fall performance. Auditions will be held at Corthell Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham. Auditioning singers grades 12 and younger have the option of singing a prepared song or a familiar song, such as “Happy Birthday.” The audition will also include singing back pitch patterns and a range check. The audition will take approximately 5-10 minutes. Some previous choral group experience is recommended. Rehearsals will be held on Wednesday evenings in Gorham. The University of Southern Maine School of Music administers this program, with support from Macy’s. Find more information on the School of Music and its community programs at www.usm.maine.edu/music. To schedule an audition time, or for more information, contact Marshunda Smith at marshunda.smith@maine.edu.

Unity of Greater Portland Hosts World Day of Prayer

7 p.m. “Prayer is the most powerful instrument for change available in our world today. On Sept. 7 and 8, Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host a series of special activities that will focus the consciousness of our community on the Annual World Day of Prayer (www.worlddayofprayer.org), a world-wide celebration affirming peace, abundance, and love on an individual and global level. This 18th annual event will involve people from 160 countries in a world-wide effort to uplift our world in shared prayer consciousness. This year’s theme is ‘Together We Shine, we are channels through which Spirit illumines the world.’” On Wednesday Sept. 7 at 7 p.m., Unity of Greater Portland will hold a service focused on Forgiveness, followed by a 24-hour prayer vigil. “The prayer vigil will end at 6 p.m. on Thursday followed by an hour of silence. At 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8 will be the World Day of Prayer service which will feature prayers from many of the world’s religions. This service prepares the way for moving into a space of open heartedness so we can be the channel through which Spirit illuminates the world. After this service, we will conduct a spirit-filled candlelight walk of the Unity labyrinth.” For more information about Unity of Greater Portland or World Day of Prayer please contact our church office at 893-1233 or visit www.unitygreaterportland.org.

Thursday, Sept. 8 So You Think You Can Mayor?

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland is the site of this candidate forum. “The Maine League of Young Voters is corralling the city’s mayoral candidates, putting them on stage in front of you and demanding: so you think you can mayor?! Join us for an evening of audience participation, civic engagement, political discourse…and, oh yeah, food and fun! So bring a friend, bring a neighbor, bring a question, bring an ear to listen

with (preferably your own), but be there for this first-in-adog’s-age, not-to-be-missed, once-in-a-lifetime (or more accurately, every four years) event to help you determine who is best suited to steer Portland headlong into the future!” www.lucidstage.com

Film: ‘Page One: Inside The New York Times’

7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery screening. “In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, ‘Page One: Inside The New York Times’ deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as our main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, ‘Page One’ chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango and the salty but brilliant David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent. Meanwhile, their editors and publishers grapple with existential challenges from players like WikiLeaks, new platforms ranging from Twitter to tablet computers, and readers’ expectations that news online should be free. Followed by Q&A with Justin Ellis from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. www.space538.org/events.php

Friday, Sept. 9 The Black Frame Art Sale

5 p.m. The Black Frame Art Sale returns to Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall in Portland for its eighth annual show, which features more than 150 works from 34 Maine artists all priced at $200. Doors open and sales begin at exactly 5 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m. Art collectors appreciate this show for its value and regularly form a line outside the door (even in the rain) ahead of the 5 p.m. opening in order to get first dibs on the artwork. The show features well-known and emerging Maine artists selected to participate in the show by a curatorial committee. Artists in this year’s show include Marsha Donahue, Lindsay Hancock, Daniel Minter, Caren-Marie Michel, and Matt Welch. All the works in the show measure 10-inches by 10-inches, are custom framed in identical black wooden frames and sell for $200. Work is sold on a first-come, firstserved basis. Admission is free and refreshments will be served. The nonprofit Bayside Neighborhood Association hosts the event and splits all sales with the artists. The money raised by the Bayside Neighborhood Association is used to support children’s art programs, neighborhood clean-ups, the community garden, an annual health fair and other community activities in this diverse downtown neighborhood. For more information visit www.blackframeartsale.com or call 332-0253. see next page

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Great Gatsby Jazz Age Lawn Party

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The 2011 Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) Designers’ Show House, 149 Western Promenade, will be held in a stunning 1920s stone and slate Tudor. In the spirit of the era, the PSO will host a Great Gatsby Jazz Age Lawn Party as its preview event on Friday, Sept. 9, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets to attend are $100 per person and are available through the PSO office at 773-6128 ext. 311 or by email, events@portlandsymphony.org. For more information, visit the PSO Designers’ Show House page. The PSO also offers Patron Tickets for $250, which include the Gala Party and unlimited access to the Show House and all special events. Seventeen area designers have been working on the Designers’ Show House for nearly five weeks to completely redesign this historic and architecturally significant Portland-area home. The Gatsby Jazz Age Party is the only opportunity to see the completed house before it opens to the public with tours on Sept. 10. Admission to the Show House from Sept. 10-Oct. 2 is $25 per person or $20 if purchased by Sept. 8. Tickets are available through PortTIX, 842-0800 or porttix.com. Tickets will also be available at the door for $25. For tickets to the special events, visit portlandsymphony.org.

Art Opening: Moths

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., presents a special opening reception for “Moths,” a show of photography by Erica Burkhart. “Burkhart is a photographer, writer and musician living in Portland and working as a nurse. She studied photography at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Most recently she took a trip with a friend to Marbiel, a rural village in Haiti, to volunteer holding medical clinics. While there she had the opportunity to re-explore documentary photography with the gracious people of Marbiel.” www. lucidstage.com

Irish Language Class

7 p.m. The Irish American Club’s Irish Language class resumes in the Library of The Maine Irish Heritage Center at the corner of State and Gray streets in Portland. The series will last for 10 classes. Cost for the course is $20 for Irish American Club members and $40 for non-members.

For information, please contact Kathy Reilly at 712-5191 (anytime) or email kath.reilly@hotmail.com or club@irishofmaine.org.

Yogi Mixer at The Awake Collective

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Awake Collective at 509 Forest Ave., Portland is hosting a “Yogi Mixer.” “A Yogi Mixer is a national event that Brad Newman created so people around the world who are interested in yoga have a better chance of meeting and developing profound relationships that benefit society.” 841-6510

Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn

7:15 p.m. Open Mic/Poetry Slam. First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Free. FMI 783-0461 or www. auburnuu.org.

‘Unnecessary Farce!!’

7:30 p.m. The comedy “Unnecessary Farce!!” Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road (Route 114), in Standish, 7.5 miles north of Gorham center. The show will only run for 3 weekends starting on Friday, Sept. 9. Friday and Saturday performances will rock the stage at 7:30 p.m. Sunday shows will be at 2 p.m. But tickets will go fast for this one, so make your reservations early. Ticket prices are $10 for students and seniors — $12 for adults. Make your reservations soon by calling 642-3743 or online at www.schoolhousearts.org. “Unnecessary Farce” is directed by Keith Halliburton (Limerick). It stars Rebecca Cole (Windham), Ted Tocci (Standish), Steve Morin (Gorham), Karyn Diamond (Standish), Mike Reardon (Biddeford), Charlie Cole (Windham), and Terri Plummer (Limington). 642-3743 or visit www.schoolhousearts.org.

Saturday, Sept. 10 Bonny Eagle Flea Market

8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Rain date 9/17, at B E Middle School parking lot, corner of Rt. 22 & Rt. 35, Buxton. Tablespaces $10 or 5 for $40. New school clothes and shoes $1-$2, antiques, toys, books, etc. Baked goods, drinks, snacks & lunch available. Call Karen at 692-2989 FMI or to reserve tablespace. (83 tables in 2010) BEHS scholarship fundraiser.

Craft and vendor fair in Portland

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Craft and vendor fair. Northfield Green, 147 Allen Ave., Portland. Crafters and many vendors, Avon, Pampered Chef, tupperware, Scentsy Stanley Products, bake sale. Breakfast sandwiches and lunch. For more information, call 797-2509.

Lucid Stage Autumnal Arts & Crafts Show

of America’s top antiques dealers. Remick Barn, Rte 1A & Lindsey Road, York. Sept. 10-11. The $10 admission includes a two-day ticket to experience the Museums of Old York. Free parking is available on-site. Old York Historical Society. www.oldyork.org

Community Garden Collective work party

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Portland Nutrition Corner will be hosting a grand opening celebration. Visitors will meet special guest Rich Gaspari, the owner and creator of Gaspari Nutrition and International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness (IFBB) Hall of Fame pro-bodybuilder. The celebration will include product and T-shirt giveaways, product deals and the opportunity to talk with the industry’s top nutrition experts. 85 Western Ave., South Portland. www.portlandnutritioncorner.com

9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland.

Stop by Lucid Stage this weekend and enjoy local artists and artisans work. They will be selling everything from painting and sculpture to knitwear and t-shirts. We’ll also have caricatures by Ed King, chair massage, and live music!

10 a.m. The Community Garden Collective (CGC) will begin construction of the new community garden on the former Hamlin School property the weekend of Sept. 10. The CGC is seeking volunteers to help with garden construction. Volunteers can choose to either assist with the construction of the wood garden bed frames or can be part of the team that will be laying cardboard in the walkways. Work will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 and will continue throughout the day and possibly into Sunday, Sept. 11. The community garden is located behind the former school building (currently the location of the South Portland Planning Department) at 496 Ocean Street and will be opening in the spring of 2012.

The garden design includes 39 garden plots located within a fenced area. Three plots will be set aside for the University of Maine Harvest for Hunger food pantry program, two plots will be handicap accessible, and one plot will be reserved for use as a Children’s Garden. Volunteers are being asked to bring a water bottle, snack and work gloves, and wear sturdy shoes.

Individuals and groups who would like to work on this project can email CGC at communitygardencollective@gmail.com or call Crystal Goodrich at 671-6393.

Portland’s second annual Walk For Recovery

10 a.m. “Join to celebrate the power of recovery. Groups and individuals concerned with the continuing incidents of alcohol and drug abuse in the community are being encouraged to take part in the walk which is being organized and hosted by Catholic Charities Maine’s Counseling Services in partnership with Milestone Foundation, Crossroads for Women, Day One, Milestone, and Serenity House in celebration of National Alcohol and Drug Recovery Month. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. The first 250 people who register on the day of event will receive a free T-Shirt. Walk begins at 10 a.m. at Catholic Charities Maine Counseling Services, 250 Anderson St., and follows a route around the Eastern Promenade trail to the Ocean Gateway Terminal (3.2 mile round trip). There will be fun activities for kids of all ages. Light refreshments will be available.” For more information about the Walk for Recovery, volunteer or donation opportunities, or to register on-line, visit www.ccmaine.org/recovery or contact Kristen Wells at 3217806 or kwells@ccmaine.org.

10th Annual Medieval Tournament

10 a.m. The Fort Knox State Historic site will transform into a medieval castle as reenactors from around New England assemble for the 10th Annual Medieval Tournament. The Tournament offers something for everyone including battling knights, a fashion show, not so distressed damsels and weaponry of the Middle Ages. Sponsored by the Friends of Fort Knox as one of their many special events throughout the operating season. This event is organized by the Society for Creative Anachronism. Regular Fort admission fees apply ($1 ages 5-11, $3 12-64), plus a suggested donation of $3 per person is requested. The Medieval Tournament is sponsored by the Society for Creative Anachronism and the Friends of Fort Knox. Fort Knox Historic Site is administered by the Maine Department of Conservation and managed by its Bureau of Parks and Lands.

Auditions for ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’

10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Roles for ages 10-90; also need a drummer and a bass player. Schoolhouse Arts Center, 16 Richville Road, Standish.

Falmouth Heritage Museum exhibit

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Falmouth Heritage Museum presents a display of antique quilts, nursing memorabilia, vintage kitchenware and antique glassware. www.falmouthmehistory.org/Museum.htm

23rd annual Summer Solstice Craft Show in Wells

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “The best of Traditional, Country and Contemporary arts and crafts featuring herbs and everlastings, jewelry, pottery, graphics, folk art, photography, stained glass and more. You will meet 70 of New Englands finest artisans. Musical entertainment by John Tercyak. Gourmet food available. Look for our tall flags and come enjoy the day.” Wells Elementary School. Also Sunday. www.wellschamber.org

United Maine Craftsmen’s Fall Festival of Arts & Crafts in Westbrook

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A show and sale of unique handcrafted products made by 100 Maine Artisans, on the grounds of Smiling Hill Farm. Ample Free Parking, Food Vendors, Rain or Shine. Admission $2. Smiling Hill Farm, 781 County Road, Westbrook. www.unitedmainecraftsmen.com

York Antiques Week

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Antiques Show will feature 18-20

SoPo Portland Nutrition Corner grand opening

Walk to Defeat ALS in Portland

10:30 a.m. The public is invited to register for the Walk to Defeat ALS. “The Northern New England Chapter was founded on August 20, 1999 to serve the needs of those living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and their caregivers. The ALS Association is the only national not-for-profit health organization dedicated solely to the fight against ALS. ALSA covers all the bases — research, patient and community services, public education, and advocacy — in providing help and hope to those facing the disease.” Walk Check-in: 9 a.m.; walk starts: 10:30 a.m. at Portland’s Payson Park; 3 miles. http://web.alsa. org/site/TR?px=2704967&fr_id=7425&pg=personal

Walking Tour of Historic Stroudwater

10:30 a.m. to noon. Greater Portland Landmarks presents: A Special Walking Tour of Historic Stroudwater. “Visit what was once a thriving town, a city almost. See what remains, the beautiful river, the bank of the once famous waterfront, the sites of some of the businesses, homes of the leaders, graves of a few, and hear the stories of the pine mast trade.” Rain date: Saturday, Sept. 17. Meet outside the Means House (at the Tate House Museum), 1267 Westbrook St., Portland. Ticket price: Advance ticket purchase only. Members $10, non-members: $15. For more information and reservations please call: 774-5561, ext. 104; e-mail: jpollick@portlandlandmarks.org; online ticket sales at www.portlandlandmarks.org.

Sandsations Sand Sculpting Contest

noon to 3 p.m. Support a local nonprofit (www.ourbirthroots.org) by creating a masterpiece in the sand at the third annual Sandsations Sand Sculpting Contest. Come join the fun as Scarborough’s Pine Point Beach is transformed into a menagerie of imaginative sculptures. Birth Roots hosts this relaxed, family-friendly event every September where sand-sculptors of any skill level come together for some friendly competition and outdoor fun. “If you can dig, you can sculpt...” The event is both a community-builder and a fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting Birth Roots Perinatal Resource Center of Portland. \

Chris Van Dusen reads at USM

2 p.m. University of Southern Maine Portland Bookstore, Woodbury Campus Centerwelcomes Chris Van Dusen, who will be reading from his new book, “King Hugo’s Huge Ego,” about a tiny king with a very large ego. But when he mistreats the wrong villager — a sorceress — the spell she casts literally causes his head to swell. The more he boasts, the bigger it gets, finally toppling the mini monarch right off his castle. Van Dusen’s hilarious story is matched only by his outrageous illustrations. Together they make for a picture book that is sometimes fairy tale, sometimes cautionary, and always laugh-out-loud funny. Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Barbara Kelly at 780-4072.

Elizabeth Miles at Scarborough Bull Moose

2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Portland author Elizabeth Miles will be at the Scarborough Bull Moose to sign her first Young Adult novel, “Fury.” “Fury” will be released on Aug. 30 and is the first in a trilogy about a small Maine town that has been targeted by the mythical Furies: beautiful, mysterious, and sometimes deadly agents of revenge. “Miles sets the stage for a page-turning Young Adult saga; a girl has a crush on her best friend’s boyfriend, a seemingly perfect boy has done something cruel. Set in the small fictional town of Ascension, Maine, in the dead of winter, the furies will rise, and as the series tagline says, ‘sometimes sorry isn’t enough.’ Early reviewers have called ‘Fury’ ‘achingly gorgeous,’ ‘a fresh dark twist on paranormal,’ and Kirkus Reviews wrote, ‘The furies are reinvented in eerie modern form, wreaking havoc in the lives of a group of teens … in this spine-prickling debut….’” Miles is a resident of Portland and writes for the Portland Phoenix. She has won several awards from the New England Press Association and was nominated for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Award. Miles serves on the board of trustees of Portland Players, a community theater. More about the author and the planned series can be found at http://thefuryseries.com. The next two books are titled “Envy” and “Eternity.” see next page

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Block Party in Portland

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Block Party returns. “This collaborative celebration of the arts will transform Congress St. from Casco to Forest once again into an immersive arts environment complete with interactive installations, performances and more! Featuring Providence Rhode Island’s What Cheer?

Brigade marching band, installations by Greta Bank, Kimberly Convery and Sean O’Brien, a traveling street theater performance by Lorem Ipsum, surprises from Pickwick Independent Press, Shoot Media Project, The ICA @ MECA, The Portland Children’s Museum and Theatreof Maine and Portland Ovations.” SPACE Gallery. www.space538.org/ events.php

Harbor Cruise for HART

7 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Homeless Animal Rescue Team (HART), an adoption center and shelter for cats and kittens located in Cumberland on the corner of Route 100 and Range Road, has announced a fundraising event, The Harbor Cruise for HART. The cruise will be aboard the Casco Bay Lines Bay Mist from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. “The Harbor Cruise for HART will be a fun event with great music, door prizes, and a cash bar,” said Marcia Carr, volunteer.

“HART is looking for fun, new ways to raise money for the all-volunteer, no-kill cat shelter. What could be better than spending a fun evening out on beautiful Casco Bay with friends, while at the same time helping the cats and kittens that HART takes such good care of?” Information can be found at www.hartofme.com. Tickets are available on the HART website, as well as by e-mailing Jackie Broaddus at: catlova73@aol.com.

Sunday, Sept. 11 Portland 9/11 Memorial event

8:46 a.m. The city of Portland fire and police departments, IAFF Local 740, and city officials will march along Congress Street to the 9/11 Memorial at the Easter Promenade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Local firefighters, paramedics and law enforcement officers will march in full turn-out gear and uniforms as a tribute to the 403 uniformed men and women who lost their lives when the towers fell in New York City. Members of the public are

invited to march as well and are asked to wear white shirts as a sign of solidarity with the fallen heroes. Marchers will have the opportunity to carry the name of one of the 403 lost. At the end of the march, the city will lay three wreaths for the three locations attacked at the 9/11 memorial. At 8 a.m., gather for the March at Congress Square Park. 8:46 a.m., march begins. 9:30 a.m., wreath laying at 9/11 Memorial. www.portlandmaine.gov

Southern Maine ‘Race for the Cure’

8:45 a.m. to noon. Southern Maine “Race for the Cure” Festival to be held on Baxter Boulevard from Preble Street to Bates Street and all of Payson Park including Dyer’s Flat parking area. 7:30 a.m., Registration opens; 8:45 a.m., ceremony in honor of Sept. 11 Tenth Anniversary; 9 a.m., Survivor Ceremony; 9:30 a.m., Registration Closes; 9:45 a.m., Group Warmup; 10 a.m., 5K Run/Walk Start; 10:15 a.m., 1K Fun Run/Walk Start. There will be no awards ceremony. Top runners in each age division, top survivor runners and top fundraisers will be announced on this website and prizes will be mailed.

Participants who wish to register in person or pick up their T-shirt and bib prior to the race may do so in advance at Maine Running Company, 563 Forest Ave. Call 2627117; email race@komenmaine.org or visit On Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. SpaTech Massage will be doing a fundraiser for the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland. They are located at 100 Larrawww.komenmaine.org bee Road in Westbrook. Phone for more info: 591-4141. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

HenryFest outdoor music festival

noon to 7 p.m. 317 Main Street Community Music School presents HenryFest, an outdoor familyoriented music festival. The festival takes place at Skyline Farm, 95 The Lane, North Yarmouth. In the event of rain, the festival will move to the Merriconeag Waldorf School on Desert Road in Freeport. The groups performing include Heather Masse, Joy Kills Sorrow, The Quartet featuring Darol Anger, Grant Gordy, Steve Roy & Joe Walsh, the Jerks of Grass, the 317 Main Street Student Ensembles, and Local Circus. Several of the groups feature members of the teaching staff at the music school, as well as two ensembles featuring the school’s students. The fun includes the legendary 317 Pie Table (fresh pies provided by members of the 317 community!); a Kid’s Area including toys provided

by Island Treasure Toys in Yarmouth, facepainting, and a Story Corner; Food Vendors including Brunswick’s El Camino and Mr. Sippy’s Old Fashioned Hickory-Fired Barbecue, a bonfire, and or course, great music all day long! $20 for individuals, $35 for family ticket; all ages, tickets at gate. www.317mainst. org

Two Lights State Park historic talk

1:30 p.m. The Friends of Maine State Parks announce a special event at Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth.

Public tour with historian Herb Adams: The history of Two Lights and the fortification of Casco Bay. Bunkers will be open; sturdy shoes and flashlights recommended.

Park admission fees apply.

Directions: follow Route 77 through South Portland and Cape Elizabeth; Two Lights Road forks off Route 77 just before Kettle Cove. The park entrance is about one mile, at a sharp turn in the road. www. friendsofmainestateparks.org

American Legion Post No. 164 9/11 event

2 p.m. For the 10th anniversary of 9/11, American Legion Post No. 164 in Falmouth plans a special ceremony at the post, 65 Depot Road, Falmouth. News anchor Kim

Block will emcee. The National Anthem and other patriotic songs will be presented by the Downeasters Chorus. The congressional delegation, governor, state legislators, local dignitaries and first responders have been invited to participate. 781-4709

Lecture at Maine Irish Heritage Center

2 p.m. to 3 p.m. At the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., come listen to a lecture by resident geneaologist Matt Barker about the Portland Irish’s contributions during the Civil War. “We will have questions and answers at 3 p.m. and then refreshments and people can tour the library, etc. afterward,” Barker said. www.maineirish.com

Sept. 11 event in Old Orchard Beach

6 p.m. The Salvation Army, Church and Sixth Street, Old Orchard Beach, presents “a time to remember those who lost their lives and families during that tragic day and to give thanks for those who serve us today, protecting us — Police, Fire, Emergency Personnel.”

Time for Light Event at Back Cove

6 p.m. An event will surround Back Cove, Portland, with people after 6 p.m. “Mainers will gather at Back Cove in Portland on the evening of September 11 to ring it with light, for a different world — one of enlightenment! We’ll go to Back Cove at 6 p.m., and turn on flashlights at 7:30 (half an hour after sunset). This will represent a future of positive thinking and acting, instead of the fear and anger of the last 10 years. It’s time to end ten years of policies driving by fear and time to light the way toward positive directions and constructive use of our people and resources. We want to shine lights for a world where children are safe and people are not thirsty or hungry. We want alternatives to war. We want to stop degrading the ideals of this country or degrading ourselves in the eyes of the world. No more mistaken killings or torture. Instead we want honest work, sharing wealth between rich and poor. Bring our war $$$ home for health, education, jobs. For the future of our children. For the necessary challenge to save the environment.” Peace Action Maine and partners. Contact: 774-1995.

Wednesday, Sept. 12 OA Centers for Orthopaedics, Brunswick

5 p.m. Ribbon cutting at OA Centers for Orthopaedics, Brunswick Downtown Association. “Please join the Brunswick Downtown Association in a collaborative effort with the Southern Maine Mid Coast Chamber for a Ribbon Cutting and Open House at OA Centers for Orthopaedics in their new location at 22 Station Avenue above the new Mid Coast Primary and Walk-in Clinic.”

Public hearing on Bayside benches

5:30 p.m. Proposed bench designs will be presented to the public for feedback at a public hearing at Zero Station, 222 Anderson St. The Portland Public Arts Committee will host a hearing to solicit public comment about proposed artist-designed seating along the new Bayside Trail. The proposals are available on the cCity’s website at www.portlandmaine.gov/planning/baysidetrailartproject.asp.