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On Oak St., Avesta markets to the arts Oak Street Lofts developer says city’s artists lining up for a chance at an apartment

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The artist’s community in Portland stood up and took notice when a private, nonprofit housing organization decided to try a different marketing approach.

Oak Street Lofts affordable housing at 72 Oak St., directly off Congress Street, fulfills a vision of building apartments that are suited to urban artists, according to developers.

“We’re clearly tapping into a huge demand for this kind of project in Portland,” said Greg Payne, development officer for Avesta Housing, David Massaro, superintendent on the site with Wright-Ryan Construction, said the units are on track to be done in December.

“Right now, we’re just about starting all the interior,” he said.

Sheetrock, electrical work, windows and other interior work will conclude the project.

The apartments are being built on what was a parking lot along Congress Street.

“Construction is going very well,” said Dan Rock and Al Morton from Warmtech Solutions of Yarmouth apply spray foam, a thermal boundary used as a sealant, to the exterior of Oak Street Avesta’s Payne. “We have right now a fairly Lofts, a new affordable housing complex in Portland. The Wright-Ryan subcontractor was busy at the 37-unit apartment building, which is due to be see ARTS page 3

finished in December and open to renters in January. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

As the sun beams down late last week, the Norwegian Jewel cruise ship berths at the Ocean Gateway terminal. Cruise ship visitors have enjoyed a warm fall.

Portland experienced the seventh warmest September on record, with an average temperature of 62.8 degrees, 2.7 degrees above normal, according to the National Weather Service. In October, the average temperature in Portland has been 55.4 degrees, 2.8 degrees above normal, the National Weather Service reports. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Record-setting temps boost holiday weekend

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The three-day Columbus Day holiday weekend was a record setter in Portland.

Monday's high temperature of 81 degrees tied the 1949 record for that date.

Monday's reading from the Jetport came after Portland broke a 68-year-old

high temperature record on Sunday and tied a 64-yearold record Saturday, said Mike Kistner, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray.

Temperatures climbed to 85 degrees on Sunday, setting a record for Oct. 10, the weather service reported. see WEEKEND page 9

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American economists share Nobel Prize (NY Times) — The Nobel in economic science was awarded Monday to Thomas J. Sargent at New York University and Christopher A. Sims at Princeton University for their research on the cause and effect of government policies on the broader economy, a major concern of countries still struggling to address the aftermath of the recent financial crisis.

Back in the 1970s, Dr. Sargent and Dr. Sims were interested in figuring out how a new policy, like a tax cut or an interest rate hike, might affect the economy. But economists cannot run controlled experiments in real life to see what happens when a policy is executed and compare the results to when it is not. Instead, they have to study whatever history is available to them, with all the complicated conditions that happened to coincide with the policy change.

Dr. Sargent and Dr. Sims developed statistical methods to organize historical data and disentangle these many variables.

Their new methodologies are used to figure out whether a policy change that happened in the past affected the economy or whether it was made in anticipation of events that policymakers thought would happen later. The methods also help decipher how regular people’s expectations for government policies can affect their behavior.

“For both Sims and Sargent, their research is fundamental,” said Mark Watson, an economics professor at Princeton.

“They figured out what it is you need to know to answer this cause and effect question, and then they developed methods for actually measuring the effects of causes.”

Dr. Sims said that his research was relevant for helping countries decide how to respond to the economic stagnation and decimated budgets left by the financial crisis.

“The methods that I’ve used and that Tom has developed are central for finding our way out of this mess,” he said.

But asked for specific policy conclusions of his research, he responded, “If I had a simple answer, I would have been spreading it around the world.”

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Recession officially over, U.S. incomes kept falling WASHINGTON (NY TIMES) — In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did during the recession itself, new research has found.

Between June 2009, when the recession officially ended, and June 2011, inflationadjusted median household income fell 6.7 percent, to $49,909, according to a study by two former Census Bureau officials.

During the recession — from December 2007 to June 2009 — household income fell 3.2 percent.

The finding helps explain why Americans’ attitudes toward the economy, the country’s direction and its political leaders have continued to sour even as the economy has been growing. Unhappiness and anger have come to dominate the political scene, including the early stages of the 2012 presidential campaign.

President Obama recently called the economic situation “an emergency,” and over the weekend he assailed Congressional Republicans for opposing his jobs bill, which includes tax cuts that would raise take-home pay.

Republicans blame Mr. Obama for the slump, saying he has issued a blizzard of regulations and promised future tax increases that have hurt business and consumer confidence.

Those arguments may be heard repeatedly this week, as the Senate begins debating the jobs bill. The full bill — a mix of tax cuts, public works, unemployment benefits and other items, costing $447 billion — is unlikely to pass, but individual parts seem to have a significant chance.

The full 9.8 percent drop in income from the start of the recession to this June — the most recent month in the study — appears to be the largest in several decades, according to other Census Bureau data. Gordon W. Green Jr., who wrote the report with John F. Coder, called the decline “a significant reduction in the American standard of living.”

That reduction occurred even though the unemployment rate fell slightly, to 9.2 percent in June compared with 9.5 percent two years earlier.

Two main forces appear to have held down pay: the number of people outside the labor force — neither working nor looking for work — has risen; and the hourly pay of employed people has failed to keep pace with inflation, as the prices of oil products and many foods have jumped.

During the recession itself, by contrast, wage gains outpaced inflation.

One reason pay has stagnated is that many people who lost their jobs in the recession — and remained out of work for months — have taken pay cuts in order to

be hired again. In a separate study, Henry S. Farber, an economics professor at Princeton, found that people who lost jobs in the recession and later found work again made an average of 17.5 percent less than they had in their old jobs.

“As a labor economist, I do not think the recession has ended,” Mr. Farber said. “Job losers are having more trouble than ever before finding full-time jobs.”

Mr. Farber added that this downturn was “fundamentally different” from most previous ones. Historically, other economists say, financial crises and debt-caused bubbles have led to deeper, more protracted downturns.

Mr. Green and Mr. Coder said the persistently high rate of unemployment and the long duration of unemployment helped explain the decline in income during the recovery.

In the recession, the average length of time a person who lost a job was unemployed increased to 24.1 weeks in June 2009, from 16.6 weeks in December 2007, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since the end of the recession, that figure has continued to increase, reaching 40.5 weeks in September, the longest in more than 60 years.

The economists said the recession ended in June 2009. In every quarter since then, the economy has grown.

U.N. finds ‘systematic’ torture in Afghanistan Netflix abandons Qwikster KABUL, Afghanistan (NY TIMES) — Suspects are hung by their hands, beaten with cables and in some cases their genitals are twisted until they lose consciousness in detention facilities run by the Afghan intelligence service and the Afghan national police, according to a study released Monday by the United Nations here.

The report provides a devastating picture of the abuses committed by arms of the Afghanistan government as the American-led foreign forces here are moving to wind down their presence after a decade of war. The abuses were uncovered even as American and other Western trainers and mentors had been working closely with the ministries overseeing the detention facilities and funded their operations.

Acting on an early draft of the report seen last month, NATO stopped handing over detainees to the Afghans in several areas of the country.

The report found evidence of “a compelling pattern and practice of systematic torture and ill-treatment” during interrogation in the accounts of nearly half of the detainees of the intelligence service, known as the National Directorate of Intelligence, who were interviewed by United Nations researchers.

The national police treatment of detainees was somewhat less severe and widespread, the report found. Its research covered 47 facilities sites in 22 provinces. “Use of interrogation methods, including suspension, beatings, electric shock, stress positions and threatened sexual assault is unacceptable by any standard of international human rights law,”

the report said.

It was unclear from the report whether any information extracted under torture was used by either the Afghan government or its foreign military allies.

One detainee described being brought in for interrogation in Kandahar and having the interrogator ask if he knew the name of the office and then, after the man answered, “You should confess what you have done in the past as Taliban — even stones confess here.”

The man was beaten over several days for hours at a time with electric wire and then signed a confession, the report said.

The report pointed out that even though the abusive practices are entrenched, the Afghan government does not condone torture and has explicitly said the abuses found by the United Nations are not government policy.

“Reform is both possible and desired,” said Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan, noting that the government had cooperated with the report’s researchers and has begun to take remedial action.

“We take this report very seriously,” said Shaida Abdali, the deputy director of Afghanistan’s National Security Council.

“Our government, especially the president, has taken a very strong stand on the protection of everyone’s human rights, their humanity, everywhere and especially in prisons and in detention,” he said, adding that he had not yet read the full document.

(NY TIMES) — Abandoning a break-up plan it announced last month, Netflix said Monday morning that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one name and one Web site.

The company admitted that it had moved too fast when it tried to spin-off the old-fashioned DVD service into a new company called Qwikster.

“We underestimated the appeal of the single Web site and a single service,” Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman, said in a telephone interview. He quickly added: “We greatly underestimated it.”

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unprecedented situation where we have over 100 people on an interest list for it — three months before we’re actually going to be leasing the building out.”

Avesta maintains a portfolio of over 1,600 housing units and administers Section 8 housing vouchers for an additional 1,300 families. Oak Street Lofts is something different, however.

While legally Avesta cannot limit the efficiency apartments to artists, a community outreach confirmed that artists would be a good community to target with marketing.

“Excitement in the artist’s community is part of the reason the list is as long as it is right now,” Payne said.

“When we first came up with this idea and first considered this particular site for this project, we didn’t have artists in mind. We had our initial meeting with the neighbors, and the neighbors pointed out artists who couldn’t afford to live in the area,” Payne recalled. “They said to us, ‘Would you try to make this project more attractive to the artists community?’”

Avesta responded, “’We absolutely hear what you’re saying to us,’” and according to Payne, an effort was made to reach the same city residents whose galleries and studios become a hotbed of activity during the monthly

An Avesta celebration On Wednesday, Oct. 19, the public is invited to the Avesta Housing appreciation luncheon, noon to 1:30 p.m.

The appreciation luncheon and Mike Yandell Award Presentation by Avesta Housing will be at Grace Restaurant on Chestnut Street. Avesta officials will express appreciation and share their story with the Avesta Housing community. RSVP to jturner@avestahousing. org or 553-7777.

Oak Street Lofts as envisioned from Congress Street. (Image courtesy of CWS Architects)

First Friday Art Walk.

“We’ve had people set up booths at First Friday Art Walk,” Payne said.

“We’ve tried to specifically reach out to groups through MECA (Maine College of Art) to make sure that artists know about this housing, when we say we’re targeting artists what we mean is we’re targeting our marketing outreach to the artist’s community.”

Avesta’s “first outreach” has been to the artist’s community, and the design of Oak Street Lofts confirms this interest.

The design was focused on creat-

ing “spaces in the building that are attractive,” with practical items such as larger sinks, community rooms, one of which could function as a work room, and wiring in hallways that would allow art hangings. Even aesthetic enhancements such as adornments to metal grating kept artists in mind, and the first floor is suited to an art show — perhaps even a First Friday Art Walk display, Payne said.

The 37 efficiency units were built at a cost of about $170,000 per unit to build, for an entire project cost of $6.4 million, Payne said.

The complex is expected to become the first multifamily affordable housing project in the state to be certified LEED Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Rent will range from $506 to $760 a month, according to Avesta.

Avesta built Oak Street Lofts with several goals in mind, including job creation, energy efficiency and helping to meet the demand for affordable homes, Payne said. On Jan. 1, he hoped to bring people into the building and start renting out units.

“When the first 37 people actually rent up, we’re going to pay very close attention to how this marketing process worked, and did we manage to reach out to the artist’s community?”

Payne said.

For details, visit www.avestahousing.org.

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Kelly Marie Thomes, 49 SACO — Kelly Marie Thomes, 49, of Saco, died on Oct. 7, 2011 after a 12-year battle with breast cancer, at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, surrounded by family and friends. Kelly was born in Portland, a daughter of Richard and Katherine Serunian Thomes. She attended local schools and was a 1980 graduate of South Portland High School.

Kelly worked as an office manager for MEGA Industries and Anania & Associates Manufacturing Company for more than 30 years. She enjoyed helping others, spending time by the pool or at the beach, family cookouts, and entertaining family. Vacation trips to Florida with her children were an extremely important part of her life. Kelly was also a huge New England Patriots and Boston Red Sox fan. Kelly’s greatest gifts in life were

her children. Kelly was always giving to others and was fondly known by many extended family and friends as “Auntie Kelly.”

Kelly was predeceased by her mother, Katherine Westberry. She is survived by her life partner of thirty-two years, Kevin Smith, Sr. of Saco; children, Katie Smith and Kevin “KJ” Smith, Jr. of Saco, father, Richard C. Thomes Sr. of Westbrook; four brothers, Dickie Thomes, his wife Pam, and their daughter, Jess, of South Portland; Michael Thomes of Hollis; John Thomes and his wife, Patti, and their children, Ashley, Alexis and Melissa, of South Portland; and Stevie Thomes and his partner, Karla Lockwood, and their children, Alanah and Tash, of Cape Elizabeth; close friend, Beth Reny, of South Portland; cousins, Kathy, Bobby and Cameron Gebhardt of

South Portland; and her dog, Miley.

Visiting hours will be held at the Conroy-Tully Crawford South Portland Chapel, 1024 Broadway, South Portland, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. A service will follow at the chapel at 7 p.m. Online con-

dolences may be expressed at www. ctcrawford.com Those who wish may make donations in Kelly’s memory to the Maine Center for Cancer Medicine, 100 Campus Drive, Scarborough, ME 04074.

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Occupy Wall Street: All bite, no apple As Occupy Wall Street activists clogged New York’s Zuccotti Park protesting “corporate greed” and Occupy SF hit San Francisco’s Financial District on Wednesday protesting “corporate greed,” the world learned that Steve Jobs, perhaps America’s most beloved modern capitalist, had died at age 56.

The protesters claim to represent the working people, the 99 percent of Americans who, according to their blog, are getting kicked out of their homes, must choose between groceries and rent and “are working long hours for little pay and no rights,” if they’re working at all. They “are getting nothing while the other 1 percent is getting everything.”

“We are the 99 percent,” they proclaim.

Jobs was probably about ––––– 0.000000000001 percent.

Yet Jobs and the 99 percentCreators ers have much in common.

Syndicate These activists represent the iGeneration. They grew up with iPods and laptops. They’re tweeting from smartphones. They’ve grown up with pricey new gadgets and monthly plans that keep them plugged into Wi-Fi and 4G. They carry signs and post their stories on the Web about the five-figure debt that they’ve incurred — some for tuition that hasn’t landed them a good job, others in credit card debt — and they’re angry that Washington bailed out Wall Street but hasn’t done much for them.

Like members of the tea party, they’re angry with Washington. But they’re also scared, not the way tea partyers fear losing their hard-earned assets, but in the way young people are fearful in a bleak economy.

“Is ‘Following Your Dreams’ supposed to be this Terrifying?” one young woman’s sign reads. “$60,000plus in debt from my student loans and 11 percent interest rate.”

At a news conference Thursday, President Barack Obama said the OWS protests express “the frustrations that the American people feel.”

Tea Party Express strategist Sal Russo sees the “occupiers” as yet another effort, bolstered by organized labor and MoveOn.org, to establish a tea party on the left — with the help of a complicit news media that often painted his co-believers with unflattering stereotypes.

Debra J. Saunders

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Another layer of skim-coat One news story, and another observation about Portland dominate the column scene this week.

In a weekend story in the PPH, there was some background stuff on the search for the new police chief, and another layer of middle management being added to the process.

There is already a search committee for applicants for the

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist position, hoping to narrow the search down to five or six qualified prospects. Now comes news

that all of them will be befuddled with a round of “testing” to judge them on their qualifications for the job, as well as their reactions to “real world situations.”

For those unfamiliar with government-speak, that means candidates will be evaluated based on their ability to shield higher ups from any wrongdoing, or at see HIGGINS page 6

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Occupy everything “Recession Officially Over,” The New York Times’ lead headline declared around 7 o’clock Monday morning.

(Watch: they’ll change it.) That was Part A. Part B said, “US Incomes Kept Falling.” I suppose if you include the cost of things like the number of auto accident victims transported

by EMT squads as part of your Gross Domestic Product such contradictions to reality are possible. Elizabeth Kubler––––– Ross, where are you when we Kunstler.com really need you?

I dropped in on the Occupy Wall Street crowd down in Zuccotti Park last Thursday. It was like 1968 all over again, except there was no weed wafting on the breeze (another WTF?). The Boomer-owned-andoperated media was complaining about them all week. They were “coddled trust-funders” (an odd accusation made by people whose college enrollment status got them a draft deferment, back when college cost $500 a year). Then there was the persistent nagging over the “lack of an agenda,” as if the US Department of Energy, or the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was doing a whole lot better.

This is the funniest part to me: that leaders of a nation incapable of constructing a coherent consensus about reality can accuse its youth of not having a clear program. If the OWS movement stands for anything, it’s a dire protest against the country’s leaders’ lack of a clear program.

For instance, what is Attorney General Eric Holder’s program for prosecuting CDO swindles, the MERS racket, the bonus creamings of too-big-to-fail bank executives, the siphoning of money from the Federal Reserve to foreign banks, the misconduct at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the willful negligence of the SEC, and countless other villainies? What is Barack Obama’s program for restoring the rule of law in American financial affairs? (Generally, the rule of law requires the enforcement of laws, no?)

Language is failing us, of course. When speaking of “recession,” one is forced into using the twisted, tweaked, gamed categories of economists whose mission is to make their elected bosses look good in spite of anything reality says. I prefer the term contraction, because a.) that is what is really going on, and b.) the economists haven’t got their mendacious mitts around it yet. Contraction means there is not going to be more, only less, and it implies that a reality-based society would make some attempt to acknowledge and manage having less — possibly by doing more.

James Howard Kunstler

Instead, our leaders only propose accounting tricks to pretend there is more when really there is less. The banking frauds of the past twenty years were a conspiracy between government and banks to provide the illusion that an economy based on happy motoring, suburban land development, continual war, and entertainment-on-demand could go on indefinitely. The public went along with it following the path of least resistance, allowing themselves to be called “consumers.” They also went along with the nonsense out of the Supreme Court that declared corporations to be “persons” with “a right to free speech” where political campaign contributions were concerned — thereby assuring the wholesale purchase of the US government by Wall Street banks.

Praise has been coming in from all quarters for the peacefulness of the OWSers. Don’t expect that to last. In the natural course of things, revolutionary actions meet resistance, generate friction, and then heat. Anyway, history is playing one of its little tricks by simultaneously ramping up the OWS movement in the same moment that the banking system

is actually imploding, with the fabric showing the most stress right now in Europe. I shudder to imagine what happens when OWS moves into the streets of France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Spain.

All of the action right now has the weird aura of being an overture to the year 2012, fast approaching as we slouch into the potentially demoralizing holidays of the current year. I don’t subscribe to Mayan apocalypse notions, but there’s something creepy about the wendings and tendings of our affairs these days. OWS is nature’s way of telling us to get our crap together, or else. This means a whole lot more than bogus “jobs” bills and Federal Reserve interest rate legerdemain. It means coming to grips with the limits of complexity and purging the system of the idea that anything is too big to fail. What happens when Occupy Wall Street becomes Occupy Everything, Everywhere?

(James Howard Kunstler is the author of several books, including “The Long Emergency,” “The Geography of Nowhere,” and “The Witch of Hebron.” He can be found online at www.kunstler.com)

These people’s remedy looks too much like the Greek nightmare SAUNDERS from page 4

“They would say that (the) tea party is people who wear Colonial hats, have signs and are a bunch of nuts,” Russo observed.

Obama played that game two years ago when he quoted a letter he had received from a woman who told him, “I don’t want government-run health care.

I don’t want socialized medicine. And don’t touch my Medicare.”

The Occupy Wall Street movement has its standouts, too. Its website features an unofficial list of demands, which include not only a universal singlepayer health care system and free college education but also open borders, “immediate across-the-board debt forgiveness for all” and outlawing all credit reporting agencies. Former Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers issued a “collective statement” that “a democratic government derives its just

power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.”

So don’t tell me that the right has a monopoly on crazy talk.

Or that the Dems, unlike the GOP, don’t have a problem with their base.

Besides, though the manifestos provide plenty of fodder for scoffing, they distract from the protest’s sad personal stories. The “We Are The 99 Percent” shows a gallery of anguish felt by people who are struggling — even losing the struggle — to stay above water.

Now, I think these folks are wrong to believe that more government from Washington is the answer to their problems. They say they want to restore the American dream, but their remedy looks too much like the Greek nightmare.

As Russo noted, “their big claim is that they think we need to have a bigger, more intrusive government in our lives.” After four years of George W. Bush and Obama’s increasing federal spending exponentially while the economy floundered, it should be clear that model has failed. Mainstream America will not follow the occupier playbook.

Voters may sympathize with these unemployed kids — but they’re not going to toss them the keys to the car.

As Jobs advised students in his famous 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, you may be scared and you will make mistakes, but “don’t be trapped by dogma.”

(Email Debra J. Saunders at dsaunders@sfchronicle.com. To find out more about Saunders and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.)

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Factoids and fantasies For forty years I’ve been fighting a lonely and losing battle in defense of the proper definition of the noun “factoid.” This has not been a “partisan” battle. The looney leftist author Norman Mailer coined the word and I’ve made it my job to defend his work. Contrary to the prevailing usage, a factoid is not an obscure and irrelevant fragment of trivia. That is called a piece of trivia.

A factoid, properly understood, is a statement that looks like a fact and sounds like a fact. It is presented as a fact and believed as a fact, although it has no support in reality.

People who watch science fiction moves know that a “humanoid” is a kind of robot looks, walks, and talks like a human being. People who are interested in astronomy know that an “asteroid” looks like a star (LAT. “Aster”) from a distance, but is far too small to qualify. Professors who spend time in the classroom come to recognize “studentoids” who show up in the classroom from time to time and pay tuition but show no interest whatsoever in learning or working. In short they are not recognizable as students. Students study. Studentoids don’t study.

Some are barely animate.

An example of a factoid of current interest is the Democrats’ assertion that the Republicans are engaged in nation-wide plots to “dis-enfranchise” voters. That is they are supposedly passing laws to deprive voters of their franchise. If you pay attention to letters to the editor in newspapers around the state you will see this charge leveled against the Maine GOP repeatedly.

The disenfranchisement factoid works for the liberal groups supporting same day registration because most voters are not very excited by the issue. PollGuest sters have known for years that Columnist the average voter’s opinion tends to be solid and well-ground only on issues that they care about because the issues directly affect them. Hit a disinterested voter with a factoid over and over and he will tend to believe it simply because he isn’t interested enough to find out more about it. Advertisers and political propagandists of all stripes and all ages agree that repetition strengthens their messages.

So if you pay attention you will hear more and more about the Republican disenfranchisement schemes nationwide and in the State of Maine. Set ths accusation of Republican plots against these facts. It’s true that LD 1376 was passed with Republican votes. It is also true that LD 1376 requires registration no later than the last Thursday before Tuesday election day.

If that is Republican disenfranchisement then how to explain the fact that Democrat-dominated Vermont requires a Wednesday registration? In fact every Democrat-dominated state in America denies voters Election-Day Registration. Washington and Rhode Island require registration 30 days before election day. Illinois demand a 28-day lead time, New York demands a 25-day lead time, Maryland and New Jersey 21, Massachusetts 20, California 15, Connecticut 14. The few states allowing Election Day Registration include Wyoming, New Hampshire, Idaho, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Minnesota,

John Frary –––––

and Iowa—no pattern of Democratic dominance in those states.

These facts are easily verified — or refuted. If the debate continues along the usual lines they will not be refuted. They will be ignored and disenfranchisement charges will be repeated all the way until election day. In the real world this charge would inflict collateral damage on the Democrats in Washington, Rhode Island, Illinois, New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and Connecticut.

But the political world has different rules. There will be no collateral damage.

The charge that the aged, the young and the handicapped suffer from being forced to register on Thursday (at the latest) is not a factoid so much as an argument unsupported by either facts or factoids. I was young once — or so I’m told — and can’t remember what day of the year I registered, although I’m pretty sure it was not election day.

Now I’m a septuagenarian with an official handicapped decal, and I don’t see and cannot remember why being required to register before that particular day would have made any difference.

By this time I’ve read or heard that ending Election Day Registration would hinder voting by the young, the old and the handicapped. Right. Message received. Over and over. Now it is time for somebody — anybody — to explain why this is so.

(Professor John Frary of Farmington is a former candidate for the U.S. Congress and retired history professor, a board member of Maine Taxpayers United and an associate editor of the International Military Encyclopedia, and can be reached at: jfrary8070@aol.com.)

‘Rounding up the usual suspects’ kind of has that ring to it HIGGINS from page 4

least the ability to punt on camera when asked a derisive question by members of the press.

In short, this is sort of like putting fur on feathers. There is a process in place that has worked, albeit adding the additional question of “Are you planning on staying a while, or is this just a whistle-stop.”

The Human Resource department had one level of bureaucratic protection in the appointments committee, and now another is being added with an outside firm that seemingly will shield the appointments committee from any outside criticism. For some strange reason, it just feels to me like spending $10,000 to $15,000 (city manager estimates) to build an outside ice hockey arena on the same site as the old pond where you used to play pond hockey.

Since the ultimate goal of any HR department I’ve ever run across is to be the ones to say “No,” the head scratcher of a question here is the need to duplicate the effort, or in this case triplicate it. The

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guess is, “No” turns into “Hell, NO” and just sort of goes downhill from there with expletives.

No explanation for the outside vetting firm is given. One might assume that a prospective police chief was qualified to do something simple, like use his firearm. The addition of this step makes the assumption that those applying can not only NOT hit a target, but would actually have difficulty hitting the floor with their hat.

But here was the other observation on committees. I’ve noticed over the past three years the continual appointment of some fairly regular names to ongoing and special committees. “Rounding up the usual suspects” kind of has that ring to it, but this is beginning to take on the whiff of the description of the publishers of MAD Magazine.

(I’ll not state it, you’ll have to Google it. It’s funny.)

Have you or a relative ever been appointed to any of the committees? How about friends? How about folks you run into every day in your various and sundry business pursuits around town?

According to public records posted on the City website, the last time the appointments and nonunion personnel committee met was last March 29th. If you click through that to see the meeting minutes to reveal what they were discussing, you’d be out of luck. The last time minutes were posted was October of 2008.

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Perhaps they just got behind in meetings, or even updating the website. But this does all raise an interesting question. You could observe that little has changed over the years here in Portland, and you might be right about it. So long as the same old people are being swapped around the same old committees, very little is likely to change, either.

From the council point of view, it’s a lot easier to work with folks you know and have been swapping meeting-sweat with for years. You have a basic idea of what needs to be done, chuck in a few of the usual suspects to help you get there, and ramrod the whole thing through the public input process with little to-do.

But as one of those who wonders how the usual cast of characters became the usual suspects, might it not be time to freshen the pot a bit more?

Could the city ever, say, set up a registry of those willing to serve, and just pick names from a hat?

If the whole point of the exercise is citizen input, it does make you wonder why the same group of citizens seem to have so much time available.

As the old saying goes, “If you do what you always did, you can’t be surprised when you get what you always get.”

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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LEFT: Paula Grace skates with her sons, Gabriel, 4, and Abram, 2, as they hit the ice at the Cumberland County Civic Center over the weekend.

The stadium was open to the public for ice skating on Saturday and Sunday in anticipation of the Portland Pirates home opener Saturday at 7 p.m. against the Manchester Monarchs.

Dedicated Pirates fans, the family made the trip from Casco to “get out of the heat. The boys were excited. We love coming to games, but it’s their first time on the ice.”

(ROBERT WITKOWSKI PHOTOS)

Pirates preview season, open up ice with weekend skating were overshadowed when the CONTRIBUTED REPORT real Pirate took to the ice. MasAs temperatures crested 80 cots Salty Pete and his parrot degrees Sunday, dozens of people Crackers delighted the younger beat the heat by ice skating fans, and gave brief lessons in at Cumberland County Civic ice dancing with others.

Center. The stadium was open Off the ice, season ticket for the public for ice skating on information was presented to Saturday and Sunday in anticiarriving guests, free pizza was pation of the Portland Pirates available, and the Civic Center home opener Saturday at 7 p.m. displayed architectural renagainst Manchester Monarchs. derings to inform voters of the “It’s a cool idea,” said Paula proposed renovations they may Grace while keeping her sons, approve in the county election Gabriel, 4, and Abram, 2, balnext month. On Nov. 8, voters anced on center ice. Dedicated will decide whether to approve Pirate fans, the family made the a $33 million renovation, to be trip from Casco to “get out of the funded with an existing, soonheat. The boys were excited. We to-expire jail bond and ticket love coming to games, but it’s surcharges. their first time on the ice.”

Some came to the weekend The Pirates began a new affiliskate without Pirates or politics ation with the Phoenix Coyotes in mind. this season. New Pirates’ center New Pirates’ center Ethan Werek joined his new “We just wanted to skate,” Ethan Werek joined his new fans fans on the ice Sunday, along with left wing Spen- said Dania Warner. She came on the ice Sunday, along with cer Bennett, for an open skate at the Civic Center. from Falmouth with her husleft wing Spencer Bennett. They band and son, both named Seth, chatted with skaters who had benched themselves to take advantage of the free ice time. “I got to the to experience the players’ viewpoint, while others beach earlier today. Now, it’s great to get some skattook a break in the penalty box. But the players ing in before the season.”

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Fire museum open house offers history ... and all that jazz CONTRIBUTED REPORT

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he fat horns of upbeat jazz music greeted Portlanders as they turned down Spring Street between State and Park Streets at the Portland Fire Museum ninth annual open house Saturday.

Banners, tents, fire trucks of all eras, and the State Street Traditional Jazz Band entertained museumgoers while providing interactive, hands-on learning about the Great Portland Fire of 1866, and the heroic efforts of the fire department through the years since.

Located at the former fire quarters of Engine 4, the Portland Fire Museum began in 1891 when the Portland Veteran Firemen’s Association decided to continue a tradition of remembrance and sharing stories, which began at a firefighter celebration in 1872. Over the last century, PVFA collected retired firetrucks, equipment, and even horses over the years contributing to the museum’s tradition of sharing stories.

“I love being at events like this to support firemen,” said former Augusta fireman Jeff Burns there to share his most prized piece of memorabilia — Engine 3, a monstrous red 1971 Mack fire truck he purchased from his department for $5,000. “I named it after my grandkids, ‘Jake & Jules.’

It paid for itself in two seconds after I saw the smiles on my grandkids’ faces

when I started it for them the first time! I bring it to all these events.

It’s great to see kids climb all over it and get to experience a real truck.”

Inside the granite firehouse, children were given plastic fire hats and bags full of fire prevention books, stickers, and games teaching fire prevention. Cider, apples, and pastries were available as well for those who wanted to explore the horsedriven water wagon, view vintage films featuring the museum when it was an active station, or just visit with the horses while soaking in the history.

“I hadn’t heard about the 1866 fire before moving here,” said Matt Hub-

bard, a fire science student at Southern Maine Community College. “That fire would be hard today. Imagine it back then. Katrina would be the first thing I’d think to compare it to.”

Appropriately, the Bourbon Street feel continued outside.

The Dixieland jazz was a tip of the hat to the era of New Orleans hotelier Ruggles Sylvester Morse, the Portland native whose Victoria Mansion surrvived the city’s great conflagration.

The disaster destroyed two-thirds of

Portland’s downtown on Fouth of July when firecrackers sparked off wood chips at the waterfront. The flames consumed most of the wooden structures in Portland from the wharves of Fore Street all the way up Munjoy Hill. It remained the worst urban fire until Chicago met Mrs. O’Leary’s cow five years later.

The firefighters that saved Portland in 1866 had stories to tell, and the PVFA continues to share them at the Portland Fire Museum.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Jeff and Jacob Burns enjoy the festivities at the Portland Fire Museum ninth annual open house Saturday, next to Engine 3, a 1971 Mack fire truck Burns purchased from his department for $5,000.

A traditional jazz band entertains the crowd.

Matt Hubbard, a fire science student at Southern Maine Community College, and Hope Dorsey visit Molly, the fire horse. INSET: A crowd gathers in front of the Fire Museum. (ROBERT WITKOWSKI PHOTOS)

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Market conditions Shon Frost (left) and Simon Frost of Whitefield offer fresh produce at the Thirty Acre Farm stand at the Wednesday Portland Farmer’s Market last week.

Market conditions are prime, with moderate temperatures.

Wednesday’s forecast calls for sunny and cloudy conditions, with rain to follow after 10 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. From April through November, the public can come to the outdoor farmer’s market locations — Monument Square on Wednesdays and Deering Oaks Park on Saturdays — “to support local agriculture and shop with up to 30 Maine farmers in one stop,” the Portland Farmer’s Market reports at its website, http://portlandmainefarmersmarket.org.

During the winter months, the farmers move indoors and become the Portland Winter Farmer’s Market, Saturdays at the Maine Irish Heritage Center on the corner of State and Gray streets. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Warm weather ‘stimulated a lot of people to be out and about’ WEEKEND from page one

The new high temperature broke the old record of 79 degrees set in 1942 and 1943.

"We had a tie and then we broke a record," Kistner said, only to witness another tied record on Monday.

The 85-degree reading tied as the third warmest reading ever at the Jetport for the month of October. It tied with Oct. 1 in 1950 and 1954, and Oct. 2, 1968. The month's warmest days on record at the Jetport came in at 88 degrees on Oct. 7, 1963, and 87 degrees on the same date in 1947, the weather service reported.

Despite what was good news for the long weekend, rain is expected to move into the area Wednesday night — as part of a colder air system which could

mean the end of warm temperatures. "(Monday) will probably be the last day of the real warm weather, however, we're still expecting some sunny conditions ... and it is trending like the beginning of the work week next week — Monday through Wednesday — looks pretty darn good," said Kistner, explaining that long-range models show the possibility for a high pressure system to move into the area.

"It's a long way out and a lot can change," he said.

"But we are looking at high pressure possibly building in starting next week — some more nice weather hopefully."

The October record-setting weekend also meant big things for Portland's business and tourism community, according to local tourism officials.

Barber Foods to lay off 71 associates DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT David Barber announced Monday that changes at his company’s St. John Street plant to streamline production and optimize new parent company AdvancePierre Foods’ facilities in other parts of the country will result in the layoff of 71 associates. As part of the changes, Barber Foods’ St. John Street fully cooked production line will move production to another APF plant, he announced.

The vast majority of production at the plant is raw foods like Stuffed Chicken Breasts and chicken tenders, so more than 400 associates will remain employed with that production, Barber said.

As Barber explained in a press release, the Fully Cooked production line needed some significant

upgrades, especially with 30-yearold oven equipment.

“This is a great solution from a business perspective because we are able to transfer production of our Fully Cooked products to a very efficient plant in Enid, Okla.,” said Barber. “Unfortunately, one of the tough consequences is letting go of associates whose contributions we greatly appreciate.”

Barber announced the decision to give associates at least 60 days' notice. When they leave Barber Foods, each affected associate will be given one week of severance for every year of service as well as outplacement and support services, he said.

In January, Barber Foods announced plans to eliminate more than 80 manufacturing jobs at its Portland plant. Barber

Foods, which was sold to an Ohiobased food company last year, said the layoffs resulted from upgrades to processing equipment at the St. John St. facility that were in development for almost a year.

“This has nothing to do with the acquisition by AdvancePierre,” Barber Foods’ president said at the time. “This has been in the works for about a year that we were working (on) these production gains.”

Barber added early this year, “We expected that these layoffs would have happened whether or not they purchased us.”

Barber Foods was bought by Cincinnati-based AdvancePierre Foods in a sale announced on June 1, 2010. Terms of the deal between the two privately-held companies have not been disclosed.

"Together with the cruise ships and the beautiful late fall weather, it stimulated a lot of people to be out and about," said Barbara Whitten, president of the Greater Portland Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Whitten, who is preparing for the bureau's Harvest on the Harbor culinary event slated for Oct. 20-22, explained that she's been surprised by the number of people still walking around the city in the evenings recently.

"This is still a very busy time of the year for tourism," she said, referring to the many tourists who visit Maine for its fall foliage.

"But I think the warm weather is certainly bringing people out," she said. "It's been a positive boost ... (and) it's a grand slam."

Food Fix Trivia Thanks to everyone who participated in our first weekly Facebook Food Fix Trivia Contest. The question last week: How many different options of domestic and imported cheese did K. Horton Specialty Foods ever carry at one time? The correct answer is 264. The closest guess without going over was 253 submitted

by Ryann Clark Chamberlain. Congratulations to Ryann who wins a $5 gift certificate to K. Horton Specialty Foods.

Today’s Question: What is the most popular type of candy sold between now and Halloween? Be specific with name and brand please. Visit us on Facebook and answer correctly to win a pair of Quarter Deck Flex Passes to any Portland Pirates home game. Weekly winners and a new question will be announced in the paper and posted on Facebook each Tuesday.

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Staying balanced requires flexibility. Your level of grace depends on just how quickly you can make adjustments. It takes the right combination of strength and fluidity to dance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

There are times when you feel like you’re just pretending to be yourself.

Usually, this state reflects a change in your identity that you haven’t quite caught up with yet.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

A situation is causing you more worry than you had anticipated. It’s nobody’s fault that you feel the way you do. However, you are the only one who can move yourself into a new emotional tone.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You like so many things about your life these days. One of the things you like most is that you recognize your own power to change. You have the courage to create the next scene.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your extremely high expectations sometimes benefit you, though these expectations may cause you and others more stress than they’re worth. Bring it down a few notches. You’ll be happier -- everyone will.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 11). Your active pursuit of a new goal will release an inner well of strength in you. Family dynamics improve in November. You’ll pick up a fun new habit or interest in December. It is so impressive the way you remain focused through conflict in January, and you will be promoted to a position of leadership. Sagittarius and Aries people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 25, 41, 39 and 18.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re still not sure whether to attend an upcoming event. Sure, your friends will be there -- and so will your “frenemies.” You may be worried about how to bridge the divide. The whole thing seems like a lot of work.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Once you give someone a special place in your heart, you’re not likely to get the space back. It will be like a tenant who never leaves -- and maybe he or she is so solid that you don’t ever want that tenant to go.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There is always something inconvenient about morality. Yet, if you really believe in the rightness or wrongness of an action, there will certainly be consequences for following through with it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). When it comes down to presenting ideas, you’ll have the winning delivery. Whether it’s about where to go for lunch or how to invest money, your way of stating things will heavily influence others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). This is a day to follow your own interests. Talk to people who stir your curiosity, and take pictures of the things you find beautiful. As you honor your preferences and inclinations, everything falls in line.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will be excited to go further into an area of study. You sense that what you know already is just the tip of the iceberg.

There is much more to this than meets the eye.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The pretty things you want also happen to be expensive. Can you address practical matters such as your budget and still uphold your aesthetic ideals? If anyone can, it’s you.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2011. There are 81 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 11, 1811, the first steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana (built by John Stevens), was put into operation between New York City and Hoboken, N.J. On this date: In 1890, the Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, D.C. In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt became the first former U.S. president to fly in an airplane during a visit to St. Louis, Mo. In 1932, the first American political telecast took place as the Democratic National Committee sponsored a program from a CBS television studio in New York.

In 1958, the lunar probe Pioneer 1 was launched; it failed to go as far out as planned, fell back to Earth, and burned up in the atmosphere.

In 1961, actor-comedian Leonard “Chico” Marx, 74, died in Hollywood, Calif.

In 1968, Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard.

In 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexually harassing her; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce what he called a “high-tech lynching.”

One year ago: Rescuers in Chile finished reinforcing a hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and sent a rescue capsule nearly all the way to where the men were trapped, proving the escape route worked.

Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides won the Nobel Prize in economics.

Today’s Birthdays: Author Elmore Leonard is 86. Actor Earle Hyman is 85. Former Actor Ron Leibman is 74. Country singer Gene Watson is 68. Rhythm-and-blues musician Andrew Woolfolk is 61. Actressdirector Catlin Adams is 61. Country singer Paulette Carlson is 60. Actor David Morse is 58. Actor Stephen Spinella is 55. Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve Young is 50. Actress Joan Cusack is 49. Rock musician Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms) is 49. Comedy writer and TV host Michael J. Nelson is 47.

Actor Sean Patrick Flanery is 46. Actor Luke Perry is 45. Country singer-songwriter Todd Snider is 45. Actor-comedian Artie Lange is 44. Actress Jane Krakowski is 43. . Actress Emily Deschanel is 35. Actor Matt Bomer is 34. Actor Trevor Donovan is 33.

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We recently separated due to our 18-year-old son’s anger management issues and my wife’s sick parents. She moved out nine months ago to take care of them.

Well, her parents died, and my son moved in with one of his friends. My wife’s brothers are doing everything they can to cut her out of the estate and throw my son in jail (he has a felony on his record). Now my wife wants me back, but quite frankly, I do not want her back. I have moved on with my life and don’t want the headaches that she and my son have brought me for the past three years.

My attorneys have advised me to divorce, and my wife says they should be disbarred. Any advice? -- Mr. Soon-to-Be Ex Dear Mr.: We realize your life has been difficult and unpleasant for three years, but still, you seem awfully eager to throw in the towel rather than explore what’s left now that the major headaches have been mostly resolved. This is an opportunity to see if you and your wife still love each other and could make a good life together. Emotional exhaustion can interfere with your decision. Please get some counseling, with or without your wife. Make sure you are not tossing away the future good with the lousy past. A 23-year marriage deserves that much.

Dear Annie: Two years ago, my family moved to the east coast. I am active in the community -- volunteering at my children’s elementary school and our church -- and I also have a part-time job. My kids have made many friends and are doing well. The problem is their parents.

Both my husband’s family and mine live in the Midwest, so making connections with people here is very important to us. We have had a couple of parties at our house in an effort to get to know people in our neighborhood. But no one ever

invites us to their house or their parties. I meet lots of great people through my job, but only on a professional level. I’ve met parents through my kids’ school and sports, but no real friendships have developed.

We recently joined a social group (I’m volunteering to help run it), and that has helped somewhat. But so far, only one family in our neighborhood has made any effort to get to know us better. The only parties I am invited to are the ones where I’m expected to buy something.

I like to think we are fun to be around since we have a lot of friends back home. Am I expecting too much, too soon? -- Sad in the Suburbs Dear Sad: We commend your efforts, but making new friends can be hard these days. Pick one couple in your neighborhood and invite them over. Do the same with a couple at school, church and perhaps one from work. See what you have in common, and try to build on that. You also could join a local club, choir, political organization, book club, community theater, art or photography group and see if that garners you some friends with shared interests. Several of our readers have suggested meetup.com, and you might give that a try as well. Good luck.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Sick of the Shrew,” whose bitter sister-in-law, “Elaine,” spreads lies within the family. She and I could compare relatives all day.

After a particularly troubling visit with one relative, my husband found “narcissistic personality disorder” on the Internet. The best suggestion was to limit the time spent with the poisonous person. That seems obvious, but it was a revelation to us.

My husband is still involved with this relative as needed, but the information we gained and the decreased exposure has really improved our family life. -- Hope This Helps

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

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Japan studies radiation TOKYO (NY TIMES) — In an effort to track the long-term health effects of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan has begun a long-term survey of local children for thyroid abnormalities, a problem associated with exposure to radiation.

The study comes in response to concerns over the health consequences of the serious radiation leaks caused by multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March. Japanese officials hope to study about 360,000 children who were under 18 at the time of the accident and track their health through their lifetimes, according to Fukushima Prefecture officials.

Children and pregnant women are particularly sensitive to radioactive iodine, which can harm the thyroid, studies after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster have shown. According to research presented at a 2006 global conference, at least 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer among children have been linked to Chernobyl’s fallout.

On Sunday, the first day of the Fukushima study, more than 100 children were tested. Specific test results will not be made public, according to Fukushima Prefecture. But the children, who will be tested every two years until they turn 20 and every five years after that, will receive further care if doctors discover abnormalities.

Almost 20,000 people were killed in the earthquake and tsunami that struck eastern Japan on March 11, which also ravaged the Fukushima plant and led to a huge release of radioactive substances into the environment. Although no deaths have yet been linked to radiation, concerns remain high over its long-term health effects.

Tens of thousands of people are unable or unwilling to return to their homes because of fears of contamination in the area. A 12-mile evacuation zone remains in effect around the Fukushima plant, though some areas have been exempted in a bid by the government to reassure evacuees that it is safe to return to some regions.

Officials in those regions have begun decontaminating public areas by removing the topsoil from school playgrounds and hosing down roads and buildings. Government officials have acknowledged, however, that areas closer to the stricken plant may be off limits for decades.

Banks brace for fallout (NY TIMES) — The protesters who have gathered for weeks near Wall Street and the highly paid investors and analysts in the buildings that surround them don’t agree on much.

But when it comes to the nation’s biggest banks, they have a lot more in common than you would think. Both are deeply frustrated with financial institutions in general and have little faith in the message coming from bank executives.

Earnings season is about to upset one of those groups even more. Never popular to begin with, the nation’s biggest banks are rapidly becoming a focus of public dissatisfaction with the economy, uniting opponents including consumers upset about new fees, protesters who blame the banks for the nation’s economic woes, and lately, Wall Street types who have dumped their bank shares en masse.

For banks, the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.

They are due to begin reporting earnings this week, and the numbers are likely to leave investors as frustrated as ever, making the banks even more desperate to impose new charges on consumers’ accounts and rack up bigger trading profits.

Over all, revenue is expected to fall 4 percent in the third quarter, slipping back to 2005 levels, according to data from Trepp. The industry’s earnings are expected to be about what they were in late 2002.

The biggest banks are expected to be hit hard by a sharp slowdown in their Wall Street-related businesses because of the chaotic third quarter in the markets. But the growth prospects for traditional banking are not great either.

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Tuesday, Oct. 11 Barbara Walsh at the Falmouth Memorial Library noon. Barbara Walsh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will be at the Falmouth Memorial Library to talk about her brand new book “August Gale” which chronicles her investigation into a Newfoundland fishing community and an infamous storm that killed four members of her extended family.

Bring a sandwich. Friends will supply beverages and desserts. Books will be available for sale and signing. 781-2351 or library@falmouth.lib.me.us.

A Journey to Turkey 5 p.m. The World Affairs Council of Maine will present A Journey to Turkey: Turkish Cuisine, Live Music and a Portrait of Turkey from Three Maine Teachers. The event will take place in the Deering High School Cafeteria, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland.

‘Preserving Ancient Trades’ 6 p.m. A lecture and presentation “Preserving Ancient Trades,” 2 Spaces at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Featuring Dennis Carr, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Robin Neely, stained glass conservator from Westbrook. Aaron Strugis, a timber framer from Berwick. Ben Coombs, a glass blower from Portland. At the Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St., Portland. Ticket price: Members $10, non-members: $15. Time: 6 p.m., doors will open at 5:30 p.m. For more information and reservations please call: 774-5561, ext. 104; e-mail: jpollick@portlandlandmarks.org. www. portlandlandmarks.org

Inside glimpse of Margaret Chase Smith 6 p.m. An inside glimpse of Margaret Chase Smith at The Falmouth Historical Society’s Annual Meeting, in the OceanView Community Room, 18 Blueberry Lane, Falmouth.

“An inside glimpse of our beloved Margaret Chase Smith

by Jerry Wiles, Profiles in American History, followed by The Falmouth Historical Society’s Annual Meeting. Light potluck refreshments.” mfistal@maine.rr.com

Wednesday, Oct. 12 ‘Dwelling Place’ art-related events 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Between Wednesday, Oct. 12 and Saturday, Oct. 22, members of the University of Southern Maine community and the public are invited to see and experience “Dwelling Place,” a piece of temporary public art that will reside in front of Luther Bonney Hall near Bedford Street. The “Dwelling Place” is modeled after a traditional Jewish Sukkah, in celebration of a weeklong festival in which traditional Jews live, eat and sleep in the temporary shelter.

Sukkot, the festival, is both a celebration of the fall harvest and a reminder that Jews wandered for 40 years in the desert with no permanent home. Hillel of Southern Maine will sponsor a Break for Bagels for students in the Sukkah from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Oct. 12. Artist Asherah Cinnamon will also lead 20-minute informal and interactive presentations to those interested in learning about the Sukkah from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 17. This event is free and open to the public.

Voter education forum for homeless voters at the Preble Street Soup Kitchen 9:30 a.m. Preble Street Homeless Voices for Justice has invited all 15 candidates running for Portland mayor to a voter education forum for homeless voters at the Preble Street Soup Kitchen. A Breakfast Forum begins at 9:30 a.m. and a Lunch Forum begins at 1 p.m. Candidates have been invited to share a meal with the people using Preble Street services and participate in an open discussion and question and answer session. Given the large candidate field, two sessions will take place, one immediately after the breakfast soup kitchen meal and one after the lunch meal. “The candidates’ forum is a key component of Homeless Voices for Justice ongoing voter education efforts and gives candidates the opportunity to listen to people who are experiencing homelessness or poverty. Preble Street is the leading provider of basic and essential services to Portland’s homeless and low-income residents and serves an average of 500 people each day, many of whom are already registered voters, representing a sizable cross-section of Portland. Homeless Voices for Justice is a consumer advocacy program that conducts ‘You Don’t Need a Home to Vote’ voter registration and education drives every year and has registered almost 2,000 voters.” munity. Breakfast Forum, 9:30 a.m. Lunch Forum, 1 p.m. Preble Street Soup Kitchen, 252 Oxford St.

Charlotte Bacon, ‘Twisted Thread’ noon to 1 p.m. Upcoming at the Brown Bag Lecture Series in the Portland Public Library’s Rines Auditiorium is a book event with Charlotte Bacon, “Twisted Thread.”

“When beautiful but aloof Claire Harkness is found dead

Korean Cyclist Okhwan Yoon has cycled across more than 92 countries for 10 years. This shot is of him in Kathmandu, Nepal. He’s featured in Kevin Macdonald’s “Life in a Day,” produced by Scott Free UK, which is screening this weekend. (COURTESY IMAGE) in her dorm room one spring morning, prestigious Armitage Academy is shaken to its core. Everyone connected to school, and to Claire, finds their lives upended, from the local police detective who has a personal history with the academy, to the various faculty and staff whose lives are immersed in the daily rituals associated with it.” 5 Monument Square. www.portlandlibrary.com

releases that combine the highest possible quality production with an emphasis on the aesthetic of the object itself, and a deep love of interesting, unusual, and undiscovered music, both new and old. Come explore their full archive of vinyl artifacts and cds, as well as a 10-plus-year collection of poster art from concerts — all from the comfort of couches lining the gallery.” www.meca.edu/meca-life/ica

March of Dimes fundraiser

A Big Hit: The 2011 Photo Fund Event: A Talk by William Wegman at the PMA

5:30 p.m. At Dimillo’s on the Water, top chefs will offer Portland diners an opportunity to enjoy a great night out while raising funds, making friends and increasing awareness of the March of Dimes mission to improve the health of babies. Chefs from Dimillo’s, Figa, Nosh Kitchen Bar, The Salt Exchange, Porthole, Zapoteca, and Hannaford will prepare their signature dish in tasting-size portions during a cocktail reception. Guests will also be able to bid on many live and silent auction items, including unique dinners, hotel stays, and weekend getaways, all graciously donated by Maine businesses.

Donations of sponsorships and auction items have been given by Wright Express, Martin’s Point Healthcare, Prosearch, Living Wealth Partners, Native Maine Produce, Boulos Property Management, Disney, Dimillo’s on the Water, Portland Harbor Hotel and many more. Funds raised by the Signature Chefs Auction support lifesaving research and educational programs right here in Maine. To register/purchase tickets, people can visit the Maine Chapter’s website at: www.marchofdimes.com/ maine/2115_28193.asp

Mayoral candidate forum 6:30 p.m. Mayoral candidate forum at the Reiche Community Center. West End Neighborhood Association plans to host a mayoral candidates’ forum with submitted questions. The forum will take place during the group’s monthly meeting. www.WENAMaine.org

Views of Riverton Trolley Park 7 p.m. “Step Back in Time,” Views of Riverton Trolley Park. “Southern Maine Volkssport Association invites you to a slide presentation about the historic Riverton Trolley Park. Don Curry from the Seashore Trolley Museum will show slides of the casino, boat house, rustic theater, and of course, the trolleys that brought people to the park from 1896 to 1920.” Free. Pre-registration not necessary. Westbrook Community Center, 426 Bridge St., Westbrook. FMI: Please leave a message at 774-3415.

Thursday, Oct. 13 ‘Get Better Maine’ Book Discussion noon. “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care” by N.Y. Times best-selling author T.R. Reid on Thursday, Oct. 13 and Oct. 27 at noon (T.R. Reid to appear on Tuesday, Nov. 8, at 5:30 p.m.). Portland Public Library. www.portlandlibrary.com

Time-Lag Records Listening Room opening 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art announces a showing, from Oct. 12 to 26, of the Time-Lag Records Listening Room. Opening reception: Oct. 13, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “Time-Lag Records is an independent label that started in 2000, with a focus on vinyl

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. A Portland Museum of Art talk by photographer William Wegman is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Madeleine de Sinéty: Photographs. The evening will benefit the Photography Fund, dedicated to expanding the museum’s photography collection and programs.

A reception and private viewing will follow. Seating for the program is limited. A Madeleine de Sinéty photograph will be raffled off as part of the evening. Raffle tickets $10 each or $50 for 6.

Film on jazz legend Marian McPartland 6:30 p.m. “In Good Time, the Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland,” by Portland filmmaker Huey, will be screened in Hannaford Hall (Abromson Community Center, Bedford Street, USM Portland). Tickets will be sold at the door for $10 per person. Jazz students from the University of Southern Maine School of Music will perform at 6:30 p.m., prior to the movie showing at 7 p.m. Huey will introduce the film and tell behind-the-scenes stories. The film was awarded second place for Audience Favorite Film at the Maine International Film Festival last July. www.facebook.com/pages/ Films-By-Huey/112580795426679

‘The Evolution of Artificial Light’ 7 p.m. Book Event: “Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light,” with presenter: Jane Brox, author, at Maine Historical Society. “Join us to explore the fascinating history of human light — from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. Five hundred years ago almost everyone lived at the mercy of the night.

Today, life as we know it — long evening hours, flexible working days, our sense of safety — depends upon cheap, abundant light. In her compelling new book — imbued with human voices and startling insights — Brox examines the social and environmental implications of this remarkable transformation. Jane Brox is the author of three previous books including Five Thousand Days Like this One, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her essays have appeared in many anthologies.”

Film: ‘The Interrupters’ 7:30 p.m. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland.

Admission $7/$5 for SPACE Members. “The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities.” see next page

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costume sale on the lawn of Deering High School (370 Stevens Ave., Portland). Costumes prices will range from 25 cents to $25. All proceeds will help fund the drama club’s activities for this year. A rain date is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 16.

Eggs & Issues with Sen. Olympia Snowe

Race to benefit Friends of the Eastern Prom

7 a.m. Join the Portland Community Chamber for Eggs & Issues events this October.

U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe will speak and give updates. “As this is a highly attended event, please register no later than Oct. 11.” At the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Eastern Promenade.

Casco Bay Cyclocross Race. The bicycle race, presented by Casco Bay Sports, benefits Friends of the Eastern Promenade. Cyclocross combines mountain biking and road racing in a cross-country race that challenges riders’ bike-handling skills.

The race, which will be run rain or shine, features a 1.5-mile loop weaving throughout the Eastern Prom, utilizing manmade and natural obstacles, steep climbs and unique downhills. Riders from across New England will be competing in the race.

To volunteer at the event, please email Kristin at kristin@friendsofeasternpromenade.org.

‘Life in a Day’ at the PMA 7 p.m. ”Oscar-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s ‘Life in a Day’ was born out of a unique partnership between Ridley Scott’s Scott Free UK and YouTube. The film is a user-generated, feature-length documentary shot on a single day-July 24, 2010. Enlisted to capture a moment of the day on camera, the global community responded by submitting more than 80,000 videos to YouTube. The videos contained over 4,500 hours of deeply personal, powerful moments shot by contributors from Australia to Zambia, and from the heart of bustling major cities to some of the most remote places on Earth. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery and The Portland Museum of Art. Friday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 15, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday, Oct,16, 2 p.m. Not Rated. Admission $7, at the Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square. www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php

The nature of the universe

Used Book Sale at the Falmouth Memorial Library 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Also Sunday from 1 to 5.

Thousands of great books for all ages and interests. Fresh stock throughout Saturday. Sunday special sale: $3 for all you can fit in a bag. Bring your own bag. 781-2351.

Bradbury Mountain State Park hike 10 a.m. Located on Route 9 near Freeport (528 Hallowell Road, Pownal). Skill Level: Easy, 1 hour, half mile. Meeting Location: Summit Trailhead by the shelter. :”This easy hike provides beautiful views across forested lands all the way to the coast. Bradbury Mountain State Park is a great destination, especially for families with young children. This hike will take approximately one hour. Held rain or shine unless conditions are treacherous.” 688-4712.

7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Ave., Portland.

Film and Discussion. An exciting new video New Gloucester Community Fair collaboration between philosopher Brian 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The New Gloucester Historical Swimme, and religious historian Mary Evelyn Society will have a booth at the New Gloucester Tucker, weaves together a tapestry that draws Community Fair, New Gloucester Fairgrounds, Bald from scientific discoveries, astronomy, geology Hill Road. All veterans with ties to New Gloucester and biology with humanistic insights concernare asked to come to the booth and add their names ing the nature of the universe. The beautiful to the Honor Roll that the society has started.

Greek island of Samos, birthplace of Pythagoras, is the backdrop for this visionary journey SMCC Fall Campus Open House through time. More information at: www.jour11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A Fall Open House will be neyoftheuniverse.org. In addition, we will be held at Southern Maine Community College. The continuing the discussion about the Journey of event is open to anyone interested in learning more the Universe over the next two weeks, Fridays, about the college and the 40 degree programs it Oct. 21 and Oct. 28 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. has to offer. Faculty and current students will be on with the screening of several Brian Swimme The Casco Bay Cyclocross Race on Saturday, presented by Casco Bay Sports, benefits Friends of hand to answer questions along with staff members videos in his Powers of the Universe Series the Eastern Promenade. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) from Admissions and Financial Aid. Learn about Hosted by John Burdick. John has had an the application process, academic programs, latechrucharts.com or by calling 442-8455. Adult tickets are interest in the melding of science and spirituality since student activities and athletics, and enjoy a walking tour of $17, while student and senior citizen tickets are $15. being introduced to the work of Teilhard de Chardin in the the beautiful, oceanside campus. Prospective students can Slant at SPACE Gallery 60’s and through Ken Wilber’s “The Marriage of Sense also learn about SMCC’s new Midcoast Campus in Bruns7:30 p.m. In this popular series, writers, performers, and notaand Soul” in the ‘90s. For more information contact the wick, which opened for classes in August. For more inforble community members tell 10-minute stories to a live audichurch at office@A2U2.org or 797-7240; www.a2u2.org/ mation call 741-5500, www.smccME.edu. ence without notes or props. This installment, in collaboration contact.aspx?e=60.

Pumpkin Festival with Faces of Learning, features storytellers Aimee Bessire, October Yogi Mixer at The Awake Collective noon to 4 p.m. The South Portland Skillin Elementary Claude Rwaganje, Jim Morse, Patty Hagge, Sonya Tomlinson 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. “Join the Greater Portland yoga comSchool PTA, in collaboration with a variety of local busiand Zoe Weil. Free, all ages. www.space538.org/events.php munity for an evening of connections, conversations, nesses, will be sponsoring this year’s family friendly PumpA Liszt Bicentennial and delicious non-alcoholic mixed drinks! Monthly Yogi kin Festival, rain or shine. Hundreds of pumpkins will be ripe 8 p.m. The critically acclaimed Liszt interpreter Laura Kargul Mixers at the Awake Collective bring together all levels of for the picking from Skillin’s own Pumpkin Patch. There will of the USM School of Music will celebrate the bicentennial yoga students and practitioners (and their friends!). The be harvest themed activities, races, games and contests; of Franz Liszt with a selection of her favorite works in CorthMixer is an informal social event which provides yoga including a cakewalk, scarecrow contest, hayrides, a mystiell Concert Hall, College Avenue, USM Gorham.

The conenthusiasts a non-competitive, friendly environment to cal obstacle course, face painting, kids crafts and more! cert is part of the University of Southern Maine School of mingle and converse over mixed drinks made from local Visitors can also experience intrigue and amazing insight Music’s Fall 2011 Spotlight Concert series. Tickets cost and organic ingredients. $5 Suggested Donation.” 509 from Skillin’s amazing Fortune Teller. There will be a variety $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 stuForest Ave., Portland of concessions selling tasty treats. Large pumpkins are only dents/children. Call the Music Box Office at 780-5555 $5. Game and activity tickets are 50 cents each. The scareGrand Anniversary Dress Ball to reserve seats. The concert is sponsored by Dr. Dahlia crow contest is a $1 entry fee. Proceeds from the event 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. “A classic evening of live entertainment, and Arthur L Handman. will support the Skillin Elementary School PTA. The PTA delicious hors d’oeuvres and drinks, and good company. wishes to thank all the festival sponsors, supporters and This year’s fall event is part of The Portland Club’s 125th volunteers that have helped make this event successful. anniversary celebration and will feature music by the Maine Saturday, Oct. 15 Skillin Elementary School is located at 180 Wescott Road in Stream Jazz Masters, with special guests Kelly Laurence South Portland. For more information on the Skillin School and Flash Allen. The Portland Club, 156 State St., Portland.

Journey of Elderism: The Spirituality of Aging Pumpkin Festival, sponsorship, vendor or volunteer opporJacket and Tie; Free Parking; Cash Bar. 221-5446 8 a.m. to noon. Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, tunities please e-mail SkillinSchoolPTA@Gmail.com.

Open Mic/Poetry Slam 524 Allen Ave., Portland. Saturdays, starting Oct. 15, 8 a.m.

Metropolitan Opera Live in HD in Fryeburg 7:30 p.m. First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasto noon. This is a facilitated salon for discussing and explor1 p.m. The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center in ant St. Parking; refreshments and children’s room available. ing our own personal journey and how we are facing our Fryeburg begins its third year participating in the MetropoliFree. FMI 783-0461. spiritual aging. ... This program is sponsored by Clay Atkintan Opera Live in HD. The Met’s 2011-12 season opens with son and Ann Packard and will be facilitated by Pauli Juneau.

‘The Lion In Winter’ in Bath Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, starring Anna Netrebko. Tickets are Pauli has had extensive related experience working with 7:30 p.m. The Studio Theatre of Bath is excited to $26 for adults, $23 for seniors (65 plus) and $18 for students seniors and has facilitated a broad range of groups. Clay announce the premier production of the 2011-2012 season and are available for purchase online at www.fryeburgacadwas involved in the revival of the salon process and he and with James Goldman’s “The Lion In Winter.” Performances emy.org/pac or by calling the Box Office at 935-9232. The theAnn are now addressing aging issues at this stage of their are Oct. 14,15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m. Matinees will be perater is located at 18 Bradley St. on the Campus of Fryeburg lives. FMI or to register: 797-7240 or email office@A2U2.org. formed Oct. 16 and 23 at 2 p.m. All shows will be held at the Academy in Fryeburg. Parking is free.

Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath. Tickets are available at Deering Players benefit costume sale the box office located at 804 Washington St., online at chocosee next page 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Deering Players will be holding a benefit

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Maine Home Movie Day 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Maine Home Movie Day with Northeast Historic Film, at Maine Historical Society. “Do you have reels of old film in your attic that you’ve never been able to watch? Footage that captures a family event, community gathering, sporting match, or performance way back when? If so, we invite you to bring them to Maine Home Movie Day. Home Movie Day provides the opportunity to screen your 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm movies, get advice on their care and storage, and/or to just sit back and enjoy the films that others bring in. While many folks have such gems on their shelves or in their closets, most don’t have a projector or the knowledge to handle and assess their films. Archivists from Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport will be present to conduct on-site inspections and screen the films.” www.mainehistory.org

‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ ballet 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow” presented by Portland Ballet Company at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center. $35 adults/$25 children 18 and under. “Inspired by the timeless appeal of Washington Irving’s tale, Nell Shipman has created a dance that brings Ichabod Crane’s fearful imagination to life, combining humor and drama to tell the story of the famed headless horseman. Who will win the heart of the lovely Katrina — townsman Brom Bones or itinerant teacher Ichabod Crane?

Robert Lehman and the PBC Orchestra will play the commissioned music by composer Kirt Mosier.” https://tickets.porttix.com/public/show.asp

Snowlion Repertory Company fundraiser 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Portland’s newest professional theatre company, Snowlion Repertory Company, is pleased to announce a pay-what-you-can fundraiser sponsored by Steve & Renee’s Diner to benefit their inaugural production of the New England premiere of the Charles Dickens holiday musical “The Christmas Bride” which will run Dec. 15-21 at Lucid Stage in Portland. The All-You-Can-Eat Lasagna Dinner will be held Friday, Oct. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Steve & Renee’s Diner, 500 Washington Ave., Portland.

For the cost of a donation to the company, guests will be served lasagna with all the trimmings, dessert and coffee, and be treated to songs from the show. For more information visit www.snowlionrep.org or call 5189305.

Portland Pirates open season at home 7 p.m. The Portland Pirates hockey team, which opened its 19th season of competition on the road against the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on Oct. 8, bring the action will open home for the 35th season of AHL action at the Cumberland County Civic Center, on Saturday, Oct. 15 when the Manchester Monarchs visit in a 7 p.m. start, featuring a JobsinME.com Magnetic Schedule giveaway.

This fall is just ducky Ducks relish a warm, sunny day at Deering Oaks Park.

The temperature reached 85 degrees at the Portland Jetport Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

This set a daily record for Oct. 10, surpassing the old record of 79 degrees set in 1942 and again in 1943, the National Weather Service reported.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)