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Police probe chemical bomb at Lincoln Park

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland police are trying to determine who tossed a homemade explosive into Occupy Maine’s camp last weekend, and whether that person should face federal charges if arrested.

Acting Chief Michael Sauschuck said Monday that investigators collected evidence from the scene in Lincoln Park shortly after a chemical bomb was tossed from a vehicle into campsite at about 4 a.m. Sunday. He described the homemade device as a “chemical bomb or an acid bomb,” and that it had the potential to cause significant harm to the protesters.

“The chemicals involved are, generally speaking, chemicals found in any kitchen or bathroom,” he said, adding that component is typically mixed together in a plastic bottle with some other agent that sparks a chemical reaction.”We don’t believe it was that large, but … it could have certainly caused serious injury depending on the circumstances.”

No injuries reported immediately following the blast, which Sauschuck said was powerful enough to lift a table it Stephanie Wilburn described the scene early Sunday morning after a homemade chemical bomb was through into Lincoln Park, where Occupy Maine protesters have set up camp over the past month (MATTHEW ARCO PHOTO).

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LePage wants child labor law revised

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AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage says the state should leave work decisions up to children and their parents when they are not in school, and limit state laws restricting child labor to safety issues, but some argue that is already state policy.

“I don’t see why kids can’t go to work when they are 14 or 15,” he said in an interview. “I’m talking about summer months and vacation, not when they

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LePage said teens should be encouraged to work during the summer months and current law discourages them from working. He said he has heard from several parents about how long it takes to get a work permit for vacation periods from school and said in one case a teen had a job lined up, but had to wait weeks for a permit.

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LePage said if a kid and their parents want the teen to be able to work during a vacation or during the summer months, they should be able to work. He said all of the other protections in child labor law, like the prohibition against working around dangerous machinery would still be in place.

“Why should they not just be able to go to work,” he said, “it makes no sense to me.” see LABOR page 7

Rees: Fire boat policy to change

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

City officials are revising departmental policies and procedures following a recent accident involving a fi re boat that landed two fi refighters on unpaid suspension.

Portland’s city manager says he is working closely with fi re Chief Fred LaMontagne to review policy pertaining to the $3.2 million MV City of Portsee FiREBOAT page 7

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Hearing aid cuts out all the clatter (NY Times) — After he lost much of his hearing last year at age 57, the composer Richard Einhorn despaired of ever really enjoying a concert or musical again. Even using headsets supplied by the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway theaters, he found himself frustrated by the sound quality, static and interference.

Then, in June, he went to the Kennedy Center in Washington for a performance of the musical “Wicked.” There were no special headphones. This time, the words and music were transmitted to a wireless receiver in Mr. Einhorn’s hearing aid using a technology that is just starting to make its way into public places in America: a hearing loop.

“There I was at ‘Wicked’ weeping uncontrollably — and I don’t even like musicals,” he said. “For the fi rst time since I lost most of my hearing, live music was perfectly clear, perfectly clean and incredibly rich.”

His reaction is a common one. The technology, which has been widely adopted in Northern Europe, has the potential to transform the lives of tens of millions of Americans, according to national advocacy groups. As loops are installed in stores, banks, museums, subway stations and other public spaces, people who have felt excluded are suddenly back in the conversation.

A hearing loop, typically installed on the fl oor around the periphery of a room, is a thin strand of copper wire radiating electromagnetic signals that can be picked up by a tiny receiver already built into most hearing aids and cochlear implants. When the receiver is turned on, the hearing aid receives only the sounds coming directly from a microphone, not the background cacophony.

“It’s the equivalent of a wheelchair ramp for people who used to be socially isolated because of their hearing loss,” said David G. Myers, a professor of psychology at Hope College in Holland, Mich., who is hard of hearing. “I used to detest my hearing aids, but now that they serve this second purpose, I love the way they’ve enriched my life.”

After his fi rst encounter with a hearing loop at an abbey in Scotland, where he was shocked to suddenly be able to understand every word of a service, Dr. Myers installed a loop in his own home and successfully campaigned to have loops installed at hundreds of places in Michigan, including the Grand Rapids airport and the basketball arena at Michigan State University.

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Moderate Islamist party claims victory in Tunisia

BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES

TUNIS — A moderate Islamic party appeared to emerge as the big winner in Tunisia on Monday as preliminary results leaked out in the voting for an assembly to draft a constitution and shape a new government in this small North African country, where a revolution in January inspired uprisings across the Arab world.

The party, Ennahda, won at least 30 percent of the votes cast on Sunday, and party offi cials told a news conference the party had come out ahead in nearly every voting district. Ali Laredi, a top official of the party, said it expected to receive possibly more than 50 percent when the final results are tallied.

Calling his party “the most modernist” Islamic political movement in the Arab world — meaning the most committed to principles of democracy and pluralism — Mr. Laredi predicted that it would now “lead the way” for others around the region.

Ennahda officials were

already beginning discussions to form a unity government with the four or fi ve other more liberal parties that were expected to get representation in the constituent assembly, which is to draft the constitution.

Millions of Tunisians cast votes on Sunday in the election, which was widely watched as the possible pioneer for votes in Egypt and Libya, where longtime autocrats were felled by uprisings energized by the Tunisia revolution.

There had been some expectation that Ennahda would to win at least a plurality of seats in the assembly. The party’s leaders had vowed to create another kind of new model for the Arab world, one reconciling Islamic principles with Western-style democracy.

Final results were expected to be computed within days. In the meantime, those still struggling through the postrevolutionary uncertainty of places like Libya and Egypt watched Tunisia “with a kind of envy,” said Samer Soliman, a professor at the American University in Cairo and an Egyptian political

activist.

Libyans and Egyptians acknowledge that Tunisia was not only the fi rst but also the easiest of the Arab revolutions, because of its relatively small, homogenous, educated population and because of the willingness of the Tunisian military to relinquish power. The success of Tunisia offers inspiration, but perhaps few answers, for Egyptians or Libyans who hope to follow in its footsteps.

Libya’s interim leaders on Sunday proclaimed their revolution a success and laid out an ambitious timetable for the election of their own constituent assembly. But they have yet to solve the problem of unifying the loosely organized brigades of anti-Qaddafi fi ghters under the control of an interim authority to govern Libya until then, much less lay the groundwork for elections.

And with Egypt a little more than a month away from a vote for a new Parliament, its interim military rulers have so far balked at adopting many of the election procedures that enabled Tunisia’s

Calif. farmers paid not to plant crops

BY FELICITY BARRINGER THE NEW YORK TIMES

BRAWLEY, Calif. — Three generations of Al Kalin’s family have worked their 2,000 acres of carrots and sugar beets, wheat and alfalfa for almost a century in the Imperial Valley, a scorching swath of Southern California desert that was unfi t for farming until water from the Colorado River was diverted here in 1901.

But now Mr. Kalin and his brother enjoy a choice that their parents and grandparents never had. They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an acre — more than the market value of a crop like alfalfa in a given year — simply by not using the water required to nourish those crops.

Water saved is sent on to thirsty cities and suburbs to the west: San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

With water increasingly scarce in the West, some other communities are allowing farmers to sell their allotment of it for whatever price they can

fi nd, in some cases thousands of dollars for the amount it takes to grow an acre of a crop. But this comes with a hitch. Working farms provide jobs and income to their many suppliers. There are 450 farmers in the Imperial Al Kalin in a field on his farm in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, but half Valley. A program offers farmers money to keep land fallow the jobs held by and divert water to cities, but his family has chosen not to the 174,000 resi- participate (New York Times PHOTO). dents are tied to allowed this land to be a cornuagriculture. copia, unfettered urban water When land is idled, the comtransfers could turn it back into munities around the farms can a desert. So the deal that Impewither. Residents here point rial water managers struck to the neighboring Palo Verde limits how much water can be Valley, where farmers can sell sold and for what price, and it more than a quarter of their controls how much acreage is water supply at much higher enrolled in the program and for prices in a process they control. how long.

As a result, nearly a third of Many farmers, including the the agricultural land was not Kalins, have resisted the tempfarmed this year; over time, tation to sell. “There is somebusinesses and workers have thing about that fallowing, it suffered. just doesn’t sit well with my Imperial’s fear is that a century after Colorado River water brother and I,” Mr. Kalin said.

election to proceed smoothly.

Among them are inking voters’ fi ngers to ensure people vote only once, transparent ballot boxes, a single election day rather than staggered polls, and weeks of voter education before the balloting. Also, in Egypt, the interim military rulers have not agreed to relinquish any of the army’s power over either the next Parliament or a planned constitutional panel.

For Tunisians, though, the scenes at the polls on Sunday — a turnout far above expectations, orderly lines stretching around blocks, satisfi ed smiles at blue-inked fingers — already seemed to wipe away 10 months of anxiety and protests over the future of the revolution that ousted Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. For the fi rst time in their history, many Tunisians said, they expected an honest count of their ballots to determine the country’s future.

“Today is the day of independence,” said Amin Ganhouba, 30, a technician. “Today we got our freedom, and our dignity, from the simple act of voting.”

WikiLeaks is broke, could close down

LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, said Monday that his controversial Web site could be forced to shut down by the end of the year because a 10-month-old “fi nancial blockade” had sharply reduced its donations.

Calling the blockade a “dangerous, oppressive and undemocratic” attack led by the United States, Mr. Assange said at a news conference here that it had deprived his organization of “tens of millions of dollars,” and warned, “If WikiLeaks does not fi nd a way to remove this blockade, we will not be able to continue by ... the new year.”

Since the end of 2010, fi nancial intermediaries, including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union, have refused to allow donations to WikiLeaks to fl ow through their systems, he said, blocking “95 percent” of the Web site’s revenue and leaving it to operate on its cash reserves.

— The New York Times

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, October 25, 2011— Page 3

Obama proposes changes to mortgage program Netflix loses 800k

BY BINYAMIN APPELBAUM THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — The federal government said on Monday that it would overhaul a program that lets homeowners refi nance mortgage loans at lower interest rates to address problems that have limited participation to less than a million borrowers, far below the lofty estimates when the program started in 2009.

The White House described the changes as part of a broader plan to boost the economy through measures that do not require legislative action, reflecting a pragmatic recognition that Congress is deadlocked on economic issues, and a political effort to blame Republicans for the standoff.

“We have far too many Americans who have paid their bills and done everything right on their mortgages and yet they’re still stuck with interest rates of 6 or 7 percent,” said Shaun Donovan, the secretary of Housing

and Urban Development. The existing program, he said, “has not reached the scale that we had hoped and the scale that it needs to reach.”

The broader refi nancing program, which will still take months to implement, will let people qualify for new loans no matter how far the value of their homes have declined, and without regard to their fi nancial situations so long as they have made at least six consecutive monthly mortgage payments.

The plan also will reduce the fees that borrowers must pay, for example by dispensing with the need for an appraisal in many cases and by automatically transferring mortgage insurance to the new loan.

The plan also seeks to encourage banks and mortgage companies to participate by eliminating their legal responsibility for problems with the original loan, a signifi cant fi nancial benefit in many cases.

But the government maintained the narrow focus of the original program,

signifi cantly limiting the potential impact of the changes. The refinancing offer only applies to loans in the portfolios of the government-owned mortgage fi nance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It only applies to loans that they acquired before May 31, 2009. And it only applies to loans worth more than 80 percent of the value of the home. In other words, it does not matter how deeply a homeowner is underwater — the loan can be worth twice the value of the home — but owners with more equity are not eligible.

The government estimates the revised program will allow perhaps 1 million homeowners to refi nance — less than it once projected would benefit from the original program.

“Our goal in pursuing these changes is to create refi nancing opportunities for these borrowers, while reducing risk for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and bringing a measure of stability to housing markets,” said the agency’s acting director, Edward J. DeMarco.

customers since June, shares tank (New York Times) — Netfl ix jolted its already shell-shocked shareholders with a third-quarter fi nancial report that portrayed a company in crisis.

Netfl ix’s blooper reel, released Monday, included an even larger customer exodus than the company had foreseen after announcing an unpopular price increase in July.

Netfl ix shares shed $31.19, or more than 26 percent, to $87.35 in Monday’s extended trading. The company, which is based in Los Gatos, Calif., ended September with 23.8 million U.S. subscribers, down about 800,000 from June.

Netfl ix had predicted it would lose about 600,000 U.S. subscribers in a forecast released last month.

Netfl ix shares shed $31.19, or more than 26 percent, to $87.35 in Monday’s extended trading.

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Brennan understands how to use powers, limits of elected mayor Editor, The mayoral race is an opportunity to elect a mayor who will best serve the city under the newly enacted city charter. This charter does not make the mayor the chief executive officer, nor does it usurp any of the powers previously granted to the city manager. This was a deliberate decision made by the commission based upon the proven effectiveness of the city manager form of government.

Portland needs a leader who understands the respective roles played by the city manager and the mayor. The new mayor was designed to be a “policy” mayor – one who can articulate a vision for the city and have the political skills to establish the necessary coalitions within the city council and the community.

The charter does not grant the mayor authority to run the daily affairs of city government.

The mayor does have a strong role in holding the city manager accountable for implementing the policy decisions set by the mayor and the council. The city manager and the mayor must work together – they must be a team that can lead the city forward.

Michael Brennan best understands these important distinctions. He is focused on major policy issues such as economic development, education and transportation. He has the experience and skills to work collaboratively with leaders in Portland and beyond.

This is why I am supporting him.

Tim Honey Portland

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(The writer is a former Portland city manager).

‘Sheer disgust’ with article on Monument Square malcontent Editor: Perhaps your readers do not understand that “Special to the Portland Daily Sun” means that “”A Monument of Malcontent?” (10/22/2011)was not written by one of your reporters.

In fact, there is no indication who wrote this despicable and fallacious article. You provide no detail on this stringer, if he indeed actually falls into that lofty category.

Michael J. Tobin began with a thesis, “the people in Monument Square are creepy” and supposedly interviews 28 people who just happen to speak perfect English -- in impossibly full and grammatically correct sentences. see LETTERS page 5

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About that petition...

Yup, there is another petition fl oating around. Not just in the streets of Portland, or even only in the state of Maine. This one is being circulated nationally, with some fairly lofty goals.

The idea is a simple one. Use the wonderful technology of that beast we’ve created called the internet to jump-start a national movement of independents, using the idea of an “on-line” nomination and primary process to pick a candidate by the technological literati.

The petition going around is designed to “hold” a place on any future Maine and national ballot for a candidate to be named later.

Sounds all nice and democratic like...until you dig and fi nd out who is behind it.

I got the original tip from a blog posting, about petition gathering in front of a local post offi ce. The folks getting the signatures were a bit confused, as they were reportedly telling potential signers that only unaffi liated party members (you know, Independents) could sign the petition. That should raise a fl ag with any Maine voter, since anyone can sign any petition in this state, provided they are registered to vote here.

Then, about a week later, a friend asked me to do some looking into it. He’d heard of this group, but knew little about them.

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Daily Sun Columnist On the national side, the search was easy. Getting down to local, it gets weirder.

Nationally, a group calling itself “Americans Elect” (have to be careful on the spacing of that one) was organized from the collapse of a couple of heavy hitter political organizations. Remember a group called “Unity 08,” with membership in Maine of our former Governor, Angus King? It was a group designed to haul folks from the edges of the party to the center, advocating the election fo centrist candidates.

“Unity08” became “Unity12” with the arrival of another election season. Then, the morphing process began to take hold. Peter Ackerman, former head of both groups and a former Wall Street financier over at Drexel/Burnham/ Lambert (you remember them, along with Michael Milliken, the folks behind the last economic collapse in the junk bond trading market) changed the name of the group to “Americans Elect.”

The group then changed its IRS

designation from a 527 Corporation (the kind that has to tell the government who is funding them) to my all time favorite, a 501(c) (4) group, that can raise as much money as it wants, spend it infl uencing politics, and never have to disclose where all the shekels came from.

That sounded awful familiar to me. Knowing my history of distaste for the whole “No Labels” thing, the digging struck gold.

I’ve been repeatedly told there is “no connection” between the “No Labels” group and former failed Gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler’s “OneMaine” group, though both groups frequently appear and appeal together.

Want to guess who is on the “National Board of Advisors” of “Americans Elect?” Our old buddy, Eliot Cutler.

With very little scratching or sniffing, you can smell money.

Sniffi ng around the national group, names begin to appear that read like a “who’s who” of politcal fi xers, snake oil peddlers, con men, grifters, drifters, and malcontents. Kellen and and Michael Arno of Arno Political Consulting are on board. They have a storied history with petition gathering, among them allegsee HIGGINS page 5

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, October 25, 2011— Page 5

The hole in Europe’s bucket If it weren’t so tragic, the current European crisis would be funny, in a gallows-humor sort of way. For as one rescue plan after another falls fl at, Europe’s Very Serious People — who are, if such a thing is possible, even more pompous and self-regarding than their American counterparts — just keep looking more and more ridiculous.

I’ll get to the tragedy in a minute.

First, let’s talk about the pratfalls, which have lately had me humming the old children’s song “There’s a Hole in My Bucket.”

For those not familiar with the song, it concerns a lazy farmer who complains about said hole and is told by his wife to fi x it. Each action she suggests, however, turns out to require a prior action, and, eventually, she tells him to draw some water from the well.

“But there’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.”

What does this have to do with Europe? Well, at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow. The clear and present danger comes instead from a sort of bank run on Italy, the euro area’s third-largest economy. Investors, fearing a possible default, are demanding high interest rates on Italian debt. And these high interest rates, by raising the burden of debt service, make default more likely.

It’s a vicious circle, with fears of default threatening to become a self-fulfi lling prophecy. To save the euro, this threat must be contained.

But how? The answer has to involve creating a fund that can, if necessary, lend Italy (and Spain, which is also under threat) enough money that it doesn’t need to borrow at those high rates.

Such a fund probably wouldn’t have to be used, since its mere existence should put an end to the cycle of fear.

But the potential for really large-scale lending, certainly more than a trillion euros’ worth, has to be there.

And here’s the problem: All the various proposals for creating such a fund ultimately require backing from major European governments, whose promises to investors must be credible for the plan to work. Yet Italy is one of those major governments; it can’t achieve a rescue by lending money to itself. And France, the euro area’s second-biggest economy, has been looking shaky lately, raising fears that creation of a large rescue fund, by in effect adding to French debt, could simply have the effect of adding France to the list of crisis countries.

There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.

You see what I mean about the situation being funny in a gallows-humor ––––– fashion? What makes The New York the story really painful is the fact that Times none of this had to happen.

Think about countries like Britain, Japan and the United States, which have large debts and defi cits yet remain able to borrow at low interest rates. What’s their secret? The answer, in large part, is that they retain their own currencies, and investors know that in a pinch they could fi nance their deficits by printing more of those currencies. If the European Central Bank were to similarly stand behind European debts, the crisis would ease dramatically.

Wouldn’t that cause inflation? Probably not: whatever the likes of Ron Paul may believe, money creation isn’t infl ationary in a depressed economy.

Furthermore, Europe actually needs modestly higher overall infl ation: too low an overall infl ation rate would condemn southern Europe to years of grinding defl ation, virtually guaranteeing both continued high unemployment and a string of defaults.

But such action, we keep being told, is off the table. The statutes under which the central bank was estab-

Paul Krugman

lished supposedly prohibit this kind of thing, although one suspects that clever lawyers could fi nd a way to make it happen. The broader problem, however, is that the whole euro system was designed to fi ght the last economic war. It’s a Maginot Line built to prevent a replay of the 1970s, which is worse than useless when the real danger is a replay of the 1930s.

And this turn of events is, as I said, tragic.

The story of postwar Europe is deeply inspiring. Out of the ruins of war, Europeans built a system of peace and democracy, constructing along the way societies that, while imperfect — what society isn’t? — are arguably the most decent in human history.

Yet that achievement is under threat because the European elite, in its arrogance, locked the Continent into a monetary system that recreated the rigidities of the gold standard, and — like the gold standard in the 1930s — has turned into a deadly trap.

Now maybe European leaders will come up with a truly credible rescue plan. I hope so, but I don’t expect it.

The bitter truth is that it’s looking more and more as if the euro system is doomed. And the even more bitter truth is that given the way that system has been performing, Europe might be better off if it collapses sooner rather than later.

As always, be careful what you sign. Do research first. Square story flawed HIGGINS from page 4

edly tricking people to register to vote as Republicans, and in one Massachusetts race,” paid signature collectors from APC revealed that an unknown but large number of signatures for a petition to remove the right to samesex marriage in Massachusetts had been collected through fraud. The collectors told voters that they were signing a petition about a different issue, or that the petitions were in favor of same-sex marriage.”

That isn’t even mentioning the signature gathering knucklehead out at the Maine Mall two years ago who, while getting signatures for the Oxford Casino measure, called one of my coworkers a foul name, and then punched me in the head when I went out to see what his specific problem was.

Then, there is the wonderful cooperation of fellow travelers “independentvoting.org” who have been pimping the prospect of an independent movement for years. They successfully managed to get New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg elected for a third term, with a

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unity coalition of the New York socialist movement. Bloomie paid off heavy, securing them an $8.1 million dollar center for their trouble.

Is this what you want, how you picture center-left and center-right Independents behaving? With payoffs and grease?

As far as Maine goes, there efforts might account for nothing. In order to secure a spot on the ballot, petitions in this state have to be either in the form of nominating petitions or party petitions. Both kinds have to be registered with the offi ce of the Secretary of State’s office and checked for correct legal wording, as well as a record kept of the folks behind it.

Can you picture our secretaru of state agreeing to any kind of “online” voting shenanigans when the state of Maine has no control over the process? We can’t see the candidates, the software, the vetting process, how delegates are picked, nothing. This in a state where there has been a tempest in a teapot over students registering to vote here legally, but being accused of fraud.

As of this date, no such records of any group called “Americans Elect” exists as registered with our secretary of state. That makes the petitions about as valuable as economy brand toilet paper, or unaccredited career school liberal arts degrees.

Unless they are just gathering names, for name lists of future potential donors, or some other unmentionable purpose.

As always, be careful what you sign.

Do research fi rst. When I fi nally ran into this group on the streets of Portland last week, I hit the man presenting the petition with a couple of these gems.

He seemed unaware of any of this.

That means either the petition signature gatherers are getting lied to, and are just passing the fi bs on down the line, or the wrangling and strangling of election year politics are using that old “divide and conquer” strategy to separate people into smaller and smaller self-identifying groups, only to unite them under things they never agreed to at a later date.

The election season can only get sillier from here.

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LETTERS from page 4

A reporter has a responsibility to write an article without a preconceived thesis. A reporter has a responsibility to quote what people actually say. A reporter has a responsibility to be able to provide his notebook for quotes for his editor I realize that some (but not “many” as Tobin claims) are afraid of the modern city-scape that is Portland. However, we cannot pander to the “some,” and we certainly should do nothing to cleanse Monument Square based on some vague definition of what is “creepy” to “some.”

Portland’s downtown is lively, vibrant, and is a microcosm of society.

Street people are as worthy as offi ce people.

The Portland Daily Sun owes it to its readers to run a disclaimer on the fi rst page that it cannot verify Tobin’s quotes; then the Daily Sun should do its own article on what a representative sample of people think about Monument square.

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Libya’s interim leaders to investigate Qaddafi killing THE NEW YORK TIMES

BENGHAZI, Libya — The leader of Libya’s interim government announced the creation of a formal committee of inquiry on Monday to examine the circumstances of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi ’s death last week.

In his announcement, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, chairman of the Transitional National Council, acknowledged that pressure from foreign powers and rights groups — including some that have supported the rebellion against Colonel Qaddafi — had prompted the decision to investigate how the Libyan leader wound up dead with a bullet to the head.

But it was unclear how much authority the committee would have or whether anyone would be held accountable. Mr. Abdel-Jalil hinted that the fatal shots might have come from Colonel Qaddafi ’s supporters.

That suggestion is sharply at odds with the video evidence that surfaced after his death.

The grisly images established that Colonel Qaddafi ’s was killed shortly after fighters seized him on Thursday.

His capture followed a NATO airstrike on an armed convoy that was leaving Surt, his hometown, where he had spent two months as a fugitive after the fall of Tripoli. One of his sons, Muatassim, also was captured and killed, apparently while in cus-

tody.

The videos showed victorious fi ghters manhandling Colonel Qaddafi , who appeared to be bleeding and in distress but conscious, after they pulled him from a large drainage pipe where he had hidden after the NATO assault. Subsequent video showed his bruised corpse, with at least one bullet wound to his head.

Transitional National Council members have said that Colonel Qaddafi was killed during a gunfi ght between his captors and Qaddafi loyalists. But the videos cast doubt on that explanation.

“In response to international calls, we have started to put in place a commission tasked with investigating the circumstances of Muammar Qaddafi’s death in the clash with his circle as he was being captured,” Mr. Abdel-Jalil told journalists in the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the revolution that ousted Colonel Qaddafi.

On Sunday, Mr. Abdel-Jalil formally proclaimed to thousands of revelers in Benghazi that the revolution was officially over. The announcement laid the basis for elections and a new government within 20 months, but left unanswered the challenge confronting the interim leaders over how to disarm and unify the anti-Qaddafi fi ghters who are a law unto themselves. Mr. Abdel-Jalil also suggested that Islam would be the legal basis for the state.

Libyans have been celebrating Colonel Qaddafi ’s death, but Mr. AbdelJalil said many were disappointed

that the former leader would not stand trial for the crimes committed during his brutal 42-year rule.

In offering a possible new explanation for the death, Mr. Abdel-Jalil suggested that Colonel Qaddafi’s supporters feared he would have implicated them in his atrocities if he had survived and gone to trial.

“Let us question who has the interest in the fact that Qaddafi will not be tried,” he said. “Libyans want to try him for what he did to them, with executions, imprisonment and corruption. Free Libyans wanted to keep Qaddafi in prison and humiliate him as long as possible. Those who wanted him killed were those who were loyal to him or had played a role under him.

His death was in their benefit.”

The new theory appeared to be an attempt to defl ect questions about the government’s handling of Colonel Qaddafi’s fi nal moments.

There was no immediate comment on Mr. Abdel-Jalil’s announcement from the brigade of fi ghters credited with capturing both Colonel Qaddafi and his son and bringing their bodies to Misurata. The city suffered enormously from attacks by Colonel Qaddafi ’s forces during the height of the revolution.

Authorities in Misurata have put the bodies on display in a cold-storage meat locker while they have argued over where and when to bury them.

The Associated Press quoted a local military spokesman, Ibrahim Beitalmal, as saying that the burial was

likely to take place on Tuesday. He said Colonel Qaddafi and his son would be interred in unmarked graves in a secret location to avoid vandalism. In Surt, new evidence was emerging that anti-Qaddafi fi ghters had committed widespread reprisal killings after Colonel Qaddafi’s death. Dozens of bodies lay outside a Surt hotel, where the monikers of at least 10 anti-Qaddafi militias were scrawled on the walls.

The hands were bound on many of the bodies, and they appeared to have been shot in the head. A number of homes were also burning, apparently pillaged by Colonel Qaddafi ’s opponents.

Over the weekend, another Qaddafi son, Seif al-Islam, who remains at large, vowed from an undisclosed location to avenge his father. “We continue our resistance,” he said in an audio message broadcast by Al Arrai, a Syrian television station that had also broadcast Colonel Qaddafi ’s screeds against his enemies while he was a fugitive.

“I’m in Libya, alive, free and intend to go to the very end and exact revenge,” the message said. “I say go to hell, you rats, and NATO behind you. This is our country; we live in it, and we die in it and we are continuing the struggle.”

Mr. Abdel-Jalil was fl anked at the news conference in Benghazi by former rebel offi cers, and much of it involved reassurances that the needs of the veterans would be met in the new Libya.

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Legislator: existing labor laws in place to protect kids LABOR from page one

LePage said it is important to instill a good work ethic in teens because it will help them through their adult life. He said not all kids can handle a job and school at the same time, so it is important they can work during vacation periods if they want to work.

Rep. David Burns, R-Whiting, sponsored a bill aimed at loosening limitations on teens working while in school. He said he would have addressed the Governor’s concerns if he had been aware of them earlier this year.

“I didn’t try to go after everything, “he said. “I think the Governor has a good idea and we should consider it.”

Burns said too many decisions that should be made by parents and children have been preempted by unnecessary government laws and regulations. He said teens working outside of the school year should be allowed to work if they want to without needing a permit.

Rep. Robert Hunt, D-Buxton, serves on the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee. He said the reality is that the permitting process provides a needed protection for

children.

“It’s there to make sure they are not being taken advantage of, they are not working more hours than they should, “ he said, “ these are important things we put into law because at some point in the past somebody didn’t do what they should for kids.”

Hunt said he would be willing to look at proposal to streamline the permit process, but he said having the schools involved is important because not all parents are as responsible as most in doing what is best for a teen. He said the reality is teens can work at most jobs.

“All of these laws were passed for a reason, “said William Murphy, Director of the Bureau of Labor Education at the University of Maine. “We had some horrendous conditions in this country and in this state where children were being exploited.

Parents often needed to have their kids work to just help to put food on the table.”

He said teens working during vacation periods need the same protections as teens working part time during the school year to make sure they are not being exploited by anyone. He said it

is unfortunate, but a reality, that some employers and some parents may not put the best interests of the teen first.

LePage also said more teens could join the workforce right out of high school if employers could pay them a training wage. He said in many jobs teens have no experience and need to acquire the skills needed for the job.

“I think we need to have a training wage, “he said. “I think we would see more hired and have jobs if they could be paid a training wage as they learned the skills they needed for a job.”

Burns agreed but said his attempt at getting a training wage based on what federal law got shot down in the legislature. Hunt said there was good reason Burns proposal was defeated because a training wage is unfair.

“You see some employers just using it to get cheaper labor,” he said. “You see them constantly fi ring and hiring to pay only the lower wage.”

LePage can introduce any proposal into the legislature, even those previously defeated. He did not say whether either a training wage or a work permit bill would be part of his January agenda.

Rees: ‘We’re working on very clear guidelines’ FIREBOAT from page one

land IV — specifi cally regarding civilians being allowed aboard.

The news comes more than two weeks after the boat was knocked out of full service when it hit an underwater object, causing about $38,000 worth of damage. A preliminary investigation into the incident determined that the incident was preventable and that a dozen civilians, including firefighters’ family members, were riding on the vessel at the time of the collision.

The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting a separate investigation into the incident, which damaged the vessel’s rudder and propeller.

During a sit down with The Portland Daily Sun Monday, Mark Rees said that he was astonished to learn that civilians and family members were on the vessel during what offi cials maintain was a training exercise.

He explained that while it’s common for non-department personnel to be transported on the boat for city-related business, civilians and family members should not be permitted to ride the vessel

for no reason.

“What shouldn’t be condoned is what happened last weekend, where they were transporting civilians without any clear connection to public service,” Rees said.

He explained that he fi rst learned of the collision the day it occurred — Oct. 15 — though an e-mail. It wasn’t until nearly a week after the accident, and following several conversations with LaMontagne, that he was told there were family members and civilians on the boat, he said.

“I told him I was fl abbergasted that that type of activity was going on,” Rees said. “Based on his investigation, he assured me that it was an anomaly, and that this type of stuff does not happen on a regular basis.”

The accident happened near Fort Gorges in Casco Bay. Capt.

Christopher Goodall and fi refi ghter Joseph Murphy were placed on 10 and three days suspension, respectively, at the start of this week.

Rees and other city offi cials say they are prohibited from discussing details of the accident, citing personnel rules and union contracts.

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“Part of their training is to do just that,” he said, referring to simply just piloting the boat.

“Based on what the chief told me, they were on a training exercise and there were family members who were invited on board to, not participate, but to be on the boat while they were on their training exercise,” said Rees, adding, “The chief believes that this was an isolated incident.”

Rees said he doesn’t anticipate that there will be further disciplinary actions following the accident.

He said the one thing likely to change are the policies and procedures.

“I think there was a lack of clear cut guidelines as to how civilians can access the fi re boat,” Rees said. “We’re working on very clear guidelines going forward.”

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landed near.

Offi cials at the Portland Police Department have contacted the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in an effort to determine whether the person, or persons, behind the incident will face federal charges.

Under state statute, the incident would fall under criminal use of explosives — a Class C felony that could carry at least a year behind bars, Sauschuck said.

“We take this extremely seriously,” he said.

Investigators aren’t sure whether the person who tossed the device was specifi cally targeting the protesters.

About an hour before the bomb went off in Lincoln Park, patrol offi cers on a routine call in the area behind City Hall reported hearing what sounded like an explosion somewhere in the area. Offi cers were not able to fi nd any remains from the fi rst incident, but they suspect it’s connected to the Occupy Maine bombing, Sauschuck said.

“We do not believe that Occupy

Stephanie Wilburn prepares a meal Sunday afternoon in Lincoln Park, home to the Occupy Maine protesters. (MARGE NIBLOCK PHOTO)

Maine was the sole target of this incident,” he said. “We feel … that those two incidents may be connected.”

The top commander also noted that

while “something like this is definitely uncommon,” there is a spike in chemical bomb activity around the Halloween season, Sauschuck said.

Despite some assurances that the incident could have been random act not intended to terrorize the group, Occupy Maine protesters say they felt targeted.

“I was paralyzed with fear,” said Shane Blodgett, a protester from Augusta who has been at the campsite for two weeks.

“The device that was thrown into the camp woke me from a deep sleep,” he said, describing how he thought someone had fi red a gun and shot another person in the campsite.

“It absolutely terrifi ed me,” he added.

Stephanie Wilburn, who was awake and only a few feet away from the device when it exploded, described seeing the vehicle sought by police at least two other times prior to the explosion.

At about 1:45 a.m. the car drove past the camp honking its horn. Later, at about 3:15, the vehicle drove by again and someone shouted that the protesters ought “to get jobs,” she said.

It was last seen at about 4 a.m. —

moments before the explosion.

“It sounded like a 12-gauge shotgun went off right next to my head,” Wilburn said. “I breathed in (the dust) and it was not very pleasant.”

Protesters were in the process of moving their tents away from the road Monday and beefi ng up their security teams, which consist of groups of people watching over the campsite 24 hours a day.

The incident caught the attention of local lawmakers, who described the event as a “dangerous and insidious act of violence.”

“The Occupy Maine protesters have been exercising their right to protest in a non-violent, respectful manner,” state Rep. Diane Russell, D-Portland, said in a statement. “Maine people are better than this.”

“Whether you believe in the Occupy Maine/Wall Street movement or not, it is unacceptable to put people’s lives in danger,” state Sen. Justin Alfond, a Portland Democrat, said in a statement.

Police are asking anyone with information on the incident or the vehicle — an older model silver four-door sedan, possibly a Toyota or Nissan — contact detectives at 874-8575.

U.S. Envoy to Syria leaves amid threats BEIRUT, Lebanon — Robert S. Ford, the American ambassador to Damascus who has emerged as an outspoken critic of Syria’s crackdown on a sevenmonth uprising, has left the country after receiving what American offi cials called threats to his safety.

The departure Saturday was the latest turn in the tumultuous tenure of Mr. Ford, whose visits to restive cities like Hama and attendance of a funeral for a slain activist made him a visible and controversial figure. Since the uprising erupted in March, he has stayed vocal in his criticism of government repression, taking to his Facebook page and the embassy’s web site to castigate the government or offer his version of events there.

Haynes Mahoney, the newly arrived embassy’s charge d’affaires, said Monday no date was set for Mr. Ford’s return, and he cautioned that his departure did not mean the American government had withdrawn Mr. Ford from the post.

— New York Times

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Tuesday, October 25, 2011— Page 9

Slaughter of horses goes on, just not in the U.S.

BY A.G. SULZBERGER THE NEW YORK TIMES

LINCOLN, Neb. — The closing of the country’s last meat processing plant that slaughtered horses for human consumption was hailed as a victory for equine welfare. But five years later just as many American horses are destined for dinner plates to satisfy the still robust appetites for their meat in Europe and Asia.

Now they are carved into tartare de cheval John Schoneberg, a Nebraska breeder who has taken in hungry horses, says a slaughtering ban has or basashi sashimi in not improved horses’ lives. (Brian Lehmann/NY TIMES Photo) Mexico and Canada.

That shift is one of the settled on horseback, has never lars to euthanize and dispose of many unintended consequences really taken to eating horse unwanted horses when they used of a de facto federal ban on horse except in times of need. But to receive about that much to sell slaughter, according to a recent elsewhere, the meat — lean and them to slaughterhouses. federal government study. As the protein-rich — is prized as a deliThis year, Nebraska became domestic market for unwanted one of a number of states — along cacy. Selling to a slaughterhouse horses shrinks, more are being has long been a way to make with Arkansas, Montana, North neglected and abandoned, and some money, to get rid of an old Dakota and others — that have roughly the same number — or unwanted horse no longer able pushed to resuscitate the dornearly 140,000 a year — are being to perform at a racetrack, show mant horse slaughter industry, killed after a sometimes grueling ring or ranch. which produced meat valued at journey across the border.

The last slaughterhouses for an estimated $65 million a year “When they closed the plants, horses, in Texas and Illinois, before closing. Gov. Dave Heinethat put more of a hardship on closed after Congress stripped man of Nebraska, a Republican, our horses than the people who fi nancing for federal inspections signed a law to take steps to regwanted to stop the slaughter can of horse slaughter in 2006, a ulate horsemeat at the state level imagine,” said John Schoneberg, move that effectively banned the that passed the single-chamber a Nebraska horse breeder who sale of the meat. That year, only legislature, the Unicameral, with recently took in three horses from 105,000 horses were slaughtered only one dissenting vote. a nearby farmer who said that he domestically; 33,000 from the These efforts have been fiercely was unable to pay for feed and United States were slaughtered opposed by animal rights groups, would otherwise turn them loose. abroad. Last year, 138,000 or which rejected as ridiculous the The study’s findings have been more were slaughtered abroad, argument that horses would be fiercely contested by animal welaccording to government fi gures. better off if they could be killed fare groups, which argue that (The population of horses in the for meat. Pointing to their own most of the problems stem from United States is about nine milresearch, they say any increase the economic downturn and the lion.) in improper care for horses can high price of feed. The study “It’s slightly hypocritical to be connected to the economy, also breathed new life into the allow these horses to be slaughrather than to the elimination long-smoldering battle over tered anyway up in Canada or of slaughter. And if prices have whether to allow the resumption declined, they say, that is because Mexico and not allow people here of domestic horse slaughter or, to get the income or serve the the ban removed an incentive to alternatively, to prohibit the animeat,” said Hugue Dufour, a chef overbreed horses. mals from being shipped abroad in New York who cooked horse Wayne Pacelle, the presifor their meat. while working in Canada. dent and chief executive of the In recent weeks lawmakNow owners have to pay to Humane Society of the United ers have pushed Congress to get rid of horses. Debby Brehm, States, said that horse owners take action in both directions. director of the Nebraska Quarter should commit to providing lifeThe Government Accountabiltime care for the animals. He said Horse Association, spent $200 ity Offi ce, which conducted the last month to euthanize a sick surveys had found widespread study, concluded that either horse and $150 more for it to opposition to killing horses for option would be better than the be hauled to a rendering plant. their meat. status quo, but advocates on both Other owners keep them but are “Horses are different than cows sides, while hopeful, said a resounable to bear the thousands of and pigs in one very important lution did not appear imminent. dollars a year it can cost to feed sense, in that they are not raised “It’s just a hot political issue,” and care for them. As a result, the for slaughter,” he said. said Dr. Whitney Miller, a lobbysight of malnourished animals is But there is an enduring chasm ist for the American Veterinary familiar, Ms. Brehm said, and in how horses are viewed.

Medical Association, which supstories abound of horses aban“A horse, to me, is a livestock ports allowing horse slaughter. doned on public and private land animal like a cow, sheep or a and even, in one audacious case, goat,” said Orbie Bonnett, a “It’s hard to see something definiin someone else’s horse trailer.

Nebraska rancher who stopped tive happening.”

“You see a lot of malnourished selling horses after prices plumThe effect of the standoff has and abandoned horses that probmeted.

“A lot of folks nowadays been deeply felt in rural states ably would have been humanely look at a horse like a pet, like a like Nebraska. Horse breeders slaughtered before,” said Windy dog or a cat. When you have a and the owners of livestock aucAllen, a horse trainer in the state. lot of money folk looking at this tions say that eliminating slaughOthers say the ban is costing that way, well, there goes your ter basically removed the floor for them money, too. slaughterhouses, there goes your horse prices, allowing the market The Southeast Nebraska Livemarket and there goes your horse to collapse and forcing many stock Auction used to sell about folk — they just can’t make it out of the business. One reason, 100 horses every month, but now anymore.” they say, is that owners are now that may be the total for a year.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19 ).

You’re a friendly person who realizes that not everyone can be as outgoing as you. A happy-go-lucky mood makes it easier for you to put yourself out there. If you don’t get the reaction you would prefer, it’s no big deal.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You will be an excellent negotiator because you won’t get caught up in matters of pride. There’s little that would hurt your feelings about the deal anyhow; it’s just business. Seeing things like this gives you an advantage.

PISCES (Feb. 19 -March 20). Your creed is: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. You enter into new situations, ready to think on your feet. Don’t pressure yourself to take things too far, though. It’s probably enough just to smile and say hello.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 25).

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You no longer feel the need to put in your two cents about another person’s life. You can tell that this person is going to work things out in his or her own unique way, and you’re content to quietly watch.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The truth packs a powerful punch. Like a strong drink, it takes some getting used to. Not everyone can handle a full glass of it. Add more sugar to the mix, and it will go down easier.

CANCER (June 22-July 22).

Increasing your self-reliance will not push a loved one away. It will, in fact, make your relationship stronger. You are growing toward a less dependent but more bonded arrangement with a loved one.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Whereas many around you seem dissatisfi ed, you tune in to your environment and notice much that is good in it. You can be a quiet leader in this regard, infl uencing others with nothing more than your manner of being.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Out of these snatches of things seen, heard or otherwise perceived, you form some rather unique conclusions. Your point of view is a rare one, and with a little creativity, you can turn it into great art.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Punctuality is important to you, though today you may fi nd it stressful to accomplish. One way not to be late is to have nowhere to be. Consider clearing your schedule for a few days.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Oct. 25,the 298th day of 2011. There are 67 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 25, 1854, the “Charge of the Light Brigade” took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men charged the Russian army despite hopeless odds and suffered heavy losses.

On this date: In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown went on trial in Charles Town, Va., for his failed raid at Harpers Ferry. (Brown was convicted and hanged.)

In 1881, artist Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.

In 1910, “America the Beautiful,” with words by Katharine Lee Bates and music by Samuel A. Ward, was first published.

In 1929, former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall was convicted in Washington, D.C., of accepting a $100,000 bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny.

In 1962, U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson presented photographic evidence of Soviet-built missile bases in Cuba to the U.N. Security Council.

In 1971, the U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan.

In 1981, on the centenary of the birth of Pablo Picasso, the artist’s painting “Guernica” was returned to Spain after spending four decades in the possession of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

In 1986, in Game 6 of the World Series, the Boston Red Sox lost to the New York Mets, 6-5, on a wild pitch and an error in the tenth inning, forcing a seventh game, which the Mets ended up winning.

One year ago: In Indonesia, an earthquake triggered a tsunami off western Sumatra that killed more than 460 people and destroyed homes, mosques and other buildings.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Jeanne Cooper is 83. Actress Marion Ross is 83.

Country singer Jeanne Black is 74. Basketball Hall of Famer Bobby Knight is 71. Author Anne Tyler is 70. Rock singer Jon Anderson (Yes) is 67. Rock musician Glenn Tipton (Judas Priest) is 64. Actor Brian Kerwin is 62. Actor Mark L. Taylor is 61. Rock musician Matthias Jabs is 55. Actress Nancy Cartwright (“The Simpsons”) is 54. Country singer Mark Miller is 53. Rock musician Chad Smith is 50. Actress Tracy Nelson is 48.

Actor Michael Boatman is 47. Actor Adam Goldberg is 41. Actor-singer Adam Pascal is 41. Rock musician Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) is 41. Actress Persia White is 41. Country singer Chely Wright is 41. Violinist Midori is 40. Actor Craig Robinson is 40. Actor Michael Weston is 38. Actor Zachary Knighton is 33. Actor Mehcad Brooks is 31. Actor Ben Gould is 31. Rhythm-andblues singer Young Rome is 30. Pop singer Katy Perry is 27. Rock singer Austin Winkler (Hinder) is 27. Singer Ciara is 26.

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We recently found out that “Tom,” Susan’s husband of 30 years, has been cheating on her for the past fi ve. They live in a small town, and everybody knows. (I found out by overhearing women talking at the grocery store.) Susan fi led for divorce two years ago, but when Tom was diagnosed with prostate cancer, she stopped the process to take care of him.

She thought this would wake him up, but apparently, his girlfriend was “taking care” of him, too. Tom has no problem being seen about town with this woman, who is also married with young children. In all of our visits, Susan has yet to mention the affair. We also don’t know what to do about her two grown children who know nothing of their father’s activities, even though all their friends are aware of it. Tom isn’t likely to proceed with the divorce because it would make him look bad, but he undoubtedly thinks if he waits long enough, Susan will die. This is making us all sick. Any of us would gladly take her in, but we don’t know how to broach the subject.

-- Perplexed Siblings Dear Siblings: Please allow Susan to bring up her husband’s affair. There is no way to know whether she would be relieved to talk about it or whether it would simply be more stress than she can handle. It may comfort her to think her siblings believe her marriage is solid. Instead, tell her that all of you would like the opportunity to provide a place for her in your own homes. Let her know how much you love her and want this chance to spend time together. In spite of your loving offer, however, Susan may prefer to stay where she is.

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Talk to your parents, and ask them to call or visit the principal with a printout of the offending page, or ask if you can bring it up on the school computer. The principal should handle it from there.

Dear Annie: “Workplace Dilemma” said her small offi ce consists of only her and a part-time employee, and her boss’s boss won’t pay her overtime. You said an hour a week is not that much, but, Annie, in a year, it could add up to a week’s pay. Also, not paying overtime could be against the law, depending on her position. She can fi nd out at www.dol.gov/ compliance/laws/comp-flsa.htm.

“Workplace” should keep a notebook nearby and document everything she does, and then fi nd time to talk to her boss objectively. Further, if the boss is so dependent upon her, she should get a significant raise. -- New Hampshire Dear N.H.: Even though we said “Workplace” should be paid, many readers were angry with us because we also said an hour a week isn’t that much if you like your job. (And a few pointed out that for an extra 12 minutes a day, they would gladly take her job.) We hope she will check to see whether she is legally owed overtime and then take the necessary steps to ensure she gets it.

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(NY TIMES) — Representative Gabrielle Giffords was in North Carolina on Monday to receive additional therapy as she continues to recover from a gunshot wound to the head, her Congressional staff said in a statement.

Ms. Giffords is scheduled to be in Asheville until Nov. 4, to work with a therapist who has been involved with her treatment. Ms. Giffords’s office did not release the name of the therapist.

Ms. Giffords was shot Jan. 8 in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson during a public event. Six people were killed and 13 were wounded, including Ms. Giffords.

Jared Loughner, 23, who has been charged with shooting Ms. Giffords.

ABC News announced last month that Ms. Giffords, Democrat of Arizona, would sit down for an interview with Diane Sawyer, as part of an hourlong special to be broadcast on Nov. 14, the day before the publication of her memoir, “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,” written by Ms. Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly. Ms. Giffords has recorded the final chapter of the book for an audio edition of the memoir.

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WEEHAWKEN, N.J. (NY TIMES) — An offi cial with direct knowledge of the plan says Formula One is coming to New Jersey in June 2013 with a race on the Hudson River shoreline just minutes from New York City.

The person says the Grand Prix event will take place in Weehawken and West New York, with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity Monday because the race has yet to be announced. A press conference is scheduled in Weehawken on Tuesday, and will likely be attended by New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

The U.S. hasn’t hosted a Formula One race since 2007 in Indianapolis, an event won by Lewis Hamilton.

A race is scheduled for Austin, Texas, in 2012.

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Tuesday, Oct. 25 Food safety training

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. “ Many organizations and community groups rely on volunteer cooks for a variety of food events.

Come join Kathy Savoie, MS RD, Extension Educator for this 5-hr food safety training. You will learn about planning and purchasing food, storing food supplies, preparing food, transporting, storing and serving cooked foods and how to handle those leftovers.” Also Nov. 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. UMaine Learning Center, Cooperative Extension 75 Clearwater Dr., Suite 104, Falmouth. To register: call 781-6099 or 1-800-2871471 (toll free in Maine) or e-mail lois.elwell@maine.edu. Register by Oct. 18 and Nov. 2. There will be a 30-minute lunch break during the class. Bring your own lunch.

LearningWorks Pathways Out of Poverty panel

noon to 2 p.m. LearningWorks’ fourth Community Conversation will focus on strategies individuals and businesses can take action against poverty. A panel of distinguished community leaders, including Tom Wright, a founder of Wright-Ryan Construction, will discuss their personal path out of poverty and the individuals and organizations that had an impact on their journey.

The discussion will be followed by break out discussion sessions that will give individuals and businesses concrete strategies for making a difference in the fi ght against poverty. The event is sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank, People’s United Bank, Unitil and the Maine Medical Center. The event is from noon to 2 p.m. at the Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

For more information, visit www.learningworks.me.

DownEast Pride Alliance ‘Business After Hours’

5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. A networking event at Grace restaurant, 15 Chestnut St., Portland. Cash bar, lite food and media table. Event underwritten by Liz Winfeld of RBC Wealth Management and Norman Hanson & DeTroy. Bring business cards to share. Find DEPA on Facebook and www. depabusiness.com

Wednesday, Oct. 26 Richard Shain Cohen, ‘Healing After Dark’

noon to 1 p.m. Richard Shain Cohen, “Healing After Dark.”

Brown Bag Lecture. “In 1927 in the fi eld of health care an unusual event occurred. Morris Aaron Cohen, M.D. founded the Boston Evening Clinic, a unique and never before conceived facility for the treatment of the indigent and low-wage earners who could not afford to lose a day’s pay. It was an endeavor that achieved success against overwhelming odds.” Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series features bi-weekly reading and question-and-answer sessions with authors from around the nation as well as those who hail from right here in Maine. Regularly scheduled Brown Bag Lectures are on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. in the Main Library’s Rines Auditorium. All Brown Bag Lectures are free to the public. Guests are encouraged to bring their lunch; coffee provided by Coffee By Design.

Organic Research Centre talk in Bar Harbor

4:10 p.m. Researchers from one of the top institutes focused on organic agriculture will be offering a talk at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor in the college’s McCormick Lecture Hall. The group is from the Organic Research Centre, or ORC, at Elm Farm in Newbury, England. They will be talking about their research on innovations in organic agriculture, agroforestry, and the public good that results from organic farming. ORC, along with COA and the University of Kassel’s Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences in Germany, form the Trans-Atlantic Partnership, focused on sustainable food systems. The researchers coming are Bruce Pearce, PhD, senior programme manager, who has been researching the implications of genetically modifi ed foods, Jo Smith, PhD, an agroecology researcher focused on temperate agroforestry systems, and Roger Hitchings, principal consultant focused on organic horticulture including fruit, composting, soil management and fertility, technical conversion planning and protected cropping. The trio will share advances in sustainable food systems research from England. They will be introduced by COA junior Polly McAdams who completed an internship at the ORC last summer. The talk by the ORC researchers is a special Human Ecology Forum. For more information, contact Matthew Doyle Olson at 801-5688 or mdoyleolson@coa.edu. It is free and open to the public.

‘Wind Power in Maine’

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Environmental and Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2Tech) will sponsor a public forum on Maine’s evolving wind energy resource. The general public is invited to attend this forum, which will examine the questions surrounding transmission, air quality and the economics of this type of energy generation. The forum,

Characters from “The Wizard of Oz” enjoy a Halloween tradition. The public is invited to the annual Dress Up Halloween Bash, at Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, on Sunday, Oct. 30. (COURTESY PHOTO) which is open to the general public will be held in Orono at the University of Maine, and will include a satellite teleconference location at USM. “Wind Power in Maine: Learn about the facts; answers about the impact on jobs, the environment, and Maine’s people.” The forum will be held at University of Maine in Orono, at Wells Conference Center, Room 1. There will be a satellite, teleconference location at the University of Southern Maine’s Portland Campus in the Lee Community Room, Wishcamper Center. The forum will be moderated by Chris Facchini, of WLBZ, and panelists will include: Charles Colgan, Muskie School of Public Service, USM; Colin High, Resource Systems Group, Vt.; Brian Conroy, Director of Electric System Engineering, Central Maine Power Company; Gary Hunt, Professor of Economic, University of Maine. The forum is free of charge. The panel will examine transmission issues and consider costs and current-day concerns, as well as the long-term economic and environmental impacts, while reviewing the goals for our region’s energy future.

‘American Nations’ book event

7 p.m. Book Event: “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America,” with presenter: Colin Woodard, author, at Maine Historical Society.

“Join us for a fresh look at regional identity in the United States and its profound impact on American politics — the subject of Woodard’s much-anticipated new book. North America was settled by people with dist inct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. ...

Woodard is an award-winning journalist and author of ‘Ocean’s End, The Lobster Coast,’ and ‘The Republic of Pirates.’” www. mainehistory.org

Nosferatu with Live Original Score

7:30 p.m. A special screening of the F.W. Murnau’s classic 1922 silent fi lm, “Nosferatu.” A Philiadelphia and Boston-based quintet, led by pianist and composer Brendan Cooney, will perform Cooney’s original score for the fi lm, which mixes klezmer devices, gypsy grooves, avant-garde textures, and classic horror-fi lm camp, evoking both the moods of Transylvania and German Expressionism. A Halloween treat! SPACE Gallery. More information at: www. nosferatu2011.com

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

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

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CTN 25th anniversary

5:30 p.m. CTN 25th anniversary gala event at Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St. RSVP, call 775-2900, ext. 200.

Celebration of 25 years of programming by Community Television Network.

Planet Dog’s seventh annual Halloween Party

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

Mayoral Candidates meeting

7 p.m. The India Street Neighborhood Association is hosting a Mayoral Candidates meeting on at St. Peter’s Church on Federal Street, starting promptly at 7 p.m. All candidates will be invited. Those who attend will be asked a series of questions relating to their ideas for the offi ce and to the India Street Neighborhood. Each candidate will have a chance to address each question. Answers should be brief and will be kept to a uniform time. The meeting is open to all interested citizens. If there are any questions or comments, please respond to: info@indiastreet.org.

Poets Theater of Maine Halloween production

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

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

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

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‘The Spirits of Vaudeville’

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

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

Portland’s favorite vaudevillians take to the stage to present you with a Halloween inspired variety show full of tricks and treats. With dancing witches, juggling spooks and sneaky black cats you giggle and you’ll scream (with delight)! An evening full of performances by Kait-ma, The Lovely Janice, Maxwell, Cait Capaldi, Moira, Lady Selcouth, the Mighty Scavenger, the Dark Follies Rhythm Orchestra and more!

Lucid State, 29 Baxter Boulevard, Portland. $10 (advance/ student/senior), $12 at door. www.darkfollies.com or www. lucidstage.com.

Friday, Oct. 28 Gorham Art Fair

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

Southern Maine Home Show

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

Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) at USM

8 p.m. Sometimes one musical just isn’t enough. You’ll get fi ve hilarious and charming musicals in one — all with the same plot but told through fi ve different and distinct musical styles — when you come see The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) at the University of Southern Maine School of Music. Directed by USM School of Music faculty member Ed Reichert, Musical! will be performed Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 30 at 2 p.m., in the USM School of Music’s Corthell Concert Hall, Campus Drive, USM Gorham. Tickets cost $15 general public; $10 seniors/USM employees; $5 students/children.

For reservations, call the USM Music Box Offi ce at 7805555. Sponsored by Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution.

Find out more about the USM School of Music’s fall season and program offerings at www.usm.maine.edu/music.

‘Mozart’s Sister’

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

Damnationland 2011

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

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

Rockland — The Strand, Saturday, Oct. 29, 10 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 30, 3 p.m.; Auburn — Flagship Cinemas, Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. www. damnationland.com

‘Phantom of the Opera’

7:30 p.m. “The Friends of the Kotzschmar organ present the 1925 silent horror film, ‘Phantom of the Opera,’ for their annual Halloween show. Critically acclaimed and sought after as theatre organist and silent fi lm accompanist, Scott Foppaino, returns to the Ktozschmar bench to accompany this silent classic. The Portland Ballet will perform Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens prior to the fi lm.” The Kotzshmar Organ Halloween Silent Film, Scott Foppiano organist. Merrill Auditorium. Kids under 12 are free but must have ticket. Call 842-0800 for details. https://tickets.porttix. com/public/show.asp

Saturday, Oct. 29 Drug Take-Back program

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ecomaine will again be a host site for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s free Drug TakeBack program from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 29.

DEA’s Maine Resident Agent in Charge Michael Wardrop said the program is offered, “so that everyone can rid their medicine cabinets and care facilities of those potentially harmful medications which impact our public safety, personal well being and clean environment.” “Troop G of the

Maine State Police will be at ecomaine as individuals drive up to drop off any quantity of unwanted drugs. No questions. No forms to fi ll out. The ecomaine site is in Portland at 64 Blueberry Road, off outer Congress Street, just on the other side of the Maine Turnpike from UNUM.”

Harvestfest 2011

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

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

Time Lapse: Photographing over Time

Grammy award in 2002 for their recording of Sir John Tavener’s Lamentations and Praises, co-commissioned with Chanticleer.

Calamity Janes vs.

Rock Coast Rollers

5:30 p.m. See some Maineon-Maine action as Maine Roller Derby’s Calamity Janes and RIP Tides take on the Rock Coast Rollers. “MRD’s newest members, the R.I.P. Tides, are a group of fi erce fresh meat who will make their debut at Happy Wheels alongside the Janes in this mixed bout. MRD welcomes RCR, a new league from Rockland, as these two teams battle for the fi rst time!” Doors at 5 p.m.

Happy Wheels, 331 Warren Ave., Portland. Tickets: Purchase advance tickets online or at the door. General Admission: $5

11 a.m. to noon. Portland Museum of Art. ‘Three photographers share how photographing the same theme over time affects both photographer and subject. Jon Nosferatu 2011 tour kicks off this month, with a stop at SPACE Sid Tripp’s 16th annual Edwards documents traditional Gallery in Portland on Wednesday. (COURTESY IMAGE) and vanishing ways of life, Lesley Halloween Bash MacVane talks about her relation9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sid Tripp of local marketing fi rm Proacship with the people of Cliff Island, and Melonie Bennett tive Resources Design and business networking group The shows her work taken of her family over the years. Artists’ DownEast Pride Alliance will hold his 16th annual Hallowpresentations will be followed by a facilitated discussion een Bash at Mariner’s Church on 386 Fore St. in Portland with Susan Danly, curator of the Madeleine de Sinéty: Phowith exciting live band Under The Covers to perform. Tripp tographs exhibition.” Free with museum admission. is expecting a similar attendance of over 400 people at this year’s event, and doors will open at 9 p.m. and the party Little Theatre of the Deaf to perform in Maine will continue until 1 a.m. This year’s theme is zombies, so 11 a.m. “Deaf and hard of hearing children will have a bring your best ghoulish costume and makeup. $20 cover unique opportunity to experience live theatre in their (check, cash or cards accepted); ages 21 and up. Costume own language this October as the Little Theatre of the required, cash bars.

Deaf performs at the University of Southern Maine and at the Baxter School for the Deaf. The Little Theatre of the Deaf is a small ensemble composed of Deaf and hearing Sunday, Oct. 30 actors from the acclaimed National Theatre of the Deaf, based in Hartford, Conn. It performs children’s theatre for Portland String Quartet 2011-2012 season Deaf and hearing audiences and their families, bringing both worlds together on one stage. The performances opening concert with Maine State Historian and workshops are sponsored by the Davis Family Foun1 p.m. Concert at 2 p.m. Pre-concert Lecture with Maine dation, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Woodfords CongreFriends of Baxter School.” Tickets for the performance at gational Church, 202 Woodfords St., Portland. “The PSQ USM are available at $8 and can be purchased through and special guest Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettlethe American Sign Language (ASL) Lab at USM, 49 worth will present the World Premiere of a string quartet by Exeter St., Portland. 780-59 57 (voice), 780-4069 (TTY), Portland native John Knowles Paine, composed in Portland or 766-709 7 (videophone). The children’s workshops c.1855. Also on the program is Walter Piston’s String Quarare free and limited to 25 participants on a fi rst cometet No. 1, and Charles Ives’ String Quartet No. 1, ‘A Revival fi rst-served basis. Children wishing to participate should Service.’ A reception will follow the concert.” Cost: $22 genalso contact the American Sign Language Lab at USM. eral admission, $20 seniors, free for 21 and younger. SubsiASL student interpreters may purchase a package that dized or free tickets available upon request. LARK Society includes both the interpreter’s workshop and the perforfor Chamber Music, 761-1522, lark@larksociety.org. mance at $30. Both workshops are at the Wishcamper Kids’ Halloween Bash at children’s museum building, 34 Bedford St., Portland, at Room 211. The 1:30 p.m. “Trick-or-Treat at the Children’s Museum & Theperformance is at the Talbot Auditorium, Luther Bonney atre of Maine is quickly becoming a tradition. Last year building, 90 Bedford St., Portland. Details of the perforhundreds of costumed children and families arrived to colmances and workshops can be found at http://www.ntd. lect candy and prizes, march in an indoor costume parade org/wordpress/?page_id=3. throughout the exhibits, and boogie at the Monster Mash

Banned Book Film Festival, ‘Carrie’

1:30 p.m. Portland Public Library, Meeting Room 5, 5 Monument Square, Portland. “Since the inception of Banned Books Week in 1982, libraries and bookstores throughout the country have staged events and local readings as part of their activities. Please join Portland Public Library for this series of films that was conceived from well-known banned books. A discussion will follow after each screening for those who wish to stay and participate.” Stephen King’s “Carrie.”

Handel and Haydn Society

3 p.m. Portland Ovations brings the Handel and Haydn Society to Hannaford Hall at USM Portland for an afternoon concert . Approaching its bicentennial in 2015, the Handel and Haydn Society is the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society is internationally recognized for its revelatory style of using the instruments and techniques of the composer’s time. The mission of the Society is to perform Baroque and Classical music at the highest levels and share that music with a large and diverse audience. With an esteemed tradition of innovation and excellence, which began in the 19th century with the American premieres of Handel’s Messiah (1818), the Handel and Haydn Society over the last 20 years have given important historical performances of core repertoire and introduced innovative programs to great acclaim. They also won a

dance party. Mask Making (1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.); Trick-orTreat (2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.): Come in costume, and bring a bucket; Slime Making (3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.): Volunteers from USM’s Chemistry Club will lead visitors through the ooey, gooey science of slime making; Halloween Parade (3:30 p.m.) and Monster Mash (3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.): Pirates, princesses, superheroes, kitty cats – all are welcome in the Halloween Parade. All activities take place at the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine, 142 Free St. in Portland. Halloween Bash activities are free with admission ($9/person, under 18 months free). The Museum & Theatre is open from noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. For more information, visit www.kitetails.org or call 828-1234.

Discovery Concert: Symphony Spooktacular

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

Merrill Auditorium.

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Modest farmer, fantasy mogul

BY DAN FOST

THE NEW YORK TIMES

The National Fantasy Baseball Championship, a contest paying a top prize of $100,000, draws an elite collection of contestants — computer geniuses, deep-pocketed stockbrokers and money managers, maybe a young man or woman looking to be the next Billy Beane or Theo Epstein.

But the contest over the years has produced only one two-time champion: Lindy Hinkelman, a 59-year-old pig farmer from Greencreek, Idaho.

Hinkelman, who has won two of the

last three titles in one of the country’s most highly regarded contests, does not have a perfect answer for how he has been able to do it, but he is happy to offer his gut take on it all.

“Raising pigs and this baseball thing really go together,” he said. “There are certain things in farming — keeping track of productivity, indexes for your sows, the genetic lines there. To do well, you’ve got to be pretty profi cient in numbers. Math has always been my strong suit. I can see things with the numbers.”

“That’s just my theory,” he cautioned with modesty. “I have no proof.”

Lindy Hinkelman doesn’t mind if his fantasy baseball competitors underestimate him because he is a pig farmer (NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO)

What he does have is in excess of $300,000 in prize money earned over the last three years.

While some fantasy football leagues offer bigger prizes, the N.F.B.C. says its payout is tops in fantasy baseball, and the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, which represents over 100 member companies in the fantasy sports industry, said it was unlikely that anyone had won more prize money than Hinkelman.

Hinkelman, however, is not looking to, oh, get involved in fixing the Baltimore Orioles.

“These guys working in front offi ces know so much more about this than I would ever dream o f,” he said.

“These guys grew up in the game. I have no ambitions of doing that.”

Fantasy baseball got its start in 1980 with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball, named for a New York restaurant where a group of people, led by the longtime journalist Daniel Okrent, fi rst played it. In the game, participants draft actual players and follow them throughout a season, getting points based on how those players perform in actual games.

The games exploded in popularity with the rise of the Internet. And while fantasy football has eclipsed baseball in popularity, the fantasy sports association said, roughly 13 million people play fantasy baseball.

Hinkelman looks for undervalued players, as does Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, who was played by Brad Pitt in the movie “Moneyball.” He volunteered to draft 14th in his 15-team league this year, and targeted three players who ended up doing significantly better in 2011 than in 2010: Matt Kemp of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers and Curtis Granderson of the Yankees.

His faith was rewarded, as Kemp and Granderson turned in seasons worthy of the Most Valuable Player award and Verlander should be a lock for the American League Cy Young Award.

“Those three guys really made up my team there,” Hinkelman said. He had Kemp and Verlander on his 2009 prizewinner, giving him a personal connection of sorts, even though he has never met any of the players. “These guys are like personal friends to you, even though you don’t know them.”

He also got top performances from late-round picks like Cleveland shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera and Tampa Bay relief pitcher Kyle Farnsworth.

Despite his stars, the 2011 season still came down to the fi nal game for Hinkelman, who battled K. J. Duke, a San Diego investment portfolio manager, for most of the season. Duke, who played in a different league, also had Kemp and Verlander, along with Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers, a contender for the Cy Young Award in the National League. But an off year by his fi rst-round pick, the Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez, held him back.

As in “Moneyball,” in which little-known Scott Hatteberg hits a dramatic game-winning home run, a relative unknown cinched Hinkelman’s victory.

Hinkelman plucked the St. Louis Cardinals’ Allen Craig off the waiver wire late in the season, and when outfi elder Matt Holliday went down with an injury, Craig stepped in and went on an offensive tear. In the final game of the season, an 8-0 Cardinals victory over the Houston Astros, Craig hit a ninth-inning solo home run.

“For that baseball game, it was a meaningless hit,” Duke said, “but it cost me $80,000.”

The N.F.B.C. league attracted 390 players last year, each paying a $1,400 entry fee. Players can enter more than one team. Players have included the fi lm director Nick Cassavetes, the television actor James Roday and the entertainer Meat Loaf.