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Here comes the sun See Paul Krugman’s column on page 4

‘Good Vs. Evil’ in the dining world See photos on page 9

Sen. Mitchell in Brunswick See Calendar, page 14

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Hold the bubbly: Portland mayor’s race results not expected until Wednesday BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Election night parties are a regular fixture in political campaigns: Supporters get a chance to mingle with the candidate and weary volunteers and staffers get a chance to unwind — often over a cocktail or two. In most elections, final results are in by midnight, leaving one candidate to celebrate while opponents go home empty-handed. Tonight, with the mayor election anyway, it’s basically the opposite. With no candidate expected to receive a majority, all but the last place candidate will still be in contention heading into Wednesday. “In a typical election, most of the candidates there are having a bad night (because only one person wins),” said Ethan Strimling, who is running for mayor and won three terms to the state senate. “At least tonight, everyone can say, ‘I’m still in it until tomorrow." see MAYOR page 7

Roger Borelli sorts through absentee ballots Monday in preparation for today’s city and state election. A part-time assistant city clerk, Borelli said he will tend to ﬁve polling places. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

A primer on ranked choice voting — See page 7

Sample ballot for mayor — See page 8

City asks protesters for their winter plans BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

City officials say they are waiting to hear from Occupy Maine protesters residing in Portland's Lincoln Park about how they intend to prepare for the approaching winter and freezing temperatures. An e-mail sent by officials to members connected to Occupy Maine asked the group to outline their winter plans. The memo Local paramedic Ron Dearth inspects a RanDome, a Mainer’s patented dome struc- calls for details on the group's fire safety and emergency mediture in Lincoln Park, at the Occupy Maine protest site. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

cal response procedure, strategies for staying warm and their plans for being stewards of the park. "I think our primary focus right now is the onset of winter," said Nicole Clegg, city spokeswoman, explaining that the memo was sent to the group at the end of last month, following the city's first snowstorm of the season. "That's where our head is at and we want to make sure there see PLANS page 7

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Spoof song challenges extremism in Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — (NY Times) — A satirical song that takes a tongue-in-cheek swipe at religious extremism, militancy and contradictions in Pakistani society has become an instant hit here, drawing widespread attention as a rare voice of the country’s embattled liberals. The song, “Aalu Anday,” which means “Potatoes and Eggs,” comes from a group of three young men who call themselves Beygairat Brigade, or A Brigade Without Honor, openly mocking the military, religious conservatives, nationalist politicians and conspiracy theorists. Their YouTube video has been viewed more than 350,000 times since it was uploaded in mid-October. The song is getting glowing reviews in the news media here and is widely talked about — and shared — on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. The name of the band is itself a satire of Pakistan’s nationalists and conservatives, who are often described in the local news media as the Ghairat Brigade, or Honor Brigade. Local musicians have produced work in the past vilifying the West, especially the United States, but rarely do they ridicule the military or religious extremists, and none have had Beygairat Brigade’s kind of success. Sung in Punjabi, the language of the most populous and prosperous province, the song delivers biting commentary on the current sociopolitical milieu of the country, in which religious radicalism and militancy have steadily risen over the years and tolerance for religious minorities is waning. Just this year, a governor who opposed Pakistan’s contentious blasphemy law was killed by one of his guards. The assassin was then celebrated by many in the country, including lawyers who greeted him with rose petals and garlands. The song rues the fact that killers and religious extremists are hailed as heroes in Pakistan, while someone like Abdus Salam, the nation’s only Nobel Prize-winning scientist, is often ignored because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi sect. “Qadri is treated like a royal,” wonders the goofylooking lead vocalist in the song, referring to Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the elite police guard who killed the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, in January after he challenged the blasphemy law. Another line in the song, “where Ajmal Kasab is a hero,” makes a reference to the only surviving Pakistani gunman involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India.

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Doctor found guilty in Michael Jackson’s death BY JENNIFER MEDINA THE NEW YORK TIMES

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, among the most famous and beloved performers in pop music history, spent his final days in a sleep-deprived haze of medication and misery until finally succumbing to a fatal dose of potent drugs given to him by the private physician he had hired to act as his personal pharmaceutical dispensary, a jury decided on Monday. The physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter nearly two and a half years after the star’s shocking death at age 50. The verdict came after nearly 50 witnesses, 22 days of testimony and less than two days of deliberation by a jury of seven men and five women. The trial had focused

primarily on whether Dr. Murray was guilty of abdicating his duty or of acting with reckless criminal negligence, directly causing his patient’s death. Dr. Murray now faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license. Judge Michael Pastor denied a defense request for bail for Dr. Murray and ordered him handcuffed and taken into immediate custody in the courtroom. Jackson, who had become a star as a child in Gary, Ind., singing with his siblings in the Jackson 5, grew into one of the best-known performers in the world, earning a fistful of citations in the Guinness Book of World Records, including for the best-selling album of all time, “Thriller.” Though increasingly eccentric in his later years, living much of the year in a secluded

Dr. Conrad Murray inside a courtroom after a guilty verdict in Los Angeles on Monday (New York Times Photo)

California estate he called Neverland, Jackson always maintained a fervent core of fans and, despite his lavish lifestyle and persistent money woes, always seemed just one comeback away from a return to the top. Dr. Murray, a Houston car-

diologist, was paid $150,000 a month to work as Jackson’s personal physician as the singer rehearsed in Los Angeles for “This Is It,” a series of 50 sold-out concerts in London that he needed to pay off hundreds of millions of dollars in mounting debts.

Cain denies latest claim Syrian forces cracking down BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Chicago woman alleged on Monday that Herman Cain grabbed her in a sexually aggressive way when she sought his help after losing her job at the National Restaurant Association in the late 1990s. Sharon Bialek, accompanied by the celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, became the first woman to publicly accuse the presidential candidate of sexual harassment, saying that she wants to “give a voice” to other women who might have been harassed by Mr. Cain during his tenure at the association. “I want you, Mr. Cain, to come clean,” Ms. Bialek, who said she was a Republican, told a packed news conference in New York City’s Friars Club. “Just admit what you did. Admit you were inappropriate to people, and then move forward.” In a statement issued moments after the news conference started, Mr. Cain emphatically denied the accusation. Mr. Cain has been dealing with multiple allegations of sexual harassment since Politico first wrote of two legal settlements during his tenure at the restaurant association. Mr. Cain has acknowledged the settlements, but has said that the charges that led to them

are “baseless” and false. Ms. Bialek is the first woman to come forward publicly with such allegations. In her statement to the press, Ms. Bialek said that she had been fired at the association after about a year working for the group’s educational foundation in its Chicago office. She said she sought Mr. Cain’s help to find other employment during a trip to Washington about a month after he left the group. During that trip, she said Mr. Cain had secretly upgraded her hotel room before drinks and dinner that the two had to discuss possible future employment. She said that after dinner, he put his hand on her leg and ran it under her skirt and pulled her head toward his crotch. “I was surprised and shocked and I said, what are you doing? You know I have a boyfriend,” Ms. Bialek recalled saying. “This is not what I came here for.” “You want a job, right?” she said Mr. Cain responded. “I asked him to stop and he did.” Jeff Jorgensen, a supporter of Mr. Cain’s in Iowa, said in an interview on Monday that he still believes in Mr. Cain and his candidacy. “This is starting to appear to me to be just an outright smear campaign,” Mr. Jorgensen said, citing Ms. Allred’s involvement as evidence.

BY ANTHONY SHADID THE NEW YORK TIMES

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government has launched a bloody assault to retake Homs, the country’s third-largest city, facing armed defectors who have prevented the government’s forces from seizing it as they did other restive locales this summer, in what may stand as one of the most violent episodes in an eight-month uprising. The specter of civil war has long hung over Homs, the most tenacious and determined of cities opposed to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, where the city’s Sunni Muslim majority has closed ranks behind the revolt. This month, parts of the city have become an urban battlefield, with activists saying government forces have killed 111 people in just five days, opposition groups warning of dire shortages forced by the siege and residents complaining of lawlessness by marauding soldiers and paramilitaries. The strife comes amid the apparent collapse of mediation by the Arab League, one of the latest efforts to end perhaps the most ferocious crackdown on the revolts sweeping the Arab world this year, and amid yet more signs that the government intends to stanch dissent

by force, ignoring the relatively muted protests of the international community. As important, in a country fraught with fears of a broader civil war, Homs may be emerging as an example to the rest of Syria of the relative success of fighting back against a military that, while still unified, has suffered more defections as fighting persists and more than 3,000 civilians have been killed. “Homs is a turning point for now,” said an analyst based in Damascus who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It’s a successful model of self-defense, if you will, at a time when you really can’t expect people to take any more. They’ve seen too many corpses come back, too many people arrested, disappeared or returned after abominable treatment.” Just as Hama, a city that rivals Homs in size, was retaken at the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, violence has shaken Homs during an important Muslim holiday, Id al-Adha, which began Sunday. But Homs, a city of two million, and its relatively unified Sunni Muslim majority, have offered much more resistance than Hama and other large towns, including Deir al-Zour and Latakia, which the government stormed in August.

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Somalis cautiously return to normal life, and the beach BY MOHAMED IBRAHIM AND JOSH KRON THE NEW YORK TIMES

MOGADISHU, Somalia — After years of surviving under the yoke of fundamentalist Islamist militants, Somalis are getting their swagger back. Over the weekend, an unexpected sight could be seen along the shores of the capital, Mogadishu. In a city known for shelling, suicide bombs, Sharia law and public executions, hundreds were out enjoying the scenery and sunning themselves at the beach. “For the first time in years,” said Mohamoud Abdi, who came to Mogadishu’s again-popular Lido Beach on Friday with his two sons. “People are feeling delightful.” In a city torn by fundamentalism and fighting, a return to the beach is a symbol of how far peace seems to have come, as government forces and African peacekeepers have pushed Islamist rebels out of the capital over the last several months. Mogadishu is a museum of war. Its buildings look like old ruins, except that the city has not eroded slowly over millennia, but in 20 bullet-packed years. For many residents, the last five have been spent under a particularly oppressive

regime, the militant Islamist group known as the Shabab, which rose up in 2006 as a popular nationalist movement to kick troops from Ethiopia out of the country. But the Shabab soon turned against Somalis themselves, and it became evident that its brand of Islam wasn’t congruent with Somali culture. The group banned music, soccer and even bras; it swore allegiance to Al Qaeda. As for going to Mogadishu’s idyllic beaches for a game of football in the sand, or a romp in the water — between radical Islamist laws (women were banned from swimming there in 2006) and constant fighting, such an outing was akin to exercising a death wish. No more. Since the Shabab largely retreated from Mogadishu in early August, the city has slowly and cautiously been stirring to life. Vendors are moving back into the central market. People dine in outdoor cafes. Maybe most cathartically, they are going back to the beach — men and women alike. “I had never thought of coming here,” said Said Yare, rolling in the sand at Lido. Going to Lido Beach on Friday used to be a weekly pastime for Somalis, young and old, fami-

lies and friends. Before the fall of President Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, Lido Beach was packed with clubs, pubs and cafés. Somalia has the longest coastline on the continent of Africa, with some of its warmest waters, and Mogadishu was known as the “pearl of the Indian Ocean.” But civil war gutted leisure activities, and by 2005, with Mogadishu carved up under the control of competing warlords, Lido Beach was a veritable ghost of its former self. Then came an Islamist government known as the ICU; then came fighting with Ethiopian soldiers; then came the Shabab; then came fighting with African Union peacekeepers. Somalis started returning to Lido only last month. The African Union peacekeeping mission in the country has taken the opportunity to promote Lido Beach’s resurgence as a testament to the peacekeeper’s triumphs over the Shabab. “Roads are being repaired, homes rebuilt and markets reopened,” the peacekeeping mission, known as AMISOM, said in a statement. “Real estate prices along Via Moscow have doubled, and there are people out in the streets late into the night.” Even a former Somali president,

Ali Mahdi Mohamed, was photographed playing soccer at Lido as the city “reawakens,” the mission said. But in a country used to war, it is unclear how long the respite will last. “Al-Shabab is down but not out,” says EJ Hogendoorn, a Horn of Africa analyst for the International Crisis Group. “AMISOM has made impressive advances, but with very high casualties.” As for the Shabab, Mr. Hogendoorn says, the group has reverted to “guerilla warfare.” That means Mogadishu still is not safe. Two suicide bombers, one believed to be American, blew themselves up at an African Union peacekeeping base last month, killing an untold number. In early October, a suicide bomber killed roughly 100, many students, at the ministry of education. As for going to the beach, some still profess caution. “We are finally back to our homes; now we are trying to test the delicacy of peace,” said Shankaron Mohamoud, a young woman at Lido. “Think about this beach,” she said. “It is something that drives me to wonder, seeing people around after many years.”

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National Emergency Alert System to be tested Television and radio listeners nationwide can expect to hear a test of the Emergency Alert System Wednesday at 2 p.m., according to state officials. Maine radio and television stations and cable TV systems, along with satellite TV companies, will participate in the first nationwide test of the system, according to the Maine Emergency Management Agency. The alert is expected to both look and sound different from the state’s regular monthly tests.

Investigators: Young boy sparks blaze in Berwick Fire investigators say a young child toying with the buttons of an electric stove sparked a Berwick blaze that sent three family members to the hospital Sunday. The State Fire Marshal’s office determined a 2-and-a half-year-old boy was playing with the unplugged

stove, located in the basement of the Old Pine Hill Road home, when it ignited a photo copier placed on the burners. The boy and Kenneth Tibbetts, 80, were treated and released from the hospital Sunday. Rolly Tibbetts, 44, was still being treated for smoke inhalation at Dover, N.H., on Monday. The fire was reported at about 7 a.m. and caused extensive damage to the home, said Steve McCausland, a public safety spokesman.

Jeffrey Davis, 26, of Saco, trafficking heroin; James Frazier, 37, Saco, trafficking morphine; Russell Chris Lavoie, 40, Biddeford, trafficking crack cocaine ; Matthew Nadeau, 27, Biddeford, trafficking heroin; James Ruane, 57, Biddeford, trafficking crack cocaine; and Christopher Lawson, 22, Biddeford, violating bail and possession of oxycodone. Donald Goudreau, 32, and Erika Tetrault, 30, were also arrested during the sweep for outstanding warrants.

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Three people shot in hunting accidents, one dead

Maine drug agents and York County law enforcement arrested nine people late last week during a narcotics sweep, police said. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested several people on charges involving crack cocaine, heroin and prescription pills, according to Steve McCausland, a public safety spokesman. Those arrested were Jason Anderson, 27, of Old Orchard Beach, for aggravated trafficking of heroin;

A 46-year-old Sebago man was shot and killed by a fellow hunter Saturday, according to the Maine Warden Service. Peter Kolofsky died at the scene after officials say he was shot by William Briggs, 61, of Windham, who was hunting in the same area. The two men were not in the same hunting party, officials said. Kolofsky was wearing hunter

orange when he was shot and no summonses or charges had been filed. The fatality came one day after the service reported two separate accidental shootings on Friday. Mark Mattson, 60, of Portsmouth, N.H., was shot in the stomach while target practicing near Thomas Pond in Casco. He was about 300 yards from a logging road when officials say he was shot by Travis Wood, 29, of Windham. Mattson was airlifted to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and listed in critical condition, according to the Maine Warden Service. Also on Friday, Steven Hutter, 26, of Hebron, was shot in the leg while hunting in Oxford by Linton Thompson, 46. The pair were hunting near Thompson’s property and were in the process of tracking a wounded deer the men shot when Thompson accidentally fired at Hutter’s lower leg, officials said. Both of the investigations were ongoing, though no arrests or summonses had been issued. — Staff Reports

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Here comes the sun For decades the story of technology has been dominated, in the popular mind and to a large extent in reality, by computing and the things you can do with it. Moore’s Law — in which the price of computing power falls roughly 50 percent every 18 months — has powered an ever-expanding range of applications, from faxes to Facebook. Our mastery of the material world, on the other hand, has advanced much more slowly. The sources of energy, the way we move stuff around, are much the same as they were a generation ago. But that may be about to change. We are, or at least we ––––– should be, on the cusp of an The New York energy transformation, driven Times by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s right, solar power. If that surprises you, if you still think of solar power as some kind of hippie fantasy, blame our fossilized political system, in which fossil fuel producers have both powerful political allies and a powerful propaganda machine that denigrates alternatives.

Paul Krugman

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It can’t happen here! Welcome to the new world disorder: Ethnic nationalism and religious fanaticism Friday, thousands in Moscow, giving Nazi salutes and carrying placards declaring, “Russia for the Russians!” marched through the city shouting racial slurs against peoples from the Caucasus. In Nigeria, Boko Haram, which is Hausa for “Western education is sacrilege,” massacred 63 people in a terror campaign to bring about sharia law. Seven churches were bombed. Sunday, The New York Times reported that Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan are suffering “horrific abuse” following last year’s pogrom. Ethnic nationalism, what Albert Einstein dismissed as “the measles of mankind,” and religious fanaticism are making headlines and history. Welcome to the new world disorder. What has this to do with us? Perhaps little, perhaps everything. In three weeks of my radio-TV tour to promote “The Suicide of a Superpower,” no question has occurred more often than one about the chapter “The End of White America.” Invariably, the question boils down to this: Why should we care if white Americans become a minority? America, interviewers remind me, assimilated the immigrants of a century ago — Italians, Poles, Jews, Slavs — and we can do the same with peoples from the Third World. And perhaps they are right. Perhaps the year 2050 will see an America as united as the America of Dwight Eisenhower and JFK. Yet there are reasons to worry. First, the great American Melting Pot has been rejected by our elites as cultural genocide, in favor of a multi-

Pat Buchanan ––––– Creators Syndicate culturalism that is failing in Europe. Second, what we are attempting has no precedent in human history. We are attempting to convert a republic, European and Christian in its origins and character, into an egalitarian democracy of all the races, religions, cultures and tribes of planet Earth. We are turning America into a gargantuan replica of the U.N. General Assembly, a continental conclave of the most disparate and diverse peoples in all of history, who will have no common faith, no common moral code, no common language and no common culture. What, then, will hold us together? A Constitution over whose meaning we have fought for 50 years? Consider the contrasts between the old and new immigration. Where the total of immigrants in the “Great Wave” from 1890 to 1920 numbered 15 to 20 million, today there are 40 million here. In 1924, the United States declared a timeout on all immigration. But for almost half a century since 1965, there has been no timeout. One to 2 million more immigrants, legal and illegal, arrive every year. Where the old immigrants all came from Europe, the new are overwhelm-

ingly people of color. But America has never had the same success in assimilating peoples of color. The Indians we fought for centuries live on reservations. And if we did not succeed with a few million Native Americans, what makes us think we will succeed in assimilating 135 million Hispanics who will be here in 2050, scores of millions of Indian ancestry? We have encountered immense difficulty, including a civil war, to bring black Americans, who have been here longer than any immigrant group, into full participation in our society. This was a failing that the last two generations have invested immense effort and enormous wealth to correct. But we cannot deny the difficulty of the problem when, 50 years after the civil rights revolution, one yet hears daily the accusation of “racist!” on our TV channels and in our political discourse. Ought we not first solve the problem of fully integrating people of color, before bringing in tens of millions more? Another factor is faith. After several generations, Catholics and Jews melded with the Protestant majority. But Muslims come from a civilization that has never accepted Christian equality. The world’s largest religion now, with 1.5 billion believers, Islam is growing in numbers, strength and militancy, even as Muslim fanatics engage in eradicating Christianity from Nigeria to Ethiopia to Sudan to Egypt to Iraq to Pakistan. Is it wise to bring millions more into

our country at such a time? Will that advance national unity and social peace? Has it done so in the Turkish enclaves of Berlin, the banlieues of Paris, Londonistan or Moscow? Here, again, are but a few of the differences between the old and new immigration: Today’s numbers are twice as large. Where the old immigration stopped after 30 years, ours never ends. Where the old immigrants were Europeans, today’s are Third World people who have never been fully assimilated by any Western country. Where those arrived from Christian nations, many of today’s come from a civilization that battled Christianity for 1,000 years. Where Western powers ruled the world in 1920, today the West is aging and dying, and much of the world is on fire with anti-white and anti-Western resentment of 500 years of European domination. In 1920, Western people were nearly one-third of mankind. Today, Western man is down to one-sixth of the world’s population, shrinking to one-eighth by 2050, and not a tenth by century’s end. When did the American people assent to our taking this risk with their republic? (Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?” To find out more about Buchanan and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.)

Special treatment for fracking makes a mockery of free-market principles KRUGMAN from page 4

Speaking of propaganda: Before I get to solar, let’s talk briefly about hydraulic fracturing, a k a fracking. Fracking — injecting high-pressure fluid into rocks deep underground, inducing the release of fossil fuels — is an impressive technology. But it’s also a technology that imposes large costs on the public. We know that it produces toxic (and radioactive) wastewater that contaminates drinking water; there is reason to suspect, despite industry denials, that it also contaminates groundwater; and the heavy trucking required for fracking inflicts major damage on roads. Economics 101 tells us that an industry imposing large costs on third parties should be required to “internalize” those costs — that is, to pay for the damage it inflicts, treating that damage as a cost of production. Fracking might still be worth doing given those costs. But no industry should be held harmless from its impacts on the environment and the nation’s infrastructure. Yet what the industry and its defenders demand is, of course, precisely that it be let off the hook for the damage it causes. Why? Because we need that energy! For example, the industry-backed organization energyfromshale.org declares that “there are only two sides in the debate: those who want our oil and natural resources developed in a safe and responsible way; and those who don’t want

Solyndra’s failure was actually caused by technological success: the price of solar panels is dropping fast, and Solyndra couldn’t keep up with the competition. our oil and natural gas resources developed at all.” So it’s worth pointing out that special treatment for fracking makes a mockery of free-market principles. Pro-fracking politicians claim to be against subsidies, yet letting an industry impose costs without paying compensation is in effect a huge subsidy. They say they oppose having the government “pick winners,” yet they demand special treatment for this industry precisely because they claim it will be a winner. And now for something completely different: the success story you haven’t heard about. These days, mention solar power and you’ll probably hear cries of “Solyndra!” Republicans have tried to make the failed solar panel company both a symbol of government waste — although claims of a major scandal are nonsense — and a stick with which to beat renewable energy. But Solyndra’s failure was actually caused by technological success: the price of solar panels is dropping fast, and Solyndra couldn’t keep up with the competition. In fact, progress in solar panels has been so dramatic and sustained that, as a blog

post at Scientific American put it, “there’s now frequent talk of a ‘Moore’s law’ in solar energy,” with prices adjusted for inflation falling around 7 percent a year. This has already led to rapid growth in solar installations, but even more change may be just around the corner. If the downward trend continues — and if anything it seems to be accelerating — we’re just a few years from the point at which electricity from solar panels becomes cheaper than electricity generated by burning coal. And if we priced coal-fired power right, taking into account the huge health and other costs it imposes, it’s likely that we would already have passed that tipping point. But will our political system delay the energy transformation now within reach? Let’s face it: a large part of our political class, including essentially the entire G.O.P., is deeply invested in an energy sector dominated by fossil fuels, and actively hostile to alternatives. This political class will do everything it can to ensure subsidies for the extraction and use of fossil fuels, directly with taxpayers’ money and indirectly by letting the industry off the hook for environmental costs, while ridiculing technologies like solar. So what you need to know is that nothing you hear from these people is true. Fracking is not a dream come true; solar is now cost-effective. Here comes the sun, if we’re willing to let it in.

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eral said Monday that Paterno is not a suspect in this case, so I would think he deserves a polite retirement at the end of the season. But I also think, these Penn State people are fathers and uncles and brothers. Did they not worry about these children being brought onto their campus? The problem would seem to be a gerontocracy of the soul, too many people who have been in the same place too long. Paterno has been at Penn State, as an assistant and the head coach, for 62 years, a record. Graham B. Spanier, the university president, was a faculty member and an administrator there from 1973 to 1982 and returned to lead the university in 1995; Curley graduated from Penn State in 1976 and has been the athletic director since 1993; and Schultz graduated from Penn State in 1971 and has worked there ever since. Ultimately, they all serve the monster that rises on 12 Saturdays a year. The question is, if Paterno heard some ugly stuff about Sandusky in 2002, it is now 2011, and he seems to have not done anything about it since. Maybe he didn’t invite the guy to his house anymore. That I don’t know. But as far as alerting people to the possible predator tendencies of his former assistant, Paterno seems to have been silent. He had a game to coach. He had players to recruit. For an essentially good man, this is worse than the way Woody Hayes went out. Hayes was a bombastic legend at Ohio State, but in his dotage he leapt off the sideline and punched an opposing player in a 1978 bowl game. End of career. And Hayes went out better than Jim Tressel, the most recent coach at Ohio State, who resigned after people figured out he was lying to cover up for some players who were selling their rings and trophies for tattoos. It wasn’t the violation as much as the coverup. This seems to be a common malady for big-time coaches. They get so puffed up with trying to go undefeated that they lose sight of reality. Just to run this kind of program demands moral blinkers. King Football is not about just academic scandals and recruiting scandals and now the growing shadow of concussion scandals. (What, you thought aging players now coming down with dementia arrived in the N.F.L. with their brain pans totally intact?) Just the other day, Jeré Longman wrote in The New York Times about his beloved home state, where L.S.U. has downsized its foreign language program with minimal public reaction, but managed to maintain an undefeated football program. Lots of Happy Valleys out there. Occasionally a critic like Taylor Branch or a panel calls for reform. At Penn State, it was even worse than prostituting education for the sake of a football powerhouse. The entire old-boy system in that university managed to overlook the possibility that children’s lives were being ruined, within the dangerous cocoon of King Football. We need to look beyond the alleged abuses. We need to look at the system that encouraged people to look the other way. Really, we need to do something about big-time college sports.

Paterno not targeted in sex abuse inquiry STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The Pennsylvania attorney general, Linda Kelly, said in a news conference Monday that Joe Paterno, Penn State’s legendary football coach, was not considered a target in the sexual abuse investigation that has resulted in the arrest of a former assistant coach and two prominent university officials Kelly, who made a plea for other potential victims to come forward, summarized the prosecutors’ case against Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator who faces a 40-count indictment for allegedly sexually abusing eight young boys. Through his lawyer, Sandusky has maintained his innocence. She added that the roles played by Penn State administrators Tim Curley, the athletic director, and Gary Schultz, the vice president of business

and finance who oversaw the university police, were “equally significant.” Curley and Schultz, who both stepped down late Sunday, were arraigned Monday in Harrisburg, Pa., for charges that include providing false testimony to a grand jury and failing to report suspected child abuse. Kelly chided them for not coming forth with the information about an alleged incident with Sandusky in the Penn State locker room showers in 2002. “Those officials and administrators to whom it was reported did not report that incident to law enforcement or to any child protective agency,” she said. “Their inaction, likely, allowed a child predator to continue to victimize children for many, many years.” Curley and Schultz have denied any wrongdoing. — The New York Times

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Confused about ranked choice voting? Here’s a quick primer on ranking each candidate until they no longer care BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN who wins. If a voter only wants to rank three candidates, that’s fine. If they want to rank all 15 candiRanked choice voting can seem like a complidates, that’s fine, too. cated process on paper: Candidates get elimiKleppner insists there are no ways to game the nated, votes get re-allocated and results usually system, and no strategies that will tip the scales to aren’t available until a day after the election. one candidate. But all that stuff about allocating If no one candidate receives a votes happens long after the ballots are cast. And casting a ballot All local polling places will be majority of the first choice votes open today from 7 a.m. to 8 cast on election day, an instant runis actually pretty straightforward, according to the consultant hired to p.m. Voters can check online off re-tabulation will be conducted Wednesday by the City Clerk, with help the city run today’s election. “The key message for voters ... (is to locate their polling place, support from TrueBallot, until a candidate receives a majority of the to) just put your first choice in the www.portlandmaine.gov/ votes. first column (of the ballot), your voter/pollplace.asp. That process works like this: The second choice in the second column, candidate with the fewest votes and so on,” Caleb Kleppner, vice during the intial balloting will be eliminated, and president of TrueBallot, said during a demonstrathose ballots will be re-tabulated to the voter’s section on ranked choice voting at City Hall in Septemond-choice. Successive rounds of candidate elimiber. nation and re-tabulation will continue until one “The rules are very simple: rank the candidates in candidate receives a majority. order of choice, rank them sincerely, and don’t give City election officials and TrueBallot staff will more than one ranking to one candidate,” added manually scan each ballot into the computer proKleppner, whose company has overseen rankedgram, and most ballots will be manually checked choice voting elections in Aspen, Colo., and Camto ensure the vote counting is accurate, said Nicole bridge, Mass., among others. Clegg, city spokeswoman. In other words, he said, voters should focus solely

Final results should be available by 5 p.m. Wednesday MAYOR from page one

(The last place candidate in the first round of voting gets eliminated under a ranked choice voting system. That person will be effectively eliminated once initial results are in tonight). “Being the first rank choice election in Portland, I am not exactly sure what to expect,” said David Loughran, campaign manager for Nick Mavodones, who is hosting a party tonight at The Porthole. But, he added, “if Nick gets 51 percent I think there will be plenty of excitement.” According to the campaigns, David Marshall is hosting a party at Hot Suppa!, Strimling is holding an event at Havana South, Markos Miller will greet supporters at Mama’s Crowbar and Michael Brennan will be at The Empire. Portland voters today will elect the first mayor in 88 years, and

they will do so using ranked choice voting. Under this system, voters can rank candidates on the ballot based on preference. If no one candidate receives a majority of the first choice votes cast on election day, an instant run-off re-tabulation will be conducted by the City Clerk, with support from contractor TrueBallot, until a candidate receives a majority of the votes. After that initial tally of votes, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes will be eliminated, and those ballots will be re-tabulated to the voter’s second-choice candidate. Successive rounds of candidate elimination and re-tabulation will continue until one candidate receives a majority. City elections officers will be stationed at every polling place to explain the process, and voters can receive up to three ballots

if they make a mistake while voting. Nicole Clegg, a city spokesperson, said first-choice vote totals would be available Tuesday night. “We will put the first-choice votes up online and release them to the public,” Clegg said. “We will start the second phase, the ranked choice phase, Wednesday morning.” Final results should be available by 5 p.m. Wednesday, she said. With no winner expected tomorrow, Miller said his party at Mama's Crowbar will give him a chance to thank supporters and share in “the many successes I see in my campaign,” he said. And regardless of the result, he says he’ll sleep soundly afterward. “I think I'll sleep well knowing we've done a good job and have added a lot to the discussion.”

‘We need to make sure that (they) are going to be safe’ PLANS from page one

are plans," she said. "Our primary concern is safety." "City staff would like to make sure that the group is prepared for the cold (temperatures), etc., that a Maine winter can throw at us," stated Ted Musgrave, the city's special activities coordinator, in the e-mail. Among the recipients of the letter was John Branson, legal counsel to Occupy Maine, who explained that plans to prepare for the weather were already in motion. "At the time that we received

that e-mail, the group had already — well in advance of that — scheduled a winter meeting," Branson said, referring to the Nov. 3 meeting. Despite the meeting, Clegg said Monday City Hall is still waiting for a response to the inquiry, though she says that she expects to ultimately hear back from the group. "We need to make sure that (they) are going to be safe and (they) provide us with plans for that," said Clegg, adding, "In keeping with our interactions to day, we have brought up issues and they have addressed them."

Tim Sullivan, another recipient of the e-mail, said Monday protesters had recently finished two workshops on preparing for winter and expected to have a response ready for the city shortly. The group had an internal discussion in addition to a workshop with SOLO Wilderness Medical School, which provides wilderness medical training, he said. Sullivan explained that the group purchased two propanepowered heaters that will provide warmth to two of their structures, including a geodesic dome. see OCCUPY page 8

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This sample ballot, courtesy of the Portland City Clerk’s Ofﬁce, shows how ranked choice voting will give voters a selection of mayoral candidates to rank by preference in today’s election for mayor of Portland. (COURTESY IMAGE)

‘The word has ... been put out for warm sleeping bags, clothing, winter gear’

City election ‘neigh’ sayer The Peaks Island Council’s chairman Rusty Foster had some fun with today’s mayoral election in Portland. On the council’s Facebook page, he wrote, “PIC Chair Foster launches his last-minute surprise insurgent campaign for Mare in grand style,” and included this photo. The council, an advisory body to the Portland City Council, has cautioned that its Facebook page is not representative of the whole council. “The Peaks Island Council Facebook page is in no way afﬁliated with the Peaks Island Council,” the council wrote. (COURTESY PHOTO)

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"The word has also been put out for warm sleeping bags, clothing and winter gear," Sullivan said, "all of which has come streaming in." The protesters, an offshoot of New York's Occupy Wall Street movement, set up camp in Lincoln Park in October. The city allowed them to break the park's 10 p.m. curfew after members were prohibited from camping in Monument Square and sought an alternate location to stay. The winter plans memo came as City Hall continues to field both positive and negative feedback from residents regarding the protesters occupying Lincoln Park, Clegg said. But despite any complaints, there's been no indication from the city that the group overstayed its welcome in the park. Clegg explained that on the occasions that city officials have brought concerns to the protesters, that the matters were resolved accordingly. She cited the addition of portable toilets to the campsite and a restriction on open flames as two examples where protesters addressed specific concerns. "We're taking it day-by-day," said Clegg, declining to acknowledge if there's any long-term plan for the protesters.

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TOP: Ryun Anderson (left) and Jamie Peloquin enjoy PortlandOvations’ “Good Vs. Evil” show featuring Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert last Thursday in Portland. ABOVE: Grace restaurant’s executive chef Pete Sueltenfuss prepares Fluke Shashimi for the VIP party in honor of the famous chefs. “It’s exciting having them here,” Sueltenfuss said between checking dishes. Not intimidated by the restaurant’s celebrated guests sampling his cuisine, he laughed, “I hope they like it.”

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TOP: After the curtain fell on PortlandOvations’ “Good Vs. Evil” show featuring Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert, over 200 VIP-seated foodies followed their idols to a private afterparty at Grace Restaurant. It was not surprising that Portland, named the 2009 “Foodiest Small Town” by Bon Appetit Magazine, would attract culinary enthusiasts to meet these celebrity chefs and have books, posters and even Grace menus signed. Here, Doctors Verne and Tracey Weisberg enjoy a moment with Bourdain.

DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT On Thursday, the public can tap the kickoff of Maine Beer Week events, including Oxbow Night at Novare Res Bier Cafe starting at 4 p.m., when brewers will be at Novare presenting their finest beers, and a meal at David’s Restaurant at 6 p.m., when five premier breweries will join flavors. David’s cuisine will be matched with beers from Oxbow, Rising Tide, Marshall Wharf, Maine Beer Co., and Baxter Brewing Company. Other events include a beer dinner at Inn by the Sea, Nov. 10 (call 799-3134 for details); Maine Beer Company night at Novare Res Bier Cafe on Friday starting at 4 p.m.; and Rising Tide Beer Dinner at Farmers Table on Friday at 6 p.m. (call 347-7479 for reservations). Then, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 6 p.m., there’s a Dian Fossy Gorilla Fundraiser at Nosh (half of Maine Beer sales go to charity); and on Thursday, Nov. 17, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Great Lost Bear hosts the Total Tap Takeover, when every tap will be pouring award-winning drafts from Maine. The event supports Preble Street Resource Center. For more information about Maine Beer Week, visit www.mainebeerweek.com/schedule.htm.

LEFT: After their Merrill Auditorium show, Eric Ripert and Anthony Bourdain delighted 200 guests at the VIP event signing their popular cookbooks with personal inscriptions, smiling for pictures with giddy gastronomic groupies, and chatting with aspiring chefs for more than two hours. (Photos by Robert Witkowski)

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Nov. 8, the 312th day of 2011. There are 53 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 8, 1861, during the Civil War, the USS San Jacinto intercepted a British mail steamer, the Trent, and detained a pair of Confederate diplomats who were enroute to Europe to seek support for the Southern cause. (Although the Trent Affair strained relations between the United States and Britain, the matter was quietly resolved with the release of the diplomats the following January.) On this date: In 1889, Montana became the 41st state. In 1909, the original Boston Opera House first opened with a performance of “La Gioconda” by Amilcare Ponchielli. In 1932, New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency. In 1942, Operation Torch, resulting in an Allied victory, began during World War II as U.S. and British forces landed in French North Africa. In 1960, Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. In 1980, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., announced that the U.S. space probe Voyager 1 had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn. In 1986, former Soviet official Vyacheslav M. Molotov, whose name became attached to the incendiary bottle bomb known as a “Molotov cocktail,” died at age 96. In 1988, Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis. In 1994, midterm elections resulted in Republicans winning a majority in the Senate while at the same time gaining control of the House for the first time in 40 years. One year ago: Former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart took the stand in Salt Lake City on the first day of testimony in the trial of Brian David Mitchell, the man accused of abducting her in June 2002 when she was 14. Today’s Birthdays: Actor Norman Lloyd is 97. Singer Patti Page is 84. CBS newsman Morley Safer is 80. Singer Bonnie Raitt is 62. TV personality Mary Hart is 61. Actress Alfre Woodard is 59. Singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones is 57. Rock musician Porl Thompson (The Cure) is 54. Singer-actor Leif Garrett is 50. Chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay is 45. Actress Courtney ThorneSmith is 44. Actress Parker Posey is 43. Rock musician Jimmy Chaney is 42. Singer Diana King is 41. Actress Gretchen Mol is 38. Actor Matthew Rhys is 37. Actress Tara Reid is 36. Country singer Bucky Covington is 34. Actress Dania Ramirez is 32. Actress Azura Skye is 30. Actor Chris Rankin is 28. TV personality Jack Osbourne is 26. Actress Jessica Lowndes is 23.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I am a retired 70-year-old single senior and live on a fixed income. I try to be self-suffi cient so I won’t have to depend on my children for anything. They have their own financial issues. Two years ago, my daughter, “Alice,” asked if I would like to earn some extra money by helping at her workplace in the summers. I agreed, as it is a job I once did many years ago. I only work 10 to 12 days. It’s an hour away from my home, so when I’m working, I stay with Alice and her family. I have some major expenses coming up and asked the boss for more hours. My request was granted. I also told the boss I do not want to infringe on my daughter’s hours and was reassured I would not. However, when I discussed this with Alice, she told me she doesn’t like working with me. She feels she always has to look out for me and also has to watch what she says. She added that my staying with her puts a strain on her family. Annie, I am healthy and can work circles around most of the crew. I understand that Alice has to watch her conversations when I’m there, but I think she could deal with that for those few days a year. I drive separately to work and take lunch alone to give her space. I told Alice she should be happy that I am able to pay my own bills. Otherwise, I’d have to come to her for occasional financial assistance. Both options would put stress on our relationship. Is my daughter being selfish, or am I? Is there a compromise? -- Confused Senior Dear Confused: Alice did a nice thing, only to discover that the result is harder to deal with than she anticipated. Could you arrange your workdays so they don’t coincide with your daughter’s? Could you drive the hour commute some of the time so you aren’t staying with her for two weeks every sum-

mer? Is it possible to find another part-time or temp job that will earn you the same amount of money? Talk to Alice, and see whether the two of you can come up with a way to make this work. This job isn’t worth alienating your child. Dear Annie: My husband was given up for adoption 61 years ago. Recently, a change in adoption laws permitted him to obtain a copy of his original birth certificate. Through the Internet, I learned that his birth parents married and had four other children. His birth mother is deceased, but his birth father lives nearby, as do three of the siblings. Two months ago, through an attorney, we contacted the father and asked for a medical history. We also said that my husband would be willing to see him. There has been no response. The father is 87, so there’s not a lot of time to lose. My husband feels rejected and says to let it go. But he’s waited such a long time that I think he should try again, perhaps via the siblings. What do you say? -- Still Waiting Dear Waiting: It’s possible the father is ill or otherwise incapable of responding. Having a relationship is beside the point. A medical history is a reasonable request and is important to have. If you can contact the siblings, we think you should do so. Good luck. Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Tom,” who is upset because his girlfriend still lists herself as “single” on Facebook. An engagement ring on the left hand third finger would probably compel her to change her status. Until then, she is, in fact, single. -- Propose Already Dear Propose: Yes, of course, but there is a variety of ways to list your status on Facebook, including “in a relationship.” If a girlfriend of eight months insists on being “single,” they don’t have a promising future.

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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WASHINGTON (NY TIMES) - A federal judge blocked a rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images on cigarette packs, such as a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a hole in his throat. District Judge Richard Leon sided on Monday with tobacco companies and granted a temporary injunction, saying they would likely prevail in their lawsuit challenging the requirement as unconstitutional because it compels speech in violation of the First Amendment. The Food and Drug Administration in June released nine new warnings to go into effect in September of 2012, the first change in U.S. cigarette warning labels in 25 years. Cigarette packs already carry text warnings from the U.S. Surgeon General. The new warnings must cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs and 20 percent of printed advertisements and must contain color graphics depicting the health consequences of smoking, including diseased lungs, dead bodies and rotting teeth. Congress instructed FDA to impose the new labels as part of 2009 legislation making the agency responsible for regulating tobacco products. “The sheer size and display requirements for the graphic images are anything but narrowly tailored,” Leon wrote in a 29-page opinion. Just because Congress ordered the size and placement of the new warnings before charging the FDA with carrying out the mandate, “doing so does not enable this requirement to somehow automatically pass constitutional muster,” he said. The content of the images would also not likely survive constitutional muster because the FDA did not attempt to narrowly tailor those either, the judge said. The tobacco lawsuit is the latest effort by corporations to assert a right to free speech, a high-profile legal battle that could end up before the Supreme Court.

Soda bans in schools have limited impacts (NY TIMES) — State laws that ban soda in schools — but not other sweetened beverages — have virtually no impact on the amount of sugary drinks middle school students buy and consume at school, a new study shows. The study, which looked at thousands of public school students across 40 states, found that removing soda from cafeterias and school vending machines only prompted students to buy sports drinks, sweetened fruit drinks and other sugar-laden beverages instead. In states that banned only soda, students bought and consumed sugary drinks just as frequently at school as their peers in states where there were no bans at all. The study is among the first to directly examine the extent to which state policies on soda in schools influence students’ behavior. With obesity on the rise and teenagers getting about 15 percent of their daily calories from beverages, health groups like the Institute of Medicine have pushed for the removal of all sweetened beverages from schools, and some states have put in place all-out bans on sweetened drinks. California, for example, became the first state to ban the sale of soft drinks in grade schools, in 2003, and one city, Boston, moved earlier this year to forbid the sale and promotion of sugar-sweetened beverages and sodas on all city property. But the sale of soft drinks in schools has become a lucrative revenue source for many school districts, and a number of states have been reluctant to eliminate them from schools. Some states have instituted only partial bans that remove sodas from schools but not Snapple, Gatorade and other sugary drinks.

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Tuesday, Nov. 8 Election Day 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. “Last November, City of Portland voters approved Charter Commission amendments, which called for a citywide election for the city’s Mayor through ranked choice voting. The first ranked choice voting election for Mayor will be this November. Ranked choice voting allows voters the opportunity to rank as many of the Mayoral candidates as they would like according to preference. Voters will rank candidates in order of first choice, second choice and so on, until either the voter no longer has a preference or all candidates have been ranked. If on Election Day, no one candidate receives a majority (50 percent plus one) of the first choice votes cast, an instant run-off re-tabulation will be conducted the following day by the City Clerk with support from TrueBallot until a candidate receives a majority of the votes. Following the initial tally of votes, the candidate with the fewest first choice votes will be eliminated, and those ballots will be re-tabulated to the voter’s second choice candidate. Successive rounds of candidate elimination and re-tabulation will continue until one candidate receives a majority.” Municipal Seats Open: Mayor, one seat; City Council District Four, one seat; City Council District Five, one seat; School Board District Four, one seat; School Board District Five, one seat; School Board At Large, one seat; Peaks Island Council (two Seats for one-year term, one seat for two-year term, two seats for three-year term); Portland Water District.

Pawsitively Funny Comedy Show 7:30 p.m. Comedy show with $10 donation to beneﬁt Animal Refuge League. Pet photo contest! Pet humor! Lucid Stage. www.lucidstage.com

Lily Tomlin at the State 8 p.m. Lily Tomlin, one of America’s foremost comediennes, continues to venture across an ever-widening range of media, starring in television, theater, motion pictures, animation, and video. Throughout her extraordinary entertainment career, Tomlin has received numerous awards. Tomlin’s entire career in art, text, photos and videos can be found at www.lilytomlin.com.

Wednesday, Nov. 9 Free Flu Shot Clinic 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. University of Southern Maine and Portland’s Public Health Division are combining forces to offer a free Flu Shot Clinic for adults age 18 and over at USM. The Clinic will be in Room 216 of USM’s Abromson Community Education Center on Bedford Street, Portland. No appointment is necessary. USM employees with health insurance are asked to bring proof of insurance; USM students and the public are free. USM Health & Counseling has been running ﬂu clinics for USM students, faculty and staff in October using the theme of “Don’t Become a Zombie – Get Your Flu Shot,” and USM nurses will continue to dress as zombie ﬁghters for this public clinic. For more information, please contact USM Health Services Clinical Director Lisa Belanger at 780-5160 or Program Manager for India Street Clinical Services Caroline Teschke at 874-8791.

Drawing from the Shakers 10 a.m. to noon. In the spirit of the Shaker Gift Drawings, drawing class in the galleries of the exhibition Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection at Portland Museum of Art. The class is for all levels of drawing students and will inspire us to discover patterns, symbols, and the visual poetry in the artistic handiwork of the Shakers. At the end of the two sessions, you will have a gift of beautifully drawn papers to hold and to contemplate. All art materials will be supplied. Wednesdays, Nov. 9 and 16, 10 a.m. to noon. Cost for both sessions: $35/$25 members.

Jim Witherell, ‘L.L. Bean’ noon to 1 p.m. Jim Witherell, “L.L. Bean: The Man and his Company,” Brown Bag Lecture. “Because his feet got wet and sore on a hunting trip, L.L. Bean developed his famous boot and started the mail-order company that would change the sleepy town of Freeport, Maine, into a huge outdoor mall. The story begins with the Bean family, young Leon Leonwood Bean’s love of the outdoors, his first forays into sales (butter, men’s clothing), and then his development of “the boot” and the beginnings of an outdoors outfitting company that ran on a card file system and resisted change. The story of L. L. Bean, Inc.’s phenomenal growth under grandson Leon Gorman is replete with Preppies, MBAs, infighting, and even parodies of a company that would eventually get its own zip code.” 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

Brianna DiDonato rides atop a Jaguar convertible driven by her father, Frank, with parade Grand Marshal Espen Christensen as passenger of honor in last year’s Veterans Day parade down Congress Street. This year’s parade is Friday at 10:30 a.m. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) 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.

Polar Bears in Maine? 3:30 p.m. The Sugar Maple Restoration Project a Gift to Future Generations. “Metaphorically, Maine’s sugar maple trees are threatened by climate change similar to the polar bears in that neither is able to rapidly adapt to our planet’s ﬂuctuating climate conditions and both are facing extinction. Maine Interfaith Power & Light, a nonproﬁt inspiring Maine’s diverse faith perspectives to care for the natural world. A maple sugar tree planting ceremony to promote locally harvested foods, sustainable living and Maine heritage. The planting will be followed by a brief discussion of the damaging effects of climate change and the important role that localities play in countering these changes.” Maine Audubon Society, Gilsland Farm Center, 20 Gilsland Farm Road (off of Route 1), Falmouth.

BRI’s Annual Spotlight on Ecoscience

ics & Child Custody Disputes presented by: Leslie Todd, LCSW, ACSW (check-in between 8 and 8:30 a.m.) The Harraseeket Inn, 162 Main St. Freeport. Early bird special: $165 ($175 after Oct. 10). “A must for professionals working with stepfamilies.”

Tracing Nazi-era Provenance 7 p.m. In partnership with the National Society of the Colonial Dames in Maine... Tales from an Art Detective: Tracing Nazi-era Provenance at the MFA. Presenter: Victoria Reed, Curator for Provenance, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “Nazi-looted art and masterpieces brought back as the spoils of World War II frequently make headlines, even featuring in popular culture — from Indiana Jones and his quest for the Lost Ark to episodes of The Simpsons. But how does an art museum actually research its collection for lost or stolen masterpieces? Reed will discuss her experiences as an ‘art detective,’ researching the provenance, or ownership history, of the MFA’s collection and looking for potential seizures, thefts, and losses during the Nazi era (1933-1945). This will be a behind-the-scenes look at provenance research, taking us — vicariously — from libraries in Boston to the far-ﬂung archives of Switzerland and Germany.” Maine Historical Society. www.mainehistory.org

6 p.m. Biodiversity Research Institute’s Annual Spotlight on Ecoscience: Marine Wind Power and Birds: Perspectives from a European Experience, Hannaford Lecture Hall, University of Southern Maine, 88 Bedford St. “For our third annual Spotlight on Ecoscience series, BRI is honored to host two of the world’s premier experts on the effects of offshore energy development on birds. We invite you to participate in this extraordinary opportunity to learn from our European colleagues who have extensive experience and understanding of this issue.” RSVP. Free, Donations Accepted. Cocktail Reception begins at 5 p.m. Opening Remarks at 6 p.m. www.briloon.org/spotlight.

7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Gulf of Maine Research Institute. “Port Clyde fishermen will share perspectives on our fishing heritage and how local fishermen care for cod and other species which are important to their community. Seating is limited, please call for reservations!” All lectures are held in the Sam L. Cohen Center for Interactive Learning. Free parking is available in the adjacent GMRI lot. Contact Patty Collins at 228-1625 or lectures@gmri.org.

Councilor Kevin Donoghue district meeting

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7 p.m. City Councilors and staff will be available to discuss neighborhood issues and answer questions from the public. These meetings are the public’s opportunity to meet their district councilor, the mayor and representatives from the various departments within the city. District 1 Meeting hosted by Councilor Kevin Donoghue, East End Community Center, 195 North St. For more information about these meetings, contact Mike Murray, the city’s Island and Neighborhood Administrator at 756-8288, or MSM@portlandmaine.gov.

7:30 p.m. “The University of Southern Maine (USM) Department of Theatre is pleased to present ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ — a ripped-from-the-headlines original theatre piece, directed by William Kilroy and devised with a student cast. The 1999 murder of a US Army Private by a fellow soldier ignited the debate of the controversial don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy. Told with intensity and humor, this original production is based on personal testimony — and articulates a question for which there may be no easy answers. This is theatre as is should be: immediate, electrifying and unforgettable. Performances are at the Studio Theatre at Portland Stage, 25 A Forest Ave. in Portland; Nov. 10, 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 12 at 2 p.m.; Nov. 13 at 5 p.m. Ticket prices are as follows: Adult: $15, Student: $8, Senior: $11, USM Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $11.”

Thursday, Nov. 10 Talk on stepfamily dynamics 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Annual Fall Conference, Kids First Professional Education Series Presents: Stepfamily Dynam-

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Auction for Portland Youth Service Projects 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. More than 70 pieces of handpainted furniture with whimsical designs will be sold at the Painting for a Purpose auction on from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Rines Auditorium at the Portland Public Library’s main branch on Congress Street. The live and silent auction will raise money for community service projects planned by students in the Portland Public Schools. Admission is $10 per person and $25 for a family. Erin Ovalle, co-anchor of “News 8 This Morning,” will be the auctioneer. Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Jane Ellis at 934-3616.

Veteran’s Day Parade 10:30 a.m. “Join us in assembling at Longfellow Square and processing East for Veteran’s Day Ceremonies. We will be joined by Chief of Staff Col. Arthur Wickham and will hear guest speakers Cheryl Leeman (for Senator Olympia Snowe), Sarah Holbom-Lund (for Senator Susan Collins), Nancy Lee Kelley (Gold Star Mothers), Hon. Herb Adams, William Bennett (President and CEO of Oakhurst Dairy), Mike and Karen Worcester (Wreaths Across America). Invocation & Benediction by Rev. Bill Doughty, Chaplain, VFW Post 6859. Representatives from the Maine Center or the Deaf will provide interpreter services for speeches.” www.portlandmaine.com

Bean supper in Westbrook 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Bean supper, Westbrook Eagles No. 2977, 89 Saco St., Westbrook. $7 for adults, $3.50 for 12 and under. Chop suey, cole slaw, pies.

Teens use theatre to tackle bullying

4 p.m. “Youth Voices Onstage is the culmination Greater Portland Signature Chef’s Auction of the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine’s 5:30 p.m. The Maine Chapter of the March of original bullying prevention program that uses current research and children’s own words to create Senator George J. Mitchell, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 1954, will speak Dimes presents the 11th Annual Greater Porta new, solution-based model for making schools at the College at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall. (COURTESY land Signature Chef’s Auction at DiMillo’s on the Water (25 Long Wharf, Portland). The Greater safer, happier, kinder places to learn. With fund- PHOTO) Portland Signature Chef’s Event will feature tasting from the Davis Family Foundation, the Museum ings and samplings from Portland’s finest resin the Dana Warp Mill in downtown Westbrook, kicks off its & Theatre’s troupe of teen actors visited third and fourth taurants including: DiMillos; Nosh Kitchen Bar; The Salt second season of Studio Series presentations with Edward grade classrooms at four local elementary schools to talk Exchange; Figa; Diamond’s Edge/Chebeague Island Inn; Albee’s classic play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” “This with students about their experiences with bullies, but with Zapoteca; the Porthole and Hannaford; Exquisite wine production is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the a focus on the small acts of kindness that followed a bad tastings, Geary’s, and Doublecross Vodka cocktails; the Acorn Studio Theater, which has hosted improv comedy experience. The actors then used improvisational theatre chance to bid on unique and diverse packages including shows, children’s theater productions, Phyzkidz events, techniques to validate those experiences and model posiWalt Disney Park Passes; a Casco Bay Cruise trip with fully-staged productions of new plays, and staged readtive behavior. The goal was to establish positive interactions dining for six, Red Sox tickets and surprise autographed ings since its inception in 2009. Acorn’s Producing Direcas the norm and offer children small but helpful actions to items; Luxury TD Garden Box for Foofighters concert and tor Michael Levine directs an ensemble of four actors in a take when they see or experience mistreatment among much more including fabulous culinary packages from treat for fans of intimate theater that focuses on characpeers. The project will conclude with four performances of local restaurants; fund the Mission Opportunities, where ter and storytelling.” Winner of the 1963 Tony Award for Youth Voices Onstage. Theatre Artistic Director Reba Short 100 percent of monies raised directly serve the March of Best Play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” shocked audiused conversations with her cast of eight young actors Dimes. The evening will be hosted by Cindy Williams of ences when it first appeared on Broadway by debunk(ages 11-17) to develop a script that uses children’s own WCSH6. ing the myth of the nuclear family’s living room as a safe words and experiences to tackle the topic of bullying from and happy place. Acorn’s production features company a fresh perspective.” The show runs for one weekend only, York County Shelter benefit members Paul Haley, Kerry Rasor, and April Singley, Nov. 11-13: Friday at 4 p.m., Saturday at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Third Annual Benefit Harvest Dance along with guest artist Nicholas Schroeder. The show and Sunday at 4 p.m. Tickets are $9 each ($8 for members) to help support the York County Shelter Programs’ Thanksruns from Nov. 11 to Nov. 27, with performances Friday and can be reserved at the front desk (142 Free St.), at kitegiving Basket Program will take place at Mousam View and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets tails.org or by calling 828-1234, ext. 231. Advance reservaPlace (formerly the Knights of Columbus Hall) at 47 High are $15 for adults, $12 for students and seniors, and may tions are encouraged. St. in Sanford. Tickets for this 21 and over fundraiser are be purchased on-line at www.acorn-productions.org or $10 each. Tables can be reserved in advance for eight to Open Mic/Poetry Slam in Auburn by calling 854-0065. ten people. Music for this Harvest Dance is provided by 7:15 p.m. Open Mic/Poetry Slam. First Universalist Church Ray and Debra Bourre of Expressive Sounds. Guests who of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Free. FMI 783-0461 or www. bring a non-perishable food item will be entered into the Saturday, Nov. 12 auburnuu.org. drawings held throughout the evening. There will also be Warren Miller’s ‘Like There’s No Tomorrow’ door prizes and a 50/50 drawing. Tickets are available from John McDonald 20th year 6:30 p.m. Film screenings, Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle Patty Roux-Hambleton at 324-7156. Tickets can also be 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. John McDonald 20th year radio broadcast St., Portland. Friday, Nov. 11, 6:30 p.m.; Friday, Nov. 11, purchased at the door or at Garnsey Brothers Insurance at and book signing, Nonesuch Books & Cards, Mill Creek 9:30 p.m. Tickets available at: Arlberg Ski & Sport Shops, 909 Main Street in Sanford; Country Treasures on Route 11 Shopping Center, 50 Market St., South Portland. 799-2659. PortTix.com, and Merrill Auditorium Box Office. $27.”This in Shapleigh; or at Lakeside Sport. www.nonesuchbooks.com. “Please join Maine radio host, year, Warren Miller Entertainment offers your first stop for Lucid Stage announces Rory Raven humorist, and best selling author John McDonald for his preseason powder stoke, with the introduction of its 62nd 8 p.m. Mentalist and Mindreader Rory Raven, Lucid Stage, 20th year anniversary radio broadcast and book signing. annual winter sports film, Warren Miller’s ‘Like There’s No Nov. 12. Tickets $12. Proceeds benefit Animal Refuge John combines two of his greatest passions, broadcasting Tomorrow.’ Narrated by Olympic Gold Medalist Jonny League of Westbrook. and writing.” Moseley and shot on location on five continents, . . . Like There’s No Tomorrow celebrates the moments that make up a perfect winter. Tour the world’s most inspiring snowy landscapes, from the rugged peaks of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington to the legendary powder of Squaw Valley, California; from the striking Himalayas in Gulmarg, India to the southern hemisphere’s highest peak in Portillo, Chile. Alaska. Utah. Colorado. New Zealand. Norway. It’s all here, just waiting for you to fill in the blank. Watch worldclass athletes – including Chris Davenport, Julia Mancuso, Daron Rahlves, Colby West and Seth Wescott – drop lines most of us only see in our dreams and learn, frame-byframe, how to live . . . Like There’s No Tomorrow. Check warrenmiller.com for a complete showcase of this year’s film locations and extended athlete bios.”

Fall fair and silent auction

The Maine Singers’ Atelier Master Class

Outward Bound for Veterans

6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. “Join us for a cabaret-style master class in Vocal Performance with Maine Singers’ Atelier Director, Julie Goell and jazz pianist, Jed Wilson. The evening begins with chili and refreshments in the 317 Cafe! Julie Goell is known for her work as director of the Maine Singers’ Atelier and performances with the Casco Bay Tummlers and the Celebration Barn Theater. Jed Wilson is a much-sought after jazz accompanist. He has performed and recorded with Dominique Eade, Heather Masse and Aoife O’Donovan.” The class with take place in the Cafe at 317 Main Street Community Music Center, 317 Main Street, Yarmouth. For further information and to register, call 317 Main Street at 846-9559.

‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ 7:30 p.m. Acorn Productions, a nonproﬁt company based

8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fall fair and silent auction, Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, corner of Forest and Pleasant Street, Portland. Coffee and mufﬁns, lunch from noon to 1 p.m. Tables include jewelry, plants, handmade knits, Christmas tables. Also baked food tables, country store, chili, cheese, apple cider, and more. Silent auction ends at 1 p.m. FMI, 773-5423.

Celtic Christmas Fair. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine Irish Heritage Center Celtic Christmas Fair. “ Join us for a day of festivity and community as we welcome the start of the holiday season! Local musicians, vendors, artists and more — a great time for the whole family!” 12:30 p.m. Veterans luncheon to benefit Outward Bound for Veterans at The Woods at Canco retirement community, located at 257 Canco Road in Portland. Veterans luncheon in support of the Outward Bound for Veterans program. The lunch includes steak. Donations are kindly requested. All proceeds benefit Outward Bound for Veterans, which helps returning service members and recent veterans readjust to life at home through powerful wilderness courses that draw on the healing benefit of teamwork and challenge through use of the natural world. Service members take part in wilderness expeditions that are physically, mentally and emotionally challenging in order to build the self-confidence, pride, trust and communication skills necessary to successfully return to their families, employers and communities following wartime service. Guests are asked to

Sunday, Nov. 13 Bayside Trail 5K race 8 a.m. The second annual Bayside Trail 5K race will be held in Portland. The event, open to people of all ages and their dogs (on leash), beneﬁts the Bayside Trail, Portland’s newest trail. The trail, which opened in August 2010, follows a unique path through a historically industrial neighborhood that is redeveloping as a diverse, mixed-use approach to downtown Portland. Hosted by Portland Trails, The Trust for Public Land, the Bayside Neighborhood Association, and Planet Dog, the race starts on the Maine State Pier on Commercial Street, follows the Eastern Promenade Trail around the Portland peninsula, and ends on the Bayside Trail between Chestnut and Elm streets. Joan Benoit Samuelson, the ﬁrst-ever female marathon Olympic gold medalist, will serve as race starter. The entire race is on paved surfaces, with all street crossings closed by Portland police and race volunteers.

Old Orchard Beach Food Pantry drive 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Old Orchard Beach Food Pantry needs the public’s help. A food drive is planned at MacDonald’s Garage, 37 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach. “Let Us All Help Our Neighbors.”

Made in Maine Craft Show 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Made in Maine Craft Show and Fund Raiser for the Good Shepherd Food Bank and Harvest Hills Animal Shelter at The Wine Bar, 38 Wharf St., Portland.

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