The Portland Daily Sun, Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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York ends protest bid for Portland mayor Charter critic on new mayor post: ‘The buck doesn’t stop anywhere’

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Jay York has ended his protest candidacy for Portland mayor.

York, who spent the last several weeks telling voters that the position was deeply flawed (and that he didn’t want their votes in the first place), said

Man accused of exposing himself on Fore River trail

“The City of Portland needs far more in a mayor than it will be getting from this coming election.”

— Jay York, erstwhile candidate for Portland mayor he made the decision last week to end the fledgling campaign.

“When your campaign platform includes not wanting the office it's best not to get on the ballot,” he said yesterday in an email announcing that his candidacy was over.

York, an artist and neighborhood activist, said he remains opposed to the mayoral system created in 2009 by the charter commission, and plans to continue speaking out against the office.

“The City of Portland needs far more in a mayor than it will be getting from this coming election,” see YORK page 3

Summer’s final flurry of color?

BY MARGE NIBLOCK SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland police have charged a local man with a “history of sexually violent behavior” in connection with a flashing incident that occurred last week in the Fore River Sanctuary.

Steven Ricci, 47, was arrested Friday morning and charged with indecent conduct. He was arraigned yesterday and is being held at Cumberland County Jail on $200,000 bond or $50,000 cash.

Another bail hearing Ricci is scheduled for today at the Cumberland County Courthouse.

A female jogger notified police on Tuesday, Aug. 16 about a man who exposed himself to her while she was on a trail in the Fore River Sanctuary. She reported that she heard someone behind her and when she turned around a man was exposing himself. The woman fled immediately.

“Police identified Ricci as the person involved and obtained a warrant on Friday for his arrest on charges of indecent conduct,” said Portland police Lt. Gary Rogers.

The warrant was served at 10 a.m. Friday morning, and he was taken to the Cumberland County Jail. see ACCUSED page 3

Well after the last peak bloom of the city’s premier rose garden, Valerie Hanlon trims the crimson bouquet variety of roses at the Deering Oaks Rose Circle Monday. Hanlon is part of the city’s Forestry Division, who were on hand to remove Japanese beetles and fertilize the rose circle.

These treatment were reminders that fall is around the corner. The fertilization was the last treatment of the season, timed for six weeks before the anticipated first frost, the forestry crew reported. For a story on summer growing and a nip of fall, see page 8. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Why are we baiting the bear?

Annual teacher evaluations on table for some schools

Stocks barely climb Monday

See Pat Buchanan’s column on page 4

See the story about this local proposal on page 6

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Serving stars but never gossip WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (NY Times) — Jennifer Aniston is Table 24, a coveted perch with a view of the piano yet screened from prying eyes by a bank of Casablanca lilies.

Anderson Cooper is Table 11, with its panoramic view across the dining room. Sean Penn is Table 20, except on those nights when a certain agent he’s at war with is in the house.

Los Angeles is a vast city, but Hollywood is a small town, one whose inhabitants favor familiar watering holes.

Perhaps the hottest among these now is the Tower Bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel.

The restaurant and the refurbished Sunset Boulevard building containing it belong to the New York hotelier Jeff Klein, but anyone here knows that the person who runs the place is its maître d’hôtel.

That man is Dmitri Dmitrov, a 60-year-old Macedonian immigrant with Rudolph Valentino hair, a Chiclet smile, an Eastern European accent.

Yet when Dmitrov ducks his head, bowing solicitously as he smilingly conducts guests to tables in a softly lighted room with framed photographs of vaudeville-era nobodies, his performance masks a subtle and steely power. In a town where gossip is the coin of the realm. Dmitrov is a sphinxlike figure who knows everything and says nothing.

“He creates this little pocket of safety,” said Aniston, a Tower Bar regular. “A haven where you know you’re not getting sold out by the waiter, a patron or the valet guy.”

Nobody gets a table at the Tower Bar without a nod from Dmitrov. Nobody wanders in on nights when famous players are parked at almost every table and secures a seat by slipping him a bribe. Nobody breaks the civilized tone Klein has set for his hotel by pulling out an iPhone and trying to take a picture. And “nobody is shooting up or smoking pot in the lobby” as long as Dmitrov is in charge, Klein said.

“Dmitri is part fantasy, a throwback,” said Anjelica Huston, the Oscar-winning actress. “He claps his hands in joy at the sight of you. He practically dances you to your table. He makes you feel like he’s been waiting for you the better part of a year.”

Dmitrov explains his working methods simply.

“The most important thing is placing yourself in service position, a gentle touch, a humble touch,” said the maître d. “The ultimate is when I please somebody like Sean Penn or Johnny Depp, Nancy Reagan or Betsy Bloomingdale,” he said. “I am student of these people.

I am deep in their achievements because, at the end of the day, it’s not about me.”

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Violent clashes as rebels sweep Tripoli; Qaddafi at large

BY KAREEN FAHIM AND DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES

TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi remained at large Monday, and loyalist forces still held pockets of the city, stubbornly resisting the rebels’ efforts to establish full control, but there was little doubt that the Libyan leader’s four-decade grip on power was ending President Obama declared as much in a brief address, saying that the future of Libya “is in the hands of its people.”

Emerging from his vacation home on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Mr. Obama hailed the rebels’ victory. “Although there will be huge challenges ahead, the events in Libya remind us that fear can give way to hope,” he said. He pledged that the United States would seek to help the country in its attempt to establish democracy.

He called on Colonel Qaddafi to order his followers to lay down their arms, saying that he “still has the opportunity to reduce bloodshed.” And Mr. Obama urged rebel forces to refrain from reprisal killings, maintaining that the rights of all Libyans must be respected.

The victorious rebel lead-

ers had little time to celebrate, and many reasons for concern, beginning with the whereabouts of Colonel Qaddafi. “We do not know if he is inside or outside Libya,” Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of the rebel government, the National Transitional Council, said at a news conference in Benghazi, up until now the de facto rebel capital. He acknowledged, too, that the area of Tripoli around Colonel Qaddafi’s compound, Bab al-Aziziya, was not under rebel control.

A rebel fighter told Al Jazeera television that pro-Qaddafi forces still controlled 15 to 20 percent of the capital. An elite rebel brigade that deployed in a waterfront neighborhood, assigned to establish a police presence throughout the city, instead found itself involved in a firefight with pro-Qaddafi forces including snipers and pickup trucks with machine guns. The brigade decided to relocate to a more secure neighborhood.

News reports quoting rebel officials said tanks had emerged from Colonel Qaddafi’s compound and opened fire. “There haven’t been many silent minutes,” Karen Graham, a British nurse in Tripoli told the BBC. But as rebel leaders said they had arrested three of the

Rebel fighters took cover during a firefight in Tripoli on Monday. Col. Muammar elQaddafi remained at large, but there was little doubt that the Libyan leader’s fourdecade grip on power was ending (Photo: Moses Saman for the New York Times.

seven sons of Colonel Qaddafi, the European Union said on Monday that it had begun planning for a post-Qaddafi era.

Financial markets rose smartly in Europe and the United States, and oil prices declined early on the expectation of increased Libyan production, but firmed later in the day.

Mahmud Nacua, a Libyan rebel representative in London, told reporters that the insurgents would “look under every stone” for Colonel Qaddafi so that he could be brought to trial, presumably a reference to charges by the International Criminal Court in The Hague,

which issued arrest warrants for Colonel Qaddafi, one of his sons, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, and his intelligence chief in June, accusing them of crimes against humanity.

On the diplomatic front, Egypt formally recognized the rebel Libyan government on Monday, calling the National Transitional Council the “new regime.”

Mohamed Amr, Egypt’s foreign minister, said that the council would take over the Libyan Embassy in Cairo, and would assume Libya’s seat on the Arab League, which is based in Cairo.

Maid’s credibility in question M.L.K. tribute opens in D.C. as Strauss-Kahn case withers

BY SABRINA TAVERNISE THE NEW YORK TIMES

BY JOHN ELIGON AND WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM THE NEW YORK TIMES

Prosecutors in the office of Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, have filed papers requesting that all charges be dropped against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund.

The papers, known as a recommendation for dismissal, were filed at 3:20 p.m. Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court, where the case is being heard

by Justice Michael J. Obus.

“The nature and number of the complainant’s falsehoods leave us unable to credit her version of events beyond a reasonable doubt, whatever the truth may be about the encounter between the complainant and the defendant,” the papers state. “If we do not believe her beyond a reasonable doubt, we cannot ask a jury to do so.”

At about the same time as the papers were filed, the lawyer for Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, emerged from a brief meeting with prosecutors to offer harsh criticism of Mr. Vance.

“The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, has denied the right of a woman to get justice in a rape case,” the lawyer, Kenneth P. Thompson, said. “He has not only turned his back on this victim but he has also turned his back on the forensic, medical and other physical evidence in this case. If the Manhattan district attorney, who is elected to protect our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our wives and our loved ones, is not going to stand up for them when they’re raped or sexually assaulted, who will?”

Ms. Diallo stood by his side, but said nothing.

WASHINGTON — After more than two decades of planning, fund-raising and construction, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial — a four-acre slice of the National Mall featuring a granite statue of Dr. King — has officially opened to the public.

The memorial will be formally dedicated on Sunday in a ceremony that is expected to draw as many as a few hundred thousand people from around the country. But some of its earliest judges came on Monday, as hundreds of city residents and visitors stood in line for their turn to take a look.

The dedication, which is to include remarks by President Obama, coincides with the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the Lincoln Memorial.

The memorial is the first on the National Mall to honor an African-American, said Harry

E. Johnson Sr., the president of the foundation in charge of erecting it, and that made it an emotional occasion for many who came to see it.

“This is important as a black American,” said Jerome McNeil, who was there on Monday taking photographs for his grandchildren. “It’s not just a statue, it’s a symbol of what we can do if we put our minds to it.”

In 1996, Congress authorized the memorial’s establishment on the Mall, and Alpha Phi Alpha, an African-American fraternity, set up a foundation to accomplish that. A Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, was selected to create the 30-foot sculpture, and an architect, Ed Jackson Jr., designed the layout, which includes a bookstore, a wall with Dr. King’s quotations and nearly 200 cherry trees. The cost was $120 million, and organizers said they are still trying to raise the last $5 million.

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York charges ‘deceit’ in charter commission campaign YORK from page one

York said. “In my opinion, the candidate who most deserves to be elected should be the one that publicly acknowledges this and pledges to get the City Charter changed to truly represent what the Portlanders who voted for an elected mayor expected.”

This fall’s mayoral election will be Portland’s first since the 1920s. Voters last fall approved changes to the city charter that converted the one-year, largely ceremonial mayoral post into a four-year elected position with more authority, including veto power over the budget.

The position also comes with a significant pay increase: The person who is elected mayor will earn about $66,000, up from about $7,200 now.

The election is Nov. 8.

But York has long derided the new mayor position as essentially a glorified city councilor that will earn roughly 12 times the pay of the existing mayor (including benefits) without much in the way of new powers. York says whoever is elected mayor will still

need to court a majority of city councilors to get anything done.

He blames the charter commission for creating a position against the will of Portland residents, who he believes wanted a strong mayor akin to a corporate CEO. “The Charter Commission designed this office to limit and constrict the new mayor and to keep the existing power structure in this city un-threatened.

If you do not see this action by itself deceitful keep in mind that the charter commission must have known that the main reason citizens in Portland wanted a popularly elected mayor was because they were dissatisfied with the City Council's governing, thus requiring a strong mayor,” York said.

“Last year's campaign for the city charter changes to allow this new position also used deceit by avoiding full disclosure of how the new mayor's duties differed from that of the existing mayor and other City Councilors,” he continued.

To this day, York says most people he’s spoken with do not understand that the new mayor won’t

Candidate pool for mayor gets bigger

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The number of certified candidates for Portland mayor has grown to six.

Officials in the city clerk’s office yesterday declared that Jodie Lapchick had submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Meanwhile, Markos Miller and Michael Brennan also submitted nominating papers yesterday, bringing to 11 the number of candidates who have handed in at least some signatures.

All told, 19 people say they are running for elected mayor, a position which will be decided Nov. 8.

Other certified candidates include: Councilor Jill Duson, Councilor David Marshall, Mayor Nick Mavodones, Ralph Carmona and Jed Rathband.

Peter Bryant, John Eder, Hamza Haadoow have also submitted signatures but remain short of the minimum 300 signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Candidates have until Aug. 29 to submit between 300 and 500 signatures from registered voters to qualify.

have the ability to hire staff and make important decisions.

“What we have now is a continuation of exactly what we had in the past,” he said. “The buck doesn’t stop anywhere.”

Those concerns notwithstanding, York said he truly wasn’t interested in the mayor’s job, which brings long hours and frequent night meetings.

“I love my life the way it is right now,” said York, adding, “I also work a hell of a lot less than the mayor has to” for roughly the same income.

There were also practical considerations to ending the campaign. York said he struggled to collect the necessary signatures, and did not want to break an oath saying that he would accept the job if he won.

“I would have to break an oath because if by some bizarro chance I was elected, I wouldn't serve, no way,” York said.

York’s departure from the race will not leave voters with a shortage of choices. There are 19 people running for mayor, including 13 who have submitted nominating papers and six who are confirmed as candidates.

After the hearing, Deputy District Attorney Meg Elam said she requested the high bail “because of Mr. Ricci’s history of sexually violent behavior and threats.” In the latest incident, Elam said, “he is accused of exposing his genitals to a female passerby.”

Female jogger notified police about incident ACCUSED from page one

Ties that bind

Railroad ties sit along tracks near the Allen Avenue and Forest Avenue intersection. The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority is managing a $38 million construction project which will result in the expansion of Amtrak Downeaster rail service from Portland to Freeport and Brunswick. “The project includes the rehabilitation of approximately 30 miles of track, installation of signals and upgrades to 36 grade crossings,” the Downeaster reports. Installation of continuously welded rail between Portland and Brunswick has been completed, the Amtrak Downeaster reported at its website (www.amtrakdowneaster.com/expansion-project). Pan Am crews have reconstructed a total of 13 railroad grade crossing in Portland, the site noted; crossing repairs have begun in Freeport next week. Work continues on the passenger platform at Maine Street Station in Brunswick. The schedule includes: School Street in Freeport today until 7 p.m.; East Street in Freeport next Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 29 and 30; and Webster Road and Porter Road in Freeport over the periods of Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 and Sept.

6-7, respectively. Work is expected to continue in Cumberland, Falmouth and Freeport. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

At an arraignment on Monday, Aug. 22, before Judge Joyce A. Wheeler, Ricci entered a plea of not guilty. Ricci has cerebral palsy and is difficult to understand, but he said, “Please, let me go home.”

Deputy District Attorney Meg Elam requested bail to be set at $200,000 bond or $50,000 cash — well above bail amounts normally associated with indecent conduct.

When Judge Wheeler wanted to know why that level of bail was requested for a Class D misdemeanor offense, she was told by Elam that if bail cannot be agreed to between the DA’s Office and Ricci’s defense attorney, a lot of information will have to come out that Ricci may not want made public.

After the hearing, Elam said she requested the high bail “because of Mr. Ricci’s history of sexually violent behavior and threats.” In the latest incident, Elam said, “he is accused of exposing his genitals to a female passerby.”

Attorney William Michaud was representing Ricci Monday, but John Paul DeGrinney will represent him during today’s bail hearing.

Ricci has served time in jail and has violated his terms of probation more than once, but has never been convicted of any sex crimes and is not a registered sex offender.

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Why are we baiting the bear?

Is the Senate trying to reignite the Cold War? If so, it is going about it the right way.

Before departing for a five-week vacation, the Senate voted to declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia to be provinces of Georgia illegally occupied by Russian troops who must get out and return to Russia.

The Senate voice vote was unanimous.

What is wrong with Senate Resolution 175?

Just this. Neither Abkhazia nor South Ossetia has been under Georgian control for 20 years. When Georgia seceded from Russia, these ethnic enclaves rebelled and seceded from Georgia.

Abkhazians and Ossetians both view the Tblisi regime of Mikhail Saakashvili, though a favorite of Washington, with contempt, and both have lately ––––– declared formal independence.

Creators Who are we to demand that Syndicate they return to the rule of Tblisi?

In co-sponsoring S.R. 175, Sen. Lindsey Graham contended that “Russia’s invasion of Georgian land in 2008 was an act of aggression, not only to Georgia but to all new democracies.”

This is neocon propaganda. Russian troops are in those enclaves because in August 2008 Georgia invaded South Ossetia to re-annex it, and killed and wounded scores of Russian peacekeepers. Tblisi’s invasion brought the Russian army on the run, which threw the Georgians out and occupied slices of Georgia itself.

While the Russian troops withdrew from Georgian territory, they remained in Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a deterrent to Saakashvili, whose agents have been working Capitol Hill to push the United States into a confrontation with Russia on Georgia’s side.

S.R. 175, the work of Graham and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, declares it to be U.S. policy “to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as regions of Georgia occupied by the Russian Federation.” But the Russians are far more welcome there than are the Georgians.

Twice the Georgians have been expelled by force.

Both times, Ossetians and Abkhazians helped throw them out. Why are we demanding that the Georgians be permitted to march back in and re-impose an alien rule that clearly is detested by these people?

Pat Buchanan

see BUCHANAN page 5

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Messing with Texas Gov. Rick Perry of Texas hasn’t lost an election in 10 tries. Among his vanquished opponents, this streak has inspired not only the usual mix of resentment and respect, but a touch of supernatural awe. “Running against Perry,” one of them told Texas Monthly, “is like running against God.” Perry’s 2012 rivals can’t afford to entertain such thoughts. If either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama hopes to snap the Texas governor’s winning streak, the election will need to become a referendum on Perry himself, in all his heat-packing, secessioncontemplating glory. If it becomes a referendum on his home state instead, Perry’s 11th campaign will probably turn out like all the others.

Perry’s critics don’t like to admit this. After he launched his campaign with an extended brag about Texas job creation, there was a rush to cut Texas down to size — to dismiss the Lone Star economic miracle as a mirage conjured by population growth, petro-dollars and low-paying McJobs.

But the more the Internet’s hive mind worked through the data, the weaker this critique looked. Yes, Texas’s growing population has contributed to

Ross Douthat ––––– The New York Times the job boom, but the boom has driven population growth as well.

The influx of people has been too extraordinary to just be chalked up to, say, snowbirds seeking 105degree retirements. More likely, thousands of Americans have responded to hard times in their home states by moving to Texas in search of work.

As the policy blogger Matthias Shapiro pointed out in an exhaustive analysis, the jobs they’re finding aren’t unusually low-paying: the state’s median hourly wage is close to the national average, and since the recession started, Texan wages have increased at the sixth-fastest pace in the country. Nor are the jobs confined to the oil and gas industries: “Take the energy sector completely out of the equation,” Shapiro noted, “and Texas is still growing faster than any other state.”

On Friday, in a Bloomberg Television interview, Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried

to open up another anti-Texan front, saying he feels “very, very badly for the children” in Texas’s supposedly underfinanced public schools. But here, too, the evidence doesn’t back up Duncan’s criticism. Texas does have higher high school dropout rates than the average American state. But then again, Texas isn’t an average state: it’s an enormous melting pot that shares a porous, 1,969mile border with Mexico. Once you control for demographics and compare like with like, the Texan educational record looks much more impressive.

When a 2009 McKinsey study contrasted Perry’s home state to the similarly sized and situated California, it found that Texas students were “one to two years of learning ahead of California students of the same age, even though Texas has less income per capita and spends less per pupil than California.”

When it comes to minority achievement, Texas looks even better: On the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, black eighth graders in Texas outscored black eighth graders in every other state. see DOUTHAT page 5

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Of Dystopias and Alphas WASHINGTON — President Obama was on the way to Alpha when a plea came for him to be, well, more alpha.

LuAnn Lavine, a real estate agent from Geneseo, a rural town just up the road from Alpha, Ill., the last stop on the president’s Midwestern bus tour, told The Times’s Jeff Zeleny: “Everyone was so hopeful with him, but Washington grabbed him and here we are. I just want him to stay strong and don’t take the guff. We want a president who is a leader, and I want him to be a little bit stronger.”

Hers was a gentler message than the sign stuck on a post outside Alpha: “One Term President.”

But her three words summed it up: Washington grabbed him. Why did this man whose contempt for Congress is clear, who ran on the idea that he could transform a broken Washington, surrender to its conventional timetable and bureaucratic language?

The “supercommittee” that’s supposed to save us just sounds like more government bloat — supersizing something just as unhealthy as McDonald’s.

Is Obama so isolated he can’t see that Americans are curled up in a ball, beaten down by a financial crisis, an identity crisis, a political crisis and a leadership crisis?

He got the job by blaming Washington.

But once you’re in the White House, you are Washington. It’s like the plumber

Maureen Dowd ––––– The New York Times who came to fix the sink waiting for the sink to fix itself.

I covered the first President Bush when he took a slide from Iraq war hero to one-term president. A turning point came in the fall of 1991, when Americans were getting jittery about the economy. Conservatives urged Bush to adopt an aggressive agenda and a muscular stance toward Congress. But relying on the disastrous advice of his budget adviser Richard Darman, Bush waited for more than a month until the State of the Union address and repackaged the same tepid agenda.

President Obama bashed Congress on his bus tour. But after delegating to Congress time and again with disastrous results, he continues to play the satellite to Congress.

He shouldn’t be driven by the Washington schedule. He should be setting it.

At long last, he promised a clear economic plan. Unfortunately, he had the fierce urgency of next month, when Congress gets back to town.

Americans are rattled and want action. They don’t know or care what

Congress’s schedule is. They just see the president not doing anything.

Cruising white Midwestern hamlets in his black bus, Obama tried to justify not calling lawmakers back to D.C. by saying they’d just continue to bicker. But what does he think they’ll do in September? The truth is, he doesn’t want them back in the capital any more than they want to be back. It would have screwed up his vacation and upset Michelle, who already feels trapped in the Washington bubble.

If Clinton wanted to be president 25 hours a day and W. wanted to be president four hours a day, Obama wants to be president for about 14 hours a day.

And that’s fine, as long as you don’t look like you’re phoning it in when the country is dialing 911.

White House officials must be worried about the 10-day Martha’s Vineyard idyll because, in a rare move, they put out a picture of the president with furrowed brow and Nike shirt getting a briefing from John Brennan, his top counterterrorism adviser.

There were no pictures allowed of him at the Vineyard Golf Club, only shots of the president shopping for books with his daughters. He was seen in the Bunch of Grapes bookstore on Friday holding “Brave New World.” Maybe he was brushing up on dystopias and alphas.

He might also want to pick up a volume of Robert Frost for some insight

on why Democrats waste time trying to reconcile with ruthless foes. The president still believes he can use his enchanting powers to convert the other side, even though Republicans regard every Obama legislative achievement as the beginning of a campaign to recall it. Heck, they’re still trying to repeal the New Deal.

Obama was truly stung by his budget experience with John Boehner.

And now, Senator Tom Coburn, whom Obama called “not only a dear friend, but also a brother in Christ” at February’s National Prayer Breakfast, tells a town hall in Oklahoma that Obama’s views are “goofy and wrong,” and that the president wants to “create dependency” because “as an African-American male,” he had received “tremendous benefit” from government programs.

There is no way to sell the idea that being a black man in America gives you tremendous benefit.

How does Obama feel after his brother in Christ painted him as something akin to a welfare queen and an affirmative-action president?

Let us take today’s lesson from Frost, who deliciously wrote in “The Lesson for Today”: I’m liberal. You, you aristocrat, Won’t know exactly what I mean by that.

I mean so altruistically moral I never take my own side in a quarrel.

Resolution recognizes regions occupied by Russian Federation BUCHANAN from page 4

Is this the American spirit of ‘76?

When the Senate says “regions of Georgia” are “occupied,” it implies that Russia seized the territories. But as a European Union investigation has confirmed, the 2008 war began with the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia.

And what business is all of this of the United States’?

Why are we provoking a Russia for whom the Caucasus — ablaze as it is with secessionism, Islamism and terrorism — is a vital national interest?

Going on across this inflamed region are ethnonational struggles for self-determination, the resolution of which, 6,000 miles from the United States, is none of our concern.

How would Abraham Lincoln have reacted had Czar Alexander II declared the Russian Empire was recognizing the independence of Virginia and demanding that the breakaway enclave of West Virginia be returned to Richmond?

Can we not see how hypocritical we appear?

When Kosovo, birthplace of Serbia, was being torn away by Albanian Muslims — and Serbs were fighting to hold on — Bill Clinton ordered Serbia bombed for 78 days and sent U.S. troops to occupy the breakaway province and plant a U.S. base there, Camp Bondsteel.

When we recognized Kosovo as independent, Russia recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Is there not a certain symmetry here? And do we not have enough on our plate in Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan not to be telling Russians how they should behave in lands closer to them than Grenada or Cuba is to us?

The Russian city of Sochi on the Black Sea, which is to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, is as close to Abkhazia as Dulles Airport is to Washington, D.C. East of Sochi lie Ingushetia and Dagestan, targets of terrorist attacks by Islamists seeking to create a caliphate. Moscow’s subways and Domodedovo Airport have been hit by terrorist bombs out of the Caucasus. In the airport attack, 35 were killed and 100 injured.

President Dmitry Medvedev, who has been friendly

to the United States and gave the order to Russia’s army to reverse the Georgia invasion, describes the Caucasus as the greatest threat Russia faces.

Why are we siding with Georgia, a nation of 5 million, against a Russia that seems to be on the side of self-determination? And when we recall how JFK and Ronald Reagan reacted when Russians were meddling in Cuba and Central America, can we not understand their resentment?

Medvedev believes that Saakashvili launched his 2008 attack after a visit by Condoleezza Rice, during which he may have been flashed a green light. Russia’s foreign minister believes that the Senate resolution backing Georgia has created a “revanchist mood” in Tblisi.

If there is another invasion of Georgia and a new war, the U.S. Senate will not be without major moral responsibility. Is there to be no end to this country’s meddling in other nations’ quarrels and wars?

(To find out more about Patrick Buchanan, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators. com.)

Over all, the Texas model looks like something Perry inherited DOUTHAT from page 4

To be sure, the Texas model doesn’t always impress.

(Twenty-seven percent of Texans lack health insurance, for instance, compared with 21 percent of Californians.) But Perry can credibly claim that his state delivers on conservative governance’s two most important promises: a private sector that creates jobs at a remarkable clip, and a public sector that seems to get more for the taxpayers’ money than many more profligate state governments.

The question is whether Perry himself deserves any of the credit. Here his critics become much more persuasive. When Perry became governor, taxes

were already low, regulations were light, and test scores were on their way up. He didn’t create the zoning rules that keep Texas real estate affordable, or the strict lending requirements that minimized the state’s housing bubble. Over all, the Texas model looks like something he inherited rather than a system he built.

This means that unlike many of his fellow Republican governors, from Mitch Daniels to Chris Christie to Scott Walker — or a Democratic governor like Andrew Cuomo, for that matter — Perry can’t claim to have battled entrenched interest groups, or stemmed a flood tide of red ink. Instead, many of his policy forays have been boondoggles or train

wrecks, from the failed attempt to build a $175 billion Trans-Texas Corridor (the kind of project conservatives would mock mercilessly if a Democrat proposed it) to an ill-designed 2006 tax reform that’s undercut the state’s finances.

But of course none of those reforming governors are currently in the race against him. Instead Perry faces an unloved Republican front-runner, with a weakened incumbent president waiting in the wings.

Which bring us back to that 10-election winning streak. Maybe God really is on Rick Perry’s side.

Or maybe Perry just knows how to pick his opponents.

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Annual teacher evaluations on the table for some city schools

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Teachers at two Portland elementary schools could be subject to annual evaluations by the end of the school year, officials said.

The Portland School Committee is slated to hold a workshop tonight to discuss proposals for a new teacher and administrator evaluation system.

Among the details likely to be in the final plan is annual evaluations of teachers — a shift from a once every three year teacher evaluation currently in place.

The first schools likely to be affected by the

new rules are East End Community and Riverton Elementary. The schools recently received school improvement grants totaling more than six million dollars.

"Implementation will start with two schools and possibly a small number of other places for next year," said David Galin, chief academic officer for Portland Public Schools.

"Our target is to have it up and running in the two schools by January, but we're still in the design phase," he said.

Last year, Riverton Elementary began receiving $3.4 million in federal grants over a three-year

period. East End Community will begin receiving a $2.76 million grant package this year over the course of the same period, Galin said.

He explained that the new rules will be implemented as part of the grant funding.

Educators will be evaluated on student progress, classroom environment and planning, and professional practice.

"We're making a concerted effort to put student learning at the forefront of everything we do," Galin said.

The workshop is slated to begin at 7 p.m. tonight in room 250 of Casco Bay High School.

Veteran goalie Minard named Portland Pirates’ new goaltending/video coach The Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League in conjunction with their AHL affiliate, the Portland Pirates, announced Monday that Mike Minard has been named the Pirates’ new goaltending/video coach.

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After bruising political fights, two governors alter their tones

BY MONICA DAVEY THE NEW YORK TIMES

SAYNER, Wis. — After Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican in his first months in office, announced early this year that he wanted to cut collective bargaining rights for public workers, relations between political parties in his newly red State Capitol fell into a long, deep frost.

But after six months of bruising partisan fights, Mr. Walker seemed to issue an utterly different message this month. He said he wanted to meet with Democrats and to find shared agenda items — an invitation that has been met with polite acceptance and deep skepticism.

“My thought is, you start out with small things, you build trust, you move forward, you keep working on things and you try and pick as many things that are things that people can clearly work together on,” Mr. Walker, who may face a recall election next year, said in an interview.

In the months after a flurry of Republican wins of governors’ offices and state legislatures in 2010, perhaps nowhere was the partisan rancor more pronounced than in the nation’s middle — places like Wisconsin and Ohio, where fights over labor unions exploded. But now, at least in those states, there are signs that the same Republicans see a need to show, at least publicly, a desire to play well with others.

In both states, critics dismiss the moves as desperate attempts to shore up sinking popularity ratings or disingenuous, tardy strategies to appear agreeable after already ramming through their agendas.

“It’s all P.R. — none of it is substantive,” Mark Miller, the Democrats’ minority leader in the Wisconsin State Senate, said earlier this month, before Mr. Walker held what some described as a “cordial” meeting with the Democratic leaders last week.

Whatever the true substance of the offers, the recent tones in Ohio and Wisconsin do appear to show one thing: With threats of recalls and bill repeals, with public dismay in recent months over the partisan stalemate in Washington on the debt ceiling, and with battleground-state presidential politics looming in 2012, governing with majorities has turned out in some states to be more complicated than it may have first appeared.

Across the nation, partisan relations in statehouses where Republicans made significant gains last fall have varied widely, and in many cases there are no signs of softening messages — or even the need for such a thing. But leaders in other states, including some that are expected to consider limits

to unions in the months ahead, are closely watching what unfolds now in Ohio and Wisconsin, the states that became the unexpected battle zones for an earlier season of discontent.

In Columbus, Democrats and union leaders were enraged this year when Gov. John R. Kasich, another first-term Republican governor, and the Republicans who now control both chambers of the legislature pushed through — mostly along partisan lines— a law that would limit the rights of public workers to bargain collectively.

Republicans in Ohio advocated for the measure as the logical response to shrunken budgets in towns, cities and counties. But union leaders and Democrats — and a group calling itself We Are Ohio — spent months collecting more than 900,000 valid signatures (hundreds of thousands more than needed) to put the law to a vote in a statewide referendum in November. A campaign, which is expected to draw significant interest and spending from political groups in Ohio and nationwide, is likely to begin in earnest soon.

Last week, Mr. Kasich and Republican leaders sent a letter to the union organizers, calling for a meeting to discuss a compromise. The leaders said they still believed in the law they had passed, and a spokesman for Mr. Kasich would not say precisely what areas the Republicans were willing to give in on. “We are prepared to move forward immediately with legislative action to implement any agreement on changes we are able to reach together,” the letter read.

“We ought to get to the table and we ought to talk about it,” Mr. Kasich told reporters on Friday, meeting with them in a room full of empty seats and placards for the absent organizers, although the organizers said they had turned down the invitation. “Is it too late?” Mr. Kasich asked. “It’s never too late.”

Rob Nichols, a spokesman for Mr. Kasich, said the new invitation did not mark any shift in Mr. Kasich’s approach; the governor had sought to talk to labor groups during the legislative fight, Mr. Nichols said, and some representatives had engaged in private discussions over the issue again in June before the unions ended those talks, he said. “He, more than most, has a long history of working across party lines,” Mr. Nichols said.

But critics balked at the notion that any real talks had been offered before or that any true, concrete compromises — not just photo opportunities for a see next page

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“If they’re honestly coming forward for a compromise, repeal the bill and then we’ll talk,” said Melissa Fazekas, a spokeswoman for We Are Ohio, explaining why representatives for the group had declined to meet with Mr. Kasich on Friday. “If they wanted to get along, they probably should have tried to during the legislative process instead of locking people out.”

In Wisconsin, partisan relations — and that state’s fight over limits to collective bargaining — have proved still uglier.

In the weeks after Mr. Walker proposed the limits in February, state lawmakers, newly dominated by Republicans in the Capitol, split in two. The minority Senate Democrats fled the state to try to block a vote on the measure. The Republicans issued the lawmaking equivalent of warrants against them, and at one point, threatened that the Democrats had to collect their paychecks in person — or not get them at all. And, as protesters screamed outside his closed office door, Mr. Walker firmly defended the bargaining cuts and said his administration was “certainly looking at all legal options” against the other party.

But after a summer of expensive, brutal recall election efforts against nine state senators — Democrats for having fled the state, and Republicans for having supported the bargaining cuts — Mr. Walker seemed to be sounding a different, softer note. He

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said he had called Democratic leaders in the Legislature even before the polls closed in some of this month’s recalls, which, in the end, maintained the Republican majorities in both legislative chambers, though by a slimmer margin of 17 to 16 in the Senate.

Democrats in the state had harsh theories about what was behind Mr. Walker’s sudden wish to get along. Some said he had already accomplished a stunningly partisan agenda, including the bargaining cuts, an austere budget, a voter identification law, a concealed-firearms provision and a redistricting map that favored Republicans, and was now hoping to appear to be reaching out. Others said he feared a different recall election effort — against him — next year, as well as creating a drag in the state on any Republican presidential ticket.

“This is totally phony — a totally unbelievable act of desperation,” said Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party. “It will fade away and return soon enough to the scorched-earth method that has marked his career.”

Reflecting on the start of his term, Mr. Walker said that he wished he had spent more time “building a case” with the public for why for collective bargaining cuts could shore up budgets, but that he remained a firm supporter of the cuts themselves — a fact that seems certain to complicate any effort for bipartisanship now.

“I’m not thinking that just because we snap our fingers that suddenly everybody’s going to run out and work together and it’s all going to work perfectly,” the governor said.

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Cool temps, lower humidity make it feel like fall Low dew points give feeling of fall; farmers still taking advantage of recent summer rains

BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Days of rain and humidity gave way to dryer weather and cooler temperatures Monday, making it feel a lot like fall in Portland.

A cold front moved through the area and brought with it a noticeable change, weather officials said.

"The reason it feels like the first day of fall is that temperatures are in the 70s, but the dew points are a lot lower," said Eric Schwibs, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray.

"It's cool when you walk outside," he said. "Much more comfortable air has come in. It feels a lot more refreshing ... (and) it's a more crisp feel to the air."

Schwibs explained there's still "a ways to go" before Portland gets its first frost. The average first freeze hits sometime in early-to mid-October.

"If you're immediately on the coast it could actually be a little later than that," he said, adding that Maine's western mountains and inland foothills could have frost as early as next month.

Gabe Heasly tends to a plot at the Valley Street Community Garden in early August. The first frost isn’t likely to strike for another month or more, but weather patterns created a feeling of crispness in the air Monday, reminiscent of fall. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

The record in Portland for earliest frost was Sept. 14, 1963. It's occurred as late as Oct. 25 in the city, he said.

“My season is coming along strong at this point.” — Mark Heidmann, of Maple Springs Farm in Harrison The recent rain has meant good growth for farms, especially in areas hit with a dry spell earlier in the season.

"My season is coming along strong at this point," said Mark Heidmann, of Maple Springs Farm in Harrison, who says he was slowed at the start of the season by weeks of dry weather.

"The rain is finally catching all of us up," he said.

Despite it feeling like fall, residents shopping for fresh food at the Portland Farmers' Market still have weeks to

stock up on summer vegetables.

"We have heirloom tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and summer squash," said Sonya Theriault, of Summit Springs Farm in Poland.

"It's been a good year for us," she said, adding there will be a good amount of "carrots, beets and turnips a little later."

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Stocks barely climb after long losing streak

BY GRAHAM BOWLEY THE NEW YORK TIMES

Coming off four straight weeks of brutal losses, stocks ended barely higher on Monday, as investors’ attention turned to the Federal Reserve’s annual symposium later this week in Jackson Hole, Wyo. After rising earlier in the session, stocks gave up most of their gains in the afternoon. Some analysts said that they expected the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, to react to recent signs of weakness in the economy by announcing further if limited economic stimulus when he speaks on Friday at the symposium.

Measures of global financial stress which have been rising recently, like the Japanese yen, Swiss franc and United States Treasury bond prices, eased.

But in a sign that deep worries about global growth and Europe’s debt crisis still remain, gold kept up its rapid ascent of recent weeks, approaching $1,900 an ounce. .

“Gold continues to earn its place among investors who want to be protected against growth risk and Europe risk,” said Mark d. Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.

Oil, however, was buffeted by events in Libya as investors anticipated a return to international markets of one of the world’s biggest oil producers.

Brent crude oil prices, the European benchmark price for oil, initially dropped more than 3 percent, but ended New York trading basically flat at $108.42. The American benchmark crude, which is less driven by events in the Middle East, rose $1.86 to $84.12.

On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average began the day higher after optimism on Libya.

But by the end of the day, it finished ahead only 37 points, or 0.34 percent, at 10,854.65.

The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, which opened higher but flirted with losses midday, close up 0.29 points, or 0.03 percent, at 1,123.82. The Nasdaq composite index was 3.54, or 0.15 percent higher, at 2,345.38.

Shares in Goldman Sachs ended down at 4.7 percent. They fell sharply before the close after Reuters reported that its chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, had . Shares of Hewlett-Packard, which had suffered in recent sessions, ended up 3.6 percent.

Last week, stocks in general fell more than 4 percent last week as Wall Street experienced more wild swings, including a 419-point drop for the Dow on Thursday.

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The park itself was designed in 1879 as a respite for city residents. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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By Holiday Mathis SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). As the great composers know, sometimes silence is more beautiful than sound.

A well-timed silence can ring out loud.

Use this principle to make sweet music in a relationship.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You’re so imaginative now, and you’ll conjure vivid mental pictures, both terrible and fabulous. To stay on the bright side, surround yourself with sunshiny people.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

You benefit from encouraging people to tell you their dumb ideas. It never fails -- a brilliant solution always falls accidentally into the mix. The input you receive will invigorate a tired scene.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Love isn’t a barter system. If you try to trade your attention and affection for favors or forgiveness, you’ll lose every time.

You will give from the heart, and the reward is that giving feels good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will be there for a special friend in his or her time of need. But there’s no reason to wait for that time to do something nice, like send a card. It’s the things you do unexpectedly and for no apparent reason that will have impact.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 23). You won’t let anything interfere with your industriousness. In September, you will rise to the challenge of a competitive situation. Good fortune comes to you through your relationship with an intellectual individual. There’s an exciting journey in November. New family additions come in March. Aries and Gemini people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 39, 1, 24, 35 and 3.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Many people have a tendency to underestimate the actual time it takes to complete a task. You will give yourself ample time for everything on your list and finish the day feeling like a total success.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll have an errand to do. Think about it before you leave the house. With a little organization, you could handle three errands instead and save yourself a trip or two.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You may suddenly recognize a pattern in your behavior as self-defeat in motion.

Luckily, there is still ample time to interrupt the cycle and choose differently.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You need the support of your loved ones -- not because you are failing, but because you could do so much more with a little help. Tell them about your dreams and wishes.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will be defined by how you show up and what you do. Later, someone will describe you based on the impression you make today. Knowing this, you’ll put a little extra thought into it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll embrace a new plan at work, a plan that cuts through your fear and passivity and concentrates your energy on taking the next step and the one after that.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). All it takes is one small, smart idea to set a major change in motion. Brainstorm freely. Allow your thoughts to burble to the surface and be expressed. Your creativity will shine in constructive company.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Tuesday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2011. There are 130 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Aug. 23, 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”

On this date: In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.

In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War I. In 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in New York at age 31.

In 1927, amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

In 1944, Romanian prime minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.

In 1960, Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein (HAM’-ur-STYN’) II, 65, died in Doylestown, Pa. In 1973, a bank robbery-turned-hostagetaking began in Stockholm, Sweden; the four hostages ended up empathizing with their captors, a psychological condition now referred to as “Stockholm Syndrome.”

In 1989, in a case that inflamed racial tensions in New York, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black youth, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by a group of white youths in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.

One year ago: A dismissed policeman armed with an automatic rifle seized a bus in the Philippine capital with 25 people on board, mostly Hong Kong tourists; the gunman released nine of the hostages and demanded his job back to free the rest. (The hijacking lasted 11 hours before the gunman opened fire on his hostages; a Manila SWAT team then killed the hostage-taker, but not before eight tourists also died.)

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Vera Miles is 81. Actress Barbara Eden is 77. Pro Football Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen is 77. Actor Richard Sanders is 71. Ballet dancer Patricia McBride is 69. Pro Football Hall of Famer Rayfield Wright is 66. Country singer Rex Allen Jr. is 64. Singer Linda Thompson is 64.

Actress Shelley Long is 62. Actor-singer Rick Springfield is 62. Queen Noor of Jordan is 60. Actor-producer Mark Hudson is 60. MLB All-Star pitcher Mike Boddicker is 54. Rock musician Dean DeLeo is 50. Tejano singer Emilio Navaira (nah-VY’-rah) is 49. Country musician Ira Dean (Trick Pony) is 42. Actor Jay Mohr is 41. Actor Ray Park is 37. Actor Scott Caan is 35. Country singer Shelly Fairchild is 34. Figure skater Nicole Bobek is 34. Rock singer Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) is 33. NBA player Kobe Bryant is 33. Actress Kimberly Matula is 23.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My husband (probably soon-to-be ex) and I read your column with our morning coffee. We’ve been married 43 years and have two married children and five beautiful grandchildren. I felt very blessed, loved and cherished.

“Bill” retired two years ago. Obviously, I wasn’t paying enough attention to notice the red flags. I trusted my husband completely, but he developed a relationship with one of his co-workers. I’d met her at the company Christmas party, but failed to notice how much she and Bill seemed to enjoy being together. I’m sure he had no clue that all his other co-workers were gossiping about him and this gal. They tried to warn me about the relationship, but I had blinders on. I couldn’t believe my Bill would be interested in another woman.

I found a card from her saying she’d be “seeing him soon” and signed “with love.” He had hidden it in his desk. When I confronted him, he said he planned to see her about once a month, just to keep in touch. He made it clear that I was not included in these meetings.

When I realized what a fool I’d been to trust him all this time, I decided to file for divorce. In spite of that, Bill refuses to stop seeing this woman. My daughter says I’m doing the right thing, but my son fears I’m rushing into something both of us will regret.

I want to warn other couples to pay attention to those red flags. Don’t blithely disregard what others are saying. Those same co-workers now tell me that they stopped warning me because I refused to listen. This experience destroyed my world. Annie, if you have any advice for me, I’m listening now. -- A Formerly Trusting Wife Dear Trusting: Spouses often ignore warning signs because they can’t fathom being betrayed by someone they trust, and facing their worst fear is too painful to bear. Your son doesn’t want you to have any regrets. Please ask your husband to

come with you for counseling before making your decision permanent. If he refuses, go without him, and make sure your choice is the right one.

Dear Annie: Several times a year, our relatives get together for family dinners. When my husband’s married cousin arrives, he pulls me into his body, wraps his arms around me and blows kisses in my ear. When we are in the same room, he sometimes walks up behind me and hugs me tightly.

My husband says to ignore him because he is simply being a jerk. I spend the entire time trying to avoid him. I have asked him to stop, to no avail. Am I wrong for feeling this uncomfortable? -- Creep Factor Dear Creep Factor: Hardly. This cousin is a world-class stinker who will keep groping you until there are consequences for him. The next time he does it, shriek loudly in surprise, and then tell his wife that her husband can’t seem to keep his hands off of you. That ought to take care of it, since your husband won’t.

Dear Annie: “Inger from N.H.” expressed a pet peeve about the way change is returned to the shopper in retail establishments. Instead of sympathizing, you simply said that the column was available for letting off steam.

My father was a former A&P manager, before the era of supermarkets, when clerks still waited on customers. I learned how to say “yes, ma’am” and “no, sir.” And we had one of those cash registers that didn’t tell you how much change to give, so I had to learn how to make change and count it out in the customer’s hand.

When you have experienced this kind of treatment, you never forget that we once lived in a civilized society. I, for one, fully empathize with “Inger” and lament the loss of a kinder past. Please let her know there are still some of us left.

-- Thomasville, Pa.

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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Supreme Court revisits eyewitness accounts

BY ADAM LIPTAK THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON — Every year, more than 75,000 eyewitnesses identify suspects in criminal investigations. Those identifications are wrong about a third of the time, a pile of studies suggest.

Mistaken identifications lead to wrongful convictions. Of the first 250 DNA exonerations, 190 involved eyewitnesses who were wrong, as documented in “Convicting the Innocent,” a recent book

by Brandon L. Garrett, a law professor at the University of Virginia.

Many of those witnesses were as certain as they were wrong.

“There is absolutely no question in my mind,” said one. Another was “120 percent” sure. A third said, “That is one face I will never forget.” A fourth allowed for a glimmer of doubt: “This is the man, or it is his twin brother.”

In November, the Supreme Court will return to the question of what the Constitution has to say about the use of eyewitness evidence.The last time the court took a hard look at the question was in 1977. Since then, the scientific understanding of human memory has been transformed.

Indeed, there is no area in which social science research has done more to illuminate a legal issue.

More than 2,000 studies on the topic have been published in professional journals in the past 30 years.

What they collectively show is that it is perilous to base a conviction on a witness’s identification of a stranger. Memory is not a videotape. It is fragile at best, worse under stress and subject to distortion and contamination.

The unreliability of eyewitness identification is matched by its power.

“There is almost nothing more convincing,” Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote in a 1981 dissent, quoting from a leading study, “than a live human being who takes the stand, points a finger at the defendant, and says, ‘That’s the one!’ ” The American Psychological Association, in a friend-of-the-court brief in the new Supreme Court case, said “research shows that juries tend to ‘over believe’ eyewitness testimony.”

Experts in the field are pleased that the Supreme Court will again consider the place of eyewitness evidence in the criminal justice system.

“It is exciting that the court has actually taken an eyewitness ID case for the first time in many years,” Professor Garrett said, “even if it might be the wrong case on the wrong issue.” The justices are likely to rule only about which kinds of eyewitness identifications warrant a closer look from judges — just those made after the police used improperly suggestive procedures or all problematic ones?

The larger and more important question of what that closer look should involve is probably not in play in the case, Perry v. New Hampshire, No, 10-8974.

The state of the law is thus likely to remain jumbled. On the one hand, the court has said that the due process clause of the Constitution requires the exclusion of at least some eyewitness testimony on the ground that it is unreliable. On the other, judges are told to use a two-step analysis involving the weighing of multiple factors that in practice allows almost all such evidence to be presented to the jury.

Barry C. Scheck, a director of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, said that what is needed in this area is a new “legal architecture,” one in which judges play an authentic gatekeeping role.

He pointed to a pioneering report last year from a special master appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The special master, Geoffrey Gaulkin, suggested that memory should be treated “as a form of trace evidence: a fragment collected at the scene of a crime, like a fingerprint or blood smear, whose integrity and reliability need to be monitored and assessed from the point of its recovery to its ultimate presentation at trial.

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Tuesday, Aug. 23 Read With ME event in Augusta 10 a.m. Maine Reads board member Former First Lady of Maine Karen Baldacci will highlight the importance of early childhood reading during a press conference and bookpacking project for the literacy outreach program Read With ME. “Read With ME is a program of the statewide literacy nonprofit Maine Reads and is made possible in part

by FairPoint Communications and the Law Offices of Joe Bornstein. Mrs. Baldacci will join Maine author and illustrator Rebekah Raye on Tuesday, August 23 at 10 a.m. at the Armory on Western Avenue in Augusta. They will help more than 50 volunteers prepare 19,100 books with accompanying bookmarks to be distributed to every incoming kindergarten student in more than 400 schools throughout Maine, as well as participating homeschoolers.”

Chelsea Chen on the Kotzschmar Organ 7:30 p.m. Chelsea Chen on the Kotzschmar Organ. “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” by J.S. Bach; “Three Taiwanese Songs” by Chelsea Chen; “Children’s Corner”

by C. Debussy; “Super Mario Fantasia” by Koji Kondo; “Moto Ostinato” by Petr Eben; “Three Jazz Standards” by Rod Gorby; “Satin Doll’ by Duke Ellington; “Sweet Georgia Brown” by Ben Bernie; “I Got Rhythm” by George Gershwin; “Miroir” by Ad Wammes; “Toccata from Suite” by Maurice Durufle. www.foko.org

Peace in Sudan Rally and Candle Light Vigil 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) presents a Peace in Sudan Rally and Candle Light Vigil at Monument Square on Congress Street in Portland. This event is free, and the public is encouraged to attend. “In observation of Ramadan, this event will be held after the Break of Fast. Speakers will include El-Fadel Arbab, as well as local activists, members of the Sudanese refugee communities, and survivors of Genocide worldwide. If it rains, the rally will be held at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. in Portland, Maine at 9 p.m. Please note the change of time and location in the event of bad weather. Since 2003, more than 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur, Sudan. More than 2.7 million people have been displaced. Currently, there is also an ongoing crisis in the Abyei region of Sudan. Thousands of citizens have been displaced in the South Kurdofan, Nuba Mountain, and Blue Nile regions. Southern Maine now boasts the largest organized Sudanese refugee community in the United States. Although Sudanese President Al-Bashir is now wanted by The International Criminal Court for war crimes in Darfur, the genocide continues. July 23 is the anniversary of the U. S. Congress’ 2004 declaration of Darfur as Genocide. On July 23, 2012 Fur Cultural Revival will host the second Peace in Sudan Rally at The White House in Washington, D.C.”

Wednesday, Aug. 24 Highland Memorial Cemetery flag raising 4 p.m. “Highland Memorial Cemetery on Highland Avenue, South Portland, is honoring our deceased veterans by erecting flag poles for the five branches of service along with a new American flag pole in a cluster of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. The South Portland V.F.W. will have its Color Guard attending and will present a check to the cemetery for the purchase of all the new flags. In attendance will be the cemetery directors and its superintendant, South Portland City Manager and many of the councilors, and officials from the South Portland V.F.W. Also attending will be each branch of service stationed in the area.” Arthur H. Smith, President, 883-3731.

Storyteller Deena R. Weinstein, guest at Dobra Tea 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dobrá Tea, 151 Middle St., Portland (above Bull Moose and Video Port). “Storyteller Deena R. Weinstein and her guest musician Myron Samuels will present a children’s story written by his late wife Jeanette A. Samuels. The theme for the evening will be apples ... from trees to pies and stories in-between! Come at 6:30 to enjoy food, tea, visiting, and to sign up to share your story of 10 minutes or less. Storytelling will begin at 7 and continue until about 8. Listeners, welcome! Be entertained and/or try your voice at telling in a quiet, relaxed, intimate atmosphere!

This event is held once a month at Dobrá, with different themes and special guests. Usually adult-oriented, this month is appropriate for children who can sit and listen at this hour of night.”

Fermented Root Vegetables 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Class on Fermented Root Vegetables (Carrots, Beets) at Urban Farm Fermentory, 200 Anderson St., Portland. Cost: $20 ($10 scholarships are available).

Instructor: Kate McCarty, Program Aide, and Master Food Preserver Volunteers. To register: call 653.7406 or visit www.urbanfarmfermentory.com/skills-classes.

On Thursday, comedian Bob Marley will perform at Jonathan’s in Ogunquit, and then on Friday, Sept. 2, he will be at The Landing at Pine Point in Scarborough. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Thursday, August 25 The Maine Event: Children’s Book Celebration!

2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine.

“Maine is special for many reasons, from lobsters to pine trees to children’s book authors! Join Maine author Jan West Schrock as she reads from her children’s book ‘Give a Goat,’ then stay to read some Maine children’s book classics. ‘Hear The Circus Ship’ by Chris Van Dusen and have an animal parade, read ‘Fairy Houses’ by Tracy Kane and make fairy houses of your own and listen to ‘Burt Dow, Deep Water Man’ by Robert McCloskey while inside a lifesized inflatable whale!” www.kitetails.org

Riverton Branch Library open house 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland Public Library’s Riverton Branch has undergone a recent renovation and is scheduled to resume normal business hours at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, August 24. The public is invited to view the renovations during a free Open House Event sponsored by the Friends of Portland Public Library on Thursday, August 25, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. “The overall goal of the project was to improve the quality of the user experience at Riverton and to build services and collections that focus on the type of use that the Riverton Branch historically experiences. The collections have been refocused; the space is now easier and more pleasant to navigate through the lowering of stack heights and by creating a less cluttered environment.”

‘Medication Management in the Home’ 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. “Medication Management in the Home” presented by Home Instead Senior Care. Pharmacist Angela McGarrigle, owner of Good For All Pharmacy will speak as part of a monthly Community Education Series at the Baxter Memorial Library, 71 South St., Gorham. Free and open to the public.

Cultivating Community Twilight Dinner 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Turkey Hill Farm, 120 Old Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth. “Cultivating Community is holding a series of Twilight Dinners at their farm in Cape Elizabeth.

The three-course meals will be cooked by local chefs to highlight the local and seasonal. The cost is $25 per person (BYOB).” www.cultivatingcommunity.org

Yappy Hour at Planet Dog 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. The Planet Dog Company Store will host a free Yappy Hour with Sarah Wilson, Master Dog Trainer, author, expert and founder of MySmartPuppy.com.

Wilson will conduct a free live training demo. “Sarah will teach each participant tips they can use to achieve the best training practices for their dogs. Sarah will be available during and after the demo to answer questions and sign books. People are encouraged to bring their pups. Free beer, wine, snacks and treats.” Planet Dog Company Store, 211 Marginal Way, Portland. 347-8606. This is a free event.

However a $5 donation to the Planet Dog Foundation (PDF) is always appreciated. www.planetdogfoundation.org

‘Dogfish Memory’ reading 7 p.m. A native of Maine, Professor Joseph Dane will read from “Dogfish Memory: Sailing in Search of Old Maine” at Longfellow Books. Longfellow Books events are open to the public and always free to attend. “Dogfish Memory is the story of the search for an authentic Maine, a Maine of the past, whether historical or simply imagined, and a Maine of the present, one experienced by both permanent residents and seasonal ones — summerfolk. Joseph Dane is both. He has worked on commercial fishing boats as a local and he has sailed the coast for years like those who are ‘from away.’” Dane is a native of Maine who, despite being a professor of English at the University of Southern California, returns to his family property in Maine to spend summers sailing the coastline. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Harpswell.

Comedian Bob Marley at Jonathan’s 8 p.m. Bob Marley Wicked Funny Comedy. Jonathan’s Restaurant, where you can find casual-fine dining, a contemporary lounge atmosphere, exquisite gardens and a 600-Gallon Fish Tank. www.jonathansrestaurant.com

Friday, Aug. 26 GOP presidential candidate Gary E. Johnson 5 p.m. GOP presidential candidate Gary E. Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, will be the guest speaker at the annual Maine Republican Liberty Caucus Calvin Coolidge Clambake at Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park.

“The purpose of our annual clambake is to celebrate the legacy of our great Laissez Faire President Calvin Coolidge ,who is said to have once remarked that the business of America is business. While he cleaned up corruption in government he left individuals and businesses alone leading to the great economic prosperity of the 1920s,” said Maine RLC Chair Ken Lindell, a former member of the Maine legislature. The public is welcome to attend. Tickets are $25 at the door. The menu includes full-belly Maine clams and mussels. From Route One in downtown Freeport, take Bow Street to Wolfe’s Neck Road and follow it to the park gate.

Johnson, a Republican presidential candidate, will be the keynote speaker at the event.

History on the Eastern Promenade 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. A bit of history on the Eastern Promenade. “Enjoy a fascinating evening walk with former State Representative Herb Adams and learn about historically significant events that have happened at places seen from the Eastern Promenade. Herb’s walk will take you along the Eastern Promenade and through hundreds of years of history. This event is RSVP only as space is limited. Please RSVP for information on where to meet.” http://www.trails. org/events.html see next page

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SPACE Gallery Weekend at The Saco Drive-In 7 p.m. SPACE Gallery Weekend at The Saco Drive-In featuring “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” and “Aliens.” Friday, Aug. 26 through Sunday, Aug. 28 at the Saco Drive-In, 969 Portland Road (US1), Saco. Gates open at 7 p.m.: First feature (“E.T.”) begins at dusk. Admission: $15 per carload. Saco Drive-In website: www.facebook.com/home.php#!/sacodrivein. 799.6649. SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828.5600. “SPACE Gallery has brought hundreds of original film programs to downtown Portland over the years and the Saco Drive-In has been hosting outdoor screenings of films since 1939. This weekend we join forces to bring you a doublefeature of classic blockbuster ‘alien’ films to close out your summer in the warm Maine night air, Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic ‘E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial’ followed by James Cameron’s 1986 sequel in the Alien trilogy, ‘Aliens.’ Before and between films, SPACE will curate a mix of music by local musicians to be played over the Drive-In’s broadcast system. A portion of the gate proceeds will go to support SPACE Gallery’s programming.”

Saturday, Aug. 27 Childrens Theatre: Pippi Longstocking’s Musical Adventure in Ogunquit 10 a.m. and noon. John Lane’s Ogunquit Playhouse, 10 Main St., Ogunquit, Aug. 27-28. “Dressed in strange clothes and living with her horse and pet monkey, Pippi is the high spirited, warm hearted girl of supernatural strength and untold wealth. With new friends Tommy and Annika, Pippi questions the world in which she lives and the expectations placed upon her; all the while longing to be reunited with her father, Captain Longstocking, and his band of pirates aboard the ‘Hoptoad.’” Ogunquit Playhouse, Route 1, Ogunquit. All Tickets $10, call the Box Office Direct at646.5511, Ticketmaster at 800-982-2787 or www.ogunquitplayhouse.org.

Juried Arts and Craft Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On the Green, Kennebunkport; sponsored by the Society of Southern Maine Craftsmen. Concessions provided by the Animal Welfare Society of Kennebunk. Free admission and free parking. (Rain Date: Aug. 28)

Picnic Music+Arts Festival 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The fourth annual Picnic Music+Arts Festival will take place on Saturday, Aug. 27. “This juried indie craft fair will be held outdoors at Lincoln Park on Congress Street and Franklin Arterial, in Portland. The festival will run in the park, rain or shine. The Picnic Music+Arts Festival will feature clothing, jewelry, prints, accessories, bags, plush, stationery, photography, housewares, fine art, vintage goods and more. There will be live music and tasty food to enjoy all day. Spindleworks of Brunswick will have a booth among over 50 other crafters. www.picnicportland.com

Annual ChiliFest in Wells 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maine State Contests and Peoples Choice. Join the competition or judge for yourself. Music, vendors, crafters, and more. Tasting kits available. Free parking and admission. Wells Jr. High School, (1470 Post Road) Wells. www.wellschilifest.com

New Faces Outdoor Art Exhibit noon to 5 p.m. The public is invited to a New Faces Outdoor Art Exhibit featuring New England artists who are not known to the gallery-hopping public. A diverse group of artists will set up shop with tables and easels in Monument Square in downtown Portland. For many of these artists this will be their first time exhibiting in public and for others, while they’ve had exhibition experience, this will be their first time to show their work in Portland. This one-day show is the brainchild of Evan T. Gilbert, a Nobleboro, Maine artist.

Gilbert and his sister Jessica, also an artist, are raising the funds for this event themselves through a variety of sources including bake sales, Indie-A-Go-Go on line donations and sponsorships. Gilbert is a graduate of Lincoln Academy.

He promises the work will run the gamut from traditional to digital media. Participating artists include Ann Tracy, http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/ann-tracy.html, who has returned to her native New England from a 25-plusyear sojourn in the west; Emily Hefferon; Michael Farley; Adam Jacob Cram, http://vizionarysight.weebly.com/paintings.html;Jessica Lauren Lipton, http://www.facebook. com/pages/Pop-Killed-Culture/114631571929670; Rachel Helen Alexandrou; Joyce Wong, joycecwong.com; Aura Ever, http://www.aura-ever.com/newpage.html; Michael Farley; Mya Blue Elliot; and Adam Drisko.

Gallery Talk at the PMA, Portraits 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Join docents for casual and informative discussions of works in the Portland Museum of Art, Saturdays at 1 p.m. “Portraits in the Permanent Collection

El-Fadel Arbab, a Darfur activist and genocide survivor, collects information from a computer at the Meg Perry concerning his efforts to educate the public about his home country of the Sudan. Tonight at 9 p.m., Fur Cultural Revival (part of The Darfur Community Center of Maine) will present a Peace in Sudan Rally and Candle Light Vigil at Monument Square on Congress Street in Portland. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

by Sy Epstein.” Free with museum admission. www.portlandmuseum.org

‘Dave Astor Show Visits Jordan’s Meats’ 2 p.m. Join Maine Historical Society for a screening of the only remaining episode of “The Dave Astor Show,” one of Maine’s best-loved homegrown television shows. The program, which aired on Saturday afternoons from 1956-1971, featured students from area high schools performing dance routines and other productions. “The Dave Astor Show, Maine’s own American Bandstand, quickly became a teenage phenomenon, a fixture in numerous homes, and provided invaluable training and experiences for the students who participated. In this episode, recorded in 1962, Dave and his students help celebrate the opening of the new Jordan’s Meats plant in Portland with song, dance, and lots of fun. (60 minutes).” Saturdays at 2 p.m. in July and August, remaining screenings, Aug. 6 and Sept. 3. Included with Museum admission: $8 Adult, $7 Students and Seniors, $2 Children, Members free.

The Kevin Brady Memorial Alumni Soccer Game 5 p.m. The Kevin Brady Memorial Alumni Soccer Game (“Alumni Game”) is an annual event created in loving memory of Kevin Brady. The Alumni Game is celebrating its 11th Anniversary on Aug. 27. The Alumni Game is hosted by the Cape Elizabeth Boosters to raise money for the Kevin Brady Spirit Award/Scholarship. Each year, the CEHS Men’s Varsity Soccer Team plays the CEHS Alumni battle on the newly dedicated Hannaford Field at Cape Elizabeth High School. The game is always well-attended by CEHS Alumni, community members, and supporters of the CEHS Soccer Program. The 2011 schedule is as follows: 5 p.m.: Women’s Alumni vs. Women’s Varsity; 6:30 p.m.: CE Youth Parade & Festivities; 7:30 p.m.: Men’s Alumni vs.

Men’s Varsity.

Birdie Googins at Lucid Stage 8 p.m. Birdie Googins: Maine’s Only Supermodel and Possible Future Queen at Lucid Stage. “Birdie is also a well known and respected television personality who has received rave reviews from outdoor sportsmen who marvel at the rugged outdoor skills of such a glamorous and famous model. In addition to being wildly popular, Ms. Googins has wicked funny sense of humor.”

Sunday, Aug. 28 Operation Starlight Commemorative Rifle Match 8 a.m. Operation Starlight Commemorative Rifle Match.

Scarborough Fish & Game Association will commemorate “Operation Starlight,” which was the first major battle of the Vietnam War, on resulting in the loss of nearly 700 Vietcong at the cost of 45 dead and 200 wounded U.S. soldiers.

“This operation was launched because we had intelligence

that the Vietcong were ready to attack the Marine base at Chu Lai. This rifle match is held every year as near to the actual anniversary date (August 18, 1965) as possible to honor those who served and died in this historic battle some forty-six years ago.” At Scarborough Fish & Game Association, 70 Holmes Road (across from Beech Ridge Speedway). Awards to be given to top three shooters. For details, contact Dave Blouin, 767-2464, or dblouin@maine. rr.com.

Did Lincoln Really…..? at Fifth Maine 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Breakfast by the Sea, Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $7 adult, $4 child under 10. Enjoy a delicious breakfast of blueberry or buttermilk pancakes, eggs, ham, baked beans, watermelon, juice and coffee in a beautiful setting by the sea.For more information call 766-3330 or email fifthmaine@juno.com.

Free Family Play Time at Children’s Museum 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. This admission-free play time is open to the public and brought to you by the National Children’s Study in partnership with PROP’s Parkside Neighborhood Center, the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine and Catholic Charities of Maine. For more information about this event or the National Children’s Study call 662-1675. www.kitetails.org

Storytelling Celebration: Ramadan 2 p.m. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. “Do you know the story of Ramadan? Join us for a special program in which we’ll explore this Muslim holiday through storytelling, costumes, food tasting and more! Funding for this program generously provided by the Sam L. Cohen Foundation.” Also Aug. 31. Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine. www.kitetails.org

‘Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington’ 4 p.m. A special performance in Southern Maine of the play “Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington” will be held at University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Center in Portland to benefit the American Heart Association. “This one-woman show provides an intimate look into the life and times of Margaret Chase Smith. It tells of her journey from humble beginnings in Skowhegan, Maine, to a position of power and respect as the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.”

Rooftop Film: ‘The Karate Kid’ 9 p.m. Spring Street Parking Garage, 45 Spring St., Portland. MENSK is pleased to announce a rooftop screening of ‘The Karate Kid.’ The public is invited to the top level of the Spring Street parking garage in Portland for a screening of ‘The Karate Kid.’ The film begins around sunset, (or by 9 p.m.) Bring your own lawn chair, blankets and snacks.

Enter at 45 Spring Street. A free event, hosted by MENSK. Sponsored by Coffee By Design.” For more information, visit www.menskmaine.org see next page

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Monday, Aug. 29 Mostly Maine acrylic paintings on canvas 10 a.m. Mostly Maine acrylic paintings on canvas by Betsy Elliman, Merrill Memorial Library, 215 Main St., Yarmouth, Aug. 29 – Sept. 30. Hours: Mon, Thurs, Fri, Sat. 10-5; Tues & Wed 10 – 8 p.m. “Portland painter, Betsy Elliman, captures charming glimpses of Maine in richly textured, vibrantly colored canvases. Her paintings of seascapes and flowers, landscapes and barns, cityscapes and houses will be on view at Yarmouth’s Merrill Memorial Library during the month of September.” Ann Jordan, 846-9768; Betsy Elliman, 400-6871; ellimanb@gmail.com; Merrill Memorial Library, 846-4763; info@yarmouthlibrary.org.

Wednesday, Aug. 31 A Call to Remember, A Call to Action noon. The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence, Family Crisis Services and other local domestic violence programs across the state are coming together at noon Wednesday, Aug. 31, to honor the memory of Maine’s recent domestic violence homicide victims. A Call to Remember, A Call to Action is a statewide effort by domestic violence projects to mourn the continued loss of lives and to raise awareness that together we can stop domestic violence. Throughout the state, people will gather at noon for an observance comprising tolling bells, interfaith prayers, a moment of silence and remarks from community leaders speaking about the actions we all can take to end domestic violence.

Family Crisis Services, the local domestic violence project, will be holding its main event at noon Aug. 31 in Brunswick at the gazebo on the town green. Family Crisis Services has asked many faith-based communities and community buildings in the area to join in ringing their bells, including the First Parish Church in Brunswick, The Brunswick Area Interfaith Counsel and Bowdoin College. Churches in the Lakes Region are participating, including the First Congregational Church and St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Bridgton, and Fryeburg’s First Congregational Church. In greater Portland, the Irish Heritage Center, Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church and others are coming together to help support this event. Call 1-866-834-4357 or visit the Family Crisis Services website at www.familycrisis.org.

Thursday, Sept. 1 USM Welcome Husky Fest 2011 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lawn between Payson Smith and Luther Bonney Halls, Portland campus, University of Southern Maine. “Follow the paws to Husky Fest! USM’s largest event ... the 11th annual welcome kick-off party! FREE BBQ for all students! Live Music and activities! Campus departments, student organizations, and community vendors will all be present to help you get connected to the USM community! Rain location: Sullivan Gym, Portland Campus.” 228-8200

Friday, Sept. 2 ‘Curtain Up!’ in Congress Square.

4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Curtain Up!” showcases Portland’s theater community. Part of Sept. 2 Art Walk. The vitality and diversity of Portland’s theater community will be on display at “Curtain Up!,” an exciting preview of what Portland’s many theater companies will be offering during the 2011-12 theater season. The event will take place in Congress Square (at the corner of Congress and High Streets) on Friday, September 2, from 4:30om to 7:30pm p.m. as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Theaters will perform brief excerpts from their shows to introduce themselves to Artwalkers, who will receive a Theater Sampler card including information about each company and ticket discounts. Curtain Up!” is being sponsored by the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance (PACA) and produced by Acorn Productions, AIRE (American Irish Repertory Ensemble) and Lucid Stage. “This is a great opportunity for people attending Art Walk to sample the terrific work that Portland theaters are doing,” said Michael Levine, Producing Director of Acorn Productions and lead producer of the event.

“And it gives us, as a community, a chance to present a unified presence as a vital part of the arts scene in Portland.” Susan Reilly, Managing Director of AIRE, added, “We hope to reach out to different kinds of people interested in the arts who may not be regular theatergoers. And the Theater Sampler will be a handy take-away that prospective audience members can hold on to and use throughout the season. If all goes well this year, we hope to make this an annual event.” Participating theaters include Acorn, AIRE, Children’s Museum and The-

The Maine Wildlife Park has over 30 species of native wildlife on display, including moose. The public can enjoy wildlife gardens, nature trails, a fish hatchery and other interactive exhibits and displays. The park is open daily from April 15 through Nov. 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; visitors must leave the premises by 6 p.m. Admission to the park is free for ages 3 and under; $5 ages 5-12; $7 for adults, and $5 for seniors. Groups of 15 or more are $3.50 per person. For more information about any of the park programs, please call the Maine Wildlife Park at 657-4977; or visit online at www.mainewildlifepark.com. (Photo courtesy of Lisa Kane/Maine Wildlife Park) ater of Maine, Fenix Theater Company, Good Theater, Lucid Stage, New Edge Productions, Portland Playback Theater, Portland Stage Company, Snowlion Repertory Company and more!

First Friday Art Walk 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Join PACA for a free self-guided tour of local art galleries, art studios, museums, and alternative art venues on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance (PACA) is a nonprofit organization with a mission of “Strengthening Portland by strengthening the Arts.” www.firstfridayartwalk.com

First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street Arts.

Portraits, group show curated by MSA artist in residence Heidi Powell. Jim McGinley, Daniel Meiklejohn, Hillary White, Sonia Cook Broen, Baxter Long, Heidi Powell, Zoe Ryan-Humphrey, Jessica Beebe and Russell Ouellett. The opening is immediately followed by LIT. More info on all events at www.mayostreetarts. org.

Prison Inmates Art Exhibit 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Meg Perry, 644 Congress St., Portland. A First Friday Art Walk exhibit at Meg Perry Center will feature both visual and musical art produced by inmates from within correctional facilities throughout the state of Maine. “There will be visual arts items submitted by both adult prisoners from Maine Correctional Center, Two Bridges Regional Jail, and Maine State Prison, as well as from juveniles housed at Long Creek Youth Development Center.

Items will range from sketches and paintings to wood crafts and quilts. Also on hand will be Guitar Doors — Instruments of Change, a local nonprofit dedicated to bringing music and music programming to those incarcerated. There will be CDs available and playing that are the original compositions and recordings from inmates at the same facilities and more.”

Island Institute Community Leadership Fellow, for a hike along the Indian Trail which weaves its way through the Parker Preserve on Peaks Island. Catch the 5:35 p.m. Ferry at Casco Bay Lines Ferry Terminal, the tour starts right when you get to the dock at Peaks Island.” http://www. trails.org/events.html

Southworth Planetarium full dome shows 7 p.m. The Southworth Planetarium is offering full dome video planetarium shows starting on Sept. 2. “On Friday nights in September, we will have a Full Dome Double Feature at 7 p.m. and at 8:30 p.m. ‘Two Small Pieces of Glass’ is a program about the history and science of telescopes.

How have telescopes enabled astronomers discover the outer Universe? From Galileo’s little scope to the Hubble Space Telescope, we’ve used optical equipment to study the cosmos and its myriad wonders. ‘IBEX’ is a new show about the probe which surveys the solar system’s outer edge.

Where does the solar system end? What exotic objects lurk around its periphery? Join us as we explore the nether edge of our own planetary system. A full dome show is an total immersion experience.

Both shows encompass the entire dome. As opposed to traditional programs in which both static and moving images appear at various locations, the Full Dome show is entirely digital video that covers all 360 degrees above the audience.” www.usm.maine.edu/planet

LIT at Mayo Street Arts 8 p.m. A literary happening curated

by Portland poet and theater reviewer Megan Grumbling. This month’s theme for LIT is an exploration of the works of Brecht, and dovetails with Lorem Ipsum’s upcoming production of The Three Penny Opera at Apohadion Theater later in the month. $5-10 suggested donation. www.mayostreetarts.org.

Comedian Bob Marley at the Landing at Pine Point

8 p.m. “Our Labor day Weekend kickoff show is here again with the fabulous comic antics of Bob Marley. The Landing at Pine Point is recognized as kicking off the Labor Indian Trail in the Peaks In an event dedicated to ending domestic violence, Day weekend with a bang and what Family Crisis Services has asked many faith-based better way to do it than with the Island Land Preserve 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Indian communities and community buildings in the area hilarious work of Mr. Marley.” The Trail in the Peaks Island Land to join in ringing their bells at noon Monday, Aug. 31. Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Preserve. “Join Ellen Mahoney, Among them is the Irish Heritage Center. (FILE PHOTO) Point Road, Scarborough.