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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 VOL. 3 NO. 151 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801 Police arrest two, say five children living in squalor A Portland couple was arrested Wednesday after police say they allowed their five children, including a newborn baby, to live in inhabitable conditions. Siyad Abdi, 30, and Kathleen Johnson, 31, were both charged with endangering the welfare of a child after officials found their home was without running water and infested with insects, filled with scattered debris and had its windows broken out, police said. Officers responded to the resi- dence on Hemlock Street and also reported finding feces on the floor, broken glass and no cleaning sup- plies. "The conditions were pretty bad," said Lt. Gary Rogers, a police spokesman. "Bad enough that the officers felt the parents were endangering the welfare of (the children)." The kids were ages 2, 4, 7, 12 and two months. Rogers said the children were already removed once by the Depart- ment of Health and Human Ser- vices. He didn't know how long ago they were removed. "After having been removed from there, apparently they came back and that's what the officers were fol- lowing up on," Abdi Johnson FREE Police seize crack and heroin See the story of arrests on page 3 Portland’s unseen scene See Jeffrey S. Spofford on page 4 WH predicts high jobless rate See the story on page 6 Equality and the golden rule See Justin Chenette on page 5 Jesse LaCasse spent much of the day Thursday re-installing banners in downtown Portland. Roughly 60 of the banners, which denote various city neighborhoods and districts, were removed late last week in anticipation of Hurricane Irene. LaCasse said high winds could have damaged the banners and even the light poles had the banners been left up (and the winds were much higher than they actually were). Here, he installed a banner on Congress Street in the Arts District. (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO) Police: Teens likely behind S. Portland racist graffi ti South Portland police believe one or more teenagers, rather than an organized hate group, are responsible for spray paint- ing swastikas and other racist symbols on the Southern Maine Community College campus. Community response officer Jeff Caldwell said yesterday the department had collected sev- eral leads in the case but still hadn’t made any arrests. Swastikas, racist remarks about President Barack Obama, and "KKK" were found spray painted on Fort Preble, path- ways leading to the fort, and an academic building on the col- lege’s South Portland campus Aug. 23. Visitors reported seeing the racist graffiti several days after it was first reported. In fact, a local photographer reported that a swastika near Fort Preble was still there as recently as Aug. 31. PPD: Conditions ‘pretty bad’ for kids Storm precaution BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN BY MATTHEW ARCO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN see SQUALOR page 3 see GRAFFITI page 8 S A V E 5 0 % S A V E 5 0 % SAVE 50% P a y $ 7 5 f o r a $ 1 5 0 V o u c h e r * Pay $ 75 for a $ 150 Voucher * VISIT PORTLANDDAILYSUN.ME FOR THIS AND OTHER GREAT OFFERS D a i l y D a i l y D e a l D e a l GREEN CLEANING FOR YOUR HOME
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 VOL. 3 NO. 151 PORTLAND, ME PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER 699-5801

Police arrest two, say fi ve children living in squalor

A Portland couple was arrested Wednesday after police say they allowed their fi ve children, including a newborn baby, to live in inhabitable conditions.

Siyad Abdi, 30, and Kathleen Johnson, 31, were both charged with endangering the welfare of a child after offi cials found their home was without running water and infested with insects, fi lled with scattered debris and had its windows broken out, police said.

Offi cers responded to the resi-dence on Hemlock Street and also reported fi nding feces on the fl oor, broken glass and no cleaning sup-plies.

"The conditions were pretty bad," said Lt. Gary Rogers, a police spokesman. "Bad enough that the offi cers felt the parents were endangering the welfare of

(the children)."The kids were

ages 2, 4, 7, 12 and two months.

Rogers said the children were already removed once by the Depart-ment of Health and Human Ser-vices. He didn't know how long ago they were removed.

"After having been removed from there, apparently they came back and that's what the offi cers were fol-lowing up on,"

Abdi

Johnson

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Police seize crack and heroinSee the story of arrests on page 3

Portland’s unseen scene See Jeffrey S. Spofford on page 4

WH predicts high jobless rate See the story on page 6

Equality and the golden ruleSee Justin Chenette on page 5

Jesse LaCasse spent much of the day Thursday re-installing banners in downtown Portland. Roughly 60 of the banners, which denote various city neighborhoods and districts, were removed late last week in anticipation of Hurricane Irene. LaCasse said high winds could have damaged the banners and even the light poles had the banners been left up (and the winds were much higher than they actually were). Here, he installed a banner on Congress Street in the Arts District. (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO)

Police: Teens likely behind S. Portland racist graffi ti

South Portland police believe one or more teenagers, rather than an organized hate group, are responsible for spray paint-ing swastikas and other racist symbols on the Southern Maine Community College campus.

Community response offi cer Jeff Caldwell said yesterday the department had collected sev-eral leads in the case but still hadn’t made any arrests.

Swastikas, racist remarks

about President Barack Obama, and "KKK" were found spray painted on Fort Preble, path-ways leading to the fort, and an academic building on the col-lege’s South Portland campus Aug. 23.

Visitors reported seeing the racist graffi ti several days after it was fi rst reported. In fact, a local photographer reported that a swastika near Fort Preble was still there as recently as Aug. 31.

PPD: Conditions ‘pretty bad’ for kids

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(NY TIMES) — As the country watched scenes of devastation from Hur-ricane Irene, thousands of history and engineer-ing buffs were on edge for another reason, waiting to hear the fate of hundreds of antique covered bridges that dot the Eastern Seaboard and that are especially concentrated — and beloved — in the unex-pectedly ravaged state of Vermont.

C o v e r e d - b r i d g e enthusiasts and others shuddered as they watched an amateur video, on the Internet, of the Bartonsville bridge in Vermont sliding almost intact into the Williams River on Sunday.

Vermont offi cials have found several other cov-ered bridges, among the 100 or so statewide, that have been seri-ously damaged, but the loss of the Bartonsville bridge, built in 1871, with a wooden lattice spanning 158 feet, was considered the greatest historical blow. (Another badly damaged bridge, in Quechee, was cov-ered but built of con-crete in the 1970s.)

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Relief in Vermont towns as crews make inroadsROCHESTER, Vt. (NY TIMES) — There

is still no electricity in this town at the foot of the Green Mountains, but after days of being cut off from the world, there is a way out.

Road crews had cleared enough of the wreckage on Wednesday to allow in utility trucks and emergency vehicles. Still, most of the 1,100 residents remained unable to come or go after Sunday’s devastating fl oods. Many had made peace with it, for now.

“Spirits are pretty good,” said Virginia Scott Bowman, who had joined dozens of

her neighbors at a community supper in the yard of a local inn before night fell. Many had contributed food from their powerless freezers for what has become a twilight ritual. A massage table had been set up, and children were playing Frisbee on the town green across the street.

By Wednesday night, crews had completed makeshift roads into all of the isolated towns, state offi cials said. They reached the last, Wardsboro, population 850, in south central Vermont, just before 6 p.m.

But the roads, some of which pass

through treacherous mountain landscape, are accessible only by all-terrain vehicles and four-wheel-drive trucks and cannot support regular traffi c, offi cials said.

On Thursday morning, Central Vermont Public Service, the state’s largest utility company, said only 5,900 of its customers remained without power, down from more than 73,000 just after the storm. In areas where bucket trucks cannot get through, workers are arriving on all-terrain vehi-cles and four-wheel-drive vehicles, the company said.

Rebels extend deadline as Qaddafi says he’ll resist

Iran trying to shelter its nuclear fuel program

TRIPOLI, Libya (NY TIMES) — The transitional government of Libya’s tri-umphant rebels decided Thursday to extend by up to a week the deadline given to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and his remaining fi ghters to surren-der, but the fugitive leader rejected the ultimatum and raged at his enemies in a new broadcast that called for the country to be “engulfed in fl ames.”

Colonel Qaddafi , whose where-abouts remained a mystery, deliv-ered the screed in an audio message that was fi rst broadcast by Al Rai, a television channel in Syria that has often carried pro-Qaddafi news and

propaganda. It was not clear how the channel received Colonel Qaddafi ’s message — apparently his fi rst after more than a week on the run — or whether it had been prerecorded.

“We will fi ght the collaborators,” he said. “The Libyan people are not a herd of sheep. They are heavily armed.”

Daring the rebels to fi nd him, he improbably predicted that Libyans would rise up and reject the new gov-ernment as well as the NATO powers that have been bombing his forces for months under a United Nations man-date to protect civilians.

WASHINGTON (NY TIMES) — Iran is moving its most sensitive nuclear fuel production to a heavily defended underground military facility outside the holy city of Qum, where it is less vulnerable to attack from the air, and, the Iranians hope, to the kind of cyberattack that crippled its nuclear program, according to intelli-gence offi cials. The head of Iran’s atomic energy agency, Fereydoon Abbasi, spoke about the transfer in general terms on Monday to an offi cial Iranian news service. He boasted that his country would produce the fuel in much larger quantities than it needs for a small research reac-tor in Tehran that produces medical isotopes.

The fact that Iran is declaring that its production will exceed its needs has reinforced the suspicions of many American and European intelligence offi cials that Iran plans to use the fuel to build weapons or to train Iranian scientists in how to produce bomb-grade fuel.

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THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Friday, September 2, 2011— Page 3

Police arrest two, seize crack and heroinOffi cials seized drugs, cash and a

loaded gun in Portland Wednesday night, during an arrest that landed two people behind bars, police said.

Carl Langston, of South Portland, and Carol Vining, of Cumberland, are expected to appear in court today after agents with Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested the couple in a Con-gress Street parking lot.

They were in possession of nearly a half an ounce of crack cocaine, 61 bags of heroin, $1,600 in cash and marijuana, offi cials said. Police also recovered a loaded .40 caliber handgun found in the car's unlocked glove box, said Kevin Cashman, MDEA supervisor.

"We were aware of them," he said, declining to say whether they were being investigated by drug, but that police have had encounters with them in the past.

Langston was prohibited from carrying a fi rearm because he is a convicted felon,

Cashman said. At the time of the arrest, he was out of jail on bail for a domestic vio-lence charge involving another woman, police said.

Langston and Vining, both 22, were each charged with aggravated drug traffi cking of crack and heroin.

Langston was being held Thursday on $100,000 bail, and Vining's bail was set at $50,000.

Cashman said the arrest was a joint effort between MDEA agents, the Portland Police Department and the Westbrook Police Department.

Vining

Two people were arrested in Portland Wednesday night after police found them in possession of nearly a half an ounce of crack cocaine, 61 bags of heroin, $1,600 in cash and marijuana, accord-ing to investigators. (Photo courtesy of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency)

BY MATTHEW ARCOTHE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Langston

he said, adding a community coordinator received infor-mation either about them being there or of the living conditions.

"They weren't supposed to be there," he said.

DHHS' Offi ce of Child and Family Services is tasked with doing assess-ments in homes considered to be unsafe for children to reside. In cases that call for the removal of children, offi -cials usually try to place the kids in a relatives' custody or another alternative care pro-vider.

Relatives and care provid-ers must pass background checks and other assess-ments to ensure that they are fi t as care providers.

"The parents have to sign off on that ... (and) the par-ents remain the guardians," said Therese Kahill-Low, acting director of the Offi ce of Child and Family Services.

Kahill-Low wouldn't com-ment on the case involv-ing the Portland couple, citing confi dentiality rules. However, she said that as a

matter of standard operating procedure, if parents break the "safety plan," then the agency immediately seeks a court order.

"If we fi nd that the chil-dren are back in the home or if the parents refuse to sign a safety plan, we do what they call a PPO, which is a prelim-inary protection order," she said. "We remove the kids from the home and we place them in foster care and they become wards of the state."

The children then usually live with foster parents, and parents must go through another process in order to regain custody of their chil-dren.

"Basically, if you violate a safety plan, then the state has no other choice," she said.

Kahill-Low didn't know offhand the number of regis-tered foster parents in Port-land, but said that, when possible and appropriate, the agency tries to keep the chil-dren together and in the gen-eral vicinity of their original home.

Offi cials said Johnson and Abdi both bailed out of jail by Wednesday.

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South Portland Police Department gets an app; MyPD for iPhone, Android

South Portland residents have a new way to contact police or get around town updates with their cell phones without making a call or sending a text message.

The South Portland Police Department announced the introduction of “MyPD,” the department’s fi rst cell phone application for people with an iPhone or Android. The appli-cation has features for fi nding the latest news or department contacts, and lets people submit feedback, questions and crime tips.

“We hope that the technology-accustomed public downloads and uses the app to inter-act with the department” said Sgt. Simonds, in a news release. “There are many topics for tips and questions already built in to make things easy for the user. We are attempting to remove much of the guess work and allow the public to conveniently choose a topic and make sure that message gets to the correct offi cer.”

There is no charge to download and use the application.

People can use the application to upload photos and GPS information reporting such things as potholes, parking issues or graffi ti complaints.

Crime tips can be sent anonymously.More information is available at the

department’s website (southportland.org/PD) and at the MyPD app website (wired-blue.co).

All CMP customers expected to be back online by today

All Central Maine Power customers affected by Tropical Storm Irene were slated to have their power restored by this morning, utility offi cials said.

The company reported it restored service to all but 3,737 of its customers by Wednes-day evening and that it expected to repair its remaining lines by late Thursday night. According to CMP’s last announcement, the remaining 34 towns with outages were mostly in Cumberland, Oxford and York counties.

More than 1,000 Cumberland County residents were still without power by 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Within days after the storm, CMP set a Thursday night deadline for when it hoped all of its customers would be back online. Offi cials said all indications of work progress pointed to them being right on track. CMP reported that outages from the storm peaked at nearly 187,000 customers at about 9 p.m. on Aug. 29. The utility estimated that nearly 280,000 cus-tomers lost service at some point due to Irene.

Predictions of a 6 percent drop in north- and southbound Maine Turnpike traffi c at the York Toll Plaza from Friday through Monday compared to last year’s Labor Day weekend partly blamed Irene. The Maine Center for Business & Economic Research at the Univer-sity of Southern Maine projected that overall traffi c at the York Toll Plaza will total 228,700 vehicles from today through Monday, marking a 6 percent decline from 243,300 vehicles in 2010. According to the center’s researchers, a weak economy this quarter, continued high gas prices and disruptions caused by Hurricane Irene are among the causes.

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Adrienne Yoe was quoted in an Aug. 31 story about racist graffi ti at Southern Maine Community Col-lege. Her last name was misspelled in that article.

Portland city manager Mark Rees was appointed earlier this year in a unanimous, and unconten-tious, city council vote. A Sept. 1 article incorrectly said that he was appointed in a 5-4 vote. The con-tentious 5-4 city council vote to appoint Rees over outgoing assistant city manager Pat Finnigan took place in executive session.

Portland is a very different city after you’ve gone to bed. The utopia that “just needs a little vision” the more polished may-oral candidates speak of and the “total governmental tax burden-ing disaster but otherwise okay town” the riff-raff decry is riddled with a drug abusing and/or men-tally disturbed underclass that roams the streets causing trouble on the entire peninsula and the busier thoroughfares on the other side of 295. Usually an “innocent” travelling the streets will only run into it here and there and give it only a fl eeting thought. On Thursday morning, while out delivering this paper, it was bla-tant, it was everywhere and the scene presented provided me a glimpse into our future.

We begin at the Jetport at 2 a.m., where all was quiet. Approaching Libbytown inbound on Congress Street I started to notice a lot of people walking and biking. A lot for this time of day is more than two. There were fi ve. I thought nothing of it and descended into the St. John valley.

Stopping at the Greyhound station for a delivery, I’m usu-ally tripping or glancing over a “regular” from the homeless community. The people without homes that have lived in the city

Portland while you were sleeping

for an extended time seem to have claimed the St. John valley for themselves. The newer home-less population that moved here based on the true rumors that Portland was the cat’s meow for the almighty hand out seems to stick around the Bayside area where those dreams are realized. Instead of the usual one or two people at the station, there were seven people hanging around — and not the regular faces. The faces there looked even less savory than I had grown accus-tomed and immune to, so I pro-ceeded to Union Station plaza right quick.

On my way there I passed the building at the corner of St. John and A streets that is always lit up like a Christmas tree, has no sig-nage and always has one or two suspicious-looking people coming and going from it. This morning, business was brisk, whatever it might be they purvey.

Heading to Dunkin Donuts, I

saw a man wobbling behind the Dog Fish cafe, yelling toward the sky at the top of his lungs. I continued up Congress. I am not over-embellishing when I say that every single stoop on the portion of Congress between Valley St and Bramhall Square was occupied by two or three people I wouldn’t be having tea with, and at two buildings, entry was being granted to knockers by the way of a guy cracking the door, peering out, and sizing up the visiting company. On a typi-cal morning, you might see two or three people in this neck of the woods total. Thursday, there were 30 peeps, minimum.

I banged a right on Bramhall St, passing three late-teen/early twenties dudes using an orange construction cone as a mega-phone. They had made their way up to Maine Medical Center by the time I had exited the hospital. I saw them approach a doctor out-side to smoke a cigarette and as I passed in my rearview saw them dropkick the cone in her direction.

Driving further into the West End I saw people everywhere. There are always a few bar strag-glers or wayward addicts out and about, but Thursday they were

see SPOFFORD page 5

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The other night I did something silly. In a hurry to reach my friend K., I made the mistake of calling him on his mobile phone.

“You should have texted,” he chided me the next morning, when he fi nally heard the voice mail I’d left. “You know that’s the fastest way.”

It’s hard to keep track. Because my friend A., who frequently sends text messages, somehow fails to recognize that she might receive them as well and

Sorry, wrong in-box

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almost never checks. With her, I’m supposed to call.

But not with my friend D. Between his two mobile phones, two offi ce phones and one home phone, you can never know which number to try, and he seems never to pick up, anyway. E-mail is his preference. He has three e-mail addresses, at least that I know about, but I’ve fi g-ured out the best one. I think.

You hear so much about how instantly reachable we all are, how hyperconnected, with our smartphones, laptops, tablets and such. But the maddening truth is that we’ve become so accessible we’re often inaccessible, the process of getting to any of us more tortured and tortuous than ever.

There are up to a dozen possible routes, and the direct one versus the scenic one versus the loop-de-loop versus the dead end changes from person to person. If you’re not dealing with your closest busi-ness associates or friends, whose territory and tics you’ve presumably learned, you’re lost.

There are some people partial to direct messages on Twitter and others oblivious to that corner of the Twitterverse. There are some who look at Face-book messages before anything else, and others whose Facebook accounts are idle, deceptive ves-

see BRUNI page 5

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What comes to mind when you hear the word marriage? Love, commit-ment, family, all are words typically associated with the concept of joining in union with the person that makes your world go round. Some choose to have a big lavish wedding with all the bells and whistles while others, like my parents, get it done at the local court house. Either way, you get a little piece of paper signifying your union through the state in which you live and the many rights and benefi ts that come with it.

There was a period of time when people only married within their social circles based upon their rank and wealth in society. The poor mar-ried the poor and the rich married the rich. There was a period of time when people could only legally marry within their own ethnicity. Whites married whites and blacks married blacks.

We are now in a period of time when men who love men and women who love women cannot legally marry in most states. Like those other times before, society deemed it unaccept-able based on their higher morality that masked their own bigotry. Let us be reminded of the Golden Rule: Due

Applying the golden rule to marriage equality

unto others as you would have done unto you.

If you have been so blessed as to have someone in your life to love, turn to that person. Look deep into their eyes and gaze a bit. In that moment, all that matters is your love; the love you share with that particular person. You aren’t thinking about society or religion or what your neighbors think. At that moment ask yourself; would you like to be denied the opportunity to legally signify your love for that special person just because of how other people thought about it or what the government tells you is right or wrong?

The problem is people lose sight about what the debate over marriage equality is all about; love. It is as simple as that. It isn’t about chang-

ing a defi nition, approving of a certain lifestyle, or teaching something in a classroom. It comes down to the love between two people. If you want your love called marriage, why should you then turn around and deny someone you don’t even know the same oppor-tunity?

When interracial marriage was out-lawed, there were many people that didn’t understand why you would want to be with and marry outside your race just like now there are many people that don’t understand why you would want to be with or marry some-one of the same sex. While the con-cept might be packaged differently, the root issue of discrimination still lingers, though this time in a cloud of religion rather than racism.

The minute I hear someone inter-ject religious beliefs into a discussion about marriage I get confused. There is a reason why there isn’t a religious prerequisite to get hitched nor does your designated religion appear on your marriage license. We were all thought in school that there is a sepa-ration between church and state or are we cherry picking bits and pieces of the constitution?

Marriage is a legal contract through the state. If you don’t want it to be that way, laws need to be changed. It is against our constitution for a state to deny a certain group of people rights including marriage. A hypothetical example would be if a state denied all women from getting a public edu-cation just because they’re women. Marriage is a state social service and therefore should be treated as such.

A vote of 53 to 49 was the fi nal outcome of the defeat of Maine mar-riage equality back in the 2009 elec-tion cycle. Remember your loved one and how you would want to be treated when this issue pops up in conversa-tion or in the voting booth in the near future.

(Justin Chenette is a TV host of “Youth in Politics” airing on WPME Sundays at 7 a.m. and WPXT at 8:30 a.m. He is a former member of the Maine State Board of Education and is currently attending Lyndon State College majoring in broadcast news. Follow him on Twitter @justinchen-ette, like him on Facebook.com/JustinChenetteOffi cial, and visit his website at justinchenette.com.)

on every street and around every bend. Arriving at Cumberland Farms, I was greeted by a gaggle of early-twentysomethings in the parking lot. The manager of the store, having recently lost the part-time overnight guy, was manning the store. I walked in and said, “The city is nuts tonight!” He agreed, and reminded me of a fact a working guy is wont to forget. It was the fi rst of the month, he said, “checks went out.”

“That’s right!” I remembered right then that a per-centage of my early morning toil went to subsidize a few nights on the town for the very people I was seeing out. I usually don’t notice that our subsidiz-ing of the criminally inclined underclass in our city has occurred until about the eighth of the month when I try to fi nd a snack cake in the city and can’t; It seems the Hostess guy hasn’t fi gured out how to capitalize on the welfare state through effi cient merchandising.

Having been reminded of why the city was so busy, I had a better understanding of the grand weirdness I was witnessing. Continuing forth on Danforth Street, there were four dudes standing next to a fi re hydrant that had been opened and was spewing water.

I crossed the interstate from there and headed out on Forest Ave. I nearly squished a guy laying smack dab in the middle of the parking lot at the 449 Forest Ave Plaza, saw two kids armed with felt-tip writing devices at Woodfords Corner and in my rearview, after having passed a wobbly bike rider saw him then cross in front of a cargo van which came to a complete stop to wait for him to move out of the way. Heading further down Forest, I saw four police cruisers pass me, quickly head-ing in to town.

The quietest part of the city Thursday morning? Riverton. Not a peep out there, which was weird in and of itself.

So that is what was happening while you were

sleeping and your tax money was subsidizing “less fortunate” people Thursday morning. I thought you might like to know. It’s time to start thinking about when, not wondering if, what the climate in the city will be like after the collapse of the welfare state. Will a given Thursday at around noon start to more closely resemble this past Thursday at three in the morning? Will these people be better behaved when they’re not getting their Ramen noodles and starv-ing? And most importantly, what steps are you taking now to protect yourselves for the eventual-ity they will come knocking on the door of a North Deering cape near you?

Seeing Portland slowly deteriorate over the last two years in the early morning has given me time to think about these things. Let’s hope our city leaders give it the same kind of thought.

(Jeffrey S. Spofford manages circulation for The Portland Daily Sun and can be reached by emailing [email protected])

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I nearly squished a guy laying smack dab in the middle of the parking lot

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tiges of a fl eeting gregariousness that didn’t survive their boredom with Rebecca’s bread dough (“It isn’t rising! Tips?”) or Tim’s poison ivy (“Itching and itch-ing! Remedies?”).

I know only a handful of people with just one e-mail address, but I know many with three or more, and not all of these people understand automatic forwarding. My friend M. was recently reacquainted with an in-box unattended for a year. It was stuffed with hundreds of unread messages — some, remark-ably, from people fl ummoxed by her aloofness.

During a cyberbinge a few years back, I set up three new, uncoordinated e-mail accounts, though I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe I had some vague notion that I’d be a subtly different person with a subtly different life on each. In fact, I remained the same person with the same life on the same two e-mail accounts I was already using, and that person couldn’t remember the passwords or user names for the additional ones. My debit-card P.I.N. is challenge enough.

Recently, I missed an interview because I was 20 minutes late and the subject assumed I was a no-show. I’d been texting her about my delay because we’d communicated that way before. But it turns out that she has two mobile phones, and was monitor-ing the one whose number I didn’t know. Meanwhile, she was sending me e-mails, but it didn’t occur to me to look for those.

Speaking of interviews, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, arrived for one two years ago with four BlackBerrys. Maybe it was some elab-orate anti-hacking system, a Murdoch Defense Shield.

Communication can become a multistep, multi-platform process. My friend J. and I like to talk on the phone, but only after she has sent me a gmail to propose a gchat, during which we determine if a call is actually warranted and whether I should use her home, mobile, main offi ce or satellite offi ce number. By the time voice meets voice, we’re spent. There’s a lot of heavy breathing; none of it the fun kind.

To her egalitarian credit, she gives out all of her

contact information freely. Others use theirs to create castes of acquaintances: those with only an outer layer of business coordinates; those with “pri-vate e-mail” penetration; and those with the vaunted home phone. I’m no longer sure why I have a home phone, whose voice mail I neglect. A message from my friend L. languished there for two weeks. She really should have e-mailed.

Newly minted relationships come with operating instructions.

“Try his cell fi rst, then shoot him an e-mail,” says a bigwig’s assistant. “Or circle back to me. Here’s my cell, and my e-mail, and ...” Contact information is now contact exegesis.

And contact itself is subject to infi nite vagaries. An e-mail can go to spam. A call can bump up against a voice mailbox not taking new messages. Its owner, managing too many mailboxes, has let it fi ll.

My friend E. just texted, two days after my text. “Didn’t see it,” she reports. “On this new phone, I can’t fi gure anything out.”

In this new world, neither can I.

In our era, newly minted relationships come with operating instructionsBRUNI from page 4

Justin Chenette

–––––Daily Sun Columnist

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White House expects persistently high unemployment, forecast notes

The White House budget offi ce forecast on Thurs-day that unemployment would remain at 9 percent through the 2012 presidential election year, an out-look that it said calls for the sort of the job-creating tax cuts and spending President Obama will pro-pose next week.

The unemployment outlook for the next 16 months refl ects a 9.1 percent rate this year, down slightly from the 9.3 percent forecast when President Obama made his annual budget request in February. Next year, the projected jobless rate is 9 percent, up from 8.6 percent in the February forecast.

Unemployment will not return to the 5 percent range until 2017, the budget offi ce said, refl ecting the intensity of the hangover from the most severe recession since the Great Depression.

While the budget offi ce’s unemployment forecast for 2012 is no surprise given similar private sector projections, it amounts to the White House’s offi -cial acknowledgement of the political hurdle in Mr. Obama’s path to re-election.

The Offi ce of Management and Budget, in its annual midyear update of the nation’s fi scal and economic picture, also said federal budget defi cits would be lower for this year and next. The decline stems from spending cuts that the White House and Congress agreed to this year, in particular their August deal to fi nd up to $2.4 trillion in reductions over a decade. The Congressional Budget Offi ce sim-ilarly revised its fi scal forecast in its midyear report last week.

For this fi scal year, which ends Sept. 30, the budget defi cit will be just over $1.3 trillion, both budget offi ces have projected.

That is down $329 billion, or 20 percent, from the administration’s defi cit estimate at the beginning of the year, refl ecting higher-than-expected revenue and lower-than expected spending. A $1.3 trillion defi cit is equal to 8.8 percent of the economy, as

measured by the gross domestic product, which is far above the 3 percent level that economists gener-ally consider the maximum level desirable.

But the budget offi ce report, released by Jacob J. Lew, Mr. Obama’s budget director, argued that the combination of savings mandated by the August defi cit reduction deal and reduced spending over time in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts for high incomes, would bring the defi cit to 2.2 percent of G.D.P. after a decade.

Letting the individual tax rate cuts expire for annual incomes above $250,000 as scheduled after 2012 would save more than $1 trillion through 2021, the Offi ce of Management and Budget said — $866 billion in revenue and $166 billion in interest sav-ings from a lower federal debt.

The importance of also realizing the separate savings called for in the budget deal is why Mr. Obama plans next Thursday to recommend “an ambitious, comprehensive and balanced defi cit reduction plan,” the report said. The administra-tion hopes to infl uence the special Congressional committee that was created by the deal to reach a bipartisan plan by Nov. 23, for House and Senate votes by late December.

As the Congressional Budget Offi ce earlier empha-sized, even though annual defi cits are expected to decline through the decade as the economy recovers, after 2021 they will climb again because of an aging population and high health care costs that are driv-ing up federal spending, especially for Medicare and Medicaid.

“At the same time,” the report added, “Congress must appreciate that the economy is still wrestling with the after-effects of a very severe recession.” And that, it said, is why Mr. Obama also will propose a job creation initiative for the near term, includ-ing new and previously proposed ideas for tempo-rary tax cuts and infrastructure programs and for retraining the long-term unemployed.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Florida has long been the nation’s center of the illegal sale of pre-scription drugs: Doctors here bought 89 percent of all the Oxycodone sold in the country last year. At its peak, so many out-of-staters fl ocked to Florida to buy drugs at more than 1,000 pain clinics that the state earned the nickname “Oxy Express.”

But with the help of tougher laws, offi cials have moved aggressively this year to shut down so-called pill mills and disrupt the pipeline that moves the drugs north. In the past year, more than 400 clinics were either shut down or closed their doors.

Prosecutors have indicted dozens of pill mill oper-ators, and nearly 80 doctors have seen their licenses suspended for prescribing mass quantities of pills without clear medical need.

New laws are also cutting off distribution. As of July, Florida doctors are barred, with a few excep-tions, from dispensing narcotics and addictive medi-cines in their offi ces or clinics. As a result, doctors’ purchases of Oxycodone, which reached 32.2 mil-lion doses in the fi rst six months of 2010, fell by 97 percent in the same period this year. The ban was phased in beginning last October, with a limit on the number of pills a doctor could dispense.

“We had no tough laws in place; now we do,” said Pam Bondi, Florida’s attorney general.

Law enforcement agencies are also keeping a closer eye on pharmacies. The number of applica-tions to open new pharmacies in Florida has nearly doubled in the past two years, the result of doctors’ facing tougher rules. They now make up half of all the requests in the entire country, according to the latest Drug Enforcement Administration fi gures.

Now, among other things, background checks are required for owners and employees. Viola-tors, whether they are pharmacists, doctors or clinic owners, face stiffer, swifter penalties if they prescribe or distribute legal narcotic drugs to people who do not need them or without following required steps.

One indication that law enforcement offi cials are choking the supply of pre-scription drugs sold ille-gally in Florida is that the price of Oxycodone on the streets here has nearly doubled from last year, to $15 per pill from $8, according to Capt. Eric Coleman, commander of the narcotics division of the Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s Offi ce. And on Commercial Boulevard, a major street in Broward County, the number of pain clinics has fallen in the past year from 29 to one.

Treatment centers are also seeing more addicts seeking help. “We have patients walking in the door that cannot afford prescription drugs any more,” said Dr. Barbara Krantz, the chief execu-tive and medical director of Hanley Center, a large private treatment clinic in Palm Beach County.

Federal, state and local law enforcement offi cials have worked closely to increase the number of

arrests and major indictments. They are dealing with pill mill operators as they would large criminal enterprises.

Last month federal prosecutors used racketeer-ing laws to indict 32 people, including twin brothers who they say operated a sprawling pill mill opera-tion. The brothers, who owned four pain clinics, also were charged with kidnapping, extortion and assault with a fi rearm under the indictment. Most of the prescriptions were written to patients who traveled to Florida from out of state, with Kentucky making up the largest share.

And in a rare move, a Florida doctor who worked at one of the pain clinics was charged with murder by Palm Beach County prosecutors after a patient died of an overdose in 2009, a few hours after the doctor prescribed him 210 pain pills.

One of the brothers who owned the clinic, Jeffrey George, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week. Prosecutors say the twins’ clinics were responsible for 56 overdose deaths.

The clinics were shut in 2010, but more than a year passed before the case was built, in part because Oxycodone is legal and the new laws were not in place.

Charging a doctor and a clinic owner with homi-cide “was a game changer,” said Sheriff Ric L. Brad-shaw of Palm Beach County. “You are not going to get a slap on the wrist. You are looking at life in prison.”

Offi cials here acknowledge the drug problem is still alarming. Last year, seven people died in Florida each day from prescription drug overdoses, a nearly 8 percent increase from 2009. This is far more than the number who died from illegal drugs, and the fi gure is not expected to drop much this year. Oxycodone, which when abused has an effect similar to heroin, was the most lethal.

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Physical plant employees at Southern Maine Community College removed racist graffi ti left on the campus last week, although some of the graffi ti was still visible to the naked eye. (CASEY CONLEY PHOTO)

Carolyn Cianchette, spokesper-son for SMCC, confi rmed yesterday afternoon in an email that the col-lege had removed the offensive graf-fi ti, although some tags may still be visible.

“Just talked again to our facilities manager who said he just walked the area and he didn't see anything. There may be some of it bleeding through after they removed it, and he will address that. He also said that any racial graffi ti is always immediately removed by our facili-ties people, not the city, as soon as we see it,” she said in an email.

In addition to the graffi ti, the van-

dals also broke windows at a campus building, Cianchette said.

As of yesterday afternoon, rem-nants of the red swastika were still visible near the fort structure, although attempts had been made to remove it. The letters “KKK” were also visible.

Caldwell said the presence of the letters “KKK” next to swastikas sug-gests teenagers were behind the vandalism, rather than an organized white supremacist group.

“It looks like kids. There was some KKK stuff, and the KKK doesn’t really associate with neo-Nazi people,” he said.

The case remains under investiga-tion.

GRAFFITI from page one

SMCC rep: Offensive graffi ti may remain visible, ‘bleeding through’

The Maine Department of Conservation’s offi cial fall foliage website — www.mainefoliage.com — will launch on Wednesday, Sept. 14, and continue with regular reports on fall foliage conditions through Oct. 19 or until the entire state has reached past peak conditions, according to Gale Ross, Maine foli-age spokeswoman for the Maine Forest Service.

Now in their 53rd year of foliage reporting, Maine Forest Service forest rangers collect data and on-the-ground observations in each of the seven zones throughout the state and provide the information to the public and state media representatives. Their data is collected and complied on the fall foliage

zone map included on the website, the Maine Forest Service reported.

MFS forest rangers use mobile collection devices throughout the year to collect information needed for the Maine Forest Service and also to provide on-site observations for fl ood and other natural emer-gency situations, Ross said.

“These devices come in handy during the foliage season, as the forest rangers can submit their obser-vations to me on a daily basis,” Ross said. The infor-mation then is posted on the website for constant updating for leaf peepers, she said.

The foliage website has a new design this year that will enable faster, easier access that can be viewed on mobile devices. Leaf peepers now can

take photos with their phones and instantly submit them to the Maine foliage website, Ross said.

The site also incorporates link to social media, including Facebook, which allows leaf peepers to instantly access foliage updates, the foliage spokes-woman said.

“To date, more 1,500 people have signed up to receive the fall foliage reports sent directly to their email address,” Ross said.

More than 17 million acres of Maine forest sus-tained only minor damage from Tropical Storm Irene, Ross notes.

“Maine came through Tropical Storm Irene, and we’re gearing up for a fantastic fall season,” she said.

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Maine’s fall foliage website to launch on Wednesday, Sept. 14

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You possess remarkable powers, both visual and social. You’ll create pictures in your mind of you in a not-so-distant future, having a ball with the people you most want to know. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Spend some time fi guring out what you really want. When you’re not sure, you can’t help but send out a mixed signal. Who knows what you’ll bring back? It’s like casting a fi shing line out with pizza for bait. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s a so-called Chinese “curse” that sounds suspiciously like a blessing: “May you live in interesting times and attract the attention of important people.” Enter gingerly into potentially ego-infl ating situations. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You know exactly why a scenario is not working out the way you want it to. One powerful person stands in the way -- or rather, it is this person’s beliefs that thwart your effort. This belief can change with the right persuasion. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are many ways to go about your work, some of them much more expensive than others. Investigate your options. Liking a person is not a good enough reason to employ him or her. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You strive to be your best in every situation, but the fact remains that some situa-tions will bring out a less than optimum side of you. That’s why it’s important to get plenty of rest and give yourself every advantage. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Someone has borrowed a part of you as though you were a book, and it is now time to call that part of you back. You need all

of your energy now so you can do what you know you’re meant to do. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Busi-nesses and people around you hype their assets and rattle on about what they can do. You have the sneaking suspicion that it can’t all be true. You’ll take a more modest approach, and people will respond to you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You never know when someone is fall-ing for you. All the signs are there, but you’re too active and involved in your world to wonder what others think about you. That’s part of what makes you so charismatic. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your encouragement and interest will inspire someone to keep going. These qualities, as well as your patience and love, are the most signifi cant gifts you can give to others. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have an increasing power to heal with your thoughts. You also have the poten-tial to hurt with them. So be mindful and use your new level of infl uence well. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your environment will refl ect your gentle-ness, softness and kindness to others. There is a strength in this tone that is far greater than the loud aggression that sometimes goes on in the world. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 2). Put yourself in physically different situa-tions -- you’ll shine as a newcomer. This month, you’ll take action and gain recognition for your talent and ability. Children fi gure into your work. Teach-ing will bring excitement to your world. Now, November and January are the best months for business. Cancer and Scorpio people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 1, 42, 31 and 17.

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News 13 on FOX (N) Frasier Syndica-tion. Å

According to Jim Å

8 WMTWShark Tank The sharks fight over a product. (In Stereo) Å

Karaoke Battle USA Hopefuls perform for the judges. (N) Å

20/20 (In Stereo) Å News 8 WMTW at 11 (N)

Nightline (N) Å

10 MPBNWashing-ton Week (N) Å

Maine Watch with Jennifer

McLaughlin Group (N)

Inside Washing-ton Å

Need to Know (N) (In Stereo) Å

Charlie Rose (N) (In Stereo) Å

11 WENHPriceless Antiques Roadshow

Antiques Roadshow “Norwich”

History Detectives Camera; Civil War doll; map. (N) Å

Movie: “Okie Noodling II” (2008, Documentary) Å

POV “Armadillo” Danish soldiers fight the Tal-iban. Å

12 WPXTNikita “Betrayals” Nikita must save a CIA cryptog-rapher. Å

Supernatural “Let It Bleed” A demon kidnaps Lisa and Ben.

Entourage “Murphy’s Lie” Å

TMZ (N) (In Stereo) Å

Extra (N) (In Stereo) Å

Punk’d (In Stereo) Å

13 WGME48 Hours Mystery A woman survives a deadly first date. (N)

CSI: NY “Do Not Pass Go” A decomposed body is found in a car.

Blue Bloods A tourist’s murder is sensational-ized. (In Stereo) Å

WGME News 13 at 11:00

Late Show With David Letterman

17 WPME Monk (In Stereo) Å Monk (In Stereo) Å Curb Our Homes Star Trek: Next

24 DISC Man, Woman, Wild Man, Woman, Wild (N) One Man Army (N) Man, Woman, Wild

25 FAM Funniest Home Videos Funniest Home Videos Funniest Home Videos The 700 Club Å

26 USA NCIS “Ex-File” Å NCIS “Lost & Found” CSI: Crime Scene Royal Pains Å

27 NESN MLB Baseball: Rangers at Red Sox Innings Red Sox Daily Outdoors

28 CSNE UEFA Champions League Soccer Sports SportsNet Sports SportsNet

30 ESPN College Football Texas Christian at Baylor. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) Å

31 ESPN2 2011 U.S. Open Tennis Men’s Second Round and Women’s Third Round. Soccer

33 ION Without a Trace Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds “100”

34 DISN ANT Farm ANT Farm ANT Farm ANT Farm Vampire Random Good Luck Random

35 TOON Firebreath Thundr. King of Hill King of Hill Amer. Dad Amer. Dad Fam. Guy Fam. Guy

36 NICK iCarly (In Stereo) Å ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show

37 MSNBC The Last Word Day of Destruction Day of Destruction Lockup Special

38 CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Piers Morgan Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 John King, USA

40 CNBC 60 Minutes on CNBC Millions Millions Cruise Inc.: Big Money Mad Money

41 FNC The O’Reilly Factor (N) Freedom Rising With Shepard Smith The O’Reilly Factor

43 TNT Movie: ››› “Gran Torino” (2008) Clint Eastwood. Å Movie: ››› “Gran Torino” (2008)

44 LIFE Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Reba Å Roseanne Roseanne How I Met How I Met

46 TLC Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Say Yes Four Weddings (N) Say Yes Say Yes

47 AMC Lonesome Dove Two former Texas Rangers. (Part 1 of 2) Å

48 HGTV Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters Hunters

49 TRAV Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures Ghost Adventures

50 A&E Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å Criminal Minds Å

52 BRAVO Movie: “Resident Evil” Movie: ››› “The Bourne Supremacy” (2004) Matt Damon. Bourne Su

55 HALL Little House Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier Frasier

56 SYFY WWE Friday Night SmackDown! (N) Å Haven (N) Alphas

57 ANIM Tanked Å Tanked “Be Cool” (N) Rat Busters NYC (N) Tanked “Be Cool”

58 HIST Pawn Pawn American American American American Modern Marvels “Dirt”

60 BET Movie: ›‡ “Hair Show” (2004) Mo’Nique. Å Movie: › “How to Be a Player” (1997) Å

61 COM Chappelle Chappelle Chappelle Chappelle Chappelle Chappelle Wyatt Cenac

62 FX Movie: ››‡ “Monsters vs. Aliens” (2009) Movie: ››‡ “Monsters vs. Aliens” (2009)

67 TVLND M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Raymond Everybody-Raymond Raymond Raymond Cleveland

68 TBS Fam. Guy Fam. Guy Movie: ›› “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail” “Madea Goes to Jail”

76 SPIKE Gangland (In Stereo) Å Gangland Å Gangland Å Gangland

78 OXY Movie: ››› “Clueless” (1995, Comedy) Å Movie: ››› “Clueless” (1995, Comedy) Å

146 TCM “Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid” Movie: ››‡ “Beach Blanket Bingo” (1965) Miranda

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Today is Friday, Sept. 2, the 245th day of 2011. There are 120 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:On Sept. 2, 1945, Japan formally surren-

dered in ceremonies aboard the USS Mis-souri in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II.

On this date:In 1666, the Great Fire of London broke

out.In 1789, the United States Treasury

Department was established.In 1864, during the Civil War, Union

Gen. William T. Sherman’s forces occupied Atlanta.

In 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” in a speech at the Min-nesota State Fair.

In 1935, a Labor Day hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives.

In 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic. (Ho died on this date in 1969.)

In 1969, in what some regard as the birth of the Internet, two connected computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, passed test data through a 15-foot cable.

In 1986, a judge in Los Angeles sentenced Cathy Evelyn Smith to three years in prison for involuntary manslaughter for her role in the 1982 drug overdose death of comedian John Belushi. (Smith served 18 months.)

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush for-mally recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Esto-nia, which had broken away from the Soviet Union.

In 1998, a Swissair MD-11 jetliner crashed off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people aboard.

One year ago: Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged in a fi rst round of renewed peace talks in Washington to keep meeting at regular intervals. Seattle Storm forward Lauren Jackson was selected the WNBA’s most valuable player for the third time in her career.

Today’s Birthdays: Dancer-actress Marge Champion is 92. Jazz musician Horace Silver is 83. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Gooden is 72. Singer Jimmy Clanton is 71. Rhythm-and-blues singer Rosalind Ashford (Martha & the Vandellas) is 68. Singer Joe Simon is 68. Actor Mark Harmon is 60. International Tennis Hall of Famer Jimmy Connors is 59. Actress Linda Purl is 56. Rock musician Jerry Augustyniak is 53. Country musician Paul Deakin is 52. Actor Keanu Reeves is 47. Actress Salma Hayek is 45. Actress Kristen Cloke is 43. Actress Cynthia Watros is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer K-Ci is 42. Actor-comedian Katt Williams is 38. Actor Michael Lombardi is 37. Actress Tiffany Hines is 34. Rock musician Sam Rivers (Limp Bizkit) is 34. Rock musi-cian Spencer Smith is 24.

ACROSS 1 Wise man 5 Pulverize 10 Flaming Gorge

state 14 Yemeni port 15 Bill __ and the

Comets 16 Child’s forbidden

thing 17 Too nervous to

speak 19 Ditty 20 In the vicinity 21 Former Spanish

cash 23 Schon and Hefti 24 __ Moines 26 Doubter’s

exclamation 27 Hullabaloo 29 Eases off 32 Buccaneer’s drink 35 Invalidate 37 Aching 38 In days past 39 Tec 41 West of fi lms 42 Pronounce

indistinctly 44 Copper coat 45 Cornering pipe 46 Climber’s spikes 48 Render

weaponless 50 SHO competitor 51 Pose a question 52 Ruth’s mother-in-

law 56 Degraded 59 Intensely

emotional 60 Sharif of fi lms 61 Hypocritical

respect 64 Expense 65 Brain sections 66 “__ Dinka Doo” 67 Jolly laugh 68 Net worth item 69 Scottish headland

DOWN 1 Head of Hades 2 Be wild about 3 Salami variety 4 Inundate 5 Small outbuilding

6 Tatami 7 “Float like a

butterfl y” boxer 8 Leaks slowly 9 Jekyll’s other half 10 Defeats an

incumbent 11 Delicious 12 Paquin of “The

Piano” 13 Sty denizens 18 Lacking

recognition 22 That girl 24 Church truth 25 MIT founder

Bigelow 28 Stays in the

military 29 Infamous hotelier

Helmsley 30 Russian range 31 Banana strip 32 Speak hoarsely 33 Wrinkled fruit 34 Medicated rinse 36 Use one’s head 40 Moneymaker 43 Pirate Clemente

47 Negative link 49 Composer

Hamlisch 51 Gaucho’s good-

bye 53 Of sheep 54 Jagger and

Fleetwood 55 Brainstorms 56 Highland lake

57 Melville’s “Typee” sequel

58 Jazz singer Fitzgerald

59 Song or slug ending

62 Network of “Nova”

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 21 years, and we have fi ve wonderful children. “Tom” is 50, and I am 39. In the past few years, Tom has developed an annoying habit. He openly ogles attractive women and young teenage girls. I can understand one glance, but he stares. After we walk past, he’ll look over his shoulder to get the rear view. Later in the day, he will sometimes remark that I should wear this or that revealing outfi t, tone my muscles more, dye my hair a specifi c color or lose weight. Mind you, I am a size 4. Tom says he fi nds skinny women with large breasts and tattoos a turn-on. I don’t look like that. I have told Tom that his newfound habit is hurtful and dis-respectful to me. It makes me feel that I’m not pretty enough and gives the impression that these women could easily steal him away. It embarrasses me so much that I don’t want to go anywhere with him. We no longer take evening walks, and forget about restaurants. When I tell this to Tom, he becomes angry and often yells at me. He insists he’s doing nothing wrong and has no intention of stopping. He says I’m the one with the problem, and that I’m jealous and spoiled. Is he right? Do I need to change? Is this the proverbial male midlife crisis? Why doesn’t he care how much it upsets me? He could at least not do it when I’m with him, but he won’t. -- Unhappily Married to an Ogler Dear Unhappy: Many men have these thoughts, but Tom seems to have lost the ability (or willingness) to censor his actions in public. Ask him to get a complete physical to make sure his “new habit” isn’t being exacerbated by a medical condition. If he is simply behaving like a toddler in a candy store, you must decide whether you can ignore his boorish-ness. Most women fi nd this behavior pathetic and obnoxious,

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UNITED NATIONS — A long-awaited United Nations review of Israel’s raid on a Turkish-based fl otilla in which nine passengers were killed has found that Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is both legal and appropriate. But it said that the way Israeli forces boarded the vessels trying to break that blockade 15 months ago was excessive and unreasonable.

The report, expected to be released Friday, also found that when Israeli commandos boarded the main ship, they faced “organized and violent resistance from a group of passengers” and were therefore required to use force for their own protec-tion. But the report called the force “excessive and unreasonable,” saying that the loss of life was unac-ceptable and that the Israeli military’s later treat-ment of passengers was abusive.

The 105-page report, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, was completed months ago. But its publication was delayed several times as Turkey and Israel sought to reconcile their dete-riorating relationship and perhaps avoid making the report public. In reactions from both govern-ments included in the report, as well as in inter-views, each objected to its conclusions. Both said they believed that the report, which was intended to help mend relations, would instead make recon-ciliation harder.

Turkey is particularly upset by the conclusion that Israel’s naval blockade is in keeping with international law and that its forces have the right to stop Gaza-bound ships in international waters, which is what happened in the 2010 episode. That conclusion oversteps the mandate of the four-member panel appointed by the United Nations secretary general and is at odds with other United Nations decisions, Turkey argued.

The report noted that the panel did not have the power to compel testimony or demand documents, but instead had to rely on information provided by Israel and Turkey. Therefore, its conclusions cannot be considered defi nitive in either fact or law.

The Foreign Ministries in Turkey and Israel declined to comment publicly on the report, saying they preferred to wait for its offi cial release. No one was available to comment in the offi ce of the United Nations spokesman.

Israel considers the report to be a rare vindica-tion for it in the United Nations. A United Nations Security Council statement at the time assailed the loss of life, and Israel faced widespread inter-national condemnation. It thought that by offering to negotiate an agreement with Turkey that would stop the report’s publication, Turkish offi cials might soften their position.

But the two countries’ negotiations, which focused on some kind of apology from Israel and compensa-tion for the victims — eight Turks and an American of Turkish descent — ended in failure. Israel says it is willing to express regret and pay compensation. But the Turks want a full apology. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he believed that apologizing would demoralize Israeli citizens and broadcast a message of weakness. Aides said he might reconsider at a later date if the Turks eased their demands.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said an apology and compensation would not be suffi cient to return Turkey’s ambassador to Tel Aviv. Israel also has to end its naval blockade of Gaza, he insisted.

The report does recommend that Israel make “an appropriate statement of regret” and pay com-pensation, but the Turks say that formula does not express suffi cient remorse.

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Library of Congress traveling exhibition in Portlandnoon to 8 p.m. A special Library of Congress traveling exhi-bition — mounted in a customized 18-wheel truck — will visit Portland. “Gateway to Knowledge” will be in Portland on Friday, Sept. 2, and Saturday, Sept. 3, and will be parked at Monument Square. The exhibit is free and open to the public from noon to 8 p.m. both days. For further informa-tion about the exhibit, visit www.loc.gov/gateway/.

‘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, Sept. 2, from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 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 oppor-tunity for people attending Art Walk to sample the terrifi c work that Portland theaters are doing,” said Michael Levine, pro-ducing director of Acorn Productions and lead producer of the event. “And it gives us, as a community, a chance to present a unifi ed 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 Theater 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 Walk5 p.m. Join Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance 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. PACA is a nonprofi t organization with a mission of “strengthening Portland by strengthening the Arts.” www.fi rstfridayartwalk.com

First Friday Art Walk opening, ‘Monsters of Men’5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Paintings by Andy Finkle at the Green Hand Bookshop, 661 Congress St., Portland. “In his inaugural exhibition in Maine, Andy Finkle presents a series of mon-sters and the men that search for them. This acrylic bestiary presents interpretations of some of the most notable char-acters in cryptozoology. From Bigfoot to the Owlman, these elusive subjects are available for public viewing in vivid full color. Finkle’s work is infl uenced more by ‘In Search Of’ reruns than college art courses. Inspired by comic books, Finkle treads the painterly line that separates the whimsi-cal from the grotesque. His work has appeared in the only bowling alley in Antarctica and the most recent issue of Horror Hosts and Creature Features. While currently based out of South Carolina, Finkle is patiently plotting his next appearance in Maine.” (On display through the month of September.) As an extra bonus, the Watchers will be play-ing their peculiarly exciting style of mysterious surf rock at around 7 p.m. 450-6695 or [email protected]

First Friday Art Walk at Peek-A-Boo Tattoo5 p.m. to 7 p.m. 574 Congress St. (upstairs), Portland. Live music with When Particles Collide. A guitar and drum duo steeped in mid -’90s indie rock, late ‘70s art pop-punk with a hint of folk. Simultaneously strong willed and vulnerable vocals supported tightly locked rhythms. Free beverages, free tattoo give away, and oil paintings on display by BelouCall 899-6001 for more information or look for the business on Facebook. This is an 18-plus event.

Oliver at Maine Charitable Mechanic Association5 p.m. For First Friday Art Walk, the Maine Charitable Mechanic Association library will be hosting local artist Jef-fery Oliver, with drawings and underwater photography. The MCMA library is starting a book club that will meet on the fi rst Tuesday of each month at noon; bring a sandwich, des-sert coffee and tea provided. Bring a list of what books you would like to read and discuss. First Book Club meeting is Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the library. Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, started in 1815 with 65 members, in 1859 built a landmark building on Congress Street where the mem-bership library still exists today and is open to many public events.Library is open Tues., Wed. and Thurs, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., phone 773-8396

Mariah K. Brinton at the St. Lawrence5 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening at the St. Lawrence Arts Center. The St. Lawrence Arts Center is owned and operated by the nonprofi t corporation Friends of the St. Law-rence. Parish Hall Theater, see the newest installation; Photo-graphs by Mariah K. Brinton. Complimentary snacks and wine on hand. “Photographic exhibits range from San Francisco in 2004-2005, with her fi rst solo show in December 2004, to the Netherlands, New York and Brooklyn. With a style formed by the time she spent as a teenager exploring the NYC streets with a 35mm Pentax in hand and her love of fashion, the com-bination is an aesthetic reminiscent of William Klein’s New York street work.” www.stlawrencearts.org

Falmouth’s Judy LaBraska at Daunis5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Falmouth’s Judy LaBraska, First Friday photo exhibit. “Watching roads being laid out in the country-side of Pennsylvania to create the Levittown experiment she was to live in made Judy LaBraska think about the impact of design in life.” This is an exhibit of Photographs of Ephemeral Sculptures, Drawings and Books. At Daunis Fine Jewelry, 616 Congress St. in Portland, from Sept. 2 through Nov. 2.

First Friday Exhibit at Mayo Street5 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.

Susan Elliot’s ‘Trees: In a Different Light’5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artists’ Social for First Friday Art Walk at The Gallery at Harmon’s & Barton’s. Exhibition through September. Gallery hours: Mon thru Fri, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sat 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 584 Congress St. 774 5948. “With a background in Natural Resources, a wellspring of humor, and rampant, joyous imagination, Maine tree artist Susan Elliot’s subjects are always the embodiment of one or more of these qualities. Narrowing her focus in 2008 to simply drawing trees, Elliot discovered that choosing a subject matter close to her heart immeasurably widened the range of her creativity.”

Prison Inmates Art Exhibit5 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 nonprofi t dedicated to bringing music and music pro-gramming to those incarcerated. There will be CDs avail-able and playing that are the original compositions and recordings from inmates at the same facilities and more.”

First Friday Art Walk at SPACE Gallery5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Zone by Maya Hayuk and Pulled by Mike Perry. “Come celebrate the re-opening of our main space and the opening of Maya Hayuk’s installation, Zone. Take in the large scale mulit-colored bullseye, the fl oor to ceiling drippy woven wall textile, the paper peice that trails onto the wall and the glow-in-the-blacklight neon mural on our newly constructed wall. In the annex, soak up the beauti-ful variance of techniques and styles in the screen-printing exhibition, Pulled, by Mike Perry.” www.space538.org/events.php

Two Fabulous Fashion Exhibits5 p.m. to 8 p.m. New show: “Having in Paris a Great Suc-cess”: French Fashion, 1928-1936, Maine Historical Society. “Join us during Portland’s First Friday Art Walks (9/2, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2) to see two fabulous fashion-themed shows, “Having in Paris a Great Success”: French Fashion, 1928-1936 on display in the Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Lecture Hall and Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In: Adornment & Iden-tity in Maine, on display in the museum. Mingle with friends, enjoy refreshments and music, and discover Maine history.” www.mainehistory.org/programs_events.shtml#event_233

Arthur Fink photo exhibit opening5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Photographer Arthur Fink’s most recent show of dance photography is now hanging in his Port-land studio, with an offi cial “opening” on the First Friday Art Walk this Friday. His studio is located at 145 Newbury St. (just off India Street), on the second fl oor of a former synagogue. The show will be hanging through at least the end of September. Fink has completed his seventh year as photographer in residence at the Bates Dance Festival, and his work is well known within the New England dance com-munity. He also offers workshops on “Seeing Dance Like a Photographer,” and regularly photographs at dance events. Studio/Gallery in Portland and also on Peaks Island. www.arthurfi nkphoto.com

Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Indian Trail in the Peaks Island Land Preserve. “Join Ellen Mahoney, 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

Forgotten Wars at Sanctuary Tattoo6 p.m. First Friday Art Walk opening, at Sanctuary Tattoo. “The collected crypto-historical works of Graham Meyer, Sarah Tarling Matzke and Christian Matzke chronicling the parallel antiquities of Forgotten Wars... The 1905 Invasion of Mars, and the 1913 Lantern Annexation of the Industrial Empire of the East. Featuring portraiture, artifacts and illus-tration curated in a museum-style exhibit. History is crafted; Speculation is an Art.” 31 Forest Ave.

David Ford, foreman with Preservation Timber Framing, points out evidence of changes to the historic Abyssinian Meeting House during restoration work. The Abyssinian Meeting House, Maine’s only African American National Underground Railroad Historic Site, is the focus of an archaeological excavation. Organizers of the restoration and dig will conduct an informational news conference at the site, 75 New-bury St., and display most recent historic artifacts, today at 11 a.m. The public is invited. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

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Southworth Planetarium full dome shows7 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 plan-etary 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

Portland Playback Theatre in the workplace7:30 p.m. CTN5, 516 Congress St., right next to MECA, $5 at the door. Theme: What happened at work. “The workplace is an epicenter of everything from ego-ridden chains of command to secret, perilous offi ce romances. It can be a playground of imagination and purpose, or a wasteland of meaningless drudgery. And after work, we let loose and tell stories - of what happened at work. Tell us a story from your workplace life and watch our team of improvisors immediately play it back! Or just come to watch! Now in its sixth year, Portland Playback Theatre puts fi ve talented actors at your disposal to replay the stories of your life. Learn more at www.portlandplay-back.com.”

‘Legally Blonde the Musical’8 p.m. “Legally Blonde the Musical,” on stage at John Lane’s Ogunquit Playhouse. “This award-winning Broadway musical sensation is based on the hit movie of the same name and follows college sweet-heart and homecoming queen Elle Woods as she puts down the credit card, hits the books and heads for Harvard Law School in pursuit of her boyfriend Warner, who just dumped her for someone more serious.” www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

LIT at Mayo Street Arts8 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 Point8 p.m. “Our Labor day Weekend kickoff show is here again with the fabulous comic antics of Bob Marley. The Land-ing at Pine Point is recognized as kicking off the Labor Day weekend with a bang and what better way to do it than with the hilarious work of Mr. Marley.” The Landing at Pine Point, 353 Pine Point Road, Scarborough.

Saturday, Sept. 3

Ride in memory of 9/119 a.m. to 10 a.m. Two Wisconsin men on a motorcycle ride to honor military personnel and those affected by 9/11. “Despite a recent diagnosis of a brain aneuresym, Woody West of Wisconsin has organized a 17-state, 15-day ride to honor rescue workers and those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. During the ride, organized and joined by Terry Werdewitz, they will be stopping at the Pentagon, Ground Zero and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, as well as visiting 19 local fi re stations along the route as a part of the Remember Rally patch exchange. Woody is a Viet Nam Vet. They are inviting anyone along the way to join them in their Ride To Remember, whether for one mile or a hundred.” The ride will stop at the Portland Fire Department at 380 Congress St. in Portland. www.rememberrally.com

Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn9 a.m. to noon. The September Open House at the New Gloucester History Barn, Route 231 (behind the Town Hall), New Gloucester, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon. The spe-cial exhibit this month will be photos and artifacts related to New Gloucester schools. The exhibit of historic vehicles remains on display. Admission is free.

Unity hosts dog show9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Unity of Greater Portland, 54 River Road in Windham, will host the Second Annual Scoop Robbins

Dog Show with Craft and Book Sale. If last year’s event was any example, there should be fun for the whole family and plenty of prizes for the family dog. Lots of ribbons will be awarded for such unusual categories as “Dog with the Longest Ears” and “Saddest Eyes.” Maggie the Beagle has already announced her intention to attend and defend last year’s title for “Waggingest Tail.” Entry fee $5 per dog, humans free. You do not need a dog to participate. For more info go to the dog show webpage at www.adeva-designs.com/dogshow/dogshow.htm or visit the church website, www.unitygreaterportland.org.

Irish genealogy/history roundtable10 a.m. Irish genealogy/history roundtable at the Maine Irish Heritage Center. “Bring your lunch, genealogy, old photos, questions, etc. This is the center’s third monthly meeting of its kind. The MIHC will host a roundtable the fi rst Saturday of every month.”

Portland Brew Festivalnoon to 8:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better? But we realize after 3 1/2 hours of tasting-sized samples and a whole head-load of beer education, you’ll likely want to get out and get friendly with a full-sized pint or two and see how some of your new favorites stand up to your favorite dishes. So we’re putting this whole craft beer-stravaganza right on the edges of Munjoy Hill and the Old Port where you can meander into town after the fact and get feel for these beers in a real-world context.” Organiz-ers are partnering with Sail Maine, a local nonprofi t sup-porting sailing in Maine at the grass-roots, community level. A portion of the proceeds of the event go to ben-efi t community boating through Sail Maine. Also Sunday. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

‘Up Up, Down Down’ screening7 p.m. A part of the St. Lawrence Arts Center’s Local Monthly Film Series. $5. “Don’t miss the premier screen-ing of Portland fi lmmaker Allen Baldwin’s much anticipated premier of ‘Up Up, Down Down’. This will be Portland’s only screening and DVD release of the fi nal theatrical ver-sion so we hope that you come on down. In the works since 2009, ‘Up Up, Down Down’ is Baldwin’s most recent fea-ture length fi lm; a coming of age story that tells the tale of a young couple of underachievers eating cereal, playing

video games and facing the trials and tribulations of an unforeseen pregnancy. Featuring lead performances by Erik Moody and Kristina Balbo. Written by Jeremy Stover and Allen Baldwin. Shot by Luke Pola.” Follow-ing the screening on September 3rd will be a open table Q&A session with the director and actors involved in the feature. Tix and information: www.stlawrencearts.org

‘Legally Blonde the Musical’8:30 p.m. “Legally Blonde the Musical,” on stage at John Lane’s Ogunquit Playhouse. “This award-winning Broadway musical sensation is based on the hit movie of the same name and follows college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods as she puts down the credit card, hits the books and heads for Harvard Law School in pursuit of her boy-friend Warner, who just dumped her for someone more serious.” www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

Sunday, Sept. 4

Lions Club breakfast on Peaks8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Lions Club breakfast at Greenwood Gardens, Peaks Island. Pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee, milk, orange juice. Adult: $6 Child: $4. www.peaksisland.info/calendar_2011.htm#September

Paws in the Park at Payson Park10 a.m. The Animal Refuge League of Greater Port-land’s annual fundraiser, Paws in the Park, is sched-uled in a brand new location, Portland’s Payson Park. Registration begins at 10 a.m. and the dog walk at 11 a.m. Each registrant will receive a gift for participating. There will be lots of fun festivities beginning at 10 am. There will be agility demon-strations, pet items for sale, raffl es, rescue groups, adoptable dogs, animal communicators Sara Moore and Jailene Fontaine, Reiki demonstrations, micro-chipping and a host of other activities. Erin Ovalle from WMTW 8 is honorary MC and WGAN’s Dynamic Duo Ken and Mike will serve as judges for the Cool Canine Contest held after the walk. Prizes will be awarded to the team, child and adult with the highest dollar value in pledges. The proceeds will help provide food, shelter, emergency, and preventative veterinary care, as well as provide new beginnings for the more than 4,000 animals

who come through the shelter’s doors each year. To celebrate the ARL’s 100th Anniversary, this year there will also be a 5K run which will precede the dog walk. The Furry Friends 5K will begin at 9 a.m. (registration at 7 a.m.) and also be in Payson Park. To register and collect pledges for Paws in the Park or The Furry Friends 5K visit the ARL website at www.arlgp.org.

New Gloucester Community Market11 a.m. Filled with a diverse selection of local products, the New Gloucester Community Market will be premier-ing on Sunday, Sept. 4. Music, a barbecue and raffl e will add to the festivities on opening day. The Market will set up shop at Thompson’s Orchard, 276 Gloucester Hill Road, New Gloucester. There you will fi nd products such as veg-etables, bread, jams and preserves, eggs and dairy, meat, plants, berries, herbs, soaps, alpaca yarn and wears, and more. The Market will be held Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursdays from 2 to 6 p.m. and is slated to run through the end of October. For more information, contact Noah Fralich, 232-1304, or [email protected].

Portland Brew Festival, day twonoon to 3:30 p.m. Portland Brew Festival at the Portland Company Complex. “2011 is the inaugural year for the Portland Brew Festival, what promises to become one of the jewels of summer in Maine. With three buildings for exhibitors, over 75 varieties of regional craft brews, home-brewing supplies and demonstrations, the best in food, local music how could it really get better?” A portion of the proceeds of the event go to benefi t community boating through Sail Maine. www.portlandbrewfestival.com

Handmade Puppet Dreams Volume I7 p.m. Film screening with intro/talk by fi lmmaker Tim LaGasse $7, Mayo Street Arts. “Tim LaGasse is a renowned puppeteer and fi lmmaker and we are thrilled to have him join us for the fi rst screening in the four-volume HMPD series produced by Heather Henson’s Ibex Puppetry.” www.mayostreetarts.org

‘The Karate Kid’9 p.m. MENSK is pleased to announce a rooftop screen-ing 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.” First, we’ll show local “The George Kareman Variety Hour: RL Stine” by Your Boy George and Mint Films. The fi lms begin around sunset, (or by 9 p.m.) Bring your own lawn chair, blan-kets 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

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Photographer Arthur Fink’s most recent show of dance photography is now hang-ing in his Portland studio, with an offi cial “opening” tonight. (COURTESY IMAGE)

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