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Cyberattacks challenges campus culture

(NY Times) — America’s research universities, among the most open and robust centers of information exchange in the world, are increasingly coming under cyberattack, most of it thought to be from China, with millions of hacking attempts weekly. Campuses are being forced to tighten security, constrict their culture of openness and try to determine what has been stolen.

University officials concede that some of the hacking attempts have succeeded. But they have declined to reveal specifics, other than those involving the theft of personal data like Social Security numbers.

They acknowledge that they often do not learn of break-ins until much later, if ever, and that even after discovering the breaches they may not be able to tell what was taken.

“The attacks are increasing exponentially, and so is the sophistication, and I think it’s outpaced our ability to respond,” said Rodney J. Petersen, who heads the cybersecurity program at Educause, a nonprofit alliance of schools and technology companies. “So everyone’s investing a lot more resources in detecting this, so we learn of even more incidents we wouldn’t have known about before.”

Tracy B. Mitrano, the director of information technology policy at Cornell University, said that detection was “probably our greatest area of concern, that the hackers’ ability to detect vulnerabilities and penetrate them without being detected has increased sharply.”

Like many of her counterparts, she said that while the largest number of attacks appeared to have originated in China, hackers have become adept at bouncing their work around the world.

Analysts can track where communications come from — a region, a service provider, sometimes even a user’s specific Internet address.

But hackers often route their penetration attempts through multiple computers, even multiple countries, and the targeted organizations rarely go to the effort and expense of trying to trace the origins.

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Dementia rate found to drop sharply, as forecast (NY Times) — A new study has found that dementia rates among people 65 and older in England and Wales have plummeted by 25 percent over the past two decades, to 6.2 percent from 8.3 percent, a trend that researchers say is likely occurring across developed countries and that could have major social and economic implications for families and societies.

Another recent study, conducted in Denmark, found that people in their 90s who were given a standard test of mental ability in 2010 scored substantially better

than people who had reached their 90s a decade earlier. Nearly one-quarter of those assessed in 2010 scored at the highest level, a rate twice that of those tested in 1998. The percentage of subjects severely impaired fell to 17 percent from 22 percent.

The British study, published on Tuesday in The Lancet, and the Danish one, which was released last week, also in The Lancet, soften alarms sounded by advocacy groups and some public-health officials who have forecast a rapid rise in the number of people with dementia, as well as in the costs of caring for

them. The projections assumed the odds of getting dementia would be unchanged.

Yet experts on aging said the studies also confirmed something they had suspected but had had difficulty proving: dementia rates would fall and mental acuity improve as the population grew healthier and better educated. The incidence of dementia is lower among the better educated, as well as among those who control their blood pressure and cholesterol, possibly because some dementia is caused by ministrokes and other vascular damage.

Senators reach agreement For drug makers, China to avert fight Over filibuster becomes a perilous market WASHINGTON (NY Times) — Senate leaders reached a deal on Tuesday morning to preserve the filibuster in exchange for Senate confirmation of President Obama’s long-sought first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as well as other stalled nominees.

The Senate then voted 71-to-29 to begin debate on the nomination of Richard Cordray, the acting director of the consumer bureau, which could last for up to eight hours before a final vote in which he would need only 51 supporters

for approval.

Under the deal, struck during late night talks mainly between Senators Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona, the Senate allowed a vote on the nomination of Cordray, but put aside two nominees for the National Labor Relations Board who the president appointed during a Senate recess, Richard Griffin and Sharon Block. But organized labor would be allowed to recommend their replacement nominees, who would be confirmed before the end of the month.

(NY Times) — Global drug companies now employ more sales people in China than they do in the United States, their largest market. Several, including Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, are making huge scientific investments in the country, including building research and development centers. Within the next few years, China is poised to surpass Japan as the world’s second-largest pharmaceutical market.

The booming Chinese demand for drugs couldn’t come at a better time for Western manufacturers, whose sales have been slumping because of patent expirations in the United States and stringent price controls in Europe.

But selling pharmaceuticals and other health care products in China is increasingly fraught with peril, as shown by allegations in China this week that GlaxoSmithKline funneled payments through travel agents to doctors, hospitals and government officials to bolster drug sales in the country.

Egypt’s new government doesn’t include Muslim Brotherhood CAIRO (NY Times) — Egyptian officials announced a new government on Tuesday that excluded members of the country’s influential Islamist parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and appeared to give an expanded role to the country’s powerful military chief.

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Analysts praised the diversity of the new cabinet, which included three women, and said it was well qualified to tackle Egypt’s escalating crises, including an economy in free-fall. At the same, they said, any government that owed its existence to the army, rather than voters, and excluded Islamists, Egypt’s most successful electoral force, faced

immediate questions about its legitimacy.

A spokesman for Egypt’s interim president denied that anyone had been “excluded” and said that positions had been offered to members of the Brotherhood as well as the ultraconservative Nour party.

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Marijuana legalization effort enters new phase City council places citywide referendum on Nov. 5 ballot

By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Advocates of decriminalized marijuana in Portland put down the petitions and gathered for a potluck after achieving one of their goals this week.

Proponents of a citywide referendum to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Portland gathered for a potluck and celebration at the Meg Perry Center Tuesday night, a day after the city council formally placed the measure on the November ballot.

The Portland Green Independent Committee celebrated Monday’s 5-1 vote by the city council. A member of the Green Party, David Marshall, was the lone councilor to vote for outright adoption of the ordinance. The council decided to send it to the ballot by a 5-1 vote, with John Coyne in opposition.

Now, the city clerk’s office will draft a ballot measure, based on the petition language, according to Nicole Clegg, city communications director. The city clerk already certified 2,508 signatures to qualify the referendum.

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, voters will cast their ballots on the measure.

“If it passes, we expect that Portland law enforcement will respect the will of voters,” said David Boyer, political director in Maine of the Marijuana Policy Project, member of Citizens for a Safer Portland Coalition.

The referendum would change city ordinance so a person could not smoke marijuana in public, but could legally possess of up to 2.5 ounces if 21 years of age or older, Boyer said.

Signature gathering marked the first phase of advancing marijuana legalization in Portland.

“Now we can segue into the full-on campaign, and our goal right now is to make sure that everyone who steps into the voting booth on Nov. 5 is aware of the fact that marijuana is objectively safer than alcohol,” Boyer said.

Colorado and Washington have decriminalized marijuana recently, and Maine launched a medical marijuana program in 1999.

Still, many law enforcement officials warn that marijuana decriminalization could bring unintended consequences.

And Clegg said Portland police will face a quandary because “officers charged with enforcing federal, state and city law, in that order” will face the conflict of enforcing an ordinance that clashes with state and federal law.

“I think there’s an inherent challenge given the fact that the city ordinance is in conflict with federal

In this scene from late May, Tom MacMillan (right), chair of the Portland Green Independent Party, and David Boyer (left), of the Marijuana Policy Project, were joined by supporters of an initiative to legalize marijuana in Portland as they delivered petitions that were signed by more than 3,200 people to get legalization on the November ballot. The petitions were circulated by Citizens for a Safer Portland coalition.

Staff of the city clerk’s office accepted the signatures. (CRAIG LYONS FILE PHOTO)

“If it passes, we expect that Portland law enforcement will respect the will of voters.” — David Boyer, political director in Maine of the Marijuana Policy Project

“I think there’s an inherent challenge given the fact that the city ordinance is in conflict with federal and state law.” — Nicole Clegg, city communications director

and state law,” Clegg said.

Clegg noted that the Portland charter says a citywide referendum cannot be overturned by the city council for five years so passage of the referendum will place the ordinance on the books for at least that long, barring a court challenge.

Boyer said campaign strategy includes raising the profile of marijuana legalization for an off-year election that may suffer from low turnout.

The Tuesday, Nov. 5 election features several municipal races, including three city council seats — District 3, where Ed Suslovic is running for reelection; and two at-large seats, one in which Jill Duson is running for re-election, and the other to be vacated by John Anton, who has said he is not

running again.

“We do want to make it an election issue and use the council race as a starting point for the discussion,” Boyer said. “It is important that we have city councilors who, no matter their view on marijuana, will respect what the will of the voters is.”

The group’s two-pronged strategy also hinges on public outreach, with flyer distribution at events and festivals.

“We definitely want to reach out to the high-propensity voters who do vote every year,” Boyer said.

“We also want to have a grassroots groundswell of supporters who don’t normally vote for city council in an off year,” he said. “The higher the turnout, the better the margin of victory will be for us.”

$8,687.01 in restitution.

Appearing in U.S. District Court before Judge George Z. Singal, Barnes received sentencing for a May 2011 arrest — along with two co-conspirators — for possession of approximately 160 counterfeit credit cards, Delahanty said. The court ordered that the imprisonment term run consecutive to a sevenyear sentence that Barnes is already serving in New York for burglary and weapons possession, Delah-

anty said. Barnes pled guilty to the federal credit card charge on April 18.

The investigation from 2011 revealed that counterfeit credit cards from the vehicle had been used to make purchases at several stores in South Portland and Scarborough, Delahanty said.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Secret Service and the South Portland and Scarborough police departments.

Brooklyn man sentenced in Southern Maine credit card fraud case Daily Sun Staff Report

Michael Barnes, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced Monday to three years imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and credit card fraud in a case stemming from Southern Maine, U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced in a press release. Barnes also was ordered to pay

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My case against Twitter

The first thing you notice when you arrive at the home of the other Joe Nocera is the New York Yankees’ flag that hangs from his porch. Joe, 46, who lives with his family in Randolph, N.J., has rooted for the Yankees for as long as he can remember. A regional manager for a big fast-food franchisee, Joe is as passionate about the Bronx Bombers today as he was growing up in Queens. So passionate that, a few years ago, he decided to start writing about the Yankees on Twitter. His handle — is that what you call it? — is @joenocera.

I first heard about the other Joe Nocera from my daughter Kate. A Washington journalist, she has been a regular on Twitter for a couple years, first at Politico and now at BuzzFeed, where she covers Congress.

––––– She has long urged me to join The New her in Twitter-land, which I’ve York Times resisted.

Anyway, Kate started noticing that whenever I wrote a column that inflamed certain constituencies, the other Joe Nocera would get some highly insulting tweets. “A smug tendentious column,” wrote @philipturner, in one of the more publishable responses to my support for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Jeffrey Reynolds, a Second Amendment advocate, took to Twitter to boast that the articles on his blog “are FAR more professional” than mine, after I quoted him in a column about guns. “Care to publish an accurate quote?” he sneered.

Not being a tweeter, I had no idea I was being dissed in the Twittersphere. It was like the question about the tree falling in the forest: If you are mocked on Twitter and you don’t know it, have you really been insulted?

I understand the case for Twitter; I really do. It can be used to spread knowledge by sharing photos or articles you’ve been impressed with. Paul Kedrosky, who used to write a terrific blog about business and finance, now confines himself to using Twitter to link to things that interest him. (“Blogs still exist?”

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Restaurant workers get the message Buried in the AP wire report was a news brief about an Orlando restaurant owner who stealthily closed his pizza joint in the wee hours of the night.

With just a light tap of the word “send,” he fired his entire staff via a group text message, thus giving up hope of having his stained uniform shirts and faded aprons returned.

It’s a classic example of antisocial media usage in the business, and yet one more way to avoid difficult face-to-face conversations that haven’t taken place since the introduction of the telephone switchboard. Sadly, this type of electronic communication is rampant in any industry, but in one as relationship-based as the restaurant business, messages such as, “You’re Fired!” are extra harsh.

Not surprisingly, the flow goes both ways. Take for example my friend Greg who gave his notice prior to moving to Colorado (literally three days prior to moving) via a text message to our manager, who was on her first vacation in over a year. Other co-workers have tried texting-in sick or send-

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ing long, drawn-out messages about why they’re going to be late for their shift that evening, which the manager wouldn’t see until twenty minutes after the shift actually started.

Where I work, most of us have created a phone message group for texting when we want a shift covered or need a favor. There has been a time or two when someone meant to send a one-on-one message (usually a gossipy tidbit or snide remark about someone else) that we all received in error. The result was a flurry of messages asking for clarification, finger pointing, badly masked excuses and, ultimately, hurt feelings followed by kissing and making up. This happens in person, too, but recovery and damage control

in that case is much faster and easier.

Keeping media-socially savvy, my restaurant creative consultant team also maintains a very active Facebook private group page where we share candid pictures and vent about crazy stuff customers do. We post the most recent schedule for those who haven’t seen it, rank on the kitchen, talk good, bad and otherwise about our beloved dish dogs and remark on rare sightings of our golf-addicted owner.

We use our private group page to post industry-related YouTube stuff and video clips of an inappropriate nature. Thankfully, social media and the Internet overall is still akin to the Wild, Wild West.

There’s no doubt our page would receive an X-rating if it were a movie, or be shut down altogether for its lewd banter.

On a more PG-13ish note, we post vacation pictures, fat-free recipes, real-time food photography from other restaurants and turn to our private page for extreme personal-life support and advice.

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photo from his “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” era. Below it, she commented on the uncanny resemblance to a regular customer who sits at the end of the bar, talks to himself and smells bad. Another one of us posted about a “dirty old man” who, between bites of Caesar salad, said his dream was to see her hidden tattoo. I commented that seeing her hidden tattoo long had been my dream as well.

Unlike texting, the private group Facebook page is an intimate communication tool. There are twelve people on my restaurant creative consulting team, but I don’t work with all of them on a regular basis. It’s an interactive way to keep in touch, stay informed and feel connected.

On the other hand, group phone text messages

We use our private group page to post industryrelated YouTube stuff and video clips of an inappropriate nature. Thankfully, social media and the Internet overall is still akin to the Wild, Wild West. There’s no doubt our page would receive an X-rating if it were a movie, or be shut down altogether for its lewd banter.

know, no one has ever been fired that way.

The Down Low: Although I doubt I can pass this off as a plausible business expense, I jumped on the Vinland Kickstarter bandwagon with a $65 pledge.

Should the campaign reach the 40K goal over the next eight days, I’ll be rewarded with a brunch for two sometime in October. Apparently, David Levi is forging ahead with more free press and PR than has been generated by Paula Deen’s residual racism and Gordon Ramsay’s bad temper combined.

are instantaneous and great for “emergencies,” but I recommend the Facebook page thing for all frontof-the house staffs. Many places may need ground rules and boundaries to keep it from becoming like a middle-school bullying nightmare, but as far as I

(Natalie Ladd is a columnist for the Portland Daily Sun. She has over 30 continuous years of corporate and fine-dining experience in all frontof-the-house management, hourly and under-thetable positions. She can be reached at natalie@ portlanddailysun.me.)

instantly, they can say some awfully stupid things, as Roddy White, the Atlanta Falcons receiver, did after the George Zimmerman verdict, suggesting in a tweet that the jurors “should go home and kill themselves.”

With its 140-character limit, Twitter exacerbates our society-wide attention deficit disorder: Nothing can be allowed to take more than a few seconds to write or read. Kedrosky may prefer Twitter, but I really miss his thoughtful blog. I recently heard Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief executive, bragging that the pope now has a Twitter account. Once, popes wrote encyclicals; now they tweet.

What I object to most of all is that, like other forms of social media, Twitter can be so hateful.

It can bring out the worst in people, giving them license to tweet things they would never say in real life. For several years, Douglas Kass, the investor and CNBC commentator, regularly tweeted his investment thoughts; with 63,000 followers, he was

one of the most popular investment gurus on Twitter. Recently, however, he decided to stop because he had received so many inexplicably nasty messages. People who opposed his investment views denounced him in the foulest language imaginable.

“I received several life-threating tweets,” he told me.

“I concluded it wasn’t worth navigating the sharks to find the good fish,” he added.

When I had lunch with the other Joe Nocera recently, he told me that he tweeted purely for fun.

Sometimes he sent tweets to sports announcers or players to see if they would respond (sometimes they did). Mostly, he simply offered up his thoughts about his beloved Yankees. Tweeting, he told me, helped relieve the stress of his day job.

I couldn’t argue with that. The only downside is that now that we’re friends, the other Joe Nocera sends me e-mails with the nasty tweets that were intended for me.

Sigh. Ignorance was bliss.

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he tweeted a few months ago.)

Twitter can serve, in the words of Jacob Weisberg, the chairman of Slate, as “a personalized news engine” that allows you to follow issues that matter to you. Kate says that she started tweeting in Washington because “you felt like you were missing out on a conversation if you didn’t.” At BuzzFeed, it is essentially a job requirement.

Twitter drives traffic to Web sites, which is not unimportant. And it was hard not to be impressed with how Twitter “covered” the Boston Marathon bombing in real time.

But to me, at least — and, yes, I acknowledge I’m at the age where I’m losing the battle to keep up with technology — the negatives outweigh the positives. So much on Twitter is frivolous or self-promotional. It can bury you in information.

Because people often use Twitter to react to events

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Reader congratulates the Sun and Telly Halkias for journalism award

Editor, I wish to congratulate both the Sun and Telly Halkias for your great award at the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

It was exciting to see a fellow, and former, Vermonter achieve such a well-deserved acknowledgement.

I moved to Maine from Bennington, Vt., two years ago. I now know why Mr. Halkias’ face and writings seem so familiar to me. He has brought all his talents to Maine where others can continue to enjoy his wonderful column.

Again, many thanks for bringing such a great writer into your fold!

Katie Best (a “new” Mainer) Westbrook

Look at recent petroleum train explosion to weigh tar sands issue Editor, Sometimes you have to draw a line. You have to draw a line between what is good for your community and what is not.

In only 11 days, nearly 4,000 of South Portland’s 18,000 registered voters signed petitions to put the issue of tar sands on the November ballot because they are worried about their water and air, given the frightening record of devastating spills. The record got worse in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, only 10 miles from the Maine border, with a horrific petroleum train explosion that may have killed as many as 50

people. That train was on a route through Maine, heading for New Brunswick.

So, I ask: How could Canadian tar sands, loaded with chemicals, snaking their way in old pipes, sliding close to our Sebago Lake water supply, only to spew their poison into the air at the Bug Light waterfront — before being loaded onto ships headed for China or India — be seen as serving the common good of our community or region?

In light of the record of spills and the near impossibility of cleaning up spilled tar sands, how could I explain to my grandchildren that in the year 2013, when we know that we need to take better care of our world, we adults let this thing happen in order to enhance the profits of ExxonMobil?

Surely the tar-sands-saturated communities of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mayflower, Ark., wish that they had been able to draw a line against dirty and dangerous tar sands.

It is too late for them, but not for us in South Portland.

Karen Sanford South Portland

Congress Street pole ‘is very vulnerable, may easily collapse’ Editor, Recently, while my son and I were walking along Congress Street, I noticed a badly corroded electric pole. As is seen in the picture, almost half of the part of the pole that is connected to the pavement has been destroyed. The maintained load carrying capacity of the pole depends on its failure mechanism. My calculations (based on analyzing the column at its weakened section) show that the maintained load

carrying capacity of the pole is as little as only 15 percent of that of the un-corroded pole. Therefore, this pole is very vulnerable and may easily collapse.

Such a collapse would be very dangerous as the pole might hit people or cars while carrying live broken wires. This pole is located in front of number 284 on Congress Street and is close to the Maine Medical Center-Family Medicine.

Almost two weeks ago I published an article on this subject on the Portland Daily Sun’s website. I hope this reminder can attract more attention to this critical matter and the pole be repaired or replaced swiftly. As corrosion is a likely problem in a coastal city like Portland, a thorough and periodical inspection of similar facilities should be in order. Finally, planning for using corrosion resistant designs could be considered as a long-term solution for the aforementioned problem.

Mehrdaad Ghorashi, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department of Engineering University of Southern Maine Gorham

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Tennis, anyone? Pros return to Boston this week

By Ken Levinsky

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Mark Philippoussis, two-time Tennis Grand Slam finalist, will lead the Boston Lobsters this weekend when they host the Sacramento Capitals at 7 p.m. Friday in a World Team Tennis regular season match.

The Lobsters, 3-5, are just a game behind the second place New York Sportimes (3-3) and an Eastern Conference playoff spot.

The Washington Kastles lead the conference with a 4-2 record.

World Team Tennis (WTT), in its 38th year, was created by tennis legend Billie Jean King.

New England’s team, the Lobsters, relocated this year to the Manchester (Massachusetts) Athletic Club, north of Boston. The seats at the Joan Norton Tennis Center are so close to the action that one can hear the on court conversations.

The league has two conferences, each with four teams which play 14 matches in a three-week span in July. The top two teams in each conference advance to the playoffs. The league playoff semifinals will take place on Thursday, July 25 with the championship match at the home court of the Eastern Conference Champion on Sunday, July 28.

Philippoussis, the former world No. 8 player (with victories over Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras) has one of the best all-time serves in the game. Earlier this month at Wimbledon, the 36-year-old Australian was clocked at 136 m.p.h., the fifth fastest serve

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LEFT: Mark Philippoussis, two-time Tennis Grand Slam finalist will lead the Boston Lobsters this weekend when they host the Sacramento Capitals at 7 p.m. Friday in a WorldTeam Tennis regular season match. ABOVE: Philippoussis, the former world No. 8 player (with victories over Andre Agassiand Pete Sampras) has one of the best all-time serves in the game. Earlier thismonth at Wimbledon, the 36-year-old Australian was clocked at 136 m.p.h., thefifth fastest serve of anyone at the tournament. (KEN LEVINSKY PHOTOS)

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The Lobsters coach, Bud Schultz, is a Bates College graduate who went on to achieve a world ranking of No. 39. Schultz a three-time All-American in tennis was also an All-New England Division III basketball player for the Bobcats. The fifth year Lobsters coach said , “If parents want their kids to fall in love with tennis, they should bring them to a match. The players hit the ball so hard, and have so much control, it’s like magic. It’s a high-energy atmosphere.”

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Fort Richmond, the first of the Kennebec River forts, constructed in 1721 and decommissioned in 1755, underwent an archaeological survey leading up to replacement of a nearby bridge. A visitor to the fort in 1726 noted it was equipped with 10 cannons, according to records from the dig.

Here, Maine Historic Preservation Commission historic archaeologist Leith Smith shares findings at Fort Richmond in the town of Richmond, north of Brunswick, during a talk on Friday, July 12.

(DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Tour digs into past of 1700s Kennebec River fort

Guided tour of Fort Richmond archaeological site occurs against backdrop of bridge replacement, mitigation

By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

RICHMOND — After the Maine Department of Transportation replaces a bridge over the Kennebec River linking the towns of Dresden and Richmond, part of a pre-Revolutionary War archaeological site where history buffs gathered Friday will end up about 15 feet underground.

“All of this will be buried deep under fill because back where the driveway comes off the road, that’s where they will start building up for the high-height bridge,” Maine Historic Preservation Commission historic archaeologist Leith Smith explained, gesturing to the road entrance to the Parks family homestead, formerly an English fort in colonial America.

Friends of Merrymeeting Bay sponsored a guided tour of the Fort Richmond archaeological site Friday, with Smith explaining the significance of the site and its likely fate after the new bridge is completed.

Construction plans for the new bridge and approach road could not avoid the northern portion of the fort site, requiring an archaeological Phase III mitigation effort that started in April 2012, the Friends group reported.

Fort Richmond is the first of the Kennebec River forts, constructed in 1721 and decommissioned in 1755, the group noted. Also affected is the site of the Parks family homestead that was present between around 1775 and 1830. Archaeological work in 2012 revealed intact structure foundations, palisade trenches and fort period artifacts, as well as refuse deposits from the Parks occupation.

One of these artifacts highlighted on Friday was a chunk of a three-pounder cannon, which Smith displayed to the crowd on tour. The three-pounder cannon likely was used to salute officials who would visit the fort or to communicate with the Native Americans in the area, he said.

“We actually had a document from 1730 that describes the munitions that were present at the fort, and at that time it included three burst cannons,” he said. The cannons likely were used to “call” the Native Americans, as a form of communication, rather than to hurl cannonballs.

Other finds included silver cufflinks, glassware and pipe stems, as well as well-preserved foundations and filled cellars from at least eight fort-period structures on both sides of the road cut, officials noted. As a result of these discoveries the fort site was determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

The bridge job seeks to replace an existing 10-span swing bridge along Route 197 with a six-span fixed bridge, supported by six 40 foot-wide by 60-foot-long piers, according to the bid package by Maine DOT. The bridge will reach 1,478 feet across the Kennebec River, and it will be located 45 feet upstream of the existing bridge on the Richmond side of the river and 200 feet upstream of the existing bridge on the Dresden side. The plan includes 1,500 feet of approach road on each side. The low bid of $14.3 million was awarded to Reed & Reed Inc. of Woolwich on June 4. Work is due to be done by the end of 2015 The new bridge is expected to be open to unrestricted traffic by July 2, 2015, according to the Maine DOT bid packet.

A Maine Department of Environmental Protection application review and land use permit, also part of the bid packet, acknowledged that properties in the work site — including the Maine Kennebec Bridge, the Fort Richmond archaeology site and a property at the intersection of Old Ferry Road and River Road — are properties eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.

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ABOVE: Maine Historic Preservation Commission historic archaeologist Leith Smith holds a piece of a cast-iron cannon, likely used to signal and salute.

LEFT: Smith addresses a tour group during an event by Friends of Merrymeeting Bay. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTOS)

Excavations unearthed evidence of habitation by Parks family FORT from page 7

stated. “The Maine Historic Preservation Commission (MHPC) concurred with the applicant’s finding.

The applicant, the Federal Highway Administration, and MHPC signed a Memorandum of Agreement, dated March 14, 2012, which outlines specific measures in which the applicant will mitigate for adverse historic effects. Mitigation measures include documenting the Maine Kennebec Bridge #2506 in accordance with Maine Historic Engineering Record standards and conducting a Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery on the Fort Richmond archaeological site. Based upon information contained in the application and the Memorandum of Agreement, the department finds that the applicant has reasonably mitigated for adverse effects to National Registereligible properties within the immediate vicinity of the proposed project site. The applicant shall submit final results of the archaeological study along with MHPC’s finding to the Department for review.”

Construction has begun on a $14.3 million, 1,478-foot-span bridge to replace an existing swing bridge along Route 197. Here, the new bridge construction site is shown from the Dresden side of the Kennebec River. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

The environmental summary sheet by Maine Department of Transportation states that the stateled “mitigation” consists of photo documentation of the existing bridge and archaeology data recovery.

The Phase III Data Recovery excavation focused on the Fort Richmond site located on the north and south sides of the Richmond approach to the bridge.

Smith said artifacts recovered from the archaeological dig will go to Augusta museums, either to Old Fort Western, which, built in 1754, is America’s oldest surviving wooden fort; or to the Maine State Museum.

“All of the artifacts, once they’re catalogued and washed and studied, they will be at a combination of Fort Western, in their curation facilities, and some will end up in the state museum,” he said.

A contractor will be able to “backfill” a portion of the site, where the tour group gathered. “From an engineering standard, if they can backfill this area without having to do much damage, they will do that,” Smith said. “Obviously all the weight of all that fill should offer preservation.”

A Daughters of the American Revolution marker on the opposite side of Route 197 from the homestead site and connected park should not be affected by the bridge construction, he said.

“The park on the other side will be preserved and there will be people doing educational signage,” Smith said.

Excavations unearthed evidence of human habitation by the Parks family, described by Smith as “a wealthy family from England,” who purchased a large tract of land that included all of the fort site.

They proceeded for 16 years to throw their trash in cellar holes, “it’s fantastic trash, beautiful 18th century ceramics, glass, pipe stems, personal items, buttons, coins, you name it,” Smith said. “We have a tremendous understanding of the Parks family from all of their trash.”

Around 1827, the Parks family vanished from this parcel’s records, he said.

A Facebook page dedicated to the dig can be found at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-RichmondArchaeological-Site/375615755822436.

The PORTLAND Daily Sun, Wednesday, July 17, 2013— Page 9

Portland skirts a heat record, but officials warn of risks City warns residents of heat stroke, other ailments; energy use expected to hit new peak level this week

By David Carkhuff THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Portland fell only one degree short of a daily high-temperature record Monday, as city officials urged the public to take precautions against predicted 90-degree heat.

With temperatures in the 90s throughout the remainder of this week, the Portland Fire Department urged the public to take precautions to stay cool and look out for others who may be vulnerable to heat related illnesses, a city press release stated.

Margaret Curtis, meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in Gray, said Portland residents can expect high temperatures near or above 90 degrees today, Thursday and Friday.

“By the weekend, we will start to see high temperatures drop back down, but it will be in the 90s through Friday and then back down into the 80s on Saturday and Sunday,” Curtis said Tuesday.

On Monday, a high of 91 degrees in Portland fell one degree short of the daily record, set in 1952. A high of 93 degrees in Concord, N.H., was also a degree shy of the record in that city, she said.

Yet, falling short of the record doesn’t mean the 90-degree temperatures won’t affect residents, officials said.

Fire Chief Jerome Lamoria said, “We wait all year for summer in Maine, but in extreme heat it is critical that we take the appropriate steps to be safe while enjoying the outdoors. Remember to look out for others. Check in on your neighbors or others who may be at risk.”

Residents should recognize the warning signs of heat related illness’ and take efforts to prevent them: • Heat cramps — painful muscle spasms, usually felt in the abdomen

Visitors to the Eastern Prom on Thursday, July 11 face one of the sultry days in Maine this month. The average temperature of 73 degrees for the day was one of the highest of the month, as humidity and heat have formed a dangerous combination. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

and legs.

• Heat exhaustion — caused by the excessive loss of salt associated with profuse sweating, resulting in cold, clammy skin, headache, nausea and dizziness.

• Heat stroke — caused by the body’s inability to regulate its temperature; symptoms include red, dry skin, lack of sweating, rapid but weak pulse, confusion, and rapid but shallow breathing.

Common sense treatments apply to heat cramps and heat exhaustion; move the victim to a cool place, drink plenty of fluids, rest, loosen any tight clothing and cool them off with water or wet cloths. Heat stroke is a true medical emergency and 911 should be called immediately if you suspect someone is suffering from heat stroke,

the city cautioned.

The best defense and treatment of heat related illness is prevention, the city press release stated. Drink more non-alcoholic fluids even if you’re not thirsty. Avoid fluids that contain caffeine, alcohol or large amounts of sugar, these actually cause you to lose more body fluids.

Other cautions: Never leave children, infants or pets in cars any length of time in any vehicle, even if the windows are cracked. Children and pets left unattended in parked cars are at the greatest risk for heat stroke, and possibly death. Residents should also be mindful of the impact the heat can have on their pets and make sure that plenty of water is available.

The governor’s office issued an alert that due to the extremely hot and

humid weather forecasted all week, the Governor’s Energy Office is asking all Maine residents and businesses to conserve electricity, especially between the hours of noon and 8 p.m.

ISO-New England, the regional electric system operator, announced Tuesday that the continued hot and humid weather may increase electricity demand to record high levels, regionwide. Electricity use is expected to peak Thursday, July 18, at 27,800 megawatts (MW). The previous all- time record for New England is 28,130 MW, set back in August of 2006.

If there’s a silver lining to the heat wave, it’s that conditions could be worse. Curtis said the all-time high temperature for Portland was a sizzling 103 degrees, set on Aug. 2, 1975.

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Governor to visit Gettysburg for Civil War commemoration Daily Sun Staff Report Governor Paul LePage will visit Pennsylvania today to participate in the 150th commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg, the governor’s office reported. The Battle of Gettysburg is considered a decisive victory for the North that “marked a turning point in the American Civil War,” a press release noted. The ceremony will take place this evening on Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Penn.

“I am proud to participate in the ceremony at Gettysburg that honors the sacrifice and gallantry of Maine soldiers, who played a crucial role over the three-day battle,” LePage said. “Maine men were in the thick of the fighting each day. They fought and died in all the critical battles of Gettysburg, and their valiant efforts helped turn back a Confederate invasion of the North.”

The heroic action of the 20th Maine Volunteers during the battle for Little Round Top is one of Gettysburg’s most celebrated victories, the press release noted. Commanded by Colonel Joshua Chamberlain, the 20th Maine fought back repeated assaults

by Alabama regiments determined to break through Union defenses.

Exhausted and almost out of ammunition, the 20th Maine fixed bayonets and charged at the Confederate soldiers, who then surrendered. Had they broken through the Union line, it is possible the Southern army could have marched on Baltimore and Washington, D.C. “The soldiers from Maine were told to hold the line at all costs, and they did,” said LePage.

The Governor will join the Maine National Guard in a joint tour of the battlefield with the Alabama National Guard. He will deliver brief remarks as the Alabama and Maine National Guard stand together in honor of their fallen.

This year is a big one for history buffs interested in the Civil War. This year’s Chamberlain Days (a biannual event,

in downtown Brunswick on Aug. 9-11) will be particularly robust as the Pejepscot Historical Society marks the Civil War Sesquicentennial, including the 150th anniversary of Brunswick’s own Joshua Chamberlain’s distinguished service at the Battle of Gettysburg, the group reported. For details, visit www.pejepscothistorical.org.

AARP offers driver safety classes An AARP Driver Safety class for drivers age 50 and older will be presented at the AARP State office, 1685 Congress St., Portland, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9.

The registration fee is $12 for AARP members, $14 for others. Registration is urged by Friday, Aug. 2. To register, phone John Hammon, AARP volunteer instructor, at 655-4943. Class size is limited, AARP warned. Additional classes at this location in Portland will be presented on Sept. 13, Oct. 11 and Nov. 8. More information may be found at DriverSafetyME.weebly.com.

Today’s Birthdays: Jazz singer Jimmy Scott is 88. Actor Donald Sutherland is 78. Actresssinger Diahann Carroll is 78. Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor is 73. Rock musician Spencer Davis is 71. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is 66. Rock musician Terry “Geezer” Butler is 64. Actress Lucie Arnaz is 62. Actor David Hasselhoff is 61. Rock musician Fran Smith Jr. (The Hooters) is 61. Television producer Mark Burnett (“Survivor,” ‘’The Apprentice”) is 53. Actress Nancy Giles is 53. Singer Regina Belle is 50. Country singer Craig Morgan is 49.

Rock musician Lou Barlow is 47. Contemporary Christian singer Susan Ashton is 46. Actor Andre Royo is 45. Actress Bitty Schram is 45.

Actor Jason Clarke is 44. Singer JC (PM Dawn) is 42. Rapper Sole’ is 40. Country singer Luke Bryan is 37. Actor Eric Winter is 37. Hockey player Marc Savard is 36. Actor Mike Vogel is 34. Actor Tom Cullen (TV: “Downton Abbey”) is 28. Actor Brando Eaton is 27. Rhythmand-blues singer Jeremih (jehr-uh-MY’) is 26.

Actress Summer Bishil (BIHSH’-ihl) is 25.

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take on the issues that can’t be solved in a day and will make a significant dent in them, too.

At this rate, you’ll have one less problem by the end of the week.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Knowing yourself and your views may actually help you to be more open to other perspectives. Having already articulated your view, you won’t feel the pressure to do so. You can just sit back and listen.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You inhabit your own body with authority. You’ll handle today’s situation with the same confidence, managing the moving parts and guiding the action in the way that best suits you.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 17). Economic and intellectual growth happen in the next six weeks. A professional breakthrough may come disguised as a failed effort that leads to better prospects in September. A new relationship brings both tenderness and excitement.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). Pessimists and optimists can’t agree on what constitutes emptiness and fullness. Artists, mathematicians and scientists can’t agree on it, either.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). A physical snapshot captures an image. A mental snapshot captures information. You will take a snapshot with your heart today and capture the entire feeling of a relationship.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll find beauty in humble scenes where nothing much is happening. What you see will entrance you.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re a calming influence on those who struggle to handle their anger. Your positive way of dealing with them will defuse a situation. You could get paid for your skill in this area.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The day is marked by a sense of anticipation. You feel like you are in between moments, on the brink of transformation. You’re hopeful for the change to come, but you also realize that it’s not entirely under your control.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You don’t need an angel to call you to freedom; you only need to realize that you already are free. The truth is that the limits by which you were most bound were self-created.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). In regard to a person, place or activity, you may have the feeling you are falling in love. How do you know? There is music to accompany your fall, even when it is silent.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You have a true appreciation for all that is taking place in your world today, and you may have to explain the action to another person. You’ll delight in spelling out the intricacies of complicated things.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll be mingling. The appropriate question to ask may not be obvious to you. Find out about people’s connection to the event. Small talk will lead to big talk.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, July 17, the 198th day of 2013. There are 167 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On July 17, 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

On this date: In 1763, American entrepreneur John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf in present-day Germany.

In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.

In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as rightwing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.

In 1938, aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from New York, saying he was headed for California; he ended up in Ireland, supposedly by accident, earning the nickname “Wrong Way Corrigan.”

In 1944, during World War II, 320 men, twothirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.

In 1955, Disneyland had its opening day in Anaheim, Calif.

In 1962, the United States conducted its last atmospheric nuclear test to date, detonating a 20-kiloton device, code-named Little Feller I, at the Nevada Test Site.

In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

In 1981, 114 people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a tea dance.

In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people aboard.

In 1998, Nicholas II, last of the Romanov czars, was formally buried in Russia 80 years after he and his family were slain by the Bolsheviks.

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair forcefully defended their decision to topple Saddam Hussein during a joint White House news conference.

In a speech to the U.S. Congress, Blair said even if they were proven wrong about Iraq’s weapons capabilities, “We will have destroyed a threat that at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering.”

Five years ago: The FDA lifted its salmonella warning on tomatoes amid signs the record outbreak, while not over, might finally be slowing.

President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held a secure video conference during which they agreed to set a “general time horizon” for bringing more U.S. troops home from the Iraq war.

One year ago: Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted a dark picture of where the U.S. economy was headed if Congress failed to reach agreement soon to avert a budget crisis.

Israel plunged toward a political crisis after the largest party in the government quit, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in charge of a hard-line coalition opposed to most Mideast peace moves.

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Dear Annie: I am the grandmother of nine beautiful little grandchildren. Two granddaughters live with their mother and spend weekends with their father, who remarried, and he and his wife are currently residing with me.

Here’s the problem: The younger child, who is 5, was petite until recently. Then her mother and stepmother began forcing this little girl to eat more, or she is punished.

She is a picky eater and has been known to throw fits about eating, but no child should be forced to eat portions that are so big. She has gained 18 pounds in the past five months.

I understand the parents’ frustrations. But she’s a tiny child and should be served smaller portions of food. I also am a firm believer that force-feeding will lead to an eating disorder that could haunt her for the rest of her life.

I am very worried about her. I’ve seen her forced to eat a grilled hot dog, which she’s not fond of, only to throw it up shortly afterward and then not be allowed to eat anything else. They say she was “putting on an act” so Grandma and Grandpa would feel sorry for her. But, Annie, this sudden weight gain cannot be a good thing. She is sick a lot, and I think this is affecting her overall health.

I admit I’m an overprotective grandma, but my kids were picky eaters when they were young. My wise pediatrician said, “Give them a vitamin every day and let it go. You cause more problems by forcing them to eat.

Trust me, they won’t starve to death. They’ll eat when

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I will do whatever you say, but it’s getting more and more difficult to keep my mouth shut. -- Worried Grandma in Illinois Dear Worried: Forcing a child to eat until she throws up or gains 18 pounds in five months could be construed as child abuse. We know her parents think she needs to eat more, but this is completely misguided. Not all children eat the same way, nor should they, and force-feeding a 5-year-old is harmful, both physically and psychologically. Please speak to your son. Ask him to talk to the pediatrician about this immediately.

Dear Annie: A few years ago, my wife and I retired and moved to a new home. We are friendly, helpful and generous, especially with good food and hospitality. But our neighbors have never reciprocated with so much as a cookie, and we have never been invited to their homes.

We all get along well enough, but I have asked my wife not to make extra dishes for them any longer. I’m disappointed with the manners of younger folks who don’t seem to understand reciprocity. -- Southern Golden Oldie Dear Southern: Some people are reluctant to entertain in their homes, but you certainly do not have to keep putting forth the effort if there is no reciprocity of any kind.

There’s no point in being resentful. You can have a perfectly cordial relationship with these neighbors without baking pies and inviting them for coffee.

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, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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Panama seizes North Korea-flagged ship for weapons

By Rick Gladstone, Gerry Mullany and Choe Sang-Hun THE NEW YORK TIMES

Panamanian authorities impounded a rusting North Korean freighter on a voyage from Cuba toward the Panama Canal and back to its home country, and said the ship was carrying missile system components cloaked in a cargo of sugar. The arms would appear to represent a significant violation of United Nations sanctions imposed on North Korea.

President Ricardo Martinelli of Panama, who announced the seizure late Monday in a radio interview, posted a photograph in a Twitter message of what he described as “sophisticated missile equipment” found in the cargo hold of the vessel, the 450foot Chong Chon Gang, a 36-year-old freighter that has rarely plied the waters of the Western Hemisphere.

Mr. Martinelli and other Panamanian officials said the vessel’s 35 crew members were taken into custody after they violently resisted efforts to redirect the vessel to the Panamanian port of Manzanillo, at the Atlantic end of the canal, and that the captain tried to commit suicide after the ship was detained. The captain’s condition was unclear.

The president said the ship would undergo a thorough inspection to look for any more contraband.

“We’re going to keep unloading the ship and figure out exactly what was inside,” he said. “You cannot go around shipping undeclared weapons of war through the Panama Canal.”

José Raúl Mulino, Panama’s minister of security, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday that the suspect cargo had been found in two containers and that “evidently, they are armaments.” Mr. Mulino said all 250,000 sugar sacks aboard would be removed before the ship could be completely investigated.

The crew members were detained and taken to a naval base after they disconnected crane cables aboard their ship, in what Mr. Mulino called an act of “rebellion and sabotage.”

Mr. Martinelli said the ship had been stopped initially on suspicion of carrying narcotics. But it is unusual for Panama Canal authorities to detain or search any ship that is merely passing through the waterway and not stopping in Panama to load or unload cargo.

Mr. Mulino said ship searches were “not unusual when we have information produced from international cooperation we have with many countries.” At the same time, Mr. Mulino said, a tip to search the North Korean vessel came from Panamanian intelligence. He declined to say whether other countries had provided information.

As of midday Tuesday there was no comment

on the ship seizure by officials from either North Korea or Cuba. The two countries, known for their antipathy to the United States, have formed close bonds over the years, partly as a consequence of an American-led effort to ostracize them internationally, North Korea in particular.

The United Nations has imposed broad sanctions on North Korea that seek to curtail its ability to export and import weaponry, particularly missile components and technology. Earlier this month, the United States blacklisted a general in Myanmar, Thein Htay, for buying military goods from North Korea.

American officials say North Korea’s arms trade has helped finance the country’s nuclear and missile ambitions. In February, the North carried out its third nuclear test, a detonation that led to a tightened round of sanctions imposed by the United Nations and supported by North Korea’s longtime ally and benefactor, China.

The seizure comes as Panama and South Korea, the North’s sworn enemy, have been strengthening ties and exploring a possible free trade agreement.

At the same time, North Korea and Cuba have been further strengthening ties as well. Two weeks ago the North Korean armed forces chief of staff, Kim Kyoksik, visited Cuba and met with President Raul Castro, Cuban news media reported. Such a visit by a highranking North Korea official like Mr. Kim did not go unnoticed elsewhere.

“There are very few states where the North Korean chief of staff is welcomed for a high-level meeting,” Hugh Griffiths, an international arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, said in a telephone interview.

Mr. Griffiths said that against the context of Mr. Kim’s visit to Cuba, a seizure of arms on a North Korean vessel that had recently departed from Cuba would not be entirely surprising.

Still, he said, it was unusual that this particular vessel was in the area. He said the ship’s itinerary history showed that it had spent most of its working life

in Asian and European waters.

“This vessel carried a very high level of risk, given the voyage anomalies,” Mr. Griffiths said.

He called it a “raggedy old ship with spotty records.”

In an e-mailed statement, IHS Jane’s Intelligence, the defense consulting firm, said it had identified the equipment shown in the images of the seized cargo as an SNR-75 “Fan Song” fire control radar for the SA-2 family of surface-to-air missiles.

“One possibility is that Cuba could be sending the system to North Korea for an upgrade,” it said. “In this case, it would likely be returned to Cuba and the cargo of sugar could be a payment for the services.”

But IHS Jane’s added that the fire control radar equipment could also have been en route to North Korea to augment North Korea’s air defense network, which it said was based on obsolete weapons, missiles and radars.

After North Korea’s nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests in recent years, the United Nations Security Council has adopted a series of resolutions to ban trade in big and unconventional weapons with North Korea and tighten restrictions aimed at denying financial services that could contribute to the country’s missile and nuclear programs.

There have been occasional crackdowns involving illicit trafficking in arms and luxury goods.

In August last year, Japan seized a cargo of aluminum alloys originating from North Korea, bound for Myanmar and suspected of being connected to a nuclear program, the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported last November.

A shipment of missile-related items from North Korea and bound for Syria on board a Chinese-flagged ship was interdicted in the South Korean port of Pusan in May last year, the Kyodo News agency of Japan reported last November.

In May, the United States Justice Department announced the arrest of a Taiwanese father and son on charges of conspiring to send Americanmade machines that could be used in the production of weapons of mass destruction to Taiwan.

Since the father had a history of working for North Korea, the Justice Department said, it believed the goods may have been sent onward to North Korea.

Despite the tightening of sanctions, North Korea was still believed to be able to exploit loopholes in their implementation. In a report in June last year, the United Nations sanctions committee said that North Korea had demonstrated “elaborate techniques” to evade the sanctions, though their tightening appeared to have slowed its illicit transactions and made them “significantly more difficult and expensive.”

within a certain area, and then return it quickly and conveniently.

The study, a product of the federal Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities program, outlines what bikeshare is and how it might fit into a sustainable transportation system for Portland. The release of the study follows a public forum and daylong workshop held by the city and federal team, as well as a detailed site visit and several discussions with city staff.

“The report is enormously exciting for supporters of a bikeshare system for Portland, because it affirms that we have some of the key factors needed for success of a system,” says Planning and Urban Development Director Jeff Levine. “It also suggests there are some significant challenges for launching a system in a city as small as Portland.”

Levine, who worked on the expansion of the Hubway bikeshare system in Boston previously, says the city is going to take some time to determine next steps, but will be working to raise funds for a likely follow-up analysis that will involve a detailed business plan for a bikeshare system.

The study is funded by a grant from the U.S. Envi-

ronmental Protection Agency, and finds that Portland has many characteristics that are necessary for a bikeshare system. It also identifies key issues of funding and management that need to be resolved, the city reported. Steps in developing a system could include developing a business plan, resolving the role of city government and other stakeholders, and monitoring the recently launched Zagster bikeshare station at the Portland Transportation Center.

Levine noted that the city government is probably not the best organization to take the primary lead in development of a system. “There are several models for a system out there,” he said. “Given the other pressing needs of the city, and limited staff, Portland is far more likely to succeed with a public-private partnership model.” In addition, he added, having one city take the lead on a system would make it more difficult for other municipalities to join the system. “For example, I know that South Portland is actively interested in bikesharing,” he said in the press release.

The bikeshare study is available on the city’s website at http://www.portlandmaine.gov/planning/ epabikesharereport.pdf.

In May, the United States Justice Department announced the arrest of a Taiwanese father and son on charges of conspiring to send Americanmade machines that could be used in the production of weapons of mass destruction to Taiwan.

Since the father had a history of working for North Korea, the Justice Department said, it believed the goods may have been sent onward to North Korea.

New bikeshare report gives city direction on transportation initiative Daily Sun Staff Report

On Tuesday, the city of Portland released a new study that finds fertile conditions for a bikeshare system in the city, but officials cautioned that a public-private partnership would likely work the best.

Bikesharing, according to a city press release, is a system by which someone can borrow a bicycle

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Wednesday, July 17 Sam Halpern at the Portland Public Library

noon. Portland Public Library: “Sam Halpern will appear at the Brown Bag Lecture Series on Wednesday, July 17 at noon in the Rines Auditorium to speak about his book ‘A Far Piece to Canaan.’ ‘A Far Piece to Canaan’ is a warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: It is Sam Halpern’s salty paternal wisdom that made Justin Halpern’s ‘S--t My Dad Says’ a phenomenal bestseller. Inspired by Sam Halpern’s childhood in rural Kentucky, ‘A Far Piece to Canaan’ tells the story of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated but troubled former professor who reluctantly returns after his wife’s death to the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child to reconnect with long-buried memories and make good on a forgotten promise.” http://www.portlandlibrary.com

‘Gypsy’ at Maine State Music Theatre

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Everything’s coming up roses July 17, as Maine State Music Theatre continues its 55th season of professional musical theater at the Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin campus in Brunswick with the smash musical fable, ‘Gypsy.’ Loosely based on the memoirs of striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee, ‘Gypsy’ follows the dreams and disappointments of Mama Rose and her fight to raise her two daughters, Dainty June, based on actress, June Havoc, and Louise, in the world of 1920s show business, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. ...

Maine State Music Theatre favorite, Charis Leos, returns to the Maine State Music Theatre stage as ‘the ultimate show business mother,’ Rose,”” Tickets to see Gypsy are now on sale. Contact the MSMT box office at 725-8769, visit the box office at The Pickard Theater or select and purchase your seats online at www.msmt.org. The show opens on July 17 and runs until Aug. 3. Matinees are at 2 p.m. and evening shows are at 7:30 p.m.

MTB Bike Trek at Evergreen

5 p.m. Portland Trails Discovery Trek: “MTB Bike Trek on the Evergreen Cemetery Trails” (at EMS South Portland) or 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. (at trailhead). “Join us on a guided offroad bike trek along the meandering and varied Evergreen Cemetery Trails, led by Eastern Mountain Sports bike tech Ben Pierce.” Free.

Centennial Serenade Band: Songs of the Civil War

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “The new Longfellow Garden Summer Series opens with a six-piece Serenade Band of Portland’s Centennial Brass Band, recreating a group of the 1850-1875 period. They will play a variety of Civil War era music on horns of the period in honor of the War’s Sesquicentennial, and the opening of MHS’s new museum exhibiton on the War. (Exhibit opens June 28.) Bandmaster Jon Hall will give a historical narrative between selections, talking about the role of music in that era, and during the Civil War in particular. Join us for a special treat along the walkway in front of the Brown Library. Light refreshments will be provided. In case of rain, the event moves to the lecture hall.” Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress St., Portland. www.mainehistory.org

‘How Money Walks’ event

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Maine Heritage Policy Center book signing event with Travis Brown, “How Money Walks.”

“Between 1995 and 2010, millions of Americans moved between the states, taking with them more than $2 trillion in adjusted gross incomes. Some states, like Florida, saw tremendous gains ($86.4 billion), while others, like New York, experienced massive losses ($58.6 billion). People moved, and they took their working wealth with them. The question is, why? Which states benefitted and which states suffered?

And why does it matter? ‘How Money Walks’ explores the power of states’ tax policies to either attract or repel economic growth. Wednesday, July 17, at noon at Samoset Resort on the Ocean, 220 Warrenton S., Rockport; Thursday, July 18, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Portland Country Club, 11 Foreside Road, Falmouth.

Author Tess Gerritsen in Falmouth

6 p.m. “Falmouth Memorial Library is pleased to announce author Tess Gerritsen will speak on Wednesday, July 17 at 6 p.m. Seating is limited. To reserve your free event ticket, please contact Jeannie at 781-2351 or jmadden@falmouth. lib.me.us. Location: Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth.” FMI: 781-2351 or library@falmouth.lib. me.us.

The Confederacy Strikes Portland Harbor

7 p.m. Ilustrated lecture with Herb Adams, Maine historian at the Fifth Maine Regiment Museum, 45 Seashore Ave., Peaks Island. $5 per person. “Please join local historian and educator, Herb Adams, for a fascinating look at Confederate activities along the Maine coast during the civil War. He will discuss a Confederate raid on the cutter Caleb Cushing resulting in an explosive battle in the waters of Casco Bay. The attack was led by Lt. Charles Read, CSN just six days before the battle of Gettysburg. The Fifth Maine Regiment

At Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick, “Gypsy” opens this month with (from left) Madeleine Blakemore as “Baby Louise,” Charis Leos as “Rose,” David Girolmo as “Herbie” and Julia Yameen as “Baby June.” (Photo by Audra Hatch Photography) Museum is a non-profit museum and cultural center housed in the 1888 Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Hall. Its mission is the preservation of Civil War and local history. To that end the museum offers a wide variety of lectures, concerts, tours, youth education programs, and community activities.

Membership is open to the public.”

Sunset Folk Series

7:45 p.m. Sunset Folk Series at Western Prom Park sponsored by Families of the Western Prom Neighborhood.

Concerts last approximately 40 minutes (in case of inclement weather, concert canceled). Wednesday, July 17, 7:45 p.m. Darien Brahms (www.mayspace.com/darienbrahms); Wednesday, July 24, 7:45 p.m. Robby Simpson (www.mayspace.com/robysimpson); Wednesday, July 31, 7:30 p.m.

Phantom Buffalo (www.myspace.com/phantombuffalo); Wednesday, Aug 7, 7:30 p.m. Carolyn Currie (www.carolyncurrie.com); Wednesday, Aug 14, 7:30 p.m. Kurt Baker (www.kurtbakermusic.com). www.portlandmaine.com

Thursday, July 18 Solomon and Ashmedai at the Portland Public Library

10:30 a.m. “As part of Portland Public Library’s summer reading program for children, I Love Reading in Portland: I’m Your Neighbor, Peaks Island Puppets will present Solomon and Ashmedai (or how King Sol wasn’t always very wise), followed by a puppet making workshop. The puppet show and workshop will be held in the Children’s Library on Thursday, July 18 at 10:30 a.m. and is designed for children aged 4 and older. “In this biblical Lord of the Rings, which explores themes of personal integrity and good judgment, a young King Solomon becomes involved with a little devilry and a gold medallion with miraculous powers. Inspired by the biblical Solomon and recast in this enchanted retelling by David Handwerker, Solomon and Ashmedai is a folk tale which takes place in the ancient Middle East. When the young Solomon is foolhardy and nearly loses his kingdom, he learns among commoners to value hard work and earns his famed wisdom. The performance will be followed by a puppet making workshop. Puppeteers David Handwerker and Stephanie Eliot delight audiences of all ages with their storytelling antics. The show is directed by Julie Goell.” “Programs designed for children ages 5-12 include: Thursday, Aug. 1 at 10:30 a.m., A Company of Girls – Theater Arts; Thursday, Aug. 8 at 10:30 a.m., I’m Your Neighbor: Anne Sibley O’Brien/A Path of Stars; Saturday, Aug. 17 at 11 a.m., End of Reading Program Celebration at Riverton!”

Annual picnic for People Plus

11 a.m. Annual picnic for People Plus at Thomas Point Beach in Brunswick. “Join us after 11. Lunch served by Noon! Live Entertainment provided by Pejepscot Station.

Burgers, Hot Dogs, Watermelon and the Works! Fun for All! RSVP by calling the center at 729-0757. But pay the day of the event at the gate! $6 for members of People Plus, $9.50 for non-members. In the event of rain, the picnic will be canceled. This event is possible due to the generosity of Patti Crooker and Thomas Point Beach.” http://www. peopleplusmaine.org. “People Plus supports an engaged, healthy, and independent life for older adults, while joining others to build community for all ages.”

Deering Oaks Bandstand concerts

12:30 p.m. Deering Oaks concerts; starting at 12:30 p.m., concerts last approximately 40 minutes and are held at the Bandstand, Deering Oaks Park (if inclement weather, concert relocated to Reiche Community Center, 166 Brackett St.). Thursday, July 18 Jon Call (Camp Songs); Thursday, July 25 Sammie Haynes (Kids Songs); Thursday, Aug. 1 Matt Loosigian (Kids Songs); Thursday, Aug. 8 USM Chemistry Club (Experimental Fun). www.portlandmaine.com

Cruise and Lighthouse Visit

2:30 p.m. Cruise and Lighthouse Visit: Beacons of Boothbay, Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. Nonmembers — $45; Members — $40; ages 6 to 16 $25. “Explore one of Maine’s harbor lighthouses and island. Visit the lantern room and meet those who lived at the light and were responsible for keeping the light shining, circa 1950.

View three or more other lighthouses during this fivehour cruise.” FMI and tickets visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org.

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

2:30 p.m. Ogunquit Playhouse. “The hilarious musical comedy is a wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks’ film masterpiece. The story follows young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to bring a corpse to life, but not without scary and hilarious complications.” Through July 27. http:// www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

Mountain Bike Ride at Bradbury State Park

5:30 p.m. L.L.Bean event. “Come join us for a mountain bike ride. We’ll meet in the parking lot at Bradbury State Park.

Call store at 1-207-552-7670 to confirm; this ride is weather dependent.” http://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/1000001692

Sunset Cruise of Casco Bay

5:45 p.m. to 8 p.m. Portland Trails Discovery Trek: “Sunset Cruise of Casco Bay.” (Rain date make-up) With guest presenter Brian Marcaurelle of the Maine Island Trail Association. Learn about local boating trails that lead to hiking trails on this 2.25-hour ferry boat island-to-island cruise. $18 for Portland Trails members; $25 for nonmembers. Feel free to bring your own dinner, beverage, etc. Food and drink are allowed on the Casco Bay Ferry Lines boats. Sign up through trails.org. see next page

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Student Journey Through ChIME

6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. ChIME Open House in Auburn, The Chaplaincy Institute of Maine, “Student Journey Through ChIME” with the Rev. Claire Hebert. “Claire was ordained by ChIME this June and did her internship at the First Universalist Church in Auburn. She will describe her experiences and gladly answer any questions for prospective students or the ChIME curious! The Open House is free and open to the public. No registration necessary. First Universalist Church, 169 Pleasant St., Auburn.”

Eastern Promenade Concert Series

7 p.m. Friends Of Eastern Promenade Concert Series, sponsored by the Friends of Eastern Promenade and area businesses. Concerts last approximately one hour. Please note: Due to Fort Allen Park undergoing renovations, concerts this summer are held at Fort Sumner Park, North Street (in case of inclement weather, concert canceled).

Thursday, July 18, 7 p.m. Blues Prophets (Chicago Blues); Thursday, July 25 7 p.m. Chandler’s Band (Marches & Big Band Era); Thursday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m. Pete Kilpatrick (Acoustic Folk Pop); Thursday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m. Sly Chi (Funk Soul & R&B); Thursday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m. The Kenya Hall Band (Funk / NeoSoul); Thursday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m. North of Nashville (Outlaw Country/American Roots); Thursday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m. Maine Marimba Ensemble (Zimbabwean Music).

‘The Music Man’ in Standish

7:30 p.m. Meredith Willson’s rousing musical ‘The Music Man’ comes to the stage of the Schoolhouse Arts Center from July 18 through Aug. 4. Return to the quaint streets of River City Iowa and enjoy the wonderful dance routines, spirited voices, and the adventure of summer romance.

Watch Harold Hill try once again try to con Marion the librarian. Nevertheless, he finds himself caught in the snare of unexpected romance. Audiences will find their feet tapping as they sing along with old favorites like ‘Seventy Six Trombones,’ ‘Good Night My Someone,’ ‘Pick-A-Little Talk-ALittle,’ and lots of others. This show is expected to sell out, so make your reservations early. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. Adult tickets are $18. Seniors and students are $16.

The Schoolhouse is located at 16 Richville Road (Route 114) in Standish, just north of the intersection of Route 114 and Route 35. For reservations, call 642-3743 or buy tickets on-line at www.schoolhousearts.org.”

This year’s Saltwater Celtic Music Festival will take place July 20-21 at Thomas Point Beach in Brunswick. In only its third year, Saltwater features one of the largest and most diverse lineups of Celtic musicians in the country. A complete schedule is available at www. saltwaterfest.com. Here, the Screaming Orphans perform at the Saltwater Celtic Music Festival in 2011. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) annual Pat’s Pizza Clam Festival Classic 5-Mile Road Race will take place Saturday, July 20 at 8 a.m. starting at Town Hall on Main Street. T-shirts will go to the first 700 registered runners. The Clam Festival Canoe and Kayak Race will take place Saturday, July 20 at the Yarmouth Town Landing at 8:30 a.m. The race starts at Town Landing and goes down river, around Lanes Island, and back to the Town Landing via the Royal River. (approx. 6 miles). The 32nd Annual Men’s & Women’s Professional Bike Race will take place Sunday, July 21 at 9 a.m. starting at the Memorial Green on Main Street. This is a 3.6-mile loop with one short climb — 10 laps for men (36 miles) and six laps for women (21.6 miles). There will be $1,500 in prizes and the field will be limited to 100 per race. Registration forms and more detailed schedules for the following races may be found at the festival’s website at http://www.clamfestival.com.

‘Gypsy’ at Maine State Music Theatre

7:30 p.m. “Everything’s coming up roses July 17, as Maine State Music Theatre continues its 55th season of professional musical theater at the Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin campus in Brunswick with the smash musical fable, ‘Gypsy.’ Loosely based on the memoirs of striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee, ‘Gypsy’ follows the dreams and disappointments of Mama Rose and her fight to raise her two daughters, Dainty June, based on actress, June Havoc, and Louise, in the world of 1920s show business, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. ... Maine State Music Theatre favorite, Charis Leos, returns to the Maine State Music Theatre stage as ‘the ultimate show business mother,’ Rose,”” Tickets to see Gypsy are now on sale.

Contact the MSMT box office at 725-8769, visit the box office at The Pickard Theater or select and purchase your seats online at www.msmt.org. The show opens on July 17 and runs until Aug. 3. Matinees are at 2 p.m. and evening shows are at 7:30 p.m.

‘The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses’

6 p.m. Lecture: “From Guiding Lights to Beacons of Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses” Maine Maritime Museum, Bath. Nonmembers $7; members $5.

Authors David Richards and Kirk F. Mohney will explore the lives of Maine’s remarkable lighthouses, from their early history and design through their rise as an icon of the state’s coast to the challenges of decommissioning and preserving these pillars of history, heritage and tourism. To purchase tickets or for more information visit www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org or call443.1316, ext 0.

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 $40 per person (BYOB).

You can buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets. July 18 – Chef Mitch Gerow, East Ender. July 25 — Chefs Brad Messier and Erin Lynch, Rosemont Market & Bakery. Aug. 1 — Chef Josh Potocki, Bread and Butter Catering Co. Aug. 8 — Cultivating Community Youth Growers supported by John Peelen of Dutch Door Kitchen. Aug. 15 — Chef Leslie Oster, Aurora Provisions. Aug. 22 — TBD. Aug. 29 — Chef Chris McClay, Modern Vegan Cooking School. Sept. 5 — Chef Mitch Gerow, East Ender.”

‘Gypsy’ at Maine State Music Theatre

On Friday, celebrate the Official Opening on Memorial Green, join Festival mascot, “Steamer” the Clam, for the official opening of the 48th Annual Yarmouth Clam Festival. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Friday, July 19 ‘Trail to Ale’ 10K Preview Runs

7 a.m. Portland Trails Discovery Trek: “Trail to Ale” 10K Preview Runs. The third Fridays in July (July 19) and August (Aug. 16), and the second Friday in September (Sept. 13). 7 a.m. Run the 10K route on the East End with Portland Trails Director, Kara Wooldrik. Free for people registered for the “Trail to Ale” 10K; suggested $5 donation for Portland Trails members, $7 for non-members. Sign up at trails.org.

Yarmouth Clam Festival

10 a.m. Celebrate the Official Opening on Memorial Green, join Festival mascot, “Steamer” the Clam, for the official opening of the 48th Annual Yarmouth Clam Festival. Scout Troop No. 35 will assist Steamer by raising the flag leading the Pledge of Allegiance. The Downeasters Barbershop Chorus will lead the National Anthem. 10 a.m. Smokey’s Greater Shows Carnival. Carnival Opens at Bennett Field

by Rowe School. Rides and amusements by Smokey’s Greater Shows, Inc. Clam Festival Parade from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. This year’s theme is “Maine on Parade ... a tribute to all things Maine.” The Clam Festival Kids’ Fun Run will also take place Saturday, July 20 at the Memorial Green with the first age group starting at 7:15 a.m. The first 400 registered runners get free T-shirts. The festival’s 32nd

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. “Everything’s coming up roses July 17, as Maine State Music Theatre continues its 55th season of professional musical theater at the Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin campus in Brunswick with the smash musical fable, ‘Gypsy.’ Loosely based on the memoirs of striptease artist, Gypsy Rose Lee, ‘Gypsy’ follows the dreams and disappointments of Mama Rose and her fight to raise her two daughters, Dainty June, based on actress, June Havoc, and Louise, in the world of 1920s show business, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. ... Maine State Music Theatre favorite, Charis Leos, returns to the Maine State Music Theatre stage as ‘the ultimate show business mother,’ Rose,”” Tickets to see Gypsy are now on sale. Contact the MSMT box office at 725-8769, visit the box office at The Pickard Theater or select and purchase your seats online at www.msmt.org.

The show opens on July 17 and runs until Aug. 3. Matinees are at 2 p.m. and evening shows are at 7:30 p.m.

‘The Music Man’ in Standish

7:30 p.m. Meredith Willson’s rousing musical ‘The Music Man’ comes to the stage of the Schoolhouse Arts Center from July 18 through Aug. 4. Return to the quaint streets of River City Iowa and enjoy the wonderful dance routines, spirited voices, and the adventure of summer romance.

Watch Harold Hill try once again try to con Marion the librarian. Nevertheless, he finds himself caught in the snare of unexpected romance. Audiences will find their feet tapping as they sing along with old favorites like ‘Seventy Six Trombones,’ ‘Good Night My Someone,’ ‘Pick-A-Little Talk-ALittle,’ and lots of others. This show is expected to sell out, so make your reservations early. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 5 p.m. Adult tickets are $18. Seniors and students are $16.

The Schoolhouse is located at 16 Richville Road (Route 114) in Standish, just north of the intersection of Route 114 and Route 35.” www.schoolhousearts.org.

‘Young Frankenstein: The Musical’ in Ogunquit

8 p.m. Ogunquit Playhouse. “The hilarious musical comedy is a wickedly inspired re-imagining of the Frankenstein legend based on Mel Brooks’ film masterpiece.

The story follows young Dr. Frankenstein (that’s Fronkensteen) as he attempts to bring a corpse to life, but not without scary and hilarious complications.” Through July 27. http://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org

Page 16 — The PORTLAND Daily Sun, Wednesday, July 17, 2013

WMPG show taps into hot topics, global music ‘Shaken and Stirred’ radio show aims to ‘open up the auditory palate’ for listeners

By Timothy Gillis

SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Unlike James Bond’s famous drink, a local radio show has its listeners shaken and stirred, dancing to its groovy beats and motivated to political action by guest speakers and provocative subjects.

Emma Holder, the host of “Shaken and Stirred,” which airs Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to noon on WMPG (90.9 and 104.1), is in her sixth year of spin-

ning eclectic hits and broaching tough topics.

D.J. Adira, as she is known to her radio audience, says she loves “playing global music that makes me dance” and addressing political issues that stir her.

The format of the show is modeled on an Argentine tango, which takes place at a “milonga.”

“I play sets of music, and then have a break with me riffing on a subject or talking to a guest,” Holder said.

“When you go to a milonga, you have sets of music and in between each set, there is a cortina, which is Spanish for curtain or cut — basically the break

Emma Holder (left), the host of “Shaken and Stirred,” which airs Fridays from 10:30 a.m. to noon on WMPG (90.9 and 104.1), seeks to welcome eclectic guests and radio fare. (COURTESY PHOTO)

between two sets of music.”

In the past, Holder has tackled such topics as green building, the environment and transportation. A longtime dancer, this is her first foray into radio.

“I got into it because of a friend who was a D.J., and he invited me to join him,” she said, adding that anyone can become a volunteer D.J. at the station.

You have to take a free F.C.C, class, and then get on the sub list. You also have to create a 10-minute segment of a show. From there, you can stay a sub or, if the opportunity comes open, you can apply to take on a time slot.

Holder quickly had the chance to become a regular voice at WMPG, replacing a pair of disc jockeys called Marc and Jacques. “They had a show called ‘A la votre,’ with French music and affairs and were leaving. I sat in with them a few times to learn the process,” she said.

Holder grew up in Calgary, Alberta, and moved to the United States in 1993, from Montreal to Boulder, Colo., and then to Portland in 1997.

She is using her free time from the radio show to prepare for a modern dance performance at Portland Stage Company. “It’s a completely new experience for me,” she said. “I usually dance Latin, or belly dance, or the Argentine tango. I never had formal training in dance as a child.”

She will dance to a musical piece called “Luz” by Esduardo Mariscal, a local choreographer, from Aug. 22 to

24. For more information on the performance, visit www.EsduardoMariscal.com.

Holder hopes to promote the global music scene as it plays around town.

“We’re so lucky to have such great bands here in Portland,” she said.

“We’re very diverse for a small city.”

She cited several global bands that ply their trade here, including: The Cajun Aces — Cajun music Primo Cubano — Afro-Cuban Son music Casco Bay Tummlers — klezmer The Burners — folk Gypsy jazz Cinder Conk — Balkan music Okbari — local Middle Eastern Maine Marimba Ensemble — marimba She also credited a few venues that support global music by bringing in world-renowned acts.

“Mayo Street Arts hosts a lot of eclectic music,” she said. “As well as Port City Music Hall, the State Theatre, and Merrill Auditorium.”

She encouraged folks to get out of their American rock comfort zone and discover what music the world has to offer.

“It’s like trying different foods, separate from the standard American diet,” she said. “It’s a way to open up the auditory palate with spicy combinations, blowing open the possibilities of what can make you move. It can take you to another country without a passport.”