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Mayor, city councilors say CDBG funding system more ‘rational, objective’ Competitive scoring picks winners, losers; Cultivating Community loses its slot — Page 9

Judge denies suit seeking return of labor mural

Portland city manager predicts ‘incremental’ changes in tough budget year — Page 6

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Salt: Telling compelling stories for 40 years See page 8

In about 10 days, Mark Rees will release his first budget as city manager. “We are doing everything we can do be able to maintain existing levels of services,” he said. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

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History carved out of the hills SALT LAKE CITY (NY Times) — All museums are temples of sorts, monuments to collectors or cultures, declarations of identity, gathering places for tribute. But museums of natural history have an even more distinctive stature. Their focus is not human history, measured in centuries, but natural history, measured in eons. And their subject is not a particular culture and its accomplishments, but a world that seems to stand beyond culture altogether. Natural history museums seek their ground in the earth itself.

Within the museum, walls of windows offer panoramic views of the snow-covered peaks of the Wasatch Mountain Range. A central atrium called the Canyon functions as the building’s axis.

That is one reason that the Natural History Museum of Utah, which opened last fall in a new $102 million, 17-acre home in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountain Range, has such a powerful impact. Here, at Salt Lake City’s edge, above the geological shoreline of the ancient Lake Bonneville, the earth is vividly present: seen in nearby snow-covered mountains, in the winding hiking and biking path that runs past the museum, and in the untouched land above.

Most natural history museums are in urban centers, offering reminders of a distant natural world, but this one is housed in the realm it surveys; it is at home.

The museum is associated with the University of Utah, and for more than 40 years, as its director, Sarah B. George, explained to me, it had inadequate quarters for research and collections.

A new building was needed, and a combination of public and private funds encouraged ambitious planning.

So when the principal designers were selected, they toured Utah, whose landscapes include winding canyons, otherworldly rock formations and looming stone cliffs.

The chief architect, Todd Schliemann, who designed the Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and whose firm, Ennead Architects, teamed up with GSBS Architects for the project, said: “This whole state is architecture. How am I supposed to compete with this?”

He doesn’t, really. But he pays homage, echoing natural features in the building’s faceted planes and reflective glass panels. The museum is terraced into the hillside, built in the form of three interconnected bars that seem to have sheared against one another, leaving jagged surfaces.

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U.S. Sergeant charged with 17 counts of murder KABUL, Afghanistan (NY Times) — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder in connection with a March 11 attack on Afghan civilians, American forces in Afghanistan said.

If convicted of premeditated murder, Sergeant Bales could face the death penalty, according to the announcement, which also stated that a minimum penalty on the charge is a life sentence with the possibility of parole.

Afghan and American officials have said

that Sergeant Bales, who is 38 and had been serving his fourth combat tour overseas, walked away from his remote base in southern Afghanistan and shot and stabbed members of several families in a nighttime ambush.

Afghan officials initially announced that 16 people were killed in the rampage; at least nine were children and some others were women. The Army has not suggested a motive. But the charges, which were announced in a six-paragraph statement Friday from United States forces, said

College president Obama’s pick for World Bank chief WASHINGTON (NY Times) — The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College and a global health expert, as its nominee to lead the World Bank.

That makes Dr. Kim the frontrunner to take the helm of the multinational development institution on June 30, when its current president, Robert B. Zoellick, will step down at the end of his fiveyear term. Tradition has held that Washington selects the head of the World Bank and Europe the leader of its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, since they were founded during World War II. Dr. Kim’s name was not among those widely bandied about since.

Zoellick announced his plans to move on last month. Highly respected among aid experts,

Dr. Kim is an anthropologist and a physician who co-founded Partners in Health, a nonprofit that provides health care for the poor, and a former director of the department of H.I.V./AIDS at the World Health Organization.

“The leader of the World Bank should have a deep understanding of both the role that development plays in the world and the importance of creating conditions where assistance is no longer needed,” President Obama said Friday. “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world’s largest development agency.”

In a statement, Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary and an alumnus of Dartmouth, praised Dr. Kim: “Development is his lifetime commitment, and it is his passion.

Sergeant Bales was accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians. The statement did not include details of the crimes, and it did not account for the larger number of dead.

Afghan officials on Friday stuck to the initial death toll.

None of the six people whom Sergeant Bales is accused of assaulting and attempting to murder had died from wounds sustained in the attack, though three remain hospitalized, said Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the government of Kandahar Province, where the killings took place.

Pope, arriving in Mexico, decries violence there, Marxism in Cuba SILAO, MEXICO (NY Times) — Pope Benedict XVI landed here Friday, starting his first trip to Latin America with a warm greeting from Mexico’s President, Felipe Calderón, and thousands of Catholics from all over Mexico who waved flags, shouted and cheered at the mere sound of his approach.

Pope Benedict XVI waved on Friday as he boarded a plane in Rome on his way to visit Mexico and Cuba.

Addressing a crowd that had waited for hours in the sun, the Pope said he has come “as a pilgrim of faith, hope and love.”

“With this brief visit,” he said, “I wish to greet all Mexicans and to include all the people of Latin America, represented here by many bishops.”

The Pope is expected to speak at greater length at an outdoor Mass on Sunday in Guanajuato, but even before he touched ground, he addressed the main issue on the minds of Mexican Catholics, and he tackled the thorny topic of government in Cuba, where he will head Monday for the second and final leg of his journey.

For his audience in Mexico, where Catholics are distraught over the deaths 50,000 people since the government’s war against drug cartels began in late 2006, Pope Benedict emphasized that Mexico´s violence is caused by greed.

Gay marriage effort attracting a novel group of donors LOS ANGELES (NY Times) — On a warm Friday afternoon three years ago, Rob Reiner, the director, arrived for lunch at the Beverly Hills estate of David Geffen, the entertainment mogul. Reiner and his political adviser, Chad H. Griffin, had spent six months drafting an ambitious legal campaign aimed at persuading the United States Supreme Court to establish a constitutional right of same-sex marriage.

Reiner, joined by Griffin and Reiner’s wife, Michele, told Geffen they would need $3 million to challenge Proposition 8, a California voter ini-

tiative approved the previous November banning same-sex marriage. He informed Geffen that they had recruited two renowned lawyers, David Boies, a Democrat, and Theodore B. Olson, a Republican, to argue the case.

“Our feeling is not to go state by state,” Reiner said.

“Our strategy is to make this wind up in the United States Supreme Court and have this a settled issue for all time.”

Geffen asked few questions as they sat in the dining room off his screening room, with a sweeping view down his sculptured estate. He agreed before the dessert arrived to raise the

money. “I said I’d give them half the money and raise the other half,” Geffen recounted.

Geffen wrote a check for $1.5 million and asked Steve Bing, a friend and producer, to make up the rest.

That lunch was a milestone in the dramatic evolution of a behind-the-scenes fundraising network whose goal is to legalize same-sex marriage from coast to coast. This emerging group of donors is not quite like any other fundraising network that has supported gay-related issues over the past 40 years. They come from Hollywood, yes, but also from Wall Street and Washing-

ton and the corporate world; there are Republicans as well as Democrats; and perhaps most strikingly, long-time gay organizers said, there has been an influx of contributions from straight donors unlike anything they have seen before.

Griffin, who this month was named president of the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay advocacy group, recounted being at a September 2010 fund-raiser for the Proposition 8 legal fund at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York, organized by, among others, Wall Street financiers and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee.

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Suslovic, Roche embark on environmental trip to Russia DAILY SUN STAFF REPORTS City Councilor Ed Suslovic and Ecomaine General Manager Kevin Roche embarked for Russia yesterday, part of a trip to help Portland’s sister city, Archangel, create a plan to address environmental issues.

The trip, sponsored by the State Department, will allow the Maine officials to help the sister city develop an environmental plan for trash disposal.

“I look forward to sharing what Portland has done, but also seeing what we can learn,” Suslovic said Friday while waiting to leave. Suslovic said he will check emails while on the trip.

Last summer, government officials from Archangel visited Portland. The Rule of Law Delegation from Archangel, Russia, including Andrey Brainin, Committee Chair for Budget and Taxes; Sergey Emmanuilov, Committee Chair for Health Protection and Social Issues; and Stanislav Vtoryy, Committee Chair for Legislation and Judicial Issues, attended a wreath laying ceremony at the Arctic Campaign Memorial at Fort Allen Park.

True North health nonprofit names Valenza its new executive director FALMOUTH — Last month, the True North board of directors selected Catherine Valenza as its new executive director, the nonprofit health care center and research organization reported.

Valenza takes the helm at True North after serving as interim director since September 2011, when then executive director, Thomas Dahlborg joined the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality, True North reported.

Valenza, who has been with True North since 2002, brings a wide range of skills as an administrator, fund raiser and non-profit leader to the role of executive director, the nonprofit reported in a press release. Under her most recent leadership as the director of development and operations, she led successful fundraising campaigns for the organization, securing 100 percent participation among board, staff and practitioners of the nonprofit and meeting the goals set for the organization by the board. She also oversaw the management of True North’s access programs, including its pioneering partnership with Hour Exchange Portland, which was profiled nationally this fall on The CBS Early Show, Down East magazine, and other local and national news outlets.

Valenza has served as an executive director in the arts community, most recently as the executive director for the Portland Arts & Cultural Alliance.

Forums seek feedback about ‘student-centered’ learning models The Portland school district seeks input on new, “student-centered” learning models that are being considered for Deering High School and Portland High School as part of the Pathways to Success initiative.

The public is invited to learn more about the

models under consideration at informational sessions on April 4 and May 2.

The session on Wednesday, April 4 is at Portland High School, with presentations by the Asia Society (http://asiasociety.org/education/internationalstudies-schools-network) and Big Picture Learning (http://www.bigpicture.org/about-us/).

The session on Wednesday, May 2 is at Deering High School, with presentations by the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (www.reinventingschools.org) and Johns Hopkins Talent Development (http://www.talentdevelopmentschools.com/index.html).

Presentations will take place both days from 1:30 to 3:20 p.m., 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. Students, parents and community members may participate in the session that is most convenient for them. Translators will be available.

On Tuesday, March 20, the school board voted 8-1 to authorize the hiring process to begin seeking the three personnel to spearhead “a student-centered model of education” at Portland High School, Deering High School, Casco Bay High School, Portland Arts and Technology High School and Portland Adult Education, according to school minutes.

The new people are funded through a $5.2 million grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation.

School board members reviewed the jobs of Strategic Systems Building Coordinator, at the district office, with an $85,000 salary; Pathway Model Teacher Leader, at Portland High School, with an $80,000 salary; and Pathway Model Teacher Leader, at Deering High School, with an $80,000 salary.

The Portland Public Schools is partnering with Jobs for Maine’s Graduates, LearningWorks, the city of Portland’s Refugee Services office and the Portland chapter of the NAACP on the initiative.

For more detailed information, visit www2.portlandschools.org/pathways-success.

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Nazi comparisons ignore role of Democrats in ‘union-busting’ In June 2011 the vice president of the Communications Workers of America, speaking at a rally, compared Governor Christie to Adolf Hitler and New Jersey to Nazi Germany. Some people will find this comparison apt. After all, Gov. Christie is a Republican and it fits the negative strategy the Democrats are adopting nationwide, including Maine.

If you think it through a bit, there are some obvious objections to the comparison. First, Chris Christie’s generous contours have a closer resemblance to Hermann Goering’s than those of der Fuehrer, a notorious vegetarian. Second, the governor does not have a little black ––––– mustache under his nose. Less Guest obvious, and more significant, the major cuts in state worker Columnist benefits and state spending to which the unions are objecting were passed by a legislature controlled by Democrats, not Nazis. Worse a bunch of Democratic mayors and county officials backed the Republican governor’s proposals. Still worse, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver backed Christie.

In Connecticut Gov. Daniel P. Malloy, elected in 2010 with enthusiastic support from labor, proposed

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No better the second time So there I was last week, sitting around doing nothing when a friend of mine issued the call for “HELP!” She needed some “Uncle Bob” advice. The fact that I might be among the group that she would ask for advice on any matter other than what beverages you can’t mix together was positively baffling.

Her son had reached “The Age.” She describes it thusly, that the puberty train had arrived at her house and nearly run her over.

Not that she wasn’t expecting it, but it arrived a bit more forcefully than anticipated, all in a rush.

In addition to a sudden growth spurt, and the arrival of “hair everywhere,” her son now had a girlfriend that he was positively mooney-eyed over.

She wanted some help, a friend to talk to for a minute or two. I had no idea what advice to offer, other than to tell her to make the boy wash everything twice, and if it had hair on it, wash it again.

That one got a few chuckles.

But there are other things she’s missed so far, that are the following cars on the long train ahead, each one loaded with its own particular dangerous cargo. Teen boys have this unique ability to make food disappear.

Bob Higgins ––––– Daily Sun Columnist They are an odd creature, with a constant unquenchable hunger, a cross between a plague of locusts and a school of piranha.

Put plates of food down in front of them, turn your head for just a second, and the next thing you’ll see are empty spinning plates.

Then, the back end of that same teen can be seen hanging from the refrigerator door, as their heads swifty devour the contents of that same appliance.

When telling this story to another this week, she shuddered. “Tell her she’s lucky she has a boy. Boys are easy.”

She elaborated on her position.

“At one point, with two girls in the house going through that at the same time, I just had to learn to nod my head and say ‘yup.’ It really doesn’t matter what you say, you’re the adult, so that means you’re wrong” I hadn’t considered that aspect, that teenagers consider themselves to be miniature walking

versions of Google. I had forgotten that not only did we as teens KNOW for an absolute fact that we knew everything, we were unalterably convinced that adults were just plain stupid, and wrong to boot.

Heck, Google wasn’t even around back then. Perhaps all of us in our 40’s or later might want to consider suing them for breach of copyright.

That brought up the whole subject of “adult onset puberty” that middle aged guy thing that makes you quit your job, empty your savings, buy a sports-car, get implants, and start hanging out with strippers.

Works for a while, at least until the money is gone. The funny part is, on the second time around, we are all just as convinced we are 100 percent right, just as convinced as we were back then. It’s like trying to explain to a paranoid person that they are paranoid. We just don’t get it, the brain chemistry interfering with the tools needed to think it through.

Is there some cure for this madness? I used to think there was, mostly involving beer and fishing.

I dispatched what little advice I had, and most of it bad. She took it see HIGGINS page 5

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The false Iran debate LONDON — Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic has been perhaps the most vigorous, influential and informed voice relaying the view that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel sees the Iranian leadership as a “messianic apocalyptic cult” and will bomb Iran to stop its nuclear program.

In an Atlantic cover story of September 2010, he predicted Israel would attack Iran with one hundred fighter aircraft in the spring of 2011. This month, after Netanyahu met with President Barack Obama, he wrote for Bloomberg that Obama’s words — “I have Israel’s back” — meant something but not “enough to stop Netanyahu.”

Then came the shift. Goldberg wrote a follow-up Bloomberg piece arguing that “Netanyahu could be bluffing.” All the Israel prime minister was really deploying was “huge gusts of words infused with drama and portents of catastrophe.”

The Goldberg variations, coming from a journalist who has interviewed both Netanyahu and Obama on Iran, are worthy of serious note.

I’ve never believed Netanyahu, going it alone without U.S. support, would attack an Iran whose stop-go nuclear program still stands some distance from the capacity to make — let alone actually produce — a bomb.

The cost-benefit analysis does not add up: you don’t have to be the former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to see that.

Ignite a regional conflict, infuriate the United States, lock in the Islamic Republic for a generation, and take

Roger Cohen ––––– The New York Times the modern state of Israel to war against Persia for the first time in order to set back a weakened Iran’s nuclear zigzag by a couple of years at best? Israelis are not crazy any more than Iranians.

On the other hand, it seems to me evident that if Iran ever did move out of its comfort zone (which is dilatory opacity), throw out the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors monitoring its uranium enrichment, combine the elements of its nuclear and ballistic research, and rush for a bomb, it would face assault from Israel and the United States together.

Neither can permit such a decisive shift in the Middle East strategic equation. Obama means it when he says containment of a nuclear Iran is not an option.

In this sense, the whole Iran debate — with its receding “red lines,” its shifting “zones of immunity,” its threats and counter-threats, its bad metaphors and worse similes — is false. We know what will trigger a war and what won’t. At least we should.

As the United States has learned this past decade, mistakes can happen in the form of politically driven irrational choices.

Now, after a buildup in Western sanctions, and after Arabs have done more than the West to undermine the Islamic Republic by demanding that democracy and faith go together, talks are to begin again April 13 between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

We’ve seen this bad movie before. If we don’t want the same ending (or non-ending), it’s worth trying to think big.

My sense of Iran’s psychology, based on five weeks spent there on two visits in 2009 and close observation since, includes these elements. The nuclear program is the modern-day equivalent of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh’s nationalization of the oil industry — an affirmation of Persian pride against the tutelage of the West and one it is determined will not end with a humiliation like Mossadegh’s overthrow in the British-American orchestrated coup of 1953.

It is a push for regional influence, a protest against double standards (nuclear-armed Israel, Pakistan and India), a nationalist cornerstone for a tired revolutionary regime and a calculated hedge — the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is “the guardian of the Revolution” and so must balance assertion with preservation, hence the brinkmanship that keeps Iran just short of steps that, it calculates, would trigger war.

You don’t spend long in Tehran without someone rolling up a sleeve, pointing to a horrific scar and saying “America.” The wound is from gassing

during the Iran-Iraq conflict in which the West provided Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons. The generation of young officers who fought that 1980-88 war now runs Iran.

The war impacted them. As John Limbert, a former U.S. hostage in Iran, has observed, Iran sees America as “belligerent, sanctimonious, Godless and immoral, materialistic, calculating, bullying, exploitive, arrogant and meddling.” America, in turn, sees Iran as “devious, mendacious, fanatical, violent and incomprehensible.”

This is Ground Zero of the negotiations about to begin. It’s what you get after 30 years of dangerous noncommunication.

Is there a way out of the impasse?

Perhaps not: Khamenei is a Brezhnevian figure with a locked-in world view of America as Great Satan. But perhaps yes, if real concessions are made by both sides and the nuclear issue is not taken in isolation.

The fundamental question the West must answer is how to satisfy Iran’s pride and usher it from historical grievance while capping its enrichment at a low, vigorously inspected level far from weapons grade (I can see no solution that does not allow some enrichment.) The fundamental question for the Islamic Republic is whether it can open itself to the West while preserving its system, a risk China took 40 years ago and won.

All the rest is no more than “huge gusts of words.”

You can follow Roger Cohen on Twitter at twitter.com/nytimescohen.

A bunch of Democratic mayors, county officials backed Republican’s proposals FRARY from page 4

two-year wage freezes with concessions on pensions and health care. No one has compared him to Adolf.

That’s not allowed. He’s a Democrat. Most of the union leaders accepted this deal, seeing it as the only alternative to lay-offs.

The deal was rejected. The state’s collective bargaining rules require approval by 14 of the 15 unions in the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition. Two unions, notably the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 4, which represents one-third of unionized state employees, voted against it. Layoffs began almost immediately.

The same week that Malloy’s proposal was rejected, New York’s Democratic governor Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo negotiated steeper concessions from New York’s largest public employees’ union.

Not being a Republican, he also evaded comparisons with the world’s most blood-thirsty vegetarian.

It helped that he agreed to raise taxes on the rich.

During his 2010 campaign he argued that such tax increases would only diminish tax revenues since the rich were free to flee the state in their corporate

jets, yachts and stretch limousines. He probably figured that there was more to gain by reducing the cost of public employee payrolls than by detaining the migratory rich.

In San Francisco, where there are five Democrats to one Republican, Public Defender Jeff Adachi is gathering signatures to place a measure on the November ballot that would require city workers to pay far more of their salaries toward pensions.

Adachi’s argument: “I think it’s interesting that the average pension paid to a city employee is higher than the average earnings of most San Franciscans.

When you start looking at the total cost of these pensions, it’s through the roof.”

Mayor Ed Lee, backed by other city officials and most unions proposed a ballot measure of his own intended to save the city $1 billion over ten years by capping pension benefits and raising the retirement.

The SEIU refused to endorse the measure, although they declined to compare San Francisco to the Third Reich.

In the State of Maine, the Mural Majority has been raging against Governor LePage as an evil-dealing union-buster for measures a good deal milder than those being proposed by various Democratic chief

executives around the nation. But that’s only fair.

He’s a Republican.

Let us close by noting a December 2011 Wall Street Journal column entitled “China’s Superior Economic Model” by Andy Stern. Andy, former SEIU president, holds the People’s Republic of China up as a model for Americans to emulate, singling out the “people-oriented development in Chongqing ... led by an aggressive and popular Communist Party leader” for special praise.

Andy, who really, really hates union-busting Republicans makes no mention of collective bargaining rights in the PRC. Why should he? There are none.

LATE BREAKING: That same “popular and aggressive” leader the SEIU’s Former High Poobah admired so much was arrested last week on corruption charges.

(Professor John Frary of Farmington is a former U.S. congressional candidate and retired history professor, a board member of Maine Taxpayers United and an associate editor of the International Military Encyclopedia, and can be reached at: jfrary8070@ aol.com.)

A friend’s feedback: ‘Tell her she’s lucky she has a boy. Boys are easy.’

HIGGINS from page 4

in stride, and I realized that she just wanted someone to talk to about stuff for a bit. Luckily, most of the advice I had to offer came out of the Bill Cosby school of thought. In his training in physical education, he once remarked that his advice to most kids was “take a lap.”

Then thinking I had dodged the subject of male middle age foolishness, I was passing by the mirror an hour or so later. There it was. I hadn’t shaved in a week or so, an there was this long hair growing out of the beard area, longer than all the rest.

And it was white.

After making a loud exaltation that sounded like someone questioning the physical existence of a

waterfowl (duck) I swiftly realized that the train had pulled into the station for the second time, and the ride this time around was going to be just as bumpy.

If anyone needs me, my head will be in the fridge.

(Bob Higgins is a regular contributor to The Portland Daily Sun.)

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From Irene to Occupy, Rees settling in as city manager Portland city manager predicting ‘incremental’ changes on his watch

“I think I still need to do a better job communicating with the city council. That fire boat issue maybe is my own naivete coming in. I should have recognized the potential public backlash on that and should have let the city council know as soon as I found out, instead of waiting a week to let them know.”

BY CASEY CONLEY THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Rees

How are things looking with the city budget?

A lot of the pressures on the budget still remain — employee health insurance is projected to increase, pension costs are projected to increase, debt service is projected to increase. These are all fixed costs that affects the amount of money available for operating expenses. What we are doing now is taking a look at our revenues to see if there is potential for growth in those areas. ... It’s too early to tell if that will offset the increase in those fixed costs we are talking about, and that will determine if we can maintain the level for services that we currently have.

Do you anticipate layoffs at this point?

Again, at this point it’s too early to tell. We are doing everything we can do be able to maintain existing levels of services.

After eight months, how do you feel you have settled in?

There is still a learning curve. This budget process

has helped a lot because I have been able to get into a lot more detail in departmental operations. The budget document is the premier policy document, and that guides everything else. Being able to get involved in this cycle and be with the departments and listen to the ideas they have and the services they want to provide has been helpful.

Is there anything you look back on during your time here and wish you could do it differently?

I think I still need to do a better job communicating with the city council. That fire boat issue maybe is my own naivete coming in. I should have recognized the potential public backlash on that and should have let the city council know as soon as I found out, instead of waiting a week to let them know.

Did not knowing the background on the fire boat issue influence how you responded?

I did not know about the first fire boat incident. I

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It’s been nearly eight months since Mark Rees took over as Portland’s City Manager, and in that time he’s faced a host of challenges few could have seen coming.

Tropical Storm Irene hit the week Rees started, and although the storm skirted by, city officials were prepared for the worst. About a month later, OccupyMaine protesters arrived in Lincoln Park for a 24-7 demonstration that lasted four months. And in late October, the city’s $3.2 million fireboat struct another object, this time during a weekend jaunt with 12 civilians on board. The incident was deemed preventable, and led to policy changes within the department.

Rees has also been tasked with learning a complex city government in a city that’s about twice as big as North Andover, Mass., where he was town manager before coming to Portland.

In about 10 days, Rees will release his first budget as city manager. Although he declined to discuss specifics about the proposal — including whether layoffs or service cuts are expected — he intimated that a significant re-organization is planned at City Hall designed to make each department run more efficiently.

Rees spoke with The Portland Daily Sun this week for a discussion that touched on his time in Portland thus far, challenges he sees facing the city and his one big regret since taking over for Joe Gray, who retired in early 2010.

(This interview has been edited and condensed).

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guess I knew about it, but I didn’t know it was such a big issue, because equipment gets damaged all the time. The reality is that some equipment has some greater public perception than other pieces of equipment. If it was a dump truck, it wouldn’t have gotten the play that the fireboat got. Being the new guy on the block I didn’t understand the political ramifications.

You mentioned the director of planning and community development. What’s the status of filling that position?

It’s imminent that we will be able to make that decision (on who to hire). I’d say by the next two or three weeks.

What about the vacant assistant city manager’s position. Do you have any plans for that position?

That is going to come out of my budget. I am going to be proposing some re-organization, but I don’t want to play my card too early on that.

Without tipping your hand, do you envision a major personnel shake up at City Hall?

That’s not my management style, in terms of coming in and making across-the-board (changes).

Mine is more incremental, and making sure that different pieces fit together. The reorganization that I will be proposing, I don’t think it will ruffle feathers ... but I do think it will provide for a better management structure than we currently have, and will ... allow for greater accountability of the different departments.

Do you feel like the full-time mayor system is working out?

Yes, I do. The charter changes that created the fulltime mayor have been very beneficial. I can point to one thing right now: The mayor’s advocacy for city issues in Augusta. His ability to interact with our legislators is nothing short of phenomenal. ... But it’s my responsibility to do day to day management, and make sure it's running as efficiently as possible, and the current mayor recognizes that distinction. ... The issue of politics getting involved with administration has not developed here, and I think that’s very positive as well.

What are some of the differences between North Andover and Portland?

Portland has all the issues you’d find in a larger city but on a smaller scale, because it’s the largest city in Maine. You’re right, it is very different from the suburban community where I worked. The prime example is the Department of Health and Human Services. Doug Gardner and his staff (at Portland’s DHHS) do a fantastic job, but did I have to worry about homeless people in North Andover? No. Is it a big issue here in Portland? Yes. What’s your philosophy around property taxes?

My philosophy on property taxes is that they should be set at a level that provides for a level of services that the community wants. That’s obviously a big-picture statement, but communities want services. Portland is a high-service community. We do a lot of things for our citizens. And the property tax burden should be commensurate with the level of services people want. I am not an anti-tax person and I am not a pro-tax person. I am a pragmatist, in terms of, if people want these levels of services, this is how much they are going to have to pay for them. see REES page 7

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Saturday, March 24, 2012— Page 7

Judge denies lawsuit seeking return of labor mural

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Reaction was sharply divided Friday to U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock's decision to deny a trial for the lawsuit seeking to compel Gov. Paul LePage to restore a labor history mural to the walls of the Maine Department of Labor.

"Regardless of Judge Woodcock's opinion, while we may not have yet prevailed in the court of law, we already have prevailed in the court of public opinion," said the plaintiffs’ counsel, Jeffrey Neil Young, of the law firm McTeague Higbee.

"Mainers recognize what the court has failed to appreciate; that the removal of the mural is nothing less than government censorship of artistic speech in violation of the First Amendment," Young said.

Attorney General William J. Schneider applauded Woodcock's decision, stating, “One of the cornerstones of American democracy is free expression — by individuals and the government. As citizens, we want our government officials to speak and express their views. Any effort by a

public view. The plaintiffs filed suit against the state last April to compel the mural's restoration and to reveal its location. On April 22, 2011, the federal court denied this request for an injunction to compel the state to restore the mural and disclose its whereabouts.

The plaintiffs are Don Berry of Sumner; John Newton, an industrial hygienist of Portland; and three Maine artists: A mockup of a controversial labor history mural removed from a state building by Gov. Paul LePage adorns a local business.

Robert Shetterly of (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO) Brooksville, Natasha Mayers of Whitefield, small group to attempt to control govneider noted, encapsulates the issue: and Joan Braun of Weld. Carol Garvan ernment’s speech by bringing elected “The resolution of the Governor’s of McTeague Higbee in Topsham and officials to trial should be viewed as a decision to remove a state-owned Jonathan Beal of Portland serve as the threat to our democratic principles. I labor mural from the anteroom of the plaintiffs’ co-counsel with Young. It's am pleased that the court agreed that Maine Department of Labor rests not unclear what the next legal step might just as individuals are free to speak, in a court of law but in the court of be or whether plaintiffs will appeal. so too is the government.” public opinion.”

Efforts to reach the governor's office The opening sentence of Judge At the end of March 2011, the goverfor comment were unsuccessful.

Woodcock’s 91-page decision, Schnor ordered the mural removed from

‘I think we owe it to the taxpayers to be as efficient as possible’ REES from page 6

Looking back at OccupyMaine, do you feel like the city responded adequately to that challenge?

I think we did a very good job, from the city council down to the police department to health and human services ... to our communication with them. Did it drag on longer than I would have liked? Probably.

But we went through a process that spoke highly not only of OccupyMaine and their message, but also the city’s ability to work with people and not negatively impact their ability to get their message out.

Could a protest movement that occupies public spaces indefinitely happen again in Portland?

I would not anticipate OccupyMaine or something similar to OccupyMaine ever occurring again.

What are some ongoing issues on the horizon that you see as important for the city?

We need to continue the collaboration with the school department. ... I think we owe it to the taxpayers to be as efficient as possible, and one of the ways we can do that is continue building bridges with the school department in terms of trying to provide joint services. We have already started down that line. ... There are a whole host of areas we currently do seperately that we may be able to combine.

What are the biggest issues facing the city right now?

We’re right now in the middle of the budget, so financial issues come to mind. Right now, even if we took away the state funding issues for social services, the demand still seems to be growing, in terms of people needing our services or basic necessities in life. ... that’s a concern we have to deal with.

Another thing we need to work a lot on is economic development. We work a lot with companies about how they can expand or grow their companies in Portland. Thompson’s Point for example. The Federated project in Bayside, The Eastland Hotel (renovation). Those are all big projects we are working with developers on to make those projects a success, but that takes a lot of time and a lot of energy. Related to social services is the immigrant community and helping them as much as we can to assimilate into our culture.

How is your relationship with the city coun-

cil as a whole?

I think it’s positive. I talk personally with them on a regular basis. I’m sure I don’t meet all of their expectations, but I am sure I am meeting some of them. ... One of the things I don’t anticipate is unanimous votes on all my policy recommendations.

Having said that, I try to listen to as many of their concerns as I can.

During the mayor’s race we heard a lot about how complicated the city’s permitting rules are. Have there been any changes on that front?

No question, there is room for improvement. The city has a very comprehensive zoning and building requirements, and it’s very detailed and it’s very

complex, so for somebody coming in and wanting a small project, they come up against a very stringent building and zoning requirements. From one person’s perspective, a project is a no brainer. From another perspective, they are violating a setback provision in the ordinance.

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Salt: Telling compelling stories for 40 years

BY TIMOTHY GILLIS SPECIAL TO THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The Salt Institute documentary school celebrates its 40th birthday next year, and Donna Galluzzo, executive director, is already amped up about the event.

Currently juggling an international photography exhibit, two directors' receptions for the Maine Jewish Film Festival, and its regular grueling student schedule, Galluzzo got a chance to catch her breath yesterday. She's thrilled with their current endeavors, but still was able to take a quick look to the future.

"The number of students we work with hasn't change too much over the years, but our budget had expanded," she said. Galluzzo has worked for Salt since 2000 and was a graduate herself in 1997, when the school was located on Pine Street. "It's been a thrill to work in Maine."

Salt Institute moved to its Congress Street location in the summer

of 2008, into what was Yes Books in the front and the old Casco Bay Weekly in the back space. There was one, non weight-bearing wall between the two spaces, and Salt knocked it down when designing their school.

Galluzzo and Christine Hines, from Salt, worked with Erin Anderson (a designer) and Paul Lewandowski (an architect) from SMRT, the local architectural firm started in 1884 by John Calvin Stevens. Lewandowski is also on the Salt board of trustees. The Freeport contractor, Zachau Construction, built the school.

The school has a clean, sharp whitewalled gallery and a red-paint workshop or lecture area, as well as offices for staff and workspace for students.

But despite the beautiful inhabitability of space there, Salt students spend most of their time scattered throughout the state, on location as they document their research. They are in the Congress Street school once a week for classes, but spend most time on this project-

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Salt Institute for Documentary Studies student Ep Li, as part of her photo project “Dear Raymond,” spent time following a Portland resident in his 60s as he went about his daily life. “At 63, Raymond lives in a single basement apartment in Portland. An eight-year cancer survivor, HIV positive and living with a heart condition, Raymond is at a point of rebirth in his life. All of these diseases, the consequences of his life choices, have been hard teachers. With his health now ‘medically manageable’ by a daily regimen of pills, Raymond has been given another chance.” (COURTESY PHOTO)

based curriculum in the field.

"That's one of the great things about this school. Our students get to go out there and do it, spend time all over the state. Maine has been really good to our kids over the years. They've been excellent hosts, opening up their homes, their lives, for our students to document."

Salt Institute, whose booklet says "Storytellers Wanted," has used photography, non-fiction writing, and radio to tell "1,736 stories and counting" over the last four decades. Students each fall and spring semester immerse themselves for fifteen weeks in one of these three track specialties, and also collaborate with other students on a multimedia project. Salt has collaborated with several Portland groups over the years — SPACE Gallery, the Telling Room, and Casco Bay High School, for example — to tell their stories with several distinct but harmonized voices.

"We've had a long-standing collaboration with the Maine Jewish Film Festival," Galluzzo said. The festival, which ran this past week and wraps up today, held two events at Salt. "Crime after Crime," a powerful documentary about Debbie Peagler, an incarcerated domestic abuse survivor, and "Dolphin Boy," about an Arab teenage named Morad whose family turns to the restorative power of nature, played this week. The films' directors held receptions at Salt Institute on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, to discuss their work.

Yoav Potash, director of "Crime after Crime," is passionate about change and hopes to influence Maine law to allow evidence of domestic abuse to be used as a legal defense. Salt teamed up with Family Crisis Services, the city's domestic abuse agency, to host the Wednesday reception.

"We connect really well in Portland," Galluzzo said. "Everyone is interested in collaboration. We work well together without stepping on each other's toes."

"Flash Forward" is the photography exhibit currently on display in Salt's gallery. The exhibit is from Toronto,

and features "the next wave of photography professionals." Salt is hosting a small cross-section of the works which make their way to Boston next, and then across country. "We're very excited to kick it off," Galluzzo said.

Three times a year, Salt exhibits professional work, and twice a year, student shows take over the gallery walls. The Spring Student Opening is scheduled for May 17, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Galluzzo couldn't comment on works in progress — kind of a documentarian's rule — but visitors to the school can look at work from the fall 2011 graduates through a digital tour on the gallery computer.

Five students in the writing program chronicled the personal and the political, with a variety of texts from the relationships between a parent and child to OccupyMaine, bath salt abuse and burning trash.

Ten students in the photography track illuminated the screen with images of Old Orchard Beach in offseason, personalities whose "eyes have seen a lot," and a moving pictorial tribute to "Dear Raymond," from which we are to "let us recognize ourselves in the old man." These photo exhibits also showed people searching for something: either faith at the Deliverance Center or the next party at a St. John Street shared-living space.

Ten students in the radio program created podcasts on education, (the Reiche School's "no principal principle" and a student exchange from China to Millinocket), American nuns, and Maine lumberjacks.

There are also ten multimedia projects on the gallery's computer from the Fall 2011 work, beautifully technical displays that combine art, music, comics, writing, photography, video in a variety of clever ways. Another way to taste a sprinkling of Salt is through Downeast magazine's website, where the institute posts a lot of its product.

Visit http://www.downeast.com/blogs/ salt-stories to read and see all about the last sea urchin in Maine, maritime life at the Isle au Haut and Port Clyde, and the St. Paddy's Day plunge.

THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN, Saturday, March 24, 2012— Page 9

Mayor, city councilors see CDBG improving Suslovic: “Now I can look people in the eye and say, ‘Here’s why you got funded’”

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

City councilors and Portland’s mayor said they see improvement in the way hundreds of thousands of dollars are distributed through the federal Community Development Block Grant program.

Monday is the first public hearing on the proposed distribution of federal funds. It’s 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Mayor Michael Brennan said the CDBG has made strides with its structure.

“I was first involved with the CDBG process over 30 years ago, and the process is much more objective, much more rational, and not as subjective as it was, and that’s good,” he said.

In 1976-77, Brennan ran a CDBGfunded program in Kennedy Park in Portland and saw the process from the point of view of the director of a program that was a funding recipient.

“It was not any where near as structured as it is today,” he said.

The program today gives the city manager and city council more rules and guidelines for consistency, city officials agreed.

“I don’t think we will stray very far if at all from the city manager’s

recommendations and the committee’s recommendations,” Brennan said, noting the organized system that’s in place leading up to Monday’s federally mandated hearing.

Two city councilors who in recent years have pushed for reform to the CDBG allocation process are Dave Marshall (District 2) and Ed Suslovic (District Brennan Marshall Suslovic 3), and both agreed the system These standards eliminate some today works much better than it of the uncertainty about why some did five years ago. candidates were funded and others Last fall, Marshall and Suslovic, weren’t, Suslovic said. along with City Councilor Kevin “Now I can look people in the eye Donoghue (District 1) and city staff, and say, ‘Here’s why you got funded,’” sought input and feedback from resihe said. dents about CDBG funding at a series Marshall said that “recent history of public meetings. in the city” with CDBG has shown “The system continues to evolve that the city council grapples with the each year and I would argue that the issue of modifying the recommendasystem gets better each year,” Suslovic tions that come from the allocations said in an interview Friday. committee.

“Back in 2007, I was the lead coun“There’s been ongoing issues involvcilor on revamping the way we did it; ing CDBG, it’s really challenging to although it’s not perfect yet, it’s cerdistribute the grant money in a way tainly getting better than the way we that makes everybody happy. The did it back then,” he said. most competitive area and where One of the changes adopted last people tend to have the highest emoyear was a “priority focus” with a tions is in the social services area,” point scoring system.

Marshall said.

The city’s priorities could be revisited and updated, Marshall said.

“I get a lot of positive feedback from the new scoring system and the way it’s set up,” he said.

People aren’t necessarily happy with the final distribution of the funding, but at least there’s a method for rating applications, Marshall noted.

Suslovic said he’s received suggestions from the public, and one was to temper any extremes in scoring.

“One suggestion that I would support for next year, is if you, for example, have seven people doing the scoring, you throw out the high and you throw out the low,” Suslovic said.

Crediting volunteers with their time and effort, Suslovic said the current system is a far cry from “when the council just used to throw it up in the air almost and politically try to make everybody happy.”

A priority task force will work over the summer and update the city’s priorities, he said.

“It’s never going to be perfect, there’s always going to be some tough calls,” Suslovic said.

Cultivating Community loses its slot for funding due to error in application

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

The failed appeal of one nonprofit that was recommended for and then denied federal funding highlights, if nothing else, the competitiveness of the Community Development Block Grant funding process, officials said.

Cultivating Community, an organization committed to social and environmental justice that runs several farm programs in Portland, was scheduled to be recommended for $19,316 in federal social-service grant funds.

Then, a series of events occurred which led to a reversal for Cultivating Community and its Growing Access food program for low-income people. Initially, Cultivating Community was at the bottom of the funding list. The group had asked for $58,253 funding; only $19,316 was left, but a CDBG Annual Allocations Committee made the recommendation that this final pot of money go to the Portland nonprofit.

Opportunity Alliance (formerly PROP) questioned the assessment of a penalty point to its application, and all applications were reviewed for consistency, according to Michael Murray, the city’s CDBG appeals officer.

What happened next led to not only Opportunity Alliance failing to gain a foothold on the funding list, but the discovery of a “mathematical error” in Cultivating Community’s application which disqualified that group for the final rung on the funding ladder.

“I discovered that the CDBG application of Cultivating Community had been improperly scored,” Murray wrote in a March 5 memo to Amy Pulaski, CDBG administrator; and Mary Davis, Housing and Neighborhood Services director.

“This application (by Cultivating Community) contained a mathematical error in two separate instances, but had only been assessed one penalty point,” Murray continued. “This is significant as the assessment of an additional penalty point will remove Cultivating Community from funding, and move Amistad into the funding group.”

City Manager Mark Rees alerted city councilors to this scoring change, and the fact that Cultivating

Jennifer Czifrik, farmer’s market staffer who facilitates use of food stamps, works at a farm stand on the West End for Cultivating Community. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

Community appealed but was denied because there was no “factual error” to spur a reversal.

Asked about the Cultivating Community situation, City Councilor Ed Suslovic said, “There’s no perfect system, what we’ve tried to do is make it as objective as possible, which means if you lose points as the result of an error, you lose points.”

Moved up into the slot formerly held by Cultivating Community — with its $19,316 allocation — was Amistad, a nonprofit corporation which says on its website it strives to “foster a community for people who are facing mental health and other life

challenges, develop peer services, and advocate for changes to the mental health system.” Amistad originally sought $26,000 for its peer support and recovery center.

The allocation committee’s and the city manager’s respective recommendations about what programs to fund will be forwarded to the city council for review Monday at a 5:30 p.m. special meeting. The city council will at that time hold a public hearing for the first of two readings of the proposals. April 9 is the final city council review of the proposed grant allocations and decision.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You notice everything now. You may obsess over minor elements that no one but you will care about, and that’s what makes your work great. Excellence is in the details.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

You need someone and don’t realize it.

Reach out. Dare to be vulnerable. Ask questions. Otherwise, you will continue to feel like you have it all together, not knowing the difference.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

It will be necessary to spend most of your time in the planning and preparation stages of a project. This leads to success. As long as you have the right tools, you’ll see a job through to the end.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have talents that can be traced back to your ancestral roots. You may get the sense that as you develop and take these gifts into the world, your family smiles on you from the great beyond.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your attention is a force at work. You don’t fully understand the extent of it. It will be as though part of the universe awakens because you acknowledge it.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 24).

You’ll be drawn to mysterious situations, and your work is more delightful because you don’t quite know how things will turn out. Relationships either feel right or not, which makes navigating your personal life rather simple.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). You will teach others how to be self-sufficient.

It’s a gift that goes beyond anything material you could offer. Your students might not understand the value for years to come, but eventually they will get it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You may feel helpless to do anything about today’s strange scene, but that’s where you’re wrong. Circumstances change simply because you observe them.

You’re stronger than you know.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You could be tricky if you wanted to be, but you’ll probably see no need since people give you exactly what you want when you ask for it in a straightforward and sincere manner.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be drawn to those who are trying to go beyond themselves to accomplish, learn or share something. You belong in this group, as you stretch to do, understand and give more.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The world seems to be assessing just how tough you are. You may feel emotionally raw by the end of the day. There are those who would thrill to give you caring attention, help and love.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re getting to be well known for the fact that you follow through. It doesn’t matter if it’s a small matter or a big one.

You make sure to complete the cycle of each action you take on, and this makes you lucky.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Saturday, March 24, the 84th day of 2012. There are 282 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On March 24, 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

On this date: In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

In 1882, German scientist Robert Koch (kohk) announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

In 1932, in a first, radio station WJZ (later WABC) broadcast a variety program from a moving train in Maryland.

In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that had killed 32 German soldiers.

In 1955, the Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opened on Broadway.

In 1958, rock-and-roll singer Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn.

In 1980, one of El Salvador’s most respected Roman Catholic Church leaders, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was shot to death by a sniper as he celebrated Mass in San Salvador.

In 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.

In 1999, NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.

One year ago: The Census Bureau released its first set of national-level findings from the 2010 count on race and migration, showing that Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the previous decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50 million, or 1 in 6 Americans. A private funeral was held at Forest Lawn Cemetery for Elizabeth Taylor (the service began 15 minutes behind schedule in accordance with the actress’ wish to be late for her own funeral.)

Today’s Birthdays: Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 93. Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is 73. Actor R. Lee Ermey is 68. Movie director Curtis Hanson is 67. Rock musician Lee Oskar is 64. Singer Nick Lowe is 63. Rock musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) is 61. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 61. Comedian Louie Anderson is 59. Actress Donna Pescow is 58. Actor Robert Carradine is 58. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 52. Rhythm-and-blues DJ Rodney “Kool Kollie” Terry (Ghostown DJs) is 51. TV personality Star Jones is 50. Country-rock musician Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) is 48. Actor Peter Jacobson is 47. Rock singer-musician Sharon Corr (The Corrs) is 42. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 42. Actress Megyn Price is 41. Actor Jim Parsons is 39. Actress Alyson Hannigan is 38.

NFL quarterback Peyton Manning is 36. Actress Jessica Chastain is 35. Actress Lake Bell is 33.

Rock musician Benj Gershman (O.A.R.) is 32.

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ANNIE’S MAILBOX Dear Annie: I’m 16 years old, and I have two best friends, “Krystina” and “Tayler,” who mean the world to me. Lately, Krystina has been full of drama. She often says she feels left out and hurt. But, Annie, we never do anything without including her.

Recently, she’s been pulling this whole “you guys never tell me anything until two weeks later” thing. But I usually tell her everything at the same time I tell Tayler. She even knows stuff about me that Tayler doesn’t. But she claims that Tayler tells me personal things that she doesn’t repeat. That’s not true, and Tayler confirmed that the three of us learn everything at the same time. If we miss something, it’s because it’s so unimportant that we forget.

But I will admit that sometimes I withhold things because I know Krystina will judge me and make me feel bad when I need her support the most. Still, those times are rare, and I always tell her relatively soon. Yet when I say this to her, it’s like we have two different versions of reality.

I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to lose Krystina’s friendship. I feel terrible that she’s hurting over this, but I have no idea how to change it. I can’t text her every time I dye my hair or buy a hamburger, and neither can Tayler. But then, neither does Krystina. So what do we do? -- Stuck in the Middle Dear Stuck: Three-way friendships are sometimes hard to navigate, particularly in high school, when hormones are running rampant and emotions are harder to control. Krystina’s reality actually is a little different, and we suspect she feels she is competing for your affection. The best you can do is frequently reassure her that you value her friendship, think she’s a great person and want to stay close. Try not to exclude her, and address her lack of support with honesty at the time it happens. The rest is up to her.

Dear Annie: I am married to the greatest woman in the world. Several years ago, while still in my 20s, I discovered I have a heart condition that requires a lot of medications. I will be dealing with it my entire life.

The problem is that lately my libido seems to be almost not there. My wife takes the brunt of my failure in the bedroom and often remarks that I don’t find her attractive. But I do. I am more in love with her now than when we married.

We want children, and obviously, this hampers my ability to reproduce. I’ve been thinking about adoption. With my limitations, how do I make my wife feel as amazing as she is?

-- Want To Feel Young Again Dear Want: Please make an appointment to see your doctor, and ask about changing your medications. Sometimes a little tweaking can work wonders. More importantly, take your wife with you so the doctor can explain how certain medications might interfere with your sex life. There is no reason for her to take this so personally. Frank and frequent communication is the best way to handle it, and work on other ways to make your wife feel amazing in the bedroom.

Dear Annie: Like “Undecided Mom,” I have boxes of childhood memorabilia for my grown children, who now have children of their own. Instead of continuing to store their stuff, I’ve been “gifting” them with a year’s worth of their childhood at a time.

When my daughter’s first baby was born, I gave her everything I’d saved from her own first year. I loved looking through it. When that first grandchild entered 4th grade last fall, he thought it was great to see his mom’s old report cards, projects and pictures from when she was his age. We’ve shared a lot of laughs and memories this way. -- Memory Lane Traveler

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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F.D.A. is ordered to restrict antibiotics’ use in livestock

by Scott Stantis

A federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to alert drug makers that the government may soon ban the common agricultural use of popular antibiotics in animals because the practice may encourage the proliferation of dangerous infections and imperil public health.

The order, issued by Judge Theodore H. Katz of the Southern District of New York, has the effect of restarting a process that the Food and Drug Administration began 35 years ago in hopes of preventing penicillin and tetracycline, two of the nation’s most popular antibiotics, from losing their effectiveness in humans because of their widespread use in animal feed to promote growth in livestock like chickens, pigs and cattle.

The order comes two months after the Obama administration announced restrictions on agricultural uses of cephalosporins, a critical class of antibiotics that includes drugs like Cefzil and Keflex, which are commonly used to treat pneumonia, strep throat and skin and urinary tract infections. The F.D.A. is expected to issue within days draft rules that would bar the use of penicillin and tetracycline — highly popular in agricultural settings — in animal feed to further growth, the same issue tackled by Judge Katz.

A decade ago, the F.D.A. banned indiscriminate agricultural use of a powerful class of antibiotics, called fluoroquinolones, that includes the medicine Cipro.

The judge’s order may accelerate the F.D.A.’s incremental efforts to restrict common agricultural practices that are viewed by microbiologists and other medical researchers as leading to the growth of bacteria that are resistant to common antibiotic treatments, a development that many doctors say has cost thousands of lives.

Antibiotics were the wonder drugs of the 20th century, and their initial uses in both humans and animals were indiscriminate, experts say. Farmers were impressed by the effects of penicillin and tetracycline on the robustness of cattle, chickens and pigs, and added the drugs in bulk to feed and water, with no prescriptions or sign of sickness in the animals.

By the 1970s, public health officials had become worried that overuse was leading to the development of killer infections resistant to treatment.

In 1977, the F.D.A. announced that it would begin the process of banning these uses. But the powerful House and Senate appropriations committees passed resolutions urging the F.D.A. not to follow through on these efforts, and the agency retreated.

“In the intervening years, the scientific evidence of the risks to human health from the widespread use of antibiotics in livestock has grown, and there is no evidence the F.D.A. has changed its position that such uses are not shown to be safe,” Judge Katz wrote in his order.

A vast majority of antibiotics used in the United States still goes to treat animals, not humans. Meanwhile, outbreaks of illnesses from antibiotic-resistant bacteria have grown in number and severity.

Environmental and health groups petitioned the F.D.A. in 1999 and 2005 to restart the process to ban the drugs from being overused on farms. In January, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Food Animal Concerns Trust, Public Citizen and the Union of Concerned Scientists filed suit against the F.D.A. On Thursday, Judge Katz ruled that these groups had won their case without need for a trial.

“The rise of superbugs that we see now was predicted by F.D.A. in the ’70s,” said Jen Sorenson, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“Thanks to the court’s order, drug manufacturers will finally have to do what F.D.A. should have made them do 35 years ago: prove that their drugs are safe for human health, or take them off the market.”

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Saturday, March 24 Adoptable Dogs in Wells 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Animal Welfare Society Mobile Adoption Team will visit Pet Quarters, Route 1 (45 Wells Plaza), Wells with adoptable dogs. For more information, call Animal Welfare Society (www.animalwelfaresociety.org) at 985-3244 or Pet Quarters at 641-0620.

Darien Leigh Richardson walk 12:30 p.m. Darien Leigh Richardson — A Walk To Remember on Baxter Blvd (Back Bay) Portland Maine, Rain or Shine. Meeting at the Parking Lot on Preble St Ext. across from Hannafords. On Feb. 28, 2010, Richardson, 25, of South Portland, died unexpectedly due to complications from a gunshot wound. This event draws attention to the unsolved homicide in Portland. “The vision of Remembering Darien is to help innocent victims of violent crimes to heal and rebuild their lives in the aftermath of incomprehensible violence. This organization is committed to advocating for victims and their families, as well as providing emotional support and resources required to help those affected by violent crimes find justice and peace in their healing journey.” www.rememberingdarien.org

‘Crazy Horse’ screened at PMA 2 p.m. Movies at the Museum, Portland Museum of Art. Friday, March 23, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 24, 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 25, 2 p.m. “Film contains nudity. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman explores one of the most mythic and colorful places dedicated to women, Crazy Horse — a legendary Parisian cabaret club, founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin. In French with English subtitles.”

‘Giselle’ in Westbrook 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Portland Ballet presents this full length classic romantic masterpiece at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center at Westbrook Middle School, 471 Stroudwater St., Westbrook. Ticket prices: $35 for adults/$15 for children 18 and under. www.portlandballet.org

‘Cinderella’ by Windham Center Stage 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical fairy tale “Cinderella,” is presented by Windham Center Stage Theater. “First seen as a television spectacular in 1957, and remade for television in 1965 and 1997, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ‘Cinderella’ spins its own version of the traditional story, woven through with such beloved songs as ‘In My Own Little Corner,’ ‘Ten Minutes Ago’ and ‘Impossible.’ With the script and score lovingly adapted for elementary and middle school performers, this classic seems as fresh as today. After all, even if we know the story by heart, we still hold our breath until we are sure that the slipper fits. Windham Center Stage is a community theater serving the Sebago Lakes Region of Southern Maine. The theater produces the only children’s show in the area in which every child receives a part. ‘Cinderella’ is directed by Mary Wassick, music directed by Diane Hancock, and features more than 75 local children in two fantastic casts.” Through March 25. Shows will be performed Friday evenings at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. All seats must be reserved. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for students and seniors, and $5 for children under 5. Call 893-2098.

Renae De Liz at Casablanca Comics 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The public can meet Womanthology founder and creator Renae De Liz at Casablanca Comics in Portland. “Womanthology is a large-scale anthology comic showcasing the works of women in comics. It is created entirely by over 140 women of all experience levels, including top industry professionals created for charity. The purpose of the book is to showcase the works of female creators of every age and experience levels.” De Liz will be joined by other creators of the book for a signing and discussion. The event is free and open to the public. Casablanca Comics is located at 151 Middle St. in Portland’s Old Port. 780-1676 or www.casablancacomics.com.

The Maine Jewish Film Festival 3 p.m. The Maine Jewish Film Festival returns to Portland’s Nickelodeon Cinemas March 17-22, for its 15th year. “The Festival curates a selection of films that explore the Jewish experience through independent documentaries, feature films and shorts. The 2012 Festival line-up includes American and foreign films as well as a local short film.” Today at 3 p.m. is “The Matchmaker,” University of Southern Maine, Talbot Lecture Hall, 96 Falmouth St.; Closing Night Reception and Film: “Salsa Tel Aviv,” 7 p.m. at University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St., Portland; 8:30 p.m., Closing Night Reception, USM’s Abromson Center. mjff.org.

‘Little Me’ at St. Lawrence 3 p.m. “Little Me,” the musical comedy by Neil Simon (book), Cy Coleman (music), and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) will be presented by Good Theater March 7 to April 1 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. on Munjoy Hill in Portland. “Little Me” is directed by Brian P. Allen with

Noah Fralich invietes the public to Norumbega Farm, home to the Fralichs of New Gloucester, which will be open for Maine Maple Sunday, on Sunday, March 25. (COURTESY PHOTO) musical direction by Victoria Stubbs, leading the threepiece band, and choreography by Tyler Sperry. Performances for Little Me are as follows: Wednesdays 7 p.m. ($20), Thursdays 7 p.m. ($20), Fridays 7:30 p.m. ($25), Saturday 7:30 p.m. ($30), Sundays 2 p.m. ($30) with a special added matinee on Saturday March 24, 3 p.m. ($25). Call 885-5883 for reservations and information. www.goodtheater.com

‘Keep Me Warm’ 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. “Keep Me Warm,” Portland’s first and best spaghetti dinner to raise money for local heating assistance. Hosted by Hon. Herb Adams, Parkside Neighborhood Association, Parkside Community Center, 85 Grant St., Portland. $3 per person, $7 per family. Proceeds will benefit the citizens of the Bayside and Parkside neighborhoods of Portland. Raffle with local prizes. For information call 772-2565 or 553-5940.

Museum of Modern Art Library bibliographer 6 p.m. The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art will present a lecture in Osher Hall by David Senior, bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York. “Senior manages the development of the library’s collection with a particular focus on artists’ publications and other experimental publications in the fields of modern and contemporary art and design and has lectured widely on the history of artists’ publications and modes of archiving avant garde art activities of the 20th century. His writing has recently appeared in C Magazine, Frieze and the Bulletins of the Serving Library. For the past four years, he has published an artist’s book series through Printed Matter, which includes publications by Dexter Sinister, David Horvitz, Emily Roysdon and Aaron Flint Jamison, and he also curates the annual program of events for the New York Art Book Fair at PS1. Since 2008, this program has involved over 100 performances, talks, screenings and concerts.” www.meca.edu

‘The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds’ at Lucid Stage 8 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents the American classic with the tongue twisting title, “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,” by Paul Zindel. The play opens March 15, and runs Thursday to Sunday through April 1, at Lucid Stage in Portland. “Zindel’s masterpiece, which won an Obie Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Drama, tells the story of single mother Beatrice Hunsdorfer, and her teenage daughters, Ruth and Matilda. Abandoned by her husband and saddled with two children, Beatrice hates the world.

She thinks she just needs the right opportunity, and everything will get better. Older sister Ruth knows the reputation her mother has around town, but she seems sadly fated to repeat

her mother’s mistakes in her own life. Shy Matilda, or Tillie, is the joke of her school and her family, until a teacher opens her eyes to the wonders of science. When Tilllie’s project on the effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigold seeds is chosen for the school science fair, the dysfunctional family dynamic comes to a head.” www.lucidstage.com

Sunday, March 25 Maine Maple Sunday at New Gloucester farm 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maple Syrup Sunday at Norumbega Farm in New Gloucester, 402 Woodman Road. “This is only the second year that the Fralichs’ son Noah has been tapping trees and producing syrup. Last season focused on building a classic maple sugar shack, assembling a stove for boiling, and finding the trees for tapping. This season Noah is back at it and more ready than ever to get the maple syrup flowing. On Maine Maple Sunday, the farm will be open for tours of the classic sugar shack (built by hand in the winter of 2011) and sampling of fresh syrup over waffles; with ice cream; or with baked apples. Bottles of maple syrup will also be available for sale.” For information contact Michael or Noah Fralich at 653-6151.

Introduction to meditation and Buddhism 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Introduction to meditation and Buddhism. Learn basic posture for a sitting practice and engage with the meditation, as well as a basic introduction to Buddhism. “Both practical and timeless is the Buddha’s Dharma (Buddhist teachings) can lead us, through our own direct experience and efforts from darkness to light from stress and suffering to stillness and contentment. A light vegetarian lunch will be offered.

Narottama is a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order and has been leading meditation and Dharma classes for over 15 years.” Cost $55. Contact: Dharmasuri@gmail. com to register, or sign up at Nagaloka, 54 York St., Portland. www.nagalokabuddhistcenter.org

Monday, March 26 Community Development Block Grant hearing 5 p.m. The Portland City Council will hold a Special City Council Meeting for a Community Development Block Grant Annual Allocation Committee Presentation and public hearing order. An anticipated total budget of $4,115,183.

The first hearing will be held on March 26 at 5:30 p.m. The second public hearing is scheduled for April 9 at 7 p.m. For details, visit www.portlandmaine.gov/cdbgannuallocation. htm#members see next page

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‘Bipolar Expeditions’ author lecture 6 p.m. The University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities is hosting a lecture by New York University Professor of Anthropology Emily Martin on her book, “Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture.” The event will be held at 6 p.m. on Monday, March 26 at the WCHP Lecture Hall on UNE’s Portland Campus on Stevens Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held at 5 p.m. prior to the lecture at UNE’s Art Gallery. The Bangor Public Library and the Cary Library in Houlton will host events related to the lecture. More information on the Bangor Public Library event can be found here: www.bpl.lib.me.us/ emilymartinmania2012.html. “In this illustrated lecture, Martin will explore psychiatric categories involving emotion through ethnographic fieldwork in the contemporary U.S. She will explore how these categories are culturally created, measured and applied in relation to gender and race; then modified, contested, and rejected in contexts such as clinical rounds, patient advocacy support groups, and internet newsgroups.”

Pathways to Success forum 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Students, parents and other community members are invited to forums about the Portland Public Schools’ high school initiative, Pathways to Success.

“Funded by a multi-year, $5 million grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the initiative will implement new models of student-centered learning in the high schools, including internships, other opportunities to learn outside of the classroom and stronger partnerships with community organizations.” The final forum will be held March 26, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Deering High School auditorium. Parents, students and community members may attend whichever forum is most convenient. Translators will be available at both forums. Additional meetings will be planned later in the spring to provide more detailed information about the plans for Pathways to Success. www.portlandschools.org

‘Uncle Bob’ by Mad Horse Theatre Company 7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company’s Dark Night Series returns with Austin Pendleton’s “Uncle Bob.” “The reclusive Bob is an angry old man who has never done anything meaningful in his life. He is a failed actor and writer, he has driven away his loving wife, and he is dying of AIDS. A surprise visit by his nephew, Josh, who carries his own baggage, is more than Bob can handle. Josh, an unemployed college drop out, arrives on Bob’s doorstep uninvited and declares that he is there to take care of him. A loving family reunion this is not. The visit filled with name-calling and open scorn as the two men reconnect and discover, much to their chagrin, that they are kindred spirits. ‘Uncle Bob’ boldly explores those perplexing questions about life and death that existential philosophers ponder endlessly.”

“Uncle Bob” marks the directorial debut of Mad Horse Theatre Company member Nate Speckman. It stars guest artists Jacob Cote and Paul Haley. The production opened Monday, March 19, and will run on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through March 28. All performances will be at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, in Portland.

Show time is 7:30 p.m. All performances are Pay What You Can, with a suggested donation of $10.

Tuesday, March 27 Free Income Tax Preparation 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free Income Tax Preparation at the Portland Public Library. The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program is offering free federal and state of Maine income tax preparation and free electronic filing in Portland at the Main Branch of the Public Library at 5 Monument Square.

With electronic filing and direct deposit, refunds can be received in as little as eight days. Although walk-ins are accepted, appointments are preferred. To make an appointment, call 776-6316.

Life coach at Falmouth Memorial Library 6:30 p.m. Deb Bergeron, personal and professional life coach will be a guest speaker at the Falmouth Memorial Library. Bergeron will be presenting a one-hour workshop titled “Put the Stress on Wellness. Techniques to Stay Cool, Calm and Collected!” This workshop focuses on wellness and gives people many proven stress management techniques. This workshop is free and open to the public.

Extraordinary Histories of Ordinary Things 7 p.m. Maine Historical Society Book Group: Extraordinary Histories of Ordinary Things. Facilitator: Larissa Vigue Picard. “Join us for interesting discussions about history, and a great opportunity to connect with the MHS community. In recent years, historians have cultivated a fresh and

imaginative new genre: studies that trace broad historical narratives through the stories of individual, seemingly-small objects, ideas, or phenomenon. This year’s book discussion group will examine four particularly interesting examples: studies of the evolution of artificial light; how the lowly codfish changed the world; the toothpick as a paradigm for American manufacturing; and the influence of rum on the development of the New World. Registration required.

Space is limited.” www.mainehistory.org

Film: ‘Splinters’ at SPACE 7 p.m. “‘Splinters’ is the first feature length documentary film about the evolution of indigenous surfing in the developing nation of Papua New Guinea. In the 1980s an intrepid Australian pilot left behind a surfboard in the seaside village of Vanimo. Twenty years later, surfing is not only a pillar of village life but a means to prestige.” SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland. Doors open at 7 p.m., film begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission $7, $5 for SPACE members.

‘Juggling Truths – When Justice is a Moving Target’ 7 p.m. “The Hon. Unity Dow, an acclaimed author, human rights activist and former judge who was the first woman to serve on Botswana’s High Court, will deliver the University of Maine School of Law’s annual Justice for Women Lecture in Portland on March 27. This marks the inaugural year for this new lecture series. During her visit to Maine, Dow will meet with Law School faculty and students, community leaders, high school students and other groups, including the Mitchell Institute and CIEE, an international exchange organization based in Portland. The Law School established the Justice for Women Lecture series with support from attorney and civic leader Catherine Lee and other donors.

Dow is one of the world’s foremost advocates for the rights of women and indigenous groups. In 1998 Dow became the first female judge appointed to the High Court of Botswana, and she served on the court until 2009. One landmark case during her tenure involved a group of Botswana’s Bushmen who won the right to live and hunt on ancestral lands in the Kalahari. The author of four novels and a non-fiction book, Dow published her latest book, ‘Saturday is for Funerals,’ in 2010. The book examines recent successes that Botswana has had in the fight against HIV/AIDS.” Portland Mayor Michael Brennan will present Dow with a key to the city. Brennan, Dow, Lee and Dean Peter Pitegoff of the Law School will speak briefly. The Justice for Women Lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, at the Abromson Community Education Center, 88 Bedford St., Portland. Dow’s lecture is titled “Juggling Truths – When Justice is a Moving Target.” The event is free and open to the public. Due to limited space, however, RSVPs are encouraged. Please contact Lexie Moras at amoras@usm. maine.edu or 780-4344.

School board meeting 7 p.m. Business Meeting, Portland Public Schools board of trustees, Room 250, Casco Bay High School.

‘Uncle Bob’ by Mad Horse Theatre Company 7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company’s Dark Night Series returns with Austin Pendleton’s “Uncle Bob.” “Uncle Bob” marks the directorial debut of Mad Horse Theatre Company member Nate Speckman. It stars guest artists Jacob Cote and Paul Haley. The production opened Monday, March 19, and will run on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through March 28. All performances will be at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, in Portland. Show time is 7:30 p.m.

All performances are Pay What You Can, with a suggested donation of $10.

Wednesday March 28 ‘Not Just Chickens Cross Roads’ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gilsland Farm, free program at Maine Audubon. “Not Just Chickens Cross Roads: The Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch Roads are an integral part of our lives, getting us to all the places we need to go for work and play. But roads have an enormous impact on wildlife and habitat, affecting up to 20 percent of the landscape, fragmenting habitat, creating barriers to wildlife travel and collision risks for wildlife, especially worrisome for some endangered species. With changes to habitats due to climate change these problems for wildlife are even more significant. Maine Audubon, in partnership with UC Davis, MaineDOT, and Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, created the Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch website in 2010 to engage citizen scientists throughout Maine. Volunteers from around the state participate by adding any observations to the website. www.maineaudubon.org/wildliferoadwatch. The Maine Audubon Speaker Series is a free monthly program at the Gilsland Farm Center in Falmouth. Contact Mike Windsor, staff naturalist, at 781-2330, ext 237.

‘The Truth of All Things’ 7 p.m. University of Maine Law Alumnus Kieran Shields ‘96 will be giving a talk about his new book, “The Truth of All Things” in the University of Southern Maine Portland Bookstore. Copies of the book will be on sale after the talk.

This event is free and open to the public. Shields currently lives on the coast of Maine with his family. “The Truth of All Things” is Shields’ first novel. For more information, contact USM Tradebook Manager Barbara Kelly, at 780-4072.

‘Uncle Bob’ by Mad Horse Theatre Company 7:30 p.m. Mad Horse Theatre Company’s Dark Night Series returns with Austin Pendleton’s “Uncle Bob.” “Uncle Bob” marks the directorial debut of Mad Horse Theatre Company member Nate Speckman. It stars guest artists Jacob Cote and Paul Haley. The production opened Monday, March 19, and will run on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings through March 28. All performances will be at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Boulevard, in Portland. Show time is 7:30 p.m.

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8 p.m. Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad at Port City Music Hall. For over five years, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad’s live show has defined the band. Touring relentlessly, the Rochester, NY-based group is sustained by its passion to reinterpret, explore, and expand its music night after night in cities throughout the country. Admission: $12 adv/$15 dos. http:// portcitymusichall.com

7:30 p.m. Portland Ovations brings the young North African guitarist and songwriter Omara “Bombino” Moctar and his four-piece band to Hannaford Hall, University of Southern Maine in Portland for an evening concert. “Omara ‘Bombino’ Moctar is from the Tuareg region of North Africa and during his nomadic lifestyle of avoiding the politically charged rebellion in Niger, Bombino taught himself how to play guitar by watching videos of Jimi Hendrix, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and others in an effort to master their playing styles. He has recorded a desert blues version of the Rolling Stones classic ‘Hey Negrita’ alongside Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and has served as Angelina Jolie’s guide to the Niger desert region. His electrifying jams capture the spirit of the Sahara with enduring notes of nostalgia, resilience and peace.”

When Particles Collide 9:30 p.m. When Particles Collide, Naked on Rollerskates, Temperature of the Sun, at Empire Dine and Dance. When Particles Collide is a guitar and drum duo steeped in mid 90’s indie rock, late 70’s art poppunk with a hint of folk. Simultaneously strong willed and vulnerable vocals supported tightly locked rhythms.

Mastodon at the State

Excision is the Dubstep demon hailing from Canada. See this melding of metal and hip 7:30 p.m. Mastodon will be kicking off their Spring hop at the State Theatre, Thursday, March 29. (COURTESY PHOTO) 2012 co-headlining tour in Portland on April 4 at the State Theatre. The tour features a dream bill with followed by live sets by Johnny Cremains and Dementia Five, Emily Wells with Live Footage Swedish metal band Opeth as co-headliners and Ghost prostarting at 10.

Cover charge is $8 for the whole night, $6 after 8:30 p.m. Performer, producer and songwriter Emily Wells viding support on all dates. Mastodon have just returned to 10. All shows at Geno’s are 21 plus, proper ID is required. trades in a striking mix of classical instrumentation, folk the states after extensive touring throughout Europe and AusCome early to make sure you get a good seat! There will be rawness and hip-hop production anchored by her haunting tralia over the past few months in support of their latest album, popcorn! Venue: Geno’s Rock Club, 627 Congress St. combination of voice and violin. Her burgeoning reputation The Hunter. Released in Sept 2011, The Hunter entered the owes as much to her hypnotic live show where, working Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in the Top 10. a looping pedal, Wells becomes a one-woman orchestra, Saturday, March 31 playing live drums, guitars, analog synthesizers and beat machines as well. Joining Wells will be electroacoustic duo Reunion Weekend!: Live Footage, composed of Mike Thies and Topu Lyo, who Strangefolk at the State work with cello, drums and keyboards to craft warm, cin8 p.m. The State Theatre in ematic experiments in enveloping sound. SPACE Gallery, Portland and Higher Ground $10, 18 plus. Buy tickets at SPACE or at all Bull Moose in Burlington, Vt. announce locations. a reunion weekend with Strangefolk, including original Thursday, March 29 members Jon Trafton, Reid Genauer, Erik Glockler and Excision at the State Luke Smith. This special 8 p.m. Excision with Liquid Stranger, Lucky Date at the event marks the first time the State Theatre. Taking influence from DnB, Metal, and Hip band has played together WANT TO: Hop, Excision is a Dubstep artist who must be heard to WANT TO: formally onstage since their fully believe. Combining the morphing bass lines of Drum farewell Garden of Eden Increase Work with a and Bass, the aggressive energy of Metal, and the laid back concert in New Haven, Vt. sales? seasoned, vibes of hip hop, Excision’s style is incomparable. At only in September 2000. www.

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