The Portland Daily Sun, Wednesday, April 13, 2011

NASA chooses space shuttles’ retirement homes

A non-spring chicken finds age inhospitable

Reflections on happiness: Look for that pot of gold each day

See the story on page 3

See Natalie Ladd’s column on page 4

See Maggie Knowles on page 5

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Once fast-tracked ‘boat to nowhere’ going nowhere fast

BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

Call it a classic case of government “hurry up and wait.”

A new $5.5 million Casco Bay Lines replacement ferry — dubbed the “boat to nowhere” by its critics after a rush for federal stimulus grant money precluded usual design steps — is being stalled as government officials review its design.

FREE A Casco Bay Lines terminal ferry awaits passengers at the dock. A federal stimulus grant was awarded to replace Casco Bay Lines’ Island Romance ferry, one of the service’s smaller boats that was built in 1973. (DAVID CARKHUFF FILE PHOTO)

“I think its going much more slowly than anyone expected,” said Portland Mayor Nick Mavodones, who is also operations manager of Casco Bay Lines.

“Certainly, it’s slower than I would have hoped.”

The ferry became controversial after critics of the boat, most significantly some of the ferry boat captains, argued see FERRY page 3

Reny’s gets ready for its grand opening on Thursday Store manager Christian Steppe loads up old boxes at the Reny’s department store in Portland in preparation for a grand opening. The new Reny’s will open its doors at 9 a.m. Thursday, the Maine-based retail chain announced.

The store opens at 9 a.m. Thursday and will stay open until 6 p.m.

Regular hours will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Reny’s fills a vacancy on Congress Street left by L.L. Bean and Olympia Sports. Portland is the company’s largest city to date for a store.

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REAL ID rejection faces committee vote

BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN

A legislative committee will vote Friday on a proposal that rejects the federal REAL ID law in Maine, and for sponsor Rep. Ben Chipman, I-Portland, it’s like coming full circle.

“It’s something that we’ve been trying to do for several years,” Chipman said Tuesday.

“We haven’t been able to have any success until now,” he said. “The political climate might just be right for this bill.”

A work session for LD 1068, an Act To Protect the Privacy of Maine Residents under the Driver’s License Laws, is scheduled for Friday, April 15, at 9 a.m. in front of the Transportation Committee, Room 126.

The legislation would reject security mandates on state driver’s licenses imposed under the federal REAL ID law, a post-9/11 law that required states

to meet federal security standards in designing and issuing driver’s licenses. Critics also contend it’s an unfunded federal mandate that will cost Maine tens of millions of dollars.

The state’s closely watched and long-sought-after personal-liberties legislation has been around for several years, but never has it been this close to passage, Chipman said.

At a hearing last Thursday, a representative for Gov. Paul LePage spoke in favor of the bill, and the see REAL ID page 7

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‘Windies’ celebrate 75 years of fave book MARIETTA, Ga. (NY Times) — It doesn’t take much to talk Selina Faye Sorrow into slipping on her replica of the dress Vivien Leigh wore in the barbecue scene from the film “Gone With the Wind.”

You don’t know the dress? Then you are clearly not one of the “windies,” fans so ardent that recreating the burning of Atlanta in an airport hotel banquet room is not out of the question.

Mrs. Sorrow, 48, might best be described as windies’ royalty, one of perhaps 100 people in the country who meet a few times a year to indulge in all things G.W.T.W. This year, the book’s 75th anniversary, will be as indulgent as it gets. Nearly every room of her house in Powder Springs, Ga., a short drive from the Gone With the Wind Museum, drips with the book and film. It started with the Scarlett O’Hara Barbie doll that Mrs. Sorrow’s husband gave her 18 years ago.

Now, she has more than 500 items worth thousands of dollars.

Twin Rhett Butler-Scarlett O’Hara pillows adorn the couple’s king-size bed. She has a replica of Clark Gable’s driver’s license, G.W.T.W. wine and water bottles and rare engraved invitations to Margaret Mitchell’s funeral, which were delivered after the novel’s author was killed, at age 48, by a reckless driver in 1949.

There are 30 copies of the book in several languages and a movie seat from the Atlanta theater where the movie premiered in 1939. She sews gowns from movie scenes and sells them for $500, taking joy in seeing the expression on a woman’s face when she puts one on.

“I love that time, with the struggles and the way they got through it all,” Mrs. Sorrow said, trying to explain how a slight interest grew into full-blown worship. “It just seems like it would have been a precious time to enjoy being a lady.”

“Gone With the Wind” means a lot in Atlanta.

After all, Ms. Mitchell, who published her novel in 1936, lived, died and was buried here. Her story of the South before and after the Civil War is one that Atlantans, who like to joke that they only get burned once, hold as one of the city’s great contributions to American culture.

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‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”

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NATO split widens over Libya military action

BY ALAN COWELL AND ROD NORDLAND THE NEW YORK TIMES

PARIS — France and Britain urged NATO on Tuesday to intensify airstrikes against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces and called on it to do more to shield noncombatants from loyalist attacks.

The remarks could well embolden rebels who have proved unable to hold on to terrain captured from loyalist forces in weeks of advances and retreats along the coastal highway leading westward from the insurgents’ redoubts in eastern Libya.

The comments by William Hague, the

British foreign secretary, and Alain Juppé, the French foreign minister, also appeared to signal a rift within NATO only eight days after it assumed command from the United States for the air campaign over Libya.

NATO rejected the French and British criticism.

“NATO is conducting its military operations in Libya with vigor within the current mandate. The pace of the operations is determined by the need to protect the population,” it said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

While the pace of NATO air attacks appeared to pick up Monday in the battle-

ground between Ajdabiya and the oil town of Brega in eastern Libya, rebel leaders have complained bitterly of a lull that seemed to coincide with the handoff of responsibility from the allied coalition to NATO. NATO pilots were also involved in two friendly-fire incidents that killed well over a dozen rebel fighters.

NATO has been criticized for a go-slow approach in the rebel-held western city of Misurata, which has fallen into desperate straits as a weeks-long siege by pro-Qaddafi forces has stretched thin its stocks of food, water and medical supplies.

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Absentee ballots available for Portland school budget vote Portland residents can now apply to the Portland city clerk for absentee ballots for the May 10 referendum on next year’s Portland Public Schools budget. Applications can be found at portlandmaine.gov/ voter/voter.asp#absentee_ballot The Portland School Board has proposed an $89,587,035 budget for the 201112 school year. A copy of the budget and related documents are posted on the district’s website, portlandschools.org.

The Portland City Council’s Finance Committee will hold a public hearing and vote on the school budget on April 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 209 of Portland City Hall.

The full City Council will hold a hearing on the school budget on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers. The council is expected to vote on the school budget on May 2 at 7 p.m. in the same location.

The referendum ballot asks voters if they approve the budget as passed by the City Council.

Ballots must be returned between May 3 and May 10 at 8 p.m. People also may vote at City Hall on May 3-10 during regular business hours. The city clerk’s office will be open on Saturday, May 7 from 8 a.m. until noon for voting.

For more detailed information about where or how to vote, contact the city clerk’s office at 874-8677 or visit portlandmaine.gov/voter/voter.asp.

State to issue fewer deer permits this hunting season In an effort to improve the state’s deer populations, the state agency that regulates hunting has announced plans to reduce the number of antlerless deer permits it issues this hunting season, according to Associated Press.

Commissioner Chandler Woodcock, of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife wants to reduce the number of those permits by 46 percent, to 26,390 next year — a reduction of more than 22,000

permits, AP reports.

Legal hunting, poaching, coyotes and longer winters with deeper snow cover are to blame for the declining health of the state’s deer herd across most of Maine, AP reports, although deer populars are healthy in southern and central Maine.

According to AP, Woodcock said the cuts are necessary to ensure the deer herds bounce back.

Investment firm no longer interested in N. Maine mills MILLINOCKET — The California investment firm that was showed interest in buying two Northern Maine paper mills has walked away from the deal. The Associated Press is reporting that state and local officials are not interested in re-starting talks with Meriturn Partners, which earlier this year had issued a formal letter of intent to buy mills in East Millinocket and Millinocket.

AP reports that labor issues and Meriturn’s request for $48 million in tax breaks, as well as other financial incentives, doomed the deal.

Michael Madore, a Millinocket town councilor, told AP on Monday that “Meriturn is no longer a player in this game.”

San Francisco-based Meriturn’s decision to pull back puts to 450 jobs at the East Millinocket mill in jeopardy. That mill, which was scheduled to re-open this week, is still idle. The Millinocket mill has been idle since 2008.

Unemployed mill workers to receive job training EAST MILLINOCKET — Workers displaced by a paper mill closure here will be eligible for job training and unemployment benefits, according to the Bangor Daily News. Up to 450 people will lose their jobs after a California-based investment firm abandoned talks to buy a working paper mill in East Millinocket and a shuttered facility in nearby Millinocket.

The East Millinocket mill was due to re-

open this week, although it’s likely shut down permanently now that Meriturn is no longer negotiating to buy it.

The Maine Department of Labor’s rapid response team will host meetings next Tuesday at Schenck High School at 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Bangor Daily News reports.

The paper says several potential investors have emerged as potential owners for the two mills, and local officials as well as Gov. Paul LePage are still hopeful that a buyer will be found.

State senate rejects runoffs for gubernatorial elections A proposal to amend the Maine constitution to require governors to win a majority of the vote failed in the state Senate yesterday, effectively killing the proposal for the next two years, according to the Associated Press.

The proposal would have required candidates to receive 50 percent of the vote or more in governor’s races. If no candidate reached that threshold, a runoff would have been held, AP reported.

No candidate has received more than 50 percent of the vote in the last three Maine gubernatorial races. in 2006, John Baldacci won a second term despite receiving just 38 percent of the vote, which is roughly the same percentage Gov. Paul LePage received in November.

AP reported that the bill was introduced in part because of the recent trend of governors winning with fewer than 50 percent of the vote.

FairPoint lost millions in 2010 The formerly bankrupt telecom company FairPoint lost more than $282 million last year, on top of $241 million a year before, according to a report in the Nashua Telegraph. Those details emerged in financial filings to the SEC, MaineBiz reported.

FairPoint declared bankruptcy in late 2009, and emerged three months ago with a total debt load of roughly $1 billion, according to Maine Biz.

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New $5.5 million replacement ferry still not built FERRY from page one

that the new boat was a “boat to nowhere” because it could not really perform the same functions as the Island Romance boat it was replacing. They argued that the rush to qualify for grant money had sidestepped the public planning process.

The “boat to nowhere” moniker is a reference to the famous “bridge to nowhere” project in Alaska that became iconic of unnecessary federal spending.

Supporters of the boat admitted that, to meet federal stimulus funding deadlines, design steps that might usually happen were too slow. Instead, they said, the only way to meet the deadlines was to “dust off” a recent design and use that for the grant application.

The process was unusual not only in its need for speed, but because 100 percent of the funding was

“I think its going much more slowly than anyone expected.” Nick Mavodones, Portland mayor and operations manager of Casco Bay Lines from federal coffers. Typically, such projects require a local match of 10 percent or more.

In an interview Monday, Mavodones confirmed the review process is slowing the pace, and indeed has been so slow that the Rhode Island boatyard tasked with building the ferry has placed another project ahead of it in the production cycle, a significant move in the boat-building scheduling process.

The new CBL ferry is expected to take more than a year to build once construction begins.

Mavodones said he had been told that the U.S. Coast Guard was reviewing the ferry design. He

said some of the federal money had been released, but that the bulk remained undistributed.

The new ferry seemed to be on a fast track last summer as bids were opened in July and the project was quickly awarded. But then it reportedly went “nowhere fast” for months. To date, construction hasn’t started on the vessel.

In last year’s debate, supporters of the new ferry noted that benefits of the new boat, beyond the 100 percent federal funding, is that it replaces a 1973 vessel with a larger 400-seat vessel expected to be equipped with electronically controlled diesel engines that meet new federal standards for efficiency and emissions.

“This is not the right boat and this is not the right time,” complained Frank Paretti, a ferry board member and a leading critic of vessel choice, when the proposal became public last year.

NASA chooses space shuttles’ retirement homes

BY KENNETH CHANG aboard — were lost in the THE NEW YORK TIMES last 30 years. The ChalNASA’s space shuttles, which lenger disintegrated upon have been carrying astronauts liftoff in January 1986 aloft for 30 years, were assigned because of a leaky booster to their final destinations on rocket, and 17 years later, Tuesday: one will head to the the Columbia broke up as it nation’s capital, another to Los returned to Earth because Angeles, and the third from its of wing damage caused current home at the Kennedy by falling insulating foam Space Center in Florida to the during liftoff. center’s visitor complex next In the aftermath of door. the Columbia, President In a ceremony commemoratGeorge W. Bush decided ing the shuttle program, Maj. to resume flying the three Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., the remaining shuttles — the NASA administrator, made the Discovery, the Atlantis and long-awaited announcement of the Endeavour, which had where the soon-to-be museum been built as a replacepieces would end up. ment for the Challenger — The Discovery, which combut then to retire them as pleted its final flight last month, soon as construction of the is headed to the Smithsonian, International Space Stafor display at the spacious tion was complete.

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center NASA inquired a few near Washington Dulles Interyears ago whether any national Airport. The Endeavmuseums or other instituour, currently on the launching tions had an interest in pad for its final space trip, will acquiring a shuttle. Potengo to the California Science tial bidders were told that Center. The Atlantis, scheduled educational programs for its last mission in June, will would have to accompany go to the Kennedy visitor comthe exhibits, and that the plex. shuttles would have to The audience at the Kennedy reside in an indoor, climateceremony erupted into cheercontrolled environment. ing and whooping as General The winning institutions The Discovery is headed to the Smithsonian, for display at the spacious Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles Bolden announced the Atlanwill now have to negotiate International Airport. (Stan Honda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images/New York Times) tis’s destination. “I guess I got with NASA over the cost, something right today,” the estimated at $28.8 milthe shuttle that has been on display receive a flown orbiter, but it will get general said with a laugh. lion apiece, of preparing the shuttles there since 2003. The Enterprise, a full-size mock-up that is now at the Conspicuous among the unsucfor display and moving them to their which was used for early glide tests Johnson Space Center and is used for cessful hopefuls were the Museum of destinations. But not all of them will but was never sent into orbit, will now astronaut training.

Flight in Seattle, which had already have to find that much money: Congo the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space NASA had been expected to make begun construction of a wing that gress exempted the Smithsonian, and Museum in Manhattan. its museum choices last year, but that it hoped would house an orbiter; the transportation costs for the KenTwenty-one institutions across the was when the final shuttle flight had the National Museum of the United nedy Space Center visitor complex country had put in bids for one of the been scheduled for last September.

States Air Force in Ohio; and NASA’s — instead of traveling piggyback on orbiters, and in recent weeks, GenAs the schedule for the final missions Johnson Space Center in Texas, the a 747, the Atlantis is to be towed just eral Bolden was inundated with letwas stretched out, so were the prepasite of mission control for the 135 a short way down the road — will be ters and phone calls from members of rations for the shuttles’ post-flying shuttle missions. significantly lower.

Congress and others advocating varicareers.

The disappointment in Houston Some of the orbiters may go on ous sites.

Finally, General Bolden chose Tueswas pronounced. Representative Pete a farewell tour. NASA is looking “There were many, many worthy day for the announcement to coincide Olson, a Republican whose district into “possibly taking them on a tour institutions that requested an orbiter, with the anniversaries of two historic includes the space center, said in a around various locations throughout and only four to go around,” General moments in space flight: the 50th statement, “This oversight smacks of the country while they’re en route to Bolden said. anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagaa political gesture in an agency that their final destinations,” said Michael NASA also announced on Tuesday rin, the Soviet cosmonaut who was has always served above politics.”

Curie, a spokesman for the space that hundreds of other pieces of hardthe first human in space, and the 30th With the Discovery headed to the agency. ware from the shuttle program would anniversary of the first launching of a Smithsonian, the museum will no NASA expects to deliver the shutbe heading to various museums. The space shuttle, the Columbia, in 1981. longer have need for the Enterprise, tles next year.

Seattle museum, for example, will not Two shuttles — and the astronauts

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Times of upheaval At the start of his brilliant, funny novel “The Pregnant Widow,” Martin Amis writes: “This is the way it goes. In your mid-forties you have your first crisis of mortality (death will not ignore me) ; and 10 years later you have your first crisis of age (my body whispers that death is already intrigued by me) . But something very interesting happens to you in between.”

That passage resonated, perhaps because I’ve hit the latter of the ages mentioned, and I recall my father, a doctor, saying that aging is not a smooth process but more like a staircase — you go along heedless for a while with nothing appearing to shift and then, oops, you find you’ve gone down another step and the exit is closer than the entrance.

Amis goes on to say what it is that happens “in between.” Life, ––––– he says, “thickens out again.”

The New York And the thickening is due to Times “an enormous and unsuspected presence within your being, like an undiscovered continent.” What is this presence?

Amis answers: “This is the past.”

Yes, the past! How rich in consolation it becomes. It grows, eddies, recedes and blossoms by turn, making its claim on the imagination. Amis’s book unfolds in the early 1970s in Italy where, a decade after the arrival of the pill, a group of Brits gathered in a castle go through their iteration of the sexual revolution. The narrator’s pondering of that heady time — of the sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll and what they wrought on one small circle — provides the elegiac counterpoint to the passions of a faraway Italian summer.

I was in Italy the summer of 1973 with a group of friends before taking the hippie trail to Afghanistan. We discovered Piero della Francesca and Ghirlandaio, but that was not all. Here was one of those moments — from the late ’60s into the early ’70s — when, like in this season of upheaval, time seems to accelerate.

As Lenin once observed, “Sometimes decades pass and nothing happens; and then sometimes weeks pass and decades happen.” The staircase principle works for peoples as well as individuals.

A postwar generation, in Europe and America, came of age. The confrontation could be brutal, as in Germany, where the fight was to overcome the rigidity of what some called “the Auschwitz generation.” Everywhere barriers broke. There was political turmoil — Paris ’68

Roger Cohen

see COHEN page 5

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A non-spring chicken finds age inhospitable As the weather breaks and the foot and paw traffic on the boulevard picks up, I am reminded that I am no spring chicken.

I am reminded by a bit of soreness in my hands and hips that sadly have nothing to do with a red-wine hangover, or other wild and crazy nighttime escapades.

I am remind by the fact that Number One graduates from high school in two months, and I was considered chronologically “older” back when she was born.

I am also reminded that I am no spring chicken with the increase of snail-mailed propaganda from AARP and the fact that I am eligible to take classes at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Oh, but the list goes on and on.

As New Guy and I approach the one-year mark (just the thought will cause him to break out in a cold sweat) I am aware that the sweet, young things in Pandora’s box seem even more tempting as he wonders where his own time and window of opportunity has flown. The only wryly amusing thing about this is that age and perspective dance through an hourglass, and the muses he currently wonders about are now in

Natalie Ladd ––––– What It’s Like their fabulous forties.

At the risk of being shrewish, I even manage to fold the paper just so to cover up Maggie’s picture (she’s practically jail bait) when New Guy reads my column.

As far as being a working girl goes, blame society, mass media, beautiful-people icons or bad genes; but time waits for no woman and little few feel the sting more than my sisters who are veterans in the restaurant and hospitality business.

Take what happened on “The Jersey Shore” for example. Not the train wreck of a TV show with Snookie and The “Situation,” but something even more absurd. It should have been an April Fool’s Day joke, but last week the Associated Press ran a disturbing piece about an Atlantic City casino that was changing their overall image to a Roaring ‘20s theme, complete with music,

decor and naturally, uniforms.

The previous “classic” tuxedo cocktail waitress get-up was tossed aside and a skimpy flapper costume, avec fishnets was introduced to take its place.

The cocktail waitresses were asked to put on the costumes and have pictures taken, thinking all-the-while the photo shoot was to evaluate correct size and fit.

There was no photo-opportunity posing, just shots from different angles with each woman holding up a number. What resulted from the finished glossy product was the firing of 15 of the servers for “violating uniform standards.” Not surprisingly, these were highly experienced, long-time, competent women in their early 50s.

Several had a loyal following, primarily men, who waited patiently to sit in their sections.

The uproar over the firing was louder than the day Prohibition itself was put into place, and seven of the fired waitresses are suing the resort, claiming age and sex discrimination. Others are considering legal action.

To the casino’s “credit” they have offered the women hiring prefersee LADD page 5

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Reflections on happiness Baby Boy has a newfound curiosity: the level of one’s happiness. Several times throughout the day, I am under inquisition, “Mama, are you happy?”

Last week I gave him a giant smile (as I was scraping a potpourri of dried banana and Play-Do off the leather chair) and said, “Of course! I get to be your Mommy.”

To which he recoiled in horror and asked, “Why your teeth very yellow, Mama?”

Wrong time to launch into what a lifetime of red wine and coffee will do?

So, are you happy? Not just right now, but in general, do you consider yourself happy? Ah, such a loaded question — for isn’t that the human condition, defining happiness before attaining it? No short work there.

You may have an idea of shallow happiness, “I feel happy when I eat a whole pizza.” Or when you buy something new or date The Hot One from work. But those are external forces twisting your mind into an idea of happiness, usually which leaves you feeling guilty and destitute afterwards.

Look at a typical American lifestyle — hours on the computer or in front of the TV; eating processed junakaroo; in a chronic state of disconnect from nature and our family; constantly running on all stressful cylinders.

How can we reclaim our birthright to be happy when we are in a constant cycle of dis-ease?

Maggie Knowles ––––– Use Your Outdoor Voice Kids are happy. They exude happiness. They are either happy or not.

There is no guesswork or question.

They wear their emotion like a milk moustache. We need to be more like our kids in order to get back to Happiness 101.

A typical trait of children is that they love looking forward to things.

They get so excited that Billy’s birthday party is on Saturday or that they get ice cream after nap. What do you have to look forward to? You need to get excited about something down the road or your days have a blah purpose. Set yourself up with a small treat that acts like an allowance for a week/month/year well done. A yoga class, lunch with your favorite college professor, opening a new home business … pick some short and long term treats.

The trick here is to make sure all of your actions during the day are leading you to that pot of gold. When you align your activity with something positive and fun, how can you not be happy?

You also need something from your

past that you can be really proud of for those times when you feel like you have been run over by a commuter train. Your kids hang up every art project ever made (such pride in those sparkly creations!) You need an inner art gallery for your accomplishments. Did you deliver a baby on the road in a snowstorm? Kick a winning goal? Sing like a badass in choir?

There is something in your past that is awesome. Remember what that is and hang on to it for when you need an ego security blanket.

Despite the moaning and groaning, your kids are most happy when they are with you. (At least until they turn 14.) I asked a bunch of kids what makes them happiest and every single one said being with their families. No one said eating pizza or sleeping or getting stuff. Follow suit. Schedule time if you have to for family dinners, walks, game nights, whatever. Just be together, no phones, iPods or distractions.

Because there will be a time when you don’t have your family at your fingertips any longer. But you have them today.

When have you ever met a kid that holds a grudge? Freddy took Betty’s favorite teddy? Sure, rage and fire erupts. Two minutes later they are BFF’s again. You cannot be happy if you are holding on to long lost anger, hurt and regret. Give yourself permission to let go of these grudges

and forgive those that have wronged you. You won’t lose power. On the contrary, new space opens for light and positivity to grow. Most importantly, forgive yourself. You can’t go back and change your choices. But all those choices got you to where you are today, and today you have the chance to be fabulous.

Kids spend the day singing their own praises and giving themselves hugs (yes, I know you aren’t that flexible, but …) you also need to tell yourself that you love yourself. You tell the kids, the dog, the chocolate …when is the last time you told you? Know how happy it makes you to hear your partner tell you they love you? It has the same effect. Look at your gorgeous mug in the mirror and say, “I love you.” You will feel like a goof the first few times. Then you get this instantaneous zap and glow. It is amazing how much more you can achieve if you know you love yourself.

And that will make you happy. And you, more than anyone, deserve to be happy.

(I need to give a shout out to the fab Local Sprouts Co-op where I am writing this. You guys have the best food and Vegan cuppies! Thank you for being here!)

(Maggie Knowles is a columnist for The Portland Daily Sun. Her column appears Wednesdays.)

The dike has broken; another generation has its say COHEN from page 4

and Prague and Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy and the Chicago convention — reflecting a social revolution in which the answers to everything seemed wondrously to be, “Yes.” We were at the end of what the French called “Les Trente Glorieuses” and the Germans the “Wirtschaftswunder” — a 30-year economic miracle in any language — and possibility had no bounds.

Perhaps Jim Morrison of The Doors put it best: “The old get old and the young get stronger…They got the guns but we got the numbers. Gonna win, yeah we’re takin’ over.”

I can think of several capitals right now, from Damascus to Tripoli, from Sana to Manama, where autocrats might ponder that line about guns and numbers. A baby-booming Arab generation is also coming of age. There is no turning back however

turbulent the passage proves. The dike has broken.

Another generation must have its say.

After reading Amis I turned to the good Keith Richards autobiography, “Life,” in which the Rolling Stones guitarist brings that late-1960s pivot to vivid life. The energy of the moment — and the creative power of the Richards-Jagger combo at the time of “Let it Bleed” (1969) — are irresistible. As Richards writes of the fecund frenzy that could produce “Brown Sugar” in 45 minutes, “Take it away, Mick.

Your job now. I’ve given you the riff, baby. You fill it in.” There was not much thought — “It was a groove.”

Richards and Jagger turn 70 in a couple of years; Bob Dylan will be 70 next month. Yes, the past grows.

To be young in that moment, rather than a generation earlier, was to have the blessing of late birth.

What worries me is the loss of mystery since that time: The world was uncharted, the unknown was everywhere with its liberating invitation. What reas-

sures me is that progress, however uneven, has been immense. People are freer and live longer. As Dylan put it, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

The leadership of China, where Dylan has just been touring, knows that. O.K., Dylan was compliant on the surface in Beijing. But he’s as subversive as the epoch in which he came of age. You can’t direct genius like trade sanctions. He said it long ago: “To live outside the law you must be honest.”

Amis’s conclusion is reassuring. “I’m as old as NATO. And it all works out,” he writes, and continues: “Your eyes get hotter — but that’s all right because your hands get colder (and you can soothe them with your frozen fingertips.)” Yes, “It all works out in the end.”

It does — even in times when the world is a “pregnant widow,” one order gone and another not yet born.

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ence in other open positions, but I wonder about the financial equity between a bathroom attendant and cocktail server. The whole thing ruffles my feathers even more since the neighboring Borgata Casino and Spa settled a multimillion-dollar sex discrimination law suit in 2008, with two of their servers who were humiliated by a blatant emphasis of looks over job performance, imposing weight limits, and encouragement from management to have breast augmentation surgery.

It is only slightly amusing to think how something like this might play out in Maine. Would a server be demoted to busser if her orange hunting

vest was too baggy? What if her flannel shirt didn’t match her Bean boots? Or more realistically, what if the applicant on the Pier in OOB is not quite a fresh faced college kid, but has oodles of experience? Why is it so uncomfortable to think about Flo from Mel’s diner offering up Jello shots at The Brunswick on a hot summer afternoon?

So many other industries value the expertise and experience a seasoned, mature person brings to the table. I realize The Jersey Shore fiasco is indicative of a larger, cultural issue; but it pains me to see the value, beauty and wisdom “women of a certain age” in the hospitality industry have to offer being swept aside.

As far as the whole spring chicken thing goes,

sometimes it can be a little tough to take. But, hey, I have a great job where I am indeed the oldest hen in the house and dressing like a flapper would only happen on Halloween. I also know aches and pains can be handled with a few Advil and crazy nighttime escapades are definitely not a thing of the past.

Truth be known, I believe that like my veteran restaurant sisters, I am really more like a peacock in full bloom with so much to offer, and have no intention of hanging up my apron or retiring my tip jar any time soon.

(Natalie Ladd and her “What’s It Like” column take a weekly look at the culinary business in and around Portland.)

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Renovation of a terminal, keyed to San Francisco

BY TODD WOODY THE NEW YORK TIMES

SAN FRANCISCO — If the prospect of flying holds all the appeal of a cross-country bus trip, the $6,500, lipstick-red leather Egg chairs at San Francisco International Airport’s Terminal 2 are intended to return some long-lost glamour to air travel.

More Standard Hotel than standard airport gateway, T2, as it is known here, is one of the few terminals renovated top to bottom since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and represents an ambitious attempt by the airport and airlines to take both stress and carbon out of air travel. The $383 million renovation gutted a drab 1950s-era building that last served as the international terminal before being shuttered more than a decade ago. Even compared with more contemporary terminals at San Francisco International, T2 represents a new approach to airport design. It opens on Thursday.

“It’s about the intersection between passenger delight and bringing back the joy of flying with the high-performance building aspects,” said Melissa Mizell, a senior associate with Gensler, the San Francisco firm that designed the renovation. “That really guided a

lot of our decisions, even with sustainability.”

The words delight, joy and flying do not usually appear in the same sentence. But airport officials, airlines and architects said that they put as much emphasis on redefining the travel experience as on lessening its environmental impact.

“We wanted this to feel like a San Francisco terminal and not a terminal anywhere else in the world,” Raymond Quesada, an airport project manager, said as he stood in the soaring, lightand art-filled ticket lobby shared by Virgin America and American Airlines, the terminal’s two tenants.

Those San Francisco values include a city mandate to achieve at least LEED Silver status for the renovation. LEED — Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design — is a rating system administrated by the United States Green Building Council that ranks structures according to points earned for energy efficiency, water conservation and other environmentally beneficial attributes.

Airport officials intend to apply for LEED Gold certification, and if it is awarded, T2 will be the first airport terminal in the United States to achieve such a ranking, according to

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That area opens into a food hall modeled after the one in San Francisco’s Ferry Building and offers some of the same upscale Bay Area restaurants, including Cowgirl Creamery, Acme Bread, Napa The new terminal in San Francisco will feature children’s play areas Farms Market and Lark Creek Grill. created by Walter Kitundu. (Peter DaSilva for The New York Times) Travelers hungering Ashley Katz, a spokeswoman for the for a Burger King or Dunkin’ Donuts building council. are out of luck.

Drivers of hybrid and electric cars “The whole idea is that you feel get preferential parking in the nearby like you’re in San Francisco, with an garage, and there are vehicle-chargemphasis on local, organic produce,” ing stations for the electric cars. Cool Mr. Quesada said. air seeps from perforated white wall Beyond the food hall are the gates, panels in the terminal rather than arrayed in two wings. “The concept being forced down from the ceiling. was to make this area very much The system, called displacement venlike a lounge,” he said. “You could be tilation, cuts energy use by 20 percent in the food area and still be within because the air does not need to be ear- and eyeshot of your check-in cooled as much since it displaces the podium and thus minimize stress.” rising warmer air, Mr. Quesada said.

Free Wi-Fi and the presence of Reclaimed water is pumped into the some 350 power outlets — available restrooms, reducing water consumpon work tables and every few seats tion by 40 percent. The abundant natin the gate areas — may well also be ural light through walls of windows a major stress reducer for travelers makes most daytime artificial lightaccustomed to sprawling on termiing unnecessary. nal floors with their laptops.

Passengers are encouraged to carry Virgin does not plan on having a reusable bottles and fill them at blue separate airport lounge. “We feel like “hydration stations” in the terminal the gate area is the lounge,” Ross rather than buy throwaway bottled Bonanno, Virgin’s vice president for water. airports and guest service, said as he “Originally, we were considering rested an arm on an Egg chair. banning the sale of bottled water, (American Airlines has built a dedibut we got a lot of pushback from the cated lounge, which will seek LEED concessionaires,” Mr. Quesada said.

Silver status.)

“But they are required to sell more David Cush, Virgin America’s chief environmentally friendly plastic executive, said he was hoping the bottles. But again, we’re hoping they green-tinged amenities would give won’t have to do that and people will the airline an edge with sustainablebring their own bottles to the airminded travelers. port.”

“Certainly for San Francisco and Under their leases, food sellers people who live in the Bay Area, this must use utensils and packaging that is a top-of-mind issue,” said the tan can be composted, and compost bins and long-haired Mr. Cush, who could are prominently displayed in the terbe mistaken for a local surfer. “It’s minal. The airport scores more LEED becoming a bigger and bigger top-ofpoints for making the green experimind issue for corporate America in ence educational through signs and terms of travel policies.” even a mobile phone tour.

But how much impact can a lowBut passengers will probably pay carbon terminal really have on the most attention to the terminal’s food, most carbon-intensive form of transfashion and flow, all of which reflect portation? the esthetic of Virgin America, which “Not traveling is really not an has its headquarters in San Francisco. option, so the real question is how The neon mood lighting found on do we make it more sustainable,” Mr. Virgin planes is mirrored in the lobCush said, noting that in January bylike ticketing area, where pods of Virgin America placed an order for 30 those high-backed, Danish-designed Airbus A320neo jetliners, which will Egg chairs are clustered around sculpbe 15 percent more efficient than curtures and paintings by local artists. rent models while emitting far fewer The security checkpoint has six pollutants. lanes to expedite screening and pas“It can be green and fun,” he added. sengers exit into an airy “recompose “You don’t have to choose one or the area” that features colorful ottomans, other.” installed with the Transportation

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hearing brought out Republicans, Democrats and Independents who urged passage, Chipman noted.

“There wasn’t one person who spoke in opposition,” Chipman said.

A work session for LD 1068, an Act To Protect the Privacy of Maine Residents under the Driver’s License Laws, is scheduled for Friday, April 15, at 9 a.m. in front of the Transportation Committee. Room 126 “It’s gone really well. I’ve talked to a few committee members and they’ve been supportChipman ive,” Chipman said.

In 2009, then-Gov. John Baldacci vetoed a similar push in Maine to withdraw from the law’s federal security mandates.

Now, Chipman expects a favorable vote out of committee Friday.

“Now you’ve got the Republicans being in the majority, they’re not fans of federal mandates, and

this is a huge federal mandate,” he said.

A study conducted by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the National Governors Association and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators determined the act could cost states more than $11 billion over five years. In Maine, the price tag is an estimated $79 million.

“Where are we going to find $79 million? I have no idea,” Chipman said.

Prior to being elected, while he was a community organizer, Chipman helped gather about 30,000 signatures in an unsuccessful bid to undo the federal law’s security mandates on driver’s licenses in Maine.

When he was elected to a seat vacated through term limits by Democrat Herb Adams, Chipman said he found an earlier version of the bill and renewed the fight.

“I think it’s a worthwhile cause,” he said.

How did a freshman legislator from neither major political party manage to propel such a significant piece of legislation so far, so quickly?

Before his election as a freshman legislator last November, Chipman worked as a legislative aide for Rep. John Eder at the State House from 2002-2006,

which he said gave him a feel for how to pass legislation.

“I’m a freshman, but I also worked here for four years,” he said. “I know how to get bills passed, who to talk to.”

“Being an Independent, I’ve been able to network with Democrats and Republicans. ... It’s kind of knowing what arguments to use and building coalition support from both sides,” he said.

The timing doesn’t hurt, either. With a Republican turnover of the Maine Legislature, Chipman finds a different dynamic in Augusta.

“Everybody agrees we don’t have the money,” he said.

The Maine Civil Liberties Union joined a coalition of legislators and privacy advocates to push for the legislation, and a new LePage administration in Augusta is breaking from its predecessor. Although Chipman said he doesn’t support much of what the governor is doing, this is an issue that unites them.

“Certainly, on this it’s something that we found common ground on,” he said.

Following Friday’s committee vote, the legislation will go to the full House and Senate for consideration.

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their people are,” he said of Republicans.

If more than 24 Republican members defect, Democrats would be needed to pass the legislation. The failure of the bill — an unlikely, though not impossible, prospect — would lead to a government shutdown.

Large Republican defections would not necessarily lead to that result, but would be an enorCantor mous embarrassment for Speaker John A. Boehner.

Republicans leaders moved to show unity for the measure, which incorporates significant concessions from both Democrats, who took a hit on environmental and education programs, and Republicans, who failed to get anywhere near the $61 billion in cuts they sought.

“I applaud the leadership of Speaker Boehner in securing tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts, forcing the president and his party’s leaders to retreat from their reckless spending spree,” Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, the House Budget Committee chairman, said in a statement. “The historic spending cut turns the page from Washington’s pervasive culture of spending, sending a welcome signal to job creators and cleaning up the unprecedented budget mess left by the last Congress.”

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The spending plan cuts $38 billion in the current fiscal year. The House will also vote on two separate measures: one to end all federal financing for Planned Parenthood, and the second to undo the health care overhaul of 2009. If the bills are approved, they will go to the Senate for a vote that same day, where the Planned Parenthood and health care measures are almost certainly doomed.

Last week, a fight over the money for Planned Parenthood threatened to derail the negotiations over the measure to finance the government through Sept. 30. The House Republicans sought to take away all federal money for Planned Parenthood and other family-planning services and turn those dollars over to the states instead. President Obama and Senate Democrats held firm against that policy rider, and it was ultimately dropped.

On Tuesday Mr. Cantor said Republicans would continue to seek ways to take federal money from Planned Parenthood. “Where I think that we have consistently been,” he said, “is to reflect that we believe very strongly that government dollars should not be used to fund abortion.” (In fact it is already against federal law to use federal dollars to obtain an abortion.)

On the Senate side, the spending plan faced skepticism from the most conservative members, who do not think it makes enough cuts, and from more liberal members, like Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, who said Tuesday that he would reject the measure because it was “Robin Hood in reverse.” Still, passage in that chamber appeared likely.

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BY JENNIFER STEINHAUER WASHINGTON — House Republicans scurried on Tuesday to secure the votes needed for a bill that would keep the government financed for the rest of the fiscal year, delaying action by one day to abide by their self-imposed rule to air all legislation publicly for three days before a vote.

The House and Senate are scheduled to vote on the spending plan Thursday, the deadline before the expiration of a very short-term stopgap financing measure worked out late Friday night. Over the roughly two days between the revelation of the details of the plan early Tuesday morning and the vote Thursday, Republicans and Democrats have the chance to voice their skepticism about the bill.

Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is chairman of the influential House Republican Study Committee, said on Tuesday that he would oppose the measure because it did not cut enough in federal spending.

“While I respect that some of my Republican colleagues will ultimately support this spending deal,” Mr. Jordan said in a statement. “I believe voters are asking us to set our sights higher.”

The study committee, made up of about 175 House Republicans, forced the House Appropriations Committee to push for higher cuts in its original spending bill, which ultimately failed in the Senate.

While only 28 Republicans voted against the bridge plan to keep the money flowing until Thursday’s vote, it is highly likely that some of the Republicans who supported that measure were looking to avoid a government shutdown and will vote nay on the bill to finance the government through the rest of the fiscal year.

In a meeting with reporters, the House majority leader, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, while saying it was his understanding that the bill had “strong Republican support,” conceded Tuesday that he was not certain the bill would pass without support from Democrats. “Certainly we’ll always ask for them,” he said about Democrats.

House Democrats also largely supported the agreement reached Friday night, but it was somewhat unclear where they would stand this week on a bill that hacks away at some of their favorite programs, though the cuts are far less than Republicans had sought.

“My presumption is we don’t know where our people are,” Representative Steny H. Hoyer, the minority whip, said in a meeting with reporters on Tuesday morning. “I don’t think they know where

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Andy’s Agway Andy’s Agway of Dayton, outside of Saco, is located at the former Cole dairy farm. The farm store, while a bit of a throwback, is responding to current trends, including one evident in Portland — home-grown eggs. In 2009, the city of Portland allowed the raising of back-yard chickens. Andy’s Agway is offering a free seminar at noon on Saturday, “Raising Chickens.” In the seminar, the lawn and garden/farm store will tackle a topic that was a hot item last month at the Portland Flower Show. Andy’s Agway set up an exhibit, complete with baby chick incubator, at the flower show. Valerie Cole, owner with her husband, Andy, of Andy’s Agway, said she fielded a host of questions from show attendees about how to raise chickens. Saturday’s seminar will discuss the basics of keeping chickens: starting with chicks, feeding and security. Cole said staying up with the times is part of the store’s strategy. As for the name, Andy’s Agway ...

“Agway is what used to be a franchise at one time, it isn’t so much anymore,” Cole explained. “We thought, ‘you really need to know who you’re dealing with in business,’ and when you come to Andy’s Agway, you’re dealing with Andy.” Open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., For details, visit andysagway.com.

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Valerie Cole with Andy’s Agway of Dayton serves customers at the Portland Flower Show in March. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)

Oil and commodity prices decline, and shares go with them

BY CHRISTINE HAUSER THE NEW YORK TIMES

Stocks on Wall Street were dragged down by tumbling crude oil prices and weaker commodity markets on Tuesday as investors expected lower demand in Japan in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear crisis.

Some analysts said oil prices had been due for a correction, with the speculative nature of the markets one reason behind its recent rise. Prices had

risen in recent weeks on a weaker dollar and heightened concern over the potential for oil supply disruptions in the Middle East and North Africa.

On Tuesday, however, crude oil prices turned decidedly lower after weeks of hitting highs not seen since September 2008. Oil fell 3.3 percent, to $106.25 a barrel in New York trading, while Brent crude fell 1.6 percent, to $121.04 in London.

Prices for other commodities were also lower, including gold, silver, copper, cotton and corn.

Economists at Capital Economics said that Japan was just one factor in the overall weakness in commodity prices.

“More generally, we have been arguing for some time that these prices would soon reach danger levels that would undermine demand and contribute, in time, to sharp falls,” Capital Economics said in a report.

The Dow Jones industrial average recorded its biggest decline in nearly a month when it fell 0.95 percent or 117.53 points, to 12,263.58. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index declined 0.78 percent, or 10.30 points, to 1,314.16. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite fell 0.96 percent, or 26.72 points to 2,744.79.

Also weighing on the market were quarterly results from Alcoa, the aluminum producer, which reported Monday after the market closed that its first-quarter profit slightly beat estimates but that its revenue lagged estimates. Alcoa shares fell more than 6 percent, to $16.70.

As oil prices fell, so did energy shares, which declined

nearly 3 percent. Materials shares were down 1.35 percent and technology shares were 0.89 percent lower.

Chevron declined 3.34 percent, to $104.18, while Exxon fell 2.33 percent, to $83.18. Caterpillar also pulled down the Dow with a 2.29 percent drop, to $106.57.

Clark Yingst, a chief market analyst for Joseph Gunnar, said the recent surge in oil prices had not been driven by underlying demand but by a weaker dollar and the geopolitical crisis in the Middle East and North Africa.

Goldman Sachs economists wrote in a research report that they expected a “substantial pullback” of $20 in the near-term target price of Brent crude oil price goal to $105 a barrel.

Speculation has also been cited as a factor in the surge in prices, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in its most recent report that oil futures contracts had increased 4.5 percent as of last Tuesday to reach the third-highest level since records started in 2006.

Such speculation, Mr. Yingst said, “contributed to the skyrocketing oil prices” in the futures market in 2008. “All of that has come together and caused the decline across the board,” he said of the range of factors affecting the drop in commodity prices.

But he said the decline in oil prices was good in that it could help consumer discretionary spending and lower inputs for corporations.

Meanwhile, analysts said that bond prices benefited from increased risk aversion and fears over the human and economic costs of the continuing situation in Japan.

The Treasury’s 10-year note rose 23/32, to 101 3/32.

The yield fell to 3.49 percent, from 3.58 percent late Monday.

“Recognizing this, the global investment community is taking the latest developments as good reason to reinitiate the “flight to quality” trade by fleeing riskier assets in favor of Treasuries,” said Kevin H. Giddis, the executive managing director and president for fixed-income capital markets at Morgan Keegan & Company.

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Audubon seeks frog surveyors

Dog days of spring

DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT Volunteers are needed to survey frogs across Maine, Maine Audubon reported Tuesday.

“Wood frogs are the earliest frogs to emerge from the frozen mud,” said Susan Gallo, a wildlife biologist with Maine Audubon and coordinator of the Maine Amphibian Monitoring Project (MAMP), which this year enters its 15th year of surveying Maine’s amphibian populations. “When they start calling, it means that spring is really here!”

Potential volunteers should visit www.maineaudubon.org/conserve/citsci/mamp.shtml for more information about how and when surveys are done, and to see where MAMP routes are located.

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Osprey return to Wolfe’s Neck Woods DAILY SUN STAFF REPORT One more sure sign that it’s finally spring — the osprey have returned to Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, according to the Maine Department of ConservationBureau of Parks and Lands.

One nesting pair has arrived back from their winter vacation in South America and has set up nest-keeping on the Googins Island site, reported Park Manager Andy Hutchinson. A single male arrived Tuesday at the mainland site, which means its mate should be returning by Monday, April 18, Hutchinson said.

“It’s almost like clockwork,” the park manager said. “You can expect them to return around the same time every year.”

The popular seacoast park has had two nesting pairs of osprey for some years, one large nest on Googins Island and another smaller nest on the mainland. The birds, which can be easily viewed by visitors, have been a regular favorite attraction at the park, which is owned and managed by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands, under the Maine Department of Conservation.

The osprey’s continual return to the park nesting sites is as predictable as other famous U.S. bird migrations, including the swallows’ return to San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio.

The osprey’s return this year also is perfect timing for a two-day, family

birding event, “Feathers over Freeport,” to be held April 30-May 1 at both Wolfe’s Neck Woods and Bradbury Mountain state parks. More information will be forthcoming about the event, which will feature not only osprey watches, but also hawk watches at Bradbury in Pownal and numerous activities for children and families and beginning and intermediate birders, Hutchinson said.

Osprey are one of the largest birds of prey in North America and eat fish almost exclusively. Once an endangered species because of pesticides, they are found on all continents except Antarctica. Osprey build nests on high trees and manmade structures. They mate for life, though if a mate dies, the remaining bird will find a second mate. Osprey can live 15 to 25 years.

Hutchinson, who is a naturalist, said the Googins Island male returned on March 28, while the female returned on April 5. The birds most likely are the same pair that lived previously on the island, but because they are not banded, observers can’t be certain.

“Chances are pretty good, given that they’re a fairly young pair, that it’s the same pair,” he said.

The birds winter separately, though in the same general area, the park manager said, and the male returns to the summer nest first. The male “usually gets a head start, fixing up the nest for mom,” Hutchinson said. The island nest “over-wintered well and is completely intact” with no damage, he said.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).

Though there will be a degree of frustration to express, do everything in your power to keep from complaining. You have better things to do than bond over shared gripes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).

It’s fine to go off task once in a while.

In fact, when you need a new idea, it’s recommended. During all your wandering around, you just may stumble across a groovy opportunity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ll show the world that you’re skilled.

You’ve done the hard learning already, and now it’s time to relax and let your talent take over. Whatever game you’re playing, this is the start of your hot streak.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You will align your agenda with that of colleagues and higher-ups. When everyone is on the same page, it will be easier to produce big results and make your boss happy at the same time.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 13).

You’ll make a difference in the lives of others. Over the next six weeks, your glowing smile attracts good fortune. In May, work provides the opportunity to recognize your own power and assert yourself. You’ll begin a new regimen in June, and loved ones will follow your lead. You’ll give your domestic scene a makeover in July. Aquarius and Virgo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 25, 40, 19 and 16.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You could coast on what you already know, but you choose to keep your skills up to date. Those who pay you will be pleased at the initiative you show by staying current.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll get a chance to perform what you practiced. It feels different to do this in front of people. Even if you don’t put on the best show of your life, your high-spirited effort will be enough to push you to the next level.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Someone will be willing to pay you for the effort you would have freely given. Take the money. Your warm reception of the good fortune that’s coming your way will attract more of it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). It’s never fun to feel like someone is talking at you instead of talking to you. Luckily, today there will be a way to avoid the person who regularly perpetrates the crime of having a one-way conversation between two people.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Seize the opportunity to be creative, even if there is a risk of being critiqued at the end. You just might be enthralled with the outcome. You’re better than you realize.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You like your drama with popcorn. As for the real-life show that’s going on, you didn’t buy a ticket, so you don’t have to watch if you don’t want to. Take a step back.

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––––––– ALMANAC ––––––– Today is Wednesday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2011. There are 262 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 13, 1861, Fort Sumter in South Carolina fell as the Union commander, Maj. Robert Anderson, agreed to surrender in the face of the Confederates’ relentless bombardment.

On this date: In 1742, Handel’s “Messiah” was first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland.

In 1743, the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Shadwell in the Virginia Colony.

In 1860, the Pony Express completed its inaugural run from St. Joseph, Mo. to Sacramento, Calif. in 10 days.

In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.

In 1958, Van Cliburn of the United States won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition for piano in Moscow; Russian Valery Klimov won the violin competition.

In 1960, the U.S. Navy’s Transit 1B navigational satellite was successfully launched into orbit.

In 1970, Apollo 13, four-fifths of the way to the moon, was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst. (The astronauts managed to return safely.)

In 1981, Washington Post reporter Janet Cooke received a Pulitzer Prize for her feature about an 8-year-old heroin addict named “Jimmy”; however, Cooke relinquished the prize two days later, admitting she’d fabricated the story.

One year ago: World leaders concluded a 47-nation nuclear security conference in Washington, endorsing President Barack Obama’s call for securing all of the globe’s vulnerable nuclear materials within four years.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director Stanley Donen is 87. Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., is 78. Actor Lyle Waggoner is 76. Actor Edward Fox is 74.

Actor Paul Sorvino is 72. Actor Tony Dow is 66. Singer Al Green is 65. Author-journalist Christopher Hitchens is 62. Actor Ron Perlman is 61. Actor William Sadler is 61. Singer Peabo Bryson is 60. Bandleader/rock musician Max Weinberg is 60. Bluegrass singermusician Sam Bush is 59. Rock musician Jimmy Destri is 57. Singer-musician Louis Johnson (The Brothers Johnson) is 56.

Comedian Gary Kroeger is 54. Actress Saundra Santiago is 54. Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., is 51. Rock musician Joey Mazzola (Sponge) is 50. Actress-comedian Caroline Rhea (RAY) is 47. Rock musician Lisa Umbarger is 46. Rock musician Marc Ford is 45. Actor Ricky Schroder is 41. Rock singer Aaron Lewis (Staind) is 39. Actor Bokeem Woodbine is 38. Singer Lou Bega is 36. Actor-producer Glenn Howerton is 35.

Actress Courtney Peldon is 30.

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I have always treated Janet the same as my other kids. I cosigned for her car and covered when she missed payments.

When she needed money, I was there for her. When she graduated from college, I forgave the $4,000 she owed me for her tuition. Janet’s mother never offered a dime to help.

Unfortunately, Janet has inherited her mother’s tendency to drink and take advantage of people. She appreciates nothing I’ve done for her. I finally couldn’t take it anymore and stopped trying to help. That was 18 months ago, and we haven’t spoken since. This is causing problems with my other kids. They want me to forgive everything. But I need Janet to admit she is out of control. She hasn’t responded to any of my past letters, so why should I keep trying to make her see that she needs to grow up and stop hurting herself and her family?

Janet still owes me more than $21,000 in school loans and refuses to repay any of it. Now I am thinking of suing her.

I’m a firm believer in being responsible for your actions. I also think it is time to tell Janet about her biological father.

It may help her understand why she is so different from her siblings. I’m hoping it will also demonstrate that I’m the only one who has been there for her. I feel I have lost a daughter.

What should I do? -- At a Crossroad with a Broken Heart Dear Crossroad: Many biological parents have these same issues with irresponsible adult children. It’s up to you whether or not to sue Janet, but she is not likely to repay the $21,000 either way. However, we agree that she should know about her biological origins -- not because she will appreciate you

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Dear Annie: In the expression, “Watch your P’s and Q’s,” what do the letters “P” and “Q” stand for? -- Always Wondered in Ohio Dear Ohio: The most accepted explanation is that the expression comes from old printing presses where the letters “p” and “q” could easily be transposed when setting the type and workers should be careful. Another account is that it originated in English pubs where bartenders kept a tally of pints and quarts. Our favorite, however, is that “p” is short for “please” and “q” is a contraction of “thank you,” and the saying was used by parents to teach their children to be polite.

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I have known I was bipolar since I was 46, back when it was still called manic depression. I get so tired of the media misrepresenting this condition. One cannot automatically assume that all bipolar people are violent or have such tendencies. I have never been violent in my 69 years and would never consider it. I know I am one of the lucky ones whose disease is completely controlled by the right medication, and I am diligent about following my psychiatrist’s advice.

I am a successful and happy person. I wish people would not always assume that all bipolar individuals are hopeless, unemployed and dysfunctional. It’s simply not the case.

Thank you. -- Stigmatized in California Dear Stigmatized: Bipolar symptoms are different depending upon the individual, and those who are diligent about their medication fare quite well. Thanks for the reminder.

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Wednesday, April 13 Maine Songwriters Association Showcase 7 p.m. A new monthly series from OLS and MSA featuring a great lineup of local talent every second Wednesday! Maine Songwriters Association is a state-wide, non-profit, member organization dedicated to the support of songwriters and their art. The MSA mission is to encourage, recognize, educate, support and promote developing songwriters. $5, all ages. One Longfellow Square. www.mesongwriters.com/ members/default.asp

Boston Legends Tour 7 p.m. Presented by WBLM with SMD Live LLC, the Boston Legends Tour comes to Merrill Auditorium. “Since the 1970s, the sound of Boston Rock has been created by amazing bands like J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, Boston, The Cars, The Joe Perry Project, Farrenheit, Jon Butcher Axis, and Bellevue Cadillac. Now the most accomplished musicians from these bands join together in one historic all-star group to play live in the Boston Legends Tour.” Top price seats ($84 with service charge) are VIP seats. Lineup of musicians from Boston’s most legendary bands includes: Original Steely Dan guitarist and long time Doobie Brother Jeff “Skunk” Baxter; harp player Magic Dick and bass player Danny Klein of the J. Geils Band; Barry Goudreau formerly of the band Boston; Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes of The Cars; Jon Butcher of Jon Butcher Axis; Charlie Farren of the Joe Perry Project; Johnny A (Gibson Guitar Signature Artist and Boston Music Award Winner); James Montgomery — harp player of James Montgomery Band; David Hull of the Joe Perry Project and Aerosmith; Doug Bell of Bellevue Cadillac; Marty Richards, drummer — who has performed with Peter Wolf and Joe Perry Project, featuring The Uptown Horns (performed with The Rolling Stones, The J. Geils Band, Bill Joel and more), Sandy MacDonald of the Commitments, and child prodigy Desiree Bassett who has performed with Ted Nugent and Sammy Hagar and special guests Ernie and The Automatics. Opening the show will be The Stompers.

Thursday, April 14 Dooryard Benefit: Old Night / Stinky P-Face / Hoboe 9 p.m. Old Night (Alex Merrill), Stinky P-Face. Hoboe. Additional acts TBA. $3 cover/21+. All proceeds go to the Dooryard Art Collective. Empire Dine & Dance, 575 Congress St.

Jesse Colin Young at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Jesse Colin Young, critically acclaimed solo artist and lead singer of the legendary classic rock band, The Youngbloods, took the nation by storm when The Youngblood’s single Get Together became a worldwide Top 10 hit and a prominent soundtrack for peace. After seven group releases, Young began the production of more than 15 acclaimed solo albums including Song For Juli, Light Shine, Songbird and a live album with his great touring band titled On The Road. $35/$38, all ages.

Friday, April 15 The Gay Blades / Marie Stella / if and it 8 p.m. The Gay Blades are a made of magic and they are almost always on the road sending magic to new friends everywhere. Let’s dance naked together. Local indie rockers Marie Stella and if and it round out this night at Bayside Bowl. $5, all ages.

Jeffery Foucault at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Longtime disciple of the rich and strange music that sings behind the American veil, Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and elemental albums of rare power while garnering accolades across the United States and overseas for a tersely elegant brand of songwriting set apart by its haunting imagery and weather-beaten cool. $15/$18

Tax Day Extravaganza with Jeff Beam / Bass Box / Sea Level / the Vanityites at Empire Dine & Dance 9 p.m. 9:30 – 10:00: The Vanityites, 10:15 – 11:00: Sea Level, 11:15 – 12:00: Jeff Beam Philharmonic, 12:15 – 1:00: Bass Box. $6, 21 plus.

Saturday, April 16 Melissa Ferrick at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Indie-maverick (and major label veteran) Melissa Ferrick is an accomplished singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalist who has shared stages with artists as wideranging as Bob Dylan, Paul Westerberg, Weezer and Ani

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DiFranco, and performs over 150 shows a year — often for audiences of 7,500 or more. Her extraordinarily passionate, grassroots fan base began when she opened for Morrissey in 1991, and has grown into one of the most loyal followings in recent indie memory. $20/$25, all ages.

Tuesday, April 19 Glass Fingers / Of the Trees / Michael Stoltz 9 p.m. Prepare yourselves for a night of excellent Maine electronic music. You’re sure to be dancing and nodding your head to the sweet sounds of Glass Fingers, Of the Trees, and Michael Stoltz late into this Tuesday night. An exciting new electronic music act from Portland, Glass Fingers (aka Jesse Gertz) was hand picked by Dan Deacon to open for his Portland show at Space Gallery on March 11th.

Electronic music from South Portland, Of the Trees is rich in influences ranging from downtempo/ambient to face-melting dubstep-laden beats. Get lost in the warm, fuzz-drenched, swirling, sprawling sounds of Michael Stoltz. A true master of his art, this is Michael’s Portland debut, and will undoubtedly be one of many more appearances to come. Free, all ages. Slainte Wine Bar and Lounge. http:// www.myspace.com/slaintewinebar

Thursday, April 21 The Portland Jazz Orchestra at One Longfellow 8 p.m. Dr. Chris Oberholtzer and his 18-piece ensemble perform an evening of big band swing! $5 students, seniors, and advance. One Longfellow Square. $9 door.

Friday, April 22

The Gay Blades are made of magic and they are almost always on the road sending magic to new friends everywhere. Local indie rockers Marie Stella and if and it round out this night at Bayside Bowl. $5, all ages, Friday, April 15. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Caravan of Thieves at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. Just Announced! Over A Cardboard Sea will open the show with a special duo featuring Timothy Findlen and Ukulele Eck! Stretching the parameters of acoustic swing, Caravan of Thieves has been winning immediate praise for their new and unique brand of gypsy flavored song writing and their high intensity show. The vocal harmonizing, acoustic guitar spanking husband and wife duo Fuzz and Carrie have extended their family to include fiery violinist Ben Dean and double bass madman, Brian Anderson to complete their colorful vision. Seeking inspiration from beyond the great divide, the quartet produces layers of Beatlesque vocals, driving rhythms, satirical, dramatic song writing and an overall circus of sound. $12/$18, all ages.

Saturday, April 23 Spose and Cam Groves at Port City Music Hall 8 p.m. Portland’s most well known emcee, Spose and fellow hip-hop lyricists Cam Groves and Educated Advocates come to Port City Music Hall. Since the release of his debut album “Preposterously Dank” in 2008 on his own imprint, Spose has seen his musical endeavors reach a new plateau. He was named Maine’s “Best HipHop Act” for both 2008 and 2009 at the WePushButtons Awards and also named “Best Hiphop Act” in the Portland Phoenix’s 2010 Best Music Poll. In 2009, he released a mixtape with fellow emcee Cam Groves entitled “We Smoked It All.” A track off that mixtape, produced by Spose himself, “I’m Awesome”

garnered Spose his first major label recording contract with Universal Republic Records. Spose used the opportunity to build his own company, the Preposterously Dank Entertainment label based out of Wells, Maine. Artists signed to his imprint include himself, Spose, emcee Cam Groves, hiphop trio Educated Advocates, and the space-funk-sex-r’n’b of Doctor Astronaut. In 2010, Spose released both “In Sessions,” the debut album from Educated Advocates, as well as his own indie album “Happy Medium.” $10 advance, $12 day of show, $20 VIP, 21 plus.

HillyTown Presents: Milagres / Milkman’s Union / Husband & Wife at One Longfellow Square 8 p.m. HillyTown Presents: Milagres + Milkman’s Union + Husband & Wife. This triple bill will be a night not to miss.

Three great performances, one night! $10, all ages. www. onelongfellowsquare.com/

Friday,April 29 John Prine, presented by the State Theatre, performing at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium 8 p.m. SOLD OUT. John Prine plays at Merrill Auditorium, presented by the State Theatre. Some four decades since his remarkable debut, John Prine has stayed at the top of his game, both as a performer and songwriter. Recently honored at the Library of Congress by U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, he’s been elevated from the annals of songwriters into the realm of bonafide American treasures. http://www.statetheatreportland.com

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Wednesday, April 13 Neighborhood Byway in Deering Center 6 p.m. The city of Portland and the Deering Center Neighborhood Association will host a neighborhood meeting to discuss the creation of a Neighborhood Byway in the Deering Center neighborhood. A Neighborhood Byway uses local, residential streets to create a comfortable environment for bicyclists and pedestrians of all ages. Byways are designed to encourage use by beginner or less experienced cyclists, kids and families traveling to and from local schools, and residents walking or riding to various neighborhood destinations. The Deering Center area was selected for the pilot project as a Neighborhood Byway would be able to connect a large number of locations and address long-standing neighborhood concerns regarding traffic and pedestrian safety. The pilot project will promote safer connections between four neighborhood centers, five schools and numerous trails and parks (for a map of the proposed byway, visit the city’s website at www.portlandmaine.gov.). The Neighborhood Byway initiative is funded in part by a $1.8 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to the City of Portland’s Healthy Portland to prevent obesity by increasing physical activity and improving nutrition within the community. Funded through Communities Putting Preventing to Work (CCPW), the city’s obesity prevention program seeks to provide quality ways for Portland residents to lead active, healthy lives, including creating safe places to walk and bike. Meeting at Hall School, 23 Orono Road, ends at 8 p.m.

St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Holy Week services at Old Orchard Beach 6 p.m. St. Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church, located at Cathedral Pines Chapel, 156 Saco Ave., Old Orchard Beach, has announced its Holy Week Schedule. Every Wednesday until April 20, there will be at 6 p.m. Stations of the Cross. On April 17, Palm Sunday at 4 p.m., the parish will have the Blessing and Distribution of Palms and Mass followed by the Service of Tenebrae.

During Holy Week, on April 21, Maundy Thursday at 7 p.m., there will be Holy Communion and Stripping of the Altar. On April 22, Good Friday, from noon until 3 p.m., there is the remembrance of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross called Tres Ores. It begins at noon with the Stations of the Cross and Meditations on the Last Words of Christ in the Cross. Holy Week wraps up on Sunday April 24, with the Great Celebration of Easter and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ at 4 p.m. The Rev. Jeffrey Monroe MM is Rector.

Thursday, April 14 Eggs and Issues: ‘Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads’ 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Eggs and Issues, “Maine’s Finances at the Crossroads, Reform or Bust,” at Holiday Inn By the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland, by Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. Networking, breakfast, program at 8 a.m. “State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin will discuss Maine’s debt problems and what Governor LePage is doing to fix it.

Find out what every Maine taxpayer needs to know about reforming the state’s spending and pension liabilities and what it means for jobs and opportunity.”

‘The Great Tax Divide’ noon to 1:30 p.m. The Great Tax Divide: Maine’s Retail Desert vs. New Hampshire’s Retail Oasis” presented byScott Moody, chief economist, The Maine Heritage Policy Center. “Learn about our latest research and indepth analysis of cross-border shopping along the Maine — New Hampshire border which represents one of, if not the, largest tax differentials in the country. Scott Moody has analyzed decades of data and the effects of sales tax on Maine retailers with the goal of building a greater understanding of the Maine versus New Hampshire’s retail sector and what it means for Maine businesses as well as enable The Maine Heritage Policy Center to work with policy makers and business leaders to implement meaningful tax reform.” Portland, DiMillo’s On the Water, 25 Long Wharf, Portland. (Also in Bangor Wednesday, April 13, at Sea Dog Brewing Company Banquet Center.) MHPC Member: $17 per person, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Non-member: $22.

For more information, contact Amanda Clark at 321-2550 or by e-mailing aclark@mainepolicy.org.

Scarborough Chamber Meet Your Legislators 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Scarborough Community Chamber and its Public Policy and Legislative Affairs representatives will sponsor a Meet Your Legislators special event at Maine Indoor Karting in Scarborough. “This will be a great opportunity for Scarborough Community Chamber members and guests to meet and talk informally with our legislators, Senator Phil Bartlett and Rep. Amy Fern Volk.” www.portlandregion.com

In a movie still from the documentary, “Everything in Sight,” Mitchell Pfeifle and Angela Alderete strike a pose. This 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick will be broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. (COURTESY PHOTO)

Deering Players talent show 7 p.m. The Deering Players will host a talent show in the auditorium at Deering High School, 370 Stevens Ave., Portland. Tickets are $5. For more information, please contact Kathleen Harris at 874-8260.

land County Civic Center Box Office, by calling 775-3458, visiting the Cumberland County Civic Center Box Office or on-line at ticketmaster.com.

FOOD + FARM 2011

7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of 5:30 p.m. The public will have one of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual several opportunities to voice their look at issues challenging our access to opinion on the Portland Public School safe, sustainable food. This year’s prosystem and the City of Portland’s gram features our first foray into farm municipal budget. Monday, May 2, the theater with a reading of the work-inCity Council will hold a public hearing progress Of Farms and Fables, a visit for the municipal budget only and will from the young farmer’s advocacy group vote on the school budget. The school The Greenhorns who will be conducting budget will then be sent to the voters a young farmers’ mixer and screening for a citywide vote Tuesday, May 10. their new film The Greenhorns, a talk The City Council will vote on the municby sustainable food author and eduipal budget May 16. Opportunities for cator Anna Lappé on the connections Public Comment: Thursday, April 14, between diet and climate change and 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Comhands-on learning opportunities with mittee Public Hearing, public comment a work/learn party at Cultivating Comtaken on both city and school budgets. munity’s Turkey Hill Farm and intensive Monday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., City Council Chambers: City Council Public Hear- The University of Maine at Farmington’s growing workshops at The Urban Farm ing for school budget only. Thursday, notable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Fermentory. Co-presented by SPACE Gallery, MOFGA, Cultivating ComWriting program presents award-winning April 28, 5:30 p.m., Room 209: Finance Committee Public Hearing, public com- author Rosemary Mahoney as the next munity, The Urban Farm Fermentory, ment taken on city budget. Monday, reader in its 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. and Flatbread Co. In-kind and underMay 2, 7 p.m., City Council Chambers: Mahoney will read from her work at 7:30 writing support is provided by Local City Council Public Hearing for city p.m., Thursday, April 14 in The Landing in Sprouts, The Portland Phoenix, Aurora budget only. Tuesday, May 10: Citywide the UMF Olsen Student Center. (COURTESY Provisions, Caiola’s Restaurant, Maine Root, Rosemont Market and Bakery, vote on school budget. Visit the city’s PHOTO) Grandy Oats and the WIld Iris Inn.” website for the latest information on the http://www.space538.org/events.php budget process, www.portlandmaine.gov/financialreports.

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Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert 7 p.m. University of Southerm Maine Youth Ensembles Spring Instrumental Concert. Merrill Auditorium, Myrtle Street, Portland. Sponsored by Macy’s, with support from the Sam L. Cohen Foundation.

Portland Pirates in playoffs 7 p.m. The Portland Pirates shootout win over the Albany Devils combined with a Connecticut Whale 4-3 loss to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers Saturday night means the Pirates will face the Whale in the opening round of the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs beginning with Game 1 to be played Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will be played Saturday, April 16 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Center with the series shifting to Connecticut for Games 3 and 4. Tickets for the first round of Portland Pirates Playoff Hockey MISSION: 16W, powered by Time Warner Cable are on sale at the Cumber-

Author Rosemary Mahoney at UMF Visiting Writers Series

7:30 p.m. The University of Maine at Farmington’s notable Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program presents award-winning author Rosemary Mahoney as the next reader in its 2010-11 Visiting Writers Series. Mahoney will read from her work in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. This event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing by the author. Mahoney is the author of “The Early Arrival of Dreams”; “A Year in China,” a New York Times Notable Book; “Whoredom in Kimmage”; “The World of Irish Women,” a new York Times Notable Book and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; “A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman”; “The Singular Pilgrim”; “Travels on Sacred Ground”; and “Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff,” chosen as a best book of the year by both Publisher’s Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor. see next page

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Friday, April 15 Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Second annual Flaws for a Cause Benefit Sale, April 15 to April 30, at Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore St., 774-1633.

Buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots, to benefit Cultivating Community. The Maine Potters Market, 376 Fore Street in Portland’s Old Port, announces its second annual Flaws for a Cause Sale from April 15 to April 30. This is a unique opportunity to buy perfectly usable, but less than perfect pots. Last year’s sale was a big success, raising money for Cultivating Community, a Portland nonprofit that grows food for the hungry and uses their work in gardens and farms for community development and empowering youth.

teers of all ages are also always welcome – whether at the sale or at the Congress Street, Portland boutique during regular hours. To volunteer, or for more information, please email southernmaine@dressforsuccess.org or call 780-1686.

Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Biddeford Winter Farmer’s Market is held every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At the former West Pepperril Mill on Main Street in Biddeford.

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Art Supplies Yard Sale

9 a.m. to 2 p.m. “Are you looking for that perfect picture frame? Do you want to try something new as an artist? You will find all sorts of art making materials at the Art Supplies Yard Sale at Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Look for frames, paper for drawing and painting, canvas and mat board, easels and drawing tables, art books and videos and other ‘Saving the Union’ Civil War art supplies. All proceeds go to support remembrance At 4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players will present “The Mikado” at Merrill Barn Gallery and the Ogunquit Museum 1 p.m. The Maine State Archives will present Auditorium in Portland. The New York troupe is a professional repertory company giving vitality to the of American Art.” Barn Gallery, corner of “Saving the Union: The Call for Volunteers,” living legacy of Gilbert & Sullivan through performance and education. (COURTESY PHOTO) Shore Road & Bourne Lane, Ogunquit and at the Augusta Civic Center to commemorate Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 543 Maine’s entry into the Civil War. The event is and the contributing author to nine others, Anna’s work has Shore Road, Ogunquit. Contact Roz Fedeli free and open to the public. “It was on April 15, 1861 that been widely translated internationally and featured in The 207-351- 3262 or rivercurrentart@myfairpoint.com. OgunPresident Abraham Lincoln asked states such as Maine New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many quit Museum of American Art 207-646-4909 to raise 75,000 volunteer soldiers to defend the Union other outlets. Named one of Time’s ‘eco’ Who’s-Who, Anna Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ registration against southern states that were seceding, primarily over is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the 9 a.m. Online registration for the Portland Trails 10K the issue of slavery,” said State Archivist David Cheever.

Small Planet Fund and has for more than a decade been a “Trail to Ale” will open. “Because of the popularity of “Maine answered Lincoln’s call with vigor and this event is key force in the growing international movement for sustainthis race, registration will be limited to 2000 participants. representative of Maine’s key role in the Civil War.” Maine’s ability and justice in the food chain.” http://www.space538.

Portland Trails will accept online registrations on a first Secretary of State, Charles E. Summers, Jr., Maine’s Adjuorg/events.php come first serve basis, with spaces reserved for Porttant General John “Bill” Libby, and Maine Governor Paul ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ concert at USM land Trails members. Runners register on the Portland LePage will speak about how Maine rose to President Lin8 p.m. Spotlight Concert Series: “Unaccustomed Earth.”

Trails website, www.trails.org. Before online registracoln’s challenge to defend the country and the Constitution.

Two Sides Sounding & South Oxford Six. Corthell Concert tion opens, runners will get a chance to register early Members of The Maine Legislature will also participate in Hall, University of Southern Maine, Gorham.

A part of Innoat the Shipyard Summer Ale Party, held at Portland Pie the ceremony. “Saving the Union” will include readings of vation Celebration, a partnership with the Portland ConserCompany at their Portland, Scarborough and WestCivil War-era letters from Maine citizens; music by the 195th vatory of Music, and USM’s New Music Weekend. brook locations on April 14 from 5-8 p.m. For each Maine National Guard Band and Civil War re-enactors; pint of Shipyard Summer Ale sold that night, Portland choral music by the Bowdoin and Colby College chorus’; ‘Blood Brothers’ at CLT in Auburn Pie Company will donate $1 to Portland Trails. Runand color guards from the Maine National Guard and Civil 8 p.m. Mark Brann of Portland, as the “Narrator” in Comners who register for the 10K at the party get their first War re-enactment groups. For more information about this munity Little Theatre’s “Blood Brothers,” tells the story of pint for free and will be guaranteed a spot in the ‘Trail event, contact State Archivist David Cheever, or visit the “Mrs. Johnstone, deserted by her husband and unable to Ale.’ The Portland Trails 10K ‘Trail to Ale’ will take Maine State Archives website at www.maine.gov/sos/arc/. to cope with her oversized brood of children.” Played by place on Sunday, Sept. 18 in Portland. The race starts Stefanie Lynn of Auburn, she reluctantly gives one of her ‘Bill Cunningham New York’ on the Eastern Promenade Trail, loops Back Cove, and twin boys to the wife of her wealthy employer. The adop6:30 p.m. “Bill Cunningham New York” screens at Movies finishes at East End Beach. The course is exclusively tive mother, Mrs. Lyons is played by CLT veteran Cheryl at the Museum at the Portland Museum of Art. Friday, April off-road and offers beautiful views of Portland harbor Reynolds, also of Portland. Years later, the brothers meet 15, 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, 2 p.m.; Sunday, April 17, and Back Cove. The first 400 registrants to the race and become inseparable friends, but their relationship is 2 p.m. NR “‘We all get dressed for Bill,’ says Vogue ediwill receive a complimentary running jersey. Registradoomed. Whether it is a child’s inherent nature or the way trix Anna Wintour. The ‘Bill’ in question is 80 plus New York tion for the ‘Trail to Ale’ is $20.” he is nurtured that determines his fate is at the crux of the Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this storyline. “A total of 12 talented singers and actors make up Earth Day volunteer work party at MOFGA center Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsesthe cast of this hit musical by Willy Russell, which has accu9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardensively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high mulated a host of awards and has become one of the loners Association (MOFGA) will host an Earth Day volunteer society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his colgest standing works of musical theater in history.

The cast work party at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center umns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting also includes, Adam Morris of Westbrook, Paige Berube in Unity. Volunteers are needed for the following projects uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David of Gray, Andreas Wyder of New Vineyard, and Lewistonon April 16: Spring garden clean-up; raking and mulching; Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Auburn residents, Chris L’Hommedieu, Sydney Browne, orchard weeding; and light carpentry projects. The workBill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, CunGuy Pilote, Andrew Leeman, Brandon Chaloux and Mary day will take place rain or shine, so participants are asked ningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than Turcotte. The show is directed by Celeste Philippon.” Ron to dress appropriately. Volunteers should bring work gloves any catwalk as an expression of time, place, and individual Bouffard is the assistant director, Paul G. Caron is musical and favorite garden tools. MOFGA will provide a hearty, flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny, director, and Eileen Messina is the choreographer. “Blood organic lunch and volunteer t-shirt for each participant. and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only Brothers” opens at Great Fall Performing Arts Center “MOFGA has many engaging, year-round volunteer opporwealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.” http:// (Academy Street, Auburn) on April 8 and runs for two full tunities. For more information or to register for the Earth www.portlandmuseum.org/events/movies.php weekends. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Day Work Day please contact MOFGA’s Landscape Coor‘The Greenhorns’ screening at COA Saturdays, 2 p.m. on Sundays and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, dinator Joe Dupere in the MOFGA office by phone at 5687 p.m. America’s young farming community will be celeApril 15. Tickets are $16 in advance and can be purchased 4142, or by email at jdupere@mofga.org.” brated at a showing of “The Greenhorns,” a movie about online at www.LACLT.com , at the Box Office (30 Academy Healthy Kids Day at the Y the current numbers of young people who have taken up Street, Auburn) or by calling 783-0958.

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Cumberland County YMCA invites farming. The screening will be in the college’s Gates Comkids and parents to come play at Healthy Kids Day at its munity Center, Bar Harbor. The film will be introduced by Saturday, April 16 Greater Portland branch and Casco Bay branch in Freeport.

Severine von Tscharner Fleming of the Smithereen Farm Activities are free and open to all. “At Healthy Kids Day, in New York. Following the film will be a panel of young the nation’s largest health day for kids, families will enjoy farmers including the manager of COA’s Beech Hill Farm, Dress for Success spring sale family group exercise classes, lacrosse clinics free healthy Alisha Strater, von Tscharner Fleming and others. In addi8 a.m.

Filene’s Basement may be gone, but great bargains snacks, a climbing wall, an inflatable obstacle course, outtion to the screening, there will be a Wild Herbs Walk and on new or nearly-new women’s clothing may be found at door games, basketball, seed planting, fly fishing, a puppet Workshop with COA alumna Rachel Randall from 5 to 6:30 Dress for Success Southern Maine’s annual spring sale! show, and much more. There will also be raffle items and p.m. The workshop is limited to 25 people on a first comeThe sale will take place on Saturday, April 16, 8 a.m. to 1:30 giveaways. Slugger will be at the Portland branch to give first served basis. To pre-register, or for more information on p.m. at Catherine McAuley H.S., 631 Stevens Ave. in Portaway gift bags. As the leading nonprofit for strengthening the 7 p.m. showing of “The Greenhorns,” contact Matthew land.

The event is open to the public and features new and community, the Y holds Healthy Kids Day to bring families Doyle Olson at 801-5688 or mdoyleolson@coa.edu. www. nearly-new women’s clothing in all sizes, shoes, jewelry and together to engage in fun, active play and learn healthier coa.edu accessories — casual, formal, and everything in between. habits that help them grow and thrive. Kids Day takes Food+Farm: Anna Lappé Proceeds go towards Dress for Success Southern Maine’s place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Greater Portland YMCA 7:30 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food annual operating budget. Donations of new or nearly-new and from 10 a.m. to noon in Freeport. Casco Bay YMCA, and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in (less than 2 years old), clean, ready-to-wear women’s cloth4 Old South Freeport Road Freeport, 25 Campus Dr., Ste Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE ing (from casual to dressy) for the Spring sale, are welcome.

100, New Gloucester. For more information on the Portland Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to The dropoff site and times are: 51 Baxter Boulevard (in the branch activities, call 874-1111, and for Casco Bay in Freesafe, sustainable food. ... Anna Lappé is a widely respected Hannaford Shopping Center parking lot location) on March port 865-9600, or visit cumberlandcountyymca.org author and educator, renowned for her work as a sustain19, April 2, and April 9 from 9 a.m. to noon, plus April 15, see next page able food advocate. The co-author or author of three books 5-9:00 p.m. at Catherine McAuley High School. Volun-

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Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm 9 a.m. Food+Farm: Wake Up the Farm with Cultivating Community. “Come out to Cultivating Community’s Turkey Hill Farm in Cape Elizabeth and help them get ready for the 2011 growing season. You’ll help CC wake up the farm and you’ll get hands-on experience and an opportunity to ask the CC staff about your farming/gardening questions.

Activities for all ages and skill levels and we’ll end the morning with a soup and bread lunch to thank you for your hard work. Cultivating Community’s mission is to strengthen communities by growing food, preparing youth leaders and new farmers, and promoting social and environmental justice. We use our community food work as an engine for high-impact youth and community development programs that reconnect people to the natural and social systems that sustain us all.”

Maine Photography Show opens 10 a.m. An exhibition of over 100 photographs by many of Maine’s best photographers will be open for public viewing April 16 through May 7 in Boothbay Harbor. New this year is the chance to win a framed and signed photograph by the show judge, Jay Stock. There will be a BRAF benefit raffle for the Jay Stock photograph titled “Massai Tribe, Kenya, Africa.” which will also be on view with three other

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The Big Thaw Arts, Crafts and Vintage Sale 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland.

“The Big Thaw is an arts, crafts and vintage sale meant to celebrate the coming Spring and a wide array of talented and innovative vendors. Kick off those winter boots and join us to find about a thousand things to brighten your closet, home, toy chest, kitchen and more in 2011. ... The Big Thaw is the brainchild of Portland artist Audrey Hotchkiss of Little Eye Designs. She has had the valuable support of Malaika Picard of Hand-Me-Down Designs and Shanna Tice of The Makings of Shanna Tice in making this a reality.” Website: http://thebigthawportland.wordpress.com

The Wabanaki Arts Festival 10 a.m. The Wabanaki Arts Festival continues to build the strong relationship between the Midcoast community and the four Native American Tribes in Maine (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot). The festival brings together artisans, basketmakers, and traditional music as a celebration of Wabanaki culture. The music will be ongoing throughout the day and includes the Alamoosic Lake Singers, flute and storytelling by Hawk Henries, and hand drumming and song by Watie Akins. Thirty artisans and crafters will offer their unique items for sale and will provide demonstrations of their crafts. The Wabanaki Arts Festival is hosted by Bowdoin’s Native American Students Association (NASA), and is partially funded by the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund. For further information please call the Bowdoin information desk at 725-3375 or contact Leslie Shaw at lshaw@bowdoin.edu. Location: Smith Union, Sills Drive, Brunswick. 725-3815 www.bowdoin.edu

MPBN to air Spindleworks documentary 11:30 a.m. “Everything in Sight”, a 2007 documentary about Spindleworks Art Center in Brunswick, will be broadcast on Maine Public Broadcasting Network on April 16 at 11:30 a.m. and April 21 at 10:30 p.m. Directed by Nikolai Fox, the film explores the history of the center and showcases video art currently produced by Spindleworks artists.

A program of Independence Association, Spindleworks was founded in 1978 by local artist Nan Ross. Ross’ vision was to teach weaving and fiber arts skills to clients of the Independence Association, which they could use to create items to sell for income. Many of the original artists in the program were transitioning from living in Pineland, the state institution for persons with developmental disabilities. Over the years, the program has grown to include a variety of art forms and has represented several well-known artists in the state of Maine, including Betty Pinette and Rita Langlois.

Today, artists working in media arts — video, photography, music, and sound — are also included in the Spindleworks program.

Meet the Artist: 2011 Biennial Talks begin 11 a.m. to noon. Colleen Kinsella, Philip Brou, Robert Monroe and Carly Glovinski at the Portland Museum of Art. This is a series of informal artist talks to learn more about the process and inspiration of these artists and their work on view in the 2011 Portland Museum of Art Biennial. 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Deborah Wing-Sproul, Marissa Girard and Lauren O’Neal; 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Ellen Wieske, Alicia Eggert, Tyson Jacques and Andrew Thompson. The Portland Museum of Art Biennial showcases the best in today’s art world by artists associated with Maine, from digital video to painting, installation to photography, sculpture to prints, and more. This exhibition will feature 65 works by 47 artists.

As a series, the Biennial exhibitions create a visual record of Maine’s evolving contemporary art scene and testify to the profound influence that the landscape, traditions, and people of Maine continue to have on living artists. http:// portlandmuseum.org/Content/5614.shtml

Lost in Lexicon: A Fantasy Book Event for Families 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Kids ages 8-14 and their families are invited to visit the nine villages of the Land of Lexicon, based on the fantasy adventure by Pendred Noyce. Families will untangle tangrams, anagrams, wordplay, and other puzzles to save the villagers of Lexicon. The event is a fundraiser for Maine’s literacy organization, Raising Readers. Open House, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland. Free with a Suggested Donation. Details, call Curious City, 420-1126.

Record Store Day at Bull Moose 1 p.m. Originally conceived by Bull Moose staff, Record Store Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in April by more than 1,500 independent music stores worldwide.

Prominent indie rockers The Decemberists, while on tour, will be releasing a CD titled “Live at Bull Moose” from their January performance at the Scarborough Bull Moose. All performances are Saturday, April 16. All performances are

acoustic, free and open to the public. In Maine, The Lucid will be performing in the Bangor store at 2 p.m. The Portland store will host Sophomore Beat at 1 p.m. These Portland rockers are releasing an EP entitled “Party Like A Lobster” this day, which will only be available at Bull Moose. The Kenya Hall Band will be performing at 4 p.m. They are a Portland band with an intriguing, soulful, jazzy R&B sound with powerful female vocals. They released “Learning For Miles Vol. 1” in November 2010.

151 Middle St., Portland. Scarborough 456 Payne Road.

Zach Jones will perform at the Scarborough Bull Moose at 3 p.m. on April 16. For updates, visit the Bull Moose site at http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home.

Food+Farm: The Greenhorns’ Young Farmers’ Mixer 3 p.m. April 14 to April 17, FOOD + FARM 2011. A food and film festival at SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St. in Portland. “This is the fourth year of Food+Farm, SPACE Gallery’s annual look at issues challenging our access to safe, sustainable food. ... This afternoon mixer is an opportunity for young farmers to come and meet their peers and enjoy a little nosh. We’ll be providing good eats and beverages from Local Sprouts, Flatbread Co. and Maine Root in addition to volunteer massage therapists to ease sore farm muscles. Representatives from The Greenhorns and MOFGA will be on hand to discuss their work with the young farming community. The Greenhorns is an organization focused on recruiting, promoting and supporting young farmers in America — ‘young’ being loosely defined as farmers under the national average age of 57. If you’re a farmer or intern currently working in agriculture, please come down and socialize with us from 3-5 p.m. If you’re interested in supporting or are considering becoming a young farmer, please consider coming to our Greenhorns evening event later with The Greenhorns at 7:30 p.m.” www.space538.org

Miss Maine Scholarship Program gala 5:30 p.m. The Miss Maine Scholarship Program proudly announces the 10 finalists for the third annual Maine’s Got Talent honors. They will compete at the Springtime Gala at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. They are Roy Beck of Topsham (vocalist), Elexa DuBoise of Cherryfield (vocal and guitar), Fusion-dance team from the Biddeford area (dance group), Hannah Graham of Skowhegan (vocalist), Smokey Hicks of Bath (vocalist), Matt Houde and Julia Nadeau of Topsham (vocal duet), Adrianna Leonard of Pittsfield (ballet dancer), Drew Masse of Lewiston (vocalist), Hannah Rowell of South Portland (vocalist), and Nicolette Smith of Lincoln (vocalist). To obtain tickets to see the competition live, contact Patricia Crooker Mulligan by calling (207) 725-6009 or toll free 1-877-872-4321. Tickets are $40 in advance (April 11) or $50 at the door. Tickets can also be obtained via mail Miss Maine Springtime Gala, 23 Meadow Road, Brunswick, ME 04011. The Gala will feature Miss Maine 2010, Arikka Knights, a native of Chester, Maine and a Mass Communications graduate of Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire. The evening also offers both a silent and a live auction. The delicious buffet style dinner is provided by the Hilton Garden Inn. All proceeds of this event will benefit the Miss Maine Scholarship Program, the official state preliminary to Miss America, the largest source of scholarships for young women in the world. The 2011 Miss Maine Scholarship Pageant will be held at the Crooker Theater, Brunswick High School in Brunswick on Saturday, June 18. For more information about the Miss Maine Scholarship Program visit www.missmaine.org on the web.

Maine Gay Men’s Chorus ensemble 7 p.m. The seven-voice Touring Ensemble of the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus (MGMC) will sing at the First Universalist Church of Auburn, 169 Pleasant St. Their show, “As Long As You Love Me,” features a new line-up of songs including an a cappella arrangement of Toto’s “Africa,” the brand-new “My House,” and Mozart’s “Ave Verum” — one of the most beautiful pieces of choral music ever written. New arrangements of several songs make use of guitar, bass, keyboard, violin, and even a bright blue glockenspiel, all played by members of the ensemble. “The Touring Ensemble sings to fulfill the chorus mission of spreading the message of social acceptance and diversity.” Tix are $10 (suggested donation). FMI 783-0461 or www.auburnuu.org.

Cameron Carpenter on the Kotzschmar Organ 7:30 p.m. Cameron Carpenter will draw his concert repertoire from the following sources: jazz etudes for the piano of the Ukrainian classical-jazz genius Nikolai Kapustin; organ premieres of great piano encores by Vladimir Horowitz, Arcadi Volodis, and Cyprien Katsaris. Experience the Pipes of the Kotzschmar Organ in Portland. “The Kotzschmar Organ is the oldest working municipal pipe organ in the United States. ... Select from a wide variety of concerts including jazz, classical, and pops. Municipal Organist Ray Cornils has served Portland and the Kotzschmar Organ since 1990. Cornils performs several times each year and hosts the popular Kotzschmar Konversation with visiting artists prior to their concerts.”