Correcting the record

A short story in Friday’s editions on the University of Maine’s international culture festival which will feature exhibits, performances and food had the wrong date for the event. It will be held from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in the field house.

In a Page A1 story Friday about U.S. diabetes rates, The Associated Press erroneously said that with Type 2, diabetics do not produce or use insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar into energy. The correct explanation is that in Type 2 diabetes, cells do not use insulin properly and the pancreas gradually loses its ability to produce it.