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I woke up Saturday morning from a fitful sleep.
I should have slept soundly, but my body and mind hadn't yet absorbed a new reality: My beloved St. Louis Cardinals, an imperfect but tenacious bunch who embodied the spirit of team play, overcame a Mt. Everest of adversity in the 2011 season and won it all.
By winning Game 7 of the World Series, they engraved another notch in their record as the National League's most successful franchise and the sport's second most successful one behind the New York Yankees since World Series play began in 1903.
Yet overnight, as Oct. 28 turned into Oct. 29, two questions kept gnawing away in my slumbering consciousness: Did they win or lose? And who would they have to play next?
Over the course of two months, those questions had developed from habit into a psychological reflex. For about eight weeks, in a state of yo-yo-like neurosis, I had been swinging from agony to ecstasy to agony and back to ecstasy.
I'm not even from St. Louis, but I have been pulling for the Red Birds since 1981, when I switched my allegiance away from the Bronx Bombers. The Yankees, in my view, were the only respectable team in the two-team city where I grew up. But they had become fat and complacent millionaires back in the days when free agency still hadn't reached today's grotesque proportions. The Yanks also embodied New York's swagger, an arrogance that I never cared for very much.
The Cardinals, on the other hand, were a storied but less flashy franchise from a tough, crime-ridden city in the nation's heartland. In 1981, they were a lean and hungry team who played an exciting brand of baseball. They were beginning then to return to glory after a dismal decade in the 1970s.
I also was an easily impressionable teen. I couldn't resist the mystical "StL" logo on the caps and the uniforms with the birds on the bat — the coolest in the game.
In the Cardinals I discovered Midwestern values of hard work, thrift, pragmatism, modesty and hardiness, which I've tried to adapt to my own life. I have stuck with the Cards through both good and bad times, and like most of the other faithful in Cardinal Nation, I have known my fair share of heartache in the playoffs and World Series.
Such losses have helped me to become a more resilient person. Seriously.
I even find myself applying to my own life the hawk-eyed wisdom of Tony La Russa, the Cards' now-retired and famously intense manager, who once said: "Expect the worst. Hope for the best."
A grand game
People often ask how did someone like me — who was born in England, has lived and traveled in many countries, was educated at K-12 international schools and who is a composite of European, Asian and American cultures — go nuts for America's National Pastime.
Apart from having the good fortune of being a world traveler, my travels exposed me to all of the world's sports. My tastes in sports run from watching soccer to cricket. I am a fan, too, of American football.
Among my happiest moments as a spectator of sports, I count France's 1998 soccer World Cup victory against Brazil and Sri Lanka's 1996 cricket World Cup victory against Australia as completing me because those represented my two halves. My French mother and Sri Lankan father, who did not live to see those championships, would have been proud.
That said, for me, baseball tops all the other sports. International sports fans often criticize the game as boring, but it is a grand sport and rich source of lessons that can be used in real life. It's true that the 162-game season can drag on, but I would have it no other way. Unlike other sports, there is no clock to inject baseball with artificial tension.
Baseball is all about finishing a seven-month campaign that begins in spring training and builds into a crescendo that ends, hopefully, with a World Series victory. The road is strewn with perils, twists and turns, and the climb becomes steeper once a team makes the playoffs. The best team on paper often doesn't win it all.
What I love most about baseball is that one can never predict the outcome of a game, and a team has to work as one and be mentally tough to win. Unlike sports like soccer that reflect a European outlook, baseball is quintessentially American. The sport is full of optimism. It breeds the belief that coming back from the brink of defeat is possible.


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In the United States, the trend has been the bigger the federal program, the greater the loss of liberty, the higher the pricetag, and the more disastrous the consequences.
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It was two years ago this July when a former editor and mentor of mine contacted me about a new opportunity with a company called Patch.com.
I was working at the Caroll County Times at the time and had followed the company's expansion up north in Connecticut where I used to work. I knew their model was online-only, they were owned by AOL and the job was very community oriented.
My former editor didn't have to sell it to me too hard. Once I heard they were hiring in Maryland and in the Baltimore suburbs, I knew I wanted to be part of the team. If you've looked at my you know I used to live in Union Square in West Baltimore and have family in Arbutus, so Catonsville was the closest place with a decent grocery store from my home in the city.
Catonsville Patch launched in October 2010 on the day of 's . Since then we have covered everything in the community, from crime to businesses opening and closing to neighborhood issues.
In that time I moved twice within town and now live within walking distance from downtown Frederick Road. I've become a regular at where many of you have stopped by to meet me, ask me questions about the site and pitch stories.
I've also watched the site grow and evolve into not only a news site, but an information site and a hub for community conversation. In fact, that's the part about the job I love the most.
In the just under two years I've run the site, we've brainstormed about , lamented the loss of , talked about , and many other topics. I've experienced two July 4th parades, covered , and met so many interesting people.
The pace of an online-only publication was freeing for me after all of my years in print. People would ask, 'when is your deadline?' I would reply, 'whenever you send me the information and I sit down and write the story.'
I enjoyed the immediacy of the online world, as well as the immediate feedback I received from readers in the minutes after I posted a story.
I've been a professional journalist for nearly a decade and no job that I have had has given me such a level of connection to the community. I have truly loved that.
You've chided me (sometimes rightly so), encouraged me and inspired me. I have felt accountable to you and often felt this site was just as much yours as it was mine.
What makes Patch different is not only those community conversations, but the openness of the site design. Want to get in touch with me? My face and email are on the homepage. Not only can you comment on a story, but you can post an announcement, event, or add a photo. If you have something you'd like to say that is all your own, you can start a blog.
You can do all of this without having to jump through lots of hoops or get approval from a lot of people. All you need is a log-in.
Some journalists and traditionalists may think this model gives too much power to readers, but I argue it is readers that keep us in business in the first place.
Through this job I have also networked with many other employees in Patch and been a part of some exciting stuff behind the scenes.
As a result, I found out about a new opportunity within the company. I've accepted a new role within Patch and am leaving Catonsville Patch.
Sunday will be my last day as editor. I hope you will stop by and see me at the at the Patch tent.
In my new job, I'll be working with other Patch sites up and down the East Coast, helping to expand their network of active participants, recruiting and tending bloggers.
I won't be leaving Catonsville and I may be in touch with some of you in my new role. I will also be blogging on the site, so you'll still be able to stay in touch if you'd like.
I also want to thank a team of great freelancers and columnists who have worked to help make this site where it is today. Columnist has made us and taught us about . tutored us in and also profiled some inspiring . taught us to and also for the site. inspired . shared the stores of local business owners. showed us many of Catonsville's gardens. Former sports freelancers and were with me from the start and have since moved onto fantastic jobs with other media outlets in Baltimore.
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Maher also has a nasty streak that makes me cringe.
Good points, Don. I never listen to Limbaugh on purpose, since anything I've ever heard the guy say in excerpts or quotes in the news makes me wanna gnash my teeth and do the berserkr bop in a triple tailspin. Silly me. But if he is indeed also a satirist and entertainer, or whatever, wouldn't it be fun to see him in a comedic "Crossfire"-type show with Bill Maher? I think the latter is every bit as arrogant and jerky, if not more so. I just agree with his opinions much of the time, and I've never agreed with anything I've heard Limbaugh say. Yeah, unfortunately Rush is entitled to free speech as well as Bill, although "flirting" with defamation or slander in certain instances is more licentious than liberty-upholding. I'm glad Obama told him off about the "slut" thing.
The debate that I thought would be fun, and yes, they did tour around the country debating was Timothy Leary and G. Gordon Liddy.
Talk about polarization!
As somebody who can remember Rush back to his days with a local radio show in Sacramento, CA, I wouldn't count Rush out over this latest bombastic mispeak. He has done this type of thing repeatedly throughout his career and seems to come out smelling like a rose.
Case in point, Rush was chased off local radio in Sacramento for referring to a city councilman as a "Chinaman" - only to land a national show.
Rush comes up smelling like a rose because there are so many people who think the same way he does. Scary to me, but normal to them.
I don't count Rush out. As Robin says there are too many people who think like he does....but I am hoping that one of the results of his hateful tirade will be that some of his like minded politicians will be voted out. There are a lot more women who vote in America than there are Chinese Americans.
307,217,980 Chinese live in the USA.
Rush's job is to be an @sshole on the radio. People listen, like, and keep listening. Others listen, dislike, and don't listen, or make a stink. It's political theater..................
the only time I hear about him is on the newsclips, uh I mean commentary clips
Hi Toni, I suspect that that the fallout from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation fiasco/faux pas rekindled an awareness and the Rush thing cemented it. These incidents coming so close together are a wakeup call to women that we are sleeping on our power and we will have only ourselves to blame if we don't stand up and use it.
Hey DLM, I rarely pay attention to anything Rush or his type say, because I just don't want or need that BS in my life. But, he does have influence. For those of us who think Rush's ideas are potentially harmful to women, it is frightening to see him up to his antics once again.
My mother and one of my sisters were foaming-at-the-mouth Rush supporters and it made me extremely ill to listen to those two regurgitate his words and ideas as if they were in a cult.
It isn't just entertainment to them and to his die-hard followers. My mother and sister dedicated their lives to spewing hatred against "liberals" with every waking breath. My mother passed thinking that Obama is a Muslim Communist who is determined to ruin America and only Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck can stop him.
Frightening and sickening.
That would be hard. As of the last census, the entire population of the USA is 311,591,917 ...and 50.8% of them are women.
But you're right, he's a shock jock and it's his job to be an *******. But I think he went too far this time, and while it won't sink him, it IS helping to empower women.
the batteries on my abacus must be weak.
how about 2.9 million of Chinese ancestry?
50.8% of 311,591,917 are women?
And I can't find one worth keeping?
DLM, you can't find one woman worth keeping? You are looking in the wrong places, my friend.
We women are delightful creatures.
Ha ha, a battery-operated abacus. Love the imagery! But as to not yet finding a woman "worth keeping"... maybe Robin's right, and you've looked in the wrong places, or maybe it's bad luck, or maybe even the need for a shift in attitude and perspective? Most of us can do with that every so often. After all, most relationships are hard work, and many of them fail no matter what the people in them are "worth". Obviously I don't know your situation. But I do know there are an awful lot of good women out there, 'cos I've come across so many of 'em through the years as friends and associates. Platonic guy friends always say the same thing about all the good men in the world, too, whenever my girlfriends and I start in with the "I'm swearing off men forever" routine. Sometimes I've thought I would do just that. I'm rethinking that attitude currently, however, after a bit of a hiatus. I often have problems with men as a group, as they've tended to run the world, but there are certain individual men I will always love wholeheartedly. Do I really want the old roller-coaster ride all over again?? Sigh. Decisions, decisions. ;-)
Laurie, I hope the answer to your question is----Yes, Yes, Yes, a thousand times, Yes.
Love is a joyful and miraculous gift and we turn our backs on it to our detriment. Take this from a woman who has been alone for 10 years and has said "no" far too many times. I am even thinking of taking my own advice at the next opportunity.
Love itself is wonderful, Robin, but at this point in my life, after a series of passionate, time-consuming, and exhausting relationships through the decades, I've needed more "me" time. There are certain things I still want to accomplish before leaving the planet. Perhaps I can do so without turning into a Pagan nun, however. Recently saw an "old" flame (who's actually younger than I am) and realized I could definitely reignite. ;-)
Great post, DLM....but I wonder, you don't think it's that they don't think you're worth keeping, do you?
I hope the SuperPacs become illegal too...and I hope you find a woman who lets you roam a bit!
Hi Laurie. I envy you in a way. To have had so many passionate love affairs that you prefer to experience other things must be very nice. I have only had one relationship in my entire life. It was a once-in-a-lifetime romance and I feel honored to have experienced it.
I have had 10 years of high-quality alone time and I do feel that it is a luxury I appreciate with all my heart.
Younger men are wonderful. I am fortunate to have a lovely selection of men at my salsa dancing club to date if I choose to. It is hard to always say "no" but my problem is that I am scared to death to say "yes".
Funny how life is.
just once, I'd like to hear the social liberals condemn one of their own BEFORE the so called right wing consipiracy brings it out in public.
Case in point Al Sharpton, one of the biggest bigots on the planet.
Oh yeah, I've been with the same chick for 7 years since my divorce in 2004. I'm still not certain this is a lifetime commitment.
No argument there, no one can mangle a TelePrompTer like Al. But as far as rushing in, have you seen/heard O'Reilly, Hannity, and the rest of that happy family called Fox News? Funny, MSNBC and Current are premium channels, but FOX news is basic. I'm sure I'm overreacting; only a degenerate and bigot would think there's a double standard.
Hey DLM, I guess I am a liberal, even though I consider myself to be a centrist.
I don't mind ragging on the left. For instance, I once subscribed to "The Nation" but after the first issue I threw the rest of them in the trash. The left-wing nastiness was as much of a turn-off to me as the right-wing nastiness. Yuch.
A bird without both left and right wing will fly i circles. Same goes for people.
I used to feel that way about Sharpton, but I've actually come to be a little bit of a fan of his MSNBC show....I dunno what happened, maybe I just loved that blueberry pie promo too much.
Ann Coulter --- I am going to have nightmares tonight for sure.
Laurie, where on this little green/blue orb did you come to the conclusion that I'm a bigot? One of my problems is that I think that everyone can tell when I'm being sarcastic. Sarcastic, yes, bigot, not so much. I liked Sharpton's interview/debate with a MS. Republican state senator about a voter suppression bill. The senator, of course, didn't see it that way, citing "rampant voter fraud". When Al asked him how rampant, he replied, "3 cases in the last 3 elections". Al's respone /dismantling of the guy was very funny, and good for the soul. I would ask you, Laurie, to re-read what I originally wrote. As I said a couple of weeks ago, discussing Politics and Religion are death to a friendship. Guess I'm on life support.
Dave, I miswrote your name instead of Dale's, with its one-letter difference, when citing his reference in this thread to *Sharpton* as a bigot-- sorry!! But if *you* reread what *I* wrote, I never called Dale, you, or anyone on the board a bigot! Ever. Nor would I. D*mn, I just got up, but I suddenly feel weary and discouraged. Admittedly I like to stir the cauldron around here with my ideas and opinions, but I always strive to do so with reason and clarity, if also with my native forthrightness, and sometimes with good-natured if provocative humor. I'm really not the Wicked Witch of the Midwest, guys!
Speaking of Religion and of Sharpton.... anyone who is interested might enjoy the 2007 debate between Christopher Hitchens and Rev. Al Sharpton re "Is God great?". It is easy to find online.
Hope all is okay and Dave has been taken off life support and is now breathing on his own again. It's just conversation guys, and we've been doing a great job of it, I think. A little misunderstanding every so often is survivable, right? Right????
Yes, of course, Toni! Misunderstandings are part of the human condition and are entirely survivable, as far as I'm concerned. Compared to the periodic ferocious flame wars I've seen in the past and heard about still occurring in some online communities, such as those specializing in religious debates, this board is heaven online! :-) Besides, if I get discouraged or bent about anything, it's not usually for long. Life's way too short! In this case, I miswrote something and Dave misread something. Sh*t happens. People get tired or have headaches or eyestrain or distractions. Upwards and onwards into the wild bluest blue yonder! :-)


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CHARLOTTE — The nation's second-largest source of greenhouse gases, Duke Energy, will have much at stake as the Environmental Protection Agency crafts carbon standards for new and existing power plants.
Only Ohio-based American Electric Power ranks higher for carbon emissions, the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reported this month. Duke says it ranks 14th in carbon intensity, which measures emissions by unit of energy generated.
Duke's emissions dropped to 131 million tons last year as its power plants used less coal and more natural gas, which is cheaper and cleaner-burning. But Duke expects emissions to trend upward again in the coming years.
Its contributions to climate change through heavy use of coal have become regular conflict points at shareholder meetings and in rate cases. Duke's regulated power plants generated about two-thirds of their electricity from fossil fuels – coal, natural gas and oil – in 2012.
The nation's largest utility had little to say directly about Obama's climate plan Tuesday, praising his call for a diverse mix of energy sources.
Duke said it will work with the EPA on a plan "that will allow us to deliver a secure and reliable supply of electricity at affordable rates and that will not adversely impact the economy."
Pressure to adopt new ways
Environmentalists exulted over Obama's long-awaited climate plan.
"The president's plan … will likely drive Duke Energy toward bigger investments in clean energy solutions like solar and wind," Sierra Club official Kelly Martin said. "For the climate and for North Carolina's economy, this is welcome news."
The North Carolina Wildlife Federation, headquartered in Charlotte, said the Obama plan harkened back to "common-sense policies" enacted under President Richard Nixon, including the Clean Air Act.
"Here in North Carolina, our largest utility is retiring its coal plants and since air knows no boundaries it's important to our lakes, waterways and quality of life that the air we receive from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys have the same requirements for carbon capture," federation CEO Tim Gestwicki said.
The role of coal
Duke has invested $9 billion in recent years in five new power plants but two of those, including the Cliffside plant 60 miles west of Charlotte, are fueled by coal. The new plants will offset 3,400 megawatts of older coal units that will be retired by the end of 2013.
"We have no plans to build any new coal plants in the foreseeable future, however we still value coal as an important part of our fuel mix," Duke said in a statement.
Duke says there is no proven, commercially-available technology to control carbon emissions.
The coal-fired Edwardsport plant in Indiana, which started up this month, was designed with the capability of capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground. That capability hasn't been exploited because of cost – the plant as built came in $1 billion over budget – and uncertainty about where to store the gas underground, spokesman Tom Williams said.
Duke has a corporate goal of reducing or offsetting carbon emissions by 17 percent from 2005 to 2020, in line with Obama's plan.
Nuclear setbacks
Nuclear power plants, which have no carbon emissions, supplied 34 percent of Duke's generation last year but face an uncertain future.
Duke decided earlier this year to retire the crippled Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida and in May shelved plans for two new reactors at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant near Raleigh. The company is still considering new nuclear plants in South Carolina and Florida, but has pushed back their expected operating dates as demand for electricity slows.


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2011 ANA Literary Awards winners
2011 Young Numismatist Literary Awards
Bill Fivaz Young Numismatist Literary Award
(ages 8-12)
First place: Fiachra Rottinghaus,
"Women on Coins: Who, Where, and Why Aren't There More?"
Second place: Noah Polson,
"Double Portrait Coins"
Third place: Benjamin Taylor,
"It Was Raining Money"
Q. David Bowers Young Numismatist Literary Award
(ages 13-17)
First Place: Mike Valente,
"The Discovery of Gold in America and Its Impact on Coinage"
Second Place: Cole Schenewerk,
"Have You Ever Considered Collecting Ancient Coins?"
Third Place: Keira Rosner,
"Making 'Sense' of the Alloys in Cents"
Kenneth E. Bressett Young Numismatist Literary Award
(ages 18-22)
First place: Sam Spiegel,
"A Numismatic Biography of Lucius Cornelius Sulla"
Second place: No Entry
Third place: No Entry
2011 Literary Awards for Work in The Numismatist
Heath Literary Award
(outstanding articles during the last year)
First place: Joel J. Orosz and Leonard Augsburger,
"Frank H. Stewart and the First U.S. Mint," April 2010.
Second place: Walter A. Ostromecki Jr.,
"Some Women behind Our Money," May 2010.
Third place: Ernie Nagy,
"Artifacts of Andrew Jackson's Bank War," September 2010.
Wayte and Olga Raymond Memorial Literary Award
(outstanding articles that display original research in U.S. numismatics)
First place: William D. Hyder and Jeff Shevlin,
"The Golden Age of California State Celebrations," December 2010.
Second place: R.W. Julian,
"All About the Half Dime," December 2010.
Catherine Sheehan Literary Award
(for U.S. Paper Money Studies)
Ricardo de León Tallavas,
"Two Voices from a Forgotten War," January 2010.


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---- — Glenda Price is exactly the type of person Detroit needs. A Philadelphia native, a former scientist turned university administrator, she arrived in 1998 to become the president of Marygrove College, a small, struggling liberal arts school.
Within a few years, she had turned the school's bleak finances around, partly by setting up an innovative distance learning program.
When she retired six years ago, she thought about returning to Philadelphia, or Atlanta, where she had worked for many years.
"But I realized that everything I was looking for in life was right here," she told me. She is now running the Detroit Public Schools Foundation, raising money to help the state's most troubled school district. Earlier this year, she was appointed to the Financial Advisory Board designed to help the struggling City of Detroit avoid a state takeover or federal bankruptcy court.
Price is a natural optimist, who, at 73 says, "I see so many wonderful opportunities ahead of us — that's the way I look at life." But recently, even she was fed up with the antics of the politicians running, or failing to run, Michigan's largest city, which now seems more certain than ever to topple into bankruptcy.
"Dismay is far too mild a term," she said, choosing her words carefully. Others used tones far more harsh. If anyone had any lingering doubts that the "consent agreement" designed to save Detroit isn't working, they should be effectively laid to rest.
Last week, with the city just weeks from running out of cash, Mayor Dave Bing called an emergency meeting of City Council to try to get them to approve a consulting contract with a law firm.
However the mayor didn't show up for his own meeting, citing a "family matter." The council needed to approve the $300,000 contract before the state will release $30 million Detroit needs to meet its mid-December payroll.
Mostly, a majority of the council seem determined to block anything, even when it is clearly in the city's best interests.
When the state offered to take over Belle Isle and run it as a state park, the council indignantly rejected it, even though the city doesn't have the funds to do even minimal maintenance on what was once one of the city's most beautiful jewels. The council refused a contract to reform the troubled Water and Sewerage Department, even though a previous director just pleaded guilty to corruption charges.
However, in one more Three Stooges moment, the vote was never taken. Why? Well, the city law department suddenly announced the meeting was apparently illegal under Michigan's Open Meetings Act. Seems they didn't post required notices of the meeting within the government center till after the building was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The department is led by Krystal Crittendon, the corporation counsel who ignores the mayor's wishes, and who has spent much of time filing lawsuits trying to overturn the consent agreement, which she thinks is illegal.
The mayor has tried repeatedly to fire her, but that also has been blocked by the council. "The biggest mystery surrounding Detroit's imminent financial collapse isn't whether or how exactly it will go bankrupt," Detroit News business columnist Daniel Howes wrote this week.
"It's when, and how steep a price will be paid by city residents, employees, retirees and business leaders." No city Detroit's size has ever gone through federal bankruptcy, and analysts say the experience could easily have negative effects statewide, from Michigan's image to its bond rating.
There is, however, still a way bankruptcy might be avoided — a new emergency manager law. Glenda Price had favored the consent agreement "as a transitional phase." But now, she'd be ready for an emergency manager, "if we can get legislation that would give she or he the needed authority."
What's clear to everyone is Detroit can't go on very much longer. And whatever happens will affect everyone in Michigan, possibly in more ways than anyone now knows.
Jack Lessenberry teaches journalism at Wayne State University.


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This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice. Tackling Addiction examines what recovery, addiction and dependence really mean. more »2010, Paperback: £22.99/ $36.95
Keywords: addiction, adults, alcohol, children, counselling, drugs, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, health care, joint working, nursing, offenders, older people, person-centred, probation, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, psychotherapy, residential care, self harm, social care, social policy, social work, substance abuse, teenagers, therapeutic communities, youthwork
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults. This book sets out to identify 'what works' in preventing emotional maltreatment from recurring. more »2010, Paperback: £18.99/ $32.95
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Next May will be the 10th anniversary of the release Gretchen Wilson's debut album, "Here For The Party." She will celebrate with the release of a DVD live concert project where she and her touring band will perform the entire album.
The event will be recorded when the Pocahontas native plays The Pageant Tuesday in St. Louis as part of a homecoming celebration. The event and DVD will be titled "STILL Here For The Party."
"This is a very special night coming up for me," Gretchen said in a telephone interview from Nashville. "Back home where this all began, with all my friends and fans, it's definitely going to be a major highlight in my career."
Wilson is using her own touring band to make the concert DVD, as she has for her past three (yes, three) albums that she has released this year.
"I am excited that we used the touring band on these three projects, and for the DVD, because these are the guys that I work with all of the time," Wilson said. "It's kind of like the old school way of doing things, with everybody sitting around in the studio and creating together, instead of everyone coming in separately and laying down their own tracks. We get to enjoy the entire experience together."
Wilson now owns her own record label, and has built a studio on her farm where her current three projects were recorded.
In April, she released her current country album, "Right On Time," and in May she released a 13-song cover album of rock classics entitled "Under the Covers." On Oct. 8, she released her first-ever Christmas album, "Christmas In My Heart."
"I got the studio built, and then all of a sudden, I had this creative burst of energy," Wilson said. "I mean, really, who puts out three albums in a year? And, this has been in six months, but I'm really loving it all. It's a lot easier when you have your own studio to go into as well."
Wilson said that she feels brand new about her career, and her life in general.
"It's been a reflective thing for me with this DVD project, because I think it's renewed my energy," Wilson said. "It's like I have this drive, much like I did back in the day playing all the clubs like Schatze's in Belleville with my band Millenium. We were so driven back then, whether it was playing with Millenium or Baywolf over on the other side of the river in St. Louis. There wasn't a gig we couldn't wait to book. We were on a mission back then."
Wilson said that she is rejuvenated in just about everything -- musically and personally.
"Things are going great," Wilson said. "I've got new music out, a Christmas album which I'm really proud of, I just got back from Switzerland for a tour, and we are starting rehearsals for the Pageant show."
Wilson said the hits from "Here For The Party," are played all of the time in her shows, but the other songs need polishing.
"We play the hits, yes, but some of the songs have never been played live, so we are beginning ... to learn them all, so that we are in as perfect form as we can be" for the St. Louis show, Wilson said. "It's been a journey, like re-living the whole thing over again, learning the songs, and putting the show together. It's a full circle kind of thing. We were running so fast those first three or four years that we didn't really have the time to sit back and enjoy what we were doing.
"Doing this project has given me the opportunity to look back at old pictures, and relive some of the memories, and spark even more memories. I can't wait to come back and see all of the familiar faces. I can't think of a better place to do this. ... It's the only place really."
Who: Gretchen Wilson
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday; doors open at 7
Where: The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis
What: Recording of "STILL Here For The Party" DVD
Tickets: $27-$36 ay www.ticketmaster.com


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From Staff Reports
Cumberland Times-News
ALTOONA, Pa. — Adria Graham scored two goals to lead Frostburg State to a 4-1 victory over Penn State-Altoona in its regular season finale Wednesday afternoon.
Both of Graham's goals came in the second half and pushed her season total to a conference-leading 21. The junior forward increased the Bobcat (13-3-1) lead to 3-1 shortly after the second half began when she got turned around and took a shot off a deflection just inside the 18-yard box from freshman Brooke Longo.
Graham second's goal came at 68:30. Senior Liz Seligman headed a pass Graham's way off a free kick that Graham sent home to push the FSU lead to 4-1.
Sophomore Stephanie Fazenbaker opened the scoring for both teams in the 19th minute when she took a feed from Seligman that she was able to head past the goalie. Freshman Chelsie McCoy entered the game at 28:17 and at 28:40 put the Bobcats up 2-0 after taking a pass from junior Courtney Mack from the right side of the box.
Just under a minute later, Penn State- Altoona (3-15) cut the FSU lead to 2-1. Katy Hartigan found Anne Valiando just outside the right corner of the net and Valiando was able to slip it past FSU's Katie Smith.
The Bobcats held a commanding 28-4 advantage in shots and led 3-1 in corner kicks. Smith needed just three saves in the win while the Altoona goalies Mackensize Strubhar and Katy Cook split the game in the net, each making seven saves.
Because of last Friday's win over Marymount, the Bobcats earned a first round bye in the Capital Athletic Conference tournament that begins Saturday. FSU will play the winner of the No. 3 York (Pa.)/No. 6 Wesley match up in the semifinals. The game is set for Tuesday, 6 p.m., at Bobcat Stadium.


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Editors note: Joseph Sledge has spent half his life trying to convince North Carolina court officials that he is innocent of the 1976 Bladen County murders of a mother and daughter. He hopes the recent DNA test on some long-lost hair will soon lead to his release.
Explore this interactive timeline of Joseph Sledge's ordeal that includes audio of Sledge and the SBI report from the 1976 murders.
BAYBORO -- Joseph Sledges salvation rested in an envelope misplaced for years on a shelf so high in the Columbus County clerks evidence room that no one noticed it.
Sledge has languished in prison for 34 years. Since the 1990s, when the technology became widely available, he has begged anyone who would listen to perform DNA tests on evidence from his trial. Now the courts must reckon with his unwavering proclamations of innocence.
The man who murdered mother and daughter Josephine and Ailene Davis in 1976 left pieces of himself in their bloodied Bladen County home. Investigators found a smattering of head and pubic hairs on the exposed bodies of the Davis women. At the time, the best science available offered limited clues: The killer was a black man, maybe Sledge.
A DNA test performed in December offers a new revelation: The hairs dont belong to him.
Miracles happen in their own kind of way, said Sledge, a slight, shy 68-year-old imprisoned at Pamlico Correctional Institution in Bayboro, east of New Bern.
Sledge is poised to become the oldest and longest-serving inmate in North Carolina found to be wrongly convicted, though he has tried mightily to avoid the distinction. His hand-written letters asking for help fill four files in the Columbus County Clerk of Courts office.
The letters met resistance or excuses from a cast of prosecutors and judges highly regarded in the state. A 2003 order to find and test evidence went unheeded for five years. It would be another four years before the key evidence head and pubic hairs would be found and tested.
In the 1970s, no one imagined where science would lead criminal investigations. Evidence with little value 30 years ago became the proof that dozens of innocent North Carolina men needed to show that the courts had the wrong guy. Although new laws forbid destruction of key evidence in many cases, they do little for the generation of prisoners convicted when evidence was disposed of as easily as trash.
If exonerated, Sledge will be the fifth North Carolina man proved innocent by DNA or fingerprint analysis performed on evidence that had been misplaced or forgotten. For lawyers who investigate innocence work, the reality of lost evidence is a daily frustration.
We can never feel that theres closure, said Christine Mumma, director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, a Durham nonprofit that investigates claims of innocence. Unless we can get into the evidence room and the case files ourselves, we can never be confident that someone has done a thorough search.
Mumma had been investigating Sledges case for years, trying to find crime scene evidence and track down witnesses.
Last August, boxes of documents from Sledges case covered the floor of her Durham office. She could think of nothing more to do and braced herself for a final visit to Sledge to deliver the news.
Then her phone rang.
Columbus County Court clerks had been cleaning the evidence room, and as assistant clerk Rita Batchelor climbed a ladder to inspect the top shelf, she spotted a thin envelope labeled with a file number and a name: Joseph Sledge.
His name just stuck out, said Columbus County Clerk Sheila Pridgen. Because of his letters, all of us knew him.
Wrong place, wrong time
Sledge was an impulsive young man who had a habit of showing up in the wrong places at the worst times. In 1976, that sealed his fate.
Sledge, a Georgia native, came to North Carolina by way of the draft during the Vietnam War. He drove a supply truck for the Army at Fort Bragg.
After leaving the Army, Sledge lingered in the state. He found work as a janitor but was soon laid off. Broke and hungry, Sledge stole boxes full of clothes from a department store. In 1973, a judge sentenced him to four years in prison.
One day in 1976, while working on a White Lake Prison Camp work crew picking up highway litter in Bladen County, another inmate quarreled with Sledge and punched him. The inmate was sent to another prison as punishment, Sledge said. The day the other prisoner was due to return to White Lake, Sledge feared hed try to settle the score.
Sledge, small at 147 pounds, didnt want to take that chance. After the sun set on Sept. 5, 1976, he climbed a fence at White Lake and hid in nearby woods until the darkness could cover his tracks.
Within hours, less than five miles away, someone would murder the Davis women.
An obvious suspect
The slayings rattled Bladen County, especially young sheriffs detective Phillip Little. Josephine Davis, 74, and Ailene Davis, 53, lived a mile from him. He had known them his whole life.
Both had been stabbed repeatedly; a pool of blood puddled around them. The killer had lifted their gowns and slips above their midsections and raped Ailene, Josephines daughter. The State Bureau of Investigation sent help to hunt for the killer.
Sledge was an obvious suspect: a known criminal with an opportunity. Authorities caught him four days later.
Sledge said he was desperate to cooperate. He detailed his escape route for investigators and showed them where he stashed his prison clothes and others he stole from clotheslines and cars along the way. He consented to give samples of blood and pubic hair.
He said he would have gladly offered a head hair sample, too, but he had been shaving his head since his Army days.
Aside from the coincidence of Sledge escaping the day before the murder, investigators didnt have enough to tie Sledge to the crime. None of the fingerprints in the house matched his; neither did shoeprints inside the house and outside beneath a bedroom window.
An FBI analyst who examined the hairs Little found on the womens bodies determined they were Negroid and said they were consistent with Sledges pubic hair.
The case was very thoroughly investigated based on what we had at our hands, Little, who retired last year, said in a recent interview.
A year after the murders, the trail was cold. The victims family grew impatient and wrote to the SBI asking about progress in the case. The director wrote back Aug. 12, 1977, saying the Investigation to date has failed to produce sufficient evidence to justify an arrest.
He promised to keep looking. The governor had promised a reward for information that could solve the crime.
Little and SBI agents hit the road, looking for all the men Sledge had known in prison in the last year.
The snitches emerge
When Little and SBI Special Agent Henry Poole first met Donnie Sutton in November 1977, more than a year after the murders, he had little to say. Sutton, a young man in prison for murder who had also escaped in September 1976, had known Sledge in prison.
Records show that Sutton said he didnt know anything about Sledge being involved in the murders but that hed think harder about anything Sledge might have told him.
When investigators visited Sutton again in February 1978, he painted a different picture, saying that Sledge told him that the Davis women were supposed to die. Sutton said Sledge hated white women and called them she-devils.
Investigators also found another jailhouse informant named Herman Baker, who was in jail briefly with Sledge after the murders. Mumma, Sledges lawyer, said the SBI case file includes no mention of Baker or copies of those interviews. But at Sledges trial, Bakers testimony delivered a decisive blow.
Bakers memory of Sledges comments offered details police had never publicly released. Baker, who was not in prison at the time of the murder, testified that Sledge talked about slugging one of the women in the jaw and that he had sprinkled black pepper in the house to keep the victims spirits away from him.
Little had seen the pepper can on his first visit but didnt take it as evidence. In February 1978, just three months before Sledges first trial, Little returned and collected the pepper can.
The first attempt to convict Sledge failed in May 1978, ending in a mistrial.
In August of that year, prosecutors tried again. This time, a fresh young prosecutor joined the team.
Michael Easley had begun working for the district attorneys office after graduating from law school in 1976. He would go on to become district attorney, state attorney general and, in 2001, North Carolinas governor.
Easley declined through his lawyers to talk about the Sledge case, saying only that he has spoken to both Mumma and current district attorney Jon David and has offered his assistance in reviewing Sledges claim of innocence.
Its scandalous
Sledge had a funny feeling about the jailhouse informants who convinced a jury he had killed Josephine and Ailene Davis.
He had no memory of ever meeting Baker, and he testified hed never said anything about being involved in the crime to Sutton. The inmates painted him to be a racist with a violent temper. Their comments still bewilder him.
I only weigh 147 pounds, then and now, he said. How could I be violent with anybody?
Theres no indication Sledges attorney, Reuben Moore of Elizabethtown, was given copies of Suttons earlier interviews; he asked no questions about Suttons shifting statements.
Four months after Sledge was convicted, the state rewarded Baker and Sutton. Baker collected $3,000. Sutton got $2,000.
Its scandalous they were paid, said Moore, now retired. Im not surprised it happened. Its just amazing we found out about it.
Little, the sheriffs detective, said his memory of the case is spotty. But he recalls investigators discussing the rewards after the trial. He does not remember making any promises about the money.
Sutton died in 1991. Efforts by The News & Observer to find Baker failed.
Easley says no
The jailhouse snitches gnawed at Sledge inside prison. He was convinced they were rewarded for their testimony.
He began writing to judges, asking them to investigate. In loopy cursive, Sledge asked again and again for judges to give him another trial.
By April 1983, Easley had become the elected district attorney in Columbus County. Easley replied to one of Sledges motions, saying no promise was made to Herman Baker and Donald Sutton in return for their testimony by the District Attorneys Office or the attorney general. In his response, he didnt mention anything about the rewards for Baker and Sutton. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood denied Sledges request for a new trial.
Sledge spent hours each day in prison law libraries. He dissected every moment of his trial. He read court opinions and memorized legal phrases such as jurisprudence and ineffective assistance of counsel. He wrote letter after letter, asking judges to examine irregularities in his case.
One evening in 1993, Sledge and other inmates watched a news program in the prisons common room. A lawyer on television talked about a new kind of science revolutionizing crime scene analysis: DNA. Every person had a unique profile that could be detected in their blood or semen or hair.
Sledge remembers thinking: Heres my opportunity to find freedom.
He returned to his cell and started a new letter.
Long quest for a test
For the past 20 years, Sledge knew his only chance of dying a free man rested on DNA testing.
He wrote more letters. Some were polite and deferential, others more direct and desperate. In a letter to the Innocence Project in New York in 2001, Sledge was emphatic: Yes sir God knows Im innocent.
In total, he filed more than 20 motions, all without a lawyer. Some potential help in 1997 from the Innocence Project ended quickly when John Watters, counsel for the SBI, wrote to a lawyer for the group, saying the SBI had no records and had not been involved in the case.
Actually, the SBI had dispatched agents to help work the case, and multiple reports listed dozens of items of evidence collected for analysis at its crime lab. A lawyer for the state Department of Justice said last week that Watters response appears to have been due to an oversight.
In 2003, Superior Court Judge William Gore heeded Sledges decadelong pursuit of evidence to test for DNA.
Gore ordered the district attorney and all investigating agencies to look to see if they could find any evidence to test. And, if they couldnt, he wanted an affidavit explaining why.
There was nothing to be lost by it, said Gore, now a defense lawyer in Whiteville. If there was someone innocent, and we could determine it with new technology, I was anxious to do it.
Gores order was ignored. No one responded, not even with an explanation as to why they couldnt find the evidence.
Gore wrote to Sledge in December 2004, saying none of the agencies had responded.
As a Superior Court Judge I am not in a position to make any further investigations into your claims, Gore wrote. I have acted in good faith and believe the agencies and people I have sent the order to have acted in good faith as well.
Gore said in an interview that hes not surprised no one heeded his order.
We didnt have a mechanism to follow up, he said. Im not making excuses, but this was not unusual. Im sure that I ordered many people to do things that they never obliged.
Rex Gore, district attorney for Brunswick, Columbus and Bladen counties from 1991 until 2011, said he didnt remember seeing the judges order.
He did, however, begin searching for evidence in 2005 when a lawyer at Duke University trying to help Sledge inquired. Rex Gore found a box of evidence in the Columbus County clerks office but said evidence kept by the Bladen sheriffs office, which would have included blood samples from the house, fingerprints and the rape kit, had long since been lost or destroyed.
Rex Gore, who is not related to William Gore, said hes not surprised the envelope with hair evidence was overlooked.
The things we see on CSI where things are tagged and locked and numbered like a Dewey Decimal System, thats more movie than reality, he said.
No ride to Raleigh
Lawyers trying to help Sledge struggled along the way, too. Rex Gore consented to having the evidence found in the clerks office tested at the SBI; the judges order directed the clerk of court to submit the evidence to the SBI laboratory in Raleigh but didnt specify how it would get there.
The box remained on the shelf. Two years passed.
Mumma took over the case in 2008 and shepherded a new order specifying that deputies would take the box to Raleigh.
Over the coming years, analysts tried to detect the killers DNA on the victims clothing. A partial profile less than a full view of all 23 pairs of chromosomes was detected on the womens clothing. It excluded Sledge, but Mumma knew it wasnt enough. Anyone could have come in contact with the women before they were killed.
She believed Sledge was telling the truth, but she had run out of ways to prove it. So many of the witnesses were dead, so much of the evidence missing.
As Mumma slowly prepared Sledge for a letdown, the clerk called about the hairs. Sledge still has the letter Mumma sent with the news.
Your entire letter smells like freedom, Sledge wrote in his reply.
I cant hold a grudge
Prison has tamed Sledge. All the stubbornness and impulse of his youth have been stripped away.
So has his anger.
While he passed year after year behind bars, Sledge watched Easleys career flourish, including his two terms as governor. When Easley pleaded guilty in 2010 to a felony involving a campaign finance violation and was stripped of his law license, Sledge found no satisfaction.
I aint nobody to him; I know that, Sledge said. I cant hold a grudge against no man. ... Animosity wont solve the problem.
Still, he waits, eager for a trip back to court to undo the jurys decision.
Mumma received the results from the DNA tests on the hair in December and has urged Jon David, the current district attorney, to help her free Sledge. Although the partial profile on the hairs definitively rules out Sledge, its not full enough to compare to the SBIs DNA database of convicted felons to find whose hair it is.
David has engaged the SBI to help him investigate further.
I really see us as sharing the goal of making sure this conviction rests on credible and substantial evidence, David said. Im going to go where the truth leads in this matter.
Little, the Bladen detective, is skeptical of the new information. He said that the informant testimony was so compelling that it would take more than DNA from the hairs to convince him Sledge wasnt involved.
The Davises relatives wait anxiously, too.
This will really bring up a lot of bad memories for my family, said Billy Ray Hales, Josephine Davis grandson. If (Sledge) did it, he needs to go out feet first. If he didnt, Im mad as hell they didnt get the right guy in the first place. Somebody has to pay.
Seeking solitude
At 68, Sledge feels his age.
He sleeps through much of the day, eager to pass it. Sledge tries to keep up his strength and focus by studying his case and corresponding with Mumma.
He doesnt dwell on questions of what could have been. Hes ambivalent about what his life would have been like if he hadnt spent it in prison. He shrugs. A wife probably, maybe kids. He would have liked to fix cars for a living.
But if hes released, he knows exactly how hell spend his remaining years.
After decades of sharing showers and meals with strangers, hes desperate for a life of solitude. He has kept his family at a distance since his conviction, refusing to let them see what he had become in prison: small and caged.
If Sledge is freed, hell return to his native Georgia to a plot of land his mother saved for him.
He wants to grow what he eats and let the sun soak his skin. He will keep dogs for company.
Hes eager to spend his last years much like he has the past 34: out of sight and forgotten.
News researchers Brooke Cain and David Raynor contributed.
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Punching holes in paper or breaking clay targets, like beating golf balls with clubs, seems a silly waste of time. Most modern forms of recreational "sports" are based on the practice of trying to throw or hit something far and accurately, both probably originating from man's desire for survival and defense.
Early man used slings and rocks, Spartans threw spears and javelins, Native Americans preferred bow and arrow, as did Robin Hood. Target shooting begins in the back woods with "turkey shoots," peaking at international Olympic Games matches.
Having spent some time over the past few years with George and Charlie Docherty, teaching them the fundamentals of shooting, I wasn't surprised to have them call asking if I would accompany them to the shooting range. Supervised recreational target shooting provides safe mingling of recreation with education and entertainment, while demonstrating that attaining higher goals is a contest within oneself.
Public shooting ranges are a very rare these days, requiring backstops, fields of fire and close supervision. It is necessary that ranges cover their expenses by charging reasonable "range fees."
The routine is to register with the range master, an experienced and certified instructor, who supervises activities and provides targets and supplies. The actions of all guns are required to remain open and unloaded until permission to fire is given.
After the signal "cease fire" is given, a quick inspection follows to ensure guns are open and on the tables followed by "All Clear. Set your targets."
Targets can be placed anywhere from 15 feet, usually for rapid-fire pistol, to 200 or 300 yards distant, for precision rifle shooting. The range is surrounded by impact areas, backed by high earthen banks serving to stop errant projectiles.
Ear plugs are mandatory for all participants. A generalization about immature first-time shooters says, the bigger the "bang" the happier they are. The crack of a .22 from a target rifle, muffled by ear protectors is pretty feeble, as compared with a full load of ear-drum booming, blast of military .45 caliber rounds from short barreled (3 to 4 inches) hand guns. Another generalization suggests the faster the firearm expends ammunition the happier the novice is, sometimes resulting in virtual showers of expended shell casings. Here another generalization comes into effect, the faster the expenditure of ammunition invariably results in lower scorings.
But one projectile properly delivered is worth much more than several dozen randomly prickling nearby bushes.
I've always been proud to brag on one of my young students who, after a bit of coaching, was able, shooting offhand, at 50 feet, to hit a penny square on, a souvenir she still cherishes.
Most firearms are more accurate than their operators. Using a .42 caliber flintlock of the early 1800's era, I found it was still capable of splitting a ball against an ax blade (four times in succession), thus earning the State Championship. Like automobiles, arrows and slingshots, firearms are deadly if misused. Early training, emphasizing responsibility, remains the key. To be a high scorer requires more than learning the fundamentals; it takes a great amount of time practicing.
OK, target shooting, like golf, is a waste of time, but the challenge remains legitimate.


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Harford County's first snowfall of 2013 is approaching.
Thursday afternoon could bring up to an inch of snow to areas of Harford County. Expect a high temperature in the upper 30s and northwest winds around 10 mph. Snowfall may continue in the evening with temperatures in the lower 30s, dipping into the 20s in some cases, the National Weather Service reports.
But the brunt of the storm will likely hit farther south. The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for Howard, Anne Arundel and Queen Anne's counties and points south, including much of northern Virginia. Traffic conditions could be hazardous in those areas as more than 5 inches of snow is possible.
The Maryland State Highway Administration asks drivers to try their best to move disabled vehicles onto the shoulder during hazardous weather conditions.
Drivers should also keep emergency survival kits including the following, according to the SHA:
• a shovel
• jumper cables
• snacks
• blanket or sleeping bag
• flashlight with extra batteries
• high calorie non-perishable food
• first aid kit
• extra clothes
• bottled water
• a charged cell phone
• kitty litter or other abrasives
For updates on major incidents, delays, estimated travel times and weather conditions, drivers may call the SHA's traffic hotline at 511 or visit md511.org.
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Jered Weaver (elbow) is scheduled to throw a bullpen session next week.
Hyun-Jin Ryu allowed two hits while striking out 10 over six shutout innings in a 1-0 win over the Padres on Sunday.
Brian Dozier went 3-for-6 with two home runs and four RBI in the Twins' 13-5 beatdown of the Rockies on Sunday.
Buster Posey hit one of the Giants' two grand slams on the day, propelling the Giants to an 8-4 win over the Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Sonny Gray allowed one unearned run over 7 2/3 innings in the Athletics' 4-1 victory over the Mariners on Sunday.
Mike Trout went 2-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI as the Angels beat the Rangers 10-7 on Sunday.
Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times reports that the Mariners have had serious discussions with the Phillies about acquiring outfielder Marlon Byrd.
Joey Gallo was named MVP of the Futures Game on Sunday after his towering two-run homer led Team USA to a 3-2 victory over the World Team at Target Field in Minnesota.
Chris Johnson had three hits -- including a home run -- three RBI and three runs scored in the Braves' 10-7 win over the Cubs on Sunday.
Clay Buchholz struck out 12 while allowing just three hits in an 11-0 shutout of the Astros on Sunday.
Brock Holt finished 5-for-6 with a home run and two runs scored against the Astros on Sunday.
Todd Frazier hit his 19th home run of the season, a two-run blast, as the Reds bested the Pirates 6-3 on Sunday.


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The best prospects sectors for Singapore include electronic components, aircraft and parts, electronics industry production/testing equipment, laboratory and scientific instruments, pollution control equipment, electric power systems, construction equipment and building products, pumps and valves, medical devices, telecommunication equipment and computer hardware and software, university education services and franchising. CLICK on the links below for market information on some of the sectors.
With over 100 companies offering a comprehensive range of aerospace design and manufacturing services as well as Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services, Singapore is the leading Asian aerospace hub with the greatest number of aerospace Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) present. Singapore has also captured over 20% of the Asia-Pacific MRO market and has established a leading position as a convenient one-stop location for all aircraft maintenance needs.
Leading local players such as ST Aerospace and SIA Engineering Company Ltd offer comprehensive nose-to-tail airframe MRO services and are among the top 5 Airframe MROs in the world in 2008 based on the total airframe man-hours by the corporate entities. Singapore is also host to major engine overhaul centers, with all three engine OEM majors (GE Aviation, Pratt & Whitney and Roll Royce) represented.
Employing over 18,000 people and with a compounded annual growth rate of 12% since 1990, Singapore's aerospace industry is an integral economic driver. In 2009, the industry recorded revenues of nearly US$5.0 billion.
Singapore has become one of the most important shipping centers in Asia and is one of the world's top three oil trading and refining hubs. A total crude oil refining capacity of more than 1.35 million barrels per day (bbl/d) now is expected to increase to 1.8bbl/d when a new refinery comes on stream in 3-5 years time. In addition, Singapore is the market leader for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSOs) conversions and jack-up rigs. Underground caverns for oil storage and a liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal are also being built to enhance Singapore's position as the premier regional center for the oil & gas industry. However, combined output from the petro-chemical sectors was only valued at close to US$33 billion due to the recent economic crisis but this is expected to gradually increase with the rebounding global economy and sharp rise in oil prices.
The United States continues to dominate in the area of laboratory and scientific equipment and accounts for approximately 38% of total market share. Total imports of laboratory and scientific equipment rebounded in 2010, picking up momentum after the 2009 global market slowdown. Imports from the United States increased by a significant 50% from 2009, with 38% market share, up from 35% in 2009. There is a strong preference for American manufactured products and equipment, particularly in the field of laboratory equipment and instrumentation. Given the improvements in the economy in 2010, the total import of laboratory and scientific equipment also correspondingly grew.
This sector will see continual growth as the Singapore government has pledged S$12.88 billion to support R&D in Singapore from 2011 to 2015 under the Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2015 plan, with the primary aim of achieving total gross expenditure on R&D of 3.5% of GDP by 2015.
Singapore is one of the most wired countries in the world, with a nation-wide network of fiber optic cables. It is building a super high-speed fiber optic broadband network called the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) that will provide access speed of 1 gigabits per second (Gbps) or more. As of end-2010, 60% of homes and offices have access to the new, ultra high-speed, all-fiber Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGBN). By mid-2012, 95% of the country will have access to the NGNBN. Besides a nationwide broadband network infrastructure, Singapore is well connected by multiple satellite and submarine cable systems with more than 67 terabits per second of potential capacity supporting international and regional telecoms connectivity. It has more than 830 Gbps of international internet bandwidth connectivity to economies such as the US, China, Japan, India, as well as some countries in Europe and ASEAN.
As Singapore's population and economy grow, the Government is not only diversifying its water supplies but also planning ahead for wastewater management. This led to on-going programs to develop various wastewater reclamation and desalination projects. Among other projects, the ABC (Active, Beautiful, Clean) Waters Program is an initiative by the Public Utilities Board to transform Singapore's concrete drains, canals and reservoirs into beautiful and clean streams, rivers and lakes teeming with vibrancy. 27 projects have been identified to be carried out over the next 5 years. As at Jan 2011, Tenders for 16 projects were called. The works include construction of infrastructures, water features, landscaping and other amenities.
Under the Singapore Green Plan 2012 (SGP 2012), the country's environmental policy, Singapore has put in place a holistic blueprint to grow the Cleantech industry. The SGP 2012 also incorporates plans for reduction of waste volumes through waste minimization and recycling; reduction of the amount of land for sewage treatment; strict emission standards; and tougher vehicular emission controls.
Singapore serves as the healthcare and medical hub of the region, drawing over 350,000 patients a year with its high-quality healthcare. It is considered one of the world's leading medical travel destinations and its healthcare system is ranked sixth worldwide. Singapore's healthcare services are comparable to those of other industrialized economies. The government spends approximately 3.8% of GDP annually on healthcare and there are plans to raise this to US$1.37 billion a year in the next few years.
In 2010, import of medical equipment and supplies to Singapore registered an increase of 22% from 2009. This is likely due to the recovery of the economy and the pent-up demand from major healthcare institutions that may have held back purchases during the economic downturn. Correspondingly, total import from the United States grew by over 25% from 2009, representing 30% of the Singapore market.
Based on available trade figures for 2009 and 2010, market expectations for 2011 are that U.S exports of medical equipment to Singapore will continue to hold steady due to the nature of the healthcare industry. Overall, healthcare delivery in Singapore and the region is expected to see improvements as medical care is still considered a necessity. This should translate into a steady stream of transshipments through Singapore as the island-state is viewed as a major trade hub and launching pad for products into the region.
Medical devices are regulated under the Health Products Act. Singapore's Health Science Authority (HSA), through its Centre for Medical Devices Regulation (CMDR), oversees the system of statutory control aimed to safeguard the quality, safety and efficacy of medical devices available in Singapore. All medical devices, from high-risk stents for heart surgery to low-risk ones like mechanical wheelchairs, are licensed.
The information technology sector is a key contributor to Singapore's economy. Information technology has greatly enhanced the country's competitiveness by raising productivity and transforming business processes. In 2010, Singapore was ranked second in the World Economic Forum's Global IT Report, and eighth in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) e-Readiness Ranking. It was ranked ninth in the EIU Benchmarking IT industry Competitiveness in 2009. Many top IT companies have made Singapore a key node in their global network, a strong testament of the country's strategic position to be a global info-communications hub.
Latest available data showed that in 2009, 95% of Singaporean households with school-going children had access to a home computer while 83% of resident Singaporean households had access to a computer at home. Eighty-one percent of households had home Internet access and most of those households are connected to the Internet via broadband. Computer usage amongst all enterprises increased slightly to reach 78% in 2009. Details on info-communications usage in households and by individuals as well as enterprises can be found at http://www.ida.gov.sg/Publications/20061205092557.aspx
Singapore-based electronics manufacturers account for 11% global market share for semiconductor wafer foundry output and 25% global market share for printers. The world's top three wafer foundry companies, top three sub-contract assembly-and-test companies, and top four fabless IC design companies all have facilities in Singapore. Electronic components for these plants are imported and integrated into products such as mobile phones, digital cameras, hand-held tablets, music players, game consoles and televisions which are then mainly exported.
Singapore's manufacturing sector has emerged as a regional economic powerhouse, contributing at least 22% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). A large component of this sector - electronics - has attracted substantial foreign investments as well as value-added output and employment, contributing close to 30% of the manufacturing output. Of the US$8 billion in fixed assets investments in 2009, electronics accounted for slightly more than 40% but manufacturing output was more than US$41 billion for the sector.
Singapore emphasizes, supports and values higher education and human resource development. Many government agencies and private sector companies also offer full scholarships for top students to pursue their undergraduate and graduate studies in foreign universities, including in the United States.
Singapore is home to more than 400 franchise concepts. Foreign franchises are well received and the United States is by far the largest supplier of foreign franchises in the country. There are American franchises in practically every industry. McDonald's, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Starbucks, Ben and Jerrys, Gymboree, New Horizons, Mister Minit, Avis, Toys R Us, On-line Trading Academy, Comfort Keepers, Contours Express, and many others have operations in Singapore. In 2009, several F&B concepts from the U.S. started operations here including Marble Slab and Froots. After many years of absence, several U.S. franchises also made a comeback in 2009 including: Wendy's, Dunkin' Doughnut, Chili's, and TGIF. In 2010, Applebee's opened an outlet in Singapore and several other U.S. franchises including Cold Stone Creamery will open in 2011.
Sales turnover of franchises in Singapore amounted to US$5.7 billion in 2008 (latest available data), according to the Franchising and Licensing Association of Singapore. Foreign franchises are estimated to account for 70% of franchise sales in the country. However, local franchise concepts have grown rapidly over the past few years and many of the larger ones are franchising abroad in Asia and several have opened outlets in the United States.
Please feel free to contact us directly if you have questions:
Ms. CHIA Swee Hoon, Senior Commercial Specialist
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS SERVICES - (telecommunications equipment & services; computers, peripherals & software (home, office); information services; media services; film and media technology & services; advertising & public relations services; franchising; management consulting; legal services; leasing services; employment services; investment services; financial & insurance services; audio equipment, films & video; photographic equipment & supplies),
ENTERTAINMENT VENUES - Casinos/Theme Parks
NG Haw Cheng, Commercial Specialist
BUILDING/CONSTRUCTION(construction equipment and supplies; building products & equipment; architectural/construction/engineering services; sanitation equipment & products; cleaning products and services; commercial laundry equipment; cleaners - commercial/industrial; wipes for commercial use; industrial cleaning services; hand/power tools - construction; real estate; interior decoration);
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (environmental protection technology - recycling, waste management, pollution control; environmental control services);
SEA/AIR/LAND TRANSPORTATION, (public transport vehicles, rail; ports & shipbuilding; marine technology; automobiles, trucks, vans; automobiles, automotive parts & services; boats and accessories; airport ground support vehicles; air traffic control equipment; aircraft and parts, avionics; safety & security equipment; defense technology & equipment; transportation services; air-conditioning - cold rooms; commercial fishing equipment; commercial vessels & equipment; aircraft maintenance)
CHAN Yiu Kei, Commercial Specialist
MANUFACTURING & TECHNOLOGY - (materials handling; machine/manufacturing tools and metalworking equipment; paper & printing and graphic arts machinery; plastics & plastics production machinery; chemicals & chemical production machinery; textile machinery; general industrial equipment & supplies; materials technology - advanced materials, composite fibers, ceramics; industrial automation/robotics; industrial process controls; electronic production and test equipment & supplies; electronic components - active/passive, electro-mechanical, sensors; bearings - ball & roller; plant maintenance equipment; hand/power tools - mechanic; hand/power tools - metalworking; fasteners - industrial; heaters - commercial/industrial; heating equipment - industrial; leather processing equipment; rolling mill machinery; rubber products - industrial),
EDUCATION/TRAINING - (educational & training services),
POWER/UTILITIES - utilities; energy - electricity, wind, solar, gas, etc; power generation & distribution; power transmission; pumps, valves, compressors; mechanical power transmission product; smelting equipment; hardware - milled non-ferrous, ferrous),
Ms. Luanne THESEIRA, Commercial Specialist
HEALTH/MEDICAL/SCIENTIFIC - (dental equipment; medical equipment, supplies, furniture; healthcare services; drugs and pharmaceuticals; vitamins/minerals supplements, health foods; biotechnology; veterinary equipment & supplies; general science & technology; bio-medical equipment maintenance; laboratory and scientific instruments);
CONSUMER GOODS & SERVICES - (apparel; jewelry; leather, fur and footwear; home textiles, fabrics, yarns, textiles & textile products; household consumer goods; giftware, stationery; office and school equipment & supplies; do-it-yourself products/tools; retailing; cosmetics & toiletries; spa equipment/beauty salon equipment & accessories; eyewear; sporting goods, golf, fitness; equestrian goods and outdoor equipment; toys and games; musical instruments; books and periodicals; artwork; pet supplies gardening tools and supplies);
FOOD PROCESSING, PACKING & SERVICES - (processed food; food processing & packaging machinery and equipment; hotel & restaurant equipment; beverage technology; food vending machines, agriculture and forestry machinery; agriculture services; furniture; hotel & restaurant management).


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Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh is predicting a general election turnout never before seen in Kansas.
He said Friday that based on record registrations, advanced ballot requests and key races "from the courthouse to the White House," he expects 1.36 million of the 1.75 million registered Kansas voters to participate.
That would be a record for total people voting. It equates to a 78 percent turnout rate. The percentage of voters has higher in 1992, when 85 percent of the state's registered voters cast ballots.
Thornburgh said the pace of advance voting had been brisk, with a few issues regarding voter eligibility.